CNBC's Andrew Ross Sorkin explodes on co-host Joe Kernen: '100,000 people died and all you did was try and help your friend the president'
The co-hosts of CNBC's Squawk Box definitely had their coffee this morning.
On Wednesday's episode of the business news program, co-hosts Andrew Ross Sorkin and Joe Kernen went head to head over their longstanding perspectives on COVID-19's economic effects. Tensions ran hot as Kernen tried to spin the economy's status in a positive light, and the spat eventually peaked as Sorkin accused Kernen of ignoring the coronavirus' death toll to "try and help your friend the president."
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Things calmed down for a split second before Kernen got his take in: "You panicked about the market, panicked about COVID, panicked about the ventilators," trailing on until Sorkin jumped in. "Joseph, you didn't panic about anything. A hundred thousand people died and all you did was try to help your friend the president," Sorkin decisively finished. Watch the dust-up below. Kathryn Krawczyk
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