CNN senior political contributor Scott Jennings, a conservative and former member of the George W. Bush administration, snapped at a pair of his colleagues on Monday during a heated discussion about whether he was bothered by former President Donald Trump’s “lies.”

After Jennings criticized Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz for making false claims about his military record and a trip to Hong Kong, Vanderbilt University professor and Baptist minister Michael Eric Dyson posed a question: “You’ve done an analysis of Walz, are there any lies that Donald Trump tells that you are disturbed by?”

Jennings replied, “I don’t want any politician to lie ever. I wish they would tell the truth all the time.”

Rabbi and CNN commentator Jay Michaelson pressured Jennings further by asking the same question, to which the former Bush admin official snapped: “First of all, I don’t answer to you and I don’t answer to you! … I don’t answer to these two guys!”

Jennings then turned to Michaelson and asked, “What lies does Kamala Harris tell that you’re mad about? Can you give me a list? Have you brought it? Is it in your jacket?”

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“Sure. You want me to say some things that Kamala Harris has sort of shifted her position on healthcare?” replied Michaelson, leading Jennings to interject: “No, not ‘shifted.’ Lies.”

“No, she hasn’t lied,” Michaelson falsely claimed in response before firing back at Jennings. “Now it’s your turn. Is there any Donald Trump lie– how about, you like the ‘blood of immigrants,’ is there some Donald Trump lie?

“How about ‘January 6 was just a tour. I didn’t have anything to do with January 6?’ How about Stormy Daniels? Do you care about that lie? Do you care about the lie that global warming was a Chinese hoax? That’s a lie. He knows it’s a lie, everybody knows it’s a lie. So, I’m just curious, will you answer the question? Is there one Donald Trump lie that crosses the line for you?” he continued.

Jennings responded: “I do not agree with most of what Donald Trump has said about January 6. From the day it happened, to this moment right now, and every day I’ve been on this network, I could not be more clear about what I think happened on January 6, what he did, and what he has said.”

Asked the familiar question from the left — did Trump lose the election — Jennings replied with a zinger at the Biden-Harris administration: “He absolutely lost the election, and now we’ve had three-and-a-half years of absolute terrible.”

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For the record, much of what Trump said about Jan. 6 was true, as the GOP-led Congress has revealed over the past couple of years. The Nancy Pelosi-picked January 6 Committee, led exclusively by Democrats and anti-Trump Republicans, was found to be dishonest with its presentation of so-called evidence, and many of its witnesses were found to have been providing false or misleading accounts.

For instance, Cassidy Hutchinson, a star witness for the January 6 Committee and a former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, claimed under oath that she heard Secret Service agent Tony Ornato, who was the head of presidential security, say the former president lunged for the steering wheel of his limo to head back to the Capitol during the riot.

However, a witness who was interviewed by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of the Inspector General said that that never happened, The Daily Caller reported.

“We also interviewed [redacted] Secret Service agents in the limousine with the President. The limousine driver said that the President was angry when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, whereas the President’s detail lead, who was seated in front of the President, said he did not recall if the President was angry,” the report said.

“We asked [redacted] agents whether the President reached for the steering wheel or lunged toward the detail lead when his request to go to the Capitol was denied, and [redacted] witnesses said those actions did not occur,” the report noted further.