CNN Panelist Shuts Down Former MSNBC Host’s Anti-SAVE Act Rant With One Sentence

New York Post Financial Correspondent Lydia Moynihan pointed out Thursday that Democrats couldn’t define what a woman was, cutting off a rant by former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross regarding the SAVE Act.

The House of Representatives passed the SAVE America Act, which would require proof of citizenship for voter registration and photo ID for voting, on Wednesday by a 216-213 vote, sending it to the Senate, where it faces a tough road for passage due to united Democratic opposition. Cross clashed with former Republican Councilman Joe Borelli of New York City over the legislation, alleging that married women would have difficulty proving their identity. (RELATED: Scott Jennings Sends CNN Panel Into Tizzy After Suggesting Dems Think Minorities Are ‘Too Dumb’ To Get Voter ID)

“I don’t even think you have a command of the issue,” Cross, whose MSNBC show featured racially-charged attacks on conservatives, particularly black conservatives, told Borelli, who responded, “I’m pretty sure I do.”

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“You’re talking about voter I.D., and that’s not — we’re talking about the SAVE Act specifically,” Cross claimed, with Borelli responding, “If you don’t have the qualifications to vote under the SAVE Act, you can vote via affidavit. It’s permitted in the law.”

CNN data reporter Harry Enten noted the high support for voter ID requirements among black voters and Democrats, with at least 70% of both subsets of the general population backing the proposal, during a Feb. 3 appearance on “CNN News Central.” After additional back and forth, Cross claimed many Americans lacked the necessary proof to vote under the SAVE Act.

“Less than half of the American people have what it would take to comply with the SAVE Act,” Cross claimed, with Borelli responding, “Yeah. That’s a problem. We gotta figure it out.”

“That’s a huge problem. Exactly. So when you think about married women, like we were talking about during the break, if they changed their last name when they get married —” Cross claimed before Moynihan cut in and said, “Democrats couldn’t even define what a woman was.”

Cross complained about Moynihan’s comments.

“Let me finish my point. Let me have the —” Cross said before Moynihan added, “Now they’re glad to hear their concerns.”

“Now we‘re talking about trans — this is ridiculous. Let me have the professional courtesy to finish my point,” Cross said before host Abby Phillip intervened.

Some Democrats have been unable to publicly define the term “woman” in the past. In one notable moment during her confirmation hearing in March 2022, Associate Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson of the United States demurred when Republican Sen. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee asked her to define what a woman was.

“Can I provide a definition? No, I can’t,” Jackson said, later adding, “Not in this context, I’m not a biologist.” (RELATED: ‘Shark Tank’ Star Verbally Brawls With Former MS NOW Host After She Calls ICE ‘White Supremacist’)

When the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in West Virginia v. B. P. J., a case surrounding litigation tied to West Virginia and Idaho laws prohibiting biological males from competing in women’s sports, Jackson pressed Michael Ray Williams of the Office of the West Virginia Attorney General about the definition of “girl.”

In 2022, none of the fifty Democrats in the United States Senate contacted by the Daily Caller defined “woman.” In a May 2025 episode of Piers Morgan Uncensored, left-wing activist Clementine Ford claimed a woman was “someone who at least at some point in her life felt scared of a man” when asked for a definition by the former CNN host.

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