CNN’s Michael Smerconish challenges Azoria CEO James Fishback, who created the “DOGE Dividend,” on his plan to give savings to taxpayers.

Normally mild-mannered CNN host Michael Smeroconish shut down an investment firm CEO on Saturday morning who has been pitching what he calls a "DOGE dividend" where government savings would be refunded to taxpayers.

CNN’s Michael Smerconish was having no part in a pitch by investment firm CEO James Fishback to create a “DOGE Dividend” for American taxpayers, with Smerconish comparing the plan to a “Ponzi scheme.” In an at times bitter exchange on the Saturday morning broadcast of The Michael Smerconish Program,