Things grew tense Monday night on CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront (with fill-in host Jake Tapper) as one of the rare CNN conservatives in political commentator Scott Jennings threw down with The Nation’s Joan Walsh over Massachusetts Democratic Senator Elizabeth Warren’s attention-grabbing attempt to reinforce her minuscule Native American heritage.

Walsh fiercely defended Warren for “authenticating her story,” while Jennings nuked “bizarro Pocahontas” Warren for “desperate” attempt “to be part of the failed identity politics that ruined the Democratic Party” and served as “the most pathetic self-own I’ve ever seen.”

To start, Walsh went first by stating that the issue won’t be put “to bed, but....I find that Republicans are moving the goalposts here” and that Warren’s “not claiming tribal membership, tribal citizenship, only tribes can do that” but instead “authenticating her story, which in a way, her brothers do more than the DNA test.”

Jennings pointed to an old New York Times piece that found “the average white, European American has twice as much native American blood than Senator Warren claims in her DNA test.” He then joked that “the pitching staff for the Atlanta Braves has more a claim to be Native Americans than Elizabeth Warren.”

As Walsh tried to interject, Jennings added that Warren “brought this on herself, by filling out these forms over the years, claiming to be something she is not,” making her “so desperate to be part of the failed identity politics that ruined the Democratic Party.”

To Tapper’s credit, he let them duke it out, with Walsh condemning Jennings while the conservative guest lambasted Warren for “the most pathetic self-own I’ve ever seen” (click “expand”):

WALSH: That is so ridiculous. That is so ridiculous, Scott. JENNINGS: That she took this step to release this — this is the most pathetic self-own I’ve ever seen. WALSH: She never — she filled it out in a self-identifying faculty guide. She never used it, you see — I mean, the real story The Boston Globe did over a month ago, she made all of her personnel files available and they — the personnel files showed that she never once used her — any kind of Native ancestry to get a job, she never once filled out an application — JENNINGS: Why write it down. WALSH: — to get a job. JENNINGS: Why put a recipe — WASLH: Because she — JENNINGS: — in the Cherokee cookbook. The Cherokee Nation is rightfully upset. The President says she owes the country an apology. WALSH: They don't like the Atlanta Braves either. JENNINGS: She owes the Cherokee tribe an apology for what she's done.

Jennings also unloaded some zingers as Walsh argued that there’s “a serial sexual assaulter” in the Oval Office:

This is ridiculous and look, this is where the Democratic Party is. They’ve got a plagiarizer, a socialist, Spartacus, creepy porn lawyer, and now bizarro Pocahontas running for president. There’s no way any of these people — there’s no way — there’s no way they’re going to compete with Trump.

Kaboom!

Walsh moved onto how dismayed she was with the President failing to pay a million dollars to Warren’s charity of choice as he had stated if she took a DNA test.

Trump has clearly been trolling the press when he stated that he’d want to administer the test himself, so it was no surprise that Walsh bought it hook, line, and sinker by calling it “so disgusting” and “a violation of her bodily autonomy.”

When Jennings opined that “this whole thing was created by Warren bringing attention to herself,” Walsh became incensed: “You get to decide if she believes her mother or not, Scott Jennings? You get to decide that? You get to say what her ancestry is, and how she should feel about it, how she should feel about this story?”

Jennings wanted to know from Walsh if this meant that anyone can make up their heritage and when she wouldn’t answer, the debate concluded as such (click “expand”):

JENNINGS: Is that what she's going to run on? I was 1/1,000th — WALSH: No, it’s not what she’s going to run on, but — JENNINGS: — it's crazy — WALSH: — she’s putting it out there. JENNINGS: — and it's going to sound crazy to anybody — WALSH: She’s been accused of having none and she’s proving she had some. JENNINGS: — who doesn’t — isn’t absorbed by the self-identity politics. This is — WALSH: It's not about identity politics. She says she actually put — she started using this identity when her aunts were dying, when her mother was dying, when the women in her family who were connected to this lineage were leaving, when they were talking about the past, and that she put it in this booklet, so she could be a mentor to other students. She never used it for any — TAPPER: That's all the time we have[.]

To see the relevant transcript from CNN’s Erin Burnett OutFront on October 15, click “expand.”