The media are having a very tough time with President Trump taking over. A prime example is CNN, which is slashing jobs like there is no tomorrow.
According to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cnn-cuts-jobs-prepares-new-streaming-rollout-2d7245cd">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>CNN is laying off roughly 200 employees, or about 6% of its workforce, part of a plan Chief Executive Mark Thompson says will shift the cable TV brand’s emphasis toward digital growth and prepare it to launch a streaming service.</blockquote>
Who&#8217;s going to subscribe to that? As the guy who is a co-founder of a massive streaming service, DailyWire+, I&#8217;m just wondering who is going to be a paid subscriber for CNN&#8217;s streaming offering? Who wants to do that?
The Journal continues:
<blockquote>The changes at CNN are part of the organization’s continuing response “to profound and irreversible shifts in the way audiences in America and around the world consume news,” Thompson wrote in a memo to staff Thursday.</blockquote>
Viewership is down dramatically for pretty much all of the major cable networks. MSNBC&#8217;s viewership was down 62% from its peak in the fourth quarter of 2020. Fox News is down by 27%, but CNN was down 74% from its peak in quarter four of 2020.
CNN is trying to shift their various hosts around. 
It’s like changing seats on the Titanic.
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According to the Journal:
<blockquote>&#8220;The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer&#8221; is moving to a new time slot, shifting from evenings to replace Jim Acosta’s 10 a.m. program. Audie Cornish will now host “CNN This Morning” at 6 a.m. Evening programming will kick off with two hours from Jake Tapper, followed by the existing lineup from Erin Burnett, Anderson Cooper, Kaitlan Collins and Abby Phillip.</blockquote>
Why are they having such trouble getting ratings with that stellar, unbelievable line-up? They have so many absolutely charismatic, trustworthy hosts in a row. How is it that they only have seven viewers? Why, it&#8217;s absolutely bewildering.
On Wednesday, CNN anchor and inveterate Trump opponent Jim Acosta <a href="https://freebeacon.com/media/beastmode-cnns-ratings-are-lower-than-spongebob-reruns-rep-tim-burchett-says/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> to Rep. Tim Burchett (R-TN), “I was at the White House covering the first Trump administration when they had rioting outside of the White House. I mean, that was covered on CNN. This is not Fox. Congressman, you can‘t just spin a tale and pull the wool over people‘s eyes. This is CNN. This is the news. We are asking you to come on and tell the truth.”
“And that’s why more people are watching the Cartoon Network, SpongeBob reruns right now, Jim,” Burchett fired back, continuing, “Look, I left the White House during a riot. My life was threatened. My life has been threatened within the last few weeks, yet there‘s no coverage of that. And you all continue this, this narrative of attacking Trump. You just can‘t stand the fact that he won and that America spoke.”
Jim Acosta told CNN that they couldn’t ship him to the middle of the night; he might quit. CNN answered: Would you, though? What can we do to make you quit? Anything?
According to <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/media/jim-acosta-may-exit-cnn-rather-than-accept-move-to-graveyard-shift/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The New York Post</a>:
<blockquote>Jim Acosta is threatening to quit CNN rather than accept a reassigned time slot that would see him move from late mornings to the graveyard shift, according to a report.
Acosta’s days at CNN may be numbered as the former White House correspondent known for his combative coverage of President Trump could be heading for the exits rather than accept a move that would see him broadcast a nightly show starting at midnight, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Another CNN staffer told Fox News Digital that Acosta was “getting hosed.”</blockquote>
I don&#8217;t think that&#8217;s the case. He doesn&#8217;t have massive ratings. His daily program, CNN Newsroom, is going to be scrapped. They are basically airing him when public-access cable is available.
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The Post continued:
<blockquote>If Acosta were to accept his reassignment, he could be broadcasting his show from Los Angeles, which would necessitate him and his family moving from their current home in Washington, DC, according to a network source. The source added that the East Coast is just “one slice of CNN’s global audience” and that the media outlet is “not an Acela corridor network.”</blockquote>
Oh, but it is. It actually is. CNN is only available on the Acela. CNN is available in airports and the Acela. Those are the only places.
No one has ever seen CNN anywhere else.
It&#8217;s a figment of our collective imaginations.

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CNN announced <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/chaos-at-cnn-200-layoffs-coming-longtime-anchor-getting-hosed" target="_blank" rel="noopener">major layoffs</a> earlier this week, cutting around 6% of its workforce, or nearly 200 jobs. The struggling news network is also shaking up its weekday show lineup as it attempts to recover from shedding millions of viewers since the first Trump administration.
Is the move a sign that CNN is crashing and burning? Puck News founding partner and senior correspondent Dylan Byers spoke to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/podcasts/morning-wire" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Morning Wire</a> host John Bickley to provide more insight into the changes at the legacy media network.
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John: CNN has announced hundreds of layoffs of employees in their post-inauguration restructuring. This has been going on for a while. What do we know so far about CNN&#8217;s plans and what are you hearing behind the scenes?
Dylan: Well, look, CNN&#8217;s plans for the future are now sort of evergreen. Mark Thompson, who has been in the position as CEO for well over a year, has been sort of alluding to this grand digital transformation that he was going to make, that CNN could no longer think of itself as a linear first network. It was not about TV anymore. It needed to be about meeting people where they are. And that of course meant digital. And this I guess ostensibly was another step forward in that direction. He laid off about 200 people, 6 percent of the remaining staff of somewhere between 3,000 and around 3, 500. And he says he&#8217;s going to rehire people with a new 70 million investment, so he will create new jobs that will be focused on digital. They will be product engineers and data researchers and this, that, and the other. I think the problem, which has been sort of the perennial problem since he took over, is that there is not a lot of concrete evidence yet about how exactly that digital transformation is going to be successful, and how it is going to make up for the losses in revenue, and the losses in ratings, and the losses in influence that CNN has now versus say even just eight or 10 years ago.
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John: Yeah, potentially the fatal pitfall they&#8217;re facing here. I want to talk about some of the attempts that CNN has made to rebrand itself. It&#8217;s trying to pivot to a more neutral tone. It&#8217;s been described as awkward and morale-damaging for some of the staff. Do you think this transformation risks alienating the network&#8217;s core audience, or is this a necessary step if it&#8217;s going to try to rebuild itself into something that&#8217;s viable?
Dylan: Well, I don&#8217;t say this cavalierly: CNN does not have much of a core audience left at this point. And, yeah, so the answer is in many ways it already did alienate the core audience that Jeff Zucker had built up during the first Trump administration, which was one that relied on CNN to serve in a sort of a “resistance”-style posture toward the Trump administration. It was sort of portrayed as a battle between the truth-telling journalists and the corrupt president, that was their framing. 
The business calculus behind saying we are going to be a more neutral and less emotional, and certainly less partisan, less polarizing news organization – ostensibly that means you would have a bigger market to reach, right? That half of the country that doesn&#8217;t trust you, maybe they could come back around and trust you for reliable and dispassionate news. I think the problem is that news is a commodity. People are getting their news from so many other sources, and – outside of rare instances of major breaking international news or major breaking national news, although increasingly less so even on that front – there&#8217;s no real reason for people to go to CNN. It has lost its value proposition in that regard. And so I think that the thesis might be noble to be less partisan and less polarizing, but in practice, it is not bringing them the audiences that they have lost since making that pivot.
John: Now you mentioned the move toward a more digital offering. Do you see ways forward for CNN to make that succeed in the new landscape?
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Dylan: Well, I think it&#8217;s really hard. I think the advantage is that they have a built-in brand that is – despite everything that it has endured over the course of the last five or six years – it is still sort of a brand that globally is synonymous with news. It’s sort of the Coca-Cola or McDonald&#8217;s. One other advantage they have is their heavily trafficked digital presence. A lot of people go to CNN.com on a monthly basis. The problem is people don&#8217;t really stay there and people don&#8217;t really engage with the content in a meaningful way that CNN has figured out how to monetize. And so I think the big challenge for them is, in a world in which you can get news from so many different places and you can get it for free, what is the value proposition of a CNN? Why do I need to go to CNN? And doing so, you know, creating a CNN digital brand as something that people are like, “This is where I have to go. This is my homepage. This is where I live. I need to have the app. I&#8217;m willing to pay for the app.” [That] is going to require getting really creative in terms of thinking about what you are providing the consumer that all of the myriad other news organizations and social media platforms and other services out there are not. And I don&#8217;t think anyone at CNN has answered that question yet.
John: Right. There are some questions about whether their existing staff is even willing to go in these new directions. I think you commented in your piece about Trump&#8217;s second inauguration, the coverage from CNN lost a fifth of its viewership from the Biden inauguration, but also just the way that the anchors and hosts appeared in it – their demeanor, their mood. Are they going to have to completely just revamp all of their key staff?
Dylan: Yeah, well, first of all, the damage on the ratings front was far worse. They didn&#8217;t lose a fifth. They had a fifth of what they had four years ago. So they went from 10 million to less than 2 million, in terms of viewers, which is drastic and reflects not only a sort of partisan divide, which I think a lot of people who might&#8217;ve voted for Trump might&#8217;ve watched on Fox News anyway. It&#8217;s not just about that. It&#8217;s that they have completely alienated the audience of people who usually came to television for big news events. They have lost that audience. And that is an existential challenge for them. 
In terms of the staff, yeah – again, you can have different theories of the case for what a news organization like CNN should do. You can believe, as Jeff Zucker did, that CNN should stand up to Trump and should hold him accountable and be the truthtellers and build their business by being sort of the righteous truthtellers. Or you can believe that there should be a more neutral and dispassionate approach that feels a little bit more akin to, say, the BBC. Whatever your thesis, pivoting from one to the other under the same president, Trump 1.0 in 2016, and then Trump 2.0 in 2024, is going to be awkward. It is inevitably going to be awkward because you are going to have top talent like the Jake Tappers and the Dana Bashes, who once railed against the president, spoke out against him, who – after everything that they have reported on, everything that they have railed against, all of the warnings and the red flags and the alarm bells that they spent years and years setting off – are now welcoming this guy back to power and acting as though he could be Mitt Romney or George W. Bush. 
And that is, again — whatever you think, whatever your politics are, pro-Trump, anti-Trump, whoever you are – that is a very, very awkward pivot. And it suggests one of two things: Either all of that hair-on-fire grandstanding of the first term was performative, and you should, as a CNN anchor, you should be auditioning for an Oscar for best actor, rather than a news Emmy. Or it suggests that you can be bought off and that in order to keep your business and to continue to go on TV and have the relative stardom and reputation that you do, you are willing to forego whatever concerns you had the last time around. And that does not reflect well, I think, on anyone at the network.
John: No, not at all. And especially in the digital era where what you immediately get is people, pulling clips from past interviews and comparing them to the new take from Jake Tapper. None of this is flattering, as you&#8217;re saying. These are terrible prospects for them. Stepping back for a broader look, not just at CNN but other legacy outlets as well. Do you see any that are particularly poised to do well – better than CNN in terms of moving forward? Who else is going to struggle? MSNBC comes to mind. What do you think in terms of the broader landscape for legacy outlets the future holds for them?
Dylan: Well, right. So, the grand current over all of this and the most significant thing that&#8217;s happening, of course, is the inexorable decline of television itself. And so no one is immune from that. And when you couple that decline, which has been going on for a very long time, but which the companies that own these linear assets are now acknowledging. And they&#8217;re starting to spin off their cable assets – that decline is unavoidable. It&#8217;s unavoidable for CNN. It&#8217;s unavoidable for MSNBC, despite the politics, although the politics might have accelerated ratings declines. Can MSNBC reassert itself as “resistance” programming led by Rachel Maddow and company over the course of the next few years? And can that be effective for them? And can they win back a little bit of the ratings that they&#8217;ve lost recently? It&#8217;s certainly possible. I don&#8217;t think that they are going to do it in a meaningful way — the way that they did during the first Trump cycle because I think the audience has moved on. 
And I also think that Trump now is the establishment in many ways. He won the popular vote. He had a first term. We all saw what that was, and the American people voted him back in. So it is harder to program resistance-style programming. The network that is obviously doing very well is Fox News. Fox News is not immune to these challenges either. And yet it is benefiting from, first of all, its own business success, which is they do a very good job creating the product that they create. It is benefiting from the politics of the moment and they have now basically become the cable news channel for America. And they account for something like 580 or 600 of the most top watched news telecasts since the election. They account for 75-80 percent of the audience share of the cable news viewing audience. If you need to actually say anything or do anything in a meaningful way on television these days, you have to do it through Fox News. And so, they are well-positioned now for the near term as well. But, again, at some point, when their audience – which is a very old audience – when that audience goes away, they will face the same challenges that all television networks face.
John: Indeed — it’s a rapidly changing landscape that all of us in news are constantly having to negotiate. Dylan, thank you for joining us, it was a real pleasure to talk to you.
Dylan: My pleasure. Thank you.

Is This The End Of CNN? An Interview With Puck News’ Dylan Byers

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Big shake-ups could be in the works for CNN as the long-running cable news network adjusts to the new media landscape and a second Donald Trump presidency — and in addition to the possibility of imminent layoffs, the network could be gearing up to shuffle around some of its longtime anchors.
CNBC <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/01/22/cnn-to-lay-off-hundreds-of-employees-post-inauguration.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Wednesday that CNN intended to announce layoffs impacting some 210 employees, or approximately six percent of its total staff. The news came alongside reports of layoffs at NBC as well, although the number of employees impacted by those is expected to be much lower. The layoffs at both networks, according to the report, are part of a shift in focus toward more digital content as fewer and fewer people turn to broadcast and cable news for information.
Along with the layoffs, anchors at CNN could also see some changes in their schedules and assignments, Fox News Digital <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/cnns-jim-acosta-getting-hosed-network-mulls-moving-anti-trump-anchor-midnights-sources-say" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> on Thursday — and they may not be thrilled at the prospect.
Veteran CNN broadcaster Jim Acosta, who made a name for himself during Trump&#8217;s first term in office by becoming a regular foil both for Trump and for then-White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, could balk at a possible move to late nights.
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The move, reportedly pitched by CNN CEO Mark Thompson, would see Acosta moved from his current one-hour time slot at 10 a.m. ET weekdays to a two-hour slot beginning at midnight — which was described in the report as a move to &#8220;effectively exile Acosta to the Siberia of television news.&#8221;
Acosta, according to an unnamed CNN staffer, appears to be &#8220;getting hosed&#8221; by the network — and may not be given another option outside the proposed midnight slot. &#8220;Acosta is a talented broadcaster who could handle any slot on the network. The midnight thing is shocking [but] it is what it is.&#8221;
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The Los Angeles Times <a href="https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2025-01-22/will-cnn-move-anchor-jim-acosta-to-the-graveyard-shift" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a> that Acosta, rather than take the late-night spot, could be considering a timely exit from the network.
Acosta is not the only longtime broadcaster who could see a dramatic change. Thompson has <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/01/23/media/jim-acosta-may-exit-cnn-rather-than-accept-move-to-graveyard-shift/?utm_source=twitter&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_campaign=nypost" target="_blank" rel="noopener">already confirmed</a> that Wolf Blitzer&#8217;s long-running program &#8220;The Situation Room&#8221; will move from early evenings to Acosta&#8217;s current slot at 10 a.m. ET, and he will share anchor duties with Pamela Brown.

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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scott-jennings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> Republican commentator Scott Jennings did not hesitate for a second when presented with a hypothetical scenario in which an illegal alien was arrested at a school.
The topic came up during a panel discussion on &#8220;CNN NewsNight&#8221; with host Abby Phillip, with that specific hypothetical being presented by author Jose Antonio Vargas.
&#8220;I think the question is, what are you going to do when people are getting arrested while you are dropping off your kid to school?&#8221; Vargas asked.
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More fun immigration debates last night on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a>. We are either going to enforce the law or we aren’t, and the people are behind Trump on this. <a href="https://t.co/pslkzyv8tB">pic.twitter.com/pslkzyv8tB</a>
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Jennings&#8217; answer was immediate: &#8220;I think if I were dropping my kid off at school, and they showed up and arrested someone who, I don&#8217;t know, had committed a violent crime or had an existing adjudicated deportation order, I would, A: wonder why they were at the school? And B: say, great! finally, somebody is enforcing the law in the United States of America. I would have no problem with this, truthfully.&#8221;
Vargas attempted to redirect the conversation, claiming, &#8220;And the reality is undocumented people are way less likely to commit crime than native-born citizens &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;But there are still criminals here,&#8221; Jennings pushed back. &#8220;They need to be deported.&#8221;
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&#8220;There are some,&#8221; Vargas conceded.
&#8220;So if they were at a school, you would agree it would be okay to come and get them,&#8221; Jennings prompted him.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not just those people who are going to be deported,&#8221; Ana Navarro said then, jumping to Vargas&#8217; defense.
&#8220;Do we have a crisis here or not?&#8221; Jennings asked. &#8220;Ten million people have come here in the last four years. We&#8217;ve had no interest on the part of the last administration to do anything other than create this massive problem.&#8221;
&#8220;It&#8217;s a crisis. People voted for Trump to solve the crisis,&#8221; Jennings added, noting that Trump had campaigned not only on changing policy at the border to prevent more illegal aliens from crossing into the United States, but also on enforcing the law — which means following through on his promise to deport those who should not be in the country.

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Episcopal Bishop Mariann Edgar Budde claimed on Tuesday that she felt obligated to stand &#8220;counter&#8221; to President Donald Trump.
Budde made an appearance on CNN — just hours after she&#8217;d used the pulpit at an inaugural prayer service to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bishop-asks-trump-to-have-mercy-on-trans-children-illegal-aliens-at-national-prayer-service" target="_blank" rel="noopener">scold Trump</a> for failing to embrace radical gender ideology and unchecked illegal immigration — where she told host Erin Burnett that she&#8217;d intended her message to appear as though she was &#8220;speaking directly&#8221; to the president at that moment.
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🚨 Leftwing activist bishop Mariann Edgar Budde, who turned prayer service sermon into woke lecture, says she wanted to “counter” Trump. <a href="https://t.co/Pio1BuRGRr">pic.twitter.com/Pio1BuRGRr</a>
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&#8220;I was looking at the president because I was speaking directly to him,&#8221; she said. &#8220;I was also, frankly, as you do in every sermon, speaking to everyone who is listening through that one-on-one conversation with the president, reminding us all that the people that are frightened in our country.&#8221;
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&#8220;The two groups of people that I mentioned are our fellow human beings, and that they have been portrayed in — all throughout the political campaign — in the harshest of lights,&#8221; she complained. &#8220;I wanted to counter as gently as I could with a reminder of their humanity and their place in our wider community.&#8221;
&#8220;And I was speaking to the president, because I felt that he has this moment now where he feels charged and empowered to do what he feels called to do and I wanted to say, you know, there is room for mercy,&#8221; Budde continued. &#8220;There&#8217;s room for a broader compassion. We don&#8217;t need to portray with a broad cloth in the harshest of terms some of the most vulnerable people in our society who are in fact our neighbors, our friends, our children, our friends&#8217; children, and so forth.&#8221;
Budde&#8217;s assertion on CNN — namely that she had intentionally used that opportunity to &#8220;counter&#8221; President Trump&#8217;s political positions — flew in the face of <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woke-bishop-says-she-didnt-politicize-prayer-everyone-else-did" target="_blank" rel="noopener">her claim</a> on Wednesday&#8217;s broadcast of &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/joy-behar-fawns-over-woke-bishop-more-fearlessness-than-anyone-in-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The View</a>&#8221; on ABC News that it was not her, but everyone else, who had ascribed a political motive to her words.
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CNN anchor Jake Tapper appeared concerned about the spread of “disinformation” online and how that could impact the next election just days after his network was found guilty of defamation.
During CNN’s coverage of President Donald Trump’s inauguration on Monday, Tapper focused on a group of tech executives that have grown closer to Trump since the president’s November victory. One of those executives, X CEO Elon Musk, was instrumental in Trump’s victory.
Other executives who have made peace with the president include Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Google CEO Sundar Pichai, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg. Tapper’s emphasis on the influence those men will have on information and elections comes as his own network just suffered a blow to its own credibility after losing a $5 million defamation case.
Tapper showed a photo of those executives minus Musk in St. John’s Church for a Monday morning service and remarked on the influence the group has over the spread of information.
“Those five people that I just mentioned – the four in the photograph and also Elon Musk – control so much of the information that we receive. So much is in their hands when it comes to ascertaining, monitoring, or refusing to monitor what is real, what is not real,” Tapper said.
“We&#8217;re about to enter an era of deepfakes and all sorts of misinformation, and the degree to which those five gentlemen play a role or do not play a role will be pivotal in terms of where the American people are four years from now in terms of understanding what is true and what is false,” he continued.
Tapper’s colleague, anchor Anderson Cooper, emphasized that the tech titans are “the gatekeepers, in many ways, to information for the entire planet.”
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WATCH: CNN&#39;s Jake Tapper melts down at the fact X&#39;s Elon Musk, Meta&#39;s Mark Zuckerberg, Amazon&#39;s Jeff Bezos, Apple&#39;s Tim Cook, and Google&#39;s Sundar Pichai attended the inauguration church service with <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JDVance</a>: 
&quot;We&#39;re about to enter an era of deepfakes and… <a href="https://t.co/qIQcEnjokW">pic.twitter.com/qIQcEnjokW</a>
&mdash; Steve Guest (@SteveGuest) <a href="https://twitter.com/SteveGuest/status/1881349628513423434?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On Friday, CNN <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cnn-found-liable-for-defaming-u-s-navy-veteran-in-afghanistan-evacuation-story-619ed824" target="_blank" rel="noopener">settled</a> a defamation case brought by veteran Zachary Young over a segment the network aired in 2021 on Young’s efforts to extract people from Afghanistan during the chaotic U.S. military withdrawal. The segment portrayed Young as a pariah, according to the lawsuit.
A Florida jury agreed with Young and found that CNN had defamed the veteran and that the veteran should be awarded $5 million. The jurors were debating extra punitive damages to be paid out by the network when CNN and Young settled the lawsuit for an undisclosed amount of money.
CNN said in a statement after the settlement that it would “take what useful lessons we can from this case.”
Young’s attorney, Devin Freedman, said: “We are very happy with the result. We cleared our client’s name, held CNN to account, and then settled to avoid protracted appeals.”
Tapper has a record of controversial statements against Trump that at best blur and at worst cross the line between objective journalism and partisan commentary. In 2020, the CNN anchor repeatedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jake-tapper-repeatedly-mocks-trumps-children-as-spawn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">referred</a> to Trump’s children derisively as his “spawn.” Also that year, Tapper <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-jake-tapper-mocks-trump-the-single-most-negative-sleazy-campaign-in-american-history" target="_blank" rel="noopener">called</a> Trump’s presidential campaign “the single most negative, sleazy campaign in American history for a major party candidate.”

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For those who don&#8217;t spend their Sunday mornings glued to the television — and their Sunday afternoons attempting to dig through a week&#8217;s worth of network and cable news media spin — The Daily Wire has compiled a short summary of what you may have missed.
With just 24 hours to go before President-elect Donald Trump was set to take the oath of office for the second time, most of the conversations on Sunday&#8217;s political talk shows were focused on what people expected to see happen not just in the coming days, but through the end of Trump&#8217;s second term.
The predictions ran the gamut from the straightforward to the outrageous, and as one might expect, split pretty evenly along party lines.
ABC News host Jonathan Karl opened &#8220;This Week&#8221; by saying, &#8220;We come on the air this morning on the precipice of a historic moment, one that feels more like the beginning of a new era than a new presidency.&#8221;
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“We come on the air this morning on the precipice of a historic moment, one that feels more like the beginning of a new era than a new presidency.” <a href="https://twitter.com/jonkarl?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JonKarl</a> has the latest on Donald Trump’s return to Washington: <a href="https://t.co/DK1VYkzLWF">https://t.co/DK1VYkzLWF</a> <a href="https://t.co/CyrF40EIEz">pic.twitter.com/CyrF40EIEz</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1880981125557891496?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Karl also spoke to Jon Finer, who used his last moment in the spotlight to help President Joe Biden claim credit for the ceasefire agreement between Israel and the Hamas terrorists who have been holding a number of hostages since October 7, 2023.
While Finer did concede that Trump&#8217;s team had offered &#8220;significant support&#8221; for a deal, he added, &#8220;Ultimately, at the end of the day, it was our team that was in the driver&#8217;s seat for the negotiations directed by President Biden with their support.&#8221;
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White House&#39;s Jon Finer says there was “significant support&quot; from Trump team for ceasefire deal.
“But ultimately, at the end of the day, it was our team that was in the driver&#39;s seat for the negotiations directed by President Biden with their support.” <a href="https://t.co/2SkuZsOFWq">https://t.co/2SkuZsOFWq</a> <a href="https://t.co/zTTHOjjVgV">pic.twitter.com/zTTHOjjVgV</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1881000371570536689?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Senator Alex Padilla (D-CA) broke from several members of his party and said that he would attend Trump&#8217;s inauguration – but he also signaled that he expected more bad than good from a second Trump administration.
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Democratic Sen. Alex Padilla says he will attend President-elect Trump’s inauguration.
When asked about his expectations for Trump&#39;s new term, Padilla adds, “Hoping for some good, but preparing for some bad if the first administration was any indicator.” <a href="https://t.co/Qh0en8mR8n">https://t.co/Qh0en8mR8n</a> <a href="https://t.co/mUcLETG90J">pic.twitter.com/mUcLETG90J</a>
&mdash; This Week (@ThisWeekABC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ThisWeekABC/status/1881033463093969189?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On CBS News&#8217; &#8220;Face the Nation,&#8221; Senator Tim Kaine (D-VA) also predicted disaster from the implementation of Trump&#8217;s stated policies. He specifically commented on plans for mass deportations — which he said would hit like &#8220;an absolute gut punch&#8221; — and the tariffs Trump has threatened to impose, which he argued would cause pain to American consumers.
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Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA) says he&#39;s hearing &quot;significant concerns from many sectors&quot; of Virginia&#39;s economy that President-elect Donald Trump&#39;s plans for massive deportation raids will be &quot;an absolute gut punch,&quot; and that Trump&#39;s threat of massive tariffs will add &quot;a lot of pain&quot; for… <a href="https://t.co/9KtTE0s3yu">pic.twitter.com/9KtTE0s3yu</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1881030830832632007?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Despite what many of the Democratic politicians were warning about, a new CBS News poll seemed to indicate that the American people were ready to see the change they&#8217;d voted for: &#8220;A majority of Americans say they are optimistic about Donald Trump&#8217;s second term, a CBS News poll finds one day before the president-elect&#8217;s inauguration, with high expectations for the economy after he returns to office.&#8221;
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A majority of Americans say they are optimistic about Donald Trump&#39;s second term, a CBS News poll finds one day before the president-elect&#39;s inauguration, with high expectations for the economy after he returns to office.<a href="https://twitter.com/SalvantoCBS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SalvantoCBS</a> breaks down what we&#39;re seeing: <a href="https://t.co/wXABLCOVNc">pic.twitter.com/wXABLCOVNc</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1881039442477232421?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Green Beret veteran and incoming National Security Adviser Michael Waltz laid out a number of executive actions Trump could take in the early days of this administration, particularly with regard to the southern border and the Mexican drug cartels.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to get ahead of the announcements, but we have to deal with them with what they are. We cannot have a situation where we have paramilitary gangs that are shooting down aircraft with heavy weapons, controlling 30% of our neighbor, Mexico, and controlling whole swaths of our border,&#8221; Waltz said.
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President-elect Trump&#39;s flurry of expected executive orders after taking office could include action against Mexican drug cartels operating in the U.S., incoming Trump national security adviser <a href="https://twitter.com/michaelgwaltz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@michaelgwaltz</a> says, telling <a href="https://twitter.com/margbrennan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@margbrennan</a> that Trump was &quot;clear on the campaign trail… <a href="https://t.co/JQ1bFbIV26">pic.twitter.com/JQ1bFbIV26</a>
&mdash; Face The Nation (@FaceTheNation) <a href="https://twitter.com/FaceTheNation/status/1881009600171811145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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On NBC News&#8217; &#8220;Meet the Press,&#8221; House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries tried to run cover for Biden and the concerted effort made by Democrats and media to hide his obvious mental decline from the American people.
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&mdash; RedState (@RedState) <a href="https://twitter.com/RedState/status/1881169781505564887?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Host Kristen Welker spoke with Trump himself, who confirmed that deportations would be a priority.
&#8220;It&#8217;s clear that mass deportations will be in focus&#8230;he said that the deportations will begin very early and very quickly,&#8221; Welker said of their conversation.
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&quot;It&#39;s clear that mass deportations will be in focus&#8230;he said that the deportations will begin very early and very quickly.&quot; &#8211; <a href="https://twitter.com/kwelkernbc?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@KWelkerNBC</a> on her conversation with President-elect Trump, discussing his day one priorities. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SundayTODAY?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SundayTODAY</a><a href="https://t.co/DJFzTPHj5N">https://t.co/DJFzTPHj5N</a>
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House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) also spoke to Welker about what to expect in the coming weeks — and he said that, after multiple reports suggesting that mismanagement of government had contributed to the devastation wrought by the wildfires in the Los Angeles area, he was not ready to commit to sending monetary relief to California without condition.
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Speaker Johnson ‘won’t commit’ to disaster relief for California without conditions <a href="https://t.co/xf4vO3eVxo">https://t.co/xf4vO3eVxo</a>
&mdash; Meet the Press (@MeetThePress) <a href="https://twitter.com/MeetThePress/status/1880990356176507305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The X account for CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; referred to Trump&#8217;s plan for deportation by stating that &#8220;immigration raids&#8221; were in the offing — and quoted Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) as saying that he hoped they&#8217;d begin &#8220;right away because that&#8217;s what the American people voted on.&#8221;
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Rep. <a href="https://twitter.com/Jim_Jordan?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@Jim_Jordan</a> tells <a href="https://twitter.com/DanaBashCNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@DanaBashCNN</a> he hopes Trump begins immigration raids &quot;right away because that&#39;s what the American people voted on.&quot; <a href="https://t.co/1qsZQ2py7L">pic.twitter.com/1qsZQ2py7L</a>
&mdash; State of the Union (@CNNSOTU) <a href="https://twitter.com/CNNSOTU/status/1881049044518101377?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Republican commentator Scott Jennings took a similar position, saying that he too expected big moves on immigration in the early days of the administration: &#8220;The insanity stops tomorrow when Trump takes over. It&#8217;s what the American people voted for.&#8221;
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Robust immigration debate on <a href="https://twitter.com/CNN?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@cnn</a> this afternoon. My take? The insanity stops tomorrow when Trump takes over. It’s what the American people voted for! <a href="https://t.co/fYpyueFtSO">pic.twitter.com/fYpyueFtSO</a>
&mdash; Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1881120311221068275?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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And over on MSNBC, former White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki painted a very grim picture of an America where the president only cared about certain people — kind of like the America that existed under the thumb of Biden&#8217;s administration. 
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&#8220;All of the evidence from the first term&#8230; all of the early indicators, even the visuals, suggest that starting tomorrow&#8230; we&#8217;re going to be back in a place where some citizens mean much more to the president than others,&#8221; she complained.
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.<a href="https://twitter.com/jrpsaki?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@jrpsaki</a> on Trump’s inauguration: “All of the evidence from the first term&#8230; all of the early indicators, even the visuals, suggest that starting tomorrow&#8230; we&#39;re going to be back in a place where some citizens mean much more to the president than others.”… <a href="https://t.co/n8oHprztV4">pic.twitter.com/n8oHprztV4</a>
&mdash; Inside with Jen Psaki (@InsideWithPsaki) <a href="https://twitter.com/InsideWithPsaki/status/1881031000362267070?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cnn" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNN</a> was found liable for defamation in a Panama City, Florida, court on Friday — and the network was ordered to pay out $5 million to the plaintiff, Navy veteran Zachary Young.
The jury found that CNN had defamed Young — and had done so intentionally and without concern for the impact their actions could have on Young.
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CNN defamation case (Zachary Young v. CNN) verdict being announced by the clerk in Bay County, Florida. Follow <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@NickFondacaro</a> <a href="https://t.co/xBjTo2P0aA">pic.twitter.com/xBjTo2P0aA</a>
&mdash; Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) <a href="https://twitter.com/BrentHBaker/status/1880307610353615218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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As reported by <a href="https://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/01/17/breaking-cnn-found-liable-defamation-navy-vet-zachary-young" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Newsbusters</a>, the jury determined that CNN had &#8220;demonstrated expressed malice, actual malice, and outrageous behavior, which opened the door for a massive punitive damages judgement.&#8221;
The network was ordered to pay Young &#8220;$4 million in economic damages and $1 million in emotional damages,&#8221; with the determination of punitive damages still to come.
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The defamation came when the network went ahead with a segment focused on his work aiding in high-risk evacuations from Afghanistan in the wake of President Joe Biden&#8217;s disastrous withdrawal. In that report, put together by chief national security correspondent Alex Marquardt, Young had been singled out as the poster boy for &#8220;exploiting&#8221; desperate Afghans who wanted to flee from the Taliban-controlled country.
The segment initially ran on November 11, 2021, as part of &#8220;The Lead with Jake Tapper,&#8221; and the anchor introduced the story as follows:
<blockquote>In our world today, the U.S. government, the Biden administration says that as of last week, it had assisted in the departure of at least 377 U.S. citizens and 279 lawful permanent residents of the U.S. from Afghanistan since August 31st. Still, many Afghans, Afghans who desperately want to flee Taliban rule and Afghans who say their lives are at stake, they remain behind. As CNN&#8217;s Alex Marquardt has discovered, Afghans trying to get out of the country face a black market full of promises, demands of exorbitant fees, and no guarantee of safety or success.</blockquote>
After he was introduced, Marquardt doubled down on the characterization of Young as someone who was willing to take advantage of desperate people to make a quick buck.
<blockquote>According to Afghans and activists we&#8217;ve spoken with, desperate Afghans are being exploited like that young man, told they can get them or their families out if they pay exorbitant, often impossible amounts. One LinkedIn user posted messages with Young, where Young said it would be $75,000 for a car to Pakistan. He told another it would be 14 and a half thousand per person to get to the United Arab Emirates or Albania for another 4,000. Prices well beyond the reach of most Afghans.</blockquote>
As the trial played out, however, the jury saw evidence that Young had done nothing of the sort — and that it was likely at least a few people at CNN were well aware of that when the story went to air.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/we-gonna-nail-this-zachary-young-mfker-cnn-reporters-text-read-aloud-in-court" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Internal messages</a> from some of those involved with green lighting and reporting the story also showed that the intent was to damage Young&#8217;s reputation.
The trial continued on Friday with witnesses testifying on the subject of punitive damages that could yet be awarded.
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WATCH LIVE: Day Ten of the defamation trial against CNN &#8211; CNN was found liable for defamation &#8211; Phase 2 punitive damages determination &#8211; Witnesses testifying <a href="https://t.co/7iuC18FIUx">https://t.co/7iuC18FIUx</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1880334415798112390?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Scott Jennings, often CNN&#8217;s sole Republican commentator on panels, gave his take Thursday night on why some Democrats are looking to have a relationship with President-elect Donald Trump in the wake of his massive election victory.
Mayor Eric Adams of New York City is set to meet with Trump on Friday at Mar-a-Lago. Rumors circulated that Adams is angling for a pardon in the wake of his indictment on charges of bribery and wire fraud, but the Democratic mayor has also indicated he wants to work with the incoming administration and has been critical of the Biden administration.
&#8220;One, I think the hysteria has subsided, thank God, over Trump,&#8221; Jennings told the CNN panel. &#8220;Number two, it makes a lot of sense to me why Eric Adams, the leader of a large city, would want to have a relationship with the president because New York City is one of the most impacted cities by the illegal immigration crisis.&#8221;
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🚨 SCOTT JENNINGS: People are rushing to meet with Trump because people respond to leadership. They&#39;ve been desperate for some leadership, now they&#39;re gonna get some. <a href="https://t.co/Nk1xDWNqWO">pic.twitter.com/Nk1xDWNqWO</a>
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&#8220;Number three, people respond to leadership,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And we haven&#8217;t had any for the last four years. So now you have a strong president coming in, no wonder, they&#8217;ve been desperate for some leadership, now they&#8217;re going to get some, and they&#8217;re meeting with the president to find out what they can do together.&#8221;
One of the other panel members erupted laughing at Jennings&#8217; last point.
Jennings also shared his thoughts on prominent Democrats, including Michelle Obama and Nancy Pelosi, skipping Trump&#8217;s inauguration.
&#8220;I think people should go where they want to go and do what they want to do. I don&#8217;t really care all that much,&#8221; Jennings said.
He added that he is hoping for a peaceful next couple of years.
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&#8220;This is the first election in my adult professional career that both parties seem to have accepted the outcome of the election. There doesn&#8217;t seem to be any dispute thankfully this time about who won,&#8221; Jennings said.
&#8220;I think we&#8217;re off the slippery slope. That&#8217;s my view,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I hope these little slights don&#8217;t alter that, but I feel like we are about to go into a couple of years — I&#8217;m just going to try to will it into existence — of political peace. We haven&#8217;t had peace in a long time. And I think that&#8217;s what the American people said when they voted for this unified Republican government.&#8221;
Trump&#8217;s presidential inauguration will take place on Monday. Due to potentially dangerously frigid temperatures, it will be held inside the Capitol Rotunda rather than outdoors.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to see people hurt, or injured, in any way,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113844745273237387" target="_blank" rel="noopener">posted</a> on Truth Social.

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'People Respond To Leadership:' Scott Jennings Talks Dems Reaching Out To Trump

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CNN Republican commentator <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/scott-jennings" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Scott Jennings</a> often has his work cut out for him, given the number of hosts and contributors at the network who would happily defend President Joe Biden to the last — and Wednesday was no exception.
As observed by Newsbusters&#8217; Curtis Houck, Jennings &#8220;schools former Kamala aide Ashley Etienne for praising Biden lamenting the decline of trust in the media and then hurling disproven lies about Donald Trump.&#8221;
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CNN’s <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@ScottJenningsKY</a> schools former Kamala aide Ashley Etienne for praising Biden lamenting the decline of trust in the media and then hurling disproven lies about Donald Trump: “Has Joe Biden, Kamala Harris or Karine Jean-Pierre ever lied?&#8230;Your speech is about the truth and… <a href="https://t.co/pgspP7JK7w">pic.twitter.com/pgspP7JK7w</a>
&mdash; Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) <a href="https://twitter.com/CurtisHouck/status/1879713547963232624?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Has Joe Biden, Kamala Harris, or Karine Jean-Pierre ever lied?&#8221; Jennings asked.
Etienne shrugged: &#8220;I don&#8217;t know, what are you talking about? I know where you&#8217;re going with this, but that&#8217;s not the point.&#8221;
She went on to claim that Trump &#8220;stood at the podium every day&#8221; and told lies.
&#8220;Your speech is about the truth and one thing about Biden that has always vexed Republicans is that he spends a lot of time talking about him being the center of truth and the restoration of the soul of the nation and yet, he and his people spend a heck of a lot of time undermining that very talking point up to and including this year with the massive cover up of his own condition,&#8221; Jennings explained.
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&#8220;Scott, how about Trump lying to the American people during COVID? How about that?&#8221; Etienne interrupted, and then immediately pivoted to lie about what she was claiming Trump had lied about. &#8220;Drink bleach. I could go on and on.&#8221;
&#8220;Didn&#8217;t happen. Debunked,&#8221; Jennings waved off her false statement.
&#8220;It&#8217;s not as bad as the flu, I mean, all of these things — 500,000 people lost their lives because the president wasn&#8217;t honest with the country,&#8221; Etienne tried again, but Jennings was not buying it.
&#8220;I don&#8217;t understand. Are you saying the virus was listening to Donald Trump?&#8221; Jennings pressed.
&#8220;Lies have consequences,&#8221; Etienne said then.
&#8220;I just want to make sure I understand that your position is, is that Donald Trump&#8217;s words induced the virus to kill people?&#8221; Jennings asked.
&#8220;No,&#8221; Etienne replied. &#8220;What Donald Trump&#8217;s words did was prevented people from protecting themselves and their neighbors and 500,000 plus people lost their lives.&#8221;
She went on to claim that Trump was at fault for the economic standstill that followed, despite the fact that individual governors had brought things to a halt at the state level and other countries worldwide had implemented similar — if not stricter — lockdown polices that were outside Trump&#8217;s control.
&#8220;This is crazy. I’m sorry, this is insane,&#8221; Jennings said, noting that Trump had been the one to fast-track the development of vaccines.

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‘I’m Sorry, This Is Insane’: Scott Jennings ‘Schools’ Ex-Kamala Aide Over Biden’s True Legacy

‘I’m Sorry, This Is Insane’: Scott Jennings 'Schools' Ex-Kamala Aide Over Biden’s True Legacy

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CNN reporter Alex Marquardt took the stand on Monday, marking the <a href="https://x.com/NickFondacaro/status/1878829916864893255" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sixth day</a> of the network&#8217;s Florida defamation trial, brought by U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young over a report about his efforts to aid in the evacuation of Afghan citizens.
Marquardt <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2025/01/13/marquardt-refuses-apologize-alleged-defamation-doubles-down" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated on the stand</a> that he had pitched a story to the network about desperate Afghans fleeing the Taliban — which resulted in a piece that went to air with claims that Young had &#8220;preyed&#8221; on the people and &#8220;exploited&#8221; their desperation to make a quick buck.
During Young&#8217;s testimony late last week, the Navy veteran explained that he had only worked with Afghans who had corporate sponsors who were able to pay the costs associated with the evacuations — which were often complicated and dangerous — but Marquardt still went ahead with a story that suggested he was essentially extorting individual citizens.
Despite Young&#8217;s insistence that he only did corporate-sponsored evacuations, Marquardt testified that &#8220;the story was not about Bloomberg and Audible. The corporate evacuations were not something I was interested in.&#8221;
Marquardt made Young the face of the story after getting the go-ahead from &#8220;top brass&#8221; within the network. Young&#8217;s attorney, Devin Freedman, shared internal messages from CNN, including one from Marquardt stating, &#8220;We gonna nail this Zachary Young mf**ker.&#8221;
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Marquardt is confronted fronted with his message about how he was going to &quot;mail this Zachary Young mfucker.&quot; Marquardt doubles down. <a href="https://t.co/XeSGakfTRZ">pic.twitter.com/XeSGakfTRZ</a>
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1878838317170741516?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Marquardt also admitted during testimony that he had found reports of Afghans being scammed as they attempted to flee the country but that he had not included them in the story about Young. He also admitted that he did not have direct evidence of Young exploiting any Afghan citizen.
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Marquardt admits he had &quot;no evidence&quot; of Mr. Young taking advantage of an Afghan.
&mdash; Nicholas Fondacaro (@NickFondacaro) <a href="https://twitter.com/NickFondacaro/status/1878829916864893255?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">January 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Judge William Scott Henry, who has already ruled that Young did not exploit any Afghan citizens during his time working to coordinate evacuations, read one of the juror&#8217;s questions aloud to Marquardt to clarify some of his comments.
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&#8220;Why, after several examples of Mr. Young cut off communication with people without [corporate] funds, did you still feel as if he was still exploiting Afghans? … Do you and your colleagues believe that Mr. Young should have evacuated anyone who requested help without charging? … How do you feel knowing that Mr. Young can no longer work in the space that he is trained in as a result of your piece?&#8221;
Throughout his testimony, Marquardt repeated that he was &#8220;proud&#8221; of his story and said he did not believe CNN should apologize to Young.

‘We Gonna Nail This Zachary Young MF**ker’: CNN Reporter’s Text Read Aloud In Court

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CNN Republican commentator Scott Jennings sparked reactions from the others around the table during a panel discussion on President-elect Donald Trump&#8217;s more recent &#8220;expansionist&#8221; rhetoric.
Referencing Trump&#8217;s assertions regarding the United States potentially taking control of the Panama Canal and Greenland — despite objections from those who currently control those two areas — host Abby Phillip said that Trump was marking a clear departure from an America that promoted peace over expansion.
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🔥NEW: Scott Jennings drops truth nuke on CNN panel fretting over Trump&#39;s “expansionist” rhetoric:
“What Donald Trump is saying to the world is we are not a shrinking violet anymore.&quot;
&quot;We are the United States of America. We&#39;re the preeminent superpower. And reporters keep… <a href="https://t.co/8rVsJf6pCF">pic.twitter.com/8rVsJf6pCF</a>
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&#8220;We helped create a world order in which we said, you cannot just decide you want that country and then take your military and go into that country and take it,&#8221; Phillip began. &#8220;Okay, so that is the era of not being in an expansionist military era for the United States. And you&#8217;re saying that&#8217;s not true. Why is it not true?&#8221;
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&#8220;Well, you can think small if you want to, but I think Trump&#8217;s thinking big, and he&#8217;s thinking about U.S. interests,&#8221; Jennings replied. &#8220;There are U.S. interests in Greenland, they have rare earth minerals, we already have some kind of space facility there, and it would help fortify us against the Russians. The Panama Canal is of course of interest when you consider the Chinese incursions and influence in this hemisphere.&#8221;
&#8220;What Donald Trump is saying to the world is we are not a shrinking violet anymore,&#8221; Jennings continued. &#8220;We are the United States of America. We are the preeminent superpower. And reporters keep asking him to rule things out and take things off the table, and it would be the height of stupidity to do so now or do anything else before he takes office. Why would he tell the rest of the world what he may or may not do?&#8221;
Trump has also repeatedly ribbed Canadian officials — particularly Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, who announced his resignation earlier this week — about the possibility that the United States&#8217; neighbor to the north could become the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-calls-trudeau-governor-of-the-great-state-of-canada" target="_blank" rel="noopener">51st state</a>.

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