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A CNN panel on Cuomo Prime Time dissolved into chaos as Cuomo and his two guests, Van Jones and Steve Cortes, got into a heated argument and constantly interrupted one another over Donald Trump’s attacks on the 1989 Central Park Five rape case in New York City. “I’m not going to let you lie,” Jones declared when Cortes began to question the innocence of the five men who were convicted and then, years later, fully exonerated from the crime. That infamous case of law enforcement abuse and false imprisonment exploded back into the news on Monday after the president tweeted...

CNN is planning to cut up to 300 jobs, "many being older employees with years at the network," according to a report on Monday. According to FTVLive, a website that monitors the television industry, "Word is that just under 200 people will be pink slipped and just over 100 will be offered a buyout." Staffers are reportedly calling the cuts a "massive brain drain" because so many veteran employees are being given pink slips. The website obtained an email that Tony Maddox, the executive vice president and managing director of CNN International, shared with staff announcing his departure. "After 21...

Chris Cuomo Gets Hammered By Panelists After Defending Antifa. You can tell you are watching a segment by the MSM when they have the gall to bash Trump for something he didn’t do and then defend a violent group like Antifa. CNN’s Chris Cuomo brought on Rob Astorino and Steve Cortes to talk about the what Trump said during the Charlottesville incident. Unlike a normal CNN Trump bashing session, Cuomo found himself alone in pushing the liberal narrative. The Charlottesville discussion was brought about by Biden who of course misquoted the president trying to make it seem like he is...

CNN commentator Paul Begala said Monday night he’d "pay any price" to ensure that a Democratic candidate beat President Donald Trump in next year's election. Discussing the launch of former Vice President Joe Biden’s presidential campaign, Begala began by telling anchor Chris Cuomo that the 2020 election will mark the first time that he does not have a candidate that he supported during the Democratic primary. “This is what I’m looking for: I’m a JFK Democrat. I will pay any price, bear any burden, support any friend, oppose any foe to ensure the defeat of Donald J. Trump,” the former...

CNN primetime host Chris Cuomo took on President Trump during his Monday evening show, over the President doubling down on his Charlottesville comments and condemning Democrats’ support of late-term abortion. Cuomo expressed shock that Trump would compare abortion to murder, and adamantly defended the leftist anarchist group Antifa, saying they couldn’t be compared to neo-Nazis and were working for a "good cause." Cuomo spent a good deal of Cuomo Prime Time arguing with Trump supporter Steve Cortes that Antifa was committed to a good cause and were morally superior to neo-Nazis. “You make a moral equivalent between those two actions,...

A former attorney general has slammed CNN host Chris Cuomo, accusing the host of "misleading" his audience about the Mueller investigation. Michael B. Mukasey, a former federal judge, and President George W. Bush’s attorney general, took Cuomo on during an interview on his show Tuesday night. During a discussion about Attorney General Barr's summary of the Mueller report, Cuomo argued that Barr wrote his letter in a purposeful way to mislead the American people. Mukasey, however, fired back that it was Cuomo and his network that proposed the report itself and the information within it in a misleading way. "That...

President Trump on Tuesday unloaded a barrage of criticism on "Morning Joe" host Joe Scarborough, labeling the talk-show host a "psycho" in a pair of tweets in which the president praised Fox News's "Fox & Friends" and also lashed out at a CNN host. In the tweets, Trump referred to the MSNBC morning show as a "really bad show with low ratings" that would "only get worse," before turning his ire to CNN host Chris Cuomo. "Sorry to say but @foxandfriends is by far the best of the morning political shows on television. It rightfully has BY FAR the highest...

Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders (I) argued Monday that all prisoners, including domestic terrorists like the Boston Marathon bomber, should have the right to vote while they are incarcerated. Speaking at a CNN town hall, Sanders was asked if he believes the right to vote should extend to serious criminals, such as Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who is in prison and has been sentenced to death. “If somebody commits a serious crime, sexual assault, murder, they’re going to be punished,” Sanders said. “They may be in jail 10 years, 20 years, 50 years, their whole life. That’s what happens when...

To prepare my blog items, I typically read a show's transcript before watching the video. And so it was, when checking out CNN's New Day this morning, that I didn't know who had so unequivocally supported the highly-contentious, partisan claim by Dem committee chairmen that Attorney General Barr is trying to "shield the President and color Mueller's findings for the public." I figured it must have been one of CNN's countless political "analysts" or "commentators" who so flatly sided with the Dem chairmen. But no, turns out it was Chris Cuomo, whom CNN brought in to guest-host on his former...

by Jenn Carter CNN's Chris Cuomo had a conversation with an illegal alien, with the help of a translator, about why the man decided to come to the United States. Prior to the segment, Cuomo had spouted the usual talking points about "migrants fleeing violence" and "saving their children from gangs" in their home countries in Central America. But then the CNN narrative collapsed when he started asking questions -- and the answers only proved what President Trump has said all along. “Is he here to work or is he here for asylum?” Cuomo asked the translator."He wants to...

Despite Tapper and Cuomo’s denials, CNN has been plagued by errors in its reporting on the Russia investigation. CNN issued a massive correction Dec. 7, 2017, to a story that claimed Donald Trump Jr. had been sent an email Sept. 4, 2016, that contained undisclosed information from WikiLeaks. It turned out CNN’s sources provided the wrong date for the email. Trump Jr. actually received the email Sept. 14, 2016, a day after the information contained in the email had been made public. CNN was also forced to correct a June 7, 2017, article (co-authored by Tapper) that claimed James Comey...

Shortened title. Full title: CNN's Chris Cuomo defends colleagues being criticized for Mueller coverage, says it is 'not true' there was no collusion In a heated conversation with Sean Duffy, CNN’s Chris Cuomo said it’s “not true” Special Counsel Robert Mueller concluded that collusion with Russia didn’t exist. The fiery exchange got underway when Rep. Duffy, R-Wis., criticized the media over the reporting of the Mueller investigation. “You’re the reporters. You have a job to make sure you’re putting out the right facts. For two years, you put out the wrong facts,” Duffy said on Cuomo's show Tuesday. The CNN...

Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie argued that the Southern District of New York, and not the special counsel's Russia investigation, presents more of a "problem and a threat" to President Donald Trump. "I always said that (special counsel) Bob Mueller is not what should concern the President or the White House. That's the Southern District of New York," Christie, who led Trump's transition team, told CNN's Chris Cuomo Thursday night.

Rep. Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.) on Friday suggested a future Democratic president could confiscate citizens' guns based on the precedent of President Donald Trump's national emergency announcement regarding the border wall. Nadler, the new chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, appeared on CNN's "Cuomo Prime Time" to discuss Trump's announcement earlier in the morning. Trump declared it "necessary" to build the wall on the southern border. Host Chris Cuomo asked Nadler if enough Republicans would come out against Trump, prompting him to say, "I think so" and that he believes Republicans are terrified of unintended consequences. He speculated about other...

A liberal CNN commentator pointed to the familiar red "Make America Great Again" hat as a trigger for her distress. "Just think about the symbol of that red hat. When I see the 'Make America Great Again' hat now, Chris, I'm triggered, I'm so triggered," said Angela Rye during a segment on Chris Cuomo's Tuesday show. The hat, she said, is a symbol of President Trump's policies — policies she said are bigoted. "This 'Make America Great Again' hat is just as maddening and frustrating and triggering for me to look at as a KKK hood. That is the type...

Do you remember Jacob Wohl? He’s the guy who accused Robert Mueller of being a rapist based on an investigation by a made-up company called Surefire Intelligence. Today, Wohl tweeted that Kamala Harris is not eligible to run for President because…well, it doesn’t really matter: Kamala Harris is NOT eligible to be President. Her father arrived from Jamaica in 1961—mother from India arrived in 1960 Neither parent was a legal resident for 5 years prior to Harris’s birth, a requirement for naturalizationKamala was raised in Canada— Jacob Wohl (@JacobAWohl) January 22, 2019 Here’s the only part that matters in...

There is no reason to believe Buzzfeed, Salon, or any of those far left “news organizations.” They are full of a supposition that is intended to paint President Trump in a bad light, make him look anti-American and drive down his public polls numbers. Anything full of so much blatant opinion with no supporting facts is garbage. On Friday, Buzzfeed proved that to be true.Buzzfeed released a “bombshell report” this week. The article claimed that there was evidence proving Trump told his longtime personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about a Trump Tower project plan in Moscow. The...

C'mon, Joe, Mika & Co.—quit the giggling, middle-school worthy gossip, and put your cards on the table. As we noted here and here, for over two years now Morning Joe has been broadly hinting that Rudy Giuliani has a drinking problem. The show was back at it today, with Willie Geist, Mika Brzezinski, Joe Scarborough, and Katty Kay all unsubtly suggesting that Rudy had been drinking before his CNN interview with Chris Cuomo last night.Get the rest of the story and view the video here.

John Kasich's time as Ohio governor just came to an end. And his time as a CNN commentator just began. On Tuesday morning CNN announced that Kasich is the newest addition to the network's stable of commentators. He will appear as a guest across an array of CNN programs. Kasich's first appearance will be on "Cuomo Prime Time" on Tuesday night. His hiring was first reported by Axios on Tuesday morning.

White House adviser Kellyanne Conway spent 39 minutes defending President Trump on CNN on Thursday night — but got no love from her husband, George, who trolled her on Twitter. The president’s counselor sparred with host Chris Cuomo on his primetime show, where she claimed it’s a “slur” to accuse Trump of lying. “You took a shot at the president tonight. You called him a slur I’m not going to repeat,” Conway said. When Cuomo asked what slur she was referring to, Conway replied, “You’re saying he’s not telling the truth. That’s a slur. That’s a slur.” She insisted that...