CNN is surely dedicated to promoting liberalism and defeating conservatism.
That said, I can’t detect an obvious nefarious motive behind the balanced debate they offered here, and see no reason not to recognize this unusual moment of fairness.
They want to spin up the Chauvin story again. Chauvin was a tool used to identify “racists”. Racists were people who believed that St Floyd did anything to influence his own demise. They had a good run with that trial and if they can get it going again, they sell Corn Flakes and bash Republicans at the same time.