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CNN This Morning's panel discussion of an ICE agent's fatal shooting of a woman in Minneapolis began with CNN senior White House reporter Betsy Klein calling on President Trump to "tone down his rhetoric." That was promptly followed by CNN commentator and former Biden comms person Meghan Hays claiming,"what happened here was murder." Because nothing tones down the rhetoric like accusing someone of murder in the earliest moments of an investigation. Later, host Audie Cornish brought on CNN commentator Garrett Graff, and teed him up to comment on ICE's recruitment ads. She suggestively said that "the tone and tenor of...

In the context of a discussion of the suspension of Jimmy Kimmel's show and related matters, today's CNN This Morning aired a clip of Rep. Daniel Goldman [D-ActBlue Jeans] calling President Trump a "wannabe mob boss."Meghan Hays, a former Biden aide and a CNN analyst, agreed with Goldman, then proceeded to claim: "We are running dangerously close to state-run media . . . We are losing our democracy. They're dismantling democracy by doing this." Accusing Trump of creating a "state-run media?" That's something of a new line of attack. And a laugh line at that. Even without the likes of...