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VIDEO Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz has issued his report revealing that the Steele Dossier was not only an unverified fraud but that it played a "central and essential role" in the FBI's decision to issue a FISA warrant to spy on Carter Page. Horowitz's report also validated the memo issued by Congressman Devin Nunes in early 2018 revealing the role of the Steele report in making that warrant possible. This video takes a look at the many people in the mainstream media who not only mocked the evidence presented by Nunes but hyped the validity of...

A CNN producer abruptly resigned, according to a Thursday report, just weeks after he was implicated by another network staffer of sexual misconduct, in leaked videos from the controversial conservative watchdog group Project Veritas. In October, Steve Brusk, CNN Politics' supervising producer, was accused of "making advances" at female employees at social gatherings. He allegedly would "put his arms around them" and "try and touch their leg" as well as being "flirty and inappropriate" in email exchanges, according to Rick Saleeby, whom Project Veritas identified as a senior producer for "The Lead with Jake Tapper." "I'll tell you this. In...

Bill Clinton advised President Trump on Thursday to focus on his job amid impeachment proceedings, saying “you don’t get the days back you blow off.” The former president called into CNN to weigh in on Trump and Congress working together on gun control legislation following the Santa Clarita shooting. “What would your message to President Trump be when he says, ‘I can’t work with these people, they’re impeaching me?’” CNN anchor Jake Tapper asked. “My message would be, ‘look, you got hired to do a job,’” Clinton said. “You don’t get the days back you blow off. Every day’s an...

DENVER — Denver talk radio host Craig Silverman was fired midway through his program Saturday morning after criticizing President Donald Trump. Silverman confirmed his termination to FOX31 and Channel 2 Saturday evening. The former Denver chief deputy district attorney was hosting “The Craig Silverman Show,” which aired between 9 a.m. and 12 p.m. Saturdays on 710 KNUS. The program is no longer listed on the conservative radio station’s website. Silverman says he was fired after airing a segment about Roy Cohn, the late lawyer who represented Trump in the 1970s. On Friday, Silverman wrote a Facebook post in support of...

CNN’s Jake Tapper was roundly mocked on Twitter Wednesday after calling a section from the first public impeachment hearing a “bombshell.” 2/ "...in the presence of my staff at a restaurant, Ambassador Sondland called President Trump and told him of his meetings in Kyiv. The member of my staff could hear President Trump on the phone, asking Ambassador Sondland about 'the investigations.'...— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) November 13, 2019 4/"...Ambassador Sondland responded that President Trump cares more about the investigations of Biden, which Giuliani was pressing for... "It is my understanding that the Committee is following up on this matter."—...

Former CIA Director and retired US Army Gen. David Petraeus said on Sunday the United States betrayed its longstanding ally in its fight against ISIS, the Syrian Kurds, by withdrawing US forces from the northern part of the country. Petraeus, who previously oversaw military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, criticized President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw US forces from northern Syria on CNN's "State of The Union." "Well, I think we have abandoned our Syrian Kurdish partners. They took over 10,000 losses as the defeat of Islamic State was carried out," he told CNN's Jake Tapper. "The elimination of the...

A long forgotten video clip from ABC's "The View" resurfaced on Wednesday that showed co-host Joy Behar trying to explain a Halloween costume from when she was younger. The clip was shared by The Wrap media editor Jon Levine. Behar was seen discussing a New York Times op-ed about the resurgence of curly hair during the show in 2016. Behar showed her colleagues and the audience a picture of herself with curly hair when she was 29 years old. The co-hosts appeared surprised by her drastically different look. Raven-Symoné, a former co-host, asked, "Joy, are you black?"

Full Title: BREAKING: CNN Media Coordinator states ‘Jeff Zucker goes into the control room while Jake Tapper is interviewing Kellyanne Conway’; tells Executive Producer to skip commercials, extend 7 minute interview to 25 minutes to “just f**king nail her” Link to 2 minute video: https://youtu.be/nxjVIm_t1a0

Jeff Zucker’s meteoric rise in the media industry may not be over yet. Zucker, the president of CNN, is now the leading — if not the only — internal candidate being considered to become chief executive of WarnerMedia, the new conglomeration owned by AT&T that includes Warner Bros., HBO and Turner Broadcasting, according to five high-level WarnerMedia sources................................

RUSH: You know, you can tell CNN knows that last night was a disaster. You know how I know that? They’re not saying a word about it. They are doing nothing but promoting tonight’s version of the debate with the A-Team. You got Kamala Harris, you’ve got Plugs. Who else we got up there? We got, uh, we got, uh, well, I say the A-Team. It actually isn’t. You got Plugs, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, de Blasio. This is not the A-Team. I’m sorry. There isn’t an A-Team! Last night wasn’t the A-Team either! There isn’t an A-Team. But they’re...

CNN’s president, a media titan at the helm of a global news organization intensely covering the 2020 presidential election, has a longstanding personal rule against supporting politicians. He’s broken it once ⁠— for Kamala Harris when she ran to become the first woman of color to hold the office of California attorney general a decade ago. “Kamala is not just important for the city of San Francisco, the state of California, but for the entire country,” Jeff Zucker, then president of NBC Universal, told guests at a breakfast at NBC’s Rockefeller Plaza office in August 2009, according to reporting by...

RUSH: I’ve always told you how when the media gets in trouble, they circle the wagons and give each other awards. Dan Rather. Dan Rather gets caught making up an entire story about George W. Bush and the Texas National Guard, claims a bunch of garbage that Bush daddy’s buddies kept George W. Bush out of combat, even let him get away with skipping mandatory duty as part of the Texas National Guard. None of it was true. It was all made up. What did the Drive-By Media do after Rather was fired? Well, even before he was fired? Tom...

CNN President Jeff Zucker made a sexual joke about one of his female employees, "New Day" anchor Alisyn Camerota, while accepting an award on Thursday. Zucker was being honored for leadership at the Mirror Awards, which recognizes excellence in journalism. The ceremony is hosted by Syracuse University and was being emceed by Camerota. According to The Hollywood Reporter’s Jeremy Barr, Zucker joked to the anchor: "I was gonna say that I love waking up WITH YOU every morning, but I want to say that I love waking up TO YOU every morning."

CNN accused by National Association of Black Journalists of lacking diversity; Zucker refuses to meet with group The National Association of Black Journalists has elevated CNN to a “special media monitoring list” over concerns about a lack of diversity and the network’s president’s refusal to even discuss the lack of black executives at the liberal news organization. The NABJ specifically expressed concerns “about the lack of black representation within the ranks of CNN’s executive news managers and direct reports to CNN President Jeff Zucker,” The group noted that “Zucker has no black direct reports” and that the network doesn’t have...

CNN President Jeff Zucker revealed in an interview with David Axelrod that he is interested in running for political office. Zucker said in the interview, which was released Monday on Axelrod’s podcast “The Axe Files,” that he has always been very interested in politics and could see himself running for office five years from now. “With regard to be where I’ll be in five years … I don’t know for sure where I’ll be but here’s the two things I do know: if the Miami Dolphins call, that’s where I’ll be,” Zucker declared. “And number two, I still harbor somewhere...

ith AT&T’s acquisition of Time Warner now poised to close in a matter of days, it’s come time for the anticipated parlor games regarding who from the latter institution will be sticking around under the new regime. As I reported yesterday, a number of departures are expected within Time Warner’s C-suite, and other personnel shuffles are likely to occur at the company’s operating divisions, such as CNN parent Turner Broadcasting. In some cases, sources told me, the details are still being worked out. But a day after a federal judge gave the green light for the deal to move forward,...

CNN president Jeff Zucker has renewed his contract with the news network through the 2020 presidential election, according to a new report. “I’ve learned that the veteran broadcast executive, who has served as president of Time Warner’s cable news channel since 2013, signed a new deal several months ago that will keep him at CNN through the 2020 election,” writes Joe Pompeo of Vanity Fair. Reports of Zucker’s contract extension follows the approval of AT&T’s $85.4 billion takeover of Time Warner, the parent company of CNN. As Breitbart News Economics and Finance Editor John Carney wrote Tuesday, the decision by...

EXCLUSIVE UPDATED: A month after John Skipper’s abrupt resignation as president of ESPN and co-chairman of Disney Media Networks, a surprising name has entered the field of potential successors: CNN Worldwide president Jeff Zucker. Reps at Disney could not be reached for comment, but multiple sources close to Zucker confirmed to Deadline that he has had conversations for the top job at the sports giant. Following Skipper’s shocking December 18 announcement that he was resigning to deal with a substance abuse problem, George Bodenheimer — ESPN’s president from 1998-2011 and its executive chairman until May 2014 — took over as...

Matt Drudge, founder of the highly influential Drudge Report said on Thursday that Jeff Zucker is out at CNN due to abysmal ratings and personal feud with President Trump.

James O'Keefe tracked down CNN President Jeff Zucker for comment on Project Veritas' recent American Pravda series. Instead of giving a quote, Zucker tried for a quick escape. VIDEO