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Where we can t have a conversation and own our choices, instead of blaming the audience, that was, that was deflection and projection. and part of what trump ushered in was gas lighting at an historic level in our politic, and if it spreads into the media, we re in deep trouble. you know, the whole or deal made me deeply uncomfortable. not just as a viewer, because it was disturbing, of course, but just to see donald trump kind of in all of his glory, and it really was demagogue-ish, but also, as a journalist, just because i think it is a difficult thing, and i do take cnn, i m sure they were acting in good faith, the problem is, you know, they basically set themselves up for failure, i think, because you never want to just hand over your platform to any politician, to do with it whatever they choose. ....
Any candidate, every political reporter in america knows it, you cannot allow political candidates to set the terms of an interview. right. he certainly never did when i worked in politics. you know that s how it works. and you know that. the format didn t allow for that exchange. and instead, it gave him an hour of free tv. give me throw out there some things that have come from inside cnn, from the highly-regarded oliver darcee who writes, reliable sources. he wrote this. 24 hours after cnn s town hall, it is all anyone is talking about, throughout the day in fact we heard from dozens of network staffers ranging in seniority and positions across the organization who all expressed dismay by what they saw transpire on their television screens. i m still writing this letter right now, i am still fielding messages and phone calls. this is cnn s media critic writing about cnn, and when he is talking about staff, he is talking about colleagues and ....
Co-workers. this is what was put out in the public. i m sure you have a sense of the high degree of angst and alarm over there. no one diminishes it. there is a high three of angst and alarm at cnn over the course of changes over the last year. there is a lot of angst and alarm going on in our business in general right now. i think the point you re making, is the most important thing here, is that without getting into some kind of a hissing match with cnn, and i know this is not what you re trying to do, this is the beginning, that people sort of struggled to deal with donald trump, in a million ways in 2016, throughout his presidency, and then in the period of the post insurrection period, right? and we are now heading into a presidential election which he will be a front running, by all indication, will be the republican front-runner, is the likely republican nominee for president. and every one in the business who is operating in good faith is in fact struggling with it. and i t ....
Everyone. i m going rogue for just a moment. al i justl got to say thank you to all the subscribers and supporters of this service at cnn.s plus, this is a worthy venture. this is an outstandingt experiment. let me try outme - a theory on t which is it s too early to know if this product or this service was a successs or a failure. sa youyi know, you got all the haters today saying . is thing was a failure i don t know if we can even ever assess that because it just simply didn t have enough timeug because of the management change and direction. so we spent three hundred million dollars. it lasted for three weeks, but we re not really sure. was that a success or a failure ? hard to know what is going on inside cnn. well, we want to talk to someone who used to work there. old friend rick sanchez is a former cnn anchor and abu longtime veteran ofsi this business, the news business ceo of our media. he joins. rick, thanks so much for comingu on . what do you think happened here? it s pret ....
Thanked everyone. just a moment, got to say thank you to all of the subscribers and supporters of the service of cnn plus, this is a worthy venture, this is an outstanding experiment. let me try it is too early to know if this product or service was a success or a failure. you ve got all the haters today saying this thing was a failure. i don t know if we can ever assess that because it simply did not have enough time because of the management change in direction. tucker: [laughs] spent $300 million and lasted for three weeks but we are not sure, was that a success or a failure? hard to know. what is going on inside cnn? we want to talk to someone who used to work there, our old friend rick sanchez a former cnn anchor and longtime veteran of this news business and ceo thanks so much for coming on. what do you think happened here? well, it is pretty obvious. it is probably the worst new media launch in the history of new media. essentially they tried to put ....