the two-time governor of california. but the one thing you couldn t be was the provision you mentioned in the constitution, would you have run if you could have? he said, absolutely, in 2016 i would have run. and he said in 2024, it would be even, he called it a no-brainer. he said, against joe biden and so many people having concerns about his age, against donald trump, such that this is a figure he says i absolutely if i could, i would run for president in 2024. and he kind of indicated that he thought he would win. i am sure he has a little bit of a fomo here because the other celebrity candidate did run in 2016. and one. i mean, there is something to be said for celebrity in american politics, very close? there is indeed something to be said. and i think there is a little bit of ill feeling between the two men. trump and schwarzenegger. because after trump left, farnell shorts nega replaced him and apparently the ratings weren t as good, and trump
a year ago, that this was going to be my last season. and my staff right about that time all the drama started to unfurl. and i said, unless something really happens to change my mind, this is my last season. and nothing happened to change my mind. what s it been like inside cbs news during this period? well, you know, it s anytime you have an organization that has leadership change and as you pointed out, we had it at three different levels with corporate cbs, with cbs news, with 60 minutes, it creates a lot of uncertainty, it creates a lot of stress. but in the end, we came through and turned out a lot of good stories last year. the ratings weren t affected. and it was really as soon as joe aionola and bill owens to fill those vacancies, things settled down and have settled down. and that s what valued in the
that was the final nail in the coffin. what else went wrong with her? you know, i don t think that particular thing, we think it was about a 20% factor. really there was a lot else going on there. the ratings weren t so good. she never really seemed to be the right fit for that job. she didn t have the warmth and the empathy and the personality to do that kind of morning show. so it wasn t really working. then something like this comes along and tips it over. what does it say about the management at nbc news, which made a $69 million bet bringing her over from fox. it seems like they were blinded by celebrity and grammar. they were not the only ones pursuing her. but the idea of installing her in this kind of job was so wrong headed. she s an abrasive kind of
no. will it he in the midterm elections? likely not. the other thing in this situation, high standard dealing with journalism as brad mentioned, when you are a public figure and he is now, we see him all over tv the lawsuit will likely go nowhere. this is a great example of where his bark is worse than his bite. melissa: brad, though, to the point that, you know, it s backfiring and it isn t working somebody must be enjoying it because cnn has had him on 6,500,000 times. over and over and over again. if ratings weren t supporting that and if people weren t watching it, they wouldn t keep putting him on. somebody is loving it. the viewership, this is red meat of the viewership for cnn and msnbc and they will keep putting him on so long as he brings the viewers in. but the reality of it all you are watching a man who is going the explode in front of your face. he is a guy who is going to fall from grace quickly. and no offense to any journalist, but journalists
ratings weren t really down after the election. the funny thing or the interesting thing when you listed all those athletes who some people are against and some people are for and maybe americans don t really recognize a couple of those names, curt flood, the two runners from the mexican olympics, but they remember muhammed ali and remember the athletes that were great. athletic greatness will transcend all of this and that s the great thing about marshawn lynch or especially michael bennett, a great player kneeling down. chris long, joining malcolm jenkins. if you get these great players saying we re on kaepernick s side, i think it will change the discussion a little bit. at the collegiate level when you had football players refusing to play unless there were significant changes in some of these administrations, that s when the teams took notice. do the nfl players have that kind of leverage, though, in terms of their contracts? both of you guys can handle that. well, that s alwa