takes a look at drew s remarkable career. >> during his nearly two decades at cnn, drew griffin was known for his tenacious reporting. >> are you where you will be indicted before the election, sir? >> his interviews were unwavering. >> i don t think you understand how votes are cast, collected, and tabulated in this country. >> he gave a voice to those who didn t have. when >> -- we don t expect it to be. ev we don t expect the truth to be. easy >> dirt was a gifted storyteller, dedicated to speaking the truth and holding people accountable. >> why do you continue to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen? >> it wasn t. eli >> you looked at all the facts. you don t have the. facts >> andrews stories had real world impact. >> and he does not releasing number of drivers who are accused of sexual assault, senior decided to counted up ourselves. >> after cnn questioned uber about a string of sexual assaults by drivers, the company made major safety changes to its app and revised
leaves behind. >> reporter: during his nearly two decades at cnn, drew griffin was known for his tenacious reporting. >> are you worried you ll be indicted before the election. >> reporter: his interviews were unwavering. >> i don t think you understand how votes are cast, collected and tabulated. >> reporter: he gave a voice to those who tonight have one. >> we don t expect it to be easy. we don t expect the truth to be easy. >> reporter: drew was a gifted story teller, dedicated to seeking the truth and holding the powerful accountable. >> why do you continue to push the lie that the 2020 election was stolen. >> it s not a lie. you don t have the facts. >> reporter: drew s stories have had real impact. >> reporter: uber decwon t say number of charges. >> excellent reporting. thanks to you and your team.
our cnn family here because there is no one we would rather have sitting with us right now than our award winning senior investigative correspondent and that is drew griffin. drew died this weekend after battling cancer. we wish he was here because he is he s not just a colleague but he is a very dear friend. >> you said he was one of the first people you ever worked with. >> one of the first people i met when i came to cnn was him and k kiyra phillips and i can t believe he is gone. >> he was a tenacious insightful reporter. here is anderson with a look back at his remarkable career. >> it was so hot -- >> reporter: do you recall his nearly two decades at cnn drew griffin was known for his tenacious reporting. his interviews were unwavering. >> i don t think you really understand how votes are cast, collected and tabulated in this cou country. >> reporter: and he gave a voice to those who didn t have one. >> we don t expect it to be
in that time he was responsible for some of the most impactful journalism of the company and in politics and sports an a good man and huge part of this network. >> he asked the tough questions as anyone who watched cnn knows. he chased down folks who didn t want to hear them or answer them. he made a real difference in the lives of countless people. here is anderson cooper now with a look back at drew s remarkable life. >> it was so hot. >> during her nearly two decades at cnn, he was known for his tenacious reporting. >> are you worried you ll be indicted? >> his interviews were unwavering. >> i don t think you understand how votes are cast collected in this country. >> and he gave a voice though those who didn t have one. >> we don t expect it to be easy. we don t expect the truth to be easy. >> drew was dedicated to seeking the truth and holding the powerful accountable.
p.r. war. hang tight. i must bring into this conversation miami herald s own julie k. brown, whose fearless, tenacious reporting, brought the details of acosta overseeing epstein s plea deal to light. she joins us now by phone. julie, are you surprised? julie, can you hear me? she doesn t hear us yet. so let s wait just a moment. basil, david went through all the reasons why republicans are pleased with the president. do you actually believe that he s executed on so many of those, or he s told quite a story? >> he s told quite a story. i mean, i think to david s point, moving the embassy to jerusalem obviously in the tax bill, those are executable decisions. absolutely he s done that.
but i want you to also see how the state department paid tribute to her yesterday. >> we just want to say from the secretary from all of us, that we will miss you. we will miss your tenacious reporting. we will miss your presence in the bull pen and briefing room-above all, your grace and friendship. >> oh, thank you so much. >> jill joked that she felt pretty powerful up there at the podium. of course, edge there will miss you and we here will miss you, too. >> we will. she s always just been such an incredible pro. >> and nice too. >> that s always a plus, isn t it? >> yes. >> congratulations, jill, and thank you so much for all your time with us. still to come here on new day, mitt romney documentary we re talking about -- i have seen a good chunk of it. and it s very interesting. it almost never happened, though. >> we ll tell you why the man at the center of the film was the one who did not want the movie
chief, she calls that job, by the way, the job of a lifetime. in fact, she s leaving us to work full-time on russian affairs at harvard university. she s fluent, by the way, in russian. most recently jill was cnn s foreign affairs correspondent. in fact, look at how the state department actually went out of their way to honor her today. >> we just want to say from the secretary from all of us, that we will miss you, we will miss your tenacious reporting, we will miss your presence in the bullpen and in the briefing room and above all, your grace and friendship. >> thank you. >> there she is, jill dougherty. we re going to miss her. she was a great, great colleague of all of ours, after 30 years i spent four years working very closely with her during the first term of the bill clinton presidency. i was the white house correspondent, she was a white house correspondent. we got to know each other very well. she always, always did an excellent job for us.
right now who is doing tenacious reporting on this story and pushing for answers for weeks and weeks. >> hopefully, kendrick s family can get some effort of closure. >> absolutely. got a shocking political scandal brewing. a big city mayor caught on tape smoking crack. police apparently have the video of toronto myer rob ford doing that, smoking crack. the rumors have been swirling for a while. ford has denied them. thursday, he vowed not to step down. >> no reason to resign. i m going to go back to return my phone calls and be out doing what the people elected me to do and not spend taxpayers money and run a great government. >> police say the video was recovered during a drug and gang related raid. it has thrown canada s biggest city into turmoil.