I'll be doing CNN tonight, live from the great state of New Hampshire.
Because CNN is rightfully desperate to get those fantastic Trump ratings back.
They were ratings like none other and they want them back.
They made me a deal I couldn't refuse.
Could be the beginning of a new and vibrant CNN with no more fake news.
Or it could be a total disaster for all, including me.
Let's see what happens.
>> [LAUGH] >> Such a natural salesman.
They're bringing me back just for the ratings.
That's it, I've accepted that.
And maybe good maybe disaster, including for me.
Tune in, everyone.
Okay, well, anyway, it is happening.
The CNN town hall with Donald Trump is happening again.
Notably, it is the live town hall, which means that
I was gonna say if when Donald Trump continues his election denialism.
Totally fraught lies about the 2020 election, when he spreads transphobic and
misogynistic and racist conspiracy theories.
Sprinkles in a little bit of anti semitism,
that is all gonna go out to the millions well, it's CNN.
Close to millions of viewers live, so
whether they do fact checking after the fact.
Whether Anderson Cooper checks something,
they will be live spreading vicious misinformation.
That they have warned against for years.
They've been talking about Trump as a threat to democracy for years.
But as he rightly points out, he's gonna give them ratings.
So they're doing it anyway Jr. but look,
honestly, the only reason that I wanted to make sure that we talked about this today.
Isn't just maybe to do some predictions about how it'll go and how they'll fail.
But now it's almost arguably justifiable only
because they've got to ask him about the sexual assaults, right.
>> This has now become a thing where they're on the hook, as he said.
This could be disastrous for them, me or everyone.
That's the one truth that he did tell there for the first time ever.
Because, yo, if you do, then you're gonna get the wrath of people saying,
how dare they ask questions about what just happened.
And actually what has been determined by a jury or
then it's gonna be everyone else that says, well, they invite him on.
He's running for president.
It's pretty obvious that this is something people may wanna know anything
about what he's thinking or saying about this.
Because again, we always worry about our politicians, maybe morals.
And whether or
not they come into office with this type of baggage that they got on their backs.
But now everybody's gotta figure a way to line up and
make sure that they're on the right side of this, which is gonna be tricky.
What I would love to see, John,
won't happen because E Jing Carol has been on some television shows already.
Right after this trial was over.
Maybe she shows up to the television.
Maybe CNN invites her to ask.
[LAUGH] Imagine if she strolls up to the mic if they have the situation
where someone asks from a mic.
And she has like a cloak on her head and she throws it off.
>> [LAUGH] Now she's just like he's answering question, he's spreading BS.
Her music hits, she runs out, chair to the back.
>> [LAUGH] >> It could be so exciting.
They're not gonna do that.
So here's my fear.
Look, it's Caitlin Collins, who previously worked at The Daily Caller.
Anyway, look, I haven't followed her career.
People say that she asked him some tough questions over the past few years.
Okay, well, then I will bear that in mind and
I will maintain hope that she'll be ready for him.
And when I say that, I mean very specifically.
He tells the same lies over and over again.
There is no excuse to not have very specific responses to the exact same lies
he's gonna tell.
So I'll just say that my fear, though, is there are a million awesome,
timely questions that people could ask.
But if we accept that they are just doing this for ratings.
And they need him more than he needs them.
If he says, I'm gonna come on, but you can't ask me
questions about ABCD and E, what are they gonna say?
No, we're gonna ask you fair journalistic balance questions blah,
we're gonna do what we're supposed to do?
Or are they gonna say, well, yes, sir, we really want you to be on our program,
sir, we really want the rating, sir?
I feel like they're gonna give him whatever he wants at this point, but
what do you think?
>> Yeah, exactly.
I mean, it's one of those things.
We know how the restructuring is happening from the top with CNN.
They're trying to have this whole thing.
where they're finding themselves what they think is the middle as they
lean further to the right.
So this is a big indication of that plan.
And maybe to bring in those viewers.
Again, it's not just the Newsmaxes of the World that are looking for
some of these viewers of Fox.
That are finding themselves upset about how they're still on the hard right, but
they've been told that they're not.
But CNN is probably doing the same thing.
This is their big opportunity.
How are they gonna play it?
And, you know, that is my one worry.
They might be playing it to try and
get some of those viewers cuz we know this is definitely not about politics.
For CNN, at least from the top brass of it, it's about money.
>> I just realized unless we are and I wasn't asked,
we'll find out we should be doing that.
We should be live responding to the claims.
We gotta gear up again for election season.
I think that here at TYT, a lot of us are still like,
we just ended the last election, let's relax a little bit.
But if they're not going to be providing an appropriate response,
we should be doing it.
>> [CROSSTALK] >> Yeah, doing the live fact checking.
That's what we should be doing.
Well, next time.
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