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>> Kayleigh: AFTER YEARS OF
DENYING OR IGNORING ANY CLAIMS
OF HUNTER BIDEN’S SKETCHY
FOREIGN BUSINESS DEALINGS, MANY
LIBERAL NEWS OUTLETS HAVE
CHANGED THEIR TUNE.
NOW CNN’S BRIAN STELTER IS
ELATED.
BACK IN 2020 HE BRUSHED OFF
THOSE ACCUSATIONS AGAINST THE
PRESIDENT’S SON IS FAKE.
>> THE U.S. AUTHORITIES ARE
SAYING IF THOSE EMAILS ARE JUST
TALKED ABOUT ARE CONNECTED TO AN
ONGOING RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION
EFFORT.
>> FALSE.
HERE IS SELTZER YESTERDAY
FINALLY ADMITTING WHAT WE ALL
KNOW THAT THE HUNTER BIDEN STORY
IS A LEGITIMATE ONE.
IT MAY BE A BIG PROBLEM FOR THE
PRESIDENT.
>> WHAT ABOUT HUNTER?
UNDER UNDER FEDERAL
INVESTIGATION, TRACTORS COULD BE
COMING AT ANYTIME FROM THIS IS
NOT JUST OR RIGHT WING MEDIA
STORY COMMITS A REAL PROBLEM FOR
THE BIDENS.
COULD HE DECIDE NOT TO RUN FOR
REELECTION GIVEN TO SOME?
>> IT’S LIKE HE HAS MULTIPLE
PERSONALITIES?
THAT’S A DIFFERENT BRIAN STELTER
IN 202010 AND 2022.
ALSO IN 2020 HE CALLED IT A
CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF THE
RIGHT-WING MEDIA MACHINE AND --
>> Michele:>> Todd: THIS IS BIZA
SELTZER.
IT WASN’T THE FACT THAT THEY GOT
THE STORY WRONG, IT WAS HOW
SANCTIMONIOUS THEY WERE THAT FOX
AND "THE NEW YORK POST" WERE
DRUMMING UP SOME RIGHT-WING
CONSPIRACY ABOUT HUNTER BIDEN
SAYING THEY DON’T DO JOURNALISM,
WE DO REAL JOURNALISM.
TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE BECAUSE WE
DO REAL JOURNALISM WE CANNOT
REPORT WHAT OTHER PEOPLE REPORT
WE NEED TO RESEARCH IT.
WASN’T THAT HARD TO RESEARCH.
A LOT OF PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO
VERIFY THE STORY AND THEN REPORT
IT.
CNN JUST COMING TO THE TABLE
YESTERDAY.
IT’S AUGUST OF 2022.
>> BUT HE CREDITS HOW WONDERFUL
HIS NEWSROOM IS FOR NOT
REPORTING THE STORY, HARRIS,
LISTEN TO WHAT HE SAYS ABOUT
QUICK NEWSROOM.
>> IN SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER OF
2020 WHEN "THE NEW YORK POST"
HAD SOMETHING ON HER OUTLETS
CAN’T MATCH IT.
THERE IS THIS PRESSURE FROM A
WIRE TO CONFIRM THIS?
WHY OR TWO LEANING ON THIS?
WE HAVE BEEN MATCHED AT WORK AND
CONFIRMED.
YOU DON’T LIKE SPEAK HE GOES ON
TO SAY I THINK THERE’S A TENSION
BETWEEN LAST AND SLOW JOURNALISM
BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO KNOW HOW TO
NEWSROOM’S WORK IN THE VAST
MAJORITY WHO DON’T.
IT’S JUST OUR FAULT WE DON’T
KNOW HOW TO NEWS WORMS WORK.
>> Harris: THERE’S A LOT OF
TENSION BETWEEN HIM AND HIS
EMPLOYER AND PEOPLE WATCHING THE
SHOW.
DEFINITELY SEEING TWO DIFFERENT
BRIAN STELTER’S.
ONE OF THEM WOULD LIKE TO BE
EMPLOYED.
I WOULD CREDIT THAT PROBABLY WAS
MOST OF THE FLIPPING OF THE
SWITCH.
YOU CANNOT CONTINUE TO SAVE THE
BIG BEAR IS ENDED IN THE ROOM
THE ROOM WHEN IT’S EATING UP THINK YOU BROUGHT FOR LUNCH.
THINK YOU BROUGHT FOR LUNCH.
SCARE COMBAT TO ROOT -- THAT I
GUESS HE CAN’T DENY THAT ANY
LONGER.
I WILL SAY THIS THOUGH, WITH THE
HUNTER BIDEN STORY COME OF THE
FIRST THING THE BRIAN STELTER
SAID THERE WAS ALL THAT REALLY
MATTERS.
THERE IS AN INVESTIGATION GOING
ON AT A VERY HIGH LEVEL.
LET’S COVER IT.
LET’S NOT JUST MAKE IT ABOUT WHO
TALK TO, LET’S MAKE SURE IF THEY
REALLY WANT TO JUMP IN THE POOL
THAT THEY JUMP IN WITH ALL THEIR
JOURNALISM AND NOT JUST THE
PARTS THEY THINK WILL HELP THE
RACE.
>> THE IRONY HERE IS THAT BMN
WAS THE FIRST MAJOR OUTLET TO
REPORT ON THE DOSSIER.
THEY FOCUSED ON THE CONTENT AND
THAT TURNED OUT TO BE PUNK.
>> THEY GET TO PICK AND CHOOSE
WHAT THEY SORT OF REPEAT AND
DON’T GO INTO ON THEMSELVES.
BUT THE OTHER ISSUE ABOUT IT IS
THEY WERE VERY QUICK TO POST
THIS POLITICO PUBLISHED LIST OF
THE 50 INTELLIGENCE OFFICIALS
WHO SAID THIS LOOKS VERY MUCH
LIKE RUSSIAN DISINFORMATION.
AND LET’S NOT FORGET THAT NOT
ONLY DID THEY NOT DIG INTO IT,
THE STORY WAS SUPPRESSED BY
TWITTER AND MANY OTHERS.
THEY SHUT THE STORY DOWN.
THEY DIDN’T ALLOW ANYBODY TO GET
INTO IT.
AS YOU SAID, HARRIS, THE REAL
MEAT AND POTATOES OF THE STORY
IS NOT THAT HUNTER BIDEN SMOKED
CRACK COCAINE, IT’S THE
POTENTIAL FOR THE PRESIDENT TO
BE JUST WHAT SORT OF LOOKING FOR
FOR?
WRAPPED BY THE CHINESE AND
OTHERS WHO ARE PAYING HUNTER
BIDEN LOADS OF MONEY TO BE ON
THEIR BOARD.
IT’S THIS FOREIGN INFLUENCE WE
COULD BE FEELING.
BY THE WAY, BIDEN SEEMS TO BE
REALLY EASY ON CHINA.
I JUST --
IN SERIOUS WAYS.
>> AND REMEMBER IT WAS THE
POLITICAL DIRECTOR AT CNN WHO
WAS CAUGHT BY PROJECT VERITAS
WHO SET UP IF THEY WERE NOT
GOING TO RUN WITH
"THE NEW YORK POST" STORY RIGHT
ON HUNTER BIDEN BECAUSE I WAS
BACK IN 2020.
THAT APPEARS TO BE THE SOURCE OF
THE PROBLEM.
>> THAT’S FAIR BUT DID THE
NEWSROOM ACTUALLY TRIED TO GET
DIG INTO IT AND TRY TO MOVE THE
BALL FORWARD?
OF COURSE THIS COULD OF HAD A
HUGE IMPACT ON THE ELECTION AS
WELL.
YOU SIT BACK AND YOU SAID
YOURSELF THIS PRESIDENT AND HIS
SONS BUSINESS DEALINGS OVERSEAS,
WHEN WE HAVE PROBLEMS WITH CHINA
AND RUSSIA WE HAVE ISSUES IN
UKRAINE, IS HE MAKING DECISIONS
BASED ON THOSE FINANCIAL TIES,
THAT’S A HUGE ISSUE FOR THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.
I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW A LITTLE
BIT MORE ABOUT IT.
>> ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE HAVE