She says people, politicians or something are not in their prime.
Nikki Haley isn't in her prime, sorry,
a woman is considered being a prime in her 20s, and 30s, and maybe 40s.
>> What are you talking, wait, >> That's not according to me.
>> Prime for what?
That's the comment that got Don Lemon in deep water last week.
He's having a rough go at things.
I think it's pretty obvious if you watch even a little bit of programming that
features him.
Now, he won't be appearing on CNN today after he had already missed a day for
a scheduled break, and CNN saying no, no, no, we're not firing him.
He just needed a little more time off, but he did apologize for
the comment he made there just to give you some more context.
They were talking about Nikki Haley and he felt the need to opine on,
when women are in their prime to make a point about how Nikki Haley is too old to
be considered in her prime.
>> Yeah.
>> Nikki Haley's issue is not her age.
Nikki Haley's issue is that she sucks, okay?
That's her issue.
But Nikki Haley did later weigh in on Don Lemon, but first, let's hear the rest
of what he had to say and then we'll go to her statement and hear from you too Jake.
>> It's just like prime.
If you google, when is a woman in her prime?
It'll say 20s, 30s, and 40s.
>> 40s, so, I got another decade.
>> I'm not saying I agree with that.
So I think she has to be careful about saying that,
politicians aren't in their prime and they need to be.
>> I think we need to qualify it, you're talking about prime for
like child-bearing, or you're talking about prime for being president?
>> Don’t shoot the messenger, I'm just say what the facts are, google it,
everybody at home when is a woman in her prime?
It says 20s, 30s, and 40s.
And I'm just saying Nikki Haley should be careful about saying that politicians
are not in their prime, and they need to be in their prime when they serve because
she wouldn't be in her prime according to, >> Google,
>> Google or whatever it is.
>> Just, >> Please stop.
>> Stop talking.
100 percent.
>> [SOUND] >> Look,
I personally was not offended by it, I don't really care, right?
Don Lemon's opinion on when women are in their prime, I'm not delicate about it,
let's just say that.
But you gotta know when to stop, and
he just did not know when to stop, he kept going.
>> Yeah. >> Read the room.
>> Okay, so the best question was right in the beginning,
when his co-host said prime for what?
>> [LAUGH] >> No, but first of all,
it's hilarious because it writes me to turn down for what, right?
And I thought that people are gonna fall out of the ceiling and
start dancing, okay?
But it's the best question, Don, what are you talking about, prime for what?
Child-bearing ages or prime for politics,
because in politics these days in your 50s, you're just warming up.
Most of the politicians are in their 80s now, right?
So I guess prime is 80s, Nancy Pelosi, Biden, Tump, Bernie, et cetera, right?
So prime for what?
Okay, so that was a disaster.
Okay, now I got news for you.
Any time somebody on TV has an unscheduled day off in the middle of a controversy.
They didn't decide to take an extra vacation day, okay?
No, they have been told not to come back on air that day.
It's both a form of punishment and drum roll.
They're considering firing him today.
So he might not be back on air tomorrow.
He might or he might not.
If they had already made the decision they would have announced it, right?
>> Yep.
>> If they had already made the decision to keep him he'd be on today, okay?
And here's reason number two that I know that they're considering firing him,
because they're leaking like crazy against them.
>> They are.
Look, I consume a lot of news that I don't even talk about on the show.
I've been keeping tabs on the drama unfolding at CNN,
and people at CNN, I don't know if it's the executives, or their producers,
they're definitely leaking stuff to the press.
Because there's been like a slow and steady flow of anti-Don Lemon content.
So, before we get to the other stuff he did apologize saying,
the reference I made to a woman's prime this morning was inartful and
irrelevant as colleagues and loved ones have pointed out and I regret it.
A woman's age doesn't define her either personally or professionally.
I have countless women in my life.
Some of my best friends are older women.
[LAUGH] He ends that tweet.
Okay, look again, I don't really care and if it were just that particular issue or
that inartful statement, I don't think someone should get fired over that.
It's okay, we're gonna be all right, ladies, we're gonna be all right, okay?
>> Yeah, 100 percent.
Now, let me tell you what this is all actually about.
It's not about anything he said on there, so you're mad at that?
Sure, be mad at whatever.
It's a dumb thing to say, right?
No, their ratings are horrible.
>> Very bad.
>> So, they need a scapegoat.
So they're gonna say, well Don Lemon, and do you really it was Don Lemon that was
causing, and then start talking about his ratings of his Primetime show.
Wait, why are we leaking about that today, okay?
So, they're going to imply that it's not Chris Licht, the guy running CNN that's
causing the ratings problem with his dumbass strategy of being more right wing,
I'm sorry, moderate, right?
Which of course means more corporate and more right wing.
It's not his fault, it's not the owner's fault that told him to do that.
It's Don Lemon.
He doesn't respect older women enough.
Are you kidding me?
This is the only time you've ever done anything interesting on CNN
since you've taken over.
People might accidentally watch, okay?
>> By the way, look,
the new leadership at CNN has already made some pretty terrible decisions.
So for instance, there was content on CNN that was actually excellent.
It's just that, it wasn't the news content.
Stanley Tucci show, where he's like traveling around Italy was one of the best
shows that CNN had, cut it, next it, why, why,
why would you get rid of the stuff that you guys were doing right?
>> I know why.
So guys, CNN actually makes huge profit to their credit, right?
So it's not like, they're having sustainability issues, even though their
viewership is way down and it will affect their profitability later on.
No, the guys who bought it, the Discovery guys,
they bought it with tons of debt, okay?
So, they put billions of dollars of debt on top of the parent company,
so that has increased their costs.
So, since the interest rate has artificially increased their costs,
they're going on a cutting spree, right?
>> My God.
>> So, now those Stanley Tucci shows, I'm sure are very expensive, and so
I don't know if they're sustainable in and of themselves, but
they saw a big fat target to cut and Chris Licht was told, to be fair to Licht too,
I don't know at all, okay?
He's getting all these marching orders from Malone,
who is the biggest shareholder of the company that bought it, right?
And so, he's telling him, go cut everything, so he's going and
cutting everything.
And when and he's telling him go be more right wing, and
because Malone's right wing, right?
So Licht does what he's told, and guess what, I guarantee it right now,
ahead of time, Licht will also find himself under the same bus that
Don Lemon is under today, okay?
>> Thousand percent.
>> They're asking him to do all these things that are very unpopular, will
destroy CNN's ratings and then they'll fire him over it as if it was his idea.
No, this is corporate pressure and it comes from very poor business
strategies at the highest level, and they punish people at lower levels.
>> So I actually want to skip ahead to the very last video in this story.
Because the other issue at play here is the relationship that Don Lemon has or
the lack of on air chemistry Don Lemon has with Kaitlin Collins.
And recently Kaitlin Collins had wrapped up an interview, went back to the studio
where Don Lemon was with Poppy Harlow, and it was awkward to say the least.
Let's watch.
>> Thank you for taking time to join us.
>> Thank you for having me.
>> All right, thank you.
That's the time that we're in, where facts are sort of flexible, and
you just throw things out there.
>> That's why we got Kaitlin Collins on the Hill, fact-checking in real time.
It was a great interview.
>> It's citing incredible sources, like citing the New York post
is a credible source and saying that facts are, I can't believe that we're here.
>> Kaitlin, that was a great interview.
All right, moving on.
>> Anyway, well, now moving on because that's listen,
that's a big issue when it comes to the American, hold on please with the music.
That's a big issue when it comes to the American people,
the American people are gonna have to suffer through all of this stuff from
election deniers to people who don't believe in facts.
We don't have a shared reality, and
now it's taking center stage to people like Marjorie Taylor Greene,
an election denier, a conspiracy theories to Q and on sort of influence or
or supporter presiding over the House of Representatives.
>> I didn't look at him during that monologue.
I looked at Poppy Harlow face the entire time.
It was so awkward.
>> Yeah, so ready to be shocked.
I got Don Lemon's side on that.
>> No, what he was saying was accurate.
>> What he was saying was totally accurate.
The reason he said that is Kaitlin Collins who by the way started a right wing media
organization.
>> Daily Caller.
>> Yeah. Did not fact-check that guest at all,
and he was doing a fact-check that a journalist should do afterwards.
But people that are in power don't care about that at all, all they care about his
personal relationships and their own career and status.
So Poppy Harlow was like can't she put up her need, you should notice that,
she's okay and she's like, I can't believe you're criticizing Kaitlin Collins.
Remember, Don never criticize anyone inside the club, and he made that mistake.
And by the way he's also criticizing CNN strategy there,
because CNN strategy is to suck up the republicans now, right?
So, and by the way he was probably toast right then and there.
>> Yeah, 100 percent. >> Just waiting for him to say anything.
Look remember, he said that the missing plane from
Indonesia might have gotten sucked into a black hole.
That's crazy.
>> [LAUGH] >> And he didn't get fired for that.
He didn't get fired for that.
No, the only reason you get fired is if you challenge corporate power, and so
he doesn't even know how to challenge corporate power, but
that was him doing the best he could, right?
And that's what got him in trouble.
And so he'll be fired.
No question about it.
I don't know if he survives today, let alone the future.
Because, they're gonna blame all the bad ratings on him, and
I'll make one more prediction for you guys.
Their ratings will suck just as hard after he's gone.
>> 1000 percent, 1000 percent.