to be a centerpiece of the government s case against donald trump. the actual audio recording of the former president talking as if he is showing a highly cost five document on plans against iran, with people not clear to even know it exists, let alone what is in it. in a moment, only on cnn, you will hear what yours will here in one day, the recording was made two summers ago in july 2020, one the former presidents club in bedminster new jersey. we will clearly hear the former president says he is speaking to several people, according to the special counsel indictment they clear a writer working on meadows memoir, the publisher, and to trump staff members. the president was aware he was being recorded. it is the first time it is being played publicly. these are bad sick people. but that was your crew, you know, that against you while it started right millie is talking about, oh they were trying to do that even before trying to overthrow your well, mainly,
Things that nobody had done before. he was the first to get labial from mount everest. at abc created a kind of news what vague before the web as we knew it even existed. and he also created a completely unique an offbeat newscast called world news now, erin brown at lisa priem where the first anchors. and the show is still on the air. it is on in the wee hours of the morning. i was at abc news in the late 90s, and struggling to find my footing. and getting to anchor that show was like a life raft. your pre-featherweight, you are like what s next and featherweight, you are teeny? i mean teeny? how long have you ve been here, can i just show you something? can we get a tight shot of this? what does this say? what does this say? anderson cooper, senior anchor. we were on in the middle of the night and you can do a lot of you can do elsewhere. we re not for that i would not be sitting here tonight. no doubt about it. cnn, they ve pioneered so much using technology and innovation
W whoopi goldberg suspended at cnn. the throughline in all of these stories, this is all fundamentally about leadership. at cnn, there were major consequences for our boss because he didn t follow company policy. at abc, whoopi goldberg suspended, big consequences for her ignorant comments about the holocaust. i ve seen a lot of people on social media saying that goldberg shouldn t have been suspended or it s gone too far. so all of these stories are really about leadership tests and about what are the rules of the road at these major companies. brian stelter, as always, thanks so much. no shortage of news this week, as he said. make sure to watch brian on reliable sources later this morning at 11:00 a.m. and state of the union, too, with jake tapper and dana bash. they ll have joe manchin and lisa murkowski as well as other ges this morning. still plenty more news to get to on new day.
Number 4. two high profile falls from grace. rose anne bar and megyn kelly. at abc, the reboot premiered to record ratings, then fell apart after barr went on a racist twitter rant. she apologized but it was too late. the top rated television comedy of the year is now cancelled. hollywood was stunned. but supportive of abc. and the connors without barr came back in the fall. over at nbc, disappointing ratings for kelly s talk show led to cancellation. what is racist. you get in trouble if you re a white person that puts on a blackface for halloween or a
If you had been on these phone calls, don, you would have your head would have fallen off from laughling. i d call him up, tim o brien and i, our producers have been through all this stuff. here s the best number that we have. this is what you re worth. he would double it every time. no matter what the number was. you report that. we would have to negotiate amongst ourselves to low ball him just to hope that when he doubled the number it was closer to what our reporting was and he would never show us anything. like an idiot, i threw out the letter that he sent that was clearly written by him, although on legal stationery. at the time, where am i going to keep this? who knew he was going to be president? my producer at the time, big shot guy in charge of all investigative reporting at abc, remembers the same thing. he s about the sell. it s the same thing writers and people who work with fortunate, the richest people, they tell the exact or similar stories that you tell. but you