do you think that s an an ethical conflict? i think you have a job to do and i m letting you do it. howie: liz claman, do you think chris cuomo should be speaking out about the resignation of his brother that he privately advised even though he s not allowed to do it on cnn and do you think this episode has damaged him. he s a journalist and he should not be speaking out on it, especially because he is right there as one of the so-called faces on the mount rushmore over at cnn prime time. cnn was in a tough position, you know, and basically they probably held him to what journalistic standards require, that anybody, if there s a conflict of interest they cannot participate in that conversation. that particular night when governor cuomo stepped down and resigned, well, yes, cnn audience didn t get to hear that story because he didn t weigh in but cnn did what they had to do under that circumstance, short of pulling him off the air.
if he weighs in, that s a he total disaster. there s very little upside to that. it s an awful situation for him to be in. the governor is his brother. clearly, yeah, it was a tight spot. howie: the problem as i know you understand is that cnn last year changed its rules to allow chris cuomo to interview his brother, 11 love filled appearances on his prime time showed. that s when andrew was riding high, and then pulled the plug on that. how much responsibility do you think chris cuomo has in admittedly was a difficult situation. that was a disastrous decision to allow him to interview his brother. i don t blame chris for sticking by the governor, a family should stick together. i think it s wrong to expect denouncing family members. he can t do that and be this important host of this news hour on cnn. they were in a difficult situation because it s weird to have a very important political
figure on one hand and then his brother, the head of a very important news slot on a mainstream cable channel. that s the problem. so you have that situation and then an unsolveable conflict of interest issue comes along. there s no good answer but that s why you shouldn t have that arrangement in the first place. howie: it might have been better if he had taken a leave of absence as was suggested. people don t realize that chris and andrew cuomo had resentiment towards the press because of the way they felt their father was treated with baseless rumors of mob ties. chuck todd, msnbc, the atlantic has a piece on this, andrew cuomo could rise from the ashes and run again in the future. that seems far-fetched to me. highly unlikely. here s why. when he resigned there wasn t a political friend in sight. that is a big issue. obviously, the situation is such that it was sexual harassment
defending the teaching of anti-racist stuff in the military, all well and good, but where is the scrutiny of the media who kept saying we re about to win, everything is great. those were lies. the media needs to do a better job of holding the foreign policy establishment that is hawkish responsible. howie: over the years military officials may have delewded themselves into thinking what they said was you true, that the afghan military was wanting to fight, clearly that is not true. chris cuomo saying nothing about his brother s resignation, has that compounded his problems at cnn? and stay tuned for the buds beater. buzz beater. has their own safelite story. this couple loves camping adventures and their suv is always there with them. so when their windshield got a chip, they wanted it fixed fast. they drove to safelite autoglass for a guaranteed, same-day, in-shop repair.
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