don t use if you re allergic to cosentyx. before starting get checked for tuberculosis. an increased risk of infection, some serious and a lowered ability to fight them may occur. tell your doctor about an infection or symptoms or if you had a vaccine or plan to. tell your doctor if your crohn s disease symptoms develop or worsen. serious allergic reaction may occur. best move i ve ever made. ask your dermatologist about cosentyx®. howard: make no mistake, jeff zucker was allowed to resign as c or nn s president, he he had no choice. he was forced out. zucker himself admits he should have revealed his sexual relationship with executive vice president allison gollust who also worked for him when he ran nbc. it was a consensual relationship are, not one of those sexual harassment cases, but cnn has rules about romances with a subordinate. the irony is that all this is rooted in a cnn ethics probe
direct report to him. howard: yeah. she was an executive vice president. i was reading katie couric s book, and i just stopped when i got to the page when she talked about how jeff zucker pushed very hard to hire allison gollust. quote, she and her kids moved into the apartment right above jeff and his wife. that was back in 2012. yeah. you know, it again, there is a lot of rumors swirling around that this had been going on for a long, long time. the fact that they were living in the same apartment building [laughter] one floor above or below the other kind of is an indication that they wanted to be close to each other. howard: new york media is a very small world. cnn has always marketed itself as the straight news many network when you and i were there. and then zucker, who many people credit or blame with making donald trump a national figure because he created the apprentice when he ran nbc, drastically changed the network.
weave his way through allegations of sexual impropriety and sexual harassment howard: which ultimately led to his resignation one thing if he had a nondisclosed sexual relationship with somebody whom you worked may with a different thing. i could see that there would be upset at cnn by people who liked jeff zucker, who were very loyal to him who see him shown the door because of this and might think that the treatment was harsh. howard: and there s no question he was shown door. the the problem is going to be, howie, once the relationship became officially disclosed, again, it s been an open secret for a long, long time, then something s got to happen. who goes, dicker or gollust? the two of them couldn t continue to work in the same parameters, but it s not like you have somebody who is on a show over here who has a relationship with another person on the show and that person could be transferred to another show regardless of where she was moved, she would always be a
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that prompted zucker to fire chris cuomo and the state investigation of his brother, andrew cuomo, allison gollust worked earlier for the then-governor. zucker found cuomo if improperrerly aided his embattled brother. he didn t try to get zucker fired, but his lawyers took some steps as a warning shot in the negotiations to have cnn pay off cuomo s contract. as this source put it, chris dropped the knife that was used by zucker s enemies. the cuomo camp want to contend that zucker dumped his biggest star for a conflict of interest, but with jeff gone, that argument evaporates as a way of cuomo collecting his remaining $18 million. by the way, msnbc, which loves to attack fox, has not aired a single word on zucker s ouster. nothing to see here. jeff who? that is pretending a friend ask one-time boss w an absolute dereliction of duty. the larger issue is how zucker