and i think it s a bad situation. i think they are very powerful and i think they have been led to believe that they re powerful. and if is he allowed to come back, then that is a very, very bad signal to women. jesse: yeah, there was reporting, jessica, that a lot of producers and staff members at cnn were not happy with what s going on here. jessica: i would expect not. if you are someone who gets into the news business to do the news, you don t want to be caught up in this. you don t want to be working for people that are behaving not up to journalistic codes. those things do still exist. greg: not at cnn. sorry. jessica: that s okay. i was expecting it quite frankly there are people on the staff of other shows who do hard news shows like jake tapper who have spoken out throughout the range of this scandal saying these are things that bring a bad look upon the entire network and that matters. i wasn t on yesterday but i saw the coverage of what was said and i m going to defe
seems more like alec baldwin didn t want to do it anymore. msnbc sure didn t want him to do it, so they went their separate ways. i think he probably quit, but if he hadn t quit, he probably was going to feel the shove sooner rather than later. in terms of the shove, tell me this, brian. you have martin bashir, another host on msnbc, apologized for a horrible remark he made about sarah palin. it is so graphic, i am not repeating it here on television. he didn t even get suspended, so where s the logic there? i don t know if there is logic. maybe that s why msnbc hasn t fully explained the difference between these two situations. they put out a one or two-sentence statement about alec baldwin, basically as short as they possibly could and moved on. martin bashir wasn t on yesterday. i think he s probably on vacation this week. maybe msnbc hopes if they lay low for a while, people will forget what he said. sometimes that works in television. sometimes it doesn t. this case with marti