it s the standard. that s the news standard at the news network, the cable news network. lindsey graham has appeared on fox, so attack him! so cnn did just that, all while pretending coverage was legitimate. here s jeff zucker telling his employees that no matter what else is going on in the world, the impeachment of donald trump, which in effect is a d symbolic act since nobody believes he s going to be convicted, is nevertheless the only story that really matters. listen. tucker: for a news man, there s a distinct lack of clarity in those instructions, but the essence was clear enough, don t lose sight of what
capaerttns on charts and helping you understand what they mean. don t get mad. get e trade s simplified technical analysis. that s the story for this monday night, i will s tucker: good evening and welcome to tucker carlson tonight. the television news business is a very small place, some might call it incestuous. most of the people who do this weird job for a living know each other. many have worked together over theiviv years. there aren t that many employers, so it s not surprising that a number of people in this family, including me, worked across the tile at cnn and as any of us can and will be happy to tell you, cnn has always been a liberalnn pla. it was founded by ted turner, an aggressive left-winger. cnn was not always nakedly partisan. it used to be a news network. didn t always function as it does now is a political campaign. that s a new development. whatat changed?
point. but it s also poignant. worksyou have a kid who there who thinks it s journalism and he looks around and he sees people because there are good people at cnn. we know anyone who has worked there knows the good people of works there, there are a bunch of them were trying to commit to journalism but the big boss, jeff zucker, won t allow it. integrity damned, just do whatr jeff zucker says whether it s true or not. that s not journalism course, if the definition of state media. relentless cheerleading. it will not list, never ending shilling for the ruling class. america doesn t love it, but everyone in washington loves jeff soccer. not surprising. editor at reason, author of panic attack and radicals in the age of trauma and he joins us in it. great to see her tonight. i don t have any problem with opinion programming, this is an opinion program, we conduct a lot of opinion programming. it never attack rachel maddow because she s not lying to me, she s just giving pinions i di
primary task, which is to be a functioning television executiv executive. tucker: well that s the interesting fact of all of this. i mean, cnn, for all of its effort to carry water for the democratic party, that s not actually working. what is the point of this? no. it isn t. and they are in this terrible trap because they started as the first cable news channel, and they had a kind of usa today image. people just thought of it as something that they are. when you go to the airport, if they are, like usa today is outside your hotel room door when you re staying at a marriott or whatever. when you go to a foreign hotel in amman, jordan, wherever, that got cnn international playing over as you watch your breakfast in the restaurant. so they have thiskf planned imae and get at the same time they are hyper partisans and they can t make those two things
aligned properly. cnn right now is the most irrelevant of the networks. if you want hard-core lefty propagandists, they do that. again, say what you like about them, they do that better than cnn. tucker: much better. it s actuallyt b interesting, i think. great to see you, thank you for that. thanks a lot, talker. tucker: of course jeff zucker wasn t always at cnn, he was at another channel for many years. he ran nbc for a decade before that he was the youngest executive producer at the today show. things have not changed much at nbc sense t zucker left. we repeatedly told you the network try to cover up the harvey weinstein story.we they sent the access hollywood tape over to the washington post and they are still lying about it. it s wednesday night, two nights now, someone who knows an awful lot about nbc is making her first tvbo appearance, parting ways with that channel nearly a year ago. megyn kelly will join us as a guest on this program for her first interview. she s