Could you go back into that environment today or what was the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades . Did you have a particular relationship with ted turner or just enlighten us a little bit for the developments. Its helpful that i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning. I was one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there from the you know, i was present at the creation as they say, and it was a spectacular place to work as we built it because it was something unthought of before ted turner. The global cable newscast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was really truly remarkable. But it changed over time, as these things do. And we founded it in 1980. By 1984 ted was on the forbes most, you know, the wealthiest list and it been basically on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed, so did ours, suddenly were in the white house pool, were growing, and over time his commitment, teds commi
Host lived i was before we start on his new fascinating book of yours, the trump century, you worked on and on cnn 30 years with a variety of shows, not an orthodox republican obviously not a liberal democrat. So what is the formula that allowed you to exist for three decades did you have a particular relationship with ted turner . Enlighten us. It was helpful i joined cnn 1980 at the beginning i was one of the founders of cnn one of the fortunate ones they are president to creation it was a spectacular place to work because it was a thought of before ted turner the global cable news cast and putting that into action but it was truly remarkable. And the change over time as these do and we founded in 1980 and by 1984 he was on the forbes wealthiest list and basically was on the verge of bankruptcy just four years earlier when he founded it. So his position changed so did hours we are in the white house pull and growing and over tim time, his commitment, teds commitment to a more liberal
They will go through the issues and this is television where tone, style, emotion are very important. My opinion, bidens job to survive 90 minutes, holding his focus to making sure there are no serious gaffes. The president will no doubt attack his style but not come across as a bully he doesnt want to stir up the sympathy vote. Heres another opinion, and absolute catastrophe the media will declare biden the winner. Lets get to the market, pretty much on hold maybe waiting for the debate the dow is down 11 points, the nasdaq 1026, 25, s p down near two. Not Much Movement, Speaker Pelosi has proposed a 2. 2 trillion dollars stimulus plan and the house may vote on it, a key point in Sticking Point contains 436 billion for state and local government, the republicans do not want that, and 25 billion for the airlines, 30000 airline furloughs on thursday if they do not get the money. Today is the day when Amy Coney Barrett goes to capitol hill and between nine republican senato senators, tha
Ask you this question. You worked for cnn for some 30 years. You have a variety of shows, you are not an orthodox republican, obviously not a liberal democrat. Could you go back into the environment today or what was the formula that allows you to exist for three decades . You have a particular relationship with him . Enlighten us a little bit. It was helpful i joined cnn in 1980 at the beginning, one of the founders of cnn, one of the fortunate ones who was there, i was president of creation, as they say. It was a spectacular place to work because it was something on thought of before ted turner. The global cable news cast and he put it into action and institutionalized it. It was truly remarkable. It changed over time and refounded it in 1980 and by 1984, ted was on the forms, the wealthiest list and have been basically on the verge of bankruptcy three years earlier than when he founded it. His positioned changed and subject hours. We were growing and over time, is, teds commitment t
Reporter good afternoon to you, melissa. Lets look at the market as theyre settling out. The dow looks like it is finishing down by 524 points. You mentioned the s p 500, that is important too, down 8 1 2 from the record high on september 2nd. 3580. You see the s p closed to 3236. You mention what dragged us down, it was selloff in tech late in the day. Well get to that in a moment. There was optimism early on in the session with respect to coronavirus vaccines, Johnson Johnson entering the latestage three trial that was a little bit positive for investors to get their heads around but again look at these dow losers here. Sales force. Chevron. Apple was one of the big ones, amex and boeing. On nasdaq, losers, fedex, amazon, netflix, align and liberty global. It was a rough day when it came to some of these stocks. It was sort of stock specific and then dragging all the indices down together. Remember this has been choppy for the last couple weeks right now as were heading in and gettin