cnn, which once defined cable news, is now under fire after this week s trump debacle. underilities new ownership, it s now just one more outlet for the libertarian billionaire point of view. also tonight, the unserious caucus, jim jordan continues to carry trump s water, pursuing a pointless investigation of manhattan d.a. alvin bragg. as james comer more or less admits he s got nothing on the bidens, but he s going to keep pretending he does anyway. and we begin with the continued clean-up on aisle five at cnn in the wake of widespread criticism over its decision to air a town hall with the twice impeached civilly liable for sexual abuse former president donald trump on wednesday night that played out more like a pep rally or a maga version of the jerry springer show. on thursday, cnn ceo chris lict mounted a defense of the town hall during the network s morning editorial call. insisting the spectacle served the public well despite the widespread condemnation even fro
. what s going on? what an action packed.n watters family thanksgiving. why are female teachers sleeping with their students? chris hansen is here. s watch him cheat on that story there. for what the people areine. saying about politics. plus, i hear a squealing pig right now. when you think a of thanksgiving, you think of family, food and footballnd. you usually don t think of injuries. it s a lot of responsibility i on my plate. but that s kind of whaovt i lov about it. y i mean, the opportunity mana, in aan entire unitto way, it s kind of like, oh, oh[i ,oh. but there were several injuries during this year. sewhat are thanksgiving weekend? some physical, some emotional. more on that later. ater. but i have a new appreciation for housewives. what do we call them now? stay at home moms. i want to be politically correct because i took wednesday off to be a stay at home mom and i almost didn tm make it. the stereotypake is you ree p popping bonbons on the cou
audience in the town hall was not told, you know, react however you feel. they were told they could cheer but they couldn t boo. so they could cheer, but they couldn t boo. so what then happens is it creates the atmospherics that everyone in there was loving on trump, but there s a video, i want to see if we have it, some of the crowd weren t cheering. even i represented it as a whole crowd full of goons that were cheering when people were insulting e. jean carroll, look at that. you have men in the back hooting, hollering, loving trump, and a bunch of people sitting in front sitting there quiet. and they weren t allowed to boo. how is that journalism? yeah, that s essentially teeing up, you know, the home run pitch for a particular candidate. and creating a friendly audience. so i think you also have to take issue with the way this has been framed to the point you made in your intro, that there is a false dichotomy here, as if the
career with 493 home run and was a notable contributor during the 1995 braves world series win. mcgriff, mcgruff, so that means barry bonds, the home run king and clemons who wan 354, denied entry and both face widespread allegations of using performance-enhancing drugs diring their career but never was suspended. the next time they could be considered for the hall of fame by this committee is 2025. and so we ll be watching then. and until then, thanks so much for joining us today. we ll see you back here tomorrow. i m erica hill. nice to have you back, erica. i m jim sciutto. at this hour with kate bolduan begins right now. hello, everyone. at this hour power stations
dynamic to watch this play out. seems like with each debate, karl, the home run is build connection with the audience. get reaction from the audience. you could tell when they walked in it was a pretty warm romney crowd. santorum even made a comment after, well, there was a, they were stacked or you know the romney folks had done a good job turning out folks. it felt like it was his crowd last night in there. yeah. and you re right. when gingrich had a crowd earlier before the south carolina debates worked to his advantage. you just touched though on one thing. santorum should not engage in stuff like that. he looked like he was whining. in fact last night he looked angry. looked a little bit upset at times. he was jabbing in the air. that is one of the ways romney got better of him. romney looked cool, calm, prosecuting case against him. raising questions and making points. romney didn t jump on one of the biggest names santorum made. when romney described process he would like to s