Chris Licht taps Don Lemon, Kaitlan Collins and Poppy Harlow for CNN's new morning show. In a statement, Licht promised a 'game-changing' morning show for cable news.
"We're brought up to believe there's two different political parties with different points of view, and we don't take sides in honest disagreements between them," said Harwood, a distinguished Washington correspondent whose father was a senior editor at theLicht had also made a pilgrimage to Capitol Hill in July to woo Republican lawmakers to the idea that CNN would be a forum in which their arguments could be heard fairly.
Lemon is clearly still on board as a major player at CNN; Licht has told associates the host is a highly talented broadcaster. One of his new partners, Collins, frequently pressed Trump administration officials, including the former president, while a reporter attending White House briefings. She previously covered the White House for the conservativewebsite, founded by Fox News's Tucker Carlson. She will serve as co-host and chief correspondent on the program.
CNN's liberal critics see a strained effort by Licht to pull the network back to a notional center that no longer exists. And they've pointed to incidents in which Keilar, known for extended videos dissecting Trump's hypocrisies, devoted significant air time to blasting Biden's speech about Trump and democracy as too divisive. Similarly, longtime correspondent Jeff Zeleny and anchor Jake Tapper mused thatto accompany him to the funeral events for British Queen Elizabeth II.
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