David Chalian, Political Director
'Obviously, we're not going with the New York Post story right now on Hunter Biden...
'Rudy Giuliani's sort of 'dream-o-vision' of how to throw stuff at the wall in these closing days of the campaign.'
Jeff Zucker, CNN President
'I don't think that we should be repeating unsubstantiated smears just because the right-wing media suggests that we should.'
'The
Breitbart, New York Post, Fox News rabbit hole of Hunter Biden, which I
don't think anybody outside of that world understood.'
'Trump's continuing to undermine the election integrity with baseless claims of fraud, okay?
'That leads to the question of whether or not Trump, in himself, is a national security threat?'
David Vigilante, Executive Counsel
'What
in the world are [New York Times reporter] Maggie Haberman and
[Politico reporter] Jake Sherman doing retweeting [the Hunter Biden]
story?'
Cynthia Hudson, CNN Executive
'Trump has used the communism, socialism rhetoric as part of his hook for the Cubans in Miami.
'The only reason they are supporting Trump is because of that narrative.
'And that narrative and the fact that sadly, I have to say, there's a population that's very attracted to bullies.
'The Cubans are going to vote for Trump.
'And
that's terrifying, and so, I think there is a way to counter the
narrative in Florida that is not being taken advantage of.'
During
that same conference call, CNN Executive Vice President and General
Counsel David Vigilante can be heard telling Zucker that 'we should be
awfully careful' regarding coverage of the Hunter Biden story.
At one point he questioned why some political reporters from other organizations had posted the story to their social media.
'What
in the world are [New York Times reporter] Maggie Haberman and
[Politico reporter] Jake Sherman doing retweeting that story?' Vigilante
asked with surprise.
The following
week, the day after the last presidential debate in which President
Trump went after Biden over the revelations regarding his son, Zucker
once again could be heard brushing the story aside and referred to is as
a 'rabbit hole' that 'I don't think anybody outside of that [rightwing
media] world understood last night.'
'The
Trump media, you know, moves immediately from -- OK, well, never mind
-- to the latest alleged scandal and expects everybody to just follow
suit,' Zucker said on the call.
'So, I don't think that we should be repeating unsubstantiated smears just because the rightwing media suggests that we should.'
In
another call released by Project Veritas on Wednesday, the CNN
president can be heard criticizing Trump over comments he made
questioning the integrity of mail-in voting.
'Trump's continuing to undermine the election integrity with baseless claims of fraud, okay?
'And he's continuing to do it.
'That
leads to the question of whether or not Trump, in himself, is a
national security threat in light of what he's doing and in light of
what he did at the debate.'
Also on
Wednesday, in a third release from Project Veritas, CNN executive
Cynthia Hudson could be heard expressing her opinion over President
Trump's influence over Cuban voters in Miami ahead of the election,
saying they are 'attracted to bullies'.
She surmises that the Cuban population in Florida would likely to vote for Trump because they are 'attracted to bullies.'
She then said it was 'terrifying' how many Cubans were voting for Trump in Florida.
'No one is countering it properly in Florida, the Cubans are going to vote for Trump and that's terrifying.
'I think that there is a way to counter the [Biden is a socialist] narrative in Florida that is not being taken advantage of.'
The recording was from September 9 when there was just under two months to go until the election.
'Trump
has used the communism, socialism rhetoric as part of his hook for the
Cubans in Miami, how that has resonated and how the Biden team has not
done enough to counter that,' Hudson says.
'The only reason they are supporting Trump is because of that narrative.
'And that narrative and the fact that sadly, I have to say, there's a population that's very attracted to bullies.'
Hudson,
who is the senior vice president and managing director of CNN en
Español, went on to say that 'no one is countering' Trump's effective
messaging in Florida.
'The Cubans are going to vote for Trump.
'And
that's terrifying, and so, I think there is a way to counter the
narrative in Florida that is not being taken advantage of.'
In previous clips, Vigilante called Tucker Carlson's show 'white supremacy hour'.
'I think it’s unavoidable that you have to talk about the naked racism of Tucker Carlson…
'Sort of the “White Supremacy Hour” they have on Fox News every night...' he said.
+3
Project Veritas founder James
O'Keefe secretly recorded CNN President Jeff Zucker's editorial meetings
'for months' and intends to release recordings every day until
Christmas. He live streamed himself crashing one call and CNN responded,
saying they'd reported him to police
Project Veritas, at first, wrongly attributed the remark to a black employee, Marcus Mabry. They later issued a correction.
CNN
has threatened O'Keefe with legal action on Monday for crashing one of
Zucker's calls to tell him he was about to publish two months of
recordings.
He also live streamed it.
'Legal experts say this may be a felony. We‘ve referred it to law enforcement,' CNN's Communications Twitter account said.
Project
Veritas founder James O'Keefe has said he secretly recorded network
president Jeff Zucker's morning conference calls 'for months.'
O'Keefe,
36, on Tuesday said he would be releasing audio recordings of several
network meetings which he claims will 'expose' Zucker and other CNN
executives expressing their 'political biases'.
The
calls O'Keefe had been listening to over two months are the network's
daily 9am editorial meeting with senior staff from CNN's main bureaus,
which is run by Zucker.
The move by
Project Veritas is the latest sting operation orchestrated against the
news station by the conservative operative who has long-targeted CNN
over claims of liberal and anti-Trump bias.
O'Keefe has accused the network of furthering its own political agenda when reporting the news.
'CNN
likes to call themselves 'the most trusted name in news,' but how can
the public ever trust a network that routinely bashes people simply
because those people hold certain political views that are not aligned
with the mainstream media?' he said.
O'Keefe said he plans to release 'raw recordings' of more than 50 conference calls every day until Christmas.
'We're
going to release the full raw tapes, maybe even twice a day and show
what really goes on in these phone calls and show them for how they make
the sausage, how they manufacture consent at the 'most trusted name in
news,' O'Keefe concluded.
It's unclear who recorded the calls and sent them to Project Veritas.
