Story highlights Anderson Cooper sat down with David Axelrod to talk about the 2016 race, among other thingsCooper has a theory about Donald Trump's media attentionNew York (CNN) While rivals and media critics complain that Donald Trump's pervasive presence on television has given him an undue advantage in the presidential race, Anderson Cooper says Trump has made his own luck by submitting himself to interviews others refused. "(Trump) is good TV, without a doubt," said Cooper, best-selling author and host of CNN's "AC-360." "It's not that all we want to do is put Donald Trump on ... Look, Jeb Bush -- I never talked to him until we did a town hall and that was the first and last time. "Hillary Clinton, Ted Cruz ... we would put out a lot of requests all the time," Cooper said. "But a lot of these people can be good TV.

Source: CNN May 09, 2016 05:11 UTC