“There were no secrets about this, as other individuals besides Mr Cuomo can attest,” a Cuomo spokesman told the Wall Street Journal last weekend. Cuomo is understood to have hired LA attorney Bryan Freedman, and CNN is working with litigator Daniel Petrocelli. Until the moment of Cuomo’s termination from the cable news station, he and CNN had expressed a “family first, job second” rationale. “CNN benefited from the relationship between Andrew and Chris Cuomo during Covid lockdowns when they aired what were misguided, inappropriate, fawning interviews. In the post-Cuomo CNN era,will we see a continuation of primetime opinion or kick it back to cooler heads from the news division?

Source: CNN December 12, 2021 07:27 UTC