The way to deal with a bully like Trump, Licht told his journalists, was to confront him with facts. Eager to put his imprint on CNN, Licht had started with what he knew best—mornings—and hounded his team to get the program ready for Election Day. “A lot of people are Monday-morning-quarterbacking about what happened” at CNN, Lemon told me. She said her husband had advised her to switch roles only if it would mean becoming partners with Lemon; Lemon said he wouldn’t have moved to the mornings alongside anyone else. As we cruised past Wilmington, Delaware, I asked Licht if there were people at CNN who wanted him to fail.

Source: CNN June 02, 2023 23:25 UTC