Video

CNN's Cillizza Blames Bad Impeachment Polls on Thanksgiving, Christmas

November 27th, 2019 10:00 PM
With the public testimony portion of the House impeachment proceedings concluded, Democrats have discovered they have a problem: the public hearings did nothing to increase support for impeachment. On Tuesday's CNN Newsroom, CNN politics reporter Chris Cillizza joined co-host Jim Sciutto to ponder why this is and concluded that it isn't because the lack of overwhelming evidence, but rather due to…
Video

CNN Impeachment Fantasy: ‘Let’s Pretend’ Trump Planned ‘Bank Robbery'

November 27th, 2019 12:31 PM
On Wednesday, CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto was visibly frustrated that Americans were not “moved” by the vague quid pro quo allegation against President Trump. To spice things up, Sciutto enlisted the help of CNN analyst Paul Callan, who conjured up a fanciful hypothetical world where President Trump had been caught planning a bank robbery.
Video

CNN Hopes Americans Worry About Climate Disaster, This Thanksgiving

November 27th, 2019 11:33 AM
CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto and “climate correspondent” Bill Weir spent time Wednesday warning Americans that it may be “too late” to stop the upcoming environmental global catastrophe. While most Americans are going to be enjoying their families and remembering what they are thankful for this holiday, the CNN duo claimed families instead would be sitting around worrying about how the world…
Video

CNN's Jim Sciutto Suggests GOP Has 'Psychosis' on Russia, Ukraine

November 25th, 2019 3:56 PM
CNN Newsroom co-host Jim Sciutto took the opportunity on Monday to diagnose Republicans with reality-denying "psychosis" and hype his book Shadow War in the process. Sciutto was particularly incensed at Republicans for questioning Russian interference in the 2016 election, instead offering up the CrowdStrike conspiracy theory that says it was Ukraine that interfered in 2016.  
Video

CNN NatSec Analyst: 'Russia is Dictating What Our Foreign Policy is'

November 13th, 2019 10:47 AM
As impeachment frenzy continues to sweep the nation, CNN Newsroom co-hosts Jim Sciutto and Poppy Harlow welcomed CNN national security analyst Shawn Turner and former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine (under Clinton) Steven Pifer to their Tuesday show. Turner and Pifer tried to debunk the Administration's claims that they have been tougher on Russia than President Obama, because unlike Obama, Trump…
Video

Huh? CNN Claims That U.S. Doesn't Collect Tariffs

October 31st, 2019 10:38 AM
CNN's Jim Sciutto took the idea that the consumer and the manufacturers ultimately pay for tariffs in the form of increased prices of imported goods to absurdly assert that the United States does not collect tariffs. It wasn't just an unfortunate slip of the tongue on the part of Sciutto because he emphasized his silly assertion twice and both times, as you can see and hear in the video, with an…

CNN's Stelter Can't Wait for Anonymous White House Staffer's Book

October 25th, 2019 3:51 PM
Every Sunday, CNN's Brian Stelter hosts a show entitled Reliable Sources, but on Friday's edition of CNN Newsroom Stelter could be seen eagerly anticipating a new book by the most unreliable of source- that being of the anonymously written book that will purportedly be a behind the scenes look into the workings of the Trump Administration.  
Video

CNN's Avlon on Impeachment: 'This Isn't Benghazi...This is Serious'

October 9th, 2019 2:35 PM
The 2012 Benghazi attacks are suddenly a topic of interest for CNN on Wednesday morning, but only as a tool to criticize Republicans. Smug CNN Newsroom hosts Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto eagerly showcased a clip of former Rep. Trey Gowdy slamming Democrats for withholding information from the Republican led-committee, equating it to what Trump’s administration is doing now with the impeachment…
Video

Worst CNN Graphic EVER? ‘White House Declares War’ on ‘Constitution’

October 9th, 2019 12:45 PM
As biased as the journalists on CNN are, the anonymous individuals behind the graphics department seem even worse. Wednesday’s CNN Newsroom may have seen the worst example yet. (And that’s saying something.) The network told viewers that the White House has officially “declared war” on the “Constitution.” (It hasn’t.) Here’s the full graphic and screen shot from the opening of the 9am hour: “WH…
Video

CNN Host Jim Sciutto Bungles Fact Check of Jim Jordan's Schiff Remarks

October 8th, 2019 5:17 PM
With the news that the State Department had blocked Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland from testifying to Congress on Tuesday, CNN Newsroom went live to Capitol Hill for reaction. After showing remarks from Oversight Committee Ranking Member Jim Jordan, co-host Jim Sciutto continued the media's new favorite hobby of pretentious fact-checking when he charged Jordan with not telling…

WSJ Columnist Unpacks CNN's Sciutto Mess, the Newest 'Collusion Doozy'

September 14th, 2019 8:59 AM
This week, Jim Sciutto reported CNN's latest collapsing Trump-Russia conspiracy theory, which was crumbled by The New York Times. On Friday, Wall Street Journal columnist Kimberly Strassel took a wider look at this trend and suggested this is another desperate effort by the media's Fusion/Collusion Corps that promoted the largely unsubstantiated Christopher Steele dossier to Get Trump.

Jim Sciutto Wonders If Dems Are Not Left Enough On Gun Control

September 13th, 2019 4:42 PM
Beto O'Rourke is currently trying to resurrect his dying campaign by espousing every far-left gun control policy he can think of and hope that Democratic voters see that and its associated cursing as passionate. If the Democratic Primary consisted of the folks at CNN Newsroom that strategy just might have worked as co-host Jim Sciutto wondered on Friday if Democrats are being too cautious when it…
Video

Hannity, Concha Tee Off on ‘Egregious’ CNN, MSNBC Russia Reports

September 11th, 2019 6:50 PM
Partnering Tuesday night on the Fox News Channel with The Hill’s Joe Concha, host Sean Hannity ripped into CNN and MSNBC for their various reports that not only appear to have some serious factual concerns regarding the reasons for extracting a CIA asset from Russia in 2017, but also put the life of that asset and his family in danger.
Study

CNN Spends 181 Minutes Hyping Jim Sciutto’s Dubious CIA Stories

September 10th, 2019 8:03 PM
On Monday, CNN chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto aired a questionable story blaming President Trump for the extraction of a longtime CIA asset in Moscow. A Monday night New York Times story cast serious doubts on the reasons Sciutto cited for the 2017 extraction, but CNN has stood by Sciutto. All told, a NewsBusters tally of CNN’s live, on-air coverage found a staggering 181…