Phil Mattingly

On Monday morning, CNN regulars devoted a segment to griping about Republican presidential candidate Vivek Ramaswamy calling out racism by some Democrats, comparing them to the KKK.

For months, there has been a steady drip of information coming from the House Oversight Committee and government whistleblowers about how the Department of Justice had given Hunter Biden “special privileges not afforded to other Americans.” But despite the mounting evidence that President Biden’s son was getting the sweetheart treatment, Tuesday’s CNN This Morning looked to House…

On Thursday's CNN This Morning, correspondent Carlos Suarez filed a report promoting misleading claims by left-wing activists protesting against Governor Ron DeSantis's policies on teaching black history in Florida.

Terri Lesley was recently fired from her position as director of the Campbell County Public Library System in Wyoming and on Thursday, she joined CNN This Morning to talk about it. There, she was allowed to falsely state that none of the books in the library contained any sexually explicit material.

The Wednesday edition of CNN This Morning reacted to the news that Arkansas will not be offering AP African American Studies for graduation credits by tying the move to Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s campaign against Critical Race Theory and everyone from the former Democrat, supposed fact checker, and Republican deputy chief of staff all agreed: Republicans want children to be dumber…

As soon as President Joe Biden publicly embraced “Bidenomics,” CNN began doing everything it could to slip the term into the minds of viewers like a Jedi mind trick to blind people to the economic woes his policies have created. 

Devon Archer testified on Monday that his former business partner, Hunter Biden, called then-Vice President Joe Biden during business meetings to “sell the illusion of access to his father” and America’s government. Tuesday’s CNN This Morning dismissed Hunter’s use of his father’s position as vice president for business advancement as typical political behavior, more suitable than…

Thursday’s CNN This Morning featured a segment where hosts Abby Phillip and Phil Mattingly expressed how appalled they were at Florida’s new standards for education in black history. Joined by CNN national correspondent Athena Jones, they spoke about how these “inaccurate” and “ahistorical” changes would disable teachers from teaching “the proper history,” and how they were “very…

Amid Wednesday’s extensive coverage of the new target letter for former President Trump’s January 6th case on CNN This Morning, anchor Phil Mattingly asked CNN political commentator Van Jones about the delay in prosecutions for the cases. Jones claimed that there was a “two tier justice system, and Trump is benefitting from it,” providing several comical alternate examples in an…

CNN This Morning host Phil Mattingly had Representative Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) on Tuesday morning’s program to discuss several different issues, notably the recent anti-Semitic statements from Representative Pramila Jayapal (D-WA). Together they lamented Republicans calling out Democrats and tried to tie the anti-Semitic comments from Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to House Republicans despite…

Monday’s CNN This Morning featured several segments where the anchors, Phil Mattingly and Abby Phillip, had in-depth discussions on Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA and the blowback to her recent condemnation of Israel as a “racist state.” Along with several guests, both anchors expressed their annoyance that Jayapal had perpetuated a long-standing “internal battle that Democrats have had”…

CNN This Morning bashed Republicans for a military spending bill that excluded payments for abortion, diversity promotion, and transgender care to military personnel on Friday. Its reporters exaggerated the past bipartisanism of the bill, claimed Republicans were throwing a fit and using the military as a political pawn, and seemingly compared the cut benefits to rolling back racial…

In yet another display of loyalty to its liberal taskmasters, CNN’s Thursday morning reporting on the House Judiciary Committee hearing with FBI Director Wray consisted of CNN This Morning anchors Phil Mattingly and Pamela Brown complaining about how the “Republican leaders destroy the credibility” of the FBI by “attacking someone like Chris Wray” in their hearing.

On Wednesday’s CNN This Morning, anchors Phil Mattingly and Pamela Brown complained about FBI director Christopher Wray’s impending oversight hearing with the House Judiciary Committee panel. Along with several guests, including CNN political correspondent Sara Murray, CNN congressional correspondent Lauren Fox, and CNN legal analyst Elliot Williams, they whined about the Republicans…