{"id":1696818,"date":"2022-10-16T17:34:32","date_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:34:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696818"},"modified":"2022-10-16T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-16T21:34:36","slug":"former-top-cnn-msnbc-execs-defend-not-covering-hunter-laptop-before-election-he-was-never-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-top-cnn-msnbc-execs-defend-not-covering-hunter-laptop-before-election-he-was-never-arrested\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Top CNN, MSNBC Execs Defend Not Covering Hunter Laptop Before Election: \u2018He Was Never Arrested!\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-top-cnn-msnbc-execs-defend-not-covering-hunter-laptop-before-election-he-was-never-arrested%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1696818&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Two former top executives at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/cnn\">CNN<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/msnbc\">MSNBC<\/a> defended their network\u2019s decisions to not cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal more prior to the 2020 presidential election because he was not criminally charged at the time.<\/p>\n<p>The remarks from former MSNBC chief Phil Griffin and former CNN chief Jeff Zucker came during a conversation they had late last week at the Un-Convention in Philadelphia with CNN host Michael Smerconish.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that the Hunter laptop was worthy of more airing than it received right before the election,\u201d Smerconish said. \u201cEither of you agree with me on that? Do you regret, how about if I ask it this way specifically, do you regret not dealing with it before the election?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, I mean, I think, I think we, the question is, we did deal with it,\u201d Zucker claimed. \u201cBut to the degree that, you know, you would, you would have thought was appropriate? I think the answer is in the, in the final two weeks, you know, it was looked at, we did not know enough about it. There was not, you know, there was not within two weeks of the election, the ability, when the messenger on that story was Rudy Giuliani, OK? No, I mean, but I mean, that\u2019s the problem. It\u2019s like, you\u2019re gonna give a lot of legitimacy to Rudy Giuliani delivering, you know, he\u2019s got the goods? So part of the issue with that story was who was delivering the goods? Okay, that\u2019s one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat doesn\u2019t mean that we didn\u2019t look into it. We did. We did look into it,\u201d he continued. \u201cBut first of all, you know, with regard to the son of the candidate, you know, he was the son of the candidate, he wasn\u2019t the candidate. The question that you\u2019ll come back with is well, but what role did the candidate play in his business dealings? You know, frankly, with 10 days or two weeks to go, it was looked at by very credible organizations, including the Wall Street Journal, Rupert Murdoch\u2019s Wall Street Journal, and they found nothing at that time, okay? So my point is, it\u2019s easy to say we should have spent more time on that. Listen, do I think it\u2019s legitimate to look at? Sure. Do I think that like, it\u2019s a legitimate criticism to say that in 10 days, 14 days prior to the election, you didn\u2019t spend enough time on it? Not really.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Fmr CNN boss Jeff Zucker defends the network ignoring evidence of Hunter\/Joe Biden corruption before the presidential election: &#8220;We didn&#8217;t know enough about it .. the messenger on that story was Rudy Giuliani&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do I think it&#8217;s a legitimate criticism [we ignored it]? Not really&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/q4rDUNTAbw\">pic.twitter.com\/q4rDUNTAbw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1581017951414603778?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Smerconish then turned his attention to Griffin, and asked for his take on the matter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was never arrested,\u201d Griffin said. \u201cThe Justice Department was looking into it, never reported it until he is the son of a candidate. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a main story until that happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s a, it\u2019s a main story until that happens. Now we looked into it, you know, NBC News did, Tom Winter and Ken DeLorean did a great job,\u201d he claimed. \u201cThey met with Rudy. He brought a couple of pages printed out from the so called, from the from the computer. They asked for a digital copy of it. They didn\u2019t get it. But I don\u2019t think it was a big story before the election because he was never found, he was never charged.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">MSNBC&#8217;s Phil Griffin likewise defends their refusal to do journalism: &#8220;He was never arrested \u2026 I don&#8217;t think it was a big story before the election because he was never charged with anything&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fV0Eo570EJ\">pic.twitter.com\/fV0Eo570EJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Tom Elliott (@tomselliott) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tomselliott\/status\/1581019666310258688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 14, 2022<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two former top executives at CNN and MSNBC defended their network\u2019s decisions to not cover the Hunter Biden laptop scandal more prior to the 2020 presidential election because he was not criminally charged at the time. 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