Tag Archives: Chris Cuomo

The Daily Beast reports: CNN chief Chris Licht is shaking things up once again. Days after unveiling a “reimagined” morning show, the network announced that anchor Jake Tapper would be moving to primetime to host the 9 p.m. slot through this year’s midterm elections. While the assignment is ostensibly temporary, it could possibly become permanent if Tapper draws a decent …

Deadline reports: After months of legal anticipation following his December 2021 firing by Jeff Zucker, Chris Cuomo has just launched the official opening salvo in what looks to be protracted battle with CNN over not only $125 million in cash, but his character and family drama as well. “As a result of Turner’s indefensible choice to unceremoniously fire him, Cuomo …

CNN reports: CNN said Saturday that anchor Chris Cuomo has been “terminated” by the network, “effective immediately.” The announcement came after an outside law firm was retained to review information about exactly how Cuomo aided his brother, former New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, when the then-governor was accused of sexual harassment. CNN said in a statement: “Chris Cuomo was suspended …

From CNN’s communications office: The New York Attorney General’s office released transcripts and exhibits Monday that shed new light on Chris Cuomo’s involvement in his brother’s defense. The documents, which we were not privy to before their public release, raise serious questions. When Chris admitted to us that he had offered advice to his brother’s staff, he broke our rules …

Mediaite reports: Fox Nation, Fox News Media’s subscription-based streaming service, will debut a new special, The Collapse of Cuomo, that focuses on the scandals swirling around Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-NY), and they’re promoting it with an ad running on his brother Chris Cuomo’s CNN program, Mediaite can exclusively report. The 30-second ad will be running on Cuomo Prime Time, as …

New York’s WINS reports: CNN prime time anchor Chris Cuomo has tested positive for coronavirus. The Cuomo Prime Time made the announcement via Twitter Tuesday morning. Cuomo anchored his 9 p.m. ET hour Monday night from his home, and he says he will continue to do so as long as he is feeling well. Cuomo, on Twitter, said he’s “had …

USA Today reports: A “Fredo Unhinged” T-shirt is being sold on the official Donald Trump re-election website following a viral video of CNN journalist Chris Cuomo yelling at an apparent stranger who called him “Fredo”. Trump has also taken to Twitter to mock Cuomo and criticize CNN’s defense of him. Trump’s feud with CNN only intensified after Cuomo exploded at …

Mediaite reports: During an impromptu press gaggle in New Jersey Tuesday afternoon, Trump was asked about his tweets attacking Cuomo over the aborted bar fight that was caught on video. “I think that what Chris Cuomo did was horrible,” Trump told reporters. “His language was horrible, he looked like a total out-of-control animal. He lost it. You’ve never seen me …

From the Hollywood Reporter: Never missing an opportunity to taunt a CNN employee, President Donald Trump joined his son Donald Trump Jr. in mocking anchor Chris Cuomo after a video of Cuomo arguing with an unidentified man was posted by a conservative media personality. After sending a more presidential tweet about Chinese currency devaluation, the media-critic-in-chief decided to double-down on …

The Hill reports: President Trump on Tuesday mocked CNN anchor Chris Cuomo after a viral video first shared by right-wing accounts showed the primetime host getting into a heated exchange with an unidentified man who repeatedly called him “Fredo.” The video, which began circulating Monday night, features Cuomo comparing the term “Fredo” to the “N-word.” The moniker references the character …

CNN reports: A profanity-laced video surfaced Monday night showing CNN anchor Chris Cuomo threatening to throw a man down the stairs for calling him “Fredo,” referring to the fictional character Fredo Corleone from “The Godfather” films. But the core of the backlash centered on one claim from Cuomo: that calling an Italian person “Fredo” was comparable to using the n-word …

The Hill reports: “There is no question about what he did being wrong and illegal,” CNN host Chris Cuomo said of Gianforte body slamming Guardian reporter Ben Jacobs in 2017. “But the president celebrated him at a rally. Why does Trump praise bullies? Time and again, he celebrates punks who go after the little guy,” he continued. “Everything Gianforte did …

Last night a Yale classmate of Brett Kavanaugh’s called in to Chris Cuomo’s CNN show to say he had “blatantly lied” about his drinking history. The Week reports: “I’ll tell you, Chris, I watched the whole hearing, and a number of my Yale colleagues and I were extremely disappointed in Brett Kavanaugh’s characterization of himself and the way that he …

Business Insider reports: CNN host Chris Cuomo and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway traded verbal jabs at each other in a wild 30-minute interview on Thursday night. The two were set to discuss this week’s avalanche of news, but the interview soon went off the rails. “There’s a little difference between you and me and the shop you’re working for,” …

The Hill reports: CNN host Chris Cuomo and Virginia Senate candidate Corey Stewart (R) sparred Wednesday night in a heated interview that focused on Stewart’s affiliation with white nationalists. Stewart appeared on “Cuomo Prime Time” one day after he secured the Republican nomination to challenge Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) in November’s midterm election. The two men frequently shouted over each …

Rick Santorum won’t admit that Trump lies: Rick Santorum on Wednesday brushed off questions about false and misleading claims by President Trump, arguing that his predecessor, Barack Obama, told more substantial lies. Asked on CNN’s “New Day” whether he believed Obama lied more often than Trump, Santorum, a former GOP senator from Pennsylvania, demurred, saying that the former president’s untruths …

Raw Story reports: In an interview with CNN’s Chris Cuomo, former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA) admitted that he was wrong when he told students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, to take CPR classes instead of fighting for gun control. “I blame myself. I said that wrong comment Sunday and I got everybody off on a rabbit …

The New York Times reports: CNN is turning to one of its morning anchors to shore up prime time. Chris Cuomo, the outspoken co-host of “New Day” who has gained prominence — and received some right-wing blowback — for his coverage of the Trump administration, is set to take over the network’s 9 p.m. slot on weeknights starting in the …

CNN reports: Controversial former Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Wednesday called former President Barack Obama’s birth certificate a “phony document” in an interview on CNN. “No doubt about it, we have the evidence, I’m not going to go into all the details, yeah, it’s a phony document,” Arpaio said on “Cuomo Primetime.” Arpaio announced Tuesday that he is running for the …

Via Mediaite: How on earth could President Donald Trump deny that the infamous Access Hollywood tape is authentic? That’s what Chris Cuomo wanted to know Monday on New Day. The anchor was equal parts perplexed and insulted that Trump would now try to claim Fake News on a video he already admitted was the real deal — a clip for …