Kanye West made some very disturbing comments about Joe Biden during an interview with Piers Morgan on Wednesday.
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The first night of Jake Tapper’s stint as host of CNN Tonight, featuring a heavily promoted interview with President Joe Biden, drew an average of 854,000 viewers in the 9 PM ET hour, according to Nielsen numbers.
The show ended up in third place against news network rivals, including Fox News’ Hannity, which drew 2.6 million viewers, and MSNBC’s Alex Wagner Tonight, drawing 1.6 million.
CNN Tonight did beat MSNBC in the 25-54 demo in the 9 PM ET time slot, drawing an average of 211,000, versus 144,000 for MSNBC. Fox News’ Hannity averaged 323,000.
Tapper is hosting CNN Tonight through the midterms, and the network has not announced plans for a permanent host after that. In his interview with Biden, the president talked of Vladimir Putin’s nuclear threats, his son Hunter’s legal troubles and when he plans to decide whether to run for president in 2024. Tapper also interviewed Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson in the second half hour.
CNN Tonight had had a rotating series of hosts since Chris Cuomo was fired in December. Tapper’s debut show did improve on CNN Tonight‘s audience from last month, when the show averaged 680,000 total viewers, but it is down from Cuomo’s average from the same period last year. MSNBC said that Alex Wagner Tonight was up among total viewers and adults 25-54 versus its average versus the previous month.
The figures are from Nielsen via Fox News and MSNBC.
CNN has been moving away from opinion and back to its newsier roots under new chairman and CEO Chris Licht. But they network faces the challenge of drawing viewers to primetime, where opinion hosts dominate on Fox News and MSNBC. Other outlets also are trying to offer a nightly alternative to opinion programming, including Nexstar with its
Kanye West made some very disturbing comments about Joe Biden during an interview with Piers Morgan on Wednesday.
It is rare for any journalist to land an interview with President Biden, who has been historically hidden from the press in comparison to his predecessors. With just weeks left of 2022, the president has only given four televised sit-downs this year, most recently with CNN anchor Jake Tapper. Last week, The Washington Post reported that anonymous federal agents allege they have "sufficient evidence" to charge Biden's son Hunter with tax and gun crimes. During his interview with the president, Tapper allotted just one question about his embattled son in light of the latest developments. "Personally and politically, how do you react to that?" Tapper asked on Tuesday. Biden responded by reiterating how "proud" he was of his son, who he stressed has overcome his drug addiction and acknowledged the allegation that Hunter falsely claimed he was not addicted to drugs on his gun purchase application. Tapper failed to ask any follow-up questions like whether he would pardon his son if criminal charges were brought.The anchor didn't even touch the looming questions over Hunter Biden's foreign business ties that could implicate his father, avoiding concerns about whether the president was involved in any of his son's financial dealings and if he himself ever received kickbacks.There were also no inquiries about revelations that several of Hunter Biden's associates visited the Obama-Biden White House even after Biden claimed on the campaign trail that he never talked business with his son.
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reported that, per their unnamed sources, federal agents “determined months ago they had assembled a viable criminal case against the younger Biden.”This week has also seen critical response of Sean Hannity for his handling of Hunter Biden’s history as a drug addict. On Monday, the Fox News host released a private voicemail President Biden left his son in an attempt to embarrass and disparage the Biden family – a move that has been widely considered “grotesque” and monstrous online. “Replace the name Biden with Trump and imagine how the mob and the media would be covering all of this,” Hannity scoffed.In conversation with President Biden Tuesday, Tapper asked point blank how he feels about his son’s ongoing troubles.
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