ZERO ZUCKS GIVEN: Watch Former CNN Boss Jeff Zucker Defend Ignoring Hunter Biden Story

Last week, during Philadelphia’s Un-Convention, former CNN exec Jeff Zucker and former MSNBC chief Phil Griffin sat down with CNN host Michael Smerconish to discuss, among other things, their networks’ Hunter Biden laptop from hell coverage.

“I think that the Hunter laptop was worthy of more airing than it received right before the election,” Smerconish said. “Either 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?”

“Well, I mean, I think, I think we, the question is, we did deal with it,” Zucker claimed. “But 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’s the problem. It’s like, you’re gonna give a lot of legitimacy to Rudy Giuliani delivering, you know, he’s got the goods? So part of the issue with that story was who was delivering the goods? Okay, that’s one.”

“That doesn’t mean that we didn’t look into it. We did. We did look into it,” he continued. “But first of all, you know, with regard to the son of the candidate, you know, he was the son of the candidate, he wasn’t the candidate. The question that you’ll 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’s Wall Street Journal, and they found nothing at that time, okay? So my point is, it’s easy to say we should have spent more time on that. Listen, do I think it’s legitimate to look at? Sure. Do I think that like, it’s a legitimate criticism to say that in 10 days, 14 days prior to the election, you didn’t spend enough time on it? Not really.”

Watch Zucker’s response above.

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