Hour 1: Trump’s CNN appearance was not a town hall. In a Town Hall, the audience asks the majority of the questions.
The Mark Simone Show
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4.3 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, we got lots to get to today. We'll go over that CNN. They claimed it was a town hall. It wasn't much of a town hall, but Trump was great. We'll get to George Santos. We'll get to the Biden corruption. We'll get to the Biden visit to New York City yesterday. We'll get to all the crazy new Eric Adams struggles to deal with all these migrants. |
| 0:21.9 | A lot to talk about today. |
| 0:23.6 | So CNN really did themselves a lot of damage last night. |
| 0:29.6 | Tremendous damage. |
| 0:31.4 | I don't know what they were thinking. |
| 0:33.2 | It wasn't thought out. |
| 0:34.9 | Their strategy was all wrong. |
| 0:36.8 | This anchor that you saw last night, this woman, Caitlin Collins, she was there a big prospect. |
| 0:44.3 | They were grooming her there. |
| 0:45.5 | They were thinking about her for the 9 o'clock hour. |
| 0:47.4 | She was like the up-and-coming woman that was being groomed for big things at CNN. |
| 0:52.3 | I don't know. |
| 0:52.8 | I think her career might have ended last night. |
| 0:56.3 | Here's a lot that was wrong with the whole thing. It was an hour and 15 minutes and it was supposed |
| 1:02.1 | to be a town hall. And a town hall was where you have the citizens ask questions. It was in New Hampshire, |
| 1:09.7 | New Hampshire primary. The voters are going to ask |
| 1:12.2 | questions. But she took over. The whole first 20 minutes is her interviewing him. And every so often, |
| 1:18.5 | once in a while, she'd let somebody in the audience ask a question. That's not a town hall. |
| 1:23.0 | Town hall is supposed to be 99% the audience asking questions. |
| 1:28.4 | She, you know, here's the other problem with her. |
| 1:31.2 | They should have had a real anchor, you know, like an Anderson Cooper or a Jake Tapper or something. |
| 1:35.6 | Because those guys know how to pretend half fake that they're objective journalists. |
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