That CNN report, viewing the game film.

August 11, 2025.

Introduction.

So last week, CNN dropped a report that they'd put together on all the doings out here in Moscow.

That piece was a blessing for us in many ways,

and I thought to take a few minutes to explain why and how. After the release, I wrote to Pamela Brown,

our interviewer, and thanked her for the job that she and her team did. And here's why I did that.

I know for a fact, from our preliminary discussions with CNN, from the time they spent here in Moscow,

and from their follow-up fact-checking questions, that they were working hard to keep it from being

a hit piece. To be clear, they did not shake free of their foundational assumptions, but that is

quite a different thing. They did bring up the standard objections, however, tired, and interviewed

one representative of the kind of group that

would make such objections, e.g. the Reverend Lady. That is what a lot of our people noticed.

But here's why that wasn't the issue. When they got to our responses, they didn't just

broadcast the inflammatory part and then cut away. They got the inflammatory part, but then

included our responses that contained the full context and range of what we actually think about the subject.

They did that with Jared's response on the 19th Amendment.

They did that with Toby's response on household voting.

They did that with my response on slavery.

And they did that in their interview with the princes.

Now, one of our standard conditions for agreeing to such an interview with

adversary media was for us to film an independent recording of the interviews. We do this simply as

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