CNN: The Corleone Network

In doing so it, as well as other media outlets, have become key-but-overlooked cogs in the Russian collusion story.Lost in everything that has taken place over the first five months of the Trump Presidency was this interview with CNN president, Jeff Zucker, in mid-January just before the inauguration and just after CNN had reported some inaccurate claims, including that “U.S. intelligence chiefs had briefed Trump on claims that the Kremlin had collected compromising information on him.”  We now know from former FBI Director James Comey’s Senate testimony that he alone, and in confidence, spoke with the President-elect about the compromising information. And if the parties behind this campaign can get other media outlets to play the game, to serve as a willing echo chamber for all of those rumors and stories, well then you have what we have all been living through this past year.When CNN reports on the collusion scandal, it focuses on the Trump campaign, Vladimir Putin, and maybe once in a blue moon, Hillary Clinton.