"It didn't mix well with the other hosts. It didn't mix well with the audience. It didn't set the tone that [Dave] Portnoy wants to set with his shows. Bringing that tone to the pregame show is not at all interesting for those watching."
"I have real confidence that they both understand and will fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for."
Carlson said his show obtained exclusive recordings from Ron Klempner, an attorney for the NBA Players Association, saying that the league wanted to stay in the good graces of China
"Hutchinson and the bombshell information she had delivered boosted the hearings' ratings, scoring 13.2 million total viewers across all major networks"
The network said in a release that over the course of the holiday weekend, segments will air in major U.S. cities including Boston, Washington, D.C., New York City, and Los Angeles.
"I have real confidence that they both understand and will fully support the principle and practice of the kind of independent news that CNN has always stood for."