"The Christmas gift in the sports department -- personally bought for us by Ted Turner -- were CNN sports caps. And we were damn surprised and pleased."
"The overwriting principle used to be: get a scoop, get in the paper or on the air as soon as possible because that's your job, and that's your only actual value to society as well."
"I heard Tucker Carlson, then a new MSNBC host, rattle off a list of conservative conspiracy theorists he thought was damaging the United States of America: Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, and Glenn Beck."
"'Yes, they were lured on false pretenses -- that's true -- but when they got to Martha's Vineyard, they were certainly treated very humanely. Is that really kidnapping?' Yes! Yes it is really kidnapping!"
During Erin Burnett OutFront, the anchor covered a story published by New York Magazine in what it called a six-month investigation into Hunter Biden's laptop, which Olbermann panned.
Olbermann first took his latest shot at CNN CEO Chris Licht, reiterating his claim that when the pair worked together at MSNBC he thought Licht "ate paste", before turning his attention to Tapper.
Hylton joined MS NOW in April 2025 as a reporter and co-anchor of The Weekend: Primetime. Now, her first solo anchoring role gives the network an opportunity to showcase her journalism across a larger platform.