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Bill D'Agostino

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Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

And they're up to about 13 to 14 minutes now as of last night.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

Is that, in fact, good?

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

It's hard to really contextualize broadcast network time as opposed to, say, like CNN or MSNBC, where you've got like a 24-hour news cycle.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

But 13 minutes is actually, that's quite a decent chunk, right?

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

Because if you think about the evening newscast, they're a 30-minute block, but really only about 18 minutes of that is news, and you've got like 12, 11 minutes of commercials.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

So over a month and then an additional week, I would give—

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

decent amount of credit for almost getting up to 15 minutes there.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

Yes and no.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

I mean, it's definitely evidence of some of her influence.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

But there has been a little bit of the remaining holdover from the previous, I guess, administration, you could call it, at CBS.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

Because a lot of the time before Tony DeCoppo came in and was the anchor…

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

A lot of the time, the introduction to some of the reports on this fraud scandal were completely different from the actual report itself.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

So when you had, for example, co-host John Dickerson introducing it, he would introduce it in the same way that, say, NBC or ABC might have, which is to say –

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

It's all about Trump is terrorizing the Somali community with fraud.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

He said these awful comments about Somalians.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

Anyway, here's our reporter.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

And then the report begins with the actual fraud scandal as opposed to Trump's comments about Somalians.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

So there's sort of an imbalance of seriousness between the –

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

the former co-hosts, and the actual reporting that's being done.

Morning Wire
How Legacy Media Covered and Missed Minnesota’s Massive Fraud Scandal

And I would definitely attribute some of the investigative work that's being done to Barry Weiss's influence, because as far as I know, they are the only network of the three that actually has somebody on the ground there digging into this.