Soledad O'Brien

So I was never in the room with him ever.

Socially, for business, or even philanthropy.

If that guy was there, I wasn't going because he's gross.

Yeah, your last segment was like, maybe I should run down and get a cocktail before we start this segment.

A lot unfolding.

And I think all of the things that you pointed out are highly likely to happen, right?

Barry Weiss, many predict, if this goes through, it still obviously requires regulatory approval.

So, you know, there could be some hurdles there.

But if that does go through, I think there's a lot of indications that it will.

And many people predict that Barry Weiss then would become in charge of CNN.

I think that it becomes clear then there'd be pressure to make it a more conservative outlet, as we have seen happen at CBS.

So I don't think that would be a big surprise.

I think you would see layoffs.

I don't think that would be a big surprise.

I think you would see firing of specific people.

CNN anchors that don't meet the approval of the president because that has been sort of proposed and predicted.

And so I don't think that would be a big surprise.

And so all of those things, obviously, I think would be in the big picture, bad bird journalism to have sort of this political bent that is run by the president and also by an organization that sort of oversees and runs everything or many, many platforms, digital

uh network you know it would be cnn hbo uh and you know paramount uh you know so i think obviously there's uh there are some hurdles um but i think it would be really really problematic i mean word inside cnn where i have a handful of friends there still i left

you know, more than 10 years ago, is that people are panicking.