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I did shiver down my spine over the weekend when I read that Mark Thompson is being considered [music]
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as kind of the manager they need to come in for CBS News. And I'm like, what? The
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Ellisons own CNN? It hasn't fully dawned on me. >> CNN thing, I well, you know [music] my feelings on
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that. I mean, I'm I'm leaving them as soon as I can. >> So, you're out. You're out of CNN.
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>> Yes. Yes. Let me try to outline it. I don't want to work for the Ellisons, and
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I don't want to work for their hand-picked minions cuz I think they're incompetent. That is what I said over
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and over again. And I love working with the people at CNN. I I very much like Mark Thompson, and I hope they put him
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in charge. >> Yeah, I can tell. Smart guy. >> I should offer me if they feel like it.
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>> There's lots of other options, [music] and I'm on under contract with them until the end of the year, and I'm
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hoping they'll let me out early. >> Pull a Lesley Stahl. Demand to stay because you'll protect CNN from this
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evil. >> I left Murdoch, too. It's not This is not a new [clears throat] fresh thing
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for Kara Swisher to flounce out. Do better. >> I just want everyone to know I'm absolutely a [ __ ] An expensive [ __ ]
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so Ellisons, you have my number.