Project Veritas founder James O'Keefe joins 'Hannity' with insight into leaked tapes featuring CNN president Jeff Zucker.
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Breaking tonight
explosive new recordings from
inside fake news, CNN being
released by Project VERITAS,
exposing fake news frauds like
network chief Jeff Zucker like
never before
now. Earlier this morning,
Project VERITAS Founder, CEO,
James Okeefe, he called into
Cnns morning editorial call
and well, you would say,
Humpty Dumptys Boss, Mr Potato
head didnt know what was
coming.
Take a look,
hey, Jeff Zucker! Are you
there
hey? This is James Okeefe,
with the listening to your CNN
calls for basically two months.
Recording everything
just wanted to ask you to some
questions. If you have a minute,
do you still feel youre the
most trusted name in news,
because I have to say from what
have been hearing on these phone
calls? I dont know about that.
Weve got a lot of recordings
that indicate youre, not really
that independent of a journalist
journalist.
Thank you for thank you
for your comments.
In light of that, I think what we
will do is we will set up a new
system.
Project VERITAS
tonight released the first
installment of these recordings
and first up we have a CNN field
producer and sucker talking
about covering the presidents
decision to not yet can see. The
suggesting CNN should frame the
story by invoking the nine slash eleven
terror attacks.
We always let you decide Heres
the video,
the nine Slash eleven report talks about.
One of the problems was that the
trouble that was brewing got
lost during the transition. So
if you want a concrete example
of what happens when you dont
have a good transition, look at
the twin towers
yeah, so I think thats an
important point.
I think it was just a little bit
yesterday in terms of national
security. I think its really
important to raise again
now. Do you ever
remember fake news, CNN talking
about the national security
applications of the Obama
administration?
You know the deep state using
Hillarys dirty russian
misinformation dossier to spy on
candidate Trump
President Trump, his
administration, the biggest
abuse of power, corruption,
scandal in history.
No,
they are the ones that peddled
the conspiracy theories, the
russian disinformation dossier,
perpetuating years and years of
a Russia hoax.
What about those national
security concerns?
They are glaring in their bias
and their utter disgusting.
Hypocrisy couldnt be more
obvious and it gets worse
because next, up October
president Trump recovering from
a coronavirus Sacher is now
telling his staff. They need to
resist normalizing the president
and to not normalize what Zucker
calls desperate behavior.
Does this sound like objective
news to you?
I think we cannot normalize
what has happened here in the
last week with Trump in his
behavior, a president who knows
hes losing knows hes in
trouble.
He is sick,
maybe is on the aftereffects of
steroids or not, I dont know,
but he is acting erratically and
desperately and we need to we
need to. We need to not
normalize that
and Joe hiding. That
was normal.
Lastly, weeks ago, instructing
his staff to target
Senator Lindsey Graham saying
the network needed to go well
after Lindsey, Graham Post quote
target the guys we dont like
take a look
frankly, if weve made any
mistake its that our banners
have been too polite and we need
to go well after Lindsey. Graham,
there is a lot of news out there
and Lindsey. Graham really
deserves it.
Cnn responded
claiming that Okeefe may have
committed a felony, but didnt
offer any specifics or cite any
laws allegedly violated.
Now is the ceo, the founder of
Project VERITAS,
James Okeefe, is with us
all right. Every time youve
been sued. Has anyone done so
successfully?
No Sean? We won every single
lawsuit, a project, VERITAS, and I
know they said this is CNN
communications. Legal experts
say this may be a felony. We
have legal experts and we think
Jeff Zucker is just very mad and
embarrassed here for what we
have exposed.
So you are going to
be on this program all week and
we are going to release more
tapes per week, so we can focus
in on what youre going to
release every day.
Now they peddled this. Russia
live for three years over there.
They never apologized,
they never corrected their
record and they reported fake
him. A phony news, conspiracy
theories.
They have stockers of the
Fox NEWS Channel
and we are getting lectured by
them.
Is this a news organization to
you?
No Sean?
This is something that doesnt
shock people but confirms a lot
of his suspicions
to see the president of a media
conglomerate barking orders at
his reporters and journalists
telling them what to cover what
not to cover thats, not what
anything was in plain journalism.
I know
I run an organization with a few
dozen reporters.
They come to me with facts
im. Not they are not yessing
me. They are challenging me.
What Jeff Zucker is doing on
these phone calls. What the
story is telling them, what not
to cover varied. This is
propaganda, and I think when
citizens have to this is
manufacturing consent and would
never actually seen it fly on
the wall.
You can actually have the
president of the company
instruct his vice president
instruct his reporters with the
narrative up to be.
This is the farthest thing from
journalism that I know,
and I think that CNN owes an
apology to the people.
I mean this is disgraceful,
indiscernible,
indiscernible
everything Biden.
It looks like they have picked a
side,
they picked Joe Bidens side
all right. The way you do
things you have a lot more
coming.
How long did you record these
morning calls?
I told him this morning when
I live streamed the call a set
of been doing this for two
months and he was kind of
shell shocked by that
weve been recording for weeks
and weeks, Sean
its Christmas December 1st is
going to be, I guess, an advent
calendar
were going to be releasing
tapes every day and we have more
tapes tonight tomorrow and
its going to be. You know
this is a brave whistle, blower
insider who came to us with this
information Sean and we
encourage more people inside
media enterprises to blow the
whistle on corruption inside big.
Transcript generated on 2020-12-02.