From Project Veritas undercover reporter:
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Project Veritas Undercover Journolist: So you believe the Russia thing is a little crazy right?
John Bonifield, CNN Producer: Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA is doing shit all the time, we're out there trying to manipulate governments
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JB: I haven't seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime
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JB: I know a lot of people don't like him and they'd like to see him get kicked out of office
PV: That's what it seems like they're pushing
JB: But that's a lot different than that he actually did something that can get him kicked out of office.
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PV: Then why is CNN constantly like "Russia this, Russia that?"
JB: Because it's ratings.
PV: Because it's ratings?
JB: Our ratings are incredible right now.
PV: Because of uh...
JB: Yea, so... my boss, I shouldn't say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he was like I just want you to know what we're up against here
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JB: Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords and the CEO of CNN [Jeff Zucker] said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we're done with it let's get back to Russia.
PV: The CEO?
JB: Yeah, so even the climate accords, so it's like okay, a day or so but we're moving back to Russia.
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PV: So I understand it's all ratings, right?
JB: It's a business, people are like the media has an ethical pffff...
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JB: But, all the nice __cut__esy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school, you're just like, that's adorable. That's adorable. This is a business. Especially cable news. Cable news isn't the New York Times, it's not even NBC Nightly News, I mean, NBC News still gets 20 million viewers a night. Cable news is getting a million. So, they got to do what they got to do to make their money.
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JB: I think there are a lot of liberal CNN viewers who want to see Trump really get scrutinized. And I think if we would have behaved that way with President Obama and scrutinized everything he was doing with as much scruting as we applied to Donald Trump, I think our viewers would have been turned off. I think they would have felt like we were attacking him, our viewers right now. And I'm not saying all our viewers are super liberals. I think there's just a lot of them and...
PV: So Trump is good for business you're saying?
JB: Trump is good for business right now.
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PV: But honestly, you think the whole Russia shit is just bullshit?
JB: Could be bullshit. I mean, it's mostly bullshit right now. Like, we don't have any giant proof. Then they say, well there's still an investigation going on. I don't know, if they were finding something we would know about it. The way these leaks happen, they would leak it. They'd leak. If it was something really good, it'd leak.
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JB: I just feel like they don't really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.
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