CNN’s Brooke Baldwin took up her shift in the liberal media’s campaign to discredit Fox News’ bombshell report detailing the extent of the FBI’s investigation in Hillary Clinton, during Thursday’s CNN Newsroom’s three o’clock hour. “For the Clinton campaign, the headache is not going away here,” Baldwin whined, “Donald Trump wasted no time at a rally this afternoon bringing up the Clinton Foundation woes.” But that’s small potatoes compared to her panelist David Gergen who demanded that agents should be fired leaking to Fox News.
“Evan Perez and our justice correspondent crew in Washington essentially in talking to their sources within Justice saying that there is no talk of indictment, so that's number one,” she rambled, trying to use the Clinton campaign talking point of “there’s no case here.”
The CNN host then leaned on former presidential adviser David Gergen to slam the FBI for talking to Fox News, declaring, “The leaks have been horrendous…” He pleaded for the FBI and the Justice Department do something to put the boot on the neck of their agents:
It ought to be a firing offense if you're caught leaking because the leaks are conflicting, they’re confusing, they’re depressing, and they’re unfair to Mrs. Clinton among other things… But where is the leadership of the Justice Department and FBI to crack down on this? You really have to put people under pressure and say, “You leak, you're gone.”
Baldwin followed up Gergen by bemoaning Donald Trump’s use of the dreaded “"I" word, impeachment, impeachment, impeachment.” “Yes, and there's just no basis for that,” Gergen claimed.
Not long after Gergen smeared the FBI, Baldwin brought on CNN reporter Even Perez and implored him to “Set us all straight. Set, you know, the public straight.” “You know from the reporting we've been doing for a year now on this issue, we're not anywhere near close to that,” Perez obliged, “The FBI has been looking into this well over a year and we're told they haven't gotten much further than what the allegations were in [Clinton Cash].”
Gergen’s fixation with what he claims is “unfair” for Clinton was evidence of his biased in favor of Clinton, which is obvious since he used to work for her husband. But what about what’s unfair for voters going to the polls with incomplete information about who the candidates are?