What’s the Fate of Bro Cuomo at CNN?

BUCK: Chris Cuomo, the CNN host — not to be confused with the former and now disgraced governor of New York, Andrew Cuomo — has now been… Let me just make sure I get this one right. It’s tough to keep up with all of the various Cuomo scandals as they grow. I think it is important for everyone to remember, Governor Cuomo of New York was — for a long time, for many months — second only to Anthony Fauci himself when it comes to being sainted in the period of covid. Second only to Fauci.

CLAY: He got an Emmy, a special Emmy! They made up a special Emmy for him, Buck, and I think they took it back now, now that he’s had to resign.

BUCK: He got like a five… It ended up being all-in, like a $5 million book deal. Former presidents maybe get $5 million book deals and libs that the establishment and the elite apparatus want to reward for what they have done. But here we have CNN saying they’re gonna conduct a “thorough review of documents” showing Chris Cuomo — here we go — “trying to advise his brother during the sexual harassment scandal as it was unfolding.”

And the new information says that they may have even had Chris Cuomo try to find out background on the accusers of his brother. So that is interesting because it starts to raise a question: Was the plan here to smear the accusers, perhaps, to undermine their credibility? That doesn’t feel very #MeToo for CNN, does it? That doesn’t feel like “all women should be believed,” all these phrases that if you ever watch CNN — which, unfortunately, I have done, but I do it so all of you don’t have to — you would say to yourself, “That doesn’t feel like what the mission statement is over there,” Clay.

CLAY: Well, and I think the bigger picture here is what’s CNN going to do? They are floundering. Every single week their viewership declines even more. They needed Trump far more, it turns out, than Fox News needed Trump. They basically built their entire network as an anti-Trump apparatus. So now… Look, I don’t begrudge Chris Cuomo for standing up for his own brother. I’ve got three boys. You’ve got a couple of brothers. I would hope that my kids would watch out for each other more so than they would worry about how people are going to respond to them.

BUCK: I’d bend and even break some rules to defend my brothers, no question about it.

CLAY: I would hope that my boys would do the same in the years ahead. But that’s different than what CNN should do in response to this — and, by the way, CNN’s got new owners, and they don’t seem very of those or confident in the woke universe that they’ve created because the market’s not responding to it. So I know this is inside baseball for some people, but I do think it’s a significant question.

If CNN is going to hold itself to the same standard that it claims to hold politicians to, there’s no way Chris Cuomo can stay employed at the network. It would be impossible for him to maintain his job based on the standard they have set for politicians and the coverage of those politicians.

BUCK: Do you think he goes, Clay? You’ve been pretty good at declaring the fate of The Brothers Cuomo up to this point.

CLAY: I think that he will end up leaving. I do. I think he’s pivoting out of being woke right now in a way that’s trying to preserve himself for a new destination. I think he’s gonna be gone.

BUCK: Let’s see. Bro Cuomo, what is his fate?