CBS Hypes ‘Presumptive President’ Hillary on Forbes ‘Powerful Women’ List

CBS Hypes ‘Presumptive President’ Hillary on Forbes ‘Powerful Women’ List (NewsBusters)

While ignoring the rolling release of her State Department e-mails, Tuesday’s CBS This Morning did find time to tout Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton making the number two spot on the annual Forbes magazine list of the world’s most powerful women.

Co-host Gayle King asked Forbes Media executive vice president Moira Forbes: “Hillary Clinton jumped from number six to number two, because she's running for office?” Forbes declared: “That's why she made the jump. She’s seen as obviously the very likely Democratic candidate but also possibly the presumptive president of the free world. And when you're seen as having that power in the future, it gives you that power today.”