Tapper Rips CBS Owner for ‘60 Minutes’ Shakeup Amid Trump Pressure: ‘Hope the Money’s Worth It, Shari’

EXCERPT:

TAPPER: “The White House is doing the same with wire services, its war against the Associated Press, and bringing in folks like this one from last Friday."

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REPORTER: "Photos have emerged of Senator Van Hollen sipping what appears to be margaritas with a Abrego Garcia down in El Salvador. Do you encourage other Democrats to fly down to El Salvador to meet with this illegal alien who‘s an accused wife beater?"

TRUMP: "I like this guy. See, this is -- this is the kind of a reporter we like. There aren‘t enough of them."

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TAPPER: "That person, of course, that was asking that question was asking about a lie. Senator Chris Van Hollen says that those margaritas were never touched. They were set up on the table by somebody working for the president of El Salvador to make a joke of this senator‘s meeting. Those margarita glasses were propaganda, and that‘s what that person asked about. And of course that‘s the kind of reporter that the president likes, because that question was not the question of a reporter. And that is the context of Shari Redstone‘s likely bending of the knee. Hope the money‘s worth it, Shari."

(Via Mediaite)