Tucker Theories & CNN’s Trump Revival

Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, some well-informed analysis on the still-elusive explanation for Tucker’s ouster, and a CNN Trump town hall pregame report.
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Good evening, and welcome back to In The Room. Tonight, some well-informed analysis on the still-elusive explanation for Tucker’s ouster, and a CNN Trump town hall pregame report.

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Tucker Theories & CNN’s Trump Revival

News and notes on the latest comings and goings in the land of cable news: suspicions regarding the trending explanations for Tucker Carlson’s ouster, and all the internal feels about CNN’s Trump town hall.

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In the nine days since Tucker Carlson’s expulsion from Fox, there have been a litany of rationales and hypotheses put forth to explain why Rupert Murdoch abruptly cut ties with his most powerful and highly rated host, exposing the business to MAGA-world blowback, tanking the Fox News primetime ratings, blowing up the Fox Nation streaming service, and leaving himself on the hook for about $20 million in salary payments in the process. To date, however, none of the explanations have been wholly satisfying...

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