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Transcript of the video for those unable to watch (apologize in advance if there are any typos tried to do this quickly for those in the morning who will wake up and wonder wtf is going on)
PV Journalist: So you believe the russia thing is a little crazy right?
John Bonifield: Even if Russia was trying to swing an election, we try to swing their elections, our CIA is doing shit all the time, we’re out there trying to manipulate governments.
John Bonifield: I havn’t seen any good enough evidence to show that the President committed a crime.
John Bonifield: I know alot of people don’t like him and they’d like to see him get kicked out of office.
PV Journalist: That’s what it seems like they’re pushing.
John Bonifield: But that’s alot different than that he actually did something that can get him kicked out of office.
PV Journalist: Then why is CNN constantly like “Russia this, Russia that?”
John Bonifield: Because it’s ratings.
PV Journalist: Because it’s ratings?
John Bonifield: Our ratings are incredible right now.
PV Journalist: Because of…
John Bonifield: Yeah, so…my boss, I shouldn’t say this, my boss yesterday we were having a discussion about this dental shoot and he was like I just want you to know what we’re up against here.
John Bonifield: Just to give you some context, President Trump pulled out of the climate accords and for a day and a half we covered the climate accords.
John Bonifield: And the CEO of CNN said in our internal meeting, he said good job everybody covering the climate accords, but we’re done with it let’s get back to Russia.
PV Journalist: The CEO?
John Bonifield: Yeah, so even the climate accords, so it’s like okay, a day or so but we’re moving back to Russia.
PV Journalist: So I understand it’s all ratings, right?
John Bonifield: It’s a business, people are like the media has an ethical pffffft (dismissive sound).
John Bonifield: But, all the nice cutesy little ethics that used to get talked about in journalism school you’re just like, that’s adorable. That’s adorable. This is a business.
John Bonifield: Especially cable news. Cable news isn’t the New York Times, it’s not even NBC News. I mean, NBC News still gets 20 million viewers in a night. Cable news is getting a million.
John Bonifield: So, they got to do what they got to do to make their money.
John Bonifield: I think there are a lot of liberal CNN viewers who want to see Trump really get scrutinized. And I think if we would have behaved that way with President Obama and scrutinized everything that he was doing with as much scrutiny as we applied to Donald Trump, I think our viewers would have been turned off.
John Bonifield: I think they would have felt like we were attacking him, our viewers right now. And i’m not saying all our viewers are super liberals. I think there’s just a lot of them. And…
PV Journalist: So Trump is good for business you’re saying?
John Bonifield: Trump is good for business right now.
PV Journalist: But honestly, you think the whole Russia shit is just bullshit?
John Bonifield: Could be bullshit. I mean, it’s mostly bullshit right now. Like, we don’t have any giant proof. Then they say, well there’s still an investigation going on. I don’t know, if they were finding something we would know about it. The way these leaks happen, they would leak it. They’d leak. If it was something really good, it’d leak.
John Bonifield: I just feel like they don’t really have it but they want to keep digging. And so I think the President is probably right to say, like, look you are witch hunting me. You have no smoking gun, you have no real proof.
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