CNN Morning Crew Trashes ‘Privilege’ Of CEO Anti-Assassin Hotline: ‘They Can Hire Their Own Security!’

Tommy ChristopherDec 16th, 2024, 8:14 am
 

CNN’s morning crew ripped the “privilege” of setting up a CEO hotline amid the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson while ordinary people get no such consideration.

Luigi Mangione was arrested last Monday for the murder after a frantic manhunt amid the ghoulish celebration of the crime and a groundswell of fury from masses of health insurance industry critics.

New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s (D-NY) office is convening a safety summit, and CNN anchor Kasie Hunt reports that the state “may set up a special hotline just for CEOs.”

On Monday’s edition of CNN This Morning, Hunt asked CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston about the policy debate that has been “shoehorned” into the assassination’s aftermath. But Preston zeroed in on the hotline, applauding it while wondering, “What about all the other folks in New York?”

Analyst Meghan Hays noted the CEOs can hire their own security, and Hunt called it “privileging of elite”:

KASIE HUNT: Mark Preston. I mean, I do think that this is the root of this, right? The idea that we as a political we as a nation should not be having our political debates through violence. And while clearly Americans are very upset about the health care system, to the extent that members of Congress are going to say, well, we’ve got to change this because of violence, it’s kind of a dangerous place to be.

MARK PRESTON: A dangerous place to be. And I’m just going to overuse this word. So forgive me, but it’s absurd. It’s absurd that we’re at this point where there’s so much anger right now that people are just directing it and supporting it without really knowing quite what the consequences are.

You know what else is absurd, too, is the governor. God bless her for having a hotline for CEOs. But I got to tell you what what about all the other folks in New York City who are facing like awful crime every single day, you know, and they can’t get any help and the police don’t have enough money to to to police the streets? Let’s make sure those CEOs are taken care of.

MEGHAN HAYS: But also these CEOs and these corporations can hire security. I traveled with the CEO all over the world. We had private security. So the fact that he didn’t have security is also worrisome on a lot of levels.

That does not I’m not by any way saying this is justified, but it’s– they do not need a hotline to the police! They can hire their own security and work with their their different protective units in the police department.

KASIE HUNT: Yeah. I mean, in some ways it is this– that privileging of elite–.

MARK PRESTON: Right.

KASIE HUNT: –problem is a lot of what is driving the populism in our politics today.

MARK PRESTON: 1,000%! 1,000%!

KASIE HUNT: And even now we’re just seeing this like the backpack maker is getting threats for– the CEO of of Peak Design because they helped identify the shooter.

MARK PRESTON: Why did the McDonald’s workers why are people threatening them? I mean, they did something that was right, but yet we want to, like, castigate them for it and threaten them for doing the right thing? It’s crazy.

Watch above via CNN This Morning.

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