CNN Had a Problem. Donald Trump Solved It

At 3:58 on a current Wednesday evening in Washington, CNN's biggest control room was for the most part unfilled yet for a modest bunch of makers slouched over control boards and, floating behind them, a short, barrel-molded, fretful looking man in a dim pinstriped suit and open white dress shirt: the leader of CNN Worldwide, Jeff Zucker.

Zucker had spent the greater part of the day squatted in a meeting room, preparing two grapples who might direct a CNN Town Hall on Obamacare that night. At this moment, however, his psyche was somewhere else. It was two minutes until broadcast appointment for "The Lead With Jake Tapper," and Tapper's highlighted visitor was the President Trump advisor and noted CNN foe Kellyanne Conway.

Conway's keep going meeting on CNN, about a month prior, had created firecrackers; she and Anderson Cooper spent almost 25 minutes contending about CNN's write about the mystery dossier of Trump's binds to Russia. (Conway: "I know CNN is feeling the warmth today, however I'm sufficiently charitable to come — " Cooper: "I think you all are feeling the warmth.") The strain amongst Conway and the system had since turned into a sort of B story in the bigger account of Trump's continuous war with CNN, which the president had taken to portraying as "fake news." because of calls for media outlets to blacklist her, Conway revealed to The Hollywood Reporter that she could "put my shoes and pantyhose back on and go on any show whenever." And yet, when the White House offered Conway for Tapper's Sunday morning television show, CNN declined, scrutinizing her validity.

Be that as it may, that was a couple days back.

"She looks sparkly to me," one of the makers said as Conway's face showed up on a bolster from the South Lawn of the White House. "Do they have powder out there?"

"Try not to stress over it," Zucker guaranteed him. "She looks fine."

The screen alongside Conway's highlighted a nearby shot of Tapper, beginning his show in the studio down the corridor. His opening line, a softly self-deploring reference to Trump's most recent howler — "President Trump says the media doesn't report psychological oppressor assaults. Hold up, I thought he watched a considerable measure of link news?" — conveyed a grin to Zucker's face. He was soon laughing and after that roaring with laughter as Tapper unspooled a couple of more jokes before presenting the headliner: "Going along with me now live from the White House, guide to the president, Kellyanne Conway."