It was an iconic moment in the annals of the liberal media being called out to its face in real time over its transparent bias.
Kudos to Republican strategist Brad Todd for undertaking the unenviable task of tearing off fill-in host Jim Sciutto's fig leaf and exposing him as the liberal activist he is on today's CNN This Morning. Sciutto couldn't just ask questions and listen patiently to the answers. He head to debate Todd.
The issue was the Trump Justice Department's order to New York's Southern District attorney's office to withdraw without prejudice the indictment against New York Mayor Eric Adams.
Todd calmly explained that it's typical for a new administration to vacate U.S. Attorneys, and Sciutto wouldn't accept that:
SCIUTTO: No, it's not normal for them to resign in protest, a series of protests, right? Not just the New York Attorney assigned to the case, but then. the plan B, in effect, right? They go to the Office of Public Integrity and they say, no, we're not going to drop this case under pressure. That's not normal.
TODD: No, it is absolutely normal. Appointed U.S. Attorneys retire or resign or are fired --
SCIUTTO: It's not.
TODD: -- immediately after every presidential election.
SCIUTTO: They didn't do that after changing the administration. They did it in protest to this decision. I wonder, Jaime, what your view is.
TODD: But they know they're going to be fired.
Todd eventually had enough of Sciutto's partisan pestering, and put it to him:
SCIUTTO: It's a fact. It's just a fact. It's a fact. They resigned. Did you read the letter? Did you read the conservative New York Attorney's letter about this case?
TODD: Are you asking questions or are you on the panel?"
Touché!
Sciutto turned to former Biden campaign aide Hyma Moore. Said Sciutto snidely:
"Given that he [Todd] will not acknowledge the letter from the conservative New York Attorney explaining her reasons for leaving, what's your reaction to seeing this?"
Moore, predictably, was only too happy to take Sciutto's hint, branding the dropping of the indictment a "quid pro quo" in return for the mayor's cooperation on immigration enforcement.
Here's the transcript.
CNN This Morning
2/14/25
6:04 am ETJIM SCIUTTO: Brad, I wonder, you have a very conservative New York Attorney, long history in conservative causes, alleging a quid pro quo here. President Trump campaigned saying he wanted to end weaponization, politicization, of the Justice Department here.
So what's your reaction to seeing a case against a mayor dropped after it seems, he says, I'll work with you on immigration?
BRAD TODD: Well, I think the Department of Justice and the President had been talking about the fact that they thought Eric Adams had been targeted for his criticism of Joe Biden's immigration policies for quite some time.
And, you know, the departures at the Southern District of New York, the firings, this is normal. Every time a new president's elected, the U.S. Attorneys are removed from their jobs if they don't remove.
SCIUTTO: No, it's not normal for them to resign in protest, a series of protests, right? Not just the New York Aattorney assigned to the case, but then. the plan B, in effect, right? They go to the Office of Public Integrity and they say, no, we're not going to drop this case under pressure. That's not normal.
TODD: No, it is absolutely normal. Appointed U.S. Attorneys retire or resign or are fired --
SCIUTTO: It's not.
TODD: -- immediately after every presidential election.
SCIUTTO: They didn't do that after changing the administration. They did it in protest to this decision. I wonder, Jaime, what your view is.
TODD: But they know they're going to be fired.
SCIUTTO: I wonder, I wonder Hyma, what your view is -- It's a fact. It's just a fact. It's a fact. They resigned. Did you read the letter? Did you read the conservative New York Attorney's letter about this case?
TODD: Are you asking questions or are you on the panel? I mean, they retired because they --
SCIUTTO: I'm asking you -- I'm asking merely for a recognition of the facts here as opposed to a repetition of talking points.
TODD: Every time there's a change of administration, the U.S. attorneys turn over. They either resign or they are fired. That's the way it works. It's worked that way in every presidential administration since we've been alive. That's what's happened here.
SCIUTTO: Okay. Hyma, given that he will not acknowledge the letter from the conservative New York Attorney explaining her reasons for leaving, what's your reaction to seeing this?
