EXCERPT:
CAMEROTA: “Brian, I remember in the hours right after this happened that --"
STELTER: "Yeah."
CAMEROTA: "-- that CNN -- that our bosses, were advising to pump the brakes a little bit because there were things already that didn’t add up. I was frankly surprised how many people jumped on board to side with Jussie Smollett before there were photos, before there were police statements, before all that stuff. And so, how do you think this all — what was the trajectory of how this went wrong?”
STELTER: “Yeah, the headline was so sensational and so disturbing. It first came out on TMZ, not only that Smollett said he'd been attacked, but the attacker said this is MAGA country. Obviously Chicago at 2:00 in the morning is not MAGA country, so that didn't make sense in the first place.”