Chris Cuomo rips CNN over report on Iran strike intel: Trying too hard to compete with these pod bros

Chris Cuomo ripped into his former network CNN on Wednesday, accusing it of leaning into partisan theatrics as it feuds with President Trump over a report questioning the effectiveness of US airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.Cuomo’s criticism came during his NewsNation show “Cuomo,” where he hosted Bill O’Reilly to discuss fallout from a leaked intelligence assessment suggesting the recent strikes likely delayed Iran’s nuclear ambitions by months — not years, as US officials had claimed.“I think that [CNN is] trying too hard to compete with these pod bros and people who sell hysteria for profit,” Cuomo said on his show.“We just too often get caught up in the propaganda game.”Trump blasted the media coverage, labeling it “fake news,” while Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also dismissed the reports during a Thursday press conference.“Iran’s nuclear sites were obliterated,” Hegseth said, adding that initial intelligence is “almost always wrong, almost always incomplete.”O’Reilly told Cuomo that CNN was deliberately downplaying the impact of the strikes.“There’s nobody who went under the mountain to see.

The Iranians can’t even do that because the mountain may collapse on them,” he said.“There’s absolutely no primary source reporting on the damage that the American planes caused.None.

So you got four anonymous people saying, ‘Well, I might have heard this, I might have heard that.’”The former Fox News host slammed the network’s editorial judgment, calling it part of a broader decline in journalism.“It’s absurd.No competent journalistic editor would have printed that article, but since CNN is in business to make Trump look bad, as you said, every moment of every day, they throw it out there,” O’Reilly said.“I think we all know that the journalism industry in America and the world is at the lowest point in the history of that industry.”Cuomo agreed with the broader media critique, suggesting...