The co-hosts “have been struggling to gel, partly as a result of that they had practiced so little collectively,” Tim Alberta, who spent months with Licht and spoke with a number of staffers, wrote through The Atlantic in a narrative printed this week.
“Licht had created this trio, created this new present, in hopes of injecting some taste into CNN’s lineup. He thought partnering Lemon, the opinionated, homosexual, Black southerner, with a pair of hard-hitting feminine information reporters might be the ‘enjoyable’ viewers wanted. However Licht, I sensed, was not having enjoyable,” Alberta famous.
Drama boiled over in February when Lemon commented that 2024 hopeful Nikki Haley “is not in her prime,” a comment for which he later apologized each publicly and privately.