As the debate wound down and the post-debate analysis got going, CNN’s Anderson Cooper went into disclosure mode. The network was criticized after the Democratic debate in Las Vegas for not properly disclosing that CNN political analyst James Carville (who was absent from analysis tonight) was also a “maxed-out” contributor to the Presidential campaign of Hillary Clinton. Here’s how Cooper introduced his 5-person panel tonight.
Turning now to David Gergen adviser of Presidents from Richard Nixon to Bill Clinton. As well as scholar, author and CNN contributor Bill Bennett is with us. Bennett served in the Reagan and Bush 41 administrations (introductions for Campbell Brown & Jeffrey Toobin) and Jamal Simmons president of new future communications. He worked in the Gore 2000 and Wesley Clark ’04 campaigns.