CNN’s Harlow, Collins pay tribute to fired colleague Lemon

NEW YORK — CNN’s Poppy Harlow and Kaitlan Collins paid a short tribute Tuesday to their former “CNN This Morning” co-host, Don Lemon, who was fired from the community the day earlier than.

“We wish him the best,” Collins mentioned. The three anchors had been working collectively on the revamped morning present since final November.

Lemon’s firing got here after a collection of missteps that included his suggestion in February that Republican presidential contender Nikki Haley was previous her “prime.” He received into an onscreen argument final week with one other GOP candidate, Vivek Ramaswamy, over their interpretation of racial historical past.

Those are sore spots at CNN, the place community head Chris Licht has been making an attempt to get Republicans to put aside their suspicion of the community and seem for interviews.

Lemon was fired after anchoring the present on Monday. He criticized community administration for not breaking the information to him in individual, however CNN disputed that in a dueling tweet.

Harlow addressed the absence on Tuesday by studying an announcement from Licht about Lemon. She mentioned Lemon was her first pal at CNN when she joined the community 15 years in the past.