Chris Cuomo: interviewing brother on CNN was conflict of interest ‘all day long’

nypost.com:

who was fired from CNN over his role in advising his older brother throughout a slew of sexual misconduct scandals — signaled that he did the series of fluffy TV chats on his 9 p.m.

show at the behest of his former boss, Jeff Zucker.“This idea that Chris Cuomo had no boss, Chris Cuomo did as he liked when he liked how he liked — these are people who don’t know our business,” Cuomo said in an interview with podcast “On with Kara Swisher.” “Did I think that they should be considered a conflict of interest?

Ab initio, inherently all day long,” he continued. “But there was complete transparency. You knew it was my brother.”“When Jeff decided to have Andrew on, I believe it was the right call because the country was desperate and starved for comfort,” Cuomo added.

While Cuomo threw softball questions at his brother on the air, it came to light that Cuomo also secretly had been helping the ex-governor mount a media offensive, forcing the anchor to issue an apology for breaching the network’s journalistic standards. “I apologized … because I was told by my bosses that people at work felt that I had compromised their ability to do their job,” he said. “I did not feel that.