CNN anchor John Berman He wasted no time in causing a stir during his hosting duties news night On Monday, the show opened with a few harsh jabs at its cable news rivals, pointing the finger at the president-elect Donald Trump’s Secretary of Defense nominee, former Fox News host Pete Hegsethand MSNBC’s Morning Joe is hosting.

Since his nomination, Hegseth has been in the spotlight. reporting In 2017, he allegedly made a hush payment to a woman who accused him of sexual assault, a crime for which he was never charged and which he denied. Morning Joe’s Mika Brzezinski And Joe Scarborough He later came under fire from some liberals He announced that they met with Trump — the person they openly criticized on the campaign trail — to “restart communications” ahead of his tenure in the White House.

Berman took aim at both right-leaning and left-leaning network hosts in his opening remarks. HaberGececesi On Monday.

“Good evening. No Abby, I’m John Berman,” he began.

“You may know me from the cable morning show,” Berman joked. “Although he won’t soon have a secretary of defense who pays off a woman who accused him of sexual assault, or someone who sends two dispatches to Mar-a-Lago and talks like it’s the Yalta summit.”

Berman concluded his quick opening with a nod to CNN’s morning show: “I’m also hosting the morning show here on CNN, which starts in about 10 minutes, so let’s jump right into what America is talking about.”

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