Hours before the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran was set to go into effect, CNN’s Erin Burnett took to her show OutFront Monday evening to get away ahead of her skies to deny the existence of the ceasefire agreement. And even after one of her CNN colleagues confirmed its existence and reported how it was achieved through mediation from an outside party, Burnett could be seen grimacing and still denied it was real.
Burnett kicked off her show by actively denying the ceasefire that was reported during the previous hour of CNN. Ignoring the fact that ceasefire announcements don’t typically signal the start of the ceasefire, and how the parties usually slug it out right until the bell rings, she leaned on senior international correspondent Fred Pleitgen, who was in Tehran, Iran, to suggest it wasn’t real:
[A]nd certainly right now, Erin, the Iranians saying that their retaliation is going to continue and that their retaliation, if anything, is going to become more intense.
Of course, one of the things that we heard is that the Iranians believe that they are in a conflict both with Israel and the United States, feeling that Israel has dragged the United States into a conflict directly with Iran -- Erin.
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