CNN Morning Team Destroys CEO’s Assassin Hotline ‘Privilege’: ‘They Can Hire Their Own Security!’ » via @mediaite pic.twitter.com/LsUXYZw7Tm

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CNN’s morning team ripped into the ‘privilege’ of setting up a CEO hotline amid the murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO. Brian Thompson while ordinary people do not enjoy such consideration.

Luigi Mangione was arrested last Monday for the murder after a frenzied manhunt in the middle of macabre party of crime and a wave of fury from masses of critics of the health insurance industry.

Governor of New York Kathy Hochul (D-NY) hosts security summit and CNN anchor Kasie Hunt reports that the state “may establish a special hotline just for CEOs.”

Thursday edition of CNN this morningHunt asked CNN senior political analyst Mark Preston on the political debate which was “relegated” to the day after the assassination. But Preston focused on the hotline, applauding him while wondering, “What about all the other people in New York?”

Analyst Meghan Hays noted that CEOs can hire their own security, and Hunt called this the “privilege of the elite”:

KASIE HUNT: Mark Preston. I mean, I think that’s the root of the problem, right? The idea that we, as a politician, as a nation, should not conduct our political debates through violence. And while it’s clear that Americans are very unhappy with the health care system, to the point where members of Congress are going to say, well, we need to change that because of the violence, it’s a pretty dangerous place.

MARK PRESTON: A dangerous place. And I’m just going to overuse that word. So forgive me, but this is absurd. It’s absurd that we’re at this point where there’s so much anger right now that people are just directing it and supporting it without really knowing what the consequences are.

You know, what’s also absurd is the governor. God bless her for having a hotline for CEOs. But I have to tell you what about all the other people in New York who are facing horrible crimes every day, you know, and they can’t get any help and the police don’t have enough money to do it. monitor the streets? Let’s make sure these CEOs are taken care of.

MEGHAN HAYS: But these CEOs and these companies can also hire security guards. I traveled with the CEO all over the world. We had private security. The fact that he did not benefit from security is therefore also worrying on several levels.

This is by no means to say that this is justified, but it is – they don’t need a direct line to the police! They can engage their own security and work with their various protection units within the police department.

KASIE HUNT: Yeah. I mean, in a way, that’s what it is – this elite privilege –.

MARK PRESTON: That’s right.

KASIE HUNT: – a lot of the problem lies in what drives populism in our politics today.

MARK PRESTON: 1,000%! 1,000%!

KASIE HUNT: And even now, we’re seeing the backpack maker getting threats against the CEO of Peak Design because he helped identify the shooter.

MARK PRESTON: Why are McDonald’s employees why are people threatening them? I mean, they did something right, but yet we want to castigate them for it and threaten them for doing the right thing? It’s crazy.

Watch above via CNN this morning.