Why is CNN giving air time...

[dajoki]

to bannon, this is nonsense, just like the free air time during the campaign?

[dameatball]

1. I totally agree. Bannon, Rove and Gingrich need to go out in the woods and live in a tent...

….they can impress each other with their tales of getting fired around the campfire.

[HopeAgain]

2. Because all cable news sucks

CNN, MSNBC are no exception. They bring on any name that people might recognize hoping that person will say something that they can run as if it is, in itself, news. "Former Chief Strategist to Trump said "yadda yadda."

Ratings, it's all about ratings.

[treestar]

3. Normalizing

Those who should be on the fringes

[BigmanPigman]

4. I saw him and almost didn't recognize him.

He was clean shaven, no gin blossom nose, and not wearing 12 layers of clothes. As soon as he opened his mouth I knew who he was.

I actually think that showing him should be a warning sign to Americans that even though the BIG players are "out of eye" they are still there doing what they do best (create havoc). In Bannon's case, a populist planet. That is what he went to Italy for and why he wanted to speak with him on this issue.

[Hoyt]

5. Don't believe in hiding ignorant white wing racists. Let em talk.

They just display their stupidity and hatred.

Question is, are enough people opposed to it?

[JHB]

6. Eyeballs, and the belief he will draw them.

Viewers don't pay them, advertisers do.

[triron]

7. And Ari Melber had Scaramucci on! I turned it off.

WTF?

[MuseRider]

8. We won't be watching

for the same reasons stated in the other responses.

Fareed Zakaria seems like a nice enough guy but he always figures out a way to let them get away with what they want to say. I have not been able to watch him since Trump lobed all those bombs at that airport and Zakaria thought that made him presidential.