CNN anchor Erin Burnett’s face dropped live on the air Monday night after she was informed that Iran and Israel agreed to a ceasefire.
Burnett, reporting on the conflict live from the United Arab Emirates, adamantly denied reports of a ceasefire at the start of her show Erin Burnett OutFront.
But her coverage was challenged when Political and Global Affairs analyst Barack Ravid appeared on the program to provide an update about the conflict.
Ravid, citing President Donald Trump, revealed the two countries had reached a ceasefire agreement that was brokered by the US and Qatar.
He said Tehran contacted the White House, through Qatari officials, after bombing the US military base in Al Udeid to say they would not take any further action.
The US, which dropped missiles on three key Iranian nuclear sites Sunday, responded by offering the opportunity to talk and negotiate a deal, Ravid explained.
‘In the hours since then, there were talks between the US and Israel and Qatar and Iran to tie the final knots and agree on the final conditions of this ceasefire,’ he said.
Burnett, however, refused to admit defeat and, sporting a grimace on her face, dismissed Ravid’s ‘very significant developments’ and instead referred to reporting by her colleague Fred Pleitgen where ‘explosions’ were heard in Tehran.
CNN anchor Erin Burnett’s face dropped live on the air after she was informed that Iran and Israel agreed to a ceasefire after adamantly denying that a deal had been brokered
A plume of smoke billows over a building in Tehran after Israeli strikes on Monday
Ravid, during his appearance on Burnett’s show, revealed that the US and Qatar had been in ‘close touch before US entered this war’.
He revealed officials from both countries met one day before the war started to discuss ‘possibility of the US joining this war’.
Those conversations ‘continued all along the last three days and today when after the Iranian attack on the Al Udeid base’, he added.
‘This ceasefire has been mediated and, according to President Trump, also achieved through mediation of Qatar and the United States,’ Ravid told Burnett, who displayed a deadpan expression.
‘Iranian officials sent the message to the White House through the Qataris saying “we’re done. This is our response, we’re not going to do anything further.”
‘The White House sent the message back through the Qataris: “We are not, if you are done, we are not going to retaliate and we want to talk. We want now to get a deal.”
‘In the hours since then, there were talks between the US and Israel and Qatar and Iran to tie the final knots and agree on the final conditions of this ceasefire,’ he said.
IRGC fires missiles at the US Al-Udeid base in Qatar on Monday
A residential site is damaged, following a missile attack from Iran on Israel, in Be’er Sheva, Israel on Tuesday
Burnett’s face dropped in apparent disappointment, before she quickly redirected the conversation.
‘Alright, and obviously all very significant developments,’ she said, directing her remarks at her colleague International correspondent Paula Hancocks, who joined Burnett for the live shot in the UAE.
She added: ‘Paula, of course, all happening, as Barack is laying out, over several hours. We have not yet heard from the Israelis or the Iranians, literally what we are hearing actually is explosions in Tehran right now that Fred is reporting.’
President Trump unleashed on CNN, MSNBC and several other TV networks Tuesday morning for suggesting the US strikes on three Iranian nuclear sites didn’t kill Tehran’s nuclear program.
‘I think it has been completely demolished,’ Trump said, speaking to reporters outside the White House early Tuesday morning as he departed for the NATO Summit in the Hague. He added the pilots did an ‘unbelievable job.’
‘And you know the fake news, CNN in particular, they’re trying to say, “Well, I agree that it was destroyed but maybe not that destroyed.” You know what they’re doing? They’re really hurting great pilots that put their lives on the line,’ Trump said.
‘CNN is scum and so is MSDNC … and frankly the networks aren’t much better,’ Trump continued.
‘That place is under rock. That place is demolished,’ the president said of the Iranian nuclear installment Fordow, the main target of Saturday’s strike.
President Donald Trump, speaking to reporters outside the White House early Tuesday morning as he departed for the NATO Summit, unleashed on ‘scum’ CNN and several other TV networks for their coverage on the Iran conflict
‘The B-2 pilots did their job. They did it better than anybody could even imagine.’
‘It was dark with no moon and they hit their target with every one of those things and that place is gone,’ Trump continued. ‘But when I see CNN all night long, they’re trying to say, “maybe it wasn’t really as demolished as we thought.”
‘That place was gone,’ Trump insisted.
‘I think CNN ought to apologize to the pilots of the B-2s, I think MSDNC ought to apologize. I think these guys, these networks, cable networks, are real losers. They really are. They’re real losers.’
