Why did CBS News hire Mick Mulvaney? | Robert Reich

CBS News was once the home of legends like Edward R Murrow and Walter Cronkite. Why is it now hiring Trump conspirators and enablers?

CBS News has hired Mick Mulvaney as an on-air contributor.

You may recall that Mulvaney served as acting chief of staff under Trump and led Trump's Office of Management and Budget. But as I'll get to in a moment, Mulvaney wasn't just a high official in the Trump administration. He was an active enabler of Trump's deceit and attempted coup.

Robert Reich, a former US secretary of labor, is professor of public policy at the University of California at Berkeley and the author of Saving Capitalism: For the Many, Not the Few and The Common Good. His new book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It, is out now. He is a Guardian US columnist. His newsletter is at robertreich.substack.com