“Protected” CNN Producer Accused Of Sexual Misconduct In Latest Undercover Veritas Video

In their latest installment of undercover footage from behind the scenes at CNN, Project Veritas insider Cary Poarch recorded Senior Producer Rick Saleeby accusing supervisor Steve Brusk of sexual misconduct.

When speaking about CNN Politics Supervising Producer and White House Unit Supervising Producer/Coverage Manager, Steve Brusk, ‘The Lead with Jake Tapper’ Senior Producer Rick Saleeby said: “…he would like make advances if there was a social gathering and they were drunk… Put his arms around them, try and touch their leg. Try and build up emails to the level where he would get flirty and inappropriate.” –Project Veritas

BREAKING: “He(@stevebruskCNN) would make advances if there was a social gathering and they were drunk…put his arm around them, try and touch their leg…build up emails to the level where he would get flirty and inappropriate” – Rick Saleeby, Senior Producer @CNN#MeTooCNN pic.twitter.com/QDJL9cFBlE

— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) October 22, 2019

Saleeby goes on to describe how he had to rescue a 21-year-old woman from a lecherous Brusk during a party for a co-worker.

“So, like, there is this girl that was twenty-one. She’s actually a good friend of mine. She had just gotten hired after being an intern…And she was getting…There was a going away party for a co-worker. We were all having a really good time…She was very well liked. We were getting drunk. He started like staying close to her…Arm around her.”

Saleeby went on to describe the scene with more details: “She had a skirt on. I could see the hand. I like grab her. It looked like I was being the assaulter because I grabbed her so aggressive…To keep her from him. Like go around her and go Come over here and looked at him because I could flatten him…It was like…I wouldn’t do it because then I would be the one who got fired…He would have absolutely been like ‘get in a cab with me later.’”

Saleeby states that he found out later that there had allegedly been prior accusations against Brusk: “Because she was drunk. He had his arm around her. And in the setting like any other time ever, they barely speak…But he was like, trying to like, touch her thigh…He had already been accused of the things prior…Which I found out…Which I found out later.”

Saleeby then suggests that Brusk would have been fired in today’s “Me-Too” climate where “People are afraid to do shit.”

“I mean he has been at CNN for like twenty years…People have gotten away with a lot of sh*t,” Saleeby added.

Another CNN employee suggested Brusk rewarded sexual favors

Saleeby, meanwhile, says that Brusk is “protected by certain people.”

 

Nick Neville, CNN’s Media Coordinator, said “I will just say this, because this is open knowledge, it’s not like a Me Too thing, but there was this other girl who was like an NA (News Assistant), I feel like we basically had the same level of experience…And a job just kind of like appeared out of nowhere…And it was never posted online, and this girl always worked pretty closely with Steve, like all of us on the desk would help Steve out with stuff…But this other girl works pretty closely with him and he would email her, I mean, he emails all of us, but he would email and was very friendly to her. And then she just like got a job like working on his team and she was like, oh it’s hush-hush. The job was never posted anywhere. I was like, what is it?…I just thought it was a little strange…Was there an agreement? What happened there?…Like I’m saying, that’s open knowledge, but it just kind of like goes along with what he said.”

Watch the whole video here: