Viewers tuning into CNN on a chilly morning in December 2017 might have been puzzled when a treacly corporate promotion interrupted the network's wall-to-wall news coverage of the Trump administration.

Between segments on President Donald Trump's tax plan, which would be signed into law four days later, and a blackout at Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport that grounded more than four hundred flights, New Day anchor Chris Cuomo—his smiling face appearing above a banner that blared "‘WeWork' Helps Veteran's Vision Come True"—lauded the real-estate company for "doing the right thing" even when it didn’t "have to."

The anchor, who was fired in 2021 amid a damning investigation into his months-long efforts to help his brother, the former New York governor Andrew Cuomo, shake allegations of sexual harassment and save his political career, went on to extol a WeWork program intended to help veterans by offering them mentorship and free office space.

"That's awesome," cohost Alisyn Camerota gushed. The former New Day anchor had decamped to CNN in 2014 after a decade and a half at Fox News, a notoriously inhospitable environment for women.