CNN defamation trial: Major General testifies he would've hired Zachary Young before on-air segment, not after

PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA – An Army major general testified Friday he would have hired U.S. Navy veteran Zachary Young, the plaintiff in a high-stakes defamation lawsuit against CNN, before the controversial network report involving him, but not after it aired, saying it made him "too risky."

Young alleges CNN smeared him in a November 2021 report that first aired on "The Lead with Jake Tapper," suggesting he illegally profited off desperate people trying to flee Afghanistan following the Biden administration's military withdrawal...