CNN defamation trial: Editor insists invoking 'black market' was accurate despite network's apology for report

PANAMA CITY, FLORIDA – Longtime CNN journalist Fuzz Hogan remained defiant as the controversial report at the center of a high-stakes defamation trial was scrutinized by lawyers of the plaintiff, Zachary Young. 

Young, a U.S. Navy veteran, 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, implying he was...