If you have any doubts about the basic dishonesty of CNN, consider how the channel not only broadcasts fake news but recycles it.
Remember that CNN "broke" the story about the "Russian Trump dossier" compiled by an ex-British intelligence agent for Hillary Clinton supporters. The document was opposition research against then-candidate Donald Trump, now President.
Despite the lack of any corroboration from any source, including hostile anti-Trump media or the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC), after several months of secret efforts, CNN is now claiming in a February 10 story that its U.S. intelligence and investigative sources say that "some aspects" of the 35-page dossier "for the first time" have been "corroborated."