CNN host Fareed Zakaria said on Nov. 7 that he had been set to interview Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky before news about the Ukrainian’s call with President Donald Trump broke.
The New York Times reported on Nov. 7 that Zelensky had planned to announce an investigation into Trump’s political rivals during a September interview on CNN, but those plans had been scrapped once Trump released promised security aid. Zakaria told CNN’s Brooke Baldwin on Thursday that the interview had been months in the making, but it fell apart when the Ukraine scandal began to unfold — though CNN did not cancel it.
