Whenever CNN goes off about President Donald Trump having conflicts of interest, just remember CNN’s inaction regarding their own conflicts. Wednesday’s CNN Right Now featured a gooey interview with longtime Obama confidant Valerie Jarrett and, as par for the course, failed to note how she’s the mother of supposedly objective CNN Justice reporter Laura Jarrett.

On May 5, 2018, NewsBusters wrote that Jarrett had “given seven interviews and, according to the CNN transcript, Laura’s name never came up.” Since then, she’s done an additional seven interview segments and her personal connection to CNN came up only twice (with one of them being Valerie disclosing it herself). So, two for 14 isn’t a great ratio, Jeffrey Zucker!

As for Wednesday, host Brianna Keilar teed up Jarrett under the auspices of 2012 GOP presidential candidate and Senator Mitt Romney (R-UT) voting against a federal district judge who had previously slammed Barack Obama as an “un-American imposter.” The friendliness was clear from the start (click “expand”):

KEILAR: We have Valerie Jarrett with us now. She was, of course, senior adviser to President Obama. She's out now with a new autobiography titled Finding My Voice. Thanks for coming into the studio to talk to us. JARRETT: It's a delight to be with you here, Brianna. KEILAR: When you saw that Michael Truncale had been confirmed, what did you think? JARRETT: Well, I wasn't surprised. I mean, I think it's just par for the course. I was heartened to see Senator Romney speak up and be principled and say, do we really want our judicial full of people who are clearly impartial? KEILAR: But he was the only one. JARRETT: I know. That's what we've been seeing these days and it's disappointing, because something like that, you would think that they would rally and say, this isn't someone who reflects the values of our country and while would you speak so disparaging of a former president who was so well-respected.

The pair then spent a few minutes discussing the 2020 Democratic presidential primary, any advice she’s offered to candidates, and how much the massive field should criticize each other. But things then pivoted to Jarrett’s book, which Jarrett even thanked Keilar for wanting to discuss

Keilar praised the book as “getting some pretty good reviews, I will say, because it's got in it what a lot of people want, which is they want someone to pull back the curtain” even though, as NewsBusters reported, has had some problems, ranging from its sales to being panned in the liberal Washington Post.

Keilar then lobbed this loaded softball (click “expand”):

KEILAR: [A]nd you have a lot of instances where you're really telling people sort of what happened. They're going to find out some things from your perspective they otherwise would not have known about the Obama White House. At the same time, we learn about you. We learn that you were shy and that's part of where the title — JARRETT: Painfully shy. KEILAR: — painfully shy — part of where the title comes from, the idea of finding your voice. But what do you — what do want people to take away in general from your book?

Keilar concluded by flaunting how a career change led to Jarrett meeting future First Lady Michelle Obama in 1991 (the then-Michelle Robinson) and the rest being history, but not before another easy question: “You were miserable at one point in law. And so what — but where did you go from miserable to I — I have to turn this completely on its head. What was the thing that made you do that?”

In other words, it must be nice to be a liberal at CNN.

To see the relevant transcript from May 15's CNN Right Now, click “expand.”