Robert Gehl reports CNN President Jeff Zucker is whining that President Trump is trying to “bully” the network, but also states that he won’t be “intimidated.”

“My job is to remind everyone that they need to stay focused doing their job,” Zucker said. “He’s trying to bully us, and we’re not going to let him intimidate us. You can’t lose your confidence and let that change the way you conduct yourselves.”

When asked why he thinks that his network is specifically being targeted, he didn’t admit to the barrage of false stories and angry leftist tirades by his employees against the President.

No – Zucker said that unlike Fox News and MSNBC, his viewers aren’t ideologically tied to one side or the other, so they can be “swayed.”

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“Television is his preferred medium,” Zucker said. “And he knows our viewers can be swayed because they’re not watching Fox or MSNBC” — networks with an ideological bent in prime time.”

The interview came after Trump tweeted a video showing him tackling and punching the CNN logo.

The network was then engulfed in its own controversy when it was revealed that the network allegedly bullied the maker of the video to apologize or they would reveal his identity.

Meanwhile, as Zucker is complaining that Trump is trying to “bully” him, The Daily Caller is reporting that the President will oppose a planned merger between CNN’s parent company Time Warner and AT&T unless Zucker is fired.

“White House advisers have discussed” the merger as being a “potential point of leverage over their adversary” CNN. President Trump has been warring with CNN and has branded the cable news network “fraud news.”

TimeWarner shareholders approved the $85.4 billion merger earlier this year – but Trump has opposed it saying it would consolidate too much power in the media industry.

So Zucker is whining that Trump is trying to bully his network and his reporters into submission. Meanwhile, the President wields the power of his office and apparently has the ability to thwart a much-needed merger between two struggling media giants.

Grab the popcorn. This is getting good.