As one Twitter user argued, weekday afternoon CNN Newsroom host Brooke Baldwin is the daytime version of Don Lemon. While she’s promoted as a journalist, she’s no more than a pro-impeachment and pro-Resistance partisan who accepts most everything liberal guests tell her.

Such was the case on Tuesday when she lectured viewers about how raising questions about the Biden family or the whistleblower was tantamount to spreading conspiracy theories. And to back her up, she turned to none other than fired FBI official, proven liar, and CNN contributor Andrew McCabe.

The pillow-fluffing began immediately with this softball accompanied by the chryon “Presidency in Peril; Barr Goes on Reported World Tour to Fuel Trump Conspiracies” (click “expand”):

Let’s have conversation about all of this. Andrew McCabe is a CNN contributor and former FBI deputy director. Sir Andrew McCabe, a pleasure, sir. Welcome back.....Here’s my first question to you. You — you were one of “the” top officials who made sure the Russia investigation was opened. You were at the top levels. They're investigating you and your colleagues. Do you find Bill Barr's travels problematic? And in your decades with the agency, have you ever heard of anything like this?

McCabe obviously replied that he hadn’t, fretting about “why is [Barr] doing this all” when not only were “[t]he circumstances behind the opening of the Russia case....not a mystery” thanks to books and testimonies he and James Comey have completed, but “[t]hey were entirely validated by the special counsel investigation” that he deemed horrible for the President.

So, in the eyes of McCabe, they didn’t find the collusion that had been shoveled on the American people for two years, but it was still damning. But if that’s the case, then why doesn’t it appear as though the Mueller report’s findings serve as likely articles of impeachment?

Another hallmark of a softball interview by an allegedly objective journalist is when the interviewee praises the interviewer for question. Here’s one instance of that in which Baldwin lamented that “Trump’s conspiracies” were spreading worldwide (click “expand”):

BALDWIN: To — to add to your example, something we wondered also, is Bill Barr doing this for the sole purpose of pursuing Trump's conspiracies? Because it's just worth reminding everyone that this is the guy who wrote that, you know, unsolicited memo to the DOJ just last year saying that he thought the Mueller investigation was “fatally misconceived” and that was before nominated for the job? MCCABE: You know, that’s a great question, Brooke. It's not one we know the answer to, but I think it is undeniable that the attorney general's personal involvement in this investigation, his prioritization of it, which is indicated by his own travel, is entirely consistent with the President's obsession of undermining the root cause and the impact of the Russia investigation. So we don’t — we can't say right now exactly why the attorney general's doing what he's doing, but we do know what he's doing is entirely consistent with the President's goals.

After a pathetic question wondering if Barr should be recused from this impeachment inquiry, Baldwin boasted that the intelligence community’s Inspector General “debunked multiple conspiracy theories spread by this president and his allies and the right-wing media.”

That’s quite amusing considering all the conspiracy theory spoon-feeding CNN has engaged in against anyone not onboard with their anti-Trump agenda. What miserable, loathsome hacks.

But wait, there’s more! Here was Baldwin’s final question: “And we use this word “unprecedented” feels like on a daily basis. Tell us, Andy, seriously, how extraordinary is this?”

Once again, McCabe agreed with Baldwin’s premise:

It is, running out of words here as well, Brooke. It is truly extraordinary. The opinion or the statement that he released yesterday is remarkable for its candor and legal analysis to my estimation is bullet-proof and I would say it is — it is another act of courage by this intelligence community inspector general[.]

To illustrate for those still unsure, Baldwin gushed at McCabe’s analysis when the interview ended: “Yes. Your point being bullet-proof. Great insight. Andy McCabe, thank you so much. Good to have you on.” Yuck.

Earlier before McCabe, Baldwin boasted of how “[t]here is no evidence of wrongdoing by” Joe or Hunter Biden and that Barr’s oversight and investigation into why the cockamamie Trump-Russian probe began was no more than a fool’s errand, disguised as overseas travel “to persuade several foreign governments to help discredit the Mueller probe.”

“And we should also just note that the intelligence community IG’s office issued a sharp rebuke to conspiracy theories that it was, you know, spun by the President, spun by his allies that it's hearsay and that laws were changed over the last year to allow secondhand information to be used,” she added.

To see the relevant transcript from October 1's CNN Newsroom with Brooke Baldwin, click “expand.”