Deny deny deny
Michael Smerconish, CNN don't need no stinkin' evidence!

During Michael Smerconish's 10/1 CNN program, Vanderbilt Professor Carol Swain alluded to Hillary Clinton's audio-taped laughing about having in 1975 helped a child-rapist.

Following a commercial break, Smerconish assured his audience that neither he nor CNN had knowledge that such a clip even existed. "I don't know anything about that story," Smerconish swore to viewers.

The disputed audio recording not only exists, but was last year posted on the worldwide internet by the Washington Free Beacon newspaper.

http://freebeacon.com/politics/the-hillary-tapes/

The clip's existence and content were, since its 2015 online publication, covered by the Washington Post (which featured the audio on its own site), ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, Daily Caller, the Hill, Daily Beast, and others. "Fact check" pages like Snopes, TruthOrFiction, and FactCheck confirmed that the audio existed. It was also featured in stories on NewsBusters, RadarOnline, InformationClearinghouse, Breitbart, Conservative Treehouse, and more.

Smerconish and CNN's 10/1 denial of the audio clip's very existence against all that evidence presents only two possibilities:

1) The host and news channel were on 10/1 sincerely unaware of a globally available audio clip detrimental to major party presidential candidate Hillary Clinton, a clip whose existence had for about a year previous been acknowledged by numerous internationally-visible news organizations and which is still easily locatable on the internet.

2) Michael Smerconish and CNN purposefully lied.

Not being stupid, I've selected choice #2.