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Erin Burnett

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  1. “Know what's funny? So, when I was at Moneyline working for Willow, I had mentioned Stuart Varney. He was there. I was thinking about, do I go back to business school or what do I do? You know, it wasn't, it wasn't love at first sight with the industry, okay? It wasn't love at first sight. I mean, I didn't dislike it, but I wasn't like this is, this is it I meant to do it. So I was thinking of business school and I remember saying, well, I want to be a producer. I want to do the production. And Stuart said to me, no, no, no, no, no. You don't want to do that. Trust me, you want to do what I do. And I kind of remembered him saying that, but when I went to Bloomberg, I don't think I knew what I was going to do. I did send a tape. It was a terrible tape. So I don't think anyone hired me because of that. But I went and I was a writer, which I had finished at CNN before I left. I was writing. And I did that for a while. And then I ended up, it was an opportunity.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “I wonder Yes, and so the school in my town went from sort of junior high all the way through high school. And idyllic town in many ways, but it wasn't really a college-oriented public school. So my parents felt that they had to make some choices. And at the time, there weren't a lot of options within driving distance. So I went away to Borney School. It wasn't far away. I'd say it was about an hour and a half away. You know, they could come to a lot of games and things on the weekends, but it was a boarding school.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “Okay, so my parents founded the school. The school is called the Salisbury School, and it now goes through high school. But when we started it, my graduating class had three kids in it. Do you want to say yes, three? Trying to think, was it three or was it 1.3 ben seven? It was very small, it was small.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “So I think maybe I did know, but I didn't know that I knew. You know what I'm saying? Like maybe my gut knew, but I hadn't thought about it in such an explicit way.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yes, that's very well said. I blundered into it. I mean, I will say when I was a kid, you know, you talk about how to talk show hosts. So growing up on a farm had a lot of benefits. One of the negatives was that I was very solitary as child. I love it. I loved it, but it was, but I was lonely. I didn't have friends that lived nearby. I didn't have a, you know, you couldn't go bike and see friends. And so my sisters, who are my very closest friends in life, but when we were children, it was a seven and ten year time age difference. So they were not there for part of my childhood because they were away at boarding school. So I spent a lot of time by myself and I would talk to myself a lot. I would, you know, pretend to be a teacher and, you know, whatever my dog and cat would have to be the pretend, you know, students and all that sort of thing.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “I think so, but I'll be honest with you to David, one thing that I realize now when I look at young people and how driven and motivated they are and thoughtful, you know, they think through so many things and career tracks and they do it so early. I did not do any of that. So, I feel I was so lucky in so many ways, I sort of went with my gut. You know, it sounded interesting. It sounded exciting. I wanted to do it. But I did not have a vision for where I was going to go or a sort of, okay, I'm going to do this and then this and then this. You know, the way I see so many young people now are so, so thoughtful about it. I did not. Come to it with that benefit of thinking.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  7. “It was a cold letter. Yes, it was an absolute cold letter. I joke about it as a stalker letter and I saved it. And then she and I were looking at it a few years ago and just sort of like laughing, you know, at such a thing. But yeah, that's sort of how it ended up happening. I wrote this letter because I had pulled an all-nighter for. I think it was the then Bristol Myers Squib drug company, and we were doing some sort of analysis on something, merger related. And I came home and my brother-in-law and sister said, hey, did you see this article about Willow Bay? Because you know who she is. And look, she's now doing moneyline. You know, you should write her a letter. And so I did. And then she actually responded.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  8. “No, no, I didn't. Well, you know what's funny, David? I'm still now one of my friends, mentors for a long time, but friends is Willow Bay, who's now the dean at Annenberg School at USC. And she, so I had always admired her. And I have, I told this story, but when I was a kid, because it was hard to get media, one of the things we would get the New York Times after church, my father did not go to church. My mother did. We'd pick up the New York Times on our way home. And at the time, Will Obey was the model for Estee Lauder. And so I would always see her picture. So I had known who she was. And then when I was working for Goldman Sachs, there was an article about her in the New York Times and how she was going to moneyline, which was CNN's business show that they were going to launch. Her and Stuart Barney, who's now at Fox Business.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  9. “Well, I think it actually sort of tied to all of the, you know, I joke about the foreign affairs magazine and the travel that we did as kids as well. I just was really interested in international things always. And I think I was curious about public service. I mean, my internships were sort of, I did something for the Forest Service one year and for a nonprofit one year. I had those interests. To be honest, I thought I wanted to go join the CIA. That's what I thought I wanted to do. But Williams at the time really encouraged sort of just a couple career tracks. One was investment banking and one was consulting. And then there was a smaller group that did pre-med and it kind of had to fit in one of those three boxes. So that's kind of where I went.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  10. “I must have been. I talked a lot. I don't know, but I do laugh about that. Sometimes realize your peers can know you really well.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  11. “I don't know. I'm still waiting on the talk show part of it, but no, I don't, I guess it must be. But you know, you get someone running my mouth. Yeah.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  12. “Yes, we were a very politically aware family, I would say for sure. One of the jokes always was the blue magazines at the bottom of my parents' bed, which were the foreign affairs magazines that sort of gather there. I don't know that he read as many of them as he perhaps wanted to, but they were certainly a part of. My psychological grounding was that awareness and being a part of that and watching the news every night, which for us was the McNeil Air News Hour at the time because where we lived, we did not have cable. So even now actually you can't get cable, you can get satellite, but not cable. So we didn't even have all of the three networks, to be honest. So yeah, we had CBS and we had PBS.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  13. “And the National Commission on Uniform State Laws, which sort of tries to focus on in a federalist system, having there be consistency across different states on crucial issues like alimony or other issues like that. So he did end up doing a lot of public service type work, even though he did not succeed in politics.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  14. “Yes, you know, a little bit, I think it was partially that. And it was also the civil rights movement at the time. And he wanted to. He wanted to be in public service and take action in that way. He had gone to college undergrad and law school at the University of Virginia and then had studied at NYU and done some work overseas. So I think he wanted to, it was a call to public service, which after he lost, he ended up replacing with other things he was very active. And I know you spent a lot of time in that part of the country, but very active with preserving the Chesapeake Bay.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  15. “Well, right, and it never got any easier. Yeah. So, but it was funny because in this farmhouse that we grew up in, we would have our dollhouses and our little kind of play area was up in the attic. So when you go up the attic stairs on the back of the door was his campaign poster. So I grew up always seeing that image of my dad. I always joke with hair at that time and then ended up with”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  16. “Did run for Congress and he lost. Then he stayed and they stayed and they bought a farm. And he ends up doing a lot of interesting kind of pro bono work and things like that. And he was a lawyer. And they built this life together. And they actually founded a school, sort of a Montessori-style school. And that's where we all ended up going to school. And it kind of grew over the years, and it's still there. And so, in so many ways, it was an idyllic childhood, but it was an unexpected one in terms of how it came about and how they ended up choosing to live there. And, you know, I guess ultimately when he lost that race that they decided to stay and build that life together. So we all ended up growing up on a farm on the eastern shore of Maryland.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  17. “Tell me about Well, you know, it's so funny you say Norman Rockwell because I totally see that. But, you know, when you look at your own life, you never quite see it that way. So it's always good to look at it through other people's eyes. But yeah, so my parents met in New York City. My father had sort of been a military kid, so he'd grown up all over, literally from the south of France during the Korean War and North Carolina, Long Island, New York and Maryland where I ended up growing up. And my mother grew up in Hartford. And she was an artist. And so they met in New York on a blind date in Quag. And the rest, as they say, is history. But they chose to move to the eastern shore of Maryland Day because my father wanted to run for Congress.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  18. “Some of them are heading for a border. I'm going to walk 30 miles. It's that transformation that I truly struggle to comprehend as I know we all do.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  19. “I have to say it was really, you know, of all the places I've been and stories I've covered, I've never been in a war zone before it was a war zone and seen it transform. Know when you go to Afghanistan or you go to Iraq, those places were incredibly challenged places. But I was in Ukraine and it was under a lot of stress and fatigue, but it was a normal place, right? People going out to pizza, people were going out to bars, people were, and then you were awoken by missiles landing and everything just changed. And I've never experienced anything like that. You know, literally being in schools, we were at a school, David, and, you know, there's kids playing volleyball and soccer. And they'd just gone back to school because of Omicron. So they had been doing remote learning and they'd just gone back. There they are after school playing. And then the next day.”

    2022-03-17 · The Axe Files with David Axelrod · Ep. 481 — Erin Burnett · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source