CNN death spiral! CUOMO & LEMON GET LAST LAUGH AS NETWORK CRUMBLES

Staff crisis as ratings crater

ONCE mighty CNN has fallen into total chaos as ratings plummet to historic lows, and sources say the news network's ousted anchors are gearing up to dance on the grave of flailing CEO Chris Licht!

"Both Chris Cuomo and Don Lemon are laughing at Chris' mounting failures and they're even talking about coming back after he's gone to save the network!" reveals an insider.

The staggering cable news giant suffered new humiliation when it was blasted by one of its own biggest stars venerable journalist Christiane Amanpour - after giving former President Donald Trump a platform to rant uncontrollably and "steamroll" rising CNN star Kaitlan Collins, 31.

"Chris left Kaitlan out to dry," declares a second source close to the network. "Trump just bellowed over her, not allowing her to speak and making her look like a victim."

Trump's bully pulpit came just one day after the former prez was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll, who charged he raped her in a Manhattan department store in the mid-1990s.

CNN also allowed Trump - who has denied all of the allegations - to openly mock Carroll and brand overwhelmed Collins a "nasty person."