Rick Sanchez Resurfaces at RT America

Ten years ago, Rick Sanchez was a daytime host on CNN fresh off a interim stint in primetime. On Thursday, he announced that he had joined RT, a cable news outlet funded by the Russian government and deemed a foreign agent by the US government, to host The News with Rick Sanchez, a primetime program at 7 and 8 PM. The News was also the branding for the late Ed Schultz’s program on RT.

TKNN can also confirmed that Sanchez is no longer with Fox News, where he served as a contributor and worked with the since-shuttered Fox News Latino. Sanchez, however, had not been on-air in a long time and Fox News Latino almost two years ago.

Sanchez was fired from CNN for claimingper year for the “S.N.L.” archives. Even though the actress Gwyneth Paltrow had created a best-selling cookbook and popular lifestyle blog, Mayer, who habitually asked deputies where they attended college, balked at hiring her as a contributing editor for Yahoo Food. According to one executive, Mayer disapproved of the fact that Paltrow did not graduate college.

Over the summer, Mayer greenlighted a plan to hire Katie Couric, the former anchor of “CBS Evening News” and former co-host of the “Today” show. As was the case with de Castro, Couric put the idea in Mayer’s head herself after the two shared a stage at an advertising event in the Turks and Caicos. Couric, who was then hosting a failing daytime talk show on ABC, told Mayer she wanted to do