He told viewers that clip is significant because “CNN is a political organization, its anchors and reporters don’t decide for themselves what to say on camera, they are told what to say, they are told in highly specific terms every weekday morning on a wall with their commander, Jeff Zucker.”

Ward has been in Kabul for the past week, covering the chaos on the ground as the Taliban took over, and earlier Friday she was on one of the planes evacuating people.

“When CNN takes a position or changes its position on something, it changes as one, everybody, from the chirpy morning dingbats to Don Lemon in the night shift. They all say precisely what they are told to say,” Carlson continued.