- Let's hop on over to the headquarters of one of the nation's leading cable news networks, GNN, the Global News Network.

Soledad O'Brien.

You are the anchor of GNN's flagship news program.

I'm curious, do you think this is a big story?

- Oh, absolutely.

- [Host] Why?

- Well, I think it has, one, all the elements of what makes a story interesting.

A lot of sort of the sizzle of a protest, et cetera, et cetera, but also undergirding it, right, is a very serious issue that is currently being debated.

The 10 Commandments, do they belong on a poster in the wall in the school, but also there was a protest.

We have great video to start with, and there's a governor's race two weeks away.

- [Host] Wow.

- Honestly, I think this could make my career actually.

(all laughing) - Stephanie Ruhle, you are the host and star of a competing cable news program on the Now News Network.

I'm curious if you agree with Soledad, her approach to covering this story.

- I understand her approach, and if I didn't live in Libertyville, I would probably feel the same.

But because I live in Libertyville, I know that it's not a town of enemies.

These are friends and neighbors that go to the grocery store together, and our kids are on sports teams together.

And the unfortunate thing is, we're zooming in on this town and creating this deep, deep divide that I'm not sure actually exists.

- So you wanna turn the temperature down?

- Yes.

And I would only say this, if I was in Soledad's seat, I would feel exactly how she does.

But because I live in this town and I know these people, they're not enemies.

- [Host] Ms.

O'Brien.

- sounds like an amazing person to interview about how she's, I think there's so much opportunity every single day, you have a different twist and turn on this story.

I mean, even has anybody actually proven that this video is real?

Who could have been the person who burned it?

We do not know.

At the end of the day, we could tell our audience, we don't really know.

It hasn't been proven yet, but here are the things that we do know, the geotags, et cetera, et cetera.

So there's lots to cover.

I don't think anything would change.

- I don't think that the viewers are as one-sided or as antagonistic as one would think.

I actually think that the lion's share of people in this country that want to be informed and engaged just want us to shine a light on the truth.

- I remember when I worked at another cable news network, this exact same thing happened, and there was that push to try to jump on controversies and even inflame our viewers.

- Ann Coulter, I'm wondering if you think that tells us anything about the approaches that GNN and Now News are taking?

- Yeah, great question.

Although Soledad's program sounds way better than anything on TV now, because we only get one side on TV, and that's why the podcasts are doing so well.

- Does that say something in your view about who Americans are looking to for information?

- I think it's more saying something about, I mean, I really wish we got both sides, and also on the internet you got infinite competition, so let the best man win.

- Mr.

Glaude, do you have thoughts on this debate?

- What's interesting about the old model of just simply having both sides is that disagreement becomes entertainment.

And when disagreement is entertainment, the idea is not to convince one's fellow that maybe they're mistaken or maybe I didn't get it right.

The idea is just simply to state your position over and against someone else who states their position.

And what it generates is a kind of polarization where people just stake their such, stake their positions, draw hard lines, declare their people, their oppositions, their opponents enemies, and not engage in the free flow of ideas that may lead to me changing my mind or that person changing their mind.

- Don't you think if we put the 10 Commandments up on the wall in the classroom, that would help drive the children to have something to look to to behave in a way where they can have open dialogue, where they're looking at how to be more civil in a society where students are breaking down right now, our communities are breaking down, our country is breaking down.

What is wrong with the 10 Commandments?

One of those 10 is breaking down society.

- When you took it down and put it in the drawer, you sent a message to those kids.

I don't think there's any way around that.

And you took it upon yourself to take one side in that debate.

And that's how we are now in this difficult position.

- My task is to create citizens who are able to think outside of their kind of provincial commitments.

And I think learning the history of the country in all of its complexity is what I'm charged to do.

- And you think you have the right to overrule the school board?

- No.

I made a choice to risk my livelihood in light of my principles.

- All this is great content, by the way.

This might be more than a two-week story.

(all laughing) (audience clapping)