CNN President Jeff Zucker Says He Would Be Interested in Hiring Shepard Smith

Fox News Channel chief news anchor Shepard Smith appears on the set of "Shepard Smith Reporting" in New York on Jan. 30, 2017. Richard Drew/AP

CNN President Jeff Zucker said he would be interested in hiring former Fox News host Shepard Smith after he left the network earlier this month.

Smith announced that under the terms of his agreement, he “won’t be reporting elsewhere, at least in the near future.”