Bret's right winger-ism comes through way too much- not in so much what Bret says but what Bret avoids saying. Plus, his "panels" on his show skew heavily right wing and have for years and years - a subject he's been asked about and avoids explaining.
Plus, Bret has a bad habit of going on all the opinion shows on Fox and lending credibility to their conspiracy stuff by not pushing back, which undercuts his credibility. But, I do give him a little credit because behind the scenes he has expressed concern about Fox opinion people and the network's tendency to give them cover.
Regardless, that wasn't the point of my post which was that Chris didn't want to do political talk. He wanted to do normal interviews which CNN offered. But I don't believe he's the best at doing non political long interviews in a sit down format.
A show focused on long interviews with non-politicians, I think, could succeed in the right situation and CNN should give it a try. It worked well for Larry King and I think it can work again for the right person.