On Tuesday, CNN correspondent Kyung Lah chased down Arizona Senate President Karen Fann (R) for an impromptu parking lot interview after requesting an interview more than a dozen times. The result was ... fascinating.

Fann has been among the most ardent proponents of the election “audit” currently being conducted in Maricopa County. At one point during this ongoing, weeks-long process, “auditors” were looking for evidence of bamboo fibers because, so went a conspiracy theory, some of the ballots had been flown in from Asia. In other instance, former state Rep. Anthony Kern (R), who was present at the Capitol riot on January 6, was identified as one of ballot counters.

Lah’s questioning revealed an interesting insight into Fann’s reasoning behind supporting what the Republican-dominated Maricopa County Board of Supervisors called a “spectacle that is harming all of us” in a letter to Fann.

The interview went big across media, generating trending topics and articles. Suffice it to say the words "doozy", "bizarre", and "bonkers" came up a number of times. CNN's own Brianna Keilar was particularly inspired by Lah's reporting.

It's just plain great work from a great reporter. 

Despite some terrific content like today's Media Winner interview, by most measures CNN has had some rough ratings results recently. In fact, not a single CNN show cracked the million viewer mark on Monday.

The network, which saw historic post-election levels of viewership, notched just one dayparts victory over MSNBC in the valuable demographic of viewers age 25-54, according to Nielsen data.

CNN’s highest-rated show on Monday was embattled host Chris Cuomo’s Cuomo Prime Time, which had 919,000 total viewers. MSNBC’s most-watched program, The Rachel Maddow Show, notched 2.43 million, and Fox News’ Tucker Carlson Tonight had 2.79 million. In the key demo. Cuomo averaged 191k viewers age 25-54, with Maddow at 349k and Carlson at 440k.

Fox News was first in total day, with 1.45 million total viewers, 227k in the demo. MSNBC was second in total viewers with 1.09 million, and third in the demo at 137k. CNN was third, with 636k, and second in the demo, with 144k.

In prime time, Fox averaged 2.44 million total viewers (nearly triple CNN’s total), and 383k in the demo. MSNBC was second, with 1.88 million total (more than double CNN’s), and 242k in the demo.

CNN was third with...