Jesse Watters: “Just weeks after CBS News moderators muted JD Vance's mic at the debate, the network was caught airing a deceptively dirty edit of Kamala Harris' interview on ‘60 Minutes.’ In the clip they promoted, she couldn't articulate her Middle East policy, but in the final cut her answer was coherent. The Trump campaign is demanding CBS release the raw interview.”
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Just weeks after CBS moderators muted Vance's mic at the debate, the network was caught airing a deceptively dirty edit of Kamala's interview on 60 Minutes. On Sunday, CBS promoted the interview with a clip of Kamala struggling to lay out her Middle East policy. But when the episode aired on Monday, her answer was completely different. But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. Well Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end. Whoa, what did CBS do here? The first answer they pro-mowed was a mess. The second answer that aired on CBS was better. But what happened between Sunday and Monday? Were they pressured into fixing her answer? Kamala's campaign says no. And how do we really know that's her answer to that specific question? How do we know they didn't just pull that from another part of the conversation? This is an extremely suspicious journalistic maneuver. And if it's true, it is scandalous. We were already suspicious of this interview because of how obvious and frequent the edits are. The Trump campaign is demanding CBS release the full unedited interview. And there's a precedent for that after all, CBS did that to Trump in 2020, publishing the full transcript of his interview. They did the same thing in 2012 when Mitt Romney said Obama didn't initially call Benghazi an act of terror at an October debate. Sixty minutes waited until the night before the election to release the transcript. And it turns out Obama said it was too early to tell. So what's different this time? CBS has a dark history of election interference. In 2004, they got caught airing Forge National Guard documents to hurt W. Now, news about CBS News and the questions surrounding documents we aired on this broadcast and on the Wednesday edition of 60 Minutes on September 8th. The documents purported to show that George W. Bush received preferential treatment during his years in the Texas Air National Guard. At the time, CBS News and this reporter fully believe the documents were genuine. Tonight, after further investigation, we can no longer vouch for their authenticity. And CBS also aired a 60 Minutes piece on Benghazi, whose source gave a phony firsthand account of the attack. And to make matters worse, the guy was promoting a book he wrote through a CBS owned publisher. Then in 2020, Trump was forced to walk out of an interview after Leslie Stahl denied the laptop was real. Two years later, they corrected the record. Will CBS do the right thing and release the transcript?
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