<p>Comedian and HBO host Bill Maher pushed back immediately on claims from Sen. Chris Murphy (D-CT) that CBS News was leaning hard toward President Donald Trump.</p>
<p>Murphy claimed during a Friday evening appearance with Maher that when CBS News axed longtime &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley, it was just further proof that the Trump administration was pushing to implement a &#8220;censorship state&#8221; and take full control of the media.</p>
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<p dir="ltr" lang="en">Bill Maher repeatedly swats down Democrat senator’s claim that Trump is hijacking 60 Minutes to “tell his story.”</p>
<p>No matter which direction Chris Murphy turned, Maher kept getting in his way.</p>
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<p>&#8220;You’re watching a censorship state,&#8221; Murphy asserted, adding, &#8220;Trump is using regulatory powers to punish people who oppose him.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;That’s a big charge that you just made, that &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; itself and CBS itself is now completely MAGA,&#8221; Maher pushed back. &#8220;I don’t see it that way.&#8221;</p>
<p>Murphy backpedaled slightly, saying, &#8220;It’s not completely MAGA.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Well, it’s kind of what you said,&#8221; Maher pointed out.</p>
<p>&#8220;But he is clearly intent on installing people who will tell his story and will keep his critics off the air,&#8221; Murphy claimed.</p>
<p>&#8220;But let me ask you this question. I watch &#8217;60 Minutes&#8217; every week. I have since I was a kid,&#8221; Maher continued to press, arguing that the media was making a story out of nothing. &#8220;If I didn’t hear all the buzz in the media … would I ever notice that it was any different? I don’t think I would.&#8221;</p>
<p>&#8220;Part of what the allegation is, is that they are killing stories that would be embarrassing for the president,&#8221; Murphy insisted, adding, &#8220;So it’s hard to know what you’re missing in a censorship environment.&#8221;</p>
<p>Maher noted that he was still seeing stories that weren&#8217;t exactly flattering to Trump, suggesting that if the goal was to censor unfavorable stories, the network had thus far not been terribly successful in doing so.</p>
<p>&#8220;I’ve seen ones that are not very favorable to the president,&#8221; he said, repeating, &#8220;I don’t know if I would have noticed anything different if I hadn’t been reading about it &#8230; Companies change hands all the time … ‘Oh my God. 60 Minutes has a new cast!’ So does &#8216;Saturday Night Live.'&#8221;</p>
<p>Over laughter from the audience, Maher added, &#8220;I’m not going to [fret] until I see a smoking gun.&#8221;</p>

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