Bill Owens, the longtime executive producer of the CBS show “60 Minutes,” has officially stepped down from the role, saying he no longer felt he had full editorial control over the program.
Owens has been with CBS since he started as a summer intern in 1988 and was in charge of “60 Minutes” since 2019. Now with his resignation, the TV exec says the job has changed to the point where he can no longer do it the way he wants to.
“Over the past months, it has become clear that I would not be allowed to run the show as I have always run it, to make independent decisions based on what was right for ‘60 Minutes,’ right for the audience,” Owens wrote in a final memo that was obtained by <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/04/22/media/60-minutes-producer-bill-owens-quits-under-pressure-from-trumps-cbs-lawsuit/">the New York Post</a>.
“So, having defended this show — and what we stand for — from every angle, over time with everything I could, I am stepping aside so the show can move forward,” he added.
Per the outlet, Owens wrote that “‘60 Minutes’ will continue to cover the new administration, as we will report on future administrations.”
“The show is too important to the country. It has to continue, just not with me as the executive producer,” he wrote.
CBS News President Wendy McMahon also shared praise for Owens, writing in a separate memo, “Standing behind what he stood for was an easy decision for me, and I never took for granted that he did the same for me.”
His resignation comes at a time when CBS is facing legal pressure on several fronts, including a $10 billion lawsuit from President Donald Trump.
Per a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-cbs-news-for-10-billion-over-kamala-60-minutes-interview-edits">report</a> from The Daily Wire, Trump is suing CBS and “60 Minutes” for allegedly manipulating footage from an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential campaign. The suit claims the network edited her answers to make her appear more polished and to boost the Democrat’s chances, which Trump says held sway with voters.
CBS reps insist that the interview was edited according to standard practices and was not politically biased. But despite their claims, the lawsuit is ongoing. CBS’ parent company, Paramount, is reportedly considering a settlement, especially as it seeks a potential merger with Skydance Media.
One insider told the Post that CBS “is not the home of the investigative journalism of Mike Wallace anymore,” calling the show a “mouthpiece” for the Left.
“Every allegation of bias only tilts one way and it’s always in the favor of the Democrats,” the source said.
Owens didn’t explicitly say his resignation had anything to do with the lawsuit or other internal issues, but the timing has the public questioning his motives for leaving. It’s all part of a major shakeup of mainstream media inspired in large part by the election of Trump and the people’s desire to stop being manipulated by left-leaning outlets masquerading as non-partisan.

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Freed Israeli hostage Yarden Bibas spoke publicly Sunday for the first time since his release and the funeral for his wife, Shiri, and two young sons. Ariel and Kfir.
Bibas and other freed hostages spoke about their experiences on <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/freed-israeli-hostages-call-for-ceasefire-with-hamas-return-of-gaza-captives-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60 Minutes</a>. Bibas said he chose to do his first interview with an American outlet because he wanted to get the attention of President Donald Trump, whom he credits for saving him and says is the only person who can stop the war.
“Please stop — stop this war and help — help bring all the hostages back,” Bibas said as his message for Trump. “I know he can help. I&#8217;m here because of Trump. I&#8217;m here only because of him. I think he&#8217;s the only one who can stop this war again.”
Bibas believes ending the war is the only way to free the remaining hostages home, including his childhood best friend, David Cunio. Cunio was kidnapped with his wife, Sharon, and two children, who were released in the November 2023 hostage exchange deal.
“We did everything together. He was with me in every big thing in my life. He was in my wedding. And now I&#8217;m having the — probably the — the hardest thing I have to move with my life, and David is not with me. I lost my wife and kids. Sharon must not lose her husband.&#8221;
Bibas said it was frightening to hear IDF airstrikes while being held in Hamas’ terror tunnels.
“It&#8217;s scary,” Bibas said. “You don&#8217;t know when it&#8217;s gonna happen. And when it happens, you&#8217;re afraid for your life. The whole earth would move like an earthquake, but underground.”
“Everything could collapse any moment,” he added.
Israel eliminated more than a dozen Hamas leaders in the week after the ceasefire collapsed following Hamas’s refusal to release more hostages or agree to multiple extension proposals.
Speaking about his wife and sons, Bibas said they were murdered in “cold blood” with “bare hands,” a claim supported by forensic assessments of the bodies.
“They were murdered in cold blood, bare hands,” Bibas said. “[Hamas] used to tell me — ‘Oh, doesn&#8217;t matter. You&#8217;ll get a new wife. Get new kids. Better wife. Better kids.’”
American hostage Keith Siegel, who <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/american-hostage-to-be-released-tomorrow-from-gaza-six-remain-in-captivity" target="_blank" rel="noopener">was freed</a> in February, opened up about his time in captivity, claiming that Hamas sexually assaulted female hostages in front of him.
Siegel, who was originally held with his wife, Aviva, and other female and child hostages until her release after 51 days, said there was constant abuse in captivity.
“I witnessed a young woman who was being tortured by the terrorists. I mean literal, you know, torture, not just in the figurative sense,” he said. “I saw sexual assault with female hostages.”
Following Aviva’s release, Siegel said conditions became worse. He was often beaten and starved.
Siegel quickly put interviewer Lesley Stahl in her place after she asked if Hamas actually starved Siegel, or if the terrorists simply didn’t have food themselves.
“No, I think they starved me and they — they would often eat in front of me and not offer me food,” Siegel said.
Siegel also said that Hamas shaved all the men’s heads and genitals to humiliate them.
“I think they thought it was maybe it amused them or, you know, humiliating. I felt humiliated,” Siegel said.
Bibas <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/yarden-bibas-delivers-heartbreaking-eulogy-at-funeral-of-his-wife-and-sons" target="_blank" rel="noopener">delivered a heartbreaking</a> eulogy for Shiri, Ariel, and Kfir last month after their bodies were returned from Hamas terrorists and officially identified.
“Shiri, this is the closest I’ve been to you since October 7th, and I can’t kiss or hug you, and it’s breaking me,” Bibas said, fighting back tears.
Bibas asked for forgiveness for what happened to the family on October 7. Shiri, 32, was taken hostage by Hamas and killed while in captivity, along with their sons, Ariel and Kfir, who were just four years old and eight months old when abducted by the terrorists.
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The fully translated euology of Yarden Bibas to his wife Shiri, and sons Kfir and Ariel.
&#8220;Mi Amor&#8221;
I remember the first time I said &#8220;mi amor&#8221; to you. It was at the very beginning of our relationship. You told me to only call you that if I was certain I loved you, not to say it… <a href="https://t.co/x7laGqM91T" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pic.twitter.com/x7laGqM91T</a>
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“Do you remember our last decision together? In the safe room, I asked if we should ‘fight or surrender.’ You said fight, so I fought. Shiri, I’m sorry I couldn’t protect you all. If only I had known what would happen, I wouldn’t have fired.”
The bodies of Ariel and Kfir were handed over last month, along with the corpses of Oded Lifshitz and an unknown Gazan woman that Hamas claimed was Shiri, after Hamas paraded them on stage in front of cheering crowds in a propaganda spectacle. Shiri’s body was later returned after an uproar over Hamas returning the wrong body.
The news of the death of the Bibas boys has sparked international outrage and brought the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/bibas-brothers-join-count-of-55-israeli-children-killed-since-october-7-attacks" target="_blank" rel="noopener">total number of children</a> from Israel who have died in the fallout of the October 7 attacks to 55.
Footage of Shiri’s terrified face while holding the two redheaded boys went viral after October 7, making the family a symbol of the horror Hamas terrorists inflicted on Israeli civilians that day.

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President Donald Trump labeled George Clooney a “second rate movie star” following the actor’s interview on “60 Minutes” in which he claimed there was an attack on freedom of the press.
“Why would the now highly discredited ‘60 Minutes’ be doing a total ‘puff piece’ on George Clooney, a second rate movie ‘star,’ and failed political pundit,” Trump wrote in a post on his <a href="https://x.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1904054631187333472">Truth Social</a>.
“He [Clooney] fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the debate, dumped him like a dog,” he added. “Later, I assume under orders from the Obama camp, pushed all out for ‘Kamala,’ only to soon realize that that was not going to work out to well.”
“‘60 Minutes’ even fraudulently inserted fake answers into her disastrous interview, aired just before Election Day, in one of the most embarrassing and dishonest events in broadcast history,” Trump continued. “And now George Clooney again? His press agent should be making a fortune!&#8221;
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Why would the now highly discredited 60 Minutes be doing a total “puff piece” on George Clooney, a second rate movie “star,” and failed political pundit. He fought hard for Sleepy Joe’s election and then, right after the Debate, dumped him like a dog. Later, I assume under orders…
— Donald J. Trump Posts From His Truth Social (@TrumpDailyPosts) <a href="https://twitter.com/TrumpDailyPosts/status/1904054631187333472?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">March 24, 2025</a></blockquote>
Trump&#8217;s comments came after the 63-year-old actor’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoaLYLOps8I">interview</a> in which he referenced the president’s $20 billion defamation suit against CBS for its &#8220;60 Minutes” interview with the former vice president before the election, which Trump has said was deceptively edited.
“When the other three estates fail, when the judiciary and the executive and the legislative branches fail us, the fourth estate has to succeed,&#8221; Clooney said on CBS. &#8220;Has to succeed, as ‘60 Minutes’ is here right now on our first day.&#8221;
“We’re seeing this idea of using government to scare or fine or use corporations — to make journalists smaller,” he added. “Governments don’t like the freedom of the press. They never have. And that goes for whether you are a conservative or a liberal or whatever side you’re on. They don’t like the press.”
“Journalism and telling truth to power has to be waged like war is waged,” Clooney <a href="https://ew.com/donald-trump-responds-george-clooney-60-minutes-interview-free-press-11702167">continued</a>. &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t just happen accidentally. You know, it takes people saying, we&#8217;re gonna do these stories and you&#8217;re gonna have to come after us. And that&#8217;s the way it is.&#8221;
At one point in the interview, the “Oceans 11” star and longtime Democrat supporter doubled-down on writing his New York Times op-ed when he said President Biden needed to step down, allowing for the party to get behind now-failed Democrat candidate Harris.
 &#8220;I was raised to tell the truth,&#8221; Clooney said. &#8220;I had seen the president up close for this fundraiser, and I was surprised. And so I feel as if there was a lot of profiles in cowardice in my party through all of that. And I was not proud of that. And I also believed I had to tell the truth.&#8221; 
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/george-clooney-offers-unexpected-message-to-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">George Clooney Offers Unexpected Message To Trump</a>

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One of the easiest ways to tell you&#8217;re dealing with an honest person is seeing how they react when some of their most basic, fundamental assumptions are proven to be completely wrong. A few weeks ago, for example, we talked about how some Flat-Earthers responded when they went on a trip to Antarctica that debunked their entire belief system. They sat there and watched 24 hours of sunlight, and they realized that the Earth has to be rotating in space. And to their credit, a few of these Flat-Earthers admitted their mistake, on-camera. They said that, from that moment forward, they would be whatever the opposite of a Flat-Earther is. Sphere-earthers, I guess.
On the other hand, malevolent liars will never admit that they&#8217;re wrong. Even when they&#8217;re confronted with the reality of the situation — which is that everything they&#8217;ve been saying for years was actually wrong — they&#8217;ll find some way to deny it. They&#8217;ll absolve themselves of any responsibility for their deception. And if they can, they&#8217;ll blame you for challenging them. These are people who are not interested in the truth. They have no integrity whatsoever. And therefore they have no business being in any position of power or authority. Trustworthy leaders will admit their mistakes. Corrupt and incompetent leaders will obfuscate, deny, and double down.
With that distinction in mind, recent events have made it abundantly clear that our neighbors to the north in Canada are ruled by the latter group of people. These are people who have no interest in the truth. They are driven entirely by an ideology that, it just so happens, is explicitly anti-Christian and anti-American. And as I&#8217;ll explain in a moment, that has significant implications for the United States, as Canada becomes increasingly hostile towards our country.
But before I get into those implications, I need to explain what exactly the Canadian government has just done. As you may remember, for several years, Canada&#8217;s government, along with the country&#8217;s state media, has been advancing an extraordinary claim as if it&#8217;s the truth. They&#8217;ve said, again and again, that unmarked mass graves had been found at Canada&#8217;s &#8220;residential schools&#8221; — which were boarding schools for Indian children that existed for around 100 years, peaking in the early 20th century. And the discovery of these unmarked mass graves was significant, Canadians were told, because Christian churches were running these residential schools.
In other words, for years, the dominant narrative in Canada has been that Christian schools were so horrific that Indian children died all the time, and they were just tossed in unmarked graves when they expired. Therefore, Canadians were told that Canada is a genocidal state, and Christianity is bad. So predictably, dozens of Christian churches burned. And in response, the country&#8217;s outgoing prime minister, Justin Trudeau, said the arson was &#8220;understandable.&#8221; They only made one arrest in the wake of those arson attacks on churches, by the way — some of which were within a few miles of the U.S. border. Canadians, for the most part, stopped celebrating their independence day, out of shame over this story. Canadian secondary schools put images like this one up on the wall:
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As you can see, it tells students that nearly 2,000 &#8220;unmarked graves&#8221; have been found. This has been an all-out, all-encompassing narrative in Canada. But to be clear, this narrative about the residential schools was not simply pushed by Canadian state media. In fact, the narrative actually had its origins in U.S.media — including in outlets that, we now know, were taking money from the Biden administration.
The New York Times, for instance, was one of the <a href="https://quillette.com/blog/2024/09/20/when-will-the-new-york-times-correct-its-flawed-reporting-on-canadas-unmarked-graves/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">first outlets</a> to report back in 2021 that <a href="https://nationalpost.com/opinion/the-year-of-the-graves-how-the-worlds-media-got-it-wrong-on-residential-school-graves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">&#8220;unmarked graves&#8221;</a> had been discovered in Canada. They did a whole series of reports on the topic over the summer, all of which were premised on the idea that &#8220;ground-penetrating radar&#8221; had discovered evidence of grave sites. 
Then &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; joined in, with reports like this one. Watch:
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So Anderson Cooper is very concerned about the hundreds of unmarked graves that have supposedly been discovered. He specifically mentioned the hundreds of graves that were allegedly discovered at a residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. And Canada&#8217;s state media said much the same thing. The CBC for example <a href="https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/tk-eml" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>: &#8220;Preliminary findings from a survey of the grounds at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School have uncovered the remains of 215 children buried at the site, the Tk&#8217;emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation said Thursday.&#8221;
When you see television segments and news articles like this, you might assume — naturally — that some amount of vetting has been done to ensure that these claims are at least potentially accurate. These are obviously incendiary claims that are being made, so presumably, you might think that someone would have looked into them before publishing. But that was never true in this case. More than three years later, not a single body has been found in an unmarked grave at any residential school in Canada. And they certainly haven&#8217;t been uncovered in Kamloops. It turns out that, in fact, the alleged &#8220;unmarked grave site&#8221; in Kamloops was, in reality, a 2,000-foot long, 3-foot deep trench that was established in 1924 as a septic field to store sewage from the school. As the Dorchester Review <a href="https://www.dorchesterreview.ca/blogs/news/the-kamloops-discovery-a-fact-check-two-years-later?srsltid=AfmBOopXCdjxqY3JXETULV7I9BJZfAioMCrMF0Bv2anSJXCnX9tSnsUe" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>, &#8220;Ground penetrating radar cannot distinguish between a trench lined with clay tiles and a putative child’s grave.&#8221;
This is the kind of information that, if you&#8217;re dealing with honest people, would lead to mass resignations and terminations, for starters. Obviously, no one with any self-respect in the Canadian media or in the Canadian government should keep their job after spreading an anti-Christian lie that caused dozens of churches to go up in flames. But instead of admitting they were wrong, Canada&#8217;s government is of course taking the dishonorable approach. They&#8217;re slowly slinking away like the cowards they are.
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The Daily Wire <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/after-4-years-of-searching-and-0-bodies-found-canada-cuts-funds-on-search-for-unmarked-mass-graves" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reports</a> that: 
<blockquote>Canada is pulling funds from groups still searching for alleged bodies buried at Indigenous residential schools funded by Catholics and other Christians. An organization and a committee of experts formed to search for the elusive remains have both lost funding in the past month, following four years of searches that have found zero remains.</blockquote>
We&#8217;re talking about organizations that have received millions of dollars from Canada&#8217;s massive, 300 million-dollar &#8220;Residential Schools Missing Children Community Support Fund.&#8221; These nonprofits have fancy names like &#8220;Survivors&#8217; Secretariat&#8221; and the &#8220;National Advisory Committee on Residential Schools Missing Children and Unmarked Burials.&#8221; And now, after collecting millions of dollars in taxpayer money, they&#8217;re finally getting cut off, because it turns out that the entire animating idea behind their &#8220;nonprofit&#8221; was in fact a scam. The Canadian government is now rolling back its financial investments in this deranged and destructive lie. For all intents and purposes, the residential schools hoax is finally dead.
But that does not mean that the Canadian government is admitting, outright, that it was wrong. That would take an ounce of integrity that they simply do not have. So instead, both political parties in Canada are now rallying around the idea that no one should be able to question the narrative that they&#8217;re now retreating from. In other words, Canada has now entered a kind of reality distortion field, where everyone knows the government was wrong for the last several years, but no one can admit it.
This is footage from just a couple of days ago. It aired on CBC. Watch:
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Those were conservative politicians in that clip. That&#8217;s Canada&#8217;s conservative party — supposedly the opposition to the liberals. They&#8217;re telling this politician to retract her factually accurate statement about unmarked gravesites in Canada. No one in that clip actually refutes anything she said. Instead, they just tell her that it&#8217;s inappropriate to state the truth about these unmarked graves, because it contradicts a broader narrative they want to establish.
As tempting as it may be to think that nothing in Canada affects us here in the United States, the truth is that we can&#8217;t ignore what&#8217;s happening there. And that&#8217;s not just because of the cruelty that&#8217;s been inflicted on Christian Canadians in recent years. That&#8217;s because, at the same moment that Canada is uniting behind malicious, anti-Christian defamation, the country&#8217;s leaders are desperately seeking to expand their power globally.
In particular, some of Canada&#8217;s most prominent politicians — like Chrystia Freeland, who could be the country&#8217;s next prime minister — are openly suggesting that Canada should join a nuclear alliance to handle the &#8220;threat&#8221; that, in her view, is posed by the United States. Watch:
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This is the same woman who gleefully froze truckers&#8217; bank accounts when they committed the crime of peacefully protesting her government&#8217;s unlawful COVID mandates. She cheered as journalists were arrested and elderly women were trampled with horses in Ottawa&#8217;s downtown core, as a result of her declaration of martial law. She was one of the leading proponents of the mass-graves hoax. And she&#8217;s never apologized for any of it. Instead, now she wants Canada to join a hostile military alliance with foreign powers, while she&#8217;s contemplating the use of nuclear weapons against the United States. And at the moment, it&#8217;s not a stretch to say that she could replace Justin Trudeau as the leader of Canada&#8217;s liberal party — a party that, as we just saw, isn&#8217;t much different from the conservatives.
What this means is that, while the conclusion of the mass-graves hoax was anticlimactic at best, Canadian leaders actually see it as a springboard for more authoritarian crackdowns and more overt anti-Christian, anti-American hostility. Whatever credibility Canada had as a staunch American ally, or a legitimately Christian nation, is now completely gone. Canadian leaders would rather lie than admit the truth that everyone can clearly see. No country can survive for long when it&#8217;s committed, to such a great extent, to the denial of reality. And though they don&#8217;t seem interested in admitting it, that is the commitment Canadian politicians have now made.

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The Trump Administration is making some fairly serious moves, and one of those moves involves pushing Europe to stand on its own two feet — for the first time in nearly a century.
Since the end of World War II, the United States has bankrolled European security. That’s because Europe destroyed itself during World War II. The United States had to prop up Europe afterward so that it didn&#8217;t become a communist-ridden hellhole.
And then Europe essentially became a sick man reliant on the ministrations of the United States and our taxpayer dollars in order to uphold itself against the Soviet Union.
Then the Soviet Union fell. And rather than Europe actually getting its act together, Europe simply continued to live on largesse from the United States. We helped prop up their security arrangements; we helped prop up NATO.
Meanwhile, they themselves got more robust in their stupidity. They decided they could play with house money — meaning, they decided they could be as Left-wing as they wanted while also knowing the United States would provide an almost endless security guarantee for them.
So, they decided open immigration from radical Islamist countries would be a great idea. They decided to pass forms of blasphemy laws in their own country in order to facilitate their idiotic notion that a post-colonialist society ought to be invaded by many of the areas that had once been colonized. They believed they would put those policies in place without any negative side effects.
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Over the weekend, Vice President JD Vance spoke at the Munich Security Conference, and the Europeans became enraged. In his speech, he addressed some problems in Europe involving, for example, China and Russia. But the biggest problem is that Europe has forgotten what Europe is about.
Europeans don&#8217;t like being told this. The Europeans like to believe they&#8217;re the sophisticates on the block. They like to believe they are more nuanced and knowledgeable than brash, annoying Americans.
But what Vance said was 100% true. He called out the fact that Europe decided to let terrorists into their own borders and to crack down on free speech, free market, and economics — all of their own choice. He further questioned why America should have to pay for it, precisely.
Vance <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/politics/frightening-bullshit-senate-democrat-hammers-jd-vance-saying-europes-biggest-threat-is-within-not-russia-or-china/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">stated</a>:
<blockquote>The threat that I worry the most about vis-a-vis Europe is not Russia. It’s not China. It’s not any other external actor. What I worry about is the threat from within, the retreat of Europe from some of its most fundamental values, <a href="https://www.politico.eu/article/us-vice-president-jd-vance-attack-europe-migration-free-speech/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">values shared</a> with the United States.</blockquote>
This should be considered alongside the speech Vance gave three days prior at the Paris AI Action Summit. In it, he chided the European Union for being so risk-averse that they were basically cracking down on their own ability to innovate in the AI space.
Dominic Green, a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, wrote in <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/jd-vances-message-at-munich-foreign-policy-europe-america-bc4a8b82" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Wall Street Journal</a>:
<blockquote>Combine the two speeches and you have the classic American one-two. Economic and individual freedom support each other. Innovation, competitiveness and risk-taking are the natural partners of liberty, free speech and democracy. Europe should be the natural partner of the U.S. and a key link in the emerging American-led alignment. But Europe is divorced from reality.</blockquote>
Green is correct. One of the seeming policies of the Trump administration is to force the Europeans to own their own policies or to dissociate from their own stupidity of the past. And that stupidity is very, very real.
For instance, if you say something insulting about Islam in Britain, you might go to jail for as long as some of the people engaged in trafficking of young white girls in Rotherham. CBS’ “60 Minutes” reported that German officials have openly acknowledged they will criminally prosecute people for insulting others in public. A German official <a href="https://x.com/libsoftiktok/status/1891328859372400705">added</a>, “The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet. Because on the internet, it stays there.”
“60 Minutes” is pushing for this. How do we know? Because this is the overall view of the legacy media: Only things the legacy media like being said should actually be said.
Margaret Brennan of CBS’ News “Face the Nation” <a href="https://x.com/michaelbd/status/1891206009508536367" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interviewed</a> Secretary of State Marco Rubio. She chided Vance for going to Europe saying of Vance in Germany, “He was standing in a country where free speech was weaponized to conduct a genocide, and he met with the head of a political party that has far-Right views and some historic ties to extreme groups. The context of that was changing the tone of it. And you know that, that the censorship was specifically about the Right.”
“I have to disagree with you,” Rubio fired back. “Free speech was not used to conduct a genocide. The genocide was conducted by an authoritarian Nazi regime that happened to also be genocidal because they hated Jews and they hated minorities and they hated those that— they had a list of people they hated, but primarily the Jews. There was no free speech in Nazi Germany. There was none.”
By the way, there was not a lot of free speech prior to Nazi Germany. The Weimar Republic had many laws on the books that restricted speech. In fact, Adolf Hitler ended up spending some time in jail, not because of his speech but because he tried to lead a revolt. And then afterward, he wasn&#8217;t allowed to speak publicly for several years. Joseph Goebbels, the publicist for Hitler, actually was forced not to speak publicly. There were numerous lawsuits against Goebbels.
In fact, hate speech laws in Weimar Germany did not prevent the rise of the Nazis. In many ways, they actually facilitated the rise of the Nazis because people thought the Nazis might have something to say but were being suppressed.
There is a normal human tendency to buck against censorship by suggesting the person has something to say.
This is in accordance with the Left-wing perspective that you can shut down opinions you don&#8217;t like to magically protect yourself from the impact of those opinions. 
JD Vance was saying in Europe, “Guys, you&#8217;ve given up the thing that made you Europe in the first place.”
All of this is part and parcel of a much broader attempt by the United States to force the Europeans to stand up on their own two feet. And that is most evident when it comes to Ukraine.
Ukraine is exceptionally close to the rest of Europe. Ukraine borders a number of European countries, including Hungary, Poland, and Romania, among others. Though Europeans have increased their defense spending, they have been hesitant to take further action. They want the United States to foot the bill.
Thus, the Trump administration has been saying to the Europeans, “Listen, we&#8217;re tired of footing the bill. This is on your continent. Why don&#8217;t you take a leading role here? And if you want to take a leading role in the negotiations, perhaps you should step up to the table and increase your defense spending. Perhaps you should make the kinds of moves that might lead people to take you seriously when you guarantee, for example, Ukrainian security. Why is it that the United States always gets dragged into your domestic squabbles?”
Precisely. The Trump administration is not saying the United States should leave Ukraine to the predations of Vladimir Putin. They are trying to cajole the Europeans to do what they&#8217;re supposed to do.
According to the Associated Press, top diplomats from Russia and the United States met Tuesday in Saudi Arabia to discuss improving ties and bringing the war in Ukraine to an end. No Ukrainian officials attended the meeting.
On the surface, the United States might appear to be leaving Ukraine out of the loop or, perhaps, making a deal to then cram down on Volodymyr Zelenskyy, the president of Ukraine.
But this is also a way of forcing the Europeans to the table. If they say, “We want to hear what the United States is saying,” and they want to come to the table, the question becomes: “What is it that makes you valuable in this conversation?”
This is one way of getting the Europeans to step up and do what they are supposed to do.
All of this makes perfect sense, to say to the Europeans: “Listen, you want to sit down at the table? You don&#8217;t get a free ride anymore.” It doesn&#8217;t get to be like the U.N., where France has a seat on the Security Council without doing anything for collective security.
If you want to be part of this conversation, you should have some skin in the game.
We&#8217;re going to find out very quickly who&#8217;s willing to put their money where their mouth is.

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During Sunday night’s “60 Minutes” episode on CBS, the show featured two people who allegedly lost their jobs due to President Donald Trump’s government cuts to play on viewers’ emotions.
However, they were not actually employees of USAID but consultants for an outside company. Kristina Drye and Adam Dubard, according to their own LinkedIn pages, had short-lived gigs at a company called <a href="https://xla.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">XLA</a>, providing consulting services to USAID.
CBS <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/usaid-dismantling-trump-60-minutes-transcript/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presented</a> the pair as being “fired this month in the chaotic shutdown of foreign aid distributed by the U.S. Agency for International Development, USAID. More than 8,000 USAID employees were sent home by the administration.”
“People are really scared,” Drye said on the program. “I think that, you know, 12 days ago, people knew where their next paycheck was coming from. They knew how they were gonna pay for their kids&#8217; daycare, their medical bills. And then, all gone overnight.”
But neither Drye nor Dubard were among the USAID employees who were fired since they didn’t work for the agency. Drye was a speechwriter and communications analyst who worked “through XLA and Jefferson Partners to support the USAID Administration team, serving on the speechwriting and communications group for Administrator of USAID Samantha Power,” according to her LinkedIn profile. Dubard was a “Communications Analyst for XLA working with the USAID Public Engagement team within the Bureau of Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA),” according to his profile. Dubard worked in this capacity for just under one year, while Drye was in her position for nearly 2.5 years, hardly the career public servants who had worked for USAID for decades that CBS made them out to be.
Drye at least hinted at this in some of her comments, referring to the fired workers as “they” and not herself.
“And they had to leave the building,” she said. “And these are folks who had decades and decades of public service serving USAID across administrations from, you know, George Bush, to Obama, to the first Trump administration. And they were never able to walk back in the building again.”
Dubard claimed the Trump administration was “not looking for competency” or whether someone is “good at your job.” Instead, he claimed the administration is “looking for pure loyalty tests and if you don&#8217;t give it, you will be punished.”
The Trump administration has been cutting programs that waste American tax dollars on programs that don’t align with its vision, something presidents have always been able to do.
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The very notion of parading around “victims” of Republican policies has been done by news outlets for decades, as radio host Erick Erickson pointed out.
“When Dems are in charge, the press highlights beneficiaries of policies,” Erickson posted on X. “When Republicans are in charge, the press highlights victims of policies. You never heard from the people who lost their jobs when Biden killed the Keystone XL, etc.”
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The Erickson Rule of Media Coverage: When Dems are in charge, the press highlights beneficiaries of policies. When Republicans are in charge, the press highlights victims of policies. You never heard from the people who lost their jobs when Biden killed the Keystone XL, etc. <a href="https://t.co/pcxiE78S46">https://t.co/pcxiE78S46</a>
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Vice President JD Vance blasted a trio of German prosecutors who said during an interview with &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; that insults — both in person and online — are <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/guest-on-60-minutes-claims-german-citizens-have-free-speech-but-there-are-limits" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal</a> in their country.
The &#8220;<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bMzFDpfDwc" target="_blank" rel="noopener">60 Minutes</a>&#8221; segment that aired on Sunday reported on Germany&#8217;s enforcement of its &#8220;hate speech&#8221; law, which has been around since 2017, and showed police raiding German citizens&#8217; homes and confiscating electronics over social media posts. During the interview, all three German state prosecutors told host Sharyn Alfonsi that insulting someone in public and online is criminal. Those who break the law are usually punished with a stiff fine, but repeat offenders could be thrown in jail.
&#8220;The fine could be even higher if you insult someone in the internet,&#8221; said state prosecutor Dr. Matthäus Fink, adding, &#8220;Because in internet, it stays there. If we are talking face to face, you insult me, I insult you, okay. Finish. But if you&#8217;re in the internet, if I insult you or a politician &#8230;&#8221;
&#8220;It sticks around forever,&#8221; Alfonsi said to Fink&#8217;s agreement.
State prosecutor Svenja Meininghaus added that reposting a lie — which could include gossip or fake quotes — is also a criminal action in Germany &#8220;because the reader can&#8217;t distinguish whether you just invented this or just reposted it.&#8221;
Along with fining offenders of the hate speech law, judges sometimes confiscate their phones.
&#8220;How do they react when you take their phones from them?&#8221; Alfonsi asked.
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&#8220;They are shocked,&#8221; replied Frank-Michael Laue as the prosecutors laughed.
Vance, who spoke in Munich last week and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/the-people-have-a-voice-vance-warns-europe-about-censorship-the-threat-from-within" target="_blank" rel="noopener">warned</a> Europe against censorship, blasted the &#8220;Orwellian&#8221; German hate speech law on Monday.
&#8220;Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships,&#8221; the vice president posted on X. &#8220;This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy.&#8221;
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Insulting someone is not a crime, and criminalizing speech is going to put real strain on European-US relationships. 
This is Orwellian, and everyone in Europe and the US must reject this lunacy. <a href="https://t.co/WZSifyDWMr">https://t.co/WZSifyDWMr</a>
&mdash; JD Vance (@JDVance) <a href="https://twitter.com/JDVance/status/1891467842106630244?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">February 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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During his Friday speech at the Munich Security Conference, Vance ripped European countries that have cracked down on free speech.
“I believe deeply that there is no security if you’re afraid of the voices, the opinions, and the conscience that guide your very own people,” Vance said. “Europe faces many challenges, but the crisis this continent faces right now, the crisis, I believe we all face together, is one of our own making. If you’re running in fear of your own voters, there is nothing America can do for you. Nor, for that matter, is there anything that you can do for the American people who elected me and elected President Trump.”

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a> filed a lawsuit against CBS News for $10 billion, accusing &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; of &#8220;deceptively doctoring&#8221; its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris earlier this month.
The lawsuit, which was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas on Thursday, alleges that the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; edits &#8220;attempt to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party as the heated 2024 Presidential Election — which President Trump is leading — approaches its conclusion,&#8221; Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-sues-cbs-news-10-billion-alleging-deceptive-doctoring-harris-60-minutes-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reported</a>. After Harris&#8217; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-threatens-to-sue-cbs-if-full-kamala-60-minutes-transcript-not-released" target="_blank" rel="noopener">interview</a> on &#8220;60 Minutes,&#8221; the news show released a promotional video where Harris&#8217; words appeared different from her statements in the interview that aired.
The &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; edit occurred when Harris responded to correspondent Bill Whitaker&#8217;s question on Israel. In the promotional clip, Harris stated, “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.” In the edited version of the interview that aired, Harris replied to the same question by stating, “We are 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.”
Trump&#8217;s lawsuit blasts &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; for allegedly glossing over Harris&#8217; &#8220;word salad.&#8221;
&#8220;To paper over Kamala’s &#8216;word salad&#8217; weakness, CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from the exercise of judgment in reporting to deceitful, deceptive manipulation of news,&#8221; the lawsuit states.
&#8220;Millions of Americans, including residents of Texas and this District, were confused and misled by the two doctored Interview versions,&#8221; Trump&#8217;s lawyers add.
After Trump and Republicans slammed &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; for its edits in the Harris interview, CBS News <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/60-minutes-finally-responds-to-scandal-over-deceptive-editing-of-kamala-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">responded</a> three weeks later, writing, &#8220;60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes. Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response. When we edit any interview, whether a politician, an athlete, or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on point. The portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.&#8221;
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Trump called on &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; to release the transcripts of the interview, writing on Truth Social on October 7, &#8220;In normal times, what happened on 60 Minutes, (deceptively ‘doctoring’ her answers), would be THE END OF ANYONE’S CAMPAIGN! Kamala is slow, incoherent, and in no way qualified to be President of the United States. RELEASE THE TAPES FOR THE GOOD OF AMERICA. We can do it the nice way, or the hard way!”
Despite being pushed by GOP senators to release the full transcript of the Harris &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; interview, CBS News never did. Trump then threatened to sue CBS in a letter sent by his lawyer on October 21.
&#8220;Instead of doing the right, transparent thing, CBS’s counsel retreated from the October 20 Statement and provided a hasty, weakly worded response letter stating that CBS would decline to provide an unedited transcript of the Interview,&#8221; the lawsuit states. &#8220;President Trump, in reply, sent a second letter (a) reiterating his demand for public release of the full, unedited transcript of the Interview and (b) serving as his pre-suit notice&#8230;&#8221;
Trump is demanding a trial jury and at least $10 billion in damages, according to Fox News.

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Former acting ICE Director Tom Homan’s comments on CBS News’ “60 Minutes” <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/watch-ex-trump-ice-directors-viral-take-on-deporting-without-family-separation" target="_blank" rel="noopener">may have gone viral</a>, but the retired government official says the network selectively edited out important information.
Homan told Fox News’ “Evening Edit” anchor Elizabeth MacDonald that his full interview with CBS was two hours long, and the information they decided to cut was determined by the pre-conceived narrative they wanted to run, MacDonald said on X.
“Tom Homan, former acting ICE director under Trump, says 60 Minutes made massive edits &amp; censored its 2-hour [interview with] Homan because it had a biased agenda to attack Trump about deportations &amp; to protect Biden-Harris,” MacDonald wrote on social media. “Homan says 60 Minutes came into the [interview with] a pre-determined angle about fascism, but that it edited out what he said about deporting terrorists caught crossing and violent criminal illegal aliens and gang members.”
“That includes, he says, editing out his info on deporting criminal illegal aliens and gang members accused of murder, rape, armed robbery, kidnapping, sex and drug trafficking and more,” MacDonald continued.
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The anchor then published a rough transcript of her exchange with Homan on Monday’s program:
<blockquote>Homan: First, I sat for almost two hours during a very contentious interview. I went in to talk about why we need a secure border. The damage they [Biden-Harris] have done to this country, why this is such a huge national security issue. Of course, most of that didn&#8217;t make it to the final cut. 
Liz: And what didn&#8217;t make it to the final cut? What did they cut out? 
Tom: About the national security threat on the border. About how many, you know, suspected terrorists have been arrested crossing the border. People on terrorist watch lists. [60 Minutes] also edited out the amount of fentanyl coming across that killed a quarter million Americans. They [edited out] a 600% increase in sex trafficking. I talked about all of this. We didn&#8217;t talk about, you know, the criminals and the gang members that have come across, Tren de Aragua, they didn&#8217;t talk about everything that&#8217;s meaningful to the American people. We talked about it, but it didn&#8217;t make the final cut. It&#8217;s almost a two-hour interview. We talked about all of that, Liz. </blockquote>
MacDonald added that Homan told her he discussed illegal immigrants coming into the U.S. “from 181 different countries” but that was edited out as well.
“They [60 Minutes] came in with a plan,” Homan said, according to MacDonald. “They wanted to show that this massive deportation operation was going to be inhumane. It was going to separate families.”
“It&#8217;s going to be, you know, akin to the Nazis,” he added, according to the host. “And that&#8217;s why I spent so much time with them explaining how this would be a well-targeted enforcement plan to protect this country and remove national security threats and criminal alien threats.”
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Looks like CBS 60 Minutes has another major new editing and now a censorship controversy on its hands. 
Tom Homan, former acting ICE director under Trump, says 60 Minutes made massive edits &amp; censored its 2-hour intvw w Homan because it had a biased agenda to attack Trump about…
— Elizabeth MacDonald (@LizMacDonaldFOX) <a href="https://twitter.com/LizMacDonaldFOX/status/1851036519865466912?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 28, 2024</a></blockquote>
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Former ICE Director Accuses ’60 Minutes’ Of Cutting Key Points To Fit Agenda

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Former President <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/donald-trump" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Donald Trump</a>’s legal team told <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/topic/cbs-news" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CBS News</a> on Monday he was considering litigation if the news outlet did not release the full transcript of its “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris. 
CBS has come under fire in recent days after it aired two different versions of Harris’ response to a question on Israel, one in a promotional clip online and the other in the actual broadcast interview. Trump’s legal team argued that CBS edited Harris’ answer to tilt the scales in her favor and mislead the public ahead of the presidential election. 
“Such manipulative editing was aimed at causing confusion among the electorate regarding Vice President Kamala Harris&#8217;s abilities, intelligence, and appeal,” Trump lawyer Edward Andrew Paltzik wrote in a <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/113348312686331693" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> to CBS. “News organizations such as CBS have a responsibility to accurately represent the truth of events, not distort an interview to try and make their preferred candidate appear coherent and decisive, which Harris most certainly is not. Due to CBS&#8217; actions, the public cannot distinguish which Kamala Harris they are seeing: the candidate or the puppet of a behind-the-scenes editor.”
Trump&#8217;s letter demanded that CBS release the full unedited transcript of the interview to the public and to preserve all documents and communications about the interview “in contemplation of possible litigation.”
“The executives and producers at CBS, and 60 Minutes in particular, are unquestionably aware that the purpose behind editing the Interview was to confuse the electorate and portray the Vice President in a better light than a full, unedited transcript would reveal. Responsible news sources must be held accountable to the highest standards,” Paltzik wrote. 
The edited portion in question came during a discussion on Israel when host Bill Whitaker said, “But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.” 
In a promotional video posted online, Harris responded to Whitaker by saying: “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.”
In the interview that aired, Harris responded by saying: “We are 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.”
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CBS has responded to criticism of its editing by saying it just broadcasted different parts of the &#8220;same answer.&#8221;
“60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes,” CBS <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/60-minutes-finally-responds-to-scandal-over-deceptive-editing-of-kamala-interview" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> on Sunday. “Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.”
On Truth Social, Trump said that the editing of the interview could “be the Biggest Scandal in Broadcast History!”
&#8220;When will CBS release their Transcript of the fraudulent Interview with Comrade Kamala Harris? They changed her answer in order to make Kamala look intelligent, rather than ‘dumb as a rock,’” he posted. “CBS MUST GET THE TRANSCRIPT OUT NOW — Litigation has already started. Harris wasn’t able to put two sentences together, so they completely removed her answer, and put in another one.”

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CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; faced renewed calls to release the full video and transcript of its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris after it released a statement over the weekend defending the way that the interview was edited.
The show claimed that former President Donald Trump&#8217;s remarks that it had deceptively edited the interview were &#8220;false.&#8221;
“60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes,” the show claimed. “Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.”
The <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/60-minutes-statement/">statemen</a>t claimed that the “portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.”
The statement ended by taking a shot at Trump: “Remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice president participated.”
CBS News&#8217; statement further stoked allegations online that &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; was hiding something.
&#8220;@60minutes has now confirmed what we all know: they edited the video,&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SpeakerJohnson/status/1848181626804502816">said</a> House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA). &#8220;Now release the FULL transcript and video.&#8221;
Senate Republican Conference Chairman John Barrasso (R-WY) <a href="https://x.com/barrassoforwyo/status/1848183185454350744">posted</a> on X: &#8220;@60Minutes , it’s past time to release the full @KamalaHarris transcript and video.&#8221;
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&#8220;Seriously &#8211; what are they hiding?&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/megynkelly/status/1848327962166267987">asked</a> SiriusXM host Megyn Kelly. &#8220;How bad was it?&#8221;
&#8220;This defensive, shameful statement blames Trump &#8211; and all of us &#8211; for noticing the edit they made to make Harris look better (or &#8216;more succinct&#8217; in their framing),&#8221; <a href="https://x.com/SteveKrak/status/1848142550693200236">said</a> Steve Krakauer, executive producer of &#8220;The Megyn Kelly Show.&#8221; &#8220;Truly the final nail in the coffin of this news organization’s credibility.&#8221;
Former CBS News journalist Catherine Herridge <a href="https://x.com/C__Herridge/status/1848179074541232218">posted</a> on X: &#8220;This statement is an indicator @CBSNews hasn’t contained the fallout from its Kamala Harris @60Minutes edit.&#8221;
&#8220;Releasing the full unedited transcript is consistent with journalistic transparency and it stands behind the integrity of the entire Kamala Harris edit, not just the clips under scrutiny,&#8221; she said. &#8220;CBS has the ability to immediately settle these questions and address merits of FCC complaint alleging &#8216;news distortion.'&#8221;
&#8220;There is ample precedent [sic] @CBSNews for releasing full, unedited transcripts,&#8221; she added.
The Trump campaign responded to CBS News’ statement by saying that the show &#8220;just admitted to doing exactly what President Trump accused them of doing.&#8221;
&#8220;They edited in a different response – from another part of her answer – to make Kamala Harris sound less incoherent than she really was,&#8221; they said. &#8220;Their statement is not a denial, it is an admission that they did exactly what they were accused of.&#8221;
&#8220;This is another reminder of how hopelessly biased 60 Minutes is, and how correct President Trump was to decline their invitation to be subjected to their fake news hackery,&#8221; the statement added. &#8220;Release the transcript!&#8221;
Controversy erupted over the interview when host Bill Whitaker was discussing with Harris the United States’ financial support for Israel in its war against genocidal Islamic terrorists in the region.
“But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” Whitaker said to Harris.
In a promotional clip that was posted by CBS News on October 6, Harris responded to that statement from Whitaker by saying: “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.”
However, when the full interview was broadcast by the network on the following night, that statement from Harris was nowhere to be found. Those words were not included anywhere in the televised report, nor did they appear in the interview when it was posted on YouTube, the interview’s transcript, or the show’s “Overtime” segment.
Instead, on television and in the interview posted online, Whitaker’s identical statement that “it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” is followed by Harris saying: “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”
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A giant Fake News Scam by CBS &amp; 60 Minutes. Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, so they actually REPLACED it with another answer in order to save her or, at least, make her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is totally illegal. TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE. Election Interference.… <a href="https://t.co/JRxSda3NeC">pic.twitter.com/JRxSda3NeC</a>
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1844349221673095258?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 10, 2024</a></blockquote>

2019 CBS Upfront

‘60 Minutes’ Slammed Over ‘Shameful’ Statement Defending Deceptive Editing To Kamala Interview

CBS News&#8217; &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; finally responded on Sunday night to the scandal that erupted two weeks ago when the show deceptively edited remarks from an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.
The show claimed without providing evidence that the allegation that it deceitfully edited its interview with Harris was &#8220;false.&#8221;
&#8220;60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interview to Face the Nation that used a longer section of her answer than that on 60 Minutes,&#8221; the statement claimed. &#8220;Same question. Same answer. But a different portion of the response.&#8221;
The left-wing show claimed that the &#8220;portion of her answer on 60 Minutes was more succinct, which allows time for other subjects in a wide ranging 21-minute-long segment.&#8221;
The show then took a petty shot at Trump: &#8220;Remember, Mr. Trump pulled out of his interview with 60 Minutes and the vice president participated.&#8221;
CBS News could have exonerated itself from the avalanche of negative claims it has faced as a result of the scandal simply by releasing the full interview and transcript — it did not.
The show had faced calls from media organizations, former CBS News journalists, U.S. Senators, and the Trump campaign to be transparent by releasing the full interview.
The Trump campaign responded to CBS News&#8217; statement by saying:
<blockquote>60 Minutes just admitted to doing exactly what President Trump accused them of doing. They edited in a different response &#8211; from another part of her answer &#8211; to make Kamala Harris sound less incoherent than she really was. Their statement is not a denial, it is an admission that they did exactly what they were accused of. This is another reminder of how hopelessly biased 60 Minutes is, and how correct President Trump was to decline their invitation to be subjected to their fake news hackery. Release the transcript!</blockquote>
The <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-demands-cbs-release-full-kamala-60-minutes-interview-after-footage-deceptively-altered">moment</a> in question came when host Bill Whitaker was discussing with Harris the United States’ financial support for Israel in its war against genocidal Islamic terrorists in the region.
“But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” Whitaker said to Harris.
In a promotional clip that was posted by CBS News on October 6, Harris responded to that statement from Whitaker by saying: “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.”
WATCH (relevant portion starts at 1:36):
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Monday, on a 60 Minutes election special, Bill Whitaker asks Vice President Kamala Harris if the U.S. lacks influence over American ally Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. <a href="https://t.co/TG3WOCA23A">https://t.co/TG3WOCA23A</a> <a href="https://t.co/IH6MXMjuCP">pic.twitter.com/IH6MXMjuCP</a>
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href="https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1842935494398591073?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 6, 2024</a></blockquote>
However, when the full interview was published by the network on the following night, that statement from Harris was nowhere to be found. Those words were not included anywhere in the television broadcast nor did they appear in the interview when it was posted on YouTube, the interview’s transcript, or the show’s “Overtime” segment.
Instead, on television and in the interview posted online, Whitaker’s identical statement that “it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” is followed by Harris saying: “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”
WATCH (relevant portion begins at 1:19):
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With just 29 days until Election Day, Bill Whitaker sits down with Vice President Kamala Harris. One year after Hamas&#8217; terror attack on Israel, Whitaker starts by asking Harris what the U.S. can do to prevent an all-out regional war in the Middle East. <a href="https://t.co/NsOjzQIL5O">https://t.co/NsOjzQIL5O</a> <a href="https://t.co/dRruqbEaqg">pic.twitter.com/dRruqbEaqg</a>
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) <a href="https://twitter.com/60Minutes/status/1843443575259869621?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">October 8, 2024</a></blockquote>

The 2024 Republican National Convention

‘60 Minutes’ Finally Responds To Scandal Over Deceptive Editing Of Kamala Interview

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