Trump is saying 60 minutes should be immediately terminated. That’s his term. Immediately terminated after the transcripts were released. Trump on Thursday suggested that CBS News’ 60 Minutes be taken off the air after the program released a transcript of an interview that it aired last fall with LaLa Harris amid a federal investigation into the broadcast. This is an abuse of power, folks. An abuse of power against the First Amendment. CBS in 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never to this extent ever been seen before. They 100% removed LaLa’s horrible election changing answers to questions and replaced them with completely different and far better answers taken from another part of the interview.

So what? So what if they did? Prove it. And now the proof is out. Shows that they didn’t. But so what if they did? Let’s just let’s say that they did what he accused them of doing. And by the way, he has separately, besides weaponizing the government. Let’s say who did that? Oh yeah, they accused Biden of doing it. Biden did do that. But now Trump is weaponizing the FCC against the news organization. Look, I don’t agree with CBS. Their bias is clear. But only a fool would believe that news organizations are not biased.

They’re all biased. I’ve got a bias. Everybody’s got a bias. A full unedited transcript of the Harris interview with the FCC this week complied with this. And a lot of people are upset about that because they said, you know, CBS News needs to just tell them to go pound dirt because you don’t have any authority here. And they don’t. The FCC should not have anything to say about content. The federal government should not have anything to say about content. Journalists regularly edit interviews. They do it for time. They do it for space.

They do it for clarity and making these edits. 60 minutes is always guided by the truth. And what we believe will be most informative to the viewing public, all while working within the constraints of broadcast television. Of course, you’ve got a long clip of something. You have to shorten it and you want to play the part of it that is relevant. But again, this is the same type of thing he’s doing to the first amendment that he did to the second amendment with the bump stock. He’s going to come after this interview.

Trump and his allies at the FCC, says the Hill, have repeatedly suggested major news networks be scrutinized more heavily and even lose their broadcast licenses over coverage that he feels is unfair to him. FCC chair Brendan Carr acknowledged, quote, there are a lot of people in this country right now on the radical left that are upset about this investigation. But the right is not upset. Why is that? Because people on the right need to understand that there is going to be a radical left person that comes back into the White House at some point in time.

And that’s why we don’t want them shutting down the media. So that’s why I said the problem is when you look at what is being done with Trump, is it being done for personal revenge and for personal power? Or is it being done for reform? If you want to talk about weaponization of government that was done under Biden, yes, it was ridiculous. Is Trump going to continue that? Yes, he’s going to continue it for his own purposes. He’s not going to get rid of, um, he’s not going to reform this and make it honest.

And it’s reason magazine that looks at the transcript and said, so here’s what this is. They said, here’s the headline transcript proves that the 60 minutes scandal was always fake. Trump’s complaints were always meritless, but CBS’s capitulation has set a dangerous precedent. For freedom of the press and they’re exactly right. Uh, so what was it that happened? The big issue. They released a short clip of the to tease the interview before it actually ran. They put in a question and they had her response to it. And then in the, um, in the actual program that followed up, they had the question and they had a different response from her.

And so Trump went ballistic and dictator Don sued him for $10 billion. And then when he became president, he stuck the FCC on him. Well, what was it that was actually happening with that? They said, now that you see the full clip and the full transcript, what you can see is that she gave a longer answer. And what they did was they just shortened that they, they cut out part of her longer answer and played it in one format and played the other part and the other format. And so in the face, the nation clip, uh, she was asked about Israel’s ongoing war in Gaza and the Biden administration’s dealings with Netanyahu.

And, um, when Whitaker notes that it seems that Netanyahu quote is not listening, she responds and says, 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 as a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. But then on the actual broadcast in response to the same question, she said, we’re not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the U S to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.

And so Trump said, well, that’s totally illegal and that is election interference to have that there because the shorter clip, she finally got her thoughts together. And he said, her real answer was crazy or dumb. He says that in all upper case projection. Uh, actually they replaced it with another answer. But when we see that the transcript released, we see that what happened was that, um, they just cut that section in half. And the first part of that, she’s kind of rambling as she’s trying to get her, her thoughts as such as they are into gear.

And then she finally gets it together into a wrap up. But as reason says, her full unedited answer is a combination of what aired in prime time and what aired on Sunday morning, separated only by the interstitial phrase. And we’re not going to stop doing that. Even if the cuts had been heavier, it is perfectly within a journalist discretion to edit an interviewee’s answers for purpose of clarity or brevity. So long as the edit does not distort, the answer is intent. She said both of those things back to back. One of them, they show in one format.

The other one, they show in another format. That’s it. And Trump won the election. So what’s the deal? Why is he weaponizing the FCC? Why is he setting up a dangerous precedent against the principle of free speech? Because he doesn’t support free speech. He doesn’t support the truth. He calls it truth, social mind. Yeah. Neither of Harris’s answers is particularly compelling. The first part, which aired on Face the Nation, is superficial. And her delivery is halting and it is stilted. And the portion that played in prime time, while it is more forceful and succinct, still doesn’t answer the question.

She looks bad in both of these clips. One of them, though, she appears to know what she’s saying when she doesn’t say anything at all. Yeah, you have to think about that, you know, as she would always like to say. But to say this constitutes a scandal, much less as Trump claimed that CBS switched out one answer for another is simply false, simply false. The release of the transcript and the raw footage lays bare just how fake this controversy always was. But the problem is that it establishes a dangerous precedent, a dangerous precedent just like Trump did with the bump stock stuff.

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