Wait until you see what they removed from Trump interview

[0:00] All right, this you have to see. Look at how pathetic this is. Remember when Trump sued CBS [0:06] News because 60 Minutes edited an interview with Kamala Harris and he claimed, you know, [0:11] they edited her answers in a way to make her look better, which is a form of election interference. [0:16] Therefore, you owe me billions of dollars and even suggested, oh, CBS should lose its broadcast [0:22] license. Well, you're going to love this. 60 Minutes just aired that Donald Trump interview [0:27] Sunday night. We covered it on Monday. And it turns out that now that we're able to compare what aired [0:32] to the full recording, CBS and 60 Minutes heavily edited it. They removed a whole bunch of Trump's [0:40] rambling. Trump's claims that the election was rigged. They removed all of it. And it makes [0:46] Trump look a lot less crazy, even though he still looked nuts in the interview. And now Donald Trump [0:51] is not threatening to sue CBS. On Sunday, the interview was conducted by Ross Douthat. I'm [1:00] taking another stab at the pronunciation. He's the conservative New York Times columnist. He joined [1:04] CBS under Barry Weiss. The segment on TV was about 27 minutes. That included narration. That included [1:12] transitions. So in reality, there was even less than 27 minutes of Trump talking. The interview, [1:18] as recorded, was about 52 minutes. So roughly half of it was removed. Now, before anybody says [1:26] editing interviews is inherently dishonest. Of course, it's not. There are shows that are edited [1:31] and shows that are not. Everybody, you know, many shows edit interviews. TV shows have time constraints. [1:37] You can remove repetition, tangent stuff that's not relevant. That's normal. And in fact, that's what CBS's [1:44] defense was when Trump sued them over the Kamala Harris interview. They said, we edit interviews. [1:47] That's what we do. And it's true. 60 minutes is a show that edits interviews. If you go on CNN and [1:52] do a 10 minute interview, it's live and it's not cut. If it's a live interview, everybody knows 60 [1:58] minutes is edited. But let's look at what CBS removed from Trump's interview. Now, this is going [2:02] to be I'm going to try to explain what we're going to see here. This is a really good edit from Juliet [2:07] Jeske, our friend over at Decoding Fox News. This is going to be tough if you're only listening. So I'm [2:12] going to explain what's going on. What Juliet did is she took the full interview. And what you're going [2:20] to see in color is what was part of the broadcast edit. And when the interview switches to black and [2:27] white, that is the stuff that was removed. Now, I am aware of the fact that for those who are just [2:32] listening today, it won't be obvious. So I'll kind of fill in some of the elements here. Okay, [2:38] so let's take a look at this. We are starting in full color with what was on the broadcast. And then [2:45] you will see in black and white what was removed. You came into office promising to make peace in [2:50] Ukraine. Yeah, there was still a war going on. What's the biggest obstacle to peace? [2:54] Uh, it was the hatred between Zelensky and Putin. Okay, so that was part of the broadcast. What was [3:02] the obstacle? It was the hatred between Zelensky and Putin. You're now going to hear what was part [3:07] of the recording and was not in the broadcast, which they later put up online. I believe that [3:14] we're very close to making a deal. And I think it, two things, if I were president, because as you know, [3:20] the, well, you're not going to admit it. The, it was rigged. So Trump said there, [3:26] the two things are, and that was part of the broadcast, but then he switches into now it's [3:32] black and white. This was cut. Um, it was rigged. You're not going to admit it, but it was rigged. [3:37] This is something that makes Trump look really stupid. The whole, it was rigged. It was rigged. [3:42] Most of the country doesn't believe that anymore. Republicans did for a while. They are making Trump [3:47] look less unhinged and more coherent by removing that. First, really quick, a word from our sponsor. [3:52] Ever make coffee, get distracted by something and realize your coffee is cold. It would happen [3:59] to my partner all the time. Sometimes I'd be in the middle of making my beautiful cappuccinos, [4:06] one for each of us in the morning, and she would have to go and bring our older daughter to daycare. [4:11] She gets home and it's lukewarm and she's got to microwave it. No more. We now have an Ember mug. [4:20] One of our sponsors, Ember, our Ember mug keeps her coffee at the exact temperature she wants. [4:28] It's 140 degrees, by the way, each sip stays beautifully hot. 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[5:26] Who do you trust more? President Putin or President Zelensky? [5:28] Well, I'd rather not say, but I get along with both. And in fact, we have a meeting. [5:34] Okay. So this entire, we have a meeting thing was removed from the broadcast. [5:39] We have a meeting. This show will air and the meeting will have taken place. It's going to be [5:44] on Saturday, but it's going to extend to Sunday and to Monday and to Tuesday. [5:49] And so you'll be seeing it. There's a very important meeting taking place. [5:54] I believe all of that was removed. The entire thing about this. Another meeting was totally [5:58] removed. Even that that war is going to end and it's going to end soon. And the only reason it's [6:02] going to end is because of me. There is tremendous hatred between President Putin. All right. It's [6:07] difficult because we have an audio audience, so I'm not going to keep doing this. But Juliet Jeske from [6:12] Decoding Fox News has a great three minute clip where you can go back and forth and you can judge [6:16] with the removed content. Does that help Trump or hurt Trump? I think it's obvious that Trump seems [6:21] a lot more together with the stuff that they removed. I mean, after all, he was asked about [6:26] Ukraine and he ends up talking about the rigged 2020 election. If you only watch the TV broadcast, [6:32] you didn't hear Trump go off into a tangent about a rigged election because Trump removed it. [6:37] They also shortened another exchange where Trump was talking about supplying Ukraine with weapons [6:43] and he made wacky claims about Barack Obama and they removed that. What they broadcast on TV was [6:49] this tight answer that makes it seem as though Trump is staying on topic when he isn't. And this [6:55] happened throughout the interview. Now, let's be precise here. I don't know why CBS made every [7:02] individual edit. Some of these edits may have been requested by the Trump team. We don't know what [7:09] oversight. The Trump team was given. They may have said, remove the thing about the weekend meeting [7:15] because we're not being public about that or something, right? Like you'd have to look at each [7:20] one of these things. 60 minutes shortens interviews and to say that they were deliberately protecting [7:27] Trump. Well, I don't know. But the effect of these edits is Trump doesn't seem like he's rambling [7:33] as much. Trump doesn't seem like he's lying as much. Trump seems more like he's responding to the question [7:41] rather than ranting in tangents. So that brings us back to the Kamala Harris interview from October of [7:48] 2024. Back in October of 2024, CBS aired different portions of Kamala Harris's response to a question [7:56] about Benjamin Netanyahu. And the the questions that the questions were from a face the nation preview [8:04] and then the subsequent 60 minutes broadcast. And Trump lost it. And he said CBS edited it deceptively [8:12] to help her and hurt me. It's election interference. I'm suing for $10 billion. Take away CBS's broadcast [8:19] license. And CBS said, listen, we edit for clarity in time. We do that for everybody. We use different [8:26] portions of the same answer, which is something that, uh, is what they do. But Trump didn't accept [8:34] it. And then in July of 2025, Paramount agreed to settle the lawsuit and they said, we'll give you [8:39] $16 million. And they allocated it towards Trump's presidential library and to legal costs. They didn't [8:44] admit any wrongdoing. They didn't make an apology. But the implications were, I mean, listen, uh, Paramount [8:51] at the time, remember, was looking for federal approval to merge with Skydance. And that merger [8:57] eventually went through and David Ellison took control and Barry Weiss was installed as the [9:02] editor in chief of CBS news. And now we see a Trump interview where they did all of the same stuff, [9:09] extensive editing, just like CBS edited Kamala Harris's interview. And there's kind of an irony [9:17] here because as part of the settlement, Paramount agreed to release transcripts of future presidential [9:26] candidate interviews with some exceptions. And to CBS's credit, they published the extended Trump [9:32] interview on YouTube. It wasn't hidden. You could go on and you could compare what was the edited version [9:37] and the non-edited version. But we now see, damn, Trump really benefited from the edit. It makes him [9:44] look less like a lunatic conspiracy theorist. It makes them look more coherent. So if editing an [9:51] interview is election interference when CBS does it to Kamala Harris, what is it when they do it to [9:57] Trump's interview? And if just removing parts of a lengthy answer is an acceptable reason for a [10:04] multi-billion dollar lawsuit, why isn't Trump furious now? Well, the objection wasn't ever really about [10:09] editing. Trump never established CBS fabricated Kamala Harris's answers. He just didn't like the way [10:16] they were presented. And now his own answers are being shortened and they're rearranged and they're [10:21] being cleaned up and it is no longer scandalous. It's now acceptable. Funny how that works, isn't it? [10:27] Well, I'm not very surprised.