CBS News’ “60 Minutes” recently aired an interview with Vice President Kamala Harris about her 2024 presidential run. But keen-eyed social media users noticed that “60 Minutes” edited down her answer about Israel to cut out all the rambling and make her sound more coherent. However, it wasn’t just a simple edit. They appear to have copy-pasted an answer from another question! Glenn’s team reached out to CBS News for clarification, but has yet to receive a response. So, Glenn reviews what happened and how it appears to fit a growing trend: Kamala Harris is suddenly doing more interviews, but they’re more like propaganda pieces! Just this week, she had a beer with Stephen Colbert and was introduced as “the next president” by The View. But at least she answered one question honestly during that interview …
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GLENN: Okay. So yesterday, president Trump's campaign insisted that 60 Minutes. CBS News released an unedited transcript. They must release an unedited transcript, of vice president Kamala Harris' entire 60 Minutes interview.
Now, this came after her word salad about Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, was cut from Monday's broadcast.
And it looks as though, it was a cut and paste job.
The dramatic edit was made after 60 Minutes correspondent, Bill Whitaker noted that it seems like Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
So her response to Monday night's show, was completely different. And far more coherent, than her rambling answer showcased in the preview clip that was released on Saturday.
So we wrote to 60 Minutes. We gave them until 9 o'clock Eastern to respond. We said, we want to give you the benefit of the doubt. Maybe you edited the clip down for time.
As often happens, in these pretaped interviews, but we looked into it for ourselves.
And sure enough, the answer she originally gave, and then CBS aired on Face the Nation, doesn't match what made it into their final edit of 60 Minutes, and it wasn't due to time.
Listen, here's her original answer.
VOICE: Does the US have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
VOICE: The aid that we have given Israel, allowed Israel to defend itself, against 200 ballistic missiles, that were just meant to attack the Israelis and the people of Israel.
And when we think about the threat that Hamas, Hezbollah presents, Iran.
I think that it is without any question, our imperative to do what we can, to allow Israel to defend itself against those kinds of attacks.
Now, the work that we do diplomatically. With the leadership of Israel. Is an ongoing pursuit, around making clear, our principles. Which include the need for humanitarian aid. The need for this war to end.
The need for a deal to be done, which would release the hostages. And -- and create a cease-fire.
And we're not going to stop, in terms of putting that pressure on Israel, and in the region.
Including Arab leaders.
VOICE: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
KAMALA: 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.
GLENN: What? What does that -- okay.
STU: Huh.
GLENN: Now, here's what it sounds like, on air.
With their totally unbiased editing magic marker, a day later.
VOICE: Does the US have no sway over Prime Minister Netanyahu?
KAMALA: The work that we do diplomatically with the leadership of Israel, is an ongoing pursuit.
Around making clear our principles.
VOICE: But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
KAMALA: 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.
GLENN: Wow!
STU: That's from a different part of the interview.
VOICE: -- ally in Prime Minister Netanyahu?
KAMALA: I think with all due respect, the better question is, do we have an important alliance between the American people and the Israeli people?
And the answer to that is yes.
GLENN: Sound more coherent? Sound more certain. Sound more presidential.
Yes! That answer, by the way, Stu was right. Is from a different part of the interview.
What we ask 60 Minutes to explain, their apparent in kind contribution to the Harris campaign. We said, greetings. An X user noticed severe edits to VP Harris' answer to the 60 Minutes interview regarding Netanyahu from the time the clip aired on Face the Nation to the final export yesterday.
That we attached both the edited and unedited.
It doesn't appear to be edited for time. Rather, a cut and paste answer from a different question.
Can you provide an explanation to the Glenn Beck Program and Blaze news, as to why this edit was made?
There are claims of bias and selective edits to makes Vice President Harris' answer appear more coherent. Our deadline is 9:00 a.m. Eastern tomorrow. We have not received, surprise, surprise, a response, from CBS News.
So are you getting anything, that is real?
Well, JD Harris pointed out. Or J.D. Vance pointed out yesterday, that, yeah. You -- you did get an honest answer from The View. Listen to what he said.
VOICE: But she walks into The View, and you would think that would be an interview. And you think that would be an easy question.
Really, propaganda. They said, can you name a single thing, where you disagree with Joe Biden?
Now, let's back up for a second. Because remember, Kamala Harris' entire campaign is to pretend that she hasn't been the vice president for the past three and a half years. You know, she stands up before crowds. And she will say on day one.
We will tackle the affordability crisis. On take one, we will secure the border. And you listen to her for five minutes. And you think, Kamala, are you going to vote for Donald Trump? Because you've been president for 1400 days. You haven't done anything.
(applauding)
So you think, after all this time, all this time, of thinking about how she would do things differently from Joe Biden.
She would have a well-prepared answer, for the interviewers on The View.
Well, they ask her one thing you would do differently from Joe Biden. You know what she says? I can't really think of anything off the top of my head.
GLENN: Wow.
VOICE: Now, in her defense, I'm not sure she could think of anything off the top of her head, whether about Joe Biden's policies or anything else.
GLENN: That is an incredible statement, that she made.
Now, Brian Stelter, who strangely is back on CNN.
STU: Yeah. Yeah.
GLENN: Said that he called The View, before she went on. Here's what he said. Cut two.
VOICE: She's also on The View tomorrow, talking to producers of The View last night.
They have some sharp questions for her as well. And let's remember, sometimes it's these non-traditional formats, that actually reveal a lot about a candidate.
GLENN: Uh-huh. So here is the View introducing Kamala.
VOICE: Please, welcome back the next president of the United States.
(applauding)
GLENN: Very sharp.
STU: Oh, yeah. Very sharp question.
GLENN: Very, very sharp.
STU: I will say, I agree with Stelter on that point though.
Oftentimes, it's not some big adversarial interview, where you get these good moments. I mean, this is the best moment of any of the things she's done so far. The thing that J.D. Vance was just highlighting.
Her admitting that, which is a massive strength for her campaign.
So far, she's been able to avoid responsibility, for Joe Biden.
And the fact that she just threw that out there, with no exceptions.
I mean, I don't know.
I think partially because she feels like she's in a safe zone.
She's able to kind of just let down her hair a little bit.
And blurt out things that are really helpful to her opponent.
GLENN: But can I ask. She's. Most of America is not in a safe zone right now.
I mean, you have the results of one hurricane. And another one, coming tonight.
Massive. Could be one of the biggest ones that has hit Tampa, in Florida. Of all time!
And she's last night, on Steven Colbert.
STU: Oh, yeah.
GLENN: Drinking a beer with him. Listen to this.
GLENN: But elections are won on vibes.
They just want someone they can have a beer with.
GLENN: Would you like to have a beer with me, so I can tell people what that's like?
This was. Now, we asked ahead of time. I can't just be able to drink to the vice president of the United States. You asked for Miller High Life.
I'm just curious.
KAMALA: Okay. The last time I had beer was at a baseball game with Doug. Okay. Cheers.
VOICE: There you go.
There she is. Cheers for drinking a beer.
VOICE: It tastes like the city of Milwaukee.
KAMALA: The champagne of beers.
VOICE: There you go.
STU: How pathetic. Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Like she's picking her beers based on swing states?
GLENN: Right. Right. Right.
STU: It's like, give me a break.
GLENN: But I really like that small brewery, right there in Nevada, and another one really in Arizona is very, very good.
STU: Don't sleep on Georgia and North Carolina.
GLENN: Yeah.
STU: Yeah. No. It's pretty pathetic.
GLENN: So what is -- you said this earlier.
What is the strategy change?
Why is it that she's suddenly doing all these interviews?
I think it is because they know they're in trouble.
I think there's been a shift in the polls.
And so she is doing all of these television shows, all friendly.
STU: Uh-huh. Not all -- well, yeah.
Look, there are -- nothing adversarial. You could argue 60 Minutes should be at least is a mainstream normal candidate type environment.
GLENN: Until they edit it.
STU: Until they edit it.
She did face the nation, I think too. Over the weekend. And then she did, of course, the podcast. She's done now the late night shows.
She did The View. She's going everywhere.
This is a massive change in strategy. They have been running this campaign for two or three months. The exact same way.
Keep her out of -- off TV. Just keep her on script, in front of an audience.
Get her in and out. Never have her face a question. The strategy was clear, for multiple months.
Now, all of a sudden, she's everywhere?
That is a massive change. This is a huge development in the campaign.
GLENN: So my gut would say, that the hurricane has changed an awful lot.
STU: Okay.
GLENN: But I'm not sure.
I haven't watched. I have been so busy, all over, everywhere.
I haven't watched mainstream media.
Are they even covering?
Or are they just debunking. Saying. No. FEMA is everywhere.
These are crazy Trump supporters that are saying that. Is there any -- is there any peek behind the curtain, from the mainstream media?
STU: My impression is that they are covering the hurricane. And what's happening to people.
But they are not associating it with a bad response for Kamala Harris.
Or Joe Biden, or anybody else.
I haven't seen that type of coverage. Outside of conservative media.
But they are covering it.
I don't think they're hiding.
I have seen a lot of coverage about it. I had some theories about it. Run them by you.
You pick one. You kind of already selected one. Let me give it to you already. Why has Kamala Harris, all of a sudden, on TV, all the time, doing interviews everywhere?
One, could be public pressure finally getting to the campaign. We've been talking about it for months. Why isn't she doing interviews?
Why isn't she doing interviews? She's even being asked in the occasional interviews that she does, why aren't you out there anymore?
Maybe that finally got to her campaign. Possibility one.
Possibility two. Could be a planned shift in strategy.
Could be that she said, at the outset of this campaign. Let's wait. Let me get up to speed. On all these things.
She wasn't planning on doing a million interviews.
Maybe she's slow walking it.
And doing a blitz in the last month.
It was a planned change in -- change in strategy from the beginning of the campaign.
GLENN: Uh-huh.
STU: Possibility number three.
Could be Kamala Harris.
Frustration behind the scenes. Now pushing back against her handlers.
We have seen this. We saw it with Joe Biden. Of course, it was the same strategy with Joe Biden, no. Don't go out there. Don't do anything. He was behind the scenes saying, I can do it. You're not letting me go out there. You're not letting Joe be Joe. And he pushed himself out there.
And, of course, wound up blowing up his campaign.
Could be the same type of thing from Kamala. She may be thinking, you're restraining me.
That's why I'm not winning by more.
Number four, could be that they're looking at internal polls and indicators. And thinking to themselves.
We're in real trouble here.
Something has changed in the past couple of weeks.
Maybe it's the hurricane. Maybe it's something else. We're in real trouble.
Another possibility.
I mean, I'm just kind of throwing these things out there.
GLENN: I've got one for you.
STU: Okay. You've got another one?
GLENN: Maybe the polls are so good. They don't care. They're internal polling.
Now, I don't believe that.
STU: You think it's so -- why would you change strategies, if things were so good?
GLENN: Because I agree with the one, you know, she's like, look, I could be winning by a large margin. You're restraining me.
STU: So kind of the sister of that one. Yeah.
GLENN: And they think they're safe. So why not?
I don't believe that. But that is another possibility.
STU: Another possibility for you, pressure from donors.
You know, maybe donors are like, look, we're not giving you more money, until you actually go out there and get your message out there. We think it's important. That does happen with donors sometimes. It's kind of like, you see this in foreign countries, when there's a war going on.
There's a bunch of people who are kind of pressuring the administration to do X, Y, and Z. Could be the donors are coming to the table. Hey, you're not blowing them out. Because you're sitting back there. And everyone knows you're hiding.
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STU: So...
GLENN: Which one do you buy?
STU: The other one I put, the belief is maybe this campaign is actually hurting her.
And I certainly wouldn't select that one.
I think it's probably a combination.
But I do think that, they probably are seeing this, and seeing some internal indicators, thinking that they're seeing the beginning signs of trouble.
They probably are polling on the issue, and saying, and asking the question.
Internally.
Do -- is Kamala. You know, a version of essentially. Is Kamala Harris hiding?
Do you think Kamala Harris is not putting her positions out there?
Is she not speaking enough?
That stuff you can kind of test. And they might see negative reactions on this.
You look at this. You could say, it might be a tick ahead. You could say it's tied.
But they certainly don't believe that it should be tied.
They think Donald Trump is the worst person of all time.
GLENN: Right.
Well, here's another reason.
Here's Kamala Harris on Howard Stern. Listen to this. Cut 22, please.
KAMALA: To your point, I literally lose sleep. And have been over what is at stake in this election. I mean, honestly, I -- I end the day, pretty much every day, these days, asking myself, what can I do more?
STU: You know, there's a lot of reporting from inside the Kamala Harris campaign, about disappointment, that she is not doing more.
That she is not doing a lot of public events. That she is taking days off, all over the place.
Leading up to this campaign. And that also could be fueling this media blitz.
GLENN: Donald Trump is a machine, man.
STU: He's all over the place. And J.D. Vance is all over the place.
GLENN: Everywhere. Everywhere.
I mean, I went to North Carolina, then I went to Kansas City.
And I had to do the show in between all of those.
So I was just not getting much sleep. I was exhausted yesterday.
And I thought, how is Donald Trump holding this schedule for this long? And he's bright-eyed and bushy-tailed. The guy has not slowed down. It's amazing.
STU: It's hard to argue that about Trump.
GLENN: He is a machine. He is a machine.