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CBS News Accused of Tampering with Hegseth Interview Details
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- SiriusXM’s Megyn Kelly accused CBS News’ “60 Minutes” of editing an interview with Pete Hegseth to suggest he addressed Israel’s role in U.S. strikes on Iran.
- The full interview revealed reporter Major Garrett asked Hegseth to respond to America First critics like Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, and Marjorie Taylor Greene claiming the strikes ignored American interests.
- Hegseth defended Trump’s America First approach citing 47 years of Iranian threats including missiles, drones, and nuclear pursuits killing thousands of Americans.
- Kelly blamed CBS’s pro-Israel agenda under editor-in-chief Bari Weiss for the deceptive edit.
- Trump previously sued CBS for similar editing of Kamala Harris’s Israel-Hamas comments leading to a $16 million settlement and executive resignations.
Megyn Kelly highlighted how the televised version narrated claims that Benjamin Netanyahu dragged the U.S. into conflict before cutting to Hegseth’s America First response.
This follows CBS’s history of controversy including Trump’s lawsuit over Harris’s edited interview.
“You mentioned America First,” Garrett said in the unedited version.
“Some who identify with that movement, Megyn Kelly, Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Marjorie Taylor Greene, have said from their perspective, this isn’t an America First campaign. Do you want to address that criticism?”
“All I know is, I’m in the room everyday and I see how Trump operates and what he’s putting first, and it’s America, Americans and American interests at every level,” Hegseth said.
“How long should our bases be tolerating thousands of short-range ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones pointing at our bases and other people? After 47 years of Americans being targeted and killed, the men I served with in combat in Iraq coming home with no arms or legs, targeted by Iranian EFPs, thousands of Americans killed. Beirut, you want to go back? We can go back to how long, I mean, the regime itself is premised on death to America. So 47 years, thousands of missiles, and an unrelenting pursuit of nuclear ambitions.”
“Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him, suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the U.S. into a war that, to their minds, did not put American interests first,” Garrett narrated.
“They do not give a shit about misleading you over at CBS,” Kelly said.
“The old CBS or the new CBS, which has a brand new agenda. The left will tell you that it’s pro-MAGA. It’s not pro-MAGA, trust me. Watch two minutes of the evening news or the morning news, it is not pro-MAGA at all. But it is pro-Israel. Bari Weiss has finally achieved her dream of running a news network that is entirely pro-Israel.”
Mainstream media manipulation undermines America First priorities; demand transparency now.
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