CBS' 60 Minutes did a Clinton-Kaine interview yesterday
Can you guess what answers they edited out?
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"..... The Wikileaks news was breaking Saturday when CBS's Scott Pelley sat down with Clinton and her new running mate, Virginia senator Tim Kaine, for an interview that aired Sunday evening on 60 Minutes. There's plenty covered in the interview that ran on TV, but perhaps the newsiest topic of the day, the DNC turmoil, didn't make it into the broadcast. In a video posted under the banner of 60 Minutes Overtime and touted as an "unaired" clip from the interview, Pelley asked Clinton and Kaine about the leak. Clinton's answers—or, more accurately, her non-answers—on what she knew about DNC interference in the primary were…curious. Among them was Clinton's unwillingness to say any such intervention by the party committee to favor one candidate would be "improper."
Pelley began by reading some of the emails among DNC staff members suggesting ways to undermine Sanders's campaign. "Did you know anything about any of that?" he asked.
"No, I didn't know anything about it, and I haven't read any of those," Clinton responded.
Pelley kept pressing. "You have people in the Democratic National Committee who are supposed to be, if you will, agnostic about who the nominee is going to be, and they seem to have their thumb on the scale for you. They seem to be working against Bernie Sanders, their fellow Democrat."
"Again, I don't know anything, I don't know anything about, uh, about these emails. I haven't followed it," Clinton responded.
"In your view, any effort in the DNC to favor one candidate or another would have been improper?" Pelley asked.
"Again, I don't have any information about this, and so I can't answer specifically," Clinton said.
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And, finally, why did Clinton's suspect answers to the biggest political story of the moment not make it into CBS's TV broadcast? There was enough time to include in the aired version this softball question from Pelley: "What will be accomplished if you are elected the first woman president of the United States?" But Clinton's problematic response to a scandal rocking her own party gets relegated to the internet as a throwaway clip.
This isn't the first time CBS and 60 Minutes have done something like this. During the 2012 presidential election, CBS released a previously unaired clip from an interview between Steve Kroft and Barack Obama that seemed to back up the president's claim during a debate with Mitt Romney that he had, indeed, deemed the September 11 assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi as a terrorist attack. But, as Bret Baier pointed out at the time, just days before the election, CBS unceremoniously published the fuller portion of the interview that showed Obama contradicting himself on this point."
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