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White House releases raw footage of Trump's '60 Minutes' interview

 

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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during the final 2020 U.S. presidential campaign debate with Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden at Belmont University in Nashville, Tennessee, U.S., October 22, 2020. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst

 

(Reuters) - The White House on Thursday released raw footage from an interview that U.S. President Donald Trump did with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl, breaking an agreement to keep material from the highly-anticipated clash private until an edited version could air this weekend.

 

The footage shows Stahl, a veteran journalist who has interviewed Trump twice before, asking direct questions and refuting some of Trump's answers on topics including healthcare and the government's response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

 

"Look at the bias, hatred and rudeness on behalf of 60 Minutes and CBS," Trump said in post on his Twitter profile on Thursday morning, with a link to his Facebook page, where he posted the nearly 38 minute interview.

 

The Facebook post quickly gained attention, garnering more than 26,000 comments in less than two hours.

 

The White House had kept a single-frame copy of the interview, in which only Trump is visible but Stahl can be heard asking questions. It shows Trump repeatedly asking Stahl and her employer, CBS News, to ask tough questions of Democratic rival Joe Biden ahead of the Nov. 3 election.

 

The White House on Thursday released raw footage from an interview that U.S. President Donald Trump did with "60 Minutes" reporter Lesley Stahl, breaking an agreement to keep material from the highly-anticipated clash private until an edited version could air this weekend. This report produced by Chris Dignam.

 

CBS News, a division of ViacomCBS Inc <VIACA.O> and the network that airs "60 Minutes," blasted Trump's "unprecedented decision" to disregard an agreement to keep the footage private, but said the move would not defer the show "from providing its full, fair and contextual reporting which presidents have participated in for decades."

 

The interview, which took place on Tuesday, will air on Sunday on "60 Minutes," alongside interviews with Biden, his running mate Senator Kamala Harris and Vice President Mike Pence.

 

Trump said on the tape that the country has "turned a corner" in its battle with the pandemic and that he believes masks are an effective tool to prevent transmission.

 

The president also said he hopes the Supreme Court will "end" Obamacare and that he would then replace it with a less-expensive plan "that will take care of people with pre-existing conditions."

 

(Reporting by Ernest Scheyder, Editing by Rosalba O'Brien)

 

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1 hour ago, Paul Henry said:

Don't cry Donald you have taken your bat and ball and gone home, Fox and your friend there will fix it for you and say the other team didn't play by your rules. Don't cry every thing will look good when Fox show the  sixty minute video, and your tame clowns sorry supporter will still adore you.

And they still will adore him when he is in jail crying

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16 minutes ago, evadgib said:

You should embargo that post until 4th November, as should the serial emoji stalkers.

The same should be said of your own post. For the moment all those predictions 'he'll win with a landslide's are nothing more than wishfull thinking.

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42 minutes ago, stevenl said:

The same should be said of your own post. For the moment all those predictions 'he'll win with a landslide's are nothing more than wishfull thinking.

My post was clearly aimed at a future event whereas the one I replied to implied that Trump's term would expire after 4 years...

 

A year ago we Brits saw our election plagued on this website by Ponti's (Posters Of No Tactical Importance, ie they're neither citizens nor on the electoral register of the country they routinely slag off). I am a Ponti in this particular instance which is why I rarely stick a toe into the Trump threads but chose to pipe-up on this occasion as it was becoming a little one sided.

 

I am optimistic that the Ponti's plaguing this thread are as wrong as ours were last year ????

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