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Megyn REVEALS How CBS Edited Actual Question to Hegseth on "America First" and Made it About Israel

Megyn REVEALS How CBS Edited Actual Question to Hegseth on "America First" and Made it About Israel

Megyn Kelly

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60 Minutes aired Major Garrett, my old pal from Fox News. This does not appear to have been his sin, though I don't know whether he signed off on this or not. This would have been an editorial call by the network. But they aired his interview with Secretary of War Pete Hegseth about what's happening in Iran. Here is part, okay, about, this is what actually aired, right, about Israel possibly dragging the United States into war. This is what was presented to the CBS audience.

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Some normally enthusiastic supporters of the president have criticized him, suggesting Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu pulled the US into a war that, to their minds, did not put American interests first. Do you want to address that criticism?

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All I know is I'm in the room every day, and I see how President Trump operates and what he's putting first, and it's America, Americans, and American interests.

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OK, so there you see Pete Hexeth defending Bibi Netanyahu's charges about Israel's interference in the war. Well, thanks to President Trump's complaint about 60 minutes edits of Kamala Harris's interview and how deceptive they were. CBS now posts the unedited interviews of newsmakers as well. And let me tell you, the question asked was very different.

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That was not the question that Major Garrett asked. He did not ask anything about BB Netanyahu or Israel, nor did then Pete go on to rehabilitate anything in response to Israel. All right, we took a look at the Hegseth interview in full. It's notable how the Q and a you saw never mentioned Israel at all. Only someone at CBS tried to go back and change the question to make it about Israel, such that the answer would then rehabilitate Israel, which isn't what actually happened. Look at this.

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This is the actual Q&A as it unfolded.

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You mentioned America first. 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?

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All I know is I'm in the room every day, and I see how President Trump operates and what he's putting first, and it's America, Americans, and American interests at every level. How long should our bases be tolerating thousands of short-range ballistic missiles

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thousands of short-range ballistic missiles and one-way attack drones

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