Three months after the election, there are still many questions about the partnership between the Kamala campaign and the dying national media. Brendan Carr released the complete nearly-hour-long interview CBS ’60 Minutes’ aired several weeks prior to Election Day.

The raw footage was revealed as CBS complied to a complaint filed by the Center for American Rights (a right-leaning legal firm) against the network for news distortion. This allegation was made after observers noticed a discrepancy between the teaser that CBS released before the full episode of “60 Minutes”, and the final version that aired, which showed Harris giving a different response to the same questions.

We now know that CBS’s explanation of the problem, that they merely used part of a longer response in the production which aired, is correct. This does not absolve the network from its questionable choice of cleaning up the newsworthy part of the interview in which Harris’s longer answer was hysterically confusing.

A highly suspicious omission in the final cut is a lengthy segment where Harris was not asked some convoluted questions on macro-economics or geopolitical issues, but rather why she wanted to be president. She said, “There are many, but, um, first of all, I believe in the promise that America offers,” in a monotonous, alarmingly slow tone. “I do. I love America. “You know, Americans are people with dreams and hopes and ambitions.

You can see Bill Whitaker’s eyes rolling backwards, but you cannot see him. This part was omitted for its banality. However, it is a question that the average voter wants answered, no matter how superficial or boring Harris’ answer may be.

Whitaker then asks a question that is a no-brainer: What was Harris’s reason for switching her position from one extreme to the other on almost every major issue?

This is what “60 Minutes'” said about the answer.

“In the past four years, I was vice president of the United States. I travelled the country and listened to people and sought out common ground. I believe in building a consensus. We are a diverse group of people – geographically, culturally and in terms where we come from. What the American people want is leaders who are able to build consensus. We can find compromises and realize that it is not bad as long as we don’t compromise our values in order to come up with common sense solutions. That’s my approach .”

What “60 Minutes'” aired in the end was a mashup and spliced-and-diced of two separate responses that Kamala gave, first, to the question of why her views have changed, and then, to a question of whether it was “evolution, or as your critics claim, opportunism.”

The program did not show the follow-up more critical question, and it omitted the majority of Harris’s response to the first one. This included a flippant comment where she said: “First of, many of the positions you are talking about were discussed and abandoned in 2020, which was four years ago.”

60 Minutes chose to use the positive part about “building consensus” instead of that negative bit which implies that Harris has simply abandoned her past policy positions for no reason at all ( No big deal!).

When the controversy erupted over the editing error last year, CBS declined to release the entire transcript as well as the footage of the interview. This was something that it did routinely with other interviews. It’s not possible. The election was not over, but the media continued to engage in a psychological campaign against voters, trying to convince them that she was someone she wasn’t.

Here is the full unedited Kamala Harris 60 Minutes interview, just released by the FCC https://t.co/LgNeNrSwDy pic.twitter.com/0iislBNJmS

— Mark Valorian (@markvalorian) February 5, 2025