Speaker 1: I want to be crystal clear on something. CBS as
a station, as a network, it's gone. It's literally been
completely taken over by this corrupt administration, and that, my friends,
could not be clearer from this weekend. I say that because,
just hours before Sixty Minutes was set to air, this major,
major investigation into deportees who were sent by the Trump
administration to El Salvador. I'm referring to those men who
believed that they were being returned to Venezuela but were
instead delivered to that notorious maximum security prison CBS. CBS
literally abruptly pulled the segment for no reason at all
other than simply because the administration said to do it.
Let me show you what it says in it. This
is the editor's note. The broadcast lineup for tonight's edition
of Sixty Minutes has been updated. Our report inside Seacott
will air in a future broadcast with that I call
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this stupidity. Now, my friends, this comes after CBS had
already promoted and teased the trailer of the episode literally
hours before play the clip. You know, I wrote in
my sub stack of the other day, more than thirty
five people have already died in ice detainee. Imagine that
for just the last couple of days. So yeah, when
he says he thought that he was going to die,
there absolutely Now here's the worst part. We can actually
all of us see why Barry Weiss and the new
team over at CBS would pull the plug on such
a story. It's not that hard to see. The story
reportedly detailed alleged brutal conditions like the shackling, beatings, isolation,
sexual abuse, torture. These are crimes against humanity, explaining that
the United States didn't just know about it, that the
United States actually went so far and enabled it. But
of course, then the story suddenly vanished, just like these
folks did. CBS. They gave a vague editorial note literally
followed by complete silence as outrage broke out online. But
my friends, what's really important here to understand is that
this didn't happen in a vacuum. Oh hell no. For
weeks now, weeks, Trump regime has been openly attacking CBS
and sixty Minutes. Trump personally demanded apologies from the network,
lashed out, literally lashed out a journalists by name, and
then accused the show of mistreating him and all, all
while at the same time CBS executives were resigning citing
compromise journalistic independence. And that, my friends, is the context
of what's taking place here, you see, including Trump posting
on truth social For those people that think I am
close with the new owners of CBS, please understand that
sixty minutes has treated me. It's all worse since the
so called takeover than they have ever treated me before.
If they are friends, I'd hate to see my enemies,
and also stating at a rally that sixty minutes treated
him worse under this new administration, under this new ownership,
that he just wasn't going to accept it. Play the clip.
Speaker 2: They'd doun screaming, but NBC's really bad and CBS, I mean,
I love the new owners of CBS. Something happens to
him though sixty minutes has treated me worse under the
new ownership than they just keep treating me.
Speaker 1: They just keep hitting me. It's crazy, Yeah, it's not crazy.
What they're doing is not hitting you. The fact that
you don't like what they're talking about does not constitute
hitting you. No one's physically touching you. They're asking questions.
They are bringing issues to the forefront, which, by the way,
is exactly what sixty minutes has done now for what
over fifty years. So you don't like what they're talking about, Okay,
how about this. Maybe don't let your people go on
television on sixty minutes. Maybe you don't do sixty minutes.
Maybe instead what you do is you use sixty minutes,
You use CBS to use the parent company, and you
threaten them to pull their license, their FCC license. You
go ahead and you sue them for billions of dollars.
You're holding up things like mergers or acquisitions that they're
trying to do. And what do you garner from that?
You garner from that the ability to dictate what goes
on air and what isn't. My friends, you know what
that's called. That's called state sponsored media. That's the same
bullshit that takes place in I don't know, Saudi Arabia,
in Russia, it takes place in not in democracies, but
in autocracies and dictatorships and monarchy. This is exactly what
which in Russian means truth is all about. It is
state sponsored media and that is unconstitutional. Now this is
happening while at the same exact time that the FCC
chair literally openly admitted in a congressional testimony hearing that
the FCC is not independent. It blew me away when
I listened to this guy say that that the FCC
is not independent and has selectively targeted media outlets that
are critical a President Trump, while literally leaving Fox untouched,
unscathed to do as they wish. Political pressure is no
longer subtle. It's actually overt. Play the clip.
Speaker 3: See an independent agency.
Speaker 4: Santra, Thanks for that question, I think is all he
needs are yes, you know, is it independent? Oh there's
a test for this in the law, in the key
portion that oh, Brendan, the key portion of that test.
Speaker 3: Okay, I'm going to go to commissioner trustee. So just
so you know, Brendan, on your website, it just simply says, man,
the FCC is independent. This isn't a trick question.
Speaker 1: Okay, yes, yes?
Speaker 3: Is not?
Speaker 1: Okay? Is not?
Speaker 2: So?
Speaker 3: Is your website wrong? Is your website lying?
Speaker 1: Possibly? The SEC is not an independent agency?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 3: Can I read this to you The FCC's mission on
the home page of the FCC man an independent US
government agency overseen by Congress? Is that factual?
Speaker 1: Or is that a lie?
Speaker 4: The FC is not formally is independent?
Speaker 1: Is this true? Or is this a lie? I'm not
an answer question.
Speaker 4: Okay, I'll get back by the president.
Speaker 3: Chairman, I have a little bit of a time.
Speaker 4: I'll get back to yess is not an independent agency
formally speaking.
Speaker 3: Appreciate you saying that and being honest with the American people.
Speaker 4: Commission Trustee, Senator, thank you for the question. The President
is the chief of chief executive vested with all executive
power in our government, and FCC commissioners are not. We
do not have four cause removal protections, which means that
we aren't independent.
Speaker 3: So is your website line?
Speaker 4: I can't speak to the website.
Speaker 1: I've not seen that.
Speaker 4: You all are the commissioners in charge of this place, right,
so this stuff has to be approved.
Speaker 3: I want of you. If this is lying, then you
should just fix it. Let me just say that that
wasn't even my gotcha question, and I'm surprised that I've
burned up three minutes talking about this damn thing. Commissioner Gomes, Yes,
and we should be. I appreciate that. Well, mister Chairman,
if I could just admit the print out of the
homepage of the FCC into the record, mand it says
it's an independent agency and if it's not true, then change.
Speaker 1: It without objection. Okay, what's changing a website have to do?
Of course, the FCC should be, as the last commissioner stated,
it should be independent. You know, you can't have the
president of the United States. You cannot have his regime,
his administration, his group of acolytes, sycophants and enablers sitting
there and telling somebody, well, unless you do what we want,
we're going to pull your license. We're not going to
approve a merger or a transfer or whatever it might be.
That's not the way that the system is supposed to work.
That's not the way that you get unbiased news, which
is what news is supposed to be. You see, what's
happened is when you start to look at whether it's
the MSNBC's, the CNN's, the Fox Newses, et cetera, the
cable news. It's no longer by partisan. It's no longer
just factually accurate. It has become opinion. It's one opinion
after the other, and those who cackle the loudest end
up seeing to get the greatest ratings. This is what
state aligned media looks like. That's why independent media matters.
It's why places like this Matter might have touched network
my Maya Culpa podcast political beatdown that I do with
Ben my Cells. That's why these matter. These independent media
sources matter now more than ever because without it, without it,
the st worries, they just get buried. They get buried
as if they never exist. How could you possibly sit
there and accept the fact that you have three commissioners
of the FCC right there on the hill Trustee Commissioner.
Trustee turns around and says, well, she doesn't know. She
didn't review the website. You are the commissioner, for God's sakes, seriously,
and you don't know what your own website says. You See.
What the congress member should have done is ask her.
Let's take a moment, and I will burn up all
my time here. I would like for you to take
a moment. This is the area. I would like for
you to read to yourself and tell me yes or
no whether or not the FCC is or is not independent.
You see, on my time as a congressman, I'm going
to teach you about an agency that you are a
commissioner of. How stupid does that sound to you? Because
I can tell you the American people think it's worse
than stupid. You see, going back to independent media, what
we've actually built together. Why this Michael Cohen Show is
now exploding, It's because it's proof positive that corporate news
doesn't own the truth the people do. We do, and
we're going to continue to put it out there every
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