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Hello again. How are you? This is raw video footage from 60 Minutes, the longstanding news magazine show on CBS. Last fall, veteran correspondent Bill Whitaker sat down with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
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I'm good. All right. Well, Madam Vice President... Whitaker kicked the interview off with questions about the Middle East and pressed Harris on the Biden administration's relationship with Israel's prime minister.
But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening. The Wall Street Journal said that he, that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided by Netanyahu. And, in fact, he has rebuffed just about all of your administration's entreaties.
The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region. And we're not going to stop doing that. We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
This answer and how it was edited has become the center of a storm involving President Trump, claims of election interference, and questions about media independence. This storm is also threatening an $8 billion merger that CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, desperately wants to get done. Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Leinbaugh.
It's Thursday, February 27th. Coming up on the show, Trump's fight against the news media runs headlong into a massive entertainment merger. Soon after 60 Minutes aired its interview with Harris, her opponent, Donald Trump, took to the stage at a campaign rally and asked his supporters a question.
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