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Yahoo
a day ago
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Fact Check: Checking Trump's claim CBS removed online evidence of his interview with Stephen Colbert
Claim: CBS deleted a 2015 episode of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" featuring an interview with U.S. President Donald Trump from its website; the network has also not made certain clips from the episode available on YouTube. Rating: What's True: The episode in question is not available on CBS' own website — as of this writing (only the latest season of the show, from 2025, is available). Also, some specific exchanges in the interview aren't on YouTube. What's False: However, multiple segments of the 2015 interview between Colbert and Trump are available on CBS' YouTube page. On May 30, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump shared a clip of his 2015 appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" and implied that CBS deliberately hid the episode from online viewers. "You are not supposed to see this video," alleged the post on Truth Social, the president's social media platform. "CBS DELETED this entire episode from their official website. You will not find these segments on YouTube either." (Truth Social user @realDonaldTrump) Apparent supporters of the president reposted his claim with video on X (archived) and Facebook. However, Trump's claim about CBS is misleading. It is true that the 2015 episode featuring Trump's appearance on "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" is not on CBS' official website — but that is likely because the network's website only has recent episodes available. Furthermore, CBS posted segments from Trump's interview on YouTube, and those clips remain online as of this writing. Thus, we rate this claim a mixture of truth and falsehood. The landing page for "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" on CBS' website is here; at the time of publication, it only shows episodes from Season 10. The earliest episode available as of this writing is from May 5, 2025. The clip Trump posted is from a Sept. 22, 2015, appearance on the show; as such, it is a much older episode than the ones available on CBS' official website. On Sept. 23, 2015, the verified "Late Show" YouTube account posted this approximately four-minute clip from the interview with Trump: The YouTube video has over 17 million views as of this writing. One of the exchanges featured in the clip Trump posted — the audience cheering after Trump says, "we're going to build a wall" at 0:52 — is included in the segment posted on YouTube. (The "Late Show" YouTube account also published another video of Trump's 2015 appearance; that clip has over 2 million views.) The rest of the exchanges featured in Trump's video are not included in the "Late Show" YouTube clips but are available to view on the Internet Archive. An unaffiliated YouTube user also uploaded the interview, including some of the exchanges Trump featured in his post, demonstrating that people can, in fact, find multiple segments of the 2015 "Late Show" interview with Trump available on YouTube. The video Trump shared also appeared to frame the interview as more complimentary of the president. For example, in one moment, host Stephen Colbert said: "I want to thank you for running for president, because I'm not going to say this stuff writes itself, but you certainly do deliver it on time every day." However, the video Trump posted cuts off before Colbert reaches the punchline — "you certainly do deliver it on time every day" — making the bit sound less like a joke and more like straightforward praise. This is not the first time Trump has falsely claimed that CBS tried to suppress his 2015 "Late Show" interview. News outlets reported in 2018 that Trump reposted a video of the interview on X, then known as Twitter, with either the same or similar messaging and editing as his 2025 Truth Social post. The 2018 clip Trump reposted is no longer available on the original X page because the account got suspended, but Colbert responded in an Oct. 18, 2018 post on the same platform and linked to the same YouTube videos as above: At the time, The Associated Press reported that a spokeswoman for CBS said full episodes of "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" are only available to stream online 30 days after the initial airing. That statement appears to align with the timeline of which episodes are available online as of this writing. We reached out to CBS to confirm that this timeline is still in place and will update this story if they respond. Bowden, John. "Trump Shares Tweet Claiming CBS Suppressed His Appearance on Colbert." The Hill, 30 Oct. 2018, Accessed 2 June 2025. CBS. "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert." Paramount, Accessed 2 June 2025. "CBS Not Hiding Trump's Televised Interview on Comedian's Show." AP News, 21 May 2019, Accessed 2 June 2025. Colbert, Stephen. "I Don't Know Why the President Would Take Time on a National Day of Mourning to Retweet Something Weird like This, but the Original Clips Have Always Been Online. 16 Million Views. Here They Are: X (Formerly Twitter), 29 Oct. 2018, Accessed 2 June 2025. The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. "Donald Trump Has Nothing to Apologize For." YouTube, YouTube Video, 23 Sept. 2015, Accessed 2 June 2025. ---. "Trump or Colbert." YouTube, 23 Sept. 2015, Accessed 2 June 2025. "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert : KPIX : September 22, 2015 11:35pm-12:38am PDT : Free Borrow & Streaming : Internet Archive." Internet Archive, Accessed 2 June 2025. V Supreme. "(1/3) Donald Trump, Stephen Colbert Interview (September 2015)." YouTube, 14 Feb. 2019, Accessed 2 June 2025.
Fox News
2 days ago
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- Fox News
Credibility Crisis: Biden's late-night allies go quiet after damning cognitive decline revelations
The most outspoken late-night hosts have gone silent amid the recent revelations of Joe Biden's cognitive decline after years-long cozy relationships with the former president. The reporting of "Original Sin" authors Jake Tapper of CNN and Alex Thompson of Axios has sparked a political firestorm and has critics taking aim at Biden's defenders in the Democratic Party as well as his allies in the media over the cover-up. Despite all the headlines the book has generated, liberal comedians Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Seth Meyers have not mentioned any of the revelations, according to Grabien transcripts. Colbert and Kimmel were such staunch supporters of Biden that they both emceed star-studded campaign fundraisers in 2024 before Biden was forced out of the presidential race following his disastrous debate performance. Notably, Kimmel emceed the now-infamous Los Angeles fundraiser that was highlighted in "Original Sin," where Biden appeared not to have recognized celebrity fundraiser co-host George Clooney in an exchange backstage. Kimmel could also be seen in the viral video of Biden freezing on stage and being escorted away by former President Barack Obama. At the time, Kimmel insisted there was no there there. "There's a clip of Joe Biden going around today. They say he froze and had to be escorted offstage on Saturday night. I was standing right next to him when it happened. He didn't freeze. He was just listening to the people calling him in the front row," Kimmel told his audience before slamming "right-wing media" for "working very hard to claim Biden's out of it" last June. The liberal hosts have all welcomed Biden for friendly interviews, the last time being on "Late Night with Seth Meyers" in February 2024, just days after the release of the Hur report. Meyers gently broached the subject of Biden's age before quickly moving on to other topics. Special Counsel Robert Hur, who conducted the investigation into Biden's mishandling of classified documents, wrote in his report that he declined to bring charges against the former president in part because a jury would likely not find him guilty due to a perception that he was a "sympathetic, well-meaning elderly man with a poor memory." Mentioned in his report was how Biden couldn't remember key dates, like when his son Beau died or when he was vice president. Earlier this month, the audio recordings of Hur's interview with Biden were released, leaving many critics to say Hur actually downplayed Biden's struggles in their Oct. 2023 sit-down. When Hur first released his findings, the late-night hosts either dismissed or ignored the damning report. Colbert mocked the "bombshell" revelation that Hur found that Biden was "old." "Kinda going off road in a report about classified documents," Colbert reacted. "We fact-checked this last Thursday, and it turns out Joe Biden is old. I said double-check, and today, it turns out he's older." "Here's the thing, Hur's extracurricular description of the president reinforces a concern many voters already have about his advanced age. But we are where we are. Unless something drastic happens it's Biden versus Trump. Voters are just going to have to choose between a 'sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory' or a contemptible malicious elderly rapist with a poor memory," Colbert later told his audience. Meyers called Hur's comments a "gratuitous hypothetical" and stressed that Hur was a "Republican attorney" who "was originally appointed by Trump." "If that kind of language was appropriate in a legal finding, then prosecutors could have done the same thing to Trump," Meyers said before repeatedly drawing attention to Trump's mental acuity. While addressing Hur's testimony to Congress, Meyers insisted that Hur's description of Biden was "contradicted by the transcript" and panned his admission that during his interview with Biden he told the president he had a "photographic understanding and recall" of his house. "Wait, I'm sorry, Joe Biden has a photographic understanding and recall but you didn't put that in your report? Why?" Meyers reacted incredulously during an April 2024 monologue. "That's way more shocking than saying he has a poor memory. It doesn't surprise me at all that an 81-year-old has trouble remembering some names or dates." Both Colbert and Meyers similarly shrugged off The Wall Street Journal report of Biden showing "signs of slipping" in June 2024, weeks before Biden's ill-fated debate. Colbert ridiculed the Journal and its findings, saying the paper thought "'Old man is old' is breaking news." "The Wall Street Journal published an article yesterday that claims 'Biden appears to be slipping in private meetings.' He keeps saying crazy stuff that makes no sense like, 'A convicted felon is beating me in the polls,'" Meyers joked. Kimmel, meanwhile, completely avoided the Hur report and The Wall Street Journal report, according to transcripts. The ABC host did, however, roast conservatives for insisting Biden would be replaced on the Democratic ticket, saying it "almost makes no sense" within days of Biden's debate.
Yahoo
3 days ago
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Trump reignites feud with CBS over ‘deleted' Colbert interview - years after his claim was debunked
President Donald Trump posted a video claiming that CBS 'deleted' his 2015 interview with Stephen Colbert, resurfacing a debunked claim against one of his favorite recent rivals. Late on Friday, the president reposted a Facebook video on his Truth Social account containing heavily edited clips of his September 2015 interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. A message next to the video states: 'You are not supposed to see this video. CBS DELETED this entire episode from their official website. You will not find these segments on YouTube either.' However, a quick search on YouTube showed otherwise. Clips from the Trump-Colbert interview are still available to be watched on the official Late Show account. One video has 17 million views. The Independent has reached out to the White House and CBS for comment. Both the YouTube video and Trump's post include a portion of the interview in which Trump, then a candidate, touts his plans to build a wall, prompting the audience to cheer. 'Oh, listen to this, even with your crowd –' Trump begins. Colbert interjects: 'They love the wall. People love the wall.' Strangely, this isn't the first time that Trump has made this claim. The president appears to have reposted that same video in his first term in October 2018. Hours later, Colbert posted on X: 'I don't know why the president would take time on a National Day of Mourning to retweet something weird like this, but the original clips have always been online. 16 million views.' The comedian attached two links to YouTube clips from the episode in question. A CBS spokesperson at the time told the Associated Press that full episodes of The Late Show are only available to stream online 30 days after the initial airing. Trump's Friday Truth Social post marked the latest move in his feud with CBS. The president has repeatedly expressed his ire at CBS' 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. He has sued the network for $20 million, claiming it used 'deceitful editing' to advantage the then-vice president. CBS filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month, arguing: 'This lawsuit is an affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact.' In response, this week Trump's lawyers claimed he suffered 'mental anguish' as a result of the interview. His legal team also accused to the network of seeking 'to wield the First Amendment as a sword, arguing that they cannot be held responsible for illegal conduct, intended to mislead the masses and undertaken in the pursuit of profit, because such conduct was the result of 'editorial judgment.''
The Independent
3 days ago
- Business
- The Independent
Trump reignites feud with CBS over ‘deleted' Colbert interview - years after his claim was debunked
President Donald Trump posted a video claiming that CBS 'deleted' his 2015 interview with Stephen Colbert, resurfacing a debunked claim against one of his favorite recent rivals. Late on Friday, the president reposted a Facebook video on his Truth Social account containing heavily edited clips of his September 2015 interview on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. A message next to the video states: 'You are not supposed to see this video. CBS DELETED this entire episode from their official website. You will not find these segments on YouTube either.' However, a quick search on YouTube showed otherwise. Clips from the Trump-Colbert interview are still available to be watched on the official Late Show account. One video has 17 million views. The Independent has reached out to the White House and CBS for comment. Both the YouTube video and Trump's post include a portion of the interview in which Trump, then a candidate, touts his plans to build a wall, prompting the audience to cheer. 'Oh, listen to this, even with your crowd –' Trump begins. Colbert interjects: 'They love the wall. People love the wall.' Strangely, this isn't the first time that Trump has made this claim. The president appears to have reposted that same video in his first term in October 2018. Hours later, Colbert posted on X: 'I don't know why the president would take time on a National Day of Mourning to retweet something weird like this, but the original clips have always been online. 16 million views.' The comedian attached two links to YouTube clips from the episode in question. A CBS spokesperson at the time told the Associated Press that full episodes of The Late Show are only available to stream online 30 days after the initial airing. Trump's Friday Truth Social post marked the latest move in his feud with CBS. The president has repeatedly expressed his ire at CBS' 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris. He has sued the network for $20 million, claiming it used 'deceitful editing' to advantage the then-vice president. CBS filed a motion to dismiss the case earlier this month, arguing: 'This lawsuit is an affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact.' In response, this week Trump's lawyers claimed he suffered 'mental anguish' as a result of the interview. His legal team also accused to the network of seeking 'to wield the First Amendment as a sword, arguing that they cannot be held responsible for illegal conduct, intended to mislead the masses and undertaken in the pursuit of profit, because such conduct was the result of 'editorial judgment.''
Fox News
6 days ago
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Senate Republican campaign committee 'grills' Chuck Schumer on National Hamburger Day
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is revisiting a much-maligned year-old photo from Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer. The NRSC, which is the campaign arm of the Senate GOP, marked National Hamburger Day on Wednesday with a new video titled, "We Grill Right," which spotlights Schumer's viral social media post from last year's Father's Day. In the photo that appeared in the 2024 post, Schumer appeared to place a slice of cheese on an uncooked burger patty. "Our family has lived in an apartment building for all our years, but my daughter and her wife just bought a house with a backyard and for the first time we're having a barbeque with hot dogs and hamburgers on the grill!" Schumer wrote in his post. Schumer was quickly grilled on X, formerly Twitter, by a chorus of conservatives who pilloried his cooking skills, and the longtime senator soon deleted the post. He was also called out by late-night host Stephen Colbert. Fast-forward a year and the NRSC, in their video maligning Schumer, urged voters to "join a real party, the Republican Party. We grill right." The NRSC was also selling related merchandise on its website, including beer koozies that read, "I grill like I vote. Right." The NRSC also used their email release to also highlight recent reports, confirmed by Fox News, that some Democratic strategists and consultants were spending millions of dollars to better communicate with male and working-class voters, whom the party has struggled to court in recent election cycles. "Shouldn't take much to know how to grill a burger or correctly call a pick six, but apparently for Democrats, figuring out how to be a normal American takes at least $20 million — and even that won't be enough," NRSC regional press secretary Nick Puglia said in a statement. Republicans currently control the Senate with a 53-47 majority. The GOP aims to expand their majority in next year's midterm elections. Fox News reached out to the rival Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee for a response to the new attack by the NRSC, but the DSCC had yet to take a bite at the time this report was posted.
