After CBS anchor Norah O'Donnell favored Democrat Tim Walz in the vice presidential debate and has aggressively pushed her anti-Trump themes on the CBS Evening News last week (including the Trump-smearing Atlantic article), she was granted an interview with Kamala Harris, which aired on Sunday Morning.
O'Donnell touted the Harris rally in Houston featuring pop star Beyonce, but omitted the negative stuff -- people booing when Beyonce didn't sing and pro-Palestinian hecklers.
She said they had a "rare behind-the-scences look on Air Force Two and the battleground state of Michigan, and omitted the pro-Palestinian hecklers there, too. There were no Israel questions aired in this segment.
“Beyonce’s song Freedom has become Kamala Harris’ anthem. And that was the message in Houston Friday night” – @NorahODonnell on @CBSSunday. “It was the VP’s largest rally ever. 30,000 people braved 90 degree heat to hear her scorching new attack on Texas’s strict abortion rules.” pic.twitter.com/qORrpIMLXr
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) October 27, 2024
After airing footage of Michelle Obama lecturing men that if they don't "get this election right," that "women will become collateral damage to your rage," O'Donnell did sound more like an objective journalist, pressing Harris on which restrictions on abortion she would favor. Harris dodged, saying several times she just supports Roe v. Wade. O'Donnell pointed out in its language, Roe allows restrictions (in the third trimester). Harris kept dodging instead of admitting she doesn't want any abortion restrictions.
She blustered: "We have seen extraordinary harm and pain and suffering happen, because of what Donald Trump did in intending, and effectuating and overturning of Roe v. Wade."
Then CBS touted Kamala's planned speech in DC on Tuesday in a spot where Donald Trump spoke to supporters on January 6 before the riot:
CBS’s @NorahODonnell’s cued up Kamala Harris: “One week before election day you will be in Washington, not in a battleground state, to give a major speech at the same place that Donald Trump did on January 6th. Why?” @CBSSunday pic.twitter.com/Z0pPeWK1iI
— Brent Baker 🇺🇦 🇮🇱 (@BrentHBaker) October 27, 2024
Then O'Donnell presented the "closing argument," and tried to fact-check that Trump disavowed Project 2025:
KAMALA HARRIS: His first priority is going to be people like him, not people like the people who are watching this right now, people who work hard, seniors, for example, who are depending on that Social Security check as the only source of their income, when Donald Trump is saying we should raise the age of Social Security to 70 before you`re eligible.
NORAH O`DONNELL: He says he's going to cut taxes on their benefits.
HARRIS: He has been consistent. Again, Google Project 2025 about what he thinks about Social Security, and why he thinks it is nothing that should be supported. What he has -- his intentions to cut Medicare and Medicare benefits. His intention -- look, again, at Project 2025 -- to repeal the $35 a month cap on insulin that we have put in place.
O`DONNELL: You know that Donald Trump has disavowed Project 2025. He says that is not his campaign plan.
HARRIS: As you know, I am a former prosecutor. His DNA is all over it. All over it. His running mate wrote the foreword to the book of the author of Project 2025. I believe Donald Trump`s name appears at least 300 times in Project 2025. And it is a blueprint -- a detailed blueprint, that is about the danger and the detail of what Donald Trump and his allies plan if he is in the White House again.
