60 Minutes' Failures, Michelle Obama's New Complaints, and Abrego Garcia Truth, with Glenn Greenwald and Will Chamberlain | Ep. 1056
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What happened with the 60 Minutes executive resignation?
Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show, live on Sirius XM Channel 111 every weekday at noon east. Hey everyone, I'm Megyn Kelly. Welcome to The Megyn Kelly Show. 60 Minutes is in serious turmoil thanks to its executive producer, Bill Owens, quitting and publicly throwing a temper tantrum. What happened? Oh, buckle up. On Tuesday, the EP of six years, but only the third ever to hold that post in nearly six decades at 60, said he would be resigning from the Sunday news program, suggesting he felt the network was encroaching too much on his editorial calls. This could not be tolerated at the vaunted 60 Minutes, you see, which is entirely unbiased and uninfluenced by anything other than the facts. All right?
You may not know that, but it's true. Just ask them. Mr. Owens and others argue that the show has had total independence from network brass for the show's 57 years on the air, and that suddenly that was changing. Under Don Hewitt, the original EP, they said, hey... We had independence and it worked out pretty well. He was there for almost 60 years. It's crazy the number of years he was there. Under Jeff Fager, he was there for the next 14, less so. And under Mr. Owens, 60 Minutes has all but lost its mind, shilling for progressives. And I, for one, am thrilled to see him go. Not that I think this broadcast with its current staff is salvageable. I'm just in favor of dismantling this current version of the show, which would appropriately fit in any hour of MSNBC primetime.
The latest meltdown started when Donald Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS and its parent company, Paramount, accusing 60 Minutes of unlawful and illegal behavior in what he said was his deceptive editing of the Kamala Harris interview before this last election. You remember they took her word salad answer about Netanyahu and they siphoned it down to make her sound more cogent. We caught it because they put out the wrong version of it when they were teasing the interview and then they played a different version when she actually appeared. Most legal analysts, including this one, do not see much of any merit in that lawsuit. But Trump has used it as a cudgel over Paramount, whose owner, Sherry Redstone, is trying to sell the company right now to Skydance.
And that sale is going to need government approval. Trump has long complained about 60 Minutes being unfair to him and biased in favor of Democrats. And on that, he is 100% correct. Under Jeff Fager, yes, definitely, but especially under Bill Owens. But before we get to Owens, let's take a quick look back at the Fager years and how 60 treated Barack Obama.
How has Donald Trump's lawsuit affected CBS?
You don't have any doubts that you're ready? No. Where do you get all this confidence? How are you finding the job? What's the most frustrating part of the job? Do you take a day off? Have you gotten lost in here yet? Do you see some hope? Do you think that things are going to get better? Do you think that you might have the unemployment rate down to 8% by the time the election rolls around? This is the most aggressive speech I've seen you give in a while. What changed? Why do you think you'd be a good president? Steve, ask and answer. Let's move on. Okay.
I mean, honestly, we almost added the little hearts, the emojis coming out of Steve Croft in his head for that series of hard-hitting interviews. Not exactly Murderer's Row, is it? Like back in the Mike Wallace years. Who could forget this absurdity? This was under Bill Owens when Leslie Stahl interviewed Donald Trump in October 2020, just before his reelection battle against Joe Biden after the Hunter Biden laptop had come out.
It's one of the biggest scandals I've ever seen. And you don't cover it. You want to talk about... Well, because it can't be verified. You want to talk about insignificant things. I'm telling you. Of course it can be verified. Excuse me. They found the laptop. Leslie, Leslie. It can't be verified. What can't be verified? The laptop. Why do you say that? Because it can't be verified. Even the family hasn't... The family on the laptop, he's gone into hiding. For five days, he's gone into hiding. He's preparing for your debate. Oh, it's taken him five days to prepare? I doubt it.
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