At the top of CBS’ “60 Minutes” interview special with Vice President Kamala Harris, host Scott Pelley addressed the Donald Trump-shaped elephant in the room by detailing for the first time why the Republican presidential nominee abruptly canceled their scheduled sit-down last week.
The journalist said Monday that in messaging with Trump campaign communications director Steven Cheung from early September to last week’s cancellation, “60 Minutes” received “shifting explanations” for the nominee’s unexpected refusal to sit with them.
Pelley cited everything from the news magazine’s practice of fact-checking interview subjects to its decline to apologize for a 2020 interview with Lesley Stahl as Cheung and Trump’s reasoning.
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