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Gayle King Confronts ‘Soho Karen’ Before Her Arrest, Gets Shut Down: ‘Alright, Gayle, Enough’ (Video)
The woman who was caught on video falsely accusing a Black teen of stealing her phone cut off an interview with CBS News’ Gayle King, raising her hand and telling the anchor she had enough of the questioning.Miya Ponsetto, who was arrested Thursday night, appeared on CBS alongside a lawyer to discuss the Dec. 26 incident. The interview was taped hours before she was taken into custody.In the video that went viral, Ponsetto was seen confronting and attacking 14-year-old Keyon Harrold Jr. in a low
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Lesley Stahl Challenges Trump on Economy in ’60 Minutes’ Preview: ‘You Know That’s Not True’
CBS News released a clip of the contentious “60 Minutes” interview between President Donald Trump and Lesley Stahl Thursday. In it, she challenges him on the economy, telling the president at one pint that he knows what he’s saying is “not true.”Stahl asked about Trump’s “biggest domestic priority,” to which he replied his administration “created the greatest economy in the history of our country.”When she told him he knew that wasn’t true, he fought back, insisting that it was. She had to ask a
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CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Fires Back at Trump’s ‘Faker’ Taunt: ‘Nearly 90,000 Americans Have Been Killed’
CNN’s Kaitlan Collins redirected attention to the coronavirus crisis and its casualties Sunday night after President Donald Trump insulted her over a video that showed her removing her protective face mask.“Nearly 90,000 Americans have been killed by coronavirus, and the president is tweeting about me pulling my mask down for six seconds on Friday,” the reporter tweeted Sunday night.Her tweet was in response to one from Trump declaring her a “CNN faker.” The president took aim at Collins after h
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Trump Asks NBC News to Fire Chuck Todd After ‘Meet the Press’ Admits Airing ‘Inaccurately’ Edited Clip
President Donald Trump made repeated calls for “Meet the Press” anchor Chuck Todd to be fired after the show admitted that Sunday’s interview with Attorney General William Barr was “inadvertently and inaccurately cut short.”“Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd should be FIRED by ‘Concast’ (NBC) for this fraud. He knew exactly what he was doing. Public Airwaves = Fake News!” tweeted the president Sunday night, tagging the Twitter accounts for the Federal Communications Commission and its chairman Ajit Pai.On
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CBS News Journalist Maria Mercader Dies at 54 After Testing Positive for Coronavirus
Maria Mercader, a CBS News veteran who worked for over 30 years as a reporter and talent director, died on Sunday after testing positive for coronavirus. She was 54.Mercader worked on-air for CBS News as a breaking news reporter before becoming director of talent strategy, working on expanding the news division’s staff diversity with the Asian American Journalists Association, the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association and the National Association of Black Journalists. Mercader had fou
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MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough Calls Trump ‘Sick’ for Blaming Media for Coronavirus
Much of Monday’s “Morning Joe” was dedicated to the coronavirus and President Donald Trump’s handling of it, as Trump himself continued to send tweets on the subject the show’s host called “sick.”“It’s sick, actually, very sick. People are dying and it’s sick, sick that he is doing this,” said MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough as he read his audience Trump’s new tweets, which blamed the media for concerns over the speed of the virus.“The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing ever
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CBS News Responds to Gayle King’s Criticism of Network’s Poorly Edited Clip of Her Lisa Leslie Interview
CBS News responded Thursday after morning anchor Gayle King tweeted about backlash she received from her Wednesday interview with Lisa Leslie. The network said it is “addressing the internal process that led to this” after King blamed CBS News for only posting a shortened clip of the exchange.“Gayle conducted a thoughtful, wide-ranging interview with Lisa Leslie about the legacy of Kobe Bryant,” the network said in a statement. “An excerpt was posted that did not reflect the nature and tone of t
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