SHOCK: CBS Experiences on Biden Gaffes in Disastrous 60 Minutes Interview

On CBS Night Information on Monday, anchor Norah O’Donnell and senior White Home correspondent Ed O’Keefe reported on the rolling dumpster fireplace that was President Joe Biden’s interview on CBS’s 60 Minutes on Sunday night. As a part of the report, O’Keefe famous what number of of Biden’s statements wanted to be corrected or clarified by his handlers afterward. 

Biden was such a trainwreck that O’Donnell opened with this beautiful report: “there’s fallout tonight after President Biden’s interview with 60 Minutes, feedback he made concerning the pandemic, led shares of three COVID vaccine makers to plunge, shares falling as a lot as 9 p.c.” 

“President Biden’s conclusion on 60 Minutes Sunday that the COVID pandemic has ended prompted push-back from well being consultants and clarifications from high officers,” O’Keefe famous. 

Well being and Human Companies Secretary, Xavier Becerra served because the designated harm management specialist for Biden’s gaffe that the pandemic was over (which in actuality wasn’t a gaffe as a result of the pandemic has been over for nicely over a yr). 

“Make no mistake, persons are nonetheless dying. And what the President is saying is that all of us wish to get again to the place we have been earlier than COVID,” Becerra grumbled. 

In fact, each time the phrase pandemic of COVID is talked about disgraced Physician Tony Fauci seems. 

This time was no completely different since CBS aired a soundbite of Fauci trying to revive the pandemic by claiming “it’s probably that we’ll see one other variant emerge, and there is already on the horizon.” 

O’Keefe ended by reporting that “the President additionally instructed 60 Minutes the U.S. Navy would defend Taiwan in opposition to a quote unprecedented assault from China.” 

“White Home officers later clarified U.S. White Home coverage in the direction of Taiwan hasn’t modified. The Chinese language referred to as the President’s feedback, nicely they mentioned they despatched the incorrect sign,” O’Keefe famous earlier than tossing again to O’Donnell. 

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CBS Night Information
9/19/2022
6:43:17 p.m. Jap

NORAH O’DONNELL: Effectively, there’s fallout tonight after President Biden’s interview with 60 Minutes, feedback he made concerning the pandemic, led shares of three COVID vaccine makers to plunge, shares falling as a lot as 9 p.c. CBS’s Ed O’Keefe stories from the White Home. 

ED O’KEEFE: President Biden’s conclusion on 60 Minutes Sunday that the COVID pandemic has ended prompted push-back from well being consultants and clarifications from high officers. 

PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: The pandemic is over. We nonetheless have an issue with COVID, we’re nonetheless doing numerous work on it, however the pandemic is over. 

O’KEEFE: Well being and Human Companies Secretary, Xavier Becerra, who held a photograph op, selling the most recent COVID booster shot was requested what the President meant. 

XAVIER BECERRA: Make no mistake, persons are nonetheless dying. And what the President is saying is that all of us wish to get again to the place we have been earlier than COVID. 

O’KEEFE: Whereas general, case charges are dropping almost 400 persons are nonetheless dying every day with about 30,000 presently hospitalized. And Dr. Anthony Fauci at this time warned that vaccination charges are too low to finish the pandemic. 

ANTHONY FAUCI: It’s probably that we’ll see one other variant emerge, and there is already on the horizon. 

O’KEEFE: Mr. Biden was additionally requested on 60 Minutes about whether or not he plans to run for reelection. 

SCOTT PELLEY: You say that it is a lot too early to make that call. I take it the choice has not been made in your personal head. 

JOE BIDEN: Look, my intentions I mentioned to start with is that I might run once more, nevertheless it’s simply an intention. Is it a agency resolution that I would run once more? That is still to be seen. 

O’KEEFE: If the President have been to step apart, it might spark a wide-open combat for the Democratic nomination. In the meantime, former President Donald Trump, a possible 2024 challenger, sparked controversy at a weekend rally in Ohio, the place his remarks have been set to music that resembled the QAnon theme tune. 

DONALD TRUMP: We’re a nation that surrendered in Afghanistan, abandoning lifeless troopers. 

O’KEEFE: Many within the crowd responded to the music with a QAnon salute. The Trump group dismissed any ties to QAnon. In the meantime, the President additionally instructed 60 Minutes the U.S. Navy would defend Taiwan in opposition to a quote unprecedented assault from China. White Home officers later clarified U.S. White Home coverage in the direction of Taiwan hasn’t modified. The Chinese language referred to as the President’s feedback, nicely they mentioned they despatched the incorrect sign. 

O’DONNELL: Ed O’Keefe on the White Home, thanks.