'Flat-Out Lie!' Warren Cuts Off CBS Anchor Pushing Her on Trump Shutdown 'Talking Point'
Source: MEDIAite
Oct 2nd, 2025, 9:47 am
Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) cut off CBS anchor Tony Dokoupil when he suggested a Trump talking point wasnt strictly true, interrupting to call it a flat-out lie!
President Donald Trump and the Republicans have blamed Democrats for the government shutdown by pushing the talking point that, as Trump put it in an AI-generated fake video featuring racist caricatures, Democrats want to give all these illegal aliens free health care.
Although that claim has been ruled false by numerous fact-checkers, Vice President JD Vance joined the White House briefing on Wednesday to press the same talking point and try to backfill an explanation. On Thursday mornings edition of CBS Newss CBS Mornings, Senator Warren pushed back when Dokoupil tried to push her on what he called a talking point that isnt directly true:
TONY DOKOUPIL: So, Senator, you know, Republicans say what youre really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for, as they put it, illegal aliens. I know thats not strictly true, but there is a provision
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Oh, excuse me, not strictly true?
TONY DOKOUPIL: Its not directly true, but
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: It is a flat-out lie! It is a flat-out lie!
TONY DOKOUPIL: the way that they frame it
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: There is nothing in Medicaid, nothing in Medicare, that permits one undocumented immigrant to get one dollar of assistance! None!
TONY DOKOUPIL: Senator
SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Zero!
Read more: https://www.mediaite.com/media/tv/flat-out-lie-warren-cuts-off-cbs-anchor-pushing-her-on-trump-shutdown-talking-point/
The "media" (including CBS) aids and abets fascism. Walter Cronkite could fly to the moon with the spinning that he must be doing.


bucolic_frolic
(52,589 posts)MrWowWow
(1,417 posts)OldBaldy1701E
(9,183 posts)BaronChocula
(3,451 posts)in how to be as militantly adamant with the truth as magas are with their lies.
Every time a talking head begins an interview sentence with something like "Speaker Mike Johnson said..." it should be cut off with "it's a lie. He lies. He said trump has the best polling numbers. He's a republican. He lies."
Bluetus
(1,597 posts)Every Dem had better learn the facts on this issue and be ready to come out blazing whenever confronted with these lies.
groundloop
(13,327 posts)That old saying - "A lie can travel around the world before the truth has time to put its' pants on" certainly applies here.
We continually have an uphill battle fighting the constant stream of MAGAT lies, but I'm thrilled to see Sen. Warren calling them out.
FakeNoose
(38,832 posts)Maybe they go home and "do more research" on 4chan or something, I don't know.
For the most part they parrot Chump because they can't think for themselves.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,809 posts)
AZLD4Candidate
(6,694 posts)Jimvanhise
(521 posts)During the Reagan administration it was ruled that anyone who went to an emergence room had to be given care whether they had health insurance or not. Whether they were in America legally was never ever mentioned. Republicans are now making it an issue and blaming it on Democrats and never mentioning the rule from the Reagan administration.
markodochartaigh
(4,221 posts)And Republicans have been making noises about ending it for years. It is mentioned in one of the cases before the supremacist court next year.
https://www.aclu.org/press-releases/trump-administration-rescinds-emtala-guidance-and-sends-clear-signal-emergency-abortion-care-remains-at-risk
dobleremolque
(1,062 posts)of coffee from his Billionaire Tears cup.....
spudspud
(614 posts)They're mostly just stenographers, and cowards who won't call a lie a lie, because they want to keep their cushy job.
rurallib
(64,197 posts)Wonder how it felt?
turbinetree
(26,604 posts)it should now be called the Conservative Broadcast System..............Cronkite and Murrow are rolling over in their graves..............
Heh CBS why don't you just change your eyeball logo to Fascist We Are us and we support authoritarians logos......................you know Stalin one night , Dickhead Traitor Trump the next.............or better yet that fascist FCC leader currently in charge with their Heritage Foundation logo of Fred Koch handshaking with Stalin..........just go all out for the ratings game .................fuck you CBAss...........
Joinfortmill
(19,027 posts)flamingdem
(40,689 posts)anchors who fear for their jobs.
Those that know better repeat the lie and expect us to see in their eyes that they know its a lie.
Then I wonder.. can they read? It's a freaking lie so don't repeat it!
travelingthrulife
(3,383 posts)We wait for right wing shills to be invited onto their shows when our wealthy should be designing their own shows.
live love laugh
(15,949 posts)AStern
(525 posts)which makes sense if you think about it.
Bernardo de La Paz
(59,143 posts)The media need to be journalists, not stenographers.
Hey stupid Dokoupil: If it is not directly true, then it is not true, it is a lie. Duh!
CurtEastPoint
(19,678 posts)tonekat
(2,374 posts)Mr.Bee
(1,290 posts)Silent Type
(11,307 posts)through state programs without direct federal dollars, some got care through Biden era laws that trump cancelled, etc.
Personally, Im for every one of those benefits, but Warren should be truthful because that just muddies the water further.
SunSeeker
(56,837 posts)It's fucking infuriating. It's like the "death panels" lie all over again. Journalists have become such cowards.
Scubamatt
(211 posts)It's far bast time we called Trump's lies for what they are and stop trying to sane-wash it with a air of civility/decorum.
All our leaders need to follow Senator Warren's example!
wolfie001
(6,241 posts)Sorry but I take back my "rec". Get a rich Liberal billionaire to fund these numerous media outlets. Us regular folk are watching every penny.
BumRushDaShow
(161,018 posts)RedArkGuy
(838 posts)CBS' Anchors and reporters know very well who now owns the ship and they're sailing in the direction their evil and ignorant captain calls.
Hartpi978
(41 posts)That's the way to do it---every time, every day.
electric_blue68
(24,071 posts)BGRD
(23 posts)Tony Dokoupil is not a journalist. He acts more like a Republican party dirty tricks operative than any journalist. I'm glad Warren put Mr Tur in his place.
Bayard
(27,206 posts)
