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Hey, ladies and gentlemen, this is Carmine Sabia for Explain America
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and former President Donald Trump has made his decision. He's out. Before we get started, please make sure you like, comment, share, and subscribe
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really helps us out. I want to preface this by saying Trump is known to change his mind and I
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wouldn't be stunned if he changed his mind again. But with everything that's happened with him
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with how the media has covered him, with how unfair I believe they were at the previous debate on
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ABC, with all of that being considered, I don't blame him for the decision he's just made. And
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frankly I think he had every right to make it He had a scheduled interview with six 60 minutes on CBS and he decided he out He backed out of it He wants nothing to do with it I can say that I blame him though I do think any opportunity you have at this stage of the game to get in front of the American people is wise Now Vice President Kamala Harris who the Democrat nominee for president she will do a 60 minutes interview She doesn do many interviews But this is a big important interview
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and I would love for President Trump, I understand how the media is treated him
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I really do. But he can handle them. I would love for him to reconsider this and do the interview
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I want you to watch this report on it. And then let me know what you think in the comments
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The Cornish are back with me. So as this is, of course, unfolding behind us, we've seen surrogates like Elise Tophonic came through here
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But, David, the chatter is all about the 60 minutes interview that would have been conducted
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right in this complex I think across the street or at least House that 60 minutes ago Exactly We in the CBS long CBS News headquarters but now Donald Trump says he not going to participate And that may leave tonight as the only really big moment left on the
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calendar. Why do you think he pulled out of this interview? You know, his campaign put out a statement, Stephen Chung, a spokesperson did, referring to that
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CBS News, according to the Trump campaign, wanted to interspers the interview with some fact-checking
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and come out of the interview and do some fact-checking and what have you
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There seems to be a dispute in the CBS News statement. I know this will surprise you
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And what the Trump campaign is saying about what actually happened here
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But CBS News says that Donald Trump actually agreed to this interview and has pulled out of it
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The Trump campaign version of events is there were discussions, but nothing was ever locked in stone
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So we haven't heard from the former president yet. I'd be eager to hear his thinking because we know Donald Trump
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Trump He really likes 60 minutes He likes the cachet that brings He has done it many many times He talked about being stablemates with Vladimir Putin when they appeared together eight years ago on the same night It a status marker like being on the cover of Time magazine Exactly And so this feeds
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into Donald Trump's whole sense of the media ecosystem. And he likes to be able to control that
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And this is interesting to me that given that this is the last scheduled event, this vice presidential
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debate, that he's giving up this opportunity for a big. The last scheduled event, but there's still
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time for there to be any number of other kinds of events should they choose to do it. And this has
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been an election where both campaigns have really challenged the role of the mainstream media
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in terms of, is this necessary for me to get my message to the voters? And Trump has done a ton
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of interviews with podcasters and all other kinds of venues. And it's not totally clear that
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they, Harris, as well as Trump, see these stages the same way. Well, certainly, I think that's a really
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interesting point. I mean, you had the influencer
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