'Flat-Out Lie!' Warren Cuts Off CBS Anchor Pushing Her on Trump Shutdown 'Talking Point' [View all]

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 wasn’t “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 morning’s edition of CBS News’s CBS Mornings, Senator Warren pushed back when Dokoupil tried to push her on what he called a “talking point” that isn’t “directly true”:

TONY DOKOUPIL: So, Senator, you know, Republicans say what you’re really fighting for is taxpayer dollars for, as they put it, illegal aliens. I know that’s not strictly true, but there is a provision –

SEN. ELIZABETH WARREN: Oh, excuse me, not strictly true?

TONY DOKOUPIL: It’s 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/

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