when the story broke in the run-up to the 2020 presidential election, 60 minutes correspondent leslie stahlsaid the laptop could not be verified. let's bring a news busters managing editor curtis howell, always great to see you. i just look at this end cds, you go back two years and first it was just information and then it can be verified and then leslie stahl said time and time again, and then suddenly, no more elections, guess what, we verify it. your thoughts? >> yes, exactly, trace, 5 minutes and 41 seconds, that's what we got. i think there is definitely feeling that the coast was clear and they could let the great catherine herridge on the case, and that's exactly what they found. she found a former secret service agent and his son to look at a copy of the hard drive and they said "to the sheer volume will be difficult if not impossible to fabricate" which leslie stahl said can't be verified, the exact words to donald trump at the time. at cbs you point out the delay, casablanca was put together in less time. and in three presidents that did not last very long, henry harrison, zack t

. >> cbs 60 minutes host leslie stahl days before 200 election with president trump laughing when thendent trump brought up the hundred00 laptop, during an interview, now, yesterday, "cbs news" finally confirmed that the hunter biden laptop is real. a full 769 days after the "new york post's" initial report before 2020 election joining me right now utah congressman house intelligence committee member house he promotions member chris stewart your reaction . >> this is hilarious i mean you can't make this stuff up, "cbs news" analyst can determine the moon is not made of cheese most of us knew that, everyone -- >> for some media, by the way, shame on those intelligence officials, leader of intelligence agencies said yeah, we think this isrun disinformation when they have zero evidence that that was true. there could be no evidence that was ever true because the laptop, laptop is authentic, they came out with statements just before the election clearly to, you know, persuade the election. >> "new york post" called them the spies that lied, so i mean you know you think that given the resum

leslie stahl owes president trump an apology. let's be very clear, brian.have this news story on thanksgiving week? i'll tell you what. it was after the midterms, they knew the house was taken over by the house republicans, they knew about the investigation coming, they wanted to try to basically make amends. cbs knew about this, and they hid this information to the detriment of president trump and to the benefit of the campaign for joe biden. russian disinformation? this is real, hard-core evidence, and it proves that joe biden knew about the exploit of hunter biden business activities. >> brian: it isn't about his crack use or his love of hookers, it's what he's doing with china and ukraine that joe is directly involved with, and voice mails to show that he knew exactly what hunter was up to and meetings to follow up to prove that he was part of it. leo, in the big picture, did democrats not block this because they want joe out? do they let this thing catch fire and realize that he is corrupted like we thought two years ago? >> yes. gavin newsom is celebr

when donald trump at the time begged leslie stahl of 60 minutes to investigate the laptop in october2,020 and she kept insisting the contents could not be verified i have a feeling 60 minutes didn't attempt to verify the laptop, they just bought the line that it was russian disinformation and that was the end because there was an election coming up and got a bid we make president biden uncomfortable in that way. dave: they laughed it off or ignored it entirely but worse was the legacy media attempts to censor the story. instead of verifying it one way or the other they just automatically took a magic marker and put a line through it. >> like pyongyang came to the us with the censorship of this story and officials in the trump campaign like kayleigh mcenany who had her locked by sharing the story, you would think journalists would have stood up and said this is wrong, we can't be censoring stories that we may disagree with or think can't be verified, but at the time you had a laptop and emails and content, not he said she said. now we hear from the same journalists the twitter is a pl

listen to them and know the media, mainstream media has egg on their face and i would like to ask leslie stahl a backup interview or at least issuing an apology because that rate they are basically called the former president a liar. number one. number two, why wasn't there further investigation on president biden? we all know president biden knew exactly what his son was doing. his son the drug addict who can make decisions on its own always returned to his father and why would you send a recovering addict overseas to work with feelings like charisma which also implicates the united states? i mean we are doing deals with the enemy with russia and china. implicates a president. i want to see an investigation behind the president's involvement. once and for all. >> kayleigh: we have had 769 days since the story broke very we have had two elections are presidential and midterm and cbs is now verifying this? this is absurd its malpractice. >> jimmy: at surprising it took two years since they could get a twitter boycott done and two days. the cnn plus of boycotts it was over before it started so c

that is a major issue for the american people in the major story and cbs reported 60 minutes host leslie stahltory which they spoke with then-president donald trump days before the 2020 election, remember this. >> i think it's one of the biggest scandals i've ever seen in g1 cover. >> it can't be verified. >> you want to talk about insignificant things. >> of course it can be verified. they found the laptop. >> what can be verified? >> the laptop. >> david, she said this is cbs news we can't verify it, that's not true the new york post verified, fox news verified it. were connecting the dots to a major national security issue, why doesn't the media want to do that? >> i think much of the media has since given this a lot of coverage, obviously fox news in the team of journalist were quite talented i'm not patronizing have spent a lot of time covering this. it's given quite a bit of airtime. album saying. maria: i don't think it's gotten much airtime at all. >> fox has a very big presence in the media, it can drive stories, i've seen it happen. when i'm pointing out and it's what you discuss it

leslie stahl laughed it off a when president trump brought it up you during an interview days beforen. >> it's one of the biggest scandals i've ever seen and you don't cover it. >> because it can't be verified. >> you want to talk about insignificant things. of course it can be verified. they found the lap top. what can't be verified? >> the lap top. maria: joining the conversation all morning long, katherine rooney vera and rob astorino. i know the american people are looking at things like inflation, jobs, the economy, crime, as their top issues. but you know how i feel about the threat of communist china. >> yeah. maria: and that is why i focus on these investigations because people need to connect the dots to all of that money taken in and influence peddling of the biden family and what it means in terms of making america vulnerable in the face of communist china. which has stated a goal over and over again to overtake the united states as the number one super power. but why has it been so hard for the media to report truth? >> well, certainly in the trump era they were in their

leslie stahl is at the white house. >> the white house is hoping -- >> in the '80s, women came into the by the '80s, there were more and more. the decade of the '80s was still a time of sink or swim. you had to be resilient in your own way to survive in a period when you were going up against a lot of people who still didn't think women had what it took. >> these are some of the most famous faces in broadcasting. all of whom happen to be women. >> the best producers, i'm going to get fired -- the best producers at cbs news are women. and they are at the level of taking hold and making decisions about individual pieces. they're not yet executive producers of all the news shows, but they will be. >> the past 24 hours, christine craft has taken her cause to many of the nation's news and talk programs. >> i didn't set out to be joan of ark, but i think what happened to me deserves some attention. >> christine craft had a very successful career, but there she was in her late 30s and the tv station said to her, we're taking you off the air because you've gotten older and you're not as attract

leslie. >> we commissioned an independent forensic review. >> just the sheer volume of what we're dealing with, it would be difficult, if not impossible, to fabricate. >> dana: i just wonder if someone like lesley stahl would contact former president trump and presidential candidate again to apologize. >> she should and i think cbs news should apologize to all of their virus. this matters. this was a poll that came out several months ago showing that a majority of americans still believe that this was a russian disinformation campaign. how about the 51 national security advisors who all signed a letter right before the election saying this had all the hallmarks of russian disinformation? have they apologized for being wrong? look at the 2020 election. if you change 20,000 votes in arizona, wisconsin, and in georgia, donald trump is elected president. given over 150 million people voted, don't you think if this had been covered rigorously and vigorously like it should have been. if this had been donald trump junior as well as all the evidence of his misbehavior was out there do you think cbs would have said we can't verify it? of course not. it was a calculated attempt to avoid having to cover this st