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

[BumRushDaShow]

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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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]

1. It's a little short of "We're being lied to everyday" but it's a start. /nt

[MrWowWow]

2. They Live!

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[OldBaldy1701E]

34. "I have come here to chew bubble gum and kick ass..." (n/t)

[BaronChocula]

3. A masterclass

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]

12. Exactly. This is no time to be polite road kill

Every Dem had better learn the facts on this issue and be ready to come out blazing whenever confronted with these lies.

[groundloop]

15. Yes, but sadly the GQP and MAGATs will simply pivot to different lies

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]

16. Actually my experience is that they don't have an answer when you call them out on Chump's lies

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.

[Bluetus]

36. Here is the essential story

(Dems are genetically programmed to get into too much detail. It is better to just stick with the simplest facts.)

1. It has never been legal for an undocumented person to get benefits from Medicare or Medicaid. Never. Nothing has changed about that for decades.

2. It has been legal for many years for people here on a legal status to receive some of these benefits. The only thing that has changed is that during the pandemic, Biden extended the visas of certain classes of people here LEGALLY. And that is a rounding error on the budget -- totally insignificant n the big picture.

3. Most states have laws requiring hospitals to provide emergency care the ANYONE with a lift-threatening condition. Lots of MAGA people do that -- showing up to the ER with no means to pay for their care. An undocumented person must be treated enough to stabilize them. That's the law -- has been for decades. This can be very costly to hospitals, obviously. Since the Reagan administration, hospitals can receive Federal reimbursements for a fraction of those costs. This is for ANYONE who cannot pay. It has nothing to do with immigration status. This Republican bill slashes those reimbursement rates, which will force many rural hospitals to close. Democrats are fighting to save these rural hospitals.

4. The GOP budget slashes the funding for ACA insurance, so some ACA premiums will skyrocket in a few weeks. Democrats are fighting to keep the ACA premium assistance in place.

Bottom line, the Republican slash-and-burn plan doesn't help anybody. It will close many hospitals (mostly in Red, rural areas) and it will make health insurance impossible for 10-20 million people. So they will just end up in the ER, unable to pay, AND the the Republicans are slashing the reimbursement rates those hospitals depend on. This is just mindless "DOGEy" stuff. It is terrible policy.

[dsc]

37. actually the federal law requires treatment as well I believe.

[Bluetus]

39. You are correct.

https://www.cms.gov/medicare/regulations-guidance/legislation/emergency-medical-treatment-labor-act

[Oeditpus Rex]

22. ...

[AZLD4Candidate]

4. Republicans frame it as you still beat your wife.

[Jimvanhise]

5. TWISTING THE TRUTH

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]

32. That is called EMTALA.

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]

6. Go get 'em Liz! Takes sip

of coffee from his Billionaire Tears cup.....

[spudspud]

7. We hardly have any journalists on air anymore.

They're mostly just stenographers, and cowards who won't call a lie a lie, because they want to keep their cushy job.

[rurallib]

8. So CBS News is doing what they promised when they bowed to King Donald

Wonder how it felt?

[turbinetree]

9. And so the Paramount and CBS right wing merger shines right on thru.............with another right wing hack.........

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]

10. Good for Senator Warren!

[flamingdem]

11. Dems need some way to overcome MSM stupidity and

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]

23. The way is for wealthy Democrats to step up to the plate and build a better source of news.

We wait for right wing shills to be invited onto their shows when our wealthy should be designing their own shows.

[live love laugh]

13. DOKOUPIL is a wolf in sheep's clothing.

[AStern]

18. I think he's married to Katy Tur

which makes sense if you think about it.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

14. That's the way to do it. Stomp lies immediately they are parroted.

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]

17. And Tony D is married to Katy Turd. What a pair.

[tonekat]

29. Mr. & Mrs. Appeaser. N/T

[Mr.Bee]

19. Told You So...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220691162

[Silent Type]

20. Would probably be better if she said a small number get emergency care under existing law, some get care

through state programs without direct federal dollars, some got care through Biden era laws that trump cancelled, etc.

Personally, I’m for every one of those benefits, but Warren should be truthful because that just muddies the water further.

[SunSeeker]

21. Even Huffpo is calling Republicans' claim "misleading" rather than a flat out lie.

It's fucking infuriating. It's like the "death panels" lie all over again. Journalists have become such cowards.

[Scubamatt]

24. Good for Senator Warren

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!

[popsdenver]

38. Agreed

They should have stopped long ago doing the "We take the high ground" and writing "Stern Letters".............

For decades the Dems have been lobbing spit wads, and the Republicans have been launching all out Guerrilla Warfare.

To quote what someone has said:

They have been walking down the Jungle Path swatting at mosquitoes, and completely oblivious to the herd of charging elephants!!! ( pun intended)

[wolfie001]

25. I get a paysite. I don't want a subscription

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]

26. Try this

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/flat-out-lie-warren-cuts-off-cbs-anchor-pushing-her-on-trump-shutdown-talking-point/ar-AA1NJV2K

[RedArkGuy]

27. Larry Ellison and son's handiwork

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]

28. Way to go,Senator

That's the way to do it---every time, every day.

[electric_blue68]

30. TY, Sen Warren! Emphathic pushback.

[BGRD]

31. Great response

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]

33. You go, Senator!

[popsdenver]

35. The dems should

not just call them LIES, but FLAGRANT LIES.........