this is a big story um a week to 10 days ago Judy Woodruff of PBS news went out on the air and actually tried to claim that Trump was trying to kill a ceasefire deal between Israel and Hamas because he didn't want the advancement of peace until he gets into office it would make him look bad so he had had a call with BB Netanyahu in which he discouraged him from striking such a deal here is her original quote reporting the reporting is that former president Trump is uh on the phone with for the the prime minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because that is it's believe that would help the Harris campaign so um I don't know uh where where that I don't know who knows whether that will come about or not but I have to think that um the Harris campaign would like for president Biden to to do what president do which is work on that one yeah okay so two allegations in there that Trump was on the phone with BB and secondly that he was discouraging him from striking a deal and I guess third the third is because he's worried it would help KLA Harris all right those are the three allegations then she comes out after the fact because team Trump started hitting her immediately saying this is totally irresponsible and untrue she comes out via tweet I want to clarify my remarks on the PBS news special on Monday night about the ongoing ceasefire talks in the Middle East as I said this was not based on my original reporting I was referring to reports I had read in axos and Reuters about former president Trump having spoken to the Israeli Prime Minister in the live TV moment I repeated the story because I hadn't seen later reporting that both sides denied it this was a mistake and I apologize for it okay so I and many others said okay did axios reporter and Reuters report what she's claiming was it in fact their fault and she just repeated a claim made by two other outlets that was untrue because if that's true then they then they were patient zero in the spread of this misinformation so we went back and checked the Reuters report we were able to determine DET determine only cited axios so they we admitting we didn't do any original reporting we're basing our report here on axios and what Reuters cited to was the fact that um they had denied I think is what they had reported that they had denied that they had engaged in such a phone call axios did ultimately report that they were denying they'd had a phone call and so that left us wondering well what was aio's original report because they labeled a report we could find and Reuters found as updated now sometimes when these these Outlets engage in bad reporting they update and then they scrub the original without owning it we saw the Minneapolis Star Tribune do that last week so we're still trying to figure out whether Woodruff is the villain or axios is the villain and we went and tried to pull the original axios report well it wasn't available via the way back machine of the internet I don't know how that thing works but my producers tell me axios doesn't subscribe to it and therefore its reports would not could not be found there so Yar Ali who an independent journalist and he was the one who broke the story about Judy to begin with went back to axios and Reuters and said did you ever as she is claiming report that the two men have had a conversation and in it Trump discouraged BB from entering into a ceasefire and the reasoning was Trump didn't want to help kamla Harris politically and he's now published his answer the answer he got I'm scrolling down here obviously he says this was a major allegation by Judy Woodruff it would mean that Netanyahu was sacrificing the lives of the hostages and the security of Israel for Donald Trump's candidacy and that Donald Trump was trying to keep the hostages and civilians in Gaza In Harm's Way for political purposes when people push back against her woodr tweeted that she had relied on axios and report and Reuters reporting on the matter but admiss that Trump and Netanyahu had had denied the reporting she apologized for the oversight but her tweet was inaccurate yesara is nicer than I am she lied as I noted last week axios and Reuters never reported that Netanyahu was being urged by Trump not to take a hostage deal they had just reported that Trump and Netanyahu spoke about Gaza that was the original reporting but to be sure I went back to check a few things and also asked axios for comment first the Reuters report that Woodruff cited was just a pickup of the axio story the axio story Woodruff cited had had been updated to reflect netanyahu's denial that he and Trump ever discussed Gaza and a hostage deal a spokesperson for axios then confirmed to Yar that they never reported that Trump was said to have been discouraging Netanyahu from taking the deal this is axios on the record saying we never reported what Judy W woodr is claiming we did Yar continues not only were woodruff's onair comments inaccurate but her apology tweet also said that axios and Reuters reported something they never did neither publication even stepped into the area that she suggested he writes I have followed up with PBS for comment she lied she lied on the air to try to make Trump look like a callous douchebag who placed his own electoral chances above the safety of American hostages Israeli hostages In Harm's Way and then she lied when she was caught and called out by trying to blame axios who did not commit the sin she accused them of and she's failed to take responsibility she is caught red-handed and this is an organization PBS we fund Michael nolles we fund it you're absolutely right it's great that you delved into this and then Yar provided that final little confirmation there but as you say it comes down to two words she lied and the way that you could have known that she lied before looking into any of this are another two words in her initial comments the reporting the reporting was doing a whole lot of work in her accusations against Donald Trump it's kind of like another two words that pop up often in Liberal attacks on conservatives critics say it's always critics say they never tell us exactly who those critics are but but the critics supposedly hate these Republicans and they they make all sorts of allegations against them had uh she been relying on actual news reports she would have cited them in her initial comments what she was engaging in was yes exactly it it was gossip mongering it was it was inventing gossip and rumors to attack Trump and this is part for the course we've seen this since 2015 you know sources are saying reports are alleging that Donald Trump colluded with the Russians and that Donald Trump remember they said he hired hookers in a hotel room in Moscow they never provided any evidence for that and sor are alleging that he's corresponding I don't know with the kjb or this that or the other thing now that he's working with BB Netanyahu who has absolutely no incentive by the way just think about how insane this story is on this on the face that that BB Netanyahu is willing to sacrifice Israeli lives because he just sort of likes Donald Trump and he thinks that maybe down the line Trump will be a little more supportive than Biden or Harris when when both parties are broadly supportive of Israel I guess Republicans are better for Israel than Democrats but is what what incentive does he have to do any of that it's it's just totally bogus but this is what happens when you when you've exhausted every attack on Donald Trump for eight years come 2024 you just have to make stuff up let's play the Judy woodrat again where she tells the lie so like now that we know it's a lie it's not a mistake because if it was a mistake her apology would have owned that and said you know what I'm genuinely sorry I don't know where I got that from a had reported that there was a phone call and I leapt to a conclusion and that was a failure of mine as a reporter that's not what she did she blamed the most incendiary parts of her allegation that they were talking and Trump was trying to get him to stop the ceasefire uh in order to help his campaign or not help kamala's campaign Judy Woodruff made that up in her head and then reported it as based on reporting and then when she got caught cont she doubled down by saying well that was just based on reporting and I hadn't seen the updated no here's the original sin again now look at this now knowing what we know the reporting is that former president Trump is uh on the phone with for the the prime minister of Israel urging him not to cut a deal right now because that is it's believe that would help the Harris campaign so um I don't know uh where where that I don't know who knows whether that will come about or not but I have to think that um the Harris campaign would like for President Biden to to do what presidents do which is work on that one yeah look at that all the assumptions go in Harris's favor like of course she wants to do what's right and of course Trump wants to do what wrong it's just such a glaring example of the disgusting corrupt media bias that is ubiquitous in our media and indeed in the coverage of this campaign in a way that no political candidate could ever even hope to pay for notice Megan even just the definite article there it's not a report it's not some reporting it's the reporting as though there were some definitive reporting that in a publicly funded Outlet now we are going to rely not their own reporting they're not doing any work but just the reporting and what ultimately we discover is the the reporting it's This Woman's imagination and E even Beyond an innocent imagination it's This Woman's it's the establishment media's lies false fictional narrative to benefit Harris and to harm Trump the it's just absolutely lazy I mean you know whatever she was looking to fill time she filled it with a lie that exposed her bias none of that is good but then you go back and fix it then you go back then the Tweet says I'm a dumbass I am very sorry I I was wrong I was so I was very wrong and don't try to bring axios and reporter reers down with you on your fake reporting they she's disparaged them both and really PBS must answer for this they must answer for this well we're going to stay on them too demanding to know what if anything they're going to do will there be disciplinary action will they force her to issue a proper correction and apology because she has not apologized for her actual sin right now if you did not vote for this economic downturn and who did well we know who did and the high inflation you might want to do something about it right now you're paying for it at the pump the grocery store growing stacks of unpaid bills sitting there Financial stress can be crushing and one solution could be done withth debt.com done with debt created new aggressive strategies designed to get you out of debt permanently without bankruptcy or loans done 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