Huckabee accuses CBS of deceptive editing of interview on Israel

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, the current U.S. Ambassador to Israel, accused CBS News on Friday of deceptively editing his interview.

"Ever wonder how the media edits an interview to give you a different story than the one they had? Here’s @CBSNews interview with me yesterday and the unedited full transcript below. Take time and read," he posted on X.

CBS News’ Debora Patta conducted the full interview.

Multiple sections of the interview did not make it into the version that was aired, according to analysis from The Daily Wire.

“You’ve seen the protests, over half of Israelis want the war to end,” Patta said to Huckabee.

“I think 100% of the Israelis want the war to end. I would venture to say I couldn’t find somebody in this country that wants it to continue. But I don’t think that there is a consensus as to whether or not the war should end with Hamas getting a victory,” Huckabee said back. 

“Do you allow these savages who did what they did and continue to do it? … October the seventh wasn’t the only time they ever did something that was absolutely a massacre, the number of deaths that they inflicted would have been the equivalent of 40,000 people in America killed on a single day by a terror organization. I can’t even begin to tell you what would be the reaction in the United States," he also said.

Huckabee continued, saying, "So, from the perspective as an American who’s here watching in the middle of this, I can tell you that Americans, if 40,000 of us, would have been slaughtered, massacred, mutilated in front of our families, I don’t think Americans would say: ‘you know, we just want this to be over. We’re just tired of this.’ If the people who did it were going to claim a victory and put a flag up and say: ‘And we’re going to do it again.”