"If you're a major news outlet and you have the opportunity to interview the president of the United States, then you interview the president of the United States. But that doesn't mean that every interview with the president produces something of note. On Tuesday night, the revamped "CBS Evening News" with new anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed President Donald Trump. Given all the buzz surrounding Dokoupil and CBS News and a direction that appears to be drifting to the right since Bari Weiss became editor-in-chief, all eyes and ears were on how Dokoupil would handle the interview."
"In the end, it was much ado about nothing. Dokoupil hit on all the major topics of the day, including Iran, the economy, the investigation of Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell and the ICE shooting in Minneapolis. But if you were looking for any insight from the president, a viral moment, an answer that would be splashed across headlines all over the world, it never happened. If you were looking for a spectacular moment - either good or bad - from Dokoupil, that never happened either."
Tony Dokoupil of CBS Evening News interviewed President Donald Trump in a roughly 13-minute segment filmed inside a noisy Ford factory in Dearborn, Michigan. The interview covered major topics including Iran, the economy, the Federal Reserve investigation, and the Minneapolis ICE shooting. The factory noise required loud speech and created a distracting background. The segment produced no standout revelations, viral moments, or dramatic exchanges. Trump repeated broad, unproven claims about wars and the economy and attacked Joe Biden. Dokoupil offered gentle pushback on a few points, but the interview yielded little new insight.
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