Speaker Johnson goes after CBS moderators for 'shameless' fact-checking of JD Vance: 'Three against one'

House Speaker Mike Johnson slammed the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate moderators for their "shameless" fact-checking of Sen. JD Vance, calling them retired for having anti-conservative bias connected "open display."

"It's conscionable shameless," Johnson said during "Fox & Friends" connected Wednesday. "Their bias, their disdain for immoderate Republican campaigner is conscionable connected unfastened display. Everybody tin spot that… It was 3 against 1 and JD inactive won."

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Despite CBS announcing that it would not let unrecorded fact-checking during the debate, moderator Margaret Brennan interjected to close Vance aft helium suggested that amerciable immigrants are overwhelming resources successful Springfield, Ohio.

"Just to clarify for our viewers, Springfield, Ohio does person a ample fig of Haitian migrants who person ineligible status, impermanent protected status," Brennan said.

When Vance tried to propulsion backmost connected the fact-check, Brennan and her co-moderator Norah O'Donnell attempted to talk implicit Vance, insisting that they had to determination connected to the adjacent question.

CBS News anchors Norah O’Donnell (L) and Margaret Brennan mean the statement betwixt Republican vice statesmanlike candidate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH) and Democratic vice statesmanlike candidate, Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz astatine the CBS Broadcast Center connected October 1, 2024 successful New York City.  (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

"The rules were that you guys weren't going to fact-check," Vance reminded them. "And since you are fact-checking me, I deliberation it's important to accidental what's really going on."

While explaining the process of obtaining ineligible presumption and tying it to a Harris-backed migration policy, the moderators again spoke implicit Vance, thanking him for "describing the ineligible process" earlier they chopped disconnected his microphone arsenic Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz attempted to reason with him.

"Senator, we person truthful overmuch we person to get to, convey you truthful overmuch for explaining the ineligible process," Brennan said earlier urging O'Donnell again to determination connected to the adjacent question.

"The assemblage can't perceive you due to the fact that your mics are cut," she added erstwhile Vance continued to respond.

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Johnson commended Vance for his show arsenic helium went head-to-head against the Minnesota governor, praising him for shedding airy connected the Biden-Harris administration's "open" borderline policies. 

"The migration argumentation is fundamentally nonexistent," Johnson said. "They opened the border. They're allowing everyone in. They enactment retired the invited mat, and the catastrophe that this has been to our state successful each metric of nationalist policy, with the fentanyl poisonings of it being the starring origin of decease for Americans aged 18 to 49. The trafficking, the information that JD pointed retired truthful well, they person mislaid each of these children who came crossed the border." 

"If a Republican medication had done that, it's each you would spot each day, but they effort to hide it," helium continued. 

"JD was truthful bully past nighttime due to the fact that helium brought answers, solutions. He talked astir policies. He showed america his extent and helium came crossed arsenic conscionable being precise tenable and likable. I conscionable thought helium was astatine his best. He did a large job."

CBS News announced past week that it would not let its moderators to partake successful immoderate information checking oregon correcting unrecorded successful an effort to debar the fury sparked by ABC News for its partisan handling of the archetypal statesmanlike statement betwixt erstwhile President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Instead, the web offered viewers a QR codification wherever their reporters are fact-checking the candidates’ remarks successful existent clip connected their website.

Fox News' Yael Halon contributed to this report.