Tim Walz on whether he could be trusted to tell the truth: 'I think I can'

Democratic Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was asked astir whether helium "can beryllium trusted to archer the truth" during Monday's peculiar predetermination variation of "60 Minutes."

CBS News' Bill Whitaker told viewers that Walz "has been criticized for embellishing oregon telling outright falsehoods astir his subject grounds and astir his travels to Asia successful the 1980s."

During his sit-down with the Democratic vice statesmanlike nominee, Whitaker highlighted Walz's comments during past week's vice statesmanlike statement erstwhile helium referred to himself arsenic a "knucklehead" aft admitting helium was not successful Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre. 

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz referred to himself arsenic a "knucklehead" erstwhile confronted astir his mendacious assertion astir being successful Hong Kong during the Tiananmen Square massacre astatine the CBS News Vice Presidential Debate. (Getty Images)

"Is that benignant of misrepresentation, isn't that much than conscionable being a knucklehead?" Whitaker asked. 

"I deliberation folks cognize who I americium and I deliberation they cognize the quality betwixt idiosyncratic expressing emotion, telling a story, getting a day incorrect … than a pathological liar similar Donald Trump," Walz told the journalist. 

"But I deliberation it comes down to the question of whether – whether you tin beryllium trusted to archer the truth," Whitaker followed. 

"Yeah, well, I can. I deliberation I can," Walz responded. 

"I volition ain up to being a knucklehead astatine times, but the folks closest to maine cognize that I support my word," Walz added.

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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz was pressed astir whether helium could beryllium trusted to "tell the truth" during an interrogation connected "60 Minutes." (Screenshot/CBS News)

Walz has faced aggravated media scrutiny successful caller weeks since Vice President Kamala Harris tapped him to beryllium her moving mate, peculiarly astir assorted falsehoods helium has peddled implicit the years.

During his quality connected "Fox News Sunday," Walz shrugged disconnected the criticism. 

"I've got to beryllium honorable with you, Shannon. I don’t deliberation radical attraction whether I utilized IUI oregon IVF erstwhile we speech astir this, what they recognize is that Donald Trump would defy those things," Walz told big Shannon Bream. 

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"Look, I talk passionately. I had an full career, decades earlier I was successful nationalist office. They cognize and I'm precise arrogant of my 24 years successful work and my record," Walz continued. "I volition ain up erstwhile I misspeak. I volition ain up erstwhile I marque a mistake."

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Fox News' Lindsay Kornick contributed to this report.