Karoline Leavitt Threatens New CBS Evening Anchor in Leaked Audio: “We’ll Sue Your Ass Off”
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🗓️ 18 January 2026
⏱️ 18 minutes
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Moments after newly installed CBS evening news anchor Tony Dokoupil interviewed President Trump this week, Karoline Leavitt demanded the entire 13 minute interview air, unedited or else. It’s the latest in a string of bad headlines for Dokoupil’s first two weeks on the job, with many questioning just how much influence the administration has on the network and the broadcast.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.5 | Guaranteed human. |
| 0:15.6 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:16.8 | It is Sunday, January 18th, and we have some new leaked audio. |
| 0:24.0 | Well, it sounds sexy, but this leaked audio is really just telling us what we already knew. |
| 0:29.5 | President Trump likes to threaten the media. |
| 0:31.7 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. |
| 0:33.9 | Still interesting. |
| 0:35.1 | A threat. |
| 0:36.4 | Do what I tell you to do or I will sue you and CBS |
| 0:41.3 | News did exactly what they told them to do. Yeah, so it was an effective threat. I think that's the |
| 0:46.0 | biggest concern of them all is that yes, anyone can threaten the administration and we've seen |
| 0:51.9 | this with past administrations, can be unhappy with the |
| 0:54.4 | press. They can not like what the press has said or done or how they've edited something, |
| 1:00.1 | but never before have we had the president threatened to sue, follow up with those lawsuits, |
| 1:04.8 | and then basically exact control because people know that he will sue. Yeah, and he has won. I don't know if he's won in court, but they were essentially called Uncle before they even get to a courtroom with some of these places. So what we're talking about here now, and look, yes, it was, it was been a tough launch for Tony DeCopo. Look, we're rooting for him over there at CBS News as the new evening anchor, but it has been a rough stretch, but he's been on this promotional tour. And one of the things, CBS Evening News last Tuesday, Robs, was the interview with President Trump in Pittsburgh at a still plan. I got the right spot. It was in Michigan. In Michigan? Ah, yes. He went to Pittsburgh later. You were right. Where did he flip somebody on? I believe it was in Detroit. That same place. |
| 1:44.8 | Okay. There you. Yes, that was a headline making stop for the president and for Tony DeCobo both for different reasons. |
| 1:52.5 | So it was that Tony DeCopo was making, had an interview with the president, we saw it air. Well, what has just come out, and it was just overnight, was it not Robs, that this leaked |
| 2:01.8 | audio in which Carolyn Levitt made sure CBS News understood that interview needs to air in full or else. |
| 2:11.2 | Yes. So this was, and by the way, we watched the whole thing, as you pointed out, air on the |
| 2:16.5 | broadcast, and it was long. |
| 2:18.8 | 13-minute interview. |
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