So often, the liberal media likes to portray itself as fighting disinformation and fighting for the truth. There is just one problem with that narrative, as Tuesday's CBS Mornings Plus co-hosts Adriana Diaz and Vladimir Duthiers voiced to Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) — they didn’t think there was one objective truth.
While interviewing Scott about his recently published book, on Judeo-Christian values, Diaz couldn’t help but level this ludicrous take, asserting truth is subjective:
But, Senator, you know, you say that truth is not subjective, that there is one fundamental truth, but in a day like today, people have different truths, right? Like on immigration, some people's truth is, if you're in this country and even if and you're – you didn't come here legally, but you're – you're paying taxes, you're contributing, you should stay. Other people's truth is, if you came here illegally, you shouldn't be here. How can there be one truth at a time like today, when different people feel they have different truths?
An objective truth, she seemed to imply in her question, was an outdated idea, something left behind with the rest of the Judeo-Christian ideas Scott called for Americans to hold fast to.
Scott was patient and didn't ridicule, making the obvious clarification that “there's a big difference between your experiences and your opinion and the truth.” He made it clear that, regardless of how people would have liked it to work, “this notion of objective truth is a necessary component for any functioning society.”
Of course, that didn’t quite make sense to Diaz, who asked the Senator, "As a practicing Christian, how do you reconcile your support for President Trump when many people see his actions as lacking Christian values?"
Essentially, Diaz asked Scott to reconcile his truth with hers, exactly what Scott argued against. Looking at the objective truth, it shouldn’t be hard to understand why Scott would side with Trump as a Christian, the candidate who stood opposed to evils such as gender affirming mutilation for children. But that didn’t align with Diaz’s subjective understanding of the world.
Afterwards, Duthiers took his turn pressing Scott on the objective truth, suddenly believing truth to be black and white:
Let's talk about perceived truth. The President of the United States recently fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a lackluster report showed only about 73,000 jobs were created in July. He called the numbers fake, and he accused the commissioner of being part of a scam. He said she was partisan. You sit on the Senate Finance Committee. Do you agree with that characterization? And what evidence did the president present?
Duthiers tried to turn Scott’s point about there being one objective truth against him, acting as if the liberal view of the situation was the objective truth.
But when Scott tried to use statistics as evidence, Duthiers repeatedly cut off his answer until the senator had to ask for the chance to speak.
As per usual for liberal media, CBS’s co-hosts did not mind pushing whatever subjective truth was convenient for their narrative, all while shutting out any appeals to the objective truth in front of them.
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CBS Mornings Plus
August 5, 2025
9:20 a.m. EST
VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: Our next guest, we're happy to say, is South Carolina's junior United CBS Mornings Plus
August 5, 2025
9:20 a.m. EST
VLADIMIR DUTHIERS: Our next guest, we're happy to say, is South Carolina's junior United States senator, Tim Scott. The Republican took office in 2013. He is the longest serving black senator in U.S. history, and the first black person to serve in both chambers of Congress. His new book is called One Nation Always Under God. It is out today. It spotlights Christian men and women whose faith helped shape American history. And Senator Scott joins us now. Good morning.
SEN. TIM SCOTT (R-SC): Good morning. Good to be back with you.
DUTHIERS: Good to see you. All right. So you've often, many, many times spoken about your Christian faith, both in Congress and on the campaign trail. And you warn in your new book that America is drifting from its Judeo-Christian values. Why do you see that as an imminent threat?
SCOTT: Well, I think if you look back at our past, the foundation of this country has always been a Judeo-Christian ethos, and that allows us to love our neighbors, frankly. I think back to the Mother Emanuel Crisis Massacre in my state. They said Matthew 5:44 so many times when they forgave the killer.
It is really important for us to recognize that sometimes the best future we could have is found by the foundation that we set on our Christian values. The good news is America is a multicultural nation that allows for people to worship the god of their choice. But at the end of the day, it is undeniable that the foundational – the root system has been our Christian values.
ADRIANA DIAZ: But, Senator, you know, you say that truth is not subjective, that there is one fundamental truth—
SCOTT: Yes.
DIAZ: But in a day like today, people have different truths, right? Like on immigration, some people's truth is, if you're in this country and even if and you're – you didn't come here legally, but you're – you're paying taxes, you're contributing, you should stay. Other people's truth is, if you came here illegally, you shouldn't be here. How can there be one truth at a time like today, when different people feel they have different truths?
SCOTT: Well, I think there's a big difference between your experiences and your opinion and the truth. The truth is that if you were to immigrate or go to Mexico illegally, they would have real strong sentences against you. I think there the second time you were caught in Mexico, I believe it is – your sentence is up between two and 10 years.
The fact of the matter is, every nation on the planet has rules that say if you're in the country illegally, that is a crime. That's a problem. The question is, how do we deal with that issue? And frankly, I believe that this notion of objective truth is a necessary component for any functioning society. It's an opinion or it's your desire for people to come into the country any willy way you want to. I don't share that opinion.
I think that our laws of our country are set upon an objective fact that, if you're here illegally, then you have broken the law. The question is, what do we do about that? And I think our approach has been a very clear approach, which is that we look for the violent criminals first to get them out of our country. That is a – in my opinion, the most effective way to do it.
ADRIANA DIAZ: If I may, Senator, as a practicing Christian,
SCOTT: Yes.
DIAZ: As a practicing Christian, how do you reconcile your support for President Trump when many people see his actions as lacking Christian values? When you look at cutting foreign aid that supports the poor overseas, when you look at his rhetoric toward migrants or even calling Chuck Schumer – telling him to go to hell in the last few days.
SCOTT: Well, I've heard a lot of politicians say a lot of things about other politicians. I'll simply say, in my book, One Nation Always Under God, what you'll find very quickly are stories of Christians who have the strong profile in multiple areas of our nation's important institutions. Being able to put ourselves back on solid ground is really important.
But specifically, if you think about what President Trump has done, frankly, on reinforcing the PEPFAR funding that provides for billions of dollars to Africa for AIDS. If you think about President Trump's approach on taxes, when we passed the Trump tax cuts in 2017, we lowered the taxes for a single mother by 70 percent. If you look at the expansion of the child tax credit, $2,200 today, it was $2,000.
When we first passed, it was only $1,000 before we passed it. If you look at the impact from providing the average American family with $6,000 as a result of those tax cuts, and if you reverse that and look at the Biden administration years where we saw a loss of $1,075 per month in spending power, because when inflation goes to 9 percent, interest rates follow, making everything more expensive. If you look at where we are today, 2.7 percent is where inflation is. I would say without any question, the most compassionate approach to providing the best future for the American people is by giving them as many of their resources to make their own decisions.
And one of the reasons why I cover in my new book, One Nation Always Under God, the importance of individual responsibility and having an optimistic view of that future is because I've seen it happen in our past. I've seen it happen in my life, and I'm hoping that it will happen again in our future.
DUTHIERS: All right, Senator, let me ask you about this. The – let's talk about perceived truth. The President of the United States recently fired the head of the Bureau of Labor Statistics after a lackluster report showed only about 73,000 jobs were created in July. He called the numbers fake, and he accused the commissioner of being part of a scam. He said she was partisan. You sit on the Senate Finance Committee.
SCOTT: I do.
DUTHIERS: Do you agree with that characterization? And what evidence did the president present?
SCOTT: Well, I think, very quickly, if you think about just during the previous election, when, after Joe Biden got out of the race, that same BLS lowered the job number, but by 800,000.
DUTHIERS: Senator, you know that these numbers are revised every quarter. But they – this is not new.
SCOTT: 800,000.
DIAZ: They were also revised up after – at the end of president…
SCOTT: How much were they revised up by? I mean literally we're talking about an 800,000 down—
DUTHIERS: But you think that the revisions are partisan? That when statisticians revise numbers—
SCOTT: Happy to answer your question.
DUTHIERS: —You think that those are partisan? Sorry, yeah.
SCOTT: The bottom line is simple, is simply this; for consistently over years we've seen a mismanagement of the Bureau of Labor and Statistics. As a result of that, we've seen downward numbers by 800,000 people, number one. Number two, but this is not just one instance. It has happened consistently over time. President Trump has said very clearly, and I think Kevin Hassett has said it really well. We want objectivity. We don't want politics involved in our numbers. That is why we've seen the change that we're seeing.
DUTHIERS: All right. South Carolina Senator Tim Scott, always great to have you on.
SCOTT: Thank you very much.
