Now that presidential candidate Kamala Harris has called for the elimination of private health insurance, a move that would impact 177 million Americans, CBS has joined the fight to push the rest of 2020 Democratic field farther left. This Morning co-host John Dickerson on Thursday warned candidate Pete Buttigieg against “nibbling around the edges” and urged him to go bold (meaning liberal).

In an interview with the Mayor of South Bend, Dickerson demanded, “When you talk about nibbling around the edges, if you look at the other Democrats who are running, they're not nibbling around the edges. They're talking about Medicare for all. Some are talking about getting rid of private insurance.”

The co-host lobbied, “So, that's the competition you have. So what is your idea that it is so big that it — nobody would mistake it for nibbling around the edges?”

Get it? Eliminating private health insurance is simply going “big” and not “nibbling around the edges.” Dickerson never mentioned how extreme this plan is or its pitfalls. That shouldn’t be surprising because on Tuesday he reported Senator Harris’s call by simply insisting, “Kamala Harris says all Americans should have Medicare and it's time to move on from private insurance.”

Co-host Norah O’Donnell on Thursday followed up on Dickerson’s point, pressing, “Just to clarify what John was asking about — do you support Medicare for all?” Finally, in the last question of the interview, O’Donnell allowed a hint of concern: “Mayor Bloomberg, who is likely to join the race, says it could bankrupt the country.”

It should be pointed out that this is not how journalists treat Republican presidential candidates. They don’t get questions about whether they are pro-life enough or pro-Second Amendment enough.

A partial transcript of the segment is below: