CBS This Morning journalists on Friday offered a platform to radical socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, deeming the new Congresswoman’s extreme views “interesting.” The network, which will showcase the Democrat in a 60 Minutes segment on Sunday, previewed it by allowing Ocasio-Cortez to compare herself to Abraham Lincoln and Franklin D. Roosevelt. There was no objection to this.

Regarding her energy plans, Anderson Cooper gently wondered, “You're talking about zero carbon emissions. No use of fossil fuels within 12 years?” After Ocasio-Cortez responded, “That’s the goal,” Cooper mildly wondered, “How is that possible? You're talking about everybody having to drive an electric car?” That’s all he could manage? Not something like "how are you going to force people to stop driving the cars they have?”

Later, at least, Cooper observed that her views are “radical.” But when she compared herself to Lincoln and FDR, he didn’t challenge the 29-year-old.

ANDERSON COOPER: What you are talking about, just big picture, is a radical agenda compared to the way politics is done right now. ALEXANDRIA OCASIO-CORTEZ: Well, I think that it only has ever been radicals that have changed this country. Abraham Lincoln made the radical decision to sign the Emancipation Proclamation. Franklin Delano Roosevelt made the radical decision to embark on establishing programs like Social Security. That is radical. COOPER: Do you call yourself a radical? OCASIO-CORTEZ: Yeah, you know, if that's what radical means, call me a radical.

Co-host Bianna Golodryga was intrigued by the democratic socialist’s agenda: “Interesting she calls herself a radical when just two years the word progressive was seen as too far to the left in Washington.”

Co-host Norah O’Donnell touted the new Democrats in Washington D.C.: “A lot of new voices in Congress pushing for change. A lot of people from different backgrounds than we've seen in the past and we're off to the races. It's going to be an incredible year.”

On June 27, 2018, CBS tossed softballs to Ocasio-Cortez, who had just won a Democratic congressional primary in New York, ignoring her hard-left agenda.

A transcript of the segment is below. Click “expand” to read more.