CBS News has announced that in accordance with the request of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to transfer the “60 -minute” transcript interview “with former Vice -President Kamal Harris, who is the topic of the President Trump against the company.
FCC, led by Trump’s appointed Brendan Carr, sent a letter from the investigation Wednesday, looking for “a full, unregistered transcript and Feeda camera.”
“We are working to respect that research as we are legally forced to do,” said CBS News spokesman in statement on Friday.
’60 minutes’ under fire to decide to decorate Kamal Harris, has a history of liberal controversy
CBS News will reportedly adhere to FCC requests to reverse the recordings and transcript of their “60 minutes” interview with then President Harris, who has been charged with illegal editing. (AP Photo; Reuters Photo; Screenshots/CBS News)
The news comes as Settlement discussions Between the President of Donald Trump and the home company News Outlet, Paramount, they are ongoing for Trump’s lawsuit in the amount of $ 10 billion against CBS News for performing his “60 minute” interview with then President Harris last October.
Quoting “three people with knowledge of conversations”, Reported the New York Times That “no guarantee”, two parties will reach an agreement, but they noted that “Shari Redstone, Paramount’s control shareholder, strongly supports the efforts to settle.”
Outlet added that Paramount executives believe that settlement with Trump will increase the chances of Trump’s administration not blocking or delaying their planned merger of multi -million dollars from Skydance Media.
Ed Paltzik, lawyer of President Trump, said CBS must be responsible.
“President Donald J. Trump is dedicated to holding those who operate in deception and false news responsible. Harris campaign, all in a desperate commercial pursuit of gaining and viewers. “
President Trump and others were not satisfied with the CBS News “60 minutes” because of the controversial editing interview with then President Kamal Harris. (Left: (Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Shotshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo Andy Manis/Getty Images)))
Trump sued the news In October 2024, citing “deceptive behavior” in the way he produced an interview with Harris directly in front of the presidential election. The then candidate of the GOP accused the editing network that Harris had with “60 minutes” by Bill Whitaker.
According to Trump and his legal team, it seems to be a longer, meandering the answer Harris gave Whitaker during the promotional interview clip, it seemed to be arranged on a sharper, more condensed answer when an interview was emitted.
The Trump team asked CBS News to post the entire transcript of the interview that month, although the net refused, citing the first amendment. The net insisted that the “interview was not a doctoral” and that the program “did not hide any part of the answer to the vice president to a disputed question.”
The rejection prompted Trump to sue the damage to the Federal Court in Texas. At that time, candidate lawyers said that a lawsuit came in response to “partisans and unlawful works of choice and interference voters through malicious, deceptive and significant distortion of news calculated to confuse, deceive and delve the public.”
The Democratic Commissioner of FCC Anna Gomez criticized her agency for submitting an investigation this week. The New York Times quoted her, stating, “Let’s be clear, this is the retaliation of the Government against the Emirates whose contents or coverage are considered unfavorable. It is designed to implant fear in the broadcast cells and affect the editorial decisions of the network.”
CBS and Paramount Reps did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request for any additional comment.
Fox News Digital’s Brian Flood contributed to this report.
