’60 minutes’ Party manufacturer as the CBS Cabs Mulls Solving Trump’s lawsuit: ‘I won’t apologize’
Executive producer “60 minutes” remains defiance and home company CBS News Mulls settling a lawsuit he has led President Donald Trump.
Bill Owens, who has run a long -lasting program since 2019, has taken a heavy attitude against Trump during a staff meeting on Monday, According to the New York Times.
“There have been a settlement reports and/or excuse in the media,” Owens said. “The company knows I won’t apologize for anything we have done.”
The executive producer “60 minutes” Bill Owens is supposedly a vow “I will not apologize” because the CBS News “Paramount Mulls is a lawsuit that President Trump has launched. (Piaras ó Mídheach/Sportsfile for collision via Getty Images)
CBS News is approaching the time of Trump’s president of the Federal Communications Commission Brendan Carr Hand over the transcript of Kamal Harris interview “60 minutes” at the center of controversy.
“Editing is perfectly fine; let’s put it in bed so we can continue our lives,” Owens said about a transcript, the Times.
CBS News did not immediately respond Fox News DigitalRequest for comment.
Trump could be on the verge of a legal victory against CBS while guessing about settlement warms up
In October, Trump filed a lawsuit of $ 10 billion against CBS News, which states that he is an election interference with his interview “60 minutes” with Vice -President Kamal Harris, accusing the net of helping his democratic rival just days before the election.
The lawsuit stems from the exchange Harris had with “60 minutes” by Bill Whitaker. In a review aired on “Face the Nation”, Harris wondered why it seems that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not listen to now
“Well, Bill, the job we did resulted in numerous movements in that region by Israel that have greatly encouraged or the result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region,” Harris answered in the clip ” Face the nation. ”
Bill Whitaker interview “60 minutes” with Vice -President Kamal Harris is at the center of a lawsuit with high roles. (Screen shots/CBS News)
Harris was mocked by the conservatives because he offered Whitaker a long “word salad”. But when the same question was broadcast next night in temporary elections, A shorter, focused answer The Vice President followed.
“We will not stop following what it takes for the United States to be clear about where we are standing on the need to end this war,” Harris said in Primetime Special.
Critics have accused CBS News about editing Harris’s “word salad” answer In order to protect the vice president from a further return blow, and there was also a call for the net to publish the entire transcript after only shared the transcripts of what was aired.
“For the paper over Kamal’s weakness of the word salad, CBS used its national platform for 60 minutes to cross the line from making judgment in reporting fake, deceptive news manipulation,” the lawsuit said.
Trump’s lawyers claimed that the changes made in an effort to “attempt to turn the ladder in favor of the Democratic Party, as the presidential elections of 2024 were heated – which President Trump leads – closer to his conclusion.”
“The CBS of partisan and illegal works of choice and interference of voters through malicious, deceptive and significant distortion of news calculated to confuse, deceive and delve the public,” the lawsuit writes.
President’s lawyers accused the news of CBS of election involvement to push the then President Kamala Harris “Salad from the word” in their interview “60 minutes”. (Left: (Photo Spencer Platt/Getty Images), Center: Shotshot/60Minutes, Right: (Photo Andy Manis/Getty Images)))
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CBS parent company Paramount Global is reportedly considering resolving the lawsuit ahead of the planned merger with Skydance Media in the hope that it will prevent the potential retaliation of Trump’s FCC, which has the authority to stop multi-million dollar transactions. Shari Redstone, Paramount’s control shareholder, is allegedly advocating to deal with the president.
Settlement rumors come only a few weeks after ABC News resolved her defamation lawsuit He endured Trump, which resulted in giving him $ 15 million and a written apology, after which Meta followed the settlement in the amount of $ 25 million.
Fox News’ Brian Flood contributed to this report.
