CBS News Posts '60 Minutes' Transcripts, Video Sought by FCC: 'Not Doctored Or Deceitful'

Source: Variety

By Brian Steinberg
Feb 5, 2025 12:26pm PT

CBS News made public all materials tied to a "60 Minutes" interview with former U.S. Vice President and Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris that have spurred a $10 billion suit from President Donald Trump and scrutiny from the Federal Communications Commission, saying in a release Wednesday that all the materials show that "consistent with 60 Minutes' repeated assurances to the public -- that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful."

Filed in federal court in the Northern District of Texas in November, the suit alleges "60 Minutes" tried to mislead voters by airing two different edits of remarks made in an interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris, then Trump's rival for the White House. CBS sought to have the case thrown out in a subsequent filing.

CBS News at 4:55 p.m. on Monday provided the Federal Communications Commission with an unedited transcript of the Harris interview, complying with a letter of inquiry from the regulatory body. Already, one of the Democratic commissioners at the FCC, Anna Gomez, released a statement calling the inquiry part of a concerning pattern of implementing the will of the Administration on issues that go far beyond our core responsibilities. These actions disregard long-standing norms and ignore the mandate granted by Congress to the FCC to act as an independent agency."

At issue is an excerpt of the interview that was screened during a broadcast of "Face The Nation" to promote a coming episode of "60 Minutes" that ran in the days before the 2024 presidential election. Harris' response was edited differently for the "Nation" except, allowed to run more fully, while it was narrowed for the purposes of the actual interview so as to allow for the candidate to respond to a wider range of subjects.

Read more: https://variety.com/2025/tv/news/cbs-news-60-minutes-transcripts-sought-by-fcc-1236298192/#recipient_hashed=343cd82b65085ef1666aa5d5e417dc33ae72e7edfab338feb9bf59e12dc0fa95&recipient_salt=35d10431c80f1d5601e6507a49aa52751280eac4349ec99063d09bab33090930&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=newsalert&utm_content=584533_02-05-2025&utm_term=3570063

Fox News Adds a New Host: Lara Trump

Source: New York Times (gift article/no paywall)

By Michael M. Grynbaum
Feb. 5, 2025, 12:45 p.m. ET

President Trump persuaded several Fox News hosts to leave the network and take up major roles in his administration.
Now a Trump is joining the network.

Lara Trump, Mr. Trump’s daughter-in-law and a former co-chair of the Republican Party, will begin hosting a new weekend show on Fox News on Feb. 22, the network is set to announce on Wednesday.

The president and his children are frequent guests on Fox News. But there is no precedent for the close relative of a sitting president to host a high-profile show on a major television news channel.

“My View with Lara Trump,” expected to air on Saturdays at 9 p.m. Eastern, will include a mix of analysis and interviews with influential figures. The network is describing the show as focused on “the return of common sense to all corners of American life,” echoing a phrase, “common sense,” that the Trump administration has frequently deployed.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/business/media/lara-trump-fox-news.html?unlocked_article_code=1.uk4.rI8R.PZfRh3OGFHoX&smid=url-share

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Patriotism Surges in Canada as Citizens Band Together to Fight Trump

Source: Newsweek

By Sophie Clark

Donald Trump's announcement of a 25 percent tariff on Canadian imports into the U.S. over the weekend has sparked a feeling that Canadian newspaper The Star has called "decidedly un-Canadian:" Patriotism.

National pride was on display at the Vancouver Canucks hockey game on Sunday when fans booed the "The Star-Spangled Banner," while cheering for "O Canada," continuing an emerging trend at sporting events and more generally in Canada.

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Trudeau is due to speak with Trump today after Canada announced retaliatory tariffs against U.S. agricultural and consumer products, industrial materials and machinery industries.

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The trade war has also extended into alcohol sales, as in Canada alcohol is imported by provincial governments and then sold on via liquor stores within each province. Doug Ford, the premier of Ontario said he will be pulling American-made alcohol from shelves in his province, which borders Ohio. David Eby, the premier of British Columbia, told liquor stores to remove brands manufactured in American "red" states, though he did not clarify which states these were.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/patriotism-surges-canada-against-trump-2025126

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Decoding Fox News - Episode 146 - Fox News Officially Becomes Trump State Media

This is one of my two favorite podcasts at the moment (George Conway Explains It All is the other). But I love what Juliet Jeske does in revealing Fox "News" is propaganda garbage each episode. Highly recommend this one. Next to Trump, I think Fox is one of the most dangerous pieces of crap (human or otherwise) in this country at the moment.

Decoding Fox News - Episode 146 - Fox News Officially Becomes Trump State Media

This is one of my two favorite podcasts at the moment (George Conway Explains It All is the other). But I love what Juliet Jeske does in revealing Fox "News" is propaganda garbage each episode. Highly recommend this one. Next to Trump, I think Fox is one of the most dangerous pieces of crap (human or otherwise) in this country at the moment.

Fay Vincent, Baseball Commissioner in a Stormy Era, Dies at 86 (New York Times)

By George Vecsey
George Vecsey is a former sports columnist for The Times.

Feb. 2, 2025 Updated 3:12 p.m. ET

Fay Vincent, a lawyer who presided over Major League Baseball as its eighth commissioner during a time when it was shaken by labor strife, the first shadows of steroid use and, quite literally, a powerful earthquake that interrupted the 1989 World Series, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86. His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of bladder cancer, his wife, Christina, said. Mr. Vincent lived in Vero Beach.

Before reaching baseball's highest office, Mr. Vincent overcame a debilitating injury as a college student to become a law partner, an official in the Securities Exchange Commission, chairman of Columbia Pictures and vice-chairman of Coca-Cola.

But he was most visible to the public in his time as baseball commissioner, from Sept. 13, 1989, to Sept. 7, 1992, rising to that post in a period of grief. He had been deputy commissioner under his good friend A. Bartlett Giamatti when Mr. Giamatti died of a heart attack suddenly at 51. The owners of the major league teams then handed Mr. Vincent the reins.

A little more than a month later, he was present when, shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 19, 1989, the Bay Area experienced a severe earthquake -- 7.1 on the Richter scale -- that caused San Francisco's Candlestick Park to rumble, as if ready to fall apart.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/sports/baseball/fay-vincent-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t04.bj7-.YRlg5kQ6ZtWp&smid=url-share

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I was at Candlestick Park the day of the '89 earthquake. Never forget the ground shaking under us and the concrete ceiling above us (we were in lower reserved) swaying back and forth as did the towers in the outfield.

Addendum: I remember seeing Joe DiMaggio, who as I recall lived in SF at the time, in a seat on the field. I also recall seeing Will Clark and Mark McGwire chatting before the game.

Fay Vincent, Baseball Commissioner in a Stormy Era, Dies at 86

Source: New York Times (gift article/no paywall)

By George Vecsey
George Vecsey is a former sports columnist for The Times.

Feb. 2, 2025 Updated 3:12 p.m. ET

Fay Vincent, a lawyer who presided over Major League Baseball as its eighth commissioner during a time when it was shaken by labor strife, the first shadows of steroid use and, quite literally, a powerful earthquake that interrupted the 1989 World Series, died on Saturday in Vero Beach, Fla. He was 86. His death, in a hospital, was caused by complications of bladder cancer, his wife, Christina, said. Mr. Vincent lived in Vero Beach.

Before reaching baseball's highest office, Mr. Vincent overcame a debilitating injury as a college student to become a law partner, an official in the Securities Exchange Commission, chairman of Columbia Pictures and vice-chairman of Coca-Cola.

But he was most visible to the public in his time as baseball commissioner, from Sept. 13, 1989, to Sept. 7, 1992, rising to that post in a period of grief. He had been deputy commissioner under his good friend A. Bartlett Giamatti when Mr. Giamatti died of a heart attack suddenly at 51. The owners of the major league teams then handed Mr. Vincent the reins.

A little more than a month later, he was present when, shortly after 5 p.m. on Oct. 19, 1989, the Bay Area experienced a severe earthquake -- 7.1 on the Richter scale -- that caused San Francisco's Candlestick Park to rumble, as if ready to fall apart.

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/02/sports/baseball/fay-vincent-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.t04.bj7-.YRlg5kQ6ZtWp&smid=url-share

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