CBS News Posts '60 Minutes' Transcripts, Video Sought by FCC: 'Not Doctored Or Deceitful' [View all]
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.
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Glad to see CBS fight back on this ridiculous lawsuit. Trump certainly expects any stories related to him be edited like they do on Fox News. Sorry, but real journalists (ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN, MSNBC) have different standards than the garbage they run at Fox.
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