CBS Information has agreed to unlock a complete transcript of former Vice President Harris’s October interview with “60 Minutes” to the Federal Communications Fee (FCC), the opening published Friday.
The verdict got here after the FCC despatched a letter to CBS soliciting for a “full, unedited transcript” of the interview, carried out forward of Harris’s loss to President Trump within the 2024 election. The fee additionally asked the digital camera feeds from the episode.
“We are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do,” CBS stated in a commentary Friday.
A conservative legislation company filed a criticism with the FCC final yr following the interview, alleging that the opening engaged in “significant and international news distortion.” The go well with, at the beginning pushed aside below the Biden management, was once reopened through company head Brendan Carr, Trump’s pick out to guide the fee.
The company is now set to imagine a slew of circumstances towards best broadcasters — together with CBS, ABC Information, NBC Information and Fox Company — which former Chair Jessica Rosenworcel dropped final week bringing up coverage of the First Modification.
The FCC additionally lately introduced an investigation into public broadcasting stations NPR and PBS, alleging the shops aired advertisements which can be towards federal laws.
Trump filed a lawsuit with the U.S. District Courtroom within the Northern District of Texas towards CBS over the “60 Minutes” interview, in quest of $10 billion in damages. The criticism accuses the community of attractive in “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference” and echoed the opposite lawsuit’s claims of in depth enhancing at the aired episode.
CBS denounced the accusations within the go well with, filed earlier than Trump’s election victory, pointing to his choice to tug out from a an identical interview alternative.
