President Trump said Thursday that CBS should be closed after the network released the transcript and unrelated footage from the controversial “60 minutes” Harris interview being investigated by the Federal Communications Commission.
“CBS and 60 minutes deceived the public by doing something that has never been seen, to this extent, to this extent,” Trump told social truth. “They 100% removed Kamala’s terrible choices by changing the answers to the questions and replacing them with completely different answers, and much better, taken from another part of the interview.”
Trump claimed that the interview was “choices that changed things”, though Trump continued to beat the Democratic challenger.
Trump accused the show for “deceitful” editing and “news distortion” in a $ 10 billion trial against CBS, after the network broadcast an interview promotion in which Harris gave a long, long -standing answer to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Harris’s response to the same question in the “60 minutes” interview was different, more concise and clear, raising the eyebrows that the network edited the part to assist the presidential candidate. CBS denied any wrongdoing.
Trump in the fall demanded that the Tiffany network be returned to the unprecedented transcript, which finally made on Wednesday in the midst of pressure from FCC leader Brendan Carr, who has the power to revoke licenses at CBS individual stations who owns.
If Carr finds evidence of fraudulent editing, it can affect the regulatory approval of the $ 8 billion paramount union with Skydance, which was decided to close until next month.
“CBS should lose its license, and the fraudsters in 60 minutes must be discarded, and this controversial show ‘News’ must end immediately,” Trump continued in his post. “This will come down as the biggest transmission scandal in history !!!”
Carr told Fox News that FCC has opened a procedure and is seeking public comment on the complaint of news distortion.
“Transparency here is important. The FCC review will continue, and we look forward to the public’s reactions, “Carr said.
A question from the “60 -minute” correspondent Bill Whitaker for what the US could do to stop the war to rotate out of control, Harris offers an annoying answer, 140 words, according to the full transcript.
The version that was transmitted showed a summary response, with 56 words.
Another question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in appearing “drafting his course” while opposing Biden administration’s calls to moderate the military response was also edited.
Harris’s response transmitted only 20 words: “The work we do diplomatically with Israel’s leadership is a constant pursuit to make our principles clear.”
However, the full transcript shows Harris giving a long answer, with 179 words.
While editing for clarity is standard, the crashed CBS News reporter Catherine Herridge publicly criticized her former employer.
“@60minutes did a favor of VP Harris in the editing room,” Herridge said on X. “Its long answers of the words” were very condensed in a final transmission segment that felt summarized and presidential. I scored one of Harris’s answers in over three minutes. “
She slammed CBS for giving Harry a softball interview, “Asking questions such as,” Why do you want to be president of the United States? “”
While Herridge said there was no “a journalistic foul an internal edit”, the public could decide whether “heavily edited interview” distorted Harris’s performance before asked if the then Trump candidate would have received the same treatment If he had accepted 60 minutes invitation. “
After leaving the transcript, CBS said transcripts “show – in accordance with repeated 60 minutes insurance for the public – that 60 -minute transmission was not a doctorate or deceiver.”
Trump and CBS are said to have begun “very preliminary” resolution talks on his lawsuit – which has withdrawn the fraud of network staff.
Redstone, the media heir controlling Paramount, is reported to receive $ 1.75 billion as part of the Skydance Agreement.
FCC, an independent federal agency, issues eight -year licenses to individual broadcasting stations, not networks.
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