CBS agrees to hand over 60 -minute Harris transcriptions to FCC

CBS says he will put a transcription not published from his October interview With Kamala Harris at the Federal Communications Commission, part of President Donald Trump’s continuous fight with the network on how he managed a story on his opponent.

Trump continued CBS for $ 10 million compared to the “60 -minute” interview, saying that she had been deceptive to make Harris well. The reports published indicate that the parent company of CBS, Paramount, spoke to the lawyers of Trump of a regulation.

The network said on Friday that he had been forced by Brendan Carr, appointed president of Trump as president of the FCC, to hand over the transcriptions and cameras flows of the interview for a parallel investigation of the committee. “60 minutes” resisted the release of transcriptions for this and all its interviews, to avoid the second in its publishing process.

The case, in particular a potential regulation, is closely monitored by defenders of press freedom and by journalists within CBS, whose lawyers called the trial of Trump “completely without merit” and promised Fighting it vigorously after his deposit.

The interview with Harris initially drawn attention because CBS News showed that Harris gave completely different answers to a question asked by the correspondent Bill Whitaker in clips that were broadcast on “Face The Nation” on October 6 and The following night on “60 minutes”. The network said that each clip came from a long response from Harris to the question of Whitaker, but they were modified to adapt the time constraints on the two programs.

In his trial, tabled in Texas on November 1, Trump accused that it is a deceptive assembly designed to benefit Harris and made up of “partisan and illegal acts of voters’ interference”.

Trump, who refused a request to interview by “60 minutes” during the campaign, continued his fight despite the election victory less than a week after the trial.

The network did not comment on the talks of a potential regulation, reported by the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. Paramount leaders are looking for approval from the Trump administration from a company sale to another entertainment company, Skydance.

ABC News in December set a defamation trial By Trump on the declarations made by the George Stephanopoulos anchor, agreeing to pay $ 15 million for the Trump’s presidential library rather than engaging in a public struggle. Meta has would have paid $ 25 million To settle the Trump trial against the company for its decision to suspend its social media accounts after January 6, 2021, Riot at the American Capitol.

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