First on FOX – President Donald Trump's lawsuit against CBS News was expanded following the release of an unedited transcript and a live footage of a “60-minute” interview with then-President Kamala Harris.
According to a Friday application from Trump's legal team reviewed by Fox News Digital, the lawsuit adds CBS News parent company Paramount Global as defendant, and how the “60-minute” election special was platformed on Paramount + streaming service It lists the following. Additionally, the lawsuit is to add R-Texas Rep. Ronny Jackson as plaintiff.
“Representative Jackson is a consumer of broadcast and digital news media content for this state, district and department, including broadcast and digital news media content from defendants who are in question in this action. “The revised complaints are It states.
Trump's lawyers have multiple cases from unedited transcripts in hopes that CBS News will bolster their lawsuit that CBS News withheld flattering exchanges to help Democratic candidates The lawsuit has been amended to include an excerpt from.
“After the defendant finally released an edited version of the interview, it was revealed that they engaged in covering up the distortions of the Gross broadcast and manipulated Harris's responses about Prime Minister Netanyahu, as well as the entire interview. “I've done it.”
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For example, in one of the exchanges highlighted from the unedited transcript, “60 minutes” Bill Whitaker said that in the first three years of the Biden administration, the number of border intersections “four times the number of “I was like that,” he pushed her against Harris. Harris provided another “word salad answer,” Trump's lawyers argued.
“There are a variety of factors related to what we see worldwide, and in terms of what we see regarding the surge in immigration and irregular migration, it relates to the lack of immunity at our own borders. There's something,” Harris told Whitaker. “And while we have a solution at hand, we have to have a solution-oriented leader.”
Trump's lawyers also filed a FOIA request with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to obtain all records related to his case against CBS News, including Biden-era FCC chairman Jessica Rosenworcel.
Neither CBS News nor Paramount Global responded immediately to Fox News Digital's request for comment.
President Trump's legal team expanded the lawsuit against CBS News after the release of an unedited transcript of the “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris. (AP Photos; Reuters Photos; Screenshots/CBS News)
On Wednesday, the FCC released the live transcript and footage handed over by CBS News. This showed that CBS News was aired only the first half of Harris' response to Whitaker's question about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The preview clip aired on “Face the Nation,” but only aired the second half of her reaction during Primetime Special.
“However, it appears that Prime Minister Netanyahu hasn't heard,” Whitaker said in an October 2024 interview. “The Wall Street Journal said your administration has been repeatedly blinded by Netanyahu, and in fact he has rejected almost all of your administration's pleading.”
“Well, Bill, the work we did has brought a lot of movement in the area by Israel. Israel has been very urged, including defending what needs to happen in this area. Or it has resulted in many things. We are not going to stop it.
Trump's FCC Chair Brendan Kerr After the complaint was filed, we ordered CBS News to hand over the unedited transcript as part of an investigation into whether the network violated the FCC's “news distortion” policy.
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In a preview clip aired on “Face the Nation,” Harris was asked why Netanyahu seemed to have not heard of the US
“Well, Bill, the work we did brought about a lot of movement in the area by Israel. “Harris responded with a 'Face the Nation' clip.
Harris was laughed at by conservatives for offering Whitaker a long “word salad.” But when that same question aired the following night on the Primetime Election Special, Shorter, more focused answers It continued from the Vice President.
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is needed to make it clear where the US needs to end this war,” Harris said in the Primetime Special.
Trump's lawsuit denounced CBS News for election interference by supporting then-President Kamala Harris by not broadcasting the unsitting section of “60 News” correspondent Bill Whitaker. (Screenshot/CBS News)
Critics accused him of compiling CBS News Harris's “word salad” answer To protect the Vice President from further backlash, the network called for the release of the full transcript after only sharing the transcript of what was aired. CBS News refused to release a live transcript at the time.
Carr said CBS News' actions were “hard to explain.”
“On the other hand, CBS quickly released an unedited transcript of a recent interview with Vice President Vance. However, for several months they refused to release it with Vice President Harris.” Kerr told Fox News Digital.
Carr mentioned CBS News Release transcripts Last month, “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan was interviewed with Vice President JD Vance.
“The FCC is now in process and seeking public comment on complaints about news distortions. Transparency is important here. FCC reviews continue and we look forward to public feedback,” Carr said. he added.
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Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Kerr said that CBS News' actions “explained” following the release of a live transcript and footage of a network's “60 minutes” interview with then-President Kamala Harris. It's difficult.” (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc, Getty Images)
In October, Trump filed a $10 billion lawsuit against CBS News, a network that supports democratic rivals through deceiving editors that claimed election interference in processing “60 minutes” interviews, and deceived days before the election I criticized him.
“For papers surrounding the weakness of Kamala's 'word salad', CBS uses domestic platforms for 60 minutes to exercise judgments from the exercise of news to the deceitful, deceptive manipulation “We've surpassed that,” the lawsuit states.
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Trump's lawyers argued that “the 2024 presidential election, led by President Trump, is approaching conclusions, and that the edit was made to “try to “lead the scale in favor of Democrats.”
“CBS's partisan and illegal elections and voter interference are malicious, deceptive, and through massive news distortions, and are calculated to confuse, deceive and mislead the public. “That's what I did,” the lawsuit read.
CBS parent company Paramount Global is lawsuit ahead of a planned merger with Skydance Media in hopes of preventing potential retaliation by Trump's FCC, which has the authority to suspend billion-dollar transactions. It is reportedly being considered to resolve the issue. Paramount's ruling shareholder Shari Redstone reportedly supports a settlement with the president.
