President Donald Trump's lawsuit against CBS News was expanded following the release of an unedited transcript and 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 in 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.
“When 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. “The submission states.
For example, in one of the exchanges highlighted from the unedited transcript, “60 minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker said that in the first three years of the Biden administration, the number of border intersections “four times the number of He pushed Harris against him, saying, “It's become.”
Harris provided another “word salad answer,” Trump's lawyers argued.
“There are a variety of factors related to what we see globally, and there are things that are not immune at our own borders in terms of what we see regarding the surge in immigration and irregular migration.” 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.
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. A preview clip that aired on “Face the Nation” but aired only the second half of her reactions on 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 is needed in the area. Or the result of many things. And we are not going to stop it. We will pursue what is necessary to make the United States clear where it stands to end this war. I'm not going to stop,” Harris replied.
Trump's FCC Chairman Brendan Kerr 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 after the complaint was filed. Ta.
In a preview clip aired on “Face the Nation,” Harris was asked why Netanyahu appears to have not heard of the US.
“Well, Bill, the work we did brought 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, it was followed by a shorter, more focused answer from the vice president.
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is needed to clarify how the United States will need to end this war,” Harris said in the Primetime Special.
Critics accused CBS news of compiling Harris's “Word Salad” responses to protect the Vice President from further backlash, and after only sharing the transcript of what was aired, the network was in full transcription We called for the script to be released. 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 months they refused to release Vice President Harris.” Carr told Fox News Digital.
Carr mentioned CBS News last month, releasing a transcript of an interview with Vice President JD Vance of “Face the Nation” anchor Margaret Brennan.
“The FCC is currently in process and is seeking public comment on complaints about news distortions. Transparency here is important. FCC reviews continue and we look forward to public feedback. ” Carr added.
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 handling “60 minutes” interviews, and deceived them a few days before the election condemned.
“To paper the weaknesses of Kamala's 'word salad', CBS uses national platforms in 60 minutes to defensively deceptively from the exercise of judgments to the deceitful and deceptive manipulation of news. I've surpassed it,” the lawsuit states.
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 were calculated to confuse, deceive and mislead the public through malicious, deceptive and massive news distortions. “The lawsuit reads.
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.
