The Federal Communications Commission released the transcript of a “60 minutes” interview on Wednesday with vice -president Kamala Harris, which was central to a lawsuit between CBS and President Trump.
The transcript of the interview shows that Mrs. Harris gave a long answer to a question about Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. About 21 seconds of that answer was broadcast in an example of the interview about 'Face the Nation'. Another part of the answer answer was broadcast the next day in an episode of “60 minutes”.
After the interview was broadcast, Mr. Trump CBS continued in Texas and claimed that “60 minutes” deceived the interview deceptively to disturb the elections.
But “60 minutes” argued that it did nothing wrong. It is common for news organizations to include a fragment from a full interview in news articles or TV broadcasts because of De Bol.
CBS News and the FCC on Wednesday posted the transcript interview almost simultaneously. In a statement on the CBS news website, the company said that the transcript shows that the broadcast of the “60 minutes” “was not procacted or decorative”.
“As the full transcript shows, we have edited the interview to ensure that so many of the vice president's answers at 60 minutes were included in many questions in our original broadcast, while they reasonably represent these answers,” the statement added to it.
The chairman of the FCC, Brendan Carr, had asked for a transcript of the interview after a complaint about the newspaper distinction had been submitted to that agency. Mr Carr said that complaints in the evaluation of the Paramount's merger of billions of dollars with Skydance, a Hollywood studio, supported by the Tech Scion David Ellison, could appear.
Mr Carr on Wednesday in a statement that the Agency would ask for public comments about the complaint of news worries, and added that “people get the chance to weigh.”
Managers at Paramount, the parent company of CBS, have pursued a scheme in Mr Trump's lawsuit, in the hope that it would improve the chances that the company could quickly close its merger with Skydance.
Mr. Trump's lawsuit has led to fear at CBS, where many employees believe that each scheme would be a symbolic concession to the president and a recognition of misconduct with “60 minutes”. Bill Owens, the executive producer of “60 minutes”, said on Monday in a meeting with the staff he would not apologize with Mr. Trump as part of an arrangement with the network.
CBS is not the only news organization that Mr Carr has investigated since the inauguration day. Last week Mr Carr said that he had instructed the agency to investigate NPR and PBS about their use of business sponsorship, and said that the stations of those networks violate rules that prohibit advertisements.
