The executive producer of “60 minutes” remains challenging and CBS News’ parent company Mulls arranges a lawsuit supplied by President Donald Trump.
Bill Owens, who has led the long -term program since 2019, took a difficult attitude against Trump during a Monday staff meeting, According to the New York Times.
“There have been reports in the media about a settlement and/or apology,” said Owens. “The company knows that I will not apologize for everything we have done.”
“60 minutes” Executive producer Bill Owens reportedly promises “I will not apologize”, as the paramount Mulls of CBS News arranges a lawsuit by President Trump. (Piaras ó MÃdheach/Sportsfile for collision via Getty images)
CBS News is approaching a deadline established by the chairman of the Federal Communication Commission by Trump Brendan Carr To transfer the transcript of the Kamala Harris “60 minutes” interview in the center of the controversy.
“The operation is fine; let’s put that in bed so that we can continue with our lives,” said Owens with regard to the transcript, per time.
CBS News did not respond immediately Fox News DigitalThe request for comments.
Trump can be about to be the legal victory against CBS, while speculation of the settlement warms up
In October, Trump submitted a $ 10 billion lawsuit against CBS News on election interference on the handling of the “60 minutes” interview with vice -president Kamala Harris, and accused the network of helping his democratic rival through misleading operation just a few days before the elections.
The lawsuit stems from an exchange that Harris had with “60 minutes” correspondent Bill Whitaker. In a preview clip that was broadcast on ‘Face the Nation’, Harris was asked why it seemed as if the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not listen to the US
“Well, Bill, the work we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were highly inspired by, or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what should be done in the region,” Harris responded, “Harris In the “Face the Nation” clip.
Bill Whitaker’s “60 minutes” interview with vice-president Kamala Harris is central to a lawsuit with high deployment. (Screenshots/CBS News)
Harris was mocked by conservatives for offering a long “word salad” to Whitaker. But when the same question was broadcast the next night in the Primetime election special, A shorter, more focused answer of the vice president followed.
“We are not going to stop pursuing what is needed for the United States to be clear about where we stand for the need for this war to end,” said Harris in the Primetime special.
Critics accused CBS News of editing Harris’ ‘Word salad’ answer To protect the vice president against further recoil, and there were calls for the network to release the entire transcript after it had only shared transcriptions of what had been broadcast.
“Until paper over Kamala’s ‘word salad’ weakness, CBS used his national platform at 60 minutes to exceed the limit of exercising the judgment when reporting deceptive, misleading manipulation of news,” the court case explained.
Trump lawyers claimed that the operations were made in an attempt to “try to give the scales in favor of the Democratic Party as the heated presidential elections from 2024 – which leads President Trump – his conclusion.”
“CBS ‘partisan and illegal acts of elections and voters interference by malignant, misleading and substantial news removal calculated to confuse, mislead and mislead the public,” was the court case.
President Trump’s lawyers accused CBS News of election interference to suppress the then vice-president Kamala Harris’ ‘word salad’ in his interview with ’60 minutes’. (Left: (photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images), middle: screenshot/60mina, right: (photo by Andy Manis/Getty Images)))
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CBS mother company Paramount Global is said to be considering arranging the case prior to a planned merger with Skydance Media in the hope of preventing potential retribution by preventing Trump’s FCC, who has the authority to stop the transaction of millions of dollars. Shari Redstone, the controller of Paramount, is said to be in favor of establishment with the president.
Rumors about a settlement only come a few weeks after ABC News decided his defamation Posted by Trump, resulting in giving $ 15 million and a written apology, followed by a settlement of $ 25 million by Meta.
Brian Flood from Fox News has contributed to this report.
