Chairman of the Federal Communication Commission Brendan Carr On Monday, Americans said that the unprocessed transcript deserves the center of President Trump’s lawsuit against CBS.
In October, Trump submitted a $ 10 billion lawsuit against CBS News with regard to election interference on the handling of the “60 minutes” interview with Then-Vice President Kamala HarrisAccusing the network of helping his democratic rival through misleading processing. Trump’s camp has said that CBS essentially broadcast Harris with two different answers to the same question, those eyebrows lifted after her first answer was mocked on a large scale as a “word salad”.
Critics accused CBS News of editing Harris’s answer “Word Salad” to protect the vice president against further recoil. CBS Announced on Friday It would be satisfactory and the FCC “Provided with the transcript and camera cafés from an interview with ’60 minutes’ in the middle of a complaint that claims news worship.”
CBS News is said to meet an FCC request to transfer the visual material and the transcript of the “60 minutes” interview with the then vice-president Harris that a Trump right case accused of being illegally edited. (AP Photo; Reuters Photo; Screenshots/CBS News)
Carr appeared on “America’s Newsroom” by Fox News Channel to explain why seeing the entire transcript is so critical.
“We searched for the unprocessed copy of the transcript in the video from this interview. And as part of an FCC study, a complaint had been made under something that the news worship policy is called. And that is a 50-year policy at the FCC That applies to broadcasters, “Carr told host Dana Perino.
“And the policy says that you don’t, you know, exchange answers to make it look like someone said something completely different.” Here it is usually very difficult to determine complaints of news worions. You don’t want the FCC to lean too hard on this. But here … CBS played the same question about two different programs, and the words of the answers were clearly very different. “
As a result, Carr said that the FCC wants to see the transcript.
“It is payable today, and I expect CBS to provide it by the end of the day to see what was actually said as part of our own news worship research,” Carr said.
Perino then asked the FCC chairman with what kind of consequences CBS could be confronted.
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Bill Whitaker’s “60 minutes” interview with vice-president Kamala Harris is central to a lawsuit with high deployment. (Screenshots/CBS News)
“Well, look, there is the full series of FCC options on the table that apply to a temporary employment license. We have clearly not made decisions, but there is no way in which the FCC can answer this claim without a copy of the transcript , “Carr.
“You know, at the end of the Biden administration, my predecessor has briefly rejected this complaint, but I am not sure how you can do that without seeing the actual video to see what the real answer was,” he added to it Toe. “Is it processed? Was it, you know, edited for clarity and length, what would be good. Or are there other reasons why the operation took place?”
Carr said that the FCC will be “open -minded” when it comes to possible consequences and transparency is “incredibly important” when dealing with these kinds of problems.
“I think the American audience ultimately deserves to see this for themselves. And what is interesting is CBS other transcripts,” Carr said.
Trump’s lawsuit was aimed at 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.
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.
CBS previously refuted Trump’s claims.
“The same question. The same answer. But another part of the answer. When we edit an interview, or a politician, an athlete or movie star, we strive to be clear, accurate and on the point,” the network said in one Stelling.
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