Trump: '60 Minutes' should be 'immediately terminated' after Harris transcript release

President Trump on Thursday suggested CBS News's "60 Minutes" be taken off the air after the program released a transcript of an interview it aired last fall with former Vice President Harris amid a federal investigation into the broadcast.

"CBS and 60 Minutes defrauded the public by doing something which has never, to this extent, been seen before," Trump wrote on his Truth Social website. "They 100% removed Kamala’s horrible election changing answers to questions, and replaced them with completely different, and far better, answers, taken from another part of the interview."

Trump and his allies have for months argued the outlet edited the interview with Harris to cast her in a more positive light.

The program shared a full unedited transcript of the Harris interview with the FCC this week and posted it online, saying it shows "consistent with 60 Minutes’ repeated assurances to the public – that the 60 Minutes broadcast was not doctored or deceitful.”

“In reporting the news, journalists regularly edit interviews – for time, space or clarity,” the show said. “In making these edits, 60 Minutes is always guided by the truth and what we believe will be most informative to the viewing public – all while working within the constraints of broadcast television.”

Trump is separately suing CBS News for $10 billion over the Harris interview, arguing in legal filings the news outlet engaged “partisan and unlawful acts of election and voter interference through malicious, deceptive, and substantial news distortion.”

Trump and his allies at the FCC have repeatedly suggested major news networks be scrutinized more heavily and even lose their broadcast licenses over coverage he feels is unfair to him.

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