CBS News agreed Friday to heed the request of Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Brendan Carr for the unedited transcript of its October “60 Minutes” interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris, the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee, according to reports.
Carr sent CBS’s news division a letter of inquiry Wednesday requesting “the full, unedited transcript and camera feeds” of the interview, The New York Times reported.
“We are working to comply with that inquiry as we are legally compelled to do,” a CBS News spokesman said Friday, the outlet reported.
The development occurs amidst CBS News’s parent organization, Paramount Global, negotiating a settlement with President Donald Trump’s lawyers while seeking the FCC’s approval to sell Paramount to Skydance Media, the Los Angeles Times reported. Some journalists — including at CBS — and…
