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FCC Chair Says He’s Fast-Tracking Kamala CBS Probe

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says he’s putting the investigation into CBS News’ broadcast of its interview with Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris during the election on a fast track.

“The FCC has had a prohibition against news distortion on our books for 50 years,” Carr, who was appointed by President Donald Trump,” told The New York Post Monday. “It applies to broadcasters but not cable. A group brought a non-frivolous complaint, so the FCC is taking the next appropriate step in adjudicating the issue.”

The probe has been launched on the complaint made by the Center for American Rights, a conservative group, which argued the network selectively edited its interview with Harris.

Trump sued CBS for $10 billion days before the 2024 election on accusations that its long-running “60 Minutes” deceptively edited the Harris segment by picking out a more coherent quote from the Democrat nominee for the prime-time program to boost her candidacy.

In a preview of the interview airing on CBS News’ Sunday morning show, “Face the Nation,” before the October interview aired, Harris was shown giving a different answer to a question than the one she was shown giving in the interview as shown on “60 Minutes.”

Trump did not sit for an interview for the program, which regularly invites the two presidential contenders for separate interviews airing back-to-back near the election. CBS said Trump initially agreed to the interview before backing out, but a campaign official said he had not agreed to appear. 

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