CBS News faces investigation from top House Democrat over editing of '60 Minutes' Trump interview
Source: The Independent
Wednesday 03 December 2025 15:32 EST
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched an investigation into CBS News and its parent company Paramount over whether Donald Trump “improperly influenced and coerced” the network’s editing of the president’s recent interview with 60 Minutes.
Raskin announced his probe in a letter sent to CBS News’ recently-installed ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein Wednesday. He wrote that Weinstein – a one-time Trump appointee and conservative think tank leader – appears to be “acting as a government regulator and censor enforcing Trump’s demands for more pro-Trump content.”
The investigation comes a month after Democrats floated a possible Federal Communications Commission probe over the omission of several exchanges between interviewer Norah O’Donnell and the president. These included a tense back-and-forth over Trump’s pardon of crypto billionaire Changpeng Zhao, the president’s boast about Paramount settling his lawsuit over another 60 Minutes interview, and his praise for CBS News’ new leaders.
“It is one thing for CBS to make independent editorial decisions protected by the First Amendment. It is quite another to make edits at the President’s demand out of fear of retribution,” Raskin wrote. “The double standard here undermines public trust and demonstrates how Paramount’s capitulation has compromised CBS News’s independence. The American people deserve to know whether their news is shaped by journalistic judgment or by Donald Trump.”
Read more: https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-60-minutes-democrat-investigation-b2877536.html
Link to Rep. Raskin LETTER (inquiry) (PDF) - https://democrats-judiciary.house.gov/sites/evo-subsites/democrats-judiciary.house.gov/files/evo-media-document/2025-12-03.raskin-to-weinstein-cbs-re-editorial-decisions.pdf
= new reply since forum marked as read
