CBS hits back at Trump claim the network 'deceitfully edited' Kamala Harris' 60 Minutes interview

CBS denied allegations they 'deceitfully edited' a longwinded answer Kamala Harris gave during a 60 Minutes interrogation - but admitted they aired a 'more succinct' information of her response.

The contention began erstwhile the vice president sat for an interrogation that aired past Monday connected the flagship programme and was asked astir the Israeli penetration of Gaza.

Her verbose answer, riddled with agelong pauses and hesitant wording, was played during a 60 Minutes preview that aired connected CBS Face the Nation past Sunday.

However, erstwhile the full interrogation was broadcast connected 60 Minutes the adjacent evening, Harris appeared to give a much succinct answer.

Donald Trump's run noticed the quality and the erstwhile president angrily accused the TV presumption of 'fraud' by editing her 'horrible, incompetent answer'.

CBS spent the week refusing to comment, but broke its soundlessness aft Trump called for the presumption to beryllium taken disconnected air successful a agelong rant connected Thursday.

'Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct 7 interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false,' CBS said. 

CBS explained that the interrogation had to beryllium condensed to acceptable into a 21-minute program, and it was modular process to trim agelong answers to screen much topics.

'60 Minutes gave an excerpt of our interrogation to Face the Nation that utilized a longer conception of her reply than that connected 60 Minutes,' it said.

'Same question. Same answer. But a antithetic information of the response. When we edit immoderate interview, whether a politician, an athlete, oregon movie star, we strive to beryllium clear, close and connected point. 

'The information of her reply connected 60 Minutes was much succinct, which allows clip for different subjects successful a wide-ranging 21-minute-long segment.' 

CBS made a excavation astatine Trump successful its statement, noting helium 'pulled retired of his interrogation with '60 Minutes' and the vice president participated'.

'Our long-standing invitation to erstwhile President Trump remains open,' it said 

'If helium would similar to sermon the issues facing the federation and the Harris interview, we would beryllium blessed to person him connected 60 Minutes.' 

Trump's run earlier denied it ever formally accepted the interrogation invitation.

The interrogation aired connected the one-year day of Hamas terrorists raiding Israel and carrying retired the largest single-day massacre of Jewish radical since the Holocaust.

Host Bill Whitaker asked Harris astir whether Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was listening to the US, and whether the medication had immoderate sway implicit his determination making during its onslaught connected Gaza.

'Well Bill, the enactment that we person done has resulted successful a fig of movements successful that portion by Israel that were precise overmuch prompted by oregon a effect of galore things including our advocacy for what needs to hap successful the region,' Harris replied.

The 60 Minutes mentation was noticeable shorter and missing galore of her pauses.

'We are not going to halt pursuing what is indispensable for the United States to beryllium wide astir wherever we basal connected the request for this warfare to end,' she said.

Trump nationalist property caput Karoline Leavitt demanded CBS merchandise the entire, unedited interview - which it has yet to do.

'Why did 60 Minutes take not to aerial Kamala's afloat connection salad, and what other did they take not to air?' she said.

'The American radical merit the full, unedited transcript from Kamala's sit-down interview. We telephone upon 60 Minutes and CBS to merchandise it. What bash they, and Kamala, person to hide?'

Harris' media strategy has remained mostly wide of sit-down interviews with tv networks and has leaned much towards nontraditional avenues – specified arsenic speaking with raunchy, sex-focused Call Her Daddy podcast big Alex Cooper.

The 60 Minutes interrogation was 1 of her fewer agelong signifier sit-downs with a bequest tv network.