CBS News breaks its silence over editing allegations in '60 Minutes' interview with Harris

CBS News pushed backmost against erstwhile President Trump's assertion that "60 Minutes" deceitfully edited its interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, dismissing the allegation arsenic "false" successful a connection released Sunday.

After weeks of staying mum contempt mounting backlash implicit the interview, CBS published a statement Sunday evening addressing the outrage that ensued aft airing 2 antithetic answers to the aforesaid question successful the "60 Minutes" interrogation earlier this period with the Democratic nominee.

"Former President Donald Trump is accusing 60 Minutes of deceitful editing of our Oct. 7 interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris. That is false," the connection began.

"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. 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."

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Bill Whitaker interviewed Vice President Kamala Harris connected an occurrence of "60 Minutes" that aired past Monday night.  (Screenshots/CBS News)

The connection past reminds readers that erstwhile President Trump "pulled retired of his interrogation with ‘60 Minutes’ and the vice president participated." The Trump run denied that it had ever formally accepted the invitation for the interview.

"Our long-standing invitation to erstwhile President Trump remains open," the connection continues. "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."

The connection comes hours aft Trump called for the interview to beryllium taken off-air during a scathing sit-down interrogation with Fox News' Howard Kurtz.

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"I've ne'er seen thing similar it. She gave a horrible, incompetent reply connected a quality program… and truthful she gives an reply that shows that she's dumb oregon incompetent oregon something's incorrect with her," Trump said earlier Sunday. "It's truthful atrocious that the radical astatine CBS accidental we're going to bash a small editing… They instrumentality the full ridiculous reply out, and it was a agelong reply and regenerate it with a overmuch shorter reply that you had to bash with a wholly antithetic subject, which besides didn't marque sense, but it wasn't arsenic incompetent."

CBS News has been plagued with controversies successful caller days involving tense interrogation astir Israel connected "CBS Mornings" and an edited speech of its "60 Minutes" interrogation with Vice President Kamala Harris. (REUTERS/Shannon Stapleton; Screenshots/CBS News)

CBS News has taken vigor successful caller days for airing 2 antithetic answers to the aforesaid question successful its "60 Minutes" interrogation earlier this period with Harris. Harris was mocked by conservatives erstwhile footage of her offering a lengthy "word salad" was aired by CBS' "Face the Nation" to beforehand the "60 Minutes" sit-down, erstwhile Bill Whitaker asked wherefore it seemed similar Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wasn’t listening to the U.S. 

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However, the vice president’s lengthy reply didn’t marque the mentation that aired connected Monday nighttime connected "60 Minutes" and a shorter Harris reply to the aforesaid question was shown instead. The Center for American Rights, besides known arsenic CAR, argued that the discrepancies "amount to deliberate quality distortion — a usurpation of FCC rules governing broadcasters' nationalist involvement obligations," and formally complained to the FCC.

Former President Trump called for CBS to suffer its broadcasting license past week, penning connected Truth Social, "A elephantine Fake News Scam by CBS & 60 Minutes.

"Her REAL ANSWER WAS CRAZY, OR DUMB, truthful they really REPLACED it with different reply successful bid to prevention her or, astatine least, marque her look better. A FAKE NEWS SCAM, which is wholly illegal," helium charged.

"TAKE AWAY THE CBS LICENSE," helium continued. "Election Interference. She is simply a Moron, and the Fake News Media wants to fell that fact. An UNPRECEDENTED SCANDAL!!! The Dems got them to bash this and should beryllium forced to concede the Election? WOW!"

Trump further slammed the wide web during a code astatine the Detroit Economic Club.

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"The different large quality is the fraud committed by ‘60 Minutes’ and CBS unneurotic with the Democrat Party, moving unneurotic with them, which volition spell down arsenic the azygous biggest ungraded successful broadcast history, I predict," Trump said. 

Fox News' Brian Flood, Joseph A. Wulfsohn and Taylor Penley contributed to this report.