By Molly Claire Goddard
2:31am PDT, Jun 17, 2025
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Donald Trump and CBS are giving an update about their $20 billion legal battle.
After the current president sued the network for the way they allegedly edited a 2024
60 Minutes interview with former Vice President
Kamala Harris, CBS–Paramount Global legal team and Trump's representatives confirmed they are in "continued mediation" and need more time to come to an agreement on the matter.
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In a new filing in federal court in Texas on Friday, June 13, both Donald Trump and
CBS requested an extension of deadlines in filing motions to compel and responses.
The Republican leader sued the network under Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Act and the Lanham Act after he claimed editors showed Kamala Harris giving different answers to the same question. Trump also claimed that due to this move, his media entities lost viewers who were diverted to
60 Minutes.
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CBS has continued to maintain that there was no deception with the editing of the Kamala Harris interview. They explained that in keeping with standard industry practices, a certain part of her answer was featured on
Face the Nation and another in the
60 Minutes interview.
According to
an insider, Donald Trump and his team are looking to get $25 million and an apology out of the company in what some have called "eight-figure discussions."
Sources alleged that CBS' parent company, Paramount Global, wants to please the Trump administration so they'll approve its merger with Skydance.
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60 Minutes correspondent
Scott Pelley refuted the idea that CBS should agree to
a settlement with Donald Trump. He argued that a settlement flies in the face of the network's First Amendment rights.
"If there is a settlement and as part of a settlement, there's an apology, how damaging is that to CBS?" the journalist said on CNN. "It will be very damaging to CBS, to Paramount, to the reputation of those companies. I think many of the law firms that made deals with the White House are at this very moment regretting it. That doesn't look like their finest hour."
