CBS News Attorney Responds To Donald Trump Lawsuit Threat Over Kamala Harris’ ‘60 Minutes’ Interview: “No Private Right Of Action Exists”

deadline.com:

An attorney for CBS News on Wednesday responded to a legal threat from Donald Trump‘s team, writing that there was “no legal basis” for a demand that the network turn over an unedited transcript of a 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris.

Trump has called for CBS to lose its broadcast license, claiming that it “doctored” an interview with Harris because she gave a different answer to a question in a promo for the show than the one that was broadcast.

The show issued a statement Sunday in which it said that one part of Harris’ answer to the question was shown in the promo and the second part was in the broadcast. “Same question.

Same answer. But a different portion of the response,” the show stated. In the letter to Edward Andrew Paltzik of Trump’s legal team, obtained by Deadline, CBS News SVP Gayle C.