Earlier month, CBS News complied with an FCC request to hand over the raw footage and transcript from an October 2024 interview with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris. The FCC has re-opened a closed file of a complaint that alleges CBS doctored the interview.

President Trump has already weighed in with his conclusion in a Truth Social post — CBS “defrauded the public,” he claims, and the network “should lose its license.”

The current FCC investigation is focused on edits by CBS that split Harris’s response to a question on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu into two parts. The first sentence of her answer aired Oct. 5, 2024, on “Face the Nation.” The following day, “60 Minutes” used the same question but substituted the second part of her response, according to the transcript and raw footage of the complete interview in the materials sent to the FCC and released online by CBS, as well.

When the "news-distortion" complaint was initially dismissed in December, then-FCC Chair Jessica Rosenworcel indicated that it would “weaponize the licensing authority of the FCC in a way that is........

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