A former CBS News reporter said this week that the network has a history of releasing full transcripts of interviews with top Republicans.
The comments come as the network deals with a scandal involving its flagship weekly news program, “60 Minutes,” which deceptively edited remarks Vice President Kamala Harris made during an interview that aired this week.
“As Trump campaign calls on @60Minutes to release ‘full, unedited transcript’ of Kamala Harris interview… There is precedent,” journalist Catherine Herridge posted on X. “When I interviewed then President Trump in July 2020 @CBSNews we posted the interview transcript.”
She noted that the transcript that the network released was of the full interview, not just of what aired on television.
Herridge noted that the left-wing network did the same thing for its 2019 interview with then-U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr.
“Full transcript = journalistic transparency,” she added.
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Former President Donald Trump and his vice presidential running mate, Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), have called on the network to release all the footage from the interview.
The comments from Trump and Vance come after the show released two contradictory responses from Harris in response to remarks made by host Bill Whitaker.
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The moment happened when Whitaker was discussing with Harris the United States’ financial support for Israel in its war against genocidal Islamic terrorists in the region.
“But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening,” Whitaker said to Harris.
In a promotional clip that was posted by CBS News on Sunday, Harris responded to that statement from Whitaker by saying: “The work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.”
However, when the full interview was published by the network on Monday night, that statement from Harris was nowhere to be found. Those words were not included anywhere in the television broadcast, nor did they appear in the interview when it was posted on YouTube, the interview’s transcript, or the show’s “Overtime” segment.
Instead, on television and in the interview posted online, Whitaker’s identical statement that “it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening” is followed by Harris saying: “We are not gonna stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.”
