The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) released the full video and transcript Wednesday of former Vice President Kamala Harris’s “60 Minutes” interview with CBS.
The full, nearly 54-minute video is over twice as long as the edited version CBS initially released Oct. 7.
Early cuts to the video included the network appearing to take out parts of Harris saying it was “imperative” to end the war in Israel and that the US needed to prioritize the safe return of Israeli hostages in Gaza and push for a ceasefire.
Harris first emphasized the importance of the Oct. 7, 2023 terror attack by Hamas on Israel and the country’s right to self-defense, then turned her attention to the loss of life in Gaza.
“Far too many innocent Palestinians have been killed, and we know that, and I think most agree this war has to end,” Harris said in the video released by the FCC. “And that has to be our number one imperative, and that has been our number one imperative. How can we get this war to end? The critical elements of that are, we got to get a hostage deal and a ceasefire deal done.”
She also called for laying the groundwork for a two-state solution.
Portions of this conservation are missing and cuts appear in this section in the video released by CBS.
President Trump is in active litigation with CBS, suing the network in October for attempting “to tip the scales in favor of the Democratic Party” during the 2024 election by not releasing the full unedited interview, according to the lawsuit.
“To paper over Kamala’s ‘word salad’ weakness, CBS used its national platform on 60 Minutes to cross the line from the exercise of judgment in reporting to deceitful, deceptive manipulation of news,” Trump’s court documents claimed. (RELATED: CBS Quietly Edits Harris Word Salad Response In ’60 Minutes’ Interview)
CBS yielded the transcript and full video to the FCC after chair Brendan Carr formally requested it in a January letter.
Carr provided links to the materials in a Wednesday tweet. He also announced that the agency would be opening a portal to seek comments from the public.
“The FCC has concluded that establishing a docket and seeking comment on the issues raised in the complaint would serve the public interest. The people will have a chance to weigh in,” he concluded.
CBS provided the FCC with unredacted video & a transcript of VP Harris’s ‘60 Minutes’ interview in response to the FCC’s review of a News Distortion complaint.
CBS did not ask for confidential or non-public treatment of these materials.
