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Lawyers for CBS News are rebuffing a legal threat from Donald Trump over the network’s “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, telling the former president his demands are based on a “faulty premise.”

In a blunt letter to Trump’s legal counsel, the network on Wednesday said the First Amendment “fiercely protects” the editorial judgments made by “60 Minutes,” the network’s flagship newsmagazine.

“For that reason,” CBS said, Trump has no legal basis to sue, “and I note that you do not identify one,” the letter from CBS News senior Vice President for legal affairs Gayle C. Sproul stated. “Nor is there any legal basis for your demand that we provide you with the unedited transcript of the interview, which we decline to do.”

The interview in question is Bill Whitaker’s sit-down earlier this month with Trump’s opponent, Vice President Harris. When Trump backed out of a planned interview with “60 Minutes,” CBS went ahead with its plans to interview Harris and produced a Trump-less prime time special on October 7.

Observers subsequently noticed that CBS had aired two different answers from Harris to a question about why Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is not listening” to the United States.

In a preview of the interview on the Sunday morning program “Face the Nation,” Harris was seen responding to the question by defending America’s influence and advocacy. In the actual “60 Minutes” segment on Monday, she was seen answering by saying “we are not gonna...

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