The 60 -minute correspondent Scott Billy spoke about President Donald Trump's suit against CBS and her mother company on Saturday, on the pretext that the settlement will be “very harmful.”
“Well, it will be very harmful to CBS, to some extent, at the reputation of those companies,” said Billy, during a conversation with Anderson Cooper from CNN.
Trump filed a lawsuit against Paramount Global, CBS News, for a “60 -minute” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris in October 2024.
Fox News Digital confirmed that Trump has rejected a $ 15 million offer to settle a lawsuit, according to a source familiar with the matter, as the president's legal team also demands at least $ 25 million and an apology from CBS News.
Cooper, a 60 -minute reporter, also asked about the former Bill Owens producer, who resigns from the program in April.
“Bill's decision to resign was not a great decision for him because he was always the first person to defend” 60 minutes. “Bell did not work for Paramount.
Pelly also said he hoped to get public support for CBS News, but added that his work was still entering the program.
“You really wish the company to be 100 % behind you, right? Do you really wish that the higher ranks of the company will come out publicly and say” 60 minutes “, for example, is the jewel of the crown for the American press, and we stand behind 100 %. I haven't heard that.
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A 60 -minute correspondent recently went to call Trump during the start speech.
“At this moment, this moment, this morning, the rule of our sacred law is under attack. The press is being attacked. Universities are being attacked. Freedom of expression is being attacked,” said Billy during his speech at Wake Forest University. “The malicious fear is to reach our schools, our business, our homes and our own ideas, and the fear of speaking in America. If our government is in the phrase Lincoln,” by the people, by people, for the sake of people, why do we fear to speak? “
Pelly addressed the notes during a CNN interview and told Cooper that he felt “strongly” that it was necessary to say.
“I am not referring to, the president, the White House, or the administration. But I was talking about the measures taken by the government over the past many months. But, there has been little hysteria between some of these discourse, and I ask you simply, what do you say about our country when there is a hysteria about a discourse about freedom of expression of expressing speech?” CBS correspondent added.
