Watch the full exchange HERE.
WASHINGTON, DC – Today, during an oversight hearing on the Federal Communications Committee (FCC) in the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, Senator Jacky Rosen (D-NV) pressed FCC Chairman Brendan Carr on media censorship. Earlier this year, Carr reinstated a closed FCC inquiry into CBS News for alleged edits of an interview with Kamala Harris that President Trump claimed was done to help her. Also earlier this year, Fox News admitted to editing an interview of President Trump during the presidential campaign to make him look better, which the FCC has not investigated. Senator Rosen pressed Carr on the lack of investigation.
Below is an excerpt from the interaction:
Senator Rosen: Earlier this year, you reinstated a closed FCC inquiry into CBS News for alleged edits of an interview with Kamala Harris that Donald Trump claimed was done to help her. Interviews are edited to fit in a time frame of news program, this is nothing new. CBS News ended up paying Donald Trump millions in a settlement over this dispute. Earlier this year, it came to light that Fox News also edited an interview with Donald Trump last year – in the middle of the presidential campaign – in which he was asked if he would release the Epstein files. The edited interview ends after Trump says ‘Yes, I would.’ But the unedited version shows Trump hedging his support for releasing the files. So, Chairman Carr, yes or no please, given that this edit by FOX News was clearly meant to make Donald Trump look good in the middle of a presidential campaign, will you commit to opening an investigation into FOX News for deceptively editing this clip? Yes or no?
Carr: No
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