CBS News is asking the Federal Communications Commission to end its investigation into the edits of its “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris when she was vice president and the 2024 Democratic presidential nominee. 

The media outlet argued Monday in its request that such a probe makes the federal government a "roving censor” in violation of the First Amendment. 

The Center for American Rights launched an FCC complaint in October 2024, claiming news distortion, against CBS and its flagship television station, WCBS-TV, in New York, according to the Los Angeles Times. 

“CBS distorted the news by using its slice-and-dice method of journalism to justify cleaning up the Vice President’s muddled and meandering answer,” the center said in the filing with the FCC.

Then-GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump filed a $20 billion suit against CBS, on a similar argument, following the interview that aired in October 2024, in the final stretch of the White House race that year. 

“The complaint filed against CBS for ‘news distortion’ envisions a less free world in which the federal government becomes a roving censor – one that second guesses and even punishes specific editorial decisions that are an essential part of producing news programming,” the Paramount Global-owned network ha argued in its response to the FCC inquiry.