NEW YORK — CBS News mentioned the Trump marketing campaign provided “shifting explanations” for why it backed out of a “60 Minutes” interview particular with presidential candidates that aired with out him.
The community’s Scott Pelley appeared on the air Monday evening to clarify why Republican Donald Trump didn’t seem on what has turn into a “60 Minutes” custom: back-to-back interviews with presidential candidates within the final month of the marketing campaign.
Harris was on the present, interviewed by Bill Whitaker. Where Trump was supposed to seem, “60 Minutes” as an alternative aired a narrative about an Arizona official pushing false claims about election fraud.
Pelley mentioned that the Trump marketing campaign “complained that we’d fact-check the interview. We fact-check each story.”
The Trump workforce additionally demanded an apology for his interview throughout the 2020 marketing campaign, the place he claimed that correspondent Lesley Stahl mentioned a laptop computer laptop belonging to President Joe Biden’s son Hunter got here from Russia. “She by no means mentioned that,” Pelley mentioned.
Pelley mentioned that Trump’s workforce had agreed to an interview on the former president’s Mar-a-Lago dwelling, with a further discuss in Butler, Pennsylvania, the place he returned to the scene of a July assassination try.
Trump spokesman Steven Cheung mentioned “60 Minutes” “begged for an interview.” The marketing campaign did have issues in regards to the present’s reporting on Hunter Biden and the way it insisted upon modifying Trump’s feedback, he mentioned.
“There was nothing scheduled or agreed upon,” Cheung mentioned. ”We had already lengthy promised an unique in filming at Butler to a different nationwide outlet, which turned out the be Fox News.”
Trump’s interview with Fox’s Laura Ingraham aired an hour earlier than “60 Minutes” on Monday evening. His absence from CBS was not talked about of their trade. Trump apparently, watched, nonetheless, posting on Truth Social that the Harris interview “is taken into account by a lot of those that reviewed it, the WORST interview they’ve ever seen.”
Pelley poked at Trump, noting he had already turned down one other alternative to debate Harris, together with the “60 Minutes” interview, “which can have been the most important viewers for the candidates between now and election day.”
Moving “60 Minutes” out of its conventional Sunday time slot could have depressed the viewers measurement, nonetheless. An estimated 5.4 million folks watched on Monday, in response to preliminary Nielsen firm figures, in contrast with the 9.6 million who noticed the newsmagazine on Sunday, Sept. 29.
No estimate for Trump’s viewers on Ingraham’s present was instantly obtainable. Her present averaged 2.7 million viewers an evening final week, Nielsen mentioned.
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