Will Paramount Settle With Trump?

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🗓️ 27 February 2025

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Paramount Global is wrestling with whether to settle President Trump’s lawsuit against its CBS unit. At the same time, the company is waiting for regulatory approval from the Trump administration for its merger with Skydance Media. WSJ’s Jessica Toonkel explains. Further Reading: -CBS Owner Discusses Settling Trump Suit, With Merger Review on Tap -FCC Requests ‘60 Minutes’ Harris Interview Material as It Reviews Paramount-Skydance Merger -Paramount Executives Ask: Could They Be Sued for Settling Trump’s $20 Billion CBS Lawsuit? Further Listening: -Mayhem at Paramount as Merger Looms -Why Buying Paramount Global Won’t Be Easy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Okay, hi everyone. Well, welcome to Micasa.
0:09.2	Thank you. Hi. Hi. Hello again. How are you?
0:13.2	This is raw video footage from 60 minutes, the longstanding news magazine show on CBS.
0:21.1	Last fall, veteran correspondent Bill Whitaker sat down with Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
0:28.8	Good?
0:30.0	I'm good.
0:30.9	All right.
0:33.2	Well, Madam Vice President.
0:35.3	Whitaker kicked the interview off with questions about the Middle East
0:39.2	and pressed Harris on the Biden administration's relationship with Israel's prime minister.
0:45.1	But it seems that Prime Minister Netanyahu is not listening.
0:50.7	The Wall Street Journal said that he, that your administration has repeatedly been blindsided
0:58.0	by Netanyahu and in fact he has rebuffed just about all of your administration's entreaties.
1:05.0	Well, Bill, the work that we have done has resulted in a number of movements in that region by Israel that were very much prompted by or a result of many things, including our advocacy for what needs to happen in the region.
1:28.3	And we're not going to stop doing that.
1:30.5	We're not going to stop pursuing what is necessary for the United States
1:34.8	to be clear about where we stand on the need for this war to end.
1:39.3	This answer and how it was edited has become the center of a storm involving President Trump,
1:47.8	claims of election interference, and questions about media independence.
1:53.2	This storm is also threatening an $8 billion merger that CBS's parent company, Paramount Global, desperately wants to get done.
2:07.6	Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power. I'm Kate Linebaugh. It's Thursday, February 27.
2:20.3	Coming up on the show, Trump's fight against the news media runs headlong into a massive entertainment merger.
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