Overview

• Paramount will pay $16 million to fund President Trump’s future presidential library and cover his legal fees without admitting wrongdoing or offering an apology.
• Under the mediated deal, 60 Minutes must release full transcripts of all future U.S. presidential-candidate interviews, subject only to legal or national security redactions.
• Senators Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders and Ron Wyden have opened inquiries into possible bribery violations linked to the timing of the settlement during the FCC’s Skydance merger review.
• CBS News President Wendy McMahon and 60 Minutes Executive Producer Bill Owens resigned in recent weeks after opposing the company’s push to settle the lawsuit.
• FCC Chair Brendan Carr’s ongoing news-distortion investigation into the edited Harris interview remains active, maintaining regulatory pressure on Paramount.