CBS considers settling in Trump 60 minutes lawsuit with Skydance merger on the line

Months after President Donald Trump sued CBS News over a 60 Minutes segment featuring then-Vice President Kamala Harris, settlement discussions with representatives of CBS News’s parent company, Paramount, are reportedly ongoing.

Shari Redstone, Paramount’s controlling shareholder, strongly supports settling with Trump, according to a New York Times report. The move could upset some journalists at the network who have voiced concerns about the idea of their parent company settling litigation they consider equivalent to a politician’s typical problems with the media’s news judgment.

It is unclear what the terms of any such deal might include and if a deal will actually be reached. Trump sued the network over accusations it deceptively edited a segment featuring Harris.

At the time Trump sued the network, media experts dismissed the case as a last-ditch effort to sue a network Trump and his allies do not like, but now that Trump is back in the White House, he has far more power over the network’s future.