Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, has launched an investigation into CBS News and its parent company Paramount over whether Donald Trump “improperly influenced and coerced” the network’s editing of the president’s recent interview with 60 Minutes.
Raskin announced his probe in a letter sent to CBS News’ recently-installed ombudsman Kenneth Weinstein Wednesday. He wrote that Weinstein – a one-time Trump appointee and conservative think tank leader – appears to be “acting as a government regulator and censor enforcing Trump’s demands for more pro-Trump content.”