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'60 Minutes' chief resigns, saying show's independence was compromised

The longtime head of CBS' 60 Minutes resigned Tuesday, as the network's parent company grapples with President Trump's lawsuit over an interview the show did with Kamala Harris last fall.

Corporate parent Paramount and its controlling owner, Shari Redstone, are seeking the approval of federal regulators to sell it to the son of Oracle founder Larry Ellison. "It's laughable and it's an affront to the First Amendment," Heidi Kitrosser, a law professor at Northwestern University who focuses on issues involving free speech and presidential powers, says of Trump's case. The transcripts and videos appear to show that CBS editors pulled from slightly different points in the same response, with Harris speaking vaguely as she attempted to sidestep controversy over the incendiary issue of Israel and Hamas.

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