CBS is seeking the dismissal of Donald Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit over a 60 Minutes interview last year with former Vice President Kamala Harris. Trump had claimed “voter interference” by the television newsmagazine in the way it edited and broadcast Harris' interview.

CBS filed a motion to dismiss President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit over its controversial “60 Minutes” Kamala Harris interview, calling the suit an “affront to the First Amendment without basis in law or fact.

Paramount on Thursday asked a federal judge in Texas to dismiss the $20-billion lawsuit. The media company separately has agreed to have a mediator look at the case.

Lawyers for CBS are again seeking to dismiss President Trump’s $20 million lawsuit, which they say is an “affront to the First Amendment”, even as the top brass at its parent company, Paramount Global, are reportedly in settlement talks.

Paramount Global and CBS are seeking dismissal of Donald Trump's ‘60 Minutes’ lawsuit, calling it, "An affront to the First Amendment"

CBS parent company Paramount moved to dismiss a lawsuit lobbed by President Donald Trump over an allegedly unfair "60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. In a pair of Thursday motions,

CBS News' parent company, Paramount Global, has filed a pair of motions seeking to dismiss President Donald Trump's $20 billion lawsuit against the news organization. The presiden

CBS on Thursday filed two motions to dismiss an amended complaint to the lawsuit filed against it by President Trump before he took office last October. Why it matters: CBS is under extraordinary pressure to resolve its legal battle with the president as it awaits regulatory approval for a merger between its parent company Paramount and Skydance Media.

CBS News' parent company is trying to get President Trump's $20 billion lawsuit against the network thrown out, arguing that it is an "affront to the First Amendment and is without basis in law or fact.