Before the 2024 presidential election, President Donald Trump sued CBS for $10 billion over the network’s interview with Harris, accusing it of deceptive editing that intended to benefit Harris and constituted “partisan and unlawful acts of voter interference.”

CBS News agreed to release the unedited transcript of Harris’s interview to the FCC following accusations the network edited the interview, from which the network showed a clip of Harris giving an answer related to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Oct. 6. Her answer was different when the interview aired on Oct. 7.

Carr explained that a complaint was filed under the “News Distortion policy” that prevents broadcasters from swapping answers, citing how CBS News’s clip teasing the interview was “very different” from what was shown the following day.

Carr expects to receive the full CBS News interview by “the end of the day.” When asked if this transcript would also be released to the public, the FCC chairman said he has not made a final decision but did cite how transparency is “incredibly important.”

“I do think the American public ultimately deserve to see this for themselves,” Carr said on Fox News’s America’s Newsroom. “And what’s interesting is CBS releases other transcripts. For instance, the Face the Nation interview recently with Vice President Vance, they released the full unedited transcript there. But for some reason, they haven’t done that here, and we’ll soon see why the FCC, again, their response of the video is due today, and I expect them to comply.”

The network has contemplated settling this lawsuit, with discussions between Trump and representatives of Paramount, CBS News’s parent company, reportedly ongoing.

Carr also provided insights into the FCC’s investigation of NPR and PBS over concern that the two public broadcasters are violating federal law by airing commercials. The FCC chairman explained that these two broadcasters receive taxpayer funding and are not allowed to air commercials because of this, citing “potential evidence” that the two have indeed been airing commercials.

Both NPR and PBS have responded to a letter from Carr suggesting that they have aired commercials, with the former stating it is “confident” any investigation will find that it is complying with FCC rules. PBS has similarly insisted that it is in compliance with FCC rules on being a “noncommercial” broadcaster.