After CBS edited a '60 Minutes' interview with Vice President Kamala Harris, former President Donald Trump said CBS should have its license revoked.

Jessica Rosenworcel rips the ex-president for his rebuke of "60 Minutes" editing a Kamala Harris answer The post FCC Chairwoman Blasts Trump for ‘Threats Against Free Speech’ in ’60 Minutes’ Tirade appeared first on TheWrap.

Federal Communications Commission chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel denounced former President Donald Trump’s “threats against free speech” Thursday after he attacked CBS and called for the network to “lose its license” over a recent “60 Minutes” interview with Vice President Kamala Harris.

Federal Communications Commission Chairwoman Jessica Rosenworcel says the agency won't address GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump's calls for CBS to lose its broadcast license – following revelations the network edited at least one of Democratic rival Kamala Harris' responses in a one-one "60 Minutes" interview that aired Monday.

Even if the FCC were inclined to take up Trump's call to revoke licenses, the agency doesn't actually license TV networks such as CBS. The FCC's licensing authority is over broadcast stations, many of which are affiliated or owned by a big network.

Federal Communications Commission chair Jessica Rosenworcel rejected former President Donald Trump’s call to revoke CBS’s broadcast license on Thursday, calling it a familiar threat that “should not be ignored.

"While repeated attacks against broadcast stations by the former President may now be familiar, these threats against free speech are serious" The post JUST IN: FCC Chair Hits Back at Trump’s ‘Serious’ Threats ‘Against Free Speech’ first appeared on Mediaite.

The Federal Communications Commission’s chairwoman slammed former president Donald Trump on Thursday for suggesting that CBS’s broadcast license be revoked because the network edited Vice President Kamala Harris’s 60 Minutes interview to make one of her answers appear more concise and less confusing.

The chair of the Federal Communications Commission hit back against former President Donald Trump's demand that CBS News be stripped of its broadcasting license for giving Vice President Kamala Harris the traditional presidential candidate interview this month,

After his criticism of the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview, the FCC chair said Trump’s “threats against free speech are serious and should not be ignored.”