Unedited Kamala Harris interview on ‘60 Minutes’ doesn’t show host confronting Harris about lying

CBS News on Feb. 5 released an unedited video of its October "60 minutes" interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris. The release came after President Donald Trump sued the network, claiming it deceptively edited the interview.

Social media users are claiming that a clip of the new unedited footage shows Harris lying on camera and being pressed for the truth when the cameras stopped.

"Propaganda: 60 Minutes allows Kamala Harris to lie while the cameras are rolling. When they’re off they confront her asking her for the truth," a Feb. 6 screenshot from an X account reposted on Instagram read. The post included a video of "60 Minutes" Correspondent Bill Whitaker, a crew member and Harris interacting.

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But the clip doesn’t show Whitaker confronting Harris about lying after the cameras are turned off. It showed a crew member gathering extra footage after the interview ends.

The video’s full unedited clip and transcript showed a crew member asking Whitaker to ask another question at the end of the interview to get an "over the shoulder shot."

Whitaker asks Harris how she will get a divided Congress to carry out her plans; a crew member then asks for 30 seconds of silence to collect room tone, or dialogue-free ambient sound to use in editing, before saying that the cameras were off.

Once the crew member tells Whitaker and Harris the cameras have stopped rolling, Whitaker asks "How will you?" while laughing.

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The rest of the interaction goes:

Harris: It’s going to be taxes. It’s going to be literally the economists — I mean, they’re — From, each, the spectrum —

Whitaker: But I hear what you’re saying about the economists. This is true.

Harris: Yeah. Yeah.

Whitaker: But Congress is not the economists. They’re —

Harris: I know, but.

The video then ends. Whitaker says nothing about Harris lying.

A Feb. 5 "60 minutes" statement said the broadcast was "not doctored or deceitful" but "journalists regularly edit interviews — for time, space or clarity."

The nearly hourlong unedited video was shortened to 20 minutes for the Oct. 7 broadcast.

We rate the claim a "60 minutes" clip shows Kamala Harris lying while cameras roll and being pressed for the truth while they’re on False.