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CBS News says Trump campaign had 'shifting explanations' for why he snubbed '60 Minutes'

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 CBS News said the Trump campaign offered 鈥渟hifting explanations鈥 for why it backed out of a 鈥60 Minutes鈥 interview special with presidential candidates that aired without him.
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File - Scott Pelley attends the CBS Upfront in New York, May 15, 2013. (Charles Sykes/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK (AP) 鈥 CBS News said the Trump campaign offered 鈥渟hifting explanations鈥 for why it of a 鈥60 Minutes鈥 interview special with presidential candidates that aired without him.

The network's Scott Pelley appeared on the air Monday night to explain why Republican Donald Trump did not appear on what has become a 鈥60 Minutes鈥 tradition: back-to-back interviews with presidential candidates in the last month of the campaign.

Harris was on the show, interviewed by Bill Whitaker. Where Trump was supposed to appear, 鈥60 Minutes鈥 instead aired a story about an Arizona official pushing false claims about election fraud.

Pelley said that the Trump campaign 鈥渃omplained that we would fact-check the interview. We fact-check every story.鈥

The Trump team also demanded an apology for his , where he claimed that correspondent Lesley Stahl said a laptop computer belonging to President Joe Biden's son Hunter came from Russia. 鈥淪he never said that,鈥 Pelley said.

Pelley said that Trump's team had agreed to an interview at the former president's Mar-a-Lago home, with an additional talk in Butler, Pennsylvania, where he returned to the scene of a July assassination attempt.

Trump spokesman Steven Cheung said 鈥60 Minutes鈥 鈥渂egged for an interview.鈥 The campaign did have concerns about the show's reporting on Hunter Biden and how it insisted upon editing Trump's comments, he said.

鈥淭here was nothing scheduled or agreed upon," Cheung said. 鈥漌e had already long promised an exclusive in filming at Butler to another national outlet, which turned out the be Fox News."

Trump's interview with Fox's Laura Ingraham aired an hour before "60 Minutes" on Monday night. His absence from CBS was not mentioned in their exchange. Trump apparently, watched, however, posting on Truth Social that the Harris interview 鈥渋s considered by many of those who reviewed it, the WORST interview they have ever seen.鈥

Pelley poked at Trump, noting he had already turned down another opportunity to debate Harris, along with the 鈥60 Minutes鈥 interview, 鈥渨hich may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and election day.鈥

Moving 鈥60 Minutes鈥 out of its traditional Sunday time slot may have depressed the audience size, however. An estimated 5.4 million people watched on Monday, according to preliminary Nielsen company figures, compared with the 9.6 million who saw the newsmagazine on Sunday, Sept. 29.

No estimate for Trump's audience on Ingraham's show was immediately available. Her show averaged 2.7 million viewers a night last week, Nielsen said.

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David Bauder writes about media for the AP. Follow him at .

David Bauder, The Associated Press

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