Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee, filed a complaint to the newly appointed CBS News ombudsman on Wednesday over the way that 60 Minutes edited its recent interview with Donald Trump .

Raskin’s letter to the ombudsman, Kenneth Weinstein , also seeks information on Trump’s influence over the network in the aftermath of the administration’s approval of the Skydance- Paramount merger went down.

Raskin wrote in his letter , “President Trump increasingly appears to be exercising direct control over CBS’s editorial decisions, destroying CBS’s ‘journalistic integrity’ while violating its right to be free from governmental coercion and manipulation.”

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