Lawyers for Paramount Global and President Donald Trump have agreed on a mediator to pursue a settlement in a lawsuit filed by Trump — demanding $20 billion in damages — against CBS News over a “60 Minutes” interview with Kamala Harris, the New York Times reported.

Reps for Paramount and Trump did not respond to requests for comment. The Times report, which cited anonymous sources, did not identify the mediator.

The Texas federal court hearing the case said in a Feb. 20 scheduling order that “Any mediation must be completed by Saturday, December 20, 2025.”

Trump sued CBS News a few days before the November 2024 presidential election, alleging that the “’60 Minutes” violated a Texas consumer protection law by deceptively editing an interview with VP Kamala Harris. Earlier this year, the president expanded the lawsuit, alleging an additional claim under the federal Lanham Act and seeking $20 billion in damages.

Last month, Paramount moved to dismiss Trump’s suit as “an affront to the First Amendment.” The company filed two motions to dismiss the case, one for lack of jurisdiction and the other on grounds that consumer fraud laws do not govern editorial speech.

Paramount is seeking to merge with Skydance Media, a deal that is still pending approval by the FCC. The agency’s chairman, Trump-appointed commissioner Brendan Carr, has said the FCC would consider the “60 Minutes” case in its review of the merger.

Separately, in March CBS asked the FCC to reject a complaint by a right-wing public interest law firm alleging the “60 Minutes” interview with Harris represented “news distortion,” arguing that the complaint is premised on the notion that the U.S. government can be a “roving censor.” CBS, in its March 7 response to the FCC over the Center for American Rights complaint, said that “The Complaint filed against CBS for ‘news distortion’ envisions a less free world in which the federal government becomes a roving censor — one that second guesses and even punishes specific editorial decisions that are an essential part of producing news programming.”

Carr, as part of an FCC probe into potential “news distortion” into CBS News, demanded that news outlet turn over all materials tied to the “60 Minutes” Harris segment including transcripts and unedited video. In February, CBS News did so, maintaining that the “60 Minutes” broadcast “was not doctored or deceitful.”

Meanwhile, in a separate case, Trump last year sued ABC News and George Stephanopoulos after the anchor inaccurately stated on-air that Trump had been found liable for rape. (Trump was found liable of sexually abusing and defaming writer E. Jean Carroll by a New York jury.) In December 2024, Disney and ABC News agreed to pay $15 million to settle Trump’s defamation lawsuit.