CBS is calling for the dismissal of Trump’s  billion lawsuit against “60 Minutes.”

CBS is calling for the dismissal of Trump’s $10 billion lawsuit against “60 Minutes.”

CBS is demanding the dismissal of the $10 billion lawsuit that President-elect Donald Trump filed against the network in October.

In a filing Friday, the network argued that Trump’s lawsuit was filed in a court that does not have “personal jurisdiction” over CBS. Trump’s team reported to the conservative-friendly Northern District of Texas. Because CBS is based in New York City, they argued that the Texas court was not the appropriate venue.

Trump sued the network in October after CBS showed various excerpts of an interview with Kamala Harris on “60 Minutes” and “Face The Nation.” Trump’s lawyers claimed that the “60 Minutes” interview, which was edited for clarity, “damaged President Trump’s fundraising and endorsement numbers by billions of dollars, particularly in Texas.”

CBS countered in its filing Friday that it did not “intentionally target Texas in its conduct, particularly in the production, editing and broadcast of the interview with Vice President Harris that aired on ’60 Minutes,'” adding that it no “connection between Texas, the content of the impugned interview, or the harm felt by (Trump), a Florida resident.”

“If this district has personal jurisdiction over the facts alleged, so does every district court in the country,” they wrote. “That’s not the law.”

CBS continued to request a change of venue if the case was not ultimately dismissed. The network argued that the Southern District of New York — a district court that has a long history with the president-elect — would be a much more sensible venue.

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