Federal Communications Commission Chairman Brendan Carr says he’s putting the investigation into CBS News’ broadcast of its interview with Democrat presidential nominee Kamala Harris during the election on a fast track.

“The FCC has had a prohibition against news distortion on our books for 50 years,” Carr, who was appointed by President Donald Trump,” told The New York Post Monday. “It applies to broadcasters but not cable. A group brought a non-frivolous complaint, so the FCC is taking the next appropriate step in adjudicating the issue.”

The probe has been launched on the complaint made by the Center for American Rights, a conservative group, which argued the network selectively edited its interview with Harris.

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