Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Governor Tim Walz will participate in a sit-down interview with CNN’s Dana Bash on Thursday, the network confirmed this week.
The interview, scheduled to air at 9 p.m. Eastern Time (6 p.m. Pacific Time), will mark the first formal conversation with a television journalist since Harris announced Walz as her running-mate for the White House after incumbent President Joe Biden withdrew from the race.
“The First Interview: Harris & Walz A CNN Exclusive” will be offered on CNN’s cable network, the CNN website (viewable to cable, satellite and some streaming customers with an authenticated login) and through the CNN simulcast on streaming service Max. CNN and Max are owned by Warner Bros Discovery.
In addition to video coverage of the interview, an audio simulcast will be available on SiriusXM and TuneIn. The interview, conducted by CNN journalist Dana Bash, will re-air at midnight Friday Eastern Time (9 p.m. Thursday Pacific Time) for West Coast prime time.
Prior to the interview, a CNN representative issued strict media guidelines for news outlets and other broadcasters who want to use excerpts of the conversation in their own coverage.
Domestic TV broadcasters will be allowed to use excerpts from the interview, so long as those excerpts do not exceed three minutes at a time, with a mandatory credit that reads “Courtesy of CNN.” Rival cable news outlets like Fox News, MSNBC, NewsNation and Newsmax are considered domestic TV broadcasters under the rule. News agencies are not allowed to redistribute clips from the interview.
Radio stations and podcasters may use excerpts from the CNN interview after it airs, with clips limited to three minutes in length, and must verbally credit “CNN” when the clips run.
News websites are allowed to embed clips from CNN.com and CNN’s YouTube channel, and are required to credit CNN in their written copy. CNN said streaming websites are forbidden from using their content, even if they incorporate their own commentary into the interview.
International news outlets, including broadcast and digital news organizations, are allowed to air or stream up to three minutes of the interview, but can only do so if they do not obscure the CNN logo, the network said. The rule applies only to news outlets that are affiliated with CNN. Non-affiliate news outlets are only allowed to use one minute of clips, cannot run the clips until after 1 a.m. Friday Eastern Time, and have to stop airing clips by Saturday morning.
