Nine U.S. Senators urged Paramount and chairwoman Shari Redstone to fight Donald Trump's lawsuit against "60 Minutes," saying in an open letter Wednesday that a settlement would be a "grave mistake" that would amount to capitulation to "authoritarianism.

A group of senators led by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is urging media conglomerate Paramount Global to not settle a lawsuit brought against it by President Trump. Trump’s suit, which is in connection with a “60 Minutes” segment featuring an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris,

Nine Democratic senators sent an open letter to Paramount Global’s controlling shareholder, Shari Redstone, urging her company to not settle a lawsuit filed by President Trump — which seeks $20 billion in damages — over what he claims was a deceptively edited interview aired by CBS’s “60 Minutes.