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.

Opposition to CBS News parent Paramount potentially opting to settle a $20 billion lawsuit from President Donald Trump is growing, with Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont) warning the network that doing so will embolden the government to continue targeting the press.

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.