'Really weird': CBS News host raises eyebrows with 'surprising' topic of lawmaker grilling

CBS News raised "ideological" concerns over the weekend as one of its hosts grilled a GOP lawmaker about why more isn't being done on an issue that's important to those on the right.

Margaret Brennan of CBS News, who butted heads with JD Vance during a debate during the 2024 presidential election, on Sunday interviewed U.S. Senator Bill Cassidy, M.D., (R-LA). In the course of their discussion, she grilled him on a topic that many analysts and observers found to be interesting.

Specifically, Brennan asked the senator about mifepristone, and why the Trump administration wasn't pursuing safety studies as quickly as it had previously suggested it would. She repeatedly grilled the lawmaker on the question, baffling viewers.

According to independent journalist Aaron Rupar, it was "really weird" when host Margaret Brennen "pressed Bill Cassidy on why the White House isn't doing more to crack down on mifepristone and what he's doing to encourage them to do it."

Neera Tanden, a former government official, also weighed in, saying she was "genuinely surprised" by the Brennan question.

"There's no evidence mifepristone is unsafe and if CBS has evidence, they should say it," according to Tanden. "Otherwise it feels like the new regime at CBS is simply pushing it's ideological agenda on its really great reporters."

Political scientist Norman Ornstein added that "Face the Nation had gone South even before Bari Weiss," who is the company's Trump-backed head who has also been criticized this weekend for her Erika Kirk push.

Podcast host Jim Stewartson added, "It’s only weird until you realize that CBS News is run by the PayPal Mafia. Bari Weiss started an 'anti-woke university' with the co-founder of Palantir."

"Everything that comes out of this network is untrustworthy," he further added.