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60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley confronted new executive producer Nick Bilton and another CBS executive Monday morning in what Guardian US media reporter Jeremy Barr described as a "heated meeting," pushing back forcefully on last week's mass firings at the storied newsmagazine.

Pelley didn't mince words about who he held responsible.

Tina Peters walked out of a Colorado prison Monday morning and headed for Steve Bannon's War Room — where the convicted election denier told the MAGA faithful she wants a job in the Trump administration.

"I would like for President Trump — I'd like to be more involved in prison reform," Peters said on the podcast, adding she'd pursue it "if that's the way the Lord leads me."

In an attempt to get some positive press after making good on pulling Stephen Colbert’s popular “The Late Show” off the air and replacing it with Byron Allen’s “Comics Unleashed,” CBS issued a press statement claiming it was a sound business decision despite a massive drop in viewership.

According to a report from the Daily Beast, CBS claimed on Thursday the unpopular move represented sound business strategy, stating: "We're proud to partner with Byron Allen on a new business and programming model for late night that proactively addresses a network daypart that was cost-prohibitive to continue. With this 'time buy' model, we have shifted an hour that was losing roughly $40 million annually to $15 million in profit — a $55 million swing."

The mood inside the "60 Minutes" newsroom on Manhattan's 57th Street was one of devastation Thursday after CBS News head Bari Weiss purged the program's leadership — ousting beloved executives and announcing an inexperienced tech journalist as the new executive producer, despite the show finishing its season with a massive rating increase.

According to more than a half-dozen current and former staffers speaking with media watchdog Status, the firings triggered an emotional crisis inside the iconic newsmagazine.

A Fox News segment about Jill Biden's bombshell debate admission took a sharp turn Wednesday when Sen. Chris Coons (D-DE) pushed back hard on host Martha MacCallum's attempt to draw a contrast between Joe Biden's fitness and Donald Trump's.

The segment opened with MacCallum pressing Coons on Jill Biden's revelation to CBS News that she feared her husband was having a stroke during his disastrous June 2024 debate against Trump.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent got testy at the White House briefing Wednesday when CNN's Kaitlan Collins pressed him on the Trump administration's push to put the president's face on a $250 bill — eventually cutting her off mid-question.

Bessent was filling in for press secretary Karoline Leavitt, who is on maternity leave, when Collins went after him on a Washington Post report that two of his political appointees had been pushing the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to design a note featuring Trump's portrait — potentially in violation of federal law, which prohibits living people from appearing on U.S. currency.

Fears that controversial CBS News head Bari Weiss would dismantle the network’s venerable “60 Minutes” news magazine at the conclusion of the most recent season grew on Thursday.

According to reports from the New York Post and the New York Times, another newcomer with no traditional broadcast news background, like Weiss, was tabbed to be the show's new executive producer, with several longtime staffers and executives from the show being shown the door.

Despite having taken over as the head of CBS News last October, controversial Trump-friendly Bari Weiss was nowhere to be seen at the News & Documentary Emmy Awards in Manhattan on Wednesday night where the network’s “60 Minutes” was in line for 10 awards.

According to a report from media watchdog Status, the embattled Weiss missed out on being the center of attention — unflattering as it might have been.

A Fox Business correspondent didn't sugarcoat Thursday's grim economic data, telling viewers point-blank that rising prices are outpacing what workers bring home.

"Inflation is wiping out wages," correspondent Lauren Simonetti said on Varney & Company, reacting to two government reports released Thursday morning that painted a bleak picture for everyday Americans.

Spencer Pratt took his LA mayoral campaign to Fox & Friends Thursday morning with five days until the June 2 primary — and invoked divine intervention on his path to City Hall.

"I have a feeling God wants me to just win with 51% on June 2, and it's over," the registered Republican and former The Hills star told hosts Ainsley Earhardt, Brian Kilmeade, and Lawrence Jones.

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi says CBS News has effectively pushed her out after she refused to alter her explosive report on the Trump administration's deportation of Venezuelan men to El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison — and stood her ground against network boss Bari Weiss.

Alfonsi's contract expired earlier this month, and CBS News executives have made no effort to contact her representatives at talent agency UTA to negotiate a renewal, according to Variety. Her producers have been reassigned. She remains an at-will CBS employee and will continue to be paid, but she can no longer do the work of a working correspondent.

A Fox News correspondent got an earful—live on air—while reporting from outside a New Jersey immigration detention center Tuesday afternoon.

Alexis McAdams was reporting for Will Cain's 4 p.m. show outside Delaney Hall Detention Center in Newark when a protester unleashed on her mid-broadcast. McAdams had just warned Cain that the scene could get uncomfortable, telling him she's "not the most popular reporter" at ICE protests—then almost immediately had to address a demonstrator nearby.

Fox News anchor Gillian Turner put RNC chair Joe Gruters on the spot this week, confronting him live on air with a graphic showing President Donald Trump's approval rating cratering across multiple polls — including the network's own.

A Fox News poll conducted May 15–18 among 1,002 registered voters put Trump's overall job approval at 39%, with 61% disapproving — the highest disapproval figure recorded in Fox News polling during his presidency. An AP-NORC poll showed 37% approval and 62% disapproval, while a Wall Street Journal survey put him at 41% approval and 57% disapproval.