Recently ousted &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley registered record-low self awareness level — and gave the impression that he&#8217;d never before encountered a normal human being — during a New York Times interview over the weekend.
Pelley, who was fired &#8220;for cause&#8221; by &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; executive producer Nick Bilton after raging at the network&#8217;s new leadership, expressed his complete bewilderment that new top exec Bari Weiss would ask his former colleagues at CBS News about bias in their coverage.
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&#8220;She, I am told, said something to the effect of, &#8216;Why do you think the country thinks you&#8217;re biased?'&#8221; Pelley explained, adding, &#8220;But she didn&#8217;t offer any kind of a metric.&#8221;
Pelley went on to suggest that there was no reason for Weiss to even ask such a question, saying, &#8220;Why do you think so? Do you have a poll? Is there market research? What are you talking about?&#8221;
AllSides.com, a media watchdog organization, rates CBS News reporting tends to &#8220;<a href="https://www.allsides.com/news-source/cbs-news-online-media-bias">lean left</a>,&#8221; and Pew Research data shows that, accordingly, more Democrats than Republicans view CBS News as a <a href="https://www.pewresearch.org/journalism/2025/06/10/the-political-gap-in-americans-news-sources/">trustworthy source</a> of information.
While it&#8217;s certainly possible that Pelley never saw the AllSides assessment or the Pew Research data, it&#8217;s unlikely that he was unaware of the lawsuit, filed by President Donald Trump against &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; over edits made to a pre-election interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris in 2024.
CBS News parent company Paramount paid out $16 million over the Harris interview, which Trump and numerous others alleged had been deceptively edited to clean up several of her &#8220;word-salad&#8221; answers. The interview aired in early October 2024, just weeks prior to the election — and Paramount, without issuing an apology, agreed to the $16 million settlement in July 2025.
Pelley&#8217;s first post-ouster interview raised a number of questions, particularly after he also claimed that he&#8217;d &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scott-pelley-takes-military-cosplay-to-new-level-in-deluded-nyt-interview">been in combat</a>&#8221; for the United States and claimed that watching people he&#8217;d worked closely with lose their jobs at CBS News was like personally witnessing the &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scott-pelley-compares-cbs-ouster-to-family-being-murdered-in-over-the-top-interview">murders</a>&#8221; of close friends and family members.

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Ousted &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley teared up when he claimed during a recent interview that he had &#8220;been in combat for this country.&#8221;
Pelley was terminated &#8220;for cause&#8221; just days earlier by executive producer Nick Bilton, after blowing up at the network&#8217;s new leadership under Bari Weiss — and he got emotional when he responded to some of the comments President Donald Trump had made about him.
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Fired 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley on the verge of tears:
&#8220;I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/me6BJ9Eetg">pic.twitter.com/me6BJ9Eetg</a>
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&#8220;He also said you were part go this gang of stupid crooked people that don&#8217;t care about your country,&#8221; interviewer Lulu Garcia-Navarro prompted Pelley.
&#8220;Stupid, I can take that. Stiff? Yeah, probably,&#8221; Pelley conceded, and then clearly struggled to get control of his emotions as he continued. &#8220;Don&#8217;t care about the country? I&#8217;ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in fox holes filling up with water in the desert.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not aware that the President of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country,&#8221; Pelley continued, still choked up a bit as he added, &#8220;Please correct me if I&#8217;m wrong.&#8221;
He went on to argue that people became journalists because they &#8220;love the First Amendment&#8221; and because they truly love the United States.
&#8220;While all the other descriptions that the president used about me might be applicable, not that one,&#8221; he said, his voice breaking.
During the same interview, Pelley claimed that the firings at CBS News — his and several others — were like the <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scott-pelley-compares-cbs-ouster-to-family-being-murdered-in-over-the-top-interview">murders</a> of close friends and family members.

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Ousted &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor Scott Pelley wasted no time in getting in front of a camera to trash his former employer, likening the firings at CBS News to &#8220;murders&#8221; of close friends and family.
Pelley, 68, conceded during a New York Times interview that it may have been a stretch to claim that new boss Bari Weiss had &#8220;murdered&#8221; his show — but he then went on to argue that the mass terminations were like the &#8220;murders&#8221; of family members.
&#8220;No one saw the Black Thursday massacre coming,&#8221; Pelley said, arguing that even after he blew up at network execs, it never occurred to him that he might be fired for doing so: &#8220;Some reporter I turned out to be. I just didn’t connect the dots.&#8221;
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Pelley: &#8220;Oh, gosh. Furthest thing from my mind. It hadn&#8217;t occurred to me….Some reporter I turned out to be. I just didn&#8217;t connect the dots.&#8221;
Amazing. <a href="https://t.co/bHSJ4yN1qn">https://t.co/bHSJ4yN1qn</a> <a href="https://t.co/Vc53xrkzfq">pic.twitter.com/Vc53xrkzfq</a>
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&#8220;The night before, Tanya and I were at the Emmy Awards, and we won two Emmys. Within hours, all of those people have been wiped out, and one-third of our correspondents have been fired,” Pelley continued. 
“My colleagues and I have worked together 10, 20, 30 years. We travel together. We dine together. We go into literal combat together.&#8221;
&#8220;So, these bonds are pretty tight, and when somebody wipes out, murders, a large number of your family members, people are desperate for some explanation, and as you and I sit here today, there still has been none,&#8221; he added. &#8220;It’s like your spouse being murdered.&#8221;
Near tears, he added, &#8220;I am not emotional about this because I have lost this job. I’ve done it for a long time. I’ve had the greatest experiences. But the people I leave behind, treated in this way? That breaks my heart, and it’s going to take me a long time to get over it.&#8221;
Pelley was also mocked for saying he&#8217;d gone &#8220;into literal combat&#8221; with his CBS colleagues, as people referred to him on X as a &#8220;low-rent Brian Williams.&#8221; Another joked, &#8220;Old Blood ‘n Guts Pelley we used to call him in the trenches.&#8221;
New &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; executive producer Nick Bilton was the one who fired Pelley &#8220;<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/longtime-60-minutes-reporter-fired-after-attacks-on-new-leadership">for cause</a>,&#8221; citing insubordination, but Weiss made it clear during a following staff meeting that she supported the move.

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Scott Pelley Compares CBS Ouster To Family Being ‘Murdered’ In Over-The-Top Interview

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President Donald Trump weighed in on recently ousted &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; anchor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/somewhere-cbs-newsman-scott-pelley-is-chewing-the-hell-out-of-his-innocent-glasses">Scott Pelley</a>, referring to the former CBS News personality as a &#8220;stiff.&#8221;
Trump made the comments during an appearance on the Wednesday episode of Miranda Devine&#8217;s podcast, &#8220;Pod Force One,&#8221; where he argued that Pelley was one of a number of legacy media personalities who truly didn&#8217;t care about the United States. It&#8217;s unclear whether the podcast was recorded prior to Pelley getting the boot from &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; executive producer Nick Bilton.
Trump explained his most recent battery of tests to Devine — a physical and a cognitive test — which he said he took out of an &#8220;obligation&#8221; to show the American people that he was more than fit for the job he was doing, and Devine asked whether the memory portions of the cognitive test were difficult.
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&#8220;I have a great memory, I have a good — look, so far so good,&#8221; Trump chuckled, adding, &#8220;I hope I&#8217;m going to keep it that way. If I don&#8217;t, you&#8217;ll be the first to know, you&#8217;ll say, this interview, this isn&#8217;t the same Trump! I think he&#8217;s lost it!&#8221;
Devine pivoted to Pelley then, noting that he&#8217;d interviewed former President Joe Biden just after special counsel Robert Hur had done so. And despite Hur&#8217;s assertion that Biden shouldn&#8217;t be charged in the classified documents case because he was an aging man with poor memory, Pelley&#8217;s interview — through a combination of softball questions and edits — obscured that from the public&#8217;s view.
&#8220;I think Scott Pelley’s got his own problems. He’s terrible,&#8221; Trump told Devine. &#8220;Look, Scott Pelley’s a stiff — and he’s afraid. And he’s part of this gang of crooked, stupid people that don’t care about our country. I watched that interview, that interview was a joke.&#8221;
Trump also criticized CNN anchor Anderson Cooper and ABC News anchor George Stephanopoulos — the latter of whom he referred to as &#8220;a tough little cookie&#8221; who&#8217;d been forced to pay him $16 million — and said that they&#8217;d been equally guilty in helping to cover up Biden&#8217;s cognitive decline.
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CBS News fired “60 Minutes” correspondent <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/somewhere-cbs-newsman-scott-pelley-is-chewing-the-hell-out-of-his-innocent-glasses?author=Ben+Domenech&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=0&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Somewhere+CBS+Newsman+Scott+Pelley+Is+Chewing+The+Hell+Out+Of+His+Innocent+Glasses">Scott Pelley</a> on Tuesday, just one day after he accused editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of attempting to “murder” the long-running show. 
Nick Bilton, the tech journalist and filmmaker recently named the new boss of “60 Minutes,” told Pelley that he was being fired after he aggressively &#8220;hijacked&#8221; a staff meeting to attack the new direction of CBS. Pelley, who has been with the network for decades, attacked Bilton’s qualifications during a staff meeting on Monday and <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/01/business/media/cbs-60-minutes-scott-pelley-nick-bilton.html">reportedly</a> ignored opportunities for private meetings with the new leadership. 
“Yesterday&#8217;s performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress,” Bilton wrote to Pelley. “I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama.”
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Bilton said that Pelley “hijacked” his first meeting with staff to “disparage” him and responded to his efforts to reach out with “remarkable incivility and contempt.” 
“I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team, but this was nothing of the sort,” he said. 
During Bilton’s first meeting with staff, Pelley interrupted Bilton to say that Weiss was “murdering ‘60 Minutes,&#8221; according to a recording obtained by The New York Times.
“She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that,” Pelley said of Weiss.
“She has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job,” he added. “The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?”
Bilton responded by saying that he would be meeting with everyone, including Pelley, to discuss his plans for the show and that he wanted to focus on producing quality journalism. Pelley met with Bilton and other CBS executives on Tuesday, but that meeting did not go well. 
“Despite yesterday&#8217;s misconduct, I had hoped that in sitting down with you today we could find a path forward together,” Bilton wrote. “You made clear that you are not interested in such a path. Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear. And I have heard you. I therefore write on behalf of CBS News, Inc. (‘CBS’) to inform you that your employment with CBS is terminated for cause effective immediately.”
Pelley had worked for CBS News since 1989 and once anchored “CBS Evening News.” 
In an interview with the New York Times after his firing, Pelley discussed his experience reporting in various war zones. 
“I have been in combat in Afghanistan,” he said. “I have been in combat in Iraq. I have been in the war zone in Ukraine multiple times, risking my life and the happiness of my family because of my devotion to the broadcast.”
Weiss came to CBS after the network and “60 Minutes” had faced years of accusations of bias, including for releasing a highly edited interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris during the 2024 election.

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Somewhere today in America, erstwhile CBS anchorman Scott Pelley is chewing the living hell out of the arm of his glasses in a bout of uncontained fury at the way his bosses are fixing 60 Minutes.
Pelley, infamously the most anti-Trump anchor in television history (quite the accomplishment, considering George Stephanopoulos exists), went on a loud, unprofessional rant during a <a href="https://www.mediaite.com/opinion/scott-pelleys-embarrassing-tantrum-proves-bari-weisss-point/">meeting</a>. This memorable moment, sure to be enshrined with a shiny plaque, was reported with glee by reporters at The New York Times, The Guardian, and Puck – who had to work hard to get audio Pelley clearly wanted leaked. Pelley’s spittle-flecked invective against CBS boss Bari Weiss and new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton included referring to a list of recent firings as “Black Thursday,” as if letting go a list of hacks on a show that survives only based on the fact that it follows the National Football League was a date to be noted in the annals of history.
&#8220;She’s murdering 60 Minutes! … She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,” Pelley reportedly said, telling his new boss he “would never be welcomed” at the show. “[Weiss] has no qualifications for her job; you have slender qualifications for this job. The changes that she’s made at the ‘Evening News’ have been catastrophic, so why should we expect that any of this is going to be any better?&#8221;
As a former CBS employee for several years, Pelley was infamous for asking the stupidest questions in production meetings, and now he clearly wants the award for “big loud speech that establishes exactly why you’re not a newsman and hopefully gets you a severance package that can help stand up your new Substack.”
What inquiring minds want to know is: Did Pelley walk in already twirling his glasses, or did he wait til he got rolling?
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Scott Pelley rolling into that Bari meeting so hyped he drops his glasses <a href="https://t.co/jjkjLQHtBC">pic.twitter.com/jjkjLQHtBC</a>
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Here’s the real thing that bothers Scott Pelley: the era of the pompous Democrat television anchor is over. That role is filled by John Oliver and Jimmy Kimmel, and was formerly filled in his own house by Stephen Colbert. People don’t want a newsreader who lectures them simply by virtue of their ability to read a prompter. And they certainly don’t want that type of lecture from people who clearly hate half the country they’re reporting on every night.
I don’t know if what Bari Weiss is doing to CBS is going to work. Television is hard – I’ve been in it just as a commentator and contributor for a decade and a half, and I’m still learning. But CBS is a network institution with a wealth of internal value if it can be brought out of the dusty corners of decrepit leftism into the present day, and not just because of Jane Pauley’s CBS Sunday Morning segments on the history of the Erie Canal. The people that won’t be part of it are the Scott Pelleys of the world – people who don’t report, research, or find the news for themselves, but read it on a camera and feel like that gives them <a href="https://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/curtis-houck/2025/05/23/cbss-pelley-gives-hateful-pompous-commencement-speech-smearing">oracular authority</a> over the direction of the world behind the little red light.
Chew on that, Scott.

Somewhere CBS Newsman Scott Pelley Is Chewing The Hell Out Of His Innocent Glasses

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The legendary stopwatch is under new management—and it&#8217;s about time.
In a blockbuster move to restore sanity to television’s most iconic news magazine, CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss has officially tapped tech guru and author Nick Bilton, 49, as the new executive producer of 60 Minutes. Bilton’s high-profile hiring comes as the network attempts to rebuild its credibility following years of accusations of left-leaning reporting and anti-Trump hit jobs.
&#8220;That is why Bari hired me,&#8221; Bilton told staff in an introductory memo. &#8220;Evolving or dying isn&#8217;t a threat. It&#8217;s simple math.&#8221;
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It&#39;s the honor of my career to become the executive producer of 60 Minutes. I just shared the note below with the incredible staff and can&#39;t wait to get started. <a href="https://t.co/4PHmHJF3Bj">pic.twitter.com/4PHmHJF3Bj</a>
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Left-leaning media critics seized on Bilton&#8217;s lack of television news experience, with several framing the hire as evidence that Weiss is remaking CBS News in her own image.
&#8220;I&#8217;ve Had It&#8221; podcast co-host Jennifer Welch ripped the decision, disparaging David and Larry Ellison, who control Paramount Global and CBS News, while describing Weiss as a &#8220;prostitute&#8221; ordered to broadcast &#8220;effusive stories&#8221; on President Donald Trump.
&#8220;The Ellison family purchased her and said we want you to propagandize all day, every day,&#8221; she <a href="https://x.com/MarcoFoster_/status/2060121372106379720">claimed</a>.
Former CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta also claimed Weiss is beholden to the Trump administration.
&#8220;The wheels have come off over at CBS and Bari Weiss only has herself to blame,&#8221; he <a href="https://www.thewrap.com/media-platforms/journalism/jim-acosta-bari-weiss-ruining-60-minutes-sharyn-alfonsi-firing/">said</a>.
Journalist Katie Couric, who has been <a href="https://mrc.org/meet-real-katie-couric">accused</a> of bias by conservatives for decades, said Weiss &#8220;is woefully unprepared for this job,&#8221; saying, &#8220;Part of the problem was that Bari Weiss has never run a network news division.&#8221;
For years, critics accused 60 Minutes of operating as a protection racket for the Democratic establishment, alienating half the country in the process. Tensions reached a boiling point during the fallout from the now-infamous Kamala Harris &#8220;word salad&#8221; interview scandal in 2024, when CBS was caught selectively editing Harris&#8217;s comments about Israel for a more polished clip from a completely different part of the discussion.
The ensuing outrage sparked a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-sues-cbs-news-for-10-billion-over-kamala-60-minutes-interview-edits?author=Zach+Jewell&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Sues+CBS+News+For+%2410+Billion+Over+Kamala+’60+Minutes’+Interview+Edits">$10 billion fraud lawsuit</a> from Donald Trump, which concluded in July 2025 with a defeat for CBS. The parent company, Paramount, was forced to fork over a massive $16 million settlement.
The legal beating triggered a major upheaval inside the newsroom. Longtime executive producer Bill Owens <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/60-minutes-producer-resigns-citing-lack-of-control-over-the-program?author=Amanda+Harding&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=’60+Minutes’+Producer+Resigns%2C+Citing+Lack+Of+Control+Over+The+Program">packed his bags</a> in April 2025 amid mounting criticism over the program&#8217;s editorial direction.
Weiss stepped in by October 2025, immediately flexing her editorial muscles.
In December, she spiked a planned Sharyn Alfonsi segment that smeared the Trump administration’s deportation policies while burying critical context about violent Venezuelan gang members tied to the story.
It wasn&#8217;t the first time the show had faced such accusations. In 2021, 60 Minutes drew bipartisan condemnation—including from top Florida Democrats—after unleashing a <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-doubles-down-defends-60-minutes-after-smear-of-desantis?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=CBS+Doubles+Down%2C+Defends+‘60+Minutes’+After+Smear+Of+DeSantis">segment</a> on GOP Gov. Ron DeSantis. Critics accused the show of deceptively editing footage to push a fake &#8220;pay-to-play&#8221; conspiracy involving grocery giant Publix while omitting facts that destroyed their desired narrative.
Meanwhile, the show also faced scrutiny for routinely coddling foreign dictators, including a 2022 <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-engages-in-holocaust-denial-cbs-news-lesley-stahl-does-not-push-back?author=Daily+Wire+News&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Iranian+President+Ebrahim+Raisi+Engages+In+Holocaust+Denial%2C+CBS+News’+Lesley+Stahl+Does+Not+Push+back" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sit-down</a> where Lesley Stahl failed to adequately challenge Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, who openly engaged in Holocaust denial.
Enter Bilton. The former New York Times tech reporter, Vanity Fair investigator, and mastermind behind bestsellers like American Kingpin and Hatching Twitter is vowing that the old days of partisan arrogance are over. Pointing out that consumers are now &#8220;stalked by algorithms&#8221; that weaponize anger, Bilton declared his top priority is fixing the network&#8217;s broken bond with the public.
&#8220;My responsibility is not just technological transformation. It is also our trust with the public,&#8221; Bilton said. &#8220;Above all, that means a commitment to fairness—in story selection, in the edit room, and in the broadcast.&#8221;
Whether Bilton can overhaul one of America&#8217;s most entrenched liberal newsrooms remains to be seen. But according to staff reports, employees have been given 30 days to make their case before major changes begin.

CBS Deals With Fall Out After Cancellation Of “60 Minutes” Piece On CECOT Prison

Bari Weiss Is Remaking CBS News And The Left Is Panicking

On April 6, The Free Press ran a <a href="https://www.thefp.com/p/why-the-vatican-and-the-white-house">story</a> claiming the Pentagon summoned the Vatican&#8217;s apostolic nuncio to a meeting, and invoked the Avignon Papacy, threatening the Vatican. The <a href="https://x.com/DOWResponse/status/2042300020494418303">Department of War</a>, <a href="https://x.com/BrianBurchUSA/status/2042307511504519366">Ambassador Brian Burch</a>, and the <a href="https://www.ewtnnews.com/vatican/media-narrative-about-nuncio-s-pentagon-meeting-untrue-vatican-says">Vatican</a> all put out statements saying the &#8220;threatening&#8221; meeting story is completely untrue. DNC progressive Catholic operative Christopher Hale, however, spent all week pushing and amplifying the story even after it was shown to be false.
On April 9, Pope Leo XIV <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/chicago/news/pope-leo-xiv-meeting-david-axelrod-obama-advisor/">met with</a> David Axelrod, the former senior advisor to President Obama. Then, on April 10, the Pope made a clearly <a href="https://x.com/Pontifex/status/2042588417578668338">pacifist, anti-war statement</a> aimed at the Trump administration. To cap it all off, CBS aired a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; episode on Sunday, April 12, with three of the most liberal cardinals in the American Catholic Church who spoke in opposition to the Iran war and against the deportation of illegal aliens. Meanwhile, social media erupted with provocative arguments over who is to blame for America’s moral and spiritual collapse: Catholics or Protestants?
Without a doubt, there is a political operation underway to <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/pope-leo-responds-after-trump-calls-him-weak?author=Jacob+Wheeler&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Pope+Leo+Responds+After+Trump+Calls+Him+%E2%80%98Weak%E2%80%99">set up a confrontation</a> between the Vatican and the United States. The goal is to divide conservative Catholic voters from the Evangelical bloc — an established and battle-tested political tactic, cynical and craven as it may be. This has the fingerprints of the DNC and NGO operatives all over it, and the liberal progressives within the Catholic Church are working in their service.
Non-Catholic Americans need to understand there is a serious intra-Catholic war going on between the liberal progressives within the Church and those who are trying to keep the Church faithful to its 2,000 years of Biblical teaching. This war has been hot since the Second Vatican Council in the 1960s. Just like the Protestant progressives, the Catholic Church has a large segment of that generation that wants to do to Catholicism what the Protestant progressives have done elsewhere, not only on issues like abortion, sexuality, and women&#8217;s ordination, but in the liberalizing of the entire political and social order. Decades ago Pope John Paul II and Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger fought hard against Communists and Socialists within the Church who were using Marxist ideology to form what is now called Liberation Theology — a politicization of the Gospel. Cardinal Ratzinger knew it posed a threat to the distinction between Church and State.
As a well-assimilated Iraqi Christian immigrant to America, who journeyed through different Protestant denominations until I converted to Catholicism ten years ago, I can say without a doubt that the only reason there is such a strong, faithful, intelligent, fruitful Catholic community in America is because of the kind of nation our Protestant brethren founded in 1776. Both Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI praised the freedoms created by the American system — this shared, common freedom Founding Fathers built allows both Protestants/Evangelicals and Catholics to grow without the meddling hand of the government.
One can admire the traditions, customs, and observances of the Catholics in Europe, but they are a small community that hold no sway in the public squares of their countries. In spite of what seems to be a recent increase in Catholic converts in France, Catholicism as an institution, like its political counterpart in Europe has become a “polite and orderly caretakers of the West&#8217;s managed decline,” to use Secretary Marco Rubio&#8217;s words.
Some may boast about the Catholic evangelization of South America centuries ago, but Latin America today offers a different picture: societies in moral decline, an anemic Catholic Church losing people to the Pentecostal movement, and corrupt governments unable to provide even basic safety for their citizens.
American Catholicism has a “conservative” segment for two reasons: the faithful presence of our Evangelical and Protestant brethren, which encourages us to remain steadfast in Scriptural teaching, and the blessed miracle of American religious liberty.
European Catholics complain that American Catholics are more American than Catholic, they phrase it in this way because what they cannot tolerate to say is that American Catholics are overall more faithful Christians than European Catholics. And that faithfulness is the wonderful fruit of being in America.
The reason why America has not fully given itself over to the globalist progressive agenda is due primarily to the Evangelicals who have held the line, and their conservative Catholic counterpart who have partnered with them. These two groups have worked hard together in spite of theological differences. The next destructive ideology that needs defeating is the Islamist totalitarianism of the Islamists seeking world domination. Like Pope John Paul II who stood up against Communism, Pope Leo XIV should be working against that ideology, not chastising the only country in the world that has expansive religious freedoms.
Conservative Christians of all stripes need to see this political op for what it is and hold the line, for the good of us all, and for the good of all American citizens.
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Luma Simms is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

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The Real Target In This Vatican Drama Isn’t Rome. It’s American Voters.

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White House Homeland Security Advisor Stephen Miller fired back after a 60 Minutes correspondent accused CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of yanking a story about the Trump administration’s deportation of hundreds of immigrants to CECOT for “political reasons.”
“This is another pathetic 60 Minutes hatchet job. They are trying to tell sob stories about Tren de Aragua gang members who drill holes in people’s hands, who rape and murder little girls?” Miller <a href="https://grabien.com/story?id=562966&amp;utm_source=cliplist&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=cliplist20251224&amp;utm_content=story562966">said</a>.
“You actually have somebody, from the outside, new, who’s trying to actually act like an adult over at 60 Minutes and say, ‘Hey, wait a minute, you failed to talk to the administration, you failed to put in any sort of context, whatsoever, for the story, and so she’s decided to pause the story and now there’s an open revolt at 60 Minutes,” Fox News host Charles Hurt said to Miller. “First of all, were you contacted at all about this package, and what do you make of all of it?”
“I don’t remember anybody reaching out to me,” Miller replied. “Of course, as you know people put things at the comms inboxes and general feedback comments, but I don’t remember getting anything.”
“But more fundamentally, this is another pathetic 60 Minutes hatchet job,” he continued. “They are trying to tell sob stories about Tren de Aragua gang members who drill holes in people’s hands, who rape and murder little girls? This is the gang who kidnapped, sexually assaulted and murdered Jocelyn Nungaray. Remember her? That precious 12-year-old girl from Texas who was taken from her mom and went through horrors none of us can imagine?”
“And you have these 60 Minute producers who are living in comfort and security in their West End condos trying to make us feel sympathetic for these monsters?” he asked rhetorically. “Have you seen the tattoos, the face tattoos, the body tattoos on these killers? Would one 60 Minutes producer or writer agree to spend 30 minutes — I’ll make a deal. We will pick one person at random that we sent to CECOT, just a random lottery drawing, and they will spend one day, overnight, in your apartment.”
“Who is taking that deal at 60 Minutes? Nobody, because they know that these are monsters who got exactly what they deserved,” he declared. “Because under President Trump, we are not going to let little girls get raped and murdered anymore. And every one of those producers at 60 Minutes engaged in this revolt, fire them. Clean house, fire them. That’s what I say, Charlie.”
“And yet, somehow, they’re the compassionate ones and you’re the mean ones. But we’re glad you&#8217;re the mean ones and getting the job done,” Hurt concluded.
“I held that story because it was not ready,” Weiss <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/22/business/media/cbs-news-bari-weiss-60-minutes.html">said</a>, adding that the story had been reported by other news organizations. “The public knows that Venezuelans have been subjected to horrific treatment in this prison.”
The Daily Wire previously<a href="applewebdata://3CD6EBF5-83C4-49D9-9C71-580D795F3B88/v"> reported</a>:
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Weiss prevented the segment on El Salvador’s CECOT prison from airing on Sunday over concerns that the piece lacked important information, such as “the Trump administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.” She stated in a memo to CBS News staffers:
Last month, many outlets, most notably The New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at CECOT. Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself. But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered, we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans endured at CECOT? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered.”
“At present, we do not present the administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. What we have is Karoline Leavitt’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in America (rapists, murderers, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing?” Weiss asked. “Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.”
In her third point, Weiss criticized one of the angles of the “60 Minutes” segment, arguing that it focused too much on the illegal immigrants sent to CECOT who do not have criminal histories and not enough on the violent criminals who have been removed from America.
“The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this,” Weiss said. “We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But what about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals.”
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Zach Jewell contributed to this story.

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Stephen Miller Blasts 60 Minutes, Defends Decision To Halt CECOT Segment Over Lack Of Context

Stephen Miller Blasts CBS After Bari Weiss Halts ‘60 Minutes’ CECOT Segment Over Lack of Context

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In a five-point memo sent to CBS News staff on Sunday, Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss laid out each of her reasons for <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment-on-notorious-el-salvador-prison-needed-additional-reporting">postponing</a> a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment on the Salvadoran prison where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of illegal immigrants.
Weiss prevented the segment on El Salvador&#8217;s CECOT prison from airing on Sunday over concerns that the piece lacked important information, such as &#8220;the Trump administration&#8217;s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.&#8221;
The segment, spearheaded by CBS News journalist Sharyn Alfonsi, focused on interviews with some of the illegal immigrants who were sent to CECOT and have since been released. After Weiss pulled the story from Sunday&#8217;s lineup, Alfonsi claimed that it was for &#8220;political&#8221; reasons, arguing that if they hold a story because the government has not commented on it, they are becoming a “stenographer for the state.”
Weiss, however, argued that the segment did not attempt to go deep enough to present its viewers &#8220;with the full context they need to assess the story.&#8221; In the first point her <a href="https://x.com/thesimonetti/status/2003142908854313225">memo</a>, Weiss argued that other legacy media networks had already extensively covered the &#8220;horrific conditions&#8221; at the Salvadoran prison and CBS News needed to do more to &#8220;advance&#8221; the story to justify a &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment.
&#8220;Last month, many outlets, most notably The New York Times, exposed the horrific conditions at CECOT. Our story presents more of these powerful testimonies—and putting those accounts into the public record is valuable in and of itself,&#8221; Weiss said in her memo. &#8220;But if we’re going to run another story about a topic that has by now been much-covered, we need to advance it. Among the ways to do so: does anyone in the administration or anyone prominent who defended the use of the Alien Enemies Act now regret it in light of what these Venezuelans endured at CECOT? That’s a question I’d like to see asked and answered.&#8221;
The segment reportedly focused on highlighting the “brutal and torturous conditions” endured by those sent to CECOT. Despite CBS News pulling the segment domestically, it aired briefly in Canada and then was shared online.
Weiss urged &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; producers to &#8220;push harder&#8221; to set up interviews Trump administration officials, such as adviser Stephen Miller and border czar Tom Homan.
&#8220;At present, we do not present the administration’s argument for why it sent 252 Venezuelans to CECOT. What we have is Karoline Leavitt’s soundbite claiming they are evildoers in America (rapists, murderers, etc.). But isn’t there much more to ask in light of the torture that we are revealing?&#8221; Weiss asked. &#8220;Tom Homan and Stephen Miller don’t tend to be shy. I realize we’ve emailed the DHS spox, but we need to push much harder to get these principals on the record.&#8221;
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In her third point, Weiss criticized one of the angles of the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment, arguing that it focuses too much on the illegal immigrants sent to CECOT who do not have criminal histories and not enough on the violent criminals who have been removed from America.
&#8220;The data we present paints an incongruent picture. Of the 252 Venezuelans sent to CECOT, we say nearly half have no criminal histories. In other words, more than half do have criminal histories. We should spend a beat explaining this,&#8221; Weiss said. &#8220;We then say that only 8 of the 252 have been sentenced in America for violent offenses. But what about charged? My point is that we should include as much as we can possibly know and understand about these individuals.&#8221;
Weiss also blasted the producers&#8217; decision to include analysis from students at the University of California, Berkeley, asking, &#8220;What does the analysis add?&#8221;
Weiss concluded by telling the staff that CBS News should better explain &#8220;the legal rationale by which the administration detained and deported these 252 Venezuelans to CECOT.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s not as simple as Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act and being able to deport them immediately. And that isn’t the administration’s argument. The admin has argued in court that detainees are due &#8216;judicial review&#8217;—and we should explain this, with a voice arguing that Trump is exceeding his authority under the relevant statute, and another arguing that he’s operating within the bounds of his authority,&#8221; Weiss argued. &#8220;There’s a genuine debate here.&#8221;
CBS News said on Sunday that the CECOT segment would air at a later date.

Bari Weiss Had 5 Reasons For Yanking ’60 Minutes’ Report On El Salvador Prison

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A &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; segment on the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador, where the Trump administration has sent hundreds of illegal immigrants, was postponed by CBS News on Sunday, sparking controversy within the newsroom now led by Bari Weiss.
The segment was spearheaded by reporter Sharyn Alfonsi, who interviewed some of the illegal immigrants who were sent to CECOT and have since left the prison where they say they endured &#8220;brutal and torturous conditions&#8221; while incarcerated, The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/business/media/cbs-news-pulls-60-minutes-segment-correspondent-calls-decision-political-841ea812?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqfvdbwaMHbjC_tduBBpNfrxbO3ws_qL0ncaSLYx572CvvS9lQNwYVUNXjT5dZM%3D&amp;gaa_ts=694937c8&amp;gaa_sig=EnNwFGlrqgHmB3-M_EO7xOfFABCTxj8DotddywZo-bUvRgIUmiMI7Hvm9965mlO7zYxNwLpubF-z3MFkxJoKHw%3D%3D">reported</a>. CBS News said Alfonsi&#8217;s segment would air at a later date after the company &#8220;determined it needed additional reporting.&#8221;
Democrats and the legacy media have focused much of their criticism of Trump&#8217;s massive deportation operation on the Salvadoran prison, where Trump has sent planeloads of people. The prison is used by El Salvador&#8217;s right-wing president, Nayib Bukele, to hold violent gang members and drug traffickers. Earlier this year, Bukele agreed to take in illegal immigrants deported by the Trump administration and place them in CECOT.
Weiss, who became CBS News editor-in-chief in October, was concerned about apparent bias in the &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; CECOT piece and suggested adding an interview with a White House official, such as Stephen Miller, <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/business/60-minutes-trump-bari-weiss.html">according</a> to The New York Times. In a statement on Sunday, Weiss said that it&#8217;s common to hold stories and segments that &#8220;lack sufficient context&#8221; or &#8220;are missing critical voices.&#8221; She added that she looks forward to airing the CECOT prison segment &#8220;when it&#8217;s ready.&#8221;
“My job is to make sure that all stories we publish are the best they can be,” she said.
Alfonsi, however, called the last-minute decision to pull the segment from Sunday&#8217;s show &#8220;political,&#8221; saying that the segment had already undergone extensive fact-checking and legal review.
“It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now, after every rigorous internal check has been met, is not an editorial decision, it is a political one,” Alfonsi wrote. The journalist said that they had reached out to the Trump administration for comment, arguing that if they hold a story because the government has not commented on it, they are becoming a &#8220;stenographer for the state.&#8221;
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CBS News appears to be changing its approach to how it covers the Trump administration under Weiss after &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; has faced criticism for its seemingly anti-Trump tilt. Last year, &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; was ripped for its editing of an interview with then-Vice President Kamala Harris. President Donald Trump sued CBS News&#8217; parent company, Paramount, over the edits that he argued made Harris&#8217; answers sound more coherent. Paramount settled the lawsuit for $16 million amid a massive shakeup at the company, with billionaire David Ellison taking over.
After Ellison and Weiss took the reins of CBS News, leftists expressed concern about the network&#8217;s direction, while many people on the Right celebrated the change as a potential return to unbiased news reporting. President Trump, however, believes that CBS News has &#8220;gotten worse&#8221; under Ellison&#8217;s leadership. After &#8220;60 Minutes&#8221; aired an interview with Trump ally-turned-critic Marjorie Taylor Greene earlier this month, Trump said that CBS News is &#8220;NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME!&#8221;
&#8220;Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!&#8221; he added. &#8220;Oh well, far worse things can happen.&#8221;

CBS News Pulls ’60 Minutes’ Segment On Notorious El Salvador Prison: ‘Needed Additional Reporting’

President Donald Trump on Monday accused  Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of being a &#8220;jilted&#8221; traitor after the Georgia Republican said Trump&#8217;s policies were not &#8220;America First&#8221; during an interview on &#8220;60 Minutes.&#8221;
Trump said that Greene was no longer MAGA or America First because of her shifting policy views. In recent weeks, Greene has become increasingly critical of Trump. She has also announced plans to step down in January, with over a year left on her term as a congresswoman.
&#8220;The only reason Marjorie &#8216;Traitor&#8217; Brown (Green turns Brown under stress!) went BAD is that she was JILTED by the President of the United States (Certainly not the first time she has been jilted!). Too much work, not enough time, and her ideas are, NOW, really BAD &#8211; She sort of reminds me of a Rotten Apple! Marjorie is not AMERICA FIRST or MAGA, because nobody could have changed her views so fast, and her new views are those of a very dumb person,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115684406134734247">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
During the interview released Sunday, Greene said Trump was too focused on international issues rather than domestic policy.
&#8220;For an ‘America First’ president, the number one focus should have been domestic policy, and it wasn’t. And so, of course, I was critical, because those were my campaign promises,” Greene said. “Once we fix everything here, then fine, we’ll talk to the rest of the world.”
Greene was once a fierce defender of Trump, but recently clashed with the president over the release of the files related to Jeffrey Epstein. Trump has said that she became upset with him after he shared polling with her indicating she would perform poorly if she made a bid for the Senate.
Her resignation will lower the already tenuous Republican majority in the House, which currently sits at 220-213.
Trump said that he was upset that CBS News allowed the interview to air.
&#8220;My real problem with the show, however, wasn’t the low IQ traitor, it was that the new ownership of 60 Minutes, Paramount, would allow a show like this to air,&#8221; Trump said. &#8220;THEY ARE NO BETTER THAN THE OLD OWNERSHIP, who just paid me millions of Dollars for FAKE REPORTING about your favorite President, ME! Since they bought it, 60 Minutes has actually gotten WORSE!&#8221;
Trump added that he deserved an apology from “60 Minutes” host Lesley Stahl over her handling of the Hunter Biden laptop story.

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