Sharyn Alfonsi, Scott Pelley’s jobs are on the line after pushing back against Bari Weiss’ CBS News shakeups: sources 1/2

Published Jan. 22, 2026, 4:45 p.m. ET

Maybe call it “Game of Microphones.”

“60 Minutes” correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Scott Pelley’s vocal pushback against CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss’ moves to shake up the outlet have put theduo at risk of being fired, The Post has learned.

Both veteran correspondents could get the boot as Weiss, who has run the network since October, works to revamp “60 Minutes,” said sources with knowledge of the matter —who compared the ongoing intrigue to “Game of Thrones”-style drama.

“It’s going to be a war,” a network insider told The Post. “They don’t think their s–t stinks,” the person said of the “60 Minutes” staff.CBS News is willing to buy out contracts of talent and executives, sources said. Alfonsi’s is up in a few months. It could not immediately be learnedwhen Pelley’s contract is set to expire.

The correspondents did not respond to requests for comment. CBS News did not immediately comment.Alfonsi irked Weiss by fighting the boss’s efforts to strengthen a recent reporton El Salvador’s notorious CECOT prison,while Pelley has put a target on his backfor a drumbeat of commentary criticizing CBS News’ new leadership, sources said.

Weiss is overseeing all the =•important political and cultural stories produced by the network — including “60 Minutes==,” sources said, noting that the exec now takes part in a new Monday meeting with the show’s executive producer Tanya Simon.

That’s a sharp departure from the “60 Minutes” tradition of decades of operating as a kingdom unto itself,when the show’s executive producer was the only personoverseeing the show’s journalism.

“CBS News is allergic to changes – especially ‘60 Minutes’ people,” said the network insider.

Weiss, her deputies Charles Forelle and Adam Rubenstein and CBS News president Tom Cibrowski have been facing an increasingly defiant staff— who “don’t think Bari Weiss is qualified to be their boss,” said the source.

“60 Minutes” staffers — who includeveteran producers and correspondents like Lesley Stahl and Bill Whitaker, along with Alfonsi and Pelley — are said to be especially disdainful, voicing serious doubts about Weiss’ qualifications for the job.

CBS sources have griped that their new 41-year-old boss — who became editor in chief after Paramount Skydance bought her contrarian website the Free Press for $150 million— lacks television experience.

Network insiders have also scrutinized Weiss’ journalism chops —noting her background is in opinion writing, not reporting— and taken exception to her vocal political views.A strong supporter of Israel, Weiss has described herself as a “Zionist fanatic.”

An editor in chief should be “impartial” or at least “not have a bias,” a CBS source said.Insiders said Alfonsi and Pelley may be betting they can simply “wait out” Weiss.“Everyone at CBS News knows there will be a boss every two years,” one person said, citing a revolving door of news leaders from Susan Zirinsky and Neeraj Khemlani to Ingrid Ciprian-Matthews and Wendy McMahon.

https://nypost.com/2026/01/22/media/sharyn-alfonsi-scott-pelleys-jobs-are-on-the-line-after-pushing-back-against-bari-weiss-cbs-news-shakeups-sources/

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“She’s becoming a headache and Ellison doesn’t need a headache,” the insider opined, referring to Paramount Skydance CEO David Ellison. “They will do the bare minimum in appeasing Bari Weiss in the hopes she flames out.”

Another source saidthe strategy could backfireas Ellison appears to have given Weiss wide leeway to shake things up.“Everybody has a boss and they need to realize that Bari Weiss is theirs,” the person added.

The in-house turmoil has leaked into the press.Last month, Weiss shelved Alfonsi’s segmenton the Trump administration’s deportation of migrants to CECOT.

The editor in chief criticized the piece,saying it wasn’t “comprehensive and fair” and lacked comment from the Trump administration. While the piece ran Sunday with updates, sources with knowledge of the matter said Weiss and Cibrowski were frustrated with howAlfonsi and her team “dragged their feet” on making the changes.

The person saidAlfonsi initially “refused” to make any changesand dug in her heels — blowing up at Weiss’ trusted deputy editor Rubenstein, a Free Press and New York Times alum.

“You don’t get to produce me!”Alfonsi yelled at Rubenstein as he explained a note from Weiss, according to Puck News.

She also reportedlyaccused him of being “a mouthpiece” for the Trump administrationand asked him whether he had ever produced a minute of TV news before. He responded that he had, and told her not to take anything personally, the report said.

Prior to the flare-up, Alfonsi wrote colleagues that she thought the move to shelve the story was politically motivated — not driven by journalistic standards.Pelley also weighed in, reportedly saying Weiss needed to take her job “more seriously” during an internal meeting last month.

The CECOT piece aired Sunday with 3 minutes of additional material, including updated data about the prisoners deported to CECOT and information that one of the detainees interviewed in the report had tattoos of a swastika and the number 666, which is associated with the Aryan Brotherhood.

The back-and-forth over the CECOT story came as Paramount Skydance has been trying to prevent Netflix from buying Warner Bros. Discovery. The Trump administration supports Paramount in the politically charged bidding war, as The Post previously reported.

Meanwhile,Pelley’s running commentary on the state of journalism-has irked Ellison, who is said to “not be happy” with the reporter’s remarks.

At a commencement speech last summer, Pelley raged against President Trump and proclaimed that journalism is “under attack.” He also sounded off about the state of “60 Minutes” at a recent awards ceremony, asserting that Paramount hasn’t had any influence on its reporting.

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This is what happens when you allow leftist news, to tell political lies since the 80’s, rarely will it ever change. The news people think they are movie stars, Scott Pelly is hugely annoying and a liar like others.

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Oh BrotherTrump shouldnt have done the first interview. I thought Tony was goofy!

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Today I was fired by NY Attorney General Letitia James for speaking out against pediatric gender medicine (PGM).

James supports "transitioning" kids with puberty blockers, hormones, and surgery. She sued the federal government to protect the PGM industry from investigations and funding cuts. And she argued (dubiously) that doctors who decline to offer PGM are liable for "discrimination."

I was an attorney in NYAG's consumer frauds bureau, which did not work on anything related to PGM. Since 2024 I'd been raising the alarm publicly and within NYAG that PGM providers may be engaged in a dangerous consumer fraud. James's officials treated me like a pest.

These attorneys struggled to explain why my public statements were problematic, apparently because they weren't engaging with the issue. When the general counsel finally identified an objectionable line in my blog, it was where I stated the holding of US v. Skrmetti (banning PGM isn't discriminatory). She wrote that it contradicted James's legal position. Indeed.

NYAG's ethics chief warned me it was unethical to "take public legal positions that conflict with" James's. The Rule of Professional Conduct that he cited said no such thing. It seemed he was trying to protect James by cowing me into silence.

I'm a lesbian, i.e., a "member of the LGBTQ community" that James purports to champion. I tried to explain to NYAG officials that PGM, by its nature, targets children who defy sexed norms – whom studies show are more likely to be gay when they grow up. PGM can reportedly leave them with sexual dysfunction, chronic genital pain, and incontinence, among all sorts of other side effects. No one in authority at NYAG showed interest in the concern that PGM may be homophobic.

If Letitia James actually cared about "LGBTQ" youth then she'd research "gender" drugs and learn what they do. Instead she glibly calls the drugs "safe" and fires me for contradicting her.

I've practiced public interest law for my entire 15-year career. My social circles are full of progressive lawyers. Like most Americans, they tend to be leery of PGM. But their leaders on the left treat it like a battle of good vs. evil. That makes ordinary people afraid to voice skepticism. James's behavior toward me illustrates why the public discussion of PGM is often one-sided in places like NYC – and so strikingly different from what you hear behind closed doors.

James was wrong to treat me like a pest. I was trying to warn her about red flags for fraud that I saw around PGM – that's what she hired me to do. I was honored to serve in the consumer frauds bureau and thought my colleagues there did great work. I still do. I hope someday they'll investigate PGM providers.

In the end NYAG accused me of engaging in "disruptive public speech." Unfortunately, that's not true. I haven't disrupted the Democratic elite's zombie-like devotion to PGM providers. But I'm just getting started.

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Its official NY voters are stupid

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DAVOS 2026

Top business leaders issue an expletive-laced message on the green backlash

PUBLISHED THU, JAN 22 20262:29 AM ESTUPDATED THU, JAN 22 20268:05 AM

KEY POINTS

• Top business leaders at the World Economic Forum delivered an expletive-laden message on the green backlash.

• It comes amid deep concern that businesses are increasingly shying away from climate action.

• “Now, the United States … have gone hard [for] fossil fuels and kind of made anyone going for renewables feel like they’re woke, they’re not looking after shareholders. Honestly, I’m here to tell all of Davos, that is not correct,” Andrew Forrest, founder of mining giant Fortescue, told CNBC.

Their scam was outed as a fucking lie, now they cant make billions on their citzens

Top business leaders this week delivered an expletive-laden plea in defense of climate action, describing the backlash to Europe’s green transition as an “aberration.”

In an interview with CNBC at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, Allianz

CEO Oliver Bäte said he disagreed with the suggestion that it may just be a matter of time before net zero is dismissed in Europe, saying short-term thinking on this issue is “bulls—.”

Kek the Trump Affect

Asked about political leaders backtracking on their much-vaunted European Green New Deal and Norway’s oil fund reportedly defending a push from companies to water down their climate goals, Bäte said anyone who has children “will have to worry” about the planet’s future.

“It’s an aberration that short-term people are saying that,” Bäte told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Tuesday. “I think it’s about doing it intelligently. And by the way, the role model here is China, they are going to be the leader both in terms of renewable and cost of energy.”

The CEO of Allianz, one of the world’s biggest insurers, said it was integral for business and political leaders to stay the course on necessary energy transition targets.

“This is what we do in Allianz, we said 2050 is net zero. Let’s not try to say, ‘ah I need to do it already by 2035’ — bulls—. Excuse my language on TV,” Bäte said.

“We have, in our company, reduced energy consumption for us by more than 40%. It can be done, but let’s not make it a religion. Make it a target and then keep focusing on it,” he added.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/22/davos-wef-green-energy-climate-change-trump.html

Arizona’s Democrat AG Kris Mayes: ICE ‘Officers’ Are Not ‘Real Law Enforcement’

AWR Hawkins24 Jan 2026

During an interview aired by 12 News, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) said she does not consider Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) “officers” to be “real law enforcement.”

She specifically put the word “officers” in quotation marks, saying, “I put that in air quotes because I don’t think they are real law enforcement.”

Mayes claimed that ICE officers “are poorly trained” and said to ICE, “We are watching you. If you violate an Arizona law I will prosecute you, we will investigate you, and we will make sure that Arizona laws are enforced.”

Breitbart News noted Mayes discussed Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law later in the interview. She said, “You have these masked, federal officers with very little identification — sometimes no identification — wearing plain clothes and masks and we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law that says if you reasonably believe your life is in danger and you’re in your house or in your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.”

Mayes added, “It’s a fact that we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and, in other states, un-uniformed, masked people who can’t be identified as police officers.”

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/01/24/arizonas-democrat-ag-kris-mayes-ice-officers-are-not-real-law-enforcement/

She has released the crazies to kill ICE now!

AZ Sen. Majority Leader Demands State AG ‘Step Down in Disgrace’ Over Comments About Shooting ICE

AWR Hawkins24 Jan 2026

In a letter dated January 23, 2026, Arizona Senate Majority Leader John Kavanaugh (R) demanded the state’s Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) “step down in disgrace” after her comments about the shooting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers.

During a January 20, 2026, interview posted by 12 News NBC, Mayes discussed Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, noting that it is one of the most expansive such laws in the country.

She said, “You have these masked, federal officers with very little identification — sometimes no identification — wearing plain clothes and masks and we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law that says if you reasonably believe your life is in danger and you’re in your house or in your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.”

Mayes added, “It’s a fact that we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and, in other states, un-uniformed, masked people who can’t be identified as police officers.”

She went on to talk about the importance of having uniforms and adding, “Now, you’re not allowed to shoot peace officers, but… how do you know they are a peace officer?”

Mayes began the interview by claiming ICE “is very poorly trained” and made clear she does not consider them “real law enforcement.”

Majority Leader Kavanaugh released a letter in response to Mayes in which he said, in part, “Kris Mayes needs to immediately recant these statements… And given the severity of the danger she has created, she should step down in disgrace. Arizona deserves an Attorney General who defends law enforcement, upholds the rule of law, and understands the consequences of her words.Mayes has proven she is unfit for this office.”

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/01/24/az-sen-majority-leader-demands-state-ag-step-down-in-disgrace-over-comments-about-shooting-ice/

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Police Association Blasts AZ AG Kris Mayes’ ‘Reckless’ Comments About Shooting ICE Agents

AWR Hawkins24 Jan 2026

The Arizona Police Association blasted Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes (D) over her comments about “legal justification” in the shooting of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents.

Mayes made her comments in a January 20, 2026, interview posted by 12 News NBC, where she focused on Arizona’s “Stand Your Ground” law, noting that it is one of the most expansive such laws in the country.

She said, “You have these masked, federal officers with very little identification — sometimes no identification — wearing plain clothes and masks and we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law that says if you reasonably believe your life is in danger and you’re in your house or in your car or on your property, that you can defend yourself with lethal force.”

Mayes added, “It’s a fact that we have a ‘Stand Your Ground’ law and, in other states, un-uniformed, masked people who can’t be identified as police officers.”

She went on to talk about the importance of having uniforms and adding, “Now, you’re not allowed to shoot peace officers, but… how do you know they are a peace officer?”

In a January 22, 2026, letter, Arizona Police Association responded to Mayes, condemning her “reckless comments” about ICE officers and the public interaction with said officers.

Arizona Police Association executive director Joe Clure said:

During a televised interview with 12News journalist Brahm Resnik regarding a potential ICE deployment in Arizona, the Attorney General was asked whether she had a message for protesters. She responded by urging them to remain peaceful, respectful, and restrained, stating she would “protect” them…

However, the interview quickly shifted to a discussion of Arizona’s self-defense and “Stand Your Ground” laws. In that context, Attorney General Mayes went on to describe scenarios under which a person could claim legal justification for shooting a law enforcement officer, specifically citing the possibility that ICE agents might not be easily identifiable due to masks or nontraditional uniforms.

Later in the letter, Clure said, “As Arizona’s chief law enforcement officer, the Attorney General has a responsibility to de-escalate, not inflame. We find these remarks reckless, irresponsible, and dangerous to the safety of all law enforcement professionals in this state.”

Hayes should be arrested on calling on hit jobs against ICEno stepping down, arrest and prosecute her.

https://www.breitbart.com/2nd-amendment/2026/01/24/police-association-blasts-az-ag-kris-mayes-reckless-comments-about-shooting-ice-agents/

New Rule: Blind Trust | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Maher: Mamdani Is ‘a Straight-Up Communist

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Gavin Newsom blamed for ‘failing’ Hollywood industry after a 20 per cent drop in TV and films. Canada doest serve Jack Daniels because they are doing their duty against America. I wonder what their soldiers refuse to do?

Sky News host Rita Panahi slams California Governor Gavin Newsom for “failing” the film and TV industry in his state.

“California has suffered a massive drop. 20 per cent fewer movies and TV projects last year,” Ms Panahi said.

“This is even after Newsom rolled out record tax incentives to try and keep Hollywood at home

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