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🗓️ 13 November 2025
⏱️ 19 minutes
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CBS News chief Barry Weiss is shaking up the network, reportedly courting CNN’s Scott Jennings after meeting Fox’s Bret Baier. Patrick Bet-David’s panel breaks down Weiss’s recruitment strategy, CBS’s rebrand push, and the power shift behind her mission to restore “The Tiffany Network.”
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| 0:00.0 | CBS News, new editor, Barry Weiss, looks to poach, ready? Scott Jennings for swanky new role. |
| 0:10.6 | So first, he goes after Brett, she goes after Brett Baer. Now going after Scott Jennings. |
| 0:18.2 | Let me read this to Rob. Can you go exactly to the point where I say, if I were to negotiate on your behalf, go exactly to that point. Not when he's asking me the question. All right. So CBS, I'm going to page 21. So these guys are playing off. And so Barry's like, let me go pick up Brett Bear and let me go pick up Scott Jennings. She's got a plan. Okay? |
| 0:38.5 | All right. |
| 0:42.3 | So Scott Jennings maybe have a new role at CBS ahead of him. Thanks to the network's news, new editor-in-chief, who was hired less than a month ago to go rebrand. |
| 0:48.9 | The outlet Barry Wise invited Scott Jennings to the company's headquarters in New York City this week for a meeting, according to Sam Affords. |
| 0:56.1 | Jennings 48 has made a name for himself among right-wing media and consumers for his cut-throat, |
| 1:01.5 | debating on CNN as a part-time contributor. |
| 1:04.5 | The 41-year-old chief also met with Fox News anchor Brett Pair to discuss the potential of hosting |
| 1:09.8 | the channel's flagship show, Weiss, |
| 1:12.6 | who was aired on October 6th, Metwood Bear a week before discussion with Jennings. |
| 1:18.8 | However, it appears that unlikely a deal could be made with Bear, given that he is under contract |
| 1:24.4 | with Fox News evening broadcast until 2028, the possible moves come |
| 1:28.4 | amid uncertainty as paramount. The parent company of CBS is expected to make cuts in the next |
| 1:32.9 | couple of days. Before any layoffs, co-anchored John Dickerson announced on Monday that he is leaving |
| 1:38.4 | CBS. Dickerson, who has not explained the abrupt exit announced on Instagram, local news. |
| 1:43.1 | At the end of this year, I will leave CBS 16 years after I sat in the face of nation anchor for the first time. I'm extremely grateful for all the CBS gave me the work, the audience, attention, and the honor of being a part of the network's history. And I'm grateful for my dear colleagues who made a better journalist and a better human being of me. I miss you. Tom thoughts. Well, first of all, |
| 2:02.2 | what Dickerson is really saying, let me translate for him, is this, guys, I don't want to be in |
| 2:08.2 | the layoff press release. Can I be in my own press release like a week sooner? Yeah, John, you've been |
| 2:13.4 | here a while. We'll do that. That's what's going on here. There are people that know that the change is coming, people that they've already spoken to them, they talk to their agents, they talk about how the severance is going to work, or they just go to page 26 of the contract, Pat, you know, and say, well, clause six, we can give you notice and then pay you this much. We're exercising clause six. Your agent received an email today. And then they go, |
| 2:35.6 | can I look good some way getting out of this? That's what's going on, point one. Point two, |
| 2:41.3 | you know what Barry Weiss reminds me of, Pat? Tell me. When Jimmy Johnson went to the Dallas Cowboys, |
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