What are CBS News' Billionaire Heirs Doing with Bari Weiss? With Ryan Grim on the Funding Behind It; Europe Capitulates to Trump Again
System Update with Glenn Greenwald
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4.7 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 30 July 2025
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
As support for Israel declines among every age group, corporate media outlets scramble to spread their pro-Israel narrative. Plus: Drop Site News co-founder and journalist Ryan Grim discusses the Skydance/Paramount merger, Bari Weiss's potential role at CBS, and the pro-Israel nonprofit pushing news content through The Free Press.
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| 0:00.0 | Good evening. It's Tuesday, July 29th. |
| 0:18.7 | Welcome to a new episode of System Update, our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at 7 p.m. Eastern exclusively here on Rumble, the free speech alternative to YouTube. |
| 0:28.3 | Tonight, polls in the United States have consistently shown over the last two years a significant drop in approval for Israel, both for the country in itself and the ongoing U.S. financing of their military and their various wars. |
| 0:42.4 | These drastic changes in public opinion have understandably alarmed, both Israel and its most devoted supporters in the United States, |
| 0:49.9 | causing them to engage in a series of frantic and drastic measures, from shutting down platforms |
| 0:56.0 | such as TikTok, which allow too much Israel criticism, to imposing increasingly rigid hate speech |
| 1:01.6 | codes on American campuses to ban a wide range of common criticisms of that foreign country. |
| 1:08.1 | Perhaps most pernicious of all is a new campaign that has largely alluded journalistic scrutiny. |
| 1:13.1 | David Ellison is the son of one of the richest people on the planet, Oracle founder Larry Ellison. |
| 1:19.6 | With his inherited billion dollar fortune, Ellison, the son, is now buying Paramount, the company that owns, among other things, CBS News. |
| 1:28.8 | The Ellison family is one of the most devout and fanatical supporters of Israel anywhere. |
| 1:33.2 | They have donated and raised hundreds of millions of dollars, likely billions, |
| 1:37.5 | to support this foreign country and to keep Americans supporting it as well. |
| 1:42.2 | Not only is this billionaire heir to this fortune that he didn't |
| 1:45.3 | earn but just received now in the process of buying CBS News and all of its related media companies, |
| 1:50.2 | but he is also planning on placing another person whose primary causes Israel, Barry Weiss, |
| 1:55.8 | at the center of CBS News, perhaps with substantial editorial influence or even control over it. We'll examine all of |
| 2:03.5 | these obviously consequential events and then speak to the independent journalist Ryan Grimm, |
| 2:07.9 | the founder of DropSight News and a co-host of breaking points about a new investigative article |
| 2:12.8 | he published with Bertaza Hussein about who exactly guides Barry Weiss's media outlet, the free press, |
| 2:20.1 | which seems to be now set to be at the center of one of America's oldest, most prestigious, |
| 2:25.0 | and most influential news outlets. Then many people debate whether the 21st century will be |
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