Mike Pesca

And he said the new owners haven't made a difference.

It was in some ways when he said nice things about the Netflix bid to acquire Warner Brothers, it was almost implied he's mad at the Ellisons anyway type of mindset.

So you have the fact that he's already complained about two specific pieces, the Marjorie Taylor Greene one from a couple of weeks ago being the most prominent.

Then you have the situation where the Ellisons are desperate to see if they can get their hands on all of Warner Brothers.

They're trying to up their bid.

They're trying to make their access to government approval for their bid as a sweetener.

To the Warner Brothers shareholders in order to say, hey, look, Netflix is going to have a harder time with this.

Well, in order for that to happen, they've got to appease this administration.

So whether this stuff is having an impact or not, there is a perception that it is going to.

And there's certainly that perception could turn into questions later.

that come from Democrats in Congress.

The point is, a smart leader tries to get ahead of this.

Somebody who, and I say, I have no doubt that Barry Weiss is a smart person here.

But she just, how do you not?

You know there's really only one program that CBS News is going to be judged on, as far as anybody is concerned.

Right.

Critics of CBS News, supporters of CBS News, critics of the president, supporters of the president.

It's 60 minutes.

So how are you not more involved in understanding every piece that they're working?

So to weigh in as late as she did to kill the piece, just screams of outside interference.