Richard Osman

But, you know, his email, it ends, I think.

And this is where we came in.

It ends, it's been a hell of a first week.

Let's get to work.

Which is like a Will Ferrell comedy.

So here's the interesting thing about this story is, is this purely Trump and the Trump agenda trying to bring down one of the last great bastions of American news and American news reporting and independent American news reporting?

Is it that because every single fact about it makes it look like it is that, the people who've been brought in, the people who have left, the ownership, all of those things?

Or is it, and you know, when you...

hear Nick Bilton talk, he said, look, I genuinely recognise this show gets good ratings and I genuinely recognise it is profitable.

It will not be either of those things or do either of those things for long.

He said broadcast news is an ice cube, is how he's described it.

And he said an ice cube is not going to get any bigger.

I mean, it's literally, it's out there, it's going to get smaller and smaller and smaller.

And the world of news now, as we know on this show very, very well, is a world of

younger personalities, of clippable things, of, you know, going viral.

It is not one hour on a Sunday night with a huge lead-in from the NFL, which is what 60 Minutes has got.

It is not an audience that has grown up with this franchise and believes in it and will follow it blindly.

That's all gone.

And so there is an argument that this isn't a political intervention.

What it actually is is a life-saving intervention of bringing in a whole new generation of people into this brand, this brand which is trusted, and building it