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Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tangle Podcast, a place where we get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking and a little bit of my take. I'm your host Isaac Stahl and I'd like to start your week with a remarkable story. Last week I wrote about traveling to North Carolina to celebrate a quote unquote miraculous run of nine family birthdays in a four week span. I use the word family loosely to include a non blood related family. I grew up across the street from whom I consider family and I still think the birthday coincidences are pretty crazy. Well, a friend told me over the phone on Saturday that there's a family in Pakistan who boasts nine people, all born on August 1, a husband and wife, all seven of their children, none of whom were purposely delivered early. They hold the Guinness World Record for most family members born on the same day. And August 1st is the couple's wedding anniversary. I'm not kidding as you ponder that genuinely miraculous birthday math. Today we're Gonna cover the 60 Minutes controversy at CBS, plus an under the radar story about a new Trump pardon. Oh, and before we go, do not forget that we are coming to Berkeley Springs, West Virginia this weekend. I'll be on the stage with Camille Foster, Andy Mills and the Free Press's Kat Rosenfield to talk about the future of artificial intelligence. Plus, we'll discuss the day's news and take live audience questions. VIP tickets are sold out, but a few general admission tickets are still available. There are more details with the link in today's episode description. All right, with that, I'm going to pass it over to Ari Weitzman, our managing editor, who's hosting the pod with me today. And I'll be back for my take.
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Thanks, Isaac. First, here are today's quick hits. First, Iran and Israel exchanged airstrikes for the first time since a ceasefire went into effect in April after Israel struck a target in Beirut, Iran launched multiple missile attacks. Then Israel struck multiple targets in Iran. President Donald Trump had reportedly asked Israel not to retaliate against Iran amid peace negotiations. Number two, On Monday morning, disrupted commodities markets and stock exchanges are rebounding after Iran announced the end of military operations against Israel. Brent crude prices are now up 1.75% to $94.58 per barrel after reaching a high of $98. And the S&P 500 and Nasdaq indices open the morning up after a Friday slump. Number three, former California Attorney General and U.S. health Secretary Javier Becerra is projected to advance to the general election in California gubernatorial race. The Democrat Becerra is expected to face Republican candidate Steve Hilton. Separately, Los Angeles City Council member Democrat Nithya Raman is projected to advance past Spencer Pratt in the city's mayoral primary. Raman will face fellow Democrat incumbent Mayor Karen Bass in the general election. Number four, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that non farm payrolls increased by 172,000 jobs in May, exceeding economists estimates of 80,000 jobs added. The unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.3%. And number five, gunmen opened fire at a street festival in Toledo, Ohio, wounding 12 people. Police believe there were at least two shooters and they are still searching for the suspect. In a statement last night after his firing, Peli said that Paris Paramount, the new owner of cbs, is trying to curry favor with the Trump administration and claims that new management recently, quote, instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story, unquote. Peli says that he ignored and refused those instructions. We're trying to find out exactly what he's referencing there. In a statement, a CBS News spokesperson said, quote, there is no political interference at CBS News. Not from ownership, not from Barry Weiss, not from. The only interference is the normal back and forth between editor and correspondent that happens in every newsroom but the story did not end there. On Tuesday, 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton fired the show's longtime correspondent Scott Pelley following a confrontation during a staff meeting in which Peli criticized Bilton and CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss. Peli's firing is the latest shakeup at the show and network since Weiss took the head role in October 2025. Peli and other former correspondents have accused Weiss of interfering in editorial editorial decisions in an attempt to cover the Trump administration in a more positive light. Back up in December, in one of her first major decisions at CBS News, Weiss pulled a 60 minute segment on Venezuelan then deported to the Terrorism Confinement center, or ccot, in El Salvador. Hours before the episode was scheduled to air. The editor in chief said the segment lacked original reporting and it needed to include the Trump administration's perspective, but correspondent Sharon Alphonsi claimed the story had been pooled for political reasons. The piece eventually ran in January 2026, and CBS News declined to renew Alphonse's contract when it ended in May. 4 of 60 minutes 7 correspondents, as well as an executive editor and producer have now left the show or been fired during Weiss's tenure. On Monday, June 1, Bilton held a 60 minute staff meeting to introduce himself after Weiss hired him to run the program in May. Early in the meeting, Pelly reportedly began questioning Bilton's qualifications and making pointed remarks about Weiss's management of the show, suggesting she was murdering it. The next day, Bilton, Pelly, Weiss and CBS News president Tim Sobroski discussed the altercation in a closed door meeting. Weiss later said to staff, despite our attempts to engage with Scott Pelley and to find a way back, unfortunately we weren't able to do so and so we had to part ways. Peli rejected Weiss's characterization of the meeting, saying he was stonewalled by the executives. Following the closed door meeting, Bilton sent a letter to Pelly informing him of his firing, writing, yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt. The performative display of hostility enacted in front of the staff instead of a civil and private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show. Pelly responded later that day, reiterating his claim that CBS new ownership under David Ellison's Paramount Skydance was seeking to curry favor with the Trump administration. The collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable, he wrote. Peli also told the New York Times that Weiss was attempting to put her thumb on the scale for the president's version of events. He noted a segment on the two Minneapolis residents killed by federal immigration agents in January, claiming that Weiss asked the producers to portray the protesters as more violent and to characterize Renee Good as driving towards the officer who shot her. Today we'll share views from the right and left on Peli's firing and the changes at CBS News. Then executive editor Isaac Saul gives his take.
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Here's what the right is saying. In the Washington Examiner, Joe Contra wrote, sanctimonious Scott Pelley finds out no one is indispensable. Pelley made the miscalculation that so many in this business have in recent years. He thought he was indispensable. His contract made him rich. Likes and reposts from his social media posts made him feel powerful. He felt he could challenge his bosses during staff meetings or even publicly, Concha said. Good for Bilton, because if he had allowed Pelly to stay after such a condescending, disrespectful tirade, the entire network would see him as a pushover. But the real tale was Peli's commencement speech at Wake Forest University in 2025, after Trump won the presidency for a second time. This moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack, journalism is under attack, universities are under attack, freedom of speech is under attack, peli declared dramatically, concha wrote. It's this kind of cheesy theatrical performance by a 60 Minutes correspondent and former anchor of the CBS Evening News that helped turn the longtime news magazine into just another program with an agenda. The New York Post editorial board suggested Peli got himself fired to set up his next career movement. CBS's owners brought in Bari Weiss, a left leaning centrist, as news chief to restore balance. She brought in award winning journalist Nick Bilton, also no righty, to helm 60 Minutes for the same reason, the board said. But Pelly spent his career scoring cheap lefty points. He had no interest in changing his ways, so he defied management with a pose of standing on neutral principle against the supposed right wing agenda, then followed his firing with a letter claiming Weiss wanted him to inject falsehoods and bias bias into his work in 60 minutes. Not that he cited any specifics because he couldn't being told you need to get quotes from the other side before a new story is finalized, after all, is the reverse of bias, the board wrote. His principles involved lazy, biased reporting that he wasn't going to be able to keep doing. He staged his exit to maximize his chances of getting a new gig doing the same old hack work and will probably succeed. In National Review, Beckett Adams called Pelly's response to his firing revealing. Notable about the tantrum thrown by journalists and a considerable number of elected Democrats was that it was part of a larger conniption that has run uninterrupted since Bari Weiss took over as the network's editor in chief in October 2025. Adams said what this long running outrage reveals, what with its boilerplate rhetoric about oligarchies and its vague specifics, free allegations of wrongdoing by Weiss and 60 Minutes executive producer Nick is that a lot of people in the news business think of their profession as something akin to a public university. Weiss is obviously trying to run CBS as a business, one with broad appeal and plump profit margins. Running a successful newsroom today also means accounting for the credibility crisis, which makes sense given that it is the most pressing issue, adams wrote. The resistance is rarely any deeper than professional self preservation, fighting for perks and good salaries and for the freedom to indulge their partisan preferences. We see this in the pellies and the NPRs of the world and their supporters in media, those who'd like to enjoy all the benefits and prestige of major league journalism with none of the market pressures or business concern. Now for what the left is saying. In the Guardian, Margaret Sullivan said Pelly stood up for his principles and lost his job rather than hearing the truth that Pelly spoke in a staff meeting on Monday. Rather than taking it seriously and vowing reform, the bosses treated his remarks as grounds for dismissal. Pelly plainly believes that the destruction of a storied institution is the result of, and perhaps the point of what his bosses are doing. It started when the chief executive of CBS's parent company, Tech scion David Ellison, named Bari Weiss the top editor of CBS News last fall, Sullivan wrote. Weiss has been a one woman wrecking ball at CBS News and particularly at 60 minutes. She meddled with cherished editorial independence, prompting the departures of deeply respected reporters and producers. Something Weiss apparently doesn't understand is that a newsroom is a living organism with a culture all its own. That culture doesn't function based only on commands from above. Strict hierarchical control hurts, yes, it can even kill the journalism, sullivan said. Creative people want to do their work, which many of them consider a mission, not just a job. In an atmosphere of respect, cooperation and a certain amount of autonomy, they understand that they take direction from above and that their preferences may be overruled. But their most closely felt ideals cannot be trampled on. In the New Republic, Perry Bacon argued Pelli knew exactly what he was doing in trashing Bari Weiss. I am not sure if Pelli meant to be fired, but I'm quite sure he meant to create a firestorm and focus the nation on what's happening. Bari Weiss, a center right activist more concerned by Donald Trump's critics than the authoritarian president himself, has now consolidated power at one of America's three broadcast networks and taken control of perhaps the nation's most reputable and prestigious news program, Bacon wrote. 60 Minutes isn't one of the nightly news programs that's declining in ratings and relevance, or a morning show that alternates between hard news and cooking segments. Its ratings are strong. Its reporting is compelling. What Peli and former correspondent Cecilia Vega are experiencing isn't unique. A common tactic of authoritarians is to use government power to steer the ownership of news organizations to companies or leaders who are favorable to that leader, bacon said. That's what Trump has done. He's not telling 60 Minutes what to air, but he has ensured the network is run by someone who will do his bidding. And it's likely that CNN will also be owned by David Ellison's Skydance Media and run by Weiss or someone like her in Slate, Nitish Palwa wrote the clock is ticking for 60 minutes. The past year has been one of the rockiest in 60 minutes decades long history. The fact that any of its correspondence can even raise the prospect of the news magazine dying is itself a dire indicator for the future of American journalism, Powell said. No doubt the show had made mistakes and errors of judgment over time, while some of its leaders had faced credible accusations of heinous misdeeds and staff mistreatment. And the careful, steadily reported once a week format may seem like a dinosaur in this hyper paced timeline where deluges of information accost us every ticking second. But even from a business minded standpoint, by any hard minded accounting of costs and time and reach and relevance and adaptability and return on investment, 60 Minutes was working, Powell wrote. 60 Minutes staffers have fretted that there are simply not enough people left, forget about people with experience to properly get the full season produced. It all sounds like less a good faith effort to invigorate a vital news magazine for modern Times and more like an effort to have it fall apart piece by piece. No One remaining on 60 Minutes wants the show to die, but that may not matter if the people in power do.
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All right, that is it for what the left and the right are saying. Which brings us to my take. Yesterday I spent an hour listening to Scott Pelley's interview with the New York Times. I came into the interview with a few biases. First, I find Pelly's affect to be a bit pompous and sometimes overwrought. When I've heard him talk about journalism or CBS in the past, I sometimes feel embarrassed, like he mythologizes the importance of journalism in a way that makes all media people seem self important. Second, as I've discussed before, I've interacted with Bari Weiss in a professional capacity and I do not believe she is afraid to criticize the Trump administration. Indeed, much of her and her wife's work at the Free Press does just that. And finally, likewise, I am of course part of the independent media ecosystem trying to challenge the traditional mainstream giants like cbs. So I figured my view of the situation might more closely align with hers than Pelly's. He was, as I expected, a bit pompous and overwrought. He repeatedly likened the changes at CBS to your spouse being murdered, which caused me to groan aloud as I listened. He defended himself against accusations that he did not love this country with an uncomfortable valorization of his time as a war correspondent, suggesting he'd been in combat much like those in uniform had. And the way he talks about CBS as if it has been insulated from ideological bias up until now, strikes me as farcical. Cbs, like many major news outlets, has a center left bias throughout its newsroom, and that is apparent to most honest brokers. Yet I have to say I found much of Pelly's version of events credible. That pelly confronted new 60 Minutes executive producer Nick Bilton with the allegation that Weiss was murdering CBS during a team meeting seems undisputed. But the closed door meeting he had with Weiss and Bilton is a he said, she said tale, with both sides claiming they were the ones really trying to reconcile. Some people might think Pelly's open criticism of Weiss is so professionally inappropriate it was cause for firing. But after hearing him out, I actually think he had reasons to stand up and make his case, and Weiss and Bilton should have been better prepared to navigate his objections. He accused Weiss of trying to inject falsehoods into his story, and he came with a specific, credible example. He claimed Weiss attempted to fundamentally change the 60 Minutes piece on Renee Goode at the last minute by including an allegation that Goode was driving toward the officer. Like Peli, I believe this framing is false. As I wrote at the time, the video clearly shows Goode turned her wheels to try to drive around the officer before he shot her in the head. Peli is now the third prominent journalist at 60 Minutes, along with correspondent Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, to allege Weiss attempted to inject political bias into their stories. When it was just Alfonsi, I said I didn't think one reporter's account of her story being spiked was undeniable proof of CBS currying favor with the Trump administration. But three reporters alleging the same thing is a more damning portrait of CBS's new leadership. Claims of bias aside, one of Peli's arguments that moved me most was one of his simplest what's the meritocratic case for what is happening now? As Pelly put it, executive producer Tanya Simon oversaw an unheard of 9% ratings increase for the program last year, as well as good social media numbers 2.5 billion video views up 185% Simon was a CBS lifer whose dad once held the same role, and despite clearly succeeding just a year into the position, she got canned. On the merits, letting her go is pretty much indefensible and indeed Weiss and company have not really mounted a credible defense for it. For Peli, Simon's dismissal was even harder to swallow when she was replaced by a tech journalist who with zero broadcast experience. Put differently, Weiss was brought in to be the editor in chief of CBS News and her first order of business seems to be shaking up the organization's most successful and recognizable program. It's hard to justify that as a strictly profit motivated decision. Peli further defended the network from allegations it has somehow been frozen in amber since the 1960s and is not adapting to the new age of journalism, noting that 60 Minutes has had a significant online presence since 2010 and he's shooting TikTok videos on every assignment. Their YouTube presence is massive with 4.1 million subscribers and the program is already going after a younger audience. It's almost as if Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton were sealed in a time capsule in 1990 and it just cracked open, peli said. They've just discovered the Internet and they're running around telling everybody how it sense makes important it is. As I ruminated on Pelly's interview, something occurred to me. The cool independent heterodox thing would be to trash 60 Minutes as stuck in the Stone Age and drag Pelly as a pompous self important stiff as President Trump called him. But what if it's simpler than that? What if he's just right? Pelly is not some Joe Schmo faker who failed his way to the top. He's a real journalist. He really has gone to war zones and risked his life for a story. He really has been the faker of one of the most successful television programs of all time. Does he deserve some benefit of the doubt given that after 37 years, many leadership changes and much disruption, nothing like this has ever happened at CBS 60 Minutes before. And is it really so bad that he cares so much about his job that it feels over the top to other people? I thought about how I'd feel if 30 years from now something like this happened to Tangle, and I imagine I'd be pretty upset too. Even the defense from Weiss and Bilton that Peli somehow crossed the boundary in confronting the new leadership of CBS is hard to swallow. Isn't this the anti Cancel Culture crew? Weiss is supposed to be a champion of dissent and confrontation. Her editorial ethos is one that revolves around our country being too sensitive and too divorced from meritocracy. How does that coexist with an outcome where successful producers and correspondents are fired for semi public dissent? In the end, Peli said something that is worth the rest of us considering, too. He said the bigger problem than any political influence is just incompetence. Peli actually supported the Ellisons buying CBS and said he was walking on air after meeting David Ellison and hearing him address the newsroom. That might come as a surprise to many liberals who are now in his corner. Yet Weiss running the network, Peli said, was akin to someone handing him the keys to a 747 with 400 people on board and asking him to fly to Paris. I'm going to decline because I don't have a clue, he said. While describing Weiss as a wonderful person. He also said she had no business running an organization this size in a space she didn't understand. Again, maybe Pelli is just right. Frankly, the view that Weiss is a great person but not a great manager is not far off from what I've heard about her in the industry, which is a view that she's a great person but not a great manager. And that's in the context of a much smaller company at the Free Press in a space where she is native digital News. Of course, 60 Minutes ratings haven't suffered under Weiss's management to this point, and as someone who actually watches the show, I haven't detected any meaningful shifts in the programming. Even Weiss's much maligned decision to delay a seacot story in December ended up being a nothing burger of sorts. The new revised program ended up running almost exactly as the original, just with additional statements from the Trump administration. But if I'm looking at this story objectively and trying to decide whose story makes more sense, that Peli is an impossible to wrangle disobedient employee who cares more about refusing to work for Weiss and Bilton than helping cbs? Or that Pelly is a legitimately concerned TV veteran trying to raise the red flag that his new manager is in over her head? I have to say I find the latter explanation a lot more credible. All right, that is it for my take. I'm going to send it over to managing editor Ari Weitzman, who has a staff dissent today.
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Thanks, Isaac. Here's my dissent for today, which is pretty narrow. I'm aligned with Isaac on nearly all of his take, but his critique of Weiss and Bilton's handling of Pelly's dissent. That's what rings false to me. There are many ways to voice a dissent. Pelly is a media vet and he knows that. So if I were a longtime pro at an organization like CBS News and and if my goal was to actually change Bilton's behavior or to oust him from his role, I'd be back channeling my concerns or going over his head with them. The fact that Peli chose instead to air his grievances in an all hands meeting indicates that he doesn't trust he can work with leadership to get a workable solution. And as Isaac said, he probably has good reason not to trust leadership to do that. But that doesn't mean his dismissal was unjustified. It looks like Peli forced Weiss's hand here when he's making public statements about his former employer and sitting for interviews to trash them. It's fair to question whether Peli really wanted to hang on to his job at the organization rather than make 60 minutes itself the story. That's it for my dissent, so I'm going to turn it back over to myself for the rest of the pod.
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Thanks, Isaac. Here's an under the radar story for today. On Thursday, President Trump announced he had pardoned former Representative Steve Byer, Republican of Indiana, of his 2023 conviction for insider training. A jury found that Byer used non public information he gained from his job as a corporate consultant to make investment decisions, and he was sentenced to 22 months in prison. However, several current and former Republican lawmakers have appealed to the president on Bayer's behalf, arguing that he was the target of a politically motivated prosecution by the Biden administration. Trump cited these appeals in his statement, though he did not offer further detail on his rationale for the pardon. The Washington Post has this story. Here are some numbers that support today's topic. Scott Pelley has worked at CBS News for 37 years. Peli has served as a 60 Minutes correspondent for 22 seasons. After Peli's firing, 60 Minutes has three remaining correspondents. 60 Minutes average viewership for its 2025-2026 season, according to Nielsen, is 9.1 million and 60 Minutes has been rated as the number one news program in the United States for 52 consecutive seasons. And here's a have a nice day story. Wendy House had a passion for baking, but as a full time pharmacist with a husband and four kids, she didn't have the time. That changed as her kids started leaving the house. One day as she and her husband were walking through Costco and processing their transitional stage of life, Wendy saw a small pre made greenhouse and thought, what if I actually selled bread out of that? House bought the greenhouse and started making and selling baked goods like caramelized onion, gruyere, sourdough and freshly baked cinnamon rolls out of it. There's no checkout line or cash register. People walk in, pick out their treats and pay on an honor system. I started that way because I was just having friends and neighbors come, so I didn't really think much of it, house said. Eventually, total stranger style started to come. Everybody has been so incredibly honest. NBC News Today has the story.
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Date: June 8, 2026
Host: Isaac Saul with Managing Editor Ari Weitzman
This episode of Tangle dives into the recent tumult at CBS, focusing on the high-profile firing of longtime "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley. The discussion explores allegations of political interference at CBS following a change in leadership, including claims that new management, under Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss, has attempted to influence the network’s coverage to favor the Trump administration. The episode presents analysis and opinion from across the political spectrum, delves into the broader implications for American journalism, and features candid reactions from the Tangle team.
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The Tangle podcast maintains a thoughtful, candid, and conversational tone, aiming for evenhanded coverage by presenting arguments and concerns from a broad political spectrum. Isaac Saul is forthright about his own biases yet strives for measured, evidence-based analysis. The show encourages open dissent and considers both procedural norms and ethical implications in American journalism.
This episode provides a detailed, balanced exploration of the upheaval at "60 Minutes" and the broader stakes for the future of American television news. The coverage reveals ongoing tensions between legacy journalism, new leadership’s business priorities, and political pressures, raising urgent questions about editorial independence and the direction of broadcast news.