WEISS & KRASNOV kissed cheeks, but were they Both Sides? - plus, her pushing ICE injuries & Keith zapping TUR-DOKOUPIL

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https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/bari-weiss-donald-trump-60-minutes-interview-b2901928.html

.... Following the initial end to the sitdown, O’Donnell and Trump engaged in a bit of small talk, which saw the president once again express how excited he was about the new leadership at CBS News and “how great” Weiss would be for the network. Besides praising Weiss during the interview, Trump had also applauded Paramount chief David Ellison, who had recently purchased CBS News’ parent company and is the son of his close pal Larry Ellison.

Unbeknownst to Trump, sources told The Independent, Weiss was actually on location for the interview and quickly approached the president to introduce herself. “He was so happy to see her and she was so excited to meet him, they both leaned in and exchanged kisses on the cheek,” one source said.

Another source pointed out that several people in the room were shocked by the exchange, and that O’Donnell’s “jaw dropped” over the friendly embrace between the network’s top editor and the commander-in-chief. ....

“That absolutely is not a normal news practice. A firm handshake is an acceptable greeting,” the reporter declared. “It’s wildly inappropriate and presents an overly chummy relationship with the president that no real journalist should or would engage in because it suggests a lack of objectivity. That is the president, not a grieving family member.” ....


https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/15/cbs-news-ice-officer-injuries

Some CBS News employees expressed concern after the network cited two anonymous “US officials” on Wednesday to report that the ICE officer who fatally shot Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis “suffered internal bleeding to the torso” after the incident. ....

The report, which was not extensively covered by other news organizations, drew an immediate response on social media from critics who questioned the network’s sourcing – and whether it aligned with the Trump administration’s preferred focus. ....

The network’s top editor, Bari Weiss, expressed a high level of interest in the story on an editorial call on Wednesday morning, according to staffers who listened.

“There was big internal dissension about the ‘internal bleeding’ report here last night,” the CBS News staffer, who was not authorized to speak publicly, said. “It was viewed as a thinly veiled, anonymous leak by [the Trump administration] to someone who’d carry it online.” ....



https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/maga-coded-cbs-anchor-wife-172219794.html

.... Tur, 42, married Dokoupil, 45, after meeting in a TV studio make-up room. But now another man she used to love has inserted himself into Dokoupil’s troubled debut: former MSNBC star Keith Olbermann, 66, who was in his late forties when he lived with Tur, then in her early twenties.

“Honestly, @KatyTurNBC - your husband is drowning. Get him the eff out of there," Olbermann wrote on X. ....

Olbermann made the intervention after Dokoupil’s 14-minute stand-up interview with President Donald Trump, which attracted criticism for his failure to push back, and after the ratings for his first week in the job showed a massive loss of viewers. ....

The interview, which aired on Tuesday’s broadcast of CBS Evening News, saw Trump talk over Dokoupil, and make a series of unchecked claims about the economy. He also took aim at multiple political figures, singling out Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell as “corrupt or incompetent.” ....

During the interview, Trump also told Dokoupil that he wouldn’t have a job if Kamala Harris won the election in 2024. “You wouldn’t have a job right now. If she got in, you probably wouldn’t have a job right now,” Trump told Dokoupil. ....

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