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https://www.thedailybeast.com/top-cbs-evening-news-producer-fired-amid-maga-coded-host-tony-dokoupils-rocky-start/

.... One source told The Wrap that (No. 2 broadcast producer Javier) Guzman may have been dismissed following a falling-out with executive producer Kim Harvey. News of Guzman’s firing was first reported by The Guardian media reporter Jeremy Barr, who noted that it came as Dokoupil continues to generate headlines for his rocky debut at CBS Evening News. ....

It was during Dokoupil’s “Live From America Tour,” marking his first week in the role, that he drew widespread mockery for sobbing on air while discussing his childhood in Miami.

Dokoupil and his mother left South Florida in 1986 when he was six years old after his father—then a major drug dealer—ran into legal trouble. While explaining why returning to Miami is so emotional for him, Dokoupil began sobbing and dramatically wiping tears from his eyes. ....

In a 2014 CBS News profile, Dokoupil said his father’s drug empire was so lucrative that it helped pay for him to attend the now $53,000-a-year Gulliver Preparatory School in South Florida whose whose alumni include Jeb Bush’s children. He also attended George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and Columbia University in Manhattan. ....

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