What Megyn Kelly has said about CBS News

Kelly predicts the resentful remaining CBS staff will continually leak against Weiss.

“They're like the CIA. They will be leaking on Barry now to the end of time”

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Kelly argued Bari Weiss is the wrong person to fix CBS News because she has no broadcast television experience.

“Barry Weiss knows nothing about broadcast journalism. She's never worked in television”

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Kelly suggested CBS cut Netanyahu's unflattering remarks because Bari Weiss, whom she described as focused on Israel, runs the network.

“Could it be the Ellisons and their hand-placed handmaiden, Barry Weiss, who runs CBS now, who's huge on Israel?”

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Kelly argues Bari Weiss mishandled Sharyn Alfonsi's CECOT segment by skipping five screenings and pulling it at the last minute.

“you can't, as the manager, spike a reporter's story. because you failed to look at it the five times it was screened, right?”

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Kelly says CBS ratings have fallen since Weiss took over and predicts the Ellisons will have to reevaluate her.

“CBS has literally record low ratings across the board, the morning show, the evening show, they have fallen precipitously since she took over”

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Kelly predicts Bari Weiss's CBS News experiment will fail because she lacks broadcast experience and internal support.

“She doesn't have the support of the troops inside. She's not going to. This is not an experiment that's going to work out”

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