Lesley Stahl defends decision to stay at '60 Minutes' under Bari Weiss: 'I myself have been under attack'

New York Post · Alexandra Steigrad · 2026-11-05 23:24 UTC

Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl defended her decision to stay at the show under CBS News boss Bari Weiss — out of “fear” that the iconic news program …

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Longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl defended her decision to stay at the show under CBS News boss Bari Weiss — out of “fear” that the iconic news program would “vanish” if she and a handful of other veterans left.

Stahl said she has “been under attack” from angry viewers since re-upping her lucrative contract after a massive editorial purge that claimed multiple high-profile correspondents, including Scott Pelley, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, along with a number of senior producers.

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