Cecilia Vega
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Sep 11, 2026
Matt BelloniHOST
He, in turn, caused all sorts of problems when the staff of 60 Minutes kind of revolted.
Matt BelloniHOST
We saw the firings, first off, of Cecilia Vega and Sharon Alfonsi, the correspondents.
Matt BelloniHOST
Anderson Cooper chose to leave the show.
Matt BelloniHOST
Scott Pelley sort of self-destructed.
Brian CurtisHOST
Sharon Alfonsi, the correspondent who accused Weiss of making political rather than editorial decisions when she held her story about the Salvadoran prison.
Brian CurtisHOST
Cecilia Vega, another correspondent, and the former executive producer Tanya Simon.
Brian CurtisHOST
Still at 60 Minutes, Leslie Stahl, Bill Whitaker, the designated media survivor, John Wertheim?
David ShoemakerHOST
Yes.
Jim AcostaGUEST
He, along with Scott Pelley, and he was, I think, one of the senior producers on the show.
Jim AcostaGUEST
He, along with Scott Pelley, Sharon Alfonsi, Cecilia Vega, and others on that program who've left the program have all said that Barry Weiss intentionally with her team tried to inject talking points, pro talking points into the program, into the most watched news magazine in the world.
Jim AcostaGUEST
That is an absolute monstrosity.
Jim AcostaGUEST
And she needs to be called, Barry Weiss needs to be called out for that.
Peter HambyHOST
Anderson Cooper left.
Peter HambyHOST
Correspondents for 60 Minutes, Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega both went public with accusations that Barry Weiss, her team, the new editor Nick Bilton, they were interfering, uh, in their pieces.
Peter HambyHOST
Now we have a bunch of new correspondents.
Peter HambyHOST
They've gotten younger.
Rob ShuterHOST
Anderson Cooper's gone.
Rob ShuterHOST
Cecilia Vega's gone.
Rob ShuterHOST
Scott Pelley's gone.
Rob ShuterHOST
He was there forever.
John IadarolaHOST
And he did.
John IadarolaHOST
So he said that he, Tanya Simon, Dragan Mihailovich, Matthew Polevoy, Scott Pelley, who we've talked about many times, Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega quote, refused to be accomplices in the destruction of the most prestigious news program.
John IadarolaHOST
American television.
John IadarolaHOST
We would not compromise our principles or reputations by jamming, like I said, and verifiable notions or White House talking points into reporting.
speaker_30UNKNOWN
Scott Pelley joins a legion of other respected, dare I say, revered journalists who have been silenced, reprimanded or fired for doing what journalists do, asking hard questions.
speaker_11NARRATOR
CBS News chief Barry Weiss fired correspondent Cecilia Vega, Sharon Alfonsi and executive producer Tanya Simon from the iconic news magazine 60 Minutes.
Cecilia VegaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Today, I lost an amazing job.
Cecilia VegaSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
But I still have my integrity.
Justin BarragonaGUEST
She put in place Nick Bilton, who's not really outwardly a pro-Israel person, but I've heard that he definitely holds strong Zionist views, specifically since October 7th attacks.
Justin BarragonaGUEST
She got rid of Cecilia Vega and Sharon Alfonsi.
Justin BarragonaGUEST
Cecilia Vega, as I reported a few months ago, she was working on a profile on Francesca Albanese, who is the UN Special Rapporteur, who is looking into the Palestinian situation in Gaza and the genocide.
Justin BarragonaGUEST
Cecilia Vega had also done a story on the Biden administration whistleblowers who had left that administration specifically because of biden's position on israel and gaza which was before barry's time but you know had angered sherry redstone the apparent the previous paramount owner who was also very pro-israel and so cecilia vega kind of had a target on her back and that's just one example but every time i see somebody that's been hired at cbs news whenever there's an announcement i can almost always say oh yeah i bet you i know what that person's position is on israel or they are basically outwardly islamophobic as we saw with trevor phillips who is also now a contributing correspondent to 60 minutes in the new global affairs correspondent over at cbs
Don LemonHOST
So you know, I mean, you're in the media, this is what you cover.
Don LemonHOST
When they hire someone, you already, you believe that you know what their position on Israel is going to
Tom JonesGUEST
How is 60 Minutes going to handle the moment? Yeah,
Jim AcostaHOST
what do you think about that? I think it's fascinating because it seems to me it's already, when you have people like Scott Pelley and Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega coming out and saying on the record that Barry Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS, has been intentionally injecting items into stories to change the direction of a story or add some pro-Trump bias to a story, that's extremely disturbing.
Jim AcostaHOST
And I wonder if she has murdered 60 Minutes, as Scott Pelley put it.
Tom JonesGUEST
I mean, we shall see.
Tom JonesGUEST
How is 60 Minutes going to handle the moment? Yeah,
Jim AcostaHOST
what do you think about that? I think it's fascinating because it seems to me it's already, when you have people like Scott Pelley and Sharon Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega coming out and saying on the record that Barry Weiss, the editor-in-chief of CBS, has been intentionally injecting items into stories to change the direction of a story or add some pro-Trump bias to a story, that's extremely disturbing.
Jim AcostaHOST
And I wonder if she has murdered 60 Minutes, as Scott Pelley put it.
Tom JonesGUEST
I mean, we shall see.
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