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Lesley Stahl & The ‘60 Minutes’ Guys Are Staying

In a brief manifesto, Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim acknowledged deep frustrations with the new leadership of the show, but worried that leaving now would make things even worse. An earlier draft of the memo was even more critical.

Lesley Stahl
Lesley Stahl in New York, April 2025. Photo: Valerie Terranova/WireImage
Dylan Byers
June 5, 2026

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This week, as the aftershocks of Scott Pelley’s dramatic termination from 60 Minutes were reverberating across the media landscape, Bari Weiss and new executive producer Nick Bilton scrambled to mitigate the crisis through a charm offensive on the show’s remaining talent. After Pelley’s defenestration, the firings of Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, and Anderson Cooper’s own impeccably timed exit, the CBS News heirloom was somehow down to just three correspondents mere months before the dawn of a new season: Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker, and Jon Wertheim.