In retrospect, though, a private dinner was probably the most effective way to pay homage to the president away from the prying eyes of the media. As you know, CBS News will also host Pete Hegseth and Stephen Miller at its tables on Saturday night—albeit not at Bari’s table. But David is almost certainly not going to be in attendance then. Odds are he is savvy enough to skip the banquet and the prying eyes of C-SPAN’s cameras, lest they capture him choking on his Chateaubriand if and when Trump decides to praise his takeover of two of America’s most storied news institutions in front of a room full of journalists who still have major misgivings about even hosting the president.

When Bari returns from Washington, one of the first items on her ever-expanding agenda is a long-telegraphed 60 Minutes overhaul. I’m told that Bari, Tom, and 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon will announce layoffs at the program immediately after the current season ends on May 17. Though these have been portrayed as a new round of cuts, they are in fact an extension of the layoffs that hit CBS News in March, and were delayed in order to not disrupt the show midseason. I’m also told that CBS News will implement layoffs at international bureaus around that time, a delay forced by specific legalities of various local contracts.

Bari’s designs on 60 have set off a fresh wave of trauma among the CBS News insiders, especially after the New York Post reported that she intends to overhaul the entire show for next season. Her true intentions are more nuanced, I’m told. Bari recognizes that 60 Minutes is the crown jewel of the CBS News portfolio and wants to effectively franchise the asset beyond its Sunday night time slot. This will likely mean working with Tanya to create more digital programming under the 60 Minutes banner, integrating some voices from The Free Press, and leveraging that package with advertisers. This is precisely the strategy that former NBC News president Noah Oppenheim—whom Bari tried to lure to CBS early on—advocated for on a recent episode of The Grill Room.

All that said, the core 60 Minutes product will change with the departure of some talent. Anderson Cooper has already announced that he will leave the show after the end of the season. I am also reliably told that Bari is likely to cut ties with Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent behind the “Inside CECOT” piece that Bari infamously preempted late last year. As you may recall, Bari and Sharyn went to war over that piece, which culminated in a meeting in which Sharyn accused Bari’s deputy Adam Rubenstein of being “a mouthpiece” for the administration.

Bari and her team saw Sharyn as unreasonable and insubordinate. As I previously reported, she did at one point shout “You don’t get to produce me” at her new bosses, which would certainly seem to demonstrate a lack of appreciation for the org chart. On the other hand, in light of David’s Trump dinner and CBS’s WHCD guest list, you can hardly blame Sharyn for harboring those suspicions. In any event, barring a last-minute détente, the two soon won’t have to deal with each other. Whether Sharyn’s departure inspires an exodus of the rest of the 60 Minutes correspondents remains to be seen. Then again, perhaps that’s exactly what Bari wants.