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According to the network insider, CBS News staff have been “at the border” since the sharp departure of the executive producer “60 minutes”.

“Everyone is talking about it even today,” said CBS employee Digital Fox News Digital On Monday, almost a week after Owns announced his departure.

In the note sent to his colleagues, Owns suggested that his decision was made by a corporate rethinking, he said, influenced his ability to support an independent editorial board.

“In recent months, it has also become clear that I was not allowed to hold a show because I have always managed it. To make independent decisions, relying on what was right for 60 minutes, right for viewers,” Owns wrote in memory. “So, defending this show – and what we stand for – on all sides, over time with everything I could, I retreat aside to make the show forward.”

60 minutes “calls on the corporate owner Paramount on the air, says the producer who threw himself in obstacle

60 minutes executive producer Bill Owns abruptly left the program of many years of magazines, saying that there could no longer make independent decisions in CBS. (Piaras ó Mídhech/Sportsfile for collision via Getty Images)

The CBS News Mother’s Company, Paramount Global, is currently leading the legal battle against President Donald Trump, who last year filed a $ 20 billion lawsuit (initially $ 10 billion), which claims to be interfering Network processing Interview with 60 minutes with then President Kamala Harris.

There were Paramount speculation hoped to resolve the lawsuit before the planned merger with Media Skydance Media in the hope of preventing the potential retaliation of the FCC, which has the powers to stop the multi -billion dollar transaction. Both sides agreed to mediationThe alarm of their hostility in the courtroom will lead to settlement.

However, it was reported that Redstone’s balls run by the Paramount shareholder, controlling the Paramount shareholder “Hold tabs” On which the upcoming “60 minutes” segments were about Trump.

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Redstone’s balls, which controls the CBS News Paramount shareholder, wants to resolve Trump’s lawsuit to make the company moving forward. (Left: (Photo by Paul Moriga/Getti Images), Right: Al Drag/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Speculations were confirmed by journalists at CBS Evening News and 60 minutes, who welcomed the beloved producer of the network, referring to the upcoming Trump lawsuits.

“Our maternal company Paramount is trying to complete the merger. The Trump administration is to approve it,” – CBS News correspondent Scott Pully told the audience on Sunday. “60 minutes.” “Paramount began to control our content.

The CBS Evening News Executive Producer Guy Campaigu was opened about how he was upset that he was leaving Owns, so he urged his employee to watch the comments on the air, the network insider reports. Earlier, the companion worked in Owance as “60 minutes” before it started heading the evening news last fall.

“Nobody knows what the next shoes will fall,” they said Digital Fox News. “And it’s just a randomly, because everyone doesn’t know what’s next.”

60 minutes of “sharp exit” producer of fuel drama on CBS News as Trump’s network fights

The network insider told Fox News Digital that the CBS Evening News Executive Producer was so upset by Owance’s departure that he urged his employee to watch a 60 -minute correspondent. (Screenshot/CBS)

The insider said the network anxiety arising from Trump’s lawsuit and waiting for the merger “has all the pins and needles.”

“And I’m ready to go back to work,” said CBS officer disappointedly.

CBS employees consider A lawsuit troke This is “BS” and that no one wants to see Paramount. Some even “fear” about the prospect of settlement, believing that it will “damage the news and perception.”

“I hope they don’t do it because it’s busy that we’ve done something wrong,” said Fox News Digital. “If we weren’t in the midst of a merger we wouldn’t have done, and we would have voted more in defense.”

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Speaking on behalf of CBS News colleagues, the employee had one simple message for Redstone.

“Get out of our way and let’s continue to work as we have been decades,” said Insider Paramount Honcho.

CBS News did not immediately respond to the Fox News Digital request.