will kick off Sept. 29 with an interview with Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi ruler whom U.S. intelligence officials believe was involved in the plot that resulted in the abduction and murder of Saudi dissident andThe interview – conducted by Norah O’Donnell, her second with the crown prince known as MBS – took place Tuesday in Jeddah. It is bin Salman’s first U.S. interview since Khashoggi was dismembered at the Saudi consulate in Turkey almost a year ago.
last summer with the show scheduled to make its move to a new Washington, D.C. home base later this year – to showcase her interviewing skills. , the new season and the bin Salman booking should serve as a welcome page-turner after more than a year of intense scrutiny at the news division and the company overall.,” says executive producer Bill Owens, who spoke tobefore heading to Saudi Arabia with O’Donnell.
The show still regularly makes TV's top ten, and last season averaged close to 11 million viewers every Sunday. The premiere installment of the show also will include a report from Bill Whitaker about the abundance of great white sharks in the water off of Cape Cod. CBS News president Susan Zirinsky, officially named Owens as the show’s executive producer last February following the conclusion of various internal investigations into the culture at CBS. His promotion came six months after the ouster of former EP Jeff Fager, and capped more than a year of intense scrutiny kicked off in November 2017 when Charlie Rose was fired amid numerous claims of sexual harassment.
Last April Owens promoted Tanya Simon to be the show’s executive editor, the position he held before being tapped as executive producer. The transition atalso will play out on the air, with the exit at the end of last season of longtime correspondent Steve Kroft and the addition of John Dickerson, who joins the show as a regular correspondent.
Shouldn’t a prosecutor get that interview?
Did he try and sell a used bone saw?
Yall are really about to interview this man that got away with murder of an american.
I'm sure they'll give him a lot of opportunity to talk about how Saudi Arabia is a champion of Human Rights and Progress for Women! 🙄🙄🙄
What sane reporter willingly shows up for that interview?
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'Yeah, I said just shoot the guy, but you know how your assassin team can be, haha, those guys insisted on chopping him up. Who am I to tell them no, haha, those are some dangerous guys! Anyhow, as I was saying, I have people executed all the time.'
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