Exclusive / A new CBS News emerges amid Iran crisis

Bari Weiss has long held a strong point of view on US policy toward Iran. Now she's testing to what extent that perspective should dictate the television broadcast network she runs.

On Saturday, the new CBS News editor-in-chief appended a fire emoji to a retweet of a CBS News clip of Masih Alinejad, an Iranian dissident journalist who has repeatedly been targeted by the regime in the past for kidnapping and assassination. In an appearance on the network, Alinejad criticized a statement made by New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who said the attacks "mark a catastrophic escalation in an illegal war of aggression."