Bari Weiss invites George Clooney to visit CBS News after his comments

After George Clooney said he felt new editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was dismantling CBS News as we speak, Weiss responded by inviting him to visit the CBS newsroom.

“Bonjour, Mr. Clooney! Big fan of your work. Sounds like you’d like to learn more about ours. This is an open invitation to visit the CBS Broadcast Center, where I’m spending the holidays to relaunch the Evening News with my colleagues. Tune in January 5,” Weiss said in a statement shared by Paramount Skydance. The ‘bonjour’ was probably a reference to the fact that Clooney, his wife Amal and their twins became French citizens this week.

In an extensive interview with Brent Lang about his career and his latest film ‘Jay Kelly’, Clooney also discussed the unrest at CBS News, politics and his activism.

“Am I concerned about movie studios? Sure. It’s my business, but my main loyalty is to my country. I’m much more concerned about the way we inform ourselves and how we’re going to discern reality without a functioning press,” he said.

Clooney also addressed President Trump’s lawsuits against ABC News and CBS News Variety‘s interview. “If CBS and ABC had fought these lawsuits and said, ‘Go fuck yourself,’ we wouldn’t be where we are in the country today,” Clooney says. “That’s just the truth.”

Weiss, who took over CBS News in October, recently came under fire for abruptly retracting a “60 Minutes” report on El Salvador’s CECOT prison.

Weiss’ response was first reported by the New York Post.