CBS News president Adrienne Roark is leaving the network after less than a year in her role for TV station group Tegna, she announced to staff Feb. 19, 2025.

...There have been multiple unconfirmed reports that several moves made by the network, including Norah O’Donnell’s departure from “CBS Evening News” may have been connected to these efforts. It was not clear if Roark’s departure might have been triggered by similar financial issues.

The network also recently relaunched its flagship “CBS Evening News,” though ratings still remain rather stagnant, as well as launching “Plus” versions of “Evening” and “CBS Mornings” that air on select owned stations and streaming.

Even with O'Donnell gone (thank GOD), the new 'news magazine' version that teams pinch-faced scold John Dickerson with Maurice DuBois, is annoying af and just as virtue-signaling biased as anything O'Donnell did. Only more distracting because they hurtle from story to story and sometimes lead with the weather.

On a national newscast? 'NEWS,' hello?

Anyway, Paramount is supposed to be finalizing a deal to buy the CBS network trainwreck, and part of their concern about the deal is settling the Trump lawsuit over the 60 Minutes editing of the Kamala interview. 

...Roark’s departure comes amid concern and consternation in the news division over Donald Trump’s attacks on 60 Minutes over the way that the show edited an interview with Kamala Harris. Sources say that discussions have taken place between Paramount Global executives and Trump’s team about settling the president’s $20 billion lawsuit against the network, even though it has been widely viewed by legal observers as frivolous. The Skydance-Paramount Global merger is currently pending regulatory review.

They want it taken care of, and rumor has it that since the news division is so deeply invested in hating Trump that much, they have been resistant to doing anything to settle it.

Journalists, including some at CBS News, are expressing alarm at reports that CBS parent company Paramount Global is trying to settle a legally dubious lawsuit lodged by President Donald Trump last fall.

Trump sued CBS after an October “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris – Trump’s opponent in the presidential campaign – included an edit that Trump said was unfairly favorable to Harris. Despite legal experts’ widespread assertion that CBS’ editorial judgment was protected by the First Amendment, The New York Times Thursday night reported that a settlement was in the works.

That sparked outage in CBS’ newsroom.

“Trump’s lawsuit was a joke, but if we settle, we become the laughingstock,” a CBS correspondent said on condition of anonymity.

I don't think they comprehend where they already rank on the 'laughingstock' scale, but that's neither here nor there.

The dolts at the news division have proudly carried their resistance banners into battle every single night. If they can't smack Trump with a flaw or failure directly, they do it through inference and insinuation.

Plus, the new format has huge screens on which people like Margaret Brennan appear as if they were some disembodied oracular apparition solidifying out of a mist to deliver prophecy.

A massive floating Buddha Brennan opens her mouth and drones, 'Constitutional crisis, Trump!' or something equally jaundiced. Then, she eerily fades away, nodding, as one of the Grimmerson twins says, 

'Very worrying, Margaret. Thank you. When we come back...'

Every single broadcast has some sort of 'Trump sucks' segment. 

Last night featured the woman at the center of New York City's own clawback scandal - the $59M DOGE found had been sent out after President Trump was inaugurated and froze all payment, disbursals, etc. until they could be vetted and authorized by his administration.

There was a new, temp FEMA head, so things were unsettled to begin with, but the employees who cleared the disbursal were fired as soon as Kristis Noem figured out who they were.

...What it started as was a blockbuster Elon Xweet that his DOGE team had uncovered something of epic proportion happening right under the nose of the Trump administration  - a massive amount of cash being transferred out of FEMA coffers to immigration services - luxury hotels - in New York City.

Like, out of the blue, and contrary to Trump's pause in payments order, the money transfer happened just last week!

...The interim FEMA director, probably only the job for about a whoppin' 48 hours or so, said, 'Thanks for the heads up, dude. I HAD NO IDEA.'

...Heads rolled this morning, and one of them was a big one.

The Department of Homeland Security told Fox News that "four employees are being fired today for circumventing leadership and unilaterally making the egregious payment for hotels for migrants in New York City."

The firings come after Elon Musk wrote on X Monday that "The DOGE team just discovered that FEMA sent $59M LAST WEEK to luxury hotels in New York City to house illegal migrants." 

"Firings include FEMA’s Chief Financial Officer, two program analysts and a grant specialist," the DHS also said. "Under President Trump and Secretary Noem’s leadership, DHS will not sit idly and allow deep state activists to undermine the will and safety of the American people."

The woman profiled by CBS last night was that very same fired Chief Financial Officer, and she is claiming she was told to send the money. She's also hot Elon's boys called her a 'deep state bad actor' or something to that effect.

A former government official who says she was falsely accused of illegally sending funds to New York City to book luxury hotels for undocumented migrants — and then publicly ridiculed and fired — said Thursday that just days earlier she had been directed by a member of the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency, known as DOGE, to make the payments. 

Mary Comans, who was the chief financial officer at the Federal Emergency Management Agency, or FEMA, sued the agency and the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, on Tuesday. 

"I was fired illegally by the Trump administration for doing my job, for doing exactly what I was directed to do by the Trump political appointees at the Department of Homeland Security and at the DOGE," she told CBS News in an interview Thursday. "They told me to do these actions, to make these payments, and then they fired me." 

A DHS spokesperson did not respond for comment, nor did Brad Smith, the DOGE official Comans says she interacted with.

The lawsuit argues she was "unlawfully terminated" from her position "without cause or the due process required by law and the Constitution." As chief financial officer, Comans was a member of the "senior executive service," the highest-level civil servant. 

Coman also asserts that the interim FEMA director was just as shocked as she about the initial Xweet concerning the $59M.

...Later that day, when she arrived at work, Comans says she met with her boss, acting FEMA Administrator Cameron Hamilton. She says Hamilton was also surprised by Musk's tweet and told her she had done nothing wrong. Comans then drafted a report, which CBS News reviewed, that documented her conversations with DOGE.

So this is going to be interesting as it shakes out, as there are myriad possibilities as far as explanations go. As FEMA's CFO, Comans would be the subject matter expert, so what exactly did she tell the FEMA head, if anything, about them prior to the funds leaving? Or to the DOGE reps, for that matter. Did they have the whole story, or if they did, and didn't exactly 'get it,' was everyone now in CYA mode once the boss blew out his Xweet? What was presented as 'cause' to Kristi Noem?

Did they get ahead of themselves here or not? 

 Not to mention, CBS would be ever so happy to draw any Trump administration blood it could, so that has to be factored in.

I hope this gets squared away quickly because it's just the sort of festering little nastiness that can blow up into a cause célèbre and derail the tremendous work they're doing and have done in such a short amount of time.

Either way, get the facts out. 

If this needs to be made right because it was a snafu all around - or whatever the reason - do so with humble, gracious apologies. 

If this is everything it was initially described as, crush her like a deep-state bug, and move on. Don't leave any fodder on the floor.

Time's a wastin'.