Cbs Dispute With Bill Belichick Latest Controversy To Hit Embattled Network

Bill Belichick's back-and-forth pinch CBS News complete his woman Jordon Hudson shutting down a mobility astir their narration became nan latest conflict for nan network, arsenic CBS and Paramount are besides battling a suit revenge by President Donald Trump.

The erstwhile New England Patriots coach, now caput coach of nan North Carolina Tar Heels shot team, said to "CBS News Sunday Morning" astir his caller book, and was asked by CBS big Tony Dokoupil astir really he and Hudson met. 

Hudson, who was sitting disconnected to nan broadside arsenic Belichick was questioned, unopen down nan mobility astir their narration and said, "not talking astir this."

After nan infinitesimal was wide criticized, Belichick released a statement, accusing nan web of creating a "false narrative" pinch "selectively edited clips." CBS News fired backmost astatine Belichick connected Wednesday.

BILL BELICHICK'S RELATIONSHIP WITH JORDON HUDSON THRUST INTO NATIONAL SPOTLIGHT AFTER AWKWARD INTERVIEW

Bill Belichick's back-and-forth marks nan latest contention retired of CBS News. (Left: (Photo by Michael Owens/Getty Images), Right: Photographer: Al Drago/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

"When we agreed to speak pinch Mr. Belichick, it was for a wide-ranging interview," CBS' connection read. "There were nary preconditions aliases limitations to this conversation. This was confirmed many times pinch his patient earlier nan question and reply took spot and aft it was completed."

CBS News published a lengthy article connected nan interview, which included chat astir nan book and his shot career. The show's X relationship published a clip focused connected Hudson's interruption. 

"I agreed to speak pinch ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ to beforehand my caller book, ‘The Art of Winning — Lessons from My Life successful Football.’ Prior to this interview, I intelligibly communicated pinch my publicist astatine Simon & Schuster that immoderate promotional interviews I participated successful would work together to attraction solely connected nan contents of nan book," Belichick said successful his statement.

The coach said successful nan connection that he was amazed erstwhile non-book-related topics were introduced and said Hudson jumped successful to reiterate that nan chat was expected to beryllium astir nan book.

"She was not deflecting immoderate circumstantial mobility aliases taxable but simply doing her occupation to guarantee nan question and reply stayed connected track. Some of nan clips make it look arsenic though we were avoiding nan mobility of really we met, but we person been unfastened astir nan truth that Jordon and I met connected a formation to Palm Beach successful 2021," he said.

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North Carolina Tar Heels caput shot coach Bill Belichick during halftime astatine Dean E. Smith Center.  (Bob Donnan-Imagn Images)

"The last eight-minute conception does not bespeak nan productive 35-minute speech we had, which covered a wide scope of topics related to my career. Instead, it presents selectively edited clips and stills from conscionable a fewer minutes of nan question and reply to propose a mendacious communicative — that Jordon was attempting to power nan speech — which is simply not true," nan connection added.

Dokoupil faced soul backlash astatine CBS aft a contentious question and reply he did pinch anti-Israel writer Ta-Nehisi Coates successful October 2024. The CBS anchor pressed nan writer connected his book, which he said publication for illustration thing you would find successful "the backpack of an extremist," arsenic good arsenic whether he felt Israel had a correct to exist. 

CBS staffers were upset by nan grilling from Dokoupil and web leadership, according to nan Free Press, concluded that nan question and reply did not meet nan company’s "editorial standards."

Paramount CEO Shari Redstone later acknowledged CBS made a "mistake" successful its response.

"As difficult arsenic it was, frankly, for maine to spell against nan company, because I emotion this company, and I judge successful it, and I deliberation we person a great, awesome executive team, I deliberation they made a correction here," Redstone said during a sheet chat successful October 2024.

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CBS' genitor company, Paramount Global, was sued by Trump up of nan 2024 predetermination complete a "60 Minutes" question and reply they did pinch then-Vice President Kamala Harris. 

Trump is seeking $20 cardinal successful a suit against CBS, alleging predetermination interference complete its handling of nan interview. The president accused CBS of aiding his 2024 Democratic force done deceptive editing conscionable weeks earlier nan statesmanlike election. Paramount Global agreed to mediation, signaling nan courtroom showdown would consequence successful a settlement. 

The earthy transcript of nan interview, which nan web released successful February 2025, showed CBS News had aired only nan first half of her consequence to "60 Minutes" analogous Bill Whitaker's mobility astir Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu not "listening" to nan Biden management successful a preview clip that aired connected "Face nan Nation," but aired only nan 2nd half of her consequence during a primetime typical connected nan network. 

"As nan afloat transcript shows, we edited nan question and reply to guarantee that arsenic overmuch of nan vice president's answers to 60 Minutes' galore questions were included successful our original broadcast while reasonably representing those answers. 60 Minutes' hard-hitting questions of nan vice president speak for themselves," CBS News said erstwhile they released nan transcript.

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There was speculation Paramount was hoping to settee nan suit up of a planned merger pinch Skydance Media successful hopes of preventing imaginable retribution by nan FCC, which has nan authority to halt nan multibillion-dollar transaction.

Trump feuded pinch "60 Minutes" while moving for re-election successful 2020 arsenic well, and released a video of his afloat question and reply pinch Lesley Stahl, conducted successful October of that year, which he described astatine nan clip arsenic a "vicious attempted ‘takeout.’"

Trump declined to do a "60 Minutes" question and reply during nan 2024 election, citing Stahl's dismissal of nan Hunter Biden laptop ungraded during nan 2020 interview. 

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President Donald Trump speaks pinch reporters astatine nan White House.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

CBS was besides accused of editing a clip of Gov. Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., during an speech betwixt nan Florida politician and a newsman aired connected "60 Minutes" successful April 2021.

Reporter Sharyn Alfonsi accused DeSantis of a "pay-for-play" strategy complete allegations that he rewarded Publix, a Florida supermarket chain, pinch COVID vaccines aft nan institution made a sizable aid to his campaign. 

"That's a clone narrative," DeSantis said during nan interview. Conservative writer A.G. Hamilton pointed retired astatine nan clip that the CBS programme "cut retired respective minutes" of nan governor's comments explaining what led to nan woody pinch Publix. 

"First of all, nan first pharmacies that had [the vaccine] were CVS and Walgreens, and they had a semipermanent attraction mission, truthful they were going to nan semipermanent attraction facilities. They sewage nan vaccine successful nan mediate of December. They started going to nan semipermanent attraction accommodation nan 3rd week successful December to do LTCs," DeSantis told Alfonsi. 

"So that was their mission. That was very important, and we trusted them to do that. As we sewage into January, we wanted to grow nan distribution points," he added.

CBS stood by nan reporting contempt nan disapproval it received from 2 section Democrats successful summation to Publix and DeSantis rejecting nan narrative. 

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Fox News' Ryan Gaydos, Joseph Wulfsohn and Brian Flood contributed to this report.