As Weiss navigates her first month at CBS News, she’s reportedly considered various household names to help her fulfill her mission of “building the most trusted news organization of the 21st Century” while also generating buzz for a network whose programming has faced a precipitous ratings decline and drawn political scrutiny.

Baier addressed speculation that CBS News, now helmed editor-in-chief Bari Weiss, is eyeing him to front its flagship Evening News broadcast.

Saying he was ‘flattered’ by all of the media attention the speculation has received, Bret Baier added that ‘we’ll see what happens at the end’ of his Fox News contract.

Weiss met with Jennings at the Tiffany Network's New York headquarters last week, according to the news site Semafor.

Bari Weiss has been active in her early weeks at CBS News, but it's not clear her proclivity for snaring newsmakers will translate into revenue

Paramount, a Skydance Corporation, has announced the acquisition of The Free Press. Its co-founder and CEO, Bari Weiss, will join CBS News as editor-in-chief.

Weiss was among the dignitaries who was invited to a conference put on at the New York Historical Society by private equity giant RedBird Capital.

Sources also told The Independent that Weiss has also expressed interest in bringing Andercon Cooper over from CNN to lead the nightly news program.

Bari Weiss' transgender stances show an anti-trans bias in the new CBS News editor despite her self-styling as a centrist moderate.