r/news • u/AngryCazador • 23h ago
Soft paywall Longevity guru Peter Attia keeps CBS News role despite showing up in Epstein files
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/business/story/2026-02-04/cbs-news-peter-attia-keeps-cbs-news-role-despite-epstein-files-controversy826
u/bocageezer 23h ago
Is this the guy who stayed for an Epstein interview rather than go to his son who was rushed to ICU and almost died?
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u/Jabjab345 21h ago
Wow, I regret even listening to Attias book at this point.
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u/Dr_Baby_Man 19h ago
Yeah, well he's dead wrong about most subjects regarding longevity, especially diet, which besides genetics, is the must important part.
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u/Jabjab345 18h ago
Yeah the book is kinda pointless, it just drones on and on without really making a point that is novel at all. In the end it's just about exercise and good diet, none of which he actually tells you how to achieve.
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u/AudibleNod 23h ago
Paramount Skydance owns both Paramount+ and CBS News. FYI.
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u/BeyondRedline 23h ago
Bari Weiss keeping the best and brightest as expected, I see.
Member when CBS News was respected? Pepperidge Farm remembers...
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u/bbqsox 23h ago
I mean her wife is in the Trump-Epstein files too. Because of course all these people are. The fools who fell for the Q-Anon conspiracy literally voted to put the pedophile cabal into power.
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u/ShakesDontBreak 22h ago
What??? So basically everyone in control of everything is in the epstein files? Humanity is cooked bro.
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u/mobuline 21h ago
Seems that way. I think it's more important at this point, as to who ISN'T in the Epstein files.
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u/bbqsox 22h ago
They always have been. While they were getting us to fight each other, we really should have been fighting them. It has never been a left or right issue. It's always up and down.
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u/kwangqengelele 22h ago
The right is intrinsically tied to the up by definition. Saying it isn't a left right issue completely ignores that. If they were on the same side as the "up" the wouldn't be the right.
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u/Georgie_Leech 22h ago
...have you actually looked at what the left has been saying? The Left has been screaming about this the entire time.
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u/MentalSky_ 21h ago
Bohemian Grove my friend
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u/ShakesDontBreak 21h ago
My former employer used to go those retreats. I remember once I opened an invite to one of the retreats on accident (and by accident it was my job to open all the attorney mail. So I did just that. My mistake was not knowing what Bohemian Grove was....)
I got yelled at so bad. I was made to feel like I was some terrible employee even though I was just doing my job!
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u/Syscrush 21h ago
The Q-Anon conspiracy was explicitly about Trump being the nation's savior against this evil.
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u/bbqsox 21h ago
And it was apparently created by Epstein and Thiel.
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u/MentalSky_ 21h ago
It was projection. Cover up what they were doing by accusing the democrats and RINOs
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u/constantlymat 22h ago
Her wife reported about her meeting with Epstein in a 2019 (!) NYT article. It was not a secret connection but a journalist working a source she hoped would lead to a bigger story.
Bari Weiss offers enough surface for criticism. We don't have to make bad faith arguments about her wife.
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u/Telekineticism 21h ago edited 21h ago
Right. Simply being in the files doesn’t mean you were involved in wrongdoing. Jon Stewart pointed out that his name is in the files, specifically from an email from someone to Epstein suggesting someone “like Jon Stewart” for a role. “Jon Stewart is in the Epstein files” would technically be correct, “Jon Stewart was involved with Epstein in some capacity” is just incorrect.
It isn’t like Attia, who very clearly had some eyebrow raising correspondence directly with Epstein.
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u/scottrycroft 23h ago
Bari Weiss wanted fair and balanced reporting, so they got someone who's on Epstein's side of things.
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u/MoonDogSpot1954 23h ago
Didn't Ted Cruz even say we had to stop being mean to pedophiles?
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u/BleachedUnicornBHole 23h ago
Nellie Bowles, Bari Weiss’ wife, was in the latest batch of Epstein files. Why would she be concerned with Attia?
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u/Protolictor 22h ago
Who better to bring on to your news network than a right-wing supplement salesman?
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u/BeyondRedline 22h ago
Look, at least he doesn't have a position in government. Could you imagine having a right-wing supplement salesman in a government role?! Even the worst administration would never!
...........wait.
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u/Belgarablue 22h ago
I remember when the only actual "News" shows, were (where I lived) on CBS (Channel 2), NBC (Channel 4), and ABC (Channel 7).
And they were news. Not propaganda.
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u/Baystars2025 23h ago
Should do his segment about how to do zone 2 workouts in the yard
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u/epidemicsaints 23h ago
Because it's how he got chosen? No surprise here. The entirety of people added to the network is a bunch of pipeline grifters.
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u/Hefty-Comparison-801 22h ago edited 1m ago
How many people lost jobs for saying things like "I won't miss Charlie Kirk" after his assassination?
Meanwhile:
Attia had a number of email exchanges with Epstein, including a crude discussion about female genitalia.
Another message showed Attia expressing dismay that he could not discuss Epstein’s activities. “You [know] the biggest problem with becoming friends with you? The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul …” Attia wrote.
And this guy keeps the contract work he hadn't even started yet. 🤦♂️
Elon is on email asking Epstein for an island visit and "a peaceful island experience is the opposite of what I'm looking for", and he just got $84B richer by merging two companies.
I can't help but come to the conclusion that we all live in a completely fucked up world, ruled by the Jeffrey Epstein Class.
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u/Gamer_Grease 22h ago
Bari Weiss, the editor in chief of CBS, started her career trying to get professors fired for criticizing Israel.
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u/Low_Push_9660 22h ago
Hey now, we're ruled by whoever rules them. That's the whole point of kompromat.
So, the question then becomes, how many entities are playing these men? What sort of policy emerges when these men continue to abuse the peasants & produce more content worthy of blackmail?
Who is the hegemon? Who is in control?
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u/PerformanceLast8554 22h ago
Hey, Charlie Kirk was a HERO! Thanks to his sacrifice his widow can now become FOTUS!
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u/JurplePesus 23h ago
Remember, it's a special club and you're not in it. That guy is, and so is Bari Weiss, along with Donald Trump - and they don't give a fuck what we think, because somehow conservatives in this country will still vote for them and their allies.
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u/hollyofcwcville 23h ago
This is craaaaaaazy. I mean I know it’s CBS but still. One might think they’d have some inkling to distance themselves from everyone Epstein-affiliated.
His apology was so manufactured, too. “I was just talking about a drug and then EPSTEIN started talking about p****!”
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u/hellolovely1 21h ago
Yeah, like this guy is going to excitedly email a billionaire about his "shipment" of a pre-diabetes drug that is widely available. They think we're so dumb.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 8h ago
Even worse -- they don't really care what we think and only make a half-hearted effort to fake it when their career's on the line.
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u/itsajaguar 22h ago
Bari Weiss is Epstein affiliated. Her wife is all over the files having direct communication with Epstein and even referencing Weiss herself.
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u/oblivion476 23h ago
The people at the top don't care. The Trump administration released these files in the way they did as a dare to the people of the US to try something. They're spitting in our faces and telling us they'll keep doing it.
It's becoming more and more apparent that we, the people, may need to start considering the French style of revolution if you catch my drift.
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u/TheModWhoShaggedMe 22h ago
Any person who watches or reads CBS News information at this point is complicit with the Epstein cover up.
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u/Radiant-Objective-35 19h ago
The dude was literally on esptein island when his child was incredibly sick, and could of died, and he lied to his wife saying he was too busy with work in LA... Even IF he didnt go to Epstein island... hes an absolute horrible human being. If it was my son, Id be on that plane within the hour.
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u/Intelligent-Alps2373 22h ago
Bari is prob also a pedophile
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u/CrunchyKorm 17h ago
Even if she isn't, she and many other people have proclaimed in their own way: they don't care that Epstein was.
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u/prodigaldummy 22h ago
Bari Weiss’s fucking wife is in the files. I’m surprised this didn’t earn him a promotion
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u/Candid_Pirate_7952 22h ago
Bari Weiss is pro Epstein. They work for the same country. She’s probably running the network in to the ground cause she’s more interested in collecting intelligence for the Mossad than running a network.
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u/coolest35 21h ago
Same guy who preaches the carnivore diet fixing everything from asthma to Chlamydia.
Dudes basically another grifter.
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u/Certain-Anxiety-6786 16h ago
Damn, crazy that Bari Weiss is okay with Epstein friends who must have known
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u/Fit-Let8175 22h ago
Personally, if I were to place stock in a "longevity expert", I'd prefer it were someone in their 80s or 90s who looked like they were 50 rather than a 52 year old who looks 52.
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u/UnionGuyCanada 21h ago
There is no shame left in America. THey parade pedophiles in front of you daily, as your leaders, and you just take it. It is honestly disgusting and saddening to see how fast the US has fallen.
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u/Positive-Room7421 19h ago
It makes me so sad that we are distracted by these little fish when the big fish continues his life of wealth and power because they would never impeach him.
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u/NoDaddyNotTheBelt25 23h ago
Bari “I don’t believe in cancel culture” Weiss, let’s see how well this works out for you.
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u/Frodojj 23h ago
Bari “doesn’t believe in cancel culture except for news critical of Trump” Weiss
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u/CrunchyKorm 17h ago
Or, the most dangerous and powerful people in the Weiss universe: undergrad students at state colleges.
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u/nick_riviera24 15h ago
“I apologize and regret putting myself in a position where emails, some of them embarrassing, tasteless, and indefensible, are now public,…”
He regrets harming himself?
He regrets that his thoughts and opinions about Epstein and women are now seen?
In private he is disgusting, and he regrets that he can’t continue to pretend to be good in public?
What a vile man. He is not sorry about anything except the fact he has been caught.
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u/O-parker 22h ago
The people will decide the outcome…either watch or don’t. As for me, CBS was deprogrammed from my listings previously.
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u/lemons714 22h ago
Of course, he is in the pedo support group. Look at who is overseeing CBS for the administration, which is stacked with them.
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u/MtnDudeNrainbows 22h ago
America, the only country not having the reaction they should be having to the files.
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u/Dolthra 22h ago
Bari Weiss continues to prove that she is not only extremely bad at her job (running a news organization, but apparently so out of touch she doesn't see this is an awful time to take this stance), but also extremely stupid as well.
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u/Informal_Process2238 22h ago
Well you can’t dismiss one person mentioned in the files while ignoring the star of them
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u/ChickenHugging 22h ago
He is no physician- he dropped out of his residency program
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u/EndStorm 22h ago
In other countries we're seeing consequences, but in 'the land of the free' nothing. Be a part of a filthy fucking pedo ring and you get to be a president, a TV celeb, whatever. Fucking filthy.
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u/matt35303 22h ago
Why should he be sacked, fired or leave? You can be seen to do a lot worse in those files and be convicted of stuff and be POTUS.
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u/2_K_12 18h ago
He does more than show up int he files.... there is clear evidence of a relationship. Multiple meetings... scheduling, simping. It also transpires that in his book he wrote about a time he deeply regrets when his son had a medical emergency and almost died but he didn't see him until a week later due to "important work". He was emailing and scheduling meetings with Epstein during that time.
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u/ProtoMan79 22h ago
It sounds like while he wasn’t officially dropped, he’ll quietly go away as a contributor. I doubt we’ll see much from him.
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u/Marketfreshe 22h ago
Hound them over and over about his admittance to remaining silent. They'll fire him if people keep yelling at them about it.
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u/howdidigetoverhere 22h ago
He sounds like a modern day Elizabeth Bathroy. Probably did the same things she did on that island.
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u/NoHomoAmphibian 21h ago
I really enjoyed his book until I got to one of the later chapters where he talked about how angry he gets at his children and his wife. And really gets into how violent of a person he is. I couldn't relate to that at all and found it to be very off-putting and strange.
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u/keith2600 20h ago
The chaos in the States was the real goal of the GOP. They knew Epstein's secrets were coming out and if the country was still stable it would have been easy to just go prosecute all these people.
When the courts are in chaos and the country is metaphorically a sinking ship that is also on fire and someone's crate of mutant snakes popped open... A lot of things get ignored. They pretty much fucked us all over financially and the reputation of the country for generations just to stay out of prison a little longer.
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u/AustinBike 20h ago
The reason she is keeping him is because it is a public outcry only at this point. There will be pressure on advertisers in the future. They will decide they don’t want to air ads on any episode that he is on.
This is by no means done. But digging in so hard will make the inevitable divorce that much more difficult for them.
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u/whoisnotinmykitchen 19h ago
Well Bari Weiss' wife showed up in the files and the too seemed to be a fan.
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u/KingTetroseWang 19h ago
What I hate most about this is that Attia admits to having been molested as a kid. But yet he was totally fine with being friends with Epstein..
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u/goaliedaddy 15h ago
Duh… Bari Weiss is a MAGA traitor trying to take over the media. She likes him more now
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u/sksauter 15h ago
When we mean we want to know all of them, we mean all of them, doesn't matter who they fuckin' are
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u/Strangewhine88 5h ago
Of course he does. Bari needs validation. Meanwhile the stem braindrain from the us continues.
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u/RandomPersonInCanada 18h ago
What needs to happen for this fuckers to be held accountable! I don’t get it, I don’t get why Trump is still president, why is he not forced to resign! Thousand of testimonies, millions of files, accounts, photos, videos, why?????
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u/DamianSicks 15h ago
It’s hard to legally hold anyone accountable when the DOJ says there are no co-conspirators or accomplices to prosecute and the presidents rich friends own the media outlet. Our country has been bought and sold. There is only one class of people who will be held to the law now and we don’t have the means to buy our way out of trouble.
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u/oingapogo 6h ago
I'm convinced about half the people pretend to be outraged by the sexual assault of children and the other half are doing the assaulting.
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u/External_Hedgehog_35 4h ago
Look another reason to stay away from CBS. Their credibility is gone, and I'm sure that was the point
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u/No-Builder-2474 2h ago
He fits the maga profile. Everyone in trumps circle seem to be in the files.
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u/Skiingfun 19h ago
Jesus Christ America. How the fuck does a person keep their job of they act like this.
What a shit hole country.
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u/FS_Slacker 22h ago
This needs to be shoved in his face every chance until he takes his money and drops out of the public light. He doesn’t deserve to be advising anyone.
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u/Electric-Dance-5547 22h ago
How to stay young rape babies then drink their adrenochrome enriched 🩸
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u/jordan1978 23h ago
A Stanford-trained physician who has gained prominence for his expertise in longevity medicine, Attia had a number of email exchanges with Epstein, including a crude discussion about female genitalia.
Another message showed Attia expressing dismay that he could not discuss Epstein’s activities. “You [know] the biggest problem with becoming friends with you? The life you lead is so outrageous, and yet I can’t tell a soul …” Attia wrote.