{"id":635590,"date":"2026-06-12T22:05:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635590\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T22:05:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T22:05:12","slug":"former-the-view-conservative-voice-elisabeth-hasselbeck-set-to-serve-as-guest-host-for-bari-weiss-cbs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/635590\/","title":{"rendered":"Former The View conservative voice Elisabeth Hasselbeck set to serve as guest host for Bari Weiss\u2019 CBS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your support helps us to tell the story<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it&#8217;s investigating the financials of Elon Musk&#8217;s pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, &#8216;The A Word&#8217;, which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground. Your donation allows us to keep sending journalists to speak to both sides of the story.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1uza6dc-0 iOIawn\">The Independent is trusted by Americans across the entire political spectrum. And unlike many other quality news outlets, we choose not to lock Americans out of our reporting and analysis with paywalls. We believe quality journalism should be available to everyone, paid for by those who can afford it.<\/p>\n<p>Your support makes all the difference.Read more<\/p>\n<p>Right-wing TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is due to guest host CBS Mornings next week <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/scott-pelley-interview-cbs-bari-weiss-trump-b2991340.html\">as Bari Weiss\u2019s CBS News attempts <\/a>to boost its ratings.<\/p>\n<p>Hasselbeck, 49, was the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/the-view-elisabeth-hasselbeck-iran-us-war-airstrikes-b2930707.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">conservative voice on The View from 2003 to 2013,<\/a> appearing alongside Barbara Walters, Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg, and Rosie O\u2019Donnell, among others. She was fired from the show after being informed by an ABC executive that they were moving in a \u201cless political direction,\u201d she said in he<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/the-view-elizaeth-hasselbeck-fired-book-point-of-view-a8840461.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">r 2019 book. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next week, she will <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/the-view-elizaeth-hasselbeck-fired-book-point-of-view-a8840461.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">step in to present CBS Mornings <\/a>for three days beginning Monday through Wednesday alongside Gayle King and Nate Burleson, the program announced on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CBSMornings\/status\/2065148075161604606?s=20\">social media. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS Mornings said the former Survivor contestant would be \u201ctalking parenting, pop culture, and more\u201d on the show. The former Fox &amp; Friends host will \u201cnot appear during political or hard news segments,\u201d according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2026\/tv\/news\/elisabeth-hasselbeck-cbs-mornings-guest-host-1236779039\/\">Variety<\/a>. The move is one of a series of \u201ctry-outs\u201d of personalities and other guests are expected to appear on the show over the course of the summer, the outlet reports.<\/p>\n<p>Hasselbeck is known for airing her conservative views on TV and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/the-view-elizaeth-hasselbeck-fired-book-point-of-view-a8840461.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">sparring with fellow co-hosts.<\/a> She has since reappeared on The View as a guest host and in March clashed with Megyn Kelly after she suggested that American service members died for Israel in the early days of the Iran war. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/The-View.png\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Right-wing TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is due to guest host CBS Mornings next week as Bari Weiss\u2019s CBS News attempts to boost its ratings\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/>Right-wing TV personality Elisabeth Hasselbeck is due to guest host CBS Mornings next week as Bari Weiss\u2019s CBS News attempts to boost its ratings (ABC)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHow dare you?\u201d Hasselbeck said to Kelly. \u201cI may vote Republican, and I\u2019m a conservative, but I\u2019m a thinking woman, and I have a heart, with this war\u2014or military attack.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>CBS Mornings is struggling with ratings compared to its rivals. For the week of June 1, the show had 1.693 million total viewers, down 4 percent from the week prior. By contrast, NBC News\u2019 Today had an average of 2.928 million total viewers, while ABC News\u2019 Good Morning America had 2.702 million, according to <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.adweek.com\/tvnewser\/week-of-june-1-2026-morning-news-ratings\/\">Neilsen<\/a> data.<\/p>\n<p>Hasselbeck\u2019s tryout comes as Weiss has moved to shake up what she perceived as bias at CBS News since taking over last October. Her former \u201canti-woke\u201d media outlet The Free Press was purchased by CBS\u2019s parent company Paramount last year and Weiss <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/americas\/us-politics\/bari-weiss-paramount-the-free-press-b2840161.html\">was appointed as CBS News\u2019 editor-in-chief <\/a>by billionaire owner David Ellison.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, veteran <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/arts-entertainment\/tv\/news\/scott-pelley-cbs-60-minutes-bari-weiss-b2991148.html\">60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley <\/a>became the latest veteran CBS staffer to get the boot from the news channel under the leadership of Weiss.<\/p>\n<p>Pelley, 68, who worked at CBS for nearly four decades, was fired this week after accusing Weiss of <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/bulletin\/culture\/scott-pelley-cbs-news-fired-bari-weiss-60-minutes-b2991320.html\">\u201cmurdering\u201d the top news program <\/a>during an explosive meeting. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1883699706...jpeg\"  loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Hasselbeck, 49, was the conservative voice on The View from 2003 to 2013 and claims she was fired from the show after being informed it was moving in a \u2018less political direction\u2019\" class=\"sc-1mc30lb-0 ggpMaE inline-gallery-btn\"\/>Hasselbeck, 49, was the conservative voice on The View from 2003 to 2013 and claims she was fired from the show after being informed it was moving in a \u2018less political direction\u2019 (AFP\/Getty)<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need adult supervision and at the moment we don&#8217;t have it,\u201d Pelley, 68, told <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/go.redirectingat.com\/?id=44681X1458326&amp;xcust=b2991340%7Cxid:fr1781288679487iif&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nytimes.com%2F2026%2F06%2F07%2Fmagazine%2Fscott-pelley-interview.html&amp;sref=\/news\/world\/americas\/scott-pelley-interview-cbs-bari-weiss-trump-b2991340.html\">The New York Times <\/a>in an interview published Sunday. \u201cThey don\u2019t know what they\u2019re doing. And there\u2019s a subtle political bias that I\u2019ve never seen at 60 Minutes before, or at CBS News before.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Pelley\u2019s firing came after Weiss, who has no broadcast journalism experience, removed several other CBS News veterans, including executive producer Tanya Simon. She was replaced with tech journalist Nick Bilton, who also has no previous broadcast experience. <\/p>\n<p>Correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi &#8211; the latter of whom sparred with Weiss after she pulled a segment about Venezuelan migrants sent by the Trump administration to an El Salvadorian prison accused of inhumane conditions &#8211; were also let go.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Your support helps us to tell the story From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":635591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-635590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=635590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/635590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/635591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=635590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=635590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=635590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}