On Sunday, amid the diversions of NFL divisional playoffs and a three-day weekend, CBS’s 60 Minutes aired “Inside CECOT,” an austere report about the notorious maximum-security prison in El Salvador and the Venezuelan men who’d been sent there by the Trump administration. The segment had initially been scheduled to air in late December, but was abruptly and famously delayed by Bari Weiss at the eleventh hour—after CBS had already begun promoting it. Bari said the piece was missing “critical context” and comment from the Trump administration. Critics suspected that she had preempted it in order to help her boss, David Ellison, stay in the president’s good graces. Amid the competing narratives and ensuing mishegas, the piece inadvertently aired in Canada and was shared widely on YouTube.

Inside CBS, the delay instantly became a new front in the increasingly contentious war between Bari and her growing chorus of antagonists. Sharyn Alfonsi, the correspondent on the piece, publicly accused Bari of pulling the episode for political reasons—a point critics seized on the next day, when Larry Ellison pledged $40 billion to backstop his son’s bid for Warner Bros. Discovery. For the anti-Bari set, the move was the most brazen display yet of the network’s ongoing capitulation to Trump. Indeed, over the weekend, the Times revealed that White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt had approached Evening News anchor Tony Dokoupil after his January 13 interview with the president and told him the network needed to run the conversation in full. “Yeah, we’re doing it,” Tony told her. For good measure, Karoline threatened to sue if they didn’t. Though the Times report doesn’t mention it, CBS sources who have seen the video said that network president Tom Cibrowski was also present when Karoline made the threat, and said nothing.

Beyond the political anxieties, the drama over the “Inside CECOT” package has also exposed seemingly unsustainable fissures between CBS News staff and the division’s leadership team. After delaying the piece, Bari asked 60 Minutes executive producer Tanya Simon to have Sharyn obtain comment from at least one administration official and add official data points from the Department of Homeland Security to her report. Sharyn refused to change her initial report. She also argued that she didn’t need further comment from the White House because she had already reached out to the administration and received only a cursory response.

Over time, Bari and her team saw Sharyn’s refusal to entertain any changes as insubordination, even an attempt to sabotage Bari’s leadership. They raised two pointed criticisms of the original report: The first was that, according to a photo supplied by D.H.S., one of the prisoners featured in the piece had tattoos of a swastika and “666,” a symbol associated with the Aryan Brotherhood, that had not been shown. The second was that the original report claimed only 3 percent of the men sent from the U.S. were violent offenders, but failed to mention that nearly half had convictions or pending charges for crimes. For Bari, this was the missing “critical context”; for Sharyn and some others at 60 Minutes, it was a bad excuse for justifying a politically motivated preemption. “Bari just has eggs on her face right now,” one source sympathetic to Sharyn said, “and she’s trying to deflect from the fact that she has eggs on her face.”

In any event, Sharyn dug in, while Bari made her frustrations well known to friends and fellow executives. One source likened it to “a hostage standoff,” with Bari repeatedly asking for updates that Sharyn refused to provide. Until last week, most of these hostilities were relayed through Tanya and other intermediaries. Bari and Sharyn met for the first time only on the Monday before the segment went to air. Upon walking into her office, I’m told, Sharyn’s first words to Bari were, “It’s so nice to finally meet you.”

Sharyn seemed angry and annoyed throughout the meeting and resistant to any input, according to multiple sources. At one point, Adam Rubenstein, a Free Press and New York Times alum who now serves as Bari’s deputy, began explaining the connotations of the 666 tattoo. Sharyn yelled at him, “You don’t get to produce me!” She then accused him of being “a mouthpiece” for the administration and asked him whether he had ever produced a minute of television news before. He said he had, and urged her not to take anything personally—at which point Sharyn almost left the room.

Days before the broadcast, Sharyn and two CBS News crews traveled to Washington, D.C., to obtain comment from an administration official, such as Stephen Miller, Tom Homan, or Kristi Noem. She was unable to get anyone to comment on the record, which set off another round of finger-pointing: Sharyn’s supporters criticized Bari for failing to persuade any of her administration contacts to sit for an interview, while the front office faulted Sharyn for failing to get comment from officials who had been willing to appear on other CBS News broadcasts.

In the end, “Inside CECOT” aired under a brokered truce: Sharyn did not make any changes to her original report, but amended her in-studio postscript to include ICE-supplied data about the criminal convictions and pending charges. She also offered an update about the aforementioned tattoos, noting that the prisoner in question had altered the tattoo of the swastika just before being sent to CECOT, which is why it looked different during the interview.

Far from alleviating tensions, the CECOT saga has exposed the deeper dysfunction of a newsroom steeped in mutual distrust. The vast majority of CBS News insiders I’ve spoken with view Bari as a threat to the integrity and legacy of the network, either because of her politics or her managerial shortcomings. Bari, meanwhile, can barely contain her contempt for employees she regards as mediocre at best and treacherous at worst. Not to state the obvious, but no matter what you think of Bari or her detractors, that is not a viable dynamic for any workplace—nor does it provide fertile ground for a reversal of CBS News’s fortunes.

Bari memorably introduced herself to CBS News staff by declaring that she wanted to “win.” And who doesn’t? But in journalism in general, and TV news in particular, you need a team to do so.