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Peter Attia appears to be staying at CBS News despite Epstein communications

Media | The Guardian · Jeremy Barr in Washington · last updated

Staffers believe network has decided to retain Attia, who issued apology after inappropriate Epstein emails, as on-air analyst

Two weeks after a trove of files revealed extensive – and inappropriate – communications between Jeffrey Epstein and a recently named CBS News contributor, the longevity expert Peter Attia, the network appears to have settled on keeping him.

“Everyone internally unofficially concluded he was staying as of about a week ago,” one CBS News staffer told the Guardian.

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