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Anderson Cooper leaves 60 Minutes.

Nearly 20 years as a correspondent for CBS News 60 Minutes, CNN host Anderson Cooper announces he is leaving the network.

This comes as huge blow to Bari Weiss.

She was trying to court Cooper to be a full time CBS employee. It turns out that the longtime CNN host rather stay where he at.

Cooper won two Emmys in 2017 for his work on the show. His final "60 Minutes" segment, airing Sunday, is an interview with documentary filmmaker Ken Burns.

The journalist will remain fully employed with CNN, where he anchors "Anderson Cooper 360" every night and hosts a podcast and streaming show called "All There Is."

The journalist's decision to reportedly not renew his contract, confirmed by The Hollywood Reporter, marks the show's first major on-air change since conservative Bari Weiss took over as editor-in-chief of CBS News.

The son of writer Wyatt Emory Cooper and artist Gloria Vanderbilt, Cooper build a reputation as a prominent journalist. 

I met him back in 2007 when I won a trip to the YouTube Republican Debate in St. Petersburg, Florida. He is a total spaz but nice in person when you don't bother him when he is in public not doing his job.

Cooper’s departure from 60 Minutes comes after a tumultuous year on the venerated television program, after several longtime staffers left, network brass pushed through a controversial settlement with President Donald Trump in order to help pave the way for CBS’s parent company Paramount’s merger with Skydance Media to get the administration’s approval, and Weiss’ decision to delay airing a segment on the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, abbreviated CECOT, a notorious maximum security prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration sent some undocumented immigrants in contravention of court orders.

Variety’s Brian Steinberg confirmed Cartwright’s reporting, noting that the end of Cooper’s tenure on 60 Minutes would also mean the end of one of show’s key promotion tactics, as his contract allowed him to use his segments on his CNN show as well.

“Being a correspondent at ’60 Minutes’ has been one of the highlights of my career. I got to tell amazing stories, and work with some of the best producers, editors and camera crews in the business,” Cooper said in a statement. “For nearly twenty years, I’ve been able to balance my jobs at CNN and CBS, but I have little kids now and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they want to spend time with me.”