One of her new hires to the 60 Minutes lineup, the British commentator Sir Trevor Phillips, laid out the high stakes in an eyebrow-raising interview this week with the Telegraph. She tapped the well-coiffed Tony Dokoupil to lead a relaunch of CBS Evening News in January and was hands-on in the chaotic start to the show. In July, CBS Evening News averaged 3.81 million total viewers per night, compared with 6.44 million viewers for the NBC Nightly News and 8.27 million viewers for ABC’s nightly news show, according to Nielsen data. And among viewers in the coveted 25-to-49 age demographic, CBS Evening News attracted just below 500,000 average viewers. Ratings for 60 Minutes remained strong under Weiss, finishing its 58th season with an industry-leading 9.1 million average viewers per show.