Pablo Torre reveals likelihood of CBS releasing Jordon Hudson footage from Bill Belichick interview

Pablo Torre revealed the likelihood that CBS would release the Jordon Hudson footage from the Bill Belichick interview on CBS Sunday Morning. What he’s referring to is all the behind-the-scenes footage and what wasn’t used in the finished piece.

If you remember, Hudson interjected during the interview and said she and Belichick would not answer questions about how they met. CBS noted Hudson interrupted numerous times during the interview, so the network felt it was necessary to include her off-camera interjection.

Torre pondered if CBS Sunday Morning would ever release additional footage due to public interest. He even tried to acquire anything else involving Hudson and the North Carolina head coach.

“It was the stuff, that I am told, she knew they were going to ask actually, which is why this is extra crazy,” Torre told Pro Football Talk’s Mike Florio. “The most futile reporting I’ve done is asking CBS, ‘hey, I’d like to see this footage. Will you give it to me?’ And the answer is no comment. But when it comes to what people, I am told, at CBS are thinking, there is a wing of people involved with CBS Sunday Morning, who are like ‘we are failing to serve the public interest by having this and not releasing it. This is something that is now being put at this question of our credibility. So why don’t we want to actually, just like, turn the card over and show you what we got?’ 

“But then I’m also told that there is a struggle in which a there was some assurance that, because so much of this was harder than it needed to be, there was some pre-tape assurance, pre-shoot assurance that the footage they did for CBS Sunday Morning would only be used for CBS Sunday Morning and not for other programs. And so there is some implication there, I think, on CBS’ side to actually be of their word and say we’re not going to feed this out to the other entities under our umbrella.” 

On the heels of that feature, longtime NFL writer Peter King called the whole situation with Belichick and Hudson “embarassing.” Once the initial interview went viral, Torre and others did deep dives into the two’s relationship.

“Also, I am told that when it comes to the CBS side. they’re afraid of, look, I just can’t stress this enough, the comedy of this, it’s CBS Sunday (expletive) Morning, like they are not trying to scare people and be like, Look, if you misbehave in between takes, we’re gonna show it to you,” Torre said. “It’s like, no, it’s not what they do. They’re fine without it … It’s hard not to think of various analogs across, politics, and news. You question signal chat, transcripts, and guess what, you might just get it and so, hopefully, one day we will.”