Hi, everyone. It's 4 o'clock in New York. If Trump 2.0 can be summed up at this point by any one thing, it is the fight over who owns the truth.

Whether hard questions will be allowed, whether Donald Trump, Elon Musk, Fox News, Paramount,

and other Trump allies and assets will be permitted to squash the truth and dissent top to bottom.

Or current number two, whether the First Amendment and journalistic freedom will be allowed to survive during this administration.

Yesterday, Donald Trump's allies at Paramount and CBS made it clear that their commitment to quelling dissent and knocking out some of those truth tellers is very much underway.

Even if they have to destroy one of that networks, one of televisions, most storied and valuable

assets in the process of doing that.

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent, Scott Pelly, has been fired.

That happened after he clashed with Barry Weiss's handpicked brand new executive producer of 60

Minutes, a guy named Nick Bilton in his staff meeting earlier this week. They clashed after

Pelley pressed Bilton about the firing of several of his colleagues and the quashing of stories

that were unflattering to the Trump administration. In the statement, Scott Pelley said this,

quote, the waste is heartbreaking. Last month, 60 minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior

leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause. Good people

were silenced because they stood up for our audience. They stood for fairness against the forces of political bias.

They stood for professionalism against chaos.

From my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.

I've been told to include assertions that are unverified. To date, in every case,

I have managed to ignore these instructions or refuse them. Recently, politicians have been invited to

choose correspondence for interviews on the broadcast. Giving politicians control over 60 minutes

interviews is not how this is done.

Finally, incompetence and unprofessionalism in the new management have wreaked havoc.

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