Pelley Spills Tea and Tears, Says CBS “Murdered” 60 Minutes Family
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🗓️ 8 June 2026
⏱️ 32 minutes
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Former veteran 60 Minutes Correspondent Scott Pelley gave his first interview since being fired by CBS last week. Pelley tells the New York Times what he says really happened leading up to that contentious Monday meeting one week ago today and why he chose to challenge his new boss in front of staff. Pelley also claims his firing was a complete shock and went down much differently than was relayed by CBS brass to staff the following day.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Monday, June 8th, and Scott Pelly says that CBS News is on fire. |
| 0:15.5 | He is throwing all kinds of gasoline and matches and anything else he can throw on it on his way out. |
| 0:23.6 | And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. He says the place is on fire road. |
| 0:27.8 | He, I mean, he, he lit the match. What do they always say? Don't burn bridges or don't burn the place down on your way out. |
| 0:34.5 | Who, he is, he's on fire. Yes. and yes, he's done more than Burn a Bridge. |
| 0:39.7 | I feel like, look, the reason why this is so remarkable, this Scott Pelley interview that |
| 0:45.4 | he has given to the New York Times just after being fired, you don't see this, you don't |
| 0:52.2 | read this, you don't hear about this because either someone knows |
| 0:56.7 | that they might need one of those bridges to get back into their career. So you usually |
| 1:02.9 | don't see this because people would like to work again. Number one. Number two, people usually |
| 1:06.4 | save it for the book they're writing or some screenplay they're selling, but rarely do you see |
| 1:12.0 | somebody just tell the unvarnished version of events within days of being fired in a very |
| 1:19.1 | public way. You just listed the very reasons why nobody has heard anything from us yet |
| 1:23.7 | about what really happens on the set of Good Morning America. Or what really happened while we |
| 1:30.9 | were being let go. Do you really? There are so many stories. What else to tell you what George really |
| 1:37.2 | does in commercial breaks? Would you like us to hear what Robin Roberts, the noises coming out of her |
| 1:43.2 | dressing room sometimes. |
| 1:44.7 | We can say anything, right? I'm saying, you're looking to me like I was about to drop something. |
| 1:48.7 | I was like, what are you, where are you going with this? The notes we exchanged back and forth. |
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