This week, we had a situation where CBS hired a new executive producer in charge of 60 minutes to their successful magazine show, which I've been witnessing, since Donald Trump came aboard more than ever, there's almost no attempt at balance.

Although the pieces are quality and the thing they're doing when you have a medical breakthrough or a profile, they're usually great.

But when it comes to politics in my view, it's been unbalanced.

And I think that Barry Weiss, who I've never met, is looking to balance it out.

So she's making some changes to not renew Sharon Elfonsie, who was extremely critical

when Barry Weiss said this piece is not balanced, balanced it out before I air it.

And Scott Pelley was extremely aggressive and basically telling the executive producer, your resume's thin. I don't think you can do the job. You're here to burn it down. The next day he was fired. Howie Kurtz joins us right now. Fox News political analyst. Howie, your thoughts. Number one, I expected this after I saw that when I saw the account that Scott Pelley basically read to the New York Times.

But why do you think he did it? And did CBS have a choice?

Well, Scott Pelley wanted to be fired. There's absolutely positively no question about it.

I mean, here's a guy who's worked for this show for 20 years. And when you say

that Barry Weiss, who I have interviewed and it was unfairly caricatured by the liberal press,

as being some kind of crazy conservative, which is untrue, when you say, well, she murdered the show,

you're burning the bridge. There's no choice, there's no possibility that you're going to hold onto your job.

And I think, you know, he's gotten a lot of embrace from the mainstream media as a journalistic hero.

He stood up to the, you know, the network and so forth.

But this is the way he planned it out.

So I want you to hear, if you want to know how Scott Pelly feels, I mean, number one, he continued to do, I'm watching three or four of his last stories that were involved politics.

He clearly is against the president, almost everything he does.

Here is him at the 2025 Wake Forest commencement address, cut 44.

But in this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack.

Journalism is under attack.

Universities are under attack.

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