New statement from Scott Pelley:
“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.
For 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 correspondents 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. In a case involving one of my stories, the entire program came within 19 minutes of not getting on the air at all.
At 60 Minutes, we have fought harder than anyone knows to save the program that became an American icon. We owed that to our millions of viewers. I am deeply moved by the thousands of wishes we have received to “keep up the good fight.” Most of the men and women of CBS News are still in that fight. But now the collapse of values at the top has become untenable. The leadership of 60 Minutes is no longer recognizable. The principles I hold dear are gone, and so I must leave as well.”
When 60 Minutes is in trouble, we are all in trouble. When Pelley says CBS is meddling in his reporting for political reasons, believe it. https://t.co/lWpjdv1Unm
Asked today how he feels about negotiations with Iran collapsing, Trump said, "I couldn't care less."
You'd think the president of the United States would care about service members dying and millions paying more for gas because of his illegal and unconstitutional war.
🇺🇸 Trump at 6:00 PM — "Unlike Obama, we had a 'historic victory' in Iran."
🇺🇸 Obama at 7:00 PM — "Yeah, absolute historic. You have been unable to open the Strait of Hormuz for the past 95 days, 18 hours, and 33 minutes." 😂 🔥
Absolute cinema 🔥
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The first reporter who fires back at Trump’s “You’re a terrible reporter” with “You’re a terrible president” deserves a Pulitzer on the spot.
Raise your hand if you agree ✋.
Mary Trump: “Donald and his useless adult children have essentially been given the green light to commit fraud and financial crimes and they will never be held accountable as long as Republicans continue to run our government. If we can get Democrats back in power in the House and in the Senate, we can undo all of this insanity and get these people in prison where they all belong”
Claude Lemieux's family say that they've chosen to donate his brain to the UNITE Brain Bank at the Boston University CTE Center for research into the long-term effects of repetitive head impacts and traumatic brain injury.
"The family emphasizes that this decision is a gift to science, to athletes and to future generations of families seeking answers. No conclusion should be drawn at this time regarding any diagnosis."
Still struggling so much with Claude Lemieux’s death. He was someone I talked about with about the game and the business of the game. I loved our conversations because I learned so much. Over the past year he had mentioned to me his desire maybe to run a team one day. He would have been a great GM. He actually talked to me about throwing his hat in the Maple Leafs opening. He didn’t. I talked to him just a few weeks ago. I was so happy for him he carried the torch in Montreal before Game 3. I’m still in shock. Still coming to grips with it.
Tom Steyer on Trump: “I started a business from scratch. He inherited $450M from his poppy. My wife and I have said we’re giving the money away while we’re alive. He keeps stealing money. He’s not a business person, he’s a thief. He is someone who has consistently been a crook”