Scott Pelley and his wife, Jane Boone, arrive for the formal Artist's Dinner honoring the recipients of the 39th Annual Kennedy Center Honors in 2016. Pelley was fired from CBS Wednesday. File Pool photo by Ron Sachs/UPI | License Photo
June 3 (UPI) -- CBS News fired veteran journalist Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes after an argument with its new executive producer two days before.
Pelley, 68, is a former anchor of the CBS Evening News and joined the network in 1989. Pelley is a familiar face on Sunday evenings as a correspondent for 60 Minutes.
On Monday, Pelley took issue with the recent firing of two correspondents and the show's leadership team. He told his new producer Nick Bilton, a tech journalist hired last week, that CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss was "murdering 60 Minutes."
"She was brought in to kill it, and she's been doing exactly that," The Hill reported Pelley told Bilton.
