Lulu Garcia Navarro

You know, Barry Weiss came into the job with a mandate to evolve and modernize CBS News to reinvent legacy media.

In that meeting, you said Weiss was, and I'm quoting here, murdering 60 Minutes, language that you've used here.

Can you explain to me what you mean by that?

You're using words like massacre, murder,

What do you mean by that?

You then do have a meeting with CBS leadership after this very contentious interaction.

Can you tell me about that meeting and if you were at that point going in expecting to be fired?

But it really didn't occur to you that,

you could be fired after so many of your colleagues had been let go, after you'd had this contentious interaction with your new boss?

So you walk in, and what was the energy of the room?

Hostile.

Just to understand your position in this, you would have been open to a path forward?

You wanted to remain at 60 Minutes?

But Scott, in a meeting, you accused Barry Weiss, the head of the network, of wanting to murder the show, of coming into 60 Minutes with the agenda to dismantle the institution.

And you did not think that that was going to have repercussions that could lead to your firing?

After the break, more with Scott Pelley.

I want to take a step back because, of course, all this didn't happen in a vacuum.

The saga really at CBS News began when David Ellison, the son of Oracle billionaire Larry Ellison, took over CBS as part of his purchase of Paramount.

There was a lot of turmoil around that sale.

The longtime previous owner of Paramount and CBS, Sherry Redstone,