Richard Osman

You will never be welcome here.

in this newsroom, is essentially what he said.

This is his first meeting with his boss, being recorded, by the way, and then that recording immediately being released.

I'm not saying who recorded it and who released it, but it was recorded and released very soon afterwards.

I mean, British journalism takes itself quite seriously in British newsrooms.

Yes, but they have all agreed for now to stay.

The thing was, they were all going to go at some point.

But like one of them, Leslie Stahl, I mean, she's 84 years old.

Yeah.

But it really is.

But she's agreed to stay.

Bill Whittaker's agreed to stay in another one just to sort of see if they can continue the DNA of 60 Minutes into this new era.

And Nick Bilton has come back fighting quite rightly in some ways.

He said in the termination letter, you know, he said that Scott Petty had behaved with remarkable incivility and contempt.

And, you know...

He did, is the truth.

Whether he had a good reason to do it is another matter.

I mean, Nick Bilton sent a memo saying that he absolutely is not going to take any political leads from the ownership of CBS.

I mean, but he would do that if it's true, and he would do that if it wasn't true.

So it sort of doesn't help.