Scott Pelley

My former boss and former producer Bill Owens saved my life in a firefight in Iraq.

So Lulu

these bonds are pretty tight and when somebody wipes out murders a large number of your family members people are hurt and shocked in disbelief and just desperate for some explanation okay

I felt that somebody had to stand up for the broadcast, not just the broadcast, but the people.

There are people in that room who go to war zones when they are pregnant.

It is a life-threatening job in many instances.

And very strong bonds, very emotional bonds are found or developed in that kind of setting.

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?

One of the things Nick Bilton said in that ill-fated email to the staff was that he was excited to tell, I'm paraphrasing here, he was excited to tell the staff about the new crop of correspondence that

And when I saw that, I thought, okay, they're going to fire all of us eventually.

That's the plan.

He put it in writing for all of us to see.

And so that's why I use these admittedly for a journalist hyperbolic terms.

Watch.

Tell me about that meeting and if you were at that point going in expecting to be fired.

Oh, gosh.

Furthest thing from my mind.

It hadn't occurred to me.

So I walk in the door.