Scott Pelley

Did we make a mistake here?

I don't think so, but go back and look."

And then I sat down with a video editor and I went over the video of the Renee Good killing over and over and over again, stop motion, slow motion, et cetera, and realized that the event was not as the president said and not the way Barry Weiss remembered it.

And so it's late.

Our deadline was noon.

It's now almost five o'clock.

That's dangerous as hell.

And so I decided that I wouldn't do those things.

I wasn't gonna get in a debate about it.

I wasn't gonna call Barry Weiss about it.

I was just gonna refuse to make those changes.

Not that I recall based on her notes, but as you probably are aware, when you're doing a story, especially on deadline, a lot of things happen.

There's a lot of input, and you're just scrambling to save everybody's skin because you're going to have a crash, which is what happened.

Next day, I didn't hear anything.

Nobody called, nobody said anything.

It occurred to me that maybe Barry Weiss didn't see the broadcast and didn't realize that those changes hadn't been made, but that's how that happened.

There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events that I felt was a level of political influence that I had never seen in 37 years at CBS News.

She could have been trying to be fair to the administration, except I felt that the story was abundantly fair to the administration and to the ICE officers and to the border patrol officers who were caught in that moment.

We were being told to write a version of events that conflicted with the video account.

I couldn't understand that.