Scott Pelley

My impression at the time was that she was putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of the administration, just constantly looking out for the views of the president.

We're reporting those views.

There's nothing wrong with reporting those views, but it was never enough.

always needed more from the president, from the administration, that sort of thing.

The balance was off.

We'd been working for balance for decades, and for the first time in my career, the balance was off.

I think inexperience is the larger part of the problem.

At a certain point, I began to think that a political bias was gonna be our big problem.

And then later it occurred to me that it was the inexperience, the incompetence that was the bigger problem, the breaking of deadlines, all that kind of thing.

So the most difficult thing I think for the staff is trying to make up for all of these missteps in terms of our production and in terms of the technical aspects of television.

It's been enormously stressful.

I did not.

Well, correspondents don't resign from 60 Minutes.

It's for people like me, it's the greatest job in the world.

There is nothing else to aspire to.

And so if a person of Anderson Cooper's stature decides that he has to leave the broadcast, that's an indication that he has found his role there untenable.

That's my understanding.

Yes.

Yes.

My understanding from people directly involved in that interaction