Scott Pelley

is that Barry Weiss was quite livid, that Anderson Cooper was allowed to say those things, and that she, Barry, was not consulted beforehand, which in our normal course of business would not have been done anyway.

And I believe that that was part of the reason

Tanya was let go.

But she wasn't let go for cause.

She was let go to create a space for the new person, Nick Bilton, to come in.

Tanya was completely blindsided by this.

She was told that she was coming into a meeting...

to discuss the past season and the next season.

Kind of a lessons learned and planning meeting.

So she doesn't go there with a lawyer or with a witness of any kind.

She walks in, she sits down.

I'm told that Tom Sobrowski and Barry Weiss are in there.

And Tom starts the meeting with, the nature of this meeting has changed.

We're letting you go.

and just told her she was fired, and had to get out of her office by five o'clock.

Can I give you a little bit of background?

The Simon family is legendary at CBS News.

Her father was a famous Vietnam correspondent, and then Bob Simon,

covered every single war everywhere in the world throughout his entire career.

I was with him in Kuwait during the Gulf War in 1990.