Scott Pelley

She doesn't have management experience for a large organization like CBS News.

So yes, I do think that we would be far better off without her.

Maybe she goes back to the free press and has a sterling career,

But this is like somebody walking up to me and saying, there's a 747, there are 400 people on it, we need you to fly it to Paris.

I'm gonna decline, cuz I don't have a clue.

And it would have been so much better if Barry Weiss had been offered this job and said, that's not for me, I don't know how to do that.

Did he?

I'm surprised that the president of the United States would bother to notice, but okay.

Please tell me, I'm not aware of this.

Stupid, I can take that.

Stiff, yeah, probably.

don't care about the country.

I've never worn the uniform, but I've been in combat for this country in Afghanistan and Iraq, Kuwait, been shot at, spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert.

I'm not aware that the president of the United States has ever done any of those things for his country.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment.

You become a journalist because you love the country.

And while all the other descriptions that the president used about me might be applicable

There is no democracy without journalism.

It can't be done.