Scott Pelley

So imagine how we feel when someone like that comes into a shop like 60 Minutes.

Shock, dismay, impossible to believe, searching desperately for an explanation, knowing that an explanation would be forthcoming and then not,

Seeing that, no executive at CBS News, our editor in chief, Barry Weiss, coming over to 60 Minutes to explain, to talk with us, to sit with us.

that's a family at 60 Minutes.

My colleagues and I have worked together 10, 20, 30 years.

We travel together.

We dine together.

We go into literal combat together.

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.

And as you and I sit here today, there still has been none.

I'm almost 69 years old, and if I've learned one thing in life, it is not to reflexively react when you feel that way.

And I thought, you know, I'm going to give it a day or something.

I'm too emotionally wrought up.

I'm gonna say the wrong thing.

I'm not gonna hear what they have to say.

This isn't the moment.