Correspondent ’60 minutes’ Scott pelley heralds a solution of CBS with Trump would be ‘very harmful’

Correspondent “60 minutes” Scott Pelley spoke about President Donald Trump’s lawsuit against CBS and her parent company on Saturday, arguing that a solution would be “very harmful”.

“Well, it would be very harmful to CBS, to Paramount, to the reputation of those companies,” Pelley said during a conversation with CNN’s Anderson Cooper on Saturday, who asked how harmful would be a possible solution and apology to the network.

Trump filed a lawsuit against Paramount Global, CBS News parent company, over a “60 minutes” interview with former President Kamala Harris in October 2024.

The Fox News Digital confirmed that Trump rejected a $ 15 million offer to resolve his lawsuit, according to a source familiar with the case, as the president’s legal team is also demanding at least $ 25 million and a pardon by CBS News.

Cooper, who is also a correspondent in “60 minutes”, also asked Pelley about former Bill Owens producer resigning from the program in April.

“Bill’s decision to resign may not have been too much for him because he was always the first person to defend the independence of the ’60s.” Bill did not work for Paramount.

Peley also said he wanted him to have CBS News’s public support, but added that his work was still doing it in the program.

“You really want the company to be behind you 100%, or not? You really want the highest levels of the company to go out publicly and say ’60 minutes,” for example, is a jewel the crowning of American journalism, and we stay 100%. I haven’t heard it. On the other hand, my work is getting into the air, and I have not had anyone outside their ’60 minutes’, put their finger on the stairs and say to say that. way. None of this has happened. So while I would like to have that public support, perhaps the most important thing is that work is still getting in the air, “Pelley said.

The 60 -minute correspondent recently went viral for Trump’s call during a starting address.

“At this moment, this moment, this morning, our sacred rule of law is under attack. Journalism is under attack. Universities are under attack. Freedom of speech is under attack,” Pelley said during his starting speech at Wake Forest University. “And the secret fear is reaching our schools, our businesses, our homes and in our private thoughts, the fear of talking in America. If our government is, in the phrase of Lincoln,” people, from people, for people, “why are we afraid to speak?”

Peley addressed remarks during the CNN interview and told Cooper that he felt “strongly” to be said.

“I don’t refer to him or the president or the White House or the administration. But I was talking about actions taken by the government in recent months. But there were few hysteria among some of this speech, and I just ask you, what does it say about our country when there is hysteria about a speech speech?” CBS correspondent added.