After the firing of 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday, MS NOW dedicated much of its special primary election night coverage, helmed by Rachel Maddow with panels full of fellow nighttime opinion hosts like Jen Psaki and Stephanie Ruhle, to the Pelley news. During one segment, Psaki dramatically read from the former CBS employee’s first released statement with commentary intertwined throughout its reading.
As election coverage reached close to midnight, Maddow, with a coarse voice, handed the reading of Pelley’s statement to Psaki. It began with an explanation of the growth of 60 Minutes before he began his attacks on the new ownership of CBS and claimed the show, “lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause.”
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