CBS Boss Explains Why Anti-Trump ’60 Minutes’ Host Was Fired

Following the meeting, Bilton put out a memo pushing back on Pelley.

“Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” he wrote in a memo obtained by Fox News.

“I welcome a diversity of viewpoints and respectful debate among the team, but this was nothing of the sort,” Bilton continued.

“Yesterday’s performative display of hostility—enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation—demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress,” the memo added.