When stewardship of the program passed to my colleagues and me, our responsibility was to expand energetically into a new age of media technology while preserving the values our audience expects. Now, the new owner of our network is casting this legend aside, apparently to curry a moment of favor with the Trump administration.

Last month, 60 Minutes lost its DNA when our entire senior leadership and two of our best on-air correspondents were cruelly fired without cause.

For my part, new management has instructed me to inject falsehoods and bias into a politically sensitive story.

The two 60 Minutes on-air correspondents fired without cause were Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega.

Vega wrote, "In recent months, my producing teams and I have experienced efforts to insert political bias into our stories."

Alfonsi similarly stated that she believed her firing was a punitive, politically motivated choice meant to "penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting."

It sounds to me like 60 minutes was cleaning house with overly leftist reporters who only wanted to report anti-Trump agendas and since Trump is the jew's darling boy, there was a clash with (((Nick Bilton))) who wanted less anti-Trump pieces.

This is from Pelley's statement.