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CBS Photo Archive / CBS via Getty Images The MAGA faithful are losing it over longtime 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, who unloaded on CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and new boss Nick Bilton on Monday. In what has been described as an explosive staff meeting, Pelley, 68, attacked Bilton, 49, whom Weiss tapped as executive producer last week after firing his predecessor in a 60 Minutes bloodbath . The longtime journalist said Weiss, who was not in attendance, is “murdering” the legendary news program, according to a recording of the meeting obtained by The New York Times . “She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she’s been doing exactly that,” Pelley told Bilton in front of the other staffers, alluding to Weiss’s appointment by Trump-friendly billionaire David Ellison. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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