New Delhi, June 6 -- The moment that ended Scott Pelley's two-decade career at 60 Minutes came not in private, not in a lawyers' office, but in a staff meeting intended to welcome a new executive producer. Pelley took the floor, looked at Nick Bilton - installed by CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss a week earlier to reshape what many consider the most storied newsmagazine in American television history - and said what people inside the building had been whispering for months. "She's murdering 60 Minutes," NBC News reported Pelley told Bilton on Monday. "She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it, and she's been doing exactly that."

and that she had made attempts to engage with him "to find a way back." Pelley, through ...