Rachel Maddow invites fired CBS correspondent Scott Pelley to join her network after '60 Minutes' exit
MS NOW host Rachel Maddow suggested former "60 Minutes" correspondent Scott Pelley join her network after he was fired from CBS News on Tuesday.
"There’s nobody who is more acutely attuned to the value of a free press than those who are trying to take it away," Maddow said on an MS NOW panel. "And when the president baldly says, ‘I am going to use the power of the state in order to get the media that I want,’ and he lines up oligarchic friends in order to do that for him. Again, there's no pretense.