CBS News anchor Tony Dokoupil publicly praised Scott Pelley on Wednesday night, one day after the veteran "60 Minutes" correspondent was fired following a confrontation with network leadership over the show's direction and recent staffing cuts.
"When I started at CBS, Scott Pelley was in this very chair," Dokoupil said during "CBS Evening News." He described Pelley as "a journalist who valued truth at all costs" and said the longtime correspondent believed freedom of the press was "the right that guaranteed all the others," quoting James Madison.
