60 Minutes star Scott Pelley out at CBS News after blasting Bari Weiss in heated showdown

CBS News axed veteran “60 Minutes” correspondent Scott Pelley on Tuesday night, a day after after the longtime network star blasted editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and challenged her newly installed leadership team in a heated confrontation that exposed the widening civil war inside the iconic news magazine.In a letter obtained by The Post, newly appointed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton blasted Pelley in informing him he was fired “for cause effective immediately.”“[Y]ou hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt,” Bilton wrote, referring to Monday’s heated face-off between the journey and his boss.Bilton further accused Pelley of staging a “performative display of hostility” and claimed he had “no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.”“I am here to deliver first-in-class news programming, not to make headlines about newsroom drama,” Bilton wrote.Bilton went on to tell Pelley: “Your antipathy to the future of the show has come through loud and clear.And I have heard you.”At the meeting in question, Pelley told Bilton him he had “slender” qualifications for the job and that he would “never be welcome here,” sources previously told The Post.Bilton fired back: “You are not going to intimidate me in front of this group of people.”The correspondent also accused Weiss of “murdering ‘60 Minutes’” and claimed she “was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that,” according to sources familiar with the exchange.The clash lasted roughly 15 minutes before Bilton ended the meeting and walked out.Pelley, a fixture at CBS News for nearly four decades and one of the most recognizable faces on “60 Minutes,” had become one of the most vocal internal critic of Weiss’s efforts to remake CBS News and modernize “60 Minutes”...