60 minutes tobacco scandal How '60 Minutes' Turned Into 30 Years of Déjà Vu February 4, 1996: The cigarette

He stopped talking to me at that point, Hewitt recalled

If Clinton were to embrace Wigand, it would signal that the Justice Department had no reservations about his credibility, but as yet there has been no clear signal from Washington

"CBS News chief Bari Weiss pulls '60 Minutes' story, sparking outcry"

I was angry when I saw it, said Wigand

The choice places the audience up close and personal with everything happening on screen, like a fly on the wall in the room

Because Wigand had a confidentiality agreement with B&W, she said, CBS could be at a grave, grave risk. She was proposing something unprecedented in the history of CBS Newsstopping an important story in midstream for fear of a lawsuit that hadnt been threatened