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Rachel Maddow Invites Scott Pelley to Join MS NOW After His 60 Minutes Firing: 'I Hope He's on TV Tomorrow'
"It is a fully joined fight at this point," Rachel Maddow said

By Brenton Blanchet Published on June 3, 2026 11:08AM EDT

NEED TO KNOW

*Rachel Maddow is speaking out after Scott Pelley's 60 Minutes firing

*Maddow said she hopes "he lands right here," referring to MS NOW

*"I hope that everybody in journalism and everybody who values a free press figures out ways to outmaneuver the people who are trying to take the free press from us," she said
Rachel Maddow is standing by Scott Pelley.

Shortly after the veteran 60 Minutes correspondent was fired from CBS on Tuesday, June 2, Maddow revealed during MS NOW's special election coverage that she hopes Pelley will land "right here," referring to her home network.

During her latest TV appearance, Maddow said she "made a crack" about the firing being part of a "Hungarian, oligarchic-style takeover of the media," an accusation she said she was "sort of deadly serious" about.

“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. "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. There's no saying this is for any other reason."….

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