Laura Ingraham Has Meltdown Over '60 Minutes' Reporter Criticizing Trump During Speech

Fox News host Laura Ingraham tore into CBS journalist Scott Pelley this week after he seemingly criticized the Trump administration in a commencement speech.

Pelley, who has worked at CBS for 36 years and has been a “60 Minutes” correspondent since 2004, notably didn’t mention President Donald Trump by name while addressing graduates at North Carolina’s Wake Forest University on May 19. Still, he noted, “In this moment – this moment, this morning – our sacred rule of law is under attack.”

“An insidious fear is reaching through our schools, our businesses, our homes and into our private thoughts,” he added. “The fear to speak in America.”

Clips of Pelley’s remarks went viral online over Memorial Day weekend, prompting Ingraham’s heated response Tuesday on “The Ingraham Angle.” In the segment, Ingraham revealed she and Pelley, whom she deemed “a tool” and “as humorless and uninspiring as he is pessimistic and angry,” met as colleagues during her brief stint at CBS in 1996.

“Nothing’s changed. Scott’s still a whiny liberal and still bitter,” she said. “What he will never admit is his own role of tanking the credibility of the press he supposedly is so desperate to save. His influence has waned, the power of his old network is gone. And now he’s not shy about showing the rank bias we knew he harbored all along.”

Ingraham went on to blast the “media giants of my childhood — CBS, NBC and ABC” for being “too stupid to see through their warped reporting and selective story selection,” at least when it came to Trump.

“So Scott’s old world has fallen away, and now he is just shouting into the wind with odd gesticulations,” she added. “Oblivious to the fact that it was the legacy media’s lazy agenda-driven coverage that helped create the very conditions that he now blames Trump for, like censorship and racial hatred.”

Sharing Ingraham’s sentiments was Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany, who served as a White House press secretary during Trump’s first term.

After noting Pelley “should have been” arrested for his remarks, she said, “How dare he lecture these graduates. They wanted a sunny speech about going off into their careers, and instead they got a load of garbage.”

Pelley’s speech comes as Trump continues to take aim at universities over diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) practices, pro-Palestine protests and research funding, among other areas.

Watch Scott Pelley’s full Wake Forest University speech below.