Mr. Pelley, who was at CBS News for 37 years, including as a White House correspondent and a “60 Minutes” correspondent, spoke in his first extended interview since he was fired.

Lulu Garcia-Navarro sits down for an exclusive interview with the now-former CBS News correspondent.

The tech journalist and filmmaker was a surprise choice to lead a famously combative newsroom. His first week was chaos.

Nick Bilton said he had consulted with the program’s remaining correspondents: Lesley Stahl, Jon Wertheim and Bill Whitaker. All three were deliberating whether to stay with the show, two people said.

In her first public comments on the firing, Ms. Weiss, the CBS News editor in chief, said that the longtime correspondent had “broken” the trust in the newsroom.

In an explosive staff meeting, Mr. Pelley, a correspondent for the long-running Sunday news show, blasted Bari Weiss, the CBS editor in chief, and Nick Bilton, the show’s new executive producer.

Mr. Bilton, a tech journalist and filmmaker, said he would bring new voices to the show. The overhaul by Bari Weiss, CBS’s editor in chief, included the firing of the correspondent Cecilia Vega.