Steve Kroft was a 60 Minutes correspondent from 1989 to 2019, meaning he spent three decades in a job he detested, as he recently revealed to Bill O’Reilly.
In a new interview on O’Reilly’s We’ll Do It Live podcast, Kroft said he “hated” working at the CBS newsmagazine and wouldn’t join the show again if he did it all over.
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