Anderson Cooper Confirms He's Exiting '60 Minutes,' Explains the Real Reason Why

Anderson Cooper has confirmed the reason why he’s stepping away from 60 Minutes.

If you didn’t see, the 58-year-old journalist and broadcaster was confirmed to be exiting the CBS news program.

Now he’s making his first statement, explaining why.

Keep reading to find out more…

Anderson told the AP, “Being a correspondent at ‘60 Minutes’ has been one of the great honors of my career. I got to tell amazing stories, and work with some of the best producers, editors and camera crew in the business. For nearly 20 years, I’ve been able to balance my jobs and CNN and CBS, but I have little kids now and I want to spend as much time with them as possible, while they still want to spend time with me.”

He had a piece air this past Sunday on filmmaker Ken Burns, but the news agency reports that it’s “not likely to be his last time on the show” and that he’s “expected to finish” the current season, which ends in May.

There have been issues at 60 Minutes over the last few months, including, famously, the “Inside CECOT” segment that one journalist said was pulled for political reasons.