Here's my guess, and its just a guess. I think Pugh came out as a preemptive move against the TV station. Maybe they were trying to get rid of him, and once he went public he knew they couldn't get rid of him. However by doing that his career was effectively over, he would never get off of weekend TV and he knew he couldn't slip up, but it bought him time to figure out his next move... career politican
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