Conan O'Brien: I Would Never Do What Jay Leno Did to Me

If the tables had been turned during their late-night dispute, Conan O'Brien says he knows what he would – and wouldn't – have done to Jay Leno.

"He went and took that show back and I think in a similar situation, if roles had been reversed, I know – I know me, I wouldn't have done that," O'Brien, 47, says in his first post-Tonight Show interview, scheduled to air on 60 Minutes Sunday.

In the interview, the new TBS late-night host tells Steve Kroft that he would not have "surrendered The Tonight Show and handed it over to somebody publicly and wished them well – and then … six months later… But that's me, you know."

Adding that "Everyone's got their own, you know, way of doing things," O'Brien, who's been on the road for his 30-date North American tour, says if he had been in Leno's shoes, he would've "done something else, go someplace else."

Leaving NBC, he says, was like severing a "toxic" relationship, especially one he didn't see having a future with.

And though he may negotiated with the network, O'Brien says he "started to feel that I'm not sure these people even really want me here."

Would America Really Support a Gay President?

According to a new 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair poll at least 50 % of Americans would support an openly gay president, whereas only 44% said they would opposed.

The poll also surveyed on how people feel about having openly gay men and women serve in other public positions such as Supreme Court Justices, Secretary of States, and professional sports commissioners. Of the nearly 1000 adults surveyed, 62 % said they would support an openly gay Superbowl quarterback, which was the question that received the highest approval approval rating.

So are American attitudes changing? Is all the anti-gay rhetoric about how a majority of Americans don’t support LGBT rights and equality simply hyperbole from the religious right?

Read more about the survey on Vanity Fair.