The Obama Presidential Center opens to the general public on Juneteenth after a celebratory dedication in Chicago with dignitaries. The roughly $850 million project covers both the political and personal realms of the nation’s first Black president.
Thinking of my friend Alexei Navalny and his family today. He would have turned 50 today.
Goodbye to my fearless friend, Alexei Navalny https://t.co/HYsacXcJRT
Last night, a top editor at another outlet asked me whether there's any indication that President Trump is privately pressuring the Ellisons to clean house at CNN, assuming Paramount seals the WBD deal. My response: The pressure is happening right in front of our faces.
Yesterday in the Oval Office, after The Daily Caller's Reagan Reese asked Trump about his widely detested "anti-weaponization" fund, Trump pivoted to... attacking CNN's Kaitlan Collins, who was standing near Reese. He employed sexist tropes and repeated his usual complaints about CNN.
When Collins pressed for answers, he told her to "be quiet," then went on, "But CNN, in particular CNN, does such false reporting," Trump went on, "but now they have new ownership, so maybe it'll straighten it out. I doubt it. It's hard to straighten garbage out."
That's the president's message to Paramount CEO David Ellison, right there, live from the Oval Office. It's as if the president is saying to Paramount, "I doubt you'll do anything. Prove me wrong."
But the reporting continues, unabated and unconstrained. Collins led "The Source" last night by saying Trump's defense of the fund "has only intensified what seems to be shaping up to be a pretty big intraparty fight..."
Congratulations to the Morning Joe team who works all day and through the night to make everything possible.
We are grateful.
“MS NOW’s Morning Joe will report a 14% gain in total viewers and a huge 66% jump among viewers in the key demo, with ratings across total day climbing 12% overall and 39% in the key demo.”
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Factual thoughts….@ScottPelley and @mhenryschuster were embedded with my Marine infantry unit in 2009—it was incredibly violent in Helmand. They told our story well. Years later, my unit suffered multiple suicides, they came back to cover that too. I wrote him when I was hired.
New: 60 Minutes correspondents Bill Whitaker, Lesley Stahl, and Jon Wertheim met for over an hour Wednesday to discuss their futures with the show, as uncertainty grows over whether they plan to stick around after Scott Pelley's ouster
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Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua responding to a question from Sen. Cruz about what happens if Congress does nothing:
"If you continue to have all your resources pulled into football with escalating roster fees and not knowing where that ends, I believe the inevitable outcome is there's going to be a small handful of schools that will differentiate themselves from others and play football at a super league-level.
"I don't think it's good for college football to be a mini-NFL. That's not the spirit of college football. That's not what college football is about."
A lawyer representing the NFL says Commissioner Roger Goodell can't appear before Congress to testify on the topic of sports media rights deals because the league is involved in ongoing litigation concerning that very matter. https://t.co/rJG5hjARrw
Notre Dame AD Pete Bevacqua, who used to run NBC Sports, tells senators that the best way to make the most money from TV rights is a super league.
Then he says he doesn't want a super league.
Then he offers a sample super league schedule.
Sources: Purdue AD Mike Bobinski is set to retire from Purdue, with plans for his retirement to come on Dec. 31. He's overseen Purdue during the school's recent dominant run of men's basketball, with Purdue's Final Four in 2024 the school's first since 1980.