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[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: Scott Pelley Just Made A Pretty Stunning Allegation.

According to Pelley, CBS leadership wanted a story about the killing of ICE protester Renée Good changed to better match Trump's version of events.

Pelley says he was told management wanted protesters portrayed as more violent and wanted Good described as driving toward the officer who shot her. He says the video evidence showed otherwise.

Then came the admission.

"There was a thumb on the scale for the president's version of events."

A veteran journalist with 37 years at CBS is alleging political pressure was applied to change the facts of a story.

That's a remarkable accusation.

[Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum]

The details about the Tate brothers in this @newyorker profile are as sick as anything you will ever read. They are rapists, pornographers, traffickers - and heroes to the "conservative" MAGA movement
https://t.co/Zv2l52b9Id

[Christopher Webb @cwebbonline]

In case you forgot what it looks like when a real president gets the love at a game.

You know, when the crowd actually wants the president there.

[Kerry Kennedy @KerryKennedyRFK]

Today, in that very building, in the same office where my father fought against organized crime and white supremacy, the present Acting Attorney General is waging war against the Constitution itself—part of a broader, intentional effort to dismantle the cherished institutions of our democracy.

🔗 Here is my statement on the Todd Blanche nomination: https://t.co/B6vSj93sVa

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

A Supreme Court that is not just filled with partisan hacks. One with a majority completely in the pocket of corporations. They make the phrase “equal justice under law“ a farce.

[Joe Scarborough @ScarboroughNow]

How pathetic that a grown man debases himself by playing up to Trump’s “stolen election” nonsense that he himself knows is a lie. Democrats tried in 2020 to get Midwest swing states to count early votes before Election Day (see Florida) but GOP legislators killed those bills.

[PBS News @NewsHour]

President Donald Trump walked out of an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press" after he made false claims about the 2020 election results and the security of current elections.

To sort fact from fiction, @LisaDNews speaks to Tammy Patrick of the National Association of Election Officials.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

SCOTUS gutted the Voting Rights Act, alleging the landmark law no longer needs to correct for historic voter suppression.

But did you know…

It came to this conclusion using a faulty data methodology that erroneously claimed Black voters turnout more than white voters.
https://t.co/vrt4L6ZgEg

[Rep. Jamie Raskin @RepRaskin]

Not only has Trump lost in court over his ridiculous effort to alter the name of the Kennedy Center by an act of monarchical graffiti, but he has lost his absurd and petulant lawsuit against my friend and constituent Chuck Redd, one of the great jazz drummers of all time, for declining to play under that fake name. Trump’s stupid million-dollar lawsuit was void because there was no contract, no breach and no damages. The rule of law is coming back! https://t.co/dJIzfs10uW

[Maria Shriver @mariashriver]

I’ve been thinking a lot about the extraordinary outbursts of the President of the United States against female journalists... well, actually against journalists in general and journalism. But it feels like he saves his most childlike behavior and irrational language for female reporters, calling them all kinds of names that kids in kindergarten are given times out for. It’s stunning to me to witness such behavior from any leader, any CEO, any person of influence or importance. I’ve never witnessed someone like this raging, this weekend with @meetthepress host @kwelkernbc, just last week in the Oval Office with @cnn’s @kaitlancollins, calling women stupid or piggy, telling them to “smile”, calling them darling, demeaning their credibility. Every good man should denounce this behavior. Every person should be able to stand up for their colleagues and say “No more.”

Imagine this man screaming like this at your daughter, your wife, your sister, your mother... would you stand for it? No, you wouldn’t! And neither should any of us. It’s unacceptable and undignified. Period. End of story.

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

BREAKING: This Is A Pretty Stunning Admission.

A White House official is now reportedly saying Trump made a "fundamental miscalculation" when it comes to Iran.

For months, Trump has been saying a deal with Iran was close.

Just today, he said Netanyahu would have "no choice" but to accept a U.S.-Iran agreement and insisted the negotiations were still on track.

Then Iran launched another major missile attack.

Then Israel responded with more strikes.

Now, according to this official, the administration is admitting it fundamentally misread how Iran would behave.

That's a problem.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

Senate Democrats called out the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) Monday for reportedly taking a series of quiet steps to undermine federal voter protections this fall. https://t.co/IByWpnGhly

[Acyn @Acyn]

Welker: Do you think anyone who attacks police officers on January 6th should get taxpayer money?

Trump: I can tell you this, 97% of those people, you look at them, the FBI or whoever it was, you had a lot of crooked cops. They had FBI agents ushering them in. You had a bunch of dirty cops.

Welker: There’s no evidence of that.

Trump: Try looking at the tapes.

Welker: 172 people did plead guilty to assaulting police officers.

Trump: You know why they pled guilty? They were told they were going to jail for 15 years. They pled guilty because they were frightened. They went down and ushered into a building.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Two thoughts come to mind re-watching this. First what 60 Minutes used to be and is no more. Second, that we are now led by some of the most monumentally selfish monsters ever to surface in the United States.

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

The biggest story in America is a president who has completely lost touch with reality. Who thinks the FBI let all the January 6 rioters into the Capitol, that he really won the 2020 election, that the Iran War is going well. Who, when occasionally confronted w reality, panics.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

“Right now, CBS News is on fire”

Scott Pelley: “We need adult supervision and at the moment we don’t have it. We have people who’ve been installed in these jobs who through no fault of their own have no experience in television. It’s not their fault, but they don’t know what they’re doing. There’s a subtle political bias that I’ve never seen at 60 Minutes or CBS News before. That is my hope, a return to sanity. A return to honor, a return to courage. We used to have all of those things in abundance and now we don’t. We can save this. It’s possible to land this plane. But right now, CBS News, in my view, is on fire”

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

ALERT: 11th hour legal challenge asks court to HALT the UFC fight at White House, arguing event is "deeply corrupt"

Page 15 of the suit includes language I've never seen in a lawsuit

https://t.co/H3dXw83bZO

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

After Trump's meltdown on Meet the Press today, I wrote an analysis of why California has become the new front line in his war on free and fair elections — and what's really at stake in 2026.

Exclusively for Democracy Docket subscribers. Sign up now: https://t.co/0StGlWz45f

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Scott Pelley responds to Trump saying he doesn’t care about the country: “I’ve never worn the uniform, but I’ve been in combat for this country. In Afghanistan, and Iraq, Kuwait. Been shot at. Spent nights in foxholes filling up with water in the desert. I’m not aware that the president has ever done any of those things for his country. You become a journalist because you love the First Amendment, you love the country. While all the other descriptions the president used about me might be applicable, not that one”

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

Including Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, Thom Tillis, Bill Cassidy. The so-called "moderates"