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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.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

NEW EPISODE: As California counts its votes, Trump and his allies are calling it rigged, weaponizing the DOJ and laying the groundwork to reject results they don't like in 2026. I explain what they are up to and why we need to fight back. https://t.co/SwMKylALjk

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"I consider myself an originalist in the following sense: The original intent of Congress was not to have federal courts enjoining a criminal president. It was to have Congress impeach and remove that president. That's the originalism I'm standing for here—the originalism of Congress reasserting its power to act as a check on the president. That's the reason why they created an executive, is they thought that Congress would have the gumption and strength to exercise its power and duty to remove a criminal from office."

[George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway3d]

"Congress, like Parliament, represents a grand inquest of the people on how our government is being conducted, and making sure that it's being conducted for the people's best interests. And that is of vital importance today when you have a lawless criminal president."

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PELLEY: “Paying the bribe to Trump broke our hearts, but they did it to get the sale through.”

GARCIA-NAVARRO: “Paramount denied those two things were linked.”

PELLEY: *laughs*

[Rep. Mike Levin @RepMikeLevin]

Trump is trying to turn every federal grant into a political loyalty test.

Before any grant for things like medical research, housing, public health, and more gets approved, a political appointee would have to sign off that it serves Trump’s personal agenda. If they don’t like what you’re working on, the funding disappears.

The Founding Fathers gave Congress the power of the purse precisely so no president could ever do what Donald Trump is trying to do right now. It is the most fundamental check in our entire system of government, and Republicans are forfeiting it without a fight.

Where on earth are my Republican colleagues on the Appropriations Committee? You and I spent the last year fighting for every single dollar of this funding. Every. Single. Dollar. And you are letting this president TRAMPLE all over Congress and your own job.
https://t.co/QCH17wANNb

[Sen. Elissa Slotkin @SenatorSlotkin]

Bill Pulte has shown that he will go into Americans' personal records to weaponize the government against people. I have a fundamental problem with someone like that being the Director of National Intelligence, and it should send a shiver down the spine of every American.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

He lies like the rest of us breathe

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

PELLEY: “Bari Weiss was putting a thumb on the scale on behalf of Trump. It was never enough.”

He says she demanded 60 Minutes make Minnesota protestors look more violent and “describe Renee Good as driving toward the officer” despite video🤔 — “callously” firing correspondents

[Scott MacFarlane @MacFarlaneNews]

As Trump screamed "Comey was a dirty cop" during "Meet the Press" questions about Trump's Jan 6 lies....

We should note:

1) Comey wasn't employed by FBI on Jan 6, 2021
2) The FBI worked for Donald Trump on Jan 6, 2021
3) Trump launched the Jan 6 prosecutions on Jan 7, 2021

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Trump supporters love to brag there guy talks to the press more than any other president, more than Biden who apparently ‘hid in a basement.’

Does anyone remember Biden having a tantrum and walking out of an interview? Can you imagine what the right would have said if he did?

[David Axelrod @davidaxelrod]

The legacy of this @POTUS won't be the monuments he builds to himself but the destruction of faith in public institutions for his own power and profit.
He wants to rewrite or erase history because he knows it won't be kind to him.

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

🚨BREAKING: The American Postal Workers Union (APWU) says it is “deeply alarmed” about the United States Postal Service’s (USPS) new rule created to carry out President Donald Trump’s plans for restricting mail-in voting. https://t.co/ZHYGFbkSCC

[Chris Murphy 🟧 @ChrisMurphyCT]

A UAE investor secretly gave Trump $187 million and his top Middle East envoy $31 million. And then Trump gave that investor access to sensitive defense technology that broke decades of national security precedent.

Brazen, open corruption. And we shouldn't pretend it's normal.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

Marc Elias knows the reputation he has. He knows his strategies have been called “too aggressive.”

He also knows violating norms means protecting democracy.

“I think the only way through Donald Trump in this authoritarian moment of the Republican Party is to show them that we will fight as hard as they do.”

[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.

[Citizens for Ethics @CREWcrew]

Not enough people know that the DOJ is keeping the part of Trump's IRS settlement in place that shields Trump and his family from IRS audits.

That's *extraordinarily* corrupt. Don't let it fly under the radar. https://t.co/4I2ovkLZQq

[Reverend Raphael Warnock @ReverendWarnock]

We must face the reality that the Supreme Court has been captured by partisan hacks and ideological extremists.
https://t.co/GPZ8IJzl4X

[Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom]

Donald Trump is weak.

When you stand up to his bullshit, he retreats. When you challenge him, he folds.

Bullies count on fear. Stand up to them.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

Rep. Olszewski to Marco Rubio: "I may have to get you a new pair of glasses because the facts are right in front of you, and it seems like malpractice for the Secretary of State to not be able to see this president and his family enriching themselves by billions of dollars."