Overview

• Scott Pelley told Wake Forest graduates that journalism, universities and free speech were under attack, in remarks widely seen as targeting the Trump administration’s rollback of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives.
• Fox News hosts Laura Ingraham and Kayleigh McEnany accused Pelley of liberal bias, with McEnany demanding his arrest and Ingraham branding him a “whiny” critic.
• Pelley cited President Trump’s $20 billion lawsuit against CBS News over an edited 60 Minutes interview with Kamala Harris as an example of efforts to intimidate journalists.
• Paramount is weighing a settlement of Trump’s lawsuit to secure White House approval for a proposed merger with Skydance Media, prompting the resignations of CBS News’s 60 Minutes executive producer and its chief of news.
• Democratic senators warned that negotiating a settlement with the White House could violate federal anti-bribery statutes, intensifying the legal and political fallout.