The firing of Scott Pelley from 60 Minutes already made headlines. Now the reason behind it is out in the open. A termination letter from the show’s new executive producer, Nick Bilton, has surfaced, and it lays out exactly why Pelley was shown the door. The short version is that Pelley made himself impossible to work with, and Bilton ended it for cause, effective immediately. Joe Concha posted the letter on X and said it told you everything you needed to know. This letter from 60 Minutes’ new EP, Nick Bilton, is so telling and transparent. It’ll be hilarious to listen to anyone defend Pelley after reading this. And when they do, they will do so dishonestly. Letter from Bilton to Pelley below. pic.twitter.com/t5qjM8sEgw — Joe Concha (@JoeConchaTV) June 3, 2026 Concha wrote that the letter was “so telling and transparent” and predicted that anyone defending Pelley after reading it would be doing so dishonestly. NBC News reported that it obtained a copy of the letter Bilton sent to Pelley. According to NBC, Bilton said Pelley’s antipathy to the show’s future had come through clearly, and that his CBS employment was terminated for cause effective immediately. Bilton also sent a separate note to 60 Minutes staff, according to NBC, saying he had made repeated attempts to talk directly with Pelley and tried to find common ground. That is the first key point: Bilton’s side is not that Pelley asked tough questions. It is that Pelley chose a public ambush over a private conversation. The Daily Beast published more of the letter’s language: Bilton’s explosive termination letter to Pelley was shared by Puck reporter Dylan Byers on Tuesday. The letter was also obtained by The New York Times. “I started this job excited to collaborate and to benefit from the wisdom and experience of the 60 Minutes veterans, with you among them,“ Bilton wrote, saying he invited Pelley to dinner. “It is a profound disappointment that you rejected that overture and chose ambush instead. Yesterday, you hijacked my first meeting with staff to disparage me, my qualifications, and my intentions with remarkable incivility and contempt.” Bilton called Pelley’s comments on Monday a “performative display of hostility-enacted in front of the staff instead of in a civil, private conversation demonstrated that you have no interest in contributing to the future success of the show, or approaching my new tenure with a mind open to collaboration and progress.” That is not soft language. That is a boss documenting why he believes the relationship was already broken. Pelley, for his part, told The Daily Beast the letter showed a complete misunderstanding of what 60 Minutes works for and lives for. That is the kind of line that sounds noble until you read what actually happened in that staff meeting. Eric Daugherty also pointed to the same core issue: CBS did not frame this as a slow-motion exit. NOW: In a HUGE FAFO moment, CBS has just TERMINATED 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley’s contract, "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY" Pelley accused Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of "MURDERING" the show and got into a heated meeting Executive Producer fired back in a scathing letter: "Your… pic.twitter.com/magpFWa4Om — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 3, 2026 The picture Bilton paints is not of a principled stand. It is of an aging anchor who would rather torch a new manager in front of colleagues than have a grown-up talk over dinner. For years the legacy media treated men like Pelley as untouchable institutions unto themselves. The letter reads like the end of that era, where even a 60 Minutes legend can be told no and shown the exit when he picks a public fight. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

Scott Pelley is out at 60 Minutes, and it happened fast. Multiple reports say the longtime correspondent was fired after he attacked the show’s new leadership in front of staff, accusing CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of “murdering” the program. This is the kind of media shakeup that does not happen often. A celebrated network figure torched the new bosses on day one and got walked out the door. Benny Johnson flagged the news on X as it broke. Scott Pelley of ‘60 Minutes’ has been fired by CBS pic.twitter.com/b4zECNZS1F — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 3, 2026 Axios reported that Nick Bilton, the newly installed executive producer of 60 Minutes, fired Pelley after Pelley assailed him in front of staff members during a meeting on Bilton’s first day on the job. The Daily Beast reported that Bilton’s explosive letter firing the longtime correspondent had already leaked. Here is the backdrop, because the timing tells the whole story. Bari Weiss’s team has been remaking CBS News, and the latest round hit the network’s flagship news magazine hard. Fox News Digital laid out exactly what changed and how leadership had tried to keep Pelley on before the confrontation: CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss and newly appointed “60 Minutes” executive producer Nick Bilton made multiple overtures to the show’s veteran correspondent Scott Pelley before the tense showdown he had with the incoming boss, Fox News Digital has learned. Weiss sent shock waves across the media landscape on Thursday with the ousting of “60 Minutes” correspondents Sharyn Alfonsi and Cecilia Vega, as well as executive producer Tanya Simon among others, marking an editorial shift in the long-running news magazine program with Weiss handpicking an outsider to lead its path forward. Prior to Monday’s staff meeting, where Pelley had a contentious exchange with Bilton about the dismissals, both Weiss and Bilton had reached out to Pelley expressing their desire to have him remain a “60 Minutes” correspondent and that he hadn’t engaged with them before the war of words unfolded, according to a source familiar with CBS News leadership. However, it is unclear whether Weiss and Bilton still hold that sentiment towards Pelley, particularly after he lashed out at his bosses in front of the staff. That was the pre-firing picture: management had tried to keep Pelley, but the meeting blew up anyway. He no longer has the job. What Pelley actually said is the part that matters here. The AP reported, citing Status reporting and a recording, that Pelley accused Weiss of murdering the show and said Bilton had slender qualifications. Fox News Digital reported Pelley told Bilton that Weiss was murdering 60 Minutes, did not love the place, and was brought in to kill it. That is not a quiet disagreement over editorial direction. That is a public broadside against the people who just took over. None of this is happening in a vacuum, and Trump-world noticed immediately. Pelley had already taken aim at Paramount and CBS leadership over the network’s handling of 60 Minutes during President Trump’s legal fight with CBS and Paramount. He later slammed Trump’s lawsuits against journalists and companies as being filed “for nothing” during a Wake Forest commencement address. So when the new regime moved in and Pelley went after them, the reaction on the right was swift. NOW: In a HUGE FAFO moment, CBS has just TERMINATED 60 Minutes anchor Scott Pelley’s contract, "EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY" Pelley accused Editor-in-chief Bari Weiss of "MURDERING" the show and got into a heated meeting Executive Producer fired back in a scathing letter: "Your… pic.twitter.com/magpFWa4Om — Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) June 3, 2026 Reports say the termination was effective immediately, with Bilton firing back in a scathing letter that has since leaked. As of publication, the firing trail runs through Axios, The Daily Beast, and the X posts above. For years the old 60 Minutes treated itself as untouchable. New ownership, new leadership, and a correspondent who picked a fight on day one just learned otherwise. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

President Trump keeps walking into medical exams and keeps walking out with strong numbers, and at least one reporter wanted to know why he bothers going back so often. The answer came from CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz at the White House briefing on June 2, 2026. The question was the usual setup. If the president is in such good health, why does he keep returning to his doctors for more checkups? Oz did not flinch. He said Trump likes the results, does really well, and aces the test every single day. He added that the president is meticulous and wants to know all of his numbers. “Treating stupid is really hard.” CMS Administrator Dr. Oz gives his medical advice for Americans suffering from "the very serious ailment" of Trump Derangement Syndrome. pic.twitter.com/ObU1AHjokE — Fox News (@FoxNews) June 2, 2026 That is not a man hiding from his doctors. That is a man who treats his health like he treats everything else, by checking the numbers and staying on top of it. The skepticism is familiar. Reporters who spent years pretending Joe Biden was sharp now want to interrogate why a healthy president keeps getting checked out. The published numbers do not help their story. The latest physical was done at Walter Reed, and the released physician memo said Trump remains in excellent health and fully fit for duty. The reported details back that up. Trending Politics reported Oz’s answer this way: While speaking during a White House press briefing on Tuesday, Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz responded to a reporter’s inquiry about the frequency of President Donald Trump’s medical evaluations. “If the president is in such perfect health, why does he keep going back in for checkups?” the reporter asked. “I think he likes the results. He does really well.” “He aces the test every single day. I do actually believe that he is curious to make sure everything is going in the right direction,” Dr. Oz responded. “He’s a very meticulous person in so many ways that are often under appreciated. But for him to want to know all the numbers and keep on top of him, it’s the same reason he calls people at you know, odd hours because something’s on his mind. He wants to deal with it.” According to coverage of the memo from CBS News, the exam showed strong cardiovascular and overall results. The reported figures included a cardiac age roughly 14 years younger than his chronological age. Blood pressure came in at 105/71, with a resting heart rate of 73 and oxygen saturation at 98 percent. Cardiac testing was reported as normal, and a cognitive screening came back at 30 out of 30. Those are not borderline numbers. They are the kind of results a president would want released. That is the point Oz was making. Trump goes back because he likes seeing the scores, not because anyone is covering for him. The double standard writes itself. When the numbers are weak, the press looks away. When the numbers are strong, the press wants to know why a man keeps proving it. Trump answered that question the easiest way possible, by acing the test and putting the results in front of the country.

Hasan Piker has spent years building one of the biggest left-wing audiences on the internet, lecturing millions of young viewers from his Twitch stream about politics, morality, and the failures of the right. A new exclusive report says the man behind the brand looks very different in private. The New York Post published a lengthy investigation Tuesday alleging that Piker’s offline behavior is, in the paper’s words, “seedy” and “sex-obsessed,” and at odds with the progressive image he sells to his fans. The Post laid out the report in a post on X: Hasan Piker's seedy, sex obsessed life: Soliciting nudes, list of best breasts, and a separate laptop for porn https://t.co/uwpG2xCn0Q pic.twitter.com/nlcXvw13UL — New York Post (@nypost) June 2, 2026 According to the paper, sources who know Piker described a pattern of behavior that included soliciting nude photos, keeping crude rankings of women, and maintaining separate hardware for adult content. The New York Post described the allegations this way: He may be the Communist darling of left-wing livestreaming, but when the cameras are off, the real Hasan Piker is shallow and sex-driven, sources claim. Although he recently debuted a more serious image, donning spectacles and suits for his broadcasts, those close to the 34-year-old told The Post he’s still a pervy, porn-obsessed frat boy — impulses they say get in the way of him ever realizing his goal of making it in the mainstream. “Off camera he is very stiff and impersonal. I can’t tell how much of what he says he actually believes. He definitely leverages it to creep on women,” a former pal told The Post. Sources noted Piker regularly boasts about receiving nude photos from fans and how he claims to watch porn on a laptop dedicated to that purpose propped up on his chest so he can “still see” his penis. Piker — who this week was banned from speaking in the UK over his extreme leftwing views — was born in New Jersey but grew up in Istanbul, Turkey, where his parents hail from. When he’s not railing against US imperialism, showing his support for China or Cuba or saying he’d vote for terror group Hamas over the Israeli government, Piker solicits nudes from his female fans, according to a streamer he previously worked with, pictures he apparently revels in showing off to others. YouTuber Mizkif also claimed he had seen hundreds of nudes on the host’s phone. Piker did not return The Post’s requests for comment for this article. The report leans on accounts from people the paper says have personal knowledge of Piker’s conduct. Those sources, as quoted by the Post, describe a public figure whose real interests run far from the political crusading that built his following. The stakes are bigger because Piker is one of the most-watched political streamers in the country, with a massive young audience and growing ambitions to be taken seriously in mainstream media circles. That ambition is exactly what the report calls into question. Bart Marcois shared the Post’s story and highlighted the lines driving much of the reaction: Hasan Piker's seedy, sex-obsessed life: Soliciting nudes, lists of best breasts, and a separate laptop for porn “The real Hasan Piker is shallow and sex-driven.” “I can’t tell what he actually believes. He definitely leverages it all to creep on women..” https://t.co/KzrFGxcBRP — Bart Marcois (@bmarcois) June 3, 2026 The accusation cuts directly at Piker’s public pitch. He has positioned himself as a voice of conscience for young progressives, while the Post’s sources describe a private life far uglier than the image projected on camera. Piker has built a brand out of brushing off criticism from the right, and the allegations in the Post’s report have not been proven in court. Still, for an influencer whose appeal rests heavily on authenticity, this is the kind of report that follower counts and livestream bluster cannot easily bury. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.

Here is the honest top line before anyone gets ahead of themselves. As of this early update, Los Angeles County has not posted any vote totals for the Los Angeles mayor race. Not one. The official county results feed, checked around 5:16 PM Pacific (7:16 PM Central), shows Spencer Pratt, Karen Ruth Bass, Nithya Raman, and the rest of the mayoral field all sitting at zero votes with zero precincts reported. So if you see numbers floating around, they are not coming from the county. Polls close at 8 PM Pacific, and the first real batch comes after that. The LA County Registrar-Recorder/County Clerk laid out the election-night schedule this way: It’s important to know that counting ballots and reporting results does not end on Election Night. All Vote by Mail ballots cast by Election Day and received within seven (7) days from Election Day will be accepted, processed, and once verified, counted. All Conditional Voter Registration (same-day registration) and Provisional Ballots cast on Election Day are processed and added to the tally once they are cleared. Reporting Results on Election Night First Results 8:30pm – 8:45pm Vote by Mail ballots cast before Election Day Ballots cast at a Vote Center before Election Day Remaining Results: Ballots cast at a Vote Center on Election Day When Vote Centers close, Election Workers will complete their closing procedures and then deliver their ballots to Sheriff’s Deputies at a designated Check-in Center. Sheriff’s Deputies then transport ballots from the Check-in Center to the Ballot Processing Center to be processed and counted. One of the biggest problems that Karen Bass and Nithya Raman have created for young Angelenos is the cost of living. Affordability is crushing us. Here’s my plan to make LA life more affordable for you, and put more $$$ in your pocket. We cannot afford another 4 years of Karen. pic.twitter.com/7ZNipMD7kH — Spencer Pratt (@spencerpratt) June 2, 2026 The same official feed lists 5,891,851 registered voters countywide and 2,175 precincts countywide. That is the scoreboard before any of the boxes get filled in. Turnout is the part that is already moving. And it is moving up. According to LAist, Los Angeles County had 711,333 processed ballots as of the morning of June 2, about 12% of registered voters, with 95% by mail and 5% in person. That is a heavily vote-by-mail electorate, which matters for how the night unfolds. The county’s own registrar gave a fresher snapshot in the afternoon. Per CBS Los Angeles, Dean Logan said just before 2 PM Pacific that more than 100,000 voters had turned out in person and nearly 1 million vote-by-mail ballots had been returned. Logan also said turnout was running 2 to 3 points ahead of the comparable 2022 gubernatorial primary and could land in the mid-30 percentile range. That points to a serious primary, and people showed up. "I'm winning…outright…there's a tsunami of votes coming from all the people who are done with politics as usual."@spencerpratt says he's going to get over 50% of the vote in L.A.'s Mayor's race tonight & there will be no need for a runoff. "All those people I have they're… pic.twitter.com/OpHjgSZBJi — Elex Michaelson (@Elex_Michaelson) June 2, 2026 Here is how the results are expected to land once the clock hits 8 PM Pacific. The first batch should include vote-by-mail ballots received before June 2. After that comes early vote-center ballots, and then Election Day in-person votes. That order is why early leads can shift. The first dump is a mail-heavy crowd, and the later piles can look different. Now the part everyone actually wants, which is whether Pratt has a real shot. The polling says this is volatile, not settled. The late UC Berkeley-LA Times poll had Bass at 26%, Raman at 25%, and Pratt at 22%, with a margin of error around 3%. That is not a runaway. That is a three-way knife fight for two runoff slots. FOX 11 reported an Emerson College/Inside California Politics poll from May 9-10 that had Bass at 30%, Pratt at 22%, Raman at 19%, and undecided voters down to 16%. That poll also showed Pratt jumping 12 points from March, which is why tonight has the feel of something bigger than a celebrity vanity run. Cygnal’s May 15-18 survey showed another version of the same trend: Bass at 25%, Pratt at 22%, Raman at 18%, and 19% undecided on the initial ballot. After messaging exposure, Cygnal had Pratt and Bass tied at 25%, Raman at 19%, and undecideds down to 16%. That swing is the whole story. A race with that many movable voters is a race nobody owns yet. The other trend is the mood of the city. Cygnal found 58% of likely nonpartisan primary voters said Los Angeles was on the wrong track, compared with 30% saying it was headed in the right direction. The top issues in that survey were cost of living, homelessness, city corruption, housing affordability, and infrastructure. Those are exactly the lanes Pratt has been trying to hammer. And there is a rule that decides the night. If no candidate clears 50%, the top two finishers advance to a November runoff. In a crowded field with that much undecided, an outright majority is a tall order. The more likely outcome is a fight for those two runoff slots. So watch the order the batches drop, watch whether anyone gets near 50%, and watch the gap between the second and third candidates. Pratt being on the ballot and competitive in a major-city mayor primary is the headline. Whether he banks a runoff slot is the question the next few hours answer. Until the county posts something, the only honest score is zero to zero. We will update as the real numbers come in after polls close. This is a Guest Post from our friends over at WLTReport. View the original article here.