On Tuesday’s PBS News Hour, they spent six minutes playing a fraction of their “Settle In” podcast interview with Democrat historian (and former Newsweek editor) Jon Meacham. Anchor Amna Nawaz and Meacham would explore the “state of our democracy,” which somehow always comes back around to how democracy and the Democrats are treated as the same thing. If the Democrats suffer, democracy suffers. Meacham was explicit on Morning Joe in November of 2023: “It’s not just President Biden who is on the ballot and being judged, it’s really the entire constitutional order.... President Biden is a kind of stand-in for the American system.” So Nawaz awkwardly asked about the 2024 debacle:  PBS anchor Amna Nawaz gently asks lefty historian/Biden speechwriter Jon Meacham about Biden's place in history (and if made a misstep or two). Meacham calls it a "classic tragedy" and wishes Biden had taken a different path. BUT in the weeks before the debate debacle, Meacham… pic.twitter.com/EptYop4SBS — Tim Graham (@TimJGraham) May 28, 2026 AMNA NAWAZ: It's worth noting you're close to President Biden. You have called him a friend. You have called him an American hero. You have advised him on his speeches. Understanding there were a lot of other forces at play, the pandemic as you mentioned, and a lot of other things happening in the country bubbling up for a generation at least, how do you look back now on what President Biden as a leader and his administration did or didn't do that also helped to get us where we are today? And not just the decision to run again, right, which has been called into question and examined a dozen different ways, but also maybe not going after some of the officials from the first Trump administration the way some Democrats wanted them to. How do you look at that now? Nawaz downplayed how Meacham was a Biden speechwriter -- not full-time, but the New York Times wrote in 2020 that he was "both writing drafts of speeches and offering edits on many of Mr. Biden’s big addresses." This makes him invested in adjusting Biden's place in history JON MEACHAM: So the first answer before I blather on is, I'm not sure. My friend Michael Beschloss, our friend Michael Beschloss likes to say it takes 20, 25 years to be able to assess a presidency in historical terms, as opposed to journalistic ones. And I think that's true. It was true for Truman. It was true for George Herbert Walker Bush. And it's going to be true for President Biden. Fact check: In the fall of 2021, we noted Beschloss and Meacham were already comparing Biden to FDR and Eisenhower just for passing an infrastructure bill. But let's continue:   MEACHAM: What happened with President Biden and choosing to run again was in many ways a classic tragedy. And I mean it this way. The personal characteristics that enabled Joe Biden from 1972 until 2020 to survive and even ultimately thrive amid immense personal tragedy and remarkable political setback and stasis, right, those characteristics prevented him from stepping away. I do not think -- I would bet the mortgage on this. I don't think President Biden was clinging to power because he wanted an airplane or because he loved power so much. It was a result of his resilience, his determination to keep moving no matter what, and not ever surrendering. And he believed that he was the person who was the catcher in the rye, if you will, between the country and Trump, President Trump. And he was wrong. But this is -- from Greek tragedy through Shakespeare, this is a fundamental human drama. The characteristics that propelled him to the pinnacle of power prevented him from doing what he needed to do to step away from it. Do I wish that history had turned in a different way? Do I wish President Biden had made different decisions in his last two years? Absolutely.  What in one season was admirable resilience became in a different season a blindness to reality. Who was blind? Meacham was demanding that voters re-elect the mentally failing president right up until the debate debacle. In April, he insisted “there is a patriotic duty to support President Biden against Donald Trump,” and in May, he fussed that some people might not like Trump, but vote for him: “there is no but. It's got to be, 'Yeah, Trump is that, and, I'm going to vote against him.'” When Biden finally folded in July, Meacham switched to ring-kissing the other way: "one of the most remarkable acts of leadership in our history. An act of self-sacrifice that places him in the company of George Washington, who also stepped away from the presidency."

New York City, once regarded as the greatest, is now most famous for being the most expensive city in North America. The citizens who stay, rather than flee to more affordable areas, face crushing taxes and struggle to make ends meet. And what is Democratic Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s solution to this crisis? Throw more money at it and hope it gets better, as evidenced by his Tuesday night interview on CNN’s The Source with Kaitlan Collins, where he received little critical pushback to his costly housing plan. According to Mayor Mamdani, New York City’s foremost problem is “the lack of affordable housing,” and he foresees prices going up by the end of the year. Collins welcomed Mamdani on air to tout his new Block by Block plan: This is an announcement that does three key things: it builds 200,000 new affordable homes, preserves 200,000 affordable homes alongside it, and then additionally it invests in tenants across the city, makes it easier to provide code enforcement for housing violations, and does all of this while investing more than $5 billion in public housing, which has long been neglected, not just in our city, but frankly, across our country.  New York’s public housing fund is already at a whopping $1.2 billion, according to CNN, but Mamdani bragged about ballooning that to about $5.6 billion: This is the first step in our administration's approach to delivering for New Yorkers, who at the beginning of NYCHA’s were shown a vision of city government delivering dignity for the most working class of the city… now public housing has about $80 billion in capital needs, and too often that's been a figure that's been used to justify doing nothing. And what we're saying as an administration is that we're not going to wait any longer for the federal government to be a partner in this work. We're going to start to deliver it ourselves.       Collins then threw Mamdani a soft-ball question referencing his proposed pied-a-terre tax, though she only asked if he had heard back from Citadel CEO Ken Griffin, whose apartment building Mamdani stood in front of while gleefully announcing this new tax. Instead of defending the tax, Mamdani said that he was “looking to ensure that [he meets] with anyone who is a part of this city’s not only economy, but also [its] future.” The only problem with his statement is that, with Mamdani’s aggressive anti-corporation policies and high prices in general causing businesses of all sizes to flee the city, soon there may not be many business leaders left for him to meet with. Collins also gave Mamdani an opportunity to snipe at Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s recent CNBC comment that doubling his taxes is “not going to help that teacher in Queens.” Mamdani repeated the common lie that the wealthiest do not “pay their fair share,” ignoring the inconvenient fact that the top one percent pay a disproportionate share (about 46 percent) of the city’s personal income tax. If Mamdani were to liquidate all of Bezos’s assets, which Bezos himself does not have immediate access to, the money would not be enough to keep New York City running for even two years. The costs are simply too high, and now Mamdani wants to increase them with his inane Block by Block plan.  But of course, Mamdani faced no challenges from Collins, who often just queued him up to issue his talking points (Click “expand”): And I know, during the campaign, you wanted to double the city's funding for public housing. Right now, it's about $1.2 billion annually. The executive budget you have calls for $5.6 billion over five years. Do you still plan ultimately to double it? (…) Well, I mean, speaking of your government and the state government, the plan is also calling for up to a $100 billion in that public investment over a decade, funded through municipal bonds, higher taxes on corporations and top earners. Do you think you'll get the state approval that that requires? (…) You've said before that the city's housing budget, as you put it, cannot be tackled without the assistance of the federal government. Have you gotten any assurances from the Trump administration that that money will be coming? (…) Have you spoken to the President lately? She only ended the segment smiling with the mayor and cheering on the Knicks. The full transcript is below. Click "expand" to read: CNN’s The Source May 26, 2026 9:50:17 p.m. Eastern (…) KAITLAN COLLINS: And joining me now is New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani. And thank you, Mr. Mayor, for being here.  As you're rolling out this new plan, just for everyone to understand the reality of what New Yorkers are facing. There was a study that your Office of Equity and Racial Justice did that found that the median cost for a couple with no kids is over $106,000 to live in New York. That's without kids, just to emphasize that. When everything from gas, to food, construction, prices are up, what do you expect a number like that to be by the end of this year? ZOHRAN MAMDANI: You know, I think we're going to keep seeing numbers like that increase across the country, given the economic conditions that Americans are living with. As you said, the war in Iran also is not just a moral affront or a political affront, it's also an economic affront to Americans' ability to make ends meet, and that even trickles down to New Yorkers' ability to live in this city. However, the announcement we made today of a plan called Block by Block is looking to do everything we can to actually lower costs in this city because, we know that at the heart of a cost of living crisis, the number one driver of that crisis is the housing crisis. And this is an announcement that does three key things: it builds 200,000 new affordable homes, preserves 200,000 affordable homes alongside it, and then additionally it invests in tenants across the city, makes it easier to provide code enforcement for housing violations, and does all of this while investing more than $5 billion in public housing, which has long been neglected, not just in our city, but frankly, across our country. COLLINS: And I know, during the campaign, you wanted to double the city's funding for public housing. Right now, it's about $1.2 billion annually. The executive budget you have calls for $5.6 billion over five years. Do you still plan ultimately to double it? MAMDANI: Yes, absolutely. This is the first step in our administration's approach to delivering for New Yorkers, who at the beginning of NYCHA's inception were shown a vision of city government delivering dignity for the most working class of the city. And yet over the last few decades, ever since the Reagan cuts, we have seen public housing be overlooked and ignored time and time again, where now public housing has about $80 billion in capital needs, and too often that's been a figure that's been used to justify doing nothing. And what we're saying as an administration is that we're not going to wait any longer for the federal government to be a partner in this work. We're going to start to deliver it ourselves. COLLINS: Well, I mean, speaking of your government and the state government, the plan is also calling for up to a $100 billion in that public investment over a decade, funded through municipal bonds, higher taxes on corporations and top earners. Do you think you'll get the state approval that that requires? MAMDANI: You know, we continue to be confident of the partnership we're building with the state. We've seen our ability to spend more of our capital dollars on housing as something that was unlocked through that partnership. And it's going to continue because, what we're talking about are hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers who live in public housing, who currently today are forced to endure hundreds of days before an elevator is fixed or before a vacant unit is turned over. And this is just one part of our larger vision of building more housing than the city has seen for quite some time because, as you know, it's an issue across the country. And yet in New York City, the most expensive city in the United States of America, we've allowed the scale of ambition to be something that we only read about in our history books, while we continue to justify what has been a city that doesn't build enough for the people that it has. COLLINS: You've said before that the city's housing budget, as you put it, cannot be tackled without the assistance of the federal government. Have you gotten any assurances from the Trump administration that that money will be coming? MAMDANI: You know, I've shared with the President directly my hopes in working together to deliver Sunnyside Yard, which would be the largest housing development since the early '70s. Happens to be the same year since the Knicks last won the championship. We're hoping that continues this year as well. And we've put that forward because, that would build 12,000 homes and create 30,000 jobs, and it would do so in partnership with the federal administration. So, we've put that forward, the President was interested, and that conversation continues. However, we know that this city will need to lead, and we look forward to having other partners join us at the table. COLLINS: What does that conversation look like right now? I mean, I know obviously we all saw your meeting with the President last fall. Has he said anything in terms of committing to that funding? MAMDANI: Yeah, I think it's still an active conversation. However, the President did make clear that he was interested in this. And we've known that this is an idea that has lived within the public imagination for decades. It's going to take a lot to actually get it to fruition, but we are committed to that because, we think that it has a generational opportunity to unlock stability for New Yorkers who would live in this housing, as well as New Yorkers who would work on this housing, which is a key part of our plan, is that we look at New York City through every single lens of those that are going to actually construct these houses, those that are going to steward these houses, those that are going to live in these houses. Because, for too long we've thought of New Yorkers only in one way, when in fact many construction workers, at the end of the day, they go home and they're a tenant in our city. COLLINS: Yeah. Well, I mean, since you and the President talked about that plan. He posted later, despite it being a very warm and glowy meeting, from what the press saw, he said, quote, Mayor Mamdani is destroying New York City. It has no chance. And the United States of America should not contribute to its failure. I mean, some people might see that and say, 'But where does that leave plans, especially things like this housing plan that will rely on federal money?' And are you worried about that being at risk here? MAMDANI: I think the President and I have said many things about the other. I don't think they preclude the ability for the city to actually work together with the federal administration on something of this scale. And we're going to keep pushing it forward because, we believe that for far too long, ambition has been something that has been left in the history books of our city. I mean, when we look at the fact that the Empire State Building was built in 13 months. And now, you know, we spend about seven months after constructing a building just to move a tenant in? It's frankly unacceptable. And we want to show what's possible in this country. In order to do so, we have to be willing to lead with a vision of ambition that actually matches the scale of the crisis. We're going to keep doing that here, and we will always leave an invitation open to the federal administration to join us in any of this work because we know that these are not just New Yorkers. They're Americans, and they too need to see a government that actually cares about their well-being. COLLINS: Have you spoken to the President lately? MAMDANI: I know - I keep those conversations between the two of us. I will tell you, however, that whenever we do speak, they are conversations about the welfare of this city, and anything that we can do to make it easier for New Yorkers to live here. COLLINS: You know, and you talk about housing. You have met with a bunch of CEOs, in the last several weeks, after you announced that - what's been described as a pied-a-terre tax on second homes of the city's wealthiest. You put out that ad, obviously singling out the announcement -- that singled out the Citadel CEO, Ken Griffin. He later called that video, quote, 'Creepy and weird.' I know that your office, and - that you've reached out to him. Have you heard back from Ken Griffin? MAMDANI: We've reached out to make it clear that I'm willing to meet with any and all business leaders across the city. And I think that's important because, as the mayor of this city, I'm looking to ensure that I meet with anyone who is a part of this city's not just economy, but also our future. And what we've seen, whether it be Ken Griffin, whether it be Jamie Dimon, whether it be David Solomon, so many other business leaders across this city, is people who are creating jobs in the city.  And even at their level of employment, whose workforce still face the pressures of an affordability crisis because, as you know, in New York City, you can be making six figures, and you're still going to blink when you realize you have to pay $20,000 a year for child care for a single child in this city. And so, we are looking forward to partnering with anyone and anyone to deliver on a vision that will take care of everyone across these five boroughs. COLLINS: But you - so, have you heard back from him, or you have not? MAMDANI: Not as yet. But I'm going to continue to have these meetings to make it clear what our vision actually is for the city. COLLINS: Speaking of executives, Jeff Bezos told CNBC last week on taxes, and obviously, you know, what you've said about affordability is looming in the background of this. He said that you could double his taxes and, as he put it, quote, 'It's not going to help that teacher in Queens, I promise you.' What was your response to that comment from Jeff Bezos? MAMDANI: You know, I know a few teachers in Queens who would beg to differ. And I think that if I was worth as much money as he was, then I would probably say the same thing. The fact of the matter is that we are talking about a city where one in four New Yorkers are living in poverty, and we're hearing from one of the richest men that our world has ever seen, about how he and others who make that kind of money shouldn't have to pay their fair share. And frankly, what New Yorkers want to see is a tax system that recognizes the scale of this affordability crisis and actually provides a way for city government to be able to invest in those same New Yorkers in the manner that we used to, decades ago. COLLINS: On another topic. New Yorkers are in a very celebratory mood today because the New York Knicks have not won an NBA championship, I looked at this, since 1973. MAMDANI: Come on. COLLINS: They actually have not been to the finals since you were seven years old. Did you ever think that you would see a Knicks finals run during your first year as mayor? MAMDANI: You know, I prayed for it, I hoped for it, but you know, I didn't want to jinx it. But it is incredible. As you said, 1999, you know, the last time the Knicks were in the finals, Ricky Martin 'Livin' la Vida Loca' was top of the charts, and we are incredibly excited to be playing that song again here in New York City today because, we're hopeful, we're excited. It's truly an incredible time to be a New Yorker. COLLINS: Were you trolling Vivek Ramaswamy with your -- with your post overnight? MAMDANI: You know, I just hoped he had a nice night. And we had a great one in New York. COLLINS: That sounds like a yes. MAMDANI: I'll leave that to you. COLLINS: Mayor Zohran Mamdani, thank you for joining us. And Go Knicks. MAMDANI: Go Knicks. It's a pleasure.  

The popular CBS news show 60 Minutes just completed a textbook exercise in logical fallacy by hawking the stock market scare porn of CNBC’s arguably most smug anti-Trump anchor that he himself hedged straight into irrelevancy. 60 Minutes published an X post May 24 pushing CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor and part-time Nostradamus Andrew Ross Sorkin joining correspondent Lesley Stahl to give her his crystal ball divinations derived from his 2025 book 1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation, which apparently took him 10 years to draft. He adamantly proclaimed a stock market crash reminiscent of the 1929 disaster is on the horizon, but then immediately walked it back and effectively undercut his entire thesis: “We will have a crash, I just can't tell you when, and I can't tell you how deep. But I can assure you, unfortunately, I wish I wasn't saying this, we will have a crash.” Oh. So in other words, he knows nothing. But Stahl predictably let him coast on that logic, since both hinted that President Trump hitched his entire presidency to the performance of the stock market.   Sorkin’s stock market apocalypse-mongering is about as useful as saying, “Gravity will eventually pull things down, I just can't tell you when an object will drop or how hard it'll hit the floor.” In fact, as Bison Insights investor Josh Young retorted on X, “In the decade [Sorkin] was working on this book, the stock market nearly tripled. Pessimists sound smart. Optimists make money.” In essence, Sorkin’s non-prediction craters once you pick it apart, which Stahl should have done in an ideal world, but who are we kidding! TDS is one hell of a condition. .@andrewrsorkin: "We will have a crash, I just can't tell you when, and I can't tell you how deep." Same energy: "Gravity will eventually pull things down, I just can't tell you when an object will drop or how hard it'll hit the floor." pic.twitter.com/bg5D28Bngy — Joe Vazquez (@JV3MRC) May 27, 2026 Just three days after CBS broadcast Sorkin’s 60 Minutes prognosticating, the Dow Jones shot up 300 points to notch a new record as oil prices started nosediving on news of a potential peace agreement between Iran and the United States for the ongoing war. The day prior, both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite indexes completed record closes at 7,519.12 and 26,656.18 respectively, according to — oh this is hilarious — CNBC! Earth to Sorkin! In 2022, investor and entrepreneur Darius Foroux outlined 8 reasons why a 1929 crash probably won’t happen again, with the most obvious reason being that the stock market and its structure has changed dramatically since the wild west of the Roaring 20s. First, “Pre-modern stock markets were casinos.” Second, “Colluding and cornering markets isn’t commonplace.” Aside from other factors like SEC investor protections, “Markets can halt trading when needed.”  Did those protections just go poof! Because Sorkin published a book? Brookings Institution Senior Fellow Robin Brooks even argued in a May 27 X post, “How will markets trade once we get a peace deal? Oil prices will fall quickly and we'll go back to pricing cuts for the Fed. Markets are already inching in that direction.” Doesn’t exactly sound like Armageddon now does it?  Sorkin’s predictions have about as much utility as when CNN prophesied based on a single snapshot on volatile oil futures that we wouldn’t see sub-$70 per barrel prices until 2032: Zero!

During MS NOW’s Texas Senate Primary election coverage, the new helm of the spin-off network’s election big board, Ali Velshi said American elections could turn into elections in Russia and Iran with meaningless ballots. He then stated he felt a groundswell movement, as seen with anti-DOGE and Minneapolis’s protests, would rise to vote in the upcoming midterms to stop it. The discussion of Ken Paxton’s win in the Texas Senate primary turned into a discussion over the redistricting battle in red and blue states. With NBC News taking Steve Kornacki in the divorce from MS NOW, Velshi wore the vest as his new signature outfit in an attempt to cement himself as MS NOW’s election guy, Velshi gave his own analysis and repeated Democratic talking points of fairness.  He thought that “regular people” would rise to vote in backlash against redistricting:  I think what we have not anticipated is the degree to which regular people, whether they consider themselves conservatives or liberals, progressives or conservatives, do not think this system is fair, and it's getting less and less fair. Velshi then theorized: As much as the math is done and the people who do this redistricting really figure it out, and they really think they're going to win more seats, I think you may see something else, particularly with the end of the voting rights act, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana versus Calais, and the feeling that a lot of black people who are still alive remember about the fights that led up to the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in 1964 and 1965.   Amid MS NOW's Texas election coverage, Ali Velshi said American elections could be alike to Russian and Iranian elections after the Callais decision. He also felt another 'groundswell movement,' like the anti-DOGE and Minneapolis unrest, would rise to vote in the midterms. pic.twitter.com/9bT5ngEYzR — Nick (@nspin310) May 27, 2026   After his election prediction, he equated a possible midterm election redistricting-based movement to Minneapolis protests against ICE and anti-DOGE protests: I think you are going to see a groundswell movement like the ones we saw last year after DOGE, like the ones we saw after the invasions by the federal agents of Minneapolis. He said the new “groundswell movement” would be focused on the idea of “don't wreck our politics,” before he likened the possible future of American elections to Iran's and Russia’s: There are lots of countries where people still vote. Iran is one of them. Russia is one of them. People still cast a ballot, but the ballot means virtually nothing.  We are approaching a place in America where for some people, the ballot will mean nothing.” After his comparison, Velshi ended by imploring to the viewers to vote in the election:  And this might be your chance between now and November to have enough influence to say, not only will I keep my vote, but my vote will still have meaning. Velshi might as well have been the leader of his proposed midterm election groundswell movement. 11th Hour host Stephanie Ruhle ended the segment with praise of Velshi, who will be the new host of the nighttime show starting June 15th when Ruhle moved to host a 9 a.m. program on the same network: Listen to Ali Velshi when he's at the big board. I realize he looks like he's there to tell you the weather, and then you're confused because he's in that winter vest. But no, he's here for the data, and he's the best at it. In place of Kornacki, a more amenable election numbers presenter who stayed at NBC News after the Versant spin-off, Velshi represented the complete full turn of MS NOW to lessen actual journalists with a turn to a constant progressive spin. The transcript is below. Click "expand": MS NOW’s The 11th Hour with Stephanie Ruhle May 26, 2026 11:18:00 PM Eastern (...) ALI VELSHI: I think what we have not anticipated is the degree to which regular people, whether they consider themselves conservatives or liberals, progressives or conservatives, do not think this system is fair, and it's getting less and less fair.  So, as much as the math is done and the people who do this redistricting really figure it out, and they really think they're going to win more seats, I think you may see something else, particularly with the end of the voting rights act, the gutting of the Voting Rights Act in Louisiana versus Calais, and the feeling that a lot of black people who are still alive remember about the fights that led up to the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights Act in 1964 and 1965. I think you are going to see a groundswell movement like the ones we saw last year after DOGE, like the ones we saw after the invasions by the federal agents of Minneapolis. I think you're going to start to see a groundswell movement to say, don't wreck our politics, because once you remove the agency - There are lots of countries where people still vote. Iran is one of them. Russia is one of them. People still cast a ballot, but the ballot means virtually nothing.  We are approaching a place in America where for some people, the ballot will mean nothing. And this might be your chance between now and November to have enough influence to say, not only will I keep my vote, but my vote will still have meaning. STEPHANIE RUHLE: Listen to Ali Velshi when he's at the big board. I realize he looks like he's there to tell you the weather, and then you're confused because he's in that winter vest. But no, he's here for the data, and he's the best at it. (...)

The New York Times made official Wednesday what Puck’s Dylan Byers first reported back on April 24: CECOT-obsessed Sharyn Alfonsi is out at CBS’s 60 Minutes. And, in an interview with the virulently anti-Bari Weiss paper (which used to employ her before they ran her out of town), Alfosni donned a holier-than-thou attitude that embodies the stomach-churning arrogance of liberal, elite journalists in fearing the “chilling message” the presence of a hands-on editor-in-chief sends. Michael Grynbaum huffed: “CBS News declined to renew its contract with the ‘60 Minutes correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi, six months after her segment on torture in Salvadoran prisons was pulled off the air abruptly by the news division’s editor in chief, Bari Weiss.” Fact-check: Mostly false. As we covered at the time, they didn’t touch her emoting hit job. Rather, they had her add requests for comment from the Trump administration at the very end of her piece. Alfonsi and The Times presumably want us to feel bad for someone leading an open revolt against the people who sign her paychecks: She said in a phone interview that her agent’s inquiries with CBS News over the past several weeks had been met with silence. “It sends a chilling message to the entire newsroom,” Ms. Alfonsi said. “I think it was a deliberate choice to penalize a journalist for refusing to sanitize accurate reporting.” Grynbaum noted she “remains employed at CBS,” but no 60 Minutes contract, and unsurprisingly, she insisted in pure theatre kid behavior that she is refusing to leave CBS on her own: “I’m not resigning,” she said. “If they want me gone because I did my job, they’ll have to fire me.” CBS News declined to comment on Ms. Alfonsi’s remarks or her future at the network. Most of the piece was relitigating the drama surrounding Weiss’s CBS News tenure, including the hubbub with Alfonsi as Weiss supposedly committed the crime of wondering why her story about a Salvadoran prison the Trump administration used to hold illegal immigrants was horribly one-sided. He made sure to warn Weiss not to do anything to upset the apple cart of 60 Minutes, a news magazine far too many in this sadly godless industry treat like an infallible deity. Alfonsi added her own finger-wagging and pompous platitudes that always translate to a rancorous liberal bias perhaps best symbolized by Steve Kroft’s fetish for sucking up to Barack Obama: In the interview, Ms. Alfonsi said she felt anxious about the program’s future. “For the last 60 years it’s been the same formula: Tell the truth, hold the power accountable, don’t blink,” she said. “And it’s unclear what next season looks like.” “There’s a feeling that the wall has come down between editorial independence and corporate interests,” she added. “The concern is we’re going to end up with a broadcast that looks like ‘60 Minutes’ but doesn’t have the courage or the character to produce ‘60 Minutes’ journalism that actually matters.” To the surprise of no one, Alfonsi made clear to The Times that “she did not regret sending the email” because, in her words, “I believed I was doing my job.” Alfonsi certainly won’t be missed as she was a reliable liberal pundit pretending to be a journalist. While she closed 2025 with the CECOT story, she began the year with a February 2025 piece celebrating European-style censorship and, just before Christmas 2024, she blamed cartel violence in Mexico on the Second Amendment in the U.S. Prior to this run-in with Weiss, Alfonsi was most well-known to conservatives based on her April 2021 smear against Governor Ron DeSantis’s (R-FL) Covid vaccine rollout that was so bad it featured doctored clips of her haranguing DeSantis at a press conference. She even tried two years later to attack DeSantis over his illegal immigration flight to Martha’s Vineyard. And in 2018, she turned 60 Minutes over to the far-left Parkland students to offer unchallenged invective.