Screenshot via CBS News 247/Snapstream It was a split decision on Tuesday morning as NBC ended its blackout on the release of the so-called Biden tapes with a full story on Today, and CBS doubled down on its coverage from Monday night with a longer report for CBS Mornings. However, CBS Mornings neglected to continue the network’s coverage of the bombshell Fauci diary and relegated it to their streaming platform, CBS News 24/7.On both counts, ABC’s Good Morning America remained in the dark, thus doing nothing to assuage concerns being raised to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Chairman Brendan Carr about their network’s struggles to serve the public interest. GMA had other priorities, including 73 seconds in the first half hour on twin lottery jackpots of over $1 billion.Thus far, CBS News 24/7 has spent 12 minutes and 29 seconds on Fauci. More than half of that (7:41) came on Monday’s The Takeout with host Major Garrett giving the floor for Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI) to preview Wednesday’s Homeland Security Committee hearing with Fauci: CBS News 24/7 -- CBS's free streaming platform -- has spent 12 minutes and 29 seconds on the Fauci diaries through mid-Tuesday afternoon.Over half of it came early Monday night with this @MajorCBS Garrett interview of @SenRonJohnson previewing Wednesday's hearing with Fauci. pic.twitter.com/TFeLJ4A6dw— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026 Before bringing in Johnson, Garrett took particular notice of one entry: “In one entry, Dr. Fauci wrote, ‘Apparently, the WH is very upset that I am being profiled, and it looks like I am putting down the POTUS being the president of the United States and becoming a star that outshines him. The press is playing into this as is the tweet storm. Very stressful!!’”By Tuesday, Garrett’s interview was used as the basis for three extended news briefs, including this one in the 9:00 a.m. Eastern hour from co-host Kelly O’Grady, who also said Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) “released more than a thousand pages of journal entries” and “accus[ed] Fauci of being dishonest with the public about how the pandemic started.” By Tuesday, Garrett’s interview was used as the basis for three extended news briefs on CBS News 24/7, including this one in the 9am Eastern hour from co-host @TheKellyOGrady, who also said @SenRandPaul “released more than a thousand pages of journal entries” and “accus[ed] Fauci… pic.twitter.com/iuUNCZfJih— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) July 28, 2026 Pivoting to the Biden tapes, CBS senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang declared in a two-minute-and-42-second piece on CBS Mornings that “CBS News was first to obtain about two and a half hours of the roughly 70 hours of recording conversations between Biden and his ghostwriter” that “[f]or years, Biden fought to keep them private, but the Justice Department has now released them after a long legal battle.”