Hey, everybody. It's Tim Miller with the Bullwork here with my buddy, publisher of the Bullwark, Sarah Longwell.

We have breaking news and the latest sign that CBS is folding to pressure from the Trump administration.

The news here is from the New York Times. Bill Owens, the executive producer of 60 Minutes, said that he'd resign from the long-running Sunday news program because it had lost,

or he had lost his journalistic independence. Owens is only the third person to run the program,

and it's 57-year history. He told the staff in a memo, it's become clear,

I would not be allowed to run the show as I've always run it to make independent decisions

based on what was right for 60 minutes and right for the audience.

This is obviously all related to the lawsuit, the way the Trump administration is the suing six, or Trump, rather, is suing 60 minutes over the silly Kamala Harris re-edit from the campaign, but also the Trump administration is overseeing a proposed merger

for Paramount, which is the CBS's parent company with a company run by the son of tech billionaire

Larry Ellison, Skydance, Skydance. That sounds like it's out of succession. It's the name of Sky Dance. Skydance.

That sounds like it's out of succession.

It's the name of that company.

Skydance is trying to buy Paramount.

Anyway, Sarah, what is your, what's your takeaway from this pretty astonishing memo from Bill Owens?

A bunch of things.

Number one, the executive has too much power.

This is an old-style conservative point that we don't make enough as part of this.

Like, why is Donald Trump able to oversee mergers and acquisitions between regular businesses?

Like, this is an insane thing.

Like, the idea that you have to be in good favor with Trump in order to do regular, ordinary business, is bananas.

Number one.

Number two, this is now a very sort of well-worn tale.

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