The Powers That Be: Daily

Dylan Byers joins Peter to break down 60 Minutes’ star-studded, controversy-shadowed relaunch under Bari Weiss and Nick Bilton: its new correspondents, the internal drama, and whether the show’s reputation—and Weiss’s—survives its September 13th debut. Then they unpack The New York Times’s quest for its own AI search tool, betting that readers want to talk to the paper the way they talk to ChatGPT.

Leigh Ann Caldwell joins Peter to break down Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s mounting 2028 presidential calculus, which is colliding with her new single life while she chronicles her egg-freezing journey in real time. The pair walk through her options, her calculated endorsement restraint this primary season, and why encouraging early-state polling numbers still can’t erase real doubts about her general-election viability.

Bill Cohan joins Peter to break down the swift, bipartisan grassroots revolt against data centers and the A.I. companies racing to build them—from Josh Shapiro’s about-face in Pennsylvania to Kathy Hochul’s New York moratorium—and why Wall Street’s trillion-dollar financing spree suggests nobody’s slowing down yet. Then the pair try to wrap their heads around why Bitcoin is suddenly surging after a brutal year.

The besties Jon Kelly and Peter reunite to examine the New York Times’s uneasy relationship with creator-journalists like Pablo Torre, whose bombshell Clippers investigation—now contradicted by ESPN’s reporting—may not have survived The Gray Lady’s standards desk. Then they turn to MS NOW’s $8-a-month streaming offering, and whether a partisan network can build a subscriber business the way The Bulwark has.

ESPN’s Ramona Shelburne, who broke last week’s big news about the LA Lakers, joins John to walk through how the $12.5 billion deal came together practically overnight. The two dig into the NBA’s exploding franchise valuations, what kind of owner Iger is likely to be, why LeBron James really left for Philly, and the murky, slow-moving investigation into the Clippers and Kawhi Leonard.