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Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon guide to Puck’s best new reporting. Here’s what you need to know… and stick around for Bill’s exclusive interview with 60 Minutes’s Lesley Stahl.

  • Dry Powder: After the firing of several top 60 Minutes journalists and producers at the end of May, legendary correspondent Lesley Stahl faced a difficult choice: stay with the storied newsmagazine, or let this be the end of the line. Bill Cohan sits down with Stahl to discuss the hardest chapter of her 50-year career and the behind-the-scenes conversation at CBS News. [Read More]



    In the Room: Just before the weekend, Stahl and fellow correspondents Bill Whitaker and Jon Wertheim announced they would return to 60 Minutes—though their leaked memo was hardly a vote of confidence in the Weiss/Bilton administration. Dylan Byers reveals an earlier draft that was even more critical. [Read More
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