As July began, Paramount paid $16 million to settle a Trump civil suit. As July ended, Trump's FCC appointees approved Paramount’s $8 billion merger deal.

David Letterman, who created the CBS version of the show in 1993 and ran it until his retirement in 2015, called the move “pure cowardice” and said CBS management has shown “no backbone.” The quote that’s now making headlines came near the end of the conversation:

All seven of the current correspondents at “60 Minutes” — Lesley Stahl, Scott Pelley, Bill Whitaker, Anderson Cooper, Sharyn Alfonsi, Jon Wertheim and Cecilia Vega — signed a letter in May urging Paramount to officially make Simon the show’s executive producer, according to the Status newsletter.

President Trump late Thursday took another jab at Democrats over the furor around his administration’s handling of the files related to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, calling the controversy a “con job.

The FCC approved the hugely controversial sale of Paramount to producer and Donald Trump ally David Ellison's production company Skydance for $8 billion.

Trump dismisses renewed Epstein scrutiny as a political hoax by Democrats, while bipartisan calls for transparency intensify.

The Senate narrowly passed President Trump's massive tax and spending bill Tuesday after a marathon series of amendment votes.

Mike Johnson broke with Donald Trump by claiming the Epstein case is "not a hoax" and reiterated that he supports full transparency.