Today’s California Primaries.

About this episode

The episode discusses the California primaries, political tensions at CBS News, Jill Biden's new book, and a recent murder case in the UK.

Andrew Walworth, Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon and RCP National Political Correspondent Susan Crabtree discuss today’s California primaries. Then, they talk about the tension at the CBS News program “Sixty Minutes” between veteran correspondent Scot Pelley and CBS News Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss over her choice of Nick Bilton as Executive Producer for the long-running news program. Also, today is the official publication date for former First Lady Jill Biden’s book on her time in the White House. Next, they discuss today’s announcement from the White House that Bill Pulte has been named as the acting Director of National Intelligence. Pulte will also remain in his job as head of the Federal Housing Finance Agency. And finally, they discuss police body cam footage that was released yesterday from the murder of Henry Nowak, an 18-year-old student in the UK who was killed by a Sikh in Southampton who used a ceremonial knife to stab Nowak at least five times. Nowak bled to death shortly after being handcuffed by the police, who believed Nowak was the attacker. Hosted by Simplecast, an AdsWizz company. See https://pcm.adswizz.com for information about our collection and use of personal data…

People in this episode

Hosts: Tom Bevan, Carl Cannon

Guests: Andrew Walworth, Susan Crabtree

Topics covered

• California primaries
• political tension
• Jill Biden's book
• National Intelligence
• police body cam footage
• murder case

Keywords

• California primaries
• Jill Biden
• Bill Pulte
• police body cam
• murder case
• CBS News
• Sixty Minutes

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CBS News, Federal Housing Finance Agency, Sixty Minutes

Places: California, UK

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