CBS Names Unexpected New '60 Minutes' HeadCBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss announced Thursday that documentarian and tech columnist Nick Bilton will serve as the new executive producer for "60 Minutes," an unprecedented choice as Weiss faces internal and external backlash over the network's conservative pivot.Bilton will replace Tanya Simon, who had been in the role for less than a year after spending decades at the program. Weiss called him "one of the most entrepreneurial and ambitious journalists working today."Weiss has been in hot water over the state of "60 Minutes" since her appointment last year by right-wing owner David Ellison. CBS declined to renew its contract with journalist Sharyn Alfonsi six months after pulling her segment on widespread torture in Salvadoran prisons. Anderson Cooper abruptly announced his departure from the show, while Christiane Amanpour harshly criticized the new leadership's editorial decisions."On the very first episode of 60 Minutes Mike Wallace said: 'If this broadcast does what we hope it will do it will report reality,'" Bilton wrote in a message to newsroom staff. "I can't think of a better north star for 60 Minutes than that. Above all, that means a commitment to fairness – in story selection, in the edit room, and in the broadcast."Latest Live UpdatesScott Bessent Defends $1.8B Slush Fund: 'President Trump Is A Great American'Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent turned a question on Thursday about how the administration's nearly $1.8 billion taxpayer-funded "anti-weaponization fund" will work into a sympathetic tribute to President Donald Trump."There's ongoing litigation, so it would be inappropriate for me to comment," Bessent told reporters. "President Trump is a great American who has endured more than 10 years of nonstop harassment and weaponization from federal and state government actors."Trump, his two oldest sons and the family business sued his own Treasury Department and the IRS earlier this year for $10 billion over leaked tax returns. In exchange for dropping the suit, the Justice Department created what is essentially a slush fund that critics say will almost certainly be used to support his followers who were charged for storming the capitol on Jan. 6, 2021."Is it accurate that the general counsel of the Treasury Department resigned over that?" CNN reporter Kaitlan Collins shouted, to which Bessent replied: "I will not be taking any other questions."Bessent Says Americans Dipping Into Savings To Support Themselves Could Be A Good Sign, ActuallyTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent dismissed concerns about the economic woes Americans report feeling nationwide, even as new research suggests nearly half the country has struggled to make ends meet due to rising costs and stagnant wages.Asked whether he was “seeing signs that American households are dipping into their savings to pay for the higher costs of things like gas and groceries,” and whether that concerned him, Bessent gave an odd reply.“Academic literature would tell you lower savings rate can mean one of two things: the kind of doomer view you took, or that people have more confidence,” he said Thursday. “Or it could be something else because, for instance, stock market gains or 401k gains might not show up in savings, so they’re looking at that and thinking they can draw down their household savings.”He also expressed optimism about gas prices, which remain significantly higher than before President Donald Trump’s Iran war.“I believe we've already seen oil prices come down substantially,” Bessent said. “We are pumping more oil than we've ever seen before. And as I said, these are short-term challenges that we will get over.”At another point, he asserted that the oil market is “very well supplied.” Trump's treasury secretary is estimated to be worth around $600 million, according to Forbes.MAGA’s Mega GratitudeIf it’s a day that ends in Y, it’s a day that involves endless thanks of President Donald Trump by his biggest fans.Kenya Approves U.S. Ebola Quarantine Request As WHO Chief Heads To CongoKINSHASA/BUNIA, May 28 (Reuters) - Kenya has approved a request from the U.S. to open a quarantine facility in the East African nation for Americans exposed to Ebola, U.S. officials told Reuters on Thursday, as the head of the World Health Organization was travelling to the epicentre of the outbreak in Democratic Republic of Congo.Officials at Kenya's foreign and health ministries did not immediately respond to requests for comment, but one U.S. official said the authorisation grants the U.S. access to land at an air force base in Laikipia in central Kenya.The facility will become operational on Friday with a 50-bed unit, senior U.S. officials said separately.Bessent Refuses To Confirm Axios Report On Tentative Deal Reached With IranTreasury Secretary Scott Bessent repeatedly refused to confirm an Axios scoop from earlier Thursday that said the United States and Iran have reached a tentative deal to extend the ceasefire and launch negotiations over the country's nuclear program, only telling reporters that President Donald Trump is "not going to make a bad deal.""The teams are going back in, and President Trump has made it very clear that he has several red lines," Bessent said while leading the White House press briefing. "Iran has to turn over their highly enriched uranium, they cannot pursue a nuclear weapon. Back to your question on energy, free transit has to be free and open as it was before."According to Axios, the 60-day memorandum of understanding has been mostly agreed to by both parties' negotiators, however Trump has yet to give his final approval. The president was "very clear" about what he wants out of the deal at Wednesday's Cabinet meeting, Bessent told reporters."It's always a mistake to get out ahead of the president, so it is all going to be the president's decision," he said.Bessent Thinks There Is Nothing Wrong With Putting Trump’s Face On MoneyFilling in for White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent said that while the current law prohibited him from allowing President Donald Trump to appear on U.S. currency, Congress could decide to change that.“As Treasury Secretary, I have two mandates for U.S. currency at present: that no living person can be on U.S. currency and the currency must say, ‘In God We Trust,’” Bessent told reporters.“So, right now, there is proposed legislation in front of the House, in front of the Senate, to change the first requirement so that a living person, Donald J. Trump, could be on the $250 bill. So it's all in the hands of the — it's all up at Capitol Hill,” he said, adding that his department would “stick to the law.”Bessent noted that the Treasury is preparing for the possibility that they will be tasked with creating a Trump-faced bill, confirming part of a Washington Post report.He added: “I don’t think there is anything untoward about having the president of the United States — the person who is president of the United States — on the 250 bill."Stop What You’re Doing And Watch This Interview With A GOP Front-Runner In ColoradoWith that as your backdrop, meet Victor Marx, the front-runner in the Republican primary to be Colorado’s next governor.Read more:California Families Sue To Stop DOJ From Obtaining Medical Records Of Trans YouthSix California families sued the DOJ on Wednesday evening to try to stop it from using a grand jury subpoena to obtain private medical records of transgender youth.The suit, filed jointly by the National Center for LGBTQ Rights and GLBTQ Legal Advocates and Defenders, alleged that the DOJ launched a criminal investigation into Stanford Medicine Children’s Health from a Texas District Court, without notifying patients or providers.The DOJ has been largely unsuccessful in its attempts to gather medical records from hospitals. At least eight federal district courts have blocked civil subpoenas – and now the DOJ is escalating its efforts by filing secret grand jury subpoenas with the help of conservative North Texas Chief Judge Reed O’Conner.“When the federal government can reach across the country, into a hospital that has no connection to the court that issued the subpoena, and pull a child’s entire medical file out of the filing cabinet without so much as a phone call to the parents, every family should be concerned,” Shannon Minter, the legal director at NCLR, said in a statement. This is now the second known instance of a criminal probe by the DOJ, after New York University's Langone Health announced it had received a grand jury subpoena earlier this month. Whitmer Appears To Rule Out 2028 Presidential BidMichigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) ruled out running for president in 2028 in an interview with a local news station."I think there will be a robust group of people running for president," Whitmer told Detroit's Fox2. "I will not be one of them in 2028, I can tell you that."Speaking to the network while at the Mackinac Conference — an annual political gathering in the state — Whitmer said she planned on "taking a break" when her tenure as governor ends early next year.Whitmer was considered a strong candidate for the nomination following Vice President Kamala Harris' loss in 2024, but has been less active politically than many of other Democratic governors considering presidential bids such as California Gov. Gavin Newsom and Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro. She's also taken a less openly antagonistic approach to President Donald Trump during his second term.Scott Bessent To Host White House Press Briefing TodayWith Karoline Leavitt on maternity leave, it's Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's turn to front the White House press briefing on Wednesday.Bessent follows Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio in filling in for Leavitt, the White House press secretary, at the briefing room podium.The billionaire banker will take questions from reporters at 2 p.m. ET.His appearance comes the same day data showed inflation jumped to 3.8% in April, the highest since May 2023, driven by the war in Iran.See All Updates