Remaining '60 Minutes' Stars Say They’ll Stay — But Warn Against Newsroom 'Dictatorships'The three remaining correspondents at “60 Minutes” told colleagues in a letter Friday they intend to stay on at the storied news program, but not without getting in a couple shots at CBS leadership first."Newsrooms are not supposed to be run like dictatorships," Lesley Stahl, Bill Whitaker And Jon Wertheim jointly wrote in the letter."Collaboration and argument are the way we have always worked at 60."The trio emphasized that their remaining at the show is not "an endorsement of the existing power structure.""Here's why we're staying: We don't want to see 60 Minutes die," they said."If we can continue doing the work that made this show what it is — committing acts of independent, fearless journalism and storytelling — we're here for it. If not, we leave."The decision follows a bloodbath at the program. Veteran correspondent Scott Pelley was fired Tuesday after he told the New York Times that CBS brass has repeatedly pressured him to insert bias into his stories."She's murdering '60 Minutes,'" Pelley said of CBS Editor-in-Chief Bari Weiss."She does not love this place. She was brought in to kill it and is doing exactly that."Prior to Pelley's firing, CBS also terminated correspondents Cecilia Vega and Sharyn Alfonsi, as well as executive producer Tanya Simon. Anderson Cooper, who worked on the show's latest season, exited in May.Latest Live UpdatesTrump Tells Crowd Olympian's Leg Is 'Like A Rock' While Wearing Athlete's MedalPresident Donald Trump called out to some of his supporters in the crowd during a farming event in Wisconsin, including Jordan Stolz, who won gold in Olympic speedskating earlier this year. Stolz then stood and presented Trump with what appeared to be an Olympic gold medal, laying it around the president’s neck.“I’m keeping it!” Trump joked to the crowd as he sat back down. “I’m keeping it, Jordan, I’m not giving it back. I’m a very good guy for keeping gold. I like gold. I’m never giving this back — congratulations.”“I forgot to touch his leg. I didn’t want to do that. But I can tell you one thing: His leg is like a rock,” Trump said. “Two gold medals, wow.”The president has something of a habit of commenting on physically fit male bodies around him. He introduced the man sitting next to him, former NFL linebacker Joe Thomas, as “one hell of a physical specimen.”“I thought I was big until I met you, Joe,” Trump said. Later, he added: "Look at the size of this guy! Boy oh boy ... he's a good-looking man."Friday's event was also, somehow, not the first time an Olympian has presented Trump with a medal. Earlier this year, bobsledder Kaillie Humphries gave the president an Order of Ikkos medal, an honorary award athletes give to influential mentors.Trump To Farmers: 'Your Life Is Much Better Than My Life'President Donald Trump told a group of farmers at an agricultural roundtable in Wisconsin that they have better lives than him."People that are on farms love being on farms," Trump said. "You wouldn’t trade my life — you wouldn’t want my life. Believe me, you don’t want it. Your life is much better than my life.""You have a nice, safe, beautiful life," he added.Trump Brags About Black Unemployment, Then Admits He Has No Source For The StatPresident Donald Trump bragged about the African-American joblessness rate while at an agricultural roundtable in Wisconsin, then conceded he did not have a source for the data point. “African American unemployment is now doing better than it's ever done,” Trump claimed. “And I don't know where that stat came from, but I'll take it. I don't know where the hell that stat came from, but we'll take it."In reality, unemployment for Black workers hit a record low in President Joe Biden's administration, and has since risen.Trump Opens Roundtable By Saying He Got Mad At NBC Because It Was RainingPresident Donald Trump is in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, this afternoon, for an agriculture roundtable. He kicked things off two hours late by complaining about an interview he’d just concluded, apparently with NBC News, in a barn.“I just did an interview in the most beautiful barn I’ve ever seen,” he told the crowd. “But it was raining. And it was with, uh NBC fake news, and because it was raining I got a little bit angry at them. I was not happy with that.”The president then proceeded to inform the crowd how to spell the word “dumb” and how the word can be modified to call Democrats “dum.”“A lot of people don’t know ‘dumb’ has a ‘B’,” he helpfully explained.Ex-CIA Officer Accused Of Stealing Millions In Gold Bars To Stay Jailed Until TrialA former CIA officer accused of stealing $40 million in gold bars and stashing them at his Virginia home will remain in jail until his trial, a judge ruled Friday. Federal prosecutors characterized David Rush as a “master manipulator” and a “tremendous fraud," according to reporters in the courtroom. Rush was arrested last month after FBI agents discovered roughly 303 gold bars, $2 million in cash and more than 30 luxury watches inside his Virginia home. A former senior CIA officer, Rush worked as a liaison to the Pentagon's highly sensitive nuclear submarine program, NBC News reported. Trump Doesn’t Care You Can’t Afford NBA Tickets: ‘That’s The Way Life Is’President Donald Trump is planning to attend Game 3 of the NBA finals, tickets for which are selling for upwards of $8,000. And he doesn’t give one hoot if that’s prohibitively expensive for everyday Americans.“They can watch it on television,” he told a reporter during a gaggle on Air Force One. “It's sort of semi-free to watch it on television. That’s the way life goes.”Trump added that if the teams were worse, tickets would be cheaper and “you could go very easily.”“That’s the way life is,” he said.Q: The NBA Finals game you're going to, the cheapest ticket price is $8,000. Everyday Americans can't afford these sporting events.TRUMP: You can watch it on TV. It's sort of semi-free to watch it on TV. That's the way life goes. pic.twitter.com/eEAxMX3SEp— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) June 5, 2026Trump Takes Credit For 'Encouragement' Of John Bolton ProsecutionIn a strange rant aboard Air Force One, President Donald Trump appeared to take credit for the criminal case against his former national security adviser, John Bolton, who is expected to plead guilty to mishandling classified documents. "It's a great honor to have helped from the standpoint of encouragement," Trump said, without elaborating on what constituted "encouragement." During his second term, Trump has explicitly called for the prosecution of his political enemies, a number of whom have faced federal criminal charges."I looked at John Bolton as somebody that was a very dishonest guy and not a smart guy," Trump told reporters on Friday. "I guess he's paying the price for certainly being dishonest." When asked about his reaction to the expected plea deal, Trump launched into a tirade about his experience working with Bolton for a year during his first term."He wanted to go to war with anybody that opened their mouth," he said. "He always wanted to kill people in war. And that was OK for me as long as I didn't listen to him, and I didn't."In October, Bolton was indicted on 18 counts of either retaining or disseminating classified information for allegedly keeping diary-like entires from Trump’s first term at his Maryland home.He's expected to plead guilty to a single count of retaining classified information and has agreed to pay $2.25 million in legal fines as part of the agreement. He faces a possible sentence of probation or up to 5 years in prison. Trump Defends High Gas Prices: 'People Thought It Was Going To Be A Lot Worse'President Donald Trump defended the skyrocketing cost of gas and oil that he caused when deciding to go to war with Iran."But I will say, people thought it was going to be a lot worse," Trump told reporters Friday on Air Force One. "You know, today I looked at $96 a barrel, people thought it was going to be $300 a barrel. And in the meantime, we're having great success with Iran. They're not gonna have a nuclear weapon. And they're in no position to have a nuclear weapon."Oil prices rose on Friday.Putin Rejects Zelenskyy's Offer To Meet, Saying He Sees 'No Point' In ItRussian President Vladimir Putin on Friday rejected a proposal by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for a face-to-face meeting on the 4-year-old conflict, saying he sees “no point” in it.Thursday’s letter, the first public message Zelenskyy has written directly to Putin since Russia sent troops into Ukraine in 2022, was a sweeping critique of the Russian leader’s 26 years in power as well as some taunts about his age.Read more, via the Associated Press:Chicago Bears Move Forward With Plan To Leave Chicago — And IllinoisAfter a protracted game of will-they-or-won’t-they, the Chicago Bears Board of Directors voted to move forward with plans to move the team to Hammond, Indiana.“We believe a world-class stadium project in Hammond will transform the region, connecting Northwest Indiana to the South Side of Chicago through the Loop and across neighborhoods and suburbs stretching north of the city,” the team said in a statement.“It will bring Chicagoland together and deliver new opportunities to its residents and businesses.”The NFL franchise has played in downtown Chicago at Soldier Field since 1971, having relocated from Wrigley Field, where they previously shared a field with the Cubs beginning in 1921.While the move isn't yet final, as any new stadium would have to clear several regulatory hurdles, ESPN's Adam Schefter quoted one source as saying, "barring anything very strange, it's a done deal."See All Updates