CPACalypse Now, CNN’s Open Lane, S.B.F. Plea Bargains

Welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon roundup of Puck’s latest reporting.

Today, we lead with Dylan Byers’s insider report on the schisms within Fox News, where concurrent scandals have fomented an “internal battle” between the network’s stars. Is this the opening Chris Licht has been waiting for?

Then, below the fold: Bill Cohan presages Big Law’s foray into the public markets. Tina Nguyen details CPAC’s contraction into a MAGA-world sideshow. And on The Powers That Be, Tara Palmeri and Peter Hamby explain why actor Hill Harper is giving Michigan Democrats conniptions, while Teddy Schleifer details S.B.F.’s legal quandary and whether he would ever accept a plea bargain.

DYLAN BYERS

Inside Fox News, the network is starting to manifest the same tensions and schisms as the party it covers. Plus, news and notes on Licht’s pivot and Semafor’s controversial partnership.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Fifty years ago, DLJ changed Wall Street forever by altering the conventional wisdom as the first private investment bank to go public in an I.P.O. It set off a tidal wave of followers. Now, is Big Law ready for its moment?

TINA NGUYEN

An insider’s analysis of how D.C.’s preeminent conservative political summit lost its clout.

PETER HAMBY, TARA PALMERI, BEN LANDY, and TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Tara Palmeri joins Peter Hamby to dissect the Democrat-on-Democrat Senate battle shaping up in Michigan, where actor Hill Harper has emerged as a legitimate contender. Then Ben Landy and Teddy Schleifer discuss the latest twists in S.B.F.’s fraud case.