The Newsmax Exodus, DeSantis vs. Disney, D.C. Leak Fears

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

Today, we lead Teddy Schleifer’s special update on Jeff Bezos’s Washington Commanders bid: for now, it seems the Amazon founder is officially punting. But has another team already entered his crosshairs?

Then, below the fold: Teddy probes the silence of former FTX exec Ryan Salame and reveals Nikki Haley’s new admirer in Silicon Valley. Julia Ioffe talks to Senate Intel chair Mark Warner about D.C.’s deepest TikTok fears. Tara Palmeri chronicles the great Newsmax exodus. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Julia rap about the documents leak that has Washington in a tizzy, while Eriq Gardner and Ben Landy dig into DeSantis vs. Disney.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

(For now.) Will he set his sights on the Seahawks?

JULIA IOFFE

A candid conversation with the chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee on the Ukraine leak, his proposed social media legislation, Putin, Xi, and Elon Musk.

TEDDY SCHLEIFER

Scoops from the internal rumblings in and around the three comma club: the latest details about Bezos’s Commanders interest, the tech G.O.P. bundling wars, and the silence of FTX’s CC-2, Ryan Salame.

TARA PALMERI

The former White House flack turned television personality is out at Newsmax, alongside three high-level executives, amid a wave of testy contract negotiations. Could he return to the Trump bosom?