Judgement of Solomon, Biden’s Nuclear Novocaine, Cable News Blues

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

Today, we lead with Dylan Byers’ trifecta of cable news nuggets: the ironies of Maddow’s ratings boomlet, the machinations behind CNN’s primetime shakeup, and how CBS News fixed its “Neeraj problem.”

Plus, below the fold: Tina Nguyen fleshes out how Trump might dominate next week’s G.O.P. debates in absentia. Bill Cohan reveals how Goldmanites are reacting to the barrage of press targeting David Solomon. And on The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby grills Bill with pressing Wall Street questions, while Julia Ioffe and Ben Landy chat about a new twist in the Biden-Putin dynamic.

DYLAN BYERS

News and notes on the cable news trade—CNN’s shakeup, the youth double-down, and CBS News’ new chapter.

TINA NGUYEN

As Milwaukee beckons, big questions loom: Will Trump and Tucker counterprogram the stage? Is Vivek really a MAGA player? And is DeSantis truly cooked—not just this time around, but for the next cycle, too?

WILLIAM D. COHAN

Just when it seemed as though David Solomon was in the middle of an August reprieve, the embattled Goldman C.E.O. has found himself once again in the crosshairs, via back-to-back fusillades in the media last week. “Still standing,” quipped Tony Fratto, Goldman head of communications, to me in a weekend text.

PETER HAMBY, BILL COHAN, BEN LANDY and JULIA IOFFE

Bill Cohan joins Peter to discuss the latest P.R. headaches facing David Solomon, Goldman Sachs’ C.E.O., and whether the narrative has become hyperbolic. Then Julia Ioffe and Ben Landy chat about a new twist in the Biden-Putin dynamic.