Third Party Fantasies, CNN’s Kaitlan Era, TV Writer Travails

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

Today, we lead with Bill Cohan’s vibrant memoir of his formative years as a Lazard banker, detailing the firm’s halcyon days to its present doldrums. What can it do to become exceptional again?

Then, below the fold: Tina Nguyen considers the ramifications of Tucker Carlson’s pivot to social video. Dylan Byers rings in CNN’s Kaitlan Collins era with a scoop. On The Powers That Be, Peter Hamby and Tara Palmeri discuss the third-party, anti-Trump, anti-Biden fantasy. And on The Town, Matt Belloni is joined by showrunner Mike Schur to unpack the travails of the modern TV writer.

WILLIAM D. COHAN

How Wall Street’s most mysterious, enigmatic, and flamboyant firm—“l’haute banque d’affaires vis-à-vis the world”—was brought down by fate and tragedy, and what it can do to become exceptional again.

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TINA NGUYEN

Carlson’s pivot to social video may be a paradigm-shifting blow to cable news and YouTube, alike. Or maybe he was simply out of better options.

PETER HAMBY & TARA PALMERI

Tara Palmeri joins Peter to discuss the third-party anti-Trump, anti-Biden fantasy—and Joe Manchin’s potential role in the mix.

DYLAN BYERS

Kaitlan is Licht’s answer at 9 p.m.—the great conservative hope upon which his legacy will likely hang.