Dana Taylor

As our listeners might imagine, investigative reporting on defense issues almost always involves confidential sources.

What happened after this Pentagon announcement?

And finally, I want to bring up the highly controversial settlement that CBS News made with the president after he sued them for airing what he called, quote, nothing but fake, corrupt anti-Trump propaganda, end quote.

Despite publicly issuing a statement that the suit was completely without merit, the network settled with Trump for $16 million, meanwhile, an $8 billion merger between

Paramount Global, which owns CBS News and Skydance Media, was awaiting approval from the FCC.

Tell me about the suit and what message it sent to other media outlets that Trump has sued.

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Thanks for having me.

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I'm Dana Taylor.

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