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The TV news business is experiencing some weird times. Both ABC News and CBS have been dealing with delicate lawsuits, and seeming to want to placate Donald Trump, while their journalists seethe – sometimes on the air. We go inside the newsrooms. 

We also have an update on the Vanity Fair editor search, look at the reverberations of Sewell Chan landing a new job in academia, and ask the people who live in the Sex and the City house on Perry Street exactly how bad it is to be inundated by tourists. 

Tonight’s edition also takes in Bob Iger, Dana Walden, Jonathan Karl, Rachel Scott, Martha Raddatz, Jake Tapper, Scott Pelley, Anna Wintour, Noah Shachtman, Roger Lynch, Sarah Jessica Parker and Emily Sundberg.

Ever since Ravi published a first person account about Sewell Chan we have been inundated with tips and questions. This week on the pod, which you can watch above, we met at Lume in the West Village, to answer those questions and unpack Chan’s dismissal from the Columbia Journalism Review. We think it reveals a bigger issue in the news industry -- leadership. (We've both had both great and terrible editors.) Which is why Bill Owens of 60 Minutes will be missed. We look at the race to replace him, and also theorise exactly what Sanjay Gupta does that justifies a $200k speaking fee.

Donald Trump gave an interview to ABC News – his first broadcast sit-down to mark his first hundred days – on Tuesday. In normal times it would have gone to Good Morning America and This Week host George Stephanopoulos or World News Tonight anchor David Muir.

But of course we don’t live in normal times. We live in times where ABC’s parent company Disney basically “donated” $15 million to Trump's presidential library to settle a borderline frivolous defamation lawsuit. 

Stephanopoulos is still seething that his bosses, including Bob Iger and Dana Walden, who were both conspicuously absent from this weekend’s White House correspondents dinner, folded like a cheap suit and signed off on the settlement.

Now we have learned that when ABC News bosses gave the White House a list of potential interviewers Stephanopoulos and Muir were…