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In tonight’s edition, we’ll reveal the behind-the-scenes legal maneuvers from a well-known media defamation firm after “The Tell” author Amy Griffin spoke with New York magazine, reflecting on what she views as a “hit piece” from The New York Times – and how the Times isn’t backing down.

Also, Sir Will Lewis has been mostly absent from public view since his ousting by Jeff Bezos at The Washington Post last year. Tonight, we have news about a new venture Lewis is cooking up with a top D.C. flack and fixer. 

Plus, podcaster turned author Ari Emanuel has been on quite the press tour of late to promote his memoir “Roll The Calls.” What hasn’t been revealed publicly is who was at – and what was discussed at his super secret retreat “The Weekend.” But don’t you know it, Breaker spent their ‘weekend’ on the phone with sources who have all the details.

Finally, a top ABC News exec exits the “House of Mouse.” We have scene reports from two big media-heavy book parties, and just why were three of the New York Times’ biggest names at Gloria Steinem’s Upper East Side brownstone on Friday Afternoon?

Mentioned tonight: Jodi Kantor, Katie Kingsbury, Andrew Ross Sorkin, Matea Gold, Robert Thomson, Emma Tucker, Evan Gershkovich, Almar Latour, Liz Harris, David Remnick, Esther Fein, Paul Whitlatch, Radhika Jones, Gordon Fairclough, Jason Conti, Yaroslav Trofimov, Simon Shuster, Christo Grozev, Wolfgang Schmidt, Margaret Sullivan, Joel Simon, Gideon Lewis-Kraus, Elyse Cheney, Adam Eaglin, Gillian Blake, Tina Brown, Len Blavatnik, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Sacha Baron Cohen, Julianna Margulies, Joshua Cohen, Pamela Paul, Tom Freston, Adam Gopnik, Adam Rubenstein, Douglas Murray, Bobby Kotick, Andrew Murfett, John Grisham, Conrad Black, Guy Raz, Jake Pearson, Jason Parham, Rachel Brodsky, Lindsey Weber, Bobby Finger, Jay Cheshes, Ken Bensinger, Stuart A. Thompson, Dave Schilling, Matt Brittin, Laura Kuenssberg, Steven Kurutz, Benji Madden, Joel Madden, Matthew Kassel, Jeff Zucker, Charlotte Klein, Paul Choix, Khadijah Sharif-Drinkard, Shayne Coplan, Adena Friedman, Jeremy Allaire, Mohamed El-Erian, Jennifer Connelly, Tom Clare, Joleene Altum, Oprah Winfrey, Katherine Rosman, Elisabeth Egan, Jessica Bennett, and more.