We open Tuesday with a striking look at how little Americans socialize, why Gen Z is spending less time face-to-face, and how phones, remote work and the pandemic change everyday interaction. Dawn Stensland then brings us the Supreme Court decision rejecting President Trump’s attempt to change mail-ballot rules before the midterms, the Philadelphia officer facing dismissal after Eugene Beauford is left in a bike lane before a fatal collision, charges against Lehigh Valley Phantoms employee Matthew Francis, Treva Harris’ pandemic-relief fraud sentence and the incredible video of a Philadelphia schoolgirl surviving after a truck runs over her. We also get into Landon Dickerson’s injury, Macklemore being removed from Ed Sheeran tour dates and the latest college football rankings before Nick Kayal’s Big Take turns directly to ICE, immigration enforcement and the Republican message heading toward November.
We move into Gavin Newsom’s presidential ambitions after he tells Jake Tapper that he would stay out of the race if Kamala Harris runs, and somehow the fishing setting sends Nick and Greg into their own fishing and hunting arguments. We revisit the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool controversy, watch Greg take his lumps after incorrectly putting “The Power of Love” on Huey Lewis and the News’ Sports, and dive into the backlash surrounding Sydney Sweeney’s Novig ad. The Cut Sheet brings Nancy Mace at Buc-ee’s, the terrifying Philadelphia truck video, Brandon Herrera’s old remarks about gun-control mothers, Mitch McConnell’s return to the Senate and Abdul El-Sayed pushing back on repeated Hasan Piker questions. Then a CBS investigation into Chinese billionaire Xu Bo’s reported use of U.S. surrogates leads us into citizenship, contracts and ethics before Oprah’s Lindsay Clancy discussion creates one of the morning’s most intense exchanges.
Matt Rooney joins us for the final stretch, where childbirth jokes quickly give way to Fight Club and an Eagles-fan brawl outside Stateside Live. We get Rooney’s view of the Supreme Court mail-ballot ruling, the SAVE Act and the filibuster before Pete Buttigieg and Kamala Harris spark a long debate over whether America is ready to elect an openly gay president. Phil Almquist handles Today in Music History before Dawn’s Big Three takes over: Jalen Hurts gives Northeast High School $600,000 for a new cooling system, Fox Business anchor Jackie DeAngelis sues Whole Foods over a 2023 dog attack, and a Fort Worth Montessori school faces a lawsuit over an alleged preschool fight involving a substitute teacher. We finish with the South Philadelphia sinkhole frustrating residents and Delaware’s primary ballot, including Senate challenger E. No-Trump Hansen.
