Brady Room Anger, Shari’s Saga, Cont’d. & The Pat McGrath Trap

Happy Fourth of July, and welcome back to The Daily Courant, your afternoon download of what’s new at Puck.

Today, we lead off with Dylan Byers’ piercing view inside the Brady briefing room, where the White House press corps is working through the anger stage of its self-reckoning over Biden’s health saga—and furiously blaming everyone but themselves for missing the real story.

Then, below the fold: Julia Ioffe surveys her top sources about how America’s political crisis is playing abroad. Abby Livingston examines whether Biden’s campaign will die on the Hill. Rachel Strugatz unravels the fate of Pat McGrath Labs after its billion-dollar valuation. Bill Cohan measures the deal heat coming off the restarted Redstone/Ellison talks. And on The Powers That Be, Eriq Gardner joins Peter Hamby to decipher the recent Supreme Court ruling on presidential immunity.

DYLAN BYERS

Less than a week after the disastrous Biden debate, the White House press corps is pissed—furious at the White House, annoyed at each other—and ready to take the gloves off.

JULIA IOFFE

Overseas political observers are asking how the world’s greatest democracy ended up with the choice of Biden versus Trump: “We see the same videos—and debates.”

ABBY LIVINGSTON

Support for Biden is plunging on Capitol Hill as members panic about their political futures, raising the prospect that the former Senate fixture’s political career may be undone in the same arena where he first made his name.

RACHEL STRUGATZ

Six years after an eye-popping $1 billion valuation, Pat McGrath Labs is still trying to translate its brilliant but media-shy founder’s magic into commercial potential.