Lesley Stahl, Scott Jennings joins PBS ” Breaking the Deadlock ‘
“60 minutes” Correspondent Leslie Stahl and CNN contribution Scott Jennings belong to the coterie of journalists, politicians and legal experts participating in “the breaking of the impasse”, a new series of PBS and WGBH investigating how the nation could respond to a fictive crisissario President of President of President of President of President of President of President of President of President of President of President of the President of the population who asked a political detractor.
The episode is the second in the series, which takes its instructions from the Fred Friendly Seminars, a series on television on television orchestrated by the former president of CBS News and production partner with the venerable Edward R. Murrow in the early days of newsprogramming on television. Friendly and his wife, Ruth, helped to produce more than 100 seminars on PBS in the course of more than two decades. The seminars include everything, from medical care to nanotechnology to ethical decisions, made during a large number of high -pressure scenario.
The new episode of “Breaking the Deadlock: A Power Play” is being moderated by Aaron Tang, Professor at the UC Davis School of Law, and will premiere on Tuesday 20 May 2025, 9:00 pm Eastern, and will also stream via PBS.org, YouTube and the PBS app. The program is introduced by journalist Katie Couric.
Among those who participate in the panel of this episode are: Dr. Dave Brat, senior vice -president of Business Relations at Liberty University and former American representative from Virginia; Chris Christie, former Governor of New Jersey and managing partner at Christie 55 Solutions LLC; Hon. Allyson K. Duncan, retired American circuit judge; Rep. Dan Goldman, American representative of New York and former assistant -American lawyer; Alberto R. Gonzales, former American attorney -general and dean of Belmont University College of Law; Sarah Isgur, senior editor at “The Dispatch” and co-gastheer of the legal podcast “advisory opinions”; Scott Jennings, senior political contribution from CNN and partner at RunSwitch Public Relations; Tim Ryan, former American representative and senior consultant for the campaign of the Progressive Policy Institute for working Americans; Roger Severino, vice -president of domestic policy at the Heritage Foundation; Marc Short, former director of the White House Legal Affairs under President Donald Trump; Lesley Stahl, correspondent for CBS’s “60 minutes” and Jon Tester, former US Senator and Boer.
The pilot episode of “Deadlock” was recently honored with a nomination for the 46th annual news and documentary Emmy Awards, in the “Outstanding News Discussion & Analysis” category. Extra episodes are under development and are planned this year to launch.
