After having been silent on the May 21 release of the Democratic National Committee’s comically bad autopsy on the 2024 election, CBS and NBC broke the broadcast network-wide blackout across their lead morning and evening newscasts with mentions on Wednesday and Thursday once former First Lady Jill Biden spoke out about Joe Biden’s infamous June 2024 debate performance.
This leaves Disney-owned ABC News with zero mentions on Good Morning America or World News Tonight of their team’s 2024 election autopsy.
Wednesday’s NBC Nightly News featured this moment from anchor Tom Llamas and senior White House correspondent Gabe Gutierrez reacting to Jill’s upcoming CBS Sunday Morning interview.
Once Llamas noted “Democrats are still reckoning with that debate,” Gutierrez replied Biden’s debate performance “was not even referenced in the recent DNC autopsy.”
Wednesday’s ‘NBC Nightly News’ featured the first ever mention on any of the broadcast networks lead morning or evening newscasts of the 2024 DNC autopsy.@GabeGutierrez brought it up in reaction to Jill Biden’s ‘CBS Sunday Morning’ interview abou Joe’s disastrous debate:… pic.twitter.com/XWEFQDTYxC
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 28, 2026
“And the issue of transparency is now threatening to loom over the midterms, particularly because her answer is so different from what we heard from top Democrats at the time,” Gutierrez added.
Thursday’s CBS Mornings provided the other allusion to this buried storyline on the networks (outside of their Sunday morning talk shows and streaming platforms).
Senior White House correspondent Weijia Jiang — who hammered Biden officials with hardballs in the days after the debate — told viewers: “A long-awaited new report from the Democratic National Committee does not address Biden’s decision to run at his age while there were questions about his health.”
Thursday’s ‘CBS Mornings’ followed suit with @Weijia Jiang including this one-sentence mention of the 2024 DNC autopsy at the end of her report on Jill Biden’s upcoming ‘Sunday Morning’ interview: “A long-awaited new report from the Democratic National Committee does not address… pic.twitter.com/NBYWg2WYH9
— Curtis Houck (@CurtisHouck) May 28, 2026
Earlier in her piece, Jiang improved upon the disastrous spin all three networks (ABC, CBS, and NBC) provided Thursday night because she pointed out Jill’s new fear Joe was having a stroke was in contradiction to her public proclamations after the debate.
“But shortly after the debate, she had a very different reaction,” Jiang said as a segue to a clip of Jill praising Joe at a post-debate rally for having done “such a great job” and “answered every question.”
To see the relevant CBS transcript from May 28, click here.
