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The most successful news magazine in TV history, offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news.
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Thousands of burning embers the size of golf balls were thrown ahead of the fires by strong winds, says L.A. County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone. The result: unlike most fires that run uphill, these blasted downhill, Marrone says.
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President Trump’s press secretary, Kayleigh McEnany, gave us a heavy book that she described as the president’s health care plan. It was filled with executive orders and congressional initiatives, but no comprehensive healthcare plan.
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Once an avid runner, Dr. Anthony Fauci, now 79, power walks. Since receiving death threats, he is now accompanied by a security detail.
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Cecilia Vega asks: “Is there a way to carry out mass deportation without separating families?”. “Of course there is. Families can be deported together,” says Tom Homan, head of ICE during Trump’s family separation policy.
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Peter Daszak is a British-born American PhD who’s spent a career discovering dangerous viruses in wildlife, especially bats. In 2003, he warned 60 Minutes a pandemic was coming. Two weeks ago, NIH funding for his virology research was killed.
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“Facebook has realized that if they change the algorithm to be safer, people will spend less time on the site, they'll click on less ads, they'll make less money,” says Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen.
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She has been known to the world as “Emily Doe,” the sexual assault victim of Stanford swimmer Brock Turner. Now she’s revealing her name and face. Chanel Miller, here reading her victim impact statement, gives her first interview to "60 Minutes"
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Arnav Kapur, a student in MIT’s Media Lab, has developed a system to surf the internet with his mind. He silently Googled our questions and heard the answers through vibrations transmitted through his skull and into his inner ear.
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The White House switchboard connected a call to a rioter while the Capitol was under siege on January 6, 2021, according to former January 6 committee staffer Denver Riggleman. “I only know one end of that call,” Riggleman said.
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“I am not a traitor. I am not a spy. I am somebody who only acted out of love for what this country stands for.” Reality Winner explains why she leaked to the media classified information on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election.
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Retired federal judge Thomas Griffith, a conservative, co-authored a report looking into the 2020 election. He says Jan. 6 protestors were duped. “All the evidence points in one direction,” he says. “And that is that President Biden won, and President Trump lost.”
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Stoneman Douglas student tells 60 Minutes why arming teachers is "stupid." Emma Gonzalez, a survivor of last month's school shooting in Florida, is fighting for gun safety. But there's one proposal she doesn't want to see implemented.
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Denver Riggleman says that text messages turned over to the January 6th committee by former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows provide “irrefutable” proof of a plot to overturn the 2020 presidential election.
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“You will go to college for free!”. Pete Kadens, a Chicago millionaire who retired at 40, created a charity called Hope Chicago that will pay for in-state college tuition, room and board, and books for 30,000 Chicago high school students.
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60 Minutes discovered the U.S. is financing more than weapons in Ukraine. The government is buying seeds/fertilizer for farmers, paying the salaries of 57,000 first responders and subsidizing small businesses.
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These photos show children working in a Nebraska slaughterhouse – their faces are obscured. The Labor Department found more than 100 children were working in dangerous conditions, some reporting chemical burns. 60 Minutes reports, tonight.
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Chanel Miller’s response to online critics who said she was partly to blame for the assault because she had too much to drink.
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“We can go on and on with all the farcical claims alleging interference in the 2020 election, but the proof is in the ballots. The recounts are consistent with the initial count,” says Krebs. “The American people should have 100% confidence in their vote.”
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Tonight, an inside look at a group of veteran Republican strategists working hard to convince Republican voters to vote for Joe Biden.
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Republican Philadelphia City Commissioner Al Schmidt says his office, which runs the vote count, has received death threats.
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Two high school seniors solved a mathematical puzzle that was thought to be impossible for 2,000 years. @BillWhitakerCBS reports, Sunday.
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Andy Rooney landed on the beach of Normandy days after D-Day, 80 years ago today. In 2004, he shared a firsthand account of “a day unlike any other.”. “It’s hard for anyone who has been in a war to describe the terror of it to anyone who hasn’t,” he said.
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Every single night, Pope Francis says he calls to check in on the priest at the only Catholic Church in Gaza. "The other day they were happy because they managed to eat some meat. The rest of the time they eat flour, things made of flour," says the pope.
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“It’s almost like [Chinese company Bytedance] recognize[s] that technology’s influencing kids’ development, and they make their domestic version a spinach TikTok, while they ship the opium version to the rest of the world,” says Tristan Harris.
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For more than half a century, the major party candidates for president have sat down with 60 Minutes. This year, Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump accepted our invitation. Unfortunately, last week Trump canceled.
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“We paid for the abortion in cash so that there wasn't a paper trail of our Texas credit cards paying for an abortion,” says Dani Mathisen. At 20 weeks pregnant, she learned her baby girl had a lethal condition, and was forced to leave the state to get care.
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"I hear a lot of people say, 'The talk of a mass deportation is racist. It's threatening to the immigrant community,'" says Tom Homan, Trump’s former acting director of immigration enforcement. He argues it should only “be threatening to the illegal immigrant community.”
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“Evidence. Bring it. Any US attorney, any district attorney. Bring the evidence and show them,” says former Pennsylvania Governor Tom Corbett, a Republican, responding to Trump’s claim that Democrats rigged the 2020 election.
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.@AOC says the president is a racist, “no question.” The White House told 60 Minutes that President Trump “has repeatedly condemned racism and bigotry in all forms.”
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"A lot of folks want to brand me a flamethrower." In this unaired clip, Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says she's actually a "consensus builder."
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A Programming Note: 60 Minutes is scheduled to air a primetime election special on a Monday edition of the broadcast on October 7 at 8 PM. For over half a century, 60 Minutes has invited the Democratic and Republican tickets to appear on our broadcast as Americans head to the.
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Rare footage shows chemical attack in Syria. A doctor who treated victims of the attack said it was 'like Judgment Day, the apocalypse.' 60 Minutes, Sunday.
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“I am somebody who does not blame the current partisanship solely on Donald Trump or solely on social media,” says Barack Obama. “You already saw some of these trends taking place early in my presidency. But I do think they've kept on getting worse.”
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The copy of the Homeland Security order to arrest and detain all adults who crossed the border illegally to seek asylum was censored. What the White House didn’t want the public to see was that child separation began 9 months earlier than initially acknowledged.
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“We told [Fox News]. We told them in real-time. Others told them. Government officials told them. Partisan government officials told them… This is not a matter of not knowing the truth. They knew the truth,” Dominion CEO John Poulos tells @andersoncooper.
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Election attorney Ben Ginsberg joined fellow conservatives in co-authoring a report that examined 2020 election lawsuits. “The evidence to back up the allegations of fraud and elections being unreliable simply does not exist,” he says.
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No, the government didn’t massacre billions of birds and replace them with drones. The Birds Aren’t Real conspiracy is pure parody, meant to mirror the absurdity of conspiracy theories that have taken flight across the country, says founder Peter McIndoe
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60 Minutes reached out to Buckingham Palace for comment. Palace representatives demanded that before considering commenting we provide them with our report prior to it airing, which is something 60 Minutes does not do.
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U.S. Attorney Matthew Graves says that the Jan. 6 prosecution is "focused on holding people accountable for violent and destructive conduct.". He emphasizes: "No one is being prosecuted for their views. They're being prosecuted for their acts." .
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Campaign finance reports obtained by 60 Minutes show that weeks before Florida Governor Ron DeSantis announced a partnership with Publix grocery stores to distribute the vaccine in its pharmacies, Publix donated $100,000 to his PAC.
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Comedian Dave Chappelle recently sparked outrage, and also support, for his latest Netflix comedy special. Asked if Chappelle crossed a line, Trevor Noah says: “[The] matter is a lot more complex than that” for him and for many Americans.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s was working as a waitress and bartender when she decided to run for Congress. Like many millennials, she had student loans to pay and no health insurance. “When you can’t have healthcare, that is not dignified,” she says.
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FTC Chair Lina Khan shows Lesley Stahl an asthma inhaler that costs dollars in Europe but hundreds in the U.S. She says drugmakers register patents on inhaler parts like the cap-strap to keep low-cost generics off the market.
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“If Roe v. Wade can fall, anything can fall. Social Security can fall. Medicare can fall. Voting rights can fall. And God help us all, but democracy itself can fall,” says Democratic House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries.
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“The version of Facebook that exists today is tearing our societies apart and causing ethnic violence around the world,” says former Facebook employee France Haugen. She points to Myanmar, where the military used Facebook to launch a genocide.
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When we interviewed Peter Navarro, the White House official tasked with coordinating national PPE supplies, he was, at times, more interested in questioning 60 Minutes' record than discussing the Trump administration’s preparations for COVID-19.
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The president of Mexico’s proposal for stemming immigration includes:. - The U.S. commit $20 billion a year to poor countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.-Lift sanctions on Venezuela .-End the Cuban embargo .-Legalize law-abiding Mexicans living in the U.S.
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“I don't know who's building it, who's got the technology, who's got the brains. But there's something out there that was better than our airplane,” says fmr. Navy pilot David Fravor about his experience with a UFO off the Pacific coast in 2004.
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“I say the president is the wrong man for the job.” Bob Woodward says he came to this conclusion “based on evidence, overwhelming evidence.”
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Three former administration officials tell us President Trump “pressured” government officials to direct wall contracts to Fisher Sand and Gravel. The company has been awarded almost $2 billion in contracts, despite questions about the quality of its work.
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Former President Barack Obama says President Trump should concede: “When your time is up, then it is your job to put the country first and think beyond your own ego, and your own interests, and your own disappointments.”
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The Republican lawyer who helped spearhead George W. Bush’s legal strategy during the 2000 Florida recount, urges President Trump to respect the outcome of this election. “Sir, you need to take a step back, look at the results. It is a democracy.”.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith alleges the multistate scheme was designed to position VP Mike Pence to replace legitimate electors’ votes for Biden with fake elector votes for Trump and certify Trump as president.
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“It's emotional. It's hard to watch somebody change,” says Lady Gaga about performing with Tony Bennett, who has Alzheimer’s. “He really pushed through something to give the world the gift of knowing that things can change & you can still be magnificent.”
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“States who have gone looking for non-citizen voters have found shockingly few," says David Becker. He says Ohio announced that in over a decade, it found six possible cases of non-citizens voting.
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"Man can turn into an animal in no time. All he needs is permission. As soon as permission is given from higher-ups, from the government, it accelerates," says Holocaust survivor Irene Weiss.
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“I can disagree with Bernie Sanders on 57 issues… But you know what he's not? He's not un-American. Donald Trump is fundamentally un-American,” says the Lincoln Project’s Rick Wilson, media consultant and ad maker for Republicans like Giuliani and Rubio.
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There’s only one gun store in Mexico. It’s located on a heavily guarded military base in Mexico City. Before customers can enter, they must show proof of passing psychological tests, drug screenings, and extensive background checks.
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“I don’t care. I believe Putin,” Pres Trump allegedly said, rejecting U.S. intelligence regarding North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile capability. McCabe says he heard this from an FBI official who was at the meeting with POTUS.
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“Is that kind of misrepresentation, isn't that more than just being a knucklehead?” Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz has faced criticism for making false claims about his travels to Asia in the 1980s. Walz brushed it off as being a “knucklehead” in the VP debate.
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Monday, on a special election edition of 60 Minutes: Bill Whitaker sits down with Vice President Kamala Harris and Governor Tim Walz as the race for the White House enters its final month. The Republican ticket declined 60 Minutes' interview request, after initially accepting.
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"We have to tell them over and over again, 'Voter suppression's fake. Voter fraud is fake. It's used to raise money and get you angry,'" says Gabriel Sterling, Georgia’s chief operating officer for the secretary of state.
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“They are attacking another country. They are demolishing infrastructure. They are killing civilians.”. Prime Minister of Finland Sanna Marin said that Russian aggression poses a threat to all of Europe.
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“I was speaking to the man who had just … won the election for the presidency and who might have done so with the aid of the government of Russia." Former FBI acting director Andrew McCabe, Sunday on 60 Minutes.
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Ben Mandell, a licensed insurance adjuster, says most of his Hurricane Ian reports were altered. He says he was told to leave roof replacements off his reports, but he refused, telling his managers that was illegal. Shortly after, he was fired.
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“I'm not telling you that it doesn't sound wacky. What I'm telling you, it's real,” says Luis Elizondo, a 20-year veteran of covert military intelligence operations, about UFOs. “What is it? What are its intentions? What are its capabilities?”
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Four years before the COVID-19 pandemic, Dr. Fauci told 60 Minutes he was concerned about a flu-like "respiratory-borne virus that’s easily transmittable… [with] a high degree of morbidity and mortality… similar to the very tragic pandemic flu of 1918.”
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Ginni Thomas, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas’ wife, texted links tied to QAnon to ex-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows, according to former Jan. 6th staffer Denver Riggleman. Riggleman says her actions “should be an eye opener for everybody”
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“There is no evidence whatsoever that voter fraud takes place in any way that is widespread at all,” says Pennsylvania’s top election official Al Schmidt.
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Chairman of the Joint Chiefs Gen. Mark Milley is responding to comments by former President Donald Trump suggesting that Milley deserves to be executed for communications the general had with China.
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They’ve worked on election campaigns for big-name Republicans like Giuliani, Rubio, McCain, Kasich, and George W. Bush. Now these Republican strategists have banded together to defeat the candidate of their own party. Inside the Lincoln Project, tonight.
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Special Counsel Jack Smith alleges the multistate scheme was designed to position VP Mike Pence to replace legitimate electors’ votes for Biden with fake elector votes for Trump and certify Trump as president.
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Instead of considering DEI (diversity, equity, and inclusion), the new University of Austin emphasizes what some call MEI (merit, excellence, and intelligence).
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Tony Bennett has Alzheimer's Disease, but when it comes time for him to sing, the 95-year-old crooner emerges from the fog of dementia. Sunday, @andersoncooper talks with Lady Gaga and others about Bennett’s onstage transformation.
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Few rookie members of Congress have put such bold ideas on the national agenda and stirred up as much controversy as Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez who supports a #GreenNewDeal and says, “only radicals have changed this country.”
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Documents obtained by 60 Minutes show OpenAI agreed to pay Sama, an American outsourcing firm, $12.50 an hour per Kenyan worker - far higher than the $2 an hour workers say they got. Sama says it pays a fair wage for the region.
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Rarely in American politics has a new industry spent so much money, with such apparent impact, as the cryptocurrency business did in the last election. This Sunday, Margaret Brennan reports on the industry's hopes for the new “pro-crypto” administration.
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Prince Harry tells @andersoncooper he was the target of press leaks after private conversations with members of the Royal Family.
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“Putin, sadly, has got all of our political class, every single one of us, including the media, exactly where he wants us.” Fiona Hill speaks to Lesley Stahl in her first interview since the impeachment inquiry. Watch tomorrow on 60 Minutes.
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“I was wrong. I was wrong.” says Rep Liz Cheney about condemning same-sex marriage in 2013, a position that caused a split with her sister Mary, who is married to a woman. Rep Cheney says the sisters are now reconciled. “I love my sister very much.”
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"I don't even know how they make it up. You know? Stories about FEMA seizing trailers and draining tankers and we’re going, ‘That’s just not really happening,’" says Jeff Howell, who is now dealing with a storm of disinformation.
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Former U.S. diplomat Hala Rharrit said she documented images coming out of Gaza for the State Department – “fragments of U.S. bombs next to massacres of mostly children.” . Warning: This clip contains graphic images from the war in Gaza.
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Former January 6 committee senior staffer Denver Riggleman says Mark Meadows’ text trove revealed a “roadmap to an attempted coup”
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“I don’t have any more lives [to give].”. President Zelenskyy explains why he has been so blunt when speaking with NATO and the UN Security Council, asking for help.
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“I wish you would interview Joe Biden like you interview me,” President Trump says to Lesley Stahl.
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“It’s like modern-day slavery. Because it’s cheap labor,” says Nerima Wako-Ojiwa, a Kenyan civil rights activist. Big American tech companies advertise AI jobs as a ticket to the future, but she calls the workspaces AI sweatshops.
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President Trump’s trade advisor, Peter Navarro, calls the suggestion that there were warnings of catastrophic consequences from a pandemic “fake news.” But after our interview, a late January memo he wrote surfaced warning almost exactly that.
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“What we've seen is what some people call truth decay. Something that's been accelerated by outgoing President Trump, the sense that not only do we not have to tell the truth, but the truth doesn't even matter,” says former President Obama.
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“It was illogical; it could not be explained; it was crazy,” says Ambassador Bill Taylor about the Trump administration withholding military aid from Ukraine while pressing for investigations of Democrats.
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“I have confidence in the security of this election… Any attacks on the election were not successful,” says Chris Krebs, former head of CISA, a federal agency charged with election security. POTUS fired Krebs after CISA called the 2020 election secure.
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“Your success now is our country’s success. I’m rooting hard for you.” — Former President Bill Clinton reads from the letter outgoing President George H. W. Bush left for him in the Oval Office.
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VP Harris says since Donald Trump canceled his interview with 60 Minutes, voters should watch his rallies instead. “You're going to hear conversations that are about himself and all of his personal grievances,” she said. “What you will not hear is anything about you.”
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At the end of Tony Bennett’s 2021 performance, Lady Gaga escorted him off the stage one last time. “Just simply being the woman that got to walk him offstage, that's enough for me,” said Lady Gaga. Bennett died Friday at 96.
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Across the now-decimated Gaza Strip, America’s mark is everywhere. In footage shot by CBS News in May, the ground is littered with US-made ammunition casings – some used to prop up tents, others turned into playthings by children.
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“It's… a travesty what's happening right now with all these death threats to election officials, to secretaries of state,” says Chris Krebs, former director of CISA. “They're defending democracy.”
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Last year, the number of OB-GYN resident applicants in Texas dropped 16%. “Not only do they not want to train here, but that also means that they won't want to practice here,” says Dr. Emily Briggs.
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60 Minutes has identified a number of cases in Oklahoma in which, under state law, a woman received harsher punishments for “enabling child abuse” than the man who abused the child.
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“Some executives have even boasted on earnings calls that inflation is great for their bottom line,” says FTC Chair Lina Khan. Khan suggests corporate greed, on top of supply chain issues, contributes to overall grocery prices staying so high.
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Elon Musk had to step down as Tesla’s chair. So did he lose power? He handpicked his successor, and when asked about her watching over him, he says: “That's not realistic… I'm the largest shareholder in the company.” Does he want to be chair again? “No.”
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“Our kids should be learning how to read and write, not duck and cover,” an emotional President Biden tells 60 Minutes when asked about the Uvalde, Texas, elementary school massacre.
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Two of Merrick Garland’s relatives were murdered in the Holocaust. Garland says his family’s history is the reason he devoted his life to upholding the rule of law.
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