When Lesley Stahl Met Taylor Swift | 60 Minutes: A Second Look

Veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Mike Wallace once said that, in all his years as a journalist, very few interviews stayed with him like his time with Clint Hill, a former U.S. Secret Service agent on duty the day President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. During that interview, Hill stunned Wallace -- and the nation -- by admitting he felt responsible for the president's death. Hill would later say it was the first time he had ever spoken publicly about that day, and that his emotional reaction surprised even him. Now at 92 years old, Hill tells 60 Minutes: A Second Look why he spoke so candidly for an audience of millions, and how that interview with Mike Wallace may have changed the course of his life.Listen to new episodes of "60 Minutes: A Second Look" every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Days after President-elect Donald Trump won the election by moving nearly every county in the country towards the right, Scott Pelley travels to Northampton County, Pennsylvania to report on the shift. It’s the state’s bellwether county, which voted for nearly every president in the last century including President Biden in 2020 and President Trump last week. Why did Northampton flip this election cycle? Pelley speaks with longtime residents to find out.CBS News senior foreign correspondent Holly Williams turns the lens on a fellow war reporter on the frontline of the Russia-Ukraine war. She travels to Kharkiv to meet the fearless Andriy Tsaplienko, a Ukrainian journalist who is using his reporting to fight for his country’s survival. As Williams discovers, Tsaplienko’s relentless search for the facts serves as a powerful weapon to counter disinformation and propaganda. His battle to reveal the truth underscores the critical role journalists play in actively shaping the outcome of global crises where information is a battlefield.For centuries, the giants of the art world, like Michelangelo, have made a beeline for the world-famous Carrara marble quarries of Northern Tuscany, turning the white stone into marble masterpieces. Now, a fleet of robots has moved in, carving with pinpoint precision and sparking an art world fracas. Correspondent Bill Whitaker travels to Carrara and jumps into the fray: can a robot make art? While many contemporary A-listers are turning to robots for help, many of Italy’s hammer-and-chisel brigade are up in arms. They claim Italy’s artistic heritage is on the line.Correspondent Cecilia Vega reports from Spain on the unsolved shooting of a Russian defector in the seaside town of Villajoyosa. It's part of a pattern of recent falls from top floor windows, poisonings and accidental deaths of a growing number of enemies of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Vega investigates the suspected links to Russian intelligence services and examines how European governments are responding to Russian aggression on Western soil. Finally, she asks U.S. Intelligence officials whether Putin’s "War on the West" has reached U.S. territory.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Days before America elects its 60th president of the United States, all eyes are on Georgia after it was a center of the scheme to overthrow the 2020 election. In this year’s high-stakes race, correspondent Scott Pelley reports on how Georgia officials plan to ensure public trust, combat election fraud conspiracy theories, and protect the safety of poll workers. Since the Supreme Court overturned Roe versus Wade, 20 states have either banned or severely restricted abortions, six states have voted to protect access to them, and this Tuesday voters in 10 states will decide on adding abortion rights to their state constitutions. To better understand the profound impact of the fast changing and complex legal landscape, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi visited Texas, the first state to change its abortion laws. Alfonsi interviewed doctors and mothers who say the laws intended to stop abortions are resulting in unintended consequences, hurting women with desired pregnancies and the people who care for them. Tiny Denmark—with its population of six million of the world's wealthiest and healthiest people—is suddenly home to Europe's largest company, Novo Nordisk. The company's weight loss wonder drugs Ozempic and Wegovy have slimmed down millions while adding great heft to the Danish economy. The firm now has a market cap of roughly half a trillion dollars, which is larger than the entire country’s GDP. Jon Wertheim travels to the Baltic to see how a country with a slender ego is coping with this unlikely injection of fantastic wealth.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Name a successful comedian of the last five decades and chances are, they got their start on Saturday Night Live -- under the direction of Lorne Michaels. As SNL enters its 50th season, we share never-before-heard audio from Lesley Stahl's 2004 interview with the show’s famously private creator and executive producer, who allowed 60 Minutes cameras unique behind-the-scenes access. Stahl also spoke with Amy Poehler, Tina Fey and Seth Meyers as they pitched, wrote and rehearsed sketches up until 11:30 Saturday night. Plus, 60 Minutes producer Denise Schrier Cetta shares what it was like filming the same week as one of the most controversial musical performances in SNL history. If you enjoyed this episode of "60 Minutes: A Second Look", find and follow the show on your favorite podcast app. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Correspondent Cecilia Vega examines former President Donald Trump’s campaign promise to conduct the largest deportation in American history. She goes out with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers in Maryland as they arrest undocumented immigrants with criminal records, and she talks with one of the people Mr. Trump is likely to ask to oversee the mass deportations if he’s elected: Tom Homan, who led ICE when the Trump administration separated about 5,000 migrant children from their parents at the southern border.More than two years after Russia invaded Ukraine, the fighting continues, and despite thousands of economic sanctions, Russia's wartime economy is expected to grow. Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi sits down with Daleep Singh, the architect behind the U.S. sanction strategy, to discuss his past predictions and uncover new details about what's fueling Russia's economy. Her investigation leads to the waters off the coast of Greece, where she tracks Russian oil tankers evading sanctions and raises questions about how Russia is making its money.Correspondent Bill Whitaker ventures out to one of the most dangerous inlets in America, nicknamed the Graveyard of the Pacific, at the mouth of the Columbia River. The mission? Document the training of elite members of the U.S. Coast Guard determined to graduate from the National Motor Lifeboat School and earn the coveted title of certified Surfmen. Whitaker speaks with some of the best water rescue professionals in the country as they push their limits, tackling the roughest waters and toughest test, to hear firsthand what it takes to operate in huge breaking surf in order to save lives.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Reporting from the Appalachian Mountains, correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi surveys one of the hardest hit areas of Hurricane Helene, a category four storm that tore through six states more than three weeks ago. Alfonsi visits communities in rural western North Carolina where the search for the missing goes on as most residents endure life without water, electricity, communications, and passable roads. All are attempting to rebuild - most have no insurance. Months after anti-Putin activist Alexei Navalny died in a Russian prison, his wife, Yulia Navalnaya, now the leading figure of his political movement, speaks with correspondent Lesley Stahl in her first U.S. interview about her late husband's posthumous memoir. Navalnaya discusses the book, Navalny's last act of defiance against the Kremlin, which chronicles his final three years behind bars under often brutal conditions, believed to be ordered by Russian president Vladimir Putin. She details his clandestine operation for penning the memoir inside a high-security prison and then smuggling it out, why the couple decided to return to Russia after Navalny was poisoned, and her daring campaign for justice in the wake of his death. Correspondent Jon Wertheim travels to Door County, Wisconsin, a bucolic coastal community where political party loyalty is up for grabs and residents have successfully voted for the winning candidate in every presidential election this century. Door County is the only swing state county with this distinction. Wertheim travels to Door County to get to know its residents and look for the mystery voter who’s voted both Republican and Democrat successfully in every election since 2000. Bill Whitaker reports from Germany’s Baltic Coast on the bombing of the Cap Arcona, a little-known human tragedy in the closing days of World War II in Europe. Once a luxurious German ocean liner, the Cap Arcona was commandeered by the Nazis and, at war’s end, turned into a floating concentration camp. Thousands of prisoners were killed in the aerial attack. Whitaker interviews historians and Holocaust survivors who witnessed the bombing to bring this largely overlooked chapter of history to light. This is a double-length segment.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Cecilia Vega travels to the pivotal battleground state of Pennsylvania for an in-depth interview with Secretary of State Al Schmidt, a key figure in the election process. From 1950 to 1970, the Vatican sent thousands of Italian children to American Catholics for adoption. The children came on orphan visas — but most of them were not orphans; they were the children of unwed mothers, many of whom were alive. Bill Whitaker speaks with the American adoptees still searching for their Italian families. Jon Wertheim profiles Steve Ballmer, the former CEO of Microsoft who is now the basketball baron of the LA Clippers. Wertheim goes inside the gleaming Intuit Dome and delves into Ballmer's love of basketball and drive to win a championship. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

The 2024 presidential ticket, Bill Whitaker joins the Democratic ticket on the campaign trail for in-depth interviews with Vice President Kamala Harris and Gov. Tim Walz. Belief in the ballot; Scott Pelley travels to Arizona's Maricopa County. The last minute, Whoever wins the presidential race in November will inherit an expanding Middle East conflict.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

As Hurricane Helene hits the Gulf Coast, Jeff and Ginny Rapkin are still rebuilding after Hurricane Ian ripped the roof off their home in 2022. Their insurance company valued the damage at only about $15,000 for repairs. Sharyn Alfonsi investigates what happened. Vladimir Kara-Murza, a fierce critic of Putin, survived two poisonings and was sentenced to the longest term ever given to a political prisoner in Russia. Hear his story with Scott Pelley on 60 Minutes. Jon Wertheim sits down with WNBA stars to talk about the league’s soaring TV ratings, player pay, and the buzz around this year’s standout rookies. And Caitlin Clark challenges Wertheim to take a shot. Mezcal has experienced more production growth than any other liquor in the last decade. Cecilia Vega visits Oaxaca, Mexico, to meet the families working to meet demand for this popular spirit, while preserving the environment and their culture.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

When Taylor Swift was just 21 years old, she invited "60 Minutes" inside her home and on tour to see firsthand how she was revolutionizing the music business. Now, for the first time, hear previously unreleased audio from Lesley and her team's time with Swift on “60 Minutes: A Second Look”. As we take a "second look," these conversations help us better understand Swift's unbelievable career trajectory. Correspondent Lesley Stahl and producer Shari Finkelstein recollect spending time with the artist as she was still finding her voice and highlight moments that stood out in the original interview. Young Swift also delves into her songwriting process, common themes within her music, and the rationale behind her business decisions. Listen to new episodes of "60 Minutes: A Second Look" every Tuesday, wherever you get your podcasts.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.