SUMMARY: Lesley Stahl is an Emmy-winning journalist who currently reports for the CBS News program “60 Minutes.” During her long career, she has served as a White House correspondent and anchor of CBS’ “Face the Nation.” But she didn't have an easy start in the industry. For the NewsHour’s “That Moment When,” Stahl tells Steve Goldbloom what it was like to be the only woman in a 1970s Boston newsroom.
SUMMARY: Andrew McCabe, former FBI deputy director, says in an upcoming interview he feared President Trump would undermine the investigation into Russian election interference once Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. John Yang talks to NPR’s Carrie Johnson about McCabe’s claims of “panic and alarm” in the Justice Department, Trump’s reaction and the latest revelations in the Special Counsel’s probe.
SUMMARY: You can’t know how amazing it feels to be a grandmother until it happens to you, says Lesley Stahl, longtime 60 Minutes correspondent and author of a new book, "Becoming Grandma." With her personal transformation, she began to investigate her own feelings and the vital role of grandparents today. Stahl joins Judy Woodruff to share her experience.
JUDY WOODRUFF (NewsHour): Now the latest addition to the "NewsHour Bookshelf."
It’s a very personal look at the changing role of grandparents and comes from longtime “60 Minutes” correspondent Lesley Stahl, who has full-heartedly embraced the job in her new book, “Becoming Grandma: The Joys and Science of the New Grandparenting.”
I talked with her recently.
Welcome, Lesley Stahl.
LESLEY STAHL, Author, “Becoming Grandma”: Thank you, Judy Woodruff.
JUDY WOODRUFF: So, we have known each other going back to being White House reporters under…
LESLEY STAHL: The beginning of time, Judy.
(LAUGHTER)
JUDY WOODRUFF: The beginning of time; President Carter, President Reagan.
You are showing a side of yourself that people don’t see on “60 Minutes” here.
LESLEY STAHL: Well, that’s true. I don’t go around saying, I’m a grandmother, although I feel it. I feel it. I want to tell everybody.
JUDY WOODRUFF: I will be honest right up front, I have serious grandmother envy. I’m dying to have grandchildren. Is it really as great as you make it out to be?
LESLEY STAHL: It’s twice as great as I make it out to be.
It’s — it’s an extraordinary new chapter that opens up suddenly, and no matter how many people tell you it’s the best thing that could ever happen to you, it’s — you don’t — you don’t understand what they mean until it happens to you, because it’s so full, body-full.
It just takes you over in such an elation way, elated way, that you just can’t believe this new kind of emotion that you have never felt before.
What happens when the demands of national security collide with the rights of a free press? Lesley Stahl finds out
You've just heard FBI Director Comey discuss the NSA surveillance program with Scott.
This is a story about another facet of the NSA program, involving wiretaps, and what happens when the demands of national security collide with the public's right to know.
That dilemma is at the heart of the case of James Risen, a Pulitzer-Prize winning investigative reporter for the New York Times.
Risen was the first to break the story about the NSA's secret wiretapping program that monitored Americans' phone calls without a court warrant. He's been subpoenaed to divulge his confidential sources in a separate federal criminal trial. He appealed the subpoena all the way up to the Supreme Court, but the court turned down his petition. Now, if he doesn't name names, he could go to jail.
SUMMARY: News program 60 Minutes admitted it made a mistake in a segment about the U.S. consulate attack in Benghazi, which included false reports by a supposed eyewitness. Kelly McBride of the Poynter Institute and Tom Rosenstiel of the American Press Institute join Jeffrey Brown to critique the reporting and response.
A Mike Wallace* interview was often harsh, unsympathetic even. The "60 Minutes" icon was never reluctant to confront the feared or the famous -- from Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini to Malcolm X to pitcher Roger Clemens. Wallace, 93, died Saturday. Morley Safer and Jeff Fager of CBS reflect on Wallace's career with Jeffrey Brown.
MIKE WALLACE, "60 Minutes:" I don't understand. They must be ashamed of something.
MAN: What is this?
MIKE WALLACE: This is "60 Minutes."
KWAME HOLMAN (Newshour): The Mike Wallace interview was legendary as the answers it elicited. And his career was indelibly linked to "60 Minutes," the pioneering CBS News program he joined at its inception in 1968.
