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60 Minutes

03/16/2025: Under the Radar, America’s Own, Werner Herzog

60 Minutes

CBS News

Cbs, Tv & Film, Society & Culture, News

42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

With news of mysterious drones flying over New Jersey and concerns about spying, this week’s 60 MINUTES investigates a surprising story about another drone incursion. Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports what happened 15 months ago over Langley Air Force Base in Virginia, which houses nearly half of the most advanced U.S. stealth fighter jets, the F-22 Raptor, and how it is part of a series of brazen overflights of sensitive military sites. Young dreams were dashed when the U.S. Marine Band followed orders to cancel a concert featuring middle and high school musicians of color, a result of the Trump administration’s executive order ending DEI initiatives. Correspondent Scott Pelley speaks with performers of The Equity Arc Wind Symphony about the importance of supporting all talented, aspiring musicians. The name Werner Herzog may not be as recognizable as Spielberg or Scorsese, but over the last six decades, the German filmmaker has had a profound and far-reaching influence on the world of cinema. He’s made over 70 features and documentaries, which are often dream-like explorations of nature’s power, human frailties and the edges of sanity. Correspondent Anderson Cooper sits down with the enigmatic director to discuss his films, and his other roles as writer and actor. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

We have visual four probable unidentified drones.

0:10.0

Tonight, 60 minutes investigates the mysterious drones that have been spotted flying over some of the most restricted military sites in the United States,

0:20.0

including Langley Air Force Base,

0:22.6

home to our most advanced fighter jets.

0:25.6

Do you believe that these drones are a spying system,

0:30.6

a spying platform?

0:31.6

What would a logical person conclude?

0:34.6

That?

0:36.6

The Marine Corps Band judged a national contest for diverse teenage musicians.

0:46.3

The prize was a concert, but the performance was canceled after President Trump ended diversity programs.

0:56.0

All the same.

0:58.0

Tonight, you will hear the young musicians in a band that looks like America.

1:09.0

In Celluloid, we trust.

1:11.6

In all of Herzog's feature films and documentaries you'll find remarkable moments,

1:16.6

nightmarish ones as well.

1:19.6

His curiosity has taken him to the remotest regions of our planet,

1:23.6

and apocalyptic oil fires in Kuwait after the first Gulf War.

1:28.3

You have to have a certain amount of good criminal energy.

1:32.3

To make a film.

1:34.3

Sometimes, yes. You have to go outside of what the norm is.

1:40.3

I'm Leslie Stahl.

1:43.3

I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Sharon Alfonci. I'm John Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker.

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