04/23/2023: Healing and Hope, Who is Ray Epps?, Nicolas Cage
60 Minutes
CBS News
4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 24 April 2023
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
After catastrophic earthquakes devastated war-torn northwest Syria in February, Scott Pelley travels to the battleground to meet an American medical charity and volunteers for the White Helmets who braved the odds. Pelley speaks with healthcare workers, survivors and first responders about the earthquakes and the constant attacks on healthcare ordered by Syria’s Bashar Al-Assad and his ally, Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Bill Whitaker meets with Ray Epps and his wife Robyn. Epps is notorious among consumers of right-wing media as the man who initiated the January 6th attack to undermine President Trump. The convoluted theory posits Epps was a secret agent of the "deep state,” and it has been promoted by members of Congress. Death threats and harassment forced Epps and his wife Robyn to sell their Arizona ranch and go into hiding. So who is Ray Epps? Actor Nicolas Cage invites 60 MINUTES into his eclectic Las Vegas home to meet his African crow Huginn and discuss his over 40 years of making movies, including his latest role as Count Dracula in Renfield. Sharyn Alfonsi speaks with Cage about his love of cinema, his wide-ranging catalog of inspiration and the ups and downs along the way.
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| 0:17.0 | How many surgeries did you do? |
| 0:19.0 | I did 23 on my first day. Now I remember crying myself to sleep the first night because |
| 0:25.0 | it was just the suffering was just so overwhelming. |
| 0:29.0 | 60 minutes visited the war zone in Northwest Syria to see how American volunteers are treating |
| 0:36.0 | survivors of February's cataclysmic earthquakes. |
| 0:42.0 | These nurses and doctors are the bravest people I've ever met. |
| 0:48.0 | Who is Ray Epps? A former member of the Oathkeepers who served in the Marine Corps and was an |
| 0:54.0 | ardent Trump supporter or at least he was until conservative media post January 6 |
| 1:00.0 | began insinuating that he was a government plant for the deep state. |
| 1:05.0 | What exactly was the role of Ray Epps in the chaos of January 6? |
| 1:09.0 | No matter how many times they push this conspiracy theory, this lie, it'll never become truth. |
| 1:20.0 | Have you driven this out here beyond the gates? |
| 1:22.0 | Oh yeah! |
| 1:24.0 | Woo! |
| 1:29.0 | It's fun. It's like a snap crackle pop, right? |
| 1:33.0 | Nicholas Cage has been working in Hollywood for more than 40 years, won an Academy Award and |
| 1:39.0 | has played a kaleidoscope of characters. |
| 1:42.0 | Let me know how those come out. |
| 1:44.0 | I had it all thought out. Get it up, you know, like getting himself up out of the mud shot. |
| 1:52.0 | I'm Leslie Stahl. |
| 1:53.0 | I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. |
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