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60 Minutes

10/01/2023: The Attorney General and The Rise and Fall of Sam Bankman-Fried

60 Minutes

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42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Correspondent Scott Pelley sits down with U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland in Washington D.C. Pelley speaks with the head of the Justice Department about the indictments of former President Donald Trump, the Hunter Biden probe, and the January 6th indictments. Days before FTX cryptocurrency exchange founder Sam Bankman-Fried is set to go to trial, 60 MINUTES conducts the exclusive first interview with author and financial journalist Michael Lewis who had a front row seat to Bankman-Fried's rise and fall. Correspondent Jon Wertheim speaks with Lewis, ahead of his GOING INFINITE book release, about Bankman-Fried at the height of his empire, the collapse of crypto, and whether the FTX wunderkind believes he's innocent.

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Attorney General Merrick Garland has said little about the Justice Department prosecutions of Donald Trump and Hunter Biden.

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Tonight, he tells us about the principles that guide him and how he would deal with political interference.

1:29.0

If necessary, I would resign, but there is no sense that anything like that will happen.

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As a 60 minutes camera rolled and author Michael Lewis took more notes.

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Former crypto mega billionaire Sam Bankman freed shuffle cards and jack hammered his legs avoiding eye contact.

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Today, he's trying to avoid prison.

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You had so much access to Sam Bankman freed writing this book. What ultimately is the purpose here?

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There's going to be this trial and the lawyers are going to tell two stories and so there's a story war going on in the courtroom and I think neither one of those stories is as good as the story I have.

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