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60 Minutes

10/26/2025: On the Brink, Dr. Attia Will See You Now, The Mentalist

60 Minutes

CBS News

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4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 27 October 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Correspondent Sharyn Alfonsi travels to Venezuela as the frosty relationship between Washington and Caracas reaches a boiling point. With U.S. warships off the coast, a $50 million bounty for President Nicolás Maduro’s arrest, and thousands of Venezuelan troops mobilized, 60 MINUTES gets rare access inside a country bracing for conflict. Alfonsi interviews Phil Gunson, a senior analyst for the International Crisis Group, James Story, a former top U.S. diplomat to Venezuela, and Senator Rick Scott (R-FL), about the showdown over drugs, oil, and power has put two nations on the brink. 60 MINUTES profiles Dr. Peter Attia, a Stanford-trained physician and star in the emerging field of longevity medicine who spends a lot of time thinking about the final years of his life, and yours too.  Norah ’Donnell becomes a patient for a day, undergoing his practice's rigorous evaluation and interviews Attia about his methods and innovative approach to longevity – one aimed at helping people live not just longer, but better. Correspondent Cecilia Vega meets Oz Pearlman, the mentalist who has gone viral by astonishing celebrities, billionaires, and even seasoned interviewers with his uncanny ability to read people – not minds. He insists it’s not magic and is now taking some of the secrets of his mind games public, teaching people to think like a mentalist. 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

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0:06.0

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0:12.7

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0:18.9

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0:24.2

I am Khan!

0:32.9

Since last month, the U.S. military has been blowing up speedboats in the waters off Venezuela

0:42.6

in what it calls a counter-narcotics operation.

0:47.0

But the growing military build-up in the region suggests there may be another target.

0:54.1

Venezuela's dictator. If I was been through, I'd head to target. Venezuela's dictator.

0:55.0

If I was been through, I'd hit to Russia, China right now.

0:58.0

Because?

0:59.0

His days are numbered.

1:01.0

Something's going to happen.

1:02.0

Tonight, a rare look inside Venezuela.

1:06.0

It's not often that 60 Minutes does a story on a physician who has fewer than 75 patients.

1:14.6

But Dr. Peter Atiyah is a star in the growing field of longevity medicine who has attracted millions of followers,

1:22.6

and billionaire patients willing to pay six figures to see him. That's a lot of money.

1:28.9

I mean, what do you get for that?

1:30.2

A path to help you achieve your goal of living longer and living better.

1:36.7

Tonight, we go inside the mind of mentalist O.

1:40.0

Perlman, who gets into people's heads by telling them exactly what they are thinking.

1:45.9

Why would I tell you that on the air?

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