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60 Minutes

11/15/2020: The 44th President, TikTok

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🗓️ 16 November 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In an interview with Scott Pelley, former president Barack Obama says he's troubled by Republicans going along with President Trump's claims. Bill Whitaker reports on the popular Chinese-owned app that a senator says has ties to the Chinese Communist Party. Those stories on this week's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

We have gone through a presidency that disregarded a whole host of basic institutional norms.

0:16.5

What we've seen is what some people call truth decay, something that's been accelerated by outgoing President Trump,

0:24.8

this sense that not only do we not have to tell the truth, but the truth doesn't even matter.

0:34.2

Tonight, President Barack Obama on the state of our nation, and insights from a new memoir about his own presidency.

0:42.8

And I ask myself in the book, how much of this is just megalomania, how much of this is vanity, how much of this is me trying to prove something to myself.

0:56.0

Unless you've been living under a rock, you've probably heard of TikTok.

1:01.1

Here's the problem with TikTok as it exists now.

1:04.0

It is owned by a Chinese parent company that has direct ties to the Chinese Communist Party.

1:09.4

And we also know that under Chinese law,

1:12.9

TikTok, bite dance, the parent,

1:14.8

is required to share data with the Chinese Communist Party.

1:19.5

Required.

1:20.1

Required to under Chinese law.

1:22.3

American users, parents, teenagers,

1:24.9

that have no way of knowing about any of this.

1:28.9

I'm Leslie Stahl.

1:30.7

I'm Bill Whitaker.

1:31.9

I'm Anderson Cooper.

1:33.3

I'm Scott Pelly.

1:34.6

Those stories and more tonight on 60 Minutes.

1:41.9

On election night, 2016, then-President Barack Obama called Donald Trump at about 3 o'clock in the morning to congratulate him, even though Mr. Trump had lost the popular vote and took the electoral college by less than 1% in three states. Today, President Trump declines to accept the verdict of the voters, despite

2:04.4

losing by greater margins to President-elect Joe Biden. Mr. Obama hasn't spoken of the election

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