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60 Minutes

11/8/2020: Counting the Vote, Operation Warp Speed, Ken Burns

60 Minutes

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42.4K Ratings

🗓️ 9 November 2020

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

President Donald Trump has claimed voter fraud, and those who have been counting the votes have something to say. Bill Whitaker reports. David Martin get an inside look at the government’s ambitious program to get a COVID-19 vaccine to 300 million Americans -- Operation Warp Speed. 'Ken Burns’ documentaries have ranged from the Civil War, to baseball, to Vietnam, and country music. Scott Pelley sits down with the filmmaker to talk about his 40+ years telling America’s story. 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

The officials overseeing the counting in Pennsylvania and other key states are all part of a corrupt Democrat machine.

0:14.7

60 Minutes visited five different counties in Pennsylvania this week while votes were being counted.

0:20.7

We saw Democrats and Republicans who were working tirelessly despite President Trump's baseless

0:27.6

accusation.

0:29.1

Counting votes cast on or before election day by eligible voters is not corruption.

0:36.2

It is not cheating. It is democracy.

0:43.2

60 Minutes was invited into the Command Center for Operation Warp Speed.

0:48.5

The government's plan to distribute a COVID vaccine to some 300 million Americans. Will you be able to bang your fist on the

0:57.1

table and say what happened to that shipment that was going to Good Samaritan Hospital in Baltimore?

1:02.5

Yes, and not only that, I'll know after it gets there how fast they're administering the doses that

1:08.7

they were given.

1:13.8

That may be our shot.

1:16.9

Ken Burns has made nearly 40 films,

1:20.9

finding the American paradox in the wars we fight,

1:24.0

and the games we play.

1:29.6

I told people that baseball was the sequel to the Civil War, and I meant it. I meant it.

1:35.4

How we play games and the nature of immigration and the exclusion of women and popular culture and advertising and heroes and villains in our imagination and race and race.

1:44.5

I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Leslie Stahl.

1:46.3

I'm Bill Whitaker.

1:47.6

I'm Anderson Cooper.

1:48.9

I'm Scott Pelly.

1:50.3

Those stories and more tonight on 60 Minutes.

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