5/8/2022: Mark Esper, Crisis, Ballet in Exile
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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On this Mother's Day edition of "60 Minutes" Wisconsin’s rate of adolescent self- harm and attempted suicide increased by nearly 200% since 2019. Sharyn Alfonsi speaks with families who’ve been impacted, and with doctors and therapists trying to make child mental health care more accessible. In his first interview before his book about his time in the Trump administration is published, former Secretary of Defense Mark Esper speaks with Norah O’Donnell. They discuss previously unreported events from inside the Trump White House. In Russia, ballet has always been entwined with politics. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Russian artists opposed to the war were left with a choice: stay and be silent or voice their dissent and leave. Jon Wertheim speaks with the dancers making difficult decisions.
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| 0:36.4 | Critics will say, why now in a book? Why didn't you speak out during the Trump administration? |
| 0:42.5 | It's very simple. If I spoke out at the time, I would be fired. I had no confidence that anybody |
| 0:47.9 | that came in behind me would not be a real Trump loyalist. And Lord knows what would have happened then. |
| 0:54.3 | Tonight, former Defense Secretary Mark Esper, a lifelong Republican on his tumultuous |
| 1:00.4 | tenure during one of the most chaotic times in the nation's history. |
| 1:06.6 | Even before the pandemic, American kids have been dealing with a crisis. |
| 1:11.6 | Rising rates of suicide, self-harm, anxiety, and depression. |
| 1:17.6 | Your generation got hit with this in what's supposed to be kind of a fun carefree time. |
| 1:23.6 | What was lost? What did you guys lose during the pandemic? |
| 1:26.6 | Myself. |
| 1:28.3 | Yourself? |
| 1:29.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:32.3 | Olga Smirnova is a Russian prima ballerina, one of the world's leading dancers. |
| 1:42.3 | But days after Russia invaded Ukraine, Smirnova pirouetted |
| 1:46.5 | and stepped off her stage at the renowned Bolshoi theater |
| 1:50.3 | with dramatic flourish. |
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