6/19/2022: Londongrad, Democracy Lost, Trevor Noah
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 20 June 2022
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Why do so many Russian oligarchs live in the UK? Bill Whitaker has that story. Sharyn Alfonsi investigates how one country went from democracy to dictatorship in one generation. Lesley Stahl sits down with comedian Trevor Noah about what he thinks is the secret to his success.
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| 0:24.8 | dot com and secure your seats today why do so many russian oligarchs live in the United Kingdom? |
| 0:42.0 | We travel to London, or London grad, as it's sometimes called, to find out. |
| 0:47.9 | Was this all a strategy for the oligarchs to build influence here in the UK? |
| 0:54.2 | I think the evidence is pretty clear that in some cases it was. |
| 1:00.3 | How does a country go from democracy to dictatorship in one generation? |
| 1:05.6 | It's easier than you may imagine. |
| 1:08.5 | This is Juan Sebastian Chamorro, a Georgetown educated economist who was planning to challenge |
| 1:14.2 | the dictator Daniel Ortega for president of Nicaragua. |
| 1:21.3 | This video was recorded just hours before he was violently taken from his home by mass police |
| 1:27.0 | officers. |
| 1:28.2 | In it, he says, if you're seeing this, I've been captured. |
| 1:34.4 | Trevor Noah has become one of the most successful and highest paid comedians in the world. |
| 1:40.4 | Pretty good for a guy who was born in South Africa |
| 1:42.8 | and was a virtual unknown here when he took over the Daily Show from John Stewart in 2015. |
| 1:49.8 | What's the secret to his success? Maybe it's his outsider mentality or his ability to handle most any topic, cancel culture, and the recent Dave Chappelle controversy. In your mind, did he cross |
| 2:03.5 | the line? I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm Sharon Alfonci. I'm |
| 2:11.9 | John Worthine. I'm Scott Pelly. Those stories tonight on 60 Minutes. |
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