60 Minutes 7/11
60 Minutes
CBS News
3.8 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2021
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
On this week's "60 Minutes," evidence of Syrian President Bashar Assad and his regime's legacy of war crimes. Scott Pelley reports on the effort to gather and maintain evidence against President Assad, for the acts of terror he perpetrated against his own people during Syria's civil war. Ten year after a powerful earthquake and tsunami caused a massive nuclear meltdown in the Daiichi Power Plant, Lesley Stahl reports on the unprecedented cleanup efforts. And two-time Pulitzer-winner Colson Whitehead opens up to John Dickerson about his writing process, his wide variety of interests, getting rejected and "the space of very little hope" he found himself working in when he wrote "The Underground Railroad" and "The Nickel Boys."
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| 0:40.0 | Who holds those responsible for war crimes accountable? |
| 1:01.0 | In Syria, it's often civilians who have bravely defied a sadistic dictator and the 21st century's worst atrocities. |
| 1:11.0 | As you'll hear tonight, they have risked their lives to tell the stories of the men, women, and children who continue to be murdered by their own government. |
| 1:21.0 | Ten years after Japan's catastrophic nuclear disaster, the reactors are still far too radioactive for humans to go inside them. |
| 1:33.0 | Queue the robots, working robots with 3D scanners and sensors that can fly, slink, climb stairs, and swim as they look for the nuclear fuel that still poses a massive threat. |
| 1:49.0 | Colson Whitehead has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction twice. His works have ranged to say the least, from the Jim Crow South to zombie hunters. |
| 2:02.0 | Do you write for yourself or do you write for the audience? |
| 2:05.0 | Really for me, which sounds very selfish. Should I have written a zombie novel? It may have been perfect sense to me. |
| 2:10.0 | I grew up loving horror movies and an horror fiction. Is that something I should be doing as a literary author? |
| 2:16.0 | I don't know, and there's no handbook. You know. I'm Leslie Stahl. I'm Bill Whitaker. I'm Anderson Cooper. I'm John Dickerson. I'm Scott Pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 Minutes. |
| 2:31.0 | Hey, it's Roy Wood Jr. Host of the Daily Show Podcast Beyond the Scenes, and we are back for season 2. Beyond the Scenes is the podcast where we take the topics and segments that were on the Daily Show and give them a little more love. This season, we're bringing back more Daily Show writers, producers, and correspondents. More experts, giving us some extra knowledge, you can't get anywhere else. |
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| 3:05.0 | If you have children watching 60 Minutes tonight, that's usually a good thing, but this story is not for them. |
| 3:14.0 | The images you're about to see are the honest evidence of the greatest war crimes of the 21st century. |
| 3:21.0 | As we reported last winter, President Biden and his national security team face a horror that erupted when many of them were in the Obama administration. |
| 3:31.0 | Last March, brought the 10th anniversary of the popular uprising that began Syria's Civil War. The Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad has gassed the innocent, bombed hospitals and schools and made thousands disappear. |
| 3:48.0 | The evidence is hard to watch, but it should be seen. Many risk their lives to tell this story so that even if Assad is never arrested, he will be forever handcuffed to the truth. |
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