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60 Minutes

8/1/2021: Ingenuity and Perseverance, Darren Walker, The Premonition

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 2 August 2021

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

On this week's "60 Minutes," Anderson Cooper reports on the nerve-wracking Mars landing of the rover Perseverance, the painstaking process of launching the tiny helicopter Ingenuity, and the extraordinary images the two have already sent back to Earth. In his new book, Michael Lewis profiles people who tried to sound the alarm about COVID-19 as officials failed to act. John Dickerson tells us more. And Lesley Stahl profiles Darren Walker, a gay, African American man, and Founder of one of this country's largest and most storied philanthropies, the Ford Foundation.

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He's talking about the descent and landing of the Perseverance rover on Mars.

0:43.3

Execute entry descent and landing on her own.

0:46.3

And there goes the descent stage.

0:48.3

Big sigh of relief. I almost collapsed over this console.

0:51.3

Part of its mission to drop off ingenuity, a mini helicopter that would

0:55.8

take off and navigate in the Martian atmosphere, much to NASA's delight.

1:03.8

Good evening. As Ford Foundation President, Darren Walker oversees a $14 billion endowment.

1:11.6

He thinks philanthropy needs a major rethink.

1:15.6

It has been normalized in American culture that you can work full-time and still be poor.

1:23.6

And Leslie, this isn't just an issue for African Americans and Latinx people.

1:29.4

We have, for the first time in America, a generation of downwardly mobile white people.

1:40.2

Michael Lewis has written some of the most memorable books of a generation,

1:45.6

introducing us to characters who help us rethink topics we think we understand.

1:51.3

His latest, The Premonition, the hidden story of America's response to the COVID pandemic.

1:58.1

It's like a superhero story where the superheroes seem to lose in the end.

2:03.2

The little wrinkle on the end of it is, you know they've learned things that are going to

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