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60 Minutes

9/2/2018: The Data Miner, The Shooting, The Price of Admission

60 Minutes

CBS News

Society & Culture, Tv & Film

3.82.6K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2018

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

Last year, Congressman Steve Scalise was shot when a gunman opened fire on a congressional baseball game. The events of that day brought legislators from BOTH sides of the aisle together. Norah O'Donnell has his story. Lesley Stahl hears from the man who gave the data of millions of Facebook users to Cambridge Analytica. And -- for nearly 20-years -- Bill and Melinda Gates have sent 20-thousand disadvantaged students to college. Scott Pelley talks to some of the students who benefited from the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Those stories on tonight's "60 Minutes." Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

He's at the center of the Facebook scandal.

0:10.7

Facebook says that you lie to them.

0:13.6

And Mark Zuckerberg blamed him for selling the data of millions of unwitting users.

0:19.4

People have a right to be very upset. I'm upset that that happened.

0:22.6

But not everyone believes Facebook's explanation either.

0:25.6

You've got a company that has repeatedly had privacy scandals.

0:29.6

You know, if your partner was cheating on you and they cheated on you 15 times and apologize 15 times,

0:35.6

at some point you have to say enough is enough.

0:38.3

It was just after 7 a.m. on June 14, 2017, when a team of Republican members of Congress

0:46.3

went from shagging balls to dodging bullets.

0:50.3

This guy, the guy been shot, do you okay? That guy was Congressman Steve Scalise.

0:57.7

He'd been hit in the left hip with a bullet from a rifle.

1:01.6

He crawled until his arms gave out, and in his first interview,

1:05.9

told us what he was thinking on that ball field.

1:09.3

You know, the first thing that came to mind, I prayed, God, please, don't let my daughter

1:14.6

have to walk up the aisle alone.

1:18.4

There's a new kind of affirmative action happening on college campuses, and students from

1:23.6

low-income families of all races are the ones who are benefiting.

1:28.6

I feel like a lot of our peers knew from the jump how to navigate college.

1:33.7

Their parents were like, you need to do this, you need to do this, and a lot of us did not have that privilege.

1:39.2

I was having this discussion and it's like, oh, we're going to go to New York for the weekend.

1:44.8

Let's all go to New York. It's like, I can't go to New York. I got to stay here. I have to do my job. This is

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