Hello 60 Minutes podcast listeners. It's Major Garrett, CBS News, Chief Washington correspondent and host of

The Takeout with Major Garrett, which airs weeknights on our streaming news network, CBS News 24-7.

Today I am thrilled to share a special presentation of The Takeout here on the 60 Minutes podcast feed,

featuring my extended interview with businessman and philanthropist

David Rubenstein. Last weekend, I sat down with Rubenstein, co-founder of the private equity fund,

the Carlisleau Group, and principal owner of the Baltimore Orioles for a wide-ranging conversation.

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David, it's always great to see you.

I want to talk to you about sports in America and cohesion in America, because it strikes me that sports is one of the few places anymore where we can all get along regardless of our political

attitudes.

Well, we can all agree that sports is really probably more popular than they've ever been

in terms of people watch more sports, live stream more sports, attend more sports events,

better more sports events than ever before.

And it's one of the few things

that people all agree on that sports is a good thing. Now, people have different team rivals and

so forth, but I've been amazed at how the value of teams have gone up, the value of TV rights

have gone up, and we've never seen anything quite like this. Now, you are not overly sentimental,

I am not overly sentimental. And we don't want to get gauzy and pretend that we can think of sports as the way to solve all

of America's problems, but it does seem to me to be a convening place that could have some

value in restoring a sense of civic connectedness?

There's no doubt that people feel if you're connected to sports, you're connected to the American people. So what do politicians often do? They go to sporting events. You'll see presidents

of the United States, many of them go to football games. They'll go to a tennis match today,

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