60 Minutes: MTG | The Secretary and The Border | Fire and Ice (CBS Sunday 2 April 2023)

Today Sunday April 2, 2023, there is a new episode of 60 Minutes.

MTG – Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) gets down with Lesley Stahl for an in-depth interview and profile. Greene is a vocal member of the far right and a close ally of former President Donald Trump. The rising star of the Republican Party shares her America First, populist views with Stahl, who visits her at her house in Georgia and in the halls of Congress in Washington, D.C. Producer: Richard Bonin.

THE SECRETARY AND THE BORDER – From the U.S.-Mexico frontier, Sharyn Alfonsi reports on the high volume of asylum seekers and conducts an interview with Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas. It was produced by Andy Court.

FIRE AND ICE – Bill Whitaker goes to Iceland in 2021 to report on the country’s newly formed landscape of molten rock and snow, the result of a volcanic eruption. Whitaker delves into the findings of Icelandic experts regarding eruption prediction and how they may be applicable to volcanoes elsewhere. Producer: Heather Abbott.

Airdate: Sunday April 2, 2023 at 19:00 on CBS

Season 55 Episode 24

60 Minutes has been on the air since 1968, beginning on a Tuesday, but spending most of its time on Sundays, where it remains today. This popular news magazine provides both hard hitting investigations, interviews and features, along with people in the news and current events. 60 Minutes has set unprecedented records in the Nielsen’s ratings with a number 1 rating, five times, making it among the most successful TV programs in all of television history. This series has won more Emmy awards than any other news program and in 2003, Don Hewitt, the creator (back in 1968), was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Emmy, along with the 60 Minute correspondents. Added to the 11 Peabody awards, this phenomenally long-lived series has collected 78 awards up to the 2005 season and remains among the viewers top choice for news magazine features.

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