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President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi

TV Flash files “President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi” as the first listed hour of season 55 — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 1, aired 2022-09-18, 60 min.

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This leaf is S55E01: listed hour 643 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, first listed hour of season 55. It aired 2022-09-18 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “In Short Supply | Hope Chicago | Jonas Kaufmann” (S54E31). Next is “Secretary of State Blinken | Inside the Committee | Rescuing Reefs” (S55E02). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi (S55E01)

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President Biden – Correspondent Scott Pelley sat down with President Biden in his first 60 MINUTES interview since taking office as the 46th president of the United States. Pelley spoke with Mr. Biden at the White House and in Detroit about inflation, Russia's war on Ukraine, U.S.-China tensions, the midterm elections, and more. This is a double-length segment.  Ebrahim Raisi – 60 MINUTES' Lesley Stahl traveled to Tehran to interview Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi at the presidential complex in his first interview with a Western reporter. Stahl spoke with President Raisi about the impact of the United States' sanctions on Iran's economy, his thoughts on former President Trump and current President Biden, the Iran nuclear deal, and more.

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Where does President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S55E01 is listed hour 643 of 767 — first listed hour of season 55, season 55 episode 1.

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President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi aired 2022-09-18 and is listed at 60 minutes.

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Filed by Vivian Cross · The Carpet Report · Show package

The template of TV newsmagazine power — for the craft of the package and the history of broadcast investigation. Hewitt's stopwatch, Wallace's ambush, Safer and Bradley and Rooney's endnotes: Sunday night investigative theater that outrated sitcoms. Appointment news before the infinite scroll. Tick, tick, tick.

Tick, tick, tick — not a theme song, a weapon. CBS's 60 Minutes, Don Hewitt's stopwatch since 1968, was an 1980s Nielsen bully that outrated sitcoms on Sunday night: investigative pieces, profiles, commentator segments, correspondent star power. Mike Wallace, Morley Safer, Harry Reasoner, Ed Bradley, Diane Sawyer, Andy Rooney's endnotes. **Ambush interviews and gotcha lore made Wallace a fearsome brand.** The museum guard wants the package as civic virtue. The flash is the ambush. Appointment news before the…

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