60 Minutes
Taiwan | After Ian | Church and State
Season 55, Episode 4 · Aired 2022-10-09
Synopsis
Taiwan – As tensions keep rising between the U.S. and China over Taiwan, 60 MINUTES' Lesley Stahl travels to the island – a progressive, thriving democracy – to see how people on the ground are reacting and preparing for the possibility of a Chinese invasion. After Ian – 60 MINUTES spans the affected coastline of southwestern Florida in the aftermath of Hurricane Ian. Correspondent Bill Whitaker and his team return to Sanibel Island with a family to discover what happened to their home and visit America's first sustainably designed, hurricane-proofed, solar-powered town, which suffered almost no damage after a direct hit from the category four storm. Church and State – As the Southern Baptist Convention finds itself at the center of a sexual abuse scandal under investigation by the U.S. Justice Department, 60 MINUTES' Anderson Cooper meets the convention's newly elected president. Bart Barber was tapped in June to lead the largest evangelical institution in America. A small-town Texas pastor, Barber speaks with Cooper about the sex abuse scandal, his faith, and what he hopes evangelicals will keep in mind during the upcoming midterm elections.
In the series
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Key cast
- Mike Wallace as Correspondent
- Morley Safer as Correspondent
- Harry Reasoner as Correspondent
- Ed Bradley as Correspondent
- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
Also in season 55
- S55E01 President Biden | Ebrahim Raisi
- S55E02 Secretary of State Blinken | Inside the Committee | Rescuing Reefs
- S55E03 Olena Zelenska | What Happened at Grizzly Flats | Captain Kolisi
- S55E05 The Lost Souls Of Bucha | The Power Of Grimsby | Coach Prime
- S55E06 Dominion | American Prairie | Ina Garten
- S55E07 Belief in the Ballot | Pathogen X | David Sedaris