60 Minutes
The IMF Report | Investigating Donald Trump | Red Hot Chili Peppers
TV Flash files “The IMF Report | Investigating Donald Trump | Red Hot Chili Peppers” as hour 660 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 55, episode 18, aired 2023-02-05, 60 min.
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This leaf is S55E18: listed hour 660 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 18 of 31 in season 55. It aired 2023-02-05 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Star Power | Hide and Seek | The Guru” (S55E17). Next is “Candles Against the Darkness | Prime Minister Marin | The Historymakers” (S55E19). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.
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The IMF Report – With the International Monetary Fund out this week with new projections on the global economy, Lesley Stahl interviews IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva. Investigating Donald Trump – Bill Whitaker conducts the first television interview with Mark Pomerantz since the former Manhattan special assistant district attorney abruptly resigned a year ago after he says District Attorney Alvin Bragg declined to authorize the prosecution of former President Donald Trump on the case Pomerantz developed. Red Hot Chili Peppers – Jon Wertheim sits down with all four members of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, currently on their biggest tour ever.
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Where does The IMF Report | Investigating Donald Trump | Red Hot Chili Peppers sit in the 60 Minutes guide?
S55E18 is listed hour 660 of 767 — hour 18 of 31 in season 55, season 55 episode 18.
When did 60 Minutes S55E18 air?
The IMF Report | Investigating Donald Trump | Red Hot Chili Peppers aired 2023-02-05 and is listed at 60 minutes.
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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.
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- Diane Sawyer as Correspondent
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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
- S55E04 Taiwan | After Ian | Church and State
- S55E05 The Lost Souls Of Bucha | The Power Of Grimsby | Coach Prime
- S55E06 Dominion | American Prairie | Ina Garten