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The President's Pardon | Anthropic | Chess Boxing

TV Flash files “The President's Pardon | Anthropic | Chess Boxing” as hour 743 of 767 in the TV Flash guide — 60 Minutes (1968–present) on CBS, season 58, episode 8, aired 2025-11-16, 60 min.

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This leaf is S58E08: listed hour 743 of 767 in the 60 Minutes guide, hour 8 of 31 in season 58. It aired 2025-11-16 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “The Family Farm | Collateral Damage | The Indomitable Margaret Atwood” (S58E07). Next is “The Bus on Route 62 | The Last Best Place | The Empty Rooms” (S58E09). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

60 Minutes — The President's Pardon | Anthropic | Chess Boxing (S58E08)

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The President's Pardon – Correspondent Scott Pelley reports on President Trump's pardon of Changpeng Zhao, founder of Binance, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange. The pardon came shortly after Binance helped catapult the Trump family's cryptocurrency firm, World Liberty Financial, into international recognition. The firm is a major source of the Trump family's fortune. Maria Gavrilovic is the producer. Anthropic – Correspondent Anderson Cooper goes inside Anthropic, a $183 billion artificial intelligence company that has centered its brand around AI safety and transparency. At its well-guarded San Francisco headquarters, CEO Dario Amodei warns about the potential dangers of AI, and Cooper takes a look at how Anthropic is building and testing its AI models while openly acknowledging the risks. Nichole Marks is the producer Chess Boxing – Brains meet brawn in the world of chess boxing, a sport in which competitors face off on the chess board and also in the boxing ring. Chess boxers win by checkmate or knockout – whichever comes first. Correspondent Bill Whitaker reports from the World Chess Boxing Championships in Serbia and meets Team USA as they go for gold. Heather Abbott is the producer.

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Where does The President's Pardon | Anthropic | Chess Boxing sit in the 60 Minutes guide?

S58E08 is listed hour 743 of 767 — hour 8 of 31 in season 58, season 58 episode 8.

When did 60 Minutes S58E08 air?

The President's Pardon | Anthropic | Chess Boxing aired 2025-11-16 and is listed at 60 minutes.

Is 1980s 60 Minutes different from today's?

The grammar is the same: multi-segment hour, stopwatch motif, investigations plus profiles. In the 1980s it frequently outrated sitcoms — proof news could dominate prime time.

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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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