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Barack Obama: The 2007 60 Minutes interview

2024-05-21 News & Politics
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Steve Kroft interviewed then-Senator Barack Obama for the first time in February 2007, when Obama was just announcing his bid for the presidency. "60 Minutes" is the most successful television broadcast in history. Offering hard-hitting investigative reports, interviews, feature segments and profiles of people in the news, the broadcast began in 1968 and is still a hit, over 50 seasons later, regularly making Nielsen's Top 10. Subscribe to the "60 Minutes" YouTube channel: https://youtube.com/60minutes Watch full episodes: https://cbsn.ws/1Qkjo1F Get more "60 Minutes" from "60 Minutes: Overtime": https://cbsnews.com/60-minutes/overtime/ Follow "60 Minutes" on Instagram: https://instagram.com/60minutes/ Like "60 Minutes" on Facebook:https://facebook.com/60minutes Follow "60 Minutes" on Twitter: https://twitter.com/60Minutes Subscribe to our newsletter: https://cbsnews.com/newsletters/ Download the CBS News app: https://cbsnews.com/mobile/ Try Paramount+ free: https://paramountplus.com/?ftag=PPM-05-10aeh8h For video licensing inquiries, contact: [email protected]

Top Comments (10)

@stalecurry 2024-05-30

First 20 seconds was wild lmfao

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@JohnnySoCal 2024-05-21

No one can deny President Obama is a great public speaker.

1.2k 16 replies
@jnation29 2024-05-26

I miss the days when we had young candidates

511 14 replies
@bergencounty6602 2024-05-21

Hilary Clinton was so unlikable, that this guy came from nowhere and beat her for the nomination.

448 26 replies
@teniente8282 2024-06-01

How did we go from such a classy, composed, educated, thoughtful well spoken leader to a dementia patient and a belligerent felon. Obama made me feel proud to be an American!

331 11 replies
@jayd1426 2024-05-25

Miss the days before smartphones and social media. We were much less divided then.

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@docdee770 2024-05-25

My having witnessed Barack Obama becoming the first African-American President inspired me, and said to me, "If he can become President, I can become anything I set my mind to." He was awesome!

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@markreuben8645 2024-05-24

Im rooted in the African American community but im not defined by it... Good point.

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@k3ya11 2024-08-16

The opening was wild hard ER behavior 😭

49 1 replies
@Wildcat221 2024-09-02

This man has an extraordinary gift. The way he communicates is almost unmatched.

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