According to the show,Trump backed outof the interview last week.
Trumps campaign claimed that it was never officially set.
He said that the campaign complained that the data pipe would fact-check the interview.
Bill Whitaker and Kamala Harris on the ‘60 Minutes’ election specialCBS News
Later, Pelley said, the campaign told them that Trump needed an apology for his interview in 2020.
Four years ago, Trump cut short a contentious interview with60 Minutesand its correspondent Lesley Stahl.
Trump claims correspondent Lesley Stahl said in that in that interview that Hunter Bidens controversial laptop came from Russia.
She never said that, Pelley said.
Trump has said his opponent doesnt do interviews because she cant handle them.
He had previously declined another debate with Harris.
So tonight may have been the largest audience for the candidates between now and Election Day, Pelley noted.
As a matter of fact, arrivals quadrupled from the last year of President Trump.
Was it a mistake to loosen the immigration policies as much as you did?
Its a longstanding problem, Harris said.
And solutions are at hand.
And from day one, literally, we have been offering solutions.
Would you ever have thought that youd be campaigning with Kamala Harris?
Whitaker also sat down with Harris running mate, Tim Walz.
In fact, Walz said that he was there in August, after they had ended.
I think folks know who I am, Walz said.
I think I can.
Whitaker also offered Harris the change to comment on Trumps absence from the show.
He said to her, You are sitting here with us.
The Trump campaign canceled an interview that they had agreed to, to participate in this broadcast.
What do you make of that?
Youre gonna hear conversations that are about himself and all of his personal grievances.
And what you will not hear is anything about you, the listener.
