Mark Pomerantz on investigating Donald Trump
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers open up about their beginnings and the changes they’ve had to make to withstand four decades of performing.
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In October, 60 Minutes investigated why a wildfire wiped out a California town. This month, members of California's Congressional delegation will meet with the U.S. Forest Service to hear an explanation. cbsn.ws/3JH7Dc8
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Throughout their decades-long history, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have encountered their own battles with the cliché “sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll.” The band has continued to evolve, and Anthony Kiedis says he hopes he’s made “amends along the way.” cbsn.ws/3Y5DEz1
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers told 60 Minutes about the work they do to continue their high-energy performances. John Frusciante warms up for four hours the day of concerts. cbsn.ws/3JDo0Xg
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The Red Hot Chili Peppers said their influences ranged from progressive rock and hip hop to the Three Stooges and Richard Pryor. They said those early figures created “a bunch of boys that were willing to risk everything to have fun in the moment.” cbsn.ws/3HZUbyY
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Red Hot Chili Peppers vocalist Anthony Kiedis described his friendship with bass player Flea as being born out of “broken homes.” Flea said he found a unique kinship with Kiedis, as two young kids trying “to figure it out” on the streets of Los Angeles. cbsn.ws/3jvBBVO
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“We value so much the ability to go rock out onstage for two hours. Nobody wants to lose that.”
Anthony Kiedis described the band’s vibrant physicality in concert performances. Kiedis and Flea both recently celebrated their 60th birthdays. cbsn.ws/3I12kTQ
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“We’re all supporting each other at the same time. Everybody has different ways of doing that, you know?”
John Frusciante and Flea of the Red Hot Chili Peppers say that onstage, the band connects as much with each other as they do the audience. cbsn.ws/3l1ozje
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In a statement to 60 Minutes, Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg said he agreed with senior prosecutors in his office who believed that they needed to investigate further. cbsn.ws/3DIiyPc
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Mark Pomerantz said the case his team developed persuaded former DA Cyrus Vance to authorize presenting the evidence to a grand jury. But after Alvin Bragg was sworn in in January 2022, Pomerantz said the new DA stopped his team from moving forward. cbsn.ws/3YohoAe
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In his financial documents in 2015, former President Donald Trump listed his Manhattan apartment at 30,000 square feet. Paperwork from 1994, signed by Mr. Trump, acknowledged the actual square footage as less than 11,000 square feet. cbsn.ws/3jqY3j6
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In a statement to 60 Minutes, a lawyer for former President Donald Trump said that Mark Pomerantz, who investigated Trump with the Manhattan DA’s office, is falsely accusing the former president of felonies in order to sell his book. cbsn.ws/3lfKYK0
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“Finally, of course, on the guaranty is his Sharpie signature: Donald J. Trump.”
It was evidence, attorney Pomerantz alleges, that helps show Mr. Trump misrepresented his assets in order to appear much wealthier than he was. cbsn.ws/3Y7TnNV
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Mark Pomerantz said that during an investigation conducted by the Manhattan DA’s office, his team interviewed Donald Trump’s former lawyer Michael Cohen about the alleged inflated assets. cbsn.ws/40taY4y
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Attorney Mark Pomerantz believes the evidence his team analyzed shows that former President Donald Trump lied to banks about his net worth in order to secure favorable loans. Pomerantz says Trump should have been prosecuted for this. cbsn.ws/3ldzlmt
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“His empire was built on lies.”
Mark Pomerantz said that in his investigation with the Manhattan DA’s office, his team came to believe that former President Trump lied about his assets to appear wealthier than he was in order to obtain favorable bank loans cbsn.ws/3wZJJRw
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“A fragmented world is both poorer and less secure.”
The IMF’s Kristalina Georgieva says fighting deglobalization and creating an integrated economy is the IMF’s top priority today. cbsn.ws/3DKzu7o
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“China has to change its policies because low-income countries cannot pay.”
IMF has confirmed a global debt roundtable in Bangalore, India, later this month will include China’s Finance Minister & Governor of People's Bank of China. cbsn.ws/3jsjkJb
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“Europe has done an excellent job to free itself from dependency on Russian oil and gas.”
The war in Ukraine has driven food and energy prices up. But IMF boss Kristalina Georgieva said those impacts will be lessened in 2023. cbsn.ws/3RBtfZt
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“It wiped out people’s savings.”
Kristalina Georgieva is the first International Monetary Fund managing director from an emerging market. She grew up in Bulgaria under communism, and recalls the effect of rampant inflation on her family’s life. cbsn.ws/3XaBqgm
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“If the U.S. defaults, that would push interest rates up. And if people don't like inflation today, they're not going to like at all what may happen tomorrow” if Congress doesn’t raise the debt ceiling, says IMF head Georgieva. cbsn.ws/40uHbbK
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The Fed raised interest rates last week. IMF head Kristalina Georgieva advice to the Fed? “Stay the course until core inflation starts turning down… the Fed has to be very careful not to start easing financial conditions prematurely.” cbsn.ws/3YnjU9M
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“But let's be very clear,” IMF head Georgieva said about the U.S. economy, “We are not scared of some big unemployment wave swiping through the United States.”
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Kristalina Georgieva, head of the International Monetary Fund: U.S. economy may narrowly avoid a recession. But “our expectation towards the end of year is to see somewhat weaker labor markets.” cbsn.ws/3X0G6p6
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Forty years on from their LA roots, the Red Hot Chili Peppers are on their biggest concert tour ever… selling out stadiums worldwide. Tonight on 60 Minutes, Flea and the band show Jon Wertheim why every Chili Peppers concert is epic.
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Sunday, former Manhattan special assistant DA Mark Pomerantz speaks in his first television interview after he abruptly resigned a year ago. He says DA Alvin Bragg halted the grand jury probe of former President Donald Trump on the case Pomerantz developed.
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Sunday on 60 Minutes, sits down with all four members of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, currently on their biggest tour ever. 60Minutes.com
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Sunday on 60 Minutes, with the International Monetary Fund out this week with new projections on the global economy, Lesley Stahl interviews IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva.
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Sunday, former Manhattan special assistant DA Mark Pomerantz speaks in his first television interview after he abruptly resigned a year ago. He says DA Alvin Bragg halted the grand jury probe of former President Donald Trump on the case Pomerantz developed.
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🕢RED HOT CHILI PEPPERS: sits down with all four members of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, currently on their biggest tour ever.
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🕡INVESTIGATING DONALD TRUMP: Former Manhattan special assistant DA Mark Pomerantz speaks in his first television interview after he abruptly resigned a year ago. He says DA Alvin Bragg halted the grand jury probe of former President Donald Trump on the case Pomerantz developed.
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SUNDAY ON 60 MINUTES ⏱️
🕛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.
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Sunday on 60 Minutes, with the International Monetary Fund out this week with new projections on the global economy, Lesley Stahl interviews IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva.
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Sunday on 60 Minutes, sits down with all four members of the rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers, currently on their biggest tour ever. 60Minutes.com
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A programming note: 60 Minutes will be preempted this Sunday, Jan. 29, for coverage of the NFL AFC Championship game.
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A brain tumor robbed Jacob Smith of his vision, but that hasn't stopped him from making a name for himself on the slopes.
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In Ukraine and Russia, where ballet is centrally important to culture, dancers have had their worlds upended by the Russian invasion.
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