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KPIX 60 Minutes July 11, 2024

Warp speed, the governments plan to distribute a Covid Vaccine to some 300 million americans. Will you be able to bang your fist on the table and say what happened to that shipment that was going to Good Samaritan hospital in baltimore . Yes, and not only that, ill know after it gets there how fast theyre administering the doses that they were given. ticking that may be our shot. Ken burns has made nearly 40 films, finding the american paradox in the wars we fight and the games we play. I told people that baseball was the sequel to the civil war, and i meant it. I meant it. How we play games, and the nature of immigration, and the exclusion of women, and popular culture, and advertising, and heroes, and villains, and our imagination, and race, and race, and race. ticking im lesley stahl. Im bill whitaker. Im anderson cooper. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking joint pain, swelling, tenderness. Much better. My psoriasis, clearer. 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President trump has said, bad things happen in philadelphia. Are bad things happening in philadelphia . Al schmidt in the birthplace of our republic, counting votes is not a bad thing. Counting votes cast on or before election day by eligible voters is not corruption. It is not cheating. It is democracy. Whitaker al schmidt is one of three commissioners who run elections in philadelphia and the lone republican. Schmidt there really should not be a disagreement, regardless of party affiliation, when were talking about counting votes cast on or before election day by eligible voters. Its not a very controversial thing, or at least it shouldnt be. Whitaker but yet it is. Al schmidt unfortunately, yes. Whitaker we first met commissioner schmidt back in september. With the country in the grip of the pandemic, schmidt was expecting a flood of mailin ballots. Schmidt when you have half of your voters vote by mail. Whitaker . And urging patience. Schmidt . You will not know the outcome on election night. Whitaker he couldnt have been more right. The flood became a deluge 360,000 mail in ballots poured in in philadelphia. That was more than all the mail in votes in the state in 2016. More than 90 percent were from democrats. As those ballots were counted in the Convention Center in philadelphia this past week, President Trumps initial lead in pennsylvania slowly was chipped away. On wednesday, with hundreds of thousands of votes still to count, President Trump tweeted he had won the state. His campaign and Party Started filing lawsuits claiming voting irregularities and fraud, especially in philadelphia. Eric trump we are going to file suit in pennsylvania. Whitaker the president s son, eric, and rudy giuliani, rushed to philadelphia to assert with great urgency, but no evidence, that democracy itself was under attack. Eric trump this is absolute fraud. Weve seen it in philadelphia before. Whitaker by the end of the week, with former Vice President joe biden inching ahead in the vote count, the number of Trump Campaign and g. O. P. Lawsuits hit double digits in pennsylvania, most aimed at disrupting the count. Pennsylvania is living up to its reputation as a crucial battleground in president ial elections. In 2016, donald trump beat Hillary Clinton here by less than one percent of the vote. Joe biden each ballot must be counted. Whitaker with a similar edge over President Trump, news organizations on saturday projected former Vice President joe biden had won pennsylvania and the presidency. Spontaneous celebrations broke out in philadelphia and across the country. cheering still, the Trump Campaign is going to court to challenge the validity of the vote in pennsylvania and other battleground states. Rudy giuliani obviously hes not going to concede. Whitaker the president s personal attorney, rudy giuliani, said hell start filing lawsuits monday. Rudy giuliani i dont know if theres enough evidence to set aside the entire election. Certainly not around the country, maybe in pennsylvania. Whitaker the stakes are high, and passions were high all week. Count every vote whitaker thursday, two virginia men, found with weapons and ammunition in their car but no gun permit, were arrested outside the Convention Center. Inside, republican commissioner schmidt, his fellow election board members, and about 200 City Employees are continuing to work. Theyll be counting provisional ballots for at least another week. Schmidt from the inside looking out, it feels all very deranged. Whitaker deranged . Schmidt at the end of the day, we are counting eligible votes cast by voters. The controversy surrounding it is something i dont understand. Its people making accusations that we wouldnt count those votes or people are adding fraudulent votes or just, coming up with, just, all sorts of crazy stuff. Whitaker accusations like you are cheating. Schmidt yes. Whitaker you are manipulating the vote. Schmidt yes. Or calls to our offices reminding us that this is what the Second Amendment is for, people like us. Whitaker youre getting calls like that . Schmidt yes. Whitaker thats it, thats a notsoveiled death threat. Schmidt yes, for counting votes in a democracy. Whitaker the election here had been running smoothly. Whitaker 60 minutes dropped in on five pivotal counties. Northampton in the northeast voted twice for barack obama, then flipped to donald trump in 2016. We saw ong lines of voters there waiting patiently to cast ballots on election day. In neighboring Luzerne County we saw orderly vote counting under the watchful gaze of party poll watchers certified by the state. It was the same in the affluent suburbs around philadelphia. Pat poprik you are allowed in there. Whitaker pat poprick, chair of the bucks county g. O. P. , is a proud partisan, but when it comes to running clean elections, she told us shes bipartisan. Poprik we may like different candidates, but we want the process to be fair. And i think were working very hard in our county, and im very, very proud of our commissioners, our board. Were all working together to make sure the voters can vote. Whitaker democrats and republicans. Poprik absolutely. Whitaker but that spirit of cooperation only goes so far. The number of Republican Court cases keeps growing. One of the fiercest concerns poll watchers. The Trump Campaign is in pennsylvania courts alleging their observers cant get close enough to see whats going on. President trump railed about that in his speech thursday night. President trump in philadelphia, observers have been kept far away, very far away so far that people are using binoculars to try and see, and theres been tremendous problems caused. Josh shapiro it is reckless and disappointing that there are some on the outside who either dont know whats going on or dont care to know whats going on, who are lying about whats happening here in pennsylvania. Whitaker democrat josh shapiro is pennsylvanias attorney general. He won reelection this past week. Hes defending the state against republican lawsuits he calls frivolous. Shapiro they were asking for two things, bill. Number one to stop the count, and number two to allow their watchers to get closer to where the envelopes were being opened and scanned. On the first issue, being able to stop the count, they failed. And on the second thing, an agreement was reached to move these poll watchers from roughly ten feet away to roughly six feet away. No Material Change whatsoever. Whitaker the president and his campaign have said there are many irregularities here in pennsylvania. Shapiro let me break this down for you. Each campaign had observers in the room while the ballots were being counted. In addition to that, even if youre not a certified watcher, you can turn on the live stream and watch it on tv and keep an eye on the activity if youd like. Whitaker you heard the president s speech on thursday night. He was claiming that the election was being stolen from him. Shapiro donald trump can say whatever he wants. But we just had an election, an election that was secure, an election where the votes were tallied. And a proper winner will be certified, based not on the words of President Trump, but the votes of the American People. Malcolm kenyatta so get in line, stay in line, because its all on the line. Whitaker Pennsylvania State representative Malcolm Kenyatta spent election day urging voters to get to the polls. The democrat represents a predominantly black district in north philadelphia. Kenyatta i think about the people who died i mean literally died and bled so every Single Person could vote in this country. Whitaker he says the Trump Campaigns attempts to stop the count smacks of voter suppression. Kenyatta theyre trying to steal an election by not having every vote count. And in an election, if you think youre going to win, you dont try to stop the counting, you want every vote counted. Were going to count every single vote. And all they can do is what theyve done to try to throw sand in the gears, to try to make the process as slow as possible, and then fill that time of delay with conspiracy theories andand nonsense. Whitaker what do you think of this now that the trump camaign is going to court complaining about these delays . Kenyatta this is what the president does. He wants to create confusion and chaos and then say, oh my god, theres so much confusion and chaos. And then i say, well, pick up a mirror. Of course, theres confusion and chaos. You created it. Ben ginsberg ive been doing this a long time. This is the type of litigation strategy where you throw the kitchen sink at the wall and see what sticks. Whitaker ben ginsberg is a Republican Attorney who has spent almost four decades immersed in election law. Count every vote whitaker during the florida recount in 2000, he helped spearhead the controversial legal strategy that won the presidency for george w. Bush. He says this is no florida 2000 and calls President Trumps strategy incoherent. What is this litigation designed to do then . Ginsberg on the one hand, its lawyers reacting to a client who is disjointed and unhinged and not terribly accepting of defeat. And on the other extreme, this could be an instance of trying to slow down counts in individual states in the hopes that those states dont complete their job of certifying Election Results in time for the Electoral College to meet. And then he would go back to Something Else hes talked about, which is telling legislators to go and vote trump slates even in states that were won by biden. Whitaker ginsberg, a lifelong republican, hopes it doesnt come to that. If you could get the ear of the president , whatwhat would you say to him . Ginsberg sir, you need to take a step back, look at the results. It is a democracy. It is a country thats been very good to you. And you need to respect the institutions and the greatest institution of all is our elections that lead to the peaceful transfer of power. And you cannot be destructive of that. Whitaker saturday night, now president elect joe biden told voters the democratic process is working. Biden weve won with the most votes ever cast for a president ial ticket in the history of the nation, 74 million. Whitaker not far from independence hall, the counting of provisional, mailin and military ballots continues. 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But it should make enough people immune so that the virus runs out of places to go. That would give this country what it badly needs right now a shot in the arm. So if this distribution of vaccine is doesnt go according to plan, where does the buck stop . General Gustave Perna me. Conversations over. laugh its pretty easy, me. I hold myself 100 personally accountable to that end. Martin after a career as an army supply officer, general gus perna was two months away from retirement when President Trump tapped him last may to lead operation warp speed. 60 minutes went into

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