Just hours after their formal announcement, Hillary Clinton and her running mate tim kaine sat down with scott pelley for a wideranging interview that will air on tonights 60 minutes. Heres a preview. Pelley he calls you crooked hillary. What do you call him . I dont call him anything. And im not going to engage in that kind of insult fest that he seems to thrive on. So whatever he says about me, hes perfectly free to use up his own air time and his own space to do. Im going to talk about what hes done, how he has hurt people in Business Time after time after time, the small businesses, the contractors, the workmen and women who he refused to pay after they rendered services, the total disregard that he has shown toward large groups of people in our country, his vicious language against immigrants, his insulting a distinguished federal judge of mexican heritage, his mocking a person with a disability, his really inflammatory language about muslims, about american muslims, about muslims all over the world, his demeaning comments about women. Im going to respond to what he has said that i think is so fundamentally at odds with who we are as a nation, where we need to be heading in the future, and the kind of dangerous, risky leadership that hes promising. I dont want to. Shes done a good job of letting the water go off her back on this. Thats not the way i feel. When i see this, you know, crooked hillary or i see the lock her up, its just ridiculous. It is ridiculous. It is beneath the character of the kind of dialogue we should have, because we have real Serious Problems to solve, and most of us stopped the namecalling around first grade. Dickerson Scott Pelleys interview with the democratic ticket will air at 7 00 p. M. On tonights 60 minutes. On friday, we sat down with the man Hillary Clinton hopes to replace and talked about donald trump, race in america, and the skills either candidate will need to be an effective president. Mr. President , when donald trump spoke to his convention, he talked about the security threat. He painted a very dark picture. Now theres been a terrorist attack in germany. Right. Dickerson doesnt that suggest hes right about the darkness . No, it doesnt. Terrorism is a real threat. Nobody knows that better than me. Ive been spending most of my days over the last seven and a half years coordinating our intelligence, our military, our diplomatic efforts to crush organizations like al qaeda and now isil. It is going to be an ongoing threat for some time, but what weve been able to do i think is to build coalitions with other countries to make sure that rather than have 180,000 troops overseas fighting a nonstate actor that weve got special forces and intelligence assets and local partners, and isil is being defeated in syria and iraq. But were going to have circumstances in which small cells, individuals are going to be able to do some harm to innocent people. And weve got to do everything we can to prevent it. One of the best ways of preventing it is making sure that we dont divide our own country, that we dont succumb to fear, that we dont sacrifice our values and that we send a very strong signal to the world and to every american citizen that were in this together. Dickerson explain how we would sacrifice our values specifically by being divided. Look, if we start engaging in the kinds of proposals that weve heard from mr. Trump or some of his surrogates like mr. Mr. Gingrich where theyre started suggesting we would apply religious tests to who could come in here, that we are screening muslimamericans differently than we would others, then we are betraying that very thing that makes america exceptional, and, by the way, has helped to insulate us from some of the worst, you know, patterns of terrorist attacks because the muslimamerican community here feels deeply american and deeply committed to upholding the rule of law and working with Law Enforcement and rejecting intolerance and extremism thats represented by the perversions of islam that isil is sending out to the internet or carrying out in the middle east. But that requires leaders, political leaders, religious leaders, business leaders, all of us to send a very clear signal that we are not going to be divided in that fashion, and i think the kinds of rhetoric that weve heard too often from mr. Trump and others is ultimately helping do isils work for us. Dickerson he was the chief birther in america, questioning whether or not you were. Whats your reaction that hes the nominee of the Republican Party . I think it says something about whats happened to the Republican Party over the course of the last eight, ten, 15 years. If you think about what a bob dole or a jim baker or a howard baker or a dick lugar or a colin powell stood for, they were conservative. They were concerned about limited government and balancing budgets and making sure we had a strong defense. But they also understood that our system of government requires compromise, that democrats werent the enemy, that the way our Government Works requires us to listen to each other. And thats not the kind of politics that weve seen practiced i think all too often. Dickerson do you think the majority of the American People feel safe, that the world is safer . I think right now weve gone through a really tough month, and that happens sometimes. Weve had a terrorist attack in orlando, although it does not appear externally motivated, but a deranged man killing scores of people. Weve had the tragedies that happened in minnesota and baton rouge, Police Officers targeted both in dallas and baton rouge, and the senseless violence that took place in nice. And if thats what youre consuming, thats what youre seeing on a daytoday basis for the last month, i think its understandable that people are concerned. What i think is important for leaders to do is to let the American People know they are right to be concerned. They have to make sure that our Police Officers are protected in a very tough job, that our criminal Justice System operates the way it should and without bias, that were doing everything we can to go after terrorists. But its also important for the American People to remember that our crime rate in this country is much lower than it was in the 80s or the 90s or when i first took office. Immigration are substantially lower than they were when Ronald Reagan was president. As serious as these terrorist attacks are, the fact of the matter is that the American People are significantly more safe now than they were before all the work that weve done since 9 11. So maintaining that perspective i think is absolutely critical, and trying to fan fears simply to score political points i think is not in the best interest of the American People. Dickerson you had a very strong reaction to Donald Trumps criticism of you for not using the phrase radical islam. Mmm. Dickerson in 2008 when you were a candidate for president , you did use the term radical islam. Why did you stop . This is an interesting example of where something that shouldnt be an issue gets magnified. The fact of the matter is that ive never been politically or particularly concerned with the phrase. What ive been more concerned about is how do we stop violent extremists from killing us. The reason that i havent used the particular phrase radical islam on a regular basis is because in talking to muslim allies, in talking to the muslimamerican community here, that was being heard as if we were ascribing to crazy groups like isil or al qaeda the mantle of islam. And since we need them as allies, i think its useful for us to listen to how the president of the United States words and messages are being received, because if were going to defeat those organizations, we need help from the billionplus muslims in this world so that they can help root out this perversion of islam thats taking place. Dickerson speaking of allies, donald trump had a response and a view about nato. He said when the baltic nations were attacked that he might not defend unless they were paying their dues. Now, youve talked about free riders, countries that rely on u. S. Defense without pulling their share. So why arent those similar thoughts if not playing out a little differently, but. Well, i think that anybody who has been paying attention knows there is a big difference between challenging our european allies to keep up their defense spending, particularly at a time when russia has been more aggressive, and saying to them, you know what, we might not abide by the central tenet of the most Important Alliance in the history of the world, one that was built by democrats and republicans and has been a cornerstone of u. S. Foreign policy since the end of world war ii. For mr. Trump, who has in the past suggested that americas weak and not looking out for its allies, to then maybe not have enough information or understand ing to go out and say that america might not stand by its solemn commitment to protect those same allies who stood with us after 9 11 when we were attacked i think is an indication of the lack of preparedness that hes been displaying when it comes to Foreign Policy. Dickerson switching topics to talk about race in america, you wrote a book about race and identity in america. If you were a young man now growing up in america, how would that book be different . Well, you know, its a great question. In some ways im able to see it through the eyes of my daughters. Now, obviously they have a unique circumstance having grown up in the white house, so theyre in no way typical of black kids or latino kids, other ethnic minorities around the country, but in some ways id be more optimistic. I look at the way in which my daughters take for granted their right to aspire to anything, and i think about the way in their interactions with their white friends, they have a common culture and a common language and common perspectives that were far more segregated even when i was growing up, and that wasnt that long ago. So in a lot of ways i would feel more hopeful. Ironically, i think precisely because things have gotten better, what ive heard from younger africanamericans is more shock about the images and the videos from minnesota or baton rouge. And what ive had to say to them is that, you know, these issues are not new. Theyve been there and come up periodically for quite some time. Whats new is smartphones and videos and this actually gives us a greater opportunity to try to tackle these problems. Dickerson president obama discusses his relationship with Hillary Clinton when we come back. One of millions of orders on this companys servers. Accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. But with Cyber Threats on the rise, marys data could be under attack. With the help of at t, and security that senses and mitigates Cyber Threats, their Critical Data is safer than ever. Giving them the agility to be open secure. Because no one knows like at t. Dickerson i want to talk to you about the skills it takes to be president. Yeah. Dickerson in about 72 hours recently, you had to grieve in dallas with the families of the five Police Officers, you had to monitor a terrorist attack in nice, you also had to monitor a coup attempt and then what people are calling a purge in turkey. Given that thats what a president has to deal with, what attributes should we be looking for in the candidates who are running for president the handle those kinds of days . Lets start off with the fact that im biased. Dickerson sure. But youre a man of reason. So you will be able to make the case for. Ill try to be as objective as i can. And ive thought about this. You know, the first thing i think the American People should be looking for is somebody that can build a team and create a culture that knows how to organize and move the ball down the field. And the reason for that is because no matter how good you are as president , you are overseeing two Million People and a trillion dollarplus budget, the Largest Organization on earth. You cant do it all by yourself. So you are reliant on really talented, hardworking, skilled people and making sure theyre all moving in the same direction and doing it without drama and not worrying as much about who is getting credit and creating all those good habits inside of an organization that i think are critical. The second thing i think a president needs is a sense of discipline, personal discipline in terms of doing your homework and knowing your subject matter and being able to stay focused, helping to make sure the team in the white house is disciplined, because you are responding constantly to unexpected events, and youve got to be able to just work those through and rapid, effective fashion, but also not lose track of your overall goals. The third is you need vision about where you want to take the country, and you have to know ahead of time enough about the economy and Foreign Policy and American History and, you know, our system of government so that when you stake out a vision that we need more economic equality in this country, youre just not making assertions, youre actually able to drive policy forward to achieve the vision. And then the final thing is you have to really care about the American People, not in the abstract, not as boilerplate, but you have to really every single day want to do your best for them, because if you dont have that grounding you, you will be buffeted and blown back and forth by polls and Interest Groups and voices whispering in your head and you will lose your center of gravity. You will lose your moral compass. But if you really are here because, man, i want the make sure that woman who is working really hard and getting paid a decent wage, i rally want that family with a sick kid to make sure theyre not losing their home. Then even when things go bad, and there are going to be times when things go bad in this job, you have a frame of reference. You know why youre doing it, and that means also that you with push through and do some things that may not be politically popular initially. Dickerson in 2008, a lot of your supporters say, look at the way he ran his campaign. If he runs the presidency like he ran his campaign, hes going to be in good shape. Why isnt that true for donald trump, who has run a pretty remarkable campaign, beating 16 other politicians . Well, in 2008 i dont think they were referring merely to the fact that i had won. I think they were referring to the fact that we built a really good team. We were really well organized. We had a great culture that there was no whiff of scandal to how we approached getting elected. We told the truth. So there were a bunch of things that hopefully showed the kind of white house id run, and i think weve been pretty consistent in doing that. I do think that the body of work of a person matters, and i would say that, and ive said this before andly say it and i will say it again since you opened this line of questioning i generally believe there has never been a candidate better prepared for the presidency than Hillary Clinton. Dickerson not eisenhower, not George Herbert walker bush . I said more prepared. I didnt say they were, you know, chopped liver. I mean, you know, heading up the allied forces is pretty good training for the presidency, and im huge admirers of both eisenhower and Herbert Walker bush, in fact, i think that george h. W. Bush is one of the most underrated president s weve had and i think he is a really good man, but the skill sets that hillary has are similar to many of the skill sets that they had, experience in government, experience in working with a wide range of people, solving big, difficult problems, familiarity with the world. You know, the truth is that hillary and i have become friends, but were not bosom buddies. We dont go vacationing together. I think i have a pretty clear sense of both her strengths and her weaknesses, and what i would say would be that this is somebody that knows as much about domestic and Foreign Policy as anybody, is tough as nails, is motivated by whats best for america and ordinary people, understands that in this democracy that we have, thingsis dont always happen as fast as wed like and it requires compromise and grinding it out. Shes not always flashy, and there are better speech makers, but she knows her stuff. 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