60 Minutes explains program’s exclusion of Trump was his choice

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During a 60 Minutes interview with Vice President Kamala Harris on Monday, the program noted that it had scheduled a similar episode for her opponent, former President Donald Trump, which was ultimately canceled.

CBS News’s Scott Pelley would have been the interviewer in a special that featured both candidates a month before the election. The program has a tradition of interviewing candidates from both the Republican and Democratic ticket since 1968. Trump and Harris have already debated for the final time this election cycle.

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