Website at archives foundation. Org before we began, i want to make sure that everyone knows our distinguished speaker will be taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know but im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out to a shot out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. You do not have to wait until the end to ask your question. Your questionut and, and we will have them queued up for only get to that point. I had the fortune of visiting the Ronald Reagan president ial library a number of times. In my current role, ive had the chance to partner with my current guest. About. Learn quite a lot duke is the president and dean of the library directors. He has been with the library for 20 years. To give you some sense
Taking questions later in the program. We want to make sure that you have the chance to ask those questions. Well be using the youtube chat function. I see that we have regulars here, and you know what im going to tell you. Practice where you are going to put your questions, send your hometown and the state. We will give a shout out later on. I see a lot of folks from around the country. That is exciting. We are going to have a blast. Duke are you with us out there, in a secure occasion . Duke i cannot tell you where i am. But it is secure. Thank you for the wonderful introduction. Patrick you can tell that you know someone well by the introduction. It has been a difficult time. How is the staff doing out there . Duke i think the staff is doing a great job of being productive, staying mentally healthy. We concern ourselves with that as the leadership at the library, trying to reach out to them, weekly, if not daily to make sure that everyone is fine. There been some losses that we have
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. Cosentyx works on all of this
Came to do this show you heard about the hacking of twitter, the fact that trump asked out onto facebook get his message out. Facebook got a lot of criticism for a lot of things over the years, and actually wrote a column recently questioning why Mark Zuckerberg has not fact check the president. Tell us your take on this. What is this relationship between facebook and the white house, between facebook and free speech . Im going to throw you a big question to launch you off track you first, thank you for doing this. It is good to connect with you again to some virtual see. Like a lot of things you cant just keys out in the one problem of facebook from its dna and its origins. In the case of trump, obviously he wasnt a factor in the early days. It wasnt something they talked about in the dorm room when they started it up by the time Trump Campaign got rolling in 2015, this became an issue for facebook. It was lathered on top of sort of the messy way they dealt with controversial content.
This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. This is the cbs evening news ith norah odonnell, reporting odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us, were going to begin tonight with a possible breakthrough in the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Just as the country is entering a dangerous and deadly new phase of the pandemic. In a surprise announcement, the drug maker pfizer said its vaccine is 90 effective and it could be ready for approval in weeks. Well, that sent the dow soaring closing up more than 800 points. Its a glimmer of hope in what president elect biden is now calling a very dark winter ahead. One of his new advisors bluntly called it covid hell. And as we come on the air cases re growing at sucgrowing at such an alarming and exponential rate, tonight the u. S. Has topped 10 million infections, that is more than a million new cases since the end of october. And with the death toll rising again in cities like el paso now