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We know what it means to serve. Get an Auto Insurance quote and see why 92 of our members plan to stay for life. Leslie stahl theres a lot in the news about a wealthy businessmanturnedpresident ial candidate with a fiveletter last name. But the one were going to tell you about tonight already won his election, and his last name isnt trump; its macri. He is the new president of argentina, a surprise, come frombehind victor who has the eyes of the region and the world on him as he tries to pull his country the second largest in latin america out of a morass of debt, inflation, and international isolation. This week, president obama will be the first u. S. President in more than a decade to visit argentina, a sign that the u. S. Government has high hopes for Mauricio Macri and his promises to turn his country around. We met Mauricio Macri just two months into his presidency in argentinas version of the white house, a pink house, called the casa rosada. He took over a country that had been ruled for eight years by a left wing populist named Cristina Kirchner who allied argentina with antiamerican regimes like iran, venezuela and cuba. Stahl here argentina has been in in this almost a bloc that takes in almost all of south america. Mauricio macri that was stahl leftleaning. Mauricio macri not anymore. That was, and not anymore. Stahl not anymore, because he made a uturn in his countrys foreign policy. In a flash, argentina has become proamerican. Macri and Vice President biden were all smiles at the World Economic forum in davos, switzerland in january, where macri went seeking closer ties with the west and foreign investment. He brought one of the men he defeated in the election with him, which impressed the Vice President. Vice President Biden i want the American Press to observe something. The new president brought along the leader of the opposition with him. Thats what we got to do at home. Macri i really believe in 21st century. Demands that we have to be open, and not putting any more ideological differences in front of the best solutions. Stahl hes a pragmatist. Trained as an engineer, macri started off an outsider in argentine politics. He is the son of one of the wealthiest men in the country, and worked at first in the family real estate and construction business, once making a deal with that other scion of a real estate empire. I heard that you actually have a relationship with donald trump. Macri its a long story, long away. laughs stahl it was more than 30 years ago. Macri told us his father had invested in a Real Estate Venture in new york city but ran into problems and asked him to arrange a sale, to donald trump. Macri it was a very unique moment for me because i was only 24 years old. Stahl you negotiated with the guy who says hes the best negotiator in the world . Macri he thinks that, yeah. laughs i dontim not so sure. Im not so sure. Stahl did he win . Macri we were in a very weak position. Because the he was local. Having the support of all the banks. But, i could say that we tied. Stahl now at 57, hes happily married to Fashion Designer juliana awada. Watching them play with their fouryearold daughter antonia, you cant help but think of the kennedys and camelot, and the comparison has been made in argentina. When macri ran for president , no one thought he would win, partly because of his image as a wealthy businessman unable to connect with the people. But that image was softened by campaigning with his wife and young daughter at his side, and by their openness about their relationship. Juliana awada i never imagined i was going to end with him. And when i have the opportunity to met him, i fall completely in love. laughs stahl that was seven years ago. Hed already been married twice and had older children, as did she. Macri i call my best friend. I told him, im going to marry again. No, come on, you cant do it. laughter you have just finish a relation two months ago. No, this is the lady of my life. I want to be with her for the rest of my life, and im sure that this is the correct decision. Stahl at their wedding the following year, macri revealed a hidden talent. Macri im a great singer. Juliana ah. laughs stahl youre a great singer . He set out to prove it at their wedding party. He dressed up as his favorite rock star, Freddie Mercury of the band queen, complete with a fake moustache, and started serenading juliana. It almost killed him. Macri and in the moment i was breathing to sing the up part of somebody to love, i swallow my moustache. Stahl you swallowed the moustache he started choking on the Freddie Mercury moustache. Macri it end up here. It didnt go it didnt go down. So i spend like juliana twenty minutes. Macri twenty minutes. Juliana half an hour. Macri thinking that i was going to die. I couldnt breathe. Now is funny, but laughs it was a horrible moment, yeah. Stahl youve had a couple of brushes with death, actually. Macri no, no. This was quite funny. The other one wasnt so funny. Stahl no. The other one happened when he was 32. He was grabbed off the street, and kidnapped. Is it true when they kidnapped you, they put you in a coffin . Macri yes. To take me to the place. And then in another little bit bigger coffin. It was a box. Stahl he was held for 14 days. Did you think youd never live through that . Macri you keep thinking all the all day because you are trapped there with nothing to do, so you think im going to die, im not going to die. Because in many cases, that group of kidnappers killed the victims. Stahl but he was released, after his father paid a 6 million ransom. The incident changed the trajectory of macris life, dramatically. It persuaded him to leave his fathers business and set out on his own. First he became president of one of argentinas most popular soccer teams, boca juniors. He then tried his hand at politics. He created his own third party and eventually ran for mayor of buenos aires. On his second attempt, he won. Thats when a whole new macri emerged. Dancing has become a macri trademark. Youre known for this. laughs macri you know, dancing is like its another way of communicating, no . Stahl you know, ive heard it said no offense, dad dancing. Macri dad dancing . Stahl older man dancing macri no, no, no, no. laughs stahl ive heard that. Macri no, no. You have to watch it. laughs you have to watch my performance. Because is advanced dancing. There are so innovating steps. I dream them. First i dream them and then i perform them. laughter stahl macri got to live out two dreams in december when he danced on the balcony of the president ial palace at his inauguration, after a close, hardfought election that left the country bitterly divided. Even the transition was contentious. Breaking tradition, the outgoing president Cristina Kirchner refused to attend the swearing in. Kirchner had been a charismatic leader, in the style of the popular eva peron, who shared the spotlight with her husband, president juan peron, in the 1940s, and whose legend went all the way to broadway. Dont cry for me, argentina. Stahl the Peronist Party has dominated argentine politics on and off for the last 70 years. Kirchner was a peronist, whose populist economic policies generous subsidies on things like electricity, high taxes on agricultural exports, burdensome regulations, a bloated bureaucracy, and currency controls, all in combination, crippled the argentine economy. Alfonso pratgay she left an economy thats not been growing for four years now, a stagnant economy. Stahl alfonso pratgay is president macris minister of finance. Pratgay high inflation. Eight years in a row of more than 25 inflation. A significant fiscal deficit. The central bank was running out of reserves. Stahl this is what you walked into. Pratgay absolutely. Stahl and making matters worse, the Government Bureau of statistics, called indec, had been minimizing the problems. Pratgay the National Statistics institute was an institute that was basically lying to us and to the rest of the world. Macri they were issuing wrong numbers. Stahl fake numbers . Macri fake stahl phony numbers, just made up statistics . Macri exactly. What the president wanted. Stahl and it wasnt real macri and thats not the way. Thats not the way. Stahl laughs no. Macri if if you have a problem, you have to recognize it and solve it. That thats my commitment, no . Stahl so do you even know what the inflation rate is . Do you even know what the budget deficit is . Macri we are building up the real numbers. Stahl even without those precise numbers, he and his team plunged into action, undoing kirchners legacy. What has heads spinning here is the speed with which they have changed course 180 degrees, in just a matter of weeks. Stahl you have cut export taxes dramatically, youve let your currency float, youve cut electrical subsidies. Macri yes. Stahl fired thousands of government workers. You have done so many dramatic, big things. Macri well, but we need it. We need it because we need to put our country back to growth. We were trapped with so many rules, that we couldnt move. Stahl but he raised eyebrows by making the changes while the peronistdominated congress was in their summer recess. Most if not all of the things youve done, dramatic, big, you did by president ial decree. Congress is on recess. You didnt negotiate with them. You didnt consult with them. Macri im using the constitution. I will always respect my constitution, its a very good one. Stahl but you criticized Cristina Kirchner for doing that. You said she didnt go through the democratic process. Macri lesley, i only criticized her when she did it going over the constitution. Stahl you say that, but youve been highly criticized, just making all these decrees. Macri well, you know at a certain level always the opposition has to criticize something. Let them. Stahl macri has worked hard at winning over as many in the opposition as possible. He met early on with the two men he ran against as well as all the nations governors, and since congress has come back, hes shown his political skill by convincing a whole bloc of peronist legislators to work with him. Macri i have received all of them, and say, well, im ready to work. Do you agree that we need to work towards zero poverty . We have to defeat drug trafficking. We have to improve the quality of our democracy. Well, yes. Well, lets find in which specific projects we can do it. And we found we found, and we are finding that there are ways in which we can cooperate, even though in two years we are going to compete again in an election process. But in the meantime, we will show our citizens that what they are demanding, is going on. That we work together. Stahl what a concept two sides looking for compromise. The public seems to like it. Macris Approval Ratings are over 60 , but its early. Trade unions are threatening strikes, and the only other non peronist president s in over 30 years were both forced out of office before the end of their first terms. Whats the pressure like on you at this moment . Youre doing so much so quickly. Macri that we have to do more. laughs thats the pressure. We are in a very bad starting point, but let me tell you, im here running the country because i believe in my people. I have the luck to choose what to do in my life. And i have chosen this because i believe that everybody can do much better than what they are doing now. So im trying to do my best. Trying to do my best. Stahl after we interviewed him, another big development. 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Try it today with tumbling peppers. And slowmotion onions. The new rotisseriestyle chicken sandwich from subway. Fresh is what we do. Stahl now, cbs james brown on assignment for 60 minutes. James brown cornel west is a different kind of civil rights leader. His below the radar presence at racial flashpoints across america recently, stands in stark contrast to many of the more traditional civil rights leaders and their bright light press conferences. Some of the new generation of African American activists seem to be gravitating towards west, a charismatic academic scholar who doesnt lead an organization or have an entourage. Cornel west has a message about how poor and disadvantaged americans are being treated today and he can be searingly provocative on matters of race, never more so than when he criticizes president obama. Cornel west when i call the president a black puppet of wall street, i was really talking about the degree to which wall street had a disproportionate amount of influence on his policies as opposed to poor people and working people. Brown why use such harsh language with showing no respect for the office of the president . Cornel west i tend to be one who just speaks from my soul, and so whats what comes out sometimes is rather harsh. In that sense im very much a part of the tradition of a Frederick Douglass or a malcolm x who used hyperbolic language at times to bring attention to the state of emergency. So all of that rage and righteous indignation can lead one not to speak politely sometimes. Brown eight years ago, cornel west was a fervent supporter of candidate barack obama. Today, he blames the president for not doing more on issues like income inequality and racial justice. A product of the turbulent sixties, west has joined protests led by civil Rights Groups like black lives matter. Here in ferguson, missouri, he was one of many arrested for civil disobedience. The young people who are leading the black lives matter charge, youre all behind them . Cornel west oh, very much so. I think thats a marvelous new militancy that has to do with courage, vision. The fundamental challenge always is will their rage be channeled through hatred and revenge or will it be channeled through love and justice. You got to push them toward love and justice. Brown why do you think you have that kind of currency with young people . Cornel west they know that i take their precious lives seriously. When i go to jail in ferguson and say quite explicitly, im old school, and i want the new school to know that some of us old folk love yall to death and they hear that and say, well, dang, you know, we might not always agree with this brother, but this negro looks like a fighter for justice. This is what democracy looks like. Justice nyle fort i think a lot of young people really gravitate towards him not only because hes a giant of an intellectual. He is somebody that you want to be around. Brown nyle fort is a 26 year old activist and religion p. H. D. Student at princeton. He first saw west speak at a rally four years ago. The manner in which doctor west has been criticizing the president. Your reaction . Fort i think its important for us to listen to the substance of his argument. And i think that his critiques not just of president obama, but of our current state of democracy in this country, the current state of the world, is something that we need to Pay Attention to. Brown a favorite on the lecture circuit, we were with him at Marist College in poughkeepsie, new york. applause . When the crowd of 1,500 broke into applause before he said a word. applause then, for more than an hour, an extemporaneous journey filled with biblical passages and quotes from