TRUMP'S 60 MINUTES BOMBSHELLS: 5 SHOCKING MOMENTS

[0:01] Tonight on national television, Donald Trump sat down for his first interview since his [0:08] post, bossed everything. Friday morning in the Roosevelt room of the White House, CBS [0:14] correspondent Ross Douthat asked him the questions nobody else has dared to ask since [0:20] Tuesday night. Who is getting fired? Does he still trust his war secretary? Can he stop [0:27] insulting Democrats for six months? And does he think he is going to heaven? The answers [0:33] are stunning. Five moments from this interview are already shaking Washington, and one of [0:39] them came true within hours of the cameras stopping. This is the full breakdown. [0:45] Moment number one. Douthat asked the president a simple question. After losing the House and [0:52] the Senate, do you plan to fire anyone? Trump did not hesitate. I do, he said, a little bit. [1:01] Then he added the line that set off alarm bells across Washington. I love my cat. I think they [1:07] are good, but I will be doing maybe a few changes. Within hours of that taping, the first head [1:15] rolled. Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was out. Wiles, 69 years old, the first woman ever to [1:23] serve as White House Chief of Staff, handed in her resignation on Thursday night. Friday [1:29] was her last day. And her replacement? Stephen Miller, 41, the architect of the president's [1:37] hardline immigration crackdown, takes over on Monday. Trump told reporters he simply wanted [1:44] a change. Stephen has been with me from the beginning. He gets it. Very good, politically. [1:52] At Mar-a-Lago on Friday night, Miller pledged his absolute loyalty to the president, but Trump [1:59] himself warned on camera that Wiles will not be the last. Maybe a few changes. Washington is now asking [2:07] the only question that matters. Who is next? Moment number two, the war secretary. Pete Hegseth [2:15] could face an impeachment vote when the House reconvenes. And even a senior Republican, House [2:21] Oversight Chairman James Comer, says there are a lot of questions about him. Douthat asked Trump [2:28] directly, do you still have confidence in him? I do, Trump said. Then he went further. Look, [2:36] we have won two wars. We have won Venezuela and taken out billions and billions and billions of [2:43] dollars already. And we will be taking out many billions of dollars and get along very well. And [2:49] you could call it a territory. You could call it whatever you want. We won that war in less than [2:55] one hour. And nobody was killed. Douthat pressed him. Do you credit Hegseth for that? Trump's answer [3:03] was brutally honest. No, but he was a part of it. The message is clear. Trump is casting both wars, [3:11] Venezuela and Iran, as victories. And he is daring the new Democratic Congress to come after his war [3:18] secretary. Moment number three, the insult test. Douthat asked Trump about Senator-elect James [3:26] Tallarico of Texas, the Democrat who beat Trump back to Ken Paxton. Tallarico had said on Fox News that [3:34] he wants to work with Trump on immigration. Douthat pointed out that Trump had mocked him during the [3:40] campaign with the nickname Tallarico. Trump did not deny it. Yeah, I did, he said. Then came the [3:50] challenge. Could the president go six months without insulting Democrats if that is what it takes to get [3:56] a deal done? Very easily, Trump replied. He admitted he also calls many Democrats Democrats. And Douthat [4:06] noted he had done it again only days earlier. But here's the twist. The first bipartisan issue Trump [4:13] himself volunteered was immigration. The same immigration agenda run by Stephen Miller, the man [4:21] he just put in charge of his White House. The man who designed the deportation crackdown is now the [4:27] chief of staff. And the president says he wants to make a deal with Democrats on immigration. [4:33] That tension between the dealmaker and the enforcer is the story of the next two years. [4:40] Can he really hold his tongue for six months? Washington is not convinced. [4:47] Moment number four, the most personal question of the night. Douthat had been talking about the [4:53] president's own mortality, about his remaining years in office, about what comes next. Then he asked it [5:00] straight. Do you think you are going to heaven? Trump paused. I hope so, he said. I don't want to go [5:09] to hell. It was the shortest answer of the interview and maybe the most revealing. An 80-year-old president [5:16] in his final years in office, facing a hostile Congress, a party that just lost both chambers, [5:24] and investigations closing in. Douthat did not press further. He did not need to. In one sentence, [5:32] Trump showed a side of himself the cameras almost never catch. The clip spread across the world [5:39] within minutes of CBS releasing it on Sunday. And it is the moment everyone will remember from this [5:45] interview, whatever else he said about politics and wars. Moment number five, the fight ahead. [5:52] The interview covered the wars, the economy, and what happens when the new Democratic Congress arrives [5:58] in January. Trump is intent on casting the Iran war as a success, just as he did with Venezuela. [6:06] Then Douthat turned to the economy, to Trump's own money. Forbes estimates the president's fortune has [6:13] grown by nearly $3 billion since he won the 2024 election, to around $7 billion. Trump brushed it aside. [6:22] Well, so did everyone's, he said. Douthat pushed back. His own net worth, he said, had not gone up by [6:30] $3 billion. Trump's reply is already famous. Well, you should have had stock. He said he barely [6:37] thinks about his net worth. His son oversees his money, and he holds one weapon above all, [6:44] the veto bill. Douthat pressed him on veto threats, and how he plans to govern with both chambers against [6:51] him. This is the heart of the interview. A president who lost Congress, sitting in the White House, [6:57] telling 10 million viewers he is not finished, not by a long way. But there is one more piece of context [7:05] you need to understand this interview, and it happened on Election Day itself. On Fox News on Tuesday, [7:13] Trump said he and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had agreed to end roughly $4 billion a year [7:20] in American military aid to Israel after this year. Israeli President Isaac Herzog called the claim [7:28] like a bolt from the blue, and Vice President J.D. Vance posted that the United States-Israel [7:34] relationship contributed to the Republican midterm losses. Now listen carefully. The White House has [7:42] not confirmed this as official policy. This is Trump's claim, and the reactions to it not settled [7:49] fact. But it explains the stakes of the Douthat interview. The Israel question will follow him into [7:56] every negotiation with the new Congress. And it is one more reason this 60 Minutes interview matters [8:02] far beyond one Sunday night. So what happens now? The full interview airs tonight at 7 Eastern, [8:10] a double-length segment on CBS and Paramount+, with an extended version coming to YouTube later on Sunday [8:17] night. On Monday morning, Stephen Miller walks into the chief of staff's office, and the shakeup Trump [8:24] promised on camera begins for real. The House reconvenes, the impeachment question over Hegseth [8:31] hangs in the air, and the investigations begin. A president who told America he will fire a few [8:38] more people, that he won a war in less than one hour, that he can stop the insults very easily, [8:45] and that he hopes he is going to heaven. The question now is not what he said, it is what he does next. [8:52] Stay with Pressline. We will bring you every twist the moment it happens. If this breakdown helped [9:00] you understand what just happened in Washington, subscribe to Pressline and watch our biggest [9:05] report next, The Story That Started It All. The link is in the description.