Lesley Stahl's 60 Minutes Performance Is Causing Quite A Stir

Veteran journalist Lesley Stahl has been in the business going on 50 years, and has several awards, including a few Emmys, to show for it. The Detroit Free Press called her a "pioneer for women in the news business," and she's been a mainstay on 60 Minutes since March 1991. CBS News also notes that she's interviewed President Donald Trump several times: She interviewed him when he was first named the Republican nominee in 2016, in his first television interview as president-elect, and in a one-on-one as his second year in office came to an end. With all that history, you might think Stahl and the president would have been more at ease with one another, but that was clearly not the case. Days before the latest 60 Minutes interview with the veteran journalist, President Trump was already taking to Twitter to tell fans he wasn't happy with her or with the way things had gone. But it turns out there was much more to talk about than just his abrupt departure. The interview was so contentious that the White House opted to break an existing agreement it had with CBS to embargo the video, releasing its own version of the raw footage on social media. Stahl then reminds the president that the last time she interviewed him, he asked her to "bring it on" — but it wasn't the same this time around because, as the president said, "I'm not looking for that." The edited 60 Minutes interview viewers saw on Sunday night didn't exactly position Stahl the way the president might have hoped either. Instead, it showed a calm and collected correspondent who got under Trump's skin. On balance, though, the praise for Stahl's handling of the tense showdown seemed to outweigh the criticism. Keep watching to see Lesley Stahl's 60 Minutes Performance Is Causing Quite A Stir. #LesleyStahl #DonaldTrump