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CNN’s Jim Acosta on covering the Trump White House

Candidate and then President Trump has repeatedly attacked the news media, calling stories he dislikes “fake news,” while also spreading false statements from the lectern and via Twitter. CNN’s chief White House correspondent Jim Acosta, who has been called the “enemy of the people” by the president, says the press corps’ responsibility these days is not just to call balls and strikes, but also fouls. He talks with his colleague, CBS News’ White House correspondent Chip Reid, about the role of the press corps today, and about his new book, “The Enemy of the People: A Dangerous Time to Tell the Truth in America.” Source

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Gen. Eisenhower and the D-Day invasion

David Eisenhower, grandson of the general who commanded the greatest military operation of history’s most terrible war, talks with David Martin about the legacy of D-Day, and of the decisions made and responsibilities borne by Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, Supreme Allied Commander, who led nearly 160,000 Allied troops into Normandy 75 years ago. Source

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Almanac: Cole Porter

The composer of such Broadway classics as “Anything Goes” and “Kiss Me, Kate” was born on June 19, 1891. Jane Pauley reports. Source

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Sunday Profile: Kevin Bacon

Actor Kevin Bacon, who gained fame with the 1984 film “Footloose” (and even more fame with the parlor game Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon), talks about celebrity; his new Showtime series, “City on a Hill,” in which he plays a corrupt federal agent in Boston; and about his charity, called – what else? – Six Degrees. Lee Cowan reports. Source

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Broadway star Andrew Rannells

It’s been seven years since Andrew Rannells left the hit Broadway show, “The Book of Mormon,” for which he earned his first Tony Award nomination. He has since starred in several TV series, and authored a memoir, “Too Much Is Not Enough: A Memoir of Fumbling Toward Adulthood.” Faith Salie talked with Rannells about how he found the spotlight. Source

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