60 Minutes airs bombshell segment despite warnings

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

46% : Among the law firms that have agreed to work with Trump was Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom - the fifth largest law firm in the world.
37% : The episode spent the last 14 minutes of its program Sunday night hitting out at Trump for his efforts to target law firms that have been critical of him with executive orders.
33% : 'And so when Donald Trump says that I am unethical or that I am undermining his vision of America, I say, "Boy I must be doin' something right.'
31% : A federal judge permanently blocked the executive order against the law firm last week, calling it 'unconstitutional retaliation.' In the segment on Sunday, Marc Elias, a former Perkins Cole partner and a top lawyer for Democrats, called Trump's executive orders an assault on the entire legal profession Lawyer Brenna Frey left her law firm after it agreed to conduct free legal work for causes Trump supports Still, Trump has targeted other law firms that bring immigration lawsuits or other cases against the government that he deems to be unethical.
26% : 'The fact is that these law firms are being told, "If you don't play ball with us, maybe something really bad will happen to you,"' said Elias - who first crossed Trump in 2016 when he served as the top lawyer for the Hillary Clinton campaign and then again in 2020 when he defeated Trump's efforts to contest the election results in court.
24% : Scott Pelley, who previously went rogue and leveled a blistering accusation against his own corporate bosses, spoke with lawyers who argued when law firms do not stand up to power it could turn into a 'dictatorship.' Pelley even seemed to push the envelope as he called Trump the 'first felon in the Oval Office.'
24% : 'Donald Trump is the walking embodiment of everything that is wrong with the American political system,' Elias declared.
23% : 60 Minutes decided to provoke President Donald Trump with a scathing segment on Sunday The newsmagazine spent the last 14 minutes of its program Sunday night hitting out at Trump for his efforts to target law firms that have been critical of him with executive orders It started with Pelley admitting it was 'nearly impossible to get anyone on camera' to speak with them about the executive orders Trump levied against the law firms.
21% : Trump has not yet commented on Sunday's episode, which came just one week after Pelley hit out at his own bosses at Paramount for trying to secure political favor from the Trump administration.
18% : Perkins Cole, his former firm, has now been accused of 'unlawful or unsavory practices' due to its connections to investigations related to President Trump or his allies.
13% : Donald Trump was the focus of a scathing segment on Sunday's 60 Minutes, even as the show's bosses at Paramount desperately try to settle the president's $20 billion lawsuit.

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