What questions might Steve Kroft ask Obama in the big CBS interview?”
Were you surprised by the intensity of the reaction, and the hostility from the AIG bonus debacle?” correspondent Steve Kroft asked. “I wasn’t surprised by it. Our team wasn’t surprised by it. The one thing that I’ve tried to emphasize, though, throughout this week, and will continue to try to emphasize during the course of the next several months as we dig ourselves out of this economic hole that we’re in, we can’t govern outta anger. We’ve got to try to make good decisions based on the facts in order to put people back to work, to get credit flowing again. And I’m not gonna be distracted by what’s happening day to day. I’ve gotta stay focused on making sure that we’re getting this economy moving again,” President Obama replied. The president ordered Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner to use every legal means to recover the bonus money from AIG. If it is not repaid, it will be deducted from the company’s next bailout payment. The House decided to extract its own revenge by passing a
The first time Steve Kroft went to Barack Obama’s house to interview him two weeks before his presidential campaign kickoff, Obama’s daughter Sasha answered the door. Don’t expect that to ever happen again. Life has changed dramatically for the Obama family, as Kroft learned Friday in Chicago when he conducted the first postelection interview with Obama. It was for Sunday’s “60 Minutes” on CBS. The interview was a major coup for Kroft, who’s marking his 20th year with the CBS News program in the middle of the year’s biggest stories — the presidential campaign and the economic crisis. Kroft was backstage with Obama when the Democrat accepted his party’s nomination for president, and met him at other points in the campaign. This week’s interview was his sixth, starting with that midwinter mid·win·ter n. 1. The middle of the winter. 2. The period of the winter solstice, about December 22. midwinter Noun 1. the middle or depth of winter 2. 2007 story where Obama took Kroft on a tour of t
