Trump talks NYC mayoral race, government shutdown and nuclear weapons in tense ‘60 Minutes’ return

Source: New York Post

President Trump tore into Democrats over the ongoing government shutdown, justified his order to restart nuclear weapons testing in the US and defended his administration’s ICE raids in a sometimes-intense “60 Minutes” interview Sunday – his first with CBS News since suing the network’s parent company. Sparks flew early as anchor Norah O’Donnell, sitting with Trump at his gilded Florida Mar-a-Lago estate, came out of the gates with a question about the president’s handling of the shutdown, the second-longest in US history at 33 days. “You have helped these government shutdowns in the past,” O’Donnell said, prompting a testy back-and-forth in which the two tried to talk over one another.