President Barack Obama will appear in his last presidential interview on broadcast TV on 60 Minutes Presents Barack Obama: Eight Years in the White House. The hour-long special will air this coming Sunday, Jan. 15 at 7 p.m. ET/PT.
60 Minutes is a program where Obama has made a lot of news over the years with Steve Kroft, who began covering Obama more than a year before he entered the Oval Office.
Kroft chatted with Obama at the White House this week about current affairs, including President-elect Trump, and his own two-term legacy. The program will also follow the president’s journey through his own words in the 60 Minutes interviews he did with Kroft, beginning when he declared his candidacy back in 2007, through the elections and the highs and lows of his eight years in the White House.
Some of the milestones President Obama talked about on 60 Minutes include his historic election in his first interview as the president-elect in November 2008; his first two months in office in March 2009; facing down intense opposition to the ACA in September 2009; the Democrats’ losses in the 2010 mid-term elections; killing of Osama bin Laden in 2011; and his discussion of the Syrian civil war and Russia’s involvement in it in October, 2015.