Early reports suggest that Sunday’s Stormy Daniels interview scored 60 Minutes its highest ratings in a decade, according to Deadline. The early Nielsen numbers are the CBS news powerhouse’s best since the show interview Barack and Michelle Obama shortly after the president’s first election in 2008. In the interview with Anderson Cooper, Daniels discussed her affair with Donald Trump, detailing her encounters with the president and an attack by a man in 2011 who threatened her after she agreed to discuss the affair publicly. When full viewership data is released, Daniels’ segment will likely rank among the most-watched interviews of all time, finding itself in the company of Barbara Walters’ 1999 interview with Monica Lewinsky and Oprah Winfrey’s 1993 sit-down with Michael Jackson.
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