i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle awtd, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> pelley: peter daszak is a scientist whose work is helping in the search for a covid-19 cure. so, why did the president just dasndin it's the kind of politics which might seem ill-advised in a health crisis. president trump is blaming china's government for the pandemic. the outbreak was first detected in the city of wuhan. the administration has said, at times, the virus is man-made or that, if it's natural, it must have leaked out of a chinese government lab. both the white house and the chinese communist party have been less than honest. and so, in china and in the u.s., the work of scientists like peter daszak is being undercut by pandemic politics. peter daszak is a british-born american ph.d. who's spent a career discovering danger

. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm sharyn alfonsi. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> scott pelley: as may begins, millions of americans delete another month of calendar events for the job they never expected to lose. they made plans; graduates entering the hottest economy in a generation, entrepreneurs with their dream in sight and workplace veterans tuning their retirement. 30 million americans have filed for unemployment in six weeks. the people you're about to meet signed up last month for a philadelphia online job fair. it was just four hours of local businesses with open positions but 1300 people waited in chat rooms for a chance. they wonder how fast the economy should open and find themselves in a strange place, with hours on their hands and time running out. >> philadelphia-area residents can meet potential employers tomorrow at a virtual job fair. >> cour

. >> i'm bill whitaker. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories, tonight, on "60 minutes." ( ticking ) >> this portion of "60 minutes" is sponsored by progressive insurance. save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. visit progressive.com. >> pelley: jerome powell shook washington, wall street and the world this past week when he warned the pandemic crisis threatens "lasting damage" to american prosperity. as chairman of the federal reserve, powell is among the most powerful people in the economy. he acted swiftly in the sharpest collapse since the great depression, but he fears congress's initial three trillion dollar bailout will not be enough to save a generation from low growth and stagnant incomes. we asked chairman powell how high unemployment will go and how long it will take to see a recovery. he spoke to us this past wednesday after a blunt speech that gave markets a shove. mr. chairman, i just got a push notification on my phone: "dow tanks more than 500 points in wall street sell-off after fed chair warns ec

i think it's really important that we acknowledge what matthew whitaker said about the bill of rightsnd the constitution. thank god we have them. if you look across the country and you look at the way that some of these governors and the people in power have taken this over the line multiple times in terms of arbitrary rules for some people and not others, the good thing is that the constitution keeps us all equal and really does protect our civil liberties at a time when they are most at risk and at danger. >> harris: it's interesting, leslie, to hear katie say, "thank god we have those things in place." because where would we be without them? what are your thoughts? you're in california. let me not skip that point. this really affects you. gavin newsom is your governor. how do you feel about the fact that a mall can open, albeit a mall is a big place, but so are the mega churches. okay? maybe not as big as a mall, but they are huge. how do you feel about that? is >> leslie: we had a legal challenge to that in california. on may 5th a federal court upheld the governor's ban. with a s

whitaker was matt in there. he left shortly after bill moore took over. -- bill barr took over. thesignature is in some of pfizer renewal. they suspected he was a russian spy or working with russia. it was his decision to appoint robert mueller as the special investigator to look into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia. he also stood next to william barr when william barr announced they would not pursue obstruction after the second volume of the mueller report came out. he also stood by william barr when he explained robert mueller could not conclude there was any evidence that russia and the trump campaign had colluded. anything with this russia probe, he has had his fingerprints on. host: coming as the fall campaign begins in earnest between the biden campaign and the trump campaign. how much of this is getting to the facts and how much is presidential politics? guest: these hearings are largely presidential politics. for republicans, they will try to score points by getting him to admit there was not a lot of evidence, there was no evidence that the russia pro

whitaker was matt in there. he left shortly after bill moore took over. -- bill barr took over. thesignature is in some of pfizer renewal. they suspected he was a russian spy or working with russia. it was his decision to appoint robert mueller as the special investigator to look into alleged ties between the trump campaign and russia. he also stood next to william barr when william barr announced they would not pursue obstruction after the second volume of the mueller report came out. he also stood by william barr when he explained robert mueller could not conclude there was any evidence that russia and the trump campaign had colluded. anything with this russia probe, he has had his fingerprints on. host: coming as the fall campaign begins in earnest between the biden campaign and the trump campaign. how much of this is getting to the facts and how much is presidential politics? guest: these hearings are largely presidential politics. for republicans, they will try to score points by getting him to admit there was not a lot of evidence, there was no evidence that the russia pro