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." >> kroft: for the past seven months, we have been scrutinizing "service difficulty reports" filed by allegiant with the f.a.a. they are official, self-reported records of problems experienced by their aircraft. what we found raised some disturbing questions about the

kroft -- m -- >> the writing is riveting. sawyer? >> great interviewer.nk an amazing fit for 60 minutes, but wants to move on. >> anderson cooper. >> i love him. he is so good. i think he handled the stormy over isthings -- delightful. incredibly curious and a natural reporter, which is interesting. i don't think most would describe her that way but being the only boss she has ever had, that's what i would say. bill: she came in, i got an opera hug. michael: bill whitaker. jeff: absolute joy. i'm going to say even though he's right here, probably one of the best if not the best hires i ever made. we hit the ground running and he has been an amazing addition to our broadcast. michael: jeff faber. bill: the best boss i've ever had. michael: "60 minutes" is alive and well. how do you sustain this program? do the first 50 years even count at this point? jeff: i'm losing track. i think it should be sustained with those things i talked about. one, we stay current and relevant, so you know you're going to get something that helps you understand today's world eve

i'm steve kroft. >> i meredith vieira. >> i am scott pelley. >> i am katie couric.aura logan. >> i am anderson cooper. >> i am david martin. i'm sharon auntie. >> i am oprah winfrey. >> i am bill whitaker. tonight 50 years of 60 minutes. [ticking] [applause] michael: so 50 years later, don hewitt's creation is still on top, the most successful program in broadcasting history. just two nights ago 60 minutes garnered its highest ratings in 10 years with its stormy daniels interview. so tonight we print the legend, and we begin with jeff fager, executive producer of 60 minutes, former chairman of cbs news. as hewitt tutored under murrow, fager tutored under hewitt. tell us about don hewitt and what you learn from him. jeff: i learned so much. don was an open book. and he was a great teacher, and he taught so much of what he learned from murrow and fred friendly, the president who did fire him. they did not like each other at all. it was an amazing thing because i think don because he got fired and realized it and eventually talked everybody into this new program, spent

if you look at lesley stahl and steve kroft, scott pelley, everybody who has done well, morley safer,adley, all those people you think about that sort of are synonymous with 60 minutes have that experience covering the world, bob simon, very much the way bill had done. michael: jeff had always said the success of 60 minutes came down to four words, tell me a story. is it as simple as that? [laughter] i think it is important because so much of what we try to do is tell a story you can follow, and we don't like to cover issues. we tell stories, and that is a fundamental difference. that is what don meant by that. we find a narrow slot. we find a place i like to be on big stories, stories that everybody is aware of. but we help you better understand it because we take a narrow focus and really dive deep in that narrow focus. so i think that is really why what he said is so important, because we don't ever want to forget that ultimately what we are doing is storytelling. and it is that same discipline that forces us to work so hard. we work on every line, and we do it as a collaborative p

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safety is at the forefront of our minds and the core of our operations. >> steve kroft is here.rning. >> good morning, john. >> i want to pick up on that faa point. you talked to somebody with the faa for the piece. why were you stunned by the lack of information they had? >> because we had given them a huge amount of information going into the interview. they knew what we were going to ask. they knew we were able to identify more than 100 incidents. but they didn't give a response or gave no indication to recognize anything was out of the ordinary for allegiant. >> not even the ceo maurice gallagher responded to cbs's "60 minutes." what do you make of that? >> i wurnt surprised. they tried to block our access to some really critical information so we could compare their performance and safety with other airlines. i thought they would again -- we gave them bullet points on everything we were going to report, and there was not one they responded to. >> and the number of mechanical failures is startling and yet we should note in recent months the incidents have gone down. what do

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. >> steve kroft. >> i think the best, all-around reporter, story teller that ever worked there. >> and i'm going to run out of superlatives, but the writing is just, you know, it's riveting. >> diane sawyer. >> great interviewer. i think an amazing fit for "60 minutes," but wanted to move on. >> anderson cooper. >> the best. i love him. he's so good and incredible range. >> he can cover anything. and i think he handled the stormy daniels thing pretty well. >> who can forget the 100-foot wave? >> over the crocodiles. delightful and incredibly curious and a natural reporter which is interesting. i'm not sure being -- i'm not sure people would describe her that way. >> she has an aura, and i got an oprah hug. when she came in. >> you'll get more hugs after the program now. >> so, jeff, i'll just ask you this. bill whitaker. >> bill whitaker, an absolute joy, and even though he's right here, probably, if want the best, one of the best hires i've ever made. it's just -- he's been amazing, as i said earlier, and hit the ground running and an amazing addition to our broadcast. >> bill, i'll j