Steve Kroft on interviewing Barack Obama during the 2008 presidential election

Journalist Steve Kroft details the interviews he conducted with Barack Obama during the 2008 election.

“I did the first interview with Obama…the week before he declared his candidacy and I spent a lot of time with him at a time when you could still do that. You didn’t have any Secret Service…So you could ride around in a car with him or go around Chicago, you know, talking and shooting the bull.“

Watch Steve Kroft’s full interview, where he discusses his career from his early days in local news to his 60 Minutes interviews with world leaders.

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