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Latest 60 Minutes transcripts

Sen. Thom Tillis's Extended Interview

October 7, 2026

Thom Tillis (0:00)

This fealty to a would-be king or a powerful president is not a good look in an election cycle where people are frustrated. Why anybody hesitates to say, look, I love the president, I voted for the big beautiful bill, I'm okay with the CMS cuts, but we gotta get this thing in Iran right. What's wrong with that? If…

Ross Douthat (0:26)

This week on 60 Minutes, we interviewed Senator Thom Tillis. The two-term Republican from North Carolina has been walking a political tightrope throughout the second Trump administration. He's voted with his party consistently and backed many of President Donald Trump's policy priorities. But he's also been a…

In a series of conversations on Capitol Hill, we spoke with Senator Tillis about his relationship with President Trump, his fear of an increasingly imperial presidency, and what awaits the Republican Party in the midterms and 2028 This is an extended version of those interviews.

Thom Tillis (1:31)

I did. My dad was a draftsman, and he did boats, which took him from one port city to the other. So, we were in Jacksonville, which obviously a big port city, New Orleans, and then he moved up to Tennessee because it was a big dredge industry at the time, and did that until his 40s, and then he moved out of that…

Depending upon the circumstances, we were either in a house that we rented, sometimes we owned it, and when things got really spicy, we were in a trailer park.

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