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COVER STORY: Trump’s first week
CBS News chief elections and campaign correspondent Robert Costa and presidential historian Lindsay Chervinsky take stock of Trump’s first week in office.

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Yearbook: January 26
“Sunday Morning” looks back at the historical events of this date.

Fashion: Designer Paul Smith on humility: ‘It’s just fashion’
Sir Paul Smith is one of the UK’s most successful independent designers, with 130 stores in over 60 countries. He talks to journalist Seth Doane about his unexpected career. His creative process; after over 50 years in the business, keeps things interesting.

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Hartman: Mets defender

Broadway: Idina Menzel returns to ‘Redwood’ Broadway
In her new musical “Redwood,” the Tony-winning superstar plays a woman on the run from a redwood forest on the run for refuge and purpose. Correspondent Tracy Smith spoke with Menzel about the show, now on Broadway at the Nederlander Theater (Menzel made her debut in “Rent” 30 years ago), and career highlights like “Wicked” and “Frozen.”

To listen to Idina Menzel performing “Great Escape” from the musical “Redwood”, click on the video player below:

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Channel: In Notes
“Sunday Morning” remembers some of the famous people who left us this week.

History: How president’s death helped kill Washington’s ‘system of destruction’
In the 1800s, the primary job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly elected president, with whom they would fill the government bureaucracy along with his supporters. But after the rejected office seeker shot James Garfield, reformers won a long-term change: workers hired for their expertise, not their loyalty. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with journalist and historian Scott Greenberger about how elites ended up in the federal government and discovers Mark Twain’s influence on What does this have to do with anything.

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• “The Accidental President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur” By Scott Greenberger (Da Capo Press), available in hardcover, trade paperback, e-book and audio formats via Amazon,,,, Barnes & Noble and bookshop.org
• STATELINE Executive Editor Scott Greenberger
• Mark Twain Home and MuseumHartford, Connecticut.
• Jason Scaratic, “Bow Tie Historian”

Us: Bronx Tour
Comedian and actress Susie Essman is a Bronx kid with a love for the giant, magical, and sometimes gross-out Big Apple. She joined the “Sunday Morning” audience on tour, starring author and humorist Ian Frazier, astrophysicist Neil Degrasse Tyson, Joined by actor and playwright Chazz Palminteri, rapper and entrepreneur Fat Joe, and Bronx Borough Borough Borough Berough Vanessa Gibson.

Read the excerpt: Paradise in the Bronx by Ian Frazier

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Movie: The Spirit of Sundance
This month in Utah’s Wasatch Mountains, the Sundance Film Festival once again showcases independent filmmakers and documentarians from around the world. But that’s not all Sundance is about. Correspondent Lee Cowan talks with Robert Redford, founder of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, about the history of the festival and the filmmakers’ labs where these experiments The room helps emerging film storytellers hone their craft. Cowan also spoke with actress Glenn Close; Michelle Satter, the institute’s founding senior director; and Sean Wang, director of last year’s Breakthrough Festival hit “idi,” a coming-of-age story.

Curtain shot: Sundance 2025 movie lineup features Jennifer Lopez, John Malkovich, Lily Gladstone and more

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America: Rebuilding Paradise
Recent wildfires in Los Angeles County have destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. But residents of Paradise, California, who lost their lives to the devastating Camp Fire in 2018, are not giving up. Correspondent Ben Tracy looks at the regeneration of communities using building materials designed not to burn. (An earlier version of this story aired May 29, 2022.)

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Movie: Pete Davidson and Dav Pilkey
The playful anarchy of author and illustrator Dav Pilkey’s bestselling Dogman series is now available in a new animated film. Reporter Rita Braver spoke with Pilkey about the origins of his hero, a parts-dog cop. Along with comedian Pete Davidson, he expressed the arch of dogs – cats, cats are cats.

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From the archives: The Birth of Cinema (YouTube video)
Watch these classic “Sunday Morning” reports exploring the birth of film, early Hollywood greats and its continued appeal to filmmakers and audiences, including: The Lumiere Brothers, who revolutionized the moving picture ; Charlie Chaplin, the first international star; the life and career of Buster Keaton; the newfound discovery of silent film star Mary Pickford; the making of “Wings,” which was the first a film that won the Academy Award for Best Picture; 2005 Turner Classic Movies Competition asks young composers to write score for silent Greta Garber film The Temptress; reviews comedian Harold Lloyd; conductor Gillian Anderson (Gillian Anderson) in leading ensemble scores for silent films, including “Nosferatu”; the story of Laurence Austin, who ran a Los Angeles theater dedicated to the silent era until Murder in 1997. Hollywood’s love affair with a new silent film, “The Artist.”

From the archives: Transcendental Meditation by David Lynch (YouTube Video)
Director David Lynch, known for visionary and surreal works such as “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks” and “Mooreland Drive,” died on January 16, 2025, He was 78 years old. David Lynch, founder of the Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, spoke with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca in 2016 about the impact of TM. Rocca also visited a Los Angeles school where Lynch taught students about the benefits of meditation. (From report originally aired on January 3, 2016.)

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