NEW YORK CITY—CBS News confirmed on Wednesday that the long-anticipated 60 Minutes interview with Stormy Daniels—in which Daniels is expected to discuss her alleged affair with Donald Trump in detail—will indeed be broadcast on Sunday night, March 25, at 7 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. The broadcast will also air at 7 p.m. Pacific. Check this link for a list of CBS affiliates set to carry the Daniels interview.
60 Minutes posted a brief—very brie —preview of the interview on its YouTube channel. The preview may be viewed at this link. But at only 10 seconds, the preview is considerably shorter and less revealing than most such previews posted online by the show, perhaps indicating that CBS is being especially protective of the revelations offered by Daniels in the interview, which was conducted on March 8 by correspondent Anderson Cooper.
Remarkably, both CBS and Daniels’ lawyer Michael Avenatti have so far prevented any leaks whatsoever regarding the content of Daniels’ potentially explosive interview. But Avenatti has hinted that in the interview, Daniels will offer “100 percent” proof that her affair with Trump in 2006 and 2007 actually took place. In fact, he refused to deny—or confirm—that such proof could exist in the form of an actual “sex tape.”
Politically, what may be an even more explosive revelation could involve what Avenatti has said was a direct, physical threat made against Daniels. While Avenatti has refused to reveal the source of that claimed threat, he has told interviewers that, “This was not a random threat by some wing nut ... out of the blue.”
In a CNN interview on March 18, Avenatti promised that Daniels, in the 60 Minutes interview, “will provide details—very specific details—related to this threat.”
While Trump himself has, rather uncharacteristically, made no public comments on the Stormy Daniels situation—not even on his preferred forum for communicating with the public, his Twitter account—White House press spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders has said that Trump denies that the affair ever took place.
Daniels is suing Trump to be released from a non-disclosure agreement she signed shortly before the 2016 presidential election, an agreement for which Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen paid her $130,000. However, last week, when Trump’s legal team filed papers to move the lawsuit from Los Angeles Superior Court to a federal court, Trump attached his own name to the legal documents, effectively admitting for the first time that he has a direct, personal interest in keeping Daniels quiet.
