This week on the channel +6.8M views this week

Colorado and third-country deportations shape 60 Minutes' week

Bill Whitaker's Tina Peters report draws the largest new audience, while a Theranos archive upload remains especially active.

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What happened in Colorado after Trump demanded Tina Peters be freed | 60 Minutes

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0:54Rancher Kathleen Kelly describes the Lee Fire, and Polis discusses the denial of federal disaster aid.
2:37Attorney General Phil Weiser describes withheld aid and budget threats tied to demands for Peters's release.
4:21Secretary of State Jenna Griswold explains how Peters disabled surveillance and copied voting-machine software.
7:56Polis explains commuting Peters's sentence after she served less than two years.
10:05Peters defends her actions in an interview with Whitaker and continues questioning voting machines.
12:59Whitaker reports that federal disaster aid and infrastructure funds were restored after Peters's release.

Bill Whitaker's Colorado investigation starts with a prison sentence but reaches into ranchland, disaster relief and infrastructure funding. It was 60 Minutes' most watched new upload of the week, reaching roughly 808,000 views.

The report follows President Trump's demands to free convicted former county clerk Tina Peters. Governor Jared Polis explains his decision to commute her sentence, while Colorado officials describe federal funding pressure. Whitaker also interviews Peters after her release, finding her continuing to question voting machines. As we reported here, the investigation connects that political story with the consequences for Colorado residents awaiting aid.

Another substantial audience gathered around "ICE deported Texas dad to Ghana because home country was unsafe; Ghana sent him anyway | 60 Minutes". The report examines third-country deportations and how people can ultimately reach countries where U.S. judges have ruled they are likely to face persecution. It is currently drawing views faster than the Colorado segment, though the latter has the larger total.

The week's full broadcast brings both investigations together with Australia's under-16 social media ban. Across the channel's seventeen uploads, individual reports attracted considerably more viewing than that complete edition.

Subscribers were unchanged over the week, while daily views are running modestly above the channel's usual level. Among nearby television and streaming channels, Peacock had a particularly large week; 60 Minutes also drew more weekly views than Bravo or Oscars.

The strongest current momentum belongs to "Elizabeth Holmes & Theranos | 60 Minutes Archive". Norah O'Donnell's 2018 reporting on the blood-testing company's failed promise has found another substantial audience between the new investigations.

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