Episode
60 Minutes: The Russian Hack, Tania’s Story, Mind Reading
Overview
Members from two Russian military intelligence units have been indicted for hacking into the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee's computers. The Salvadoran woman who was the wife and mother of the drowned migrant father and daughter whose image in death captivated the world and framed the crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. Lesley Stahl reports on the use of functional magnetic resonance imaging and computer analysis to decode the physical makeup of our thoughts.
Details
- Series
- 60 Minutes
- Season
- Season 52
- Episode
- Episode 9
- Air date
- 2019-11-24
- Runtime
- 44 min
Episode context
The Russian Hack, Tania’s Story, Mind Reading is Episode 9 in Season 52 of 60 Minutes. It aired on 2019-11-24. The runtime is 44 min.
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