. >>> IF RUSSIA STOPPING FIGHTING, THE WAR ENDS. IF UKRAINE STOPS FIGHTING,
UKRAINE ENDS. >> ANTONY BLINKEN HAS A WORLD OF TROUBLE ON HIS HANDS. THE SECRETARY OF STATE FACES
DANGEROUS TENSIONS BETWEEN RUSSIA AND UKRAINE AND CHINA AND TAIWAN. IS THERE ANYONE IN THE KREMLIN
WHO CAN TELL VLADIMIR PUTIN NO, IF HE DECIDES TO LAUNCH A BATTLEFIELD NUCLEAR WEAPON? >>> TONIGHT YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR
FROM A STAFFER INSIDE THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE WHICH RESUMES HEARINGS WEDNESDAY. >> SOMEONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE
WAS CALLING ONE OF THE RIOTERS? >> SURE. AND YOU KNOW THE END OF THAT CALL.
THERE ARE CONNECTIONS THAT NEED TO BE EXPLORED MORE. >>> BY ACTING AS NATURAL BUFFERS, CORAL REEFS PREVENT
DANGEROUS SITUATIONS. THE SITUATION IS SERIOUS AND MARINE BIOLOGISTS ARE TRYING TO FIND WAYS TO RESCUE THE REEFS.
AND PART OF THAT INVOLVES MEDDLING WITH THE SEX LIVES OF CORAL. HOW DO CORAL HAVE SEX?
>> I'M LESLEY STAHL. >> I'M BILL WHITAKER. >> I'M SCOTT PELLEY. THOSE STORIES AND MORE TONIGHT
ON
. >>> AFTER HUMILIATING DEFEATS IN UKRAINE, RUSSIAN PRESIDENT VLADIMIR PUTIN TOLD HIS PEOPLE
THAT THE U.S. IS BENT ON DESTROYING THE RUSSIAN HOMELAND. ON WEDNESDAY, HE DRAFTED 300,000 RESERVISTS AND THREATENED
NUCLEAR WAR. THIS IS NOT A BLUFF, HE SAID. UKRAINE DOMINATED THIS PAST WEEK'S ANNUAL GATHERING OF THE
U.N. GENERAL ASSEMBLY IN NEW YORK ATTENDED BY PRESIDENT BIDEN AND MORE THAN 120 WORLD LEADERS. FRIDAY WE MET THE U.S. SECRETARY
OF STATE, ANTONY BLINKEN, TO TALK ABOUT A WORLD OF CHALLENGES AND PUTIN'S NUCLEAR THREAT. HOW CONCERNED SHOULD AMERICANS
BE ABOUT THE PROSPECT OF NUCLEAR WAR? >> SCOTT, WE'VE HEARD A LOT OF IRRESPONSIBLE RHETORIC COMING
OUT OF VLADIMIR PUTIN, BUT WE'RE FOCUSSED ON MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE ALL ACTING RESPONSIBLY, ESPECIALLY WHEN IT COMES TO THIS
KIND OF LOOSE RHETORIC. WE'VE BEEN VERY CLEAR WITH THE RUSSIANS PUBLICLY AND AS WELL AS PRIVATELY, TO STOP THE LOOSE
TALK ABOUT NUCLEAR WEAPONS. >> PRIVATELY, THE UNITED STATES HAS BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH THE KREMLIN ABOUT THESE THREATS
OF NUCLEAR WAR. >> YES. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT MOSCOW HERE FROM
HEAR FROM US AND KNOW FROM US THAT THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE HORRIFIC AND WE'D MADE THAT VERY CLEAR.
>> YOU CALLED THE NUCLEAR TALK LOOSE TALK. BUT ISN'T VLADIMIR PUTIN TELLING US WHAT HE'S GOING TO DO IF HE
IS BACKED ANY FURTHER INTO A CORNER? >> VLADIMIR PUTIN HAS A CLEAR WAY OUT OF THE WAR HE STARTED,
AND THAT'S TO END IT. IF RUSSIA STOPS FIGHTING, THE WAR ENDS. IF UKRAINE STOPS FIGHTING,
UKRAINE ENDS >> IS THERE ANYONE IN THE KREMLIN WHO CAN TELL VLADIMIR PUTIN NO IF HE DECIDES TO LAUNCH
A BATTLEFIELD NUCLEAR WEAPON? >> THEY HAVE A CHAIN OF COMMAND. WHETHER IT WORKS OR NOT, TO BE SEEN, BUT WHAT I THINK YOU'RE
POINTING TO IS A LARGER CHALLENGE, AND THAT IS THE ACHILLES HEEL OF AUTOCRACIES ANYWHERE.
THERE IS USUALLY NOT ANYONE WHO HAS THE CAPACITY OR THE WILL TO SPEAK TRUTH TO POWER. AND PART OF THE REASON I THINK
RUSSIA HAS GOTTEN ITSELF INTO THE MESS THAT IT'S IN IS BECAUSE THERE IS NO ONE IN THE SYSTEM TO EFFECTIVELY TELL PUTIN HE'S
DOING THE WRONG THING. >> IN OUR INTERVIEW LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT BIDEN TOLD US THAT HE HAD A MESSAGE FOR VLADIMIR PUTIN
ON THE USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. >> DON'T. DON'T. DON'T.
>> HE WENT ON TO SAY THE U.S. RESPONSE WOULD BE CONSEQUENTIAL. WHAT DID HE MEAN BY THAT? >> I'M NOT GOING TO GET INTO
WHAT THE CONSEQUENCES WOULD BE. ANY USE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS WOULD HAVE CATASTROPHIC EFFECTS FOR, OF COURSE THE COUNTRY USING
THEM, BUT FOR MANY OTHERS AS WELL. >> IF YOU CAN'T GIVE US SPECIFICS ABOUT A U.S. RESPONSE,
CAN YOU TELL US THAT THE ADMINISTRATION HAS A PLAN? >> WE DO. >> IS IT A PLAN THAT WOULD
PREVENT WORLD WAR III? >> PRESIDENT BIDEN HAS BEEN DETERMINED THAT AS WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO HELP THE
UKRAINIANS DEFEND THEMSELVES, AS WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO RALLY OTHER COUNTRIES TO PUT PRESSURE ON RUSSIA, WE'RE ALSO
DETERMINE THAD DETERMINED THAT THIS WAR NOT EXPAND. >> AS WE SPEAKING TO SECRETARY
BLINKEN NEWS BROKE THAT A U.N. INVESTIGATORY COMMISSION FOUND EVIDENCE OF RAPE AND TORTURE OF CHILDREN IN RUSSIA-OCCUPIED
UKRAINE. IT GOES ON IT SAY IT HAS CONCLUDED THAT WAR CRIMES HAVE BEEN COMMITTED IN UKRAINE.
WHAT DOES JUSTICE LOOK LIKE? FOR UKRAINE? >> JUSTICE LOOKS LIKE ACCOUNTABILITY.
ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THOSE WHO PERPETRATED THESE WAR CREAIMES, THESE ATROCITIES, AS WELL AS THOSE WHO ORDERED THEM.
AND IT'S ONE OF THE REASONS, SCOTT, WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SUPPORT THOSE WHO ARE TRYING TO COMPILE THE EVIDENCE
AND TO INVESTIGATE AND ULTIMATELY PROSECUTE THOSE RESPONSIBLE. >> YOU BELIEVE THERE SHOULD BE
WAR CRIME TRIALS? >> I WAS IN IRPIN. AND I SAW BUILDING BLOCK AFTER BUILDING BLOCK TOTALLY BOMBED
OUT. THIS WAS THE INDISCRIMINATE USE OF FORCE. WHEREVER THE RUSSIAN TIDE
RECEDES, WHAT'S LEFT IN ITS WAKE IS VERY CLEAR EVIDENCE OF WAR CRIMES. >> THE BODIES I SAW WERE NOT
FAKE. >> ATROCITIES WERE LAID BEFORE THE U.N. SECURITY COUNCIL LAST THURSDAY, DRAWING FROM THE
RUSSIAN MORIN RUSSIA FOREIGN MINISTER A DUBIOUS DEFENSE. >> WHEN SERGEY LAVROV SAYS THAT
THE ATROCITIES HAVE BEEN STAGED AND IT IS RUSSIA THAT IS THE VICTIM, TONY BLINKEN IS SITTING THERE THINKING WHAT?
>> THIS IS "ALICE IN WONDERLAND." IT'S THE WORLD UPSIDE DOWN. WHITE IS BLACK, TRUTH IS FALSE.
BUT HERE'S THE THING, ALL OF THESE WORDS RING TOTALLY HOLLOW TO EVERY MEMBER ON THE SECURITY COUNCIL.
SO THIS SPEWING OF WORDS IS NOT HAVING AN EFFECT. ON THE CONTRARY. I THINK IT JUST SHOWS THE TOTAL
DISCONNECT BETWEEN RUSSIA AND VIRTUALLY THE ENTIRETY OF THE REST OF THE WORLD. >> AT THE MOMENT WE SPOKE TO THE
SECRETARY, RUSSIA WAS HURRYING THROUGH WHAT IT CALLS ELECTIONS TO FORCE THESE AREAS OF UKRAINE'S OCCUPIED EAST AND
SOUTH INTO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION. >> THESE SO-CALL THE ELECTIONS ARE A SHAM, PERIOD.
THEY GO IN. THEY PUT IN PUPPET GOVERNMENTS, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS. AND THEN THEY PROCEED WITH A
VOTE, WHICH THEY'LL MANIPULATE IN ANY EVENT, TO TRY TO DECLARE THE TERRITORY RUSSIAN TERRITORY. IT IS NOT.
IT WILL NEVER BE RECOGNIZED AS SUCH. AND THE UKRAINIANS HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO TAKE IT BACK.
>> BLINKEN CAME TO OUR INTERVIEW AFTER MEETING CHINA'S FOREIGN MINISTER. CHINA HAS BEEN RAISING PRESSURE
ON THE DEMOCRATIC ISLAND OF TAIWAN, WHICH, IN OUR CONVERSATION LAST WEEK, PRESIDENT BIDEN PLEDGED TO
DEFEND WITH FORCE. >> SO UNLIKE UKRAINE, TO BE CLEAR, SIR. U.S. FORCES, U.S. MEN AND WOMEN,
WOULD DEFEND TAIWAN IN THE EVENT OF A CHINESE INVASION. >> YES. >> BUT OFFICIAL U.S. POLICY IS
AND HAS BEEN FOR DECADES TO REMAIN AMBIGUOUS ABOUT DEFENDING THE ISLAND. >>EN WHEN
>> CHINA HAS ACTED INCREASINGLY TOWARD TAIWAN. >> THE FOREIGN MINISTER MUST HAVE ASKED YOU TO EXPLAIN THE
PRESIDENT'S REMARKS. >> WE HAD A CONVERSATION ABOUT OUR DIFFERENT APPROACHES TO TAIWAN.
AND I REITERATED WHAT THE PRESIDENT HAS SAID. AND WHAT HE SAID CLEARLY AND CONSISTENTLY.
OUR CONTINUED ADHERENCE TO THE ONE-CHINA POLICY. OUR DETERMINATION THAT THE DIFFERENCES BE RESOLVED
PEACEFULLY, OUR INSISTENCE THAT PEACE AND STABILITY BE MAINTAINED IN THE TAIWAN STRAITS, AND OUR DEEP CONCERN
THAT CHINA WAS TAKING ACTIONS TO TRY TO CHANGE THAT STATUS QUO. THAT'S WHAT THE ISSUE IS. >> BLINKEN WARNS THAT TURBULENCE
IN THE TAIWAN STRAIT WOULD WASH AROUND THE WORLD. >> TAIWAN ITSELF WERE ANYTHING TO HAPPEN, IT IS WHERE VIRTUALLY
ALL THE SEMI CONDUCTORS ARE MADE. ONE OF THE REASONS WE'RE NOW INVESTING, SO HEAVILY, IN OUR
OWN CAPACITY TO PRODUCE SEMI CONDUCTORS HERE IN THE UNITED STATES. WE DESIGN THEM, BUT THE ACTUAL
PRODUCTION IS DONE IN A HANDFUL OF PLACES AND TAIWAN PRODUCES MOST OF THEM.F IF THAT'S DISRUPTED THE EFFECT
ON THE GLOBAL ECONOMY WOULD BE DEVASTATING. >> LAST WEEK, LESLEY STAHL WAS TOLD THEY WOULD CONSIDER
RE-ENTERING THE NUCLEAR DEAL. >> >> IRAN HAS CONTINUED TO TRY TO ADD EXTRANEOUS ISSUES TO THE
NEGOTIATION THAT WE'RE SIMPLY NOT GOING TO SAY YES TO. WE WILL NOT ACCEPT A BAD DEAL. THE RESPONSE THAT THEY'VE GIVEN
TO THE LAST PROPOSALS PUT FORWARD BY OUR EUROPEAN PARTERS HAVE BEEN A HAVE BEEN A VERY SIGNIFICANT
STEP BACKWARDS. >> ANTONY BLINKEN IS 60. ONE OF HIS GRANDPARENTS WAS BORN IN UKRAINE.
HIS STEPFATHER SURVIVED THE HOLOCAUST, AND HIS FATHER WAS U.S. AMBASSADOR. BRINKEN
BLINKEN HAS SPENT 40 YEARS IN POLICY FOR DEMOCRATS MOSTLY IN THE SENATE AND WHITE HOUSE. THAT'S HIM IN THE BACK OF THE
ROOM DURING THE STRIKE ON OSAMA BIN LADEN. HIS PHILOSOPHY ON AMERICAN DIPLOMACY IS ROBUST ENGAGEMENT
WITH WHAT HE CALLS HUMILITY AND CONFIDENCE. >> IF WE DON'T ENGAGE, IF WE'RE NOT LEADING, THEN ONE OF TWO
THINGS. EITHER SOMEONE ELSE IS. AND PROBABLY NOT IN A WAY THAT'S GOING TO ADVANCE OUR INTERESTS
AND VALUES OR NO ONE IS. AND THEN YOU TEND TO HAVE CHAOS. YOU GET A VACUUM FILLED WITH BAD THINGS BEFORE IT'S FILLED WITH
GOOD THINGS, BECAUSE THE WORLD DOES NOT ORGANIZE ITSELF. THERE'S NOT A SINGLE BIG PROBLEM AFFECTING THE LIVES OF OUR
CITIZENS THAT WE CAN EFFECTIVELY SOLVE OURSELVES, WHETHER IT'S CLIMATE, COVID, THE EFFECT OF ALL THESE EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES
ON OUR LIVES, WE HAVE TO BE WORKING WITH OTHERS TO TRY TO SHAPE ALL OF THIS IN A WAY THAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO MAKE
OUR PEOPLE AS WELL AS OTHER PEOPLE A LITTLE BIT MORE SECURE, A LITTLE BIT MORE PROSPEROUS, A LITTLE BIT MORE FULL OF
OPPORTUNITY. >> GIVEN JANUARY 6th, GIVEN THE FABRICATED CONTROVERSY OVER THE ELECTION RESULTS.
DO YOU FIND THAT COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD ARE WORRIED ABOUT THE STABILITY OF THE UNITED STATES?
>> IT'S NO SECRET THAT WE HAVE CHALLENGES WITHIN OUR OWN DEMOCRACY. THEY'RE PLAYING OUT BEFORE THE
ENTIRE WORLD. WE DON'T SWEEP THEM UNDER THE RUG. EVEN WHEN IT'S PAINFUL.
SO I'M ABLE TO SAY, TO OTHER COUNTRIES THAT BRING THESE UP, YES, WE'VE GOT OUR PROBLEMS. BUT WE'RE CONFRONTING THEM.
WE'RE DEALING WITH THEM. YOU MIGHT DO THE SAME THING. >> YOUR FATHER WAS U.S. AMBASSADOR TO HUNGARY.
AND, AS WE SIT HERE ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, HE PASSED AWAY LAST NIGHT. AND I WONDER WHY YOU DECIDED TO
KEEP SUCH A BUSY SCHEDULE THE DAY AFTER THAT TRAGEDY IN YOUR FAMILY. >> MY DAD WAS 96 YEARS OLD.
HE WAS IN SO MANY WAYS MY ROLE MODEL. HE BUILT A REMARKABLE BUSINESS, ONE OF THE LEADING INVESTMENT
BANKS IN THIS COUNTRY OVER MANY YEARS. HE LED A LIFE OF DIGNITY, OF DECENCY, OF MODESTY THAT IS
SOMETHING I'VE VERY MUCH ASPIRED TO. AND SOY G I GUESS I THOUGHT THA HONORING EVERYTHING THAT HE
SHARED WITH ME, THE BEST WAY TO DO THAT WAS TO CONTINUE DOING MY JOB. >> THAT JOB, FOR THE FORESEEABLE
FUTURE, WILL BE CONSUMED WITH A QUESTION THAT HAS DEFEATED GENERATIONS OF DIPLOMATS. HOW TO KEEP A SMALL WAR IN
EUROPE FROM IGNITING THE WORLD. ARE THERE ANY TALKS CURRENTLY THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT?
>> THERE ARE NO TALKS BECAUSE RUSSIA HAS NOT DEMONSTRATED ANY WILLINGNESS IN THIS MOMENT TO ENGAGE IN MEANINGFUL
DISCUSSIONS. IF AND WHEN THAT CHANGES, WE WILL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO SUPPORT A DIPLOMATIC PROCESS.
>> IS VLADIMIR PUTIN LOSING THIS WAR? >> HE'S ALREADY LOST IN TERMS OF WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO ACHIEVE.
BECAUSE KEEP IN MIND, WHAT HE SAID VERY CLEARLY FROM THE START IS HIS OBJECTIVE WAS TO ERASE UKRAINE'S IDENTITY AS AN
INDEPENDENT COUNTRY. THAT HAS ALREADY FAILED. UKRAINIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN LAND.
THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN COUNTRY. THE RUSSIANS ARE NOT. AND THESE RUSSIAN SOLDIERS WHO
ARE BEING THROWN INTO THIS CONFLICT, OFTEN NOT KNOWING WHERE THEY'RE GOING OR WHAT THEY'RE DOING, THIS IS NOT
SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT TO BE FIGHTING FOR. THE UKRAINIANS ARE FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN FUTURE, THEY'RE
FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN LAND. THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR THEIR OWN LIVES. >>> TONIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO
HEAR FROM A FORMER SENIOR STAFFER INSIDE THE JANUARY 6 KMOOE WHICH COMMITTEE.
THEY AREN'T HAPPY THAT HE IS TALKING TO "60 MINUTES" ABOUT THE WORK HE DID FOR THEM. NOR ARE THEY THRILLED HE'S WRIT
AND BOOK ABOUT HIS TIME ON THE COMMITTEE CALLED "THE BREACH". WRIGGLEMAN HAS A HISTORY OF SWIMMING AGAINST THE TIDE.
ONCE A MESSAGE OF THE ULTRA CONSERVATIVE HOUSE FREEDOM CAUCUS, HE WAS ENDORSED TWICE BY THEN-PRESIDENT TRUMP.
BUT AFTER HEARING WHAT DENVER WRIGGLEMAN HAS TO SAY TONIGHT, IT'S UNLIKELY THE FORMER PRESIDENT WILL BE BUYING HIS
BOOK. DID IT HIT YOU AT ONE POINT THAT THIS IS WAY BIGGER THAN IT APPEARED IN THE BEGINNING?
>> ABSOLUTELY. YOU GET A REAL AH-HA MOMENT WHEN YOU SEE THAT THE WHITE HOUSE SWITCHBOARD HAD CONNECTED TO A
RIOTER'S PHONE WHILE IT'S HAPPENING. THAT'S A PRETTY BIG AH-HA MOMENT.
>> WAIT A MINUTE. SOMEONE IN THE WHITE HOUSE WAS CALLING ONE OF THE RIOTERS WHILE THE RIOT WAS GOING ON?
>> ON JANUARY 6, ABSOLUTELY. >> AND YOU KNOW WHO BOTH ENDS OF THAT CALL. >> I ONLY KNOW ONE END OF THAT
CALL. I DON'T KNOW THE WHITE HOUSE END, WHICH I BELIEVE IS MORE IMPORTANT.
BUT THE AMERICAN PEOPLE NEED TO KNOW THAT THERE ARE CONNECTIONS THAT NEED TO BE EXPLORED MORE. >> AS SENIOR TECHNICAL ADVISOR
FOR THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE, DANIEL WRIGGLEMAN RAN A DATA-DRIVEN OPERATION, PURSUING PHONE RECORDS AND OTHER DIGITAL
CLUES TIED TO THE ATTACK ON THE CAPITOL. >> FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, IF THE WHITE HOUSE, EVEN IF IT'S A
SHORT CALL AND A CONNECTED CALL, WHO IS ACTUALLY MAKING THAT PHONE CALL. >> IS THERE A SIMPLE INNOCENT
EXPLANATION FOR THAT? >> IT WAS AN ACCIDENTAL CALL? AND THE WHITE HOUSE JUST MISDIAL RIOTER ON THAT DAY, ON JANUARY
6? PROBABLY NOT. >> DENVER WRIGGLEMAN TOLD US HE UNCOVERED A LOT OF DISQUIETING
INFORMATION FOR THE COMMITTEE. >> DO YOU SWEAR OR AFFIRM UNDER PENALTY OF PERJURY -- >> REPUBLICAN VICE CHAIR, LIZ
CHENEY RECOMMENDED THE FORMER CONSERVATIVE CONGRESSMAN FOR THE STAFF, PARTLY FOR HIS POLITICAL EXPERIENCE BUT MOSTLY FOR HIS
TECHNICAL EXPERTISE. >> I THINK LIZ AND SOME OF THE OTHER PEOPLE RECOGNIZE HE DOES KNOW HOW CONGRESS WORK, HOW THE
POLITICAL SYSTEM WORKS. HE WAS IN THE FREEDOM CAUCUS BUT HAS A BRAUB BAACKGROUND IN DAY INTELLIGENCE.
>> HE RAN HIS OWN DATA ANALYSIS FIRM. >> MR. CHAIRMAN. >> WHEN THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE
CAME CALLING HE ASSEMBLED A SMALL SQUAD OF DATA MINERS AND ANALYSTS LIKE HE IN THE MILITARY TO COMB THEROUGH 20 MILLION LIN
OF DATA. >> A WAY THAT HAD NEVER HAD BEEN DONE BEFORE WITH MILLIONS OF LINES OF DATA AND CREATE A GRAPH
THAT SHOWS HOW THESE GROUPS ACTUALLY INTERMINGLED. >> YOU WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY SIX CENTERS OF GRAVITY?
>> YEAH, THERE'S SIX PRETTY BIG CENTERS OF GRAVITY OR SIX GROUPS THAT WE LOOKED AT, AND REALLY IT CAME DOWN TO TRUMP TEAM, TRUMP
FAMILY, RALLY GOERS, UNAFFILIATED DOJ-CHARGED OFFENDERS. SO WHEN YOU HAVE THOSE SIX
GROUPS OF PEOPLE YOU CAN START LOOKING AT THE CONNECTIONS BETWEEN THEM. >> ONCE HE STARTED CONNECTING
THE DOTS THIS COMPLEX GRAF EMERGED. EACH THICK LINE REPRESENTS TENS OF THOUSANDS OF CALLS AND
CONTACTS AMONG AND BETWEEN THE GROUPS. ZOOM IN TO SEE THE DETAILS. THESE ARE CALLS AND TEXTS FROM
JUST ONE PERSON OF INTEREST. MULTIPLY THAT HUNDREDS OF TIMES, AND YOU END UP WITH THIS GRAPH WRIGGLEMAN CALLS "THE MONSTER".
>> WE DON'T HAVE TEXT CONTENT. BUT WHAT WE DO HAVE IS HOW LONG THEY TALKED, WHEN THEY TALKED. THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT.
AND REALLY DOES SUGGEST THAT THERE WAS MUCH MORE COORDINATION THAN THE AMERICAN PUBLIC CAN EVEN IMAGINE.
WHEN IT CAME TO JANUARY O6th. >> FOR EXAMPLE. THE DATA REVEALED FIVE CALLS IN THE WEEKS BEFORE JANUARY 6
BETWEEN THE WHITE HOUSE AND THIS WOMAN. A STOP THE STEAL ACTIVIST NAMED BIANCA GARCIA.
THE COMMITTEE RECEIVED THIS VIDEO FROM THE EVENING OF JANUARY 5th. SHE WAS PART OF A CLANDESTINE
MEETING WITH THE HEADS OF THE PROUD BOYS AND OATH KEEPERS. THE PARRA MILITARY THE PARRA MILITARY GROUPS.
>> IT IS THE THREAD THAT NEEDS TO BE PULLED. IDENTIFYING ALL THE WHITE HOUSE NUMBERS AND WHY WE HAVE CERTAIN
SPECIFIC PEOPLE, WHY THEY WERE TALKING TO THE WHITE HOUSE. >> SPECIFIC WHITE HOUSE RECORDS ARE PROTECTED FOR EVERY
ADMINISTRATION. BUT IN HIS BOOK "THE BREACH", HE PUSHED HARD TO HAVE THOSE NUMBERS IDENTIFIED.
>> I WAS VERY, VERY AGGRESSIVE, GETTING THOSE WHITE HOUSE NUMBERS. >> DID YOU EXPRESS THOSE
CONCERNS TO THE COMMITTEE AT THE TIME? >> YES. >> WHAT WAS THE RESPONSE?
>> THE RESPONSE WAS GO FORTH AND DOT BEST CAN YOU DO THE BEST CAN YOU WITH THE RESOURCES WE HAVE.
>> WRIGGLEMAN REQUESTED $3.2 MILLION BUT ONLY RECEIVED A FRACTION OF THAT. THEY BURROWED INTO THE DATA, THE
MOTHER LODE DROPPED INTO THEIR LAPS, NOT JUST PHONE RECORDS BUT MORE THAN 2,000 ACTUAL TEXTS TO AND FROM MARK MEADOWS, FORMER
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CHIEF OF STAFF. THERE WERE NUMBERS, BUT NO NAMES.
SO WRIGGLEMAN TOLD US HIS TEAM MADE A GIANT SPREADSHEET, PAINSTAKINGLY IDENTIFYING THE PEOPLE BEHIND EACH NUMBER.
AND WHEN THEY DID, THEY WERE PRIVY TO THE REAL TIME THOUGHTS OF TRUMP FAMILY MEMBERS. FORMER CABINET SECRETARIES.
MEMBERS OF CONGRESS, CONSPIRACY MONGERS, EVEN A SUPREME COURT JUSTICE'S WIFE. >> YOU'VE CALLED THE TEXTS FROM
PRESIDENT TRUMP'S CHIEF OF STAFF, MARK MEADOWS, THE CROWN JEWELS. WHY?
>> IT WAS A ROAD MAP. YOU KNOW. IT SHOWED ACTUALLY THE EVOLUTION OF THE BEGINNING ARGUMENTS FROM
ALTERNATE ELECTORS ALL THE WAY THROUGH RALLY PLANNING, ALL THE WAY TO DAY OF. IT SHOWED CONSPIRACY THEORIES,
THE SATURATION OF QANON. >> HOW DID YOU GET THEM? YES. >> GAVE THEM UP.
>> DO YOU THINK WAS A MISTAKE IN. >> IF YOU GO BACK TO THE SIMPLEST EXPLANATION I THINK HE
WANTED TO GIVE UP SOME OF HIS TEXT MESSAGES. THIS IS A CAVEAT. I DON'T KNOW IF WE GOT THEM ALL.
BUT WHAT WE GOT IS PRETTY VALUABLE. >> YOU SAY THEY PROVIDE PROOF OF A COMPREHENSIVE PLOT AT ALL
LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT TO OVERTURN THE ELECTION. >> IRREFUTABLE. THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT
ALTERNATE ELECTORS AS SOON AS NOVEMBER 5th OR NOVEMBER 6th. >> RIGHT OFF THE BAT, COME ON. >> RIGHT OFF THE BAT.
>> THE FIRST MENTION WAS TWO DAYS AFTER THE ELECTION. DONALD TRUMP JR. WROTE THE WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF, THIS IS
WHAT WE NEED TO DO, AND LAID OUT A RAMBLING SCHEME TO SEEK ALTERNATE ELECTORS, A PLOT THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE IS
INVESTIGATING. WE GET TRUMP ELECTORS, HE WROTE IN PART. IT GETS KICKED TO CONGRESS 6
JANUARY, 2021. ONCE AGAIN HE CONCLUDES, TRUMP WINS. MANY OTHER TEXTS WERE OF BIZARRE
ELECTION CONSPIRACIES. CHINESE PLOTS TO INSTALL PRESIDENT BIDEN AND TREATIES TO SEIZE VOTING MACHINES AS PART OF
GOD'S PLAN. EVEN A CALL FROM REPUBLICAN LAWMAKERS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW AND STAY IN
POWER. FROM THE SHEER NUMBER OF TEXTS, IT SEEMS ALMOST AFTER THE WORLD HAD MARK MEADOWS' PHONE NUMBER.
>> IT SHOWS YOU AN ADMINISTRATION COMPLETELY EATEN ONE A DIGITAL VIRUS CALLED QANON AND CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND
APOCALYPTIC MESSIANIC BUFFOONERY. IT'S A LOOK INTO THE PSYCHE OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY.
>> PEOPLE IN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY WOULD SAY YOU'RE AN OPPONENT. YOU'RE THE OPPOSITION.
OF COURSE YOU'RE GOING TO SAY THIS. >> I WOULD TELL THEM THIS. I'M NOT THEIR ENEMY.
I'M JUST A GUY TRYING TO TELL YOU THAT THE DATA DOESN'T SUPPORT THAT THE ELECTION WAS STOLEN.
>> WHEN WE FIRST STARTED HERE -- >> DENVER WRIGGLEMAN III IS A PROUD SON FROM VIRGINIA.
>> I'M AN APPALACHIAN BOY, MAN. >> IN 2013, HE SETTLED HERE IN 50 GREENE ACRES OF THE BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAINS OUTSIDE
CHARLOTTESVILLE WHERE HE HELPED HIS WIFE PURSUE HER DREAM OF OPENING A DISTILLERY. IT SMELLS DELICIOUS.
YOU WANT TO EAT THE AIR. IT WAS HIS WIFE THAT GOT HIM INTO POLITICS. HE MADE AN UNSUCCESSFUL RUN FOR
GOVERNOR IN 2017. SOON, A SEAT OPENED UP IN VIRGINIA'S CONSERVATIVE FIFTH CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.
HE RAN, AND TO HIS SURPRISE, HE WON. AND IN 2018 FOUND HIMSELF IN THE SEAT ONCE HELD BY JAMES MADISON.
>> THE ACCIDENTAL CONGRESSMAN I CALLED MYSELF. >> A REPUBLICAN WITH A LIBERTARIAN BENT, HE JOINED THE
FREEDOM CAUCUS, THE MOST CONSERVATIVE WING OF THE PARTY. HE VOTED WITH PRESIDENT TRUMP 92% OF THE TIME, BUT SAYS HIS
LOYALTY WAS QUESTIONED, BECAUSE HE'D SOMETIMES REACH ACROSS THE AISLE TO WORK WITH DEMOCRATS. KRISTINE TOLD US THE BEGINNING
OF THE END WAS WHEN DENVER DECIDED TO OFFICIATE THE WEDDING OF TWO GAY CAMPAIGN WORKERS. >> SO YOU WERE THIS STAUNCH
CONSERVATIVE. AND YOU OFFICIATE A SAME-SEX WEDDING. >> YEAH.
KRISTINE'S THERE, YOU KNOW, HONEY, YOU MIGHT HAVE THE SHORTEST POLITICAL CAREER IN THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA.
I SAID IT WILL BLOW OVER IN TWO WEEKS. >> WHAT HAPPENED? >> IT DIDN'T BLOW OVER.
>> NO, IT WAS BRUTAL. >> WHAT DID YOU THINK OF HOW HE REACTED TO THE CRITICISM? >> I THINK HE STOOD HIS GROUND,
AND HE DOESN'T REGRET DOING IT. >> HE TOLD US HE ALSO DOESN'T REGRET CALLING WHITE SUPREMACISTS CULTURAL PARASITES
AFTER THEY MARCHED ON CHARLOTTESVILLE. >> QANON AND THE CONSPIRACY THEORY IT IS PROMOTES --
>> OR DENOUNCING QANON FROM THE FLOOR OF CONGRESS. >> THEY WERE SAYING THAT BECAUSE THE GAY WEDDING I WAS TRYING TO
CHANGE THE SEXUAL ORIENTATION OF CHILDREN. THAT REALLY IS A QANON-BASED CONSPIRACY THEORY.
>> BUT HIS INDEPENDENCE RILED THE REPUBLICAN BASE. HE LOST HIS SEAT IN 2020 TO A REPUBLICAN FURTHER TO HIS RIGHT.
DO YOU OCCONSIDER YOURSELF A REPUBLICAN TODAY? >> NO. NO.
I LEFT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY TODAY. I'M AN INDEPENDENT. I DON'T WANT TO CALL IT
INDEPENDENT. I'M UNAFFILIATED. I'M JUST ME. >> NOW THIS UNAFFILIATED
EX-CONGRESSMAN HAD A SKILL SET THAT CAUGHT THE ATTENTION OF THE JANUARY 6 COMMITTEE. HE JOINED THE STAFF IN AUGUST OF
LAST YEAR. WRIGGLEMAN'S DATA TEAM WAS FIRST TO IDENTIFY A TELEPHONE NUMBER IN MEADOWS' TEXT BELONGING TO
GINNIE THOMAS. SHE TEXTED LINKS TIED TO Q ANON, INCLUDING THIS WON, SAYING THE BIDEN CRIME FAMILY AND BALLOT
FRAUD CO-CONSPIRATORS ARE BEING DETAINED AND WILL BE LIVING IN BARGES OFF GUANTANAMO BAY TO FACE MILITARY CHARGES.
I HOPE THIS IS TRUE. WHAT DID YOU THINK OF THOSE TEXTS? >> IT WAS HELLACIOUSLY
INSIGHTFUL. >> IN WHAT WAY? >> ABOUT HOW THE CONSPIRACY THEORIES AND THIS DIGITAL VIRUS
HAD REALLY METASTASIZED IN THE GOP. >> YOU MAKE IT SOUND LIKE AN INFECTION.
>> IT IS AN INFECTION. BUT GINNIE THOMAS SPECIFICALLY, SOMEONE WHO HAS ACCESS TO THE PRESIDENT AND MARRIED TO A
SUPREME COURT JUSTICE PUSHING THAT SORT OF NONSENSE TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF TO THE PRESIDENT, THAT SHOULD AND EYE-OPENER FOR
EVERYBODY. >> WRIGGLEMAN LEFT THE COMMITTEE LAST APRIL. HE TOLD US ONE REASON.
THEY WOULDN'T SUBPOENA GINNIE THOMAS. THEY PROVIDED "60 MINUTES" A STATEMENT THAT SNAS PART, MR.
WRIGGLEMAN HAD LIMITED KNOWLEDGE OF THE INVESTIGATION. HE DEPARTED PRIOR TO OUR MOST IMPORTANT INVESTIGATIVE WORK.
THE COMMITTEE HAS RUN DOWN ALL THE REEDLEADS THAT AROSE FROM H WORK. LAST WEEK, GIN EYE NY THOMAS AG
TO BE INTERVIEWED. >>> WHAT WRIGGLEMAN SAID HE GINNI THOMAS >>> AS HURRICANE FIONA LEFT A
SWATH OF DESTRUCTION ACROSS THE CARIBBEAN AND NORTH ATLANTIC THIS WEEK, IT WAS A REMINDER OF THE DEVASTATING ABILITY OF
COASTAL STORMS. ONE OF THE BEST EXISTING SOURCES OF PROTECTION FROM WAVES AND FLOODS IS DYING OFF.
THE STATE OF FLORIDA, WHICH HAS BEEN HIT BY 18 HURRICANES OVER THE LAST 40 YEARS HAS ONE OF THE LARGEST BARRIER REEFS IN THE
WORLD. BUT NEARLY 90% OF THE LIVING CORAL IN THE FLORIDA KEYS HAS DISAPPEARED DURING THAT TIME.
THE SITUATION'S SO SERIOUS THAT MARINE BIOLOGISTS HAVE STEPPED UP THEIR EFFORTS TO FIND INNOVATIVE WAYS TO TRY TO RESCUE
THE REEFS. AND THAT'S WHAT OUR STORY TONIGHT IS ABOUT. IT INVOLVES STRANGE UNDERWATER
FARMS, THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AND MORE THAN WE EVER THOUGHT WE'D NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SEX LIVES OF CORAL.
WE LEFT MIAMI BEHIND US AND HEADED TWO MILES OFF THE COAST WITH MARINE BIOLOGIST ANDREW BAKER AND DIEGO LERMAN.
>> FLORIDA KEYS PROBABLY LEADS THE WAY IN TERMS OF THE SHEER A CORAL THAT HAS BEEN LOST. >> THAT'S WHY IN THIS SPOT IN
THE OCEAN, THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI HAS BUILT SOMETHING YOU'D NORMALLY VISIT ON LAND TO BUY A TREE OR ROSE BUSH.
A NURSERY. >> THIS IS OUR NURSERY. JUST LIKE ON LAND. YOU GROW YOUR CORALS, BRUNPRUNEM
AND PUT THEM SOMEWHERE ELSE ON A NATURAL REEF. >> DON'T FORGET TO CLOSE YOUR BREATHING VALVE.
>> THE WATER WAS MURKY AND THE CURRENT STRONG AS WE WENT TO TAKE A LOOK. A NURSE SHARK CHECKED US OUT BUT
QUICKLY LOST INTEREST. CORALS ARE OFTEN CONFUSED WITH ROCKS OR PLANTS, BUT THEY'RE ACTUALLY COLONIES OF TINY
ANIMALS CALLED POLYPS WHO BUILD THE REEFS AND PROTECT THE SHORES. AFTER A SHORT SWIM WE CAME TO AN
AREA WITH 40 OF THESE TREE-LIKE STRUCTURES. HANGING FROM THEM LIKE CHRISTMAS ORNAMENTS ARE PIECES OF LIVING
CORAL THAT HAVE BEEN PRUNED FROM HEALTHY COLONIES ALL OVER FLORIDA. THEIR POSITION CLOSE TO THE
SURFACE SO THEY GET LOTS OF SUN LIGHT AND NUTRIENTS AND OCCASIONALLY CLEANED OF MICRO ALGAE THAT CAN DAMAGE THEM.
HE EXPLAINED. >> THEY ALLOW US TO GROW CORAL TISSUE VERY QUICKLY. THEY GROW FASTER IN THESE TREES
THAN THEY DO ON THE REEFS. >> MANY OF THE CORALS GROWING HERE ARE IMPORTANT AND THREATENED.
EVERY DIVER KNOWS YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO TOUCH CORAL, SO IT WAS ODD TO BE HANDED A CLIPPER AND TOLD TO START CUTTING OFF
PIECES. WE BROUGHT THE STAG HORN CORAL I CUT TO AN AREA NEARBY CALLED RAINBOW REEF THAT THE PROFESSOR
AND HIS TEAM BEGAN REPLANTING TWO AND A HALF YEARS AGO. IT'S MORE IMPORTANT TO MAKE SURE THE CORALS DON'T GET KILLED OFF
BIT SAME FORCES THAT KILL THERE HAD PREDECESSORS. WATER POLLUTION, DISEASE AND A PHENOMENON CALLED BLEACHING IN
WHICH CORAL CAN LOSE THEIR COLOR AND DIE BECAUSE OF RISING OCEAN TEMPERATURES CAUSED BY CLIMATE CHANGE.
>> WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE CORALS WE PUT OUT ARE NOT GOING TO BE THE NEXT VICTIMS FORLTS NEXT BLEACHING EPISODE.
>> YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCELERATE THE PROCESS OF NATURAL SELECTION, FIND THE CORAL WHICH ARE HARDIER AND CAN SURVIVE IN
HIGHER TEMPERATURES. >> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT. >> TO DO THAT, PROFESSOR BAKER AND SCIENTISTS FROM THE SHEDD
AQUARIUM IN CHICAGO ARE USING A TECHNIQUE TO ALLOW THEM TO DETERMINE THE SURVIVABILITY OF CORAL IN A FEW HOURS ON A BOAT
ANCHORED ABOVE THE NURSERY. WHEN WE ARRIVED, RESEARCHERS WERE PUTTING SAMPLES OF ELK HORN CORAL JUST BROUGHT TO THE
SURFACE INTO THESE CONVERTED PARTY COOLERS, CONTAINING INCREASINGLY WARM WATER TO SEE WHICH VARIETIES WOULD DO BEST IN
WARM TEMPERATURES. A BIOLOGIST WITH THE SHEDD AQUARIUM. >> JUST LIKE ALL OF US ARE
DIFFERENT GENETIC INDIVIDUALS, ALL OF THESE DIFFERENT GENETIC STRAINS WILL VARY NATURAL IN HEAT TOLERANCE.
>> JUST BECAUSE IT'S ALL ELK HORN CORAL DOES NOT MEAN IT'S ALL THE SAME GENETICALLY. >> RIGHT.
WE WANT TO GET THE DIFFERENTIATION AMONG ELK HORN CORALS AND USE THEM TO OPTIMIZE RESTORATION PROGRAMS BY PLANTING
MORE ON THE REEF. >> SCIENTISTS ARE ALSO TRYING TO BREETD MOST HEAT AND DISEASE-RESISTANT CORAL
TOGETHER. IT'S CALLED SELECTIVE BREEDING. SHE IS A BIOLOGIST AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI.
HER LAB IS FILLED WITH VATS OF FROZEN CORAL SPERM. SO THIS IS CORAL SPERM. >> THIS IS CORAL SPERM THAT HAS
BEEN KEPT AT THESE REALLY, REALLY LOW TEMPERATURES NOW FOR A YEAR OR MORE. >> HER WORK IS SIMILAR TO THAT
OF DOMESTIC ANIMAL BREEDERS. SHE AND HER TEAM MIX THE SPERM WITH CAREFULLY CHOSEN CORAL EGGS TO CREATE OFFSPRING THAT WILL BE
MORE LIKELY TO SURVIVE DISEASE AND RISING OCEAN TEMPERATURES. >> I NEVER THOUGHT I WOULD ASK THIS QUESTION, BUT HOW DO CORAL
HAVE SEX? >> ALL THE DIFFERENT COLONIES ON A REEF ARE USING CUES FROM THE ENVIRONMENT TO MAKE SURE THEY
RELEASE THEIR EGGS AND SPERM ALL AT ONCE SO THEY'RE ABLE TO MIX WITH THE SPAWN OF OTHER COLONIES.
>> SEX LIFE OF CORAL IS NOTHING TO WRITE HOME B MOST SPAWN ONLY ONCE OR TWICE YEAR AFTER A FULL MOON.
SO SCIENTISTS HAVE TO BE READY TO CAPTURE THE SPERM AND EGGS AT THE EXACT RIGHT MOMENT. >> WE USE VERY FINE MESH NETS
WITH A JAR AT THE TOP. AND THEY SLOWLY FLOAT THEIR WAY UP INTO THE JAR, AND ALL WE HAVE TO DO IS CAP OFF THE JAR AND
TAKE IT WITH US. IT LITERALLY LOOKS LIKE BEING IN A SNOW GLOBE UNDER WATER. IT'S AMAZING.
IT'S TOTALLY INCREDIBLE TO BE ABLE TOY IT. >> THIS IS WHERE WILLIAMSON RAISES WHAT SHE CALLS THE CORAL
BABIES THAT SHE'S BRED. THE BLUE LIGHT MIMICS SUNLIGHT FILTERING THROUGH THE WATER HELPING THEM GROW.
>> THIS CORAL BABY YOU'RE HOLDING RIGHT NOW IS ACTUAL LIT OFFSPRING OF A CORAL COLONY HERE IN MIAMI THAT WE THINK IS
RESISTANT TO DISEASE GRCHLTS SO YOU KNOW THE HISTORY OF THESE POLYPS. >> YEAH.
IN MANY CASES I COLLECTED THEM AS EGGS OR SPERM OR PUT THEM TOGETHER TO FERTILIZE THEM. HAVE BEEN THERE REALLY SINCE
BIRTH IF YOU WILL. >> DO YOU FILE WARM AND CUDDLY TOWARD CORAL? >> I REALLY DO.
>> IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT -- >> THEY DON'T SEEM TOO WARM AND CUDDLY. I SHOW CORAL BABY PICTURES TO
PEOPLE AND THEY USUALLY DON'T WANT TO SEE THEM. >> TODAY THEY'RE GROWING SLOWLY ON SMALL CERAMIC PLATES, BUT
THEY MAY SOMEDAY BE GROWING IN UNDER WATER NURSERIES AND REPOPULATING REEFS. >> THIS ONE'S?
>> ALMOST A YEAR OLD. THEY GROW REALLY SLOWLY. THAT'S PART OF THE PROBLEM WITH THE CONSERVATION.
WHILE WE'RE LOSING SOME OF THE BIG, OLD COLONIES, SOME ARE THOUSANDS OR HUNDREDS OF YEARS OLD.
THEY'VE TAKEN SO LONG TO GROW REPLACING THEM ISN'T EASY. >> MANY NEED PROTECTION RIGHT AWAY FROM INCREASINGLY POWERFUL
STORMS THAT HAVE BEEN BATTERING THEIR SHORES. ONE WAY RESEARCHERS HOPE TO RESTORE CORAL AND PROVIDE MORE
IMMEDIATE PROTECTION ALONG THE COAST IS TO CREATE HYBRID REEFS. THIS IS A SMALL SCALE PROTOTYPE. THE HONEYCOMB STRUCTURES ON THE
BOTTOM WOULD BE MADE OF CONCRETE AND ARE DESIGNED TO ABSORB WAVE ENERGY IMMEDIATELY. THE CORALS ON TOP WOULD PROVIDE
MORE AND MORE PROTECTION AS THEY GROW. >> WHEN THE WAVES BREAK, THEY THROW UP A LOT OF SPRAY.
>> INSIDE THIS SIMULATOR AT THE ROSENSTEEN SCHOOL, PROFESSOR BRIAN HOUSE AND HIS TEAM CAN CREATE THE EQUIVALENT OF A
CATEGORY 5 HURRICANE WITH WINDS UP TO 155 MILES PER HOUR. >> I'LL TURN ON THE PADDLE AND YOU'LL SEE IT REALLY CHANGE A
LOT. LIKE THEY START HITTING THOSE LIKE RIGHT NOW, BOOM, RIGHT? >> WOW.
OH, MY GOD. >> YOU CAN SEE THE WAVES ARE BREAK OVER THAT STRUCTURE. >> THE SIMULATOR CAN TEST HOW
WELL DIFFERENT STRUCTURES AND TYPES OF CORAL ABSORB WAVE ENERGY. >> CATEGORY 5, WOW.
>> UNIVERSITY MIAMI IS DEVELOPING THIS FOR DAR PA, THE PENTAGON'S AGENCY. THEY ARE LOOKING TO PROTECT
PLACES NEAR THE COAST LIKE TINDALL AIR FORCE BASE IN FLORIDA, WHICH GOT DAMAGED. THEY PLAN TO GIVE THE UNIVERSITY
OF MIAMI UP TO $20 MILLION TO BUILD A HYBRID REEF OFF THE COAST OF FLORIDA WITHIN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
WHAT ROLE DOES CORAL PLAY IN THAT AS OPPOSED TO JUST A MAN MADE HONEYCOMB STRUCTURE? >> DEPENDING ON THE TYPES OF
WAVES CAN YOU HAVE 60% DISSIPATION OF WAVE ENERGY BY HAVING COURSE ON TOP OF THE STRUCTURE.
THEY ADD FRICTION TO THE SURFACE. >> THIS ISN'T JUST A MAN MADE STRUCTURE STATIC BECAUSE OF THE
CORAL. IT WOULD EXPAND AND CONTINUE TO GROW. >> THAT'S ONE OF THE REAL
EXCITING THINGS ABOUT THIS. IT'S ESSENTIALLY SELF-HEALING F IT GETS IMPACTED BY A STORM IT CAN GROW BACK.
>> THEY WILL PROVIDE THE CORAL WITH SPECIFIC GOALS IN MIND. THEY HAVE VERY AMBITIOUS GOALS FOR YOU.
>> THEY DO, AND I THINK THAT REFLECTS THE SCALE OF THE PROBLEM TO BE HONEST. WE KNOW FOR EXAMPLE CORAL REEFS
ARE GOING TO BE FACING INCREASING WARMING TEMPERATURES. SO HERE'S A PROGRAM ASKING US TODETERMINE WHAT CORALS WILL
WILL EXPERIENCE. >> THEY WANT YOU TO FIND CORAL THAT CAN RESIST A 2-DEGREE CENTIGRADE RISE?
>>THAT'S RIGHT. >> WERE YOU SURPRISED DARPA WAS INTERESTED IN YOUR WORK? >> IT WAS THE FIRST AGENCY TO
COME FORWARD AND SAY HEY, YOU GUYS, AS A COMMUNITY WHY DON'T YOU THINK BIG. >> DARPA ALSO AWARDED
CONTRACTING TO RUTGERS, TO USE OYSTERS RATHER THAN CORAL. AND TO THE UNIVERSITY HAWAII CREATING A DIFFERENT
CONFIGURATION OF CORAL AND OTHER MATERIALS. AND DARPA ISN'T THE ONLY GOVERNMENT AGENCY TAKING ACTION.
NURSERY GROWN CORAL IS USED FOR SEVEN REEFS. THERE ARE MANY POTENTIAL OBSTACLES TO RESTORING CORAL
REEFS AS DIEGO LERMAN AND HIS TEAM LEARNED AFTER 2017. >> IT WAS MAJOR SETBACK. WE LOST 90% OF ALL OF THE CORALS
THAT WE HAD BEEN GROWING FOR A DECADE. >> WOW. >> IT WAS A HUGE LOSS.
BUT WE ALSO REBUILT VERY QUICKLY. >> THERE'S NOT MUCH ANYONE CAN DO ABOUT A MAJOR HURRICANE.
BUT PERHAPS THE BIGGEST CRITICISM OF RESTORING REEFS OR CREATING HYBRID ONES IS THAT IT'S NOT POSSIBLE TO DO THIS ON
THE SCALE THAT'S NEEDED. >> THANK YOU. >> YOU GOT IT, MAN. >> THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO
THINK THIS IS LIKE SPITTING INTO THE OCEAN. THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO BE ENOUGH TO COUNT IER ACT CLIMATE
CHANGE. >> WE GET THAT ALL THE TIME. BUT IF WE DON'T ADDRESS THIS CHALLENGE IN THE MEANTIME WHILE
WE DEAL WITH THE LARGER SOCIETAL PROBLEMS WE WON'T HAVE ANY CORAL REEFS LEFT BY THE TIME WE GET THIS OTHER PROBLEM UNDER
CONTROL. >> WITHOUT A MEANINGFUL REDUCTION OF CARBON GASES TO ADDRESS CLIMATE CHANGE, WILL YOU
BE ABLE TO RESCUE THE REEVES? >> ABSOLUTELY NOT. THE MANTRA IS WE ARE BUYING TIME.
>> THE INTERGOVERNMENTAL PANEL THINKS 99% OF THE CORAL REEFS COULD BE LOST IN THE NEXT 30 YEARS.
THAT'S A PRETTY DIRE ASSESSMENT. >> THAT'S RIGHT. SO CORAL REEFS ARE ON THEIR WAY TO BEING THE FIRST GLOBAL
ECOSYSTEM THAT WILL LOSE AS A RESULT OF CLIMATE CHANG
. >>> THE LAST MINUTE OF "60 MINUTES" IS SPONSORED BY UNITED HEALTH CARE.
GET MEDICARE WITH MORE. >>> TONIGHT, AN UPDATE ON A STORY WE FIRST REPORTED LAST NOVEMBER ABOUT A GROWING NUMBER
OF AVIATION COMPANIES RACING TO DEVELOP A NEW GENERATION OF SUPER SONIC PASSENGER JETS. ONE OF THEM, THE AMERICAN
STARTUP COMPANY, BOOM, AND ITS FOUNDER BLAKE SHOAL HAD ALREADY CREATED A TEST PLANE WHEN WE VISITED THE FACTORY.
TURNING THAT TEST PLANE INTO A PASSENGER TRANSPORT CALLED OVERTURE AS WE SAID IN OUR STORY, WAS A LONG SHOT.
>> AND WE'RE WORKING WITH ROLLS-ROYCE ON A CUSTOM ENGINE THAT WILL POWER OVER TOUR. >> THIS ENGINE DOES NOT EXIST
YET? >> IT IS A LIGHTLY CUSTOMIZED ENGINE. PART OF THAT IS ROLLS-ROYCE'S
WORK WHERE THEY ARE TURNING DESIGN KNOBS. >> ROLLS-ROYCE WITH DREW FROM THE PARTNERSHIP AND LEFT BOOM
ACTIVELY SEARCHING FOR ANOTHER ENGINE MAKER. I'M BILL WHITAKER. WE'LL BE BACK NEXT WEEK WITH
ANOTHER EDITION OF "60 MINUTES."