'Show me that episode': Trump's trade adviser claimed the coronavirus response was being treated unfairly by the media. CBS News then played back its old footage.

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• CBS News "60 Minutes" highlighted its own previous segments after a senior Trump official questioned the integrity of its journalism and commitment to remain apolitical.
• "You say this could not have been anticipated," CBS's correspondent Bill Whitaker said to Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump's trade adviser, in an interview. "Intelligence agencies anticipated it, other foreign countries ..."
• Navarro interrupted: "You can line up every president since then and say, 'Why didn't you think this can happen again?' But that's not productive right now," Navarro added.
• "Have that episode and I challenge you — show me the '60 Minutes' episode a year ago, two years ago," Navarro added.
• "I guarantee you we did," Whitaker responded.
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CBS News "60 Minutes" highlighted its own previous segments after a senior Trump official questioned the integrity of its journalism and commitment to remain apolitical.

Peter Navarro, President Donald Trump's trade adviser and the policy coordinator for the Defense Production Act, conducted an interview in which he posed a question for the interviewer while defending the Trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic.

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