WOMEN/TRUMP AS PRESIDENT: “Stormy Daniels is a ratings blockbuster. CBS’s “60 Minutes” interview on Sunday [3-25-18] night featuring the pornographic film actress, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, garnered the highest ratings for the program in almost a decade. It drew 22 million viewers, according to Nielsen, more than the much-hyped recent telecasts for the Grammys and the Golden Globes. The segment on Ms. Clifford, who said she had a sexual relationship with Donald J. Trump in 2006 and had been offered money to keep it quiet, took up more than half the episode. The start of the episode was delayed 36 minutes by an overtime NCAA men’s basketball tournament game between Kansas and Duke. The CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, who joined “60 Minutes” as a correspondent in 2006, conducted the interview.”
–John Koblin, “Stormy Daniels Attracts 22 Million Viewers to ‘60 Minutes’” The New York Times online, Mar. 26, 2018