Full Interview Streams Tonight on CBSN at 8:00 PM, ET

May 31, 2018 – Tonight, in a one-hour primetime special on CBSN, CBS News’ 24/7 streaming network, CBS THIS MORNING co-host and The Atlantic contributor John Dickerson speaks with The Atlantic’s editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg, about Dickerson’s recent The Atlantic cover story: “How the Presidency Became Impossible.”

With a sweeping view of history and analysis of modern campaigning and governing, Dickerson argues that the expectations of the job have grown beyond the grasp of any individual – no matter how capable or prepared for the challenge. Read the full cover story: https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/05/a-broken-office/556883/

The full interview will stream on CBSN at 8:00 PM, ET and be available across CBS News’ digital properties. Watch a clip here: https://cbsn.ws/2Jjskw0

GOLDBERG: Do we make people in America anymore who could inhabit the presidency and truly unify at least, I don’t know, 60-70 percent of the American people around a common cause?

DICKERSON: Well I think a crop of people who fought in Afghanistan and Iraq are probably going to show us some amazing leaders. People who have been tested in battle. People who come from outside of Washington, which is where we rightly should look for our leaders at the moment. Who can rely on their heroism and sacrifice to their country, which is really at the center. You go back to the founders, that’s – at the center of it is your character and its relationship to the country. Well, their character was shown in battle for the, you know, in the service of their country. So that starts them out in a really good place as a president because they can speak with authority in a way that is very hard for just the chattering class to criticize. Now, the question is how much is that a part of the presidency? How much is that really. So John McCain who has that moral grounding and who kind of has a fingertip feel that would have probably guided his presidency to kind of, you know – he was receptive to the notion of a national kind of psyche.

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