60 Minutes correspondent Bill Whitaker interviews California Governor Jerry Brown. Facing the most destructive fire season on record in the state, Governor Brown declared a state of emergency last week. On 60 Minutes, Governor Brown criticizes President Donald Trump “with righteous passion” for rejecting the science of climate change which Brown says it the cause of the destructive wildfire season. Governor Brown tells Whitaker, “I don’t think President Trump has a fear of the Lord, the fear of the wrath of God.”
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Brown, the oldest California Governor in history at age 80, was born in San Francisco and raised Catholic. After graduating from St. Ignatius High School, in 1955, he went to Santa Clara University for a year before joining the Sacred Heart Novitiate, a Jesuit novice house in Los Gatos*. Brown, intent on becoming a Catholic priest, stayed at the novitiate for almost four years before he went to Berkeley, and later Yale Law School. In 2005, when Brown married Anne Gust, they had a religious ceremony in a Roman Catholic church. 60 Minutes airs Sundays at 7pm on CBS.
*Sacred Heart Novitiate is now used as a retirement center for Jesuit priests.