This week on “Sunday Morning” (January 26)

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Cover Story: Trump's first week: A challenge to “checks and balances”
In his first week in office, President Trump has wasted no time issuing a blizzard of transformative executive orders — from pardoning January 6 defendants and threatening other countries' territories. CBS News chief elections and campaigns correspondent Robert Costa and presidential historian Lindsey Chervinsky discuss the resulting events the world is now witnessing, and how they are testing America's system of checks and balances.

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Panchang: 26 January
“Sunday Morning” looks at historical events on this date.

Fashion: Designer Paul Smith's humility: “It's just fashion”
Sir Paul Smith is one of Britain's most successful independent designers, with 130 stores in over 60 countries. He talks with correspondent Seth Doane about his unexpected career; their creative process; And keeping things fun after more than 50 years in business.

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Broadway: Idina Menzel returns to Broadway in “Redwood”
In her new musical, “Redwood,” the Tony Award-winning superstar plays a woman seeking refuge, and one purpose, escaping into a redwood forest. Correspondent Tracy Smith talks with Menzel about the show, now at Broadway's Nederlander Theater (where Menzel debuted in “Rent” 30 years ago), and such classics as “Wicked” and “Frozen.” Career highlights.

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Passage: In Memoriam
“Sunday Morning” remembers some notable figures who left us this week.

History: How a President's Death Helped Kill Washington's “Broken System”
In the 1800s, the main job requirement for most federal employees was loyalty to the newly elected president, who would fill the government bureaucracy with his supporters. But after a rejected office-seeker fired President James Garfield, reformers won long-suffering changes: Workers hired for their expertise, not their fealty. Correspondent Mo Rocca talks with journalist and historian Scott Greenberger about how a meritocracy finally came to the federal government, and discovers what Mark Twain had to do with it.

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• “The Unexpected President: The Life and Times of Chester A. Arthur” by Scott Greenberger (Da Capo Press), available in hardcover, trade paperback, ebook, and audio formats, through Amazon, barnes and noble And Bookshop.org
• Scott Greenberger, Executive Editor, Stateline
• Mark Twain House and MuseumHartford, Conn.
• Jason Skapatik, “Bow Tie Historian”

US: A Tour of the Bronx
Comedian and actress Susie Essman was a kid from the Bronx, and maintains a dedication to slicing up this monumental, magical and, at times, surreal slice of the Big Apple. She takes the “Sunday Morning” audience on a tour, joined by such Bronx luminaries as author and comedian Ian Frazier, astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, actor and playwright Chazz Palminteri, rapper and entrepreneur Fat Joe, and Bronx Borough President Vanessa Gibson. .

Read an excerpt: “Paradise Bronx” by Ian Frazier

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Movies: The Spirit of Sundance
This month, in Utah's Wasatch Mountains, the Sundance Film Festival is once again providing a showcase for independent filmmakers and documentarians from around the world. But that's not everything Sundance does. Correspondent Lee Cowan spoke with actor Robert Redford, founder of the nonprofit Sundance Institute, about the history of the festival and the filmmakers' laboratories that help cinematic storytellers hone their craft. Cowan also spoke with actress Glenn Close; Michelle Sutter, founding senior director of the institute; and Sean Wang, director of last year's breakout festival hit, the coming-of-age story “Sister.”

curtain raiser: Sundance 2025 film lineup includes Jennifer Lopez, John Malkovich, Lily Gladstone and more

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US: Rebuilding Heaven
Recent wildfires in Los Angeles County destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. But residents of Paradise, California, who lost their homes in the devastating Camp Fire in 2018, haven't given up. Correspondent Ben Tracy looks at how the community is being reborn, using building materials that aren't designed to burn. (An earlier version of this story ran May 29, 2022.)

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Movies: Pete Davidson and Dave Pilkey on “Dog Man”
The playful chaos of author and illustrator Dave Pilkey's bestselling “Dog Man” series is now on screen in a new animated film. Correspondent Rita Brewer talks with Pilkey about the origins of his hero, a cop who is part-man, part-police dog; and with comedian Pete Davidson, who voices Dog Man's arch-nemesis, Petey the Cat.

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From the archives: Birth of Films (YouTube Video)
Watch these classic “Sunday Morning” shows that explore motion pictures, the greats of early Hollywood, and the continuing fascination of silent films for filmmakers and audiences, including: The Lumière Brothers, who revolutionized moving pictures. brought it; Charlie Chaplin, the first international superstar; The life and career of Buster Keaton; A new fascination for silent film star Mary Pickford; the production of “Wings”, the first film to win a Best Picture Oscar; A 2005 Turner Classic Movies competition asked young composers to write a score for a silent Greta Garbo film, “The Tempest”; A look back at comedian Harold Lloyd; Conductor Gillian Anderson on leading orchestral scores for silent films, including “Nosferatu”; The story of Laurence Austin, who operated an L.A. theater dedicated to the silent era until his assassination in 1997; And Hollywood's love affair with a new silent film, “The Artist.”

From the archives: David Lynch on Transcendental Meditation (YouTube video)
Director David Lynch, famous for such visionary and surreal works as “Blue Velvet,” “Twin Peaks” and “Mulholland Drive,” died on January 16, 2025, at the age of 78. A longtime practitioner of Transcendental Meditation (or TM), and founder of the David Lynch Foundation for Consciousness-Based Education and World Peace, he spoke with “Sunday Morning” correspondent Mo Rocca in 2016 about the effects of TM. of. Rocca also visited a Los Angeles school, where Lynch instructed students on the benefits of meditation. [From a report that originally aired January 3, 2016.]

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