good ooef ngevening, john berman here sitting in for anderson. a new brian williams story emerges and comes under fire. we have exclusive reporting to get to the truth of the matter or the lack thereof, and breaking news. cnn's brian stelter and tom collude have learned that the nbc internal investigation is nowhere near done and that is widening we are learning beyond the initial account of the 2003 iraq war mission where he falsely claimed that the chopper

was hit by enemy fire. there are new accounts of him being in berlin when the wall came down, and his claims that he met pope john paul the second when he was in college. additionally by the way of "huffington post," another questionable story has come the light, and just like the one that got him suspended for six months it involves a helicopterer andhelicopter er and a troops and it is compelling and packed with detail and masterfully told the and account of flying in iraq in a war with seal team six and then sent a souvenir from the raid that killed osama bin laden which sounds too good to be true, which is of course the concern. and the then the concern of what troops and top officials say could settle the question, and first the story, itself. >> reporter: may 2011 mh-260

helicopter is engulfed in blames after a navy s.e.a.l. team killed osama bin laden in a compound in islamabad, pakistan. they set fire to the helicopter after it crashed in the courtyard. an attempt to destroy the helicopter's critical technology. in an interview with david letterton in january 2011 brian williams had this to say about the piece of the burned out wreckage. >> about six week ss after the bin laden raid i got a white envelope, and in it was a thank you note unsign and attached to it was a piece of the fuselage, the fuselage from the blown-up blackhawk in that courtyard and i don't know how many pieces survived -- >> wow. sent to you by one of the -- >> yes, one of my friends. >> and those friends according to williams the memberings of the highly seek e retive seal team six. but that relationship is being questioned by members of the special operations community.

and it could be one of the things that internal nbc investigation is focused on. in 2011 williams described a long relationship with seal team six when talking about the bin laden raid in another letterman appearance. >> we have some idea of which of the operations teams carried it out and it happens to be a team that i flew into baghdad with on the condition that i would never speak of what i saw on the aircraft and the aircraft a that we were on and what they were carrying, and who they were after. but all of it was shared with me and it is common when covering a war, because to reveal that would be to endanger americans. >> and then in 2012 during yet another "letterman" appearance that raises the most questions, williams goes further. >> i have a throat cutter on my desk at 30 rock which is helpful in the staff meetings, and it just sits there, and it was sent to me by seal team six. >> a throat cutter? >> yes i flew into baghdad in

invasion plus three days on blackout mission with seal team six and i was told not to make any contact with them or make any communeication, and it was like in the horse gate and this guy had a wristband with the human target after we landed and it is one of the members of the deck of cards and the leadership cards, and they are amped, and this is the best we have, and until he reached into my box of wheat thins, and the last remaining american food, it could have been a wheat thin commercial. because this hand the size of a canned ham, and i lost half of my net supply of wheat thins, but them i chatted him up and admired a knife as part of the utility belt and darned it if that knife didn't show up at my office a couple of weeks later.

>> and whether bin williamrian williams will be allowed back at that office we won't know. and how brian williams, himself, explains this we only have the on-air words to fact-check to go by. and analyst peter bergin has deep ties to the special command community community, and he has been working the sources with the alleged travel of seals team six into baghdad and he is joining was what he has been finding. peter, one of the special operations sources, a command official said quote, we do not embed journalists with that unit or any other unit that conducts special missions bottom line no. and so does that leave any wiggle room for brian williams' account of things? >> john, i don't think so. i mean i think that his account of being embedded with seal team six didn't pass the smell test just on the face of it. i have spent some time reporting on that group, and people that i

have talked to within the seal team community they can't recall journalists embedding with seal team six, and the operations commander said that it didn't happen and so the account is puzzling john. >> and i have talked to my friend friends in the journalism community, and there is nobody who would be embedded. and it is possible they were on the same helicopter, and maybe not embed, but on the same held kopter? >> and talking to somebody in the seal community, that is seeming unlikely, because, you know maybe that could happen in a case where you are, you know m the middle of a long war and going between places, but the way he has presented this is that it happened right at the e beginning of the war. well, right at the beginning of the wa war, these were serious operations going on and they weren't taking people for a

joyride joyride. >> and the timing here does matter. and the question of whether brian williams was sent a piece of one of the military helicopters, and the one that went don't during this osama bin laden raid and he said particularly a knife that was supposedly a knife from the member of the seal team six and this what you were told by a seal officer. it does not pass a sniff test and not a knife story, and not the m.o. if you give it to someone, you hand it to them, and we don't have some covert mail carrier system to shuttle war trophies around the world. so that is problematic on the face according to the source, and also the problematic of the timing of the helicopter which we all saw "zereo dark 30" and it was blown up after the bin laden raid there on the ground, and how would they get the pieces? >> well, that is right, john. i mean the seals were in the bin laden's compound for half an

hourk and they wanted to get out fast, and the last thing they did was to blow up the helicopter that went down and the idea that somebody would have rushed back you know, to to a helicopter that was, you know basically on fire and grabbed a hunk of it and wasted a lot of valuable time and the teammates were worried and they were all worried that the pakistani military might react, and none of it makes any sense. there were, you know, that the idea of getting a trophy from the the blown up helicopter would have been piping hot, because it would have been blown up, and nobody would have taken the time to do that while they were undear great deal of stress to get out of there. >> and why would somebody send it to brian williams in the first place, peter? because your sources say it does not pass the smell test, and why would they thank brian williams which is what he is sort of suggesting? >> well, that is right. i mean i have done a lot of re reporting on the episode, and i mean, i know that the cia director at the time leon panetta has been given a momento of the building, and i have seen it myself and the joint

operations commander who preceded admiral mccraven, was given a flag and these were people who were instrumental to make it happen and not just people who were periphery and so none of this adds up. >> peter bergen thank you for being with us. thank you so much. >> thank you, john. >> and let's dig deeper now, a ndnd we are joined by retired member of e seal team six. howard wasden spent a dozen year s in the navy and nine of them as a seal, and he is author of the last mission "how faith and love saved a navy s.e.a.l. sniper " sniper" and also, syracuse university's director of school and popular culture. and now shgs, i want to go to you, howard, you heard what peter bergin said, and giving brian williams the benefit of the doubt, and maybe he was not embedded, but any way that he would have been on the helicopter with seal team six,

and invasion plus threesix going into baghdad? >> no, one thing that you are to suggest is egress, because if you rare under fire, the helicopter crashes and you have to know what to do and how the reakt react, and the thing that he is describing the armband and the deck of cards means that the guys were ready to hit the ground hot and the last thing you are godoing to be doing hitting it hot is babysitting, and that is no reflection on the embedded reporters, but ki tell you that i have 300 military and ex-military patients and thousands of combat vet and motorcycle association people that i have spoken to and nobody said you know we loved the embedded reporters so much a tha that we gave him tokens of the esteem, because he was so great. to have somebody along hinders you and you have to take care of them because it is wrong.

and i gave away one knife in 12 years to the military and it is to a fellow for the e wee jan special ops guy who i spent a month in a snow cave with, and not because somebody said it is a cool looking knife and then it mysteriously shows up on the des desk, and that story is so preposterous i cannot even comment on that. >> and i have been given pictures and coins by them, and so you can get things from them, and so i don't know if that is preposterous, and what about the notion of him h getting in the chopper and not the look at anybody in the eye and not the initiate conversations. >> and i have been in the choppers with where team guys were not part of the op, but it was not bart of the war zone and i have never heard them not instructed not to look at us or talk to us. and i was in haiti when christiane amanpour was down on

the docks, and we had to dispatch a whole detail to keep her and the camera crew away to heldp the haitians back into the country, and this is not something that you want to do on the immediate action op as far as babysitting the guys but you rare right, giving some small toke token to somebody for appreciation and i'm not trying to crucify mr. williams here, bu but he would have to be more forthcoming on what he did for seal team six to warrant such a great piece of equipment, and by the way, knives, guns are hard to come by in a war zone. i carried one knife into the war zone and if i lost that knife or gave it away, it is a lot of logistics to get a new one. >> all right. robert thompson i want to bring you into that, because when he was given the six-month suspension was it too harsh or light, and that is beside but the now, and now that more information is coming out, and do you think that there is any chance that he sits in the

anchor chair again at the "nbc nightly news"? >> no, no chance of that whatever and i also think that the six months was probably surprisingly not so harsh. i still don't understand how one can do something so bad that you get six months without pay, but not bad enough to not come back into the important journalistic position such as managing editor of the number one news broadcast of the country. all of the stuff continues to come out, and i don't know what is true and what is not, and i will leave that for the investigators. and it looks like that there was a whole sort of brian williams was creating a parallel fictional story of his life on the david letterman show, but forget that for now, and what brian williams confessed to on wednesday night was enough right there to say, you know you can't continue in the role that

you are in. and everything that we learn in the rest of the investigations is to some extent gravy, because what he confessed to with wednesday night was a serious offense. >> and what now then for brian williams? what can he do profes professor, and what should he do over the next weeks? >> well, i don't know what the six months is about? i suspect it is an opportunity for nbc and brian williams to figure out how to extricate each other from the relationship, and buys a little time and leaves some options open. i don't know what prin william ss will do. he is never going to do anything for nbc again, but he is guy with a deep set of skills, and who knows where he may end up, but the problem is that he is really has become the symbol of something that a distinguished journalist never wants to become the symbol of.

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accused try to flee in kyle's truck. he's charged with killing kyle and his friend chad littlefield at a firing range in 2013. the defense said he killed a man in the throes of severe psychosis thinking he himself was in danger. our martin savidge joins us now with more. martin, i understand the testimony today of what happened after the shooting. what did the accused do? >> reporter: two kinds of officers we heard from today. crime scene investigators and then those officers and detectives who were the first to interact with eddie routh after he committed the the kill gsings. i got to say, it was the video today that was the real star witness. there were two of them and the most dramatic is the high-speed chase that you just mentioned. this came hours after the shooting when police were closing in on eddie routh.

inside of chris kyle's pickup truck. the big ford f-350 built like a tag and he just takes off, leads him in a high speed chase that gets to speed plunged to 100 miles per hour and at one point, the officer makes a daring move. takes his squad car and slams into the front of the pickup truck. a glancing blow but later prove to be fatal because even though the chase continued, the couple miles down the road as the prosecutors said, the vehicle just gave up the ghost and that's how they managed to get eddie routh into custody. >> amazing. the juror also heard comments this guy, the shooter, made to police after this, correct? >> reporter: yeah, well, this gets to that second video i'm talking about. this was a body cam video. i can't play you the audio of that, breaks the rules of court but i can give you quotes. police talked to him before he took off and these are some of the things that routh is quoted as saying. he said i don't know if i'm going insane. is this about like hell?

is work walking on earth right now? is it voodoo upon us and finally says is the apocalypse on us now? the officer saying he definitely sounded odd but to most people, that sounds crazy talk which fits exactly into what the defense is trying to maintain, that he is innocent because he was insane. however, back to the first video, the prosecution would say, oh, he isn't a crazy guy. he acted like a guilty guy because he took off. thereby, he's not insane. two videos with two very different stories, john. >> martin savidge, thanks so much and of course, this all gets to the crux of the case to the defense here. the insanity defense they're mounting. joined now by cnn legal analyst danny is a val -- cevallos and mark geragos. i read a lot about the insanity defense. a lot who watch tv thinks it's a common think that people get off

all the time on this and it's not so. >> it's a myth. the insanity defense is used in a tiny fraction of cases and once invoked, it's successful in even less than that. so it's really actually factually a very rare instance that someone is found not guilty by reason of insanity. >> mark, let me tell you what i hear as someone who has not been instructed by a judge. over the days, i heard the victim sent a contemporaneous text that he looked nuts to him. and we have the testimony of the officers talking in gibberish of the talking about the apocalypse and he had been in and out of mental hospitals in the months before. if i'm a naive person on the jury, or just doesn't know the law, that seems like he's got issues in his head. >> look, danny is right it's rarely used but when someone is

this far gone mentally they are usually not competent to stand trial. you can't even medicate them to get them to a stable position to then convict them and sentence them. so this is one of those rare cases because of the publicity, they have decided to proceed against this guy. you, john, have exactly put your finger on what the problem is for the prosecution here. the text was, kyle saying this guy is straight up nuts and saying, watch my six, which is apparently the nomenclature for watch my back. and then you talk, that's the victim. you then move forward, fast forward a couple of hours and you've got the cops in realtime observing him, talking, for lack of a better term, talking in tongues and this has all the makes of a not guilty by reason of insanity. one reason people don't like this is there is a kind of legacy of john hinckley with president reagan. someone will get off.

somebody's going to get off, but remember that hin kkley is still in custody and barely able to get off on weekend passes and things of na nature, so it is not that somebody gets off but we have a position in society that we don't punish people to the extent to the same extent as if p they are guilty and they have the faculties about them. >> and so, danny explain why mark and i are both wrong on this, and why the insanity defense won't work here. >> we can apply texas's standard. one of the more limited standards in the united states. of course, some states don't even have an insanity defense but comparatively speaking, texas uses a very stripped down limited version of the insanity defense and asks whether or not the defendant was aware that society considered his conduct wrong and for our purposes, the texas courts have said you can substitute wrong for illegal. so if there's any evidence the defendant knew what he was doing was illegal and exhibit a, if

i'm the prosecutor that's going to be, hey, look at this video where he's fleeing from the police, you know the police. the people that chase you when you do something illegal. so that combined with the fact that texas is, again, a very strict interpretation of insanity, odds-wise makes it very difficult in a case like this to establish that this defendant was unaware of the wrongfulness of his conduct. >> mark, put yourself in the prosecution. >> you want to know something, danny? i was going to say one of the things i was astonished by the prosecutor in the opening statement already committed prosecutorial misconduct. and i don't know if it was objected to or not, but he stated the wrong standard for what the texas standard is for not guilty by reason of insanity and the right from wrong that you articulated a on the defense is going to say, yes, this guy fled from the police, but he thought it was the apocalypse and he doesn't know if it is the police or the armageddon is coming downk, and this guy to

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so tonight, a top elected official draws criticism and praise for using the popular media in a way that takes people by surprise. i'm referring to of course to harry truman, vice president at the time who caused a sensation and a scandal with this photo. that's lauren bacall on the piano, by the way. this was a stunt to sell movie tickets. these days, president obama is trying to sell the idea of signing up for insurance coverage at healthcare.gov and like mr. truman, uses the media, in this case a buzzfeed video. you haven't seen the president

like this unless you are named michelle, sasha or malia. >> signing up for -- the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february, febru -- that's not right. >> wednesday. wed-nes-day. >> february 15. you can get health insurance for less than a hundred dollars a month. just go to healthcare.gov to sign up. february 15th. >> thanks, obama. >> thanks, obama. >> pretty good. >> that's pretty good. >> seconds left in the game. down by one. he gets it.

mr. president? >> can i live? >> you do you. >> yolo, man. >> joining us, chief national correspondent, anchor of inside politics john king and national political reporter jim hanby and all-star reporter john litany, and you have spoken to people in the white house about this controversial video, and any reservations about this this? >> no, they say knew doing it, but had the conversation. you know what's going to happen. people will say it's not presidential, doesn't dignify the presidency and here's another example of him demeaning the office. go back with zack galifianakis,

between two ferns, and people criticized it and then not presidential, and it drove a boatload of traffic to healthcare.gov. they're trying to create a buzz, especially young people not watching us, they don't watch traditional news programs like this, to sign up for healthcare.gov and if you look online, over 13 million in the room. who knows where they are now. to them that equals one word, success. >> peter, you are the younger generation, at least a little bit younger than john k and i am here. >> just a little. >> just a little and john is right, the criticism was exactly what you would predict. this is undignified, the president shouldn't be doing this. why is he taking fake basketball shots here? did the naysayers have a point here or is this just the way to reach the audience where the audience is? >> yeah, look. i mean the sort of sanctimonious. people aren't getting news from

"the new york times" in the way that they used to, and they still belief that the associated press is still extremely valuable to reach the voters and the local

some republicans try this too. this president has more success with than them. this is just jealousy. arsenio hall said, how can he do that and then live through

boxers and briefs. times have changed. business is changing and republicans do the same thing. go to conservative outlets to do their thing. the day after you ask the war authority, the day you sign legislation to deal with veteran suicide, some people say it's unpresidential and sort of linear news processors. young generation do go to facebook and see the cat dancing. >> peter, jeb bush of course his entire campaign started on instagram and other things. i mean, this just goes to show that the game has changed. >> the game has changed, but it's not just that. speaking of jeb bush's instagram, it's not just using the platforms but using them smartly. just because jeb bush announced on instagram to his pack doesn't mean he gets digital. the white house understood that buzzfeed has a symbiotic relationship with facebook. guess what? 71% of adults in the united states are on facebook. so by getting that video out there, it's not just on buzzfeed. this thing is going all over the place. white house understands smartly and they have done that since going back to 2007 when he announced. >> it's on cnn among other places. when you go on the video, you can sign up on healthcare.gov among other things.

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breaking news in the bobbi kristina brown case. tonight, her boyfriend is denying reports that he is considering legal action. according to local reports in atlanta, nick gordon had not been allowed to visit her at emory hospital. his lawyer put out a statement saying he is not taking legal action and his only concern is bobbi kristina's recovery. there's been nearly two weeks since brown was found in a bathtub in her home and many questions remain. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: bobbi kristina brown was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home, january 31st. was it an accident or was she injured? we know she was found face down, so why were there bruises on the front of her body? a woman who knows both bobbi kristina and the man she called her husband, nick gordon, shared what gordon told her. >> immediately from the beginning, they asked him about injuries in the chest and he told them that it's when he was doing the cpr.

>> reporter: police aren't commenting. they will only say this is a criminal investigation. so what about drugs? were any found in bobbi kristina's system? again, no firm answers. a toxicology report is standard procedure when someone is unresponsive. but the results have not been released. when the incident occurred, nick gordon and this man, max lomas was at the house. lomas has a history of drug related arrests. his former attorney said a that he found bobbi kristina in the bathtub. >> he was the one that found her in the bathtub. he was the one who called 9-1-1. and he is the the one who cares about her well being. >> reporter: lomas' attorney said his client's criminal record has nothing to do with what happened. even though max lomas is a friend, what exactly was he doing at bobbi kristina's home? another question, what happened

at her home on january 23rd? eight days before she was found unresponsive. a security guard called 9-1-1 about a disturbance. >> just had a neighbor call and report that there was people hitting each other and swinging outside of their, the town homes in ellard village. >> do you know how many people were involved? >> no, sir, i do not. >> reporter: could that have to do with what happened a week later? that's unclear and so is this. what about bobbi kristina crashing her car in atlanta just four days before this latest incident? police say she lost control of a jeep and then crossed into the eastbound lanes colliding with another car. she and her passenger were taken to the hospital for injuries. the other driver is in critical condition. also, while bobbi kristina is fighting for her life, many are asking if she doesn't wake up, what will happen to her inheritance? whitney houston left everything to her only daughter.

who was supposed to get her full inheritance when she turns 30. if she doesn't survive, it appears her inheritance will be divided. between whitney's mother, brothers, and perhaps her ex-husband bobby brown, but the family is not ready to face that yet. randi kaye, cnn, new york. >> thank you from randi. sunny hostin joining me now. you have sources close to the family. what are they now saying about bobbi kristina's condition? >> you know, they are telling me that they are seeing some improvement actually. they're saying that prayers are working and that they are watching her. this talk of pulling the plug, that is not happening. they want her to live. they say she is fighting and that she continues to progress. i think many people are thinking that is not possible. i can tell you, john, the family has said that from the very beginning and at this point,

that's all we know. >> they're not commenting on this alleged car accident that she was in the days before she ended up in the bathtub, but one of your sources did speak to her that night. >> that's right. >> what did say they about the conversation, what she was like? >> my understanding is that she was perfectly normal, that she was happy. that she sounded very much like herself, and no indication she had been in some sort of car accident and that something was going wrong with her mind. she seemed to be normal and actually happy the night before. >> randi in randi's piece, there were talks of what happened to the inheritance. bobby kris teei kristina inherited everything, and talk of splitting it up, but the grandmother would likely get everything everything? >> well, a couple of h things, they are not thinking of that at this time, because again, they believe that she is doing better and they a want her to

live and they say that she is a fighter. they're also saying though, if anything happens, they're sure that they'll work that out. there may be challenges but the court documents will rule. and so i think the family really is not so concerned about the money, they're not so concerned about these things. their only worry at this point is getting bobbi kristina better. i want to mention, people are talking about nick brown and the fact he's not seeing her at the hospital. that's true. the family doesn't want him at the hospital with bobbi kristina and he has been kept from the hospital. >> sunny hostin, appreciate you being with us. thank you so much. >> you bet. up next for us, breaking news. the fbi opens up an investigation into the murder of three muslim students in north carolina. world is filled with air. but for people with copd sometimes breathing air can be difficult. if you have copd, ask your doctor about once-daily anoro ellipta. it helps people with copd breathe better for a full 24hours.

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>> reporter: well, you know that the fbi has opened that preliminary inquiry into the case trying to make sure that no federal laws were violated. that would be a parallel investigation. in addition to the investigation opened by local law enforcement here, but as you mentioned, a number of people here have already drawn their conclusions. many people came out here tonight at nc state university for the vigil, many of the victims' family members and friends who attended the memorial service earlier today believe very strongly that this was indeed a hate crime and not what investigators have determined so far which is that this was most likelihood a case involving a dispute over a parking spot. so this investigation now also going to be looked at by the fbi. that will certainly be encouraging news to the family, which has wanted this all along. >> jason, you went to the apartment building today. what were you able to learn about the idea that this was a fight over a parking space or

parking spaces? >> reporter: well, it's interesting. i spoke to one neighbor who said that there definitely was some confusion at the apartment complex over assigned parking spaces. another neighbor who was out there, she made it very clear that the suspect in this case had on several occasions become upset not just over parking, but over things such as noise and things like that in the neighborhood as well. and so there are a lot of issues going on there but once again, was this a crime that had to deal with a parking space or something more? that's what this investigation will eventually determine. >> jason carroll, appreciate you being with us. thank you so much, jason. up next, anderson's tribute to legendary cbs correspondent bob simon.

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in all the noise about brian williams and story telling gone wrong, we want to tell you about story telling done right. we talk of course about cbs news man bob simon killed last night in a car crash here in manhattan. like so many reporters, i revered him. sadly, i never got to meet him. anderson did. he worked with him. as you know, anderson's off today but before he left town, he wanted to honor bob simon and left us these memories of his colleague.

>> reporter: it was nothing simple about bob simon except that he was simply the best. >> in the arctic circle chillingly close to the north pole. we've traveled to remote places before but never on an ice breaker. >> reporter: the best writer -- >> the cameras are triggered by motion motion, and there isn't much motion up here that isn't a polar bear. >> reporter: and the best correspondent as fitzgerald wrote of gatsby the best of the whole damn bunch. he started in northern ireland and never seemed to stop. >> this is israel's most advanced position on the southern front. >> reporter: hurling himself into the pain time and time again. >> just about the right amount of breeze this morning to bring the flag alive of israel. >> reporter: how many careening cars cars and kissing to loved ones

good-bye. >> young rock throwing arabs up a steep and rugged hill by israeli soldiers. >> reporter: how many tragedies and tears? >> it was methodical, went on for 40 minutes. >> reporter: yet bob saw everything with keen fresh eyes. >> as little as they look. in fact, i feel like i'm in an elephant sandwich. >> reporter: he died at age 73 still curious, still doing the work boarding the planes asking the questions, writing the stories, making them sing. >> so people stole images with cell phones and deemed them to the rest of the world. it was to become the youtube revolution. >> reporter: he was a warrior poet, traveling wordsmith, voice shaped by all he'd seen. >> i knew the names almost all these men, their names and their deeds. i never thought i'd be standing a few inches from them having a chat. >> reporter: vietnam, somalia, south africa bosnia haiti,

israel, iraq barberism, brutality, kindness -- bob knew it was often intertwined. >> soldiers and teenagers playing with tear gas grenades. >> reporter: he was capturing moments and saw details others routinely missed. >> the boys not surprised by it, not the way americans were. for them, islam and terrorism went together, always had. >> reporter: he wrote sentences we had not heard, showed us stories we had not seen and lucky he came our way. >> we scurried the tree tops and touched down. we landed right in the middle of a party. the guest of honor, us. >> reporter: for many of us he was the correspondent that we dreamed of being, the writer we wished we were. >> are you okay? are you hearing that? you can hear the calls ominous snap crackle, pop caused by the enormous weight of the mountain ap top of us pressing down.

>> reporter: not long ago he wrote about a choir in aps it's best to remember that. >> the warrior poet. that does it for us. "morgan spurlock: inside man" starts now. love. one of the most powerful things on earth. inspiration for films, timeless poetry and awe-inspiring monuments.