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the scanners are in place has more to do with money, lobbyists and washington connections than how well the machines work. we're keeping them honest. and in their own words, a royal engagement in england, prince william and kate middleton share how they got engaged, why the ring is so special and what kate thinks of princess diana. also another name to our rediculist tonight. what a tv network did to tina fey on the night the comedian won the top award for american humor. we begin tonight as always keeping them honest. tonight the full body scanners being deployed at our nation's airports and the growing outrage about them. the companies making the machines have some powerful friends in washington. the question tonight, has that helped them get government contracts even though the government has raised questions about the machine's effectiveness. by now you've heard about the man who refused to go through one of the machines at san diego airport over the weekend and recorded the patdown he was to receive on his cell phone camera. >> we're going to be doing the standard patdown using my hands going like this.
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>> all right. >> on your body. also we're going to be doing a groin check. that means i'm going to place my hands on your hip, the other hand on your inner thigh, slowly go up and go down. two times in the front and two times in the back. >> all right. >> and if you'd like the screening we can make that available for you. >> we can do that out here but if you touch my junk, i'm going have you arrested. >> that was john tyner, he faces a possible $11,000 fine. he didn't want to use one of the new body scanner machines, there are now 385 of them at nearly 70 airports nationwide. they were put in place after the accused underwear bomber tried to blow up the plane in detroit last christmas. since that attempted bombing, former homeland security secretary michael chertoff has been touting the need for the scanners. here's what he told "the new york times" about the machines days after the attempted underwear bombing, quote, if they'd been deployed this would pick up this kind of device.
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as former homeland security secretary mr. chertoff's opinion carries a lot of weight. but what may not be clear to many americans, however, is that michael chertoff is in business with one of the big companies that makes these machines. he runs a consulting firm and the company is one of his clients. mr. chertoff's claim these machines would have picked up the underwear bomber's device contradicts a gao report that said, and i quote, while formers said advanced technology performed as well as physical patdowns and tests it remains unclear whether the technology would have detected the weapon used in the december 2009 incident based on the preliminary information gao has received. to be fair, mr. chertoff has been a proponent of these machines for years, even when he was head of homeland security and no financial incentive to support them. here he is back in 2008. >> another thing the check point uses is whole body imaging, which includes millimeter wave technology. this technology allows us to detect any item concealed on a
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person's body, including molded plastic hidden under clothing and minimal intrusion. to protect privacy our officers review images from a remote location and the facial features will be blurred and the images deleted from the system once they have been reviewed. passengers will also be offered the opportunity to opt out of this screening and go through a traditional patdown if they want. but our experience shows that a majority, a vast majority of people actually want the new technology. >> last december when he was working with rapiscan, mr. chertoff also promoted the use of the machines on cnn. >> when we talk about screenings at the airports and other protective mechanisms along the way, what should we be doing that clearly we're not? >> campbell, the strategy recognizes that there's always going to be human error in any system.
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you can't count on perfection. that's why we built a strategy of what we call layered security, a number of different layers. if one fails another gets picked up. it's complicated of course because the actual screening took place overseas where the u.s. ability to control what goes on is obviously not the same as it is here. but there are a few things we could do to make things better. first we could deploy this scanning, the scanning machines that we currently are beginning to deploy in the u.s. that would give us the ability to see what someone has concealed underneath their clothing. that has been vigorously opposed by the aclu and privacy advocates. the house of representatives voted to prevent us from using it, but i think now there's been a very vivid lesson in the value of that machinery. >> okay, can you stop you there for a second? i know you've been an advocate of this technology for a long time, but just in the interest of full disclosure i want to point out in your current role as a security consultant you are representing some of the companies that manufacture that technology correct? >> absolutely correct.
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>> it's not just mr. chertoff, who has ties to a scanner company, a lot of lobbyists do as well. former senator al d'amato, the retired new york republican works for a company that makes scanners. we should point out all this lobbying is perfectly legal. joining me, founder of the airplane watch dog group flyersrights.org. there's a number of former government people, legislative aides to folks in congress who are working with or for some of these companies that sell these scanners. do you think there's a conflict here? >> absolutely there's a conflict. in fact, michael chertoff basically gave birth to the scanner brand when he was department of homeland security secretary, and then went to work directly as a consultant for rapiscan when he left office. >> but what's wrong with that? he says and admits publicly he was pushing for these scanners from back in 2005 when he was still head of the homeland security.
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tsa awarded contracts to rapiscan while he was at homeland security. what's wrong with him working for the company if he believes in the devices? >> several things. government officials are supposed to have a grace period before they go to work for companies that they've given contracts to. the promises were made to buy these rapiscan units in 2006 when he was still in office and then he went to work directly for them -- >> technically, though, he's not a registered lobbyist for that company, he has no consulting firm so there's no law preventing him from working in that field >> you may be right but it's still morally wrong and he's using the trust the public has in him as a public servant to sell a product that he clearly has a stake in profiting from and we think that's incorrect. i truly believe that michael chertoff had a plan, the plan has been executed perfectly. he was the one that i saw on the airwaves in january espousing the attributes of these scanners and stating that these scanners would solve the problems that
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abdulmutallab presented by having the underpants bomb, even though other experts were saying it's not likely the scanners would have detected a bomb like that and certainly would not have detected an anal cavity bomb which homeland security knew happened to the saudi prince six months earlier and they knew terrorists were going to try to achieve internal bombs that they could detonate with cell phones which won't be detected by these scanner units. but chertoff was all over the networks talking about the attributes of these scanners as if they were the solution to everything. >> there is this gao report that says these types of full body scanners would not have necessarily stopped the christmas day bomber, the would-be bomber. earlier today i spoke to the head of tsa. i pressed him on that, and he said, look, we're using the best technology we have. nothing is 100%. you know, he seemed like a decent guy, he seemed like he's just trying to do his best to come up with as many things as
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possible to prevent something horrible from happening. >> well, it's my understanding from the experts that we've been working with the best detectives for explosives are k-9s. and they are the most sensitive, they're the most likely to detect explosives on anyone and they can do it not necessarily by even pressing up against a person. they can do it by sniffing along the edge of a line of folks. so there are many other methods of detection that could have been employed -- >> but the sheer volume of travelers we have in this country, frankly i don't think there's enough k-9 dogs -- this is all off the top of my head, but they can only work for a certain amount of time, you have to change them repeatedly, i'm just not sure -- is that really a feasible alternative? >> well, it's less intrusive. you know, the issue we have right now with the scanners and patdowns is that people feel molested. they feel that they're being violated in one way or another and -- or their children are or their wives are, and i can tell
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you having been through the patdown and the scanner, it is violating. and i think the issue here is, was this the best method of detection of explosives that also would work for 100% of the american people. because right now 100% of the american people are being treated as if they're terrorists. >> kate, i appreciate your time. thank you. >> thank you. we reached out to michael chertoff for a response, due to confidentiality the chertoff group does not disclose specific clients. technologies that can better secure our aviation system and the traveling public. he did so to ensure we eliminate vulnerability ies vulnerabilities, and continues to do so today. up next we'll hear from the tsa response, and the criticism his department is facing. also tonight the royal engagement. >> we'd been talking about marriage for a while so it wasn't a massively big surprise
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but i took her up somewhere nice in kenya and proposed. >> very romantic. >> prince william and his princess bride to be in their own words when "360" continues. mmmm. you don't love me anymore do you billy? what? i didn't buy this cereal to sweet talk your taste buds it's for my heart health. good speech dad.
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before the break you heard from the founder of an airline watch dog group who alleges the reason the controversial scanners are in place at nearly 70 airports nationwide has more to do with money, lobbyists and washington connections than with how well the machines work. we want to you hear from the tsa now. earlier i talked with the head of the tsa john pistole. cnn received some comments from a senior department of homeland
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security official who said that, quote, the mood at dhs is anger over the way the media is playing the story. what do you think the media is getting wrong here? >> anderson, i think it's an issue about partnership and security and how best we can meld those two significant issues in a way that provides the best possible security for the traveling public. i wouldn't describe it as anger per se, i think it's just a matter of trying to do the best possible job we can to inform the traveling public that what the men and women of tsa are doing are proper security screening to ensure the best possible safety for every person, every member of the traveling public. >> the senior homeland security official also told us regarding the tsa screener in san diego, quote, he was accosted and verbally abused by a member of the traveling public. the fact that some in the media would hail the traveler as a folk hero is shameful. do you think he's being held as
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a folk hero? >> i don't know about that, i just know the men and women of tsa are trained to be and are professionals in terms of how they carry out their business to, again, to get back to the issue of how can they best partner with the traveling public to provide the best possible security. so i think it's more a matter of the traveling public working with the security officers to say, okay, i know i want to be safe on that plane. i want everybody else to be properly screened, so how can we get through this in the best possible way, especially as we look -- head toward next week with thanksgiving travel. >> let's talk about the safety of these machines. that's a huge concern i hear from a lot of people who today say they just don't buy it that these things are not giving off a lot of radiation, particularly if you're a frequent traveler and the pilot union saying they don't want pilots going through it because they're frequent traveler. >> the studies i've seen deal with that issue head on and those are studies done by, for example, the fda, the national institution of science and
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technology and johns hopkins where they each looked at the advanced imaging technology machines we have been deploying now for over a year and assess the radiation coming from those machines are equivalent to about three minutes' worth of air travel by anybody say at 30,000 feet. so there's naturally occurring radiation and that's well within the established safety standards. so i would just encourage people who have questions or issues to refer to that literature. we have some of that posted on the tsa.gov website and to assuage those concerns by doing their own research. >> do we know these work? a gao report from march of this year said while the advanced image technology performed as well as physical patdowns in operational tests, quote, it remains unclear whether they would have detected the weapon used in the december 2009 incident.
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>> there's a couple issues there, and one is what, for example, gao and the inspector general and our own tsa inspection has done in terms of covert testing. and what they have found over the years is we need to be more thorough in our security screening, whether that's with better technology before ait was out or with a more thorough patdown. so that's what we're trying to address to ensure that those aspects of security where they perhaps were not as robust should address that. as it relates to the christmas day bomber, it's this type of screening both for explosives as abdulmutallab used, coupled with the patdown somebody opts out of the ait is designed exactly to identify, locate and neutralize that type of threat. >> but without getting too graphic, couldn't somebody insert something inside themselves and then have a patdown and you're not going to be able to find that? >> that's one of the challenges. this is not, you know, an internal scanner or screener in any way.
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the challenge would be, without getting too technical, you'd have to have some type of initiator, some type of device that would actually create the explosive initiation. so thus far we have not seen that type of technique but we are always mindful that there may be something there and the bottom line is that we're using what we believe to be the best technology coupled with the best techniques and tactics and training to ensure the best possible safety for the traveling public. >> a lot of this stuff was recommended years ago by homeland security secretary -- former homeland security secretary michael chertoff. a think a lot of people didn't know he has a client that manufacture those scanners. >> if there's any conflict of interest, that would need to be addressed. i know it's something there was competitive bidding and assessment and we actually use two different manufacturers for the advanced imaging technology. i don't have the details on what
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you're referring to, but obviously there is that process that we go through with all acquisition. >> captain "sully" sullengberger was quoted as being concerned about radiation. for those people, particularly who fly a lot and i'm certainly one of them and pilots and i know you've been talking to pilots and you may reach some sort of screening procedure with pilots, why shouldn't somebody who flies a lot be concerned about repeated exposure through this body scanner? i know you say there are studies which tested this, but has it tested for, you know, repeated exposures for frequent flyers? >> that's part of the scientific studies and again i would refer people to that. i talked to sully today based on some of his concerns and i think we do have a good way forward with the pilots who not only have the frequency but from a risk-based intelligence-driven process that i've implemented since i started july 1, looking at the issue of, should there be alternative screening available
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for pilots since they're in charge of the aircraft, and i think we'll have something on that in the very near future. >> the idea being that you're screening a pilot but they've got a weapon of mass destruction basically in their hands, they have a plane so if they wanted to do something, they could use the plane so why bother with the screening. >> right. >> it seems the tsa website and guidelines for which airport passengers can expect to find these machines weren't up to date and only were updated frankly after reporters started inquiring about that. are you aware of that? >> not aware of the specifics of it, but i know the public messaging is one of the key challenges that i face as administrator. >> because mr. tyner specifically said, you know, he'd checked the website of the san diego airport, and it said they didn't use those machines. he then gets there, they're using those machines. yesterday we checked the website, it still said that airport doesn't use those
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machines. later in the day as the story built, lo and behold, it was changed and that airport was added as well as many others. >> you're probably aware we're deploying new advanced imaging technology every week, we've been doing it before 12/25 but we've accelerated that in an attempt to use the best technology so those websites are literally out of date on a daily basis, if we have not updated so i appreciate that insight and we'll make sure we're doing that. >> administrator john pistole, appreciate your time, sir. >> thank you, anderson. chaos descending in haiti, residents are furious about the cholera epidemic. they're blaming the u.n. we'll tell you why. plus this. >> it's a family ring, yes. it's my mother's engagement ring. i thought it was quite nice because obviously she's not around to share in the fun and excitement so this is my way of keeping her close to it all. >> prince william announcing his engagement to long-time girlfriend kate middleton. what are they like as a couple? we'll play you a long chunk of the interview and talk to those who know them. yup, there's a new head chef in the kitchen. introducing new quaker mix up creations.
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u.n. officials deny that claim. cap-haitien has been hit hard by the epidemic. cholera has killed more than 1,000 people across haiti. president obama presented the medal of honor to salvatore giunta for heroism in afghanistan. he saved members of his unit by an attack from the taliban. he is the first living recipient for medal of bravery in active combat in more than 30 years. beverly hills police are investigating the killing of noted hollywood publicist ronni chasen. they say multiple shots were fired into her car early this morning after a movie premiere. police say they have no suspects or motive at this time. and as of today, the beatles catalog is available on itunes. in a news release from apple, surviving band member paul mccartney called the move fantastic. for a long time the beatles resisted going to itunes because they questioned the quality of
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we had private time together with some friends and i just decided that it was the right time, really. we'd been talking about marriage for a while. so it wasn't a massively big surprise, but i took her up somewhere nice in kenya and proposed. >> it was very romantic. will's a true romantic. >> reporter: and you said yes. >> of course. >> reporter: and you knew you were going to do this day one or waited it until the end? >> i'd been planning it for a while, but as every guy out there will know it takes a certain amount of motivation to get yourself going, soy was planning it and then it just felt really right in africa, and it was beautiful at the time, and i just i had a little bit of planning to show her my romantic side. >> reporter: you'd been on holiday a while so did you see this coming? was he getting nervous and jumpy? >> not at all, no. we were out there with friends and things so i really didn't expect it at all.
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i thought he might have sort of maybe thought about it, but, no. it was a total shock when it came and very excited. >> reporter: and produced the ring there and then? >> i did. i'd been carrying it around me in my rucksack for about three weeks before that and i would not let it go. i was keeping hold of it because i knew if it disappeared i'd be in a lot of trouble. because i planned it sort of -- it went fine as, you know, you hear horror stories about proposing and things go horribly wrong but it went really well and i was very pleased she said yes. >> reporter: and it's a family ring. >> yes, it's my mother's engagement ring. she's obviously not around to share in the fun and excitement with all this, this is my way of keeping her sort of close to it all. >> reporter: i guess we'd better have a look at it. what kind of ring is it? are you an expert? >> i'm not an expert on it at all. i've been reliably informed it's a sapphire with diamonds. but i'm sure everyone recognizes it from previous times. >> it's beautiful. >> reporter: you're going to be the envy of many. >> i just hope i look after it but it's very, very special. >> reporter: you're obviously
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going to enter this family the most famous royal family in the world. william's mother was this massive iconic figure, the most famous figure of our age. is that worrying? is that intimidating? does that -- do you think about that a lot both of you? you particularly kate, obviously. >> well, obviously, i would loved to have met her, and she's obviously -- she's an inspirational woman to look up to. obviously to this day and, you know, going forward and things, it's a wonderful family, they have achieved a lot, and very inspirational. so yeah, i do. >> there's no pressure because like kate said, it's about carving your own future. no one's going to try and -- no one's trying to fill my mother's shoes and what she did is fantastic. it's about making your own future and own destiny and kate will do a very good job at that. >> this is a life in the public domain that you can't escape. you both know that.
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you're obviously very -- you know it better than kate does. >> yeah. >> reporter: you're obviously very protective of her. >> massively so. her and her family, i want to make sure they have the best sort of guidance and chance to see what life's been like or what life is like in the family and that's kind of almost why i have been waiting this long is i wanted to give her a chance to see and back out if she needed to before it all got too much because i'm trying to learn from lessons in the past and i wanted to give her the best chance to settle in and see what happens on the other side. >> i'm also glad i've had the time to sort of to grow and understand myself more as well so hopefully do a good job. >> reporter: there is a massive thing you're going into now.
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marriage is a big thing for everyone but it's in such a public way. excited? a little bit terrified? >> massively excited. quite happy when the interview is over. but we're hugely excited and it's -- we're looking forward to spending the rest of the time, the rest of our lives together and seeing what the future holds. up next, more on the royal love story and the young woman who one day may be queen. we'll talk to richard quest and author of "william and harry, behind the palace walls." and who gets named on tonight's rediculist? it's a tv network that claims it didn't censor tina fey.
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big news out of buckingham palace, prince william and kate middleton are engaged. the proposal was a long time coming, so long british tabloids nicknamed her waity katie for waiting so long for prince william to ask. >> reporter: the wedding of prince charles and princess diana drew one of the biggest global tv audiences ever. now their first son's engagement appears to be setting the stage for of the same. william is just behind his father to become king of england and his engagement to a woman who grew up in the middle class is a sensation. >> well, it's quite a daunting prospect, but i hope i'll take it in my stride. william's a great teacher so hopefully he'll be able to help
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me along the way. i look forward to spending my time with william. >> reporter: he met kate middleton whose parents are self-made millionaires from selling children's party supplies while both william and kate were university students in scotland. she studying art history and he was too. but she is widely credited with convincing him to change to geography when he seemed ready to drop out altogether. they first appeared as a couple on a skiing trip in switzerland, first appeared to be finished three years ago when they broke up. >> we were both very young. it was at university and we were sort of both finding ourselves as such and being different characters and stuff. >> reporter: it was the summer of on again off again dating. >> i at the time wasn't very happy about it but actually it made me a stronger person. you find out things about yourself that maybe you hadn't realized or i think you can get quite consumed by a relationship when you're younger and i really valued that time for me as well although i didn't think it at the time.
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>> reporter: now they live with one another. both are 28 years old, both still speak of life goals like any 20-somethings. he has his military career and several charities, she's shown past interest in opening a photography gallery. so why the long wait for the engagement? the gulf between his royal life and her regular upbringing is at least part of it. >> i wanted to give her a chance to see and to back out if she needed to before it all got too much. i'm trying to learn from lessons in the past and i wanted to give her the best chance to set until and see what happens the other side. >> reporter: as for children in their plans? >> i think we'll take it one step at a time. we'll get over the marriage thing first and then look at the kids. >> reporter: but for now the next big step is down the aisle. tom foreman, cnn. >> richard quest joins me now, so does katie nicholl, writing
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about the royal family for more than a decade now. so richard, kate said she was surprised but hasn't this been in the making for a long time? >> reporter: yes, indeed, it has. they've been going together for eight or nine years, seven or eight certainly as a couple even with the short break. and they admitted in the interview they've actually talked about marriage and what would happen. but even so, she wasn't called waity katie for nothing, having waited so long for this bethrothal. she did say she had no idea that william had been carrying this ring in a rucksack in kenya for a week. surprise indeed. >> what is she like? is she well liked in england? >> she is. the thing is we don't know an awful lot about her. she's been kept very, very below the radar. we do know there's a lot more to
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her. she loves sports. they've got the same interests. and they're very happy together. there is such a chemistry between the two of them, they both looked so happy and i think very relieved. this has been a long courtship. it's been nearly nine years. i don't quite believe she didn't know it was coming because they made a pact in 2007 that their relationship would end in a marriage and sure enough it will do. >> that's quite a pact. richard, i don't know how this stuff works, but didn't it used to be that she would have had to come from some sort of royal family or an upper class family? apparently she's from an upper middle class family. does that sort of thing matter in the royal etiquette anymore? >> reporter: no, it doesn't. traditionally, yes, the heir to the thrown and other members of royalty, they married within a circle, but diana, for example, came from the highest in the land, almost. so those are the days of gone. it is not, as you know, kate's family is upper middle class, they are in commercial business, if you want to put it crudely.
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she is a woman who's been around and therefore, in that sense, it is the royal family saying we now recognize this is a new time, a new generation. >> richard, what does this mean -- does this mean anything for the order of who gets to be king next? it's a dumb question and i'm not wording it correctly. >> reporter: no, don't worry, i know where you're going with that one, anderson. you're basically -- let's not mince words. you're basically suggesting, now william's got a wife. are they going to skip over charles and just jump to the younger, more handsome one and the answer is no. that's not the way it works. no matter how unpopular or how dowdy charles may be perceived. in his favor, he has brought
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these boys up to respect their own freedoms, to recognize they have their own lives, and not to make the mistakes of the past. and from that point of view, full credit to the prince of wales. but to your question, no. the line of succession will go from queen elizabeth, long may she live, on to charles, and from charles on to william. >> and i was reading earlier that kate once had a schoolgirl crush on william as a teen. that's kind of interesting. >> she did, and it was something that they were asked in the interview because there's long been a rumor she used to have pictures of prince william on her bedroom wall but she said the record straight for the first time today, and we've never heard her speak before, but it was a levi's model, so perhaps that was a myth too far. >> did you say we'd never heard her speak before? >> this is the first time we've really heard kate middleton speak.
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when i say she's been kept -- >> really? that's amazing. >> there's a tiny clip of her on youtube but it's just the tiniest sentence but this is the first time we've really seen her in the spotlight. that's why it's been so fascinating. that's why it's been such an enormous day over here, because we've seen her sit down and give her first-ever interview. >> thanks very much. >> thank you. we started a new segment on the program this week, to point out hypocrisy, double talk, the rediculist. so who's on the list tonight? it's the tv network pbs for their claims about why they edited tina fey. she received the mark twain prize for american humor last week. in her speech she thanked many people including sarah palin who fey obviously imitated a lot during the 2008 campaign. but what viewers of pbs saw on tv was very different from what people at the ceremony saw. so here's what fey had to say during the ceremony.
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>> i would be a liar and idiot if i didn't thank sarah palin for helping get me here tonight. my partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that have ever happened to me. politics aside, the success of sarah palin and women like her is good for all women, except of course for those that will end up paying for their own rape kit and stuff. but for everybody else, it's a win-win. unless you're a gay woman who wants to marry your partner of 20 years, whatever. but for most women, success of conservative women is good for all of us. unless you believe in evolution. you know what? actually, i take it back. the whole thing's a disaster. all kidding aside, i'm so proud to represent american humor. >> on sunday night pbs viewers watching the pretaped event didn't hear any of that. this is what viewers heard instead.
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>> i would be a liar and idiot if i didn't thank sarah palin for helping get me here tonight. my partial resemblance and her crazy voice are the two luckiest things that ever happened to me. all kidding aside, i'm so proud to represent american humor. >> producers cut out approximately 33 seconds of fey's jokes about palin and conservative women. they insist politics or fear of criticism had nothing to do with it. one of the producers of the program told "the washington post" they trimmed parts of the speech not because of content but due to time. the ceremony ran 19 minutes too long and they said a lot of it was trimmed. that may be so but it's hard to believe they would trim from one of the main winner's speeches, considering they cut the controversial stuff out. fine if they want to avoid controversy, fine, but just admit it. pretending it had nothing to do with politics just sounds ridiculous and that earns them a spot on tonight's rediculist. steve perry takes us to a middle school in ohio where hands on creativity is a tool teachers use to educate kids.
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there's a lot of debate among parents and educator, some believe students spend too much time memorizing facts at the expense of creativity.
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steve perry visits an ohio middle school where creativity really drives learning. >> reporter: this is not your typical classroom. here in akron, ohio, lessons come to life. seventh graders are helping park rangers get rid of the autumn olive plants. >> straight over your head. go. >> reporter: why do you want to remove all them olives? >> because they're an invasive speech species. >> so what is an invasive species. those are big words. >> it's something that's not wanted there. we found out if we cut them they'll just grow back three times its size. >> that's like grem lynns. you put water on them and they keep growing.
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so what do you do? >> we thought that if we pull them out by the roots they will take it completely out so they won't exist anymore. >> your learning is different here. the teachers aren't giving ut answers and you study them, they're asking you questions? so that's what the problem-based learning is about? >> it makes them realize they have a job to do and the good thing about it is a lot of the problems we pose to our children are problems that are going to affect them or the people around them and their community. that's what makes the experience real to them and that's what makes the connections. i found that more traditional experiences is that when you're reading from a book and not really able to make those real world connections there's that disconnect. it's important that children understand that there's always an opportunity for their to be more than one solution. and with more than one solution, there's possibilities. >> there's something about the creativity part of learning because that's not so typical, especially in these times where people are talking about teaching to the test.
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>> sure. >> so what is it about this that made you think this could work? >> at our school we call our teachers learning coaches. they really make all of the difference for the kids. the experience that the kids have is different every day because the learning coaches are coming to work and they're ready to try new things and they're ready to allow the children to open their minds to new things. we're really preparing the kids today for the skills that they're going to need, the 21st century skills they'll need beyond college and then once they enter the workforce. >> the idea seems to be teaching creativity but how do you actually teach creativity? >> this school has an interesting approach to it. they call it problem-based learning. if you think about it, many asian countries, as opposed to giving them the math problem and then the answer, they let them struggle through it, what these schools are doing and this school in particular, they're taking the time to let the children struggle through, work through the problem, look at it through many angles and then come up with solutions they think will work and then explain why.