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farmers insurance donates to charity for every 100,000 views the video gets. "anderson cooper 360" starts "anderson cooper 360" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com in just a couple hours we're going to know whether syria's dictatorship will keep the promise to take snipers off rooftops. in short to stop killing its own people. and reducing this little girl's grandfather's house to rubble. [ speaking in foreign language ] >> who did this the man in the tape asks? bashar she says. she's in the remains of a living room judging by the cushions on the floor. the girl is obviously too young to understand what is happening, but she knows enough to say the name. she's been told who's responsible. bashar al assad. after ordering a year long
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campaign of repression followed by outright carnage, he promised the u.n. to stop. the final deadline tomorrow morning. back when he agreed to that troop pullout proposal on march 27th, he toured the streets homs. we're showing you one of his photo op that day. the other the bombardment in the hours before he arrived in homs and after he left and almost every day since then. that day when the dictator of syria was smiling for the cameras, 57 people died. today in homs and across syria tanks rolled, shells exploded, snipers fired, and at least 145 people died. in other words, the slaughter goes on. more than 700 have been killed since assad announced a cease fire on april 2nd. nearly 1100 since he agreed to that u.n. proposal just two weeks ago. this is video claiming to show
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victims of a mass execution in homs. according to the opposition one neighborhood there has seen eight straight days of bombardment. parts of the city still being blown to pieces, burned to the ground. in some neighborhoods, troops have been looting, randomly killing civilians on the streets, even blowing up an ambulance. we can't verify the video because independents are sometimes killed if they are managed to sneak in. there's more reason to believe that what you see is real and not what the regime says. a new report titled "in cold blood." quote, syrian security forces have executed scores and possibly hundreds of civilians and opposition fighters during their intensified offensive on cities and towns since december 2011. who watched female low opposition members executed.
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[ speaking in foreign language ] >> there's video which we're not showing of government troops claiming a human trophy. mounting a man' body on the front of their tank. by now you've seen people shoved into car trunks. this video months old now. the regime has spent month after month denying it all and promised to stop. so far it hasn't. the u.n. secretary general's office says they're ramping up
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violence. over the weekend the unilaterally demanded from opposition forces. john king asked the u.n. ambassador the tough question. >> answer the critics saying they have been played. the death toll has gone up by more than a thousand. that assad has used this as cover to kill more people. >> well, i don't think it's a question of the united nations or anan being played. i think they have been clear eyed about the syrian government, motives, and behavior to date. the question is whether there's still the opportunity, however slim, for there to be a diplomatic resolution to this over-year-long conflict. >> joining us now robert bair and ann marie slaughter. bob, do you think the u.n. has been played?
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>> i think bashar al assad has bought time. he knows what he's doing. his intention is the same as it's been. that's destroy the opposition. he intends to wipe them out. he doesn't care what the u.n. wants. yes, they've been played. >> is there any reason the u.n. to believe what bashar al assad says about doing a cease fire? >> anderson, i agree with bob. i don't think he's going to stop. i don't think there's any reason any of us should think he's going to stop tomorrow. he will say whatever it takes to give him more chance to keep going. >> you say copian can be there every other day and it won't make a difference. >> not at all. they're fighting for their survival. i talked to someone in the regime and they figure about 30%
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of the people support bashar al assad. because they're afraid of what the opposition's going to do. he told me they will hold on until the bitter end until one side is completely won. >> and anne marie, is there a time to resolve this diplomatically? >> i think actually the u.s. government and other allies have been right to give it every possible chance for diplomatic resolution. i think that is at an end. the anan got people on board. but that's not going do solve things. either we're going to have to say we more or less accept what we have now where assad is going to keep killing or we not only keep tightening sanctions, but we start moving toward a real possibility of military action. >> and bob, what would that look like?
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military action. we're not talking about u.s. boots on the ground certainly. john mccain has talked about international air strikes. there's also, i guess, arming opposition. what do you see as options? >> well, i think first of all it's key what anne marie was saying. we're moving to a worse situation as we speak. unless there's a miracle that occurs tonight or tomorrow, we're going to see this violence spread. we're going to see it spread more into lebanon. there was a killing in lebanon. there's been killings in turkey. a shooting across the border. once this thing starts to spread beyond syria's borders, i think it's inevitable we're going to have to use air assets to destroy his armor and take his air assets out of the air. >> anne marie, you agree with that? >> i do. we're in agreement tonight. but i think there was a shooting across the border into turkey today. the syrian army was chasing free syrian army rebels and shot into
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turkey. killed a turkish policeman. this is going to spread into turkey, lebanon, possibly into jordan. and i don't think we're going to have a choice. there's going to have to be a military move. i still think in conjunction with safe zones that will effectively stop this now or have this spread into a regional conflict. >> so what would that -- i mean, what would that look like, anne marie? in terms of air strikes to stop armor and movement of syrian forces. would there then also have to be arming of opposition forces? >> well, arming of opposition forces is going on now. there are the cutries, the saudis have acknowledged that's what they're doing. the united states is providing intelligence equipment to allow the free syrian army at least to track the moves of the syrian army. but i think what would have to happen is not a libya-style
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intervention, but actually the declaration of a safe zone at least on the turkish border. the turks have been talking about doing this for six months. you create a no fly zone, no drive zone enforced by air support both from the region and probably from nato. >> bob, you at one point talked about a kill zone as well. >> well, that's a little bit -- you know -- look. sending tanks to kill your own people is just going to make the situation worse. and early on, i realize politically we couldn't do it. but keeping those tanks out of the city is very important. because bashar al assad intends to as i say destroy these people and destroy these cities. it's just like his father in 1982. and it's made the situation worse. and i think we're coming close to having to do something about it. >> anne marie slaughter,
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appreciate your time tonight. robert baer as well. follow us on twitter. we'll be talking about this. big decision about how to conduct the investigation in the trayvon martin case. and george zimmerman is speaking out. we're hearing directly from him. you may be surprised what he's asking for. we'll tell you in just a moment. there's a health company that can help you stay that way. what's healthier than that?
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so two big develops tonight in the trayvon martin case. florida prosecutor angela corey announced she would be conducting the investigation without the services of a grand jury which was scheduled to convene tomorrow. under state law, she can bring charges without a grand jury. we're going to talk to our legal analyst about what this means in just a moment. second big development. the shooter george zimmerman is speaking out. he's set up a website called the real george zimmerman.com. i quote. on sunday february 26th, i was involved in a life altering event which led me to become the subject of intense media coverage. vault of the incident subsequent coverage i have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family. he also includes a paypal link
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asking for donations. let's talk about this now to react to that and today's decision to forego a grand jury. we're joind by benjamin crump. thank you for being with us. you said before a grand jury was bad. what do you mean by that? and what do you make of the decision not to have the grand jury now? >> well, anderson, we've always believed that convening a grand jury was passing the buck. we thought from day one as we've always believed there was enough evidence there to simply arrest george zimmerman. we were not asking that he be convicted, but a simple arrest. over the last 42 days as evidence has unfolded, we think there's a plethora of evidence to simply inflict probable cause to arrest george zimmerman. he can argue whatever legal
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claims he wants. but an arrest. the parents are only asking for simple justice. nothing more, nothing less. if that was your child or anybody child in this world, they would want the person who killed an unarmed teenager to be arrested. >> when we talked a couple of weeks ago, i think maybe two weeks ago now. you said you didn't have confidence that he would be arrested. are you confident now he will be arrested? or what's your read on this now? >> well, i felt if it would have went to a grand jury, that caused us a lot of concern. anderson, we as the lead attorney for the family we're extensions of our clients in a lot of ways. they have a lot of faith. and they're trying to have patience. and they are wanting to believe in the system that it's going to do right by them. and so they are wanting to believe that an arrest is going to be made. in talking with the special
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prosecutor, they say they're doing a thorough job of the investigation. we're believing them. sybrina and tracy are trying to follow their heart in the system. >> we heard from zimmerman on the website that we verified is an official website of george zimmerman. he's basically asking for donations saying he's going to quote, insure any funds are for living expenses and legal expense. there's an american flag in the background. what are your thoughts on the website and what he has to say on it? >> well, i say this, anderson. if the situation was reversed, trayvon martin would have been arrested day one, hour one. george zimmerman has been free for 42 days and i think very simply put, we believe he should have been arrested and put into jail. and then if he bonded out, he could do whatever he wanted to do. but this situation with this website now and everything is a
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luxury that trayvon martin doesn't have and we believe he never would have had. and it's one of those things that his parents want george zimmerman to have his day in court. they are good people. and they want everything to be fair. but in being fair, they think that george zimmerman, the killer of their son, should be arrested just as if it was reversed, mr. cooper. >> two sources told wftb today they think george zimmerman will be arrested this week. have you been given any indication to back that up? >> well, miss corey has said that her and her staff are doing a thorough investigation. we look at her not having the grand jury as a positive thing. she feels she's going to have enough evidence gathered from her investigation to effect probable cause to arrest a killer of this unarmed teen,
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trayvon martin. who if you -- it's just the whole world is saying trayvon was unarmed. zimmerman was the person who pursued him from all objective evidence. don't take my word for it. it's what you see in that video and in the 911 tapes. and the phone log records of his girlfriend. it connects the dots, anderson. there's more than enough evidence to just arrest him. >> mr. crump, i appreciate your time. want to bring in our legal team tonight. mark garigos and jeffrey toobin. why would they not go with the grand jury? >> there are two ways you can go. basically the prosecutor bringing charges. or you can go to a grand jury which is used only for especially complex cases. i think the prosecutor deserves a lot of credit. in these high-profile cases the prosecutors get in trouble when they try to do something
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special. this is the routine way to go. this puts all the pressure on her. she can't pass the buck to a grand jury. it's all on her. this is the responsible decision she made. >> mark, how much pressure does public play in this? how much effect does it have on a prosecutor? >> i think it always has an effect. i couldn't agree more with mr. crump and jeff in two ways. part of the decision not to go to a grand jury. normally when you go to the grand jury, anything the prosecutor asks for, they get. in this case this would be the one exception where you have seen, i think, the split in public opinion and generally the people in a grand jury are more conservative and less of color. i think there was always the possibility that if she went to a grand jury, they would have returned no bill. which is like lightning striking. and here i think jeff's right. she's taken responsibility for it.
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ultimately i think this increases the odds dramatically that zimmerman is going to get arrested. >> jeff -- i'm sorry. you think the odds are that he's going to get arrested? >> yeah. i think when she says we're not going to the grand jury which is the usual thing. normally in florida just like in california, in the state court system, they rarely use the grand jury. i think that going to the grand jury in this case could have been a real problem. you could have had a grand jury that returned a no bill. this is a pretty good sign of also combined with the statement that's attributed to her, that an arrest is imminent. >> i've been reading some comments on twitter about this case tonight. after i tweeted some stuff. and people are saying look, it's outrageous that zimmerman would be asking for money. and this is the first we've heard of him. anybody who's involved in a legal battle like this is going to be counciled. do not be making statements or interviews. >> i can't say i blame him for putting up this website.
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especially because there are people trying to claim money in his name. what he's saying is bland. he's not making statements that can be used against him. there's something distasteful. we all know he caused the death of trayvon martin. whether or not it was a crime is what we're talking about. he is incuring enormous legal fees. >> not going to be able to work. if a client you were defending came to you and said they wanted to have a website like this, what would you tell them to do? >> i said talk to my tech guy. get it up immediately. i've done it. far be it for -- i think there's an irony here. people say let the free market work. if he can't afford to pay lawyers, they're going to have a public defender. i've got a client right now with a website up. frankly it saves the taxpayers
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money. scooter libby used a website. >> i said going to say thanks for not say your client's name. >> i thought it would be a shameless plug. >> it's fascinating. you think an arrest is likely. jeff? >> i actually would not draw that conclusion. i think this doesn't make it more or less likely. this is just the normal course. you know, this prosecutor has access to evidence we don't have. >> we should point out for the record there is a lot we do not know. >> exactly. the key evidence in this case is what happened after he called 911 and when the shots were fired. we don't know if there are eyewitnesses to that. she has access to knocking on every door. forensic reports. we don't know that. i don't feel comfortable making a prediction in the absence of having all that important evidence. >> see, i don't have any problem
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making that prediction. the reason for it is that if sthe they wanted to reject this case, and the passing the buck thing to do is to go in front of a grand jury and you know what the grand jury is going to go and you lay it off on them and let them reject it. i think to some degree it's easier this way to not be exposed to that. >> there's no question that grand juries have been used that way by prosecutors in the past in a way of disposing cases. >> always good to have you on. political battles heating up over which party is more in touch with americans' economic pain. the gingrich campaign saying they see the writing on the wall. more in just a moment. of identity thieves "enough." we're lifelock, and we believe you have the right to live free from the fear of identity theft. our pledge to you? as long as there are identity thieves, we'll be there. we're lifelock.
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it's all about which presidential candidate truly feels your pain. obama's team is rolling out a plan to raise taxes on the richest americans and opponents of the idea including mitt romney are out of touch with ordinary voters, they say. romney's campaign says obama is out of touch. in response so senior white house adviser says the overall trajectory in the -- romney camp released this statement today. after friday's disappointing jobs report, the white house is trying to spin the nearly 23 million americans struggling to
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find work as a good thing. >> we've got a ways to go. we need to keep pushing. but what's really bothersome to me is my candidates are rooting for economic failure. >> both sides trying to paint the others out of touch. earlier i talked about it all with james corvell and rich galin. basically making the same argument about each other. the other is out of touch and they don't feel the pain of ordinary americans. does this still resonate with voters? >> i think it does. also i'm not sure -- i think obama could seem a little aloof. but i think that's romney's biggest problem. not sure why romney wants to bring this front and center. he's not had a good primary when it comes to connecting with ordinary people.
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but the truth of the matter is neither one of these guys are like a clinton i feel your pain kind of politician. >> rich, it's going to boil down to independents and how they interpret this, right? >> and i think the obama people are pretty smart. my guess is they are planning a campaign in an economy where this is as good as it gets. either it's going to be worse or not much bitterness. so they're planning for a campaign that really does turn on to use a clintonian phrase, i feel your pain. which as james says, neither one of these guys is very good at. i don't think either one believes. >> james, can the obama campaign keep this from being a referendum on obama? >> well, first of all, they're not going to say do you like this economy or not because we know the answer to that. do you want to go back to the economy we had before?
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romney wants to give more taxes to wealthy people, he didn't want to get out of iraq. he favors cutting programs that favor the middle class. sure. who wouldn't want that sort of comparison? >> rich, i want to play something your former boss newt gingrich had to say yesterday. >> you have to be realistic. given the size of the organization, given the number of primaries he's won, he is far and away the most likely republican nominee. if he does get to 1,044 delegates, i'll support him to defeat obama. >> it's a different gingrich than the one that vowed to fight to tampa. >> two things happened in the past week. one, newt lost to ron paul in all three elections last tuesday night. number two, he is now in fourth place in the public polling behind ron paul. and thirdly, i thought about this overnight his health think
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tank went out of business last week. >> declared bankruptcy. >> yeah. i really think that that affected newt. he had a lot in that he worked hard for that. i'm not saying he thinks it's his fault, but to a great degree if he had still been there, that would still be going. i think these things weigh on him and he's said okay. enough already. i'm going to be a romney guy and let's get on with this. >> james, could this be part of the process that the republican party may not be as difficult to pull off. >> i think most democrats -- repaired their relationship with gingrich. large constituents within the republican party that are still unenthusiastic about mitt romney. i don't think that speaker gingrich or santorum or paul will be able to bring him on
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without action on the part of romney. he's got the work cut out for him. by the way, i really agree with rich. i mean, newt has put a lot on the line, lost a lot in doing this. but it's something he always wanted to do. i guess in the end he went out and did it. great personal and financial cost to him to do it. >> doesn't he also gain a lot? in terms of future speaking fees, i imagine he is much more valuable now on the speaker circuit where he makes a lot of money. >> i'm on that circuit myself. he was doing pretty well before. i think he was making money from some of his other organizations. lost a lot. i think he's $4.5 million into personal debt. it would have to speak for a long time to make up with this cost, i suspect. >> he said he was making $65,000 a speech which is a hundred times more than i make. >> rich, we'll see what we can
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do about that. >> thanks. legendary journalist mike wallace who's known for tough questions, competitive drive, inspired young journalists passed away this weekend. we'll look back at his life, his legacy. and we'll talk to lesley stahl about her memories of mike wallace. [ male announcer ] lately, there's been a seismic shift
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one of its greatest tonight. mike wallace died just a month shy of his 94th birthday. not many live up to the accolade but wallace did. in a moment i'll talk to lesley stahl. but first a look back at some of his remarkable career. he was known for his tough questions. >> i'm not sitting in judgment. i'm simply asking a question. >> a interviewer described as relentless, driven, and competitive beyond belief. >> you haven't answered the question. >> his style made him one of the most well known of our time. born in 1918 in brookeline, massachusetts, he traded the name myron for mike.
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after graduating from college in 1939, wallace began his career in radio in michigan before landing a series of television jobs in chicago. >> ladies and gentlemen, let us meet professor ludwig von integrity. >> he found success with an interview show called "night beat." which then went national as the "mike wallace interview" on nbc. >> i think you will agree a good many people hated your husband. they even hated you. >> wallace had also explored acting, hosted a game show, and appeared in commercials. decided to devote his career to journalism after the death of his son in 1962. he was hired by cbs news in 1963 as a correspondent. five years later cbs launched "60 minutes" with wallace as one of the primary correspondents. >> there's been recent talk of
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style and charisma. have you given no thought to this aspect of campaigning and of leading? >> during the watergate scandal, wallace won recognition for his interviews of white house staff. >> perjury. plans to audit tax returns. bogus opinion polls. conspiracy to obstruct justice. all of this by the law and order administration of richard nixon. >> is there a question in there somewhere? >> audiences began to tune into "60 minutes" to watch wallace's interviews. before long, he became a household name. during the iran hostage, wallace confronted the ayatollah. >> a devoutly religious man.
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a muslim. says what you are doing now is quote, a disgrace to islam. and he calls you imam, forgive me, his words not mine, a lunatic. >> he answered by predicting the assassination. wallace also pioneered the ambush interview. with evidence of their wrong doing. >> if selling phony university degrees was a hazardous occupation, hanging one on your wall when "60 minutes" walk in could be embarrassing. >> you're not a medical doctor. >> no. >> his style was sometimes down with fans. >> you know what your mother told me about her relationship with you. >> what? >> she says you haven't got time to be close to anyone. quote -- >> she said to anyone or to her?
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>> that's your own mom. >> even know mom's judgment stings. >> you like this. that 40 million people have to see me, like, do this. >> but mike wallace never backed down. >> there was no talk about steroids. >> he continued on with "60 minutes" until his last broadcast in 2008. he wanted to be known as a tough reporter who was fair. he wanted the story first. this is what he told "the new york times" in 2008. >> i had probably not necessarily undeserved reputation of being a prick, of stealing stories from my colleagues. i mean, it's just competition. get the story. get it first. >> first of all, when you heard the news that mike had passed,
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what went through your mind? >> i thought, you know, i've known he's been sick. i've known this was going to happen and i was still shocked. now, that was yesterday. so i've thought about almost nothing since. and i've been smiling. because i've been remembering mike. and i really liked him. he brought me to "60 minutes". >> he brought you there? >> he brought me there. himself. and he went to bat for me. he brought me there. then he kind of mentored me. sort of. you'll love this. here's a story. he calls me into his office one day. he says the real secret, lesley, is asking the really tough question that the public thinks you'll never ask. but when you ask it, you can't be embarrassed. you can't be timid. you just have to ask it with total ease as if it's the most
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natural thing to do. if you're embarrassed about it, the audience will feel it. he said, you need to work on this. >> oh, really? >> yeah. >> he was one of the first people who really greeted me when i started at "60 minutes" too. but i remember he called me kid. and it was so thrilling that he would even acknowledge me and talk to me. later i did some stuff for an organization he was working with to raise money for folks with depression and suicide awareness and stuff. he also had this other side of being intensely competitive. i never really saw that because i kind of knew him in the latter years. >> you saw it on television. >> certainly. >> he was who he was. >> the folks, though, who work at "60 minutes" were on the cbs morning show today with charlie rose. and i want to play some of what they said and have you speak. >> we were neighbors for 37 years -- 38 years. >> meaning his office was next
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to your office. >> next door. and there were a couple of years in there which we didn't talk to each other. >> you and mike did not speak? >> we communicated through other people. >> why was that? >> well, mike -- how do i put this? mike would steal stories. >> would he steal stories? >> absolutely. and i always thought that the worst thing than losing the story to mike was actually getting a story from mike on the rare occasion that it happened. because the retribution would last for six years. >> was it really -- would he really steal stories? >> he stole one from me. >> really? >> barbara streisand. i always thought if i stopped talking to him, he wouldn't know i was talking to him. >> how did he steal a story? he would hear you might be working on it? >> yeah. i was telling someone in the recording studio and he was there. he was waiting to get in to do
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his recording. and he ran off. and then next thing i knew she had agreed to do it with him. i guess he called her. >> wow. >> that'll teach her. >> it's interesting. when i got there i was surprised. even when you print out they will go over to make sure no one else sees it. is that just a -- >> no, it was just mike. but you know, we're telling that story. i loved him. i totally loved him. and i was -- i laughed. i laughed after about two weeks. >> right. but he and don hewitt used to fight. >> yeah. they didn't talk at each other. they yelled at each other. only occasionally did it get so bad that they weren't really talking with each over and you worry about the future of the show. that happened over the tobacco story. mostly they were yelling over the content of the piece and they cared. it really was a measure of the
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commitment they both had to getting it right. there's still a lot of fighting that goes on at "60 minutes" over the content. >> that's what makes it such a great program. >> i loved it. it was high energy. it was commitment. it was integrity. it was all of those things. >> he was public about his trials. and a suicide attempt he talked about publicly. worked along with mary wallace to raise money and raise awareness. and i did a number of interviews with him on the subject. was that something you saw? was that something you were aware of in the work place? >> well, i wasn't aware of him being depressed in the work place. he was too much of an outgoing guy's guy. i never really sensed that myself. but when he went public with his depression, it was early. it was before anyone else of his level ever did that.
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it was part of the man's fearlessness and courage. i mean, everything he did demonstrated fearlessness. and that was huge in how many people he helped by going public and saying if the toughest guy in america has this disease, which people thought was a sign of weakness, had all different kinds of stigmas. if he could have it, then i'm okay admitting i have it. it was an enormous thing for him to have done publicly. >> do -- one of the other things morley said today was that mike despite all his fearlessness, mike was unsure of himself in some ways. maybe as a result of doing entertainment stuff years before. >> i have to say i never saw that. >> you never saw that? >> no. not for a second. i did see a boyishness or almost like a teenage boy quality in
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him that would pop out. >> his smile that would break out -- i watched old interviews of him -- was amazing. >> so there was this little boy in there. he let it pop out. i never saw any sense of lack of self-confidence in mike wallace in anything. i loved the stories he did that weren't with heads of states and crooks and so forth where he would just be smitten with shirley mcclain or have a crush on tina turner and let you see it t. and he loved vladimir h o rks rowitz. he was just out there. i am who i am. i'm honest in everything i do. >> i also think to have the career and longevity he had in this business was extraordinary. he was working until he was 88. >> 88. >> yeah. i just think that's extraordinary. >> when he started "60 minutes"
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with don hewitt, he was 50. >> wow. that's amazing. >> of course he'd already had a career in showbiz. he was an actor in radio and commercials. and his son died in greece. and he turned -- he changed. >> that was really for him a major turning point. he decided after that -- his son had been doing writing. he said he felt his son might become a reporter. he wanted to be the reporter his son would never be. >> he wanted to become a serious person who made a mark. and he did. and he changed enormously and devoted himself to this. >> he at the same time was a remarkable performer. i don't mean that in a derogatory way. in addition to being a journalist, he would have a pause in a sentence. i don't know. it was so effective. >> it was brilliant. and i remember hewitt saying to
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me, watch mike. watch mike. ed bradley had a little bit of that, too, by the way. >> i think i was trying to remember the last time i saw him. it may have been in the halls of "60 minutes." that's the way i want to remember him. in the halls of "60 minutes." he helped make that broadcast and it helped make him. >> he created it with don hewitt. he decided that it was going to be serious journalism. it was going to make a difference. he created it in his voice. you know, all of his talents represent "60 minutes." then he stayed long enough to make sure we all got it right. and that it would live in his image in a way. >> yeah. >> and it has. >> it has. and as a broadcast, it's never been more relevant. it's as relevant today as it was, you know, back in his heyday. >> our new boss, he worked under
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mike wallace too. and don hewitt. he, too, knew he was going to carry it on. he wasn't going to let it fade or soften. >> mike's voice is still alive in that broadcast. >> totally. if only we could be as good as he was. >> thank you. >> pleasure. >> true indeed. if we could only be as good. lesley stahl. thank you. mike wallace, thank you. here's piers with a look at his program tonight. >> more on the trayvon martin case including the question everyone is asking. is an arrest coming up? plus why mark zuckerberg is playing a lot for this company. and the last mangriest man. lewis black. plus only in america. a man names bubba wins golf's most prestigious tournament back to you. a man beaten, robbed,
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following a number of stories tonight. let's check in with isha with the bulletin. >> prosecutors in tulsa, oklahoma, are looking into whether two suspects in the shooting of five african-americans should be charged with hate crimes. today jay england and watts were to be held on $9 million bond each. they were arrested on murder and other charges in the shootings which left three people dead and two wounded. >> jury selection has started in chicago in the murder trial of the man charged with killing three of singer jennifer hudson's family members.
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