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it is wednesday, march 21, 2012. welcome to "cbs this morning" at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. a convincing win for mitt romney in the illinois primary, so we'll get reaction from illinois democratic senator dick durbin on that as well as the ongoing budget battle in washington. plus, a community rallies in support of a teen gunned down during a neighborhood watch. we'll hear from both sides of this racially charged case. i'm gayle king. treasure trove of captured documents offer a window into the mind of osama bin laden. john miller brings us new details you have not heard before. when i see you at 8:00, kiefer sutherland tells us about
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his return to tv. i'm erica hill. cbs news tracked down fake medicine that made its way into the u.s. and newly published e-mails from bernie madoff shows a desperate man trying to cope with life behind bars. we start with the "eye opener," your world in 90 second. thank you, illinois. what a night. wow. mitt romney rolls in illinois and takes aim at president obama. >> it's time to say this word -- enough. we've had enough. >> it's inevitable mitt romney is going to be the nominee, isn't it? >> unless he unexpectedly collapses or has a heart attack. >> we're feeling very good about winning louisiana on saturday, i might add. >> rick santorum said that he's not worried about unemployment. well, he will be in november. over the shooting death of an unarmed teen, trayvon martin,
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continued outside orlando. >> arrest george zimmerman today. a powerful earthquake struck mexico. 500 homes have been damaged and had a magnitude of 7.6. >> president obama's 13-year-old daughter malia is in the earthquake zone, but the white house says she was never in danger. a gunman wanted for a series of shootings in france is cornered. >> the suspect claims he's a member of al qaeda. most severe tormz are shifting east after swamping the southern plains. >> robert de niro at a obama fund-raiser made a joke. he said, america isn't ready for a white first lady. >> i apologize. >> it is my honor to present to you this certificate of irish heritage. >> this will have a special place of honor, alongside my birth certificate. >> oh, that? >> we look like four idiots. >> and all that matters.
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>> woo! >> if tim tebow was here next year, i'll be the best teammate i can be. >> on "cbs this morning." i can be. >> on "cbs this morning." ♪ tebow will rise again captioning funded by cbs >r > welcome to mit primaprimary by primary b night. santorum with 35%. followed by ron paul and newt gingrich both as you can see in the single digits. political correspondent jan crawford has been tracking the race from chicago good morning, jan. >> reporter: well, good morning, erica. mitt romney won a sddecisive victory in illinois. it strengthens his argument he'll be the nominee and other
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candidates should step aside and led him go head to head with barack obama. >> what a night, i will pi. >> reporter: romney picked up ground where he struggled. in illinois he was seen as the candidate who best understands voters' problems. and he won overwhelmingly among voters who care most about beating barack obama. >> we know what barack obama's vision is. we've been living it these last three years. my vision is very, very different than what his is. >> reporter: romney's commanding victory here will bolster his argument that republicans should stop fighting each other and get out of the way so he can go head to head with obama. >> we're going to do very well this pennsylvania. >> reporter: but challenger rick santorum, who's already campaigning in his home state of pennsylvania, refuses to step aside. he said over and over again last night that romney is not what the american people are looking for. >> we don't need a manager. we need someone who's going to
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pull our government by the roots, throw it out and liberate the private sector in america. that's what we need. >> reporter: newt gingrich lagged far behind, yet he found a way to make news. campaigning in louisiana, he slammed actor robert de niro for something he said in front of michelle obama during a fund-raiser for the president. de niro asked the crowd, do you really think our country is ready for a white first lady? gingrich took issue with the comment's racial tone. >> what de niro said last night was inexcusable. it's exactly wrong. it divides the country. >> reporter: now gingrich finished dead last here behind ron paul. like santorum, he's saying he's staying in this thing. he's not going to drop out as they both try to deny romney the nomination. but that's going to be a lot harder after last night. santorum pick romney picked up 5 4 dell gait
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gats, giving him 544 delegates. cbs news is estimating, almost halfway to the magic number 1,144. >> thanks, jan. is it over, is one question? if it is not, what does romney have to do now? >> reporter: well, charlie, that's the question that everybody is asking because it looks impossible for any of the other candidates to get to that magic number. other than romney. so, you're hearing romney and a lot of republicans this morning saying, it's over. santorum and gingrich are now hurting the republican party by continuing to beat up on mitt romney, which is softening some of his approval numbers with voters and hurting the party as it tries to head to head with obama in november. but they're saying, listen, we're not going to quick because we don't think romney can beat president obama, and that's why we're staying in. but if you look at the delegate count, you look at the states ahead, it's hard to see it's anything but over for those two unless something magical happens for them at that convention.
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>> electability is one thing romney continues to poll well on. >> reporter: that's exactly right. he did here last night. he's done it in every state. and voters want president obama, these republican voters want president obama out of the white house. that's what they care about. even voters who don't say they really like mitt romney that much, are voting for him because they think he has the organization, the money, the skills and the message to beat president obama more than santorum, more than gingrich, any other unnamed candidate who might somehow get into the race. >> thank you very much. with us on capitol hill illinois senator dick durbin, number two democrat in the senate. good morning, senator. >> good morning. >> they had a primary election in your home state. the victor came out focusing on president obama and drawing contrast on his experience and the president's experience, specifically citing the fact that the president had been a community organizer and a constitutional law professor and that he had been an executive and headed the olympics.
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>> reporter: i'll tell you, there's something left out of your story. romney outspent santorum more than 5-1. at the end of the night, we had the lowest turnout for a republican presidential primary in 70 years. you could draw a bigger crowd at i green bay packer's rally in downtown chicago than what mr. romney delivered at the polls yesterday in illinois. >> so, the budget proposal by paul ryan is out. he was on this program last night -- yesterday, and he talked about what he thought was necessary to focus on dealing with the deficit. do you and do democrats believe not only do you have to focus on cutting entitlements and cutting spending, but also raise revenue? >> i can tell you that paul ryan is a friend of mine and i respect him. but remember, he walked away from the bowles/simpb son commission that had a balanced approach and put everything on the table. his budget refuses to impose any new taxes on the wealthiest people in america. in fact, it cuts their taxes even more.
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to achieve it, it makes dramatic cuts in medicare, medicaid and programs people count on for the basic safety net in america. it is not a balanced approach. unfortunately, it reflects where his party is today. >> but has your party yet signaled where it would address entitlements in terms of a dealing with the deficit? >> i've sent out a signal loud and strong. i voted for bowles/simpson that put everything on the table, including new tax revenue from those who were at the highest income levels and making certain that any changes to medicare, social security or medicaid preserved the basic protections of these programs. paul ryan wants to privatize medicare. at the end of the day, those seniors who are not healthy and can't buy health insurance today will find it almost impossible to do so under paul ryan's plan. >> can i get you and paul ryan to come on this program and debate the issue of the deficit and how important it is to america? >> i would love to. i'll start with the bowles/simpson commission which i voted for and i wish he had,
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too. >> there's also the question, the president was late in his support of bowles sai/simpson. when he did, hes has not completely supported every aspect. >> let's make it clear. when you have mitch mcconnell saying his sole goal is to make sure president obama is a one-term president, it would have been dead on avbal if it was bowles/simpson/obama plan. he's met with speaker boehner to bring the deficit down three times now. the president has made a good faith effort to deal with this deficit and in his second term he will do that. >> you also know that oil prices and gas prices -- oil prices are high by the barrel, some $128 a barrel, and also there is some concern and especially at the white house about whether the president can do something so that gas prices at the pump don't go up further.
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can the president do that? >> oil prices and gasoline prices worldwide are high. they're too high. let me tell you, i think they're just indefensible when you look at the basic cost of oil, but i think the president's plan is the right plan. we have dramatically expanded the drilling and exploration in an environmentally sensitive way. we learned a lesson from bp. we'll go forward of exploration but not at expense of our environment. secondly, we have to diversify our energy policy. put together a policy that doesn't depend on foreign oil exclusively, that doesn't depend on current sources but moves into fuel efficiency. the president has agreed to a plan with the manufacturers that will dramatically increase the fuel efficiency and economy of vehicles driven by americans. saving them up to $8,000 during the life of a vehicle. that's a balanced approach bringing in all elements of energy, really does spell out a course that will bring energy costs down and let our economy grow. >> senator, i want to touch on go we've covered here on "cbs
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this morning" and i know that you have spoken out about. on friday governor quinn appealed the decision of fema to reject a disaster funding after the tornado hit on february 29th. where does that stand? do you see any case here that could, in fact, cause this decision to be overturned? >> well, we've had appeals in the past. some of them successful. i think this one will be. i know that the president, i've spoken to him personally. he wants to help the victims here. but there is a statutory and regulatory basis for awarding a federal disaster. we went back into the field. we looked at the damage. the governor, along with federal and local officials submitted this appeal. it's now being reviewed by fema. i'm hoping today or any day now there will be a federal disaster declaration. there should be for southern illinois. >> thank you for joining us. look forward to having you here and some real debate and conversation. >> good, let's do it. >> thank you. pressure is building for
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authorities in florida to arrest george zimmerman, the neighborhood watch captain who fatally shot 17-year-old trayvon martin last month. the incident is now a federal case. it is slated to go before a grand jury. jeff glor is in sanford, florida, with the story. good morning. >> reporter: erica, good morning to you. as those twin investigations continue on both the state and federal level now, there was an emotional gathering in this neighborhood last night. so many people wanted to attend a gathering inside the allen chapel ame church here in sanford that hundreds were forced to express their frustration outside. >> that was murder! >> reporter: all part of the continuing controversy over the death of trayvon martin. a controversy that went to capitol hill tuesday. >> i am tired of burying young black boys. >> reporter: congresswoman frederica wilson represents the district where martin lives. >> no more racial profiling.
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i'm tired of fighting when the evidence is so clear. >> reporter: that evidence was not enough for local police to arrest george zimmerman, who cited self-defense. martin was heading home from a convenience store three weeks ago when zimmerman, a neighborhood watch volunteer, called police to report what he called a suspicious person. >> he's got his hand in his waistband. and he's a black heal. >> are you following him? >> yeah. >> okay. we don't need to you do that. >> reporter: zimmerman, who's hispanic, told police he began retreating to his car and only fired his gun after martin jumped him. but martin's girlfriend says she was on the phone with him when it happened and that zimmerman was the aggressor. >> what are you following me for? and the man said, what are you doing around here? >> reporter: zimmerman has called dispatchers 46 time in
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the last month remains in hiding. florida's stand your ground law is hotly debated now. claiming anyone self-defense no matter where. a friend and fellow neighborhood watch volunteer. do you carry a weapon? >> no. >> reporter: do you have a weapon? >> yes. >> reporter: but you don't take it out on watch? >> no. >> reporter: do you think george should have been carrying one? >> no. >> reporter: why was he? >> i can't answer that. i can't get inside because the two components don't match up. you have george, the demure, congenial, amiable guy carrying a weapon of destruction. >> reporter: police are now carefully parsing all of the calls that zimmerman made to see if he may have uttered a racist remark in one of them last year. at the same time, more protests scheduled today in orlando, miami and new york city with a major rally expected here
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tomorrow night. >> jeff, thanks. french police have cornered the man suspected of killing four people at a jewish school on monday. police surrounded a home in toulouse early this morning. the suspect open fire. two policemen were injured. officials say the suspect is a 24-year-old french man who claims to belong to al qaeda. police believe he shot and killed a rabbi and three children monday and also murdered three french paratroopers earlier this month. the gunman says he'll surrender some time today. a prison official in afghanistan says the man escaped from kandahar prison during a mass taliban prison break. mexico is recovering from aa huge jolt on tuesday. an earthquake with magnitude 7.4 hit the southern coast. it was felt some 200 miles away in mexico city. where monica has an update on the quake and the clean-up. >> reporter: good morning.
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well, this earthquake affected most of mexico, starting with residents in the capital city and in resort town acapulco. so far only 11 injuries reported. with any earthquake of this magnitude, the aftershocks remain a constant threat. frightened office workers were sent streaming into the streets of mexico city after a powerful earthquake struck the country's southern region just minutes after 12:00 in the afternoon. this worker said it was very strong. the lights started swinging and the photocopiers start gliding back and forth in the office. the tremor caused a pedestrian bridge to collapse on top of a bus. while a major woman's hospital was forced to evacuate patients. phone and power service was briefly shut down in the capital and neighboring state of oaxaca. 800 homes damaged, another 60
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completely collapsed. >> buildings not constructed with earthquakes in mind could collapse. but most buildings which are designed for earthquakes would survive and it would be interior damage or maybe cracks. >> reporter: the quake's epicenter was located 11 miles underground in the state of guchlt guerrero near acapulco. the ground shook for more than a minute. >> we were on the 20th floor and everything started shaking and the windows were shaking. i sat on the floor and it was very scary. i've never felt nothing like that before. >> reporter: earthquakes are not uncommon in the region. in 1985 mexico city was struck by a series of devastating quakes that claimed the lives of over 10,000 people. even though no deaths. reported from tuesday's tremblor, the looming threat of aftershocks has kept the country on high alert. and president obama's 13-year-old daughter malia is in
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mexico on a school trip in the earthquake zone but the white house has confirmed she's safe and was never in any danger. a daily dose of aspirin appears to dramatically reduce the risk and even stem the growth of many cancers. that is the conclusion of three new studies due out today. millions of americans already take aspirin to prevent strokes and heart attacks. the research found aspirin reduced the overall rate of fatal cancer by 15%. that benefit actually improved to 37% for patients taking aspirin five years or longer. the studies also found aspirin prevents cancer from spreading by
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osama bin laden through the treasure trove of documents found in his compound in pakistan after the raid that killed him last may. >> officials have been poring over them and some will released in the coming months but juan zarate got a look at the content and we john john miller who interviewed bin laden some years ago. what surprised you. what's the most important thing that you heard that helps us understand osama bin laden? >> one of the interesting points that comes out of the documents is clearly the loss of control that bin laden sees in the movement. the fact that the movement itself is getting out of his control, both in terms of discipline and in terms of what he's able to actually direct. and you see that then reflected in tensions between him and iman al zawahiri, they have different views of where they should attack, bin laden wanting to attack in the united states with
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zawahiri hits in places they can. striking is a beleaguered movement and a leader that has to realize he's losing control over quickly. >> there's also this. we have not had an attack in ten years. part of that is good police work. how much of it is their inability to mount the kind of mission that bin laden wanted to? >> they came very close. if you look at the british planes plot where they were going to place bombs in liquid containers, the reason we can carry only three ounces of liquid today on planes, that was a plot with a dozen airliners that really would have killed up to 2,000 people. that would have been on the level of 9/11. and because of great intelligence work on the part of the british, joined by us and some other partners, that was prevented, but it was certainly viable. it was well in progress and it could have happened. or the case here in new york
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city, 16 backpacks on crowded subways on a 9/11 anniversary. all of these things were in progress, directed by al qaeda and came close. and if you look at the bin laden documents that were seized in ab, his message out is target america, worry less about afghanistan and iraq, focus on planes, small student planes, trains and hurting the economy, whether blowing up commercial places or attacking oil tankers to drive up gas prices. >> you also see here this sensitivity about killing muslim civilians. >> yeah. it's striking, charlie, because bin laden and al qaeda itself is very sensitive to their legitimacy. their moral legitimacy, theologic theological, they feel beleaguered, they feel isolated from fellow muslims and they see
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themselves as having to recuperate their image. that's throughout their documents. interestingly, bin laden talks about shahzad, the times square bomber. what he says is it's actually illegitimate to uz faisal shahzad because he was an american citizen who pledged an oath to defend america. so bin laden is worried about the rules of engagement, talking about the need to do this with honor and to restore the image of al qaeda, which is fascinating. people need to remember, they care about their legitimacy. until his dying day, he wanted to restore their name and brand. >> when you say he was worried about feisal shahzad pledging his allegiance to united states, does that mean osama bin laden did not feel even if someone pledged their allegiance to al qaeda, it would ultimately trump anything else? that's very telling. >> it is very telling. his point is if someone pledges an oath, they're given their word to defend america. if that's the case, they're no longer eligible for an operation. now, this doesn't mesh with what
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the organization is doing at large because we know as al aki out of yemen they have recruited americans and want to insert them. it's a reflection of bin laden, again, trying to control the movement, the discipline of the movement with everybody else just trying to find a way to hit the united states. >> a forecast tour of the movement. >> the size of al qaeda raises two questions. one, they wanted to expand strategy there? >> they were looking at merging with al shabab, the somali organization. there was a split between al qaeda and al zawahiri. >> interestingly, bin laden dies, soon thereafter, last month the merger actually happens. you see zawahiri's view come to pass. >> i want to get back to the branding issue. you think i'm running a global terrorist organization, do i really have time to think about this stuff? but a lot of stuff when bin
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laden was stuck in abbottabad, you see lots of things. the u.s. stuck this name on us, al qaeda, which means the base. but our name used to be the base of jihad or holy war. we need to get back into that because they have recast us as being a terrorist group as opposed to fighting for muslims. so he made a list of suggested names. the jihad group, restoration of the calaphate group, jihad group, revitalization and restoration of the nation. >> none of these are great. >> there are others, too. he's trying to recast al qaeda as part of the vanguard of muslims around the world. >> key keep hearing about the treasure trove of information. as they look at it and declassify, are they suggesting there's a lot of nuggets there that will be extraordinary in
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terms of insight into al qaeda? >> i think iran is a key element there. >> well, i think current questions about the relationship between al qaeda and iran, you see what's played out at abbottabad, that al qaeda deputies were released from iran. and starting in 2009. questions as to whether or not al qaeda and iran have a relationship, that emerges. i do think, charlie, it does reveal insights into the waning movements of a terrorist group that's evolving and somehow a threat that's moved beyond al qaeda itself. and i think that's a very interesting insight from what's come out of the documents. >> john miller, juan zarate, nice to have you here. we're tracking down fake cancer drugs as we catch up with the owner of a company shipping those worthless drugs to the united states. >> i have nothing to hide. the businesses that i have are ethical, safe and legal.
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last month the fda sent letters to 19 u.s. doctors and clinics, warning they may have purchased counterfeit vials of life-saving cancer drug avastin. >> we wanted to know how this could have happened and whochs responsible. chief investigative correspondent amen keteyian has answers. >> reporter: avisen is in the life line against lung, colon and kidney cancer. the only version approved in the united states is manufactured in the united states. that's why federal officials
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were so alarmed when as many as 19 medical practices in the u.s. were found to have purchased this avastin from outside the country that turned out to be counterfe counterfeit. carmen catizone is director of national association of boards of pharmacy. >> no controls, no regulation. in the hands of people dealing with counterfeit drugs that have no concern about that drug's integrity or the patient, you create an ee more dangerous situation for anybody that buys or uses that drug. >> reporter: the counterfeit avastin was sold by a company known as montana healthcare solutions. it offered 400 milligram vials for just under $2,000, about $400 less than the manufacturer's price. cbs news tracked the sale of the fake drugs through six countries, including egypt, turk turkey. where avastin was originally manufactured is unknown. we recently traveled to the
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caribbean nation of barbados. tom, amen keteyian, to interview tom haughton, owner of montana healthcare solutions and the man responsible for shipping the worthless avastin into the united states. haughton told us he broke no laws. >> i have nothing to hide. the businesses that i have are ethical, safe and legal. >> reporter: you talk about safety but the fact is, according to you, 36 packets of the fake avastin got into the united states to at least 19 clinics, into the hands of doctors and into the hands of patients. how can it be so safe? >> because we followed protocol. >> reporter: do you know what was in the fake avastin? there was salt and starch and acetone and nothing to fight cancer. >> to me that's shocking and so disappointing. because you buy these products through a regulated supply chain. you have to have faith.
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>> in addition haughton said he didn't know the drugs were counterfeit and he rye lies on government regulators to ensure his products are safe. but a close source to a federal criminal investigation told cbs news' news haughton's importing the drugs into the u.s. is a key part of the probe. charlie? >> where is this investigation now? >> well, right now we do know there has been a federal grand jiri convened and subpoenas have gone out to the 19 medical clinics. they're still backtracking this avastin, trying to find the original source. the belief is it's from one of two countries, either china or india. >> how big, though, is this problem? >> it's big. i mean, commercially in the united states, counterfeit drugs is a $75 billion a year problem. and many of these drugs are coming through canada, through the internet pharmacies, these giant internet pharmacies in canada. and, you know, everything from viagra to diabetes drugs to you name it. the problem is, americans think
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they're getting them from canada, being sourced from very safe places. what we have learned and many others have learned, you don't know where they're coming from. >> when you arrived for the interview, was he surprised to see you? >> i was surprised he sat down with us. the part on tonight's evening news, there's a bigger part of the interview and it gets feisty. it's pretty interesting. >> a little uncomfortable. thanks.
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a little olympic sized trivia for you. on this date in 1980 president carter announced the u.s. would boycott the summer olympics in moscow to protest soviet military intervention in afghanistan. thanks to our friend at mental floss for that. gayle king has a look at what's coming up in the next hour. >> after domestic dispute with his wife, a san francisco sheriff is being suspended by the mayor. we'll have the story from california. kiefer sutherland back on tv. what made him commit to another weekly series? is there going to be a movie version of "24"? we'll ask him. attack doe bell is changing it up with a new kind of taco. ceo will join us with that. "new york times" best selling author -- may i hold up the book? "stay close," so other than the victor cruz stance, what's the best thing about new jersey? keep moving. >> oh, keep doing this? >> yes. >> we have everything from
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ladies and gentlemen, ready for another installment of mitt romney: president? >> these pancakes are something else, i'll tell you. these pancakes are as large as my win in puerto rico last night. the margin was just about as good. ♪ i myself like a president who likes pancakes. 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." before we get started, can we just say a thank you to the crew because ken in the lighting said if they won the mega millions, no one would be here with lights. we'd be sitting in the dark. thank you, ken. >> thank you for not winning.
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>> yes. >> i'm sure ken is happy to do that for you. >> they went in together and said, we'd be sitting in the dark today, charlie, if they won. so, thank you, thank you, thank you. we can all play again friday night. i'm gayle king, 8:00, welcome back. >> what do you think they would have done with the money? >> we wouldn't see them today. they'd be on vacation someplace. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. in san francisco there's a very public showdown between the mayor and the local sheriff. the sheriff has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor stemming from a violent argument with his wife, who is a soap opera actress. as brian rooney reports, the mayor wants him out but the sheriff says, he's not going anywhere. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> reporter: in effect, the mayor told the sheriff to be out of town by sundown and the sheriff refused. instead of resigning, san francisco sheriff ross mirakarimi took steps to have
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him removed. he was sentenced monday and sentenced to attend violent, and stay away from his wife, venezuelan soap opera actress. mayor ed lee expressed disappointment the shafb did not leave voluntarily. >> sheriff mirkaarimi fall below standards of good faith rightly required of all public officials. >> reporter: new year's eve bruised lopez went to his neighbor, who has a law degree and runs a literary website with her husband, a lawyer. they gave pictures and video on which a law enforcement source told cbs news a shaken lopez says her husband kept her virtual prison in their home. unable to go to the market, see friends, threatened to have her deported. when he was charged, he was booked into the county jail he
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runs. lopez now claims she went to the neighbors as lawyers, not friends, and they violated attorney/client privilege telling the police. she has since stood by her husband. >> we are together and we are fighting. we're going to fight this. >> reporter: they're also fighting the neighbors, who now claim that lopez demanded they destroy the video, e-mail and text from eliana about the incident. >> complete fabrication. >> reporter: kathy black who run a san francisco women's shelter says it's not uncommon for women to recant. >> they're afraid what's going to happen to them. >> reporter: the sheriff says the whole thing's been hard on him. >> i haven't seen or spoken to my wife in nine weeks. i see my son on an average of two hours a day. it's been cruel. it's been crushing. >> reporter: now he's suspended from office, while proceedings determine whether a sheriff convicted of domestic abuse should be the jailer for others accused of the same.
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for "cbs this morning," brian rooney, los angeles. >> definitely to be continued. i always think it's heart to be someplace where you're told you're not wanted. i think that's hard. can you imagine if you're told, you know, you don't need to show up tomorrow, don't come. >> digging in the heels, th bernie madoff is now about three years into his 150-year prison sentence and despite pleading guilty to a $65 billion
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ponzi scheme he's apparently trying to clear his name. >> newly published e-mails obtained by madoff biographer, he tries to justify his actions. rebecca jarvis has details. good morning. >> bernie madoff may be behind bars but he still has strong feelings about his conviction and the people that he blames. opening day for the new york mets is just two week away. but the big story for the team so far has been off the field. >> we can now refocus our lives. >> reporter: the owners settled with irving picard, trustee charged with recovering money for victims of bernie madoff's massive ponzi scheme. >> he was desperately disappointed that the mets case didn't go to trial. he wrote me just last weekend that he was so looking forward to that trial. >> reporter: why? >> he was hoping -- he was hoping that the mets' defense would make the case that eat been making to me, that they had
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no reason to doubt madoff. >> reporter: the mets agreed to pay $162 million, instead of the $1 billion picard initially sought. so far about $9 billion has been recovered. in recent jailhouse e-mails to his biographer has a harsh view. >> calls him a fool, amateur, he never understood the market, lost on wall street. >> reporter: picard is just one of madoff's targets. the e-mails published yesterday on forbes.com he critiques his clients. he says, these people were very instrumental in creating my problems. >> i think he has a pathological fear of failure. he finds it much easier to live with himself as a liar than to live with himself as a failure. >> reporter: one area where he feels he failed, his family life. >> he clearly is very much aware
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of what his family is going through. i think he was totally blindsided by the amount of grief that they have experienced. >> reporter: madoff's wife, ruth, and son andrew refuse to speak with him. his eldest son mark committed suicide in december 2010. his daughter-in-law recently published a book. madoff told he watched her discuss mark's death in televised interviews. >> my psychologist told me not to watch, it would be too painful. then he wrote me it was every bit as painful he warned it would be. and he said, i think searching dishonesty, i can't dispute a word she says. he feels personally responsible for his son's suicide. >> but henriquees says it's hard to tell when he's telling the truth and oftentimes she feels he's in denial. the most important thing to madoff now is refuting claims his fraud started earlier, in the 1980s rather than the 1990s.
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the reason for that is madoff's own ego. he wants to be known as someone who was running a capable, profitable, successful, legitimate business, at least at one time. and if you'd like to read more from madoff's e-mails go to forbes.com, check out the april 9th issue of forbes magazine available now. >> why does he feel so comfortable talking with her? >> they had a history. she covered him before the ponzi scheme was made public. she believes that may be one of the reasons she also was -- she says herself -- trying to contact him and trying to get this contact information and follow up. >> thank you. do you think that a taco shell made from doritos can turn around taco bell? somebody something. we'll speak with the ceo. and everybody around new york said, i know, love the good bagel or two, and the best tasting ones may leave us, welling feeling a little cold. the details in "long story
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short." safety for singles after reports of assaults. three online dating companies have agreed to help protect members from sexual predators by doing background checks. they also want to educate subscribers about safe dating practices. "consumer reports" is out with its bagel rating. and we in new york, and i don't think it's just new york, but around the country, we found it hard to believe they say frozen is nearly the best. "the new york post" is calling it a smear campaign. they're not very happy about it, given they say -- "consumer reports" is based in yonkers. they say the rating is full of holes. hands down the winner, absolute bagels at broadway and 108th. >> i was surprised by that. a food feud. a food feud has broken out between gwyneth paltrow, rachael ray and "the new york times" according to "the huffington post." paltrow and ray took to twitter to deny allegations in "the new
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york times" that they use ghost writers to pen their best selling cookbooks. ray is calling for a correction. and we hear a lot that many americans have a weight problem. could this be one of the reasons? "usa today" reports it could be oversnacking. a new report says 90% of us eat between meals and eat twice as many snacks as we did 30 years ago. >> i believe that number. forget the snacks if you're looking for a good meal, we recommend you head to lexington, virginia. wdbj 7 tells us about a restaurant called the community table where diners don't get a check. they're only asked to donate what they can. jon bon jovi does that already in new jersey. it's open have monday. >> it pulled a controversial ad that said, cheat on your girlfriends, not on your workouts. really? boston wbz says the ad only
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appeared once in germany. not too surprising, though, it spread on social media. reebok says it regrets the offensive material. >> i wouldn't say i would bet my firstborn, but i would bet a woman was not behind that campaign. >> i'm with you on that one. >> i'm just saying. it's causing a big buzz in fast food. taco bell's dorito taco shells. i like it. we'll talk with the ceo about how it could be key to the company's success. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by sleep inn, dream better here.
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hit is a giant success. >> their newest creation is the doritos loco taco. a taco shell made from nacho cheese dorito. ceo greg creed, hello, joining us from irvine, california. >> good morning. how are you? >> greg, i'm really good. listen, if i wasn't on jenny craig, i would try it, but i intend to the minute i get the opportunity. i'm curious about where the idea came from. >> well, the idea came from the -- as you know, we turn 50 today, so -- >> happy birthday. happy birthday. >> thank you very much. thank you. so, glenn introduced the crunchy taco to america 50 years ago. we thought, what better way to celebrate our 50th anniversary than to reinvent the taco. we went to our friends at frito lay and dorito and we've been working with them. >> i'm thinking, are you handing out breath mints with the taco? as you may know, doritos are
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really tough. >> no. people love doer retos and people love taco bell. our customers have said, these two coming together is an amazing combination. >> how do you go about creating this? >> well, you sit down with a great partner, frito lay, who makes doritos. we said, help us reinvent the taco. that's really where it came from. we did a number of concepts. the concept that won clearly was a shell made of doritos inside with all the great ingredients of taco bell. >> you've had as ceo difficult issues that have come up, the e. coli i mentioned and what's in the meat kind of issue. it always presents a question for a corporation, how to respond and how do you protect your brand. where are you on that? >> well, what i've learned is we have great quality. we've always spoken about the
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cravable taste and the amazing value at taco bell. but what i've learned is we also have to talk about the quality. 10 0% all-white breast meat chicken. those are thing we need to tell our customers we have because we have great quality. we have great taste and great value. i think that's the story we have to be telling going forward. >> i thought, greg, you all handled it in a unique way when you were threatened with a lawsuit. you came out and said, thank you for suing us. would it kill you to say that you're sorry? i was very -- >> yeah. >> i got a kick out of your strategy to say, listen -- because you proved your case and ultimately that lawsuit was dismissed, was it not? >> yes, it was a frivolous lawsuit that was voluntarily dismissed. we really moved on so far from there in the last 12 months. as you know, we've launched in 800 stores on the west coast, who now have our first meal or breakfast. we launched the amazing doritos taco and testing cantina bell from an amazing chef.
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there's so much happening at taco bell. so much to look forward to in the next 50 years. >> there's a big push to have healthy eating at fast foods. what are you doing to contribute to that this? >> well, what we've got is a number of things. first of all, we have the fresco line, a range of products that have reduced fat and reduced calories. the exciting thing about taco bell is you can customize anything at taco bell. you don't want the cheese, the sauce, the sour kreernlgs you don't have to have it. we make the products when you order it. we can customize it to your taste. >> as you say, you don't want the cheese, the sauce. i was going to say, gayle doesn't want the taco. >> yes, that's right. i'm thinking, greg, you're hurting people, you're hurting people. you know, yesterday they were talking about wendy's taking over in second place. you have a burger favorite, greg, in less than 15? >> do i have a burger favorite? >> yeah. >> no, don't have a burger favorite.
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♪ hey, minnesota, you look real pretty. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> there may be a big break in the never solved disappearance of amelia earhart. a newly enhanced photo may show the wreckage of her plane. >> a team of investigators will head to a remote island in the pacific ocean to check it out. national correspondent chip reid has the story from the smithsonian air and space museum in washington. good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, erica and charlie. you know, this exhibit at the air and space museum attest to the fact that 75 years later, people are still fascinated and baffled by the disappearance of amelia earhart. now a new clue that just might solve this mystery.
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>> coast guard cutters and navy ships and planes are rushing to the aid. >> reporter: when amelia earhart disappeared in the south pacific 75 years ago she made headline around the world. >> amelia earhart and her navigator fred noonan have come to grief. >> reporter: for decades dozens of searches have come up empty. now this photograph taken three months after earhath disappeared has given new hope. researchers call the fuzzy object in the water nessi, nickname for the loch ness monster. >> to you and me it looks like a blob but for those who do forensic analysis, all the landing gear of a lockheed, the kind of plain amelia is flying, are present. >> reporter: her trek started in oakland, california, 1937. she stopped in miami, then with sfopz along the way, she flew
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over south america, the atlantic, africa, then on to india, southeast asia, australia and new guinea. on july 2nd she took off for howland island before they planned to refuel before her final leg to the united states. she never made it. generations later, people are still asking questions, including the secretary of state, who announced a new privately funded investigation into her disappearance. >> her legacy resonates today for anyone, girls and boys who dreams of the stars. >> this is the plane amelia flew across the atlantic solo. >> reporter: rick gillespie using a robotic vehicle and sonar, says the island in that photograph is in the same area where a series of distress calls were detected after earhart disappeared. do you think this could be the final moment? >> i do. i'm absolutely optimistic. >> reporter: robert ballard that
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founded the titanic in 1985 says that was easy compared to finding earhart's plane. >> if you ever want a case of finding a needle in a haystack, this is at the top of the list in deep sea exploration. >> reporter: but ballard also says if that fuzzy image in that old photograph really is the landing gear of a plane, it could be the smoking gun in this 75-year investigation. charlie and erica? >> chip, thank you. how about that? wouldn't it be incredible? >> yeah. all these years later, i'm surprised there's anything left that they could find anywhere. >> looking forward to seeing what happens with that. of course, if you missed perhaps part of chip's story or anything this morning -- sgho we hope you didn't. >> we hope you didn't. or maybe you would like to revisit them because you want more. we have a new way to catch up starting today, you can get "cbs this morning" on your iphone, your ipad or ipad touch. here's our new app, which is now available. there we go. you've got a rundown. you can even watch the eye opener here.
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it led me to here. earlier this morning there was a robbery i couldn't stop from happening but i think i saved the owner's life. is that what i was supposed to do? is that why you gave me the number? jake, please. i am trying so hard to do what you want me to. just give me a sign. a hint, anything. >> a sign, just anything. that's the one and only kiefer sutherland from his new tv show "touch" is the name of it. we've been missing him since he spent eight seasons on the small screen in "24". >> the new series he plays a single father of a young boy who
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has his own way of communicating. we're pleased to have kiefer sutherland here. >> thank you for having me. >> welcome back to tv. i'm so glad you're back. >> thank you. >> were you reluctant to come back to television? >> it was the last thing i planned to do. i was doing a play on broadway which i was sent the script. i was enjoying the variety of products i was doing. "24" for me was such an amazing experience. we've talked about it a lot. for me, it went by in a snap. but i have a picture of my daughter. she was in grade five when i started "24" and i have a picture when i finished "24" and she was in a gown and cap and graduating from nyu. that was my barometer. if i ever forgot the kind of commitment that a television show required, i would look at those two photos. >> you'd like at her picture and go, hey, time didn't go so quickly then. >> that must have been a reason to come back. >> well, i was sent the script. i read it really out of respect. tim crane, a beautiful writer,
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wrote "heroes" and peter churnen was the producer who was at -- when we started "24" was the chairman of fox media corporation. and was a huge friend not only to me personally but to the show. so i read it out of respect to these two people. i fully planned -- >> intending to say no? >> intending to say, it's amazing, i wish you well, but this is why i can't do it. but around page 32 i was just like, oh, no. i was falling in love with it. i remember even hoping -- there's 30 pages more, maybe it will fall apart. >> i was hoping -- >> it got better. >> it really did. i watched it yesterday. the whole time i'm thinking, please don't let it be good, i don't to want get hooked on another hour. by the end of the hour, i can't wait for part two. >> thank you very much. >> set it up pore people who don't know. the little boy, would he don't know if it's autistic. we know he doesn't speak. >> i'm the parent of a special needs child who's been misdiagnosed with severe autism. because he has all the chashg sticks of someone who has that.
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>> you and i talked many times about "24" the movie. >> yes. >> will it ever happen? >> please say yes. >> i have -- i have wanted this to happen for so long. we've talked about it. and as television is changing, i mean, i thought it should have been happening while we were making the show. it will happen when the time is right. there are so many variables. we want the right director, the right actors, we want everybody's schedules are up in the air. my schedule is so finite, give and touch. the window i have to make it. that i have to kind of check my enthusiasm to make it at the door and make sure that we make the best film. we have to wait for those circumstances to be in line. >> you know, he mentioned his daughter just graduated from high school, correct? >> no, nyu. >> nyu -- >> that was a few years ago. >> does she want to been actress? is she an actress?
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>> she actually is. she's a phenomenal actor. and that we could spend three hours talking about. >> my point is a generational thing from your father donald sutherland to your daughter -- >> acting is in the family. >> well, it is. we've had a couple siblings try it as well and thought, oh, this is definitely not for me. >> did you encourage her? now she's going to be on hbo, right? >> no. it was the most painful thing for me ever. >> how? >> i went to her -- she did a play in high school. they did a production of actually oddly enough "six degrees of separation" which my father was in. i thought, what an odd thing for a bunch of 14 girls to do. and literally went to go see it fully expecting to kind of do the kind of traditional pat on the head. no, it was really nice. it was good. >> you were really good. >> i was blown away. and it was really painful for me to realize that because of her talent that she was actually going to go into this. because it's not an easy way, regardless of what people might
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think. and the glamour and all of these other things. it's not an easy way to make a living. she's an unbelievably bright young person. with unlimited potential. why on earth would you do this? >> does she go by the name sarah sutherland? >> yes. she plays julia louis dreyfus's daughter. i think she's in the last episode and will potentially go into the second season. but just an unbelievably talented young person. for me as a father, it was a little painful. >> someone said to me, if you have a film and television and acting success, tell your children not to do it. don't do it. under no circumstances. >> absolutely. >> because if they want it bad enough, they'll ignore you anyway. >> they'll do it anyway. and that's pretty much what myself and my mother did and her mother did.
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and she did it anyway. >> your dad -- donald is still working. >> he's probably going to be in "hunger games" -- well, he is in "hunger games." he is going to be most likely the biggest film of the year. >> i can't wait to see that. >> you know, this is one of the -- my father is -- and i can say this, but is certainly in the english language one of the most prolific actors alive. i can't wait to see it. >> nobody would disagree with you about donald sutherland pip fell in love with him years ago. this is the thing i learned about kiefer sutherland, he's a grandfather. you're a grandfather of two. >> i am. i have a 6-year-old grandson hammish and a 1-year-old grandson called quinton. >> what do they call you? >> it's funny given the name, the father is scottish, and so his dialect, when he was say
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granpy sound like grumpy. the little one now gets me and he calls me grumpy, which they all get a laugh at. >> how is grumpy doing these days? you've had a couple of publicized things, how are you doing and how are you feeling? you look good, kiefer. >> i feel great. >> you look good. >> people make mistakes, things happen. >> we all do. it's a long life, you know. but i just -- i feel best when i'm working. and i'm working right now. and i'm working very hard on things that i really enjoy. and that i care about. and things have gone really well. my family is doing well. right now everything seems -- feels perfect. >> feels good to be kiefer sutherland. >> yes, it does. >> i like it. >> continued success. >> thank you very much. >> great to see you. >> we'll be watching. >> good to see you, too. >> "touch" you'll be hooked. he has 50 million books in print worldwide. he has the information you need
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to help your kids go to college. bon jovi from one good new jersey boy to another. er he has often been called master of domestic suspense. harlan coben's last four thrillers debuted at top of new york time's best sellers list. >> harlan coben is with us this morning. great to have you with us. >> how are you? great to be here. >> we are doing great. i love it that you were doing dancing with gayle. >> i can't believe she got me to dance. >> we're delighted you're here. >> talk about success, i mean, you are a huge author. people follow you. as gayle mentioned before, 50 million books in print. this is your 22nd? >> yeah.
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>> but i love -- one of the things i read is you like to make sure you consult out all the parts people would skip. are you worried people skip thing? >> i try to cut out all the parts i would skip. if you start this book at 10:00, i'll read until 10:30, but it's 4:00 in the morning, you're bleary-eyed and you hate me. >> what have you learned from leonard? >> you have to keep the pace going, keep moving. i'm very big, you can stir the pulse but you have to stir the heart. if you don't care about these characters, you're in a lot of trouble. >> then do you demand you write so many pages her day? >> i don't. i'm a little streak writer. takes me about nine months to write a book, let's say, and at the end i'm writing more than at the beginning. last 30 pages of "stay close" i finished in one day. it's not a pretty day. my kids are like, throw daddy a banana and run. it's not pretty. usually i do streak at the end, especially when i can see the ening, nothing will stop me from getting there. >> but you've had four number ones.
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your last four have been number one. are you feeling pressure with this like, please, please, lease, or do you say, look, i did it, i feel good, onward. >> both. real pressure when you're not selling. the pressure is self-inflicted. i want to do better every time. >> how do you know that's what we want to do? >> i just assume. >> you're right. >> you want to do better each time. you look at ratings, sales, but every time i sit down and write a book, i want this one to be the one you cannot put down. someone can put a gun to your head, you can't put "stay close" down. >> people that are best sellers, what quality do they all have? >> that's a good question. i don't know other than when i'm writing, on every page, every paragraph, every sentence, every word, i'm asking, is this compelling? is this gripping? is this moving the story forward? doesn't mean i can't have large themes. i do. i try to deal with my life in suburbia, family, thing that matter to you and me but all of those have to be slave to a great story. >> all stories of yours have a new jersey connection.
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>> pretty much all of them, yes. >> what's so special about jersey? >> we talked about -- >> are there "jersey shore" marathons at your house? >> never, never. jersey is so much things. >> you're absolutely right. >> uts a battleground of the american dream. it's a suburb where people go out, we try to do wblell, we ge married but thing go wrong. where these dreams come true they can wither and die. >> you know what i think is so cool for you, you've had "tell no one," which is -- you're a big deal in france, are you aware of that? >> i'm the jerry lewis. >> you're saying something. >> you were at the french oscars. you don't speak the language but you go -- how many children do you have? >> four. >> range in age? >> oldest is 18, youngest is 10, no jobs, all live at home. >> that's a good thing. >> even the 10-year-old. >> so you're at the french oscars. how are you feeling as you're sitting there where everybody is applauding? i think that's so cool. >> it's easy to be jaded about
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all of that. you see your book turned into a movie and you think, i had this little idea in my home in new jersey and now, you know, it's winning oscars in france. yeah, it's -- >> and made into a film here in america? >> yes, ben affleck will be direct, and we're looking forward to see what ben does. a really smart guy. >> you have such appeal to a wide swath in a number of countries. one thing that stuck out to me, you have one picture sent to you which you call particularly kick-ass. i think we are that here. what's so special about this one? >> you know, you get -- one of the great things of the internet is you get reader e-mail. when soldiers send me e-mails from iraq and afghanistan. these guys sent me pictures -- do we have the picture up? isn't it amazing? coben in baghdad and they look kick-ass, don't they? it moves me. i'm going to get all teary here.
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>> ferklempt. >> yes, thank you very much. that's why i did these things. that's why i write. >> this is going to be made into a movie? ? >> we hope so. "empire strikes back," "big chill," i sent him an advanced copy and literally within 24 hours he said, why don't you and i just adapt it ourselves, you and i produce it. he's going to direct it. we've already started the process. he's a wonderful guy, wonderful to work with. >> isn't that nice. did you say, i'll think about it -- yes. >> i was like, who? i'm so thrilled. >> all of your fans, many fans in studio today. you have not left behind your main characters when -- >> yeah. >> you have not left them behind. >> i have for a while. i never know. i come up with an idea first. if it works for miran to tell the story, if it works for others to tell the story, they will. >> thank you so much. much success and stay close. that's all for us this
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