weather app. we'll see you tomorrow morning starting at 4:25. have a great day. p@9 good morning. it is monday, april 30, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. an international incident poses a major test to u.s. relations with china. what to do with a chinese issident who may be hiding at u.s. embassy? i'm erica hill. does ens hansed interrogation of terrorist suspects save lives or a form of torture? one of the agents who created the program defended it on "60 minutes". aim gayle king. a new study raises the red flag

over children and diabetic. and power, paparazzi on display at correspondents dinner this weekend. we begin with a look at today's "eye opener," your world in 90 seconds. >> osama bin laden no longer walks on this planet. >> and mitt romney said it was a foolish thing to do. >> the bin laden anniversary turns into a campaign controversy. >> president obama using osama bin laden's death in a campaign ad. >> he's managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack. >> last year at this time, we finally delivered justice to one of the world's most notorious individuals. >> believe the u.s. embassy may actually be sheltering chen >> dissident drama. >> managed to evade the guards surrounding his home in the middle of the night. >> i'm not going to address the

issue of mr. chen right now. we're working closely with the individuals involved. >> seven people are dead after a van plummets off an overpass. >> bordering the bronx zoo in new york. >> worst possible thing ever. worst. unimaginable. >> president obama has said that what we did was torture. >> well, president obama is entitled to his opinion. >> later on today, one world trade center is set to become the city's tallest skyscraper. >> all that -- >> puppy love is definitely in the air. a pair of hairless dogs were married in the canine wedding ceremony. >> -- and all that matters -- >> an aurora man is shot at point blank range. grateful to be alive. >> on "cbs this morning." >> i had a lot more material prepared but i have to get the secret service home in time for their new curfew. thank you, everybody. thank you.

the president in good form on saturday night. welcome to "cbs this morning." a top deputy, the secretary of state clinton is in china this morning, trying to quiet a diplomatic uproar. reports say a chinese dissident who's been missing for a week is now under u.s. protection in beijing. >> both sides are working on a deal to allow that dissident to leave china. it's overshadowing an important series of meetings later this week. >> reporter: a diplomatic crisis between beijing and washington centers around this man -- chen guangcheng. he's a blind human rights activist who fled house arrest in china last week. now he's probably hiding inside the u.s. embassy in beijing. neither the u.s. nor china will confirm that. hired thugs regular by beat chen and his wife inside their home, for speaking out against forced abortion in china.

chen released an internet video begging chi near premier wen jiabao to protect his family. although i'm free, my worries are deepened, he pleads. my wife, mother and children are still in the guard's evil hands. video creates a major embarrassment for china and a political nightmare for washington. the obama administration must convince chinese authorities to free the man they consider a criminal. republican presidential candidate mitt romney released a statement pushing u.s. diplomats to stand up to beijing, pressuring them to take every measure to ensure chen and his family's safety. the activist escape couldn't are come at a trickier time. secretary of state hillary clinton and 200 other top u.s. officials were already coming to beijing this week for meetings meant to boost bilateral relation. instead, assistant secretary of state kurt campbell is

reportedly involved in tense negotiaions determining chen's fate. the clock's ticking. sources in touch with the state department tell us there's a push to sort out a deal for chen and his family before the official u.s./china talks kick off on thursday morning. for "cbs this morning," celia hatton, cbs news, beijing. >> norah o'donnell is with us from washington. what options does the white house think it has? >> look, the administration is trying to contain this growing diplomatic crisis. they don't want it to have a negative impact on u.s./chinese relations. there are some options, probably two. one is that chen could stay in china and his safety be guaranteed for himself and his family. the second is that he could go into exile. i think what most experts say, it's unlikely this administration will abandon chen. i mean, this is a man that secretary of state hillary clinton has talked about publicly in the past. they've champ beyond his cause as a human rights activist. this is very tricky, i think, charlie, very tricky and comes

at a delicate time in u.s. sl b u.s./chinese relations before this big meeting. >> is there any talk about how that will come up at all? >> there's no doubt it's going to overshadow these talks unless they can wrap up some sort of deal before they all meet. both sides, the u.s. and the chinese, are saying, no, it's not going to dominant these talks. these are about economic and security issues. but this is certainly a big deal. and the u.s. needs china's help, certainly on issues like iran, north korea and syria because china has that permanent veto-wielding seat on the u.n. security council. that's why this is delicate and a lot of experts points out this may be the most serious of bilateral relations with the chinese since the crackdown on student protests in tiananmen square. so it's a big deal. >> any word from the white house how angry the chinese are about

it? and how they may be putting undue pressure on the united states to do they feel they have to do to save face? >> you know, that's what's interesting about this, charlie. almost nothing from the white house. extraordinarily tight-lipped about this because it is so sensitive. this one case about this one man could really alter u.s./chinese relations, so they don't to want say anything while these high-level talks are going on. certainly, in the midst of a political campaign, where president obama has been criticized by his republican rival for being weak on china. they don't want to say anything and they want to let these talks going on, work itself out so something can be don't about chen perhaps before thursday's meeting with secretary clinton and treasury secretary geithner and chinese officials. security and economic dialogue with china continues. one year ago today, navy s.e.a.l.s set off on their mission to kill osama bin laden. that anniversary is turning into a presidential campaign issue.

republicans say president obama is using bin laden's death for political gain. and they don't like it. bill plante is at the white house with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, erica. that said, the ability to mention something like the killing of bin laden in a campaign is an example of the power of incumbency. it's an issue only a president is in a position to use. when president obama announced the death of osama bin laden nearly a year ago, he called it a moment for national unity. >> today's achievement is a testament to the greatness of our country. and the determination of the american people. >> reporter: one year later, mr. obama's campaign is using the president's decision to order the bin laden mission as a point of contrast with his likely opponent mitt romney. >> osama bin laden no longer walks on this planet today because of that brave decision and the brave actions by the men and women in our military. and quite frankly, mitt romney said it was a foolish thing to do a few years ago. >> reporter: that comes after the friday release of a web

video featuring former president clinton, in which the campaign asks whether romney would have made the same call. >> he took the harder and the more honorable path. and the one that produced, in my opinion, the best result. >> reporter: the bin laden campaign is referencing remarks romney made in 2007, it's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars trying to catch one person. romney says he was more focused on a comprehensive terror strategy. he says the obama campaign is exploiting what should be a nonpartisan victory for the country. >> this is this is one of the reasons president obama has become one of the most divisive presidents in american history. he's managed to turn it into a divisive, political attack. >> reporter: john mccain writes that mr. obama is, quote, doing a shameless end zone dance to help himself get re-elected, unquote.

this isn't the first time that this theme has been used in the obama campaign. vice president biden just last week put it this way, he said, a good bumper sticker for the president's re-election would say, osama bin laden is dead and general motors is alive. the question, of course, is whether this or any other issue will matter more than the economy. charlie, erica? >> bill plante at the white house, thank you. here in new york authorities are trying to find out why an suv drove off a highway, went over a guardrail and landed upside down on the ground in the famous bronx zoo. as terrell brown reports, all seven people in that vehicle were killed. >> reporter: the accident happened shortly after noon sunday. police say an suv carrying seven people, all from the same family, bounced off the median of the bronx river parkway, crossed three lanes of traffic, flew over a guardrail and plummeted 100 feet. the suv landed in a wooded area

of the bronx zoo that is never open to the public. and far from any animal exhibits. authorities say when they found the suv, it was crushed. >> arrived on the scene and they found the vehicle upside down with occupants inside the vehicle. >> reporter: the victims were a man and woman in their 80s. two other women, one of whom was the driver, and three children, all were pronounced dead at the scene. no one on the ground was hurt. >> the injuries were quite horrific in 30 years, i've seen something like this once or twice. everybody was taken back by it. >> reporter: police and firefighters say the suv's speed may have been a factor. they're still trying to determine what caused the driver to lose control. for "cbs this morning," i'm terrell brown in new york. >> investigators will also look at whether the guardrail was too low to keep the suv from going over the edge. as we begin the john edwards trial we may be ready to hear

from his former mistress, rielle hunter. we've heard several days of test from edwards's main accuser, andrew young. >> here with a look back "48 hours" correspondent erin moriarty and jack ford. we talked last week about andrew young because he was the first witness. by all accounts he was pretty good for the defense, but unfortunately he wasn't the defense's witness. >> you have to understand, trials -- there's always an ebb and a flow to a trial. there are good days, bad days, sometimes one one day there are good and bad moments. the prosecution, i'm sure they'll say, look, we knew he came with baggage. we don't get to make up our witnesses. and i'm sure the prosecution will say, he told the essence of this story here, what they needed him to get in. the defense, i'm sure, was fairly pleased, you might even say thrilled, with the damage they were able to do. but it's not the end of the case. up, it's the first witness. certainly if you're a prosecutor, you wanted your

first witness to be powerful and there was some real damage done here. i have a feeling both sides are walking away saying, we did okay. >> having said that, if they showed him to be a liar and scam artist, i thought the double-dipping saying, going to one donor saying, i have all of these expenses, when they had been paid for by another? that's a problem with credibility. and the defense dp something very interesting. they know new witnesses will be coming in that may have more credibility so they already asked andrew young, did you talk to that witness? did you tell them what is going to go on in this trial? they've already raised questions about the credibility of oncoming witnesses. >> so, two things here. one is that what happened to the money? still if some of the money went to rielle hunter, there's a case, no matter the fact so much was diverted --. >> again, it's a novel theory. doesn't mean it can't fly but it is a novel theory. >> but the other interesting thing is that he testified that they said to bunny mellon, this

is for personal reasons, not for the campaign. >> that's the biggest deal. you know, i think the defense, and as erin said, they beat him up in terms of credibility. but i think the thing that perhaps was most helpful for defense is they got him to say that. it was for personal reasons. and the time that he said, five times, john edwards, and he talked and john edwards said, look, i've talked to experts, it's okay, it's not illegal. it may will be sleazy, immoral or amoral, but defense is saying it's not illegal. now, there's a long way to go for them to make that argument and for the prosecution otherwise. >> you raise that question about whether they put on rielle hunter. she's on the witness list for both sides. prosecution put her on. that would remind everyone, yes, john edwards had an affair with her and she took money. but she'll say andrew young was a liar. it was his idea to do paternity.

she could work either way. if the defense puts her on, she may help the defense but also reminding the jury that she is the mistress in this. >> what else is interesting, the jury will have to look at three people they don't really like very much. john edwards, andrew young and perhaps rielle hunter saying, these people, we don't like, so, therefore, what will be the basis of how we decide this case? >> you know, one of the things -- look, jurors, i think, work very hard at doing the right thing following the rules they are given. but there's personality, the calculus inside a courtroom is compelling and fascinating. if the jurors walk away with a yuck factor here, i don't want to touch any of these people, you're wondering, what impact that might have on the decision? >> i think it may come down to whether the defense gets the former federal election commissioner, because then it will come down to the law. that's still up in the air. the judge just said be maybe some part will come in. that is, to me, what we're going

to be looking for in this trial. >> or they face a? >> if the defense wants to bring in two officials to say, this is not what the law -- right now the way it is written -- is designed to protect against. essentially saying, it might be awful but not legal. the judge is saying -- it gets complicated. experts can come in, but they can't say, yes, you have to find him guilty. >> jack and erin, thank you both. the search for a missing crewman has been called off on the west coast several hours after the boat and three bodies were found. the aegean was reported missing from a race from newport, california, to ensenada, mexico. they say the boat was in such small pieces it looked like it went through a blender. they suspect the yacht ran into a much larger ship.

the new york daily news looks at the tallest building. if all goes as planned. one world trade center will surpass the empire state building. >> the washington report reports on the hunt for african war lord joseph kony. he was the subject of that kony unable they've been unable to pick up his trail. the los angeles times, hunting for a rare type of meteorite. each piece can fetch $1,000 a gram. britain's daily mail says surface-to-air missles are put on top of the apartment building as part of olympic security. residents were given leaflets to say the missiles and soldiers will be stationed on their

block. >> titanic tube is being built in china, with state-of-the-art technology, maiden voyage frl england to new york is scheduled 2016. a severe hailstorm in st. louis has people ducking for cover over the weekend. that storm blew through the area a couple hours after another storm had knocked over a giant tent outside busch stadium. one man died. dozen dozens others injured. 70-mile-an-hour wind gusts ripped the tent from

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check this out. keep watching. the bike rider -- oh. >> oh, god. >> yeah. had a mounted camera which caught everything when a car ran him down in berkeley, california. police have actually arrested the alleged driver. welcome back to "cbs this morning." a former cia official is defending the agency's controversial interrogation program. jose rodriguez is here this morning after appearing on last night's "60 minute." we'll ask him what he says about critic who is call that interview disturbing. >> and highs and lows from the white house correspondents dinner. your local news is next. mr. president, you remember -- you remember when the country rallied around you in hopes of a better tomorrow? that was hilarious. but honestly, it's a thrill for me to be here with the president, a man who, i think, has done his best to guide us

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a look at one world trade center, lower manhattan. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> for years the government's message of breaking down terrorist suspects were shrouded in secrecy. jose rodriguez broke his silence in a "60 minutes" interview. he told lesley stahl they have legal clearance for everything they did from waterboarding on down. >> reporter: the authorities came from the justice department in an opinion later dubbed one of the torture memos that detailed what was permissible. >> we went to the border of

legality. we went to the border that was within legal bounds. >> reporter: even after you got the justice department legal office to give you this okay, you kept going back and back with each thing you did, over and over. >> we wanted to make sure that the rest of government was with us. >> reporter: how does the waterboarding you engaged in, how did that work? >> the detainee was strapped to an inclined board with his feet up, so that no water would go -- >> reporter: head was back? >> so his head was back. and a cloth was placed over the mouth and nose. and water was applied -- >> reporter: so he couldn't breathe through his nose? >> when he was saturated, then the air flow would be stopped. >> reporter: and he'd have the sensation of drowning? >> and he would have the sensation. >> reporter: was he naked? >> in many cases nudity was used

extensively. and it worked well. >> reporter: why is nudity effective? >> it is effective because a lot of people feel very vulnerable when they're nude and also because of the culture, nudity is not something that is common. >> jose rodriguez goes into more detail in his new book. it is called "hard measures: how aggressive cia actions after 9/11 saved american lives" here in studio 57 and senior correspondent, john miller, former deputy director of national intelligence. you're getting some criticism now after the "60 minutes" interview and i assume more after the book comes out, from dianne feinstein and carl levin. let me read one thing they say. we're disappointed mr. rodriguez and others who left government positions prior to the ubl operation and are not privy to all of the intelligence th, saye

torture were a central part of the success are misguided and misinformed. >> first of all, thank you for invite manage glee pleasure to have you here. >> as you know, the senate investigation has been going on for 2 1/2 years. it is a very partisan investigation. the republicans left a year ago, or maybe longer than that. i have no doubt of what i say in the book, that the basis for the eventual takedown of bin laden, the original information regarding the courier, came from high value detainees that were captured in 2004 and 2005. it took ten total years to get bin laden. but that was the key information that was obtained that allowed our men to pursue the courier.

it took another two or three years after that to get -- >> to connect with the courier that led them to osama bin laden. i want to bring in john miller. also what's coming out of this is the sense that the fbi interrogated some of these and thought they had information. and then when the cia took it over, used these enhanced techniques and the fbi, claims we already knew that. >> well, i don't know why he says that. i know the story very well because i was very close to it. and i actually traveled to the black site, first black site, and talked to ali sufin. the bottom line is we were under tremendous threat in the spring of 2002. and the fbi was dead in the water. provided some initial information and then he clamped

down and was not talking anymore. he was actually told ali sufa to go home and have babies. those were the exact words. so, we needed a new approach, a new technique. something outside the box. and that's how we came up with the enhanced interrogation techniques. >> john? >> my question is, there's a large moral argument here, is that us, we the united states, do we torture people? but i think if you push the moral argument aside because we could be here for two-hour broadcast for that, the practical piece f had you all life to live over again, did it actually work? >> you know what, you know what i'm amazed at, that this is still being debated because there's so much information out there regarding all the successes of the program. people that were taken down, the threats that were stopped, the information that was disseminated. there are thousands of intelligence reports we're -- >> i guess the way i ask it a

different way is, you take the embassy bombing cases, they have mohammed al allawi, they questioned him for four days, tricked him into believing they knew things they didn't, the standard techniques but in the enhe gave up the whole plot, the players, the locations. so you can do this without those techniqu techniqu techniques. the question is one necessary? does the other not work? >> let me remind you that in the summer of 2001, the fbi had concluded the uss co schlt s"us investigation. yes, they were successfully prosecuting those individuals that were responsible for attacks in the past, what we were trying to do is get information of what was going to happen in the future. and law enforcement techniques are very good, excellent at

prosecuting people for crimes committed in the past. but when it comes to getting information as to what's happening in the future, we weren't getting that. >> two things we should talk about. number one is the tapes that were recorded. you said that everything you did was legal. >> yes. >> yet you felt necessary to destroy the tapes, which would have shown your legality. >> correct. >> why? >> the issue with the tapes was that a few months after we started taping, we recognized that they had some security issue for us because the faces of our interrogators and others who were at the black sites were shown. and the field petitioned us to destroy the tape, because also this is a very sensitive black site and they had tapes coming out of their ears. they asked us to please, if they could stop it. because the original reason we started this was because abu

zabada was severely wounded and we wanted to make sure people knew we were doing everything we could to keep him alive. >> that was the reason to destroy the tapes. i mean, you put the cover of your face on the cover of your book, and pictures of your family and children in the middle. if the idea is al qaeda seized people, they'll go after families, are you -- >> and you're on television saying, i did it, i'm proud i did it. >> there's also this question that comes up with respect to this, do you believe that the united states, unless it uses these techniques, is at risk and our security is threatened unless we do what you did? >> what we did and when we did it was a certain period of time. my concern and what i say in the book is that we're basically giving up this techniques unilaterally. we're unilaterally disarming. we may -- >> so you think we're at risk

because we're not watered bothering and doing other enhanced interrogation that senator mccain and others criticized? >> i think we're giving up capabilities we may need in the future. we're tying the hands of those persons in our government in the future who will have to respond to major crisis like we did on 9/11. >> thank you. thank you, john.

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news this morning on the growing problem of childhood obesity and diabetes is being described as alarming. a new medical study says type 2 diabetes is especially dangerous for children because it's harder to treat and to control it. >> with us now, dr. mark hyman, a diabetes specialist, the author of a book called "the blood sugar solution." good morning. >> good morning. >> what's the takeaway from this stu study? >> that we're needing a national wake-up call. type 2 diabetes is rampant in children now. 2 million kids who on morbidly obese. most undiagnosed with prediabetes or diabetes and most show drugs don't work. we have to put kids on insulin,

which is a disaster. we need a different solution. this is a social problem. we need a social secure. we're not going to solve this in the doctor's office. we have to solve this in the community we live. we have to change access to sodas and school access to good foods -- >> but add insulin? >> no, insulin actually creates -- >> no, no, i'm sorry. >> starting insulin earlier causes rapid increase in weight, cholesterol, blood pressure. >> the way you plan it out, it sounds fairly easy. cut down on the soda, eat better, exercise more but we know all of those things and it's not working. >> no, because the average kid has 34 teaspoons of sugar a day, 54 gallons of soda. it's addictive. they have hijack al qaeda our taste buds, homes, schools, and we need to take them back. we need to have soda taxes, change food marketing practices to kids because this is not a problem solved in the doctor's office. >> those are hot poppics.

>> they are. >> like a soda tax and others. is this something you believe is curable, specifically this rise that we've seen, can that be tampered in children? >> 15 years ago, this didn't exist. now one out of every new case -- one out of every new cases of diabetes in children is type 2 or adult onset diabetes. we didn't have this 15 years ago. absolutely, it's 100% preventable, treatable and reversible with the right application of both diet and social change and community change. >> one of the things that was in the study is that the treatment of drugs that was being used, basically stopped working in kids. >> yes. >> give us a better idea. do we understand why? >> yes. you can't medicate your way out of a bad diet. have you to change the environment that the kids live in. you have to change access to these foods. you have to change the way they're eating and living and you can't do that in simply a doctor's office. it has to be based on changing what's going on in communities and schools and families and places where people live and work and play and go to school. that's where the change has to happen. it's not going to happen in a

doctor's office. >> you know what's confusing to me is there used to be two kinds of diabetes. one was juvenile diabetes, type 1. type 2 was adult onset. type 1 was much worse than type 2 because you got it very early. when did we find these indistinguishable. >> in the last two decades we had to change the name because kids are getting adult onset diabetes. we're seeing cirrhosis in 5-year-olds, strokes in 8-year-olds, kids with heart attacks at 20 years old. we have a national crisis and we need to think about solving this in a different way. >> nice to have you here. one night a year the president becomes the comedian-in-chief. >> it's great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent hilton ball room, or what mitt romney would call a little fixer-upper. >> to the end of the night did the president kill it or bomb at the white house correspondents' dinner? we'll have reviews. you're watching "cbs this morning."

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despite many obstacles, much has changed during my time in office. four years ago i was locked in a brutal primary battle with hillary clinton. four years later, she won't stop drunk texting me from cartagena. >> i bet hillary clinton cracked up, don't you think? >> she loved it, she would, although she's on her way to china, and she won't be laughing. 8:00, welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. most of the time any comedy in the nation's capital happens by accident, but over the weekend, the washington elite and high powered friends from hollywood had a few laughs together at

this year's white house correspondents dinner. >> as nancy cordes reports, it is the biggest social event of the year for political journalists. take a look at the guest list. >> reporter: this is what it looks like when hollywood glitz mixes with washington politics. george clooney, kim kardashian and reese witherspoon were just a few of the celebrities who walked the red carpet at the white house correspondents dinner. >> anyway, it's great to be here this evening in the vast, magnificent hilton ball room, or what mitt romney would call a little fixer-upper. >> reporter: president obama came armed with barbs about the narrowing republican presidential field. >> newt, there's still time, man! >> reporter: and about himself. >> four years ago i looked like this. today i look like this. and four years from now i will look like this.

that's not even funny. >> reporter: the recent secret service prostitution scandal in cartagena gave him good fodder. >> i had a lot more material prepared, but have i to get the secret service home in time for their new curfew. >> reporter: late night tv host and comedian jimmy kimmel picked up on that theme. >> mr. president, i know you won't be able to laugh at any of my jokes about the secret service, so cover your ears if that's physically possible. i do have a lot of jokes about the secret service. you know, i told them for $800 i wouldn't tell them but they only offered $30, so -- >> reporter: it's the one night in washington where everyone, right and left, is in on the joke. for "cbs this morning," nancy cordes, washington. >> secret service jokes too

soon? huh-uh. one of the president's targets at the dinner was arianna huffington, founder and editor-in-chief of "the huffington post." >> i'd be remiss if i didn't congratulate "the huffington post" on their pulitzer prize. you deserved it, arianna. there's no one else out there blinking into the hard hitting journalism that huffpo is linking to every single day. >> good news, arianna huffingtonle is still laughing. it started out on a good note. congratulations. and then it takes a turn. were you still cracking up? i think when they say your name, where is it going? what did you think? >> oh, no. it was really great fun to have the president of the united states congratulate you on a pulitzer with any amount of joking. i thought he was fantastic. >> i did, too. >> i think what made it so much fun is he was clearly having fun. jimmy kimmel was great, but he was rashing a little bit, as i had a plane to catch.

there's no question -- >> that's not good for a comedian, is it? >> did you think he was rushing? i think he started getting concerned about time but i thought he was fantastic. >> he was. his jokes were great. >> right atarget. >> in the know. including the secret service jokes saying i had offered them $800 to keep them out of the speech but they only gave me $30. you know, all fun, in the know. could have been a little more relaxed and enjoying himself the way the president did. >> when it's your first time up there, you're not as experienced, maybe it's a little more difficult. there can be a lot of criticism, especially the morning after, i read some pieces sunday on my way home, why do they do this, spend so much money? but there is a point to all of this. and you see it as a very good night for a lot of people. >> well, it definitely raises money for scholarships, is the real point, but also it's great to see unlikely people who normally don't communicate with each other actually get to know each other.

eric holder, senator paul, daniel day lewis. you had hollywood and a very, very conservative senator, and their wives were talking to each other. it makes it harder to demonize your opponent. >> when you get to know each other. it's interesting the pairings. there was a lot made about kim kardashian and lindsay lohan. i saw grown men falling over like little puppies about kim kardashian. she was clearly a hit at the dinner. >> actually, i saw some young women feeling the same way about george. >> that is absolutely true. i was one of those. >> there is definitely a long line to be photographed with george clooney. and sitting closely to leon panetta. >> we were talking about south sudan, that's what they were talking about. can i turn this serious for a moment. there's much now about this commercial that president clinton has done for the obama

campaign and the romney reaction saying they should not be using this the way they are. what's your take? >> i agree completely. >> you agree with -- >> i agree with the romney campaign. using the osama bin laden assassination, killing, the great news we had a year ago, in order to say basically that obama did it and romney may not have done it, which is really the -- which is the message -- >> do you think the president is capitalizing on that? >> i don't think there should be an ad about that. i think it's one thing to celebrate the fact that they did such a great job. it's one thing to have an nbc special from the situation room, which we'll have this week -- >> doing a whole thing which interviews everybody on the anniversary. >> in the situation room, which is unprecedented. all of that is perfectly legitimate. but a campaign ad is one of the most despicable things you can

do. it's the same thing with the 3 a.m. call. you're not ready to be commander in chief. what makes politician and political leaders act irrationally when it comes to matters of war because they're so afraid to be called wimps but to make calls for the country. i'm sure the president would not have escalated in afghanistan if he was not as concerned as democrats are that republicans are going to use not escalating in a campaign. >> aren't you supposed to taut your accomplishments in a campaign? >> that's not just what the ad does. the ad questions -- if we're talking about the same ad. >> we are. when president clinton -- >> there's only one. >> even quoting former put bush. >> the snippet from romney and uses that to imply that romney would not has been as decisive. there's no way to know whether romney would are been as decisive. to actually speculate that he

wouldn't be is, to me, not the way to run a campaign, on either side. >> where do you think the campaign is, looking at it in a snapshot, even or obama ahead -- >> i think obama is ahead? >> way ahead. >> not way ahead but ahead. >> all the decisive states -- >> i would say if the election were held today, he would win. i think his main vulnerability is going to be the jobs number in october. >> if they're at 8% -- >> if the economy goes down again and the job numbers dip, that's a big problem. that could be the october surprise. but everyone is predicting -- >> we have to go. they said it three times in my

you remember we had take our daughters and our sons to work day last week. guess what, how about adding your dog to the list? we're doing that -- >> whose dog is that? >> charlie's son barkley. we'll tell you why he's here today. >> why i got him up so early is what he wants to know. >> see how parents when they drool over their kids? charlie rose and barkley. you're watching "cbs this morning." [ bell tolls ]

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in today's "healthwatch," canine colleagues. a new study finds bringing our dogs to work can make us feel better all day long. >> i think that's true. so, when chip reid heard that,

he decided, i got to give this a try. chip, hello. >> hello. i'll tell you, gayle and charlie, this is no fly by night study. published in international journal of workplace health management. the first quantitative study to look at the effect of bringing your dog to work on stress and productivity. have morning and every part of the country, they're out there, people walking their dogs and taking them to the park before they go to work. >> for a dog owner and a dog it's one of the most unpleasant moments of the day. buster, i've got to go to work. that sad-eyed look is what i get every morning. but today i've got a surprise. buster, you want to get in the car? let's go. yeah. let's go. good boy. this is work. buster loves his visit to the cbs news washington bureau. the view from a doggy cam showed

how excited he was to meet everyone, even my boss. but taking dogs to the office can also benefit workers. according to a new study by virginia commonwealth university. >> the individuals who brought their dogs to work, their stress was lower at the beginning of the day, stayed that way the entire day. >> reporter: but for dog owners who did not bring their dogs to work, stress increased steadily and nearly doubled by the end of the work day. white house advisers say president obama's dog reduces stress in the west wing. sxh on capitol hill congressman ken calvert says despite all the partisaship, tally is the great unifier. >> she's happy every day, loves everybody. loves the people who come in. we think having a dog in your office makes everybody happier and they do their job better. she keeps a good eye on things. >> reporter: professor barker and humane society say there's strong anecdotal evidence dogs are becoming increasingly

prevalent in smaller offices like washington, d.c. dr. bruce rashbaum. >> when you turn around and see a smiley dog, it makes it a little less heavy. takes the edge off. >> reporter: and not know is a dog lover so having your best friend at the office can cause some issues. >> people did find dogs were disruptive. they were noisy. people did find sometimes the dogs. not as clear as they perhaps would like them. >> reporter: if you're thinking how nice it would be to take your dog to work, professor barker's study might give you ammunition with the boss. >> 50% of those people that brought their dogs to work felt that their dogs increased their productivity. >> reporter: and, charlie and gayle and erica, this is only a preliminary study. however, buster tells me he's confident the results will be about the same when it is a final report. >> buster is really cute, chip. >> great dog, chip.

>> we have another good looking dog here, right, charlie? >> indeed. this is barkley. say hello to the camera. where are you going? >> going to see patty because she's a dog lover. >> what's the best thing about barkley? really, your whole demeanor, your whole face lights up talking about him. >> his curiosity. he walks around like this all the time, you know, and then if he gets ahead of me he looks back to see whether i'm following him. >> how old is he? >> he's 3. come here. barkley, say hello to sam. >> making the rounds. >> barkley was a huge hit from the time he got here this morning. everybody was coming into charlie's office. not to say hi to charlie but to >> i was very careful, i want to make sure we walked half the way here so nothing would happen once goat here. >> hi, barkley. where are you going, buddy? >> charlie -- >> say hello to erica. >> you do that, too. >> say hello to paul. >> there's nothing like a dog.

>> that's your moment of glory, barkley. >> charlie's -- charlie, barkley's making his debut. thank you, chip. thank you chip and buster. >> here you go. up here. a california man is suing bmw. you'll never guess why. you'll have to hear it to believe it. it's a "long story short." barkley thanks you for joining us today. >> announcer: "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by pro namel. now in new iso active. softens the enamel so it can potentially erode. once that enamel is gone, it's gone. my dentist recommended pronamel. pronamel protects your teeth from the effects of acid erosion. i don't have to cut out the things that i love in my diet. people will have doubts about taking aspirin for pain. that's why we developed bayer advanced aspirin with micro particles. now we're challenging you to put it to the test.

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screens. congratulations to steve harvey. neil sedaka has made his mark in pop music. he's with us in studio 57, talking his latest venture, a kids book.

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ladies and gentlemen, herbie hancock. ♪ >> how's that for a nice way to wake up? a sunrise concert in new orleans, the birthplace of jazz, musicians joining in from all over the world and they're playing the same songs all around the world. i love this.

herbie hancock's watermelon man as part of the worldwide celebration of international jazz day. and the man behind it, herbie hancock, will be with us in a couple of minutes. welcome back to "cbs this morning." charlie, he wrote this when he was much, much younger. he said he chose this song today because he wanted to pick something that everybody knew. don't we all know that song? >> indeed. i love herbie hancock. >> me, too. there is "new york times" columnist paul krugman, holding nothing back in his latest book called "in the depression now," dedication reads to the unemployed who deserve better. paul krugman, winner of 2005 prize for economics. welcome. >> thank you. >> there's lots to talk about here. first of all, speak to the dedication. i mean, you think that american policymakers have failed the unemployed and have failed the economy. >> we have. this is -- there's enormous human damage being done to this economy and it's all unnecessary.

we have the knowledge, we have the tools. if we could get our politicians to move and do the right thing, we could be out of this very fast. >> the right thing is? >> the right thing is to spend more. right now, you know, we have a long-term budget problem but now is not the time to be slashing. now is not the time to be laying off school teachers. now is not the time to be doing public works, rehiring those school teachers, to get this economy moving again. >> the alternative of austerity saying we have to attack the debt first. debt and deficit. you're now arguing if you look at what's happened in europe, they've tried that and it's failed and made things worse. >> you look at european countries that have done the austerity dance, 25% and they're not making much progress on the deficit because the economy shrinks, revenue shrinks, long-term growth prospects fall off. so, austerity is when the economy recovered but not now. >> you also say that we've been here before. in your book you talk about what happened back in the 1930s.

we've been here before. why aren't we taking the lessons from that? >> there's a lot of things. there's ideology, interest groups, people who are afraid if you say the government could do anything good ever, it could take over the world. but that's -- we need to say, look, if all the arguments people make about why we can't have a recovery now are the same arguments people were making in the '30s and then we started spending to get ready for world war ii and the depression was over. we could do it on a moment's notice. >> here's the other point you make, ben bernanke is the man who understood the depression, understood what happened to japan and he's now in charge of the fed and he's a fellow former princeton and you're now saying what, he's wrong, wrong, wrong? >> i can quote ben bernanke as a professor about what the japanese should have been doing when they did a dress rehearsal for a crisis and it applies perfectly to ben bernanke right now. there's mixed message.

he's under political pressure from the right -- >> i thought the fed was immune from political pressure. >> yeah, right. he's been assimilated by the board, the board. the fed has institutional culture that makes it reluctant to be adventurous but he needs to remember -- >> what would you want the fed to do now? >> first of all, more of the stuff that's done, but not enough of, quaut tattive easing. they need to say, we're not concerned about inflation. 3%, 4% is not a problem. we're willing and would like to see a little inflation to get this economy moving, change the expectations, help us along and getting out of this slump. >> you say that it could take seven years if we keep going the way we're going. >> that's right. >> if we follow your advice, it would take -- >> 18 months to two years. >> why aren't people listening to you? i love that president obama in "rolling stone," did you see he said you were one of the smartest economic reporters? >> yeah.

one of? no. but look, there's a lot of -- >> great line, paul. >> no, obama is a smart guy. and i think -- i actually know a lot of people around him actually share my views. not perhaps 100%. but they say it's political opposition. also they say it's a lack of boldness, a lack of audacity you might say. what we need here is audacity. >> who's failing? if a lot of people around the president share your views, then who doesn't share your views around the president who has more influence than you or the people around him who agree with you? >> well, i think his political team let him down. they kept on talking about what -- >> you think the political team is deciding economic policy for the president? >> of course. they're putting limits on what can be done. last fall the political team apparently was very dubious. he announced a policy that wasn't as bold as what i want, bolder than people expected. political team is very dubious. people get nervous because too much money. turned out it was a political winner. so, i think political people has been wrong on this.

>> do you believe romney has a better idea? >> no. what romney is saying, let's do exactly what we did under the bush administration. and this time hope for different results. he's saying, let's do exactly what they're doing in ireland which has led to 15% unemployment and 30% youth unemployment and that will lead to great results here. now, romney is -- i mean, he's going to make herbert hoover look good by comparison. >> are you optimistic? i'm curious if you're optimistic, and number two, in your book he says, charlie, that if you have a choice between despair and hope you always choose hope because nothing lasts forever except for red wine -- >> red wine on a white couch. >> i'm curious about how you know that, number one. i'm curious, how do you know that, paul? >> there have been incidents. >> okay. are you optimistic as we sit here today? >> i think i'm -- lets put it this way. things are never over. we fumbled this. >> too late? >> never too late. i've been a columnist for a long

time and no story is ever over. the things you think are politically impossible turn out to be politically inevitable a year from now. >> what might be a year from now? >> we actually do something about unemployment. we take a look and say, hey, this is not tolerable. >> do you think anything is going to change about stimulating the economy in the next two years? >> right now, with the actual -- >> they couldn't even do that when the president came in in terms of stimulating to the level that you wanted to, when the president had majority of votes -- >> well, the thing s a lot of water's under the bridge. we have a lot of lessons out there. you look at what's happening in europe and you say, we just learned austerity is not the answer. in a lot of ways technically it's easier. the big problem is not to have a new stimulus but to reverse those cuts at the state level. >> quickly, does what happens in europe and is continuing to happen, especially looking at spain, threaten the united states economy? >> some. not as much as people think, because we mostly sell to

ourselves. even now, we don't sell that much to europe. it's certainl not good. i would like to see prosperity in europe for a lot of reasons, including the benefits lost. >> i have a feeling, paul krugman, they might take your wall if you called up the white house and said, hey, guys, i've got an idea. >> i talk to them sometimes. >> of course you do. >> to the in the. >> sometimes. >> all right. >> and to ben bernanke? >> not for a long time. >> i was wondering. maybe not ever again. >> really? >> he's probably not too happy. >> i'm thinking he's a little annoyed with you right now. >> just a guess. >> chamber of the fed needs an interventi intervention? >> on policy, yes. >> paul krugman, yes. "in this depression now" is for sale. [ glass clinks ] [ mom ] it's mother's day.

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♪ every day every day of the year ♪ >> neil sedaka has sold more than 60 million records written more than 500 songs. >> we grew up with hits like "laughter in the rain," "breaking up is hard to do" and "calendar girl" and neil sedaka is here with us. you look at that old video of yourself and you think, wow. what are you thinking when you look at that? >> well, i was very fortunate being part of the history of rock 'n' roll. >> yeah, are you. >> it's wonderful to look back. it's been 55 years. >> yep. >> this is my second children's book. i'm very proud of it. >> let's focus on your music first because i think your career is so extraordinary. i listened to you for so many years. i was reading you were a very good reader but you really did like music. your dad was a taxi driver who worked to put you into juliard.

>> my mother took a job as a sales lady in a department store, got a second-hand piano. got a scholarship at juliard, wanted to be a classic pianist but i realized i could write songs. >> you wrote major hits. at what point did you say, i can sing, too? i got a voice, erica, i can sing, too? >> connie francis had done "where the boys are" and lots of wonderful artist and i said, i have an unusual voice. i can sing, too. and i went around the world as a musical ambassador traveling and singing in six languages. >> show off. >> you were training classically. that, you know, got put aside for a long time. but in october you're actually going to be in london with london philharmonic. >> at 17 i wrote my first

symphony so i've got full circle back to my roots and i'm going to be performing them. >> pretty impressive. you're also celebrating your 50th wedding anniversary. any of these songs you wrote, were they ever written for leva. >> she has many songs. of course. she would throw me out if i didn't. >> which is her favorite? >> oh, i think she likes -- she's become more of a music critic, a lyric critic now. you know, you can't really choose a favorite. >> you can't choose a favorite, neil sedaka song? >> well, they're like my children. >> i could choose one. >> yes? >> "laughter in the rain." ♪ oh i hear laughter in the rain walking hand in hand with the one i love ♪ >> very nice, right? ♪ oh, how i love >> okay, go ahead. >> elton john rediscovered me in the '70s. i started in the '50s, i was out of wok for 13 years.

>> wait, wait. what were you sdmoog. >> i was writing for tom jones and shirley basse and many people. and then i moved the family to england. and he said, i heard you have some new songs. >> but, neil, let's -- let's think about being out of work for 13 years. paul krugman is here. we talked about when people are unemployed for a long time, what it does to you and how it makes you feel. did you go through a bad times? when you're writing songs you're still working. >> the creative mind is still working and it's a drive. have you to prove yourself each time. you have to raise the level of neil sedaka. >> help yourself. >> exactly. which could lead us to -- >> it could lead to us "dinosaur pet." you came and performed for us here at cbs when you came up with your children's album. you wrote this book. your son wrote the book. >> this is a family affair. my son mark wrote the book. my granddaughters charlotte and

amanda sing the background vocals and we changed the words "calendar girl" to -- ♪ i love i love i love my dinosaur pet ♪ kits can listen to the cd, look at the illustration and they look at the words and it's a wonderful way of learning. >> now, what do your grandchildren call you? >> papa neil. they love the papa neil rock 'n' roll songs so i thought it would be fun to make them child-friendly. >> i'm thinking papa neil still enjoys entertaining the grandchildren and everybody else. rumor is, you could be up for being admitted to the rock and roll hall of fame. what would that mean to you? >> it would be a wonderful thrill. i would like to see that in my lifetime. we're going to do the 92nd street y, i'll be signing, and friday the barnes & noble. . singing and all that jazz. >> you're doing something right. now he's back with "dinosaur

pet." congratulations. hello to the lovely mrs. sedaka. >> thank you. >> thank you. this morning from one music genre to another, the music world is celebrating a new holiday icon, herbie hancock. this was his idea to make sure that international jazz day gets a lot of attention. he started us out on the very right note, we think, and tomorrow we'll be live on broadway for this year's tony nominations. erica is going to give us the scoop. you're watching "cbs this morning."

celebrating the first international jazz day. it was othersed by herbie hancock. he's had a huge influence on jazz and for the last 50 years, won an oscar and 14 grammys.

he's a goodwill ambassador for unesco which stands for united nations educational science and cultural organization. >> very good. >> thank you. herbie hancock is here from, where else, new orleans. hello, herbie hancock. >> hi, gayle, how are you? >> we're all good here. i know you wanted to bring the world together through music because you say -- think it's such a great unifier, it is. you say jazz is a form of conversation. what do you mean by that? >> because the musicians are conversing with each other. and they are helping each other, supporting each other. so, it really is a dialogue with the musicians but also at the same time it's a dialogue with the audience. >> yeah. it's the kind of give and respond. >> exactly. of course, you do things at the same time. but all in a supportive fashion. nonjudgmental.

>> so you started jazz at a very early age. i heard you say once, it was a good way to meet girls. are you still meeting girls? >> yeah. at this age, and since i've been married for close to nearly 50 years, that's not my major concern. just people in general. >> gayle mentioned unesco. >> i don't want to get in trouble with my wife. >> i don't want to you get in trouble either. your wife's lovely. >> so, we'll help you out. you use music as an international message. when you travel around the world, music is a unifier, brings people together, they're on the same page, as we say. >> absolutely. and jazz has been doing that since the early beginnings right here in congo square in new

orleans. >> and you've really -- >> and it will continue into the future. >> and you're doing your part to introduce people to jazz around the world. >> i think it's about time, you know, that final alley, formally, jazz is being recognized and and being established with the international jazz day. it's really where jazz has belonged for a long time. finally this dream has come true. with exactly the right partner, unesco. place for you because -- how old were you when you wrote that song and how did it come about, briefly? >> i was 22 years old when i wrote watermelon man. and i wrote it in about 15 minutes. i wanted to capture the sound of the watermelon man in chicago going dish in the wagon going over the cobblestonallies in

chicago with the rhythm and sound of women yelling, hey, watermelon man. that sparked the melody. >> herbie, keep playing, man. keep playing. you're the best. >> thank you so much. thank you. >> that does it for us. >> thank you for having us here. >> yes. thank you. >> for you and for the music. that does it for us. your local news next. we'll see you tomorrow right here on "cbs this morning."