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good morning. it is monday, june 11, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. i'm charlie rose. more trouble for the white house this morning. president obama's commerce secretary is under investigation for a felony hit and run accident in california. we'll ask top adviser david axelrod about that and also the controversial comments about the health of the private sector. >> i'm erica hill. dangerous wildfires burn out of control in the west. the florida panhandle faces serious flooding after a foot of rain. i'm gayle king. when i see you at 8:00, we'll ask a high school teacher why he told graduates, you're not special. bob woodward and carl bernstein look back at watergate 40 years
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later. first as we do every morning, we begin with your world in 90 seconds. >> breaking news sure to send shockwaves from california to washington, d.c. >> commerce secretary john bryson investigated for a felony hit and run. >> l.a. county sheriff's office says bryson rear ended a car stopped and allegedly caused another collision five minutes later. >> bryson is now in the hospital. he was found alone and in his car after one of the crashes. it's unheard of. i don't know any time we've been in this situation. >> western wildfires force hundreds to flee. >> colorado. >> authorities issued more than 1800 evacuation notices. >> the fire was coming down the mountain behind my house. >> could you see it? >> no i could feel it. >> torrential rains are causing extensive flooding in florida. >> as much as 22 inches was within a 24-hour period. >> i never thought we'd be
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underwater. >> jerry sandusky will return to court in the morning. >> the penn state coach was accused -- >> statewide manhunt is under way for a gunman who opened fire at a party. >> two former auburn university football players are among the dead. >> evel knievel wannabe did a risky jump and he missed his mark big time. >> all that. >> oh, my goodness. that's a catch right there. >> alongside my broadcast partner, of course, in the role of a storm trooper, mark grace. >> welcome to the 66th tony awards or as we like to call it, 50 shades of gay. >> all that matters. >> lady gaga sustained a concussion on stage in new zealand. >> after a dancer accidentally hits her on the head with a pole. >> now that scott walker survived his recall, he has to tell us once and for all, was he survived his recall, he has to tell us once and for all, was he that kid in deliverance? captioning funded by cbs
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welcome to "cbs this morning." one of the president's point people for creating jobs is facing serious accusations this morning. police in suburban los angeles say secretary of commerce, john bryson, ran into at least two other cars on saturday evening causing minor injuries. he faces possible felony hit and run charges. >> details are still emerging this morning. bill whitaker is in los angeles. bill, what do we know so far? >> good morning. the 68-year-old bryson was in town to give a commencement address. he was just sworn in last october. on saturday at 5:00 p.m., bryson was driving a lexus in the 400 block of south san gabriel boulevard in the city of san gabriel. he rear ended a buick that was stopped waiting for a train to pass. after speaking to the men in the car, he allegedly hit the same
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car again as he drove off. the men followed him. authorities say bryson drove to the neighboring city of rose immediate. they say he then struck another car. he was then found alone and unconscious behind the wheel. he was treated at the scene and then taken to a local hospital. two of the three men in the first car complained of pain and were treated at the scene. one of two people in the second car also complained of pain, but they were not -- they declined to be treated. bryson is reportedly -- was cited for a felony hit and run for the first collision. but he was not booked into jail because he was admitted into the hospital. we now understand that he has been released from the hospital, but his condition is unknown. >> bill, do they suspect either drugs or health condition or alcohol? >> right now, authorities say there is no indication that either drugs or alcohol played any part in this.
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>> good afternoon everybody. >> bill, thank you very much. we go now to bill plante at the white house to get the reaction from there. bill, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. the administration response is coming from the commerce department which indicates that they don't really know much around here. here's what they're saying at commerce. they're saying secretary bryson was involved in a traffic accident over the weekend in los angeles. he was taken to the hospital for examination and he has been released. he has sustained no injuries. the investigation is ongoing. there is no comment on the criminal investigation. now, wasn't a great weekend politically speaking for the president. republicans continued to blast his remarks on friday about the relative health of the private sector. >> indiana governor mitch daniels on sunday joined the chorus of republicans denouncing the president's statement that the private sector is "doing just fine." >> it's sadly symptomatic of incredible blind spot he has. he does not understand where wealth and jobs come from. >> mr. obama hesitant to blame
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congress for not moving on his jobs bill, particularly the one giving states money to hire public employees like teachers and first responders. he contrasted the loss of those jobs to job growth in the private sector. >> we've created 4.3 million jobs over the last 27 months. over 800,000 just this year alone. the private sector is doing fine. >> that last sentence, taken alone -- >> the private sector is doing fine. >> -- brought a hail of derision and forced the president to correct the record later in the day. >> listen, it is absolutely clear that the economy is not doing fine. >> even though the bureau of labor statistics says the private sector has grown by 2 million jobs in the past year, while state and local governments have cut 161,000 jobs during the same period, the damage was done. and the romney campaign quickly put out an ad criticizing the president's comments.
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>> the private sector is doing fine. the private sector is doing fine. the private sector is doing fine. >> the white house has also been on the defense about leaks of classified information in two recent books. secrets of u.s. cyber warfare against iran and the targeting of drone strikes. the administration appointed two u.s. attorneys outside washington to investigate as republicans charged that the leaks came from inside sources trying to boost the president's reelection chances. >> this is the most highly classified information and has now been leaked by the administration at the highest level, the white house. that's not acceptable. >> well, what goes around comes around. it was mccain who is now on the offense on security issues who had a similar gaffe of his own in the 2008 race for the white house. his was on the economy when senator obama was campaigning, relentlessly highlighted mccain saying the fundamentals of the economy are strong. so it goes.
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charlie, erica? >> so it goes. thank you, bill. david axelrod, senior adviser to the obama campaign is with us in studio 57. we're pleased to have him here. welcome. >> thank u good to be here. >> tell us one more time on the private sector. >> oh, that again? >> what did the president mean to say? >> what the president meant to say is that since -- in the last 27 months, we've created 4.3 million private sector jobs. not enough, but far different than the 800,000 a month we were losing. >> why didn't he say we created but it's not enough rather than saying that. >> he called a press conference to suggest urgent actions that we should take to undergird the economy against the clouds rolling in from europe. he says repeatedly we need to do more to accelerate job creation. in the minds of most americans, there's mo confusion about this. this is the kind of thing that we do in campaigns. your community and my community. we get all excited about it. the question is what it means. is there transcendent meaning to
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it in november? will people make judgments on this? no. they'll judge what the president has done. the one meaningful thing that came out of the weekend, i thought or out of that exchange is the president suggested steps, job cuts for small businesses for hiring, helping people refinance their homes, getting red tape out of the way to take advantage of low interest rates even if the homes are underwater and rehiring, helping state and local governments hire teachers, firefighters and police. governor romney reaction was we don't need teachers. we've lost thousands of teachers in the last 27 months as we were gaining these private sector jobs. i don't know anybody and up talk to people all the time about the economy and the future. does anybody really believe that we don't need more teachers, that we can keep whacking teachers and we're going to advance as a country? that's a serious debate worth having. >> should the debate here and now be about what the president wants do in a second term versus
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what president romney would do in his first term? >> i think -- >> the two candidates. >> ultimately what elections are about. they're about the future. there's a very clear distinction. the president believes we need to bring down these deficits while we invest in things that make the economy grow, research and development and innovation, energy. the kinds of things that will help the middle class grow, create good jobs, prepare people. governor romney wants to do what we did before. large budget busting tax cuts for the wealthy, deregulating wall street. cutting them loose. charlie. we've seen this movie before. we know how it ends. that's an echo of a failed past. >> let me turn to one other issue. the investigation. the president seems to be upset about the spy leaks. where did they come from and who should be doing the investigating? >> well, i don't know where they came from, charlie. >> the white house -- >> absolutely not.
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we did -- let me just say, i sat with the president for two years. i watched him make these excruciating decisions, life and death decisions, committing americans to dangerous missions to protect the american people. the last thing that he would want, the last thing anyone in the white house wants is to do anything that would jeopardize those missions or those americans. he's as outraged as anybody. as you well know, we've been attacked for being too hard on leaks, going after leakers too hard. this administration has been tougher on that than anyone. this is a bit of fauld raul of the election season. >> you don't think it came from the white house? >> no, absolutely not. we're as interested as anybody to see. >> one last question before we go to erica. eric holder, this conflict between you and him, chest to chest, is it because you wanted political influence at the justice department? >> absolutely not. i had one discussion with eric
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holder early in the administration where i suggested a communications perpendicular for him. >> on his staff? >> not from my staff. someone from the outside. he didn't want that. that's fine. but i was very careful -- >> wasn't someone from the campaign. but here's the point. in the last administration, the political apparatus of the white house reached into the justice department in ways that were inappropriate. having to do with the appointment of personnel and so on. i did not want do that. i have very little contact with eric on any policy or personnel matters. >> seem to being upset about it. >> charlie, we work together for years. you're going to have moments like that. the fact is, i have a great relationship with eric. we're alumni of the same high school here in new york. we get along fine. so i wouldn't make too much of that. >> really quickly i need to ask you about the news before we let you go. secretary of commerce john bryson, have you spoken with the
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president? has the president been in touch with him at all? >> this news broke overnight. i don't really have anything to contribute to that. obviously, it's concerning. but i'm not going to comment bus i don't know any of the details. >> tough way to start the week after last week and this weekend. any concern about that? >> you know what, erica, again at the end of the day, there are birg things on the minds of the american people. they want to know what the future is going to hold. where the middle class -- it they work hard, they can get ahead and their kids can get ahead. that's how they'll judge the campaign, not on these individual days in june. >> david axelrod, thanks. >> thank you. firefighters in colorado are battling a huge wind-driven wildfire in rugged canyons 15 miles northwest of fort collins. >> the smoke there is so thick, it's actually obscuring the rocky mountains. barry peterson is in bellevue, colorado. good morning, barry. >> good morning.
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this fire is still spreading rapidly. now, more than 20,000 acres and the evacuation notices up to 2600. officials say they do not think it was started by humans. more likely a lightning strike. >> from the air, it's easy to see why colorado's hyde park fire has proven to be a tough adversary for firefighters. it's been more frightening for evacuees on the ground. rosemary silano looked out her window and saw flames 300 feet high. >> i had to drive past it and i just kept thinking, just keep driving, just keep driving. >> did you leave anything behind, pets? >> no. that was our first priority was our two dogs and our two cats. and each other. >> one couple picked the wrong day to get married. as flames approached the sky corral ranch in bellevue, the bride and groom shortened their ceremony and then fleed along with their wedding guests.
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>> they got their i dos done and we had to leave. >> many had to take pets and livestock to special shelters. the dry conditions might force the state to ban fireworks on the fourth of july. >> conditions this summer give every indication we'll be at risk all summer long. >> the unfortunate part is we've got dozens of engines up there. we've got hundreds of homes. as you get into some of those areas, we can't afford to get firefighters trapped on some of those far back areas. >> helicopters and air tankers are fighting the fire from above while hundreds of firefighters are on the ground. the fire is creating its own weather, pushing and pulling the winds in every direction. >> you have no containment goals at this time. merely get people out of the way. >> the thick throat clogging smoke is spreading all across this part of colorado and more 100 miles north into wyoming and 200 miles east all the way into nebraska. erica and charlie? >> barry peterson, thank you.
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the problem in the florida panhandle isn't fire but rain and lots of it. more expected today after a weekend of flash flooding. parts of hard hit pensacola were swamped by nearly 15 inches of rain. mark brown of the mobile, alabama, affiliate, says flooding extends over a wide area of the gulf coast. >> at this apartment complex the nearby creek overflowed, raising water levels to 4 feet deep. calvin gray's son -- try to stave off the floodwaters by lining his door with towels. >> everything got washed away. my tvs, my couch, love seat, chair. everything. >> flooded roads slowed damage assessments, the toll on motorists is clear. >> it was deeper than what we thought and water washed up over my hood and drown the engine out. >> 90-year-old leroy bonifay and
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his grandson found themselves stranded. >> the water kept getting higher and higher and eventually got up to the window. >> two bystanders helped leroy to safety. >> i never have seen it this high in the area before. it's tough, but we'll make it out all right. >> the flooding which began on friday, covered the roads. a jacksonville motorist was on his way to claim a radio station prize when he became confused turning into the station's parking lot. instead, he drove into a 14-foot deep pond. the driver emerged unscathed. the car was ruined. now the gulf coast is suffering through a stagnant weather pattern. this same weather system expected to be in new york by tuesday into wednesday morning. for "cbs this morning," i'm blake brown, pensacola florida. thank you, blake brown. time to show you headlines from around the globe. the atlanta journal constitution says police are searching for a gunman accused of killing three people near the auburn university campus in alabama.
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two dead are former auburn football players. people say this man opened fire at a party saturday night after getting into a fight over a woman. britain's guardian reports in syria a leading opposition group dominated by islamists has chosen a new secular leader. he's calling for stronger action against al assad's government. moving to retake control of rebel held areas including homs. the wall street journal says facebook growth rates have slowed down sharply. in april, the number of unique advice toss was up 5% from the previous year, the lowest since they began keeping track. also growing more slowly, the amount of time people spend on facebook. >> "the new york times" focusing on the tony award winner, the tale of two musicians falling in love. it took home best musical and
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lawyers make opening statements today in the penn state sex abuse trial. up to eight alleged victims are ready to testify against jerry sandusky. >> there really is no physical evidence. it's entire a question of he said versus he said. but there are a lot of hes in this case. >> we'll look at what prosecutors have to do to prove their case beyond a reasonable doubt. a graduation speaker gets a lot of flack and applause for telling high school seniors "you're not special." we'll ask him what he really meant on "cbs this morning."
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it is that season where they will do anything to get money. they will do anything to win points with every voting block. both obama, i love this, and mitt romney this week went on o the country music television awards. i'm trying to figure out, who has less in common with the country music fans? a mormon who doesn't drink or cheat or a black guy who is skinny? [ laughter ] >> bill forgets kris kristofferson was a road scholar. >> you bring it all back for him. >> if the economy is not doing fine, what should be done about it? new york times columnist, paul krugman has some ideas. >> we'll ask him how he thinks the economy could get going again. you're watching "cbs this
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a hollywood motorcycle stunt -- i cannot speak today -- gone wrong. look at that. he was supposed to land in the lake. this happened back in april. but as you can see their overshot, here you see it again, crashed into the asphalt. the 25-year-old survived, but he broke his neck and lower back. that was rough. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." the sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky begins this morning. penn state's long time assistant football coach faces life in prison if convicted of a series of alleged assaults beginning in 1994. armen keteyian is outside the courthouse in bellefonte, pennsylvania. armen, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. sandusky is charged with 52 counts related to the criminal
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sexual abuse of ten young boys over a 15-year period. opening arguments are set for today before a jury of seven women and five men, many with ties to penn state. at its core, the people versus gerald a. sandusky will likely turn on the testimony of the alleged victims. what could be as many as eight until now anonymous young men. coming out of the shadows inside the centre county courthouse the described sexual abuse at a once revered, now fired football coach. >> it's entirely question of he said versus he said. but there are a lot of hes in this case. a lot of people claim the story or claim similar stories. >> throughout the jury selection process, sandusky sat side by side with his attorney joe amendola, listening intently and taking notes as centre county residents were whittled down to
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12 jurors and four alternates, many with ties to penn state. including a current professor. >> credibility is going to be the main factor in in case. >> in the past, amendola has made clear, he will hammer away at the credibility of all accusers. sandusky, he groomed the boys, meeting them at the second mile charity he founded before showering them with gifts and games. >> the negotiations, this is the fight of jerry sandusky's life. >> another crucial witness is expected to be former penn state assistant coach mike mcqueary. he testified he saw sandusky sexually assault a boy as young as ten years old at a football facility shower. mcqueary originally testified the incident took place in march of 2002. prosecutors recently changed the date to february 2001. >> this is very damaging to mike
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mcqueary's testimony, because the jury is going to be asking itself, if mike mcqueary is making up a story, could these other witnesses be making up a story as well? >> how the prosecution will present its case remains a mystery. but we have learned they are leaning toward putting one victim a day on the stand to remind the jury of the alda bus. charlie, erica? >> armen keteyian, thanks. cbs legal analyst jack ford is with us. >> charlie, good morning. >> we start a new trial. >> always a new trial. you know that. >> what's the challenge for the prosecution and what's the challenge for the defense? >> prosecution, you look at it and as armen told us, you have allegations spanning 15 years, ten different voids. we've seen problems with this over the years. they have to get the jury to understand that there's real validity to these claims. even though there's been a passage of time here and these
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were young boys at the time. prosecutors has to get jurors with the recollections. we've seen in the past where issues were raised about the idea of young boys being coached or young children being coached about their testimony or what they call false recollection where somehow something is embedded in the mind of a child and they sort of embrace it and tend to believe it. now, here we don't know what happened. but the prosecution is going to argue to these jurors, look, forget about false recollections, forget about coaching. this is real, this happened. jerry sandusky did this to these children. now, the defense on the other side has to -- one of three arguments. one has to be either, there was some contact but it wasn't criminal. maybe it was awkward, uncomfortable but not criminal. or the defense has to argue this false memory, this implanted memory by investigators who went too far or maybe we've seen suggestion about somebody is
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doing this to make money. that's a tougher sale. there are serious hurdles for both sides. >> we talk often, especially on this program, about how jurors take their responsibility very seriously and yet, in this jury pool there are a number of people with ties to penn state. is that a concern? >> it's fascinating. a lot of people think that you can't be a juror if you know something about a case or you have connection with a case. this is a perfect illustration, that's not true. you can say i know people at penn state, i work at penn state, i go to penn state, but here's the caveat. but i haven't made up my mind yet. i'm willing to listen to both sides before i decide. that makes you an okay juror. it's still interesting. can you in fact divorce yourself completely from that? the prosecution actually early on was urging the idea of moving this trial someplace else. that's what you hear from the defense. the defense is always casey anthony, we got to get out of herement make it a fair trial. o have the prosecution be
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concerned is unusual. they seem to think eight of the 12 people, they seem to think they'll be fair and impartial. jurors try very hard to do that. >> jack, as always, thank you. >> what needs to happen to get the economy on the right track? we'll talk business and politics with paul krugman of "the new york times" on "cbs this morning."
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year's presidential race. >> when we spoke with paul krugman a couple weeks ago, he said the president's -- don't have the ability to fix the economy. economist joins us again. welcome again. >> hi there. >> tell me two quick things. one, what is the private sector, how do you define how well it's doing? >> that is a unfortunate line. the truth is, the private sector is doing better than the public sector, which is not well enough. actually the real story about this economy is that this cutbacks at the public sector are hurting recovery. by this point in obamas presidency, if we had normal sector job growth, we'd have 800,000 more people, firefighters, school teachers, police officers. instead, we've got 600,000 fewer. so right there it's like 1.4 million jobs that we should have had in the public sector and, of course, those would translate into more private sector jobs too. that's what he was trying to get
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at and of course, he screwed up the line. turning globally to europe. what do you make of the decision over the weekend to provide some money to the banks. >> europeans have got a habit now, they come up to the edge and then they do something that buys them a little bit more time and then what they do with that time is nothing. that's what they've done again. the spanish banks are looking shaky, so what really happens is the europeans made a loan to the spanish government which can inject cash into the banks, which pulls them back from the edge but then what? >> what could go badly between now and the election that could have repercussions for the economy and the election? >> there's two things that can happen in europe. one is, a gigantic financial crisis, mega lee man event. >> that would be lots of european banks going under, not just that there's an immediate breakup of the euro, crisis
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everywhere, basically something that looks like scenes out of the 1930s, which is a possibility. they'll do what's necessary to stop that sort of thing. the other is a nasty recession, which is probably already under way in europe. when all is said and done, only 2% of what we make is sold in europe. >> the question is what we make is sold in europe, right. that demand from europe would dry up. >> it hurts but it's not huge. >> if there was a lehman-like situation. >> spain leaving the eurozone -- snamt that's big or italy. >> if spain goes, i think italy goes too. even so, does that lead to widespread bank failures. not necessarily. they might be able to contain that. >> anything likely to happen or they'll keep, as they say, kicking the can down the road? >> eventually, it's not going to work.
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there's a moment of -- >> when is that? >> maybe this week. maybe next year. nobody knows that. >> they can do this for another year before catastrophe? >> as long as the european central bank is willing to print enough euros so people pulling money out of the banks, they can keep this going, the question is when do they say look at how many euros we've printed, how will we get it back? >> looking at the situation here, you write in your column that the fed should leap into action. but you seem to make the case that in fact, it's not going to do anything for fear that appearing to be political. >> yeah. that was explicit. remember, rick perry saying that if bernanke does anything before the election, something ugly would have to have been tested. that's practically a physical threat to ben bernanke saying if he does anything. >> how do you move forward if you're stuck in this position in this country to fix the economy? >> i think we need to have, i think the feds need to say this is -- we're going to do our job.
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we're not going to let ourselves be bullied. and then somebody, if it's going to be divided government after the election, which is quite possible, i don't know. >> aren't you trying the bully the fed into doing something? >> i'm trying to remind ben bernan bernanke of what professor bernanke said. >> you're trying to bully him into doing something. you view your role as to come at him on the left and remind him what the fed could do to save the economy? >> i've never said something ugly would happen to him in the print. >> do you think it? >> no. this is just -- this is persuasion, not threat. >> all right. and due think he's likely to do it? >> i'm afraid that they're really going to hold off on anything until the election. it's become politicized. >> until action by the congress, until congress can provide the stimulus you think is necessary. >> it's very difficult to do anything without congress. there's only marginal -- but
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stimulus at this point means providing the states with enough money to rehire the school teachers. we're not talking about an exotic plant. we're talking about ending this austerity that's holding our a high school teacher causes a big stir with a graduation speech, telling students something they may not have heard before. >> do not get the idea you're anything special because you're
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that fun facts comes from our friends at mental floss. madagascar 3 is out this weekend. gayle is in the control room with what's coming up in the next hour. gayle, how is it in the control room with all those box kites? >> charlie, all of them say hello, charlie and erica. erica, i feel so old. e.t. is 30 years. >> how did that happen? >> yikes. from the control room and all the boss types, that would be chris, the watergate scandal broke 30 years ago. you may be surprised what reporters wood wartd ward and bernstein was going on at the nixon white house. how would you like to see more than 30,000 art works on one website with no fees? i like that idea. you can because of the google art project. the man who started it all will be live in studio 57. we'll meet a woman who lives in a living work of art. you know the one. the farmhouse from the famous painting american gothic. you've all seen it.
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so this prime minister goes into a bar. it's no joke for david cameron this morning. his office says the britain prime minister took his family to lunch a couple months ago. he left his eight-year-old nancy in the pub. turns out that cameron and his wife were in separate cars and each thought nancy was with the other parent. they turned around, found her safe and sound 15 minutes later. it's like the story, see, prime minister, they're just like the rest of us. >> they lose their children? >> they lose -- that's happened to regular people. you talked to david cameron last week. he seemed like a responsible young man. >> he didn't bring up this episode. >> didn't come up in the conversation. >> you didn't ask him about it. >> i didn't. i didn't know about that at the time.
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very clear that was about the jubilee. it's 8:00. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king. >> as they said many times. >> many times. you're right. >> i'm charlie rose with erica hill. graduation speeches are usually full of plat tuds about the great things the graduates will do with their lives. >> because things have been so tough for so long, some speakers with giving graduates a bit more reality. >> 2012 is a great time to be graduating from college. sure, the job market is a little slow, sure health care and social security systems are going to evaporate in five years, sure you'll have to work until you're 80 to support your 110-year-old parents. >> above all, recognize that if you had success, you've also had luck. with luck comes obligation. you owe a debt and not just to your gods. you owe a debt to the unlucky. >> the fact that you are receiving a diploma from one of
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america's finest institutions of higher learning does not mean you are educated. >> make no mistake about it, you are done. you're a group of incredibly well-educated dumb people. [ laughter ] >> i was there. we all were there. you're barely functional. >> you've been nudged, ka joeld and i am prord. you've been getted and fawned over and called sweetie pie. yes, you have. do not get the idea you're anything special, because you're not. selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. the sweetest joys of life then come only with the recognition that you're not special. >> that last speech at wellsly high school in massachusetts. david mccullough, jr., an english teacher told his students, nine times, but who is counting, they're not special.
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others called it a downer and wrong for the occasion. david mccullough is joining us at the table. hello. >> when i first heard it, i rewound a couple times and said did he really stha? were were you surprised by the reaction? >> i'm floored by the reaction. my intention was a little hyperbolic drollness to get their attention so they would be paying attention by the end when i told them what i really wanted to say. >> what did you really want to say. >> that selflessness is the best thing you can do for yourself. the planet needs them. that they're -- that if the privileged kids, the kids who enjoyed every advantage don't step up, what chance do we have. >> care for the planet rather than yourself. >> absolutely. care for your community and your family. >> what is that you think caught on, the idea of that, that is an appealing thing so therefore people are downloading this like crazy? >> i hope so.
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it's very difficult for me to understand why what has happened, has happened. i thought i was speaking to just the 400 and whatever it was graduates. >> david, you know how it woshs. everybody has a camera. you thought nobody would pick it up. >> i live a very cloistered life. very recently, somebody had to explain to me what a blog was. i should be embarrassed about that, i guess. i have no notion that the electronic ether was eavesdropping. >> you mentioned these 400 kids in graduating class. the speech was for them. were the students happy with it? >> they seemed to be. i've gotten overwhelming expressions of gratitude and praise and compliments. >> have you heard from your father. david mccullough, a famous
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historian and your mother is a remarkable woman. >> thank you. they're pleased. >> how about better than pleased? >> well, i can't speak to that. i hope they're proud of what i say. it's been upsetting to me for a couple of reasons. one is that i've become the story. and it was their graduation. we were there to celebrate their achievement, their beginning. now the cameras are on me. they really shouldn't be. the other is the distortion of what i said at the beginning. >> how long did take you to write it, david? >> 26 years and two hours. >> explain. >> i've been teaching high school kids for 26 years. in that time, one comes to see what kids need to be told. these are wonderful kids. one grows very fond of them and proud of them, but that doesn't mean you should indulge them with things, with plat tuds or
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false encouragement. i wanted to give them a motion that with their privilege comes responsibility. >> do you think they're complacent about their privilege? >> some, yes. some take it for granted. others interpreted it as i say in the speech, a leg up on the competition. >> are they different than four years ago, five years ago? >> yes. >> how so? >> i think it's the influence of, surprise, surprise, electronic media. it's the influence of the blogosphere which i now know a lot about. >> how has it changed them? >> their attention spans are diminishing. their interest in things that don't really matter so much have become more pre occupying for them. >> what about their interest in themselves? >> part of this, too, is the way they're being raised. like i said, they're doted upon. i must say that i'm as guilty as
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anyone. i have four children, three of whom are teenagers. we're raising hem in the same way the people of well he isly are raising them. they're good people. people with means see opportunities for their children and they think great, why not and they start overscheduling their kids. with these opportunities come expectations and the kids feel the strain of those expectations. they understand that what they're supposed to achieve, what all they've been given is an ivy league admission. >> instantly. >> i think it's important to talk about how you wrapped it up. i love this. the sweetest joys of life then come only with the recognition that you're not special, because everyone is. congratulations, good luck. make for yourself, please for your sake and ours, extraordinary lives. i think in the end if they come away with that message, it's wonderful. >> you lead an extraordinary life if you make life beyond yourself. >> precisely and it's great for
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yourse yourself. it feels way better to do something for someone else. >> you think people would rather listen to the whole speech, they'd have a different impression? >> yeah. >> but it's -- >> imagine that. >> that's why i gave the wloel speech. i didn't stop. >> i'm thinking david, you won't be having lunch with donald trump. you didn't take a dig at him. i'm sure he's a very nice man. we've not met. probably special -- >> you would be blogging and dickens would be blogging, wouldn't at the they. >> i don't think shakespeare. he'd be out in l.a. making movies. dafld,
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40 years ago this week. burglars broke into the democratic party head quart quarters at watergate in washington, d.c. >> that led to the only resignation of a u.s. president. bob woodward and carl bernstein tell us how the break-in was part of that story. before we get to that, though, we'll get a quick check of "healthwatch." >> good morning. in today's "healthwatch," weight
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this week marks the 40th anniversary of the watergate break-in. it was a scandalous chain of events that forced president nixon to resign and changed american politics forever. as terrell brown report, the two reporters who broke the story say that watergate was only part of the story. bob woodward and carl bernstein were young reporters when they were called to cover a burglary at the watergate complex in washington in 1972. they still remember the moment they realized how big the story would be. >> we would have coffee every
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morning off the newsroom floor, put a dime which it cost in those days in the machine and i felt this chill go down my back. i said to woodward, oh, my god, this president is going to be impeached. >> it was eight weeks after five men had broken into the democratic headquarters at watergate. with some old-fashioned investigative reporting, woodward and bernstein tied the break-in to the white house and richard nixon's reelection campaign. they talk about it on the face the nation and in a washington post article. their first joint by line in 36 years. >> what we found is that his white house became to a remarkable extent a criminal enterprise such as we've never had in our history. >> people have got to know whether their president is a crook. well, i'm not a crook. >> nixon repeatedly denied any involvement in the scandal. >> i neither took part in nor knew about any of the subsequent cover-up activity. >> but his own audio tapes
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captured in discussing hush money with white house counsel john dean. >> that's what began kind of the unraveling of watergate and the unraveling of who was richard nixon and you listen to these tapes and it is -- talk about blackmail, cover-up. >> blackmail of his predecessors in office, lyndon johnson. >> woodward and bernstein say most people didn't believe their story until walter cronkite went on the air with it. >> a high-level campaign of political sabotage and espionage apparently unparalleled in american history. >> since then, the watergate saga has been retold over and over again in books and films. >> you tell me what you know and i'll confirm. >> even the mystery of deep throat, the watergate whistle blower lasted until 2005 when mark phelps, a retired associate director for the fbi finally
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came forward. >> hey. appreciate you coming out like this. >> we saw him on television. we actually, before he died, went out to see him and this was a man liberated because finally he could tell the truth. >> to this day, nixon is the only president in history ever forced to resign. for the two reporters instrumental in taking him down, there's still one thing that stands out. >> carl and i have talked over the years. we keep looking for a tape where somebody says what would be good for the country, what does the country need? it was always about nixon. >> for "cbs this morning," i'm terrell brown. wow. this is such an amazing story. not only because it changed history, but also because it spanned a whole lot of young people wanting to be journalists because of what they did. i'll be at the watergate tonight where there's a series honoring ben bradley. i'm going to interview bob and
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carl. >> that's going to be -- i never get enough of this story. i think what it must have been like back in the day to have this incredible story and nobody believe you. it's inconceivable that think that the white house, in their words, was a criminal enterprise. that's inconceivable to think of the white house. >> as you say, we're still fascinated by it today. we saw it on face the nation yesterday. bob schieffer did a great block where he talked about how he tried to get out of covering this watergate thing because he didn't think it was a very big deal at the time. >> charlie, what are you going to ask them? i'm kidding. we'll have to watch. it will be great. >> it's going to be good. these guys have both had an interesting life beyond watergate. we'll talk about that as well. >> all right. also ahead this morning, a little more on the google art project. that's just ahead on "cbs this morning."
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." rafael nadal did something no other man has done. he won his seventh french open title this morning beating djokovic in a match that was rain-delayed from yesterday. >> i like him. >> i saw this match yesterday. back and forth, going back and forth. >> i like it. >> i like it when a man does something that's never been done before. i like it. welcome back to "cbs this morning." the google art project started small just over a year ago. it's since become a huge online museum featuring the best of other museums around the world. >> without leaving the house, you can view more than 30,000 works of art from 150 collections in 40 countries.
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the man behind the project, we're pleased to have him here. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> how did you do this? and if you're sitting at home, what do you see? >> i think the idea is you can be anywhere in the world and you get access. you get access to great collections. you get access to street views and side museums. you get a sense for the space and you can zoom into artwork which you can't do in front of an artwork when you're being shoved aside. >> you can go in close and see the brush strokes. >> all of that. >> you can flip around and compare this piece to that piece. same time on the screen. >> same time on the screen. lot of things for educators to use. >> i want you to take us there. are you sitting at your desk thinking what, it's all part of the google 20% project. i'm thinking your mom must be proud. you're sitting there and you're doing what? >> i was in london and essentially i was working on a
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couple of other projects, google maps and android. we started talking about museums. i liked to go to museums when i moved from india. we were trying to do small projects. wouldn't it be awesome if you could bring all the museums together so we don't have to go one website for in and this. we started talking to different people and they thought it was crazy initially. he warmed to the idea. it was just a couple of people saying let's try it. >> so far it's working well. what's the reaskts museums? you're in how many countries and museums? >> initially, we had nine countries and seven museums. we've added 151 in 40 countries. the lee reaction from the museums is pretty positive. obviously, there are a lot of questions. what is the future of the museum. can this supplement the real thing. of course it can't. it's really for people that can't visit these museums. >> that's the extraordinary
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thing for me. it gives lofts people around the world an opportunity to access the joy of art and the contribution of art. you can really go therend see stuff. you can see it in books. but to see it there and change around. how many museums said thank you very much, we'll pass? >> a few. >> i think the ones may have come back and joined us in the second phase. there are still some saying it's a great idea but not for them. that's not a problem. couple european ones have -- >> i want to go online and see the louvre and mona lisa, i can go to google art. >> we can't. we don't have the louvre. >> the louvre hasn't signed on. >> what did they say when you said this? >> this project is not resourced very heavily. it's -- we gave them the idea and they said let's see. we'll come back to you. you can see it on the site.
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>> not quite the same. >> if you go online and see something, you thought you know i want to send this to friend, you saw something, you'd want me to see it, you've made it easy to share with other people, whether twitter, facebook, e-mail. >> yeah. the biggest feature on the site that made me happy is something called music collection. any of us can take collections and art, put them write about it and share it. >> you can curate your own exhibition. >> i try not to use the word curate. >> you put it together. ago gait it, curate, whatever it is. >> exactly. >> are the instructional things that come with this so you learn more as well as just see the pictures. >> yes. all the museums provide us with details, audio archives, education section. it's really for two people, one who want to come get a glimpse and the other who want to spend the weekend. >> is this a profit making
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venture for google so that perhaps it will be advertised and supported or something? >> no. that's one of the things we decided early on. this is a completely nonprofit venture for us. all the museums don't want us to -- >> paintings. >> exactly. we're good with that. reinvesting. it's working. >> google's reaction, when you said i want to do this? >> i think my boss at that time looked at me and said as long as it doesn't interfere with your day job, go ahead. >> you have the 20%. explain how that works. >> you're doing your day job and you're meeting interesting people at google. you come up with an idea, pitch it to your boss. i want to do this, make it work. if your boss is nice to you, you can get permission to do this. at that time it really -- after that, now i'm 100% on the project with a small team in london. with google, it's helping all over the world. >> extraordinary idea. thank you. >> thank you very much. >> nice to see you. we've all seen american gothic. but did you know the house in
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the painting is real? the woman who lives there will tell us why she moved from
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good morning seattle. 82 years ago, grant wood painted a portrait of a man, a woman and a pitchfork in front of a farmhouse. that painting, american gothic, is one of the best known works of american art. >> the house in the painting still stands as michelle miller reports. the woman who lives there gave up life in the fast lane for the values of america's heartland. >> the little house in he will done, iowa has spoken volumes about america's hard working simple past, even with just a glimpse of it behind the farmer and his spinster daughter in that 1930s american gothic painting by grant woods.
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>> people still stand in front of it dressed up like the pair did some 80 years ago. around here, gothic americans still matter. it was celebrated saturday at the gothic days festival. now, though, there is an unlikely tenant living inside the tiny old house. beth howard is an author who makes pies, lots of them. she used to make pies in malibu and counted barbra streisand and steven spielberg among her customers. >> we have one stove, one fridge. you make 60 pies a day. oh, you mean is that how i make a living? >> yes. >> no. >> you can't make a living off pies? >> it's really passion. it's good for the community. it brings people here. >> people come from all over to her pitchfork pie stand. >> hi marlene. >> from minnesota, right? >> yeah. >> in a town that has seen
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better days before the railroad closed and the population dropped from 2,000 to 950, quiet eldon on the des moines river, received an unexpected jolt from beth howard. >> two apple crumbles, okay. >> locals join her to make the pies. and high school students get to work in a place where there isn't much work. it's addictive. >> you can use a spoon but i like to mix stuff with my hands. beth came back to her native iowa after a long trip in the fast lane. >> you've been a coffee importer, writer, a publicist. >> web producer. >> web producer. >> right. >> web producing job is the thing that sent me into what i call my pie baking sabbatical which i spent 16 hours a day in front of a computer. >> but it was the sudden death of her husband in 2009 that caused her to change her life.
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>> what brought me back here was my grief. it was the one-year anniversary of his death. he died of a ruptured aorta. i wanted to be somewhere that i thought would be grounding, distracting in a positive way. first and foremost, i saw this as a writer's retreat. it was tucked away, very rural, quiet. it's quiet in the winter but not in the summer. it's kind of like if you can't beat them, join them. >> her home, not open to the public is an iowa state run tourist attraction. >> i feel i'm a risk taker. everybody tried to talk me out of renting this house. i said i don't know how it's going to work out, but i'm willing to give it a shot. that's what i think most people are afraid to try it. >> yes. >> she has been the american gothic house resident for two years. she wrote making peace, it's a memoir of love last and pie sitting here at the table where she rolls out the dough and overcame her fears.
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>> how are you? >> one of your pies. last week it changed my life. >> the pitchfork pie stand sells more than 80 pies on a summer weekend. she says she doesn't do it for the money. the one inning she's clear on is she does it for peace. for "cbs this morning," michelle miller in eldon, iowa. >> great story. i've never had a pie that changed my life. >> i think we immediate to try them. >> the thing that stuck with me, with that story, i always thought that painting was husband and wife. did you guys know that -- she said it was spinster daughter. did you know that? >> no. >> i did not know that. >> we learn something new every day. >> a, pie can change your life and it was a spinster daughter. >> i was struck by the notion of the tragedy and how that affected her and where do you go to seek relief and some sense of change from grief. >> yep. she's figured that out. we now talk about a company that's not having any grief
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having lost their founder. steve jobs. apple is holding the annual developers conference this morning. brian cooly has seen it. we'll see what's in the pipeline on "cbs this morning." a party?
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♪ ♪ that was neil patrick harris' third time hosting the tony awards. i was up late last night. i'm feeling a little sleepy this morning. he did a great job. >> were you happy with the winners? >> i was. i was. i now want to see best of chorus. erica has been talking about it. >> i've been obsessed with it. i highly recommend. >> i want to see it. every year people who write software for apple products get together at the worldwide developers conference. this year's event, the first since the death of steve jobs begins this morning in san francisco. >> at&t chance for apple to showcase its latest and greatest innovations. editor at large brian cooley is here to show us what to expect. >> thank you. >> what do we expect?
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>> we expect a lot of focus on mobile, guys. people think of apple as apple computer. they changed their name years ago to just apple. that was important. we're going to see a big emphasis on what they do. ipad, iphone and the ipod touch which is injure covered. that's the majority of their business. computers are almost the sideline. that's remarkable. that's how far the world has come in the last few years. everything is on tablets and phones for the most part. they'll be moving to the point where we'll see a lot of emphasis on how developers, like you were mentioning, gayle, people who write software, can do more on the software. they use googles. the companies don't get along all the time. they'd rather not have any google. we're going to see their own maps, photo imagery we expect. that's one big change. >> do you think they're feeling nervous, they're thinking this is the first presentation since the death of steve jobs. we got to really be good? >> yes. it's the first of the developers conferences since jobs. a lot of people were talking,
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who is the visionary, apple is full of vision ir as, but who is the one, the nose cone on that missile. that's the thing. we haven't identified one. tim cook is a brilliant operational guy. he knows how to run a company, a tech company. phil schiller, the head of marketing there, you may have seen new commercials where they have stars in them. >> john malkovich. >> and where one he's making risotto. >> not everybody loves his style. >> they've been controversial and apple seems to be leaning on an implied celebrity endorsement for the first time in ages, if ever. >> and that this is sort of almost trying too hard. the question is, is apple taking a new take on their messaging. do they have to do something to scramble or are they still the incredibly self-confident that they were during the jobs era. >> what was in the pipeline before he died? >> everything in the pipeline. we haven't exited the jobs vision yet.
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he had his fingerprint on the ipad that's out, the 4s even the new iphone. they have his fingerprint on them. once we cross into 2013, we'll see the new app am. >> what's the new iphone going to be like? >> a larger screen. it's not coming out today. it's right now kind of a tiny phone. everybody is going to four-inch screens. who makes calls anymore. they're used as a tablet. >> you take that around with you everywhere you go. >> i carry an ipad and a large phone. i carry this thing around for occasionally use, charlie. i'm not huge on the tablet. the smartphone is where we're going. it's portable and intuitive. i grab it as opposed to getting this out of a bag. >> your purse. >> my murse. >> apple will get an update to have the ability for developers, like mentioned earlier, to write programs and new pea turs. apple controls the -- it lets
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you stream television to the full screen. there are hundreds of thousands of apps for the mobile devices. where is the energy that could be aimed at apple tv. it's not available yet. that could be a big breakthrough. >> some friend of mine have apple tv. it's cool. >> gorgeous. >> do you see the day where we'll all have an apple tv. >> the concept of streaming television over the top, you get television over the top of your existing home broadband connection is the future. will it be apple tv or an apple television, will it be a google powered tv, will it be a current samsung smart tvs. it's a vibrant market. >> what about the question of when too? a lot of these things sound great. >> you hear about cutting the cord as they say. it's the idea of forget you cable company, forget satellite, i'm going all internet. you have to work harder to get content from more places, a lot of live shows and sports aren't
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available. it's going to take the better part of a decade. but that's not long by the time we get there. >> what do you think the one thing is that apple needs to do this week at the developer's conference. >> the thing that i can't identify is to wow us with one more thing that steve used to do. it's been several years since they have changed the horizon. where is the new iphone, where is the new tablet, where is this new apple television? that may be the next thing they do. they've been evolving. but not revolutionary. >> i think they have to convince everybody that there's an apple beyond steve jobs. >> for both investors as well as for the consumer. they really understood jobs was what i was buying into. >> to your point, charlie, he created the things he didn't know you needed until it was there. it's not clear that they have that person. >> it may be there isn't one out there. they shouldn't innovate for innovation sake. >> there's a notion that facebook and apple and google and amazon are fighting with each other for dominance.
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what's the goal? >> the goal right now is to be present on all my devices, which really means in all my places in my life as opposed to something i use on a desk tomorrow and this on a phone and this on a tablet. all those screens connecting universally to become constant all the time. whoever can crack the code on that, no one really has. owns the future. >> i'm trying to figure out how accessible i want to be, brian. >> that's the next question. >> that does it for us here. up next, your local news. we'll see you tomorrow on "cbs this morning." we hope you'll be back. see you then. mashed potatoes and gravy. it's my turn...
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