good morning, it's wednesday, august 22nd, 2012. welcome to studio 57 at the cbs broadcast center. mitt romney asked todd aken to quit the missouri senate race but aken says no. and tropical storm isaac could threaten the republican convention in tampa. >> cbs news learns accused aurora, colorado, gunman sought help before the massacre, and we'll talk with the number one golfer, rory mcilroy. your world in 90 seconds. >> i want to make things absolutely clear we're going to continue with this race. >> missouri congress tan todd

akin defies republican party leaders. >> despite his outrageous comments about women, race and pregnancy. >> he should step aside. the nominee of our party is very lead. mitt romney led the charge. >> why couldn't he run his race and i run one. >> know when to hold 'em and know when to fold 'em. believe me. a wildfire has destroyed 50 structures. >> nearly 2,000 fight fears are battling to save homes in a fire that has grown to cover 30 square miles. >> nature is sometimes very ev.il the republicans are keeping a close eye on tropical storm isaac, possibly hitting central florida during next week's convention. the man suspected of making a threat against president obama is set to make a court appearance this afternoon, when agents tracked the man south of seattle he pointed a shotgun at them. in new york city, something went wrong during underground blasting of a subway construction project. there were no injuries. a humpback whale made an appearance off the california

coast, surprising boaters and people on paddle boards. britain's prince harry has done crazy things, naked partying in las vegas this time. all that -- >> ooh, chops one to third, out there, out at second, a triple play! goat's a little nerve us? >> yeah, first time in new york city. >> the skateboarding. >> all of that matter. >> roger clemens is returning to baseball. the seven-time cy young player will play for skeeters. >> today he tested positive for activia. captioning funded by cbs welcome to "cbs this morning." congressman todd akin says he will not give up his campaign for a u.s. senate seat in missouri. >> on tuesday mitt romney joined the leadership of the republican

party asking akin to withdraw after his comments about rape and pregnancy. wyatt evans is in st. louis. good morning to you. >> reporter: gayle, good morning. he's the republican senate candidate most republicans don't want in this race anymore but todd akin is telling them he's not quitting. he said he was staying in the missouri senate race and that he could win. >> i misspoke one word in one sentence in one day and all of a sudden overnight everybody decides well, akin can't possibly win. i don't agree with that. >> i would leave the race. i would get out for the good of the party. >> a lot of people make decisions based on politics and not on principle. >> top party officials however want akin out of the race. >> we got to get america back! >> including presidential candidate mitt romney who called on akin to quit for the first

time, vice presidential candidate paul ryan called akin directly. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell said bluntly "it's time for congressman akin to step aside." the national republican party and the top gop superpack withdrew millions in support. facing all of that, akin was still defiant, even telling romney to back away. >> if you were in romney's position, don't you think that he may have bid had thing up and made a bigger deal about it than he needed to? why couldn't he run his race and i run mine? >> reporter: there are also some republicans who believe the national party is overreacting. >> i think this election should be how did todd akin vote and what did he vote and stand for and in this case, petty, personal attacks substituting for strong policy. >> reporter: sarah palin suggested another option. >> if he doesn't do t then it's going to be third party then. we'll do whatever we can to not

quash this opportunity that we have to take missouri for the good of the country. >> reporter: sources tell us that akin is actually hoping the controversy itself will venerate enough conservative grassroot support for him to stay in this race, but they also tell us, gayle and charlie, that if the support is not there, he could reconsider this decision. >> wyatt andrews, thank you. jan crawford is covering the romney campaign in bettendorf, iowa. jan, what is the campaign's next move here? >> the campaign really doesn't have a next move, gayle. they really feel like they've pushed this. they've said he should drop out, romney called for him to drop out so there's not a lot more that they can do. akin is being defiant. they can't send paul ryan over with the cross bow and say get out, buddy. but this is a huge distraction for the campaign. they want to be talking about jobs, the economy, what they see is the president's failures and

instead they're talking about some senate candidate's outrageous comments. >> jan, charlie rose, good morning. >> welcome back, charlie. >> thank you. the romney campaign clearly must be beyond distraction, that it brings social issues to the front because the congressman is making that the reason for his defiance. >> reporter: that's exactly right and you're seeing the democrats try to use that, make this an issue and tie the republicans to todd akin. you have the party you nighted in lockstep. we're in a factory, so if you hear the background noise, romney has an event later today. the republicans are saying no, you nighted in lockstep and not just the establishment. akin last night was tweeting that the liberal elite, the liberal media is out to get him, this is the conservative media, people like limbaugh, hanity, ann coulter saying he needs to go.

he is a man without a country now. >> rick david manager of john mccain's 2008 run. >> good morning. >> what can he do? >> keep the heat on, he's doing exactly the right thing as the leader of our party. the point is that he is the leader of our party. they've had ryan call him up and they were friends in the congress and they've done a lot so far. the question is what else? >> we hope reason prevails. we hope his donors call him. we hope his friends and family call him. he said it's not about politics, it's about the principle, and he's right. the principle of this is this party is a part of his campaign. he's the republican nominee. >> he wants to make it about his voice as against abortion. >> you know, this is the

reaction to sort of reality tv we have nowadays, right? he's now a reality tv star and the reality is this sort of nightmare he's built for himself. he's not losing. he's not having problems because of some ad that was run against him, he's not in trouble because you know, the party is weak. he's in trouble because he made a mistake. he said something stupid, and rather than standing in front of the press for three hours and answering questions on what was on his mind and why he was thinking these things, he chooses his escape valve that says oh i made one wrong word in one wrong sentence, and he's wrong about that. he actually has a flaw in his thinking that allowed him to even get to this point. >> but he also said that it's not i misspoke, this is not what i hold in my heart, please forgive me. can he be forgiven at this point? >> if he gets out of the race and apologizes to the people and the party, yeah, cobe forgiven. we're a tolerant people the americans and the party doesn't want to punish this guy. we want to win an election and at the end of the day we give

our nominations to people who are best prepared to win. that's no longer him. >> how important is the missouri senate seat for the republicans after the election? >> well, win or lose it at the presidential level, republicans want to control the senate. it's an important body. we want to get an agenda through. we can't do it with one house alone and even if romney wins and becomes president of the united states he wants partnership in the house and the senate like what obama had when he became president so it's a really hot priority and this may be one of the seats that decide it. >> so what are the risks here for romney? >> i think looking weak as a nominee of our party. he is now in charge of the republican party. he's in one week going to take the mantle that very few people have taken and the party will be his responsibility, the ticket all the way down from his election to the local sheriff is going to be running on the fact that he is the top of that ticket, and this is an issue about party discipline. you can't say to somebody, get

out of the race, and then he defied the leader of our party. it's outrageous. it's no longer about his comments. it's about his conduct. >> and what about sarah palin's call? what do you make of her call for maybe we should look at a third party candidate, does that have any merit whatsoever? >> i'm a party guy. i want the republican party in missouri to run a strong seat. i want republicans to win that seat and the only person standing between us and victory is akin. >> beyond this, because you've been there before in 2008, size up where the romney campaign is at this moment. >> you know, i think it's in a much better pace than we were four years ago today. >> certainly financially. >> sure. he's built a very, very good campaign, and he's proven to become a very good candidate. >> and the party is united behind him? >> totally 100%. >> from center, right, everywhere. >> he's done a great job of coalescing the party, going into the convention he'll become the leader of the party in one week from now and i think really

we're prepared to take the election all the way to term and beic victorious because the people in america are looking for an option and he's presenting a clear option. >> if he's not distracted. >> if he's not distracted. many republicans headed to tampa this weekend are watching the tropics, tropical storm isaac could become a hurricane tomorrow. it might affect the republican convention next week. david bernard, where is isaac now and where do you think it's going in. >> charlie, start with the latest advisory, this is approaching the leeward islands in the caribbean, less than 300 miles east of guadalupguadalupe quick to the west at 18 miles per hour and the winds are 45 miles per hour. the future track over the next 72 hours brings this potentially to a category 1 hurricane and that could directly impact puerto rico, the dominican republic and haiti, but after that, a little bit of a northwest turn as we go saturday night into early monday morning

and that would make a move toward florida and you can see that risk area includes a very large portion of central and south florida so as you mentioned that's of great concern not only to people in south florida but really to the entire state because of the big convention in tampa. >> let's talk about that big convention in tampa. what do you think they should do at this point? should they start preparing for the had snrk. >> hurricane? >> they're certainly doing that and monitoring the forecasts. we think there's a pretty good chance this storm is going to turn to the north. right now we've got this big blocking high. that's steering the storm to the west, so that's going to continue for the next three days, but this low pressure trough, that's going to lift off to the northeast, and i think that's going to open up an alleyway that's going to turn this storm north and as always with these, the devil is in the detail as far as how far to the north does it come? right now seems like florida is right in the center of that target. what we really don't know is how strong the storm might be and

that depends how much of cuba and the dominican republic the storm travels over the next few days which could weaken it, if it stays out over the water we could be looking at a much stronger storm. >> we'll all be tracking it. fire officials in northern california say 50 buildings including many homes have been destroyed by a massive wildfire. the so-called ponderosa fire, about 170 miles north of sacramento is 40% contained at this hour. thousands have been forced to leave their homes since lightning sparked the fire saturday. this morning the fast-moving fire is still threatening hundreds of buildings. >> we've been here for 15 minutes. it's already moved from down here and up to the top. >> it's been overwhelming. but we're strong and i pray every night that it's not going to take my home. >> the national guard has been called out to help fire fighting efforts. the ponderosa fire is one of several dozen large fires burning in the west. >> it's amazing to look and see everything that you've lived for going up and gone. >> going up in a second.

it's heartbreaking. government corps of engineers say low water levels on the mississippi river expected to last until october. yesterday boat traffic was limited on a part of that river that was closed on monday near greenville, mississippi. as dennis turner of wreg reports, it is bad news for businesses along one of america's main commercial arteries. >> reporter: the mississippi river closure here in greenville has caused major hardship. case in point, the barges behind me, filled with grain, but stuck here until there's enough water to float them out. historically low water levels are slowing travel along the inis miss river hampering major shipping traffic and forcing vital harbors to close. in and around greenville, mississippi, dozens of barges and tow boats are backed up like jammed cars on an interstate. there isn't enough water to get the traffic moving. the low river is threatening the economy of the entire mississippi delta, where farms have had a fairly good year, but the low river now has barges loaded with grain stacked up by the dozens.

>> transportation costs will increase about 25% due to light loading of barges. >> reporter: this stretch of the mississippi near greenville is what the coast guard calls a controlled sector, meaning only lighter tows are allowed through and only one at a time. meantime the army corps of engineers continues to dredge for a nine-foot-deep 300-foot wide channel to keep the boats moving. right now the river is stuck at a little over 7 1/2 feet and is forecast to go lower over the next several days. for "cbs this morning" dennis turner, greenville, mississippi. today is diana nyad's 63rd birthday. for more than half of her life she dreamed of swimming from cuba to florida. elaine quijano explains why the swimmer gave up. >> reporter: diana nyad made it to shore tuesday but not the way she wanted. she swam the final few hundred yards to the florida keys after ending her bid to make history hours earlier. >> i'm standing in front of you after a pretty gruelling set of

hours out there, nothing was easy. >> reporter: the 63 years old abandoned her quest shortly before 1:00 a.m. but her team was slow to admit defeat. it took nearly seven hours to publicly announce that the triple threat of stormy weather, shark-infested waters and especially painful jellyfish stings did her in. >> two little hairs, i felt them, sweep across my lips and i thought what the heck is that? as i started to touch them, fire and then chills all over. >> reporter: nyad logged more than 41 hours in the water, stopping only twice for short rests. supporters cheered her on tuesday. some critics popped up online, one twitter user wrote "diana nyad has tried, and failed, to swim from cuba to florida four times since the 1970s. perhaps it's time to give up." it's unclear whether she'll ever

make a fifth attempt at her dream. >> when you've got something as large as history, you know, and maybe it's ego, it's hard to let it go by. it really is. >> reporter: for "cbs this morning" elaine quijano, key west, florida. a long time tennis official who was about to work at the u.s. open is accused of murdering her husband. 70-year-old lois ann goodman was arrested tuesday in new york city, she was just about to start officiating at qualifying matches for the tournament that starts on monday. goodman is accused of beating her husband to death with a coffee cup in their los angeles home in april. a washington state man is due in court to face charges of threatening president obama. the secret service arrested 31-year-old anton calori at his seattle suburb apartment tuesday. he allegedly sent an e-mail to the fbi and when agents arrived at his home he charged at them with a shotgun. no one was hurt and he was taken

into custody. calori's apartment was searched for explosives but none were found. time to show you some headlines "the new york times" reports the u.s. death toll in the afghan war reached 2,000 and it is running photos of thes most recent 1,000 troops to die, most of the americans were killed by ied, improvised explosive devices, three out of the four are white and nine out of ten are enlisted men and women, average age 26 years old. the "l.a. times" reports in and out burger has cut its ties to a california slaughterhouse accused of abusing cattle. cows at the central valley meat company were allegedly shocked and shot, despite being unable to stand or walk. "the new york post" says an atlantic city casino is suing 14 gamblers, the golden nugget realized the table they were playing at was using unshuffled

decks of cards. the casino is also suing the card vendor. and the "las vegas review-journal" says prince harry is in a right royal mess. the it published nude prints as he was playing strip pool with female friends in a hotel suite and charlie, i know harry is your guy. any advice for young master harry? >> no, no, i don't know. >> charlie says i'm going to leave that alone. welcome back, charlie

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they're building a new subway in manhattan. on tuesday some of the explosion got out of control, chunks of concrete breaking windows no, one was hurt. officials are trying to find out what exactly went wrong. welcome back to "cbs this morning." >> would have been very scary if you were standing around there minding your own business and all of a sudden -- welcome back to you, charlie rose. >> good to be back. >> did you miss us while you were gone? >> i loved what i was doing. >> that's always good. we have new information about the aurora, colorado, massacre, as rick sallinger of denver cbs 4 reports it raises questions about the accused killer and the university where he was studying for a ph.d.. >> reporter: cbs news has

learned that james holmes had seen at least three mental health professionals at the university of colorado before the shootings. only one name has been previously disclosed, dr. lynn fetton who provided psychiatric care to the man accused of killing 12 and injuring 58 in the crowded aurora, colorado, movie theater july 20th. it is unclear how long holmes met with each mental health professional and the depth of their involvement prior to the shootings but it adds to the picture of holmes' presence on the university's radar in the time period leading up to the massacre. cbs news has confirmed that dr. fenton made campus police aware of holmes prior to the shooting and that holmes' name was brought to the attention of the school's threat assessment team, but what was done with that information from there remains in question. for "cbs this morning" rick sallinger, aurora, colorado. >> senior correspondent john

miller is a former deputy police commissioner in new york and los angeles. good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> what does it say when you're reaching out to this many psychiatrists? >> it gets to the question that is going to continue to unfold in this case, which is, what was the depth of the university's knowledge about the depth of his problems, and the potential danger he posed, and i think what we're learning from this story is, first he went to a psychiatrist, she was on staff there, she was an older woman and she said, i can't reach him. i don't have a good rapport with him. she sent him on to dr. fenton, according to our sources. dr. fenton was concerned about her conversations with him and said, you know, you should talk to this third individual who is a male doctor on the staff, and according to our sources, after the shooting, when he was captured, he had that doctor's cell phone in his phone, so it seems like they were in contact, but the real nut to crack here is going to be the beta team was

notified about him, their behavioral threat assessment team. the university police were notified about him and i am told by investigators who have been through some of this material, puniversity know, when did they know it. it's going to be disconcerting to a lot of people. >> so i was wondering, that's exactly what i was wondering. can investigators now question what the university could have done about mr. holmes before the shooting? >> well, investigators are really in the trial prep mode here in some regard. i think the people are going to be questioning that, that's going to be a question of public concern, and you know, it's interesting, gayle, because this is not an institution that hadn't thought through this process. the reason they had this behavioral assessment team was because of things like virginia tech, for early intervention, and they were engaged here. so some of this, admittedly, on our part, is going to be 20/20 hindsight and some of it might not be fair, but i'm also told

when we see the actual information they had, there's going to be some controversy. >> when will we see that? >> well, that's the part of the battle that's going on right now, because tomorrow in court, you know, there's manila envelopes that have a couple of hundreds of pages of university documents that the judge wants to see them, the defense wants them and they don't want the judge or the prosecutors to see them, and they're going to end up litigating that and that's just his school records. the psychiatric records, they're still saying that's doctor/patient privilege, and that nobody should see that except his own lawyer, so this is going to be something that's going on in court for a while. >> good to see you. >> good to be back. >> john miller. only one golfer has ever made it to number one faster than rory mcilroy. this morning he tells us how he got to the top and while winning the pga meant so much to him and his family. tomorrow we'll ask roger clemens about making a baseball comeback at the age of 50, in his first national interview

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chops one to third, out there, out at second, a triple play! >> take a look at that, the oakland a's turned a triple play as they beat the minnesota twins last night. it was the third triple play in the majors this season. the a's beat the twins 4-1. that's fun to see. >> triple plays and perfect games. >> really nice to see. can't do either, nice to see. rory mcilroy first became the top ranked golfer in the work in march at 22 years old. he had trouble at the masters and missed the cut at the u.s. open. he just won the pga championship by eight strokes. i sat down with him this week to talk about winning his second grand slam title.

what did it mean to you to win the pga? >> it means an awful lot. you know, i always said that the second one would mean just as much as the first. the first is obviously going to be very special. you're only ever going to get to do it once but to validate the first one with the second one i felt was very important, especially, i mean it's not like i struggled to are a long time, but i went through a period of a couple of months where i hadn't played my best golf. >> not even making cuts. >> not even making cuts. i missed four cuts in five tournaments which for me is, you know, it's not where i want to be. it's not the place that i want to be. >> and what was the difference between not making those cuts and walking down the 18, knowing you have the tournament? >> attitude, mental attitude was the difference between struggling in tournaments and struggling to make the weekend and winning majors, going out with an attitude of let's go

ahead and enjoy this. >> what did you think you had to prove? >> you know, i always feel like a lot of guys have won one major, and not so many have backed it up with another one. i wanted to prove that i had the hunger for more and i wanted to win more tournaments. i want to get my third, and hopefully when i get my third i want to get my fourth, and that's just the way i have to treat it. >> when you were coming down the 18th at the pga, knowing you had it wrapped, ahead by seven or eight strokes, what were you thinking? you knew your father was there. >> yeah. i was, i was trying to look for him on the walk, and i didn't see him, and it was just before i was about to hit my final putt i saw him at the back of the green and i looked over to him and he gave me this massive smile and i couldn't stop smiling, and -- >> so that's -- >> i nearly broke down into tears then, for some reason, i don't know why, but i just had

to tell myself to hold it together for one last putt and you know, i was able to do it. >> and then when you grabbed him or he grabbed you. >> yeah, that's when i've never, never ever been that emotional whenever i've won a golf tournament but for some reason, i cried. >> your dad and your mom, rosa lee, made a lot of difference in you becoming a golfer, they sacrificed and sacrificed and sacrificed. >> yeah, they did, they sacrificed an awful lot. >> two and three jobs for each. >> two and three jobs for each. mom worked night shifts in a factory not far from our home, dad had two or three jobs always from when i can remember, you know, web i got home from school it was my mom that was there, and then you know, i'd have dinner and she'd have to go to work and my dad would come home, make the breakfast and she'd go to work. >> when you were 2 years old

your dad had given you a plastic club. >> golf was in my family. my dad's father was a good player and my dad was a scratch golfer, his two brothers were great players so it was in the mcilroy family and something that's always been close to me. >> wla . >> what happens in this process of a young man, very young, 2, 3, 4, 5, until he's a teenager, where future champions are made, what is it that separates those who have greatness and those who will be good but not great? >> i think the passion for the game is probably the most important thing. you know, being in love with what you do, and people will tell you -- i probably practiced harder when i was 7-year-old than i did at 9. i was at the golf course for 12 hours a day. >> just loved the game? >> just loved the game. >> this win has restored you to the number one player in the world. some say you're the dominant

player, some say that we're beginning the rory era. what do you say? >> it's definitely i think golf is in a transition period at the minute. you know, from the late, you know, late '90s to maybe a couple years ago, when tiger was the dominant player, but there's been an awful lot of different winners in majors in golf and parity among the field. it's a traditional field. i feel like the gap between the 100th player in the world and the number one player in the world has gotten very, very small. >> someone said, observing how you and tiger, they said that when you are driving the ball, there's a freedom about the way you're hitting it now, whereas tiger is hitting it almost as if it's his last ball, he's playing more conservative. >> yeah, you know, i'm not sure if i'm in the position to answer that in tiger's case but in my

case, i've always played very free. i've always committed 100% to the shot and i feel like if i do that, even if i don't make a great swing, it will work out in the end. >> playing with him, is it inspiring, challenging? because he was such an inspiration to you when you were growing up. >> for me, just to play with tiger is a dream come true. you know, i've actually struck up a really good relationship with him over the past couple of years, and to be able to play alongside your hero and then to compete against him as well is, not many people in life get to do that. >> is there anything you need to work on? >> everything. >> everything? >> i have to keep working. i have to keep working hard, trying to improve. there's no point in being complacent. i want to achieve a lot more in this game and if i can improve every aspect of my game 1% every year, i'll be very, very happy. >> interesting thing about him,

he's in the same three-some with beth page teeing up on thursday with tiger. >> that's good. >> there's a place you'd like to be. sadly i'm always amazed how good that young how early they started and how much help they got, and the sacrifice of this guy's parents, two and three jobs. >> i loved the shot, charlie, of he and his dad embracing. someone comes up and the dad is like no, we're having a moment here. what i'm amazed at, someone at the top of their game clearly still says i still have more to do, i still have more to learn. >> and now continue to practice hard. >> he was your type of guy. >> oh, boy, he was. tiger says he's "an improver." i believe in improvers. >> it makes me think maybe i could like golf.

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you know what mitt romney and paul ryan are campaigning today? as far away as possible from representative todd akin of missouri, just trying to get away from the guy. >> mitt romney has asked todd akin to step down, i thought oh that's too bad. todd akin was the guy to lead the republican party into the 16th century. >> the hurricane could threaten next week's national republican convention in tampa, it could hurt republicans which really explains its name, hurricane todd akin. >> he's official he's part of the late night comedians. >> says something right there. >> really does. it is 8:00, welcome back to "cbs this morning" i'm gayle king. >> and i'm happy to be back with you. i'm charlie rose. congressman todd akin is

refusing to quit the missouri senate race. bill plante in washington takes a look at other politicians under fire and how some of them manage to survive. bill, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. by refusing requests from mitt romney and dozens of republican leaders to get out of the race before last night's deadline to get off the ballot, congressman akin is betting that he can get missouri voters to forgive his verbal misstep, that's a very tricky calculation, sometimes it works, but sometimes it doesn't. 48 hours after his self-proclaimed verbal slip-up an optimistic todd akin went on sean hanity's radio program tuesday and said people are overreacting. >> it appears to be fears and parano paranoia. the republican party has bid this thing up to make it a lot bigger deal than it really needed to be. yeah, i know everybody gets upset for a couple of days. >> reporter: so for the moment akin is going nowhere but sometimes when politicians get in trouble, they resign quickly. >> i cannot allow my private

failings to disrupt the people's work. >> reporter: two days, that's how long it took new york governor elliott spitser to announce his resignation after news broke that he had patronized prostitutes. new york congressman anthony weiner hung in a little longer. >> the main question a lot of people are asking is, did i send the photograph. i did not. this was a prank, a hoax. >> reporter: for three weeks he denied he tweeted suggestive pictures of himself to several young women before he finally came clean and stepped down. >> i hope to be able to continue the work that the citizens of my district elected me to do. >> reporter: the record holder may be former new york congressman chris lee, took him three hours to resign after a website published a picture of him shirtless that he sent to a woman on craigslist. but akin is trying to follow the lead of those who made it through the media firestorm, like louisiana senator david vitter. >> i am completely responsible and i'm so very, very sorry.

>> reporter: vitter admitted to using a prostitution service a pologized and five years later is still a senator and then there's former president bill clinton. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, miss lewinsky. >> reporter: who survived impeachment after the monica lewinsky scandal but it's not always what politicians do that causes problems. sometimes like akin, it's what they say. trent lott, for example, the former mississippi senator, got into trouble for suggesting that the country might have been better off without the civil rights movement. he apologized and lost his leadership position, but remained in the senate for five more years. >> lots of people say something dumb. some of them survive, some of them don't. >> reporter: eric dezenhall is a crisis management specialist. he says your chance of survival after a gaffe are better if you're likeable. >> ronald reagan and joe biden say and said lots of dumb stuff. it doesn't seem to matter,

because whether it's the media or the general public, there is a general aura of geniality and the general feeling they didn't mean to do anything horrible. >> reporter: as for todd akin's chances? >> i think that what's happening there is he is counting on political factor that this is local, that he can survive it at the local level. >> so the question is will missourians forgive akin? he could still ask out of the race before late september but it would take a court order. it's pretty clear that he's betting he can stay. on tuesday night he tweeted "i apologized but the liberal media is trying to make me drop out. please stand by me" and he's promising to make abortion a main issue in his race. that kind of focus on women's issues is something the national republicans don't want, but which the democrats will certainly welcome. charlie, gayle? >> bill plante, thank you so much. also cbs news political director john dickerson in washington, good morning. >> good morning, charlie. >> good to see you.

>> welcome back. >> thank you. let me begin with this. the political community says what about congressman akin? >> well, the republican political community says get him out. he needs to be gone, because this is, puts the senate race in missouri in peril, that's one of the ones republicans needed to take control back of the senate and links up, they're about to have a party convention, supposed to be about unity not debates over abortion. >> i meant the wisdom of the political community, can he survive this. >> the wisdom, no. the wisdom of the republican community is that he's not going to have any money, he's going to lose women voters who this offends so he has to try and build it from the grassroots so he can survive and can he stay in the race but the thinking is among republicans that he's thrown away this seat. >> we just heard bill plante, john, say he's blaming the liberal media. do you think that's going to help him, that tactic will help him at all?

>> if he's going to raise money he has to make this a fight against somebody else, take the pressure off himself, make himself look like a victim. so he's only got a few boogiemen, the liberal media is a good one and there's a narrative already in republican politics for that. the problem is that mitt romney is not a member of the liberal media. the entire republican establishment that's come out against him, they're not members of the liberal media, so it's a tough sell. >> how serious do the people around mitt romney consider this? >> it's serious. it's distracting. it falls into an existing storyline democrats have been pushing for a while. mitt romney may talk about the economy but if he comes into office, if the republicans take over the senate they'll bring in extreme views, what congressman akin has done is put a highlight on the extreme end of the abortion debate, so they are serious about it, but their hope is that they're going to have a convention, there will be a lot of news there, or at least a lot of fan fafare that will look li

news and hope they can paper over this with events and then it will be on the obama campaign to kind of keep this in the news. >> john, it's been said about political gaffes that it's really politicians saying what they really mean. when you look at the history of gaffes, what do you think about that? >> well, that was michael kinsey's great definition and it's usually that's true and that's the problem, because so much of political speech is meaningless so when you get a gaffe you get a window perhaps into their soul, they can sometimes be overread and this certainly hurt trent lott. he had to step down. there has to be a mix between the view into some truth that people see and a political context, and that's the problem here, it connects to a worry republicans have about women voters, so you can say a gaffe and sound stupid or say something that might be offensive if it doesn't have the second political piece it's not as damaging. >> how will this play itself out? what kind of pressure in the end might convince him that for the good of the party, for the good of his future, for the good of everybody, he has to get out of

this race? >> well, in talking to a long time republican strategist who has been involved in the party, he highlighted one thing, which as you mentioned for the good of the party. todd akin didn't come up through the party, when you're in republican party politics or democratic party politics you learn that if this kind of thing happens there is an exit door and this person i was talking to said anthony weiner did the right thing, congressman chris lee did the right thing. congressman akin didn't come up through that so he thinks he's on kind of a crusade here, he wants to stick to principle and wants to talk about abortion, so the people i've talked to who have been trying to pressure him and who have been trying to get him out of the race don't see any way they can kind of connect him to the traditional exit roots that you have for politicians to get them out in these situations. >> that includes some of his friends like paul ryan. >> that's right, and there was some, ryan called and tried to get him to go, and that didn't work. the reporting i have from people who are trying to figure out how to find a lever to get him out of the race is basically that he

thinks this is now kind of a personal crusade, and this is part of the mission and why he's in politics to stand against the slings and arrows, whether they're coming from his own party, from the liberal media or from democrats. >> all right, john dickerson thank you. an important change is coming to your 401(k) next week. it could help you save hundreds of thousands of dollars. this morning "cbs moneywatch" jack otter will show us five

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♪ forget trains and purple places ♪ trace adkins, you know that voice, a hero to his fans and now honoring other american heroes, while he's out on tour. we'll talk about that and get the story from trace about "badonkadonk" on "cbs this morning." time for this morning's "healthwatch" with dr. holly phillips. >> good morning in today's "healthwatch" boost your memory by shooting your eyes. in today's harried times forgetfulness is an issue for nearly everyone but it turns out keeping lists and repeating things can only do so much. if you really need information to sink in, take a break and close your eyes. in a new study researchers asked 33 adults to listen to two short stories and to try to remember

as many details from them as possible. afterward, one group rested quietly with their eyes closed in a dark room. the other group played a computer game which causes a distraction from rest. overall the participants who took a break after hearing the story remembered many more details than the distracted group, both right away and even seven days later. the new data supports findings from previous research that wakeful rest supports neural processes resulting in long-term memory. and we've long known that more deep rest in the form of sleep helps the brain consolidate memories into information we use in our effort life. hence newborns send most of their days asleep. so whether you want to improve your performance in school or just remember your grocery list, schedule some down time for perfect recall. i'm dr. holly phillips. >> announcer: "cbs healthwatch" sponsored by the makers of centrum, always your most complete. only centrum goes beyond. providing more than just

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by the end of this month your employer will be required to tell you more about the cost of your 401(k). this is an especially good time to review those all-important retirement plans. jack otter is here with five things we need to know about them. welcome. >> thank you very much. >> where do we start? >> well with these fees, these fees are notoriously high in 401(k)s and so soon we'll be finding out what we're actually paying and i know this sounds like one of those hr e mails you want to get rid of but this is important stuff. there are $3 trillion in the plans and a lot of it will be eaten away by fees in a low return world where bonds are yielding nothing, stocks haven't been doing much and in some cases companies are getting fully legal kickbacks from the mutual fund company. the hope is by shedding light on

this, companies will be shamed into lowering fees. >> is this the first time they've had to share the fees with us? this never happened before? >> there's two components to the fees action one is what the mutual fund charges, the expense raichor and you can find that out usually by digging but what the company charges in administrative fees, that has usually been in the dark so it's good that we're finally finding this out. >> what do you do, find out your percentage and figure out what's best for you? >> first of all, the golden rule is the lower the better. >> right. >> it's extraordinary how much it costs investors to pay in fees. when i was writing my book i looked at say an average couple, i gave them each $50,000, coming into the marriage at age 30 and i thought just to make it simple, they're going to put nothing more in their 401(k), after age 30, so they have $100,000, leave it in there until age 65. at 1.3%, the average, they'd retire with $900,000 something.

not bad. >> not bad at all. >> i'll take that. not bad at all. >> give them an index fund with rock bottom rate, my lowest was 0.07%, $1.4 million was their retirement nest egg. the only difference was that expense ratio. >> tell what an index fund is. >> an actively managed fund, a manager tries to say, okay, these are the best stocks, these are the best bonds, i'm going to own those. an index fund is passive, it's just we're going to own all the stocks in a given market, we're going to own all the bonds in a given market so the human tendency is to say i want the one where the guy picks the best. the problem is that very rarely does he actually perform the best. first of all it's extremely hard to do this. warren buffett can do it, most people can't and second of all it costs more. >> simply the idea most people can't beat the standard & poor ind index. >> exactly. since 2003 hedge funds have lagged the s&p 500 as well as a

mix of stocks and bonds every single year since '03. >> we always hear diversify, diversify, diversify. how do you make sure your portfolio is okay? >> i created the no brainer portfolio and not the only one to use this. it could be as simple as taking the vanguard total world index fund for your stocks, 60% there, 40% in bonds, and during the so-called lost decade, that portfolio was actually up 50%, because it owned everything, fees were rock bottom so you were automatically diversified. >> people were apprehensive about their 401(k) target day fund? >> this stuff can be scary. if you don't want to worry about this stuff you can default to autopilot, a target day fund, it owns a mix of stock and bonds, gets more conservative as you age, so you don't have to worry about it. i think that's a good thing to do for people who hear me talking and say i don't want to think about that. >> thank you, jack otter, very

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♪ ♪ it's so hard not to stare at that honkytonk badonkadonk ♪ >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." trace adkins "honkytonk badonkado badonkadonk" in 2005, the country guy has been busy ever since, actor and author, the father of five daughters and the host of a new tv show "trace adkins." hello and welcome. before he sat down, he's meeting charlie rose and says charlie your credibility is going down

the drain. >> he's something very special. >> i'm thinking charlie rose as we've never seen him. >> like i said your credibility is forever sullied now. not only have you interviewed the guy that did "badonkadonk" you wore his hat. nobody will ever take you serious again. >> oh, i think not. >> what trace didn't know, charlie likes "badonkadonk." >> i do. >> he loves a good badonkadonk. >> did y'all hear that? charlie rose -- >> talk about the good things that you do in terms of finding ordinary people who are doing extraordinary things in towns and small towns throughout america. >> you know, i had somebody yesterday say to me, you know, everybody says now that this generation is not as giving and caring as the generation that came before, and i said you know, i'm not going to argue with that, but there are still some out there, and we found them. there are a lot of people out there that are just committing

selfless acts of kindness. >> every day. >> yeah. >> every day. but where did you get the idea from? those people come into town and not pay attention to what's going on there. >> i met a lady in albuquerque that was doing something similar on her own level and she was just creating works of art, and when she would find somebody that was doing something nice for somebody else, she'd just take them one of these works of art, this turquoise stuff she made and give it to them because of something they had done nice, and i thought, you know, i meet these people and i hear about these people all the time, in my travels around this country, and i've just thought somebody should find some of them and give them a pat on the back and these people aren't looking for recognition. they're not doing these things because -- >> exactly right. >> -- they want to be recognized or, you know, kudos, but we found some of them and gave them a pat on the back. >> and they deserve more attention. across america there are people

who are sacrificing for the good of the community. >> yes. >> to make a difference, and without asking for attention, as you say. but let me go back to music and you. what constitutes a badonkadonk? >> well, it's not that emaciated model, little skinny thing, charlie. it's well-rounded -- >> again, trace, i tell you, he likes the badonkadonk. well-rounded, okay, continue, go ahead. >> well, well-rounded. >> does it for me. >> that's good enough. >> me, too, i think so. you know when when you see one, don't you? >> i do know when when i see one, yes, sir. >> before we continue about adonk badonkadonk i want to show a clip of your show "great american heroes." >> get this sissy ladder out of the way, i don't need no lad 6'6".

>> you're a big boy, not only that, you have this very deep voice, trace. when did that happen to you? did your voice change at a certain age? >> yeah, yeah, i was about 14 and i remember the reason i remember that is because it was one of those moments in a young man's life where the first time people mistook me for my, they'd call the house i'd answer the phone they'd go "mr. adkins" and i'd laugh, i thought that was so funny, so that's when it changed and i got a big kick out of it. >> and then you found out you could use it. >> i dared not, no, no. i didn't do that. impersonating my daddy wouldn't have been a good idea. >> you've had a very interesting life. you were shot by an ex-wife

through the heart, you lived. obviously. your finger was severed. >> um-hum. >> there was a house fire that everybody got out. >> yes. >> thank god for that and even when that happened you wanted to give back to others. do you look back at your life and say boy i can't believe that i am still here. >> you can look at it, glass half full or half empty. either i've been very lucky or incredibly unlucky, you know? because i've had a lot of really crazy things happen to me but i have made it through on my own, you know. i just too mean to go to hell, i guess. >> you think mean counts? you work on another album? >> yeah, i'm done with it actually. i'm finished with my part. now everybody else has to do their stuff with it, but i finished my part of it. >> what are you talking about? >> what am i ta you canning about? >> yes. >> i sang it all. i'm done with it. >> no, no, what are you singing about? >> oh. >> in the music. >> well i don't do theme albums.

>> these are just songs? >> yeah, you know, i never have really done a theme album. willie nelson and other guys have done that. i've never done that. it's just the best stuff that i've been able to come up with over the last 18 months or so, and that's usually about the time period between albums. >> is it about relationships and things like that? >> of course, yes. wow, that's pretty astute, mr. rose. country album about relationships. >> i can't believe that, areal? >> oh, wow. >> somebody's done that before? >> not -- no, i've got the first one coming out now. >> about relationships, about love and romance and affairs and -- >> i've got the first one coming out soon. >> and jealousy and rage and -- >> never done anything like that before in the history of country music. >> trace adkins the father of five daughters. what is it you taught your daughters about men, being a man yourself. what was the most important thing you wanted them to know about men? >> wow.

you know -- >> i'd love to hear that. >> i don't know that i've -- i can't recall ever just telling my daughters, "a man has to treat you this way," you know, in order for you to respect and love him. i haven't had that conversation with any of them, but i've watched them closely, and i've scrutinized their choices and we go from there. and so i haven't really -- so far, so good. >> i'm glad to hear that. >> they've picked some pretty good guys. >> i'm glad to hear that. >> i tell them anyway, you know, hey, i've been to jail and it didn't scare me. i'm not scared to go back. >> i think that really sort of says it all if i was going to date your daughter. very nice to meet you, mr. adkins. so continued success, really, the show is really great, trace, and you have -- >> thank you. >> -- a good heart and such a big heart, really. >> thank you. >> great to have you here.

>> sorry about what i've done to you, mr. rose. >> if i can survive, you can survive. i survived, you can survive. >> trace adkins thank you "great american heroes" with trace adkins premieres tonight on the great american country network. a small group of billionaires is having a big impact on the presidential race. this morning jane mayer explains why president obama could be hurting himself by not being more friendly with the big money crowd. but first at

♪ can't buy me love, love ♪ can't buy me love president obama will be in new york city tonight for a big money fund-raiser. new reports say his campaign has about $60 million less in the bank than governor mitt romney's campaign has. an article in the latest "new yorker" may help explain that. jane mayer writes mr. obama has never been comfortable with

billionaire contributors and asked him the question could it cost him the election. jane mayer is with us. "shmooze or lose. obama doesn't like cozying up to billionaires. could it cost him the election?" do you believe it could cost him the election unless he's able to shmooze with billionaires? >> or as one of the donors says you've got to suck up, and really it's not something that obama got elected to do. he wanted to sort of represent the small people. he came on with a legendary amount of money from small donors but the world changed in 2010 with the citizens united decision, and so has the political landscape. there are so many billionaires now. we counted 33 who have given over $250,000, and of those 33, 33 of them have given to romney and only three to obama. >> so what is it about the president, though, that he doesn't really want to go out as

president clinton is capable of doing. >> clinton is one of his big problems because clinton was so asid aciduous when it came to courting the ultrarich it left the donors feeling that's how you should be treated. he was accused of giving sleepovers in the lincoln bedroom and things like that so the same donors in the democratic party they worked with obama, where is my grip and grin photograph with the president? i don't get to ride in the car with him. he doesn't put people on air force one with him. >> why doesn't he do it? >> well -- >> is it -- >> it's three things, basically. it's his politics. it's his principles and it's his personality. politically, he's not there to serve the super rich, as he sees it. >> but clinton wouldn't say that either, he's not there to serve the super rich. >> clinton fared to be popular to everyone basically. >> trying to bring in all the resources he can to win an

election so he can do the kinds of things he thinks or most politicians -- >> obama has talked about this and written about it over the years and he sees it as dirty, muddy water, that he wants to try to clean up, and instead, american politics is going the opposite direction, the citizens united, there's more money than ever, truly, this is historic election you've never seen money like this. >> here is an interesting point, this is from your article and you say according to obama's mother, he told her that his foray into the corporate world which he worked for business international one summer or something was working for the enemy. david mariness reports that in the biography, "working for the enemy." >> he was one year out of college, wearing a leather jacket and smoking cigarettes and being cool, way back in 1983. people who i've talked to who know obama well, and including mariness, his biographer don't

say he's hostile to business. it's just that he's not interested that much in big money. he's never wanted to work for money that much. he's never wanted to get rich, particularly, it's not what he's about. >> the reason why he probably went into being a community organizer instead of going to a law firm after being editor of "the harvard law review." >> he wanted to work on the street so he has a different mind-set than this, and meanwhile, while he's been sort of holding himself at arm's length distance from the billionaires, the republican party has built a machine around them, so what he suddenly, and i think some people feel that the obama campaign miscalculated, they did not realize that in some ways they're bringing a knife to a gunfight, and there's just an avalanche of money that's going to come at them. >> let's go back to the premise of your article, as charlie started, do you think it will cost him the election? and what should a donor expect? what are your expectations as a donor? >> i think first of all this

election will test how important money is, because if money is everything, and there's that much money, that much more money on the romney side, then it will really give him the advantage and we'll see in november, but what should he do? i mean, personally, i'm a reporter. i cover what's out there, but i think a lot of this from my standpoint being in washington for a long time suggests there needs to be some campaign finance reform. >> citizens united could change this election. citizens y s united to change t election. >> because of the amount of outside money piling up, there are hundreds of millions of dollars that are piling up. it's going to be spent in ads, anybody who lives in a swing state you will see wall-to-wall ads that are paid for by billionaires. >> and the question is also, whether people who are in the center, the independents who may decide the election, whether they'll be turned off by too many ads or not. most political pros believe they will not. >> people say they don't like

the ads but guess what? the ads affect them. >> jane mayer, thank you. >> great to be with you. >> nice to have you. he made the america's most important chef of the last 20 years. we'll talk with jean george v g vongerichtin about the art of fine dining.

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there are very few people in the food world that have achieved the success and critical acclaim and level of influence of jean george vongerichtin. he manages a total of 33 with more than 2,000 employees. chef good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we were talking about you before you sat at the table and i can say, you have some of the best food i've ever tasted, whether it's a burger to fine dining, and you say that it's something that you love, that you've loved from the time that you were a little boy. >> food, i grew up in a family where my mother and grandfather, sounds cliche but i really grew up with good food around me. i was no good in school. >> you were not good in school? >> they threw me out of school. >> they threw you out? >> when i was 16 so i decided i was in love with food, and i started as an apprentice in a restaurant, and i've been doing it for almost 40 years now.

>> lots of people love food and lots of people love restaurants and lots of people try to make restaurants succeed and they cannot. >> they can't. >> you can. one time after another, although not always. >> not always. with he had a couple of flops. >> what is the secret when you look at your own career? >> i think it's about location. >> location? >> first. >> yes. like real estate, isn't it? >> real estate, and then come oup with the right concept, maybe jean george has to be focused on the concept you're going to open, is it asian, is it french, italian, people need to have a direction where the restaurant is going to be. >> you see some restaurants that start off with a wave of attention, and good, and then you go back in six months and it's different. >> it's true. >> it seems to me it's crucial to maintain the sense of specialness that you get at the beginning. >> absolutely. i mean first you start with beautiful decor, people like to feel comfortable, to feel good, and then you create a mood that

has to be consistent. if you come back two weeks after you had that dish, the burger or the organic food, whatever you do. >> she had the burger, i had the organic food. >> that's true. you said the first three months are the most crucial, and that surprised me. i always think the first three months you're trying to bourque out the kinks but you said no, the first three months of a restaurant are the moest important. why? >> it's like a fine wine, it gets better with age, but i think the first three months is where everybody is focused. i'm focused on it, this is what you're going to get for the next 15, 20 years. >> do you go around and see what other people are doing, to hear that something is happening, you want to go and eat there and get a feeling for what they're doing that's right? >> absolutely. for me it's inspiration is really trying what's out there, traveling is a big inspiration for me. i was trained in france for eight years and the biggest change in my life is when i went to thailand in 1980. >> what happened? >> it changed my life. i cooked traditional food in france, and i arrived in

thailand and discovered ginger, lemongrass, chilis. >> and different things to choose from. >> it opened a whole new palate of flavor. little bit of spice, ginger, it's a new chicken. >> how are you able to do so many different kinds of restaurants so well? people couldn't say you focus on one thing. you do a variety of things. >> we do all kinds of things. hopefully once you open a restaurant, you can't attach to it too much. one opened two and a half years ago. >> we both agree we love it. >> you can change 60% of the menu with the seasons but the rest of the menu has to be there because when you come back you come back for whatever you like. >> whatever you like. >> you continue to grow and you're opening a new restaurant in shanghai. >> italian. >> in shanghai. >> in shanghai, right. >> it would work for me, italian

food in shanghai. thank you jean george.

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