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come into the u.s. since last year according to "the washington post," which is a dramatic spike. the dhs secretary jeh johnson signaled that central american families would face deportation if not granted asylum. in a statement, dhs says secretary johnson has consistently said our border is not open to illegal immigration, and if individuals come here illegally, they will be sent back consistent with our laws and values. the plan has not yet received final approval as it remains a hot button issue within the obama administration and on the campaign trail for the 2016 presidential candidates. >> those presidential candidates continue to slug it out. donald trump warning hillary clinton to be careful about playing the woman card. julianna goldman reports. >> i don't know that he has any boundaries at all. >> reporter: hillary clinton used a sit-down with "the des moines register" to say donald trump should be held accountable for his language.
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>> i think he has to answer for what he says. it's not the first time he's demonstrated a penchant for sexism. and so i'm not sure again anybody is surprised. >> reporter: trump fired back last night. >> i really haven't gone after hillary yet, and there's a lot to go after. >> reporter: so did his political director. >> i think it's ironic that hillary clinton is playing the sexism card, considering the record of her husband and his term in the white house. he was impeached by the house of representatives for his behavior. >> reporter: earlier this week, clinton's staff urged supporters to use the campaign's #i'mwithher. to combat trump's degrading language. and is capitalizing on one of trump's few polling weaknesses. a recent survey shows that 61% of women nationally have an unfavorable opinion of trump, including nearly 30% of republican women. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.
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if you're planning to head out to the movies this weekend and have already seen "star wars," you might want to catch the new film "youth." michael caine has made nearly 200 films over the last half century but says this is his favorite. lesley stahl sat down with him. >> reporter: "youth" is set in the swiss alps. michael caine plays a celebrated composer and conductor who has turned his back on music. but he can't help finding it everywhere. [ cow moos ] ♪ [ birds chirping ] it was a part written specifically for him. >> it was the most surprising
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offer i've ever had in my life. i don't get offered many leads. at 82, there aren't too many. i almost said don't bother to send the script, i'll do it. it's okay, it's okay. ♪ >> do you know who composed that piece that you're practicing? >> no, who? >> me. >> my teacher makes me play it. he says it's a perfect piece. >> he's right, it's very simple. >> it's not always simple. >> oh, really? >> it's also really beautiful. >> yes, it is, it is beautiful. i composed it while i still loved. >> reporter: would you say that fred's in crisis in the movie? >> he's more or less destroyed, as a matter of fact. but you don't know that. and he would never let you see that. >> reporter: we have so much sympathy for him.
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how did you do that? >> i go back to situations in my life and you can see it in my face. >> reporter: but sometimes he wasn't acting at all. in one scene, the director decided to present caine and his co-star harvey keitel with a surprise. >> we had no idea. we were in a swimming pool and one of the most beautiful girls you've ever seen comes up with absolutely nothing on and gets in the pool. and we just looked in disbelief. and he didn't tell us because he wanted us to have a certain reaction. we just sat there like. >>s miss universe. >> reporter: how do you think you did in this movie, rate yourself. >> secretly with myself, i regarded it as the best thing i've ever did. it was the most difficult and the criteria for that is i made
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it look the most easy. >> reporter: so in other words, you improved? >> i just try to play more and more difficult roles. >> reporter: so you want a greater challenge at the age of 82? >> yeah. >> reporter: than when you were -- >> i need a challenge. i don't get the girl anymore. all i get was grandma. >> reporter: what's wrong with grandma? >> nothing, you know. as long as she's pretty. ♪ >> reporter: there's a sense of the futuresof these characters closing in on them that age is shutting down their future. did it in any way begin to affect you? >> oh, no. but there was a point in the movie where i'm being examined by my doctor. he says, how does it feel to be old? and i said, i don't understand how i got here. and that affected me like hell, because i was thinking that's true with me. i don't understand how i got here.
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>> reporter: he was born morris joseph micklewhite in 1933. the son of working class cockneys in the slums of south london, a lot of which has been torn down and rebuilt. >> it was very, very tough and it was full of gangs and all that. is this a london road coming up, mitchel? >> on the right hand side? >> turn right there, please. oh, look. there's an example. i spent my life in the library reading books to get away from this. that's the library. >> reporter: this pile of rubble? >> that is my library. i spent my entire time reading books and going to the cinema, just to escape. and they pulled my library down. >> reporter: you were really, really poor? >> oh, yeah. my father was a fish market porter. so i grew up on fish because he used to steal one a day. i grew up on the very best fish that money could buy because he
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only stole the good stuff. >> reporter: he was determined not to be a fish porter like generations before him. he was going to be a movie star and make a lot of money. at 14, he joined a local acting club. acting was considered sissy-like. were you teased? >> oh, yeah. you didn't tease me for very long. >> reporter: why not? >> yeah, that wouldn't go down very well. >> reporter: you would beat them up? >> yeah. >> reporter: were you that tough? >> yeah, yeah. i'm not tough anymore. i'm 82. >> reporter: at 22, he was struggling to find acting jobs. on the dole, he had a new wife and a baby and left them both. this is a very traumatic time of your life, because -- >> oh, yes. >> reporter: you basically in effect walked out. >> yeah. i screwed up, yeah. i screwed up on everything. >> reporter: you walked out on the baby and the wife. >> everything, yeah. >> reporter: it wasn't until he was 30 that he got his first big break in the 1964 film "zulu"
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where he played an upper class british officer. >> when you take command, old boy, you're on your own. the first lesson the general, my grandfather, ever taught me. >> the luck is the director was an american. because no english director would have cast me as an officer, i promise you. not one. >> reporter: because you were cockney? >> because i was a cockney. >> reporter: the class system was that rigid? >> that rigid, yeah. and it holds people back. >> reporter: and it makes you angry? >> oh, me, you start snubbing me, that's one of the times you get into trouble. >> reporter: he helped trigger the breakdown of that class system with a series of roles he played as a cockney. >> i've had a lovely time, alfie. >> reporter: he was a shameless rogue, and audiences loved him. starting in the swinging '60s, his characters personified the
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working class anti-hero. >> courtney, i am going to cook you the best meal you've ever eaten. >> reporter: with his irresistible charm, lahe pyed lovers, fighters, killers, spies, all with his trademark cockney swagger. >> why the hell aren't you here if >> mr.? >> moynihan. former gunnery sergeant in her majesty's forces. >> reporter: his success got hollywood's attention. soon he was playing leads in american movies like "the man who would be king." >> 10, 11 years old. you want an educated taste in whisky? >> them that govern spend all their time making up new laws to stop men like you and me from getting anywhere. >> reporter: by 1987, he was the most bankable british actors in hollywood, living the life of a movie star in a beverly hills
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mansion. that same year he won his first oscar for woody allen's "hanna and her sisters." he played a man married to hanna but had the hots for her sister. >> did you ever read -- don't! >> i'm in love with you. >> reporter: talk about slime buckets. he was it. and yet we like you. >> i don't think human beings are bad. they're weak. that's what makes them bad. and so i always expose the weakness rather than the nastiness. but you got the nastiness any way. >> you can see the full report on our website, cbsnews.com. the "overnight news" will be right back. we've been changing things up with k-y love.
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a new generation of potential beatles fans are waking up to a christmas present from the fab four. for the first time ever, the band's entire catalog will be available on streaming services. even though the beatles broke up nearly 50 years ago, they remain one of the most influential and valuable acts in the world. streaming their music will not only generate millions of dollars each year but reintroduce john, paul, george, and ringo to millions of young music lovers.
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>> an epidemic called beatle population. >> their music defined a decade. ♪ it's been a hard's day night ♪ and i've been working like a dog ♪ >> and a generation. ♪ >> now, the beatles are again embracing revolution. ♪ you say you want a revolution ♪ ♪ oh, i need your love, babe >> allowing millions of fans to stream their poppy melodies -- ♪ >> and giving a whole new generation a ticket to one of the greatest music catalogs in history. >> it's important because it's the beatles. the beatles changed everything about popular music. >> but there was no announcement by paul mccartney and ringo starr, just a 35-second video featuring a medley of popular songs, letting the music speak for itself. ♪ shake it up, baby
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♪ well, i find myself at times of trouble ♪ ♪ mother mary comes to me >> all 13 original studio albums plus four compilations, are now available on nine major streaming services is. 224 songs in total, including all 20 of the number one hits. >> paul mccartney, if you are listening, a.j. from brooklyn loves you with all her heart. ♪ i don't care much for money, money can't buy me love ♪ >> it's a huge validation for the streaming music industry, where revenue has jumped to nearly $1.9 billion in 2014. >> we're past the tipping point. it's not about music ownership anymore, it's about music access. and if you want to keep up with listeners who feel that way, and listeners tend to be younger, you need to be on streaming
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services. >> the decision comes as high profile artists like prince and taylor swift resisted the streaming revolution over low royalties. and adele's new album "25" has sold at least 6 million copies, despite being barred from streaming platforms. ♪ >> still, the beatles, initially slow to go digital, now seem ready to ride the wave. >> this decision for the beatles in some sense is about retaining relevancy. they don't want their music to be left out. they want their music, as they did when they were first making it, to be immortal. ♪ into the light of the dark black night ♪ >> and to give you an idea how popular the beatles still are, when they began selling on i-tunes in 2010, they sold 450,000 albums and 2 million
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it's friday, december 25th, 2015. this is the "cbs morning news." tornado troubles. recovery efforts after a deadly string of storms tears through the south. and an unusual twister outbreak in northern california causes significant damage. christians around the world come together to celebrate the christmas holiday. thousands gather at the birthplace of jesus and at the vatican. terrifying moments at a north carolina mall. what prompted a deadly shooting that had last-minute christmas shoppers ducking for cover. good mng
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