broiled chicken, barbecued pig. the most important thing was the thought that even a prisoner like me could eat chicken and pork, if i were able to escape the barbed wires. >> i heard people define freedom in many ways. i never heard someone define it as broiled chicken. >> translator: i still think of freedom in that way. >> really? that's what freedom means to you? >> translator: people can eat what they want. it can be the greatest gift from god. >> you were ready to die, just to get a good meal? >> translator: yes. >> he got his chance in january 2005, when he says he and park were gathering firewood in this remote area near the electrified fence. as the sun began to set, they decided to make a run for it. >> as they ran towards the fence, shin slipped in the snow. it was a snowy ridge. fell on his face. park got to the fence first. and thrust his body between the first and second strand. pulled down that bottom wire. and was immediately electrocuted. >> how did you get past him? >> translator: i crawled over hi

>> shin: oh, a lot of different things-- broiled chicken, barbecued pig.mportant thing was the thought that even a prisoner like me could eat chicken and pork if i were able to escape the barbed wires. >> cooper: i've heard people define freedom in many ways. i've never heard someone define it as broiled chicken. >> shin: i still think of freedom in that way. >> cooper: really? that's what freedom means to you? >> shin: people can eat what they want. it could be the greatest gift from god. >> cooper: you were ready to die just to get a good meal? >> shin: yes. >> cooper: he got his chance in january 2005, when he says he and park were gathering firewood in this remote area near the electrified fence. as the sun began to set, they decided to make a run for it. >> harden: and as they ran towards the fence, shin slipped in the snow. it was a snowy ridge, fell on his face. park got to the fence first and thrust his body between the first and second strands and pulled down that bottom wire, and was immediately electrocuted. how did you get past him? >> shin: i

>> oh, a lot of different things broiled chicken, barbecued pig and the thought that even a prisoner like me could eat chicken and pork if i were to escape. >> i have heard people define pred freedom in many ways. >> people can eat what they want. it can be the greatest gift from god. >> you were ready to die just to get a good meal. >> yes. >> he got this chance in january of 2005 when he and park were gathering fire wood in this area of the fence. as the sunset they decided to make a run for it. shin slipped in the snow, fell on his face and park got to the fence first and thrust his body and was elect tri cuted. >> how did you get past him? >> i crawled over his back. >> you climbed over him? >> yeah. >> he was a fugitive now in north korea on the run in one of the poorest countries in the world. but that is not how it seemed to him. >> what did the outside world look like? >> it was like heaven. people were laughing and talking what they wanted. they were wearing what they wanted. it was shocking. >> i was trying to get away from the camp and i ended up going north. >> did you kn

i've never heard it defined as broiled chicken. >> translator: i still think of freedom in that way. >> really? that's what freedom means to you. >> translator: people can eat what they want. >> you were ready to die just to get a good meal? >> translator: yes. >> he got his chance in january 2005 when he says he and park were gathering firewood in this remote area near the electrified fence. as the sun began to set, they decided to make a run for it. >> and as they ran towards the fence, shin fell on his face, park got to the fence first and thrust his body between the first and second strand and pulled down that bottom wire and was immediately electrocuted. >> how did you get past him? >> translator: i just crawled over his back. >> so you literally climbed over him? >> translator: yeah. >> he was a fugitive now in rural north korea on the run in one of the poorest, most repressive countries in the world. but that's not how it seemed to him. what did the outside world seem like? >> translator: it was like heaven. people were laughing and talking as they wanted. they were wearing wh

as for the taste of freedom he risked his life for, he can eat all the broiled chicken he wants now. but admits it hadn't given him the satisfaction he hoped for. >> translator: when i eat something good or laugh with friends, i'm excited. but that's only momentary. and in moments, i worry again. >> you worry about what now? >> translator: what i worry about are the people in the prison camps. children are still being born there. and somebody's probably being executed. >> do you think about that a lot? >> yeah. >> the world focuses on the north korean missile launch, tonight, we think of all those still in camp 14 and the other prison camps in north korea. let us know what you think. follow me at twitte twitter @andersoncooper. >>> up next, the shooting in the oregon mall. and what turned a 22-year-old what a masked killer? ally bank. why they have a raise your rate cd. tonight our guest, thomas sargent. nobel laureate in economics, and one of the most cited economists in the world. professor sargent, can you tell me what cd rates will be in two years? no. if he can't, no one can. th

she would turn the stove on all the way to broil, and it would heat up like a furnace, and then she would turn it off, and then put her stuff in and cook it. if it got too cold, she would turn it on again. it drove my parents crazy, but she made wonderful food. she was never going to learn this technology, but she had adapted to it. we recognize that people do that. if people have something that works, you leave it alone. another issue that people have on computers is -- and it is a real frustration for a lot of seniors -- that things do not show up in the same place. we try to set up people's computers so that it is recognizable. if you are using a macintosh, and it has the dock that has all the controls on it, you set it up so that it is always visible. you put the icons in place so they will always show up, so they are always recognizable. i gave my mother recently and ipad, and it is a brilliant piece of technology for seniors because it only has one button on the front of it. if you do not know what to do, you press that and go back to the home screen and start over. she really loves

that could broil financial markets and lead to a financial downgrade. he proposes a series of extraordinary measures to postpone the date that the u.s. would otherwise default on its legal obligations. geithner estimates his plan would free up about $200 billion, providing roughly two months of wiggle room. >>> well, last night on "the rachel maddow show," guest host ezra klein asked former clinton budget director alice rivlin on where we could see the fallout from the fiscal cliff. >> the real uncertainty i think is what the markets will look isn't in control of its own destiny because we're acting that way right now. now, if you're an investor, whether you're in some part of the united states or you're in some other part of the world, do you really want to buy american securities? do you want to invest in a country whose government isn't functioning? i don't think so. so, we could get a big market reaction, a drop in the stock market, and that might scare people. >> "the rachel maddow show" week nights at 9:00 eastern right here on msnbc, the place fo

others at the capitol are working overtime just in time for the holidays meanwhile congress is in broiled in a debate over how to cut the country's deficit which is in the trillions and how to stop the u.s. from falling over the so-called fiscal cliff and the movie magic really has a spell over congress the hope as ridiculous as it sounds is that a hollywood film will finally get the political parties to put aside their differences and work together to save the nation from economic calamity. the latter in our g u.s. lawmakers are getting ready to celebrate the holidays and with the holidays come get upset like a new wireless surveillance bill wrapped and sent with care to big brother the latest information on new fights so regulate the regulation. here's mitt romney trying to figure out. that thing that the american. here's another one you. know we're out of here. want to defeat terrorism the only liberal and the current. that you destructors from what you and i should care about because there are profit driven industries and souls of sensationalistic garbage because of breaking news i'm

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. >> reporter: this is the second day of class for 11 veterans learning to broil, fry or cut their way forward. they are wounded vets of wars in iraq and afghanistan finding recovery here in st. helena. >> this is a group for people who haven't met each other before but yet they have been through very similar experiences. >> reporter: they found themselves in the cia -- in this case, the culinary institute of america. >> some of these people have been in afghanistan for months or years and, you know, now they are back here in the united states and they are home and they are trying to readjust. >> reporter: everyone here is intent on being as self- sufficient as possible so they can avoid fast food and learn to cook for themselves in a healthier way. >> a lot of their injuries have prevented them from being able to work out and exercise like they used to. >> i served six years in the united states navy didn't know where to go, felt lost and wounded warrior project reached out records travis' injuries ended his naval career, but being here gives him hope. >> being in the military we have

. >> the senate fight is part of a larger discussion, seems to be broiling a little bit, john, and thiswhat prompted bob costas' comments, jovan belcher committed a murder/suicide and also reportedly suffered from traumatic brain injury potentially from being obviously hit in the head, concussions are another problem in the nfl all together but how do we keep the guns out of the hands of people who might have these kinds of issues? >> this is always going to be difficult because in this country we believe in your right to own a gun and what we don't want to do is compromise the rights of law-abiding citizens. i think what we have to be very careful and where bob costas was wrong he tried to leverage a very emotional event to promote a certain philosophical point that he has at a time when that wasn't the right discussion. i think these are important issues. they're difficult issues and they should be discussed in washington but not at the time of a tragedy where somebody is trying to leverage the emotions out there. >> tea partiers are using the gun issue to rally the base. rand paul sa

broil undoubtedly had this same experience. he wanted to know. he was blind 200 years ago. he could not read. still he wanted to experience the literature of his people. he wanted to share in the dialogue that was talked about. he wanted to be part of the world that he had things to say. necessity is the mother of invention, and it was necessity. not just a wish, not a passing fancy. it was an imperative, a necessity that led him to create a reading and writing system that he as a blind person could use. wanted to participate in the dialogue. he had things to say. he had a perspective on life that was unique to himself, and he wanted to know about other people's thoughts and ideas and experiences. he refused to accept what others thought was a simple fact that a blind person could not read. he heard about a night writing system developed by the military command he took that idea and he responded to create a reading and writing system that we know by his name today, which is braille. brail has a it one to one equivalency with french. and a copy to monday,. , parentheses, whe

. >> there is still a name broiling around out there. as soon as we coming, we'll stay on this issue. it's quite an interesting herd out there. i'm interested in what happens when some of the members of that herd come out. we'll talk about that when we come back. this family used capital one venture miles to come home for the holidays. that's double miles you can actually use... sadly, their brother's white christmas just got "blacked out." [ brother ] but it's the family party! really jingles your bells, doesn't it? my gift to you! the capital one venture card! for any flight, any time! that's double miles you can actually use! how illuminating. what's in your wallet? let me guess, am i on the naughty list again? ho ho ho! a wiit takes some doing.n't i on tjust happen.ist again? some coordinating. and a trip to the one place with the new ideas that help us pull it all together. from the things that hang and shine... ...to the things that sparkle and jingle. all while saving the things that go in our wallet. more saving. more doing. that

you cannot broil them down to a sound bite. so this is one of the challenges, i think, that confronts us. you have political leaders who really are afraid to tackle major problems that involve benefits that will, you know, at some point affect everybody in this room and everybody in the country. dennis out for them to do, and it's really, really easy to demagogue, and i think the one thing that we should take out of it is that the public is -- very this is a harsh word, but i think there really pretty disgusted at the way that washington is broken down into total, you know, this repair. the fact that you're not having a serious conversation on the part of the leaders, all three parts of it about the fiscal cliff. it really a part -- a major part of the problem. we just at election. we can't stop campaigning. we have this deadline. whether or not it's artificial, the debt limit isn't. the sea are isn't. the need to pass a budget is in to. no wonder the public tends out. >> the word you use the right word. disgusted. it's not dis

. >> you're probably aware by now our nation's been empty broiled in a long, bitter war. >> the first salvo in the war on christmas. >> the war on christmas. alright, in 15 minutes we're going to do the young turks. i think the number one thing that viewers like about the young turks is that we're honest. they know that i'm not bs'ing them with some hidden agenda, actually supporting one party or the other. when the democrats are wrong, they know that i'm going to be the first one to call them out. they can question whether i'm right, but i think that the audience gets that this guy, to the best of his ability, is trying to look out for us. >> cenk: bill o'reilly has been conducting this insane war on christmas idea. undeterred by the fact that jesus christ was born nowhere near december 25 people think around september is when his birth was if he really existed. oh my god, i can't believe i said that. the christmas tree was an old pagan tradition. bill o'reilly is not interested in facts he decided to attack the governor of rhode island. watch. >> governor, a holiday tree, a holiday