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i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> it is the mark of the yakuza: ornate, full-body tattoos that cover the members of the japanese mob. so how did one of their most notorious godfathers get into america and jump to the front of a line for a lifesaving liver transplant? this reporter found out and says it may cost him his life. >> as he was leaving and getting in his car, he said, "that"-- you know, "that--that goddamn american jew reporter. i want to kill him." [ticking] >> greg mortenson's book three cups of tea is a publishing phenomenon that has made him a celebrity, a cult-like figure on the lecture circuit, and inspired people to give nearly $60 million to his charity, and it all began with one simple story. >> it's a beautiful story, and it's a lie. >> we wanted to talk to mortenson about that and some other things, but he didn't want to talk to 60 minutes. >> steve kroft. >> nice to meet you. >> how you doing? >> thanks. >> got five minutes for us today? >> um... [ticking] >> we wondered ho

in december 2011, steve kroft reported on two such cases. we begin with a woman named eileen foster, a former senior executive at countrywide financial, one of the epicenters of the crisis. >> do you believe that there are people at countrywide who belong behind bars? >> yes. >> do you want to give me their names? >> no. >> would you give their names to a grand jury if you were asked? >> yes. >> but eileen foster has never been asked, and never spoken to the justice department, even though she was countrywide's executive vice president in charge of fraud investigations. at the height of the housing bubble, countrywide financial was the largest mortgage lender in the country, and the loans it made were among the worst, a third ending up in foreclosure or default, many because of mortgage fraud. it was foster's job to monitor and investigate allegations of fraud against countrywide employees and make sure they were reported to the board of directors and the treasury department. >> how much fraud was there at countrywide? >> from what i saw, th

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we talk with julian assange, the mysterious and eccentric founder of wikileaks, whose website made public thousands of u.s. secrets. and we examine the secret danger behind a type of dust that's killing american factory workers. we begin with wikileaks, a website that publishes classified and suppressed material from whistle-blowers around the world. in the late summer of 2011, wikileaks made news when someone--it's not clear who-- dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified state department and pentagon documents, which had been in wikileaks' possession, onto the internet. when we interviewed assange, he was already under investigation by the justice department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the espionage act. he was also under house arrest in britain, fighting extradition to sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. in what is still his most extensive television interview

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at the multibillion dollar business of international crime. first, we report on the theft of an eye-popping fortune stolen from the iraq treasury. then we take a look at shoplifting gangs from south america. and finally we go undercover in china to expose rampant product counterfeiting. we begin in iraq with the theft that's been called one of the largest of its time, the mother of all heists. and it happened right under the noses of u.s. advisers. as iraqi investigators told us in october of 2006, more than half a billion dollars had disappeared from the defense ministry-- money that was supposed to equip the iraqi military. investigators believe the very people that the united states had entrusted with the funds had stolen them. but it seemed neither the u.s. nor its allies had much of an appetite for pursuing the matter. >> people have died. moneys have gone missing. culprits are running around the world, hiding and scurrying around. i have to ask myself wh

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we talk with a trio of business moguls, carl icahn, eli broad, and sir howard stringer. we begin with carl icahn. it takes a certain breed of stock market investor to thrive in queasy times, and icahn is one of that breed. he has a knack of turning someone else's loss into profit for himself. but he can also help others improve their bottom line through the so-called icahn lift, an upward bounce that often happens when he starts buying a beleaguered stock. when the financial crisis hit in 2008, many investors were tearing their hair out, but not icahn. the state of the economy changes, but icahn's investment philosophy remains the same. as he told leslie stahl in march of 2008, carl icahn looks to pounce while everyone else is losing their shirts. >> the day we visited icahn enterprises, the stock market was swinging wildly, at one point, dropping 300 points. so has this been a bad day? this is not a great day. >> tough day, tough day. >> wow, this is beautiful. look

i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> for more than a decade, the u.s. military establishment has treated cyberspace as a domain of conflict, where it would need the capability to fend off attack or launch its own. that time is here, because someone sabotaged a top secret nuclear installation in iran with nothing more than a long string of computer code. >> we have entered into a new phase of conflict in which we use a cyberweapon to create physical destruction. [ticking] >> viktor bout, in my eyes, is one of the most dangerous men on the face of the earth. >> on the face of the earth? >> without a doubt. >> which is why the u.s. government launched an elaborate international sting to nab viktor bout. what makes bout so dangerous? and how did d.e.a. agents eventually grab him? the answers in our story later. [ticking] this is what espionage looks like. the man driving the car is gregg bergersen. he's a civilian analyst at the pentagon with one of the nation's highest security clearances. his companion is tai shen kuo, a spy for the people's republic of c

if you saw her on "60 minutes," she was actually confronted by steve kroft about this fact. she informed steve kroft that she had to make the loan to her own campaign because, as a hispanic and a woman she couldn't get a bank to make that loan to her. ignoring the fact that banks can't make loans to politicians running for office. that's illegal, according to federal law. she then went on to explain that, well, you know, i live in the same house and still drive the same car so what's the big deal? i guess the question becomes, you know, to her constituents, is it a big deal? are they going to continue to re-elect an individual who is self-enriched themselves in this american, and i think that will be something that an early election will tell. the other thing that is happening is you see these vehicles like leadership pacs, which perform legitimate functions, but can also be used as a form of lifestyle enrichment. if you have a campaign committee, like friends of peter sweeter, you're running for congress, -- peter sweitzer, there are tight restrictions what you can do the m

i'm steve kroft.n this edition, we meet two silicon valley billionaires a generation apart who revolutionized the world of computing and the internet. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and paul allen, microsoft's cofounder. we begin with mark zuckerberg and facebook. if you have a facebook account, you've probably reconnected with an old pal, shared photos with your family, and gotten advice from your friends on what to buy and what to read. but facebook has bigger plans. it wants to turn the entire web into one big social network. lesley stahl first talked with mark zuckerberg in 2008, and three years later, we sat down with mark again. he gave us a preview of his site's new profile page, a change that would affect the 500 million people who were then using facebook, an idea that zuckerberg had cooked up in his dorm room at harvard. >> when you first thought about this--19 years old--is this what you had in mind? did you see this far into the future, or is it way beyond what you dreamed? >> well, it's fun

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at the world of big deals on wall street and in las vegas and examine the impact of high-speed computers in both places. we begin with perhaps the most famous investor of them all, warren buffett. his fame extends far beyond wall street, his oldest son, howard, not so much. and yet he's the person warren buffett wants to succeed him as chairman of berkshire hathaway, the mega holding company that buffett built. for most of his adult life, howard has been a corn and soybean farmer in nebraska and illinois. and as lesley stahl first reported in december of 2011, howard doesn't live the high life, and he loves getting down in the dirt. >> this is the man who'll become the next chairman of the company-acquiring, investment-picking, moneymaking machine berkshire hathaway if warren buffett has his way. howard is a farmer who would rather dig up the ground and drive big machines than sit in a boardroom. were you stunned? were you surprised? >> i was surprised. >> but

. >> as reported by steve kroft on the cbs news series west 57th. >> and after 1989 consumer electronic with onscreen programming are all the rage. >> you plug in the vcr and it tells what to do on the screen. >> the rate of change is extremely quick and anything that you might have imagined 20 years ago could exist in the future probably does. >> among the current future offerings are cars that drive, with or without someone behind the wheel. and homes that think for themselves. >> this year we're going to see gadgets you might not expect, things in the kitchen, small devices, talking over the internet to you when you're not at home so the sky is the limit this is sort of the jettison home of the future coming to ces this year. >> more than 150,000 people are expected to attend. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. >> in northern china more than a million people are expected to visit the world's largest ice festival. it started this weekend. take a look called the harbin international ice and snow sculpture festival. it lasts for a month. within arctic freeze is gripping big porks of t

i wouldn't say what i said six years ago when i started great cost -- started great kroft -- startedreycroft. in could go public certainly you could go public, certainly in the bubble period. it has been a very heavy filter. most companies that have gone public have revenues over half $1 billion. .ou have to form a syndicate your public but you do not trade. aem i basically if you are private company you have to have your books in order at least four or five quarters before you think about this possibility. them i think you need to think ahead four or five quarters. -- >> i think you need to look ahead four or five corners. what kinds of companies are you most excited about? i know there is one news spread that may change the way that all of us consume 80 appeared that consume media. -- all of us consume media. instead of having started in is a way ofs, it aggregating news sources from around the world. not just making it available to publishers but brands are now -- brands as confident as a new concept. native advertising, i am sure you have heard about that. you are taking news inf

here's a preview with steve kroft from ""60 minutes." >> you would have stayed. >> it's not my decisionsure, i would have stayed in. he's more like a young johnny since anybody since and he's really good, so you go with the new guy. makes perfect sense to me. if they said, look, you're fired, we don't know who we're going to get, we don't know what we're going to put in there, anybody but you, we just want you auto of therout of there, i hurt and offended. this makes perfect sense to me. i understand it. >> you can see steve kroft's complete interview with jay leno >>> offshore winds kicking in overnight at least over the and that's where red flag warnings are posted for today. most of the bay area again looking at some mild temperatures into the afternoon. and a big time swell now developing along the coastline watch out for that toward the beaches. highs today will be slightly cooler still well above the average into the 60s inside the bay 60s and low 70s inland and low 60s out toward the coastline. as we head in toward the next couple of days a few more clouds then warmer weather for

after the testimony then she did interviews, like you showed, steve kroft, an interview with nightline, an interview with andrea mitchell. in every case it was just like this. how are you? how do you feel? none of the requests the victims families would ask about this, and that is how could this happen? the media here is not supposed to care about who is running in 2016. none of us know whether chris christie or hillary clinton are going to run. none of us knows with we'll be alive in 2016. focus on what happened here and that is, why did they fail to provide security to these embassies? we have been asked this question over and over again. that's what all the time has been spent on in congress. heat not the question our media seems to care about. all they take about is, can anybody stop hillary? the latest cover o"time magazine." can anybody stop the media from being this biased. >> or just tilted. katy, i'm not dismissing the investigation into chris christie regarding the traffic jam. that story is about ultimate accountability, certainly the same should be applied to what happened

jay sat down with "60 minutes" and steve kroft and here's jay being open and honest in a jay leno lovable way. >> you would have liked to stay? >> it's not my decision. i think i probably would stayed if we didn't have an extremely qualified young guy ready to jump n.sure, i probably would have stayed a little longer, but we have somebody very good, very talent that altalen talented. he's probably more like the young johnny than anybody since so he's really good so you go with the new guy. makes perfect sense to me. if they said, look, you're fired. we don't know who we're going to dpo get, don't know what we're going to put in there but anybody but you we just want you out. i would be hurt and offended, but this makes perfect sense to me. i understand it. >> say what you just said. >> i said a lot of stuff, the part where i said i love him. >> yeah. >> i've always loved him and this is a really good reason why. i think he's just generous in his praise and his spirit always, and he's had a consistent pattern of that, not just in this opportunity and moment with "60 minutes" but when they

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as steve kroft reported in 2009, many people believe it had more to do with wall street speculation than with oil companies. >> to understand what happened to the price of oil, you first have to understand the way it's traded. for years, it's been bought and sold on something called the commodities futures market. here at the new york mercantile exchange, it's traded alongside cotton and coffee, copper and steel by brokers who buy and sell contracts to deliver those goods at a certain price at some date in the future. it was created so that farmers could gauge what their unharvested crops would be worth months in advance, so that factories could lock in the best price for raw materials and airlines could manage their fuel costs. but in late 2007, that market started to behave erratically. and when oil doubled to more than $147 a barrel, no one was more suspicious than dan gilligan. >> we have to make sure that the futures market is an honest market. >> as the president of the petroleum marketers association, he represents more than 8,000 retail and wholesale suppliers, everyone from home

as steve kroft reported in december 2010, brazil seemed poised to overtake france and britain to becomeeconomy. with soccer's world cup and the olympics on their way, brazil is about to make its grand entrance on the global stage. [crowd chanting] >> when most people think of brazil, they think of its passion and excellence in soccer... [crowd cheers] not of skyscrapers in sao paulo, the financial hub of a fledgling economic superpower. [fast-paced drumming] they think of the pulsating beat of the samba and carnival, not commodities or the world's largest cattle industry. [cow moos] they see the beaches of ipanema and copacabana and breathtaking vistas... this is quite a view. >> yes, incredible, huh? >> not brazilian tycoons like eike batista, who has the best view in rio, not to mention a net worth of $27 billion. how do most americans see brazil? >> they think buenos aires is the capital of brazil, so they mix us with other countries around south america. >> most powerful country in south america? >> gdp-wise, we are bigger than all the other countries together, and, you know, in the

i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> well, six months of this would be a step in the right direction. >> well, a step in the right direction-- >> not another week of runaround. >> the average for each of the claims that you paid out is $5,000. >> no more bp. blame me. don't blame bp anymore. >> ken feinberg is the go-to guy for thankless jobs, america's arbiter of human suffering. >> why don't you open up the purse strings? >> his assignment deciding who should be paid for damages from the gulf oil spill, was one of his toughest yet. they really go after you. >> they do, but it goes with the territory. >> it may be the greatest rescue operation since noah's ark. a billion people watched as 33 chilean miners trapped for 69 days half a mile underground stepped from darkness into light. [cheers and applause] >> if ever there was a story with a happy ending, this was it. [men chanting] but when we visited the miners several months after their rescue, we found many were struggling. for example, alex veg

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and i continue think that it has a ban kroft continue to control dow jones publicly traded company you can have that many journalists there. i think it has sophisticated report that is more ambitious than what proceeded his proprietorship there. i think he's more interested in politics. the headlines headlines are paunchier. the graphics are more engaging and the journalist, really, i think charming but something as a holdout in archaic look. that said, even at the journal, you know, i found several dozen instances where the two top editors. >> several dozen? >> e. these were offered as sort of representative samples rather than the full cat log of the best hits. but, you know, there are inassistances in which they said gosh he's pulling us to the top editors one in australia and other the editor in chief formerrer "times" of london columnist and editor are pulling touts right each time on the stories by raising questions. some of the questions are smart ones, but they're never doing it ever pulling it to the left. they're never pulling the democrat higher in the story. they're never a

last night "60 minutes'" steve kroft brought you the interview about jay leno leaving late night programose the opportunity. that makes sense to me. and i thought jimmy has been extremely gracious and polite. >> you said all of the same things exactly about conan. >> did i say the same things? maybe i did. well, we'll see what happens. >> do you think you might get a call two years from now -- >> no. >> -- and you'll come back? >> no. this is a lost different situation. >>> this morning we have a portion of that interview you have not seen in "60 minutes" overtime. leno insists he's not upset about leaving "the tonight show." >> some people at some point they would say cut the crap, you know. come on, jay. >> well, i am a realist. don't forget. this is not my only job. this is one of my jobs. i've always made my living as a standup comedian. this is a one-nighter that's last 2d 3 years and it's been great. do you think i should be angry or bitter? >> i'm talking about something visceral, that guy's a real jerk, i can't believe they've done this, ingrateful -- >> that's so business talk.

steve kroft brings you more. we'll see you monday morning. >> thanks for watching everybody.- and just -- whether they're going to be part of the family. i want to know if they're going to help someone. way tomt see them relaxed over the table rather than having someone stressed out trying to make omelettes. >> that's interesting. you came to new york from new england. what made you move. >> i was traveling, basically backpacking around southeast asia and i came in to new york. i was on a flight going to heathrow and it was bizarre to me that we had to disembark and get our luggage and so on. when i got my luggage to get my connecting flight to heathrow i decided to stay here. >> spontaneously. >> yeah. i had some friends here i had a pastry chef and he agreed to pay for me. i'm still here. >> i love bubbling squeak and i love the drink. >> it's delicious. >> thanks for joining us. >> bye-bye. >> bye-bye. >> announcer: for more about "cbs this morning," visit us at cbsnews.com. z a teac >>> this morning on kpix 5 a car takes off half a house in a crash. >>> a teacher from a b

steve kroft made that exact point. >> it's what he said about -- >> he's number one. >> all right, boyshow. >> this could have been awkward. >> oh, yeah. >> history has shown this can be awkward. >> yeah, yeah. >> how much effort has it taken not to make it awkward? >> oh, i would say hardly any effort at all. >> no effort. >> no effort at all. i mean, this time i was asked. the last time, i was sort of told, this is what's happening. >> if he wasn't here, would i still be here? probably. you know, another year or so. >> are you ready to hand over the keys? >> of course. of course. yes, yes. please. no problem. ♪ tonight, tonight who cares who hosts tonight ♪ >> what's this relationship like? >> i think it's a professional relationship. i think i really admire him as a comic. i think he's a good performer -- the first time i saw neil young, without, good lip-synching, and it was really him. he captured the essence of the guy, and that's what comedy is. ♪ so intense so long ♪ >> i admire his professionalism and his ability to do comedy. >> that was nice. no pressure. >> stop that! >> com