it became a spectacular story. e trouble is the most fun part of this, so why not do it for a limited amount of time. trouble is wonderful. normally that is what you use your money for. it is like work almost. i found six stories i tried to sell to swedish tv, and this was one of them. tavis: are the other five nearly as good as this? >> they are pretty good, but not as good. tavis: what is it about the elements of this. you find six stories. this was the best. what were the elements that were screaming to you this one was the best? >> it is quite a lot. there is a cinderella partner, but we have a man living in a ramshackle house in detroit his whole life. he supports himself as a construction worker by day laborer, and he gets a phone call, and there are people he has never heard of in south africa but tell him you are more famous than the rolling stones, and he says, you have got the wrong guy. i am the construction worker. he said, did you make this album? that album in which is more famous than abbey road. he s

you can go live with van gogh and do a story about van gogh. >> a little while ago i did a story for sunday morning on gel ato. how much none was that. i did a style story on ferrari. this is a job that gives so you much fun and so many privileges. it's great. >> and cbs knows that too. >> oh, yeah, nobody subjected us to-- they know they need the experience, the judgement. >> yeah. >> skills, i think experience and judgement are respected, yeah. they trust it, that's an important thing is trust. when you're out doing a story you know that you will be trusted. i think the ultimate example of that was in south africa when they imposed the state of emergency we did not know what the rules were but we did know that if we transgressed too far they would close the bureau, this could arrest and literally disappear our employees particular the black camera crews. and the first story we did under the emergency rules, we called in a lawyer, cbs's request. they looked and said i would suggest that you change one word in the script because in a court of law it would be-- per jor difficult but ot

where a lot of these stories got told. there's a blog site, scoopnelson-- >> scoop nelson@word press.com. >> right. if you want to read additional stories, go to this site. terry, why don't you tell us some stories. >> i will. i have to observe where this panel started, it was barbara, hank and me. [laughter] then president carter came along, and then andy young came along, and it's only sheer politeness, barbara, that i think i'm still here. [laughter] >> no way. >> i sort of feel like the rest of sandy koufax's pitching staff. [laughter] following these guys. but i did have the privilege to know jack well over -- from several different perspectives, and maybe i'll just relate a couple of them. first, as hank said, i started as even more green and more cub reporter as jim bentley on the front row can tell you with the atlanta constitution when i was 21 years old in 1969. jack, and i had just come out of the army. and jack had started when he was 23 years old in 1952. these dates are kind of interesting because the book is

a good story may include a good deal of information on any number of topics or issues and it may blossom of infestation the story is in the individuality of the time they are the stories in the trials the sacrifice narrative's to the chase and the triangles of good and evil to use it to achieve maybe most nonfiction writers are looking for narrative so to find the real thing because they don't usually work as expected. even if history has already happened the writer has to reconstruct isn't always when he disappears if he looks in this photograph the parties settle lawsuits in the trial. nonfiction writers especially one and the narratives are vulnerable to the disappointment i don't have a book, the young writer says when the defense don't deliver the trauma in which everybody recognizes the story. but what is missing more often than not is this is a broadly of thinking about what makes a good story. it is a misleading truism. conflicting stories are generally between good guys and bad guys but the most important happens within the narrative the story begins with a character and ends wi

rider that has happened into a cliffhanger story. and opportunity, often a potential solace for the writer who has not had a story that is not. the story has a chance to live only if they do something important. a problem which is since retired. the reader. trying to understand them. >> the first person. the refunding of story has always depended less on separate something both. they begin with a chance, then known nothing more assuming the arrival of a good idea of the story. the problem is a good deal of sense to arrive. -- the first time elected this, the lack of it. a few years later was able to hire a team of carpenters, admirable step in a straight nestle of the messes i have made my idea was to write a book mostly about them. it would follow the carpenter, a builder on some sort of construction project yet to be identified. i try this idea on anderson and agents, letter france. no one liked it. a given up listening to other possibilities. a rare book about the captain of and that's -- captain of industry . new york city's skysc

>> because it's a short story you are not allowed. you have to end it in eight pages and get out. >> stephen: it's a short story i want to read. where is she going? why can't go i with her. does she love me back? i have to know. >> sometimes the short stories ends with that question, does she love me back? that's it. >> stephen: why pay for a book? i want some weight behind the thing. i'm sure it's very good but i like to pay by the pound. [ laughter ] that's why i love ayn rand. it's just two covers and she shovels words in between. [ laughter ] >> the thing with the story is it's kind of genetically related to a joke in that if i say, a duck walked into a bar then it's kind of a throwdown. everybody knows in three minutes i'm either going to be laughing or there's an awkward silence. here in this story here is eight pages of a story and when you get to the end it's either eh or the person is crying. >> stephen: i understand completely. >> abducted on the train. >> stephen: so shorter is sometimes better. >> yes. >> stephen: okay. and

[laughter] a story called terminals. in the last moment of his life, time slowed and slowed to a halt. no longer pressed as he has been in youth he strolled the youth on foot and thought over every thought. love and war and stars he grabbed the meaning of it all as a whole. he yearned to share what he knew. though that lived on and might have learned moved to a future where his still voice would not be heard. thank you. [applause] >> hello. i'm going to read a scene from draining the sea coming out in march. it takes place in guatemala during the 80's. this is a scene from the polytechnic the tick cal school where they would take the disappeared. emanuel for the americas. we are inside the basement of the polytechnic and i'm admiring the bone is thattedose that your heal bone makes in the sunlight in the palms of my hand in my mind. when you come to my bed your hands and breath is sweet and we can love like this for hours. i can find christ in your body. this too must be constructed and killed bike on television with pain

a story of life stemming from losses. dale carnahan died too soon. he was 18 years old. >> i would do anything to get my son back, anything. >> shia a basketball game the night he died. she played anyway. >> on my basketball shoes i wrote, i love an issue dale. >> over 150 people, from his skin his bones, his eyes. >> and his heart went to this girl, 14-year-old julia taylor of northern virginia. >> you know this is your last hope when someone else's life has been shattered. there is not a lot of joy brought from that. >> i am going to try out for the school soccer team. >> it is rare for a heart recipient and the donor's family to meet, let alone become friends, almost like family. >> wearing dale's #121 last time. escorted by her parents and julia, with dale's heart, right by her side. >> i know he is watching. to girl's arm in arm, connected at the heart, almost like family. >> thank you for that story. on a very different note now exciting news for star wars fans out there. we are learning more about the plans for some future star wars films. a ne

i want to close one last story which is really a carter/nelson story. in 1973 president carter just to conclude his second year as governor of georgia, he had made a decision and communicated to his family, very few friends that were his supporters, he was going to run for president and communicated over christmas and in february it shows he accepted invitations to go to the national press club and make a speech. congressman young was in the audience among the other people and jack nelson was asked to introduce this governor of georgia. the president bought his first speech on the national stage trying to strike some of the themes from hamilton's memo from his own riding of the book and other things trying to stress when he came out of the closet on this presidential campaign and ambassador young as the ambassador wrote on his place card this son of a gun is going to run for president. and there was a nixon and zero based budget and all the things you govern and all the things you hear about and closed by quoting the sole duty of politics to establish ju

tavis: good have you on the program and congratulations, it is a story i have heard about a number of times over the years. congratulations for getting the story out. fashion week is under way as we speak. it is no coincidence this documentary is being released right now. let me jump right in for those that have never heard about versailles 73. >> november 28, 1973, five american designers and five french designers were called together to create a fund raiser and restore versailles that was falling apart. it turned into a fashion smack down because the ego got on stage, they had $30,000 and the americans did not have as much money. it turned into the birth of american won re -- runway. african-american models changed the game. they used music, dance, effervescence to create something the french had not seen before. it was the birthplace of american fashion on that day. tavis: talk about what they were trying to restore and why they thought fashion was the answer? >> is needed about $60 million. and a publicist by the name of eleanor lambert reached out to the curator in france and sai

i mean, it was a serious story, it's a good story. turning out good for the nationals. big day for the curly w's and talking good news here. one of their big-time pitchers gets great news. remember, his name was involved in some not-so-positive stuff. we will detail that here in just a second. college basketball has a big one coming up this weekend. georgetown and syracuse, a rivalry renewed after the break. >>> now, here's dave owens at the wusa9 cadillac sports desk. >> it is one piece of controversy that hovered over nats spring training. what was geo gonzalez's involvement, in any, in an antiaging clinic. gonzalez has been very quiet on this. he hasn't spoken about it on television. rather, he has only done brief interviews. today he got good news. a test given to him a few days after the allegations surfaced a month ago came back negative. now, this morning gonzalez releasing this statement. he said blood and urine tests i was given two days after last month's report came back clean. i expected the negative results and have never taken any performance enhancing dru

narrator) the western rode into new territory with "stagecoach," a powerful drama made in 1939 by veteran director john ford. his attention to storynd performance created some of the most compelling characters in film. you're the notorious "ringo kid." my friends just call me, ringo. nickname i had as a kid. my name's henry. (man) seems to me i knew your family, henry. didn't i fix your arm once when you were, oh, bucked off a horse? are you doc boone? i certainly am. ah, let's see. i'd been honorably discharged from the union army after the war of the rebellion. you mean the war for the southern confederacy. i mean nothing of the kind, sir. that was my kid brother broke his arm. you did a good job, doc, even if you was drunk. thank you, son. professional compliments are always pleasing. what happened to that boy whose arm i fixed? he was murdered. (john wayne) john ford was very careful in handling his actors, to make sure that no matter what they do, that it helps to create an emotion in the audience. cause after all, good pictures are about people. and if he can get the emotions out of his actors, it's naturally going to affect

a clash here? fundamentally right the dorner story is a local story, mostly. but it was getting national attention. so, it was both. the presidential story was a global story. this is, this is o.j. on steroids. i mean, wve been here before. >> tleferance, of course, made to bill clinton's 1997 state of the union which was split screen. okay, local story jane hall, national attention. why is that? >> well, i think some people try to portray him as some sort of rob robinhood and while we're in the midst of a serious debate of gun control that amount of coverage glorified this man publishing his manifesto. i agree with frank, newspapers won't have to choose as much as cable does. they can split the screen. if they had split the screen, they would have been saying christopher dorner, a murderer, is equal to the state of the union address by the president of the united states. that would have been pretty awful. >> although in the hours before president obama spoke, a lot of split screen and paul farhi is there an argument that the shootout, the manhunt, the fire wa

broke now interesting we had that story there's a whistleblower story in that in that a soldier named joseph darby took the cd full of those photographs and forwarded them to the pentagon criminal investigation unit and that triggered a set of facts and decisions that eventually led those pictures to be shown across the world and across the united states darby. a hero if you believe that the torture and the behavior there is squarely against american values in the constitution darby cannot return to his hometown afterwards when he's outed for this because he's receiving threats and his his wife there been no medal of honor as far as i know given to any of the people during the bush era who there were such people who refused to torture who did say something who in guantanamo refused to go along and i tell one of those stories at the end of my book about a lieutenant colonel darryl vandervelde who had a crisis of conscience in guantanamo but those people did not get on or did not get fed and they still haven't actually. we should know their names and i hope that in writing this bo

that's not a story. it is a i can p up line i heard joe derosa use. should wrestling pea cut from the olympics? if they are replacing it with proxy boxing? absolutely. you are watching fnc. stick around. >>> they said no mo to grapples and throws. wrestling was in the first modern olympics in 1896, but it won't be around for the summer olympics in 2020. they voted to drop the sport, opting to cut it instead of field hockey and modern pentathalon. among those not happy is former defense secretary donald rumsfeld who wrote a strongly worded letter to the committee asking them to reconsider the decision. rules fend who wrieser ised -- rumsfeld who wrestled in high school, college and the navy says it is unlike any activity. it is the oldest of contact sports. it would be a tragedy for the sport and for the proud tradition of the olympic games. for more we check in with some olympic wrestling hopefuls. >> god speed, sloths. >> joe, we now live in a world where rythmic gymnastics is a sport and wrestling is not. it seems wrong. >> well it makes me laugh wh

a moment. but first let's listen to her story. >> i never thought i would be a marine mom. ng for our country. i didn't think it would be mine. but you can't change your story, so i supported my son's decision to enlist. on a previous deployment he had asked me to send some gifts to his girlfriend, so when he was deployed to iraq, i thought it would be good to try and do the same for his squad of 12. 12 gifts for the 12 days of christmas. as i shared with others what i was doing, they got excited and said they would sponsor someone. as a marine mom, i didn't know another military mom until i started full circle home. now lisa miller, an army mom, and i spend most of our time playing santa at christmas or sending mother's day gifts in may. we've wrapped gifts with the first and second ladies of the united states. today we've sent out 6,500 of these boxes. we know that if we don't do it, it won't happen. we know how sleep e satellite and radar you because your son just might get to a computer to skype with you, or if the connection is broken, how you just hold your breath. no

every place in the desert is a story. every place is a passage way. it's really hard to walk very far in the desert for me because there are so many stories that start opening up and lead you from place to place and place and soon you start picking up the patterns of wind, of rain. you pick up the patterns of people who were there before you because, out there, things seem to last forever. if you put a footprint down in certain places, that footprint will stay for 5 years, maybe even 10 years for somebody who's got a really good eye where you come walking along and you see the slightest depression in the ground and you kneel at it and you figure out that it was a person with about a size 9 foot walking across the desert 8 years before you. everything out there tells a story. that's why i'm here. because i'm looking for stories. i'm looking for these same kinds of stories that i find in the desert. i came to hear straight from grace cathedral today where i walked into the cathedral and i took off my shoes and walked on the maze that's right in the front

, a late night story and added by going after her in a press conference.should have left it alone. then it just gave the press more reason to focus on a non-story. >> jon: do you agree? >> i have to agree when chris christie makes fun of himself and his weight, that is good. this is the new reimaging of chris christie nice kind and like your uncle or husband. the real truth is when someone else says it he loses the veneer and bully comes out. >> jon: william taft spent time in the white house at 300 pounds. >> before television. listen, i think christie played it brilliantly on letterman however, it is crazy to have doctors on television diagnosing it's not their prevention and they should wing it on tube. >> jon: take a look at new poll, his approval rating, 70%. does that scare the media and are they going to this issue up? >> absolutely and there are double and triple standards. the body image is a major scandal. young women are outraged and properly by this. there was a story on michelle obama's behind and the "washington post" had a major uptick on it

governor had a say in the police story in boston. the police women of boston went on strike after world war i. they were nice guys, they were underpaid. there was a terrible inflation nobody was acknowledging. their station houses had rats. little rodents chewed on their helmets. 18 ways they deserved a race and better treatment. nonetheless they walked off and this is a very rough time in american history. there was chaos and violence and rioting in looting in boston. so coolidge was on the team, the leader of it that fired these policemen. they went in a union. not even a radical union. the union that was a favorite of president wilson. but coolidge said no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere anytime. those were the three phrases, no right to strike against the public safety. i'm drawing a line. and he was incredibly scary about this from a political point of view. he had an election a few months away. he was famous for getting irish vote. the policemen were irish. he's firing them. they're nice. what a bo

. >> a picture tells a thousand stories. some say a map >> i am jeff idakia, and i provide legal representation to 20,000 people every year. it is our goal to ensure that we have the best legal representation possible. we started this nine years ago, to increased consciousness and awareness of the issues that affect public safety in criminal and juvenile justice reform. i am proud to say that this is the ninth summit. we take on issues like closing the california youth authority. and we in the confinement of youth -- young children in -- and the prisoner re-entry program and abolishing the death penalty. we take on three critical issues. the first panel has a riveting discussion about gangs. and reducing gang violence. on our panel are former gang members, gang intervention workers, police, public defenders, and researchers. we talk about strategies to reduce gang violence. i will introduce the keynote speaker in a moment. the second panel is a cutting edge -- cutting edge discussion about the relationship between the human b

i got a kid. >> that was a great story, local pride. >> that's good stuff. >> all right, hey, more good stuff, tomorrow, we'll see you then. >> have a great night. [ male announcer ] so there's lots of people out there who aren't happy with their internet. [ spokesman ] are you lindsay? yes. did you say, "my internet's so slow it's like a car with no gas"? yes. well, you're about to get verizon fios quantum, america's fastest, most reliable internet. so that's what you used to have... okay. and that's fios. this is crazy fast, almost unbelievable. [ male announcer ] that will put some gas in the old tank, lindsay! supercharge your internet speeds. switch to fios and we'll triple your speed for free with an upgrade to fios quantum. plus get $250 back with a 2 year agreement. call the verizon center living life at quantum speed, for customers with disabilities that's powerful. at 800-974-6006 tty/v.

a holiday. we were wheels up for van, we spent 10 days in country. and the story there is interesting, to say the least. a little bit of a cultural difference. you kind of have to wade through, and i'm sure i'm preaching to the choir in the military here, you have to separate out how things are versus what you're used to and what it really means because otherwise you can really get into apples and oranges. so the take away for me, and what should be rolling behind me, are just a series of photographs of van when we were there. and what i hope the story that they are telling is this example of what we saw. i mean, there's some classic examples if you look at the buildings, these were all new buildings, by the way, that were condemned. but as you look you'll see some buildings with big cracks in them to where they are x-like cracks. that's classic soft story construction damage. that's what happens when earthquake sheer hits. that's what it looks like. for an emergency manager in san francisco, that's a really valuable lesson. i know what that looks like now. flood

tell them you have a story to tell. there are some other public relations folks. we are happy to help. my job is to train the attorneys and the clients and help them write. a shout out to christina. she is a fair reporter. she is not on the editorial staff. talk to her because she is here to share your stories. we have had a lot of good luck working with her. >> in terms of the media, for us congressional aides and congressional members, we get a lot of inquiries. one of the things that ask is, do you know anyone who can talk on this. i encourage our service women who want to speak up about this to visit any one of us. there are two or three women on the armed services committee including chemical -- tammy the courts, who is a veteran. -- tammy duckworth, who is a veteran. >> it is helpful to have international field perspective. of course, the legal perspective than the passion behind all of this. i appreciate you bringing that forward. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> yesterday was

in the story all that happened is a man who drives a horse-drawn cab. son has died earlier that day. the whole story is he can't get anyone to listen to him about his heart break. at the end of the story he goes into the stall with the horse and takes the horse's head and just says my son died today. i loved him very much. is that a political story? not really except, you know, we're ten years away from the russian revolution. to me if you want to sort of explore political idea in the highest possible way, you embody it in the personal. because at's sometng that no one can deny. whatever your supposed politics are, left, right, if you put it in a human connection most people will rise to the occasion and feel the human pain in the way they might not if it was presented in a more conceptual way. >> brown: some of your stories present the contemporary strangeness of life by taking us a little bit further into the... further into the future and taking something happening now and pushing it even further. so it almost has thequality of science fiction at time

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somebody needs to do a story of the women's movement. aid about looking into that and came to meet a year later. in a way i was happy because it was an amazing opportunity that the store had not been done. >> the stories told in and, share some of them. >> we really look at the movement, some of the well-known people like gloria steinem, who was a major figure in the women's movement, and some of the unknowns stories. the coal miner who was one of the first call miners, and then she was subjected to sexual harassment by her boss so she took her boss to court and fought a 13-year battle and won. the telephone operator who in the 1960's, she was a switchboard operator and wanted to make a little more money. she tried to work on the equipment. the argument was, no, women could not do that because they cannot carry the heavy equipment. it was 30 pounds for it when of course, any woman who is carried a baby could carry 30 pounds. she fought a legal battle. it is a range of stories. we open with an amazing story of a woman who really was not ab

didn't make a lot of sense. >> do you want to start the story again? >> what do you mean? >> tell the truth. that was a lie. why did you lie, thomas? >> i don't like to be in trouble. i talk to a lot of people and meet a lot of people. >> come to find out, thomas had done this before, even sent naked pictures of himself. >> the reason you september this pick as someone who identified themselves as a 14-year-old girl. >> i had those in my loft. when i send a picture -- >> that's appropriate? >> no. >> to send to a 14-year-old girl. i am into young girls. i like them better than older girls. >> younger like 19, 20. that's what i meant by that. >> are you into sex? what was the biggest blank you have had? she says she's only had one. you talk about the size of your penis. >> i'll be honest. i meant everything i did say on there. i'm a person, i don't like getting in any trouble. >> how could you expect not to get in trouble by setting up a date after a sexually charged conversation with a girl who said she was 14. how could you expect not to get in