richards had a second vehicle blown out from beneath him just weeks after the first. >> ben richards:n, we all walked out with all of our parts and pieces. >> martin: richards had no visible wound, but he had suffered an injury that would end his army career and very nearly ruin his life. >> farrah richards: he spent a lot of time by himself in closed rooms. >> martin: farrah richards could see her husband was a changed man when he came home, but couldn't see why. >> farrah richards: as a spouse, i wasn't thinking "he has traumatic brain injury." that wasn't even something that i really knew about. >> martin: doctors at ft. lewis, washington, told richards he was simply suffering from post- traumatic stress, a diagnosis that would hang over him for four years. >> ben richards: if you have post-traumatic stress disorder and you... you are not improving through counseling, then it's your fault. >> martin: you're not trying hard enough? >> ben richards: it was my fault that i wasn't getting better. >> martin: not willing to give up on a promising young officer, the army promoted richards

major ben richards described his personal experience last night on "60 minutes." >> if i could tradeumatic brain injury for a single-leg amputation, i'd probably do that in a second. everyone that was in the vehicle walked away with a pretty significant concussion. my head hurt for about a week. i was nauseated for a week. literally couldn't see straight. >> what do you do when you have symptoms like that? >> go out again and fight the next day. there is folks out there that just accuse soldiers of being malingers of faking symptoms. that's like calling us a coward and i'm not. >> joining us is bill white, you heard this. what do you think? >> it tears your heart out. you hear what's wrong with you? you're faking this mental injury. the second guy you saw is one of the most heroic men on the planet. he has a brain injury because a bomb went off and shattered his brain inside. you can't see it. the invisible wounds of these two wars, there's 600,000 of those people we have to help. it is a national crisis. the first guy said he'd rather give his leg than have something wrong with his

it is a real-estate day to day one of the most influential men is richard smith, we talk real estate next. when. lou: it has ben and israel stay day and one of the most influential names richard smith chairman and ceo of realo the parent company of century 21 and coldwell banker but look at what happened today the dow up 36 points closing at the 18th record of the year. the s&p up seven points boasting a 12 rerd and the nasdaq up 27 points doing pretty well by a since november 2007 and that has been a strong week overall. the dow was up 1% in nasdaq is up and the s&p up 2% and ben bernanke speaking at a chicago fed conference saying the fed is stepping up the monitorin of the too big to fail banks that continue to threaten economic stability and the wall street journal repoing at this hour that the fed has mapped out the exit plan from the bond purchase program to reduce purchases with varying purchases of the job market and it is unclear if that means six point* 5% unemployment is the operative rate that is the benchmark for action. in the commodity markets goldas down $30 an ounce falling $0.35 gain overall a

. >> richard, futures are lower right now after stocks fell on wednesday on comments from fed chairman ben bernanke, suggesting that the fed could start tapering its economic stimulus programs possibly this year. global markets are also reacting to weak manufacturing data out of china. >>> in other news, fidelity says the average of 401(k) balance topped $81,000 and is up 75% since the depths of the financial crisis in 2009. most of the recovery is due to the stock market rally since that time. >>> and twitter is beefing up its security measures, adding a verification feature for users when they log in. the move comes in the wake of hacking attacks on accounts of several major companies and news organizations. richard, back to you. >> all right, seema thank you so much. >>> also in business, good economic news wednesday including a surge in sales of existing homes in april to their highest level in nearly 3 1/2 years. also with high demand for new cars and trucks, the big three automakers will not be shutting down production as much this summer. general motors, though, is recalling more th

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and i thought ben made a great point about the more progressive concessions you make, the easier it is to get this important bill over the goal line. i agree with richardt a deal this is. but i also add especially relative to health care reform this is a political plus for both parties. so republicans also have to kind of really find reasons to be against this when they've got their leadership saying, folks if we want to stay in power, we need this to support this bill. i think the, if you think of comprehensive immigration reform, of the type progressives like being up here. maybe the senate takes it to around here. the question is -- >> that is a big question. as we talk about the political paraphrasing, david axelrod, kabuki theater of all of this, there's a question that once you sort of put these progressive things in there as decoys, but is the ultimate bill true to progressive priorities? or the prospects of reform? >> i actually think that the health care issue is a real travesty. first of all, what labrador is saying is that undocumented immigrants don't pay taxes, which we know is actually not true. the most undocumented immigrants have paid

richard fisher. you pointed out your biggest concern and a concern ben bernanke shares as well, is it work somethingo work? >> well, we also, in addition to data, we have 12 bank presidents and six other governors who have their own contracts. so you're assessing information. you're doing it analytically from data history. so we have to update that and bring ourselves current stream. in the end, becky, this is a judgmental business. particularly when you have unorthodox monetary policy like we do right now. so it's a constant self-examination. we do it in a cheerful, civil manner. we still like each other after we have had our hammering out sessions every six weeks. >> do you get the sense that more people, more fed presidents are kind of coming around to your line of thinking just in terms of what they're hearing back from the people they talk to on the ground every day? >> well, i can't speak for my leagues. they are speaking for themselves. they made a comment really which i think surprise said people. let me just put it this way, i'm not alone. which is kind of nice. no one wants to be alone. >>

ben bernanke took the gloves off yesterday changing the statement that fiscal policy is restraining economic growth. david: that's also why there's a little battle at the fed, and when you hear richardhead of the dallas federal reserve, he says that because of what i just mentioned, because of all these regulations and taxes making it harder to hire people, the onus is not on the fed to do something, but it's on politicians. they have to make it cheaper for businesses to hire. is richard fisher right? >> i think he's on the right path, absolutely. what we've seen monetary policymakers have been carrying the yoke not only domestically, but globally for global economic growth, and we really need to spread the leadership to fiscal policy. david: okay. let's talk about how all this spills out to the economy. this has got to be the last question, so as brief as you can be. jobs are still the thing that are holding back a lot of segments of the economy like housing, for example. i mean, we've had low rates for a long time now, and they've had -- sometimes they have a little effect here, a little effect there. but generally, it's people's concern about their jobs that's holding back the ho

speaking of the fed chairman ben bernanke will speak before the joint economic committee on wednesday. wall street looking for the hint that he tapers on bond purchases. richardqe. >> you just slow the pace and the question is and we have to hammer this out at the table by how much do you slow the pace? when do you sdiel back or leave him? not stopping. i think that would be too violent for the marketplace. that's my opinion. too violent for the marketplace. jim o'sullivan is chief u.s. economist with high frequency economics and diane swonk with mesereau financial. jim, first to you, just respond to what you heard from richard fisher because he's not one of the more dovish members and he did sound unwilling to talk about tapering. >> hi, kelly. welcome back to the u.s. >> thanks. >> i think as a group they've obviously decided that's how they're going do it, that they're not going to do it as he put it in another speech, cold turk they they'll face it down over several months and i don't think there's any point in fighting that battle and that will be the focus of the chairman's testimony this week, and i certainly wouldn't expect him to declare victory yet