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the feelings and emotions he had about father brooks.'m not sure who was at his presentation last week when he got his honorary degree, but it came up again. when you see how he feels about holy cross versus what he said about his experiences at yale, there's a profound difference, and i think one of the big differences was his classmates, and it was the way he felt treated at the college, and certainly the way he felt treated by father brooks, and so i basically just set out to do an article. i just decided that it was, in fact, grounds for a book, and i have to say this being my first book project, i went on all sorts of directions that ultimately didn't work. one of which was lots of history , publisher said no. that's that. a lot about the history of werster, and, ultimately, it came down to the story of the five men and father brooks, and one thing that meant was unfortunately, a lot of the people i talkedded to, i diminished their roles in the book and take names out because, again, my editor said, you know what? i'm getting confus

brooke? >> miguel marquez, thank you. >>> speaking of pot stores and miguel introduced us to one, there's a group of business men and women cashing in on legal marijuana. they're actually calling themselves goncha-preneurs. >>> john kerry is firing at santorum orr a treaty. they rejected the ratification of the treaty on tuesday despite appearance on the floor by former majority leader bob dole in his wheelchair all in an effort to draw support. santorum explained the opposition in a piece published in "the daily beast" saying in part, let me yoquote, our natio has been the worldwide leader. we should be telling nato and not the other way how to have dignity. senator kerry said santorum doesn't know what he's talking about. >> i have great respect for both rick and his wife karen and their daughter and their family. he is a strong family man. but he either simply hasn't read the treaty or doesn't understand it or he was just not factual in what he said because the united nations has absolutel

the feelings and emotions of father brooks. i am not usher who was that his presentation last week but when you contrast coli cross verses what he has said of his experience at yale is a profound difference. one was his classmates in the way he was treated and especially by father brooks. i set out to do an article. but grounds for a book but with my first project by when done all sorts of directions that did not work. one was a lot of history of the jesuit and the publisher said no. just like everybody else like not from the area took me awhile to learn how to produce it. [laughter] but it came down to these five men but many people i talk to had to diminish because my editor said i am getting confused. focus on the men and the fraternity and use that as a microcosm for what was experienced across the country. a couple of things i tried to be careful all not do do to heighten the interest but the main thing is that a holy cross was special and unique but it was a microcosm. i am not american. by a drop in scotland. i am half c

. >> ridge: ah, so that's why you told brooke that she could cook. >> felicia: brooke's cooking?nd her sisters. >> thorne: a party catered by the logans. reminds me of the good old days. >> donna: aah! >> brooke: oh! >> donna: ugh, disgusting! >> brooke: oh, i suddenly feel like becoming a vegetarian. >> donna: oh. (sighs) why exactly are we doing this? >> brooke: i don't know. i thought it would be kind to offer. i had no idea that stephanie would say "yes." >> donna: (grunts) >> brooke: okay, what does it say to do next? >> donna: ugh. ooh.

"cnn newsroom" continues now with brooke baldwin. hey, brooke. >> suzanne, thank you so much. i'm brooke baldwin. huge news day. a lot to get to including the president's big announcement, saw it here on cnn, moments ago. senator john kerry tapped to replace hillary clinton as secretary of state. but he will have to go through congress first. we're going to talk about that here in just a moment. we have to begin with this. days of tears. days of debate, even some confrontation. the sounds of silence this morning spoke volumes as the nation and newtown remember what happened one week ago today. only rain drops heard during this moment. firefighters there in newtown, paying tribute to 20 young children, 6, 7 years of age and seven adults gunned down for reasons we may never know. the reflections began at 9:30 a.m. eastern time, that is the precise time that first call came in. at least 29 states held a moment of silence, put flags at half-staff, even parts of the internet went silent this morning. video gamers put down their consoles in unity and bells across connecticut state s

i'm brooke baldwin. the question we're asking here, is bashar al assad, is he bluffing as fears grow his regime will unleash chemical weapons in syria? we're digging on what the sarin gas could do and of course where it is coming from. >>> but first, the president has a plan to avoid the fiscal cliff. but republican house speaker john boehner dismisses it as, and i'm quoting, la la land. the republicans offered their proposal, that happened about 24 hours ago. the white house quickly labels it as nothing new. business as usual, right? so how do we move beyond this stalemate in washington? we heard from the president, just a short time ago. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin joins me now, jessica, the president spoke out, sat down in an interview with bloomberg tv, and in listening to the interview, did you hear any clues toward a possible compromise here? >> reporter: not new clues, brooke. the president laid down the marker that we heard from the white house consistently, which is they a

imagine that-- me defending brooke. >> brooke: i'd like

"cnn newsroom" continues with brooke baldwin. >> suzanne, thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour here, we're getting some breaking news out of egypt. we're going to take you there live, basically over the last couple of hours we have been watching some of the clashes that have been taking place. take a look at some of the pictures we have now learned there is a group of masked men, let me qualify this, this is state run tv in egypt, that are reporting these masked men setting fire to the muslim brotherhood headquarters. this is in eastern egypt. we're going to take you there live here momentarily with that. >>> i want to begin with this political stalemate on the minds of so many of you here, 27 days until the fiscal cliff. and i know you know that already, but guess what, folks? the deadline for congress and the white house to act, to stop the tax increase and punishing spending cuts, that deadline is coming up quicker than you may realize because did you know, congress plans to end its current session on december 21st? check your calendar as we did today. that's

i'm brooke baldwin. top of the hour, a lot of news to get to on this monday. first, of course, talks over the fiscal cliff. they are going nowhere fast. democrats, they're basically telling republicans, hey, ball's in your court. we'll take you live to the white house for that. also, as the city grieves over an nfl player's tragic breaking point, new debates today about gun control and domestic violence. you'll hear both. but first, the u.s. has long believed syria has a huge stockpile of chemical weapons. now new concerns that chemical arsenal is on the move. secretary of state hillary clinton today issuing another stern warning against syria, using these weapons. the syrian foreign ministry quick to respond here saying it would not use chemical weapons against its people if it had any, but this announcement as turkey is sending warplanes to its border with syria after the syrian military bombed a nearby town of ras al-ain. you can hear that and see the smoke. this is the turkish side of the border. thi

brooke? >> my turn to make a serious point.hink what is painfully ironic here is the fact that these people are exercising their right to peaceful assembly. what are they protesting? the right to assemble with whomever they want. the right to freedom of association. it makes no sense. what is also painfully obvious here is the fact that if unions were doing their jobs, people wouldn't be running away from them. they hold them hostage, and that's what this right to work bill is about. the bill is not stoping people from m abouting members of the union. they are giving me the freedom to associate. >> this is my point. this can save unions. it actually introduces competition to unions. you might actually have to do a better job. you might actually have to ab do indicate for -- abdicate for better policies. something tells me you didn't think the violence went far enough. >> i don't understand why you want everyone exploited. we fought so hard to get everyone out of the coal mines and to the working world. it reminds me of billy br

headed to me this is an angle of this that the renaldo brooks went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilization. or were no way she would free some modern should be hailed. of the day that anything. they should base. probably one of the most infamous uses of this theory were the racial purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to be the first state to compensate living victims like brooks with a payout of up to fifty thousand dollars they were kind of. except that they were born this kind of jointness they. can do better than this. change has happened to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffering

be at the book festival is brooke stoddard. here is his book, "world in the balance: the perilous months of june-october 1940". brooke stoddard, world war ii started about six months prior to your book. what was happening in europe in june 1940? >> the war had started in september 1939, peter, and germany had overrun poland. hitler's idea at this point was to invade france and knock britain out of the war thereby. with the intent later on to invade the soviet union. he hated communism. this is one thing that was really part of his agenda. he was actually going to invade france in the wintertime, ma in november-december. he had to put that off because -- spent of 1939? >> of 1939. because of the invasion plans fell into the hands of the french and the british, soy put off the invasion until may, and he came up with a new plan. the old plant actually had been similar to world war i. it was going to come through belgium, along the channel coast, and down into paris. but he had to completely rearrange that, and he came up with you

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brooke? >>> bottom of the hour here, i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me.crowds, you see the president. he's speaking at redford, michigan, not too far from detroit. take a listen. >> so in addition to seeing the best workers in the world, you've got -- you've also got all this cool equipment. i want to try out some of the equipment. but secret service wouldn't let me. they said you're going to drop something on your head. hurt yourself. they were worried i would mess something up. and i -- they may not admit it, but i'm pretty sure they were happy the secret service wouldn't let me touch the equipment. now, it's been a little over a month since the election came to an end. [ applause ] so it's now safe for you to turn your televisions back on. all those scary political ads are off the air. you can answer your phone again. nobody's calling you in the middle of dinner, asking for your support. but i have to -- look, i have to admit, there is one part of the campaign that i miss. and that is it is a great excuse for me to get out of washington, and come to to

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you won't want our pay of eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future and why don't i have to go to the hospital i'm not saying rocks was with two other girls when a social worker picked her up she said we're gonna take you pin. down there and they did surgery and in no way do was doing to me eugenics is a pseudo science aimed at improving the so-called quality of the population by forcibly preventing reproduction by people thought by some to be inferior in america it targeted mostly young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the for the money. she says well you know what you know biden well you won't have no bread they. said what a way to make it one day you mean she said you know hannah. and this woman want me handed to me this is an angle of this that they ran brooks went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they ha

brooke? >> we'll wait for the updates. dan simon for us, in the portland area, thank you. >>> before we do move on here, i just want you to listen, one more thing. this is from the clackamas county sheriff as he pretty much sums up what many of us are thinking. >> the mall is supposed to be a place that we can all take our families, feel comfortable that this is a great place, especially the holiday season, like this. and these things aren't supposed to happen. >> these things aren't supposed to happen. we have heard those words in some form before. >>> a man suffering from amnesia had no identity. >> my name is benjamin cot. you don't know who i am. and quite frankly, neither do i. >> he'll join me live on what could be his last chance at having a past and finding a future. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> an assassin on the loose after a hit in broad daylight. details about the victim's past revealed. >>> an asteroid barely misses earth, and we had no warning. >>> plus, a former mar

i'm brooke baldwin. a bit of a surprise. moments ago on the white house briefing room today, the president speaking before reporters answering several questions about the fiscal cliff, and blasting republicans in the process. well, here is what we have learned since. speaker of the house john boehner, he will be responding. he'll be responding in just minutes from now here. so we'll take that for you live. but let me begin with what the president began with, with this debate sweeping the nation right now. he wants ideas on changing nation the nation's gun laws. wants the ideas fast. he tapped number two to lead the interagency effort to come up with proposals. he gave vice president joe biden one month to do it. the president says this is not some wishy washy blue ribbon government study group. take a listen. >> this is not some washington commission. this is not something where folks are going to be studying the issue for six months and publishing a report that gets read and then pushed aside. this is a

young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the for the. she says well. now you know by and you won't have no brigade of said what a way to make it want do you mean she said you won't never know. and there's one. handed to me this is an angle of this that the grand brooks went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilisation do we or her or or the way she was free from modern should be. of this day that anything. they should. probably one of the most infamous uses of this theory was the radical purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to be the f

not betray their own. >> brooke: i'm sure she doesn't see it as a betrayal. >> bill: she talked your son into telling his sister about something that never happened. now if she had done what i asked... >> brooke: you don't understand why she couldn't. >> bill: she went against my express wishes, and that is totally unacceptable. >> brooke: (sighs) look, i understand that you're upset, but caroline's heart was in the right place. >> bill: it's not her heart that i'm concerned about. it's her loyalty. and nobody does something against my family without there being repercussions, especially when that person is a spencer. >> katie: look, it's gonna bay

"cnn newsroom" continues now with brooke baldwin who is in newtown, connecticut. >>> i'm brooke baldwin live today in newtown, connecticut, where today the new reality is sinking in. today parents are living alongside an empty room of the child they lost. left behind in that room, pajamas, favorite toys, books they always read together, parents who know this, even the smell of their child's pillow. and these first responders being called heroes, but still day in and day out living with the images no one could have prepared them to see. today, families are deciding on coffins, head stones, choosing songs that will play at the funerals of first graders. want to tell you about the two little boys who are actually being remembered right now. the funeral for 6-year-old jack pinto began just about an hour ago. jack will be laid to rest today in newtown village cemetery. just a little bit of background on this 6-year-old, jack adored football, his favorite player was new york giants receiver victor cruz. apparently he watched giants games while proudly wearing his cruz jersey. look at that che

i'm brooke baldwin. right to it. thanks for being with me. we want to begin in michigan. take a look. >> we are -- >> union. >> the sound of protesters chanting, filled the state house gallery in lansing, while inside the capital chamber the republican-led legislature passed not just one, two right to work bills. one was for the public workers. the second, which passed moments ago, covers workers in the private sector. with the passing of both bills here, michigan will become the 24th right to work state, all that is left for that to happen, for the republican governor to sign it. rick snyder promises to do exactly that, probably tomorrow. look at more pictures we have for you here. more than 12,000 protesters gathered in freezing temperatures. i think i saw some snow falling earlier there in lansing as the lawmakers were inside, voting. and, against the odds, democrats waged a final losing battle. poppy harlow, let me bring you in there, amidst all of this in lansing. set the scene for me, now that we k

brooke? >> all right.ami beach, thanks, john. >> chelsea roth nearly dieda a teenager from an eating disorder and now teaches yoga at workshops across the country. in this week's human factor, we see how she turned her life around. >> how are you? >> when you see chelsea roth now, looking happy and vibrant, it's nearly impossible to imagine the day she said part of her brain died. at 15 years old, she suffered a stroke brought on by severe anorexia. >> i now know from looking at hospital records i was 58 pounds. >> 58 pounds and close to dying. so many parts of her body were failing. there no pictures of her at her sickest. this picture is from about a year earlier in and out of treatment centers. she remembers how starting a diet with her mom in the midst of a difficult and dangerous childhood spiralled into a disorder that nearly killed her. >> looking back, i think my body was my only way to tell the people around me that something wasn't okay. i was scare and hurting and i needed help. >> help came for

into lynn brook. there was grafitti found on the wall, saying there was a bomb planted.ight now we just ran into a lieutenant from the sheriff's office, can you tell me what is happening right now? >> we have bomb detection bombs from agencies to help as the sides of the campus is large. we have several roadblocks around the school, just to be able to err on the side of caution and for the safety of the school staff, students as well as the residents around we want to make sure their safety is guaranteed. that is what we have going on right now. we -- expect our roads to be closed, probably for another three or four hours or so. we will go head and provide an update as more things progress. >> reporter: i know the students at monta vista are closed, we are also hearing lincoln elementary? >> the school campus borders monta vista and that's the reason why we shut down that particular school. however, other schools in coopertino aren't affected as of this time. however, we have our deputies, that are doing the walk through with school officials at other school campuses jus

you can't honestly expect me to believe that bill and brooke would do something like that. >> taylor:nfortunately, it's true. when you were going through your postpartum depression, your husband and your sister kissed. >> katie: (sighs) (knock on door) >> brooke: is this a bad time? >> bill: never for you. >> brooke: i couldn't stop thinking about our conversation, what you said about taylor. now i know i dismissed it, but then, it is taylor. so i need to know exactly what she said. >> bill: it's not what she said

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so welcome back to the gorgeous brooke burke. >> she's trying to say fly away cancer. >> yeah.> mm-hmm. >>> demi moore, 50 years old, she has still got her groove. according to the "l.a. times," she was grinding in her seat, dancing and posing for the camera, mugging happily with lenny kravitz and stacy keibler in miami at a party, not getting snapped in the same frame with her 26-year-old boy toy vito schnabel. >> huh? >> vito schnabel. >> schnabel, schnabel. >> but the two were all over each other and publicly making out at the event. >> remember she is bouncing back. she is getting out -- doing they're thing. >> now demi has her groove. go ahead, demi. get it back. don't hurt your hip. don't hurt your hip. medicare only covers about 80% bly know, of your part b medical expenses. the rest is up to you. so consider an aarp medicare supplement insurance plan, insured by unitedhealthcare insurance company. like all standardized medicare supplement plans, they cover some of what medicare doesn't pay. and could save you in out-of-pocket medical costs. call today to request a free

jack brooks was 89. making history and making music.o remember jazz great dave brubeck next. ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >>> finally tonight, dave brubeck was a jazz pioneer who kept his own kind of time. as a pianist and composer, brubeck challenged the standard musical cadence with exotic rythyms and styles. brubeck, who would have turned 92 tomorrow, died today. anthony mason takes "time out" to remember his work. ♪ [ music ] >> reporter: dave brubeck's music was a defining sound of jazz clubs in the '50s and '60s. a "time" magazine cover in 1954 described him as a wigging cat with a far-out wail. >> are there any rules for improvisation? >> you bet your life there are, and the rules in jazz would just scare you to death. >> reporter: the son of a california cattle rancher and a classically trained pianist, brubeck had a natural ear for melodies. at home in connecticut in 1961, he told walter cronkite -- >> it's like a baseball player or any athlete: he's only good when he instinctively does the right thing. >> reporter: the dave b

eric brook representing san francisco green party and the local organization our city. first a technical point on all of this. i was under the impression and check with dhr on this that the executive position still exists but filled on an interim basis. maybe i am wrong on that but good to make sure you're correct on that from the staff's perspective. i agree bringing it back in house because the next year is going to be really big for clean power sf and some other things and we need somebody that can be available five days a week, 50 weeks a year. i mean that's really going to be important, but the main thing i want to focus on is that the advocates for clean power sf have had some concerns with the way that lafco -- when we originally set set up lafco to work on clean power sf and especially get at the beginning of 2007 and what we needed from lafco and i believe the intention we needed somebody on task for clean power sf itself that could approach the sf puc on many occasions the sf puc wasn't thinking outside of the box on this to put it politely, and we need someon