this is ronald brook's story. >> my name is ronald brook.er. i've been in prison for 30 years. i don't know if i'll ever get out. >> over three decades ago, ronald brook kidnapped teenager susan worthen and her friend at gunpoint. >> she had growled at me. now she was talking to another guy. i felt the anger well up in me again. i turned my car around and went back to where they were parked. >> shut up! shut up! >> i felt numb and cold but i didn't stop. >> less than two weeks after the crime, brook was arrested and charged with first-degree murder. he has spent almost 30 years behind bars. >> when i come to prison, i felt that i was as low as i could get short of being in a grave. in fact, i thought i wouldn't live very long. i walked in the gates and i looked around and said, "well, i'm dead." >> ron brook had more than one reason to fear for his life. men with crimes against women are often targets for violence. >> i don't have a crime i can brag about because i'm in here for killing a girl. >> but ronald brook is about to put his life on

and at least brooks knew it. >> we needed to get to a hospital or we were going to die. >> brooks carriedout to the family car. they were terrified, all but sure the killers must be out there somewhere lying in wait for them. >> i remember also thinking they might be at the end of the driveway so i drove really fast. and they weren't there. and thinking they might be on the highway. >> as they raced up route 81, brother and sister had a surreal, surprisingly composed conversation. >> it was very strange because there was, you know, moments of silence and, you know, then leslie asked me, are mom and dad dead, and i said, yeah, they are. and she goes, so, you know, what are we going to do? i guess we'll go live with our aunts and uncles. and i said, i guess so. i just said, we don't need to worry about it right now. we just need to, you know, need to get better. >> brooks was doing better than 100 miles an hour in his dad's 1970 plymouth duster. they drove to the lawn of a family friend, a doctor, and blurted out what happened. >> they actually didn't believe us. we said, we're shot, mom an

>> that's absolutely right, brooke. i remember it very distinctly because i had actually just come back from holiday, and my producer came to my office and said, you know what? we've just been invited by the north korean government to go to the country and 48 hours later, boy, we were on a plane to beijing. what was interesting about that, with we were told at the time and only told this, that it was going to be the country's largest military parade in its h history. of course, we had a feeling that it would be, as i said -- it was an extraordinary, as you saw, couple of days inside the country. >> we saw the colors, the pageantry. did you ever for a moment get the opportunity to turn the cameras around, see the devastation and the poverty or that was never allowed? >> well, we are able to go around pyongyang. this was my second trip to north korea, i was there in 2008 accompanying the new york fill had harm-- philharmonic when th performed there. it's hard to realize how sealed off this country is to the rest of the wo

we did check, brooke. auflt marine whoz were wounded in this fire fight are we covered or thankfully have already returned to duty. >> you heard him say another day, just another day for them in afghanistan. barbara starr, thank you, at the pentagon. >>> coming up next, rick perry has a new ad accusing president obama of inciting a war on religion. >>> and a new poll suggests americans are fed up with congress. how fed p up? that's next. >>> before we talk politics we just want to remind you we are awaiting news from a jury in new haven, connecticut. in fact, live pictures outside the courthouse as we have a crew awaiting the fate of joshua komisarjevsky, the second person involved in that horrific home invasion in which a mother, jennifer hawke-petit, and her two daughters were brutally killed some years ago. we're awaiting the fate -- the jury is voting on life or death. as deb feyerick was reporting, the knock has come, meaning they've come to a conclusion. he's facing six counts. it must be unanimous o

. >> osgood: albert brooks has a long record of playing movie roles for laughs.ot in his newest role, however, and thereby hangs a tale. mo rocca has our subject profile. >> i want you to meet mister bernie rose. >> nice to meet you. >> my hands are all dirty. >> so are mine. >> reporter: albert brooks kills in his latest film, and not in the knock 'em dead funny kind of way. had you wanted to kill somebody in a movie for a while? >> well, i wanted to play a part that was different than something i've played before for a while. i didn't, you know, i didn't put out on the casting call "want to kill." you know? >> reporter: it turns out albert brooks, who has made us laugh for 40 years, can be a really good bad guy too. (gun flifer) film "drive" is a crime drama with ryan gosling as a solitary wheel man and brooks as small-time mobster bernie rose. >> any dreams you have or plans or hopes for your future? i think you're going to have to put that on hold. for the rest of your life, you're going to be looking over your shoulder. i'm just telling you this because i wa

>> reporter: well, what a day it's been, brooke. imagine 11 witnesses, including at least four alleged victims who would have taken the stand talk about in excruciating detail being molested and raped by jerry sandusky but they didn't have the opportunity to do so because he waited and, why? his lawyers explain that it was a tactical decision on their part, that, in part, because they would not have had an opportunity to try to challenge the credibility of these witnesses while they were on the witness stand because of court rules, then it just wasn't to their advantage. however, they certainly, it's true, miss out on an opportunity to interview these people, put them on the stand. however, it would have meant that this day would have been filled with the testimony of what those alleged victims had to say. this way, that didn't happen. and, instead, defense attorneys took the spotlight. they also didn't have a chance to interview a key witness who was expected to testify today, mike mcquery, who would have told, according to the gra

let me briefly introduce brook hauser. brook hauser has written for "the new york times," "los angeles times," among other publications and she's originally from miami, florida, and now lives in new york. francis flaherty has worked as a columnist and editor at "the new york times" for the past 17 years and is currently the deputy editor of the home section. is written for harper's, atlanta, commonwealth and the progressive. and his teaching journalism at the new york university. we will, just a quick housekeeping, please turn off your cell phones. as you probably seem, c-span booktv is filming the event tonight. for the q&a we'll be passing around a microphone, so if you could wait for the microphone to reach and then ask your question. thank you so much, and now please welcome brooke hauser and her book, "the new kids." [applause] >> so, as suzanne said we're here to discuss brooks new book, and it's about, just to give a summary, a high school in brooklyn called the international high school, which specializes i in the

i'm brooke baldwin. the squirmish over the soon to be expired payroll tax turns to be a kate bolduan, we go back to you on capitol hill. the house today rejected the two-month extension. that version of the bill, as you and i saw, the president spoke in the daily briefing, then the house speaker, john boehner, held there's no news conference. what did he say? >> reporter: the house speaker came to respond -- let me get a microphone on. that would be good. it's been a long day of live chats. the house speaker -- >> continue. >> reporter: thank you. john boehner came out and said that house republicans, they oppose the two-month extension over the weekend because it doesn't provide the certainly that americans need, the kind of stimulate the economy in the way that the payroll tax extension they would hope would do. so he made it very clear that they are not ready to budge from their decision. he says they have acted and now it's time for the president and senate democrats to do the same. i think we have a

>> it is a web chat, brooke.e talking virtually to the supporters in iowa and of course, all eyes are on iowa and the gop results. it will be a skype technology, but sort of more advanced than the typical skype that maybe you or i would use, because it will allow him to talk to the supporters in various locations, and of course, he will be trying to amp up the supporters in iowa talking about the campaign message that he has already made clear that he is fighting for the middle-class, and there's something about iowa that is obviously very important to president obama and his re-elect, and that is because it was in 2008 that eight-point lead over hillary clinton that gave him the early momentum and really made him a con tepder and the way that the campaign sees it, brooke, iowa, this sort of ground game that they have going on in iowa is a bit of a test run for the general election, brooke. >> as i am listening to you, there we are looking at the images of the president of course on vacation and we haven't seen t

>> it is a web chat, brooke. be talking virtually to the supporters in iowa and of course, all eyes are on iowa and the gop results. it will be a skype technology, but sort of more advanced than the typical skype that maybe you or i would use, because it will allow him to talk to the supporters in various locations, and of course, he will be trying to amp up the supporters in iowa talking about the campaign message that he has already made clear that he is fighting for the middle-class, and there's something about iowa that is obviously very important to president obama and his re-elect, and that is because it was in 2008 that eight-point lead over hillary clinton that gave him the early momentum and really made him a contender and the way that the campaign sees it, brooke, iowa, this sort of ground game that they have going on in iowa is a bit of a test run for the general election, brooke. >> as i am listening to you, there we are looking at the images of the president of course on vacation and we haven't seen

>> it's a web chat, brooke.lly to his supporters in iowa and think, all eyes are on iowa because of the gop, but the president's reelect also focused there as well. it will be a skype technology and, but sort of more advanced than the typical skype that maybe you or i would use because it will allow him to talk to supporters in various locations and of course, he'll be trying to amp up his supporters in iowa and talking about that campaign message that he's already made very clear that he's fighting for the middle class and there's something about iowa that's important to president obama and his reelect and that was because in 2008 the eight-point lead that gave him that early momentum and made him a contender and the way he sees it, brooke, iowa, the ground game he has is a bit of a test run for the general election, brooke. >> we're looking at these images of the president and of course, he's on vacation and we haven't seen too much of him and i'll ask you about that in a minute and last night he and the first

i'm brooke baldwin.he hour with rapid fire, things making news happening now. >>> unfolding a sudden change of power in one of the world's most mysterious countries. a third generation of kims is set to take control of north korea, following word that his father kim jong-il died. the news of kim's death quickly spread around the world and reaction was most profound on the divided korean peninsula. we'll take you live to the south korean capital as we get in touch with cnn's anna koran live in seoul. anna, set the scene for me there, in the southern part of the peninsula, is there concern? is there celebration? >> reporter: brooke, i have to say there's a great deal of concern here, and understandably so. this is one of the most heavily armed regions in the world. just to the north of us, an hour and a half drive, is the dmz, the demille tarized zone, the border between north and south korea. north korea has nuclear weapons. that is why there's so much attention on this story and the death of kim jong-il.

. >> osgood: albert brooks is known far and wide as a very funny actor and director. so what's behind his latest movie role as a very menacing bad guy? this morning mo rocca grills him on that subject and more. >> kid, i want you to meet mr. bernie rose. >> reporter: albert brooks is drawing raves as cold-blooded killer in "drive." >> my hands are a little dirty. >> so are mine. >> reporter: not what you expect from the man who usually makes comedies about the human condition. you said, "i like movies about failing." >> well, i like characters that fail because people fail. >> reporter: albert brooks on his characters and his success later on sunday morning. >> osgood: the return of christmas is the talk of the town. in the community our bill geist has just been to visit. >> reporter: on christmas morning what better place to be than seneca falls, new york. the town proudly and loudly proclaims that it was the inspiration for the christmas film classic "it's a wonderful life." >> merry christmas. >> reporter: so this is the real bedford falls. >> this is the real bedf

i'm brooke baldwin. you have the senate duking it out over the money in your pocket, also judgment day for a monstrous home invader. and snail mail? about to get even slower. time to play reporter roulette. kate bolduan on capitol hill, democrats have taken another shot, extending the payroll tax cut before it expires at the end of the year. here's my if to you. if congress doesn't get it done, they can't compromise, your paycheck could be a lot lighter next year. what's the difference in this version of the plan today? >> reporter: in this version of the plan, this is now the kind of newest proposal to come forward, this coming from senate democrats, this keep -- what this proposal does is extend the payroll tax cut for employees and actually expand it so employees would be having to pay even less in the payroll tax. so it would go from 4.2% tax to 3.1% tax. a big change, though, is this proposal does not include -- it has dropped the payroll are tax cut -- employers. democrats say that was done in an e

i am here tonight with brooke goldstein. what a wonderful cover. she is the found -- she is the founder of the children's rights institute. there it is, brooke. if you just waited awhile, i have to show the book. as if anybody could see that, it is called law fare, the war against free speech. i have no idea what it is about. i bet it is a pop up book. if hilarity was a baskets of buscuits i would bang him against the ground. and even his shadow has light, my side kill bill schulz. and he has -- bill schulz. and he has more talent in his pin key. he is the star of idol and rock of ages and a tony nominee, constantine moroles. good to see you, pinch. >> the critic's notebook visits the beloved museum of the confederacy. whereupon the author and the proprietor sat out on the veranda and discussed the wharf northern aggression while drinking sweet tea and enjoying the breeze provided by an over sized fan. of course, certain topics about this magestic time in art history were considered i'm polite, and therefore not touched upon. rhymes with shmavery.

brooke? >> we were seeing the slow-mo shot of him walking into the courthouse today, i know is federal court, no cameras, were you in there? what was his reaction? >> he sort of had this pleasant demeanor on his face. obviously, he was glad. he just really didn't show a lot of expression. by guess could you say he just sort of had this pleasant look on his face. he actually looks pretty good. he lost a lot of weight. he doesn't look like the player we saw a couple of years ago when he broke the record. has, of course, the most home runs. so, barry bonds walked out of court, i guess about five, ten minutes ago, hopped in his suv and he is off, but he will probably be back in this courtroom in the not too distant future this case is on appeal. >> broke the home run record in august of '07, not far from where you are standing, dan simon. dan simon in san francisco. >>> a frightening sight in china, this is river, it has turned blood red. no, not the sign of the coming apocalypse, but it is somet

you're on with david brooks. >> caller: hello, mr. brooks. thank you very much for c-span.epth" for taking my call. i would like to mention i'm a proud american. of course, naturalized citizen of america. i'm an american by choice. and i'm proud of it. actually, i have one comment. and my comment is related to mr. brooks' -- just a while ago he mentioned about the booming economy dealing with the president in a good economy in good times. in the united states and the rest of the world enjoyed. and i admire president clinton and, of course, i admire speaker gingrich, both are great americans and great servants of this country, and it was a great economy. if you look at "in depth" and this program and the reason for this booming economy was actually superficial, superficially it was arranged. the first season was the booming -- was a dot.com bubble which burst within a few years. and the second reason for this booming economy during that time that we see the effect of right now is the booming real estate and housing, which was artificially created. and so, therefore, if you l

i think that holds. >> thank you so much to brooke and friends transpiring conversation with brooke will be signing copies of her book and you can purchase up front and she will be right of revers siding and we will play a movie. say some things so you know what it is about. [talking over each other] >> this is a video that diana castro made for the class of 2011 graduation ceremony and it is just kids goofing around but it is really fun so we will play that. >> oh, we will play some music that you have to pretend you are 18 to really get into it. it is an international high school prom mix so you hear some chinese and mandarin and hip-hop, bengali, lady gaga, ten your problem. [applause] >> brooke hauser working from new york city. visit the author's website, brookehauser.com. >> there is much more to the newly designed c-span.org. more video with 11 video choices making it easier to watch events. more features scheduled on the network layout that you can quickly squirrel for all the programs on the c-span network can receive an e-mail alert when your program is scheduled to air. more a

, you need to get down. >> no. >> come here, brooke. >> reporter: and foster parents who want to help soon learn, if they don't give medications, the child would be taken away. >> we were told to put our faith in the system, and we did. no one said the medications could be causing the problem. they were saying she needed more medication. >> reporter: in brooke's case, one doctor, a psychiatrist, recognized the problem. and brooke went from this, being weaned off the strongest medications, to this. >> no adult should be receiving the drugs of that different variety. certainly not at these stages. >> reporter: delaware senator tom carper is holding a congressional hearing tomorrow demanding changes in the foster care system in this country. parallel to the year-long abc news invest garigationnvestigat. report, which found, in some cases, psychotropic drugs were given to infants, though there's no idea what the long-term effects could be to a child's developing brain. and the report found in five states alone, out of 100,000 foster kids, 26,000 were on some form of psychotropic drugs. ho

neither side was going to support the other's proposal, brooke. but an interesting development, a very surprising development from last night is the republican proposal did not win a majority support among republicans themselves, which is getting quite a bit of attention. republican aides are stressing that that was not the final officer, the final propose saal. but it's real division among the republicans. not only how to pay for it but really whether to extend the payroll tax cut at all is what we're hearing from republicans because they don't think that the payroll tax cut has helped stimulate the economy while taking away from social security and they see a real political opening there and they are hammering republicans from the president on down and they are not supporting a payroll tax extension which would largely help middle-class americans, brooke. >> kate, keep us posted. thanks. >>> next to this on "reporter roulette," jim changlancy is lin cairo, egyptian. the election commission made a very lengthy statement today. we know that 62% of

syndicated columnist mark shields and "new york times" columnist david brooks. hello, gentlemen, it's good to see you. >> it's good to see you. >> woodruff: let's start with the president. david, he gave a speech this week in kansas. maybe a new fighting spirit. he's evoking teddy roosevelt, talking about protecting the middle class. some a theme, a message he can ride to the election? >> it's the one he will ride on and it's made a lot of liberals very happy. he's given them something to fight for, a narrative. a lot of people on the left said we didn't have this, and now we've got a theme. i think there's a lot to be said for the theme, the idea of a fair deal, the invocation of teddy roosevelt. the two projection i had with it, one, are political. i think this election is about national decline. and he's trying to make it an election about inequality, and i think people agree inequality is a problem. i think they don't see it as a central problem which is about growth and preserving the country as a growing, dynamic country. so i think it's a little off cente

brooke? >> jim, thank you, in paris for us. >>> millions of americans taking to the skies. chad myers looking -- hopefully not too many delays, 6,188 planes in the sky. >> that's a good number for you. >> that's a good number. some people arriving and even earlier. >> love it. >> and it will tell you that it's going to take five hours to get to l.a. and that's because they think about a jet stream to slow you down. a head wind to slow you down. if there's no wind in the central part of the united states, the west flight from new york to l.a. there are the planes. a bunch of them here. they are all going to hawaii. that's the only delay that i have seen all day. there is going to be rain across the south. it's not going to be a white christmas. only slight flurries. and the blizzard in new mexico is a disaster i-10 and i-40 closed across parts of mexico. >> not necessarily many airport delays but new mexico, not at all fun. >> that's right. >> chad myers, thank you. >>> still ahead, for months

to be climbing over the fence into the property of trinity church bishop packard and his wife brooke packard who was also on hand for last week's demonstrations and joining me now from our studios in new york to talk about what happened to them and what's in store for the movement in the future welcome to you both glad to have you with us hi tom hi nice to be here thank you very very much george if i could start with you let's begin with what happened on saturday what motivated you to climb the fence. well i tell you it was a it was a long process well a long process in the sense that it. began in mid september i was bringing water down to the comedy park and innocent gesture and i was detained by an officer a police officer and i was just a suburban guy retired i just walk the dog and have some sympathy for some young people put some water in the station wagon bring it down there and the guy wouldn't the officer would not let me take the water out of the out of the car so i. detain me against the car and i thought this is crazy and my collar on i said officer show me a little humani

brooke?massive intersection in hollywood. >> there's a madman in the street. oh, my god. you all right? there's a madman that just shot people. >> well, we've got brand-new information about one of those people. that man shot. that story coming up. >>> plus, the new reality show, "all american muslim." we have learned that despite lowe's pulling its commercials, they have sold out their advertising. i would love to hear your thoughts on this one. send me your tweet as you did yesterday. we'll be right back. (rambling phone conversation) when an investment lacks discipline, it's never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. >>> the music executive shot has now died. he was caught up in a the violent outburst by tyler brunn. >> he is shooting people. there's a madman. john atterberry was in his mer

i'm brooke baldwin. paivts are dead after flames rip through a hospital. and some staff members now charged with leaving them to die. sara sidner joins me live. >>> there's something wrong in this country when wigays can see openly in the military but our kids can't openly pray in school or celebrate christmas. >> rick perry under fire accusing president obama from waging wash on religion. >>> an emotional story of a veteran's biggest battle. >> there was a lot of partying going on, aloft drugs. >> as thousands of troops get ready to come home, a big effort to keep them out of jail. >>> and noosasa says the best pf that water existed on mars. so what about life? the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometime

brooke?te bolduan, thank you so much. the white house is taking advantage via twitter, asking americans what can you do with $40? that's the amount that the average family would lose in a paycheck if the tax cut is not extended. t.k. in michigan says, it means the world to me. it's the equivalent of five hours of work or feeding my family for three neeights. members of congress are on their end of the year holiday but house republicans did form a conference committee to try to hash this thing out, figure out a solution to this payroll tax cut impasse. joining me is one of the republicans on that committee, nan hayworth of new york. congresswoman, we appreciate you sticking around town and talking to me here. i can only guess that you're staying in washington not because you like how the jefferson memorial lights twinkle, it's because you're hoping that you'll be called back to do your job, yes? >> yes. we are hoping very much because we're here to fight for the american people. two months ver

tonight a conversation with david brooks, the new york times columnist. the white house and president bush, and president obama is a pretty stark contrast. with bush it was just vision. you may not have liked it. we can all have that discussion. but with the current president, it's most like very intelligent dissection of a policy. i metimes think they need to do the big vision. so a governing organized policies. dissection of policies are very impressive. you could -- and i've been at other sessions where people ask everything from banking policy to iran to weapons programs. and this predent can go into detail on all those things. it's extremely impressive. but if you're responding to a historical moment, it's important to know the moment you're in, and step back. >> david brook for the hour next. >> funding for kharlgy rose was provided by the following. >> a polar bear cub is born with no sense of sight. we're helping ensure they're born with a -- details on limited coke cans and caps on how to join coca-cola in helping to create a safe refuge for the

the answer but murdoch way rebecca brooks. so for 21 years you have a culture of illegality of phone hacking and feeling with expenses expenses if you like has gone on under rebecca brooks. so what we have is a future prime minister cozying up and being molded by their criminal in chief, the association, cam and selection is based on criminality. and that is why i was so excited when i first met davis. that's were i'm going to stick my surveillance van outside of rebecca brooks house because fundamentally, what a great story. james didn't care when all kind of scheming how they're going to try and make cameron into the next prime minister. and if rebecca broke ends up going to jail for the things that she did and which helped cameron become prime minister at that well, this is my watergate. i thought of going to bring down the government. i didn't mean to bring down "news of the world." that was a shot that are not send around a closer. but i do think i'm entirely responsible for the reopening of the investigation, which led t

and an agreement on extending the payroll tax cut, we get the analysis of mark shields and david brooks. >> suarez: in our second report from morocco, we examine the nation's struggle for greater democracy. >>> it was the arab isn't ittime democratcratic position. >> woodruff: jeffrey brown talks with author daniel yergin about how the demand for more and more energy has shaped political and economic change around the globe. we as a country today are twice as energy efficient as we were during the era of the energy crisis. if we weren't we really would be in trouble. >> suarez: and fred de sam lazaro tells the story of an unusual christmas celebration at a minnesota church. >> woodruff: that's all ahead on tonight's newshour. major fuing for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> intel. sponsors of tomorrow. >> and by bnsf railway. and by the alfred p. sloan foundation. supporting science, technology, and improved economic performance and financial literacy in the 21st century. >> and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and... this program was made possibl