is there another chandra that even remotely interests you as much as this?i do not know about and the genre. -- about genre. frank morgan -- it is very esoteric. i do not know how the conception of this will be. i would like to write a judge story, have music in it, and have some kind of connection between writing and music. i do not outline my books. i am an interview -- am an improviser. you take the framework of a song, but he goes off of it. there are connections. i would like to explore that in a novel. tavis: have you been a jazz had a while? >> 20 years. i was a blues and rock and roll. i was a reporter. so i knew what to find for him. i knew to get to people who would advise me on what harry would listen to. you cannot do it all as research and not let the music get in. it is growing on me. i am probably listening to more jazz than anything else right now. tavis: what has the exposure to that music done for you? >> it has been inspirational. on a practical level, it is something i can listen to when i write. without the lyrics, it is no intrusion, ju

. >>> today, chandra wilson and three things to make holidays perfect. >> food, food, and someone tohere's my number call me maybe ♪ ♪ i just met you, this is crazy. here's my number call me maybe ♪ >>> welcome back to "cbs this morning" where that was pretty much our favorite pop culture moment in 2012. there were lots of others of course. billboard magazine editor joe leavy is here. great to have you with us. >> great to be here. >> "call me maybe" went viral in this magnificent way. we haven't seen something this magnificent go viral -- >> viral is one of the stories of pop culture in 2012. it's not just "call me maybe." it's "gangnam style." "call me maybe" started as a tweet. then it was a video. then it was a song. the harvard baseball team made a video of it. katy perry did. colin powell sang it on this show. cookie monster. >> everyone wanted to sing their own version of this song. you can't get it out of your head. once you got it in your head, you had to get it into your head. >> like "gangnam style" with more than a billion yous. >> humanity has bonded together on youtube

>> operation specialist chandra mcdonald has been away for a year travelling the world, singapore, dubai sisters and brothers. >> and welcome home sailor, won't be deployed until may. those are your headlines, congratulations. >> i want to add quickly, the president said this morning on meet the press, the republicans only unifying theme in negotiations have been protecting tax breaks for the wealthy, that's what the president says. that's not exactly a good way to find common ground with republicans on the morning of the deal. >> juliet: i'm guessing that things aren't moving forward. >> dave: that may not be a coming-together moment. >> clayton: perhaps he knows that the ball is in his court and-- >> playing politics. >> clayton: coming up on the show he, vladimir putin playing politics with children's lives. now, thousands of kids' futures hang in the balance. >> juliet: it's a horrible story, including this little boy's. the american couple trying to adopt him. they were supposed to be getting him just a few days from now. join us live to talk about this terrible story. >> dave: and