this wasn't a fictional narrative.t was presented as fact. >> reporter: today, "rolling stone" apologized, saying in the face of new information, there now appear to be discrepancies in jackie's account. and went on to express regret they never contacted the alleged attackers. >> i don't know what they did. in journalism, you try to get on the record things from every side. i got jackie's side with an incredible level of detail. but one level that was difficult to get from her was the other side. >> reporter: but today jackie told the "washington post" she's standing by her story. >> it's not uncommon for rape victims to not remember events in a chronological timeline. on top of that, it's the only type of crime where women very often feel like they need to prove they're not lying. there's an assumption of, is this person telling the proof? when a woman tells her story, it may not sound credible because it's not in a chronological timeline, she may not have proof. >> reporter: it's still entirely possible that somethin

>> 700 pages, but it's big print and it's fiction, so it has a real gripping, exciting narrative. lesley stahl read this on her vacation and wrote me a nice letter. she said she found it engrossing, creative, and funny. i said, "i'll take all three." ( laughing ) >> hinojosa: but you're all about grassroots and every citizen can change, and... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: so isn't this kind of saying, "wait a second. so we can't depend on the grassroots. now we have to depend on these ultra, ultra, ultra rich who may have their own baggage," but they're the ones who are going to actually make our country better, or our world better? >> yeah, i selected them because they're enlightened, in advanced stage, had a different perspective on life, and had a lot... were willing to put billions of dollars into mobilizing the grassroots. so it's the top down, bottom up. justice requires money. it requires money for lawyers, for organizers in the communities. it requires money for transportation. it requires money to constantly reach people directly. and people don't understand. the abolition of sl

little that they can't ford to put food on the table, so the narrative that some of my republican colleagues have put out there is just fictiondren, seniors, disabled, and amongst those working, a majority of them work. if democrats don't take the lead, no one will. >> that's true. billy you're always on the front lines on the fight against hunger but today you have a special initiative can you tell us more about it. >> our's is devoted to our no kit hungry campaign. you can donate online. the food company hickory farms is matching up to the first $50,000 donated. it is a great way to raise money for a solvable problem. even if you don't have a passion for the poor, if you care about educations, schools, jobs, about our competitiveness as a nation, we have to solve this hunger problem. we can't have a strong america with kids who are not strong. >> it has a cascade effect indeed. thank you gentleman for your time and the work you're doing. >> thank you. >>> in the spirit of giving tuesday, we want the to highlight a program we saw firsthand in eastern kentucky. tomorrow we will tell you what the backpack program does for low

fiction. but i think people of faith look for truth, and i think in both narratives, there's the truth.nd truth sometimes goes a lot deeper and a lot farther than the details. >> just about my private spirituality. as with the story of jesus, it's something which must transform the whole of one's life and through one0s own life all sorts of other things in the world. >> coming next, our tour of bethlehem and the church of the nativity. hey what are you doing? i was thinking about taking this speed test from comcast business. oh yeah? if they can't give us faster internet or save us money, they'll give us 150 bucks. sounds like a win win. guys! faster internet? i have never been on the internet and i am doing pretty well. does he even work here? don't listen to the naysayer. take the comcast business speed test. get faster speeds or more savings, or we'll give you $150. comcast business. built for business. >>> from where we are standing, it would have been jesus ancestral area from the family of joseph. >> although we know he grew up in nazareth, we know there were relatives in this are

might be a diversion to the real hackers who can point to this narrative that north korea was up in arms about the film which portrays the fictionalassination of kim jong un as a way to exploit vulnerability. this also doesn't -- this doesn't have the same features of previous attacks carried out, statements to the ceo and various other measures, which they haven't done before even against south korean targets. so there is uproar here. sony is being accused of being given in to terrorism. so -- i don't know we'll have to see how that place out too. >> thank for that. >>> kurdish forces in northern iraq have retaken more ground from isil this time to the west of mull sell. it comes 24 hours after they broke a siege around the sinjar mountains which has lasted for months. and they are now marching towards the main base. victoria reports. >> reporter: kurdish forces are on the offensive determined to secure the significant gains they have made against isil in the sinjar mountains. it's where another least one thousand families have taken refuge. it has allowed a corridor to be opened through which they can escape. >> this happened un

fiction. it's a complete fabrication. what do you say to those people who are advancing a narrative we all now know is false?re's the problem, sean, couple things. number one, i think people are up in arms about the process that took place. for example, when you have a prosecutor puts witnesses before the grand jury yet you impeach your own witnesses that you put in front of the grand jury. >> daryl, wait a minute. you have witnesses. you have members of congress telling the country that's listening, oh, michael brown had his hands up and said don't shoot. that's a lie. the witnesses said that's a lie and it's not true. he was charging at the officer after he tried to steal the guy's gun. >> sean, they have different versions of the story. some say what you're saying. the others say they saw his hands up. >> damian johnson? the guy who helped steal from that convenience store? that guy? >> two problems -- >> the guy that said he pointed at point blank range. the forensics didn't support that nor did the autopsy support that phony story. >> here's the problem, though, sean, there's enough there for probable c

war effort and instead looked to hollywood and creators of fiction and i think it's because marshall really understood the power of narrative film. he had seen its effect during the great depression when, you know, i think his movies were shown often on the sides of trucks to people in the wpa. he understood that movies could really rouse patriot ismism and fervor in people and he understood hollywood directors were better at doing that certainly than army filmmakers an better than newsreelmakers. >> america formally entering world war ii in december of 1941, but what was frank capra doing prior to that? >> >> capra was the most successful and certainly the best compensated director in hollied would. he was on the cover of "time" magazine with the headline "columbia's gem" because he was considered the director to single hand lid turned columbia pictures, then a smaller studio into a major force. he had won three academy awards forring in 1934, '36 and '38 and then followed up those three oscars with mr. smith goes to washington. so, he was you know, at an extraordinary peak of achievement and is of reputation before the wa

nor does the fictional family escape at the entrance of the slave trader into their home. so the real-life walker, as brown rendered him in the narrative, was not just coarser but more dangerous than most of his peers. he violently separated this and sold his own slave children mr. sunriver. brown gave him the characterization that is so unremittingly harsh but it's not hard to think that the sense of quality of his voice and manner and bearing a part of this. okay, i'm going to skip a little bit of the operation with the essence of it. brown have served over the course of the year and the collecting aspect involved hard hunting and gathering as they went town to town purchasing this by the unit of the individual family or group wherever this was available. once he had amassed the most profitable inventory, he began the dissent stopping to sell at ports such as vicksburg's and on route to new orleans. by the time brown came in to service walker had worked out a routine and he would go to a local hotel, put up his merchant at a local facility such as a slave pen or some such enclosure, large and secure enough to display them and enterta

narrative, it really takes it to extremes. and in that way, the book does test the reader. judges the reader. -- i just think that fiction can be too comfortable in know, is the most conservative -- comfortable. no, is the most conservative. s picassoonist,s and cubism. while these changes. fiction has not moved that much. -- all of these changes. we have been through three of the postmodern writing. that is rather timid in terms of finding a new way -- >> was responsible? >> i came later. -- >>you are a novelist you are a novelist deliver a great living novelist. therefore, argue responsible for the quality chris martin -- argue responsible for the quality? -- are you responsible for the quality? >> it is a matter of personal satisfaction. you always want to talk with you have done. what you have done. once something is done and you cannot do anymore, you have to move forward. -- toe you in search of have a conversation about numeral science -- nero science and philosophy of the mind that show the company? >> this point of view of philosopher, it is fascinating subject and philosophical concern is the subject is most cu

narrative, it really takes it to extremes. and in that way, the book does test the reader. judges the reader. and -- i just think that fictionan be too comfortable. it is the most conservative of the arts. in art, impressionists began with picasso and cubism. abstract expressionism and conceptual art. all these changes. fiction has not moved that much. we have been through three of the postmodern writing. that is rather timid in terms of finding a new way -- >> aren't you partly responsible? >> i came later. >> you are a novelist, a great living novelist. therefore, aren't you responsible for the quality of novels in our life? >> it is a matter of personal satisfaction. -- personal dissatisfaction. you always want to talk with you have done. -- top what you have done. once something is done and you cannot do anymore, you have to move forward. >> were you in search of -- to have a conversation about neuroscience and philosophy of the mind that show the conflict? >> this point of view of philosopher, it is fascinating subject and philosophical concern is the subject is most curious. what has happened is the one materialist con

books that were fictionalized there were really documented and undocumented after the five weeks in chicago said he would make the claim that was not except to the reading of the narrative. >> host: what was the effect of the jungle? >> we're still talking about it. i cannot tell you how many times since then someone has done the undercover expos say about the slaughter house. there is something about the food chain that is important but he said he was after the heart for the workers but he hit the stomach so the examples of the abuse and though lives of the people touched people in a different way. there were reservations that came in the aftermath of the book so he did affect policy and it made him very famous. al was very important to him. >> host: and you talk about jack london that people love the abyss was something else he wrote. >> guest: that was a young man's effort. he bought himself some shabby clothes and lived among so locals. and made friends and presented this says is idea under difficult conditions. and it is important for him but he was quite effective with that. >> host: professor brooke kroeger what about sinclair? >> not much. it has this undercover