charles "ed" haldeman will leave the company by the end of the year. he will remain at the mortgage giant until a replacement is found. haldeman joined the troubled firm in 2009 and received nearly $4 million in compensation last year, according to "forbes." >> tom: we got a glimpse of the challenges facing lawmakers working at hammering out a debt- reduction plan. the so-called super committee held a public hearing today. the 12-member congressional group is tasked with finding huge budget savings in the next few weeks and, as darren gersh reports, the committee is showing few signs of progress. >> the congressional super committee has now helped three public hearings, two of them featuring congressional budget director douglas el men dorf who warned lawmakers of the consequences of failure. the uncertainty about fiscal policy is probably weighing on household and businesses. they can recognize that there will have to be as a matter of arithmetic changes in taxes and or spending relative to current policy. but they don't know what those changes will b

find the correspondents, the correspondence relating to ethan allen's negotiations with governor haldemanmilitary governor of canada. you can find them digitalized in canada. you can find the originals in the british library. and after studying them, i found that even the slightest word change can make a terrific difference in interpretation we get of our historical figures. for example, 1,001,780, the loyalist colonel robinson from new york sent a messenger through to ethan allen and arlington vermont and the letter began, we are well aware of your khmer coal schemes, and because there was a careless transcript made sometime in the 1920s, that became we are well aware of your commercial schemes, so many historians have believed that ethan allen was only in it for the money and was only in it double dealing with the british and the haldeman negotiations. once i found that, it took a lot longer studying the records. that is why the book took six years. but what i came away with was the idea of a man who was taking his philosophy and putting it into action which is a dangerous thing which w

. >>> freddie mac ceo haldeman will resign in the coming year.esignation has nothing to do with the future of freddie mac. in 2009 the government took control of freddie and fannie. >>> 82 days since the u.s. lost its aaa credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? >>> new revelations by ruth madoff that she and bernie tried to take their own lives in a christmas eve pact to end their misery. ruth madoff tells cbs' "60 minutes" we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening. we had terrible phone calls, hate mail, just beyond everything. with me is brian ross, author of "the madoff chronicles: inside the secret world of bernie and ruth," and nick cassell, who was the last person to leave the apartment that christmas eve. thank you for being with us. you knew them well, you wrote this book and spent a lot of time, does this surprise you at all? >> it does surprise me. i think bernie madoff was an unlikely suicide candidate. he showed no remorse. in fact, he showed scorn for people who were his victims and they co

. >>> freddie mac ceo haldeman will resign in the coming year. resignation has nothing to do with the future of freddie mac. in 2009 the government took control of freddie and fannie. >>> 82 days since the u.s. lost its aaa credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? >>> new revelations by ruth madoff that she and bernie tried to take their own lives in a christmas eve pact to end their misery. ruth madoff tells cbs' "60 minutes" we decided to kill ourselves because it was so horrendous what was happening. we had terrible phone calls, hate mail, just beyond everything. with me is brian ross, author of "the madoff chronicles: inside the secret world of bernie and ruth," and nick cassell, who was the last person to leave the apartment that christmas eve. thank you for being with us. you knew them well, you wrote this book and spent a lot of time, does this surprise you at all? >> it does surprise me. i think bernie madoff was an unlikely suicide candidate. he showed no remorse. in fact, he showed scorn for people who were his victims and they