>> kroft: was that one of the reasons you left? >> snowe: it is. i mean, we're talking about issues that are looming on the horizon that threaten our fiscal wellbeing as a nation. >> kroft: it's not always been this way. the senate was once a showcase for american political talent, and people like lyndon johnson, ted kennedy, and howard baker forged alliances with political opponents to pass landmark legislation. >> we've come together in support of a bipartisan budget agreement. >> kroft: the partisan battles were always resolved behind closed doors. olympia snowe remembers how bob dole used to do it when he was majority leader. >> snowe: he would say, "go to my office at 8:30 in the morning and work it out." he was so intent on making sure that we came up with a solution to the issue that was before the senate. we don't know any longer how to work out differences in the united states senate. we can't get past our differences. >> this is not bipartisanship. >> we've seen roadblock after roadblock. >> because you can do that, that's theatrics. >> l

i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> it is the mark of the yakuza: ornate, full-body tattoos that cover the members of the japanese mob. so how did one of their most notorious godfathers get into america and jump to the front of a line for a lifesaving liver transplant? this reporter found out and says it may cost him his life. >> as he was leaving and getting in his car, he said, "that"-- you know, "that--that goddamn american jew reporter. i want to kill him." [ticking] >> greg mortenson's book three cups of tea is a publishing phenomenon that has made him a celebrity, a cult-like figure on the lecture circuit, and inspired people to give nearly $60 million to his charity, and it all began with one simple story. >> it's a beautiful story, and it's a lie. >> we wanted to talk to mortenson about that and some other things, but he didn't want to talk to 60 minutes. >> steve kroft. >> nice to meet you. >> how you doing? >> thanks. >> got five minutes for us today? >> um... [ticking] >> we wondered ho

. >> steve kroft. >> nice to meet you. >> how you doing? >> thanks. >> got five minutes for us today? >> um... [ticking] >> we wondered how the man who could whistle up a corporate jet on a whim... >> let's rock. >> or throw a $2 million birthday party was doing in his reduced circumstances. what's it like to go from king of the world to prisoner number 05a-4820 serving 8 to 25 years behind bars? >> in my wildest imagination, when i would project myself into my late 50s and early 60s, where i would be or what i would be doing, if i make a list of 100 different places or 100 different things, here would never make that list. >> welcome to 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm morley safer. in this edition, we look at stories of crime, punishment, and what money can buy. first, the high-stakes world of japanese organized crime, where big dollars saved the life of an infamous gangster. then we investigate how best-selling author and philanthropist greg mortenson used some of the assets of his multimillion-dollar charity. and finally, we talk to dennis kozlo

in the letter to ban kroft he's talking about the children of the german. >> no. the children of the slaves. that's what he told thomas paine. when jefferson was engineering the expansion of slavery in to louisiana. pane wrote to him saying now is the time to revive the thing you talked about in paris. send slaves to the louisiana territory to sign contractors with planters who will take them for a year or two and train them and then give them their own plots of land and free them. and he specifically referred to reviving the plan that we doesed in paris. >> yes. >> but that's the plan. >> well, i don't, i mean, this plan you're talking about sending slaves to louisiana while the french own it? >> no. this is the 1789. it. >> we bought it. >> you food note from 1789. it can't be about the l.a. purchase. >> why meant was jefferson was in paris and discussed the plan with edward, he not only discussed it with william short but with thomas paine. when the hour of decision came again about whether we would have slavery in louisiana, pane reminded the president of what

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at the multibillion dollar business of international crime. first, we report on the theft of an eye-popping fortune stolen from the iraq treasury. then we take a look at shoplifting gangs from south america. and finally we go undercover in china to expose rampant product counterfeiting. we begin in iraq with the theft that's been called one of the largest of its time, the mother of all heists. and it happened right under the noses of u.s. advisers. as iraqi investigators told us in october of 2006, more than half a billion dollars had disappeared from the defense ministry-- money that was supposed to equip the iraqi military. investigators believe the very people that the united states had entrusted with the funds had stolen them. but it seemed neither the u.s. nor its allies had much of an appetite for pursuing the matter. >> people have died. moneys have gone missing. culprits are running around the world, hiding and scurrying around. i have to ask myself wh

i'm steve kroft. we live on an increasingly endangered planet, from the glaciers of antarctica to the rich prairie lands of canada. and the ultimate disaster may be financial as well as environmental. later in this episode, scott pelley reports from antarctica on the wide-ranging effects of global warming. and later bob simon has a story from canada on the environmental damage caused by the next great oil rush. but our first story involves a controversial waste product that could have damaging effects on the environment. there are more than 600 coal-fired power plants generating electricity in the u.s., and those plants produce 130 million tons of waste called coal ash. it contains concentrations of mercury, arsenic, lead, and other toxic materials. and as lesley stahl first reported in 2009, when coal ash is dumped into wet ponds--and there are more than 500 of those across the country-- the result can have an enormous health risk on the people living in nearby communities. >> we get about 48%, nearl

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at three stories linked by the financial collapse of 2008. first, we examine a scam that's cost thousands of americans their homes. then we look into wall street's shadow market of credit default swaps. finally, a report on the perilous state of state finances. we begin with the foreclosure crisis. in the aftermath of the great recession, the huge number of foreclosed properties was a significant factor in weighing down the economy. many were stuck on the market for an unexpected reason: the banks couldn't find the ownership documents. as scott pelley first reported in april 2011, lenders wanting to evict people found that often, the legal documents behind the mortgages simply weren't there. caught in a jam of their own making, some companies appeared to have resorted to forgery to throw people down on their luck out of their homes. >> these folks on the street aren't homeless. they slept on the sidewalk because they want to keep their homes. facing foreclosur

i'm steve kroft. the so-called great recession sparked by the financial crash of 2008 continues to impact the business practices of wall street and the lives of americans on main street. this edition examines the seismic shock of the economic collapse on american families and what many of them believed were their most unshakable investment vehicles: their homes and their 401(k) retirement savings plans. we begin today with the culture of wall street and the role that it played in the crash. if you had to pick someone to write the autopsy report on the wall street financial collapse in 2008, you couldn't do any better than michael lewis. he is one of the country's preeminent nonfiction writers with a knack for turning complicated, mind-numbing material into fascinating yarns. he wrote his first best seller, liar's poker, about his experiences as a young wall street bond trader when he was still in his 20s. another lewis best seller called the big short: inside the doomsday machine was published in marc

i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> in a nondescript t-shirt at a nondescript desk, mark zuckerberg runs a vast global empire, leading the whole internet in his direction. is the goal for you to conquer the whole internet? to own the internet? >> well, think about it like this. people--if they can use a product of any category--photos, music, tv, anything--either by themselves or with their friends... >> mm-hmm. >> i think most of the time, people want to do those things with their friends, so-- >> so is the answer "yes"? [ticking] you describe bill gates in very harsh terms. um, you've described him as being quite abusive. i mean, it's not a pretty picture. >> and i felt like when i wrote it, i should just tell it like it happened, in an unvarnished way, warts and all. >> you'll hear how the two high school buddies who started microsoft and a computer revolution had some pretty trying times along the way. do you think he came to think that you weren't working as hard as he

yet president obama refraind from calling it a terrorist attack when he spoke with steve kroft on "60 minutes" that afternoon. >> do you believe this was a terrorist attack? >> well, it's too early to know exactly how this came about, what group was involved, but obviously it was an attack on americans. >> reporter: from intercepts of cell phone calls and text messages during the attack, the c.i.a. knew some of the attackers belonged to al qaeda in maghreb, a north african affiliate of al qaeda. but petraeus testified any mention of al qaeda was >> ed: the out of unclassified talking points prepared for u.n. ambassador susan rice when she appeared on fay fay fiv faye fas after the attack. according to peter king, how that happened is a mystery. >> nobody knows who came up with the final version of the talking points other than to say the original talking points prepared by the c.i.a. were different from the ones that were finally put out. >> reporter: that final version of the talking points said "there are indications that extremists participated in the assault." a bland description

for months now, steve kroft has been covering the impact of gridlock in congress. his interview with senate leaders harry reid and mitch mcconnell ran just before election day. >> hi, charlie. >> what do you think the possibility of congress compromising with the president stands today? >> i think that it's got to happen. i think substantial compromise, maybe not work out all the problems, maybe put some of them off beyond january 1st, but i think they have to make some real problem between now and the first of the year. >> and on the house side, it's clear that boehner is sending a message to fellow republicans in the house who have got to make extra steps that we didn't before. >> i think that's true. and i think the president has responded by saying that i'm not whetted to the idea of tax rate increases. i'll settle for more revenue if that's what i can get. >> you got senators reid and mcconnell to actually sit together. >> it was like arranging the paris pease talks or the camp david talks. it wasn't easy. >> were they as uncomfortable as they looked sitting n

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as steve kroft reported in 2009, many people believe it had more to do with wall street speculation than with oil companies. >> to understand what happened to the price of oil, you first have to understand the way it's traded. for years, it's been bought and sold on something called the commodities futures market. here at the new york mercantile exchange, it's traded alongside cotton and coffee, copper and steel by brokers who buy and sell contracts to deliver those goods at a certain price at some date in the future. it was created so that farmers could gauge what their unharvested crops would be worth months in advance, so that factories could lock in the best price for raw materials and airlines could manage their fuel costs. but in late 2007, that market started to behave erratically. and when oil doubled to more than $147 a barrel, no one was more suspicious than dan gilligan. >> we have to make sure that the futures market is an honest market. >> as the president of the petroleum marketers association, he represents more than 8,000 retail and wholesale suppliers, everyone from home

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sid kroft originally refused to use that because he thought it was too phallic, but the reason i calledounger republicans being more aware or wanting to change it -- or being capable of changing or improving things. i have got to tell you, i'm 66, and these sociopaths in office do not represent my generation because we're losing everything we worked 60-some-odd years for, so i just wanted to mention -- >> stephanie: in what way? >> caller: i know. i know. >> stephanie: what are you talking about? >> caller: oh, in what way? no, i mean the people that -- in the republican party do not represent -- you were talking about the older generation -- >> stephanie: right. >> caller: well, we're a little [ inaudible ] obviously at 66 but those people that are in office are -- that's socioopthy that's not -- that's just complete -- they are completely dismissing our values and -- and our rights and so on and so forth. >> stephanie: we need to go back to the values of hr puff and stuff. >> absolutely witchy poo. >> the woman who played witchy poo was an animal rescue also. >> stephanie: oh. well, t

steve kroft, good to see you. >> good to see you. >>> on the scene of a major water main break, several homes in daly city were forced to evacuate. witnesses reported rising water and mud at the scene. several cars got stuck in the mudlied. broken water main may be connected to a reservoir tank or possibly the reservoir itself. so far, there are no reports of injuries. >>> it is time now to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe. wall street journal reports on a prediction on the united states will become the world's largest oil producer eight years from now. according to an independent firm the bottom in shale will lift the united states above saudi arabia. >>> world's fastest computer began operating last month. titan sk-7 uses enough electricity to power 9,000 homes. >>> starbuck's amazon using accounting tricks to move profit out of the country. >> usa today says america's ppremature birth rate has hit its lowest mark in a decade. preterm birth is the leading cause of infant death during the first month of life. the rate is now 11.7% and it has been falling

melissary kroft and tony dovolani, he's never won the mirror ball trophy.his. >> oh, good. >> first place. >> i really wanted shawn johnson to win. she took second. and kelly monaco took third. the cast will be on "good morning america" in the morning. >> yes, check it out. >> a little bit more on "dancing with the stars". i'm going take all of this. >> you're so interested in it. >> you remember not the fab five, but the fierce five from olympics, the gymnast team, well, they joined shawn johnson monday night during her freestyle routine. after taking it in, at least two of them said they would definitely do "dancing with the stars," mikayla maroney, smirk, -- who has the infamous smirk, and the hash tag, not impressed. she would partake and gabrielle douglas. won the all-around gold. two cuties said they would do it. >> future cast members. cool. >> angus t. jones, said the show was filth, not retracting, trying to be more sensitive about his comments. he apologized. he says i apologize if my remarks reflect me showing indif rinse and disrespect of my col

. >> leader action i don't know if you saw "60 minutes" on sunday, steve kroft did a piece about theon in washington. thinking about the next four years, do you have any more hope today than you did before that no matter who wins you guys are going to be able to get together and start making some deals? >> we've got to. nobody wants to see taxes going up on anybody on our side. you no he that, andrew. we don't believe that that's the prescription right now to give washington more money, when you haven't fixed the spending problem. and i do think that this election will be a turning point, hopefully, and i believe that mitt romney is going to get elected, and he is a demonstrated leader who is a republican in massachusetts, was able to say to both sides, now let's sit down, let's cast aside our differences and focus on where we can go in common. that's the spirit we've got to come out of this election with because i don't think any of us want to see america go through another four years of the way we've been going without the kind of growth and innovation and investor confidence that

kroft of "60 minutes" that he didn't know who was responsible. and then in the days following in various venues, whether they be late-night talk shows or the united nations, the president went on to allege that this was a hideous video that triggered a spontaneous demonstration. not true. not true. the president of the united states did not tell the american people the truth about the attacks that took four brave americans' lives that went on for seven hours, for which we were totally unprepared. mr. president, four brave americans died. it has now been eight weeks. the american people have received nothing but contradictory statements from all levels of our government. one of the more salient events was five days after when clearly it had been identified as an al qaeda-affiliated terrorist attack. the united nations ambassador, at the direction of the white house, went on all sunday talk shows to allege that this was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, as did our secretary of state, as did most regrettably, the president of

kroft of "60 minutes" that he didn't know who was responsible. and then in the days following in various venues, whether they be late-night talk shows or the united nations, the president went on to allege that this was a hideous video that triggered a spontaneous demonstration. not true. not true. the president of the united states did not tell the american people the truth about the attacks that took four brave americans' lives that went on for seven hours, for which we were totally unprepared. mr. president, four brave americans died. it has now been eight weeks. the american people have received nothing but contradictory statements from all levels of our government. one of the more salient events was five days after when clearly it had been identified as an al qaeda-affiliated terrorist attack. the united nations ambassador, at the direction of the white house, went on all sunday talk shows to allege that this was a spontaneous demonstration triggered by a hateful video, as did our secretary of state, as did most regrettably, the president of