it was pretty conclusive that the sla was at it again. >> sla stands for symbionese liberation army, a radical fringe group of prison activists, feminists and vietnam veterans. escaped convict donald defreeze or cinque was their leader. >> there really was two types of people who formed the sla, one of them was a group of one, donald defreeze. then you had the other group, which were followers. the followers were basically white kids from berkeley that were a little too young to have participated in the social activism of the '60s. they had gotten on the scene a little too late. >> basically, we are talking about people who got caught up in the politics of the late '60s, anti-war movement, the arm vietnam movement. a mishmash of things they had soaked up in political study groups. >> i don't want to slander jesse jackson, but they were a rainbow coalition of radicals. it was to be all peoples, white, black. that was the initial intent. >> they were lost in this world of distraction. if you talk to each other enough you begin to create a reality among yourself. inevitably more cult th

we gave them more savers versus speculators so over liberation army we've got a major scalp we've got cameron and osborne all the run they are headed out the door yes stacey tells more max keiser u.k. trade deficit hits record high surgeon in ports deals blow to government hopes for export led recovery max keiser i credit you with blowing their hopes away according to the article the widening in the deficit followed a three point eight percent jump in imports driven by higher imports of chemicals oil and silver. that's correct all you you cave followers out there you've been buying silver that's right so has been massively flooding into the u.k. causing this massive trade imbalance completely destroying osborne's attempt to stimulate economy using banking tricks and by appeasing the banking terrorists the several abrasion took matters into their own hands they're buying silver aggressively the price is going higher now i was born to be carried out on a stretcher because the only a c. a plump little weasel who knows nothing about economics but he's immoral he's all nuts and all these a

against banker occupation kind of a sideshow when you compare it to the silver liberation army that's on the march that has now completely and fundamentally reshaped the global economy well the u.k. is also in the news here in the next headline max tobin tax is a tax on pensioners that will cost one million jobs says chancellor george osborne he says there is not a single banker in the world that is going to pay this tax there are no banks they're going to pay this tax the people who pay this tax are pensioners so if you want to go and introduce a big tax on pensioners and that is the end result but at least be honest about who pays this tax this is george osborne referring to the tobin tax the financial transaction tax max your thoughts this is an admission by osborne that is absolutely no control over banking terrorists remember when bandar threatened tony blair with a seven seven bombing unless he called off the investigation into the bandar slush fund this is always more saying the same thing he's no better than a terrorist he's no better than prince bandar he's no better than ton

. >> those brock off and formed formed the black liberation army. they stuck a shut gone through a portitian and killed the sergeant. >> reporter: was he involved in the killing of the police officer? >> not at all. he was not in san francisco. not a member of the black liberation army. >>> the attorney general is not saying yet if it will try him in the police officer's killing. reporting live, rita williams, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> in an hour a meeting is set to begin in morgan hill in the wake of a shooting that let a 14 girl dead. she was shot to death friday night. she was not affiliated with a gang. her father says more people need to speak up to help end the violence. >> don't want to get involved -- it may be you. it may be your kid. think about that. >> her friends are collecting money for the funeral for monday. >>> san francisco has a new mayor tonight. ktvu's david stevenson is live where the voting results were just released a couple hours ago. >> he says he will hold for another four years. even with thousands of votes to be counted,

investigators say the killers were members of the black liberation army and a militant shooting of the black panther party. >> he was not a member of the black liberation army involved allegedly. >> eight suspects were arrested four years ago. two pled guilty. and both serving life sentences for other murders. his lawyer says bridgeforth will plead guilty only to the south san francisco charges. >> he's innocent and will fight that case. as hard as he can. >> and now in the more serious murder charge, the state attorney general says that they're reviewing charges and a good source tells me he doubts they'll prosecute him because this case was apparently the weakest of all. >> thank you. >> and up next on abc 7 news at 4:00 where joe patterno may or may not be allowed to coach another game. >> and mayor traffic moving along, and chicago's midway has delayed up to about 15 minutes because of strong winds z new york area, delays of a hachl hour to 45 minutes because of low-clod cloud ceilings, there are clouds coming our way and i'll have the accu-weather forecast coming up a little bit l

a former member of the black liberation army is set to surrender 40 years later. >> rita williams isive with more. >> reporter: tomorrow morning a man who has alluded police for 40 years says he

he denied involvement and was charged along with the members of the black liberation army of the killing of a san francisco police officer. >>> they are urged to be careful following two separate accidents that left a pedestrian and bicyclist severely injured. police are warning them to wear reflective gear since it now gets darker earlier. the two accidents follow two fatal accidents involving pedestrians and bicyclists in the past week. >>> ed is claiming victory after showing he has passed the 50% threshold. lee now has 61%, john has 38% with 34,000 ballots that still need to be counted. lee became emotional he is a spoke to reporters. >> i want to thank the people of san francisco and it is wonderful to represent diverse communities and to know your work is welcome. >> now john says he is not ready to concede the race. >> there are a lot of votes left to count like 31 to 3 5,000 i have been told and those have not been counted so i think any candidate in his or her right mind would wait it out. >> they will be tab lating -- tab how lating results over the next few days. >>> george ga

. >> reporter: china's people's liberation army and pakistani's military conducted joint drills in eastern pakistan over the last two weeks. more than 500 servicemen took part. troops in helicopters raided a building on thursday. the building in the scenario was used as a terrorist hideout. >> translator: pakistan's army is constantly fighting terrorists on the front lines. our military has a lot to learn from them. >> reporter: hou says military drills are instrumental in tackling islamic extremists fighting for the independence of china's xinjiang uighur autonomous region. pakistan's army chief warns that the islamist movement is operating in his country. >> those elements who are operating in the border areas of pakistan and afghanistan, even close to the operation. >> reporter: he also says the two countries will step up their information-sharing. neighboring india is increasingly worried about this cooperation. but pakistani leaders stress the military alliance is not directed at any particular country. but the military cooperation between the two countries is not limited to antiterro

. >> reporter: china's people's liberation army and pakistani's military conducted joint drills in eastern pakistan over the last two weeks. more than 500 servicemen took part. troops in helicopters raided a building on tuesday. it was used as a terrorist hideout. >> translator: pakistan's army is constantly fighting terrorists on the front lines. our military has a lot to learn from them. >> reporter: military drills are instrumental in tackling extremists fighting for independence of china's region. pakistan's army chief warns that the movement is operating in his country. >> those elements were operating in the world. even then we had close cooperation. >> reporter: he also says the two countries will stepup their information sharing. neighboring india is increasingly worried about this cooperation. but pakistani leaders stress the military alliance is not directed at any particular country. but the military cooperation between the two countries is not limited to anti-terrorism measures. pakistan is also negotiating to purchase the latest chinese-made fighter jet, as well as submarines.

the prosecutors said that bridgeforth was a member of the black liberation army, a violent off shoot of the black panthers, an arrest warrant issued for him in connection to the san francisco case was just revoked. and all charges against him have been dropped. bridgeport's attorney say they only learned that san francisco dropped the charge after bridgeforth decided to come clean. >> he field he wanted to stand up and take responsibility for that one day. that in the arc of his life. >> reporter: prosecutors eventually said it is about time. >> i think these police officers have gone through their entire careers and now retired without having seen any kind of justice accomplished. >> reporter: now, during today's court hearing the judge orders him heldol $25,000 bail. he will be sentenced after that. his attorney says he could face up to 15 years behind bars. >>> there was a line early this morning for the grand opening of microsoft newest retail store. it seems some of the early birds were more excited with about the freebies than the microsoft product. it opened right across from

it interesting to see that the chinese space program is basically controlled by the people's liberation army the general harmony department the p l a has basically operational control over both men's and unmanned chinese space flights so i would argue that the u.s. policymakers are clearly concerned about the dual use of chinese space to build it . is only what do you see as the future going forward do you do you see a new space arisa merging with china versus the u.s. versus russia versus the e.u. or do you see eventual cooperation between all the programs what you think. i think the debate is a little bit exaggerated between space you know talking about space and i don't think it's a zero sum game and i think both opportunities as well as challenges so for example on the chinese latest change shinzo abe mission even going china's actively cooperated brazil and france as well in france for example provided to tell him it's for you tracking and control facilities to track the spacecraft even on the shinzo abe machine the chinese the corporation with the germans that i think they will be cond

he had another case where he was charged with members in the black liberation army in a killing of a police officer. >>> ed lee is now claiming victory after the latest results show he has the 50% of the vote. john has % more than 30,000 ballots still need to be counted. he became emotional when thanking supporters outside his office at city hall. >> the voters in san francisco want four more years of what we have been doing, and that's job creation, making sure we have -- >>> john said he is not ready to concede the race because there are lots of ballots to be counted and he wants to quote, wait it out. under quote.$♪. >>> gascon has 64% of the vote and gas cone had been the city's police chief and was appointed da. the race for san francisco sheriff is undecided. the difference is only 47,000 and too close to call with many ballots to be couped. >>> moving into the turf of a big rival in a new way. microsoft will hope in valley fair right across from the mall. they are celebrating by donating software to local charities and giving away tickets to cancers and that store opens at 10:

he denies being a member of the black liberation army and denies being involved in the shooting deaths looking at his photo right there, that was outside at the ingleside station in san francisco. now, again, we want to take you back outside live to the courthouse. themate county cut house in redwood city, ronald bridgeforthand his attorney inside the courthouse -- county courthouse, in redwood city, ronald bridgeforth and his attorney inside the cut hours in redwood city. the -- inside the court hours in redwood city. the prosecutor said they don't plan to go easy on him. she said if you shoot at a police officer, you need to go to prison, it's not a probation case. we'll be following this story throughout the day. i'm pam cook, back to you. >> thank you, pam. >>> 8:49. moments ago, interim penn state coach tom bradley said he's replacing joe paterno with very mixed emotions. the defensive coordinator is the first penn state coach, other than paterno, in half a century. he will be on the sidelines for the game on saturday against nebraska. meanwhile, some protests over the firing of j

was a book published in one thousand nine hundred nine by two senior colonels in the people's liberation army the book is cited in my book so if you have my book you'll have the the footnote to point tonight direction where they discuss specifically the financial we're fair as a doctrine and what you're really talking about this is under the heading of asymmetric warfare under strict were fair nobody can really stand up to the united states head to head i mean russia still has a lot of nuclear weapons but in terms of surface police military armor and marines nobody can really stand up to the united states in any kind of head to head combat but it asymmetric warfare if that would be cyber chemical biological radiological financial and other kinds of unrestricted warfare the playing field is much more level so this is a threat that's taken seriously i do you think in the same way that cyber warfare is and has become more part of their tactics do you think financial wife areas tale . yes something to think about i think cyber warfare is more of an immediate threat we're seeing cyber attacks ever

he is charged along with members of the black liberation army in the killing of a san francisco police officer in 1971. >>> they are investigating a series of accidents involving pedestrians and tells us they were three in less than an hour. >>> we are at the site of one of them and you can see the crosswalk and some of the remnants of the flares when police came to investigate. now police say a 67-year-old woman was walking across that crosswalk at 6 5:00 when -- 6:35 when she was hit by a vehicle. five minutes later, a man was working on tullely road and he was hit. five minutes after that, a 44- year-old bicyclist was hit and also suffered life-threatening accidents. this whether two people killed versus all related accidents. certainly at this point, investigations are ongoing and police are trying to figure out what has happened and they don't believe alcohol or drugs were related. as far as the two others what they are guessing is it had something to do with the time change and they are asking people to be aware and to be very careful out on these streets. ktvu channel 2 news. >>

investigators say the killers were members of the black liberation army a militant off shoot of the black panther party he was not get away driver. he was not even in san francisco on that day. >> eight suspects were arrested four years ago and two pleaded guilty. both were serving life sentences for other murders and charges dropped against others. his lawyer says bridgeforth will plead guilty to the south san francisco charges. >> he's innocent of the other case. >> now, his lawyer says his client will plead guilty to the charges but as to murder charge the state attorney general office which prosecute that had case says it's reviewing the situation and a source tells us they may drop it because the case was weakest of all. >> and new e mails today suggest a major campaign donor may have pressured the white house into giving a loan guarantee to solyndra of fremont. they were from george kaiser calling solyndra a poster child for renewable energy. and they went bankrupt in september, and the white house insists it did not intervene in this decision to grant that loan. >> bay area schools

. >> he was not a member of the black liberation army.driver. >> reporter: the first step tomorrow is whether he should be released on bail. the prosecutor says absolutely not. the defense attorney says yes. it will be up to the judge to decide. in redwood city, rita williams, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> it will be another cold morning tomorrow morning, there's no advisories out there, but frost will show up in the inland bay valleys. over night lows in the north bay, in the upper 20s and low 30s. the rest of us, looking for temperatures in the low 30s in the, or the mid-30s in the inland valleys, and low 40s around the bay. 38 in concord. might see patchy fog as well. daytime highs tomorrow about where they were today. we start off colted. these temperatures corresponding to colors. the purples, representing 30s. daytime highs tomorrow are green. that's 60s. mid-60s and upper 60s, maybe a couple of low 70s. we're going to look at your temperature and your five-day forecast, which does have some rain in it. >>> cruelty online. startling sta

. >> he was not a member of the black liberation army. he was not the getaway driver. >> reporter: the first step tomorrow is whether he should be released on bail. the prosecutor says absolutely not. the defense attorney says yes. it will be up to the judge to decide. in redwood city, rita williams, ktvu, channel 2 news. >>> it will be another cold morning tomorrow morning, there's no advisories out there, but frost will show up in the inland bay valleys. over night lows in the north bay, in the upper 20s and low 30s. the rest of us, looking for temperatures in the low 30s in the, or the mid-30s in the inland valleys, and low 40s around the bay. 38 in concord. might see patchy fog as well. daytime highs tomorrow about where they were today. we start off colted. these temperatures corresponding to colors. the purples, representing 30s. daytime highs tomorrow are green. that's 60s. mid-60s and upper 60s, maybe a couple of low 70s. we're going to look at your temperature and your five-day forecast, which does have some rain in it. >>> cruel

authorities say members of the black liberation army shot and killed officer john young at the ingleside station back in 1971. in 2007, eight men were arrested but charges were later dropped against all but two and they pled guilty. authorities have long believed bridgeforth was the getaway driver. >> he is innocent of that case. he was not even in san francisco the day that that took place. >> reporter: harris says bridgeforth escaped to africa spent a year there, returned to the u.s. and married his commonlaw wife whose photo also was posted by the fbi. >> since the early '70s, he worked his way up from a janitor to being a -- getting a masters in counseling. he has counseled hundreds of young men and women. he is beloved in the community he lives in. >> reporter: harris won't say what community that is only that it's back east. bridge forth has resigned his college counselor position. his attorneys plan to walk the fugitive into the redwood city courthouse tomorrow morning at 8:45. bridgeforth will surrender but if any charges related to the police shoot having brought, he says he pla

investigators say the killers were members of the black liberation army.ris says his client is innocent yes. >> was not the getaway driver. he was not even in san francisco on that day. >> 8 suspects were arrested four years ago, two pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter but both were already serving life sentences for other murders. charges were dropped against the others. his lawyer says bridgeport will plead guilty only to the south san francisco charges. >> he is innocent of the other case and we will fight that case as hard as we can. >> reporter: bridgeport's lawyer says his client will, indeed, plead guilty to the south san francisco charges but as to the murder charge the state attorney general's offense which prosecuted that case says it is reviewing bridgeport's situation. a reliable source tells us they may drop it all together because his case was the weakest of all. vic lee, abc 7ing news. >>> birmingham, alabama, and the county in which it sits voted today to file for bankruptcy. the area owes more than $3 billion for a sewer system. jp mo

they want to give technology to the people's liberation army? statements like this fail to acknowledge reality. according to a november 4 article from "the washington post," the administration's office of the national counterintelligence executive had issued a warning that, quote, chinese actors are the world's most active and persistent perpetrators of economic especially, end of quote. prolific chinese espionage is having a real effect on job creation. given the breath and scope of this espionage, which is well documented by the u.s. intelligence community, g.e.'s public assertion they will be able to fully protect sensitive technology lacks credibility. should the g.e.-avic joint venture proceed, there is no question that the technology involved will be completely compromised by the people's liberation army. g.e. has a proud tradition as an american company, and it's past time for companies likes g.e. to bring the jobs back to america. to date there have been no plans from this administration to do just that. but when the house takes up the o

we are funding 80% of the chinese people's liberation army, on the interest on the debt.eople's liberation army of china, this is ridiculous. >> alisyn: you think they would be quiet about our debt instead of giving us the tongue-lashing but they know we have to pay the debt anyway. >> no, when you are basically spending $4 trillion and raising $2 trillion, which is the present model in washington, there is not enough money on the planet to close that gap. this is why all of the talk about raising taxes on warren buffett so he pays as much as his secretary is nonsense, there is not enough money on the planet when this spending is out of control, we're heading to the abyss if away don't change it within the next or 3 years. >> alisyn: what we are asking o our guests, is if they will sing us a christmas diddy. most say they can't, but you can sing. that is what i heard. >> when i'm around here i generally only sing for alan colmes, but to frighten him. >> alisyn: can you sing, making spirits bright? >> this is actually my new christmas cd, every right wing extremist pundit

kicked out of indochina they were occupied by nazi germany in the second world war had to be liberated by foreign armies. they were kicked out of algeria i think this is an attempt at france to regains some prestige on the international arena all right thanks very much i have to leave it there marcus papadopoulos analyst from britain's politics first magazine thanks very much. thanks very much will stay with us here on r t still to come europe's money continues to dry up as investors take flight. this crisis is like a pandemic a financial panic. borrowing costs go up yet again even more trouble on an already beleaguered erode we tell you why. and the terror suspect who says he was tortured by u.s. interrogators in europe we hear why this could lay bare the cia's secret prison program. but first tensions run high on syria serbia's border with northern kosovo as neither of the conflicting sides seems prepared to rule out further escalation of violence local serbs say nato forces are to blame for breaking an agreement by trying to remove a barricade blocking the way to one of a number of disputed checkpoin

that there is an armed insurgency and now there are open that liberations by the people conducting these operations against the syrian army and against syrian security troops so now they are openly performing military operations all over the place against the syrian army and the military apparatus so we have seen support from turkey from the g.c.c. and from the european union for and i thought that encompasses economic military as well as economic political and diplomatic means. pro equality occupy movement is quickly gathering pace in germany with almost twenty thousand people protesting in berlin and frankfurt protesters waved placards and a locked arms in solidarity seeking to draw attention to rampant corporate greed the increasing poverty of the masses the german occupy movement has also made significant steps in legitimizing itself having earned of the support of two major political factions juta sunderland of the quality germany group believes grillin is partly responsible for europe's economic woes. it is needed to have protests and broader movements in all european countries and we know that cheering germany germ

so it's liberating and almost like an equalizer. >> reporter: army captain mark little is a double amputeebomb while serving in iraq four years ago. he plays left winger, standing up for the usa warriors. >> it feels as if i have been armored up now! >> we have guys missing parts, missing eyes, with metal body parts, all because they went out to do what the public needed them to do to defend the country. >> reporter: we first caught up with the warriors at a practice in laurel, maryland. the 40 players, all wounded vets, meet once a week. >> take that touch pass and go in. >> reporter: running drills and scrimmaging. >> you can see the confidence grow. >> absolutely. >> reporter: army staff sergeant drew hill fell out of a blackhawk while coming under enemy fire in afghanistan. as he recovered from a broken back and other injuries he founded the program in twoup. he's launched a second team in minnesota and hopes to create more across the country. >> you break them out of a shell, make them experience who they were, not what happened to them. >> reporter: why ice hockey? >> ice hockey itse

the army was trying to locate and rescue the hostages but the guerrillas have orders to kill those they hold rather than allow them to be liberated. one hostage survived the attack. >> i heard the first gunshot. one, two, three and a burst of thousands of shots. one of them i felt had my face, the other in the neck. i started to run because i saw the guards run toward the river and that left the field clear for me. >> although they have been greatly weakened over the last decade, thanks to drug court -- trafficking and extortion, they remained funded. showing no sense of wanting to give up their 47-year stretch -- our goal to overthrow the state. >> the world may not be able to properly feed itself and that is a stark warning which suggests a quarter of the world's land surface is degraded and may not be able to grow enough crops for a rising population. the report blames a combination of climate change and poor farming practices. the farmers know the problem. rainfall has dropped and temperatures have risen. the world has ever more mouths to feed in 40 years' time, there's another 2 billion of us. and nothing is done, said the f

army budget secret. as it is now, it has never been revealed to the government. -- to the parol ment. >> so they are very uneasy about that. there's also particularly the liberal way, the demonstrators. the demonstrators who went earlier this year are very uneasy about military trials. there have been the 12,000 people convicted. there are deep concerns and the way this country is heading. life is not getting better. the military are really not willing to release much. still want to keep that behind the scenes. that's the concern of these people today. >> john, thank you very much indeed. making himself heard over the noise of that demonstration. >> well, to syria from egypt. and the international community is tightening the screws on them. >> talks with the government in turkey to fry to forge a united response to the escalating violence in syria. this week moscow warned of all-out civil war in syria. this comes as saturday's deadline by the arab league to allow human rights for all faith-based sanctions. >> the opposition has been criticized for not having a coherent position. professor of hill east history at shawnee state university in the united states. p

the very still and the liberation today in the case of a russian businessman accused of selling buttons to terrorist groups victor boot has been charge of the greens army a terrorist group in colombia and conspiring to kill american nationals back in two thousand and eight da operatives pose as anti-american radicals nabs booed and the capital of bangkok he was then x. ray extradited to the u.s. a move russia calls illegal he has gained notoriety by the western world and the mainstream media dubbed as quote the merchant of death that offense maintains that dude is innocent and is a legitimate businessman found guilty faces a sentence of life behind bars earlier i talked to our to correspondent marina poor and i asked you gave me the latest on this case. well the latest information that we have is the fact that the jury for this high profiled three week a surrounding victor boot it had been deliberating for a few hours now about three hours or so jury began deliberating around one pm and as far as we know they are still behind closed doors having discussions about this case if they do not come out with a verdict within the next ten twenty minutes they m

liberate the concentration camp. >> i was emotionally debilitating. there were scenes imbedded in my brain that i don't ever get over of dead people. >> he received the bronze star for his war reporting. after his armyt to hollywood where he co-wrote the screen play of the story of the stars and stripes for metro gold win mayer. as a freelance writer, he wrote articles for public laces, like reader's digest and life magazine. but his big break came in 1949 when he landed at cbs as a writer. yet rooney wanted to get back to journalism and focus his career on news and current affairs. after a brief hiatus from cbs, he returned to fill in for a debate segment on "60 minutes." >> one of the things we can be sure of over the -- >> his essays became so popular that a year later, the segment was given to him. his popularity gave rise to a weekly syndicated newspaper column and two best selling books, adding to the other 14 books he had written. always considered by the viewing public as a bit of a occur emergencien, he was never scared to speak his mind. on more than one occasion, his comments got him in trouble. the most famous was being suspended for comments he made on same sex unions. >> too much alcoh

appointed by the army generals who have been ruling this country since former president hosni mubarak was overthrown. the demonstrators have proposed -- some of them have proposed a liberalitician who used to run the international atomic energy agency as well as a moderate islamist who broke off from the very well-organized muslim brotherhood. but, we also saw on friday a very interesting gathering of thousands, if not tens of thousands of demonstrators who wanted to show that not all egyptians support the tahrir square demonstrations behind me. these people gathered to show their support for the ruling military council and to say that tahrir does not represent all egyptians. take a listen to what one university professor had to say to our own cnn's ben wedeman. listen. >> our police is the last remaining institution along with the army. if these two institutions fall, anarchy is going to prevail in egypt. the only way to say whether the people in tahrir or the people here represent egypt is through elections. >> so t.j., expect a battle over the next government and the formation of that even as egyptians are preparing to go to the polls on monday. t.j.? >> ivan watson t

facebook a big liberal candidate bios and the latest polling data and links to c-span media partners in the area primary at c-span.org/campaign2012. >> officers from the air force, armyavy and marine corps testified at a house subcommittee hearing focusing on military readiness and budget cuts. this is an hour and 45 minutes. . >> i want to welcome our distinguished experts focusing on how we maintain readiness in the age of austerity and more particularly what is the risk the national defense of our country if we continue making the cuts to defense that we hear being discussed in washington. i want to thank our witnesses for being with us and i know several of you had to cancel longstanding personal commitments to be with us this morning. appreciate your willingness to testify before this subcommittee on this most important topic. in the interest of time because we know we could have votes coming anytime and we may have to recess and come back because this is important and we want to get this on the record i will dispense with any normal opening remarks. since this bordallo is not here we will dispense with a remark that have them put in the record. i would like to

liberate the concentration camp. >> it was emotionally debilitating. there are scenes embedded in my brain that i don't ever get over of dead people. >> rooney received the bronze star for his war reporting. after his armyre he co-wrote the screenplay of the story of the stars and stripes for metro golden mayor. as a freelance writer he wrote articles for publications such as readers digest and life magazine. his big break came in 194 when he landed at cbs as a writer for the top rated arthur godfrey's talent scouts. yet, rooney wanted to get back to journalism and focus his career on news and current affairs. after a brief hiatus from cbs rooney filled in for a debate segment on cbs. >> one of the things we can be sure of over the july 4th weekend. >> his essays became so poplar with viewers a year later the segment was given to reasony. its popularity gave rise to weekly syndicated newspaper column and two best selling books adding to the other 14 books he had written. always considered by the viewing public as a bit of a curmudgeon. he was never speed to speak his mind. on more than one occasion his comments got him in trouble. perhaps the most famous incident resulted in cbs suspending him for three