photographer mike mitchell joins me from new york now. mike, good to see you.sure-trove is going to be on the auction block. that has to be exciting. >> hi, fredericka. yeah, it's amazingly exciting. >> oh, my gosh. so you were 18! >> 18-year-old kid -- >> yeah, go ahead. >> that 18-year-old kid would never have envisioned it. >> oh, my goodness. here you were, 18 years old, at this concert, you're taking these pictures for your own pleasure, right? >> and the pleasure it was. >> indeed. and so this was interesting too because we're talking about, you know, you're taking pictures of them performing very low light. and you're an amateur photographer. tell me about the dynamics that went into getting these images. you were so close to be able to see all of the artists so close. their instruments here. we're taking a look at some of those images. and tell me about the decision making that had to go with taking these pictures with this kind of, you know, light and the challenges that were there. >> well, first of all, a slight correction. i was already a profession

the photos were taken by mike mitchell, who was 18 years old at the time and says he was able to sneakse to the stage. >>> and imitation is apparently the not best form of flattery for kim kardashian. she's suing the store old navy for using a kardashian look-alike in the commercials. kardashian feels her privacy rights have been violated by using a woman who looks like her. apparently they're trying a little too hard to keep up with the kardashians. did look a little like her -- >> you know something, i never would have noticed the difference. but i wouldn't be shopping what they were shopping for. thank you very much, ashley morrison, here in new york. >>> in sports, another breakup for tiger woods. this time he fired his longtime caddie, steve williams, that worked for woods for 12 years. but tiger said on his website, it was time for a change. williams has been working with other golfers while woods has been sidelined with leg injuries. woods won 72 tournaments with will with llamwilliams carrying bag. >>> when we return, phone hacking. it's dominating headlines both here and in th

mike mitchell took the photos when he was just 18. he joins us now with cathy.ere 18, you had a press pass. pretty cool access here. when you took these photos, what was your intent? >> i was shooting for myself. just for myself. no magazine assignment. i wanted to do portraits of these guys. they were an unknown species. >> you stashed the photos away, i assume you didn't forget about them, but just didn't think about them. >> recently went looking for them in the basement. >> i want to pull up some of your favorites. the first is this kind of iconic fab four look here. >> yeah. >> this is from the back. >> i think that is the summery statement from that whole experience and, interestingly, i didn't even remember that i'd done it. >> so, you looked at that and didn't even realize. another one of john lennon on the guitar sequence here that is a great shot, as well. >> that is one of my favorites. only recently assembled that way. and the 18-year-old kid wanted to do a great portrait of the great person and i think this fulfills his dreams. >> ringo starr on the

photographer mike mitchell got the shots during the first american tour for the beatles. mitchell was just 18 years old when he snapped the pictures, and now he's 65, and enjoying the jackpot. >>> as the federal government scam bulls to pay its bills, we get a report warning that billions of the tax dollars may be going to extremists killing troops in afghanistan. chris lawrence joins us. >> they are good, fredricka. ten years into the war in afghanistan, the u.s. only has limited visibility over what happens to billions of dollars once we send that money to afghanistan. the inspector general found that that leads to making all this money vulnerable to fraud, and even worse, the possibility of it being diverted to insurgency. how much money are we talk about? the u.s. has spent $70 billion in afghanistan redevelopment and security projects, but the audit finds as much as $10 million may be struggled out of the country every single day. how does that happen? afghan government officials don't have to account for the cash that they are carrying with them when they leave the

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from the hill, republican senators mike crapo and john thune plus democratic congressman chris van hollen and tea party freshman. good day. i'm andrea mitchell live in washington. five days to go, they have already missed every deadline and if they don't reach agreement, who is going to get paid and who won't? treasury secretary tim geithner meets with the white house. dan, how do you make those assessments? clearly very unlikely at this stage that everything is going to be done, signed, sealed and delivered by august 2nd. how do you decide, clearly the bond holders get paid. once you have paid that, what do you do about social security, medicare payments, veterans, other salaries? >> reporter: well, i think there is still time to get this done. we're wasting critical time in the house right now as they spend day after day and hour after hour working on a bill that we know is dead on arrival in the senate. the treasury department will make those decisions about what we do. but we still have time to get this done. it's critically important for the economy we get it done by tuesday. >> can you assure people, those most vulnerable, those gettin

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