narr: but there's no sign of the gunman. long into the night the search continues around the outhouses and surrounding area. eight hours into the operation and there's still no suspect but instead, srt finds what the gunman was protecting - a clandestine grow room full of marijuana. later that morning, the gunman is arrested 40 miles away on the other side of the city. he's charged with attempted murder and drug trafficking. peter do'ench sync: this is the man that police arrested, joel padron garcia. they say he was guarding a marijuana grow house. garcia and the silverado he was driving were found at a friend's house in dania beach after a manhunt by police. authorities said garcia was guarding a home where 129 marijuana plants were confiscated - plants worth more than $1.3 million on the street. meanwhile i have spoken with a number of miami dade police officers. they tell me that detective diaz is going to be okay. we're live at miami dade police headquarters. peter dan, cbs4 news. narr: back at the special response team

it gives them a narrative. all the time that there were a lot of people in our profession who were dumping on the master narrative. i was never one of those people. not that we should have one narrative. unless we have a coherent narrative and it is all complexity and if it is all exceptions to this and exceptions to that, then people will be bored by it. only scholars will want to read about it. i was so happy when, you know, jackson wrote his wonderful book. "rebirth of a nation." this is, i think, the best narrative of the period. it is unlike zen, alive. tragedy of the classic kind. obviously, his book will not be assigned in many high schools. >> jackson, in the same piece of yours that i quoted earlier, you also say the public's fear is a mess. to the degree you still believe that, i wonder if you think journalism or history, the professional of journalism can contribute to changing that? >> absolutely. i mean that's what gets me out of bed every morning, i think. that this naive, but persistent idea that

there were some black people that conducted the slave narratives. they weren't all white interviewers that went out and did the slave narratives. so, are they perfect? no. but they are, to me, an excellent source of information about the life of slaves in america. wait until the microphone. >> i'm relatively -- john, relatively speaking, was there a higher or lower percentage of blacks serving in the confederate navy as opposed to the confederate army? >> i think -- i can't really give you a quantifiable answer on that. i don't know. my best guess is probably higher on the navy side. i found numerous instances of confederates serving in the confederate navy. they also obviously served in the union navy. but that's a guess, dr. hardy, i'm not sure. any other questions? >> john, i did have one question behind you. would it be ok if i use this microphone? when you were speaking of the dage rate during the m terrible thought it was more than 20%, but it was also comparable to the european immigrants, does anybody have any figures on what the death rate

that was the narrative last week. the next contest was maine where if you're mitt romney there is a real risk that narrative about you being unexpected loser, that narrative is not only going to continue it will get worse. >> other good news, too, ongoing caucus in over on the east coast, the state called maine? >> whatever you think about the ron paul campaign, and tactics and prospects, goals, the ron paul campaign has resours and have taken maine, the prospect mitt romney could lose to ron paul would be a devastating next chapter in what was the bad romney narrative heading in maine. the bad romney narrative that he wasn't winning places he ought to be winning. mitt romney had to win maine. the republican party in maine this weekend said that he did. i don't think he did. i'm not saying someone else won. there is no basis on which the maine republican party can have concluded that mitt romney won there. the results there are not complete yet. the margin of victory for mitt romney is slim. when you have incomplete r

this is where we try to reset the and narrative -- reset the narrative, the idea that america is. . it is not broke. our priorities are broken. there is a misplaced obsession with debt and deficits as the national emergency of our time. that has driven the story line inside the beltway. we did a story on how the austerity cost rules washington. it is a portrait of think tanks, philanthropists and others who have framed in a way so it is hard to tell an alternative story. that has shifted a little because of new voices and forces emerging from the 99% or what ever you want to call it. >> you had better have twitter and facebook involved in the project. >> we do, absolutely. we have all kinds of new

a meta narrative. and for my first book, a big part of the story they told was about what to make of this far right movement that was emerging in the early '60s. people like the john birch society and barry gold water. i wanted on get more into that later. and the second book which i'm writing about the '65 to '72 period, it's what to make of these crazy hippies an anti-war activists. took on a very fascinating voight, one that was quite sympathetic actually. and "time" magazine took on its role in a confusing time of great cultural change as basically domesticating these thing strange things and how they came out of american vernacular. for example the ideaed that woodstock -- "time" magazine, "life" magazine loved considere development. probably was a lot better than people burning down campuses. but they quoted someone saying the use of lsd is almost like a religious sacrament. so it kind of bundled it with america's religious traditions. and lo and behold, very soon campaigners against sex ed in th

so romney's problem in this campaign is his narrative is the wrong narrative. he's playing the wrong role. they want to see if he has courage. they don't want to see that he has the financial acumen to run the economy, they don't care. and this is a very difficult thing to do. he's miscast. what makes a great actor? what makes a great actor is the authenticity. you believe in that performance. that's great acting. and, what we do is we get a candidate, gingrich, you know, coming along and saying, "well, i'm authentic because i'm going to-- i say what i want to say. i don't pull my punches." and then he gets taken down. now santorum is cast in the same way. why is santorum being boosted? because he's sincere. >> you say in here that we escape from life by escaping into a neat narrative formula. isn't that true of politics, as well? movies give us a neat story, a neat drama with a beginning, a middle and an end and we like that even though politics isn't really like that? >> politics is antithetical really to the values of movies even though the values of movies

there is a narrative that involves this technology. people started reading blogs. i think it's a self everybodying narrative on the part of media barons because will this happened before there was an internet. and what was was newspapersill d before there was an internet. and what was was newspapersll t before there was an internet. and what was was newspapers thi before there was an internet. and what was was newspapers thi before there was an internet. and what was was newspapersthis before there was an internet. and what was was newspapers were bought by companies that didn't specialize in media at all. and they had to show double digit profits every quarter. and how that played itself out was newspapers started dumbing themselves down and they started eating their seed corn. they started abrogating the very qualities that made them valuable to their constituencies, which was giving you something meaty to read and hold on to. the sun times, not to insult them, it's typical, it's barely a newspaper. it's a little scrap of a thing. and what's striking to bring it

almost to the various narrative swirling about syria and i think these things need to be considered before we start talking about further measures. and inciting. you know opposition groups and you know putting them in harm's way quite frankly moscow also says the syrian opposition is fragmented and it's difficult to say who controls these armed groups that the regime says is go are going around the country causing unrest so who do you think there is to talk to the syrian rebels whose leadership. well i don't think that's altogether clear and that's part of the problem you know we just don't know enough about syria and what's going on in their media certainly isn't asking questions and the dominant narrative that defines the discourse on syria today absolutely doesn't ask questions will not shine a light on what's going on inside so so i think you know i think organically some will emerge there is there are various opposition groups within syria there are various committees and locally based groups where we're not engaging any of these people and we're just pushing narratives that se

they recorded those narratives in a dialect. whatever they were called about the poor whites themselves. they gave me a blueprint for the chop jerry's a row. >> were they named after. it's a complicated mix there are also slaves who respond that there was a really sad for my family that lives down the road from nine. and there was some recognition for somebody they are. i think comes up in the slave narrative though is how the slaves were placing themselves in a broader scheme of humanity. the slaves were very shrewd observers of their world and they were very much aware that all white people were not created equal. that yes, there are very wealthy people out there, but there are also way people who didn't measure up. and you do find, especially when you get into stakeholder songs info tales. you can recognize their understanding the day thought themselves at least as good, if not better than this poor white category. i thought about this conflict for the first time in 1997. i was working on my masters thesis and i ran across on

and nato have respond to this to try to explain what happened, to create a counter narrative. it is striking how slow the response has been. >> u.s. forces expected to come out december of 2014. how does this kind of an incident affect the possibility of america being able to leave behind a country that is working in america's favor rather than working against american interests? >> it's certainly creates questions about the competence of the afghan national army and the afghan national police forces. and over the long run, which cited the local population on? in general, and the u.s. administration is talking about a quick exit. this should give pause to what appears to be a political incentive to take forces out of afghanistan and focus on conditions in the country that are required to do that. >> you mentioned the local population, does this kind of incident swing the local population where the other? >> i think that it does temporarily, but i have been on the scene several times during past riots. they tend to have a several weeks or several months effect, but rarely do th

he's also created a narrative. the narrative is that he's the guy trying to stand up for people out of work. he's trying to stand up for hard-working americans. when he got the recovery numbers the other day, he went out and struck that kind of optimistic, but tempered tone. then he said, don't let congress muck it up. he has a narrative that's powerful. at the same time, that mitt romney is running out of narrative. if you listen to mitt romney's victory speech, he sounded pessimistic. that doesn't work in american politics. >> especially running against the numbers. let's look at the number here. it's reflected in a matchup numbers. also just to be fair, here it is with mitt. six-point spread for the president. let's talk about the front runner now. >> barack obama is making gains amongst blue-collar workers. and so michigan, wisconsin, ohio. if you look at the recent polls, he's creeping up again going in the right direction. that's where a lot of this pickup is. it's directly attributed in part to how mitt romn

that was a beginning moment for me. >> one of the narratives that runs through this book, particularly as he becomes more sick in the last part of it, you are the relentless, you are going to be okay, there is going to be hope, if i make enough contacts, i'll fix this. he is the almost unfailing despite his occasional request to you to help voice of it is not going to get better, deal with it, what did you learn over the course of that thing about the terrible tension between hope and reality acceptance when you are close to someone who has a terminal illness? >> that is such a hard question because the fact is they are so you. you are looking at yourself. it is impossible when your brother, sister, and 2 and a half years apart. i couldn't give what he was going through a reality. i couldn't see it for what with it was. it was catastrophic. now that i had my brother, i was desperate not to lose him. >> you hadn't had him until this. >> we had that cotten batting between us. we had a fierce attachment, when you are that locked together in this kind of angry, very strong bond, underneath

things i want to ask you about, your books, you are known as an investigative reporter, long complex narratives involving dramas and situations. i am curious to know what was hardest about memoir with somebody living their life as a working journalist? let me preface it a little bit with someone who has similar tendency. this is from 2005. i would like it if you would read from here. >> perfect. yeah. this is a moment in the book where, i am kind of flipping out writing about my brother. i am listening to tapes, because of course i have gone back to the orchards, my brother has died at a young age. i have gone back to the orchards to do interviews, i keep doing this dancing about what it is really about. i am saying i am outside the event although in the middle of it. it is protection, part of the latex that is covers me. making tapes, to crack the grid that i can understand on situations that are incomprehensible. at this moment i want to change everything in me tobserver part and move into something else, the living your life part. when does that start, exactly? something else, i look into th

is or even that there is a narrative. there's little interest in thinking about the national identity or lack of saying anything more than in superficial way provided by the "new york times". change is simply not possible in such a situation. the odds we'll continue on this unconscious path are overwhelming. in that sense, my work is -- as a writer and social critic, i can't stop the plane from crashing, no one can. i sur survey the wreck, writes up a report, post mortem, this is it. that, i believe, has small value because i think we finally, as americans need to know why america failed. thank you. [applause] thank you very much. if you have questions about michele flournoy -- michele bachmann or anybody else, we can get that. remember to use the microphone over here. oh, good, i get to go home early. oh, no, i don't. okay. [laughter] thank you so much. >> many critics talk about america's relationship with the visions in brave new world. i wonder what your opinion is to the relationship of those two and where you see us

which has become increasingly shrill where he it plays into the narrative of or we need to do something we meaning you know the west or the british government or the american government or whatever we need to intervene or we need to do something and it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example periods last month on. australian t.v. and he used the word genocide which of what's happening now i mean. that seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime he's he's kind of seems to be inflating it which to me is is damaging to the opposition and that's what people who i've spoken to who are either part of the opposition or sympathetic to the opposition that's why they're kind of they don't like this kind of approach because the crimes of the regime in bad enough without kind of. using words like in. the syrian observatory their little group emphasized to me that they're against the floods and that's part of it doesn't seem to been picked up by the media in general that although they call their figures a lot they don't quote the fact that well they said explic

which has become increasingly shrill working it plays into the narrative of to do something we you know the west or british government or the american government or whatever we need to intervene or we need to do something it plays into that kind of narrative i mean for example periods last month on. our story in t.v. and in news there were genocide which of what's happening now i mean. and that seems to me exaggerated for all the crimes of the bashar assad regime he's he's kind of seems to be inflating it which to me is is damaging to the opposition and that's for people who i've spoken to who are part of the opposition or sympathetic to your position that's why they kind of they don't like this kind of approach because the crimes of the regime are bad enough without some kind of. using words like genocide and how damaging could a foreign intervention be in syria any military intervention in syria would be. very different from worse. it's going to. regional conflagration. and it could even increase support for the regime within the country we saw we see what happened in the case of iran

if you ever go glance at douglass' narrative, he then quotes. he puts his words in quotes as though he is quoting his teenage memory. and it reads, spls he speaks to the ships." are you loose from your moorings and am free. i am fast in my clans and am a slave. you move merrily before the gentle gale and i sadly before the bloody whip. you are freedom swift winged angels and fly around the world. i am confined in bands of iron. oh, that i was were free. oh, i were on one of your gallant desks and under your protective wings. alas, between you and me, the turbid waters roll. go on. go on. oh, that i could also go. could i but swim? if i could but fly, oh, why was i born a man of whom to make a brute? the glad ship has gone. she hides in the dim distance. i am left in the hottest hell of unending slavery. in that famous passage, douglass reaches an early height in his craft as a writer. appealing for deliverance from enemies testifying to the tattered but refurbished faith, douglass wrote what might be called his own psalm, a propose poem about th

there is new narrative put out by the white house. whatever there is a narrative.nce it. it's not obama the food stamp president. no, if the dog bites. if you are feeling sad it's all whose fault. george w. bush's fault. >> let me ask you another question, we spoke about last time. gingrich called him the food stamp president and increased food stamps 41%. i know that you know that actually bigger increase was under president bush, right? this was under president obama. but it went up 65% under president bush. so explain to me food stamp president strategy but percentage, no one called president bush the food stamp president. >> sean: do they get the talking points from the white house? explain the white house's line. they take the verbiage and take the phrases and that is what they say? >> i know that you know, let me tell you something, that soedad knows she was cooking the books. it's important to people understand there is agree to the people on the left is cooking the books. she compared three years of obama to eight years of george bush. >> sean: wait a minut

they'll use it to create a mosaic, a narrative that mitt romney is out of touch, the wealthy guy from bain capital who makes $20 million a year, who is not concerned with the very poor. we could even write them ourselves right now, couldn't we? it would be easy. >> >>> yawn, months ago when i was looking at the colonel garr, ply simplistic analysis was to say, well, nevada, a state that nominated sharron angle, i would imagine a conservative candidate will capture the gop nod. what has happened in the last two years if in fact it's governor romney who's your nominee from nevada? >> it's an interesting point. some of the entrance and exit pollings shows this is a conservative electoral that's voting in this republican caucus, so what happened? how do they nominate a tea party darling, as you mentioned two years ago and now go to mitt romney? the answer is it has nothing to do with ideology s. i don't think as much as it does with hominy who is the only one that's essentially played here the last four years. he spent money on the ground, spent a ton of money on tv. the only other person

or to find any willingness to shift the narrative. but maybe that's only a problem of degree compared to what you've been talking about here. in any case what i'm trying to get out is the question of the relationship between the historiography and the politician. can you change the historiography until the chang the politics? or can it work the other way around? you're talking today -- i think what we're here trying to say is that by doing things to shift the narrative, you can have an impact onpolitics. so i'm trying to raise a question that comes to the heart of why we're here today. can youo this? or is history only an expression of the political realities? >> could i take the first shot at th any more complicated, i probably won't be able to do it. let me just say this in the i say this i think i told you this, i've been at this all my life. i started as a college student at moorehouse college and i've been involved in this whole effort of civil rights and human ri i just would like to say two things. first of all, in the african-