but the first time we approaed paul martin, he really didn't know what to make of us and was a littles about why we'd want to work on his property. >> i was a little taken aback. i wasn't quite sure, you know, if i wanted to have a bunch of school kids coming out and running around on my property. >> so here we were, a groupf young, passionate and concerned students, wanting to run up to the rancher and say, "look what you're doing! your cows are tromping through the creek, and the california freshwater shrimp are almost extinct! what are you going to do about that?" but we realized that we needed to work in a very positive and constructive way with landowners and ranchers, from the very beginning. >> i wonder if he knows how to work a post-hole digger. >> oh, he wants to dig. i'd put one right in his hands. tell him i told you to. >> the reason we decided to do it is that without any deep rooted vegetation on our creek banks, we were getting a substantial amount of erosion, and we were losing productive land. and i benefited from being able to stabilize the banks of the creek, and th

press conference, his lawyer says paramedic white delayed the patient by not letting martin talk directly to driver paulfranks. >> the trooper martin's belief was if i could sit down and talk to paul, that we could have ended this very quickly. mr. white is trying to control the scene. >> paramedic white says the incident was a fluid situation and in the heat of the moment, he did what he thought was right. >> i did not deem it in the best interest of the patient to permit him to handcuff and arrest me at that time. >> paramedic white is suing trooper martin for violating his civil rights. the patient is also suing the trooper and the oklahoma highway patrol for negligence. trooper martin and the highway patrol are contesting the claims. >> if we allow people to get out of vehicles and try to handle the traffic stop other than the driver, that's chaos. >> the state of oklahoma gives trooper martin a five-day suspension and an order to report for an anger assessment. paramedic white believes trooper martin may have offered an explanation for his behavior on the road that day. white refers to a conversati

joining me now paul cowan and sunny hostin. and martin najime for us in florida. to all of you. paul, let's begin with you because these rulings would seem to hurt george zimmerman's case when it comes to backing up his claims of self defense. do you agree with that? >> no. i totally disagree. i have to take a contrarian view on this. i think it was an enormous victory for the defense in court today and i'll tell you why and a stra steenlgic brunder by the prosecution. the prosecutor brought up the text messages with a motion to prevent the defense from mentioning this stuff. and you know something. under the rules of evidence, the defense would never have been allowed to bring any of this stuff up because the rule in self defense cases is the bad character, the alleged bad character, of the victim is not admissible unless the defendant knew about it. because it's all about what you perceived when you fired the shots. if you don't know the guy, his background isn't going to, you know, influence your opinion to fire a shot. and here, brooke, what happened was as a r

joining me now, paul callan, sonny hostin and martin gerigos, criminal defense attorney. so you all can tell everybody single side of this. let me just start off, though, with sonny. were you surprised by this when you look at the length of the trial, the length of deliberation, how quickly they unanimously decided the aggravator, that it was cruel. >> i was not surprise ds. i think when you have a defendant that gets on the witness stand for 18 cdays and you get the opportunity to ask her over 200 questions rjsand i'm just not that surprised. >> mark, you've pointed out that whether the jury hated her or not, they were able to ask questions during this incredibly long trial. they started to call her by her first name? >> yes, they first-named her repeatedly during those questions. they were extremely prosecution oriented. i can't tell you how many times i've been slapped down by a judge for first-naming my client. and number two, most of the studies show who the victim is as to whether the death penalty is administered. it's administered disproportionately to when there

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with his hat on backwards about to plant the bomb that would kill 8-year-old martin richard and maim the two norden brothers, paul and j.p., each of whom lost a leg. paul left the hospital just today. >> i can't imagine how somebody could do something to these innocent people. it's twisted. >> late today we learned the fbi has also been questioning a former chechen rebel leader now living in new hampshire, who admits he met with tamerlan tsarnaev several times, including one month before the bombing, but he's denied so far any involvement. >> brian, thank you. >>> now we track down a woman today who wants to warn everyone about a new scam. what if you opened your telephone bill and someone had charged you calls costing $600,000? abc's linzie janis tells us more. >> reporter: one day this past march at melissa bream's missouri real estate agency, the phones started going crazy. her receptionist was overwhelmed. >> every time she picked up a line, there wasn't anybody on the line. and after that, she got a pile of huge bills. one from her phone company for $14,000. and from sprint, var tec, and at&t, where she does

martin stay with us. famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty oriented home schooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum to give parents not turn of the standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids of wacko's and cultus if you met someone who was homeschooled you always look at them with some sort of suspicion like what's with that kid with what's with his parents i mean who would home school their kids well let's look at it this way who would grow their own food when american supermarkets are stocked with pure healthy and natural food the problem is that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts mr chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are intro starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal and it's perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denomi

joe johns, thank you for your reporting and paul callan, thank you for your insight. >>> we want to go to the trayvon ma martintrial. the prosecution is doing everything in its power to stop bad stuff about that 17-year-old victim to make it into a public proceeding. what they think the jury should and maybe, more importantly, should not be privy to hearing. that's coming up next. auto insu is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection and because usaa's commitment to serve military members, veterans, and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. glass on floors. daily chores. for the little mishaps you feel use neosporin to help you heal. it kills germs so you heal four days faster. neosporin. use with band-aid brand bandages. neosporin. when ouwe got a subaru.s born, it's where she said her first word. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye! made a best friend forever. the back seat of my subaru is where she grew up. what? (announcer) designed for y

carter glass, william martin, dwight eisenhower, george humphrey, douglas dillon, william simon, paul volcker, bill clinton, paul o'neill, and sheila bair. explain that. >> the last 80 years of fiscal monetary financial history, how we got into the mass of bubbles and the fiscal and monetary crisis of today. ofically using the standard threefold items. free-market, fiscal rectitude, which we balanced budgets, we do not make excuses for deficits because you do not think the economy is not performing up to your doctor and expectation, and not using the central bank and ordered to try to centrally manage the economy and, wall street and encourage risk-taking and all of that. these are not bad people and good people. these are good policies and bad policies in well-known careers. not one party or one doctrine. so i took these individuals as examples of fiscal rectitude, and that is why clinton is on there. that is why eisenhower is on there. i have a huge problem with defense spending. this is also why eisenhower is on there. on the other hand, using the government to inflate the economy,

where martin luther king delivered the "i have a dream" speech and peter, paul and mary sang "blowin' in the wind" and "if i had a hammer." i sometimes say that it was so thick in the air, the love, and the sense of determination with pain, somehow transforming the pain into love that you could literally pick it up and eat it for lunch. >> yeah. >> i was there for the march on washington, and i heard you all sing, heard martin luther king's speech. you and david and peter sang many of the songs from that era, including this one that gives a sense of power and mass action. ♪ how many times must the cannon balls fly before they're forever banned ♪ >> sing it to us now, my friends. ♪ the answer my friend is blowin' in the wind the answer is blowin' in the wind ♪ >> was the concert the first time you had sung publically since ben died? >> yes. yes. and that concert was very difficult to do, but, and i, by the way, i was in bed for a couple days after that. it was tough. it was hard. yeah, no, it was hard. but the music helps me, prayer, community, my church, my family, my friends, and pla

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martin. >>> an update on the royal caribbean cruise ship. >>> plus tornadoes are expected this week with wednesday being the worst day. plus paul mccartney channels elvis. >>> good morning, everyone. . we begin in the middle east where two big stories are leading the news. a wave of violence in iraq killed 70 people and a secret trip inside syria by one of the country's most prominent voices on expanding military involvement there. richard engel has the report. >> reporter: violence is spreading across the middle east and it's all interconnected. it was a horrible day in bagh d baghdad. at least 15 explosions, most of them car bombings, most of them in poor shiite neighborhoods. this is another sign that despite years of american sacrifice the civil war in iraq appears to be coming back. but violence is not just in iraq now but also here in lebanon and, of course, in syria. syria is at center of this. the war in syria is dragging the countries around it back into chaos. senator john mccain put himself right in the center of this storm. he visited syria. he visited in secret. it was a surprise visit. he stayed on the ground just

martin. >>> updates on that royal caribbean cruise ship fire and the 2200 passengers on board. >>> plus tornadoes are expect this week with wednesday being the worst day. >>> paul mccartney channels elvis at graceland. >>> and "fast and furious 6" blows them away at the movies. "early today" starts right now. >> announcer: this is "early today" for tuesday, may 28th. >>> good morning, i'm dara brown. we begin in the middle east where two big stories leading the news. a wave of violence in iraq killed more than 70 people, and a secret trip inside syria by one of the country's most prominent voices on expanding military involvement there. nbc's chief foreign correspondent, richard engel, is in beirut and has our report. >> reporter: violence spreading across the middle east and it's all interconnected. it was an especially horrible day in baghdad. at least 15 explosions. most of them car bombings. most of them in poor shiite neighborhoods. this is another sign despite years of american sacrifice the civil war in iraq appears to be coming back. but violence is not just in iraq now but also here in lebanon but of course in syria. and syria is at the center of this.

martin. joining me now are kendall coffe. now a criminal defense attorney and veteran prosecutor paul henderson.me start with you. this is actually the third gag order the prosecution has filed. why are they so concerned about zimmerman's lawyer going on tv talking about this case? >> well, they are concerned because it's three weeks to go and a lot of stuff that would -- that is inflammatory, that would never get to first base in a court of law, stuff the jury would never see is scoring some home runs maybe in the court of public opinion. it's inflammatory, it's damaging. and frankly, potential jurors are going to find it very hard to unsee what they are already seeing in the television, the internet, and in newspapers. >> now, paul, do you agree with that? because clearly o'mara, zimmerman's lawyer is out and saying why he is releasing this. let me give you why he says these text that he's put out about fighting is relevant. let's listen to this. >> you know, if we're talking about who trayvon martin was that night, if that becomes relevant, according to how the state presents it, the idea tha

dzhokhar with hat on backwards about to plant the bomb that would kill 8-year-old martin richard and maim the two norden brother, paul and j.p., each of whom lost a leg. paul finally left the hospital thursday with his mother asking o uld do this kind of thing? >> i just can't imagine how somebody could do something to these innocent people. >> reporter: both brothers, paul and j.p. are undergoing rehab together at the same place and they said they'll resume their basketball rivalry and be back on the court within a year. george and amy. >> all right, brian, thanks so much. josh, i know you spent some time with them. >> good to see them up and getting back to normal. norden strong as they like to say. >>> we'll begin with news and another terrorism case, this one in idaho. federal agents there raiding an apartment in boise, arresting a 30-year-old man they say was buying bombmaking materials for an attack plot. the suspect who is due in court this morning was allegedly trying to help a known terror group in his home country of uzbekistan. >>> a brazen heist at miami airport. $625,000 in gold is missing. it arrived fr

officials say shows dzhokhar with hat on backwards about to plant the bomb to kill martin richard and maim the two norton brothers, paulme body could do something to innocent people. >> in another development, abc news has learned the fbi carried out a search warrant at the manchester, new hampshire, home of a former chechen rebel leader now living there. authorities say his dna, samples of his fingerprints. and computer hard drives were all seized. meeting a month before the attacks but says he was not involved. brian ross, abc news, new york. >>> miami police investigating the disappearance of more than half a million in gold at the airport. it arrived from ecuador aboard american airlines flight. when the container was unloaded. it disappeared. it was on its way to miami. precious metals company. it was worth $625,000. >>> with the political firestorm over the irs targeting of tea party groups still growing we'll hear today from the former commissioner. steven miller who was forced to resign on wednesday is scheduled to appear at a congressional hearing this morning. his testimony comes as president obama confronts

martin. >>> an update on the royal caribbean cruise ship. >>> plus tornadoes are expected this week with wednesday being the worst day. plus paul mccartney channels elvis. >>> good morning, everyone. . wein

paul schrader. his credits as writer-director include american gigolo, cat people, mishima. as a screenwriter for other directors he's responsible for the script of obsession for brian depalma mosquito coast for peter weir and for martincorsese, taxi driver, raging bull and the last temptation of christ. to his right is joan micklin silver whose credits include hester street between the lines chilly scenes of winter and crossing delancey. to my immediate left is james toback. his credits include the gambler and bugsy, for which he received an academy award nomination for screenplay. and in terms of directing his credits include love and money, exposed and the pick-up artist. to his left is whit stillman whose first feature, metropolitan earned the best first film award from the new york critics circle and an academy award nomination for best screenplay. and his most recent film is barcelona. i happen to have been born in france and i've spent some time in europe. i've noticed that the french have a term for hollywood movies, "le happy end"-- the happy ending that provides that wonderful narrative closure-- in love stories, the kiss that must always precede the end. today we'll be looking at the meaning of hollywood st

paul schrader. his credits as writer-director include american gigolo, cat people, mishima. as a screenwriter for other directors he's responsible for the script of obsession for brian depalma mosquito coast for peter weir and for martincorsese, taxi driver, raging bull and the last temptation of christ. to his right is joan micklin silver whose credits include hester street between the lines chilly scenes of winter and crossing delancey. to my immediate left is james toback. his credits include the gambler and bugsy, for which he received an academy award nomination for screenplay. and in terms of directing his credits include love and money, exposed and the pick-up artist. to his left is whit stillman whose first feature, metropolitan earned the best first film award from the new york critics circle and an academy award nomination for best screenplay. and his most recent film is barcelona. i happen to have been born in france and i've spent some time in europe. i've noticed that the french have a term for hollywood movies, "le happy end"-- the happy ending that provides that wonderful narrative closure-- in love stories, the kiss that must always precede the end. today we'll be looking at the meaning of hollywood st

be more focus on social issues and what they think about rand paul and they have not had those discussions. caller fromc indiana. ms. martineeps talking about all these intimidating letters that were sent out to all of these people. she said herself that they had made videos, but they knew they were illegal that they were not allowed to use another can use them. i don't think people were intimidated. people found out they were going to be caught when questions came from the irs and her and the other groups vowed out because they knew they were breaking the law. host: we will get a response. guest: we never bowed out. we have challenged the irs on some of the russians that they asked stop our questions about -- on some of the questions that they ask. we want the government to be responsible about our money. if i am talking and they talk about what they personally believe and i have it on video, i have to make sure that i don't want to include that. i can't control what comes out of peoples mouths. i can only make sure that that what we do with what we gather is within the rules and the law. we, at tea party patriots, we pus

someone like senator rand paul should say that because we know that he's one who is actively considering the possibility of running. >> i think the sad part about all of this, martinout politics, and it doesn't take much to see that. and that's what's so painful about this. i mean, we've got four dedicated members of our diplomatic team who have been killed, and we ought to be about the business of doing a truly bipartisan investigation so that we can make sure that our embassies and our diplomatic teams are properly guarded. >> but congressman, congressman, i listened to that hearing yesterday where you spoke. where was the republican outrage about them cutting $128 million from the administration's request for embassy security in 2011? where was darrell issa's anger that he and his fellow republicans slashed $331 million from embassy security for the fiscal year 2012? when ambassador chris stevens was killed. where was their outrage about that? >> well, that concerns me, too. and that goes to the essence of what i'm trying to do. i was glad the whistleblowers came forward, but at the same time, the father of tyrone wood came up to me and said to me, he said, con

paul tudor jones. >> the risk is not doing it. so, what is this modern-day robin hood doing with all this money? that's our story tonight. >> martinfootball is violent, no doubt. but it's nothing compared to war. ( explosion ) and just as the national football league has struggled to come to grips with head injuries so has the military, but on a much vaster scale. >> are these individuals that are going to come back from iraq and afghanistan that have had repeated mild brain injuries, are those going to be like the retired nfl players? they're committing suicide. they have problems with dementia. >> i'm steve kroft. >> i'm leslie stahl. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm lara logan. >> i'm scott pelley. those stories tonight on "60 minutes." >> cbs money watch update sponsored by: >> glor: good evening. the s&p opens above 1600 for the first time tomorrow. gas prices have fallen 10 cents in the last month, and wal-mart reclaimed the top spot. i'm jeff glor, cbs news. we went out and asked people a simple question: how old is the oldest person you've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot

it was a broad field of candidates ranging from hillary clinton and martin o'malley and andrew cuomo to said crews and rand paul and mark rubio and whoever else. the way they differentiate themselves is for the policy proposals. we need to look forward to a much more in-depth discussion of actual policy and what they would do in a step-by-step guide. host: road to the white house whitereid wilson. next is airline for republicans. caller: i am a first-time caller and i appreciate you taking my call. i would like to say that president obama has a few months to get anything done the republicans retain the house in 2014 which i think that well. he will be a lame-duck president. this gentleman said the older white borders comprised of the republican party. when you have young people like versesz, paul ryan tec, hillary clinton who will be almost 70 by the time her turn takes place, why are the young people graduating toward the young people? they are still stuck in last year's news with someone like hillary clinton. . guest: there is a generational shift the republicans are undergoing i think that as an under-covere