>> david pitts: well, somebody has found something. >> byron pitts: based on the letter, pitts filedk the v.a. ten months to review it before denying it. it's an example of the complexity that both the v.a. and veterans face in establishing what happened, years, sometimes decades, after events have taken place. the v.a. says it needs evidence to grant a claim, and it could not find any records putting david pitts in vietnam. the v.a. told "60 minutes" that the letter was sent by mistake, something it has not explained to david pitts. the obama administration and the v.a. say they've given top priority to ending confusion over military records, and new computer technology will someday track veterans from their first day in uniform through the rest of their lives. why should veterans believe what you say? that, "ah ha, now we're going to get it right"? >> walcoff: that's a tough question, because, certainly, some of the problems that we see in... in v.b.a. have existed for quite a while. there have been efforts, believe me, to try to improve the system. the one difference that i think

that's how the haitian feel, too. >> pitts: dr. of lenox, massachusetts was one of the doctors on board who headed straight to port-au-prince's general hospital. dr. hyman came to haiti with wife, pier boutin-- his father- in-law, george boutin, both orthopedic surgeons. the earthquake had seriously damaged the nation's largest hospital in the country. there were no haitian doctors or nurses. just them and the two nurses who came with them to treat hundreds of seriously injured people. you've got a headlamp on in the middle of the courtyard pretending to be a hospital. what kind of medicine is this? >> it's what we have to do right now. there's no lights, there's no electricity, there's a generator that sometimes goes on. we are working at the bare minimum. and anything we do, they seem to... they appreciate it. >> pitts: i wasn't sure there if he was smiling or crying, i couldn't tell. >> it's a little bit of both. because on the one hand, i feel like i'm here and i'm doing something. on the other hand, it's just heart-wrenching,

pitts, how are you doing? my name is tanya and an instructional school coach for diplomas and we are a nationwide organization that created school to help our kids were overage, under kennedy, aspiring to college careers and community service. if our kids could have the opportunity to hear you speak to them words of your wisdom, considering that you've been this child of trial, what advice would you give them to be resilient in this time? >> what was that? >> child of resilience into a man of triumphant. the >> that's a wonderful question. i was just a couple things. one i would say hold on. just hold on. because one of the things i'm clear about. you know how sometimes you know what you know, but sometimes you don't know what you don't know. my mother's philosophy. someone asked my mother, how are you able as a single parent, divorcee to send three kids to college? and my mom said it was simple. i said you will go to college or i will beat you to death. [laughter] so my mommy kept things pretty simple. my mot

pitts: mr. chairman, i want to thank the gentlelady for her eloquent words, and at this time i'll yield back. i'll yield at this time to the gentleman from louisiana, joseph cao. mr. cao: thank you very much for yielding. mr. speaker, as america embarks on its 37th anniversary of roe v. wade tomorrow, thousands will participate in the march for life in our nation's capital. but fundamentally this year's anniversary of roe v. wade should have deeper meaning than previous years. amidst current debate on health care reform, the abortion issue has once again risen to paramount importance. unfortunately, the current bill has made an unsuccessful attempt to address affordable health care by ignoring the controversial issue of abortion. abortion is an inhumane per version in our society -- per vation in our society. and as i have stated previously, it is a distorted emphasis on rights to the disregard of individual responsibilities. when president obama addressed joint session of congress last septembe

. >> if i was brad pitt or somebody they can go like this, are you greg? you can cover your face. really, go for it. >> yeah, andy, you are waving and i can see that. >> yes, that's the vaccine talking that you like these scanners. >> i don't know what you are talking about. >> i think it is sad where we -- >> your exhibitionism. >> again, i don't know what you are talking about. >> it is sad we got to a point our airline security program is i see france, i see england, i am not looking in your underpants. >> the same thing with the ped -- the thing is with the pedophiles. that's the concern. >> i don't know, i think they will blur the faces of the kids. you are often profiled in magazines and how do you feel about the process? >> usually i am profiled with my single name, but thanks for the outing. first of all, the profiling thing doesn't work. you look at some of the things they ask you. if they have an arabic name. gee, how difficult will it be to change your name? if they are wearing arabic dress. not one of these guys is wearing anything approaching arabic dress. >> they loo

here is byron pitts talking about how he grew up unable to read and about the father who abandoned theoften think there but for the grace of got go i. we've reconciled to some degree in recent years as we speak now as men. >> but now you're a successful network star and now when he met you for the first time in a long time, he wanted something from you, right? >> sure. >> what did he want? >> he wanted money. >> what did you say to him? >> i said no. i used some choice words that i won't use on television. it was my way to pay him back for i thought ignoring me all these years. one of the things i learned and the point i make in the book is there's real power in forgiveness. as long as i was angry with my father, it did me more disservice because he went on with his life. when i told him i for gave him, that not only, some may say, let him off the hook, but freed me. >> it was a touching moment when robin roberts talked about why she was especially happy to go to l.a. for the os sdars. >> this is part of the reason why i also accepted this because this time last year, completely bald,

brad pitt did a nice job. >> number one, spanish language film. >> don't be scared off by that. >> englishthis is called "without a name." here's a bit of the trailer. >> she was taking a chance to find a better life. he was caught up in a world of brutality. and when he tried to leave his violent past behind, his own gang put a price on his head. and he met the one person who would change his life forever. >> just the visuals alone, the grittiness, the way it's shot, edited. >> it's the story of a teenage girl and then a young, mexican gang member trying to get out of the gangs and they take a train from southern mexico through the entire country to the u.s. border. and this train has got to be the most dangerous form of transportation. it's like amateur drag racing. i mean every moment on this train is filled with peril. the movie is uplifting, it's terrifying, it's great. don't be afraid of it just because it's in spanish with english subtitles. >> okay, "sin nombre," it's on my list. >> if you don't want to wait for the oscars, january 15th on vh1 is the first award show, golden globes

last month, i wrote speaker pelosi and insisted the stupak-pitts amendment be repemb -- preserved in any final version of health regulation. this would prevent any taxpayer dollars from paying for abortion this question is more crucial after passage of h.r. 3590, the senate health care bill which allows federal funds to subsidize elected abortions. unfortunately, the speaker has yet to respond to my inquiry. so this week, the same week as the annual march for life in washington, the gentleman from oregon, my friend, mr. walden, and i, are again sending a request to the speaker. madam speaker, please respond to our request for information regarding your intentions on the stupak-pitts amendment in health care reform negotiations. we continue to insist you keep the exact language of that amendment which passed this house by a wide bipartisan margin in the final version of health care legislation. please do not ignore the voice of the american people or their representatives on this very important issue. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields h

[applause] >> byron pitts is an emmy award winning journalist and contributing correspondent to the news magazine 60 minutes. for more information, visit us.macmillan.com/stepoutonnothin g. >>> coming up next, book tv presents "after words," an hourlong discussion between >> guest: stand the author of a new book to read this week, wall street journal economics editor david wessler talks about his book quote cohen said we trust." in the book mr. wessler looks the world played by federal reserve bin bernanke following the 2008 economic collapse. he discusses his book with alice rivlin, first director of the congressional budget office and current senior fellow with the brookings institution. >> host: llo. ibm alice rivlin, and it is my pleasure to be talking to david wessle and his book and said we trust ben bernanke is war on the great panic which has the subtitle, not every book has to subtitles, david. how the federal reserve became the fourth bank branch of government. it's a fascinating book. >> guest: thank you. >> host: how i loved it and i think i should make that clear at the outs

pitt documentaries for -- making films for 30 years now. without spending way too much money. it's really about editing as much as possible in the camera really. so we had the camera people who worked on it were people who we'd worked with for many years. the editor was someone who'd i'd been at cbs with for many years. we edited it at duart which is one of the great, old production houses in new york. and so there are ways to do things without spending huge amounts of money. and you go to private investors. there are a number of places to go to find people who will put in relatively small amounts of money. but this -- we're not talking about a multi-million dollar project here. you know, this is less than a million dollars. >> who did you want to see it? >> we wanted several classes of people. we wanted people to see it who are themselves experiencing, you know, the sort of nightmare of foreclosure. we wanted to show that whoever caused this it wasn't people who'd gotten themselves -- or necessarily people who'd gotten themselves, you know, into debt because there's a strain

. >> there are many different recruits in africa pitt.e have had a robust dialogue with african countries and the leaders. we see that is an area that al qaeda preys upon. they are looking in africa for recruits. this is something that we are very concerned about. >> it is just one of many elements of the u.s. government. they are engaging with african countries and leaders in a way to address this issue from the standpoint of cooperation and security. >> is there any information that the government has been able to analyze and you have -- had prior to christmas but had not been able to analyze yet? >> there is a lot of information that is being realized and reevaluate. this gives us new insight into methods and other types of things to d. we are pursuing a number of leads. >> is what was released today redacted version of what was being presented to the president? was that the delay? >> the delay was in declassifying documents. >> is the system already in place [inaudible] was at one of the things you were talking about? [inaudible] >> a

. >> his rapid development impressed pitt, west virginia, and temple, but he felt most comfortable atalle where the class sizes are small, and he can stay under his mother's watchful eye. >> every time i felt like just running away from it, and whenever i couldn't deal with it, she was telling me like how if i just, you know, do what i've got to do and work hard, how the future would be. >> like in the long run, you hurt in the beginning, but it definitely pays off in the end, because you get so much back, you know. where i felt like i was losing my kid to the streets. glen miller gave him back. when he came back, he was aaric again. >> what a great story, one of the most highly sought after freshmen in the country. he's overcome so much in this lifetime. 32-28, temple on top. when we come back, we visit with temple

the benefits tax in the senate, in the senate bill pitts working americans, who need health care for their families against working americans struggling to keep health care for their families. now, this is a policy designed to benefit elites. in this case, insurers, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies and irresponsible employers. at the expense of the broader public. it is the same tragic pattern that got us where we are today, and i can assure you that the labor movement is fighting everything we have got to win health care reform that is worthy of the support of working men and working women. [applause] these great struggles over health care and jobs and the freedom to organize in financial reforms are the first steps. beyond the short-term job crisis, we have to have an agenda for restoring american manufacturing, a combination of their trade and currency policies, worker training, infrastructure investment and regional development till policies targeted to help the economically distressed areas. we cannot be a prosperous middle-class society in a dynamic global economy without a

. >> there are many different recruits in africa pitt.e have had a robust dialogue with african countries and the leaders. we see that is an area that al qaeda preys upon. they are looking in africa for recruits. this is something that we are very concerned about. >> it is just one of many elements of the u.s. government. they are engaging with african countries and leaders in a way to address this issue from the standpoint of cooperation and security. >> is there any information that the government has been able to analyze and you have -- had prior to christmas but had not been able to analyze yet? >> there is a lot of information that is being realized and reevaluate. this gives us new insight into methods and other types of things to d. we are pursuing a number of leads. >> is what was released today redacted version of what was being presented to the president? was that the delay? >> the delay was in declassifying documents. >> is the system already in place [inaudible] was at one of the things you were talking about? [inaudible] >> a

. >> there are many different recruits in africa pitt. we have had a robust dialogue with african countries and the leaders. we see that is an area that al qaeda preys upon. they are looking in africa for recruits. this is something that we are very concerned about. >> it is just one of many elements of the u.s. government. they are engaging with african countries and leaders in a way to address this issue from the standpoint of cooperation and security. >> is there any information that the government has been able to analyze and you have -- had prior to christmas but had not been able to analyze yet? >> there is a lot of information that is being realized and reevaluate. this gives us new insight into methods and other types of things to d. we are pursuing a number of leads. >> is what was released today redacted version of what was being presented to the president? was that the delay? >> the delay was in declassifying documents. >> is the system already in place [inaudible] was at one of the things you were talking about? [inaudible] >>

in fact, under the category of service for men and women in this chamber, representative ted pitts is if you might, ed and christina, would you all stand and be recognized? >> nineally -- finally, the fact that each of the soldiers i alluded to earlier died in service to their country is once again a reminder that freedom isn't free. and this year's list of heroes goes as follows, and out of a point of reference not to become episcopalian to you but if you might stand as i read these names, i would appreciate it. private first class jason watson. staff sergeant ralph patrell. corporal ryan mcgee, specialist abraham wheeler iii, lance corporal christopher folks, specialist demeetous floyd, gary guts jr., private first class jerry witson. thank you for doing that. i appreciate that. while on this topic of thanking -- i historically thank the state worker, someone in the private sector and oftentimes the first lady, ask them to stand and be recognized for their different contributions but tonight what i would like to do for one last time is to continue that tradition. first i'd like to r

. >> there are many different recruits in africa pitt.e had a robust dialogue with african countries and the leaders. we see that is an area that al qaeda preys upon. they are looking in africa for recruits. this is something that we are very concerned about. >> it is just one of many elements of the u.s. government. they are engaging with african countries and leaders in a way to address this issue from the standpoint of cooperation and security. >> is there any information that the government has been able to analyze and you have -- had prior to christmas but had not been able to analyze yet? >> there is a lot of information that is being realized and reevaluate. this gives us new insight into methods and other types of things to d. we are pursuing a number of leads. >> is what was released today redacted version of what was being presented to the president? was that the delay? >> the delay was in declassifying documents. >> is the system already in place [inaudible] was at one of the things you were talking about? [inaudible] >> as we

jerusalem is potentially -- it is so sensitive pitt.ctions on the ground in jerusalem can turn into a provocative and antagonizing actions to the followers of the three great religions. it is very important to try and avoid unilateral action in tourism. everyone is in agreement that jerusalem to be discussed in final negotiations. there is a growing sense of urgency to move forward and to achieve tangible progress that will create an environment ... to address the other regions. we will witness further divisions that extremists will exploit it worldwide. as a told madame secretary, jordan is fully committed to handling our partners in the region and gratitude [unintelligible] we will spare no efforts in ensuring the success of the endeavor. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> a question on the terror report to the present but yesterday. in that report, it talks of the of the set issue. they talk about the fact that the suspected not have a visa was not correlated with the information his father gave. there was the issue of the misspelli

pitts: mr. speaker, we know that the best way to prevent an attack on u.s. soil is to ensure that terrorists are stopped before they reach our shores. unfortunately we failed to do so on christmas day and al qaeda came close to a significant victory. while the terrorist abdul was known in a terrorist identity database, he was not placed on a separate screening database and his u.s. visa was not revoked. clearly we did not connect the dots to notice that a man on a u.s. watch list also held a current u.s. visa. this is not the first time terrorists have obtained u.s. visas. several of the 9/11 hijackers did so as well. we need to strengthen the visa application process. we need to streamline the intelligence gathering and sharing process. we need to end the visa lottery. we need to ensure that terrorists are turned around before they get to the airport, before they even attempt to go through security. were it not for the quick action of passengers on that flight, 288 innocent lives would have been lost. passengers should not have to rely on last-minute heroic

pitts: thank you, madam speaker. an american citizen is being held illegally and unjustly by the burmese government today and we should do all we can to return him to the united states and his family. he has been imprisoned in burma since september 3 and held under a resolving array of charges, all bogus. he has been deprived of food and sleep, beaten, then had medical treatment withheld and he remains in prison while his trial is pending. the burmese government has ignored its obligations under international treaty and violates standards of human rights and basic decency. he has a heart for the oppressed people of his native country, and his offense is promoting freedom in a country that is like a vast prison camp. i urge secretary clinton to publicly call for ahn's release and use all possible diplomatic means to return him to the u.s. where he can receive medical care. his life hangs in the balance and we cannot afford to wait. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tenness

the pitts amendment, i'll take a minute to explain this. as you know for 20 years whether aim in the statehouse or u.s. congress, i have been pro-life. we have worked out issues. since i am and ott health committee, this time there was no room to maneuver. no one was really to negotiate past a certain point. here's what happened. july 303,1, i warned my colleagues throughout the whole thing, i'm also co-chair of the congressional right to life caucus, don't bring abortion up. we are talking health care, let's do health care. let's focus on health care. leave abortion alone. it's a divisive issue. leave it out of this thing. so during committee, lois capps from california offered an amendment which said this, i did not inject abortion into health, the capps amendment did. first of all abortion will be a recognized underneath the health care bill. if you are in a public option, man or woman, you have to pay $1 per month into a fund with reproductive rights which include abortion language. in the exchange, at least one plan could be more. at l

i also want to thank you for your steadfast support of the stupak-pitts amendment which is made the difference in ensuring that an ill-fated and very pro-abortion health care reform bill will not become the law of this land. [cheers and applause] we especially today at my ear and donner the extraordinarily courageous post abortive women who are silent no more. their voice and their witness showed the path to reconciliation for all women who have been first deceived and then victimized by abortion. and president obama, the abortion president, you should know this: even though you have unleashed the full might and power of your administration in the noble promotion of abortion, both here and around the world, especially in africa and latin america, we pray for you, and we will fast for you even as we tenaciously fight your entire life policies. [cheers and applause] years ago -- and years ago, a friend of mine, dr. jean gordon wrote a book with the title inspired by the question of a young child who unexpectedly walked into a room as she was preparing electoral on abortion. her 3-year-old took o

big wins over the flyers, kings and pitt. they've had a balance in their attack and both special teams separating at a super high level. >> assistant coach dean evason told us what's going right with this success. >> what we like as a staff is how businesslike we've been. we've been able to manage the game prot appropriately. if we've got a lead, we're not trying to do too much. we're getting pucks n we're getting pucks out. we're doing the right things at this time to win hockey games and obviously we're gearing up and trying to set ourselves up for the playoffs. >> craig, expand on the penalty killing y has it been so good lately? >> starts between the pipes, joe. they're getting great goaltending. they're utilizing eight or nine turnovers. they've got to continue that tonight against the isles. >> the islanders have been a pain in the neck i sure this one one won't be easy either. >> kobe bryant has been so good for so long. it's easy to forget he began his nba career as a backup to eddie jones and nick van exel. he's won