made 1089, troy as a teenager, african-american and savanna, georgia. a murder takes place. the victim is not only white, but i'm off duty police officer. got a stereotypical mellow drama going on here. troyes in the wrong place at the wrong time, but not the trigger man. his trial hinged on nine eyewitness identification, seven of whom recanted over the course of his 20 years in prison. there is no physical evidence, no saliva, blood, no fingerprints, no murder weapon found. the people who identified himself at the time they were investigated by the police, they were coerced by the police to sign confessions. they were teenagers at the time. they were scared and cooperated because they felt they had to. anytime there such a crime, it's understandable the community will be up in arms. they will be inferior. so pressure is on the police to know somebody pretty quick and then to come back. we need to make sure we get it right. in troy's case, who i think is the actual culprit in the crime at midday. he confessed to several people who later testified in court that he committed

please welcome to savanna book festival jake tapper. [applause] >> thanks so much. i know sergeant burchfield who is in the book and his family are here. is his wife somewhere? does she want to stand? i did what anybody who was in the book -- over there? there she is. hi. [applause] sergeant burchfield and his son are in the restroom which i'm sure they will appreciate me telling everybody. [laughter] and also i believe the family of body was planning on coming. i don't know if planning on coming to our failure. if they are if they could just and. but he wasn't local national guardsmen who was training afghan soldiers and gave his life trying to save an afghan soldier six years ago tomorrow. i don't know -- they were planning on coming but it was something of a drive. but any case, anybody who is here whose lives are chronicled in the book or lives of loved ones are chronicled in the book, it always means so much to me when they do turn out and come to these events. so if any else are here, please come over and it is yourself after the event. i'm not a likely person

southern tip of south carolina stretching from charleston and its suburbs, and then down just north of savannat is the registration do you know? >> we don't register by parties here, but voters in the first congressional district went for mitt romney by a 58-40 margin over barack obama. so elizabeth colbert-busch has some work to do ahead of her. >> bill: yes. peter ogburn our executive producer is from charleston. >> yes in need. it's elizabeth colbert, not colbert, right? >> right. >> bill: i didn't realize that. elizabethco -- elizabeth colbert. i'm such a huge fan of charleston. every meal i have down there is one of the best meals of my life. robert i want you to know but when i think of south carolina tell us about lindsay graham. what is happening -- is he really going to have a primary battle? >> well, if he's going to have any reelection trouble whatsoever, it is going to be in the primary. the democrats here just don't have a bench to put anybody credible up against him, not considering his war chest and things, and not considering they would be a democrat and working with harry reid

they reached savanna or liberty county. if you go today, you can meet people who will readily tell you, this is where sherman turned left. but he didn't know what to do with all these people, so he let his generals put out the word of the invited black ministers to come in a not of that, sherman set-aside 200 miles along the coast down to jacksonville, florida. 20 miles inland for the exclusive settlement of free people with promise airing a tiny piece of land. which was to train all of them hot. they will let us because the andrew johnson successor to link and >> the house rules committee met tuesday to discuss the government operations to the end of the fiscal year in september. funding runs out at the end of the march. the house takes up the bill on monday. see them moving in its entirety at c-span.org. >> start doing the circumstances none of us wish we were. the cases we are spending money that we fire out and when you borrow money to run the operations, whether it's a family or business or government, at some point yo

but the guys at savanna river have not made that transgression. so those that may be systemic in other places with the distance that is preferred, we did not witness this suffice to say, truly how can we ventilate the deficiencies there and see them here. i believe that that took place. but i just think that the self-critical capacity can be improved to make that assessment broad and legit. >> anybody else? general inspector general? >> i agree with what general austin stated. when i took a look at the federal organization and the assessment model contained, there were structural flaws in both the organization and the assessment model, which is why i recommended a change in the organizational model and a new assessment model to reach out beyond to all of the other organizations. it does affect all sides. >> i would say that one of our important recommendations,, the lessons learned and there was a tremendous wake-up call. mr. cooper described as, they could've been three people, the intruders, who are armed in a different way in a malicious way wi

savanna savannah. >> the rossen report, investigation into popular used cars that can save families moneyales are up this year. we found some of those cars may have dangerous safety flaws and folks may not know that. investigator jeff rossen is here. >> good morning. 40 million used cars sold in the u.s. last year alone. this affects a lot of people. when you buy a car from a dealer, you ask a lot of questions. is it safe? is it reliable, especially with used cars. when the dealer says, yeah, all good, you trust them. this morning, we're going under cover with cars for sale with unfixed safety recalls. and some sellers not telling the whole story. we're in the heartland of america, st. louis, missouri, shopping for a used car in good condition. >> i'm looking for a safe reliable car. >> reporter: but our investigation found dozens of dealers selling popular models with potentially dangerous secrets. open safety recalls ordered to be fixed by the manufacturers. >> reporter: you're telling consumers this car is safe but there's an open safety recall. don't you think you should tell that? >>

when he got into savanna he didn't know what to do with all of these people. he let the germs to put out the word and they invited black minute stores to talk to him -- ministers to talk to hill. they set aside 200 miles along the coast down to jacksonville, florida. for the exclusive settlement of freed people with promissory notes on a piece of land, which is the dream all of them have. it won't last because andrew johnson, successor to lincoln -- >> give that land back. >> skull legislators on the sacrifices of slaves. part of history tv on c-span 3 this weekend. the house of representatives voted wednesday to keep the federal government funded through the end of the fiscal year. the legislation passed 267-141. we'll show you some of that footage. >> the house has passed a bill to keep the government operating past march 27. >> this bill is probably going to be rewritten when it gets to the democratic-controlled senate. the appropriation committee members were anxious to replace it with an prormingse bill which will put all of the 12 appropriation bills for

i am stopped at a red light and i look over to the right and there is a man laying in the road in savannageorgia, he is laying in the road, water is running past him, i see him struggling trying to set up. and i thought i will change lanes and maybe help him out. my heart grew for a second because i thought these two young men get out and i thought, thank goodness, we still live in a country where people help each other. that would've been a dog, people would've helped each other. one gentleman snaps a picture. does his little gang sign, snaps a picture of this gentleman in the street. when i pulled over and picked him up, i came around behind him and put my hand underneath his arm right there and said, pull your right leg forward. and he couldn't do it. and i'm helping him and i tell him again if he doesn't get it, so i reach down to feel his leg and it is a prosthetic leg. long story short, he couldn't get up because of the prosthetic leg. when i carried him and sat down and drink some coffee with him, and he spilled more than he drank, this man was a veteran from vietnam. he had his le