>> brown: ah, no. >> stahl: no? >> brown: no. >> stahl: did you talk him into anything?> brown: we were talking, which is important. >> stahl: i was curious about how his deprived childhood has shaped him as a politician... >> the senator from massachusetts. >> stahl: ...and asked about his votes against extending unemployment benefits and jobs programs for low-income teens. your mother was on welfare. you even benefited, you tell us in the book... >> brown: absolutely. >> stahl: ...from one of those kinds of programs, ceta. is that how you say it? >> brown: ceta, yeah. >> stahl: and yet, you know, you... you vote against those kinds of programs. i'm just trying to get at the mindset. >> brown: i see what you're trying... you're trying to, you know, infer somehow that i'm not, you know, focusing on people that are unfortunate. >> stahl: when you make those votes, are you thinking, "my god, this is what i..." >> brown: i think about each and every vote. it's not... >> stahl: but those particular... >> brown: every vote. i think about how it affects people each and every v

used to be the old a&p. >> stahl: you stole food? >> brown: stole food from there, yeah. >> stahl: his crime spree ended when he was caught walking out of this mall with black sabbath records in his overalls and arrested. he was 13. lucky for him, a sympathetic judge let him off. you came perilously close to being a juvenile delinquent. >> brown: yeah.

this morning lesley stahl will be visit aaron sorkin. >> people want to go on the internet and check out their friends. >> reporter: he's the man who wrote the social network about facebook's mark zuckerberg. >> talking about taking the entire social experience of college and putting it online. >> i know i wouldn't and i don't think anybody would want a movie made out of the things that they did when they were 19 years old. and that's what i did. >> reporter: later on sunday morning, an interview with oscar nominee aaron sorkin and the man who discovered him, comedian lewis black. who knew? >> aaron, you owe me big time. >> osgood: as you no doubt have heard the green bay packers will be taking on the pittsburgh steelers in super bowl 45 later today in dallas. and it's no secret that the half time show will feature the black-eyed peas who this morning will be chatting with our michelle miller. >> reporter: for the black-eyed peas, tonight's going to be a very good night when they take the stage at the super bowl. how would you describe your music? >> it's real good music. >> reporter

. >> stahl: republican scott brown made national headlines last year when he took over ted kennedy'senate seat. and tonight, he'll make news again talking about his brutally honest new book that recounts a childhood filled with violence, abuse, and neglect. do you think that you have innate resilience? >> i think, as a result of what i've gone through, it makes me tougher. absolutely. i'm getting kind of the crap beat out of me outside in the political spectrum, i'm like, "this is nothing. bring it. let's go. next." >> simon: it was the first time an arab dictator had been toppled by his own people. and the most amazing thing is that the fires sweeping through the middle east today were ignited by a simple food vendor in a forgotten town in tunisia. mohammed bouazizi got so tired of being robbed and humiliated by a corrupt regime that he stood in the middle of a street, doused himself with gasoline, and lit a match. and that's how the revolution began. >> i'm not... here to discuss personal matters. >> why are you here, then? >> because i bloody well stammer!

almost no one knew about brown, a secret he had been keeping for 40 years until he spoke with lesley stahl for this sunday's "60 minutes." >> reporter: back in his hometown of wakefield, mass, he tells us how he suffered as a little boy from physical and psychological abuse at the hands of his mother's many husbands. but when scott was ten, he experienced another kind of abuse at the hands of a camp councilor. you tell us that you were actually sexually abused. more than once. >> yup. fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated so to speak but it was certainly back then very traumatic. he said, "if you tell anybody, i'll kill you." >> couric: you can see more of lesley's interview with senator brown this sunday on "60 minutes." and coming up next, out of tragedy, pictures of hope. cc passengers for years. but now a woman is behind bars. who ratted her out next on cbs 5 the device helping chemo >> couric: these are busy days for arizona congresswoman gabrielle giffords as she continues her recovery from an assassination attempt. on the "early show" today pia carusone pishe understands w

and he talked about it with leslie stahl for sunday night's "60 minutes" broadcast. >> you were actually sexually abused more than once? >> yup. fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated so to speak. but it was certainly back then very traumatic. >> 51-year-old brown says never reported the abuse, not even to his mother. >>> all right, folks. looks like another wild day around the bay area. storms just whipping up the surf out toward the coastline. big-time swells out toward the beaches. got to watch out for some coastal erosion. some breakers will be as high as 20 feet to go along with high tide after 10 a.m. making for some dangerous waves on the beaches. stay off the rocks. but you're probably going to want to anyway. we have stormy weather around the bay area and we are going to see those showers, the possibility of some thunderstorms, gusty winds, hail, and we are seeing some pretty good activity this morning. we have had some lightning strikes already and some moderate pockets of rainfall showing up outside. and it is going to continue on and off probably going to intensify j

he also discussed it with lesley stahl in an interview for "60 minutes." michael herzenberg has more now from washington. good morning, michael. >> reporter: good morning, betty. senator brown talks about his troubled childhood, and painful memories he says he'll never forget. it's a secret he's kept for almost 40 years. >> you were actually sexually abused. more than once. >> yeah. fortunately nothing was ever fully consummated, so to speak. but it was certainly back then traumatic. >> reporter: in an interview to air sunday night on 60 minutes, massachusetts senator scott brown admits he was sexually abused by a camp counselor when he was just 10 years old. >> he said if you tell anybody, i'll kill you. i will make sure that no one believes you. >> reporter: the bombshell revelation also appears in brown's new book "against all odds" out monday. in it he opens up about the physical abuse he suffered at the hands of his stepfather and says he even thought of buying his old home just so he could burn it down. brown, a republican, burst onto the national sc

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lesley stahl read this on her vacation and wrote me a nice letter. she said she found it engrossing, creative, and funny. i said, "i'll take all three." ( laughing ) >> hinojosa: but you're all about grassroots and every citizen can change, and... >> yeah. >> hinojosa: so isn't this kind of saying, "wait a second. so we can't depend on the grassroots. now we have to depend on these ultra, ultra, ultra rich who may have their own baggage," but they're the ones who are going to actually make our country better, or our world better? >> yeah, i selected them because they're enlightened, in advanced stage, had a different perspective on life, and had a lot... were willing to put billions of dollars into mobilizing the grassroots. so it's the top down, bottom up. justice requires money. it requires money for lawyers, for organizers in the communities. it requires money for transportation. it requires money to constantly reach people directly. and people don't understand. the abolition of slavery movement? a lot of it was funded by proper bostonians in the

. >> i'm lesley stahl. >> i'm bob simon. >> i'm morley safer. >> i'm anderson cooper. >> i'm scott pelleythose stories and andy rooney tonight on "60 minutes." if yol >> pelley: tonight, for the first time in more than two weeks, traffic is flowing through cairo's tahrir square. in egypt, businesses are open, university classes are back in session, and a new military government rules with popular support and a promise of coming democracy. egypt is an ancient civilization with a youthful population; nearly two-thirds of them are 30 years old or under. many of them are educated but unemployed and angry. their 18-day revolution began not with terrorism and tanks, but with twitter and texts and satellite tv broadcasts. this week, an aging autocrat who ruled as a modern pharaoh fell victim to those weapons of the young, out-organized and out- maneuvered by social media, by kids with keyboards. in cairo, cbs news correspondent harry smith had a chance to talk with the man who emerged as the symbol of the leaderless rebellion: google executive wael ghonim, who was jailed for his internet organiz

brown talked about it with leslie stahl for sunday night's 60 minutes broadcast here on cbs 5. >> youtually sexually abused more than once? >> yup. fortunately, nothing was ever fully consummated so to speak but it was certainly back then very traumatic. >> the 51-year-old brown says he never reported the abuse even to his mother. >>> the house of representatives begins a third day of debate today on cutting billions of dollars from this year's spending bill. conservatives want to cut arts funding. democrats want to restorm family planning and health -- restore family planning and health research. yesterday the house cancelled $450 million for a costly alternative engine for the pentagon's next generation fighter jets. >>> honda recalling nearly 700,000 vehicles worldwide. that recall affects the fit, freed and city compact cars. at issue, a defective spring part that may cause the engine to stall. so far no accidents have been reported but at least 72 complaints have been filed in japan. about 122,000 cars are being recalled in north america. >>> 5:49. crib injuries in the united sta

the republican lawmaker spoke with "60 minutes" correspondent lesley stahl. >> i heard that not manyhouse came up for sale and you actually thought about buying it. >> i actually called the realtor and went in and took the tour and relived kind of where everything was, and put it -- to make sure i wasn't kind of dreaming, and as i left, i said man, i wish it had been mine i would just buy this thing and bern it down. >> you want to buy it to burn it down? >> yeah. it's a beautiful house. the people who lived there, i'm sure, love it. but you know, if the walls could talk. >> right. well, they talk now. >> yeah. >> and you can see lesley stahl's complete "60 minutes" interview with senator scott brown tomorrow night at 7:00 eastern, 6:00 central here on cbs. >>> it's about six minutes after the hour. time now for a check of the weather with lonnie quinn. hopefully you have some nice things in store for many people around the nation. >> it depends on where you live. >> but some other folks. >> you look out that window right now, looks good outside. i will tell you it's all part of my h

last night on "60 minutes" he told leslie stahl how the book helped reconcile with his parents and hescrutiny. >> this book, don't you think it's going to be twice as much? >> i don't think that. >> but it's awfully intimate. it's like going on "oprah." spilling it all out there. >> it's who i am. i can't hide from what i am. it's what happened. >> well, you didn't have to tell it. >> then it's like half-truths. i like to get it out there. >> senator brown's autobiography is available today. he joins us here in the studio now. he told leslie, you just kind of wanted to get it all out there. why now though? >> it's part of who i am. it's a small part, but there's a whole lot more, and i felt by glossing over the tough parts and just focussing on the really nice parts, it's a disservice to the reader, and it's not who i am. >> it is -- it's tough to read. it's very graphic. you're very descriptive in the abuse that you endured, the sexual abuse and the physical abuse. when it comes to the sexual abuse, your parents didn't really know about it. your wife didn't know the extent of it unti

he discussed his secret with lesley stahl saying he was abused by a camp counselor when he was 10 years fortunately nothing was ever fully consummated, so to speak, but it was certainly back then very traumatic. >> you can see that entire interview this sunday on "60 minutes" at 7:00, 6:00 central on cbs. >>> actor len lesser, best known as uncle leo in "seinfeld" died yesterday. many fans remember uncle leo's signature greeting. >> jerry! >> hello! >> hello, uncle leo. >> lesser had a long career as a character actor in tv and film. len lesser died in burbank, california. he was 88 years old. >>> katie couric has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> good morning. every 70 seconds someone in america develops alzheimer's but now an ambitious new approach could prevent the disease before it takes hold. what is it? we'll explain tonight only on the "cbs evening news." now back to "the early show." >> and at 8:04 we move over to marysol castro for another check of the weather. the warmup continues. >> the warmup continues a little bit of snow for some folks. we can't forget about t