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i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we meet two silicon valley billionaires a generation apart who revolutionized the world of computing and the internet. facebook ceo mark zuckerberg and paul allen, microsoft's cofounder. we begin with mark zuckerberg and facebook. if you have a facebook account, you've probably reconnected with an old pal, shared photos with your family, and gotten advice from your friends on what to buy and what to read. but facebook has bigger plans. it wants to turn the entire web into one big social network. lesley stahl first talked with mark zuckerberg in 2008, and three years later, we sat down with mark again. he gave us a preview of his site's new profile page, a change that would affect the 500 million people who were then using facebook, an idea that zuckerberg had cooked up in his dorm room at harvard. >> when you first thought about this--19 years old--is this what you had in mind? did you see this far into the future, or is it way beyond what you dreamed? >> well, it's f

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i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we look at the world of big deals on wall street and in las vegas and examine the impact of high-speed computers in both places. we begin with perhaps the most famous investor of them all, warren buffett. his fame extends far beyond wall street, his oldest son, howard, not so much. and yet he's the person warren buffett wants to succeed him as chairman of berkshire hathaway, the mega holding company that buffett built. for most of his adult life, howard has been a corn and soybean farmer in nebraska and illinois. and as lesley stahl first reported in december of 2011, howard doesn't live the high life, and he loves getting down in the dirt. >> this is the man who'll become the next chairman of the company-acquiring, investment-picking, moneymaking machine berkshire hathaway if warren buffett has his way. howard is a farmer who would rather dig up the ground and drive big machines than sit in a boardroom. were you stunned? were you surprised? >> i was surprised. >> but

i'm steve kroft. in this edition, we talk with julian assange, the mysterious and eccentric founder of wikileaks, whose website made public thousands of u.s. secrets. and we examine the secret danger behind a type of dust that's killing american factory workers. we begin with wikileaks, a website that publishes classified and suppressed material from whistle-blowers around the world. in the late summer of 2011, wikileaks made news when someone--it's not clear who-- dumped 250,000 unredacted and classified state department and pentagon documents, which had been in wikileaks' possession, onto the internet. when we interviewed assange, he was already under investigation by the justice department for publishing classified material and possible violations of the espionage act. he was also under house arrest in britain, fighting extradition to sweden in connection with two sexual assault cases, which he has called part of a smear campaign against him. in what is still his most extensive television interview

steve kroft and "60 minutes" did an exposÉ of him. >> i mean, this doesn't look good.when you push this bill through that produces a windfall for the drug companies, and then a short time later you go to work for the drug lobby at a salary of $2 million. >> there's nothing i could have done in my life after leaving congress that i didn't have some impact on after 25 years in congress. if that looks bad to you, have at it. that's the truth. >> in fairness to billy tauzin and former medicare chief tom scully, they weren't the only public officials involved with the prescription drug bill who later went to work for the pharmaceutical industry. just before the vote, tauzin cited the people who had been most helpful in getting in passed. >> i specifically want to thank the staffs of our committees from ways and means. john mcmannus, who did such a great job. >> within a few months mcmanus left congress and started his own lobbying firm. among his new clients were phrma, pfizer, lilly and merck. >> from a majority side of the finance committee, linda fishman. >> fishman left

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when it came out, president obama was like a 10 or 20-second fight in a steve kroft interview on a television screen, and that's it. in other words, i think the concerns had an impact. might nay have an impact on the way hillary clinton is treated by cnn and nbc? >> they might. one thing about cnn, that's being directed by charles ferguson, who did "inside job" is kind of hostile to the corporate democrat position that hillary clinton represents. so there is no evidence that either of these projects is biassed in her favor. but, you know, reince priebus, he also, i just want to say as a woman, i thought that the way he treated mika this morning was really kind of disturbing, telling her personally i would never let you personally moderate a debate, mika, coming on to a show where she is the co-host and really putting her down like that and challenging her objectivity. i think he is doing something that is kind of mean and that has the potential to backfire, especially when he makes it personal like that. it was something off about it. >> appreciate both of your being here. michael steele, joa

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