all that bad news was not good for sir howard stringer.would be replaced as sony's president and ceo but remain on as chairman. that's our edition of 60 minutes on cnbc. i'm steve kroft. thanks for joining us. [ticking] [ticking] >> well, six months of this would be a step in the right direction. >> well, a step in the right direction-- >> not another week of runaround. >> the average for each of the claims that you paid out is $5,000. >> no more bp. blame me. don't blame bp anymore. >> ken feinberg is the go-to guy for thankless jobs, america's arbiter of human suffering. >> why don't you open up the purse strings? >> his assignment deciding who should be paid for damages from the gulf oil spill, was one of his toughest yet. they really go after you. >> they do, but it goes with the territory. >> it may be the greatest rescue operation since noah's ark.

i got a job as a stringer where i was paid for 15 cents that they published.not every word that i wrote. no support, no expenses paid nothing at all in ways of insurance. >> jon: would you write things like "it is very, very, very, very, very hot here." >> i would try to write long stories. >> jon: the congo is to me one of most interesting and tragic countries in africa because of its vast mineral wealth. it's an incredibly resource-filled land that somehow the population cannot reap the benefits of this mineral wealth. >> in the middle of the book i describe this journey i make up the river to an indian businessman's mind. and it was stunning to see to what extent the congolese government was not able to control or did not have authority over the area. even more surprisingly what you found was not people who had been abandoned. i found a pigmy tribe that had given away forest for bags of salt toll international logging companies. i saw mass graves left by foreign armies. people asked me not for food or money but metal detectors. there's an incredible -- a se

the other factor here is that stringer pretty much expected a coronation. he had absolutely no opposition. spitzer got in right at the filing deadline. spitzer seemed to think he could take advantage of stringer's lack of preparation. but across the spectrum am a there was a raid against spitzer. it is pretty rare you have the entire liber movement that very much like scott stringer and wall street and the business committed to, which could not stand spitzer, thanks to his presenting activism as attorney general, there were all in the same side and on top of that, newspaper endorsements all went to stringer. in a way, spitzer sort of perhaps wound up biting off more than he could chew. if we could flip back to the contrition versus combatant notion. weiner definitely tried to present himself as having atoned, definitely being contrite and having gotten past the sexting scandal that forced him to resign from congress to begin with. you sort of made it seem like it was in his past. he did this very glowing interview with his wife that appeared in "the new yor

so four points short of stringer. >> will come back to context if we need to want not. but talk a little bit about sandford. context crucially important to the success. heavily republican district in south carolina. importantly district where business conservatives really dominate, a very well educated district. it was a perfect fit. i think, ideologically for mark sanford. in addition he had represented that area in congress. most of that area had been redrawn and he exceeded expectations in the part of the district where he represented e4. he performed poorly in most parts of the district which has not been part of the original congressional district. in addition, one thing especially the environment with his anti-washington or antigovernment sentiment, the fact you combat this candle can really present you with an outsider. stanford did a particularly good job of playing up on that. he was all contrite all the time from his introduction in a television ad his media rollout was ongoing can or should. there were subtle allusions and also a real emphasis on the normaliz

. >> we take the strands and send them through the stringer that gives the chickenless strips. >> howg, baby? >> you're doing good. >> we put in fluids, spices and flavorings. we take it to the groil give it balance -- grill to give it presentation. >> production takes weeks. to produce just one pound of chicken it takes about 468 gallons of water, 2 pounds of grain or feed, and eight times the amount of fossil fuels that is used to grow plants. it's one thing to say your product looks and tastes the most like chicken. but it's another to put it to the test in an authentic texas barbecue. get ready for a throw-down! freedom, you ready to smoke up some chicken? >> absolutely, let's do it. >> let's go. this is what's going to be compared to the real chicken? >> compared to this, yes. >> what do you think you can do with it? >> the only thing i would do with it is go for a pulled chicken add a little bit of chipotle bash coo sauce. >> so mike, if you would stherve do you think your average customer would tell difference? >> my average customer, they are very knowledgeable on food. >> can

vivian stringer rc news at the central criminal court the former president of the european central bank job coaching shea has denied ever saying iranians and ken and tina was a mistake. appearing before european parliament's committee investigation of the troika process. mr tree said that the government was once given the situation the time the decision was taken by your government will there be a kind soul and are only so to say we don't i tell that we are behind at the time we have decoded the teal title was not looking to question my hse then he could get that it was much more difficult but finally that the message for the simple down to dublin with the same as the basic form supplement to the gym to germany to france and that we will. at the eagle to produce seeing the ugly you really know what happens after we had human. so up i stop stop chileans with essential to me and aaron anything new at this commission hearing today though charlie didn't sound to hear of this typically shambolic dad from committee of operation even by european parliament's standards and for my report to you

and scott stringer, his commitment to look at his -- using his powers to analyze how we do spend that $1 billion better, and then certainly, the mayor both when he was a city council member, and then as a public advocate, has a long commitment to working on homelessness. he issue add report when he was candidate, so we have a track record, we have the public commit innocent today, i think it is a cause for optimism, and i think new york is in a good place today. >> you think this is eminently fixable? why? i think the problem is not intractable. i think there are steps we need to be taking. i don't think everything is fixable in the first day or even the first 100. i think very some shorter term solutions that we as my coe lotion and also other co will legislations that or on homelessness. believe that the mayor can be taking steps to alleviate this problem. >> let me stop you there, and ask you, so i am the governor, and you are the new mayor. of the great city of new york. day bun, what are your recommendations. >> well, the great news for the governor is they have a relationship, a

. ♪ >>> joining us now is award-winning journalist ajnah, author of "stringer" a reporter's journey in crumbled, that they seem to melt. we surrounded a monument black, as though burned. two pillars framing an empty space, lining the roads, heaps of garbage glowing like embers and giving off black smoke. talk to us about the crisis that you witnessed, and why you wanted to go to the congo in the first place to be a stringer, which is basically a freelance journalist. >> sure. thank you for having me. the reason i went to the congo was out of instinct really. it was the same instinct that sends -- takes war correspondents, foreign correspondents to foreign places, like the congo, where people are getting out of. there was a huge war in congo, 5 million people have died, and only a few journalists were there, three. when i was arrived, ways the fourth, i was 22. it's important to realize that congo was not always a held. it was quite prosperous when it was a colonial state. and over the last 40 years, it's been progressively destroyed to what i found when i arrived in the passage thank y

. >> i congratulate public advocate james and comptroller stringer. i thank all of the people who are here. i'm not sure we introduced one of our guests, but i want to say i'm grateful that the governor and first lady of puerto rico us what's special about new ds york. i was so honored when mayor deblasio asked me to preside over the ceremonial swearing in. as the 109th mayor of new york, he has a job that is older than our republic itself. in a city that is most famous for its commitment to remain forever young. it is no accident that somebody somewhere along the line decided that cold or not, a new beginning should always be made in the new year. it's been a great joy for hillary and me to see the mayor's progress because he worked in my administration with governor cuomo and senator gillibrand and hud, because he managed hillary's first remarkable campaign for the u.s. senate, because he has served with such passion, and because he represents with his family the future of our city and the future of our country. i got a big kick out of watching new

scott stringer, the comptroller and his family, the two little kids, the wife and i think one of theent rogue there for a moment. it goes to show you try to stage these things, you plan these things as best you can. you never really know what's going to happen, huh? adorable. just an adorable adorable moment there. >> so cute. >> john, let's talk be a little politics here. it's not surprising we've got a lot of high powered people there including the clintons. we know deblasio worked with both of them under bill clinton at the housing and urban development administration and, of course, he managed hillary clinton's senate campaign. do you think we're going to see a clinton influence, see or feel it under this administration, a deblasio administration? >> what's fascinating about this dynamic is the fact that while he is having bill clinton swear him in to give that authority, bill deblasio represents in the current democratic party national debate is actually to some extent a repusiation of clintonism. bill clinton was recentering the democratic party and leading them back to power.

so in this country you may be best known for playing stringer bell in "the wire," a bad guy, althoughne with some complexities to his role. which is more fun to play as an actor, a hero or an anti-hero? >> i think most fun to play is the anti-hero because, you know, it's really more interesting to layer someone who's an anti-hero with personality traits that are likable. and interesting sort of split there, and that's what i enjoy doing the most. but then of course the hero's harder to play because it's sometimes to hard to play because, you know, not everybody can recognize a hero. some heroes are just, you know, sort of thankless. you never even see them. so, you know, i don't mind playing either if i'm honest. >> last question for you, sir. there is a movement online and abroad and i have to admit here in my studio among my crew to have you play the next james bond. now, i know you've been asked about this before and you said there's no truth to you having been asked, but you would take it if asked. right? >> i mean, it would be such an honor. you know, what do we have to do here?

a group founded by an atheist in 2005 and they adopted a spaghetti stringer as their symbol. >> a colandernt about religious freedom. >> okay, stylish. >> i wouldn't be making spaghetti using that any time soon. >> exactly. >> next up, a person in canada, huge star trek fan, a bit of a nerd in me coming out here. star trek fans spends $30,000 building a complete replica of starship enterprise in their basement. lee randville did this. basements are known for having make-out couches, right? so maybe this is the make-out in the star ship enterprise. >> with doors. no offense to all you trekkies out there. that is cool, though. >> a lot of work. >> maybe she will get some kind of romantic proposal while down there. >> you never know. >> a new study came out, not even a study, a survey. so very unscientific. done in the uk. 15% of women would want to be proposed over using technology. >> really? >> yeah. >> facebook. >> facebook, text message, e-mail. they think that is romantic. i guess it's been done before. a few celebrities have done the whole internet propose yl thial. i don't get it. >>

, not very prominent, and the other factor here is that stringer bring much expect a coronation. he had no opposition. spencer got in right at the filing deadline and spitzer seem to think he could take advantage of stringer's lack of preparation. but getting back into the context of this race, pretty much the entire city establishment across a remarkable spectrum was arrayed against spitzer. it's pretty rare that you have the entire labor movement which very much like skouching and the wall street and business committee which couldn't stand specter, thanks to his crusading activist as attorney general, they were all o on the same sid, and a public that, newspaper endorsements all went to stringer. and so anyway, spitzer sort of perhaps round of biting off more than he could chew. maybe we could flip back to the contrition versus competitiveness notion. for weiner, definitely tried to present himself as having a toned, definitely being contrite, and having gotten past the 16th scandal that forced him to resign from congress to begin with. he made it seem as all his past but he di