this is general zachary taylor. we have a poster from the 1848 campaign with taylor and the immortal millard fillmore. we'll talk more about him later. so taylor manages, the whigs under taylor manage to win, to defeat the democrat party candidate. the democrats hurt very badly by internal divisions especially within new york state, serious battle within new york state. had new york gone a different direction, the democratic nomine might have been directed instead of zachary taylor, the whig nominee. serious internal divisions within the democratic party in new york. i may have talked about this before. a lot of factionalism among the democrats in new york. factionalism. different elements. the so-called hunker group and so-called barn burner group. we won't get into that. but suffice to say, the whigs, again, end up with a successful candidate with electing a president in the form of zachary taylor, but ironically again, someone who's not really a committed whig. someone who is less than a diehard whig, you know, i

taylor. let's continue to listen to the presiding judge. we do seem to have lost that picture for the moment. as i said, this is the judgment day for the former liberian leader, charles taylor. the presiding judge is giving his verdict of 11 charges of crimes against humanity and war crimes. i think we can go over to the hague now and our correspondent, peter. peter, can you summarize what we have heard so far? it has been incredibly complex and complicated. >> the presiding judge, judge richard lussick, has not used the word guilty, but he said they have found him criminally responsible. this goes to the heart of the prosecution case against charles taylor. the prosecution has been trying to show that charles taylor had command responsibility for the ruf activities in sierra leone. he said they failed to prove, and responsibility, and that charles taylor's influence fell short of command and control. they have found him criminally irresponsible for aiding and abetting the ruf rebels. >> i'm

taylor will be sentenced next month. from the hague, our special correspondent starts our coverage. >> the special court for sierra leone is sitting in an open session in the case of the prosecution of charles taylor. >> it has been a landmark day in the international justice. charles taylor came to court knowing that he might go to prison for the rest of his life. he was the president of liberia. prosecutors charged him with waging war in neighboring sierra leone. no one disputes that rebel forces committed terrible atrocities there. the charges include murder, rape, adoption, slavery, and the recruitment of child soldiers. civilian populations were terrorized. many have their limbs hacked off by machete or axe. the question before the court was did charles taylor order those crimes. >> there is insufficient evidence to find beyond a reasonable doubt -- >> he was cleared of directly ordering the atrocities. the judges asked him to stand here that he was guilty of aiding and abetting of 11 crimes in the indictment. >> we

taylor will be sentenced next month. from the hague, our special correspondent starts our coverage. >> the special court for sierra leone is sitting -- or the hague is sitting in -- the special court for sierra leone is meeting. >> charles taylor was the president of liberia. he is charged with waging war in neighboring sierra leone. no one disputes that rebel forces committed terrible atrocities there. the charges include murder, rape, slavery, and the recruitment of child soldiers. many had their limbs hacked off by machetes or axes. question before the court was did charles taylor order those crimes -- the question before the court was, did charles taylor order those crimes? >> the judges say he is guilty of 80 -- guilty of aiding and abetting the crimes. the charges unanimously find you guilty of aiding and abetting. he supplied -- he was applied with diamonds from the mines. he gave the rebels arms and ammunitions, in the full knowledge they would commit crimes. in 2010, the super model naomi campbell said taylor ha

charles taylor was finally arrested on the run in 2006.ormerly one of west africa's most powerful men, he was taken away in handcuffs. his trial began a year later. >> this is a significant event for international criminal law here for the first time, we are seeing a trial against an african head of state, or, for that matter, any head of state that has been completed. it was not a given. heads of state enjoy diplomatic immunity, but that immunity was broken. so we see that even a head of state cannot be held accountable under international criminal law. >> so far, that has applied in particular to african heads of state. sudan's president has been indicted for war crimes by the international criminal court, as has libya's. while many welcome it, others feel the system is unbalanced. than the africans have regally complained that the icc is to trade on africa and that the court has not indicted anyone from anywhere else in the world. it strikes many as a form of neocolonialism, as if europeans are using alternate means to recover their los

taylor beneath the -- miss taylor mcgee for patients coming before the rules committee. i have seen many applicants come and go. i do think this is one of the most impressive applications that we have seen before the rules committee. i offer my congratulations to mayor lee for making an excellent appointment. i am truly honored to make a motion to move this forward as a positive recommendation. and i look forward to working with ms. taylor mcgee. >> thank you. >> i'm happy to second that motion. >> thank you. i want to thank ms. taylor mcgee for your willingness to work on this commission. for me, coming to realize my work and representing the tenderloin and the market in treasure island, help is an important public issue to our constituents. and i have a lot to learn. i really want to work with the help commission, and i think it's great that the mayor has appointed someone with your level of expertise and in working with the communities directly in san francisco. we really do need the level of expertise that you have. as well as our international experience. i'm happy

charles taylor might appeal. he has nothing much to lose. otherwise, his journey from presidential palace to prison cell is nearly over. alan little, bbc news, the hague. >> ban ki-moon has said he is greatly alarmed at the continued killing in syria. he has urged the government to withdraw heavy weapons from populated areas. he spoke after a big explosion which 70 people were killed. the facility was being used as a bomb making a tackle -- factory. >> we condemn what remains of the government's refusal to abide by its commitments, its continued intense use of heavy weaponry which continues to result in large numbers of civilian deaths every day. this is precisely what we have been concerned about. it is further indication that the government is ready to make commitments and then break them just as swiftly. it certainly casts further doubt where there was already a great deal on the core elements of the kofi annan plan. >> we spoke to richard murphy, a former ambassador to syria and saudi arabia. thank you for speaking to us. just the fact t

boom that was -- it was the result of taylor's success in the mexican war. >> and taylor and clay in the same party. >> yes, they were both whigs. >> this is the '48 election. >> and taylor is a whig primarily not because he believes what the whigs do, most apolitical, he's a whig because he hates james polk who wasn't running. polk had tried to ruin taylor's career, reputation, because he saw him as a political rival. and polk becomes a whig by default as a reflex -- >> you mean taylor. >> taylor becomes a whig as a reflex. >> he's buried in louisville? and clay is in lexington. >> it's a strange thing. at the time he was living in louisiana. >> yeah. >> he was a louisiana citizen. when he came back in he wanted to be president as a vindication, taylor did. clay didn't quite understand. in fact, in november of '47 taylor virtually foreswore and said if clay wants this, i'll step aside. that wasn't true. as time wore on, that became less true. and crittenden found himself pretty -- between a rock and a hard place on this because he had thrown in with taylor and taylor's compatriots a

did charles taylor order those crimes? >> there is insufficient evidence to find beyond a reasonable doubt -- >> he was cleared of directly ordering the atrocities but if the he is still accused of aiding and abetting the crimes listed. >> you are found guilty for the 80 and abetting. >> the judge said that he sold the diamonds from the mines, in return he gave weapons and the full knowledge it would be used for crimes against civilians. he is the sitting head of state when he was indicted. the defense argued that he should be immune. the prosecutors rejected that. >> it is a very important case for the people of sierra leone and so that they can have some measure of justice. it is an important day for the victims to have some justice for their suffering. >> one of those victims was in court. rebels chopped his arm off with an ax. he said the judgment will deter future atrocities and help to secure a lasting peace. >> this shall never happen again in sierra leone. >> britain has been intimately involved. british troops int

tyshawn taylor.nd now a chance to tie it, again. >> steve: kansas has really taken over the rebound situation in this second half, as well, just like they did against carolina last week. the tar heels are the best rebounding team in the country, coming into that game, and kansas took it to them and they are doing the same to ohio state right now. >> clark: it's been about the energy here in the second half by kansas on the glass and defensively. ohio state has shown in the tournament the ability to execute late and make big plays and they typically try to play through sullinger here. good reestablishment of the post position. >> jim: a little hook shot, no. and tapped out to eliason johnson. robinson, blocked by sullinger. >> clark: excellent defense by jared sullinger, he broke contact just enough to free himself to block the shot. >> jim: and thomas, again kansas has a trip to take the lead. inside of 3 minutes. over to releford and he's fouled, heading to the line. that is on sullinger, his third.

tyshawn taylor.nd now a chance to tie it, again. >> steve: kansas has really taken over the rebound situation in this second half, as well, just like they did against carolina last week. the tar heels are the best rebounding team in the country, coming into that game, and kansas took it to them and they are doing the same to ohio state right now. >> clark: it's been about the energy here in the second half by kansas on the glass and defensively. ohio state has shown in the tournament the ability to execute late and make big plays and they typically try to play through sullinger here. good reestablishment of the post position. >> jim: a little hook shot, no. and tapped out to eliason johnson. robinson, blocked by sullinger. >> clark: excellent defense by jared sullinger, he broke contact just enough to free himself to block the shot. >> jim: and thomas, again kansas has a trip to take the lead. inside of 3 minutes. over to releford and he's fouled, heading to the line. that is on sullinger, his third.

that's what i thought it was. >> drugs weren't taylor's only problem.mer gangster disciple member. inside pendleton he serves his time in one of america's most innovative and riskiest programs, the gang unit. >> on the streets we was taught to smash somebody on sight, beat them up as soon as we see them and take what they got. we was taught to hate them. see most people want things they ain't never had before. and they believe money can get you anything. it ain't about bringing you happiness. it's about you want to be on the higher level than the average person. you want to be somebody that you are not made to be. >> education is the key, it's getting your ged, going to trade school or going to college. i mean, the biggest factor that will tell whether or not you come back to prison or not is education. >> program director eric courtney oversees the program that puts rival gang members side by side. >> what kind of things do you want to teach your daughter that maybe your father wasn't around to teach you? what kind of things different do you want to do

both taylor and scott were whigs. polk seemed to be muttering he was making heroes out of two whigs that had run for president. polk didn't run for re-election. he didn't run against taylor but was a kind of uncomfortable carriage ride to taylor's inauguration. taylor said something to the effect to polk that maybe it is good that california and oregon are territories. he doubted they would become state, because they are so far away. that irked polk and called taylor a well-meaning old man. he thought that taylor lacked vision for the continental united states. sure enough, california would become a state thanks to the gold rush in 1850 a year after he died. >> was there speculation as to why he chose not to run? >> when he was nominated in 1844, it was a strange situation that he wasn't even running. the main democratic candidate leading up to the convention was mark van buren who had lost running for election from 1840 but was trying to regain the presidency again. he seemed to be main democratic candidate. shortly

charles taylor sitting there. the hearings have started. listen. >> the written judgment will be made available subsequently. by way of introduction, charles taylor was elected president of liberia in 1997 in august. june 4, 2003, his indictment by the special court and a warrant of arrest whereunsealed. august 11, 2003, he stepped down from the presidency and went into exile in nigeria. in 2003, the accused applied to the special court to crush his indictment and set aside a warrant of arrest on the grounds that he was immune from any exercise of the jurisdiction of this court by virtue of the fact that at the time the indictment and warrant of arrest were issued, he was a sitting head of state. his application was denied by the trial chamber and the decision was upheld by the appeals chamber on may 31, 2004 on the grounds that the sovereign equality of status not prevent a head of state from being pprosecuted before an international tribunal. the appeals court held that the official position of charles taylor as an incumbent head of state

now, i will say this, taylor parachuted in. he's not someone who sud identification the war for 20, 30, and 40 years, so there are some mistakes in the book. but of all those scholars who parachuted in and wrote a book on the war of 1812, his is by far the best book. i think there are some more critical of it than i am, but i think it's a very fine book. if i had to name one of the best books in the last 10, 12 years on the war, i would say his is one of the best worth reading. bruce? >> i have a comment on the hartford convention and the dissolution that came from inside the country. is this part of the demonizing of the federalists after the war, or was there a real risk that new england by voluntarily disassociating, joined the maritimes? >> during the war of 1812, there was talk of secession in new england. but no serious secessionist movement. and those who were chosen to attend the hartford convention at the end of the war were virtually all moderates. they adopted a moderate report so that in the end what the new england

"bbc world news," freetown. >> an environment that had been under taylor -- under terror by charles taylor. now, being president of the united states is a job like no other. perhaps the only other people that understand the immense pressures are the only people that understand. it is explored in a new book, "the president's club." the author many outside the white house to discuss this unique fraternity. >> president kennedy and former president eisenhower. >> presidents are bound together by having simply done the job. in history, the highest number living at the same time have ever been five. they are bound together, they have done the most difficult job and they come out with scars. >> you have covered lots of stories about presidents and former presidents. which relationship is the one that most surprised you? >> richard nixon becoming a light -- late night telephone body of bill clinton, something that no one ever would have believed. they bonded over foreign policy and how to organize, that was surprising to me. the second one that most people would not get, here is bill clinton, hav

more than 700 people survived, including a man -- a man named albert taylor, an early pioneer of the paper cup and the milk carton. his story lives on in harford county. >> the name, of course, the titanic. >> there is a piece of titanic history tucked away in aberdeen, md.. a journal, a firsthand account of titanic survival edward. now in the hands of his great cousin. >> at that time, this was the latest and greatest in early 20th century technology. he was able to interpret it all in preserved at all for what it was. >> mr. taylor was an inventor and engineer, a first-class passenger along with wife julia business partner f. fletcher lambert williams. >> he estimated the ship was going 27 miles -- 27 knots just based on the rotations of the propellers that he could hear. >> of the night of the 15th, taborites "an impact woke me up there "he went on date -- he went on deck. >> i walked over and saw nothing peculiar except crushed ice under my feet. i went to my cabin and told my wife we struck an iceberg and went to williams' cabin. these -- i told him we struck an iceberg. >> clea

captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: former liberian leader charles taylor was found guilty today of war crimes. among them: arming rebels who committed atrocities in sierra leone. good evening, i'm jeffrey brown. >> woodruff: and i'm judy woodruff. on the "newshour" tonight: we get the latest on the verdict-- the first time an international court has convicted a head of state since the nuremberg trials after world war ii. >> brown: then, ray suarez updates the phone-hacking story in britain, as newspaper mogul rupert murdoch admits one of his tabloids was involved in a coverup. >> woodruff: margaret warner examines the widening political scandal in china, amid new allegations that a former party official ordered wiretaps of the country's president. >> brown: and we close with two science stories: paul solman raises disturbing questions about a future full of high tech advances. >> there are 60,000 pacemakers in the united states that connect to the internet. it's great when you're suffering from an arrhythmia and your doctor can remotely shock you, but what hap

. >>> taylor swift does it again. >> country entertainer of the year goes to taylor swift, everybody! >> if you win the top honor at the cma awards again, can we go ahead and plug her the new queen of country? >>> we start this morning in kentucky. police are bracing for more violence. understandable after what happened this weekend after the university of kentucky beat louisville. yes, it took the fun right out of march madness. just a few hours from now, police in lexington, kentucky, will discuss how they will try to prevent a replay of this if kentucky wins or loses tonight. rowdy kentucky fans poured into the streets of lexington and torched couches and trash and cars. more than 50 fires and 20 some arrests. somehow no one was seriously hurt. kentucky fans went berserk after their team advanced to the ncaa finals by beating instate rival louisville. tonight, kentucky squares off against kansas. win or lose, both towns are bracing for the tlethreat of violence. >>> carlos diaz is in new orleans tonight and how the police are preparing for the aftermath there and also in lexington.

they got children to do it and charles taylor. he wasn't there, and no, he wasn't in command, but what he did was he pushed all of this. charles taylor and the leader of the revolutionary united front that did all of the hand chopping in sierra leone were trained together by moammar gadhafi. >> moammar gadhafi in libya. >> and charles taylor was his man and that's where charles taylor got involved in all of this and they were using the diamonds to enrich themselves, to buy more arms and our buddy victor boot figures into this. >> with the blood diamonds i remember when supermodel naomi campbell was part of the trial. taylor was arming these rebels to get the blood diamonds. >> they wanted the power and they wanted the political power and wanted to run west africa and blood diamonds was the fruit of their labor and that was to make them all rich and that was their dream to have power and money. as the prosecutor said in this case, it was avorous and that's what drove them to horrible crimes. >> you went to prisons. what did you ask

there is a block from taylor to jones street, which would region it goes in and out just a bit. that does not quite show it. and i will show the other one. and again, it stays in a dedicated travel way and eliminates the conflict that often occurs now where bicycles go over the rail tracks and there are a lot of slick and falls as wheels get caught in it. it removes the hazard and create a freer moving zone. and to dump this is a wonderful project. it looks like a lot of thought has gone into this, but as far as the funding, i thought i saw there are 900,000 available, but this will take 27 million? take a right now there is a $5 million limit. let's do with materials and finishing work. it is anticipated to come from the city general funds. we're not here to ask the port for money. [laughter] >> that is on the record. thank you. >> i am going to challenge you on the son of the north side of san francisco. there is very little son in san francisco. -- very little sun. >> in terms of accommodating the businesses that are along they're unloading and loading, have we put plans? >>

taylor parachuted in. he is not someone who studied the war. of all the scholars who wrote a book on the war, his and my view is undoubtedly the lest. they are more critical than i am. if i had to name one of the best published, i would include his as one of the best. worth reading. bruce? we have threats of dissolution. was this after the war that new england might disassociate and join the maritimes? >> during the war of 1812, there was talk of is you session, but no serious is you sessionist movement. those who were chosen to attend the hardford convention were virtually all moderates and they adopted a report and in the end what the new england federalists reported was a serious of amendments to protect the union in the future and a series of steps that would enable them to better finance the local defense measures. they did call for the nullification of the federal laws and that never became law. a minor enlistment that did become law. both massachusetts and connecticut nullified that law, but connecticut did it at the tail end and massach

taylor's rule. >> a decade of war reduced sierra leone to the poverty it has not yet escaped. in the heart of free town, children scavenge in a rubbish dump for bits of plastic they might sell for pennies. this patch of land is still known as amputee camp, though the camp itself is long gone. in the 1990's it was home to a tent settlement of men, women and children who had their limbs severed by machete or ax. this was the signature atrocity of the rebel army known as revolutionary united front or i.u.f. >> chopped off my foot with an ax. not one blow. about five, six times. >> he said he had heard charles taylor on the radio threatening to make sierra leone taste the bitterness of war. >> this is my conviction that everything was his doing. >> charles tail -- taylor was president of the neighboring state of liberia. he's been on trial for the last four years accused of arming, funding and directing the i.u.f. he's charged with terrorizing civilians, sexual violence, abductions and use of child soldiers. a three-hour delimb from free town, the memory of war is raw. rebels swep

while taylor lost a lot on the beaches of normandy, he also found something here in france that changedis life more than any war. >> it is difficult not to rub in. >> as the war was rubbing in, taylor met odele. they fell in love, got married, and he brought her home to america. >> the best thing i have ever done. >> almost seven decades later, taylor wished to renew those vows in the place that brought them together. a trip they could never afford. until brook dale senior living and jeremy bloom stepped in. an olympic skier who also plays in the nfl. the man with an incredible talent for living out his own dreams is now in the business of granting others. >> just because you're in your 80s, 90s, or 100s does not mean you have to stop dreaming. >> he started wish of a lifetime to honor his own grandmother who inspired him growing up. >> i don't legal like a hero. i feel like he's more of my hero. >> blum is now hero to hundreds. his wish of a lifetime made 400 dreams come threw from basic needs to bucket lists. >> to create awareness and a movement that says these people are national tr

the toughest inmate here might just be james "t-bone" taylor.r murdering two police officers in 1981. >> i had a cop killing case. it made me feel like i was big man on campus, because i was getting respect. but it was only out of fear. it wasn't because they respected me because of who i was. >> he was involved in gang related activity on both sides of the wall since he was a teenager in east st. louis. he earned his nickname t-bone while serving time at another prison. >> because the incident happened at ft. madison in the '70s, it ç was hard to get a knife. so i made a knife out of bone, out of a t-bone steak. we used to get steak back in the day. i sharpened it down and i was going to stab the guy with it. before i could stab the guy with it, they had busted me with it. they saw it in my hand. they took it. the name stuck. the guys in the penitentiary called me t-bone. >> but it was taylor's desire to rise to the top of the gang hierarchy on the outside what led him to conduct the cold-blooded murders. for which he will spend the rest of his

our host is john taylor of stanford university.ook, don. >> so do i. it's appropriate right now because we have a big debate about policy in this election. it lays out the advantages, quite frankly, of the more marketed oriented things in a good way. you know, this whole show, it seems to me, a great potential is the american economy. you've got the sale of patents, ipos. in the meantime, all of the uncertainty at the top is really holding things back. fix that at the top. >> but it's not going to be settled this november. this is going to be -- we're going to have this battle -- this is going to be decades. >> no, i don't think it -- remember, in the '70s, things were terrible. we made some adjustments and '80s and '90s were good. i believe people can recognize that people can do much better faster. >> uncertainty is the issue? >> predick ta built and interventions. they are doing a lot of interventions whether it's the dodd-frank bill and whether it's health care. >> interventions are bad? >> not every one but too many is bad. >>

. >> christine taylor serving 123 years for aggravated robbery and kidnapping. >> the crime anniversarys february 14, 2006. happened on valentine's day. >> the victim was a close female friend. one that taylor alleges stole items from her. >> i took measures into my own hands what, we call a citizen's arrest. we tied her up. i had two accomplices. they only caught one. >> you tied her up. what do you mean? >> with 50-foot extension cord. she wasn't really being cooperative in telling me where my things were and i felt it was the best way to get her to tell me to kind of scare her if i bound her. this probably proceeded for the next eight hours of the day. >> during those eight hours taylor committed a series of atrocities. >> i burned her on her face. i burned her on her sides. with a ç.12-gauge shotgun, i h pistol whipped her in her hip, which took a chuck about a quarter size out of her hip. she was disfigured i guess you could say. her face couldn't really look at her and see it was her. said filthy mean things to her that i knew would hurt her and get under her skin. i cried a lot

taylor didn't play much.n asked recently about taylor, coach john harbaugh said he believes in tirod's ability. >> absolutely. but everybody competes for every spot, every year, every practice. and tirod is no different. but we like him a lot. >> flacco has started every ravens game since he was drafted five years ago. tirod taylor appeared in just three games last season. he completed the one pass that he threw. >>> to the baseball birds. good season for the orioles. they sit in first place. they'll continue a long road trip with another game against the white sox in chicago tonight. and tommy hunter is the o's starting pitcher. o's pitching looking good. ranked among the best in the league so far. and a big reason for their record. o's hitters are going to face white sox right-hander. nick markakis is the designated hitter. tonight, first pitch, 8:10p.m. >>> nolan reimold continues -- hopes to continue his hot streak. he came into the season as a question mark as a regular in the lineup. he's answering anot