[applause] history showing how unsafe -- hit series showing how -- please welcome thomas frank.plause] >> i know i one of the last ones. i am from "usa today," so i will be brief. [laughter] isn't that a great line? i would like to take credit for it but i heard it for the first time 15 years ago. [laughter] actually, i think newhart trademarked it. as much is i have wanted to use it, it is inexplicable because i from the investigative team so what i should say is get comfortable, faux. -- folks. i one for a five-part series that ran 17,000 words and something not trying to show personally even though that is a lot of words. but to make the point that the paper that a lot of you know is doing some serious, long firm, hard-hitting investigative journalism. i am really grateful to the foundation for recognizing that. i am more grateful and proud to be working with an incredible team of people started with my editor and a really creative group of people who do terrific stuff online, who are the only guys here with really long hair. carter and mitchell and jerry and marine, -- maure

on libya the president was very frank in an interview with thomas frieden of the "new york times" last year that he stood behind the decision to take out colonel gadhafi but insisted he understands that the u.s. and its allies didn't do enough follow-up after gadhafi fell. listen. >> had we not intervened, it's like libya would be syria because gadhafi was not going to be able to contain what had been unleashed there. so there would be more death more destruction, more disruption. but also what is true is that i think we underestimated, our european partners underestimated the need to come in full force if you're going to do this. >> interesting he said we had to avoid libya becoming another syria. tonight it looks like it may already be headed there anyway. tonight vice president joe biden will be speaking at day one of a three-day white house summit on what their calling violent extremism. they've been pressed on why they won't call it muslim extremism. but the bottom line is they were pressed today by reporters white house aides, are you bringing enough urgency to the situation afte

on libya the president was very frank in an interview with thomas frieden of the "new york times" last year that he stood behind the decision to take out colonel gadhafi but insisted he understands that the u.s. and its allies didn't do enough follow-up after gadhafi fell. listen. >> had we not intervened, it's like libya would be syria because gadhafi was not going to be able to contain what had been unleashed there. so there would be more death more destruction, more disruption. but also what is true is that i think we underestimated, our european partners underestimated the need to come in full force if you're going to do this. >> interesting he said we had to avoid libya becoming another syria. tonight it looks like it may already be headed there anyway. tonight vice president joe biden will be speaking at day one of a three-day white house summit on what their calling violent extremism. they've been pressed on why they won't call it muslim extremism. but the bottom line is they were pressed today by reporters white house aides, are you bringing enough urgency to the situation afte

thomas the tank engine and sesame street. i have a feeling this is going to be a hit. frank and michelle? >> i think it will. >> i think you're right. >> all righty. jill wagner of cbsmoneywatch.com. thank you, jill. have a good weekend. >>> one way to solve our big housing problem might involve thinking small. really small. a man in san francisco has been tinkering around with what he calls a houselet. it's a cube made of steel posts and when combined with another, it's about the size of a parking space. 64 square feet. >> it's not so much tiny units. it's more tiny modules which can be put together in different sizes. >> right now this is only a concept. the man behind it is on the -- in the running for a national grant and hopes to build a finished prototype of his design. >>> they are only a half million apiece. >> right. [ laughter ] >> for 64 square feet. >> exactly. >>> 5:40 now. coming up the old bay bridge is coming down piece by piece and in a different way. details on a new strategy now for the demolition. >> let's take a live look out at i-880 in oakland. you can see the traff

moral place that ben frank does of being a-- franklin does of being appalled that he had compromised on the issue of slavery and tries to rectify it. >> host: wise men, co-author evan thomasn 1986. kissinger biography, 1992. benjamin franklin: an american life 03. ion tine is '07. steve jobs, 2011. walter isaacson's recent book is "the innovators: how a group of hackers, geniuses and geeks created the digital revolution." somebody's going to buy one of your books wants to read it, which one do you suggest? >> guest: you know, now a days we talk about ben franklin being the person i relate to the most, if you want to sort of understand the role you can play in your civic life and in pulling people together, you know, when i graduated from college i didn't remember who my graduation speaker was, but there was a minister in the memorial church, and he gave a sermon could what we -- called what we forgot to tell you. we told you that this was an exclusive college, and you got into classes that were very exclusive and probably clubs that were exclusive, but what we forgot to tell you is that life was about inclusion, and you will be judged about how many people you bring toget