she called up to his office and said whitaker chambers is here. there was a pause on the other side, get that son of a bitch out of here. apparently surf and an intern who worked for him who had never said anything before. he helps with his files and so on and he stood up and said mr. search, you are making a mistake. whitaker chambers is an eminent man, he has a very powerful story to tell and he has written a book that needs to be published. and he saw him and random house did publish him. we bought the paperback rights ten years later and subsequently published it. to start with, when whitaker chambers was -- when he published "witness" there really was no conservative movement. there were a few people that spoke about anti communism and a few people who spoke about free-market economics and a few people who spoke about traditional values but they were not a movement and they didn't know each other. there was no support that there is now. when "witness" was published it caused a sensation, but it wasn't because it was a conservative versus libe

this is pretty much how whitaker chambers felt. he became a communist because he had come to leave that the americans are shaped by its exclusively commercial habits, capitalism, in other words, had reached the end of its tether and that communism was the only alternative with the vision and the power to save whatever might be worth salvaging the out of the dying civilization. yet, when he finally discovered that the evils of communism were infinitely greater than those he attributed to capitalism, he did not thereby come to the conclusion that he had been wrong about america. america, under capitalism, remained calm in his ideas, a society dying of its own soulless this, which is why he could say that in breaking with communism he was leaving the winning side of the losing side, but why he could not say that he was leaving this side of evil for the side of good. this is also why would is surely among the greatest books ever written about communism is, i am afraid of little help as a guide to what conservatism can or should be with

whitaker chambers. whitaker chambers was a soviet spy who became in bill buckley's words, the most important american defector from communism. and its treasonous adherents, continued in august of 1948 when he identified alger hiss, a golden boy of the liberal establishment as a fellow member of his underground communist cell in the 1930s. this was a former assistant of the secretary of state and adviser to of franklin d. roosevelt, acting secretary-general of united nations' founding conference in san francisco and recently named president of the carnegie endowment for national peace. he emphatically denied chambers's allegation. a great deal more than the reputations of these two men was at stake. if this was innocent, anti communism, and those closely associated with the like richard nixon. it was dealt a devastating blow. if alger hiss was guilty, anti communism would occupy a prominent part of the political landscape, and his spokesman would become national leaders. furthermore, chambers and alger h

. >> pelley: bill whitaker in california with supporters and opponents. new orleans tackles crime before the super bowl arrives. jim axelrod shows us how. and intrigue at the bolshoi. charlie d'agata in moscow on a vicious attack at the world's most famous ballet company. >> this is terrible. this is corruption and this is criminal. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it was not a close call for us today. the most amazing story that we saw hands down involves a courageous young u.s. army sergeant severely wounded in iraq and the amazing surgery that gave him arms-- two real human arms. the operation on 26-year-old sergeant brendan marrocco of new york was performed in december but today we got our first look at the results. david martin has the story. >> reporter: when brendan marrocco moved his arms today he made medical history. >> i feel like i'm getting a second chance to start over after i got hurt. >> reporter: he was gesturing with transplanted arms-- not prosthetic arms but real ar

>> pelley: bill whitaker in our los angeles newsroom. bill, thanks very much.tonight, the british oil company b.p. is guilty of criminal charges of manslaughter in the deaths of 11 workers from the "deepwater horizon" drilling rig. a federal judge in new orleans accepted b.p.'s guilty plea today. the disaster in the gulf of mexico in 2010 unleashed the largest accidental oil spill ever. b.p. agreed to pay $4.5 billion, which includes the biggest criminal fine in u.s. history. mark strassmann is in new orleans. >> reporter: b.p.'s guilty plea concedes b.p. managers ignored test readings that indicated combustible gas had seeped into the well on the evening of april 20, 2010. hours later, the "deepwater horizon" rig exploded. the company also admitted to lying about how much oil was leaking. they said at first, a few thousand barrels per day leaked from the well, when b.p.'s own engineers knew it was more than 60,000 barrels a day. shelley anderson's husband jason, a 35-year-old rig supervisor, was killed in the explosion. she was given five minutes in court to s

. >> now from a conference on the 6 theth anniversary of the publication of whitaker chambers's witness, a title history of witness, a little over an hour. >> thank you. thank you, nathaniel, thank you all in the audience for being here today. last semester, here at yale i had the privilege to teach a course of intellectual legacy of william f. buckley jr.. in this course i dedicate in a couple of weeks to build buckley's anti communism as a principal and philosophical position. bill buckley once told me late in his wife that his most important book may have been odyssey of a friend, a book in which buckley and characteristically barely says or write anything, but in which he creates a sort of literary and philosophical interview with whitaker chambers. in odyssey, we see chambers again bare his soul, this time directly to young admirers, friends and colleagues. revisiting parts of these books in preparation for this conference i was struck most of all by the deep emotional intensity and raw humanity that flows out of so many of these pages. a man is trying to account to himself and to

as many as 30,000 more documents will be released in coming weeks. >> pelley: bill whitaker, thank you. police in houston today swung into action after a shooting at a community college. but as it happened, it was not an attack on lone star college itself. police say that one man shot another during an argument, and a bystander was also hit. officers are now trained in a new strategy for cases like that. it's now called the active shooter response, and it was developed after the columbine massacre. at columbine, that massacre unfolded while officers waited outside for the swat team to arrive. but now, bob orr tells us that that has changed all over the country. >> reporter: what you're watching is a training exercise at george mason university near washington. it began with reports of an active shooter. lightly armed campus police officers rushed into the basketball arena and toward the sounds of gunshots. they did not know the number of gunman or if hostages had been taken. university police chief drew tracy says the officers made the right move. first responders should not wait for b

on the deepest resources of this country's tradition to fight it and if we don't nobody elt me b whitakerchambers. the fact thatvbeaembsÁlizr=mñat everything was against him and how enormous courage. and ultimately prevail. that is a lesson we can all work out. >> god forbid i should be thought to be denigrating whitaker chambers. he was a great man and "witness" is a great book, but i do think that he never dropped the other shoe and a fight against communism, rereading "witness," i have been struck by how much he resisted seeing america as good. you can say relatively, he said communism was absolute evil and i believe that. i would not say that america represents absolute good but i think it is pretty good compared to anything else. >> i would like to thank the panelists for a pretty good panel. melancholy though it was. >> every weekend booktv offers 48 hours of programming focused on nonfiction authors and books. watch it here on c-span2. >> from the twelfth annual national book festival on the national mall in washington d.c. susan hertick presents new women in search of love and pow

bill whitaker. >>> a beautiful day for inauguration. got up to about 47 degrees.ter weather. in ohio, whiteout conditions caused four pileups. one involved as many as 85 cars. at least 20 were injured. >>> there were frigidded temperatures in the upper midwest. factor in the wind chills and some places felt colder than 20 or 30 degrees below zero. >>> a very special group of veterans marched in the inaugural parade. we will have their story, next. the coughequences™. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. how did i know? well, i didn't really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive... but when i started losing energy and became moody... that's when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. we discussed all the symptoms... then he gave me some blood tests. showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number -- not just me. [ male announcer ] today, men with low t have androgel 1.62% (testosterone gel). the #1 prescribed topical testosterone replacement therapy increases testosterone when used daily. women and children should avoid contact wi

meanwhile, 10-year-old aaron whitaker is shaken but in good spirits. >> would you ever fly again?probably when i'm older. a couple years away, yeah, probably. but this year, no. >> sir, what about you? >> you betcha. >> you've been flying for a long time. >> you bet, yep. i can't wait two years. i'm getting too old to wait. >> thanks to a nationwide fund-raising effort, bill

bill whitaker, cbs news, fontana, california. >> pelley: senator john kerry today appeared before the senate foreign relations committee, a committee that he chairs, as it held a hearing on his nomination to be secretary of state. talking about some of the world's hot spots, kerry said the u.s. will do whatever it must to keep iran from developing a nuclear weapon. and about the syrian civil war, kerry said time is running out for the assad dictatorship there. outgoing secretary of state hillary clinton testified before the same commit yesterday and wander about the new terrorist threat in north africa nmali. >> but this is going to be a very serious, ongoing threat. we are in for a struggle, but it is a necessary struggle. we cannot permit northern mali to become a safe haven. >> pelley: fighters linked to al qaeda have taken over parts of mali. the french sent in troops recently to push them out, and the u.s. air force is helping to carry the french troops there. so we sent elizabeth palmer to this new center of terrorism. >> reporter: malians along the road cheered and waved france

whitaker chambers was a soviet spy who became the most important american defector from communism. the attractions of communism began in august of 1948 when he identified algiers yes the golden boy as a fellow member of the underground communists of of the 1930's. his was a former assistant to franklin d. roosevelt the acting secretary general from the founding conference it in san francisco and also named from the carnegie endowment for peace and a radically denied chambers allocation. a great deal more than the rest of station was at stake into communism and those associated with nixon a prominent member of the committee would be dealt a devastating blow. the guilty and communism occupy a part of the political landscape and furthermore chambers and hiss each represented one side. one represented freedom and western civilization and the other the etiology of totalitarianism. both the left and the right to understood america and the world was at a critical point* in history consider the major political events that transpired between august 1948 when chambers confronted hiss and may

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whitaker chambers had another way of describing it, like people popping out like rabbits, never knew where they were coming from or where they were going. you might see this today now and then. rusher is thrilled to hear there is going to be a conservative weekly magazine. when he hears about national review being in the works in 1955 he becomes a charter subscriber even before it comes out. he meets buckley with a couple months after the magazine starts, spend a year-and-a-half in washington on the internal security subcommittee but remained in touch with buckley and that circle. he joined the magazine in mid 1957. he wasn't interested in the business side of the magazine which was technical and responsibility, keeping it afloat, finding more subscribers, getting more advertising and all that kind of stuff. they needed someone like that. he was pretty good at that. there is evidence that after several years for a least a time he kind of neglected because he was so into political thought. as i said he comes international review with -- into "national review" with a rich from editor b

whitaker chambers had another way of describing it. it was like people popping out like rabbits. you never knew where they were coming from or where they were going. we might see a little of this today now and then. rusher is absolutely thrilled to hear that there is going to be a conservative weekly magazine. at the time, it was weakly. so when he hears about the "national review" being in the works in 1955, he becomes a charter subscriber even before it actually comes out. he meets buckley within a couple of months after the magazine starts. he spends a year and a half in washington on the internals subcommittee that he remains in touch with buckley in that circle. he joins the magazine and mid 1957. he wasn't interested in the business side of the magazine which is his technical and real responsibility keeping it afloat, finding more subscribers, getting advertising, that kind of stuff. they needed someone like that and he was pretty good at that. although there is evidence after several years at times he kind of neglected it because he was so into the political side. but he,

. >> there is a pathway to >> pelley: bill whitaker in california with supporters and opponents. new orleans tackles crime before the super bowl arrives. jim axelrod shows us how. and intrigue at the bolshoi. charlie d'agata in moscow on a vicious attack at the world's most famous ballet company. >> this is terrible. this is corruption and this is criminal. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. it was not a close call for us today. the most amazing story that we saw, hands down, involves a courageous young u.s. army sergeant severely wounded in

bill whitaker reports from california. liz palmer from london.school takes drastic action to save its students from obesity. seth doane with the kids and the cure. >> when i was nine, it just kind of hit me smack in the face, "oh, i'm going to die." captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening.

bill whitaker has our report. >> it's heartbreaking that we have to resort to this level of preparedness. >> reporter: the fontana school district chief of police is billy green. his 14 officers protect 42,000 students. last october green spent $14,000 to buy each officer a semiautomatic rifle. fontana is one of the first school districts to publicly acknowledge having such weapons on campus. by day they're locked in patrol cars or police lockers in school buildings. so these are military-style weapons. >> yes, sir, they're similar to the platform of what you would see on an ar-15 or m-16 all made by colt, the manufacturer. >> reporter: there has never been a gun death at any fontana school. chief green says the newtown school shooting convinced him he's doing the right thing. >> to say that nothing like that could never happen on one of our campuses here is irresponsible. we need to plan for this. we need to be prepared for this. >> reporter: many of the parents didn't know until this week that he bought the military-style rifles. sophia green says the money would be better spent on stu

bill whitaker reports. a school shooting in texas today, bob orr will show us the new police strategy for stopping a school shooter. and nancy cordes on the state where all of the top elected officials are women. >> we don't have binders full of women, we have ballots full of women. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. 38 below-- that was the low today in northern minnesota. schools are closing, shelters are opening as waves of arctic air sweep into the northern states.

we have two reports tonight on how things are changing, beginning with bill whitaker in southern california. bill? >> reporter: good evening, scott. people here in huntington beach, california, fear this beautiful pacific ocean, which creates their backdrop and their life- style, is becoming a destructive force. this was a king tide in december, and this is what it looks like today. >> well, the water was up to pacific coast highway. >> reporter: the high surf and tides occur when the earth moon, and sun align. but rising sea levels have pushed the tides higher and further inland. connie boardman is a college biology professor and mayor of huntington beach. >> along the southern california coast, we've experienced an eight-inch rise in sea level already. it's nothing that we can continue to deny. >> reporter: according to a u.s. government forecast, global sea levels are expected to rise one to four feet by 2100. so it sounds like you're expecting these events to be more frequent. >> yes. >> reporter: so huntington beach is looking at putting in more pumps, more drains, planning for a wette

goes on public display tomorrow but bill whitaker got to meet him first for a story you'll only see onentative steps onto the world stage. >> good boy. >> reporter: he's 18 pounds, 6 months old, the first panda born at the san diego zoo. >> he's still kind of clumsy. like a toddler. >> reporter: his handlers have been the only humans to get close to him until now. >> i was just snuggled by a panda. >> yes, you were. he's at the stage right now where he's very active and he wants to be moving constantly. he's checking out his environmental, learning to climb. >> reporter: almost always under the watchful gaze of his mother bai yun. >> she'll spend time cuddling with him and nurse him and playing with im. he she's great mom. >> reporter: gosh that's cute. >> they're cute and also endangered they make very good representatives of their species. >> reporter: xiao liwu's baby steps make a major step in conservation. this is the most successful breeding group outside of china? >> it is. >> reporter: ron swaisgood is one who's working with them. >> back in the 1990s they were about to make la

forest whitaker and johnny knoxville co-star in the movie. "mama" is a playful little movie. five years after they disappeared two young girls are found in the woods at a house. their uncle and his girlfriend played by jessica chastain discover the girls aren't the only things that came out of the forest into their home. that actually sounds really scary. you might not have recognized jessica chastain with with the dark hair. her role as a cia agent in "zero dark thirty" has her considered the favorite to win the best actress oscar. alexis christoforous has more on how long it took her to become hollywood's "it" girl. >> reporter: jessica chastain is hollywood's it girl for a second year in a row. she just won a golden globe for best actress in the film "zero dark thirty." and she's widely expected to take home an oscar next month. it comes one year after she was up for an academy award for her role in "the help." >> i really need a maid. >> reporter: the 35-year-old has another movie coming out. the psychological thriller "mama." she says she's a fan of a good horror flick.

for "cbs this morning" bill whit whitaker los angeles. >>> the redskins are under fire to change their name. saying it is a racial slur. the redskins resisted the name but the mayor said they may have to find a new name first. >>> the fda is considering more control on vicodin. the cdc said prescription painkiller abuse reached epidemic proportions. >>> penn state coach is expected in court today. sandusky sandusky's lawyers argue he desave new trial because they were not prepared. >>> and the "chicago sun-times" says the coroner wants to exhume the body of a lottery winner to determine how he was poisoned. he died a month later. tests revealed recently that he died from cyanide poisoning, police interviewed his widow who hold police she's cooperating. she told police she loved her husband, and had nothing to do >>> thank you, gayle. let's take a live look now at conditions, dry skies across the bay area and inland. but let's look at hi-def doppler. still tracking some very light scattered showers still mainly over the coast and over the santa cruz mountains. still even seeing a chance

whitaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we can definitely -- we can definitely do without them. will my right on of a friend, the prime minister, told the house whether he will be taking seriously the liberal democrats ministers who are queuing up today to resign their posts after batting against the government in last nights vote for? >> what i would say to my honorable friend clearly there's a profound disagreement about this issue but i would say to everyone in the house of commons who voted for an oversize house of commons and unequal constituency boundaries that are both costly and unfair, they will have to justify that to their constituents. [shouting] >> order. >> here on c-span2 we will leave the british house of commons now as they move on to other legislative business. you have been watching prime minister's questions time aired live wednesdays at 7 a.m. eastern while parliament is in session. you can see this weeks question time and again sunday night at nine eastern and pacific on c-span. for more information go to c-span.org, click on c-span series for prime ministe

bill whitaker, our correspondent in los angeles has been watching today's events along with a group ofor mr. obama. bill, what are they telling you? >> scott, i'm here at a major immigrant rights organization here in los angeles, people gathered here this morning to watch the inauguration. they say there has been a political sea change. 71% of latino voters voted for president obama. they say they were there for him when he seed needed them. now he expects them. i'm here with the director, who met twice with president obama on immigration issues. what is it that you want, that you expect of president obama this time? >> we want leadership. leadership from president obama that his wonderful rhetoric and his discourse match action. and so what we expect from him is that he is every ounce of his political capital to convince members of both parties, republicans and democrats to get an immigration reform law passed that he is able to sign. we are -- what we're fighting for is a passive citizenship, unity of our families and -- added up to 1.5 million individuals. and millions of families i

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whitaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. we can definitely -- we can definitely do without them. will my right on of a friend, the prime minister, told the house whether he will be taking seriously the liberal democrats ministers who are queuing up today to resign their posts after batting against the government in last nights vote for? >> what i would say to my honorablef