CHARLIE ROSE - LATEST MALE CELEB TO FALL FROM CLAIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT

CHARLIE ROSE - LATEST MALE CELEBRITY IN POWER TO FALL HARD FROM CLAIMS OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT:

PREYING UPON WOMEN.

KARMA IS A B&TCH WHEN SHE FINALLY STOPS BEING A VICTIM AND DECIDES TO BITE BACK.

WATCH OUT DEMOCRATS; TRUMP IS FIGHTING BACK.

"HE WHO COMMITS ADULTERY IS SENSELESS. DOING SO, HE DESTROYS HIMSELF"
PROVERBS 6:32


Sources: Washington Post, CBS News, PBS, Youtube


****** CBS and PBS drop Charlie Rose following allegations of unwanted sexual advances


PBS said Tuesday it was parting ways with Charlie Rose, and CBS announced it fired the 75-year-old broadcaster for “extremely disturbing and intolerable behavior” following an extensive Washington Post report that detailed his alleged unwanted sexual advances toward women.

Hours later, CBS Evening News reported three other women alleged they were subjected to “unwanted sexual contact” from Rose while working at CBS News.

His firing was announced by CBS News President David Rhodes, who wrote in a midday memo to the network’s staff that it was “effective immediately.”

“Despite Charlie’s important journalistic contribution to our news division, there is absolutely nothing more important, in this or any organization, than ensuring a safe, professional workplace — a supportive environment where people feel they can do their best work,” Rhodes wrote. “We need to be such a place.”

PBS terminated its relationship with Rose and canceled distribution of his programs “in light of yesterday’s revelations,” spokeswoman Jennifer Rankin Byrne said in a statement. Rose’s namesake interview program is produced by Charlie Rose Inc., an independent television production company.

“PBS expects all the producers we work with to provide a workplace where people feel safe and are treated with dignity and respect,” Byrne said.

Rose — best known for his award-winning interview program on PBS — had co-hosted “CBS This Morning” since the show’s launch in 2012 and was a contributing correspondent for the network’s Sunday night news magazine, “60 Minutes.”

CBS News suspended Rose on Monday, shortly after The Post’s story published. Bloomberg TV terminated its rebroadcast agreement with Charlie Rose.

Eight women, who were either employees or aspired to work for Rose at the “Charlie Rose” show, told The Post he made unwanted sexual advances to them between the late 1990s and 2011.

Those advances included lewd phone calls, walking around naked in their presence, or groping their breasts, buttocks or genital areas, the women said.

In a statement provided to The Post on Monday — and later posted on social media — Rose said: “I deeply apologize for my inappropriate behavior. I am greatly embarrassed. I have behaved insensitively at times, and I accept responsibility for that, though I do not believe that all of these allegations are accurate. I always felt that I was pursuing shared feelings, even though I now realize I was mistaken.”

In the nearly two months since the New York Times published an expose on Harvey Weinstein and his history of alleged sexual misconduct, the country has been going through a national reckoning with such behavior. Powerful men from across industries — media, Hollywood, and politics among them — have been implicated, including household names such as Louis CK, Kevin Spacey and Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn).

It has become almost a daily occurrence to see a powerful man in the headlines facing accusations of misconduct. On the very same day Rose’s scandal broke, the New York Times suspended star journalist Glenn Thrush for allegedly crossing the line with young female colleagues, and BuzzFeed News reported Rep. John Conyers Jr., the Democratic dean of the House of Representatives, had settled a wrongful termination suit with a woman who claimed to have been fired for rebuffing his advances.

In less than 24 hours since The Post reported on allegations against Rose, the situation was acknowledged on “CBS Evening News,” where interim anchor Anthony Mason said Monday “the wave of sexual abuse allegations we’ve been reporting from Hollywood to Washington have now touched CBS News.”

On Tuesday morning, in a remarkable segment, Rose’s broadcast partners on “CBS This Morning” slipped out of their newswoman roles to speak as people, full of anger and bewilderment and betrayal.

“This is a moment that demands a frank and honest assessment about where we stand and more generally the safety of women,” Norah O’Donnell said. “Let me be very clear: There is no excuse for this alleged behavior. It is systematic and pervasive. . . . This has to end. This behavior is wrong. Period.”

Her co-host, Gayle King, said she had barely slept. The Post article, King said, “was deeply disturbing, troubling and painful for me to read.”

She added: “I am deeply rocked by this.”

Rhodes, the CBS News president, wrote in his staff memo that the network’s news operation “has reported on extraordinary revelations at other media companies this year and last. Our credibility in that reporting requires credibility managing basic standards of behavior. That is why we have taken these actions.

“Let’s please remember our obligations to each other as colleagues. We will have human resources support today and every day, and we are organizing more personal and direct training which you will hear about from senior management shortly.”

He added: “I’m deeply disappointed and angry that people were victimized — and that even people not connected with these events could see their hard work undermined. If all of us commit to the best behavior and the best work — that is what we can be known for.”

Rose was one of the best-regarded names in TV news. His 2013 interview with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad won him both an Emmy and a Peabody Award, and in 2015 he received the Walter Cronkite Excellence in Journalism Award.

ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT FOR DONALD TRUMP (GREENVILLE, SC DEBATE)

GOP GREENVILLE, SC DEBATE: FEBRUARY 13, 9:00pm ET:

ANOTHER ENDORSEMENT FOR DONALD TRUMP (2016 GOP TSUNAMI)

THE GOP'S PLATFORM REPRESENTS OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL.

While covering the most recent GOP Debate in the beautiful city of Greenville, South Carolina, I announce my official endorsement of Donald Trump for U.S. President.

In the event Mr Trump is not the nominee, my endorsement of the GOP's 2016 platform will not be revoked.

The GOP's national represents Opportunity for all.

As we approach the general election in November, I encourage other BLACK voters to dismiss any negative, Racist rhetoric they've heard about the Republican Party and strongly consider showing support for a political party that wants to see all American citizens experience Success versus waiting on the Federal gov't to prop them up.

2016 is a year of Tsunami Victory for the GOP.

BLACK voters need to wake up and join a Winning team before it's too late.

**** How To Watch Tonight's CBS News Republican Debate In South Carolina

On Saturday night, the remaining Republican presidential candidates will gather in Greenville, South Carolina for their first debate since this week's New Hampshire primaries.

This will be the last debate before South Carolina's Republican primary on Feb. 20, and it will take place at the Peace Center in Greenville, from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. ET.

These candidates have been invited to the debate: businessman Donald Trump, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson, and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.

The candidates will face off just days after New Hampshire's nominating contest, where Trump swept the competition with 35 percent of the votes. Kasich came in second with 16 percent, Cruz finished with 12 percent. Bush and Rubio were the only other candidates to garner double-digit support, with 11 percent each.

Since the New Hampshire primaries, former tech executive Carly Fiorina, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, and former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore have withdrawn from the race.

"Face the Nation" host and CBS News political director John Dickerson will serve as the main moderator for the debate. He will be joined by two panelists: CBS News chief White House correspondent Major Garrett and The Wall Street Journal's Kimberly Strassel.

CBS News will offer multi-platform coverage of the debate, with extensive coverage before, during, and after the debate via CBSN, the network's 24/7 digital streaming news service.

CBSN will also offer a special 9:00 PM broadcast of the debate that will include enhanced graphics to showcase real-time Google Trends data and a curated Twitter stream.

To catch a preview of Saturday's debate stage, take a look at this 360-degree view of the stage, taken from Donald Trump's center podium.

Sources: CBS News, The Hill, YouTube

60 Minutes Pays Tribute To America's Fallen Heroes: Memorial Day (Video)

Sources: 60 Minutes, CBS News

GOP Leaders vs "Obamacare"/ Affordable Health Care (Negative Rhetoric vs Facts)

Political Parties duel on health law anniversary


The White House and congressional Republicans marked the two-year anniversary of President Obama's healthcare reform law with dueling messages Friday.

The administration released a new report — the fifth this week — highlighting the parts of the law that have taken effect. Many of the healthcare law's provisions, including insurance subsidies and Medicaid expansion to millions of Americans, have yet to begin, but Democrats are seeking to highlight the benefits that they say voters would lose now if the law were repealed or struck down by the Supreme Court.

The Republican National Committee attacked the law on the anniversary, releasing a Web video mocking the law's "lonely birthday" after Obama opted to keep a low profile ahead of Supreme Court arguments next week.
The RNC video features a bill, wearing a birthday hat, crying in front of well-known Washington landmarks.

"Nobody in America likes me," the bill says. "Even Obama won't celebrate my birthday now!"

The RNC also hung a banner outside its headquarters in Washington that reads: "Happy Birthday Obamacare! We didn't forget you."

The healthcare law has moved to the political forefront ahead of next week's oral arguments in the Supreme Court. Justices have blocked off three days to hear oral arguments over the law and its controversial insurance mandate, and a frenzy of demonstrations for and against the law are expected outside the courthouse.

The high court is expected to decide the fate of the healthcare law this summer, just months before the presidential election.

Surveys show the public remains sharply divided over the law two years after passage. An average of polls collected by Real Clear Politics found that 50.5 percent of Americans oppose the healthcare law. That's on par with the 50.4 percent who were opposed when Congress passed the law two years ago.


According to the administration's report, current effects of the law include:

• 2.5 million more young adults who have health insurance on their parents' plan;

• 5.1 million people with Medicare who saved an average of $635 on the cost of their prescription drugs, and 32.5 million Medicare seniors who received at least one preventive benefit without cost-sharing in 2011;

• 54 million people with private health plans had at least one new preventive service, such as mammograms, with no cost-sharing in 2011;

• people with private plans who benefited from new requirements that insurers spend at least 80 percent of premium dollars on healthcare and publicly justify rate hikes of more than 10 percent; and

• children with pre-existing conditions now can't be denied coverage.

"Today, two years after we passed health care reform, more young adults have insurance, more seniors are saving money on their prescription drugs, and more Americans can rest easy knowing they won't be dropped from their insurance plans if they get sick," Obama said in a statement. "The law has made a difference for millions of Americans, and over time, it will help give even more working and middle-class families the security they deserve."


Sources: CBS News, CATO Institute, The Hill, Youtube

David Axelrod Attacks Mitt Romney Over Gas Price & Keystone Pipeline Comments: "Snake Oil"

Axelrod: GOP's gas price talk is "snake oil"


The president's top campaign adviser, David Axelrod, charged Republican presidential candidates and Republicans in Congress with making false promises about how to reduce the cost of gas.

On CBS News' "Face the Nation," Axelrod specifically attacked Republican presidential front-runner Mitt Romney for saying he would fire three cabinet officials charged with energy production: Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Environmental Protection Agency head Lisa Jackson, and Interior Secretary Ken Salazar.

Axelrod said Romney is making false promises to voters. "Mr. Romney will pander, and the poor American consumer will be left in the same position," he told host Bob Schieffer. "So we need to keep going forward with an 'all of the above' strategy on energy."

Axelrod also criticized "the notion that we can simply drill our way out of this" by attacking Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich's claim that his plan would reduce gas prices to $2.50 cents per gallon. "That's not oil talk, but snake oil talk," Axelrod said.

Axelrod said the president's "all of the above" strategy includes increased production (including from renewable sources) and decreased consumption.

"If we don't do all of those things we're going to be right back here again every election season," Axelrod told Schieffer.

Schieffer questioned Axelrod if the president is doing his own pandering. He asked Axelrod about campaign speeches in 2008 made by then-candidate Barack Obama where he blamed President Bush for gas that cost "two-and-a-half times what it cost when George Bush took office."

Axelrod said the president has taken action to lower gas prices by increasing oil production, raising fuel efficiency standards and increasing renewable energy production.

When Schieffer asked about the president's decision to halt the construction of the XL Keystone pipeline from the Tar Sands in Canada to refineries in the Gulf Coast and whether he thought it was a mistake, Axelrod blamed the Republicans in Congress for playing politics. He pointed to the House GOP's passing a measure that would have forced the president to speed up approval of the pipeline.

"What they did was force a premature decision on this," Axelrod said. "The State Department said they needed more time to evaluate the project and all of its implications" for the land and the environment, such as water aquifers in Nebraska.

"The Congress wanted to force a decision for political reasons; they did," Axelrod said. "Not having the time to make a proper decision, [the administration] had to decline this proposal. If it's resubmitted it will be considered again, hopefully in the the time frame that is appropriate.

"But understand this president has approved dozens of pipelines," Axelrod added. "He certainly is not hostile to transporting oil, but we have to do it in the appropriate way and protect the public safety in doing it.

"It may have been a mistake for the Republicans to force the decision so quickly -that I agree with," Axelrod offered. "But that's their decision to explain. Not ours."

Also on "Face the Nation," head of the Republican National Committee, Reince Priebus, said he "chuckled" when he heard Axelrod's statement.

Priebus said "the Republicans have been in favor of this Keystone pipeline," which he said would create 20,000 jobs, a figure that has been widely disputed. "It wouldn't be the whole deal [to lowering gas prices]. But it's a step closer."

Priebus said the president is not doing all the things necessary to reduce the cost of oil.

"We're sitting on a wealth of energy to get us to a place where we don't have $4 and $5 gas. This president isn't there. He's talking out of both sides of his mouth."


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Leon Panetta Says U.S. Soldier Could Face Death Penalty: Afghan Shooting Massacre

Soldier could face death penalty in Afghan killings, Panetta says


The U.S. Army soldier accused of killing 16 Afghan men, women and children in a house-to-house shooting rampage could face the death penalty, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said.

Panetta spoke to reporters as he flew to the Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan for high-level talks Tuesday.

Hundreds of Afghans took to the streets Tuesday to protest the killings as the Taliban threatened to behead "Americans anywhere in the country."

An American sergeant is suspected of shooting nine children, three women and four men in two villages near his combat outpost in southern Afghanistan on Sunday.

He turned himself in after the killings, the military said. The Army's Criminal Investigation Command is leading the investigation. The suspect has not been charged.

In Jalalabad, near the border with Pakistan, "hundreds of protesters, many of whom are university students, have taken to the streets," said Ahmad Zaii Abdulzai, a spokesman for Nangarhar province.

He said there had not been any damage or casualties from the protests, but the Jalalabad-Kabul highway was closed to traffic.

"We are in the process of trying to reopen," he said.

And an Afghan official said he heard gunshots and grenades being launched Tuesday while a delegation of top officials visited one of the villages where the shootings took place.

"While we were in the village of Alokozai for a funeral, praying for a martyr killed in the massacre, we heard close-range, small-arms fire, followed by two rocket-propelled grenades," said Haji Agha Lali, a member of Kandahar's provincial council.

"According to my information, two to three Afghan security forces have been injured," he said.

He said high-level Afghan officials, including President Hamid Karzai's brother, a minister and a deputy minister, were all attending the funeral and may have been the target of the firing.

Another villager in the area said he heard a large explosion followed by gunfire.
Leaders from across Afghanistan's fragmented political terrain have expressed anger and outrage over the attack in the district of Panjwai in Kandahar province.

Karzai has condemned the weekend bloodshed as "unforgivable." Afghanistan's parliament has demanded a public trial for the suspect, and the Afghan Taliban have described U.S. troops as "sick-minded American savages" and vowed to exact revenge.
In a new statement Tuesday, the Taliban said the group would take revenge "by killing and beheading Americans anywhere in the country."

There are fears that Sunday's killings could reignite the anger that led to deadly riots directed at international forces last month over the burning of Qurans by U.S. troops. That was one of a string of incidents involving American forces that have strained ties between the United States and Afghanistan.

U.S. commanders were forced to condemn a video of a squad of Marines urinating on bodies in January, and several soldiers -- from Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state, like the suspect in Sunday's shooting -- were charged with taking part in a rogue "kill squad."

Sunday's killings have brought a deluge of high-level statements from Washington expressing shock, sadness and insistence that the U.S. mission in Afghanistan would stay on course.

As he set out for a trip to the Middle East on Monday, Panetta said the United States and its NATO allies "seem to get tested almost every other day." But he added, "It is important that, all of us, United States, Afghanistan, the (NATO-led) forces all stick to the strategy that we've laid out."

"War is hell," he said. "These kind of events and incidents are going to take place. They've taken place in any war. They're terrible events. This is not the first of those events, and they probably won't be the last."

The still-unidentified suspect in the attack served three tours of duty in Iraq before being deployed to Afghanistan, said Gen. John Allen, the U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan. A U.S. military official, who asked not to be named because he was talking about an ongoing investigation, said the suspect is an Army staff sergeant who arrived in Afghanistan in January.

During the suspect's last deployment, in 2010, he was riding in a vehicle that rolled over in a wreck, according to a senior Defense Department official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity. The sergeant was diagnosed with a traumatic brain injury after the wreck but was found fit for duty after treatment, the official said.


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Demetrius Hewlin's Killer T.J. Lane Charged As A Juvenile; Where's The Justice?

Monday February 27, 2012, T.J. Lane a 17-Year-Old WHITE Student, walked into Chardon High School in Ohio & Shot 6 Students.
3 of those Students have since Died from their Injuries.

One of the Deceased Students, Demetrius Hewlin was a BLACK Teen whose parents donated his Organs after he was declared Brain-Dead as a result of his Injuries.

Today T.J. was Charged as a Juvenile on 6 Counts, including 3 Counts of Aggravated Murder.

School Officials & Juvenile Court Officials are also trying to Mitigate his actions by stating he was Bullied & Depressed.

Aggravated Murder! Juvenile Court! Depressed!

Can You Believe It?

So this Kid Shoots Up a School, Murders 3 Fellow Students In COLD-BLOOD & Yet He Is ONLY Charged With Aggravated Murder In Juvenile Court.

If ALL of the Injured & Murdered Students were WHITE, I can assure you T.J. Lane would have been SHOT on the Spot by Law Enforcement Authorities upon response.

NOT Shot to Death but Shot to Disable him.

Afterwards he would have Immediately been Charged as an Adult on 3 Counts of 1st Degree Murder!

NOT Aggravated Murder!

Please Understand I am NOT using this post to Invoke Anger, however I am Angry.
This situation proves that there are still are 2 Levels of Justice in America.
White vs BLACK!

Dear God Let Us Pray.









T.J. Lane Charged as Juvenile in deadly Ohio shooting


A teenager was charged Thursday with killing three students in a school shooting, the first step in proceedings that could see him charged as an adult and facing the possibility of life without parole if convicted.

The charges filed in Geauga County juvenile court accuse T.J. Lane, 17, of killing three students and wounding two others in the shooting Monday morning at Chardon High School, about 30 miles east of Cleveland.

He is charged with three counts of aggravated murder, two counts of attempted aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault.

Students say the gunman was chased from a cafeteria by an assistant football coach, Frank Hall, who has been praised as a hero. Hall spoke shortly after the charges were filed and said he wants the victims' families to know he was with their children and wiped away their tears.

"I don't know why this happened," he said. "I only wish I could have done more. I'm not a hero. I'm just a football coach and a study hall teacher." The emergency responders at the scene were the real heroes, he said.

No motive has been determined. Prosecutor David Joyce has said that victims were selected at random and that Lane is someone "who's not well."

Children convicted of juvenile crimes in Ohio are typically behind bars only until they turn 21 in the most serious cases. But Joyce has already said he plans to charge Lane as an adult, meaning he could face life in prison without parole if convicted of similar adult charges.

Minors are not eligible for the death penalty in Ohio, whether they are convicted as juveniles or adults.

Lane, who attends an alternative school for students who haven't done well in traditional schools, admitted taking a .22-caliber pistol and a knife to Chardon High and firing 10 shots at a group of students sitting at a cafeteria table Monday morning, Joyce said.

Records from Lane's juvenile court files show that in 2009 he was charged with assaulting his uncle, John Breuning, CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller reports. Authorities said "TJ also jumped on John ... put him in a choke hold."

Other court documents show a troubled family life. His father, Thomas J. Lane Jr., was charged with domestic violence, assault, kidnapping and theft and served time in jail. And mother Sarah A. Nolan was charged with domestic violence in 1995 and convicted of disorderly conduct.

The Tribune-Review in Pittsburgh reported that Lane's aunt, Heather Lane, said earlier by email that her family is "weeping and praying" for Chardon. She says they're grateful for people who have prayed for them and urged the public to continue praying for the victims.

Killed were Demetrius Hewlin, 16, Russell King Jr., 17, and Daniel Parmertor, 16. The motive for the shooting is unclear, though Joyce has appeared to rule out theories involving bullying or drug-dealing.

Hewlin attended Chardon High. King and Parmertor were students at a vocational school and were waiting in the Chardon High cafeteria for their daily bus when they were shot.

Parmertor had just gotten his first job at a bowling alley and couldn't stop talking about how excited he was to pick up his first paycheck later this week, his parents said.

Two other students were wounded. Nick Walczak remains in serious condition. An 18-year-old girl was released from the hospital Tuesday.

Lane was a normal boy who excelled in school and played outside often with his sister, building snow hills and skateboarding, according to Steve Sawczak, a family friend who's a pastor and has worked with troubled children.

He said he never would have allowed his own grandchildren to play nearby if he thought anything was wrong with Lane.



Mother of Ohio school shooting victim Demetrius Hewlin says she forgives suspected gunman TJ Lane

The mother of Ohio school shooting victim Demetrius Hewlin says she forgives alleged gunman TJ Lane for fatally shooting her son.

Prosecutors have until Thursday to bring charges against Lane, who's suspected of going on a shooting rampage at Chardon High School that killed three students and injured two others.

When asked what she would say to the suspected shooter, Demetrius' mother Phyllis Fergueson told ABC News yesterday, "I forgive him because, a lot of times, they don't know what they're doing. That's all I'd say."

"I taught Demetrius not to live in the past, to live in today and forgiveness is divine. You have to forgive everything. God's grace is new each and every day," she said. "Until you've walked in another person's shoes, you don't know what made him come to this point."

A prosecutor has said Lane, who is in custody, will probably be charged with three counts of aggravated murder and other offenses. Prosecutors are expected to ask that he be tried as an adult.


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Whitney Houston's Funeral: New Jersey This Weekend. R.I.P.

Whitney Houston's body arrives home in N.J.

The body of Whitney Houston arrived in her home state of New Jersey for a funeral to be held at week's end, according to multiple report.

The plane carrying Houston left Los Angeles late Monday and arrived later at Teterboro Airport in New Jersey, a few miles west of Manhattan, Reuters reports.

Houston's family raised the possibility of holding a wake Thursday and funeral Friday at Newark's Prudential Center, an arena that hosts college and professional sport events and seats about 18,000.

The 48-year-old pop star was found dead in the bathtub in her hotel room at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, hours before she was supposed to appear at a pre-Grammy gala.

Law enforcement sources told CBS News that while there were no illegal substances found in Houston's hotel room, there were prescription drugs. Authorities said the most likely theories for Houston's death are that she died of a heart attack or a prescription drug overdose, but no official determination has been made, CBS News correspondent John Blackstone reports.

Funeral arrangements were being made by Newark's Whigham Funeral Home, which handled the 2003 funeral of Houston's father, John Houston, according to the two people who spoke to the AP.

A woman at the funeral home said she could neither confirm nor deny reports that Whigham would handle the arrangements. A canopy was being constructed Monday afternoon at the rear entrance.

The Los Angeles coroner's office said Houston's body was released to the family late Monday morning.

Houston was born in Newark and raised in nearby East Orange. She began singing as a child at Newark's New Hope Baptist Church, where her mother, Grammy Award-winning gospel singer Cissy Houston, led the music program for many years. Whitney's cousin singer Dionne Warwick also sang in its choir.

On Monday, mourners continued to leave flowers, balloons and candles at the wrought-iron fence around the tall brick church, which sits near the edge of an abandoned housing project near the train line leading to New York City.

"She was an inspiration to everybody," said Gregory Hanks, a 26-year-old actor who grew up in the neighborhood and who dropped off a bouquet of flowers. He saw Houston perform at the New Jersey Performing Arts Center years ago.

"I grew up listening to her as a little boy, and to hear her sing, you knew she was special," he said.


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Florida's Latino Voters vs Romney & Gingrich: "They're Out Of Touch!"

Florida 2012 GOP Primary Results County By County


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Romney Is Florida's Choice! Primary Results Show He's Leading

Florida 2012 GOP Primary Results County By County



Florida primary exit polls: 2/3rds say debates mattered


Two in three Florida primary voters say the presidential debates were an important factor in their vote, according to early CBS News exit polls. That's a positive sign for Mitt Romney, who was widely seen as besting rival Newt Gingrich in the two Sunshine State debates over the past week.

For evidence of the importance of the debates, look no further than South Carolina, where nearly the same percentage of voters said the debates were important in early exit polls. Gingrich was widely seen as the victor in the two debates there, and he went on to a double-digit victory.

The exit poll results being discussed here are early results; full exit poll results will be released at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time. (The polls in Florida close at 7:00 p.m. across the state, but the state is part of two time zones. Because the northwestern part of the state is in the Central Time zone, polls there don't close until 8:00 Eastern Time.)

Electability was what Florida Republican voters were seeking in a candidate: 45 percent said the most important candidate quality is that they could defeat President Obama. That was followed by having the right experience (20 percent), having strong character (17 percent) and being a true conservative (13 percent).

Asked who has run the most unfair campaign, 37 percent of Florida voters pointed to Romney, whose super PAC has blanketed the state with negative ads about Gingrich. Thirty-four percent pointed to Gingrich. Ron Paul and Rick Santorum, who did not seriously contest the winner-take-all primary, were selected by just four percent each.

Thirty-nine percent of Florida voters said campaign ads were an important factor in their decision; 58 percent said they were not. Romney and his super PAC far outspent his rivals in advertising in the Sunshine State, which is one of the most expensive states in the country to run ads in because of its many media markets.

Florida is an early voting state, and just 27 percent of voters said they decided on their candidate in the last few days. Twenty-nine percent said they decided earlier this month, while 42 percent said they decided before that. Romney did relatively well in debates prior to Gingrich's strong performance in the South Carolina face-offs.

Half of early voters in Florida backed Romney, survey shows

The economy was overwhelmingly the most important issue to Florida Republican voters, cited by 62 percent; a distant second was the federal budget deficit at 24 percent. Half said that foreclosure problems were a major problem in their community, and just 15 percent said they were not a problem.

A majority of Florida Republican voters - 57 percent -- were happy with the candidates on the ballot. But in a potentially troubling sign for Republicans in this swing state, 39 percent said they were not satisfied.


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Bill Clinton Endorses Obama's Revenue Increase Proposal & Deficit Reduction Plan

CBS's Bob Schieffer spoke with former President Bill Clinton on President Obama's proposed plan to increase taxes on millionaires, how to put the unemployed back to work and how his Clinton Global Initiative will help create jobs.


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GOP Offers Obama 2012 GOP Win-Win Debt Deal! Gov't Shutdown Looms!

Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) Has Just Offered Pres. Obama A "Baby Steps", Crooked, Lopsided Debt Ceiling Deal.

This Deal Which Stinks To High Heaven Is A No-Brainer, Easy Win-Win For The GOP In 2012.

GOP Leaders Have Drawn A Line In The Sand & Have Basically Pushed Pres. Obama's Back Up Against A Wall With NO Real Good Faith Effort To Avoid A Shutdown.

In Fact They've Been Hoping & Praying For A Complete Gov't Shutdown!

Why?

To Hurt Our Nation's Most Vulnerable Citizens, Eliminate The Black Middle Class & Paralyze Minority Voters Just For The Sake Of Winning In 2012!

How Diabolical!

And Yet Most Of These Republican Leaders Call Themselves "Christians"!!

For Shame!






Mitch McConnell offers non-deal deal

The Washington Post reports that Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is pitching a non-deal on the debt ceiling. The proposal is fairly far into the legislative weeds, but it involves having President Obama ask for a request in the debt ceiling, which Republicans would reject. President Obama would veto the rejection, and Republicans would let the veto stand.

Producer Mike Yarvitz forwards this rough verbate of Senator McConnell talking to reporters just now:

[W]e will have available a sort of back-up plan that would operate as follows: I would advocate that we pass legislation giving the President the authority to request of us an increase in the debt ceiling that would take us past the end of his term ... in this legislation, if it were to pass, he would make three separate requests of us.

The first request would be initiated by passing the legislation in the next few weeks. He would send up a request of us to raise the debt ceiling, probably by $700 billion. That would be subject to a resolution of disapproval ... that resolution of disapproval, if passed, would then go to the President. He could sign it or he could veto it. Presumably, he would veto it. If that were the case, that veto would be sustained by one-third plus one in either the House or the Senate.

The legislation would also require him to list spending cuts he would make in the same amount as the debt ceiling request he's making of us. Then there would be a second request in the fall that would follow the same procedure. He would ask us to raise the debt ceiling. I think it's highly likely that both houses would consider and probably pass resolutions of disapproval, which he would veto. And his veto would be sustained by one-third plus one. That would happen one more time in June.

So this is, again, not my first choice. I had hoped all year long that the opportunity presented by his request to raise the debt ceiling would generate a bipartisan agreement that would begin to get our house in order by reducing spending. That may still happen. I still hope it will, but we're certainly not going to send the signal to the markets and the American people that default is an option.

Senate Republicans would be able to pass three separate resolutions of disapproval, the Washington Post reports. They'd also get $2.5 trillion in cuts -- the Biden deal, in essence. And they wouldn't have to take the heat for Social Security checks not going out if the government can't pay its bills. The Republicans would win what's there for them to win. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid says he's open to considering Mr. McConnell's idea.


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Social Security & Disability Checks In Jeopardy After Aug. 3rd! GOP 2012 Tactic

This Afternoon On CBS News Pres. Obama Announced If A Deal To Raise The Debt Ceiling Is Not Reached By August 2nd, Social Sec. & Disability Checks Will NOT Be Paid Because Our Nation's Debts Must Be Paid First. Do You Think GOP Leaders Care? NO! They're Hoping For A Gov't Shutdown!





Obama says he cannot guarantee Social Security checks will go out on August 3rd

President Obama on Tuesday said he cannot guarantee that retirees will receive their Social Security checks August 3 if Democrats and Republicans in Washington do not reach an agreement on reducing the deficit in the coming weeks.

"I cannot guarantee that those checks go out on August 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS Evening News anchor Scott Pelley, according to excerpts released by CBS News.

The Obama administration and many economists have warned of economic catastrophe if the United States does not raise the amount it is legally allowed to borrow by August 2.

Lawmakers from both parties want to use the threat of that deadline to work out a broader package on long-term deficit reduction, with Republicans looking to cut trillions of dollars in federal spending, while Democrats are pushing for a more "balanced approach," which would include both spending cuts and increased revenue through taxes.

Democratic and Republican lawmakers are expected to hold another round of negotiations with Mr. Obama at the White House Tuesday afternoon on long-term deficit reduction, though talks have yielded little results to date.

Mr. Obama told Pelley "this is not just a matter of Social Security checks. These are veterans checks, these are folks on disability and their checks. There are about 70 million checks that go out."

The interview will air Tuesday evening on the CBS Evening News with Scott Pelley.

Mr. Obama's comments followed remarks from the Senate's top Republican, who said Tuesday that he did not see a way for Republicans and Democrats to come to agreement on meaningful deficit reduction as long as Mr. Obama remains in office.

"After years of discussions and months of negotiations, I have little question that as long as this president is in the Oval Office, a real solution is probably unattainable," Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell said in remarks on the Senate floor.

Still, McConnell said Republicans would "do the responsible thing" to avoid default, suggesting that a deal on the debt ceiling could be reached without a "real" deficit reduction package.

"The president has presented us with three choices: smoke and mirrors, tax hikes, or default. Republicans choose none of the above. I had hoped to do good, but I refuse to do harm. So Republicans will choose a path that actually reflects the will of the people, which is to do the responsible thing and ensure that the government doesn't default on its obligations," he said.

Mr. Obama has repeatedly said he wants a deal that would allow the U.S. to avoid confronting the issue again until after the 2012 elections and vowed on Monday that he would "not sign a 30-day or a 60-day or a 90-day extension."

"This the United States of America and, you know, we don't manage our affairs in three-month increments. You know, we don't risk U.S. default on our obligations because we can't put politics aside," Mr. Obama told reporters at the White House yesterday.

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Mark Zuckerberg Unveils New Facebook Redesign On "60 Minutes"

Mark Zuckerberg & Facebook: What's Next?


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. It's pretty likely you logged on today.

Lately, the social networking site has been introducing new products - one after the next - with the goal, it seems, of turning the entire Web into one big social network, so eventually the Internet will be Facebook.

As if the company wasn't surging enough, the movie "The Social Network" about the creation of Facebook has heightened interest, especially in its 26-yr-old CEO, Mark Zuckerberg.

Now Facebook is about to get a facelift, and agreed to launch its new look on "60 Minutes."

Correspondent Lesley Stahl went out to Palo Alto, Calif. and sat down with Zuckerberg to discuss his creation, which is used today by a whopping 500 million people in 70 languages all around the world.

"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?" Stahl asked.

"Well, it's funny. When I was getting started, with my roommates in college, you never think that you could build this company or anything like that, right? Because, I mean, we were college students, right?" Zuckerberg said. "And we were just building stuff 'cause we thought it was cool. I do remember having these specific conversations with my friends where we thought, you know, someone is gonna build this. Someone is gonna build something that makes it so that people can stay connected with their friends and their family, but no way would we be the ones who were contributing to, kinda, leading the whole Internet in this direction."

But that's what he's doing - leading the whole Internet in his direction. In a non-descript T-shirt at a non-descript desk, Zuckerberg runs a vast global empire with the world's largest population after China and India.

Stahl first met him three years ago, at Facebook's old graffiti'd building in downtown Palo Alto. The company has since decamped to giant hangers nearby to accommodate their explosive growth. The graffiti is largely gone, except for one word you just can't miss.

"I see 'hack' everywhere: 'Hack,'" Stahl pointed out. "It has a negative connotation, doesn't it?"

"When we say hacker, there's this whole definition that engineers have for themselves, where it's very much a compliment when you call someone a hacker, where to hack something means to build something very quickly, right? In one night, you can sit down and you could churn out a lot of code, and at the end, you have a product," Zuckerberg explained.

Which is what he expects from his 500 engineers: as we walked through the Facebook offices, we got a sense of high-level competition, whether it's writing code into the night or taking breaks to play speed chess. It's a constant game of one-upmanship.

Zuckerberg told Stahl about the company's "hackathons."

"Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things," he said. "And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone."

As he spoke, Stahl remembered his awkwardness from three years ago, and how he rarely blinks. But he's far more relaxed now, easier to smile, and noticeably more confident, as he tells you about all the new products they keep launching.

On Monday, Dec. 6, the company will launch a new layout for the heart of the site: every user's profile page.

For example, Zuckerberg's old page is filled with scrapbook-like entries in no order of importance, like "Andy Samberg plays me on Saturday Night Live."

You have to dig around to get any real sense of who Zuckerberg is as a person.

The new page is in effect "the Mark Zuckerberg story"- or how he wants his friends to see him. His bio information is right up top, with the kind of details he'd tell you if you met him.

"I work at Facebook and I spend all of my time there, right? I mean, here are my friends. I grew up in New York and now I live in California, right. Those really kind of basic, important things," he explained.

Under the bio are the latest photos posted by him or his friends. It's like a running ticker tape of his life. Every day, a staggering 100 million photos are uploaded on to the site.

"Lots of photos," Stahl remarked, looking at the new design.

"People love photos," Zuckerberg said. "Photos originally weren't that big a part of the idea for Facebook, but we just found that people really like them, so we built out this functionality."

A dozen engineers and designers worked on the new layout in a war room of sorts. They raced against a real countdown clock, telling them how much time was left to complete each high priority task.

They came up with several new features, including a new section, located on the left of the profile page: where you can now list the important people in your life, like your parents, siblings, spouse, roommates, or friends.

Another new feature, called “the friendship page,” pulls up a history of your relationship with any of your Facebook friends.

"You can see all the things that you have in common with that person. And it gives you this amazing connection with that person in a way that the current version of the profile that we have today just doesn't do," Zuckerberg said.

For the over-sharers among us, you'll still get the newsfeed.

Also new: there's lots more graphics under "What's important to you." Zuckerberg likes Lady Gaga and epic movies; and finally, there's a sports section. He plays tennis, and likes the Yankees.

But whenever Facebook introduces something new, there are always questions about how it protects our personal data.

"There's a sense that you, after all this time, aren't always aboveboard, and that there's some hidden motive to, kind of, invade our privacy, take the information and use it to make money," Stahl pointed out.

"We never sell your information. Advertisers who are using the site never get access to your information," Zuckerberg said.

But the new layout does encourage us to reveal more about ourselves on Facebook. Earlier this year, the company also introduced a new button, where users can tell Facebook what they "like" in over 100,000 sites: whether it's a new pair of jeans, or a "60 Minutes" story.

So the company does compile and control an ever-growing inventory of your likes and interests, and if Facebook itself doesn't sell the information to advertisers, applications (or apps) that run on Facebook by outside companies have been known to.

"It's against all of our policies for an application to ever share information with advertisers," Zuckerberg said.

"But they do. They do," Stahl said.

"And then, we shut them down if they do," Zuckerberg said.

Stahl talked to Kara Swisher, the editor of "All Things Digital," a Web site about high tech in Silicon Valley.

"You know, I wonder if Facebook can exist if it doesn't invade privacy," Stahl said.

"That's right. That's exactly right," Swisher agreed.

"So it needs to invade privacy. The issue is transparency, isn't it?" Stahl asked.

"Kind of, yes," Swisher said.

"How up front they are with the users…," Stahl said.

"That is, I think, Mark's one weakness. And I think that was why he got so nervous in the interview we did," Swisher replied.

Swisher is referring to a conference in June where she grilled Zuckerberg on privacy in an interview she calls a "sweat-o-palooza." "And he had, like, flop sweat and it was really quite disturbing actually to watch," she remembered.

She was pushing him to admit that Facebook is misleading about its privacy policies - an issue that comes up time and time again.

"Now, do we get it right all the time? No!" Zuckerberg told Stahl. "But it's something that we take really seriously, and every day we come to work and just try to do a good job on this."

"And yet, you've got the FTC looking into it, you have members of Congress looking into it. There have been privacy groups have lodged formal complaints. You've hired a lobbyist in Washington to deal with this, so you know it's a problem," Stahl said.

"Well, I think that it's a really important thing for everyone to…just be thinking about. I mean, privacy and making sure that people have control over their information is, I think, one of the most fundamental things on the Internet," Zuckerberg said.

It has become even more important as Facebook introduces one new product after the next.

Chris Cox, 28, is head of product development. He sits across the desk from Zuckerberg and thinks about what's next for Facebook. And increasingly, he's thinking outside your desktop.

According to Cox, over 200 million people are accessing Facebook through their mobile device. He told Stahl it's a huge part of the future.

"Is Facebook developing a phone device? Like Apple did iPhone?" Stahl asked.

"No," Cox replied. "We're working on building software that can be used on all phones."

Their latest product is "Messages," which combines e-mail, cell phone texting and instant messages into one. They call it the ultimate switchboard.

Asked if he thinks e-mail will become obsolete, Cox told Stahl, "I'm not sure. But what we've found is that more people are using messages, are moving away from e-mail. And so if we build a really compelling experience, I think people are going to switch over. But I'm not going to call the end of anything."

"Was this directed at Gmail? Google's e-mail?" Stahl asked.

"No," Cox said.

"Because everybody is talking about a Gmail killer," Stahl said.

"It's certainly what everyone's writing about," Cox acknowledged.

When asked if Facebook and Google are on a collision course, Kara Swisher told Stahl, "They are indeed."

The fight, Swisher explained, is over search. "How people find, discovery, search."

Say you want to buy a car. You can type "Prius" on Google and get publicly available information. Or you can type "Prius" in Facebook and get personal advice about it from your friends.

"Are you tryin' to turn everything we do on the Web into a social function?" Stahl asked.

"I think what we've found is that when you can use products with your friends and your family and the people you care about, they tend to be more engaging," Zuckerberg said. "I think that we're really going to see this huge shift where a lot of industry is and products are just going to be remade to be social."

It's already happening: this year, people spent more time on Facebook than on Google.

"So you're out here in Silicon Valley. Can you feel a tectonic plates…shifting over?" Stahl asked Kara Swisher.

"Well you can see the talent shift over," she replied. "You know, and there's been a big war about talent and payments, millions of dollars to keep people, engineers at Google."

Zuckerberg's number two, Sheryl Sandberg, defected from Google; he recently wooed over the inventor of Google Maps, and he even poached Google's cafeteria chef.

"There's kind of a talent brain drain from them to you, something like 200 people who work for you. Ten percent are former Googlers, right?" Stahl asked.

"I do think it's clear there are areas where the companies compete. But then, there are all these areas where we just don't compete at all," Zuckerberg said.

"Is the goal for you to conquer the whole Internet? To own the Internet?" Stahl asked.

"Well, think about it like this: people, if they can use the product of any category, photos, groups, music, TV, anything, either by themselves or with their friends, I think most of the time, people want to do those things with their friends," he replied.

"So, is the answer yes?" Stahl asked, laughing. "Come on."

"The answer…is that we want to help other people build a lot of these products," he replied.

He doesn't like to talk about competing with Google, just as he didn't three years ago, when Stahl compared him to its founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin.

"You seem to be replacing Larry and Sergey as the people out here who everyone's talking about. You're just staring at me," Stahl said to Zuckerberg in their first interview, in 2007.

"Is that a question?" Zuckerberg replied, after a long pause.

That line is now in "The Social Network," the movie about Facebook.

The question is: who is the real Mark Zuckerberg? And how did Facebook really get its start?

Facebook's launch of its new profile page will include a tutorial on all the new features, and for a while you'll be able to choose between staying with your old profile or upgrading to the new, where you get to tell your friends who you really are. We decided to take the opportunity of the launch to find out more about who Zuckerberg really is.

As Facebook becomes an intrinsic part of so many lives, how the site came to be in the first place is now the fodder of creation myths, a handful of lawsuits, at least two books, and a movie: all focusing on its co-founder and CEO.

"Half a billion people give you their personal information. Do you feel that because of that, they have a right to know a lot about you personally? About your values….?" Stahl asked.

"Yeah, I think that because of that, we have to do a very good job of communicating, as a company, really…," Zuckerberg replied.

"No, you. I'm talking about you, Mark Zuckerberg. Is it important to know who's running Facebook in light of that?" she asked.

"Yeah. Yeah, it is," he replied.

Interest in what makes Zuckerberg tick has heightened since the release of the movie "The Social Network," that depicts him as a callous genius, who betrays friends and principles to protect his creation, Facebook.

The real Zuckerberg vowed he would never see the film; on opening day he changed his mind.

"We took the whole company to go see the movie," he recalled. "I actually thought it was pretty fun."

"But I guess my question is: Was it hard to watch for you?" Stahl asked.

"In watching it, it's pretty interesting to see what parts they got right and what parts they got wrong. I think that they got every single T-shirt that they had the Mark Zuckerberg character wearing right. I think I actually own those T-shirts," Zuckerberg said. "And they got sandals right and all that. But I mean, there are hugely basic things that they got wrong, too. I mean, they made it seem like my whole motivation for building Facebook was so I could get girls, right? And they completely left out the fact that my girlfriend, I've been dating since before I started Facebook, right?"

"Wait, what? Say that again. The girl, your current girlfriend, you were dating back then?" Stahl asked.

"Yeah, I've been dating my current girlfriend…since before I created Facebook," he explained.

"You know, I've heard two reactions. One is about you very personally, and it's not so flattering. The other is that, 'Wow, he's a really great entrepreneur,'" Stahl said.

"I get two reactions, too," Zuckerberg said. "But they're actually a little bit different from the ones that you said. There's a set of people who, I think, have been following the Facebook story who, I think, had a deeper analysis of which things in the movie were true and which ones were false and all that.

Then the rest of people, I just think were pretty surprised and even amazed that, like, 'Wow, Facebook is an interesting enough thing to make a movie out of,' or 'This Mark Zuckerberg person, I never heard of him, like, this must be interesting.' And I can't tell you how many messages I've gotten from people who use Facebook writing in to say 'This movie was really inspiring to me. After seeing this movie, I want to start a company.' Or 'I want to go into computer science,' or 'I want to study math.' And if the movie had that affect on people, then awesome, right? I mean, that's great."

"You almost sound enthusiastic about this movie," Stahl remarked.

One part he doesn't like has to do with the Winklevoss twins, Tyler and Cameron.

In real life, they're Olympic rowers who claim that when they were at Harvard, they had the idea of a university based social networking site first. That in 2003 Zuckerberg agreed to work on their project, but instead, they say, he ripped them off.

"When we approached him, we had been working on the idea for almost a year at that point. We had a sophisticated code base. It wasn't an idea scribbled on a napkin. It was a very, sort of mature idea. And we brought him on to bring it to completion," Cameron Winklevoss told Stahl.

"We agreed to work on this project. He sabotaged our project; and he betrayed us," his brother Tyler added.

"There were other social networking sites already there. It isn't as if you had the first idea, right? You admit that?" Stahl asked.

"That's a typical argument that comes from Facebook that social networking existed at the time," Tyler Winklevoss said. "We weren't individuals on separate sides of the country developing social networks unbeknownst to each other. We were teammates. We were partners."

"So how did you actually find out that he was working on a different project?" Stahl asked.

"We found out by reading the Harvard student newspaper," Tyler Winklevoss recalled.

Asked what the article said, he told Stahl, "It said to the effect, Mark Zuckerberg launches the Facebook.com. It described a bit about it. We turned to each other and we said, 'Isn't that the Mark Zuckerberg that's working with us on the same project?'"

So they sued, and in 2008 the case was settled out of court for a reported $65 million. But the twins have since appealed, arguing that Facebook misled them about the value of the stock in the settlement.

"Why are you pounding away at this when you're making so much money?" Stahl asked.

"This is all about principle," Tyler Winklevoss said.

"Well, I have to be honest with you, it doesn't look that way," Stahl remarked. "It looks like it's all about money."

"No, you will have, I'm not sure anybody can quite put themselves in our shoes and understand what it must've felt like to start an idea in 2002, to approach a fellow student in 2004, to have it stolen, sabotaged, ripped off," he replied.

Recently leaked instant messages, reportedly from Zuckerberg's old computer, suggest he did deliberately delay the twins' project.

"He premeditatedly sandbagged us because he knew getting there first was everything. There wasn't room for two social networks at Harvard and universities around the country," Tyler Winklevoss said.

"What do you say to people who say, 'Come on, give the guy a break. He was 19 years old,'?" Stahl asked.

"I know that when I was 19, I wouldn't have behaved that way. I would have, you know, certainly not betrayed fellow classmates," Cameron Winklevoss said.

When Stahl asked whether they had profiles on Facebook, the twins said yes.

"Let me ask you about the Winklevoss twins. They sued, you settled. They're still coming after you," Stahl said to Zuckerberg.

"You know, it's hard for me to fully wrap my head around where they're coming from on this. You know, early on, they had an idea that was completely separate from Facebook. And that, I mean, it was a dating site for Harvard. And I agreed to help them out with it, to help them. Right, I mean, it wasn't a job, they weren't paying me, I wasn't hired by them or anything like that. And then, the idea that I would then go work on something completely different, like Facebook, and that they would be upset about this all these years later is kinda mindboggling for me. Now, I mean, this is another thing that I think the movie really missed is, I mean, they make it seem like this whole lawsuit is such a huge part of Facebook's history. I've probably spent less than two weeks of my time worried about this lawsuit at all, right?" Zuckerberg replied.

"Maybe you should've worried about it a little more," Stahl remarked.

"Maybe I should have earlier on, right?" he replied. "But I guess the point that I'm trying to make is this has never been a big deal to Facebook or its evolution."

"Do you feel any, any remorse at all about the twins or anything that happened with them?" Stahl asked.

"I mean, after all this time, I feel bad that they still feel bad about it," Zuckerberg said.

Kara Swisher says she doesn't feel sorry for the twins. "I'm sorry. They got paid $65 million for one medium idea that they never could've made into anything," she said.

"Well, you sound very sympathetic to Mark as an individual, to me," Stahl said.

"In this case, yes, 'cause he is the entrepreneur. I think he definitely tried to screw with the Winklevoss [twins]. That's clear. He promised to do a service for them he didn't do. He did. But he also did build the business without their help," Swisher said.

Three years ago, Swisher coined the term "Toddler CEO," referring to Zuckerberg.

"And you told us that you thought he was inexperienced and way too young to run this company," Stahl remembered.

But three years later, Swisher said, "He's done a great job. He's a prodigy. The toddler's a prodigy, as it turns out."

"When I was here three years ago, they were calling you the Toddler CEO, and they don't say that any more at all. This is a tough question, but try: How would you grade yourself as a CEO, as the leader of this business?" Stahl asked.

"I mean, that is a hard question," Zuckerberg replied. "I also don't think you can ever win by answering that question. Now, we've made a huge number of mistakes along the way. Right, now I always say I just think we've made probably every possible mistake you could make."

"Is there a decision that you've made that the people around you told you was a mistake and you defied them and you were right?" Stahl asked.

"You know, the most famous one, I think, probably has to do with selling the company, right? I mean, in 2006…we had this opportunity to sell the company to Yahoo for a billion dollars. And we turned that down. I think a lot of people at the time thought we should sell the company," Zuckerberg said.

"But you know, I felt really strongly," he explained. "And I think now, people generally think that that was a good decision."

Since that decision, the company has grown considerably. Estimates are that if there were an initial public stock offering - an IPO - today, Facebook would be valued between $35-and $50 billion.

Asked if he is ever going to have the IPO, Zuckerberg said, "You know, maybe."

"It's like you can't let go," Stahl remarked.

"I don't think it's letting go. Here's the way that I think about it: a lot of people who I think build startups or companies think that selling the company or going public is this endpoint. Right, it's like you win when you go public. And that's just not how I see it," he said.

"You're 26 years old," Stahl said. "Feel old?"

"Yeah," Zuckerberg replied.

"Yeah, running this giant company. Your personal worth is said to be $6.9 billion. Do you ever just pinch yourself? Do you ever just say, 'Wow, this happened to me'?" Stahl asked.

Zuckerberg replied, "I mean, it is pretty crazy!"
"That part," he replied, laughing.


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