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Lately the Minnesota Senator and former "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer has been coming to grips with the tension between politics and comedy. Al Franken talked to correspondent Chip Reid about the function of humor in the serious business of Congress, and how his tough questioning during Senate hearings has gotten Franken noticed for more than his wit.
Entertainment Weekly senior writer Anthony Breznican shares with Steve Hartman a story of inspiration, about how watching "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" at a particularly vulnerable time in his life helped him - but not nearly as much as running into Fred Rogers in an elevator just a few days later.
The Culinary Institute of America started as a trade school for GIs returning from World War II. It would go on to change how chefs were taught. Serena Altschul explores the trade secrets, and occupational hazards, of one of the top culinary colleges in the world.
After 150 years of churning out military ships, the Brooklyn Navy Yard was scuttled in the 1960s. But today it's been reborn as a hub of high-tech startups. Jim Axelrod checked out some of the intriguing creations of entrepreneurs at New Lab.
Clifford Rountree, Kenny Barker and Victor Renza were three American soldiers in Vietnam whose platoon was ambushed in May 1967. Twenty-two of their comrades were killed. John Blackstone reports on how that battle shaped the lives of the survivors, and how some of them spent the anniversary of that battle, fifty years later.
In this report first broadcast on the "CBS Evening News" on November 11, 1982, correspondent Bruce Morton talks with Vietnam War veterans who journeyed to Washington, D.C., to pay tribute to friends who died while serving with them in 1967.
We leave you this Sunday Morning at one of our newest parks: the Katahdin Woods and Waters National Monument in Maine, established just last August. Videographer: Scot Miller
In this web extra, Senator Al Franken reveals to Chip Reid the internal struggle he suffered when contemplating telling a joke during a Senate hearing on employment discrimination at the expense of his absent Republican colleagues.
In this web extra, Minnesota Senator Al Franken tells correspondent Chip Reid about his opinion of Texas Senator Ted Cruz.
In this web extra, Minnesota Senator Al Franken discusses protocols which preclude him from using certain language in the Senate about his fellow Senators, such as Ted Cruz of Texas. But as becomes obvious, he and Chip Reid are not IN the Senate.
