canyon trying to keep warm. they were stranded when water began rising in the canyon. they were all rescued and in good shape too. montana s attorney general is looking into the charity run by the author of the best-selling book three cups of tea . he s following up on reports that greg mortensen may have personally benefitted from the charity, which raised more than $50 million to help build schools in pakistan and afghanistan. the publisher plans to go over possible inaccuracies in that book. the military s keeping big secrets when it comes to the detention of the army private accused of giving classified documents to wikileaks. human rights groups claim bradley manning has been mistreated at quantico where he s being held. and now pentagon officials say they re moving manning to a new prison that will give him access to better health care. they deny the move has anything do with the accusations over his treatment. we remain satisfied that private manning s pretrial confinemen
disaster. it was one year ago today. good morning, everyone. it s wednesday, april 20th, 2011. i m savannah guthrie. chuck is on his way to california for the president s trip. so let s get right to the rundown. and we, of course, will start with the president s western swing. it s his first big campaign fund-raising trip since announcing his re-election bid. the goal is twofold, build support for his plan to attack the deficit and start filling that campaign war chest. he begins at facebook headquarters in palo alto where he ll host his second town hall in two days. then on to high-profile campaign events in san francisco, l.a. and reno. our mike viqueira is live at the white house for us. mike, good morning. roor go reporter: good morning. it is day two of the tour. yesterday, northern virginia. you report he s going out to facebook today. he s going to be talking about his plan to reduce the debt and deficit. it s going to be live streamed on the facebook website. he s g
about the school building mission. cbs news 60 minutes recently looked into 30 of 141 schools the mortenson organization/cia said it built in pakistan and afghanistan and they found that roughly half of those, 30 were empty, built by others, or receiving no support at all from cia. the principal of this school told us that the institute had built six classrooms poorly several years ago and, since then, not a single ruby. in afghanistan we could not find no evidence that six of the schools even existed. most of them in war torn province. that was 60 minutes steve croft. then there s the money. according to 60 minutes an analysis of 2009 receipts he spent 41% of the money it raised to build schools, but $1.7 million, according to 60 minutes, went to mortenson s book related expenses. to put that in context, more
money than they spent in schools in pakistan that year. here is what greg mortenson sent via e-mail to his supporters about the allegations on sunday. said this. the 60 minutes interview paints a distorted picture using inaccurate information, innuendo, and a microscopic focus on one year s irs 990 financial and a few points in the book three cups of tea that occurred almost 18 years ago. mortenson declined our request for an interview but he did speak to the editorial director of outside magazine. alex joins us now along with cnn national security analyst peter bergen and nicholas kristoff of the new york times. when i was watching this last night i was so disappointed. i loved this book. what did mortenson tell you of in your interview with him? you have a rare interview. what did he say to give context to what was a major piece about a lot of problems in his
buying something based on fact. there are thousands of authors around the world who write books who don t take these short cuts. even if it were charitable to mortenson he basically agreed, yeah, these stories aren t really actually basically fundamentally true. i think he s blaming unfairly the way his coauthor and the statements he made to alex heard saying, hey, it wasn t me, the dog ate my homework. i just think it s disingenious, to put it mildly. when you interviewed him, alex, did he come across to you as somebody who is trying to scapegoat his co-author. he s the journalist, not me. i was traveling a lot and i ve been really, really busy and he was the guy really doing the compressing. or, you know, sometimes he comes across, mortenson, that, is in interviews as clueless, a little bit out of it. then he also kept saying it was almost two decades ago. what did you make of all these excuses, really?