you do your best. but a lot of times you can t provide the kind of representation that the constitution, our code of ethics and professional standards would have you provide. derwyn bunton has been head of the new orleans public defender s office for the last eight years. the 52 lawyers on his staff are responsible for representing more than 20,000 people a year. how many of you believe that an innocent client went to jail because you didn t have enough time to spend on their case? you feel you ve all had that experience? one by one, the patches are peeled away and the world comes back into focus. you re witnessing the moment when the people in this room realize they can see, for the first time in years. can you see my fingers? their eyes and their faces begin to light up with a quiet sort of joy and wonder at the gift of sight. doctors geoff tabin and sanduk ruit are eye surgeons, and now, they are life savers. i m steve kroft. i m lesley stahl. i m bill whitaker
you do your best. but a lot of times you can t provide the kind of representation that the constitution, our code of ethics and professional standards would have you provide. derwyn bunton has been head of the new orleans public defender s office for the last eight years. the 52 lawyers on his staff are responsible for representing more than 20,000 people a year. how many of you believe that an innocent client went to jail because you didn t have enough time to spend on their case? you feel you ve all had that experience? one by one, the patches are peeled away and the world comes back into focus. you re witnessing the moment when the people in this room realize they can see, for the first time in years. can you see my fingers? their eyes and their faces begin to light up with a quiet sort of joy and wonder at the gift of sight. doctors geoff tabin and sanduk ruit are eye surgeons, and now, they are life savers. i m steve kroft. i m lesley stahl. i m bill whitaker
you do your best. but a lot of times you can t provide the kind of representation that the constitution, our code of ethics and professional standards would have you provide. derwyn bunton has been head of the new orleans public defender s office for the last eight years. the 52 lawyers on his staff are responsible for representing more than 20,000 people a year. how many of you believe that an innocent client went to jail because you didn t have enough time to spend on their case? you feel you ve all had that experience? one by one, the patches are peeled away and the world comes back into focus. you re witnessing the moment when the people in this room realize they can see, for the first time in years. can you see my fingers? their eyes and their faces begin to light up with a quiet sort of joy and wonder at the gift of sight. doctors geoff tabin and sanduk ruit are eye surgeons, and now, they are life savers. i m steve kroft. i m lesley stahl. i m bill whitaker
here we go, it was ten days till new year s and all through d.c., not a deal was stirring despite every plea. more guns. that s the nra s solution for preventing another school massacre. all morning long, we put gun control in focus. a man with down syndrome beaten and pepper sprayed by police. the crime not turning around. the family joins us live. good morning, everyone, i m randi kaye. it is 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. on the west. thank you very much for joining us this morning. we start with the national rifle association s plan to make school safer. armed guards. the only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun. so while many in washington are calling for more gun controls, the nra wants to fight fire with fire in schools or maybe it s just the deterrent factor that they re hoping for. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti joining me from new york. is that the message that most people expected or wanted to hear from the nra
connecticut mass shooting laid to rest. funerals for three little girls held today, but as families say their final good-byes, the debate over gun control is really just heating up. much more on that conversation in just a moment here on cnn. the fiscal cliff, well, just ten days away with no deal in sight. president obama, house speaker john boehner literally thousands of miles apart. boehner is back in ohio. president obama and family are in his native hawaii. he is planning to return to washington after christmas. a weekend of violence. explosions and death in syria. at least five people killed in damascus today when a powerful car bomb blew up in this residential neighborhood. it tore through apartment buildings and filled the streets with debris. more than 140 people reportedly died in peattacks across syria, most in damascus and its suburbs. india, riot police blasted protesters with high-pressure water hoses trying to break up massive angry riots against the govern