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What archeologists found buried in the sand dunes along the california coast. And it is an american obsession that is rarely made in america. Way to grow coffee in the nd a continental United States. Find out where and how much it costs. But we begin with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. The tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. Senate republicans scramble to win big tax cuts. This is a great day for the country. Been 31 years since weve done comprehensive tax reform. This is a momentous occasion for the republican party. They put out 429 pages of text this evening and no one has seen it or let alone being able to read it. This is the tax bill. See how thick it is. Montana Senate Jon Tester posting this video on twitter. This is your government at work. Can you tell me what that word is . The bombshell in the russia investigation. Flynn flips, putting Jared Kushner in the cross hairs. The former National Security adviser to the president pled guilty to lying to the fbi. Hawaii launching a siren smim to warn of an appending Nuclear Attack days after the north korea tested the most powerful missile yet. And over in italy look at that. Going up the water and everything. The worlds longest lasting rainbow. An hour continuous rainbow. How do you not have a great day. All of that and in the hand of lexis williams, from midcourt he hit it. And all that matters. Lindsey vonn and the lead slipping away and she goes down into the fencing. On cbs this Morning Saturday. A big change on the cbs evening news. Good evening, im Anthony Mason. Anthony mason finally getting some time off. Jeff glor officially takes over monday. Friday the broadcast executive producer shared this moment on twitter. Jeff is a fine journalist and a good friend and i thank you for your support over the past six months. Temp work is rarely such a privilege. You have been doing a magnificent job but were happy to have you back. It is nice to be home again. Were happy to have you home. Welcome to the weekend, everyone. Im Anthony Mason along with alex wagner. Overnight Congressional Republicans clear a hurdle toward a major tax overhall. This morning the Senate Approved the bill by a vote of 5149. Lastminute concessions were made. No democrats voted for the plan. The senate will have to work with the house which already passed its version. The nearly 1. 5 trillion bill is viewed as a victory for trump and and the largest tax overhaul in decades including tax cuts for businesses and high income people with more modest breaks for others. After the vote President Trump tweeted, we are one step closer to delivering massive tax cuts for working families across america. Look forward to signing a final bill before christmas. Errol barnett is in our Washington Bureau with more. Reporter there was an in tensive fort to get this bill over the finish line. It required an incredible amount of behind the scenes horse trading and last minute handwritten additions but in the end the senate succeeded in passing tax reform. The yeas are 51 and the nays are 49. The tax cuts and jobs act as amended is passed. Reporter it was almost 2 00 in the morning when Vice President pence announced the final vote which was largely along party lines. This is a great day for the country. Its been 31 years since weve done tax reform. Reporter but democrats bee moan the sign size of the legislation and the last minute handwritten additions on senate floor. When we got the bill, this is what it looked like. Reporter and online their sending around their edits as we speak. Can you tell me what that word is in. Reporter republicans say the late changes were necessary to secure votes from skeptical and they were done through regular order. You complain about process, when you are losing. Reporter those additions including a deduction for individual property taxes. Capped at 10,000. And republicans revived the alternative minimum tax for high earners. It just came down to sort of the reporter retiring tennessee senator bob corker, the only republican to vote no was turned off by the 1. 5 trillion price tag but other republicans argued the cuts will grow the economy. This is what this bill is about. Take home pay. More money for the american people. Reporter while the Corporate Tax rate is being slashed permanently, individual cuts are not set in stone. A family of four for example earning 75,000 a year would initially get a tax break averaging 2,200. But democrats note, those savings will be temporary. I think the priorities of this tax bill are all wrong. Reporter now also included in this senate plan were other republican goals, including a provision to allow drilling in the Arctic National wildlife refuge in alaska and an appeal of the obama mandate that individuals Purchase Health insurance. Thank you. The apparent victory for the paparazzi comie less than 24 hours after Michael Flynn ne pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. He is cooperating with the Robert Mueller investigation. On friday President Trump ignored questions from reporters as he welcomed the libya Prime Minister to the white house. Cbs news justice correspondent jeff pegues is in our Washington Bureau with more. Reporter good morning. Tye cob tried to put distance between the president and the guilty plea s guilty plea by saying it hurts no one but flynn but they are moving closer to the president s inner circle. Michael flynn arrived at the courthouse to plead guilty to making false statements to the fbi. Once inside a federal judge asked him if he was doing so willingly and vol untear illy. The general answered with a simple yes, sir, according to court papers he lied to fbi agents about the details of two phone calls with then Russian Ambassador to the u. S. Sergey kislyak during the president ial transition. Cbs news has learned flynn was direced to make the first call by President Trumps soninlaw Jared Kushner described in papers as a very Senior Member of the transition team. On december 22nd, 2016, flynn called kislyak to urge russia to delay or defeet a United Nations resolution concerning israeli settlements. A week later flynn spoke to kislyak again this time about new sanctions on russia and relayed to the ambassador that trump team did not want russia to escalate the situation. Flynn made that goal after consulting with someone court papers identify as a senior transition official. Cbs news has learned that was flynns deputy k. T. Mcfarland. After the second kislyak call, russian president Vladimir Putin announced he would not retaliate for the u. S. Sanctions and trump tweeted putin was very smart. Flynn was a loyal trump surrogate during the campaign but fired as the president s National Security adviser after just 24 days when it became clear he had already lied to Vice President pence about his communications with kislyak. Pence had publicly said they did not discuss sanctions. It was strictlyco coincidental and they did not dus anything having to do with the United States decision to expel reporter he is required to cooperate with the investigation n. A state flynn said his actions were wrong and his guilty plea was in the best interest of my family and of our country. What does flynns cooperation signal about the direction of this investigation . It signals it is Going Forward and it is moving and advancing very quickly. Reporter peter decidenberg a former federal prosecutor. If anyone is interacting with the russians or would know about, it would be flynn. So if you could get him to talk, it would be worth giving him a great deal. Considering the allegations against him, this is a good deal for flynn who might have otherwise phased decades behind bars. He was other scrutiny for failing to disclose payments from russian backed companies and trying to, straight the kidnapping avenue turkish cleric in exchange for 15 million. Alex. Jeff, you say this is a good deal for mike flynn. What indications do we have about the level of cooperation he may be offering to special counsel. Reporter well in his own statement he said that he took this plea deal and he will be cooperating with the special counsel investigation. Mike flynn is a unique video in this investigation. I say that because he straddled the campaign, the transition, and then the first few weeks of this white house and he was at the top level of the campaign transition and the white house early on. And so he was in on some of the top level discussions and what investigators are trying to figure out is why the russians were so intent on helping the Trump Campaign and whether any deals were made. Jeff you reported that Jared Kushner directed flynn to make contact with the Russian Ambassador about a u. N. Resolution. What might this mean for the president s soninlaw in terms of this investigation. Reporter well kushner has already been under scrutiny. He left about a hundred meetings off a security clearance form that he had to fill out accurately and including meetings with russians. So hes under scrutiny for that and also reportedly in on the conversation when it came to the firing of former fbi director james comey. So the scrutiny has been there on kushner. It now increases. We know that he was interviewed by the special Counsel Office early last month and most of those questions were told focus on flynn. So the heat is on Jared Kushner as well. Jeff pegues, thank you. Special counsel Robert Mueller was pointed after President Trump fired fbi director james comey. Angry that he would not drop the russia investigation. After the flynn guilty plea on friday, comey made his first ever instagram post. A passage from the book of amos in the bible, quote, but let justice roll down like waters an righteousness like an ever flowing stream. That is ominous. President trump denied he wanted to fire rex tillerson. He told reports that speculation that he was on his way out was, quote, laughable. President trump called reports about ousting tillerson fake news. Mr. Trump said tillerson is not leaving and the white house said he still has President Trumps support. For more on an eventful 24 hours in the capitol, they all seem eventful, we turn to philip bunt. Good morning. Good morning. Lets talk about the most recent news which happened while most of us slept. Maybe you werent sleeping. But this is a major legislative win for the president and something hes looking for but it is not law yet. Where does it go from here. That is right. So the house passed a version of the tax cuts already that passed without notice because the house is has a much tronger republican majority. The senate bill now has a different set of changes to tax laws. And now they go into conference, where the house and the senate try to work to together and figure out one unified package and then it goes back to both chambers for another vote. So this is not over. It is a much further along process than what was the Health Care Bill for example which we all know failed in the Senate Earlier this year. So this is significant for the republicans in that sense. It is significant also in so far as it bucks a decade of republican orthodox about not adding to the federal deficit. By the most rosie estimates this will cost at least a trillion dollars. That is exactly right. So there is a group called the joint committee on taxation which a congressional Nonpartisan Group which assessed the bill an even incorporated economicest masts for how the economy will grow, this is a 1 trillion hit on the deficit. This is something however that republicans have largely dismissed. Mitch mcconnell saying that essentially this will pay for itself and there will be enough growth. There are very few economists who say that will happen so this is a stark change. The democrats complained loudly that they didnt have time to read the amendments and some of them arrived happened written with words you cant even understand. We saw john testa there. But does this set a president dent in terms of how bills are drafted and passed. Well see if it sets a pressa dent. This is hard to predict. But the republicans has learned of a way of avoiding public out cry. The Health Care Bill for example was drafted very quickly and in part that was to avoid the sort of organized activity by grassroots americans coming out and saying they object to it. And now this has to go back to the house and senate there is time to raise objections or support if they choose to do so but it was clear part of the speed was metropolitan to try to offset objections. We talk about this as a tax bill but it is also a health bill. It will repeal obamacare video man dade which is crucial to the survival of the market place. What are the implications for the broad sector of American Economy touched by this. There are huge implications. It is a totally important point. And to some extent we dont even know what all of the implications are in part because of the bill was cobbled together yesterday and has a lot of potential loopholes an potential implications but the Health Care Point is a totally important one. This is almost certainly going to lead to more people who are dropping out of health care and coverage or more people who end up declaring bankruptcy because they dont have health care coverage. The Congressional Budget Office looked at this and because of the repeal of the individual mandate there is essentially the federal government will make money off people who make less than 40,000 despite the tax cuts because they are saving money on not helping to subsidize Health Insurance. In that regard, this is even more beneficial to the wealthy and less beneficial to poor americans because of that change to the video mandate. But at the same time, philip, the president had what is his biggest legislative victory and overshadowed by the flynn situation. Right. What do we think the white house is feeling right now . Because their initial reaction is this is not a big deal. If you look at what donald trump said, at every point along the way he said this is not a big deal. Even after the meeting between donald trump jr. And the russian lawyer emerged last year. So that is the white house standard line. But this is a big deal. That Michael Flynn was charged with only one small thing suggests he is working with Robert Mueller team and he is prepared to give testimony and Robert Mueller wont make a deal to give up some low Ranking Member of the trump staff. There is clearly some bigger fish were looking at here and there are stealed indictments and we dont know all of the answers but it is clear that mueller has his eyes on something big. The significance of flynns information may be equally dio metrically opposed to the small size of the charges. Philip bump from the Washington Post, thank you. Tomorrow morning on face the nation here, john dickersons guests will include Republican Senate Lindsey Graham of south carolina, Mick Mulvaney and senate angus king, independent of maine. Nancy pelosi is calling for a fellow democrat to step down in the wake of Sexual Harassment allegations. She spoke to ruben kihuen after allegations were found to be convincing. This as texas republican representative Blake Farenthold used 84,000 in taxpayer money to settle a sexual harassm claim in 2015 brought by his former spokesperson lauren green who was fired after complaining of a hostile work environment. The office of compliance has paid out about 360,000 to resolve complaints against House Offices since 2013. New light is being shed on an immigration case that turned into an issue in the president ial election last year. The Justice Department released an arrest warrant for josines Garcia Zarate after a San Francisco jury unquitted the undocumented mexican of murder in the 2015 killing of skate stein lee. He was found guilty of illegal possession of a firearm. And how this is again raising questions about socalled sanctuary cities such as San Francisco. Reporter a day after zarate was found not guilty in the murder of kate steinle, he faces deportation and potential federal prison time for violating his problems. An amended arrest warrant unsealed on friday said he must be returned to forward custody and transported to texas for sentencing. But it is unclear whether he would serve his time in the stein lee case before he is turned over to the feds. He faces up to three years behind bars when he is sentenced. Thursdays verdict has also reignited an in tense National Debate over immigration and sanctuary city policies like San Francisco. From day one, this case was used as a means to ferment hate. Reporter he had been recently released from the San Francisco jail when his attorneys say he accidentally shot steinle in 2015. Under sanctuary city policy he had not been turned over to immigration authorities. President trump referenced the killing throughout his campaign. Another victim is kate steinle. Gunned down in the sanctuary city of San Francisco. Reporter the president weighed in on the verdict on twitter on friday accusing tom democrats of being weak on crime and calling the exoneration a travesty of justice and San Francisco has pushed back against criticism vowing to stand by their socalled sanctuary city policy. Cbs this Morning Saturday john blackstone, San Francisco. Time to show you this mornings headlines. The harold reports that jeffrey rush is stepping down as president of the australian Screen Industry association. Following a complaint filed by the Sydney Theater Company of inappropriate behavior reported by an actress from when rush appeared in king lair there two years ago. He denied the accusations and stepping down days before the industry film and Television Awards are handed out. The Honolulu Star adviser said the growing Nuclear Threat from north korea led to the first siren test in hawaii in nearly 30 years. [ sirens ] at letter sounded at about 500 locations on friday. It is used to wash of hurricanes or tsunami. Residents are advised to immediately take shelter when it sounds. It is believed a Missile Launch from north korea could strike hawaii in 20 minutes. The Los Angeles Times said airlines are preparing to roll out new restrictions for socalled smart luggage. American and delta say starting next month bags with tracking technology and remote locks will only be allowed in a cargo hold if they are lithium batteries are removed. Batteries when heated can potentially start a fire. United is expected to roll out a similar policy. And the New York Post said aaron boone will be the next manager of the new york yankee. He played just 71 games for the yankees back in 2003 but delivered one of the biggest hits for team in recent years. Hitting a walkoff home run in game seven of the series to send new york to the world series at the expense of the boston red sox. Boston fans still refer to him as aaron bleeping boone. It is a different word in boston than what we used here. It is about 22 after the hour. Here is a look at the weather for your weekend. It is a damning report on the Police Response to demonstrations in charlottesville, virginia. What it says about the failure of Law Enforcement to prevent violent confrontations including the fatal car attack. And later, should businesses had the right to refuse service to samesex couples. A decision before the u. S. Supreme court this month. Well break down the looming cases that to change american life. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. when it comes to holiday shopping, my wife loves style, my son is all about technology and my daughter . She just loves horses. Dont you just love onestop shopping . I do. Ring in the holidays with buick. Get up to 20 below msrp on most 2017 luxury suv models. Thats over 7,100 on this Buick Envision essence. Experience the new buick this holiday season. In a year with no shortage of news, who were the newsmakers in 2017. Who made one publications list. Also what archeologists have found beneath the california desert, icons of ancient egypt that arent quite as old as they seem, coming up on cbs this Morning Saturday. Amerengagement taking the the engagement to prince harry takes her away. We see her improbable journey. Meghan markle marrying prince harry is being called a 21st century cinderella story at buckingham palace. Fresh faced markle comes from the humblest of beginnings going from this working class l. A. Home to windsor castle. It all started here at her childhood home. A note was passed out on kengsing ton palace stationery. She started her career theater in high school but when it came time to finding rolls she would run out of gas on the way to auditions. I love this car and in the morning it would start and it sounded like a steamboat engine. She was the first in her family to graduate college. She believed her mixed race may have prevented her from getting rolls in a labeldriven industry. But led to her starring role as a rachel in the long Running Series suits, she had Trevor Ingleson in 2011. The marriage lasted two years. Markle has become an activist as an actor. Just like her fiance across the pond. What may be the most important feature about this royal couple, is the two really like each other. Andrew morton wrote princess dianas biography. You could see the sparkle in their eyes. In a vanity fair interview she said a personally love a great love story. She is certainly writing her own. Cbs news, los angeles. Welcome back to cbs this Morning Saturday. Still to come until now hawaiis been the only state with commercial coffee production. But thats changing. Well show you where java plants and a whole coffee industry are starting to take hold. Plus, his debut novel rocketed to the top of bestseller lists and inspired an oscar nominated film. The author of the martian is taking readers on another thrilling adventure set in space. Beneath the surface of this planet, an archaeological discovery with a major twist and almost 100 years of Hollywood History behind it. Thats ahead. We begin with the developments of missteps. A former Prosecutor Says the circumstances leading to deadly violence were fueled by a series of failures. The independent report commissioned by the city found fault in preparation, Communications Even the coordination between city and state police. Heres kris van cleave. Youre report as if you were there. I was there. I know what took place. Reporter tempers flared months after the violence played out on the streets of charlottesville. An independent investigation found the police plan for unite the right protest was flawed. A stunning and obvious failure in preparation and communication so poor the right hand didnt know what the left hand was doing. Commanders failed to use tactics that could have kept marchers separate separated. A former u. S. Attorney hadnt even tried on a hil milt or used the shield given for that day. Reporter the report says officers failed to stand up to protect human life because some were told to stay behind barricades and others ordered to break up only the most serious altercations and available s. W. A. T. Teams werent used. Police also dismissed suggestions to block intersections with barriers or dump trucks that could have prevented james fields from driving through this crowd of people, killing heather highic and innering others. Violence began and commanders were an aware the area was unstaffed. The police chiefish did. Not a time for fingerpointing but a time to come together. I am committed to implementing the recommendations in this report. Reporter the report also found the city received bad legal advice and as a result did not ban things like clubs, sticks and shields from the protest. White supremacist so shows the organizers had peaceful aims and wants a federal civil rights investigation of the city and police. Anthony . Kris van cleave, thanks. 2017 has been an incredible year of major and astonishing news events. Coming up, one publications take on the key players and turning points that shaped life and culture. First, heres a look at the weather of your weekend. While congress grapples with overhauling the nations tax code, another branch of government addresses several issues that could alter the nation for many years to come. From the right to deny service to samesex couples to the privacy of our cell phone records. Well see whats coming up before the u. S. Supreme court. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. Just press clean and roomba from irobot gets to work using two multisurface brushes and powerlifting suction to grab and remove everything from fine dust to large debris. Daily dirt doesnt stand a chance. You and roomba from irobot. Better together. 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On tap with that case . This case comes amongst a larger conversation how much access Law Enforcement can get to our digital records. No doubt, there is more information about me on this cell phone than in my entire home. In this case Law Enforcement was investigating a string of armed robberies, without a warrant able to get cell phone location data. When your cell phone pings to a tower. The suss spent got to the Supreme Court, convicted partially on this data. They had almost 13,000 points of data fo him and he sued saying they shouldnt have been able to get this without a warrant. The case involves the Fourth Amendment literally written centuries ago and now applied to new technology. How difficult to interpret this . A longstanding principle once you give your information or data to ta third party its fair game for Law Enforcement. Look at our phones and think how much information you almost have to hand over to a third party if you want a cell phone. There are laws on the books that speak this to, but from the mid80s. Think about what technology was like then. They dont apply. The justices are in a spot and need to clarify so Law Enforcement can do their job and seem open in argument. Curtailing this, perhaps, a little bit. Another case heard next week involves a colorado cake shop, significant implications for samesex couples. Tell us about it . The only thing stressful than Law Enforcement and technology is wedding planning. Tell you right now. In this case, a christian business owner, jack phillips, he is a christian businessman and employs a lot of credit principles in his business. For example, not open on sundays. He has refused to make cakes that involve alcohol or for halloween or that celebrate divorce. So, of course, a samesex couple came to his bake shop want add cake and he refused. They sued arguing that colorados antidiscrimination laws do not allow him to refuse to bake this cake. He actually challenged that on First Amendment grounds. Interesting. Not arguing about religious freedom. Hes saying the state cannot compel me to create a message i disagree with. What are the implications here potentially for businesses . Sweeping implications. Some concerns that now anyone whos in a quote unquote artistic business that would be in terms of marriage, florists, hair salons, calligraphers, could now refuse to provide services. Some say, look, a pretechtural argument, its a pretty good one. A hunt for a while after the Supreme Court decided samesex marriage is marriage, theres a hunt for cases that could get back to the Supreme Court to try to carve out exceptions like this here. Interesting. Not at the Supreme Court level, youve reported on a department of justice investigation involving Prominent Ivy League university and affirmative action policies. Right. This could potentially go back to the Supreme Court. Thats part of the idea. The president himself has said perhaps it is time for affirmative action to be revisited. Do we still need it . Under that umbrella the Justice Department is currently investigating Harvard University for possibly discriminating against asian students in its affirmative action policies. Now, harvard has declined to provide the Justice Department with everything it wants in this investigation. Just late last night i spoke with harvard and they accepted they have complied, given the Justice Department everything they want and so far weve seen in the case compliance, having trouble agrees what exactly that is, what that means. Well see monday whether or not the Justice Department sues them, or if the two sides will continue to proceed with this investigation, but it is unprecedented. Unusual for the Justice Department to investigate systemic discrimination as a university and also happened amid a time when the Justice Department sieves Rights Division is rolling back. Political appointees at the Justice Department leading this investigation, right . Yes. The civil Rights Division at the Justice Department and we tried to ask the attorney general about this earlier this week and youve seen on cbs this morning and evening news those questions shut down. Something ive never seen before at a press conference. Thanks, paula. An outsized influence in the world we live in. Up next, pulling thousands of journalists to come up with the people who most defined the year 2017. We will run down the list coming up next. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. Hi, mr. Powers, thanks for calling unitedhealthcare. Hi, i need your help. Ive been trying to find a knee specialist. But nobody has an opening for months uuuggghhh uuurrrggghhh mr. Powers . You cant always control your feelings. I found one innetwork next tuesday. But choosing unitedhealthcare can help you control your care. Thanks, stephanie. 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Now on the next page youll see a breakdown of costs. What . Its just. We were going to ask about it but we werent sure when. So thanks. Yeah, thats great. Being clear and upfront. Multiplied by 14,000 financial advisors, its a big deal. And its how edward jones makes sense of investing. It is an understatement to say that a lot has happened in the past year, but who are the transformative figures who impacted and shaped 2017 . A question Bloomberg Businessweek sought to answer in a special issue out now. A large group of bloomberg journalists put their Heads Together to come up with the first annual bloomberg 50. Some of the figures are in the news now such as special counsel Robert Mueller. Others are household names such as Tesla Ceo Elon musk. Including wonderwoman director Patty Jenkins and noted for humanitarian work including Nobel Peace Prize resill yant. To break down the other names on the list, brett beacon, editor at Bloomberg Businessweek who helped guy the list. Thanks for joining us. Youre welcome. Start with a man on many lists but doesnt diminish, jeff bezos. Hard to argue he doesnt have a massive year. June 16th of this year, decides to drop 13. 7 billion on whole really, what he did in doing that is essentially signal to the world that he doesnt want amazon just to be the Biggest Online retailer in the world but the biggest retailer in the world. And within hours of that announcement, the walmarts of the world, costcos, krogers lost 30 billion. Wow. Speaking of amazon, another name on the list helped develop alexa technology. Jeffrey hinton. Considered the godfather of ai. In many ways invented something called the neural net. If you used amazon alexa, watches as facebook identified your friends photos, using autopilot on tesla, thats actually, it all goes back to research he did and canada this year opened up a nearly 200 Million Institute to keep him there and other ai experts in canada. When hinton started the research, dismissed, ah, not going anywhere . Mid70s, late 70s. Neuronet, kind of done. Not a future here. This thing called the internet came along and turned out you could program these neuronets with a ton of information and lo and behold all the big tech ferns decided we need more of these out here. We do. Another person readers may not be familiar with. Diane green. What is her contribution . Googles cloud chief and googles Cloud Business grew about 80 year over year. While google only has a very small portion of the Cloud Business, amazon really is the giant, she said this year she expects googles business to overaim amazon by 2022. Russian botnet. What about their achievements . Had fun with this one. If you recall about a year ago right after President Trump was elected, Mark Zuckerberg came out and said it was a crazy idea that there had been any sort of fake news influencing the election. Well, a year later we learned in congressional testimony is that there actually were 126 Million People that saw some form of fake news connected to russian botnet. A huge influence and were still trying to figure exactly what that influence is. Administration officials on the list, maybe ones you thought would not be, scott pruett is one of them from epa, why . Discussions all year about what accomplishments does the Trump Administration have . Qui quietly, dismantling obama era regulations. What we saw happen this year is really that this is a man who spent his entire career fighting the epa from the outside and now is on the inside and really trying to repeal a lot of what came to fruition over the last administration. Big changes there. Fascinating list. The bloomberg 50. Thanks for being with us this morning. Long before digital special effects, epic mothers required incredibly elaborate sets. 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Demille commissioned designer paul ereceive known as the father of art deco to build a lavish set, 12 stories high, 800 feed wide in the guadeloupe sand dunes of the california coast. After filming wrapped, the set was too expensive to move and demille ordered it buried. No such thing as over the top for cecil b. Demille. Reporter this author wrote the biography, empire of dreams. They believed in the physicality of movies. If they were going to do the civil war, they did the civil war. They got a couple hundred people or a couple thousand people and made the civil war. If hes recreating ancient egypt he builds it on the same scale as ancient egypt was built. Reporter now archeologists unearthed one of the 21 sphinxes demille left behind. This week discovered a 300pound head still intact after nearly a century in the sand. Given these objects lasted for years even though only built to last two months during filming, it speaks to the craftsmanship and level of skill the artisans who built them. Reporter recovery of these hollywood artifacts is a delicate process. Unlike the great sphinx of giza carved by ang sent egyptians ow bedrock, the ones built here are made of plaster of paris. Despite agility, the statues have a surviving characteristic. They were painted, even though in a black and white film. Would have used different pigments to create shadows and light and prevent this very solid look of one color either black or white. So in the movie these are great. Wow what a production. I love this. The good news for wannabe indiana joneses like myself who came to see this magical foe egypt, the sphinx heads on display at the guadeloupe dunes starting next year. Okay. Im going. Book your ticket now. I love it when the sets were as epic as the movie. Right. And other director, might use them. So bury them in the sand for 100 years. The physicality of movies. . They dont make them like they used to. Sure dont. Speaking of a hollywood tale, andy weir, the mind behind the blockbuster movie the martian. He tells us about his new book, his interest in scientific detail and what nearly killed his career. Stick around. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. What was judd apatows reaction . Hung out at a festival. I like you. Do you have movie ideas . Went in, prepared ideas, like an idea about a ghost witch. A witch, dies, comes back as a ghost. We dont need to go on. But he was like, okay. Do you have any other ideas . I said, when my wife, my girlfriend and i were first dating she was in a coma eight days i hung out with her parents. He said, thats the movie. Do that. His whole thing is taking real, true emotional stuff and making it funny. Hats where it started. You wouldnt think that would be funny. Why was she in a coma . What happened . She was just very tired. [ laughter ] its what you did to her enough of the put me in a coma. Like a little trip to europe. Just eight days. She it took them a long time to diagnose her. An illness, mystery illness. Couldnt figure what it was. Her body was shutting down. Put her in a coma to take stress off our body. Put her on a respirator. Its called adult onset stills disease. A very real disease and actually on an episode of house. The crazy diagnosis he had and everything was like, no way its that, but thats what it was. Then you two worked together on this film . Right, three years . Right. How did that work for your relationship . Really great for our relationship. You know, people are like, oh, my god you how did you survive that . It actually brought us closer together. Welcome to cbs welcome to cbs this Morning Saturday. Im Anthony Mason. And im alex wagner. Coming up this hour, Michael Flynns guilty plea brings special counsel Robert Mueller closer to President Trump and his top adviser. The former National Security adviser is cooperating with mueller to answer the question, did President Trump collude with russia to win the 2016 election. Americans have led the way in their obsession with coffee but growing coffee here has never been commercially viable. Well show you why thats changing and where its happening. And for over 15 years, the band spoon has built a dedicated following with critically acclaimed albums and spectacular live shows. Well talk with them about their road to stardom, thats ahead. Overhauling taxes. The senate voted early this morning 5149 to pass a major tax reform bill thats viewed as a victory for President Trump. The 1. 5 trillion measure would slash Corporate Tax rate to 20 and repeal a fee paid by some americans who do not buy Health Insurance under obamacare. Its projected to raise the deficit by 1. 4 trillion over the next decade. No democrats voted for the measure and many complained they did not get enough time to read all the lastminute changes. Everybody had plenty of opportunity to see the measure. You complain about process when youre losing. Thats what you heard on the floor tonight. After the vote, President Trump tweeted his thanks to the senate for getting the bill passed. It must now be reconcileled with the house version of the bill. Russia meddling investigation led by special counsel Robert Mueller has reached into President Trumps inner circle. Former National Security adviser flynn pleaded guilty to lying to the fbi. It is part of a deal that retires the threestar army general to cooperate with the investigation. White house lawyer ty cobb distanced the guilty plea from the president by saying the charge implicates no one other than Michael Flynn. For more on the busy 24 hours in washington, we turn to ed okeefe, a congressional reporter for the Washington Post and a cbs news contributor. Ed, good morning. Good morning, guys. How did republicans get to the finish line in the early hours of this morning . 1 49 a. M. , anthony, most things dont happen in this town that late or early in the morning. They had to cut some deals with various republicans to make sure they would vote for this thing. Pwhen you only have 52 republicans in the senate, you needed at least 50, there was some horse trading to be done. Among other things, they made some changes to how muc y deduct in your property taxes, how much certain socalled passthrough companies will be able to benefit from tax cuts. And even had to do things like permit drilling in the alaska National Wildlife refuge in order to get votes from lisa murkowski, the senator from alaska. This is how horse trading works and republicans did what they needed to do. Democrats were not happy about their ability to view the bill. Senator Clay Mccaskill said she got revisions from lobbyists rather than her own colleagues across the aisle. Did republicans know what was in this bill . I think its fair to say, alex, that no member of the u. S. Senate read the whole thing or was totally aware of whats in it. Mitch mcconnell makes a good point. When youre complaining about process, youre losing. But democrats have a fair point as well. You have more than 500 roughly 500 pages of new tax policy that adds more than 1. 5 trillion to the deficit most likely and how can you be passing that without, you know, taking a breath and trying to sort out what exactly is in there. Similar charges were made back in the day when the Affordable Care act was passed and republicans complained that democrats were rushing the process but as mcconnell said, when youre losing, this is all you can really complain about. The house and the senate now have to get together over the next few days, try to come up with a final compromise. Undoubtedly, youre going to see similar rush jobs on certain aspects of the legislation. This is not the final product. Ed, as you alluded to, the senate bill gets rid of most state and local tax deduction, which is going to hurt taxpayers in states like new york, new jersey, california and big cities which have high local taxes. Is this a potential problem with Republican House members in those states . It is. They did not vote for the house plan because there were essenially no deductions for folks from those states. They called it s. A. L. T. , state and local taxes. Weve been calling the lawmakers concerned about this saltines for the last several weeks. Theyre going to be a factor. Theres about 20 of them in the house. Republicans cant afford to lose too many votes. The compromise in the senate was folks could deduct up to 10,000 in your property taxes. Well see if thats an acceptable compromise to those republicans in the house. And there is a Government Shutdown looming, is there not, ed . Thats right. Friday. Circle your calendar. If congress cant pass some kind of shortterm spending plan by then, we may have a partial Government Shutdown. As if there wasnt enough drama in washington already, ed okeefe, thank you so much. Its about five minutes after the hour. Heres a look at the weather for your weekend. Weve all heard of colombian coffee but how about californian . Ahead, well see how commercial coffee production may be about to take hold on americas west coast. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. With advils fast relief, youll ask, what pulled muscle . What headache . Nothing works faster to make pain a distant memory. Advil liquigels and advil liquigels minis. What pain . Advil liquigels and advil liquigels minis. Good is in every blue diamond almond. And once good gets going, theres no stopping it. Blue diamond almonds. Get your good going. 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Thats a clip from bottle shock which tells the story of the 1976 Wine Competition that shocked the french and recogn e recognized california as a world class wine region. California has long been a leader in agriculture but one crop thats never been commercially viable anywhere in the continental u. S. Is coffee until now. Jamie has the story. Reporter the Coffee Market is estimated to be an 80 billion industry. Grown in 50 countries. Now a farmer has the coffee world buzzing. The question is whether americans will pay the same for a high end cup of coffee as they would for a glass of that california chardonnay. High above the Pacific Ocean in galita california, referred to by locals as the good land, jay has been farming the land for 25 years, growing an eclectic mix of tropical crops from avocados to Passion Fruit to dragon fruit. How many acres does this farm go in total . About 40 acrings. Half is dedicated to agriculture. Reporter its a long ride down this narrow country road just to make it off the mountain. Having coffee around the house is convenient. But he has taken that to a whole new level. This is our gish sha coffee. Want you to take a little whiff of that. You can reporter oh, boy, wow. This geisha was grown here on his farm. Its a layered agricultural system. Reporter rusty and his colleague lindsay showed us some of the approximately 1,500 coffee trees kept shaded by larger fruit trees. You can see coffee blossoms forming along the stem here. Each of these flowers will eventually become a coffee cherry which has two seeds in it. Reporter those cherry seeds are what we know as beans. So take a coffee cherry and just pop it in your mouth. Reporter okay. Its very spicy. Its almost got like a mild pepper taste. A little sweetness to it. That sweetness is what we need for a really good cup of coffee. Reporter the land in the continental United States has never been hospiceable for growing coffee. Because the cherries mature faster in the heat, coffee is traditionally produced in hot climates. Adding shade slows down the process but increases the quality. Why do you think no ones ever tried it before in california . The main reason is that there wasnt a market for it. Now theres a new giant sized instant maxwell house, a really big jar of coffee. Reporter for decades, coffee was packaged and sold to the masses as an inexpensive commodity. We make it a special way so you can save money. Mm, great coffee. Reporter beginning in the late 60s, Companies Like starbucks brought in a second wave, focusing on quality and the cafe experience. In 2002, this Third Wave Movement of coffee shops that had smaller roefsters and wante to know where the coffee was coming from. The consumers would pay a little more for that. Reporter an audacious idea began brewing. When you started thinking about this and developing this, did people tell you you were crazy to think about growing coffee in california . Yes, it was a weekly event for people. Ive had people call on the phone and it will be the first two sentences. They say, hey, you jay . Yeah, youre crazy, you cant be growing coffee outside. All right. Its rapid Seed Development for sure. Reporter this year, he teamed up with charlie of Blue Bottle Coffee which operates 48 cafes in cities around the u. S. And tokyo. Looks like youre going to be ready to pick again in two months. Theyre going to slow down and work on quality. So were really eight months away. Reporter he travels five months a year purchasing coffee in places like ethiopia, guatemala, uganda and sumatra. The Northern California native had been tracking ruskys path from afar. It can compete with the best coffees in the world. This isnt just support for the coffee because its coming from california but it is a strong val uation that we want to make on this market on behalf of consumers so that we can have that conversation with people about why coffee costs what it costs. Reporter blue bottle purchased the entire 2017 crop. 300 pounds. We were there when the shipment left for roasting facility in oakland. It will be sold in blue bottle also across the country for 16 a cup. He says blue bottle is not just selling a cup of coffee but the story of where it came from. But for Many American consumers, they just got used to a 3, 4 cup of coffee. For the average person, where does that land . I think if you walk into a cafe and if you see, you know, 275, 4. 50, 18, right, the first thing that youre going to need to know to make sense out of that 18 cup is why is it so expensive. Reporter after significant investments in research and development, it costs him approximately 30 a pound to produce and blue bottle 65 a pound to purchase. If you drink coffee and if you do have a couple of moments to reflect on where it comes from, exactly how it tastes, you know, maybe why it tastes that way, if roasters are doing a good enough job of helping you understand it, i think its a really easy step to take. Reporter all right, so this is my favorite part. Its really fresh coffee. It explodes in bubbles just like what just happened here. Reporter nice, the whole ritual of the coffee making, the anticipation for the cup. Piping hot. Reporter piping hot, very smooth. Really delicious. Ruskys new venture is working closely with farmers throughout Southern California to make the entire region a coffee powerhouse. Its just like wine. If you have a really good wine crop, there are people out there that want to experience what youve been working hard on and thats what were offering. Reporter when you look ahead, what does success look like to you . Southern california is well known for having the most rarest and flavorful cups of coffees in the world. That would be ultimately successful for me. Reporter then you figure out another crazy idea i think. Probably. His good land organic coffee will be available at blue bottle later this month. You think when the coffee came here, the price would go down, not up. Thats true. I got to say, jamie, for 16 bucks, i want a dozen amazing doughnuts with that cup of coffee. I will say it was possibly the best cup of coffee ive ever had. It was very, very special. Its an incredible story. You didnt bring any free samples im noting. I hope you heard us there, good land. Jamie wax, thank you, my friend. It is a space story that has critics over the moon. Thats a pun, yes. 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Reporter youre inspired after all of these years. Thank you so much. I always wanted to be a writer but also like eating regular meals. So when i went to college i went with Software Engineering and writing ultimately was my hobby. I kind of bungled into success with the martian andy now i get to be a writer. Reporter with no publisher backing him, andy weir selfpublished the martian in 2012, discovered by readers everywhere pulled into weirs unmistakable blend of real world science and other worldly drama. The martian has since sold more than 5 million copies. Ah reporter and led to one very successful movie. I have no way to contact nasa, and even if i could, its going to be four years until a manned mission can reach me. Reporter you have a loyal following, and i know you hear a lot from the folks who read your stuff. You respond to every single email and note . Yep. Every email. They took the time to email me. It seems only reasonable to respond. If they have questions, ill answer the questions. If they just say, hey, i loved your book, im like, thanks looks more like venus. Your tie gets an f [ laughter ] so whats your name . Reporter a number of weirs fans came to this book signing at the intrepid. If you are the first person on mars, worth so much money. Reporter eagerly hearing more about a lunar crime novel set in the late 21st century about a woman named jasmine who tries to pull off a huge heist. Tell me about jas. Born in saudi arabia, but when she was 6, she and her father moved to artemis, the only city on the moon. She grew up in sort of a lowincome, blue collar household as an adult, when the story takes place, a porter. A delivery person, but makes most of her money off illegal smuggling. Everyone seems to forget this, but oosmuggler. Not a city planner. A smuggler. Actress rosario narrates. In the beginning i was a magician, but not anymore. The moon has a mineral and if you smelled it, refine it, what you get out of it is aluminum, silicon, calcium and oxygen. Its amazing. Like its asking to be colonized. Reporter this is fascinating for all of us, i think, when well make these lunar trips regularly. If you can drive the price of the booster technology, drive that price down to the point that middle class people can afford to go into space, then you will have a space boom. A proper huge explosion in the space industry like the airline boom in the 40s and 50s. Would you go to the moon . Nope. You wouldnt . No. I write about these people. Im not one of them. I am an earthbound misfit. Ill stay right here. Thanks. Im afraid of flying. Reporter really . Yeah, really. Im here in new york and live in california. Vie to take medicine and stuff just to fly out here. I have a general problem with anxiety and have for most of my life and spend most of my life just thinking, well, im broken and theres nothing ai can do about that. I take medicine. They dont know theres a lot of stuff for anxiety. To anybody who hears this or has anxiety problems, i urge you, talk to a doctor. Your anxiety is not a failure of your personality. Its a physical problem that can be solved with medical solutions. Reporter how does that manifest itself in your characters . When youre writing a story, thinking of everything that can go wrong, that helps you write the story. Whoa especially writing stories about everything going wrong. Reporter often does for your characters . Yeah. My characters had a rough time sometimes. This is the enterprise. It never had a crew. Used for aerodynamic testing. Reporter fans may be able to visit this in theaters soon. Fox has rights to the book even before released. Whats next . I would love for artemis to be my own personal playground, lots and lots of different stories with different characters because its a city. Reporter you dont want to go to distant cities or stars . I may well do that. In the immediate future ideas for a sequel for artemis but i have book ideas enough to last me the rest of my life. Just sign . Yeah okay. Its one of my most excited buy at any moment and what do i think readers want to read . Reporter for cbs this Morning Saturday, jeff glor, new york. I think thats the first time hes really talked about his anxiety. Fascinating. Yes. And how he uses that actually to make better books soon to be, i cant imagine, artemis made into a film. Travels a lot with imagination. Sure does. You can see jeff begin as the anchor of the cbs evening news this monday, december 4th. Mark your calendar. We wish jeff the best of luck. And a stellar culinary career. Up next on the dish, started out at one of the worlds most acclaimed restaurants and went on to work at two more before opening one of his own. Youre watching cbs this Morning Saturday. One of the proudest hallmark, apollo theater. Countless legendary entertainers graced the stage. Baby, baby now its brunos turn. Bringing his magic to the iconic venue with his debut primetime special. Your first primetime special, how are you feeling about it . Over the moon about it. Very fortunate and blessed to be able to play all over the world. Ive played at a lot of incredible stages. The apollo, in all my history, ive never never played that stage. Never even been in the building. Really . Grew up watching showtime at the apollo. Sunshine and amateur night lets talk about that, then. What was that like, to be on the apollo stage . It just reminded me of why im doing this. That apollo stage is my philosophy in entertainment. Watching showtime at the apollo is either you got it, they love you or you bomb, and theyre going to boo you off the stage. And thats it. Hot damn you know who i am too hot are you nervous about a primetime special . What made you want to do that . That seems stepping out of the box . It is. It is. Because i always tell myself i want to make sure whenever i put out, you know, a concert or Something Like that, if i were to ever do some kind of concert dvd, i better make sure that im the best. This morning on the dish, a near perfect culinary pedigree, born and raised in chicago, attending a local Culinary School and contacted a new restaurant for help with a homework assignment. The restaurant was the extraordinary alynia and the you assignment turned into an internship and eventually fulltime job. Later worked at new yorks acla acclaimed pursee and influenced his current project. Named food and wines restaurant of the year, and one of bon appetits best new restaurants in america. Chef greg backstrom, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. Tell us about this tree of eng onion rings. Its actually delicotto squash. We make a ketchup out of green tomatoes. Arueda pasta. We tossed it with mushrooms, truffles and butter and typically the guests dont realize its not pasta until after theyve finished it, nice. Just like a goto pork roast i usually make for my parents when i go home. Pork loin wrapped in prosciutto, a lot of sage over top. And a lovely color, must say. Its like a, concord grape. Like a welchs grape juice. Grapes. Going back to my roots. Grape juice. Thanks. Tastes even better than the grape juice i remember. I read that you got some culinary training well, obviously at some of the greatest restaurants in the world, but also in the boy scouts. Yes. I was in the boy scouts for really a long time and in the beginning, parents doing a lot of the t things for you. As you get older, learn how to do things, you are expected to do these things. Making a stew. Simple boiled pasta, but you dont want to be the guy making the worst pasta, the worst beef stew. You want to impress your group of friends. Boy scout pressure. Definitely. First actual restaurant job, wendys. Wendys, yeah. I wasnt going to bring that up, but we talked about alydia, pursee and what about wendys and the boy scouts . Yeah. There for like a year and a half before i went off to Culinary School. Humble beginninging but did intern and work at literally some of the most influential great kitchens around the world. Yeah. Talk to us about alynia and what that was like. Alynia was like a this amazing accident. I called alynia, like a week before they opened and asked if i could interview with them for a school project. Meanwhile, these guys are trying to open up the best restaurant in the world. Somewhere there was miscommunication and i showed up at the door. They thought i was there to trail for a position to work there. I was too embarrassed to say otherwise, kept coming back. Wow. Amazing. Wow. And then a week after that, the person that i was assisting quit. And so grant came up to me and said, either run with the opportunity or ill hire somebody else. That was my in. Started a chain of events. Scary opening a place of your own after working in such prestigious restaurants . Yeah. You come to the realization, you know how to cook. Its time. Time to open up a restaurant. Once i honed it in, figured it out. I wanted a small dining room, not too small i couldnt afford nice things. A small bar. I like to eat at at counter or a bar at a restaurant and some type of outside space, two months went by and i found homestead and i flew out, picked up my dad. Threw a bunch of barn wood from where i grew up. Your dads a carpenter. My dads a carpenter, built my restaurant. Had a small budget. Unless he could do it or find it in a refined place in brooklyn, wasnt going to happen. That boy scout knowledge came in handy putting that restaurant together. Chef, as i ask you to sign this dish i will ask you the question we always ask, if you could share this meal with anybody past or present, who would it be . Probably spiderman. But if spiderman existed probably so overwhelmed with jealousy, it wouldnt go well. Forecasting into the future with an imaginary friend. The creativity that makes for a successful chef and restaurateur. Thanks for your time. What do you serve spiderman . Something sticky . For more on the chef, to our website at cbsthismorning. Com. Now heres a look at the weather for your weekend. Um next in our saturday session, spoon from countless sound tracks to the stage of saturday night live. One. Most acclaimed indie rock bands of the past 15 years is now out with their ninth album. Well talk about it, and theyll perform right here in our saturday session. Thats next. About my child s thats the best reaction. 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Im sitting there with a guitar or piano and coming up with chords sort of speaking in tongues to try to latch on to something, you know, if this speaking in tongue session worked better. Can you send me one of those speaking in tongues . I never heard you. Where we get by spoon formed in austin, texas, in 1993. We were scrappy. We were snotty. What did you want then . I wanted to make records. Their debut album was released in 1996. That landed them a deal with major label electra. But just four months after a series of sneaks was released, in 1998, spoon was dropped when their representative left the label. Our guy was named ron. We wrote somebody suggested these song titles to me. The agony of lafete. Lafete dont fail me now. They were too guaood to not tur into songs. Revenge is sweet. Hes always said the right things in the press since then. Im sure hes a decent dude. Just wasnt it wasnt a good moment for him. Or for you in some ways. No, worst for us. Once we got dropped, i remember my mom had this she was on this kick of trying to get me to what are those things you do, you go take a test and they tell you what youre good at, you know. They said you would be good as a massage therapist. Really, thats what you were . I didnt take the test. Yeah. Can you sit next to me spoon stayed the course and in 2005, their album gimme fiction hit number one on the indy chart and their next three albums all cracked the top ten on the pop charts. You still believe in albums . It makes for the bigger vibe. You present a whole picture instead of just, like, you know, 50 minutes of this guy, like, baring his soul is cooler than 3 1 2 minutes of it. You know, a great song or a great single, theres something undeniable about it. But to me the thing that always makes, the thing that carries the most weight, that i gauge the value of a band on is their albums. All of the time and behind their latest hot thoughts spoon has had one of their busiest touring years ever. I mean, these are the best shows weve ever done, right . The band is better than its ever been. Its like the lip of the stage and see peoples minds being blown, you know. Thats happening about every night. Why is it happening . We dont want to give it away. You got to go see it. No, okay. Now you get to see it. Here performing music from their new album hot thoughts is spoon with do i have to talk you into it. Here we go down a long dark road same place where we used to go and the words get stuck on the tip of my tongue feeling cut off from everyone oh do i do i have to talk you into it do we have to make sense of it when ive known you such a long long time and we never had to act polite i wanna whisper down the tube all the words you would never use do i have to talk you into it jimmy digs in his long dark coat he comes up with the tender throat and he hides it away in bronson park so he cant get to it after dark aint that right jim two for yes one for no do i have to talk you into it do we have to make sense of it they say i better seal you up in wax so that youre never going to bite me back and i can feel it when im away i got to get back tomorrow if not today to try to talk you into it oh i gotta talk you into it when the mood of the eras gone everybody fading me even my ma and the words get stuck on the tip of my tongue feeling cut off from everyone oh do i have to talk you into it do i have to talk you into it where can we go down a long dark road been here man many times before i wanna whisper down the tube all kinds of words you would never use do i have to talk you into it now theres your wakeup call. 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Can i sit next to you can you sit next to me get the stars out your eyes come and bring them to me i been down so long ive been working on a plan yeah its just that i been down so long i gotta give me my mind what i can cn i sit next to you can you sit next to me i walked to memphis alone cause youd do it for me right i know you would all the kicks from the sticks all the kicks that we knew i put all that aside concentrate on you all the kicks from the sticks all hits that we took all them stitches we got all our brains so cooked some day im gonna get right where you are ive been down so long been down but now i gotta get lifted up im gonna im gonna walk a tight rope gonna get kicks every night no ones holding me back no ones changing my mind gonna walk a tight rope gonna get kicks every night no ones holding me back no ones changing my mind get the stars out your eyes come and sit next to me under tennessee skies down on south front street ive been working on a plan i been down so long been down but now i gotta get lifted up [ cheers and applause ] those of you still with us, more music from spoon. This is hot thoughts. Hot thoughts melting my mind could be your accent mixing with mine you got me uptight twisting inside hot thoughts all in my mind and all of the time, babe hot thoughts all in my mind all of the time, yeah hot thoughts all in, all in my mind all of the time your teeth shining so white, light up this sad street in shibuya tonight hot thoughts melting my cool is it your motion, signal and cue narrator today on lucky dog, this husky mix has lived a life on the run. Her sweet and energetic personality could make her the Perfect Match for a young couple who wants to have kids. Brandon placing a dog in a home with kids takes a lot of testing, a lot of training. I cant take any chances. Narrator but shell have to learn a lesson in good manners. Brandon im sorry it was empty. All right, youre a counter surfer. Narrator . And pass the ultimate test. Brandon the next thing you know, the fence ends, and cersei is facetoface with a toddler. Im brandon mcmillan, and ive dedicated my life to saving the lonely, unwanted dogs that are