we wanted to know why so many pro football stars end up bankrupt. first as we do every morning, we begin with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> we are looking to see and make sure this was not some kind of systemic problem. >> reports surface of a new secret service scandal. >> cbs's seattle station reports agents took prostitutes back to their hotel room in el salvador. >> there are open positions and seems like a fun place to work. >> andrew young, once a close friend and aide to john edwards, testified in the federal criminal trial. >> the john edwards defense team attacks the prosecution's star witness. >> young said he had evidence of everything that had happened, edwards looked at him and said you can't hurt me, andrew. you can't hurt me. >> the u.s. supreme court appears to be poised to hold out parts of arizona's controversial immigration law. >> just as sonia sotomayor told the top attorney you can see it's not selling very well. >> free to become -- >> does anyone have my last page. >> you got to hold it. >> all of that. >> my god. they can't give it to the kid. >> they are rubbing it in the kid's face. >> and all that matters. >> time lapse video showing the construction of one world trade center. >> on "cbs this morning." >> do you ever feel temptation when you see a woman? >> yes, sometimes. isn't that nice. that's a problem. dirty things like that. captioning funded by cbs >> welcome to "cbs this morning." we begin with serious charges of another secret service sex scandal. >> a report from cbs seattle affiliate says last year in el salvador before a visit by president obama, an advance team of agents picked up women at a strip club and brought them back to their hotel. >> a reporter broke the story which you will see only on "cbs this morning." he's just come back from el salvador. what did you learn? >> we flew down there to speak with witnesses who say that secret service agents partied hard the week before president obama and his family arrived in march of 2011. that's much earlier than we heard about the partying that happened in colombia this month. in fact, the government subcontractor who came forward to speak with me on the record about these activities wouldn't really go on the record until after this story started breaking in a bigger sense. he now felt comfortable to tell me what he saw and this is it. he says about a dozen secret service agents plus some of the military specialist that accompanied those advance team members got in vans and went to a popular strip club. the owner of that strip club when i went to speak to him verified that indeed secret service had been there that week. had it been a popular week. he hosted high level staff of u.s. embassy down there and dea and fbi agents. now the owner says that he does not allow prostitution inside his strip club. however, our witness tells us he repeatedly saw the secret service agents exchange money for sexual favors within the club and on at least two occasions those agents took escorts back to their hotel rooms. >> what is the response from the secret service? >> for a few days when we first told them, secret service didn't call at all. no response. this morning as this news is starting to break, they did issue a short statement. i'll paraphrase but essentially they say they are starting to get reports of behaviors of secret service agents in other countries but it's always from unnamed sources. they say if they can get credible information, they're glad to check it out. i can tell you our station is working hard today on a story that is going to be breaking as we go that will name some names. >> so you will name some of those names. i'm sure that's part of what you're asking the secret service about. in terms of this being a bigger deal in which there have been allegations of from the beginning, do you have any sense how many more widespread this could be and whether or not it is a problem? >> i can only go from the comments from our subcontractor who worked closely all week long with the secret service advance team in explosives detection and canine units, snipers. he says the talk around him was open. they openly bragged that they did this all the time is what he said meaning that in other countries, especially third-world countries, they sought out prostitutes, went to strip clubs and partied the same way and had been doing so for a long time. our source says he felt it was a culture within the institution. >> thank you. on wednesday the cabinet secretary in charge of the secret service told the senate hearing she's heard no other reports of similar behavior. >> meanwhile as bill plante reports from the white house, there are new questions about u.s. troops connected to the sex scandal. bill, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. and good morning in the west. the incident in colombia involved members of the u.s. military as well as of the secret service. while one group of senators questioned the head of the department of homeland security, others are in a briefing from the military and they're not happy. >> it's a waste of time because they had no information. >> reporter: pentagon officials briefed senators on wednesday on the status of a dozen members of the u.s. military implicated in the same partying and prostitution incident which involved members of the secret service. >> i expressed my extreme dissatisfaction with the lack of any concrete information that was provided to us from a national security standpoint. >> reporter: the troops from the army, navy, marine corps and air force including five special forces were working in colombia in advance of the president's trip. secretary panetta said they had security clearances suspended and could be revoked but no further action has been taken. janet napolitano assured senators that their investigation continues even after nine lost their jobs in the wake of the scandal. >> we are going to get to the bottom of this. we are going to make sure that standards and training if they need to be tightened up, are tightened. >> reporter: as questions continue to rise over whether this may not have been an isolated incident, senators pressed napolitano for more information. >> to your knowledge, is this the first time something like this has happened or have you had reports of similar incidents in the past? >> over the past 2 1/2 years, the secret service office of professional responsibility has not received any such complaint. >> reporter: sources tell cbs news that there have been past incidents of secret service partying on the road and that some of the agents pushed to retire this time may fight back saying that supervisors have been aware of past rule breaking and done nothing and maybe as many as 50 interviews still to come. charlie, erica? >> bill plante, thank you very much. we just heard from senator john mccain in the hearings that took place. arizona republican is with us now from capitol hill. senator, good morning. >> good morning charlie. >> so looking at the response you've heard so far from janet napolitano as well as the secret service, what's missing here in your assessment? >> as far as i can tell, secretary napolitano and especially the director of the secret service has been pretty forthcoming in many aspects of this unlike the pentagon which has completely stone walled using the excuse that a uniform code of military justice as you know, that's the military law, somehow is a barrier to us receiving information. this could be -- i emphasize the word could -- could be a situation where national security could have been compromised. that's the responsibility of congress in general and senate armed services committee in particular as far as military personnel. this admiral and general that came up to brief us didn't know when the president arrived and i'm not making that up. they didn't know whether the head of the joint task force was in the united states or not. i've been in thousands of briefings. i've never been to any one quite as stone walling as this one was. the american people needs to know and the congress needs to know because there if there are security problems we need to address it and address it quickly. >> what would you want the pentagon to say and do? >> what they have found out in terms of security of information that could have led individuals to threaten the life of the united states. for example, the president's schedules, he was arriving the next day after this happened. were the president's schedules there? were there weapons around? what was the situation security. as far as behavior part of it is concerned, that's another issue. they do have their rights. we also have to address the situation as to whether the president's security was compromised. >> in terms of that behavior, senator, as we just heard from bill plante, there is some talk about supervisors being aware of past rule breaking and you just heard the report from our reporter out in seattle what he found about similar behavior a year ago in teel salvador. have you heard about past behavior? >> we hear rumors. i don't know anything about that obviously my emphasis because of being ranking member of the senate armed services committee is on the military side and the military as you know work hand in glove with the secret service. i don't know anything about those or any concrete evidence but this is a situation i think that congress and the american people need to know about as far as a security standpoint is concerned. >> the supreme court is holding hearings on immigration, arizona's immigration law. you have said that that bill came out of necessity. senator schumer said it's an assault on domain of the federal government. do you expect the supreme court to rule it unconstitutional? >> you know, i don't know. i understand from questioning that at least parts of the law seem to be legitimate in their ideas. i learned not to trust the questions the supreme court ask. there is one thing that's clear because i am a citizen of the state of arizona is there was extreme frustration about the fact that our border was not secured, that we had drop houses in phoenix, that we had drugs that came across our border up to phoenix, and distributed throughout the country. phoenix was a distribution and is a distribution point for drugs throughout the country and there was great frustration. when we have border patrol agents killed with weapons used in fast and furious and people not feeling secure in their homes, you can understand, i hope, over time the frustration the people of arizona felt which then triggered the action of the legislation they passed. >> thank you for joining us this morning, senator mccain. >> thanks for having me on. battle is unfolding in greensboro, north carolina, courtroom at the trial of former presidential candidate john edwards. defense attorneys are turning up the heat on his chief accuser, former campaign staffer andrew young. we go to greensboro where young returns to the stand today and good morning. >> reporter: good morning. good morning to our viewers out in the west. this will be andrew young's fourth day on the stand but now it's edwards' lawyer's turn to question him. >> defense attorney boabbe lowe zeroed in on him. you hate him, don't you ask, lowell? i have mixed feelings. earlier the prosecution tried to plug potential holes in their star witness's testimony pointing out inconsistencieies chief among them why young said they were gifts and entirely proper and not subject to campaign finance laws. young said at the time he wrote donations were legal for a simple reason. i was scared to death, said young. i did this to cover my butt. the prosecution's case hinges on whether the money, nearly a million dollars in donations from wealthy donors, was used to simply hide a mistress or to help keep edwards' campaign afloat. >> mr. young has testified very much to the detriment of the edwards defense in the sense that he's said there were a lot of conversations with people about this coverup and how it was campaign related. >> reporter: as edwards attorney dig in with attacks on young credibility, edwards seemed upbeat as we left the courthouse wednesday afternoon with his daughter. and this promises to be a lengthy day of questioning ahead for andrew young. edwards' defense attorney says the cross examination will go on all day long. charlie and erica, back to you. >> thank you very much. you are both following this case. welcome. let me begin with you, jack. can andrew young survive this kind of credibility test? >> that's going to be a big question inside of the courtroom. they have ammunition to use against him. the jury will have to decide is he telling the truth or not and they'll come after him with all sorts of things. one of the things the defense has here that you don't often have is a book. this guy has a book. >> i just happen to have it here. i've gone through it all. normal you don't have depositions in a criminal trial. here they have this printed deposition and there are real contradictions. one of the biggest ones i noticed is when he testified in direct, he said john edwards was concerned about these and didn't want to know about them and in the book he specifically says on page 214, these funds and money that came from fred were actually gifts and were entirely proper and were actually not subject to campaign finance laws. >> my question still is can somebody lie and get away with it? >> you can if you can explain it away. the best way to challenge somebody's credibility is say they showed other things in the past that was different. the question is do they have an explanation and is it enough for jurors to say we'll buy into it. defense will argue that you lied in the past when it has been convenient for you, right, so when it came time to sum up their case, they can then say the jury is there any more convenient time for andrew young to lie than right now for his immunity deal? that book gives the defense a great deal of ammunition. >> it's complicated that andrew young when he wrote this book signed a document with his publisher saying that everything in the book was provably true. he signed that. now they'll say were you telling the truth in the book or are you telling now the truth when you are under oath? i think there's a real problem with credibility. >> another big question is going to be looked at here is what elizabeth edwards knew and when she knew it. how important is that to this case? >> it helps to give a perspective to all of this. the defense is saying she knew really early on and as a consequence we're trying to protect her and to try to make sure that humiliation level is not so bad. that's again another one of those factual issues. >> thank you very much. it's now time to show you some of this morning's headlines from around the globe from a chinese leader spying on top chinese officials according to "the new york times." china's president had his phone tapped as part of a scandal that rocked the chinese government. his wife is accused of arranging the murder of a british consultant. miami herald reports on a flap on the city of miami to bring in more money city officials are considering selling ad space on public property. that includes lamp posts, fire hydrants and side of public buildings. there's a breakthrough in talks of a college championship conference commissioners. it helps to decide who is number one. new proposals are expected to bring significant changes. and britain's daily mail reports prime minister david cameron's secret meetings with rupert murdoch. murdoch is under a second day of questioning in the phone hacking accusation. there were four meetings not previously known. we'll have more on the murdoch hearings coming up in our next hour. it's 7:19 o >> announcer: this national >> this national weather report sponsored by kay jewelers. every kiss begins with kay. the white e the white house agrees with mitt romney, the republican presidential race is over. as the candidates focus on november, bill o'reilly is here to look at the search for running mate and romney's chances of defeating president obama. and tonight's nfl draft is all about football's next big stars. the many top players are ending their careers with nothing. >> it's an epidemic that players that three to four years out of the game are either divorced or bankrupt. >> we'll show you why so many superstars are going broke. you're watching "cbs this morning." >> this portion of "cbs this morning" sponsored by usaa proudly serving the financial needs of the military, veterans and their families. uth pacific . i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. 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