Every day that benefit their career rather than the and thats what is so sickening about washington. Stahl coburn has been called the godfather of the tea party, doesnt believe in Global Warming, and is a staunch conservative on government spending. So what does he think about president obama . I just love him as a man. I think hes a neat man. Im proud of our country that we elected barack obama. Whitaker she performs to sellout crowds on grand stages across the country. Something happens when you feel that energy and excitement from the audience, and its just this really magical thing that happens in those moments. Whitaker but it was this commercial for the Sports Wear Company under armour that introduced her to a new audience. Sixandahalf Million People saw live ballet last year. Almost eight million viewed this commercial online. Kroft im steve kroft. Stahl im lesley stahl. Safer im morley safer. Whitaker im bill whitaker. Pelley im scott pelley. Those stories tonight on 60 minutes. Glor good evening. Stock markets in Saudi Arabia Oil slipped further. Britain and iran stored diplomatic ties, agreeing to work on trade and investments. And New Hampshire has raised 28,000 auctioning off two moose hunting permits. Im jeff glor, cbs news. This helps me to manage my chronic pain. But it came with some baggage. Youre not the only one. Opioids block pain signals by attaching to something called mureceptors here but they also attach to mureceptors in the bowel. And that can cause opioidinduced constipation. Or oic. I could struggle with oic the whole time i take my opioid . Maybe not. Theres movantik. Movantik can help reduce oic by blocking opioids from binding to mureceptors in the bowel. Do not take movantik if you have a bowel blockage or a history of them. Serious side effects include a tear in your stomach or intestine. And can also include symptoms of opioid withdrawal. 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Anything that a military can think of is in the arsenals of the world. There are a few exceptions, and one of them is for a weapon so hideous that virtually every country has banned, not only its use, but the mere possession of it. The weapon is sarin. Its nerve gas. And on august 21, 2013, it was unleashed on syrian civilians in what the u. N. Secretary general calls a crime against humanity. Two years later, no one has been held responsible. For several months, we gathered evidence, and when we first broadcast this story in april, much of what we found had never been public before. About 2 00 in the morning, august 21, 2013, hundreds in the suburbs of damascus were awakened by the panic of their last breath stuck in their throats. Neighbors carried neighbors to makeshift clinics. Victims were stripped and washed. Everything was tried, but nothing could be done. There was no forcing life into lungs that could not accept it. Their nerves, electrified by sarin, fired nonstop. Muscles seized until death released them. Kassem eid nobody knew what was going on. People were just praying for god to have mercy on them. Sir, ive seen things you wont even dream about in your worst nightmares. Im on a tour inside the streets of moadamiyah. Pelley kassem eid has recorded his nightmares in moadamiyah. Four years ago, the suburb rebelled against the dictatorship of bashar alassad. Eid has shown the world the shelling and years of hunger imposed by an army blockade. Eid that was a close one. Pelley he was there in august when strange rockets pummeled the night. Eid and when they crashed, they didnt make the same, Old Fashioned bombing sound. But it was, in a way, silent. Pelley the rockets hit the ground, but it didnt sound to you like they were exploding. Eid yes. They were. Didnt sound like it was. They were exploding. With the closest rocket hit almost 100 meters away from the place that i was staying in. Pelley 300 feet or so. Eid yes. And within seconds. It just took seconds before i lost my ability to breathe. I felt like my chest was set on fire. My eyes were burning like hell. I wasnt able even to scream or to do anything, so i started to beat my chest really hard. Pelley beat your chest . Eid yes. Trying to take. Take a breath. Just to be able to take a single breath. It was so painful. It felt like somebody was tearing up my chest with a knife made of fire. Pelley over the years, artillery had sheared the tops off of the neighborhoods, so women and children slept in basements. Sarin is heavier than air. It slipped past doors and crept down stairwells. Death was arbitrary it seemed that, for every corpse, there was a witness who just missed a lethal dose. A neighbor appeared at kassem eids door. Eid and she had two of her kids, suffocating and vomiting this weird white stuff out of their mouths. She was begging us to help her, to get her children to the Field Hospital. This Field Hospital is just a basement in a building with almost zero medical equipments. Pelley its not a real hospital. Eid its not a real hospital. It felt like judgment day for me. Pelley sarin has no color, no odor. Often, the dead drop never knowing what happened. But their eyes bear witness. The seizures draw the pupils tight, and the world goes dark, which might be a blessing. This father had willed his daughters through months of hunger. Now, hes shouting, do you know what they said before going to sleep . I gave her food. She said, dad, its not my turn to eat, its my sisters. He goes on, what should we do, good people . What are we to do . Look at that face. Look at that face. You were being exterminated. Eid i know. I cannot imagine how anybody can do this to people, to other people. Dying this way is one of the most ugliest ways of death people ever knew through history. Pelley the history of sarin begins in the 1930s. It was a nazi weapons program. The name is an acronym of the scientists last names. In 1997, sarin and other chemical weapons were outlawed, and the world set up the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons. Scott cairns is a chemist and lead inspector for that organization. A person who is exposed to sarin, what do they experience . Scott cairns a number of physical symptoms and some psychological effects. You get this overwhelming sense of doom and hopelessness and fear. Pelley and what causes death . Cairns typically, its the paralysis of the respiratory system, eventually. Your muscles dont work, you lose the oxygen to your brain. It just puts you into overload. Its a very horrible way to die. Pelley as fate would have it, scott cairns would see evidence of that for himself. He was in damascus with a team the day of the assault. Theyd arrived days before to investigate other alleged chemical attacks. Cairns id just gotten up, and what i thought id heard was another regular bombardment of conventional weapons to the east of damascus. Pelley he had heard the rockets en route to the largest sarin massacre of civilians since Saddam Hussein in iraq in 1988. Cairns demanded access. They raced in in u. N. Trucks and the shooting started. What happened . Cairns the gunman was firing on the first two vehicles. Pelley so, the vehicles were hit . Cairns oh, the vehicles were hit. The first vehicle was disabled. Pelley did you find out who was shooting at you . Cairns no. Pelley why do you think they were shooting at you . Cairns they were shooting at us just to tell us. Send us a message. If they wanted to kill us, they wouldve killed us. At no point was there any interest in the turning around and going back to the hotel. Pelley finding and documenting the truth was worth risking your life for. Cairns yes. Pelley howd you go about your work . Cairns very quickly. We didnt have a lot of time. We had places where we could set up our interview stations. We could take samples, biomedical samples from people blood, urine, hair. Cell phone videos and swabbed samples from mangled rockets. Days later, in a Community Called zamalka, they discovered the rockets were much larger and had delivered even more gas. Never before had investigators arrived at a chemical crime scene so soon. Cairns well over 90 of the samples that we took tested positive for sarin. Pelley what witness sticks in your mind as the person you cannot forget . Cairns there are several. A child of seven or eight who lost most of his family. A woman of. In her early 30s who lost her entire family, her husband and all her kids. A man that, out of his 20 family members, he was the only one left alive. So, interviewing these people was very difficult. Pelley our work to find witnesses took us out into the desert. The refugees we found were on the run from the regime of bashar alassad. Millions of syrians have fled the country into desolate refugee camps like this one, and over a period of weeks, we have been able to find more survivors of the nerve gas attack. These people asked us to not show you their faces or tell you their names because they have family back in syria, and they are quite certain the dictatorship would hunt them down. Even at that, they told us some risks have to be taken to tell this story. This man told us, assad gassed people. He killed people. Hes killing women. What he did could not be done by any other human being. He killed everything, even the trees. He and his son, who is a nurse, told us that they were among those who had given first aid. How many patients did you treat that day . He told us, people were being brought in on ambulances, motorcycles, pickup trucks, a tractor, and a semi. There were people rushing in with their kids, crying out, help him, help him. Hes about to die. i didnt have a chance to count. This woman was three months pregnant with her son when the gas entered her lungs. She came to in an aid station. Her brother was carried in next. He was calling my name before he died, she said. take care of your mother, he told me. How did you survive . I lived by gods will. But i wished i had died. Her son was born six months later. She believes he has epilepsy. He loses consciousness, he starts shaking, his mouth foams. The same symptoms i had. How often does he have these seizures . She told us, approximately three a day. The rockets were types used by the syrian army, and they were launched from land held by the dictatorship. U. S. Intelligence believes the syrian army used sarin in frustration after years of shelling and hunger failed to break the rebels. With the threat of air strikes, president obama forced assad to give up his chemical arsenal. But if assad was the trigger man, there is one thing odd about the timing. Why would anyone launch the largest chemical weapons attack in decades while chemical weapons inspectors are in town . Cairns i ask myself that a lot. I dont know. Pelley we dont know why. Cairns no. I dont think well ever truly know. Pelley we also dont know, precisely, how many died, but have a look around the makeshift morgues. So many were lost, all at once, that the living had to make room for the dead. U. S. Intelligence estimates 1,429 civilians were killed; 426 of them children. Of course, syria is dying, too. Prosecution of this atrocity will have to wait for whatever civilization emerges from the ruin. But the dead will be waiting, because a crime buried without justice is never laid to rest. For a look at 60 minutes decision to broadcast some of the most disturbing footage in its history, go to 60minutesovertime. Com. Sponsored by lyrica. Before fibromyalgia, i was the goto person. I was energetic. Then the chronic, widespread pain drained my energy. 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It may be washingtons most unlikely friendship, but its a lesson that political opposites can Work Together in highly partisan and dysfunctional times. In this, coburns farewell interview before he left the senate last december, he said some things you may never have heard a conservative republican say about this president of the United States. Tom coburn my relationship with barack obama isnt based on my political philosophy or his. Stahl whats it based on . Coburn its based on the fact that i think hes a genuinely very smart, nice guy. I just love him as a man. I think hes a neat man. You dont have to be the same to be friends. Matter of fact, the more interesting friendships are the ones that are divergent. Stahl that tom coburn is close to barack obama is seen as a betrayal by many of his fellow republicans, but he doesnt coburn im proud of our country that we elected barack obama. I mean, it says something about us nationally. You know, its kind of like crowning your checker when you get to the end of the checker board. Heres another thing that says americas special barack obama, president of the United States. Stahl the friendship began in 2005 as freshmen senators, coburn, the conservative obstetrician from muskogee, oklahoma, and obama, the liberal state senator from chicago. They often teamed up to pass important pieces of legislation. Coburn its my pleasure to introduce to you a good friend of mine, since we went through orientation together, senator barack obama. Barack obama thank you, tom. Stahl in 2013, Time Magazine named coburn one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and it was president obama who wrote the tribute. And last year, after learning that coburn had cancer, the president spoke about him at a prayer breakfast. Obama . A great friend of mine who i came into the senate with, senator tom coburn. Tom is going through some tough times right now, but i love him dearly, even though were from different parties. Stahl its interesting that youre friends with the president because, i guess people think he doesnt have any friends in the senate. Coburn the president hasnt done a great job of reaching out. Its not his personality style. I mean, you know, hes not well suited to be a back slapper, sit down and let me tell you this dirty story before we get down to business. I mean, hes not one of those kinds of guys. Hes a serious guy. Stahl and so is coburn. Hes also a maverick who is always making someone angry. Coburn am i frustrating the senators from new mexico . You bet stahl he has called his colleagues cowards, called former majority leader harry reid a complete ahole, for which he would later apologize, and says anybody off the street could do a better job than the senators there now. Coburn i see them make decisions every day that benefit their career, rather than the country. And thats whats so sickening about washington. To me, its about our future; its not about the politicians. And weve switched things around where now its about the politicians and not the future of the country. Stahl it seems the public agrees with him one poll showed that americans have a higher opinion of witches, the i. R. S. , and hemorrhoids than congress. Congresss Approval Rating in the last poll i saw 7 . Coburn who are the 7 of the people who actually think we do a great job . Stahl you have said, lets get rid of them all and start all over again. Coburn if you wanted to fix things, thats what i would do. Stahl get rid of everybody . Coburn i mean, if i was king tomorrow, thats what id do. Stahl and if he were king, he would take a meat ax to the federal budget. He has made cutting out fat in Government Programs his holy grail. Coburn actually, i think ill just tear it up. Its time we quit borrowing money against the future of our kids. Stahl his power comes not from creating legislation, but from killing it with procedural roadblocks that have gummed up the works. Stephen spaulding i think he is one of the number one champions of gridlock in the United States senate. Stahl stephen spaulding, who focuses on the senate for the political Watchdog Organization common cause, says senators often have to go to coburn to get their bills released, and that has given him significant power. Spaulding he has found every loophole in the