I told CBS that I wanted to move into the area of ownership.

Then at the very last minute, of course, we found out that no one had told CBS, and they said 'Forget it.

"He witnessed my mother being abused physically and I think that probably was worse than him getting whacked around," he told CBS.

Johnson said he did not tell CBS, which will broadcast the tournament this weekend, to avoid covering the controversy or Burk's protest.

By the final season, she had become the show's executive producer, and simply told CBS "I have done everything I can with the series".

Did the affiliates tell CBS they were going to violate etiquette and continue with the game?

"This is a catastrophe here," a grizzled old man told CBS.

Mr. Rose's lawyers told CBS that the slip had been altered.

Nineteen days after the attacks, he told CBS's 60 Minutes that fanaticism and terrorism have no place in Islam.

"He's just so far outside of the mainstream of the Republican party and this organisation," he told CBS.