only goldfish, but guppies and otherropical fish for what proponents call inhumane ownership of fish and the way they're harvested. that's concerning, but it sounds bizarre, doesn't it? as you can imagine, pet store owner are furious. they feel the city is looking to take too much control. and for those who argue, hey, it's just a goldfish, the animal welfare folks get serious. their response -- where do you stop then? that will do it for me. have a great weekend, everyone. "cnn newsroom" continues now with t.j. holmes in for brooke. you don't have goldfish, do you? >> i don't have goldfish, but don't they feed goldfish to other fish? >> not anymore, certainly not in san francisco, no way! >> okay. well, animal lover randi kaye, thank you so much. have a good weekend. hello to you all. i'm t.j. holmes, in for brooke baldwin today. you remember how the week started with that cnn debate up in new hampshire, where we saw all of the potential republican candidates going at it?

well, this is how the week is ending for the gop presidential hopefuls. it's ending down in new orleans. this is a live picture at a conference going on right now, the annual republican leadership conference. no, eyes are not playing tricks on you. nobody at the podium yet. someone is walking to it, but we expect to hear from a couple folks who will take the stage, one of them being congresswoman michele bachmann. she, of course, made a big splash in new hampshire, got a lot of attention. a lot of people gave her a lot of credit for her performance. also in the next few minutes, we're expecting to hear from congressman ron paul, republican of texas. now you know when he steps in front of a camera or puts a microphone on, he usually has something to say, so we'll be checking in there plenty within the next couple of hours. but right now, i want to talk to you about "fast and furious," not talking about the movies here. i'm talking about an operation that a lot of people right now just cannot believe. fast and furious was an operation that let criminals openly buy high-powered guns and ammo in arizona. we're talking about things like

ak-47s, .50-caliber weapons as well. this is a tactic the authorities were using that's called "letting guns walk," and they sure did walk. they walked, many of them, right across the border into mexico and into the hands of violent drug gangs. "fast and furious" isn't some two-bit operation that some rookie law enforcement agency came up with. no, no, no, no. this is a u.s. government program that essentially supplied guns to a drug war that has killed 34,000 people in mexico. two of those guns were recovered near the murder of a u.s. border patrol agent last december in arizona. some federal agents say they objected to the gun sales, but high higher-ups stopped them from arresting the gun-buyers. those whistle-blowers call "fast and furious" dangerous and deadly and a catastrophic disaster. >> we weren't giving guns to people who were hunting bear. we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans.

>> rather than meet the wolf head on, we sharpened his teeth, added number to his claw. all the while, we sat idly by watching, interestinging and noting as he became a more efficient and effective predator. >> now, a justice department official testified before congress that he doesn't know who authorized "operation fast and furious." congressman darrell issa calls that stone-walling. take a look at this. >> if you're going to count pages like this as discovery, you should be ashamed of yourself. that's not discovery. that is saying that nothing within the document requested under any circumstances are we going to be shown. >> now, james cavanaugh is a retired atf agent, special agent in charge. he's in nashville for me. sir, good to have you here. did this program have good intentions? i guess, what was the ultimate goal? i didn't explain it fully. i just let people hear that, yes, they were letting guns walk. why? what was the idea behind it? >> well, i think you're right, t.j., that there was probably

some good intentions here. i mean it was a bold, new strategy that was implemented by the atf and the department of justice to go after the cartels through the gun traffic strategy, but you know, you can't get the king of the cartel in the gun traffic case. i think that's the mistake here. the strategy was too bold, the scale was too big, and it went too far. >> and you're hearing this kind of program, and they've put a lot of emphasis on trying to figure out who exactly would have given the okay. a lot of people are suggesting it had to be somebody kind of higher up. would you agree with that? >> well, i certainly agree. it went all through atf command. i think it went all the way to the top, and it went to the department. i think atf, leaders there will stand by the strategy and they will say that they implemented it and they directed it. i don't think there's going to be any question to that. probably the same at the department. but you know, it was disheartening to watch the hearings the other day with certainly, you know, your heart goes out to agent terry's family and they deserve some answers. but for me, it was disheartening

to watch the agents, who i thought were all very credible, talking about being pulled off an actual surveillance, where they'd watch the guns and the money switch hands. and this wasn't at the beginning of the case, when certainly, there can somebody latitude and some risk, trying to build a case, but this is deep into the case. i mean, one agent testified maybe 1,200 guns into the case, while they watched the purchase, the money and the guns change and they followed the guns and they're called off. they don't lose the surveillance, but they don't make a good faith effort to try to get the surveillance, and they miss it. what they do is they're told not to follow the guns. so that was disheartening to me. >> james, we're hearing here -- and we're just hearing about this popular program, but is it possible in your estimation, that this plan or this idea was really dreamt up by someone there locally and this is a first-of-its-kind, if you will, or this is just the first one we're hearing about? >> well, i think a lot of it was driven top-down. you know, the inspector general wrote a report in 2009 very critical of atf for only getting

low-level gun traffickers and gun rings. and i think atf overreacted to that report, in my view. they should have really just put it on the side. they overreacted. also, the department pushed the cases more toward, you know, big drug cases, organized crime, drug task force style cases. in fact, this was worked out of the drug task force. and you cannot work gun traffic cases the same way you work a gun traffic case. they're completely different. and when you try to use those techniques, this is what you get. so, you know, when -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> just quickly here to wrap up, is this something that reaches a level of something criminal that was necessarily done here or just we need to learn from our mistakes and we don't need to do this again? >> yeah, i don't think there's any bad people involved. i don't see criminal activity involved, but i think there will be some shake-ups in washington and we need some new orders and new policies, because we do have a very vulgar war in mexico at our border. >> james cavanaugh, we appreciate your time. a story that's not going away.

still trying to get some answers. we appreciate you. you enjoy your weekend. >> thanks, t.j. all right, as i mentioned a few minutes ago, we were expecting, and there he is, ron paul, a candidate nor the republican nomination, speaking at the republican leadership conference down in new orleans. let's listen in for a quick second. >> congress intervened, of course, and spent nearly $1 trillion, bailing out the people who were making a lot of money and were bankrupt and deserved to go bankrupt and shouldn't have been bailed out! but what a lot of people didn't know about it and still a few have difficulty understanding it, there was a much bigger bailout by the federal reserve. they created about $5 trillion out of thin air, and then they went and they bailed out the banks and the big corporations in total secrecy, and guess what? all those bad assets, those

derivatives and all the assets that were worthless, that nobody could sell on the marketplace, guess what? we, the taxpayers, ended up buying those with money printed out of thin air to the tune of about $2 trillion. the federal reserve during that period of time -- and they're capable of doing it, and the reason why we have to address this subject, they can create more money and spend more money than the entire congress. curtailing congress is one thing, but if the people in the congress do not curtail the federal reserve, you won't touch the problem. that is why it's so important. we have had some hearings in my subcommittee on the financial services committee dealing with the fed. we have gotten more information than ever before. we do not have the audit the fed bill passed yet, but we will. but we have found out that of all those trillions of dollars created by the fed, guess what?

one-third of those funds went to foreign banks. makes no sense! and we find out that some of those funds actually went to banks partially owned by gadhafi. now, if that can make any sense, i don't understand it, but i think the people, once they know about this, will be outraged and are outraged at what has been going on with our monetary system. but today, we are facing another crisis. the next crisis that's coming is a result of the federal reserve creating all this money, and that will be the inflation tax. when they create money, they inflate the currency, they devalue the currency and prices will rise and prices are rising. that is a tax, and will come -- it has come, it has started and it will be a big issue in next year's campaign. some of you may remember the stagflation of the '70s. it will be worse than the

stagflation of the '70s because the economy is weaker now than it was, and you will see prices rising. so, for us and for the sake of america, we have to deal with this problem. i have said many times, as other candidates frequently say, we have to do something. we can't dump this on our children and our grandchildren. i use -- i address that slightly differently now because it's the current generation, it's us today that are suffering. we don't have the jobs. people are unemployed and we're getting hit with inflation. we're suffering from the overextension of the wars around the world. so, it is today we are suffering from this, and therefore, not only should we worry about the next generation, but we have to worry about today's generation. the most precious thing that we can do for our next generation, the debt is a concern, but the most valuable thing that we can give the next generation and allow this generation to have is

to have our freedoms back. [ cheers and applause ] >> i have talked a whole lot about foreign policy for a good many years, and it is very, very important, because it's the foreign policy originally of the republican party, of robert taft and others, of nonintervention, of that of neutrality, minding our own business. what the founders taught and what the constitution says, don't get involved in entangling alliances, don't get involved in internal affairs of other nations, don't get in the business of nation-building. and besides, we don't have the money. now, you know, if somebody's interested in looking at this in detail, one of the most significant pieces of writing

that i've ever read about this subject came from ronald reagan. and everybody knows, you know, how he stood out in standing up to the soviets and all. but in the early '80s, ronald reagan put some troops, marines, into beirut. 248 marines were killed, a real tragedy, and it wore heavy on ronald reagan. so, what you want to do, if you're interested, is read what he said in the memoirs. what he said in the memoirs was that he said, and he used these words -- he said "i would not turn tail and run," but when he found out how irrational politics was of that reason in that region, he decided it was necessary to get out. he said, if i had followed, if he had followed a policy of neutrality and a policy where he was more neutral, he admitted, he said those 241 marines would still be alive.

and i've taken good advice from ronald reagan on this because he was courageous enough to admit the mistake and advise us on what we should do. robert mack mcnamara, when he w his memoirs -- and he was the one who, you know, built up the vietnam war. what a tragedy. i was in the military for five years in the 1960s. i did not have to go to vietnam, but i was in the service. and it was such a tragedy -- >> all right, we're listening to congressman ron paul, vying for the gop nomination to become president of the united states. he is one of a number of gop hopefuls who are addressing the republican leadership conference going on right now in new orleans. the three-day event kicked off yesterday. we've seen newt gingrich already speak, herman cain and other candidates. also rick santorum will be there. also michele bachmann. we're expecting her in just about an hour. we're going to dip into that. she's gained a lot of steam since the cnn debate earlier this week. a lot of people gave her high marks for her performance there. when she steps to the podium, we will take her live as well.

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are dead and dozens wounded as protests unfolded across syria today, defying the country's military crackdown. tens of thousands flooded the streets of some of syria's largest cities in one that's become a weekly show of defiance of president bashar al assad. as people flee the fighting, the number of refugees crossing the northern border with turkey has swelled to nearly 10,000, and actress angelina jolie has been visiting refugee camps on the turkish side of the border and is at the camp in her role as the u.n.'s goodwill ambassador for refugees. arwa damon is there. >> reporter: t.j., behind me is the camp that angelina jolie visited, where she spent about 2 1/2 hours speaking to refugees. and before she arrived, there was a small demonstration inside with people chanting their gratitude to turkey but also imploring the united nations to help them. one man holding up a sign saying that the syrian military was killing its own people and to please make it stop. this is quite a unique

opportunity for angelina jolie, given that both the national and international media have been prevented by turkish authorities from entering inside these camps. as organizations like amnesty international and human rights launch. she was able to get a firsthand look at how the refugees are coping with life outside of their country. now, some children did manage to sneak underneath a tarp that was set up. they were chanting slogans but also holding up a sign saying "stop killing the children." and while this was unfolding, inside the refugee camps in turkey, inside syria, the uprising that led to the influx of refugees has continued with activists reporting demonstrations across the entire country, where in a number of places, they did again turn violent, causing casualties. this most certainly has been the case in the past. we have also been seeing the military offensive in the northwestern part of the country continuing with activists reporting that the syrian military appears to be inching even closer to the turkish border, and that news has been

sending tremors of fear amongst the syrian refugees still stuck in their own country. t.j.? >> all right. thanks to arwa damon. meanwhile, journalists not being allowed into places like syria, so the world is relying on folks on the ground to tell the story. in most cases, they're risking their lives, and we're seeing those risks online. here now our amber lion. >> reporter: to protest government corruption, a 26-year-old fruit vendor set himself on fire in town. the images of his burned body were posted online and instantaneously available worldwide through the internet. >> i heard about this, and it was on facebook. >> reporter: and the offline battle began. lina ben maheny, a 27-year-old teaching assistant, was one of the foot soldiers who would spread the flames. armed with only a computer and her camera, she drove to the center of the protests in rural tunisia.

what finally inspired you to get in the car and drive there? >> the fact that the traditional media wasn't doing their job. they were either hardened with this or telling lies. >> reporter: the reality was shocking. lina said she learned that the government was opening fire on the protesters. >> when i entered the first house, i just started crying. my hands were shaking, especially when i saw the corpse of the young man of 20 years old. his family, his mom, who was crying. >> reporter: within days, thousands of blogs, tweets and retweets turned into hundreds of thousands of people in the streets. but the mainstream media never picked up on the story. >> well, sunday night, go with cnn to tunisia, bahrain and egypt for the "i-revolution:

online warriors of the arab spring." that's 8:00 eastern right here on cnn. well, you remember, we've seen the president plenty of times, it seems, we have seen him play ball. look it, draining the three there. but he's about to be under some real pressure when he golfs with house speaker john boehner. so, is that same under pressure clutch three point shooting barack obama going to show up? cnn's brianna keilar is going to join me next, and i give you my word, brianna keilar can beat them both at golf. she's coming up next. it's water from the drinking fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can now come from any faucet anywhere. introducing the brita bottle with the filter inside.

all right, at long last, it's going to happen. president obama teeing it up with the house speaker, john boehner, this weekend. these two men, as you know, they credential ha certainly have their differences, but this is something, at least, they do have in common, a passion for golf. and so does brianna keilar. now, i teed this up, brianna. a lot of people may not know you've been playing golf since you were, i don't know, 1? >> 10. >> but you've been playing for a while. brianna is an excellent, excellent golfer. that's why i said that. but let's move on to these two men playing this weekend. you go and play with your buddies, people you're close with. these two, what do we actually know about their relationship? how friendly are these two men? >> reporter: you know, they get

along. you said it, t.j., politically they're very far apart. are they bffs? no, but they get along, certainly. they've had a good rapport. even though during the first two years of the obama presidency, they didn't really spend a lot of time together, they have recently. that budget battle that narrowly averted a government shutdown, that really came down to negotiations between the president and the speaker. so, they were spending quite a lot of time together. and also, right now there is this kind of battle going on right now about whether to raise the debt ceiling. the expectation is it's going to come down, again, to the speaker and president obama. so, i guess you could argue that this comes at a really good time, and it's really the first time that we will have seen them spending, i mean, hours together, right? perhaps five hours or so in a really informal setting. >> but is anything going to get done in that five hours or will they just be -- i mean when you go out there, you're talking about, you know, not a lot of business, sometimes, when you go with your buddies. you're talking golf. and we do know boehner, i believe, is clearly supposed to be the better golfer here. >> reporter: yes. >> so, will it be just golf and

a good time amongst the fellas, or do we expect some business to be done? >> reporter: you know, we don't know. it could come up, and we've heard from the white house spokesman jay carney, some of the issues they're dealing with. libya, of course, right now a big issue between speaker boehner and the president. so, definitely, it could come up, but there is no agenda. that's what jay carney said. i think here at the very least, you have these two leaders who are frequently at odds on issues, and they're at least going to spend some time together. and i think a lot of people would say that's a good thing. some people might say why are they playing golf? we know that some people have raised that issue. but at least it's some time for them in an informal setting they haven't had. >> okay. i'm going to bring back some video here, and a lot of people will remember this. you certainly will. but the president, we have seen him play under pressure. basketball, this is him visiting troops. no warm-up, no nothing, launches a three, sinks the thing, people go crazy. >> reporter: boom. >> all right, that's great stuff. all the cameras on him. that takes a lot of pressure. but then we remember this other

moment, brianna. he was playing -- look it. not playing, he was bowling, and just gutter ball. he ended up, i believe, with a 37 is what he shot, or something like that? so, which obama is going to show up tomorrow? will there be a lot of cameras in his face, first of all? >> well, this is what's interesting. we know, t.j., that we just found out today there are going to be cameras at least to capture part of this. >> okay. >> reporter: i wonder what are we going to see? are we going to see them tee off at the first hole? because i feel like it's a tremendous amount of pressure to, you know, this is the one shot maybe cameras are going to catch? we'll see. so, we're going to get a chance and we're also, perhaps, the white house says, going to see the score, so we'll get a sense. but i think, look, your money here is probably going to be on speaker boehner. i think you have the numbers, right, on their handicaps? >> you go ahead and take us through them. i'll put them up for the viewer here. we're explaining, it's clear, yes, according to this, who the better golfer is. >> reporter: the numbers don't lie here.

president obama 17 and the speaker is about an 8. so, there you go. money on john boehner. >> all right. and they have two others joining them, we should mention, as well. >> reporter: that's right. and vice president joe biden will be there. he's actually the one to watch, because he is, i understand it, a 6. and also, one of our white house producers, alex mooney, has it on very good sourcing that he has been hitting the range this week, the driving range, almost as much as he's been up on capitol hill talking debt ceiling with members of congress. he's been at the range a couple of times this week. and then ohio governor john kashich, he's the guest of the speaker. so, that's the foursome. >> i don't know if the vice president wants that to get out, that he's been doing more on his golf game than the debt ceiling, but still. >> reporter: maybe a little less, i understand. >> brianna keilar, good to see you, as always. we'll see what comes of it this weekend. thanks so much. also today, there was a pretty major scare near the pentagon after police find a man who was acting a little weird around arlington national cemetery. the investigation unfolding right now. we'll tell you what they are

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an area around the pentagon under lockdown earlier today has reopened. authorities had closed several roads between arlington national cemetery and the pentagon after a vehicle was found abandoned by the side of the road. police have now detained a man with an ethiopian background. citizenship right now is unclear. nothing suspicious or explosive was found in that vehicle, but fbi agents are trying to determine an unfamiliar substance found in his backpack. next hour, our pentagon correspondent, chris lawrence, joins us with more on this arrest.

>> let him go! let him go! a bit of a brawl breaking out. where? outside of what some are calling the trial of the century. also there, a surprise witness for casey anthony's defense holds a news conference. that is next. with honey nut cheerios cereal. kissed with real honey. and the 100% natural whole grain oats can help lower your cholesterol. you are so sweet to me. bee happy. bee healthy. i thought it was over here... ♪ [car horn honks] our outback always gets us there... ... sometimes it just takes us a little longer to get back. ♪

well, it may or may not turn out to be the trial of the century, as some have called it, but the casey anthony murder trial turning into almost as big of a circus as we saw during the o.j. simpson trial. want you to take a look at something that happened outside the courthouse today. a brawl broke out. look at this, and then i'll explain what this was all about. >> let him go! let him go! let him go! hey! >> what is wrong with you? you put him in a headlock! you put him in a headlock! >> no, he hit me. he hit me. >> you put him in a headlock, i saw you! >> yeah, these folks are literally fighting for position to get inside the courtroom for a murder trial. this was outside the court, when apparently, what happened here, two men cut in line, trying to get a spot inside to watch the trial, and this is what happened. also today, inside the courtroom now, the surprise witness the defense put on its list this week, convicted felon vasco

thompson. what he says, the defense's claim that he's linked to casey anthony's father is a surprise to him, too. >> i have no idea who george anthony is. i just seen him on tv. i never talked to george anthony. i'm not going to say i never -- i don't know him. and the phone number they got in question, i didn't have that phone number until february of '09. and i don't know why they got me involved in all this mess. >> well, yes, one of the witnesses there kind of having his own press conference outside. you're seeing live pictures. this trial, again, as you know, going on right now. live pictures of what's happening there. they have one camera that's always fixed on casey anthony, as you see there. the other one showing a witness on the stand right now. let's turn to david mattingly. he is there with us. david, let's go with what's happening inside the courtroom for a change. it seems like so much is happening outside, but inside the courtroom today, what kind of a day was it for the defense?

>> reporter: inside, not as exciting as what we've been watching outside, t.j., but interesting, nonetheless. we've been listening to an entomology expert. this is an expert in bugs, insects, and how they interact with decaying or decomposing bodies. and it's his expert opinion, he says that the bugs in this case tell him that there was no body in the car belonging to casey anthony. he says they did find evidence of insects, but not in the quantity that would tell him that there was ever a body hidden in that car. listen to what he has to say. >> if we assume there is a body in a car trunk, you would expect to find hundreds, if not thousands, of these adult blowflies. given that each one of them has six functional legs, assuming that they're intact, you've got hundreds, or 6,000s of legs that

are attached to these flies. a fly does not enter in an enclosed container, lose a leg, and then figure out a way to get out. they're in there, they die there, they're stuck there. i would have expected to find, as i did in these experiments, hundreds, thousands of whole dead insects, not only in the trunk of the vehicle, but also in the passenger compartment. >> reporter: and it's been just like that almost all day long, but it did liven up a little bit when the prosecution did get up to cross examine this witness for the defense, and they were hammering away at him, trying to get him to talk about the research and how he's basing his expert opinion on this. he did a lot of research using pig carcasses, and they're saying, the prosecution's pointing out, this case did not involve a pig. it involved a small child in the florida sun, wrapped up in a blanket and possibly wrapped up in multiple trash bags stuffed

in that car. so, they're talking about different scenarios here, and it's all going to come down to, t.j., whose story here, the prosecution or the defense's, is the most credible with the jury? >> yeah, and it looks like, again, to our viewers, live pictures you're seeing there on your screen, casey anthony. it looks like that bug expert's still up there on the stand, david. but let's move outside of the courtroom now. we have been seeing this since the trial started, people lining up trying to get just those few, i guess around 50 spots, in the courtroom. we've seen people running. we've seen a few scuffles break out. but this one we saw, this latest one seems to be one of the worst we have seen. are they going to allow this to continue to happen or are they going to come up with a better system for letting people line up to try to get into court? >> reporter: well, that incident this morning was sort of the back-breaker. you're not going to see that anymore here. you're not going to see the lines forming in the middle of the night. you're not going to see people standing in line hour after hour after hour just to get into that courtroom. what they've done, they're going to start a new system where people line up starting today at

4:00 in the afternoon. the first 50 people in that line, they will take their information, they will look at their i.d., and then they will come back in the morning just to take, very calmly, show their i.d. and take their seat. it's going to be a lot more civilized and a lot less more difficult to get into that courtroom now. you're not going to see these marathon lines overnight as we've seen for the past couple of weeks of people trying to get in there. so, a rule change to make sure we don't see anything like we saw this morning. >> all right. david mattingly for us covering this casey anthony trial. david, we appreciate you, as always. thanks so much. also coming up next here, america apparently has two different types of dads. that's at least according to a new study. and the trend could be a disturbing one. stay with us. that's helping drive the future of business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ machines have a voice. ♪ medical history follows you.

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well, as you all know, it's father's day weekend this weekend. chances are, when many of you were growing up, your dad lived at home with you. times have a changed, though. take a look at this. in 1960, 89% of kids had their dad at home. well, these days, in 2010, now it's closer to 73%. some new research tells us what we might have guessed, that dads who don't live at home don't get to spend as much time with their kids as dads who do live in the house. so, what does all this mean? let me bring in jeff guard year

clinical psychologist and host of the show "dad camp." good to see you, as always. >> good to see you, t.j. thank you. >> help me understand, is this a new reality that we will just adjust to and fathers will learn to adapt, or is this something that needs to be addressed or even corrected in the future? >> i think it's a combination of both. the reality is, you gave some startling statistics as to how many fathers live with their kids now versus in the early 1960s. of course, a lot of this is being impacted by this almost 50% divorce rate that we have. so, the reality is, dads are not going to be living with kids as much as they did, but also that they are going to have to make the adjustments, because this pew research study shows once and for all something that we've always known, that fathers are important to the lives of their children, and if they're lucky enough to live with them in the home, the chances are that they'll be much more involved and do much more things with

them. >> okay. what is that impact, then, and what will it be, if you can give a wider view, even, not just in that one home -- what will the impact be if we start to see fewer and fewer dads living in the home with kids? just societally, what might we start to look like? >> well, what we are going to start to see, if there are less dads there, there's less of the influence of the father, which means that many of these kids will have issues as far as self-discipline, they'll have issues as far as trust. they may even have issues as far as how they pair with other people with regard to marriage later on in their lives. and let's face it, kids look to their parents for guidance. and if both parents are not around or one parent, it's a one-parent home and that parent is out working, then a lot of these kids are going to be on their own, and perhaps, won't make the right decisions, especially when we see the impact of the internet and how that's taken over the lives of many of our kids and how they can be led astray by some of the

very destructive things that are on the internet. >> are we finding as well, though, that dads are starting to make up for not seeing the kids every day? we certainly have technology, whether it's the cell phones and texting constantly, you've got the skype, and you can still lay eyes on them in some way, but can you ever really -- and i guess the survey showed as well that dads who aren't in the home with their kids are more likely to think they're bad dads. are they giving themselves really a bum rap there, if you will? you can't help but feel that way, but i guess, can you be a good dad from a distance? >> well, and this is what's happening. when they looked at the dads who were living at home and asked them, do you feel that you're a good dad, nine out of ten said yes, they were good dads. the one living away from them, only 49% said they were good dads. so, i think a lot of the dads who are living apart from their kids, they're starting to feel very guilty about it. they know that there's a lot more that they can do. but just as you alluded to, here's the good part about the

internet -- now they can skype, they're able to do face-to-face transactions with their kids, they can text their kids as often as possible, and that's what the dads are doing, and dads are learning a lesson, t.j. they're saying, okay, if i live apart from you, then it's not about the quantity of time, it's about the quality of time. so, even though i need to spend more time with you because i'm not living with you, that becau living with you, that time that i spend with you, it's going to be a rich amount of time and we're going to make it count. >> jeff gardere, always good to talk to you. interesting findings in this study. i'm going to send it out, people will be interested to read it. some interesting findings, but it certainly looks like the face of this society is changing in at least this way. jeff, good to see you, as always. you enjoy your weekend, all right? >> always a pleasure. happy father's day everyone to. coming up, a growing problem that could affect whether your flight is safe. i'm going to tell you, also, show you what drug smugglers are now doing at night. and what they're using to do it.

the video is next. but first, some free money advice from the cnn help desk. time now for the help desk, where we get answers to your financial questions. joining me this hour, greg mcbride, a senior financial analyst at bankrate.com, and linnette is founder of financial advice blog, ask the money coach. so amy in pennsylvania says, "i need to hire someone to help me navigate a possibly short sale and deal with all three of my lenders. who can help me do that?" >> it's probably a real estate agent who's best prepared to help someone negotiate a short sale. there's a lot of real estate agents who actually specialize in this. if you go through an organization like the national association of realtors, for exampling with they'll be able to connect you or point you in the right direction, get online and search for an agent in your area, for an agent who specifically specializes in short sales or foreclosures. it's a long, drawn-out closure.

you can't say, ah, 60% down or 60% on the dollar of whiat this property is worth, it doesn't work that way. you've got to package it in the right way. but a real estate agent is probably the best person to help you do just that. >> and they've had a lot of experience doing that lately. jessica in florida says, my husband works for a family-owned small business. he loves his company, but they do not offer a 401(k), so what are his options for pre-tax retirement savings. >> you want to start with a traditional i.r.a. you can contribute -- you and your husband can each contribute up to $5,000 or $6,000 if you're age 50 or older. because he does no have a workplace sponsored retirement program, his contributions will be tax deductible. now, if he's a contractor for the company, that oppose up a couple of other possibilities, things like the solo 401(k) or the sep ira. in those cases, they have much higher contribution limits than you get with the traditional i.r.a.. >> have a question you want answered? send us an e-mail anytime to

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well, i want you to take a look at something here. you can barely hear this, but you can't really see it. you hear that noise? it doesn't have lights. what you're seeing here, the middle of your screen there, it's actually smuggling illegal drugs into the u.s. it's a plane, and planes like this are called ultralights. really small, fly at night with no lights, so it's easy to maybe evade authorities, but also easy to collide with other planes, hit phone or radio towers, or just crash. the planes, as they're trying to get the drugs in, don't actually land anywhere, so the border patrol agents are trying to catch the people who are picking up the drugs that are dropped on the ground. it was during a speech in new orleans, newt gingrich warned people that what he was about to say would shock the news media. wolf blitzer with me next to tell me if she was shocked.

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all right. time to get the latest from the political ticker. for that, we turn to wolf blitzer. he joins me now from washington. wolf, we've got a number of presidential hopefuls speaking in new orleans. newt gingrich, one of them, said he was going to shock us or had some aggressive words. just how aggressive were they? >> they were pretty aggressive against the mainstream national news media, t.j. he's at that gop conference in

new orleans. a lot of the presidential republican candidates are there and he really blasted the mainstream media for the criticism that he's been hearing lately, involving not only some of his business dealings, but also his wife, callista, and he really went after the president of the united states. once again, saying this. he said, i got criticized a little bit in the elite media because i said obama's the most successful food stamp president in american history. then gingrich said, well, guess what, obama is the most successful food stamp president in american history. not backing away at all. he was really tough on the president, tough on the mainstream media. we'll see how that plays out in his quest for the republican presidential come natinominatio. tim pawlenty is now saying he made a huge mistake at the cnn debate monday night when he avoided lashing directly out at mitt romney. mitt romney, when he was governor of massachusetts, had a mandate program for health care reform in that state. the president of the united states with says that was a

model for obama's and the democrat's health care reform plan. and now tim pawlenty saying he should have slammed romney directly. he made the point, he said, "i don't think we could have a nominee that was involved in the development and construction of obama care and then continues to defend it." he says, he simply made a major mistake in not really slamming him monday night after the sunday before he talked about obamany care going after mitt romney. so there's a battle going on. michele bachmann is going to be live in the situation room right at the top of 5:00, t.j. so we've got some good questions for her. we'll see where she stands, some of these economic issues, some of the other issues coming up in the campaign. so lots of presidential politics as we get closer and closer to iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, florida, all those states. >> all right. you said she's going to be with you coming up at the top of 5:00, sit room, we're also

expecting to hear from her in a second. she's speaking at the republican leadership conference. we'll dip into her speech live. so we'll see you here shortly. to our viewers, we are about to reset things here at the top of the hour in the "cnn newsroom." watch this. >> president obama is a one-term president! >> she made waves at cnn's republican debate. now, any minute, michele bachmann expected to take the stage and tell the country why she should be president. you'll see it live. blood is spilling in libya. the same goes for syria. so as the u.s. and nato target the libyan government and not syrian leaders, is there a double standard? plus, a scandal is unfolding. the u.s. sent guns across the border, into the hands of drug gangs. >> we weren't giving guns to people who were hunting bear. we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans. >> someone in a powerful position signed off on the

operation known as fast and furious and lawmakers are trying to find out who it is. plus, americans addicted to sex. we'll tell you what's causing more and more people to cross a very dangerous line. clearly, i'm not the guy in all those pictures. i'm t.j. holmes sitting in for brooke baldwin. that's senator jim demint of south carolina. he's speaking at the republican leadership conference happening right now in new orleans. a gathering of conservatives there and a gathering of a lot of the potential presidential hopefuls. we heard from ron paul last hour. he spoke just a bit ago, and also as promised, we're waiting to hear from that lady, who seemed right now can do no wrong, at least. a lot of people speaking very highly and favorably of her, after a good showing, many will tell you, at the cnn debate that was earlier this week. she's expected to take the podium here in new orleans in just a couple of moments. when she does, we'll dip into her speech live. meanwhile, if it's happening right now, if it's interesting to you, you're about to see it.

rapid fire. let's do this. president obama spending some time with wounded soldiers before the father's day weekend. a short time ago, he went to walter reed army medical center in northern washington. the president met with 21 wounded service men. 16 of them injured in afghanistan. the rest injured in iraq. while there, the president also awarded two purple hearts. the medal given to soldiers wounded or killed in action against an enemy. and may was the worst month in a year for army suicides. 21 active duty soldiers suspected of killing themselves last month. one suicide confirmed, the other still under investigation. the army says it's tough to know why suicide rates increased, but a spike doesn't necessarily mean it's a trend. also, arizona and new mexico on high alert once again today. both states face heightened fire danger due to strong winds and dry conditions. two of the biggest worries, the monument fire in southern arizona and in eastern arizona, the record-setting wallow fire. it's the largest fire in arizona's recorded history.

fire crews have the fire about 33% contained, but winds could undo all their hard work. fire crews say it is so dry out there that if flames hit grass, it's like it will take off like gasoline was there. also, in new orleans, a facebook page causing some buzz for alerting people to dui checkpoints. the facebook page created six days ago already has 9,000 "likes," you facebook folks know what that means. it encourages people to reveal specific locations of dui checkpoints around the city. new orleans police calling the page irresponsible, and say it will put the public at risk. also , in michigan, look at this. this is video of a man, see him there? he's in a standoff with police and he fires a nail gun at police before he headed back into the house for recover. the 50-year-old man barricaded himself there after witnesses saw him chasing after his girlfriend with a knife. and they called police. this was a six-hour standoff

that ended after special forces threw in flash bangs and broke down the door. and i want to tell you about an operation that a lot of people can't believe, has them scratching their heads. an operation called fast and furious. we're not talking about another vin diesel movie here. fast and furious let criminals openly buy high-powered guns and ammo in arizona. the kind of stuff we're talking about, ak-47s, .50 caliber weapons. this is a tactic the authorities called letting guns walk. and they did walk. they walked right across the border into mexico, got into the hands of violent drug gangs. so fast and furious, the operation, where did this all come about? it's actually a u.s. government program that essentially supplied guns to a drug war that has killed 34,000 people in mexico. two of those guns recovered near the murder of a u.s. border agent last december in arizona. some federal agents say they objected to the gun sales, but their higher-ups stopped them from arresting the gun buyers. now those whistle-blowers call

this operation, fast and furious, they call it dangerous and deadly. also say it is a catastrophic disaster. >> we weren't giving guns to people who were hunting bear, we were giving guns to people who were killing other humans. >> rather than meet the wolf head on, we with sharpened his teeth, added numbers to his claws. all the while, we sat idly by watching, track welcome and noting as he became a more efficient and effective predator. >> now, a justice department official testified before congress that he does not know who authorized operation fast and furious. congressman darrell issa was furious. >> if you're going to count pages like this as discovery, you should be ashamed of yourself. that's not discovery. that is saying that nothing within the document requested, under any circumstances, are we going to be shown. >> now, i asked retired atf special agent in charge james cavanaugh about this operation

and really what's the point? >> it was a bold new strategy that was implemented by the atf and the department of justice to go after the cartels through the gun traffic strategy. but, you know, you can't get the king of the cartel in the drug traffic case. i think that's the mistake here. the strategy was too bold, the scale was too big, and it went too far. >> and you're hearing this kind of program, and they put a lot of emphasis on trying to figure out who exactly would have given the okay. a lot of people are suggesting it had to be somebody kind of higher up. would you agree with that? >> i would certainly agree. it went all through atf command. i think it went all the way to the top, and it went to the department. i think atf, the leaders there, will stand by the strategy, and they will say that they implemented it and they directed it. i don't think there's going to be any question of that. probably the same as the department. but, you know, it was disheartening to watch the hearings the other day with certainly your heart goes out to agent terry's family, and they deserve some answers. but for me, it was disheartening

to watch the agents, who i thought were all very incredible, talking about being pulled off of actual surveillance, where they watched the guns and the money switch hands. and this wasn't at the beginning of the case, when, certainly, there can be some latitude and some risk, trying to build a case, but this is deep into the case. i mean, one agent testified, you know, maybe 1,200 guns into the case, while they watched them purchase the money and the guns changed and they followed the guns and they're called off. they don't lose the surveillance, but they don't make a good faith effort to try to get the surveillance and then miss it. they're told not to follow the guns. that was very disheartening to me. >> well, james, we're just hearing about this particular program, but is it possible, in your estimation, that this plan or this idea with was really dreamt up by someone there locally and this is a first of its kind, if you will, or this is just the first one we're hearing about? >> well, i think a lot of it was driven top down, you know? the inspector general wrote a report in 2009, very critical of

atf for only getting low-level gun traffickers and gun rings. and i think atf overreacted to that report, in my view. they should have really just put it on the side. they overreacted. also, the department pushed the cases more toward, you know, big drug cases, organized crime drug task force style cases. in fact, this was worked out of the drug task force. and you cannot work gun traffic cases the same way you work a gun traffic case. they're completely different. and when you try to use those techniques, this is what you get. so, you know, when -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> no, james, just quickly, to wrap up, is this something that reaches a level of something criminal done here, or just we need to learn from our mistakes and don't need to do this again? >> i don't think there's any bad people involved or criminal activity involved, but i think there'll be some shake ups in washington and we need new orders and new policies because we have a very vulgar war with mexico on our border. >> and a reminder to our viewer,

what you're watching at the bottom of the screen there, the republican leadership conference, a gathering of conservatives in new orleans, going on right now. expecting to hear from congresswoman michele bachmann who says she is trying to become president of the united states. a lot of people giving her good reviews after her performance at the cnn debate earlier this week. we'll take you live there when she does step to the podium. also, a major security scare in the nation's capital today. police find a man who was asking a little funny in arlington national cemetery. what they found on him led to a lockdown at the pentagon. investigation still unfolding. we'll tell you what they're finding and who exactly the guy is. that is next.

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well, a man carrying a backpack with an unknown material was with picked up near the pentagon just a short while ago. he apparently tipped off police that a suspicious vehicle was abandoned nearby. that prompted a lockdown, all the way to arlington national cemetery. chris lawrence is trying to piece this all together. what do we know about the suspect? >> his name is yonathan melaku. the thing is, he's also a u.s. marine. he's been in the marine corps reserve for almost four years now. he's an e-3, fairly low level, a lance corporal. he's been assigned to a combat engineer battalion, never deployed overseas to iraq or afghanistan, but sources are telling us from the marines that he's sort of fallen off the radar where the marines are concerned. he didn't pass some of his fitness tests, they're not even sure if he actually showed up to

take them, and recently, he was not recommended for promotion. when cnn crews went out to the neighborhood and talked to his neighbors, about all they could say is he didn't talk to much, kept a pretty hectic schedule, would always see him coming and going. t.j.? >> help us understand how we get from him being a suspicious character to getting to this suspicious vehicle? kind of piece this together for us? >> well, first of all, he was picked up overnight in arlington national cemetery. now, you can gont 't go to arli at night. it's closed. that's the first suspicious thing, when somebody's there while the park is closed. so they pick him up, take him in, and start questioning him. one official says he was uncooperative in answering their questions, and two, when they looked at what he had on him in a backpack, one was a notebook in which the words "taliban" and "al qaeda" were scribbled somewhere in that notebook. and two was a substance that he

claimed was ammonium nitrate. when investigators went in and tex looked at this, they found out that this substance was inert, which means it never had any chance of blowing up. they also found a car parked nearby, very close to the pentagon in a wood ared area, b they didn't find any other explosive material in that car, did not find anything else that would alarm them inside that vehicle. but, again, he's still in -- you know, under -- in custody right now. and they don't believe at this point this has anything to do with terrorism. but, obviously, some very real warning bells were going off when they found this on him, and him being in arlington cemetery at night. >> all right. chris lawrence for us at the pentagon. chris, we appreciate you, as always. thanks so much. and to our viewers, we're still keeping an eye on that little box on the bottom of your screen right now, waiting to hear from congresswoman michele bachmann, who, of course, has announced she's running for president. she'll be addressing the

republican leadership conference taking place in new orleans right now. when that happens, we'll certainly bring you some of her comments live. also, actress angelina jolie, she's visiting the syrian border as violence escalates and more people die. tell you what happened once she landed and whether her trip is helping in this crisis. our arwa damon is there.

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are standing by to hear from congresswoman michele bachmann, who has now thrown her hat into the ring for the republican nomination. she is going to be speaking at the republican leadership conference in new orleans that's going on right now. we can show you that picture there. we're waiting on her to step to the podium. while we're waiting on her and once she comes up, we'll have -- actually, it looks like she's coming up now. i'm pretty sure that person is not michele bachmann. but we're standing by. paul, let me bring you in, you're there at the conference as well -- okay, there she is. we're laying eyes on her now as she steps out. paul, she's going to say some thank yous here and i promise our viewers we'll get to her as she starts to speak, but what's the importance now of every public statement she makes, after she's picked up some momentum, and a lot of people gave her a lot of credit at that cnn debate for doing better than maybe a lot of people expected. >> that's rightly on a lot of the -- t.j., a lot of the pundits and everyone else thinks she did so well at our debate. she's in the spot so much more

now than she was a couple of days ago. so much anticipation for her speech here. people are running right now into the ballroom to listen to her. everybody wants to see what she says. she's now more firmly in the spotlight right now than she was before, if ever. >> that's good color. she's just stepping up. let's go ahead. i know that there are usually a lot of thank yous and she certainly looks like she's pumping up the crowd so i'm going to go ahead and listen in now. >> you have such a great spirit! you inspire all of america! do you know that? new orleans inspires us all? you've got it here in new orleans, and i am so thankful to be able to be here with all of you today. you are very brave people here, and i want you to know, you also have a very brave governor, in governor bobby jindal! and governor haley barbour!

these two governors showed, you can get it right! and they did. they are marvelous men. and i love them both. now, earlier this week, i don't know if you caught it, but there was a republican presidential debate. it was held by cnn and it was up a little north of here in new hampshire. and i want you to know, i learned a couple of things in that debate. i learned first of all, that newt gingrich likes "american idol." i didn't know that. i learned that ron paul favors the blackberry. and i learned that herm kaine likes deep dish pizza. and ds bes being a hard-core, die-hard johnny cash fan, the world found out that i have christmas with elvis on my ipod.

but i have to tell you a little secret, you aren't going to tell anybody, are you? okay. well, i have to tell you, i was a little nervous, and i didn't know if they were going to ask boxers or briefs? you know, a girl never knows. you never know. but the debate, i think, did bring three things out in new hampshire that were very, very important. and the first one is this. in contrast to the current administration, what we saw on the stage in new hampshire were leaders. people who could lead this country. and our party showed very well, i think, in that debate. and it was a real honor for me to be able to announce that night that i had filed my paperwork to seek the office of the presidency of the united states of america!

the greatest country the world has ever seen. during the brief years that i have served in the halls of congress in washington, d.c., i feel that my greatest accomplishment has been to bring the voice of the people into the halls of congress, and politicians started paying attention to your voice when it was brought into washington, d.c. and what my goal is is to take your voice into the white house, where it hasn't been heard for a very long time. and in order to do that and to be successful in 2012, we need to engage a strategy of the three-legged stool, and the stool is this -- we need to add

peace through strength republicans. and i'm one of those. and we need to add the fiscal conservative leg, and i'm one of those. and we most certainly need to add the social conservatives, and i am one of those. and we need the tea party movement. the liberals want you to think that the tea party is just a radical fringe of the republican party. there's a reason why the left is absolutely an leaptic about the tea party movement. why they shout ma jortive terms about the tea party movement. here's the truth about the tea party movement. it's an idea. and it's made up of disaffected democrats that have had it up to

here with barack obama. it's made up of independents who have had it up to here with barack obama. it's made up of libertarians, it's made up of people who have never been political a day in their life, and republicans, we were already there. we were already there. that's the tea party movement. they should be afraid of this movement, but it was the verve and the vibrancy of the 2010 election. let me tell you, that movement has more steam and more power and more energy today than it had last november in 2010. get ready, 2012, the tea party will be bigger than ever!

because the tea party and all of america has one goal, and it's this. that barack obama will be a one-term president! now, the second thing that we were reminded of in the debate earlier this the week, is that the race really will be all about jobs and the economy. we understand that this president hasn't done such a good job on that. because here we are, two years into the recovery. we're two years into the recovery. under ronald reagan, we were literally adding hundreds of thousands of jobs in a month. under ronald reagan's recovery. and instead now we're in the obama trench of a double dip

recession. that's all we need to know to explain why today people are worried about their retirement. and they have this fear that's becoming not just gnawing, now it's on the surface. they honestly don't believe that their kids are going to do as well as they did. and do you realize that this is the first generation that has felt that way in 234 years of our nation's history? that's how devastating these economic numbers are to americans. and also, i think that what this debate was about earlier this week is how we're going to reverse the trend. that's the good news of all of this. how we're going to add jobs. i'm a job creator. my husband and i started, from scratch, a successful company. we came from a lower middle class background. i drove a school bus and all sorts of other jobs to get through college. my husband did the same thing. that's what america gives us, a

chance, a hope, an opportunity. wasn't there something about hope and change in 2008? do you remember that? 2012, that's the real hope and change election. we republicans have the most powerful, positive story to tell in 2012. it's a story that barack obama can't even begin to tell and he won't tell, because he's got a big "f" on his economic report card! he can't tell it. and as a matter of fact, if you want to sum up this election in the most simple, positive terms, it would go something like this. the day that barack obama became president, a gallon of gas was $1.79 a gallon, that day. today, it's $3.75 a gallon

across the united states. has president obama failed you on energy policy? ten days after he became president, the price of an ounce of gold was $940. ten days after he was inaugurated. today it is $1,500 an ounce. has the president of the united states devalued your dollar? he has made us all poorer. now, get this. the day that president obama took office and your share of the national debt was $35,000 for every american, and that was after nancy pelosi had had the gavel for a few years, do you know what it is today under president obama? your share has gone from $35,000 to $46,000 in national debt. who would like to join me in

sending a change of address form to 1600 pennsylvania avenue for 2012? that's priceless! i think the final thing that we saw earlier this week at the debates is the fact that in 2012, i really believe that this race is going to be all about you. not about politicians, it's going to be about you. and about the future that we hold, about the free market system and about the morals and the values that have always been the cornerstone of this country. and it means, i think, that we're going to have to trust our neighbors and our friends with telling them the truth about what's going on in our country. and i don't think that we should fear telling them the truth. because never has anything been more important, i think, to let them know this next example. and you've heard about it today, and it's obama care.

because obama care is the symbol of what's wrong with jobs, of what's wrong with spending. what's wrong with debt. what's wrong with government overreach. i was there. i fought against obama care, with you, on the front line, every step of the way, against obama care. and while we've been seeing the liberals in the last few weeks trying to scare americans about medicare, and especially senior citizens, what's been ignored is president obama's plan for senior citizens, regarding medicare. have you heard what that is? two weeks ago i was in the white house. i was in a meeting with president obama, and the president was asked not once, not twice, he was asked three times, mr. president, what is -- it was a private, closed door meeting. what is your plan for medicare?

what are you going to do to save it, so it doesn't go flat broke, like we know it will, in the not-too-distant future. and do you know what the president's plan is? this hasn't been talked about very much. the president's plan for senior citizens is obama care. we all think, for our senior citizens, that somehow medicare is going to go on. and i think very likely, and i'm speculating, i think very likely, what the president intends, is that medicare will go broke, and then ultimately that answer will be obama care for senior citizens. what else would the plan be? if he's not intending to save it, knowing full well what the numbers in front of our eyes, that it is certain bankruptcy for our senior citizens, and he's willing to allow that to happen, with then that will mean

that our senior citizens will face obama care, knowing full well that our president took $500 billion -- that's a half trillion dollars -- out of medicare to give it to younger people in obama care. just when our population of senior citizens -- >> you've been listening representative michele bachmann, who is now a republican candidate for president. she's addressing the republican leadership conference going on right now in new orleans. a collection of conservatives there, an annual meeting. she is one of a number of the republican white house hopefuls who are speaking there. newt gingrich among them, rick santorum coming up a little later. also heard from ron paul and several others. she's also, michele bachmann there, she started, you heard her talking a lot about, at the very beginning, at least, the cnn debate that took place earlier this week on monday up in new hampshire. at that debate, a lot of people

afterwards gave her high marks for her performance. that has kind of catapulted her and getting her a whole lot more attention these days. she referred to a number of times. in about 25 minutes, she'll be a guest of wolf blitzer and "the situation room," that's coming up at the top of the hour. so more to come from her. she repeat smoed some of the familiar themes, she started that tea party caucus up in washington. she wants to bring some of those ideas of the tea party movement to washington. you can hear from her coming up at the top of the hour with our wolf blitzer. we've got fears growing that the economic crisis in greece could spark a domino affect around the world. and what happens next will most certainly affect you, your wallet, that 401(k). coming up, the one thing maybe you need to be concerned about. also, americans addicted to sex? more and more people are crossing this line.

and a line many don't even know exists. that is next.

all right. a deepening crisis in greece. a plea deal for the barefoot bandit. and how many sex addicts are out there? we'll save that for elizabeth cohen for last in this reporter roulette. let's start with alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. alison, hey, there.

a cabinet shuffle in greece. everybody's eyes are on greece right now. are we talking about another bailout? but before they can get to that bailout, they've got some work to do. >> looks like things are getting better there. european leaders cleared a big hurdle in the way of a solution today. germany agreed to not to push for federal investors to share some of the burden of bailing out greece. that had come under pressure from the french government. so this compromise definitely calming investors in a big way, especially here on wall street as well, t.j.. >> help people understand how this affects them. they think, greece, that's their problem, a long way away, not my issue. that's not necessarily the case. >> exactly. it's not necessarily the case, but this greek debt issue has been going on for a very long time. it really shouldn't cause a huge shock to your 401(k). when you think about it, the s&p 500 has closed lower for the past six straight weeks. and because our 401(k)s mirror that index, we've already seen a dent in our portfolios, at least temporarily. but, remember, if you're worried at all, now's as good a time as

any to go ahead and review your 401(k) options. think about your long and short-term goals. discuss them with a financial adviser. all of those 401(k)s, they come with access to experts. >> alison kosikkosik, thank you. up next, he's known as the barefoot bandit. colton harris moore led police on a crime spree across nine states, one canadian province, as well as the bahamas. today he was back in court in seattle for a plea. cnn's patrick onnen is there. how'd it go down in court today? >> reporter: maybe the end of the road, or at least a pause on the road for the barefoot bandit, who among his other crimes stole airplanes and flew them as far as away as the bahamas, sometimes without shoes, always without a pilot license. he had to plea guilty to about seven federal crimes today. some local ones and they'll be lumped together in a plea deal, which probably means he'll spend

about 7 1/2 years in prison. it's still being worked out. this is the first step. but one thing, he won't be able to profit from any of these crimes he committed. . if you think this sounds like a hollywood story, a catch me if you can deal, you're not alone. hollywood has been reaching out to him and the judge says he will not be able to profit from any of these crimes he committed. >> all right, patrick oppmann, thank you. and next up, you've heard by now congressman anthony weiner resigning over a sexting scandal, but if you or someone you know is sexting, how do you know when you cross the line into addiction. senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen, with me. so this is real? >> people say, is it an addiction? i want to take away that language for one second and say, look. here's a guy who should have known that by sending inappropriate messages and pictures to women that he was

putting his professional life and his marriage at risk. in other words, he was royally going to mess up his life. i mean, he was taking huge risks. and when that happens, that's when psychologists and psychiatrists start saying, he's addi addicted. he had these urges to do something. he should have known that it could have been a problem, yet he couldn't stop himself. >> some say it just makes him dumb. >> he's not a dumb guy, right? if you listen to him, he's a member of congress, he's had a career. he's not stupid. there's a difference. let's say you're some 20-year-old guy and don't have a serious job and sending all these messages and photos, that's not -- you're having fun and not putting anything at risk. you're not going to get in trouble. he was and, well, did get in trouble and he is not an idiot. he should have known that he would get in trouble, but he couldn't stop himself. >> this doesn't help, i guess, but all the social media, all the ways we have to connect now. how's the internet kind of making some of these things worse? >> it makes it worse, because before if you had a certain

urge, you might go to the grocery store and get a playboy, let's say. but you would have to interface with that that clerk. but now you can send messages without anybody seeing you. another psychologist brought up to us, maybe weiner is very narcissistic. he thought, i can do this sort of thing and not get caught. maybe that's part of what's going on and what's at play as well. >> and he says he wants to get treatment. what's treatment for this like? >> his spokesperson said he's going to seek treatment. and when you seek treatment, it's nothing scientific or or terribly medically, you seek treatment when it's messing up your life or your wife wants to divorce you, you seek treatment when you get fired or are forced to resign. that's a sign you need to do something. treatments will vary based on the problems that the person has, but you start by apologizing to people. you write out everything you've done, you go to people and say, look what i've done, i'm sorry,

and you work with hard to fix things. it doesn't always work. sometimes it does and sometimes it doesn't. >> he started with with the apologies. lord knows what he's said behind the scenes, but he's done it publicly. elizabeth cohen, interesting segment with you here today. good to see you, as always. we're getting close to a quarter at the top of the hours. actress angelina jolie visiting the syrian border as violence is escalating there in syria. our arwa damon is there. she'll tell us what's happening. [ bell chiming ]

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at least five people dead, dozens more wounded as protests unfolded across syria again today, defying the country's military crackdown. tens of thousands of people flooded the streets of some of syria's largest cities in what has become a weekly show of defiance against president bashar al assad. also, traes angelina jolie has been visiting refugee camps on the turkish side of the border. she's at the camps in her role as the u.n.'s goodwill ambassador for refugees. cnn's arwa damon is there. >> reporter: j.j., behind me is the camp that angelina jolie visited, where she spent around 2 1/2 hours speaking to refugees. and before she arrived, there was a small demonstration inside, with people chanting their gratitude to turkey, but also imploring the united nations to help them. one man holding up a sign saying that the syrian military was

killing its own people and to please make it stop. this is quite a unique opportunity for angelina jolie, given that both the national and international media have been prevented by turkish authorities from entering inside these camps, as have organizations like amnesty international and human rights watch. she was able to get a firsthand look at how the refugees are coping with life outside of their country. now, some children did manage to sneak underneath a tarp that was set up. they were chanting slogans, but also holding up a sign that said "stop killing the children." while this was unfolding inside turkey, in syria, the uprising that led to the influgs of refugees has continued with activists reporting demonstrations across the entire country. where in a number of places, they did, again, turn violent, causing casualties. we have also been seeing the military effective in the northwestern part of the country, continuing, with activists reporting that the

syrian military appears to be inching even closer to the turkish border, and that news has been sending tremors of fear amongst the syrian refugees still stuck in their own country. t.j.? >> all right, thanks as always, to our arwa damon. i know it's going to take all of god's grace, which is never in short supply, to make me live longer. i want to for you and mommy so we can be a family here in santa fe. if -- sorry -- >> one of cnn's own, former sports anchor, nick charles, is battling stage 4 bladder cancer. he says he knows his time is short, but he has some lessons for all of us. dr. sanjay gupta with the story, next.

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well, over the last 40 years, nick charles covered just about every major sporting event, from the olympics, super bowl, kentucky derby, you name t. but now the former cnn sports anchor is sharing his personal fight with cancer, and he has a message about hope and bravery for his family. our chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, spent some time with nick at his home in new mexico. >> well, i'll tell you that in some ways there's nothing harder than covering a story like this about someone that you know. we all know him here at cnn. he was the original cnn sports anchor. about two years ago, nick

charles, who was previously healthy, was diagnosed with stage 4 bladder cancer. he was told he had two years to live. the thing about it is, he asked the question a lot of people asked themselves, what would you do if you were suddenly confronted in this situation. how would you tell your family. he has a 5-year-old daughter. how would you divvy up your day and the remaining time that you have left. some of the things he said are big, general things. some, smaller, very specific. for example, he keeps a journal, writes notes, letters to family and friends or just thoughts of the day. i asked him to read a little bit for me. >> i know it's going to take all of god's grace, which is never in short supply, to make me live longer. i want to for you and mommy, so we can be a family here in santa fe. if -- sorry -- if god takes me

home, it will be forever. meanwhile, i'm not going anywhere today. >> it's tough to hear that. as i said, nick loved to cover boxing. that was his big sport of choice, and he likens what he's going through now to a boxing match, to his own fight. he's fighting like hell, he says, and the odds are stacked against him. he's doing all these little things in the remaining time, including the journal, including setting short-term goals, including doing things, like really imaging what the future may be. this may surprise you, it surprised me, he and his wife decided to build their dream house after he was diagnosed. even with the knowledge that he may not get to spend much time there. he picked out the color palettes, exactly what the rooms might look like, even bought a piano. that's part of how nick is dealing with this. but, again, a real inspirational guy, with t.j. lessons in there for all of us. you don't have to wait to be hit in the face with your mortality to make some changes in your own life. >> thanks, as always, to our

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people watching what's happening inside the courtroom in the casey anthony trial, but look at what's happening outside as well. all right. again, this is outside. this broke out when two men apparently tried to cut in line for tickets to those coveted 50 courtroom seats to watch the trial. inside. the trial did continue. let's bring in sunny hostin now. sunny, good to see you, as always. let's start with the action inside. what kind of a day was it for the defense? i'm kind of hearing that things didn't go so well? >> well, you know, i think it was actually a pretty decent day for the defense, t.j. they called up dr. timothy hamilton. he's a bug expert, and so happens that he is the student of dr. neil haskell, who apparently was the prosecution expert. and he testified that in his view, there should have been a

lot of blow flies coming out of that trunk, instead of the one leg of one blow fly that the prosecution expert found. so he thought that perhaps there wasn't a body in the trunk of the car. and i think that pretty much puts a little bit of a hole, at least, into the prosecution's theory, which is that caylee anthony's body was in the trunk of casey anthony's car were at least three to five days. i will say this, he withstood just a blistering cross-examination by the prosecutor, jeff ashton. so at the end of the day, who knows what the jury took away from it. but certainly on direct examination, he gave this defense a few nuggets that they can work with on closing arguments. >> but last thing, here, and you've got to do it for me in 20 seconds, all-important there, you said a little bit of a hole. does this start to build and all they need to get one juror, to put that doubt in their head. >> that's right. it just takes one juror to have a reasonable doubt to result in a hung jury. so the defense is chipping away at that prosecution's case in