does mitt romney's changing position on health care matter to you. this from brian. it doesn't matter to me. it's not apples to apples. big difference between the state and federal levels. this from zachary, mitt romney changes his mind more than lady gaga changes costumes. he should take one position on healthcare and stick with it. that principle is, mitt romney for president. at least he cared enough to create a plan. far less can be said about the majority of the gop. some of the other plans are laughable. let's head to atlanta and kyra phillips. >> good morning, guys. thanks so much. presidential politics and a reality check from last night's republican debate. the focus on the economy, but the spotlight qusquarely on hern cain. his recent surge means he's wearing a bigger bullseye. jim acosta joins us. what do you think? how did cain do?

>> with all that talk about the 999 plan last night, kyra. i thought it was the plug for the 9:00 show. no, you could probably read the thought bubble coming out of mitt romney's head last night. he was basically saying i could get used to this because so much of the attention at this debate was focused on herman cain, the former ceo of godfather's pizza. probably felt like one of his own pizza because his rivals that table were turning up the heat. >> jobs, jobs, jobs. >> herman cain find out what happens to candidates who shoot up in the polls. they become big targets. >> when you take the 999 plan and you turn it upside down, i think the devil's in the details. cain's economic plan and sets rates at 9%. also create a new 9% national

sales tax. >> if i think it's a catchy phrase. in fact, i thought it was the price of a pizza when i first heard about it. here's what we need. we need something that is doable, doable, doable. >> it will pass. it's not the price of a pizza. >> it was getting sliced up by the other candidates at the table in new hampshire. >> i am going to have to go back to him every other question. >> reporter: feeling confident about his plan's dominant role in the debate, cain served it up to mitt romney who promptly sent it back to the kitchen. >> can you name all 59 points in your 160-page plan? >> herman, i had some experience in my life of taking on some tough problems. and must admit the simple answers are very helpful. >> reporter: the candidates were pressed on whether they should have led to more prosecutions on wall street.

>> if you want to muput people jail, you ought to start with barney frank and chris dodd and let's look at the politicians who created the environment, the politicians who benefited from the environment and the politicians who put this country in trouble. >> reporter: rick perry did not get the breakout performance he probably needed. he seemed sluggish in plugging his economic plan, designing to offer up many specifics. >> opening up a lot of the areas of our domestic energy area. that's the real key. i'm not going to lay it out for you tonight. mitt's had six years to be working on a plan. i have been in this for about eight weeks. >> and herman cain took most of the abuse last night. he probably should get used to that sort of treatment, considering his current standing at the polls, which is basically right at mitt romney's heels. during the middle of the debate

last night, the michele bachmann campaign sent out an e-mail predicting that the cain 9-9-9 economic policy and the key to win this nomination is convince republican voters that his 9-9-9 plan is more than pizza delivery system, kyra? >> jim acosta from hanover, thanks so much. just after the bottom of the hour at 9:35 eastern, we'll talk to julianna goldmian. she's one of the journalists who took part in the debate last night. who performed well, who didn't. don't forget next tuesday night, the republican candidates for president gather in las vegas to debate the issues and sway voters. cnn tuesday night 8:00 eastern. digging up new details on a terror plot that is being compared to a hollywood who done it. an iranian american man is in custody accused of plotting to kill a saudi envoy on u.s. soil.

a manhunt is under way for a member of iran's revolutionary guard. washington says elements of iran's government plotted the assassination and this morning u.s. diplomats are calling on allies around the world to get tougher on iran. some lawmakers say that's not enough. republican congressman peter king is calling the plot an act of war and says the u.s. should not dismiss the idea of military action. also this morning, vice president joe biden says nothing has been taken off the table. all right, we're covering all the angles for you this morning. barbara starr working your sources at the pentagon and reza in islamabad. barbara, let's start with you. is some sort of military action being discussed here? >> at this point, kyra, the answer is no. look, the pentagon always says all options are on the table. that is the standard language. but all of our sources are indicating there is no indication of that yet. it would come, of course, at the direction of the president. one of the key problems is, if you want to do military action,

what would you strike? what would your targets be? what you're talking about the revolutionary guard core, the group of people that make up the most militant wing of the iranian military. what they're still trying to pin down is whether this plot actually went beyond them. did it really go all the way to the top to president mahmoud ahmadinejad and to iran supreme leader. these are some of the key intelligence questions on the table. right now, however, they are sticking with sanctions, financial sanctions and the possibility of taking this to the u.n. security council. look for this to stay in the diplomatic and the sanctions arena, at least for now, kyra. >> barbara starr from the pentagon, thanks. let's get over to reza saya in islamabad. what is iran saying about this alleged plot? >> tehran's reaction has been predictable.

they issued a strong and sometimes mild. describing this as a children's story saying this is all a fabrication by the obama administration to distract the american public from problems at home. like unemployment and a faltering economy. when it comes to the two men who were charged, we asked the president's office if they knew who they were, they say they did not, but they say they're working to find out more about them and if it is determined, if it is verified, they say they are iranian citizens. they're going to reach out to them and give them some sort of help. it's not clear what that help is going to be at this point. >> all right, we'll follow the story, reza, with you, as well as barbara starr out of the pentagon. thank you so much. now, overseas an israeli soldier captured by the palestinian militant group hamas more than five years ago will soon be heading home. comes after the two sides agree to a prisoner swap deal. max foster following this for us out of london. max, what do you know? >> again, only 19 when he was

taken in 2006. he has been held ever since. noi negotiations to get him out and there has been a deal reached and it seems welcomed on both sides. celebrations on the streets of jerusalem and gaza at the same time. how often does that really happen? it's worth noting in terms of the palestinians being released, they don't include the fattah leader or hamas' abdullah, the high-profile palestinian prisoners do stay behind bars, it seems. but the world newspapers trying to make sense of what all of this really means. the daily telegraph here in the uk saying "israel celebrates gilad deal, but there is a price for his freedom." "the breakthrough that will lead to the most significant prisoner swap in the recent history of israeli-palestinian conflict was as dramatic."

shalit's release is good news for israel, but even better news for hamas. not only does hamas get credit for winning the credit of one-sixth held in israeli pri n prisons but the front ranks of the palestinian leadership. great developments because of one 19-year-old who was taken by the palestinians back in 2006. >> we'll follow the release, if, indeed, it does happen. max, thanks. the nba lockout is more than just a bummer for fans, it's hurting people who aren't millionaire players and billionaire owners. people who depend on the games to make a living. that story coming up. plus, a family takes on a corn maze and the corn maze wins. they got so lost in there, they had to call 911.

here's a stories making news across country. a huge drug bust in arkansas. seven people charged with trafficking, five were police officers. they dook bribes to ignore the crimes. no one was seriously hurt when two motorcycles in president obama's motorcade crashed. police say the bikes belonged to an orlando cop and a seminole county sheriff officer. a massachusetts family took too many wrong turns in a corn maze. they got so lost they had to call 911. good thing mom brought her cell phone. the officers with police dogs found them about 25 feet from

the perimeter and led them out. the first two weeks of nba play are canceled. the entire season could be lost. let's talk about what that means in place wheres the nba is the only major prosport, like oklahoma city. the thunder arrived last year and they were the toast of the town. they reached the conference finals, but the lockout is threatening to steal their thunder and, worse, take money from people who depend on that team to make a living. mayor joining me live. mayor, how is that pro team changed your area? it probably took a lot to get the team there. >> well, we certainly did go through a lot of trouble and certainly the team has been well supported. we sell out every game or nearly sell out every game. as you mentioned, this lockout and the two-week cancellation does affect a lot of people in oklahoma city. the employees of the franchise a lot of people who work the arenas on game night that count on this income for their livelihood. i hope this lockout and the cancellations don't continue

because the economic impact would start to increase. >> let's talk about that economic impact. i mean, two weeks are already gone. the whole season in jeopardy now. what will suffer first from this if you don't get that cash? >> well, our economy is very strong. we're in some level of a boom-time economy in oklahoma city. we're very fortunate. we can handle the two games that i think have been canceled so far in the first two weeks of the season. the two home games. but if the entire season were to be canceled, that would be another story. oklahoma city being a small market team gets a lot of very nice publicity from having a team that has advanced well into the playoffs, as you mentioned, last season. so, there's a superficial level of quality with bigger markets. we get a lot of branding opportunities and it allows us to promote oklahoma city in a lot of ways that we wouldn't be able to do otherwise. as you mentioned, it's our only team. if they don't play, we're hurting because of it. >> so, if the season is lost,

that could mean that your city loses more than $60 million. how are you going to do deal with that? any contingency plans for lost revenue? >> there's not much of an effort to try and replace it. certainly, you could do a few more concerts and get a few more people into the arena. there will be game nights that would open up, but you can't really replace an nba season. we're fortunate that our economy is so strong, we can withstand it. but, you know, it's very regretful. i'm just hoping that players and owners can get together on this. i know commissioner stern did not want to have to go this route. i know how much he cares about the employees and certainly those people that work on game nights. so, i'm hoping that they can get together and move forward. >> mayor mick cornett, thanks for your time this morning. up next, hilary swank parting with a man of torture and human rights abuses. if you're in the markt for a time machine, you need at least

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part of the proceeds benefit the michael j. fox foundation for parkinson's research. and little more hollywood news for you. hilary swank and jean-claude varx van damme are being blasted for attending the birthday bash of a chechen leader. max foster with all the scoop. max? >> this is interesting, isn't it? mariah carey and beyonce appearing before the gadhafi family. it looks like some new celebrities may be pressured to do the same thing after they appeared earlier this month on the 35th birthday of kadyrov. they say he's linked to a litny of horrific human rights abuses. but he had this party and several people did perform. we understand that van damme stood on stage and proclaimed, i love you, mr. kadyrov.

people like kevin coster and shakira turned down their invite. just to explain the sort of figures that they'll be getting to appear. vuthissa may, not nearly as big a star was paid $500,000, kyra, just for appearing at that party. >> wow. well, that was my question. you know, we knew what happened at gadhafi's party with beyonce and the like. now, swank and van damme. do we know they received large amounts of money and are they even responding to this? >> we haven't gotten the responses yet, but we know they appeared and we can assume that they did receive a fee for it. swank, incidentally, reportedly wished kadyrov happy birthday. these comments are hugely controversial and upsetting to a lot of people.

we'll see how they respond today. they may say see it is a legitimate performance, but there will be many human rights groups, particularly that don't agree. >> finally, do we even know, are these two individuals that he's fond of? i mean, does he follow their movies and invited them because he likes their hollywood work? >> no. i mean, we don't know much about. but he's 35. you can imagine he watches these big hollywood movies and follows american music. he's, obviously, interested in them. if you look at the guest list. i'm assuming he invited other people. we know shakira turned down an invitation, for example. it's difficult to read into the actual guest list because you don't know who he invited. a big interest in american culture. >> we'd like to hear from swank and van damme on why they actually chose to do that. max, thanks. alison kosik at new york stock exchange with third

quarter earning season is getting off to a pretty slow start. alis alison, what can we expect today? >> today europe remains in focus, kyra. the issues in europe reaching ahead. more talk of a recession and greece is getting closer to running out of money. sometimes all about sentiment. why we're seeing stock futures in this country here higher because as things get worse, there is this optimism. there's this growing belief that something will get done. today we're expecting to hear more details about a plan to recapitalize european banks and basically getting their balance sheets in better order. kind of a safety net if greece will default. it sparked a small rally in europe. that is spreading once again here. arrows pointing up ten minute before the opening bell. investors looking past weak earnings from alcoa even though earnings could become a prab for alcoa results are an indicator of what to come. >> a lot of people waking up to find their blackberries weren't working. what's the deal? >> what's the deal? i'm loving the serenity of not

having my blackberry buzzing. how about you? >> you know we need those minute by minute, especially on the working day. the weekends okay, not a problem. >> you just said that for the bosses, kyra, come on. it's kind of nice. but for rimm, blackberry maker rimm these outages are happening all over the world in europe, mideast, brazil it has been going on for three days now and now just hitting the u.s. what rimm is blaming what it calls a cord switch failure and the backup switch didn't work either. the company is apologizing trying to get things up and running as quickly as possible. you know what, there's not much margin for error at this point for blackberry because you know blackberry was once the leading corporate smartphone but really losing market share as more and more workers are using their iphones and ipads and the competition is heating up and this certainly does not help the blackberry, but it helps us who like the silence, kyra. >> take a little bit of a break.

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checking top stories now. cheering in gaza after israel and the palestinian militant group hamas agreed to a prisoner swap deal. israeli soldier captured more than five years ago will be freed. in exchange, israel will release more than 1,000 palestinian prisoners. president obama says he's not giving up on his $ $474

billion jobs bill. he will try to pass the measure by breaking it into several smaller parts. the trial for michael jackson's doctor could go to the jury next week. new details on that terror plot to kill a saudi envoy on u.s. sail. an iraelian american man is in custody. a member of iran's revolutionary guard. this morning u.s. diplomats are calling on allies around the world to get tougher on iran. some say that sanctions are not enough. peter king calls the plot an act of war and says the u.s. should not dismiss the idea of military action. vice president joe biden even said this morning, "nothing has been taken off the table." this alleged plot has grabbed a lot of experts' interests because it is so unlike anything we've seen from iran before. it's unclear what they gain by

it. tom fuentes director of the international operations. great to see you, again. we could easily talk about the long list of iranian attacks on americans and americans overseas, what makes this so talkable is that it allegedly took place right here on our soil. does that surprise you? >> well, in a way, excuse me, kyra, in a way it does. but hezbollah, which has been on extension of the quds force has generally been fund-raising in the u.s. they have not committed an attack here. they have done other attacks such as the argentina attacks in the early 1990s and earlier attacks where they attacked americans. i think what's different in this one, especially, is that they're doing a simultaneous attack against saudi arabia and the united states. and they're trying to reduce the influence of both in the middle east region. >> now, this is a regime that we invite to the united states, to

the u.n. we allow ahmadinejad, iran's president, to speak and roam freely in our country. does that need to change? does that access that the u.s. give him actually empower actions against us? >> i don't think that's ever going to change. i mean, any head of state from any country, whether we like them or not has the ability to seek a diplomatic visa and make a visit to the united nations and the united nations is basically considered an open area in order to do that. i think another reason for not suppressing that is that basically he makes a fool out of himself when he speaks at the u.n., so why stop him? >> that's a good point. well, this plot now, this alleged plot was foiled, but what about the next one. will it be more sophisticated? are we ready for that? >> they're trying to be ready for any possible plot no matter how many cut outs or how many assassins they try to hire or where they try to do these terrorist attacks.

you hope we're ready and we hope the intelligence network is strong enough and the relationship with other allies to assist in investigations like this. it takes international assistance. the transferring of the money was tracked back through europe to the middle east. in this particular case, the $100,000 that was transferred. the assistance of mexico in facilitating a couple of meetings and then preventing a meeting so that the person had to fly back to the u.s. with fbi agents on his plane who arrested him when it landed. the need to have foreign quarperatiquar cooperation and robust gathering capabilities internal, just another example of showing why it's necessary. >> tom fuentes, great talking to you. herman cain has catapulted to the top of the gop candidates and that made his 9-9-9 tax plan a favorite debate target. we're checking the facts. later jurors in the conrad

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herman cain is learning what it is like to be a top tiered gop candidate. it comes with a big bullseye. his 9-9-9 dominated last night's debate. take a listen. >> when you take the 9-9-9 plan and you turn it upside down, i think the devil's in the details. >> how many people are here for a sales tax in new hampshire? raise your hand. there you go, herman. that's how many votes you'll get in new hampshire. >> i thought it was the price of a pizza when i first heard it. >> cnn's tom foreman live in washington. fact checking the republican debate. so, tom, herman cain's job plan at the heart of it. >> you know, if you're a message person, you would say he totally won last night because everybody

kept talking about it. they kept saying the 9-9-9 plan and he's saying, where is the beef? i got it. everybody's talking about it. here's the problem. what does it add up to? one of the chief claims this is revenue neutral. meaning you can do this plan and totally change the tax code and you'll get the same amount of money for the government. listen to him. >> it will replace the corporate income tax, the personal income tax, and the capital gains tax and the death tax and, most importantly, the payroll tax. >> so, it's going to be revenue neutral. 999 plan will replace all current sources of revenue. is that true? well, i have to tell you right up front that a fair number of economic analysts are skeptical of that. they're saying, boy, there are a lot of details here as michele bachmann alluded to that we just don't really understand about this plan. among some of the things they're concerned about, what exactly is going to be covered by this 9% sales tax?

will that include services because we have a lot of services in our country right now that maybe aren't covered, maybe they are. we don't know what that produces. will our spending habits change? if you suddenly were paying 9% more for everything you bought, would you buy the same things you're buying now? that's going to make a big difference in the amount of revenue we get. what about this corporate tax? how do you calculate this? in theory, it's simple. 999 across the board, but the simple truth is everybody is trying to go through this and figure out would it actually produce the same amount of money as right now. trust me, if the other candidates could prove it wouldn't, they would say it. the problem is nobody can prove that it will either. we'll call this true but emphasis on incomplete. we just don't really know, kyra, whether the 999 plan would work. it's like this, if you rebuild all the roads in america and change all the laws, what is the speed limit? i don't know, because you're changing so much at once. >> let's talk about romney's plan. >> romney's plan. one thing mitt romney talked

about yesterday is the idea that in fixing the economy, you're going to have to make some big changes and he said, as the committee hot here is deciding what to do about the deficit and everything else, they should do what the american people want, he thinks he knows what that is. listen. >> the american people want to see growth and jobs and they believe it's the right way to do is by cutting back on the scale of government and they're right. >> government, government cutbacks. this is something that republicans love to hear. republicans want less government spending. guess what, he's absolutely right. one of our recent polls here said 57% said this committee should consider major cuts to domestic spending. that's one way of getting our budget under control. however, what he didn't mention was that 63% of those people also say we need higher taxes on wealthier americans and businesses as part of that. so, the simple truth is for mr. romney to mention part of that, but not the other makes this absolutely true, but incomplete.

kyra. >> final fact check. where do you find a pizza for $9.99. >> you know, i think it's a pretty good pizza deal for $9.99. who knows, maybe they're $8.95. we'll find out when it arrives. >> tom foreman, thanks. put the republican candidates elbow to elbow at a round table and give them 90 minutes to spar and you're bound to have moments like this. >> i'm proud of what we're able to accomplish. i'll tell you this, though. we have the lowest number of kids as a percentage uninsured of any state in america. you have the highest. you have -- i'm still speaking. i'm still speaking. i'm still speaking. we have, we have less than 1% of our kids that are uninsured. you have a million kids uninsured in texas. >> well, sitting right there at that table right along with them, bloomberg tv white house juliana goldman. here is what she had to say about that moment between them.

>> i think that exchange gets to the heart of one of the take aways from the debate, which is that romney all but asserted himself and came out of that debate, in some ways, the frontrunner, particularly when it comes on the economy. we have been in previous debates we have seen a lot of heated back and forths between mitt romney and rick perry and with some of us, we're expecting that last night, especially with some of the ads that rick perry had been running leading up to last night's debate and really taking romney on on his health care plan saying it was essentially mirror image of obamacare, the president's health care plan. but as you saw in that exchange, rick perry really backed down and that sort of came to define what the exchanges were, particularly with rick perry during that debate last night. >> hear more from juliana next hour. tuesday night live on cnn the republican candidates for president gather in las vegas to debate the issues and sway voters. the western presidential debate tuesday night, 8:00 eastern.

don't miss it. it's expected to be the only time that jurors get to hear dr. conrad murray tell his side of what happened hours before michael jackson died. >> i was gone, i wad say about two minutes. his body was warm, there was no change in color. so i assumed that everything happened very quickly. >> dr. murray's taped interview with police next in "the newsroom." not with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. so shipping for the chess champ in charleston is the same as shipping for the football phenom in philly? yep. so i win! actually, i think you deserve this. no, i deserve this. wow, got one of those with a mailman on top? priority mail flat rate shipping starts at just $4.95, only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship.

checking news across country. a prison riot in oklahoma leaves dozens of inmates injured. the violence broke out around lunchtime, lasted into the

evening. officials hava s havs havant co sparked the violence. frustrated cooks walked out of a training session on healthier school lunches. the demands are unrealistic and wasteful. about 100,000 angry bees have just been evicted from a texas home. the owners say that the bees started m eed moving in years a recently got out of control. they have been relocated to a honey farm. conrad murray is not expected to testify in his involuntary manslaughter trial, so tapes of police interviews could be the only time that jurors hear the doctor's descriptions of what happened hours before he died. >> reporter: for the first time jurors heard the story of what happened in the hours before michael jackson died, directly from the doctor blamed for his death. in a two-hour interview recorded by police, dr. conrad murray

recounted sleepless night for jackson who was desperately looking for rest in order to prepare for his upcoming tour. >> he was wide awake and then he complained. i've got to sleep, dr. conrad. i have these rehearsals to perform. i must be ready for the show in england. tomorrow i'll have to cancel my performance. i'll have to cancel my trip because, you know, i cannot function if i don't get the sleep. >> murray says he gave jackson a series of sedatives, but nothing worked. finally, at 10:40 a.m. he says he gave in to jackson's pleas and administered 25 milligrams of propofol, which jackson referred to as his milk. >> i then decided to go ahead

and give him some to get a couple of hours of sleep so that he could produce, because i didn't want him to fail. >> but murray's timeline of what happened next is under dispute. >> i monitored him and i sat there and then i needed to go to the bathroom. so i got up and i went to the bathroom and i came back to his bedside and was stunned in the sense that he wasn't breathing. his body was warm. there was no change in color. so, it seemed that everything happened very quickly. just about the time i was gone, within that time coming back. >> murray says he was away from jackson for only two minutes, but phone records show murray spent 45 minutes on his cell phone before he discovered that jackson had stopped breathing. still, the audiotape may work in

murray's favor. the jury heard murray say repeatedly that he loved jackson and wanted to help him. >> mr. jackson was my friend. i loved him. michael jackson may have had a dependency to substance. i was trying to wean him off. >> reporter: murray also talked about consoling jackson's daughter, paris, at the hospital. >> i said, i tried my best. and she said, i know that, dr. murray. i i know at least you tried your best. i'm really sad. i won't be able to see my daddy. >> reporter: the audiotape may be the only chance the jury will hear murray's story as it's not expected he will take the stand in his own defense. >> you can see live testimony on our sister network. be sure to check out hln and all the listings for comprehensive coverage of the trial of michael

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storying making news later today. 11:00 eastern, assessment how vulnerable the u.s. to a bio terror attack. issuing a report card. president obama due to speak at the latino heritage forum, his remarks celebrate the contributions of american latinos and tonight, 7:30 eastern, flag football game teaming up members of congress

with gridiron stars of past following lots of development in the next hour in the "cnn newsroom." checking in first with brianna keilar. >> reporter: looking to the international community to put pressure on iran after the u.s. accuses iranians of plotting to kill the saudi ambassador to the u.s. >> i'm max foster in london with more on the deal to release an israeli soldier from captivity. more details at the top of the hour. >> reporter: and i'm jim acosta on the campus of dartmouth and last night's gop debate was on the campus here of this college. so it's no surprise the gop field was hazing herman cain. i'll explain in a few minutes. >> all right, guys. thanks so much. a former hockey player brendan shanahan sent years on the ice dishing up on the bruises. now he's making the players play nice -- or at least a little nicer. that's coming up in the next hour.

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starting off with baseball playoffs, jeff fischel. >> tigers really needed a win and they got it. thanks to their big bat. detroit first baseman miguel cabrera. to right field for at double putting the tigers up.

next time up, wishing they'd never been in the same room. tigers beat the rangers 5- 2. rangers lead the series. game four is today. game three of the nlcs tonight in st. louis. a-of-the cardinals counting on the squirrel factor. a squirrel ran around the series in philadelphia. it's turned into a good luck charm for the cardinals and their fans. fans are buying up t-shirts. cardinals handing out squirrel towels to fans tonight. yes, maybe the brewers do need to fear the squirrel. the cards and brewers series a tied a game apiece. a few years ago, the angels, rallying with a monkey. nowed squirrel. and the time has come in denver. broncos named the former heisman trophy winner their number one quarterback. a desperation. tebow gave the team a spark though they did lose.

they've waubtded for months. it's tebow time. tebow was the third stringer for a reason. we'll see if it work. and lebron james planning to jump into the nfl? he said this, asking when the deadline to sign as a football free agent? of course, there's no deadline. seattle coach pete carroll noticed and tweeted back saying, are you aware of what the league minimum salary is? lebron responded, yeah, more than i'm making now. the point, nothing to do without an nba season. delayed a couple weeks and perhaps no season at all. right? that's what lebron and the rest of the nba players are worried about. see if it gets worked out. they meet friday. no scheduled meeting with the owners. >> the only city, the only sport that will take a big economic hit. >> players not playing, it's about eem people that work at restaurants, relying on fans coming to the games. >> remember the story yesterday

on the antelope and mountain biker? remember this video? >> watch it over and over gn. >> a large antelope, tells the rest of the herd, that mountain biker came out of nowhere. well, you thought -- jeff had the scoop -- oh, jeanne moos digs a little deeper. >> reporter: biker zero, antelope, 1. oh! >> reporter: imagine the story this south african mountain bike racer will have to tell, run over by an antelope. >> oh -- [ bleep ]. >> reporter: the only thing is hard to tell a story -- >> are okay dude? >> reporter: when you don't remember what happened? >> after it hit me, i was knocked unconscious. i didn't remember the actual experience myself. >> reporter: we won't forget the moaning by this 17-year-old, evan van der.

what was that noise coming out of you? >> i don't know how to make those noises. >> reporter: for a minute i thought it was the antelope. though evan managed to stand up, he doesn't remember a thing until pe was in an ambulance headed for an overnight stay in the hospital. evan suffered whiplash and a concussion. meanwhile, the buck was later spotted grazing as it nothing it happened. good news for evan, hey, could have been a rhino. the video was shot by a camera attached to his teammate's bike. how many times have you looked at the video? >> hundreds. everybody time i look at it, it's one big shot. >> reporter: maybe just payback. after all, we hit them all the time. just last year i hit a deer and i had the deer hair stuck in my car's front grill to prove it. that was traumatic enough. this colorado man was biking down a little and hit a bear back in 2008. >> this gigantic bear head with

huge teeth -- was surprised 0 to see me and i him. almost like a cartoon. we both screamed. >> reporter: evan didn't have time to scream. his helmet, all split apart by the impact, saved his life. he expects the helmetmaker to make a commercial. >> reporter: we can see it now. first ad for a helmet proven to be -- >> antelope-proof. >> reporter: as the description on youtube put it, the "buck" stops here. it's the human's car to be road kill. jeanne moos, cnn -- new york. it's the top of the hour. thanks for joining us. this morning we begin with presidential politics and a reality check from last night's republican debate. the focus was on the economy, but the spotlight, squarely on herman cain. his surprising surge in recent

polls means he's wearing a much bigger bull's eye. >> it's 999. jobs, jobs, jobs. >> reporter: herman cain found out what happens to gop candidates who shoot up in the polls. they become big targets. >> when you take the 999 plan and you turn it upside-down, i think the devil's in the details. >> reporter: take 999, cain's economic plan to scrap the current tax system and replace it with one that sets individuals and corporations at 9% and creates a new 9% national sales tax. >> i think it's a catchy phrase. in fact, i thought it was the price of a pizza when i first heard. here's what we need, something that's doable, doable, doable. >> 999 will pass and it's not the price of a pizza. >> reporter: it was getting sliced up by the other candidates sitting at the table. >> how many people here are for a sales tax in new hampshire?

raise your hand. there you go, herman. >> you keep mentioning 999 and herman cain i'm going to have to go back to it every other question. >> reporter: the dominant role in the debate came up to mitt romney who promptly sent it back to the kitchen. >> can you name all 59 points in your 160-page plan? >> herman, i've got the experience in my life of taking on some tough problems and i must admit that simple answers are always very helpful but oftentimes inadequate. >> reporter: the candidates were pressed on whether the financial crisis should have led to more prosecutions on wall street. newt gingrich fingered democrats in washington. >> if you want to put people in jail, what michelle said, start with barney frank and chris dodd and look at the politicians who created the environment, the politicians who profited from the environment and the politicians who put this country in trouble. >> rick perry who struggled in past debates did not get the breakout performance he probably needed. he seemed sluggish in plugging his soon to be unveiled economic

plan, declining to offer up specifics. >> opening up a lot of the areas of our domestic energy area. that's the real key and i'm not going to lay it all out for you tonight. mit's had six years to be working on a plan. i've been in this for about eight weeks. >> reporter: and the scrip could not be written any better for mitt romney. the focus of the debates switched from michele bachmann to rick perry and now herman cain. with all that, the former massachusetts governor can stay in cruise control. yesterday picked up the endorsement of chris christie. this morning, the former speaker of the house, dennis hastert anded that cochran, just another day at the office for mitt romney. kyra? >> thanks so much, jim acosta. breaking news coming in to us now. farouk about dual mu tall ub, the underwear bomber, he had hoped to blow up a plane, an

american jetliner, an international jetliner, rather, with that bomb planted in his underwear. remember this picture here when he was arrested. we're just getting word, and we have told you yesterday he was going to represent himself in court. he has just pled guilty. once again, farouk about about du abdulmutallab, pleading guilty. as we get more information we will bring it to you. the presidential candidates side-by-side, elbow to elbow and a roundtable and 90 minutes to star, you're bound to have moments like this. >> i'm proud what we were able to accomplish. we have the lowest number of kids as a percentage uninsured of any state in america. you have the highest. i'm still speaking. i'm still -- >> criticism. >> i'm still speaking. we have less than 1% of our kids that are uninsured.

you have a million kids uninsured in texas. >> and sitting at that table right along with him, white house correspondent, first up, talking about how memorable that moment was. >> reporter: you know, kyra, i think that that exchange really gets to the heart of one of the takeaways from the debate, which is, that romney -- all but asserted himself came out of that debate as in some ways the front-runner, particularly when it comes on the economy. we have been, in previous debates, seen a lot of heated back and forths between mitt romney and rick perry and i think some of us were expecting that last night. especially with some of the ads that rick perry had been running, leading up to last night's debate. really taking romney on, on his health care plan, saying it was essentially mirror image of obamacare. the president's health care plan, but as you saw in that exchange, rick perry really backed down and that sort of came to define what the

exchanges were, particularly with rick perry during that debate last night. >> with those tense moments, also came some humor as well. aimed at cain's 999 tax plan. let's take a listen. >> i think it's a catchy phrase. in fact, i thought it was the price of a pizza when i first heard of it. >> 999 will pass, and it is not the price of a pizza, because it has been well studied and well developed. >> one thing i would say is, when you take the 999 plan and you turn it upside-down, i think the devil's in the details. >> julia, right there at the table sitting there with the candidates. are they taking cain seriously? >> reporter: well, i think it was pretty clear from what we just heard that allowed the candidates, to come in with their 999 catch phrases already in their pockets, but one of the

other things that we heard, when it comes to 999, is sort of the criticism that is starting to form from the republican pack, which is that this is going to amount to an additional sales tax. you know, it's 999, but it also means that there would be -- that americans would be paying higher taxes on milk, on a loaf of bread, on a can of beer, and that was a question we posed to herman cain and michele bachmann, for example, former irs lawyer, that's one of the areas she really dug into in saying, why 999 is not a good idea. >> finally, bloomberg. your employer, caters to the movers and shakers in business. after this economy-centered debate, who are they getting behind? what's your sense? >> reporter: well what was clear again from last night and what we've seen in polling is that when it comes to leadership on the economy, it is governor romney who does seem to be breaking away from the pack.

particularly with his endorsement now of chris christie. we had known that there had been a lot of, let me say financial movers and shakers, gathering, trying to push chris christie into the race. since he has decided not to get in, a lot of that backing has gone to mitt romney. >> bloomberg ulian nah goldman. thanks for joining us. don't forget, next tuesday night live on cnn republican candidates for president gather in las vegas to debate the issues and sway voters. cnn tuesday night, 8:00 eastern. overseas, an israeli soldier captured by the militant group hamas more than five years ago soon heads home. this news comes after two sides, the two sides, rather, agree to a prisoner swap. cnn's max foster is following that development for us out of london. max? >> reporter: yeah, and kyra, just 19 years old when captured. his family, desperate to see him and af and on negotiations about

releasing him for years but it kept falling apart. finally a deal does seem to be reached and general pleasure has been reached, celebrations not just in jerusalem but also in gaza. 1,000 palestinian prisoners released in return for one israeli captured soldier. this is how the "daily telegraph" here in the uk is interpreting the deal. israel celebrates gilad shalit's deal. the most significant prisoner swap in recent history was as dramatic as it was unexpected. no single recent issue seared the collective consciousness of the israeli public in quite the same manner at the plight of the young soldier. and the globe and mail in canada, shalit's release is good news, better for hamas. hamas gets credit for winning the freedom of 1/6 of palestinians held in israeli prisons, it also catapults itself once again into the front

ranks of the palestinian leadership. the globe really there suggesting, kyra, this is a much bigger significance than just the release of a prisoner. >> any idea, max, when the release may actually happen? >> reporter: some suggest it will happen in a week, but we haven't gotten details of the exact deal yet or know how it will play out. the deal is there in principle. so it will be in coming weeks, coming days. possibly the coming weeks. >> max, got it. thanks. the first two weeks of nba play cancelled. an entire season could be lost. a bummer for fans but could mean harder times for people who are not millionaire players or billionaire owners. here's cnn's casey wian. >> reporter: the farm of beverly hills near staples center relies on customers going to lakers and clippers games for about one-third of its business during basketball season. this ceo is preparing for a long

lull. >> staffing will get cut way back. we won't be buying as much. we won't be having as many people working those nights and those hours. it's going to hit a lot of people. >> reporter: restaurant workers making minimum wage plus tips, arena employees making $11 an hour. >> i understand as far as the union talks. they have to negotiate everything, but there's other people out there that actually need the money. >> my wife and i, we can't ge on vacation. that's just a thing we have to cut back on. i have to make sure, watch out for the bills that i have. i don't want to overspend myself now. >> reporter: the law is particularly hard for workers and businesses near staples center, home to two nba teams and a potential for 82 nights plus playoffs in lost revenue. in atlanta, strants near philips arena reeling from the recent relocation of the thrashers professional hockey team. now the nba's hawks are gone until mid-november at least. >> a decrease in business on what would have been home games.

we usually get a nice pop. two hours before the game and then depending how they to, some after-game business as well. >> either the lakers in town or lebron in town, it become as whole day affair. >> reporter: restaurants in some cities say conventions and concert business will soften the blow, but not for 2,000 unionized workers in nba cafe. >> millionaires in a dispute for millionaire ballplayers. typically this is happening across america, it's the working people that suffer the most. >> reporter: the ceo of this restaurant doesn't expect to deal before january. >> if the nfl can figure it out, i don't know why the nba can't figure it out. >> reporter: now, here at staples center alone, there are about 1,000 unionized workers who work inside that building on nights when there are nba games. we're talking about janitors. we're talking about ushers, cooks, bartenders e, all of those people will not get paid if there are no nba games and

talking about two teams. 82 nights of lost wages oh terribly and a lot of folks expecting both the lakers and clippers would make the playoffs this year. another several nights these people will not be getting paid. we pan over here and walk this way, we can see some of the 17 restaurants that are here as part of this complex near staples center. that's another several lun workers who will be having their hours cut. even though the restaurants will get business from the convention center near here, from the nokia theater, which holds concerts, the nba is a big driver of their business during basketball season. so a lot of folks here, very, very worried about their jobs, and about their incomes for the next several months. kyra? >> sure. paychecks, jobs. how about insurance? >> reporter: absolutely. that's a real big issue. look back over leer at staples center, these workers must work 1,100 hours a year to simply qualify for health insurance. it this season is cancelled, many of those workers may not make that hourly minimum and

could be without health insurance next year, kyra? >> casey, we'll follow it. still ahead, the terror plot compared to a hollywood whodunit. iran planned to kill and assassinate -- assassinate, rather, a saudi ambassador here on u.s. soil. we'll have the details just he'd. we thought it would be fun. instead -- >> a halloween tradition turns harrowing when a family enters a corn maze and gets lost. a 911 call straight ahead. i'm really glad we took this last minute trip! you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? i have the hotels.com app so we can get a great deal even at the last minute.

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allegedly kill a saudi ambassador right here on u.s. soil. an iranian-american man is now in custody and a manhunt under way for his alleged accomplice. washington says elements of iran's government plotted the assassination and this morning u.s. diplomats are calling ali lalies around the world to get tougher on sanctions. the plot is called an act are war saying the u.s. should not dismiss the idea of military action. and this morning vice president joe biden said "nothing has been taken off the table." what's iran saying about this alleged reza sayah has details. >> reporter: kyra, u.s. officials came out last night and said this plot is real and it was like a hollywood movie script. iranian officials are saying it was a hollywood movie script. in essence, a lie, a fabrication. the reaction from iran has been

consistent, been strong, denials. we spoke to the spokesperson for mahmoud ahmadinejad. here's what he had to say. >> translator: i think the u.s. government is busy fabricating a new scenario and history has shown both the u.s. government and the cia have a lot of experience in fabricating these scenarios, and this is just the latest one. >> reporter: that was mahmoud ahmadinejad's spokesperson. the president himself has yet to address these allegations, but plenty of iranian officials have, kyra. again, strong denial, sometimes mocking denials. one person calling it a children's story. >> tell us more about iran's revolutionary guard. you were saying yesterday what surprised you the most about this alleged plot, that it was on u.s. soil. that, of course, we haven't been surprised about attacks in the past overseas on iran's behalf.

>> reporter: yeah. the group that's being accused is the quds force, which is the elite branch of the revolution guard. this is a group established during the 1980s. the iran-iraq war. washington on plenty of occas n occasions accused them of fueling insurgencies and going after u.s. soldiers in places like iraq and afghanistan but they have never been linked to an assassination plot like this on u.s. soil. it's important, when you look at the quds force, it's important to note that it doesn't fit their m.o. when you look at the details of this plot, it's somewhat unusual, bizarre, involving a used car salesman, the mexican drug cartel and a hitman. if, indeed, iran's leaders got together and said let's go ahead and do this, assassinate a diplomat on u.s. plot, it begs the question, what would they gain by doing 345? i think a lot of people would easily argue they might have more to lose than gain at the at least of which inviting a u.s.

retaliation. one more note. if the quds force wanted to attack u.s. and saudi targets, they have plenty of opportunities in their backyard. places like iraq, afghanistan and because reign. so a lot of unanswered questions with this alleged plot, kyra? >> yeah. still need to investigate it a lot more. reza, thanks. minutes ago a dramatic turn of events in a chiller attempt. the so-called underwear bomber pleaded guilt any a detroit courtroom. umar farouk abdulmutallab serving as his own attorney on charges he tried to detonate and explosive device aboshd the christmas day flight to detroit nearly two years ago. the device was sewn into his underwear but malfunctioned. the close call prompted them to tighten security screens. sunny hostin from "in session," our sister network from trutv with thoughts on what just came through. sunny, are you surprised he just pled guilty? >> i am shocked, because oftentimes plea discussions and

negotiations are ongoing, but usually taken off the table, kyra, once a prosecutor is forced to begin a trial. forced to pick a jury. this doesn't typically happen. i mean, there's no question that i'm shocked. i would imagine that the prosecution is also surprised, because by all accounts, he was going forward with this trial. he vigorously examined the potential jurors. he made the decision to have his very good standby counsel, mr. chambers, anthony chambers give the opening statement and cross-examined government witnesses. by all accounts we believed this was going to trial. this actually is a victory for the prosecution, and, remember, the obama administration for some time has been saying that they want to try terror cases in the united states, on our soil, and that justice can be done. so everyone was really wuchs this case very, very closely to

see what result was going to be. so a guilty plea in this case is really a victory for the justice system. >> continue to follow it. sunny, thanks. actor javier van dam won am oscar for playing a villain. "no country for old men." apparently the perfect audition to be the bad guy in the next james bond movie. we'll have the details. plus elimination night on "dancing with the stars." we'll find out if there were any surprises. another dancer sent home. the showbiz headlines, next. and use pre-defined screeners to work smarter. not harder. i depend on myself to take charge of my financial future. [ bell dinging ] you booked our room right? not yet, thanks for reminding me. wait, what? i have the hotels.com app so we can get a great deal even at the last minute. ah, well played get the app. tels.com.

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let's look at news cross-country starting with a big drug bust in arkansas.

70 people charged with trafficking. get this. five were police officers. 30 say they took bribes just to ignore the crimes. no one seriously hurt when two motorcycle in president obama's motorcade crashed on the way to the orlando airport. the president was in florida for fund-raisers. police say the bikes belonged to an orlando cop and seminole county sheriff's officer. and too many wrong turns in a corn maze. they got so lost they had to call 911. yes. good thing mom brought her cell phone. officers actually got their police dog, found them about 25 feet from the exit, and helped lead them out of there. from oscar winner to bond villain. the story this morning. we'll start off with "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer in new york. a.j., i just butchered javier's name before the break. is it -- am i saying it right? >> i was thinking von dam,

talking about him. he's a handsome hunk and a great actor. i don't need to say his name. >> clearly distracted, kyra. let me tell you the story. you relax a moment. after months of speculation who would play the bad guy in the next james bond installment we finally have an answer. by now you've figured it is h v javier. he'll play the villain opposite daniel craig's third go-round at james bond for the next film in the 007 franchise currently called bond 23. coming up with a different name scheduled for november 2012. casting on nbc's nightline and wouldn't say a lot only that he's seen all the bond movies and chose me to play this man, but i cannot give you many details. there you have it. a lot of anticipation for this next one, kyra, regardless how you pronounce his name, because the last in the series "quantum of solace" released in 2008. we are due a new bond film with

javier. >> i'll just call him bond. javier bond. there's a good deal on time machine, if you've got about $400,000. >> yeah. pretty cool. props and costumes from the michael j. fox-christopher lloyd classic can be yours. marty mcfly the jacket, dark shirt and hoverboard. 100 items from the "back to the future" movie going on sale at auction. a piece from the third movie in the franchise generating the most interest. one of the delorean time machines that appeared during the course of the trilogy. this particular car was used in the 1955 drive-in movie scene, michael j. fox drives it into the past and lands in 1885 to find doc, one of the seven deloreans, only three survived this filming and this is one of those three. this thing's going for an estimated price of $400,000 to

$700,000, the auction in december. part of the proceeds, i'm happy to report, from the "back to the future" items benefiting the michael j. fox foundation, for parkinson's research. i'll have to start saving my dimes. >> with you on that. loved the movie it's. good news here. nancy grace, still in the game with "dancing with the stars." >> yes, she is, but unfortunately, a woman who was one of the high scorers earlier in the competition is not. chynna phillips booted in last night's "dancing with the stars" elimination show. she and her partner tony dovolani failed to impress the audience. seemed to forget her routine and didn't seem shocked to hear her name calmed that she was going home. chynna telling "showbiz tonight" backstage exactly what happened. watch this.

>> i went blank. i had a blank moment. and, you know what? i'm human. i had a blank moment. we all have those. it's too bad it had to happen last night, because i really wanted to go further into the competition. >> yeah, that bums me out. nancy grace gets to dance another week. a lot of people thought chaz bonos would get bumped off. didn't happen. i have a connection to chynna phillip's dance partner tony. can i tell you what it was? >> please do. >> he comes up to me and said you know i used to work for you. really? yeah. you worked at certain radio station about 20 years ago i was your intern. my english wasn't that good. hue no. >> who knew. >> a small world. got your coach right there. thanks, a.j. >> exactly. all right. anything you want. breaking in the entertainment world, a.j.'s got it. hln's "showbiz tonight," 11:00

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time for political buzz. roar rapid fire look at best political topics of the day. three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. our panel, all right, before we dive into last night's debate,

let's take a listen to letterman, shall we, and his take on the seating chart. >> we'll say, all right, here's a composite of polls. here's our leader, our second place -- that's how they arranged the people on the stage for the debate. it's fascinating. take a look at this. participants in tonight's republican debate at dartmouth will be seated according to their poll numbers, so based on his recent momentum, herman cain will be seated at the center of the table with mitt romney. second tier candidates like newt gingrich and ron paul will be placed to the side of the table. and rick santorum will debate from the parking lot. >> nice ad for fedex, too. reviews for perry haven't been that strong. question, where will perry be sitting at the cnn debate next tuesday? >> where he was last night. just off the center. i don't think last night was much of a game changer for him.

he wasn't strong. that's for sure, but also didn't fall on his face. you know, in fact it looked like he didn't even care he was there. i saw somebody tweet last night that -- that perry was saying, who cares about this fancy pants debate. getting ready for negative ads, mitt. i think polls will reflect exactly where he started yesterday. he'll be there again tomorrow. >> maria? >> i think it was a bad night for rick perry. of anyone, he really needed a game changer. now, whether this does change anything, we'll see. what it does do, solidifies in people's mints this is somebody not ready for primetime. wasn't part of the conversation. clear r clearly the romney-cain show. he was like a deer caught in the headlights. not good perceptions to have for somebody looking to win the nomination. >> pete? >> i think rick perry is going to be sitting right back in

austin before you know. i have to find out from will whose a texas conservative how rick perry has never not lost. he's never loftd an election. doesn't say much for texas democrats. maybe his tie too tight, saw something shiny in the audience. rick perry, i don't don't even know if he knew he was there. one issue, economics. he wasn't prepared even to talk about that. >> i don't know. i think will cain and perry out for an all-nighter. hiding the facts. question two, governor ris chri comes out strong for romney. didn't rule out a vp spot. >> governor romney, would he be on your short list? >> of course he'd be on anyone's short list. he may take himself off the list and say, no way, no interest. but the truth is governor christie is one of the leading figures in the republican party and, of course, anyone who becomes our nominee will look at people like governor christie and say, that would be a

terrific person to be on the ticket. >> as you see them sitting there. could this be a winning ticket? maria? >> if you look at christie, nobody believes his answers to bake questions and romney has two answers for every question. it actually might be the ticket romney's looking for. but in all seriousness, these are two historically moderate, at least that's how they're seen, republicans who in the eyes of conservatives are not going to be they're fave lioritn terms of being the favorite. romney needs all the help he can get pushing back against the flip-flop issue. that will dog him throughout the nomination. >> nobody believes christie's answers, maria? what planet are you on? >> when he kept saying no, he's not running. no one believed him, little. >> go ahead, will. >> if there's one thing christie carries authenticity.

takes on his own ticket. that's why that ticket, romney-christie could work. the one thing romney needs to seem he has a spine, a backbone, he stands for something more than just getting your vote. that being said i think it may be too moderate a ticket. romney rubio is an inevitable ticket. >> romney-christie will appeal a lot to republican voters who be big fans of laurel and hardy, david spade and chris farley. a great ticket. the truth is, the truth is, anybody could possibly be president obama, and republicans hate president obama. i mean, you could have a romney-conrad murray ticket and republicans would still vote for mitt romney. anything can happen. we'll see. >> third question, guys. and final question. jon huntsman's daughters tweeting about cnn's debate in las vegas coming up tuesday night. they're actually flirting with mitt romney's son tag. look at this. they tweet, want to tailgate for the next debate? vegas wild.

we'll bring the godfather's. you bring the diet coke. followed up, mormon tabernacle cho choir -- you see, finding his dad in a photo. there it is. tag right there. what do you think? how should he respond? >> well, quickly, affirmatively. there's not many truisms. when three ladies invite you to vegas for vegas wide, you respond affirmatively. >> maria? >> i think that's adorable. flirting between potential first children. i don't know. i think it should say something like, let me introduce you to my friends. i need to prove to them angels really exist. i don't know. i think it's adorable and i agree with will, he should say, yes. >> pete? >> well, first of all, the romney-huntsman family some of the best looking americans ever to live. that's annoying me, but a diet coke? godfather's pizza and the mormon tabernacle choir, that sounds like a party. do they know they're in vegas?

i think the tag should be the gentleman that they is and give a gentlemenly answer like, i don't know, what are you wearing? >> leave it to pete. >> sarcasm, pete. give them credit for sarcasm. >> they get the credit. >> maria, scared to party with pete. thanks, guys. >> could be a lot of heavy petting and necking at that party. >> don't forget, next tuesday -- >> and tweeting, apparently. >> gosh. i'm moving on. quickly. next tuesday night live on cnn, republican candidates for president duke it out in las vegas, debatings issues and try to sway voters with a republican debate. tuesday night, 8:00 eastern. we'll be right back.

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"fast and furious." cnn brian todd brings us the latest developments. what do you know? >> reporter: carol, just got word the house and government oversight committee issued a subpoena to the justice department for seemingly hundreds of relevant documents. documents relative to the "fast and furious" gun tracking program that went so terribly wrong. what we're told now is that these documents seek communications between eric holder, the attorney general and several top deputies including his chief of staff gary grindler and lanny brewer, the assistant attorney general in charge of the criminal division. this committee wants all the documents relevant to communications between those officials over "fast and furious" and also named about 13 other top officials of the justice department. so they're seeking just about any relevant communications regarding the "fast and furious" case and also want to know, want documents relating to the investigation into the murder of border patrol officer brian terri. his murder back in december is really what blew this whole

thing open. some weapons from the "fast and furious" program were found nir the crime scene of that officer's murd are and they want documents relating to that investigation and documents that have to do with any communications that justice had with the white house over "fast and furious." so that is what is out now. the subpoena seeking those documents. eric hold hear said -- holder has said the justice department would comply and send all relevant documents that that committee, and congressman darrell issas republican. something he complained about. the documents he has often gotten already from justice, a lot look like this. heavy redactions. no doubt looking to see if the documents sent to him have those as well. putting more pressure on justice right noi for those documents. >> brian todd with the breaking news. we'll follow it. thanks. straight ahead, former hockey star brendan shanahan spent years on the ice. oh, yeah. in addition to the bruises, knocking out teeth, now making

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well, the nhl is cracking down on players who fight. players who hit opponents in the head like this. from every angle, and slow mooed for clarity, nhl great brendan shanahan posted this on his twitter to show all of you how dangerous hockey can be. the league's any director of player safety and already is feeling the backlash for his discipline. brendan joining me live from new york. brendan, you can suspended five

times in your career. you louvved to fight. a part of the game. how did you end up in this job? >> well, it's a little like hiring a safe cracker to build you the perfect safe, i guess. you know, i don't think that the game is too dangerous. i think is the game is fabulous. i love the game. we have some dangerous hits what have crept into the game and it's our department's goal to get rid of some of those hits, and to make videos and show the players, to communicate and educate them exactly what they can and can't do. this is a generation of hockey players. they watch things on videos. they don't want to be told what to do. they want to see what to do. >> doesn't this change the nature of the sport, brendan? i mean, that's what fans want. they want their fierce enforcers. >> we do, too. we want fierce, competitive, physical hockey, but there's a big difference between the art of throwing a body-check and somebody head hunting.

that's the delicate balance that our department is looking for. i played physically. rob blake played physically. there are several om people in our department that value physical hockey, and hockey will always be that. we love that about the game, but we also think that there are some illegal hits, and some ugly trends that have crept in the game that players want out of the game. parents want out. charon want out, and the nhl wants out, and that's what our goal is. >> so is this about issues with injuries, brain injuries for example, or is this just about too much roughness on the ice and making things dangerous for fans in addition to those on the ice? >> well, this was -- i would say, you know, the evolving things we're learning about concussions. the nhl has always been ahead in that field and this is a step top reduce significantly the

amount of con kogss. that's our goal. when you're a player, go on the ice, you expect a certain amount you may get hurt, but a very fine line. the difference between getting hurt and getting injured. and every athlete expects to have the bump, bruises and pain that goes along with being a professional athlete. when somebody starts messing with a guy's career and his future by trying to injure him specifically in the head area, that's where players want to take a step back and say, this isn't something we want in our game, and that's our goal. >> final question. you've been given the nickname sheriff shanny. handed out nine suspensions in the preseason. critics are saying you're running a kangaroo court, turning hockey into touch football. tough criticism there are a macho hockey player. quickly what do you say to them, brendan? >> well, you know, we have some -- very few people. i've actually gotten a lot of support. a few people, ats with special interests that get outspoken, and i've had some general managers, one or two, complain

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