haven't you been watching this cnn, we have been playing this for you throughout the day since this happened this morning, it was a nasty scene over at a hotel in northern virginia, brooke, where herman cain refused to answer questions about these allegations of sexual harassment that go back to the late 1990s but have recently cropped up. and we tried to get mr. cain to answer some questions for us. i don't know if we can play a bit of that sound here, but the sound -- >> we have got it. we have got it, jim. >> dose seem to lose his cool. let's play it in just a few moments. >> let's roll it. >> let say one thing, i'm here with these doctors and that's what i'm gonna talk about. so, don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you-all are curious about, okay? don't even bother. >> but are you concerned about the fact that these women do want to -- >> what i did say? >> are you concerned about -- >> excuse me? excuse me!

>> there you go >> so obviously, brooke, a different posture from herman cain, he's been known throughout this campaign as somebody who is sort of laid back and has an easy going style out on the campaign trail. that was very different today. he had security guards pushing reporters out of the way, he was refusing to answer questions all of this. the main question that was being asked of him, brooke, to put it very quickly is whether or not he would call on the national restaurant association to release from these nondisclosure agreements, these confidentiality agreements, these these two accusers allegedly signed back in the late 1990s, keep the stories quiet in exchange for payment settlements and so you know that is the big question at this point for the cain campaign, one they have not answereded yet and still waiting to see if it develops. >> sounds to me like it most definitely could sounds like the national restaurant association and also the attorney of one of the accusers in contacts, we will hear more certainly tomorrow. jim acosta, thank you so much

for the news out of washington. let's roll into the second hour. take a look at this. all right, welcome back, hour two i'm brooke baldwin. here we go. markets apparently like what ben bernanke had to say moments ago. new flare ups involving occupy wall street a disturbing new revelation about gun us in airport luggage. a russian arms dealer learns his fate today and an american flight attendant found dead in mexico. time to play reporter roulette times five on this wednesday. alison kosik at the stock exchange, looks like the market like what is it heard from fed chief ben bernanke. >> you are right about that, but the rally began before bernanke started talking this is a bounce back from the past two days. the past two days, the dow fell 600 points between monday and tuesday. that is why we see the dow up

162 points. as far as the fed goes, you know what, it really didn't go outside the box today no big surprises, it kept the key interest rate near zero, although what it did didn't dial back the overall projection how much the u.s. economy is going to grow, but that's what's key here, the fed thinks the economy is going to grow but a much smaller pace forecast this year, but not the best news but not surprising either, nothing that really surprised the market. >> i know that when bernanke was speaking a second ago, he was asked questions, he was asked specifically about europe about greece are what did he say and how could that affect, you know, our own economic recovery? >> and you're right about that the federal chief did address europe, he said we are feeling eat expects of europe's downturn and its debt problems, bernanke saying we are seeing the effects, really mostly in the market volatility it that is happening.

listen to what he had to say. >> do we have it? >> what he said concerns about -- having problem getting that bite, concerns about the european banking and fiscal issues, they have added to the strains in the global market and they have likely had adverse effects on commerce and growth here in the u.s. so, yeah, i mean, you see how things sort of have a ripple affect because there is a big fear here about how much will europe slow down u.s. companies, companies here and u.s. economic growth? of course, brooke, this would come at a time we don't have a lot of wiggle room here in the u.s. the federal chief cut our own economic forecast and doesn't see unemployment colling down any time soon. brooke? >> thank you so much. next, oakland, california we find dan simon covering the occupy wall street movement there clearly, dan, re-energized, the last week, images, police very aggressive against demonstrators. today the aim is shutting down the city is that right?

>> we are here at to oakland city hall, a very large crowd, peace solve far, taken on a bit of the party atmosphere, these tent a thursday seeing right here, swept away about a week ago now, they have reappeared, constituent reversed itself, said the pro-ders stay. one thing that's pretty interesting is they have told people if you are a parent, you can come down here and bring your children. you can see there is a bit of a play area set up for parents to spend time with their children but come to become me for a second because the message of what this day is really encap tull lated with sign. foreclose the 1%. okay pit banks. we demand an end to racist profiteering off foreclosure, immigrant detention and dirty energy that fuels wars. we demand that banks be put in their place. that is the message that they are going after today. they want picketers to go in

front of the banks in oakland and people to take date off of work and look likes many have done so >> targeting the banks and bringing the kids along. dan simon. thank you. next, reporter roulette, athena washington, lawmakers are grilling the tsa about dangerous weapons found in passenger luggage. the tsa is finding four to five guns in carry-on bags every day. what is going on? >> this is what john pistol had to say before a government committee. let's listen. >> anecdotally, we still find four to five guns in airport security check points every day. yesterday, we found six, including one at chairman lieberman's airport in bradley, a loaded gun with seven rounds in it in a checked bag, they were trying to get through. >> so this is really stunning.

i spoke with the tsa a while ago to get an update they say they prevented some 900 firearms from getting on board planes this year alone. so far nationwide. and it is really remarkable some of these cases that you read about, brooke n dallas-fort worth airport just last month, there was a guy who tried to don't plane with two pistols, three ammo magazines, eight knives and a hand saw in his carry-on. pretty remarkable stuff. >> listin'ing to you athena and shaking my head, thinking of having to walk through the metal detectors and take offing my shoes what are they thinking? thank you, athena jones in washington. next, richard roth in new york, where an alleged russian arms dealer accused of trying to kill u.s. nationals learns his fate richard, what is the latest? >> victor book, russian national, lons longment issed being the merchant of death and selling arms to people who would

foment death around the the world. convicted on four counts, all four he faced, he does now face life imprisonment on some of these counts. boot's lawyer, albert diane, telling reporters afterwards that he will appeal that boot is disappointeded answered feels base on the evidence, there wasn't enough for a jury to convict boot. the prosecution said boot was ready, willing and able to sell the weapons, convicted of charges of conspireing to kill americans because he was arrested in a bangkok hotel room after trying to sell undercover u.s. dea agents posing as guerrillas from the farc group in colombia. the defense says he was trying to sell two airplanes and the jury misunderstood, in effect what his intent was. that is the latest on viktor bout, played in a movie by nicolas cage in 2005. >> viktor bout, thank you very much.

thank you very much. at the top of this hour, an arrest in the killing of a u.s. airways flight aten dent in mexico. police picked up 28-year-old jose manuel ramirez perez are, an ex-con known as the shad develop ramirez was at a bar across the street from the hilton hotel where the body of nicholas aaronson was found. prosecutor says this surveillance video led to this arrest. the video shows ramirez entering the hotel with aaronson. his fingerprints were found inside their -- aaronson's hotel room. the 27-year-old flight attendant was robbed, wasn't and strangled. his mother says they are bringing his body home. >> we are devastated, totally, all of us. my oldest son, jason, flying down to mexico city to bring him moment >> okay, nick valencia, let me bring you into this, to our national desk editor, take me back, remind me, when did had this happen and what exactly happened? >> this all unraveled some time friday night as you have seen from that surveillance video from the mexican police.

27-year-old flight aten accident nick aaronson go across the street from this bar, a very nice, affluent area of mexico city, bars, hotels, apartment complexes, cross to the crew hotel this hit had within this alleged incident happened it is very interesting, this suspect has a very different story. he was presented in front of the media on monday. >> what did he say? >> he told prosecutors and told the media that it was a revenge attack, that he killed nick aaronson, didn't kill, he denied the killing, attacked nick aaronson because he, aaronson, slept with one of his friend, raped one of his friends and passed on a disease. he maintains his innocence saying it was a 15-year-old from phoenix, arizona, responsible and cull panel for this crime. >> why is he known as the shadow? >> something we talk to the mexican attorney general's office earlier today, they didn't divulge that information but what they did say is that rape accusation from thement is is now part of their investigation. the thing about mexico, this is an official statistic, 90% of the crime goes unsolved, no

sentencing. what happens next for ramirez perez is most likely he will face a judge in about a year and stay in jail until then. >> wow. nick valencia, thank you. >> thank you. >> and that is your reporter roulette for us today. still to come, america falling behind, big time, when it comes to teaching our own children. but there are two countries where education is working. up next of my favorite interviews, smartest guys i get to talk to on tv this man, fareed zakaria, he is standing by live, tell you how bad it is and how far we are from restoring the american dream. plus i'm going to ask him, a little heads up for you fareed, which teacher inspired you the most? think on that we will be right back. [ sniffs ] i have a cold. [ sniffs ] i took dayquil but my nose is still runny. [ male announcer ] truth is, dayquil doesn't treat that. really? [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus fights your worst cold symptoms, plus it relieves your runny nose. [ deep breath] awesome. [ male announcer ] yes, it is. that's the cold truth!

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we, on this had show, always welcome the chance to welcome fareed zack kara, host of fareed zakaria "gps" this week, all about education. you were coming on to see what you were talking about what you are blogging about. here is what we learned, as a nation, we, the united states, now rank number 15 in reading education. we are 23rd when it comes to math. as far as science goes, worse at 31st. why are we so far behind? >> it is actually very simple, brooke. we slacked off. about a generation ago 25 years ago, the highest rate notice world, did well on the tests,

our public education system was the en.very of the world. steve jobs is a kid from working class family he ended up getting a great public school education, enough so that he was fluent in technology, you know, well-versed in liberal arts. what happened? the whole system began to atrophy, stagnate and the rest of the world wasn't sitting still. they started moving ahead, focussing on math and science and while we were having degrees, pro-live rating in leisure studies and sports exercise, the rest of the world, particularly the rich countries, started focusing on math and science. that's why we are where we are. >> we have some slackers in our midst if i'm hager correctly. who is not slacking two nations you point out, you have finland and you have south korea found two very different ways of educating students, both successful. walk me through what they are doing right.

>> fascinating, brooke. the south koreans are the anti-slackers. the south koreans have had to put in places through stop students from studying so hard. this is a huge problem. they have night vans, policemen going in night vans to shutdown late-night cram stool schools that teach students until midnight and 1:00. the average south korean kid goes to school two years longer than an american kid by the time 1es 8 because they have 30 days every school year, their school day is longer, you can imagine, if they spend two years more in school, it is no wonder they are doing better at tests. finland is completely the opposite. they don't have a lot of tests, very creative but they have incredibly good teacher, recruit from the top 10% of college classes, pay their teachers like doctors and lawyers, respect them like that, two different model, i say we need to do both. >> two different models, does it couple down to teachers, fareed?

>> it really does. bill gates spent $5 billion trying to reform education. said if you had a magic wand and you were running a school what is the one thing you would do? he said hire great teachers, more than classroom size, more than money spent, more than technology, the single thing that seems to have an impact on students is having a great teacher. so, fareed zakaria, talk about your education, people want to know, you have to have a teacher who so inspired you, who was he or she and why? >> i had a great english teacher in eighth and ninth grade, mrs. isaacs. she i think english is one of those subjects that can be magical or really dreary and boring, and she was able town lochte magic of shakespeare and poetry and make you understand why this was fascinating and interesting, make you want to write better. you know it is very hard to explain what it is she did.

i think it's just inspiration at some level a lot of personal attention. gates says this to me in the special, you know it when you see it, it is very difficult to explain all the different things that they do they keep the student engaged, they are interactive, but most of it i think, is making it seem fun. that's the thing that american education at its best really does is make -- make learning funerary than seem like a chore, like something you have to do just 'cause you have to take this big test. >> my favorite was english teacher as well, 11th grade, mr. hyde, love songs of prufrock and ts schlt es elliott important. >> we have something in come.month. >> and we are both on cnn. two things i guess. talk tomorrow for another conversation. catch fareed's special sunday night, 8:00 eastern, "restoring the american dream, fixing education," do not miss this. still ahead, somebody's got

to die what a militia member allegedly said about targeting a big city with poison and bombs. and this wasn't al qaeda. this was home-grown terror. plus this -- >> don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you-all are curious about okay? don't even bother. excuse me. excuse me. >> herman cain getting a little testy with reporters today, defending himself against sexual harassment accusations. as he does, his poll numbers keep rising. also, big business versus the people. business blinked first after outrage over fees and prices, this affects your wallet. plus, another young soldier behind bars, suspected of espionage and spilling secret. tell you why this story is different than the wikileaks case involving bradley manning. a lot coming up. stay there. insting in communitis across the country, from helping to revitalize a neighborhood in brooklyn

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welcome back. interesting and happening right now, you are about to see it, rapid fire. let's go beginning with wikileaks founder julian assange lost his latest battle of facing possible charges in sweden a court today decided assange will be extradited to sweden note when is still not certain. another hearing is set for later this month to determine whether assange can appeal. important business to pass along to you from our nation's capital. the republican-led house in this nonbinding resolution voted to reaffirm the u.s. motto of "in god we trust." virginia republican jay randy forbes says he pushed for the measure, citing a national identity crisis. the resolution passed 396-9. the department of homeland security is recruiting hotel

guests to help fight terrorism. look at this. >> maybe you see something suspicious. can you be sure? >> starting today, this is what guests will find on their room -- on the tv at several u.s. hotel chains. this is a matter of going where the eyes are to help in the terrorism fight. research shows hotel guests watch their tvs at least three hours a day. and here we go again, i sound like a broken record, lindsay lohan is headed back to jail a judge hayes is violated her probation, this she failed to comply with a community service sentence in may. she was sentenced to 30 days in jail. the sheriff's office says she is going to serve 20% of that sentence. that equates to six days. she also has to finish out her probation at the city mourg and the judge also suggested to lindsay lohan, stop tweeting about your experience at the mourg. no more tweeting.

in wisconsin, a massive pot bust, a ton of pot from a massive marijuana operation, worth $700 million. >> we have arrested people one pound, five pounds, ten pounds, we are not even close to dealing with that. >> police are holding a man they believe may be behind all of this on 15ds million bond. scary moments in pompano beach, florida a single engine plane crashed into an intersection, ripped in two here. amazingly, the student pilot and instrungter not hurt. see the white stuff there around the plane? that was fire fighting foam, sprayed by the rescue crews on scene. investigators are looking whether the plane had had engine problems, perhaps. amazing video here after a car crashes into a fire high drand. look at this with me, in san diego this is what water pressure has done, pushing the car in the air. authorities could not find the driver. they believe this car, in an

upright position, was stolen. coming up next, a soldier slapped in cuffs, accused of spying, the story is developing right now. details coming up. also, herman cain under fire and fired up, just a short time after a speech, this happened. >> don't even bother asking me all of these other questions that you-all are curious about okay? don't even bother. excuse me. excuse me. >> the republican avoiding reporters as they are trying to ask about the sexual harassment allegations against him. it comes as we get word today one of his accusers may soon come forward. that's next. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils

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military police battalion. he is in custody today on suspicion of espionage according to the army, his name, specialist william colton mall lakers 22 of owensboro, kentucky, you see him there, arrested friday at his base in alaska.mallay, 22 of owensboro, kentucky, you see him there, arrested friday at his base in alaska. had h mallay has been under investigation by the fbi and army counterintelligence agents. they won't say exactly what the espionage allegations involve but look, as you pointed out this kind of activity is in the spotlight after that very high-profile case involving private first class bradley manning who is suspecteded of leaking classified information to the website wikileaks. the army says this is not related to wikileaks and no

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as i mentioned a moment ago, prison doors are swinging wide open for 1800 inmates because of the change in crack cocaine sentencing laws. sunny hostin is on the case why the change in the law? what does this do? >> well, this has been some time in the coming, brooke. remember in the 1980s when there was that huge crack epidemic that was really very pervasive in black communities? laws were changed in that sense to try to address that crack epidemic and try to make these inner city neighborhoods safer, so, there was a disparity in minimum mandatory sentences in federal courts, that was 100-1 disparity. if you were convicted in a case where you had five grams of crack cocaine, you got five years, mandatory minimum. you would need 500 grams of powder cocaine to get the same sentence. so in 2010, congress passed the fair sentencing act to try to really resolve that huge disparity. so now that it has been passed,

it became retroactive just yesterday and many, many people are being released. their sentences are also being reduced. >> many, many as as far as, you know, maybe as many as 1800. this is just the beginning. how many prisoners could be happened these -- let's call them get out of jail early cards over the next couple of years? >> yeah, my understanding, about 12,000 prisoners are eligible for reduced sentences. now, these are not automatic reductions, brooke, they have to go in front of a judge, they have to request these reductions and judge will determine whether or not the people or the person, that defendant is a danger to the community, a danger to society. if it is found -- if a person is found not to be a danger in the community that person will be released earlier. so we are talking about perhaps reductions, as much as three to five years in some of these sentences, but just on tuesday, many were released, you mentioned 1800 were released. >> is there any benefit to society with this? >> you know, i think so i mean,

certainly, there are those that feel these people committed the crime they need do the time but when we are talking about 100-1 disparity we do want equality in the law, i still would suggest that we have a ways to go because there is still an 18-1 disspar that remains in the law. still work to do but thisville a step in the right direction, many people, including myself as a former federal prosecutor, feel that this was a stain on the federal system. >> case number two truly fierce competition can be very costly. take this lawsuit against the florida toyota dealership accused of calling a rival dealership in alabama the taliban toyota. sunny, how much will that -- those two words cost this florida car dealer >> it cost him $7.5 million in damages. so, no matter how many of these toyotas he sold, certainly, this was not worth it to this toyota

dealer. >> could the salesman in florida have gotten story anymore wrong? the alabama dealer isn't even from iraq? if he was, the taliban doesn't even operate there. >> i know. that is thing. you know, he was -- he is iranian. he's a naturalized u.s. citizen. he fled iran in 1980 following the islamic revolution. so, you know, just the ignorance is sort of baffling in this and it cost him $7.5 million. he was awarded punitive damages -- the person was also awarded punitive damages. so quite -- quite a big win for this u.s. citizen. he says that these actions were un-american. and i think many people would agree with him. >> iran. iran. sunny hostin, thank you. now this -- >> i finished and i will probably move on to a credit union. >> battle of big business versus the people, big business blinks first. first, netflix, now, bank of america caving in to customer outrage. might this be the start of a

trend? how does this affect you? we are back in 60 second he is.

so, we have talked about this quite a bit went the news first broke, now backpedaling, backing office plan to charge customers that $5 a month debit card fee. many say it is a modern day david and gol lie yalt story, thanks in part to 22-year-old molly catchpoll, started an online petition against the fee, got more than 300,000 signatures. credit expert and president of consumer education joins me, so many people breathing a sigh of relief. does that meant bank will find another way to charge us elsewhere? >> i don't think we have seen the final chapter of this yet. the root cause that motivated the banks to start charging

a-to-use their debit card was the durbin amendment, 2k579d 1 cents, used to be 44 on average that hasn't changed so they will look for ways to recoup billions and billions of revenue, consumers have to be careful for what i call the end and the backwards way of taking money out of your pocket. >> you mentioned durbin, i was reading this morning, quoting, talking to reporters on capitol hill, the reversal by major banks proving consumers will walk away if not being treated fairly. i hope the the banking industry learns from this l they learn from this and what will they learn? >> i don't know, they have a very short memory. when you start charging people to use a credit card, okay, i get it. i'm getting access to thousands of doll loofrs your money, i can deal with it but when you start charging me to have access on my own money, a product people love, i'm using the word love now, people love their debit cards that is a bad move. someone should have let these guys know when you cross the line, you are going to give them motivation to take their business somewhere else but a pain do but so many people have been doing it.

>> speaking of taking your business somewhere else, a lot of people, at least talk of a lot of people leaving the big banks, going to credit unions, have we seen evidence of that? >> absolutely. if you listen to anyone from the credit union trade association, they have seen tens of thousands of new customers hundreds of millions of dollars in new deposits over the past four weeks. obviously that is because of new fees on debit cards, remember only talking about five megabanks here there are 10,000 credit unions not charging people to have access to their own money it makes perfect sense that people are migrating away from the fee guys to the free guys. >> what's your recommendation to people thinking, okay if i'm not paying this fee, so dow stay with my big bank if guy to my credit union what is in it for me what should i look out for? >> if i describe to you all the service and products a credit union can offer, sounds look i'm describing a bank, mortgages, auto loans, brokerages, debit services, they are nonprofit they don't have to impress wall street. >> they have got the lower rates. >> absolutely. they don't have to juice their

customers every three months to make their numbers look great i say if you are motivated to move just because the fee has been delayed for some period of time, i say go ahead and move, now you are not under the gun for the fee. >> nice to meet you. >> likewise. >> thank you so much. coming up next, a plot to attract government, the media, politicians, even folks driving on the internet, now they are busted by the feds, these are -- we will call them unusual suspects here and their plot all over the place them just appeared court. george howell is standing by live with that. we are back in 70 seconds.

four men in georgia face charges in a domestic terror

plot involving explosives, guns and deadly tons, accused of buying a gun silencer what appears to be explosives and ingredient these could make ricin. so the feds say the men also had this buck bucket list of intended victims, on the bucket list, take a look, government employees, politicians, corporate leaders and members of the media. but this alleged plot didn't stop there. the government says the men were planning murder on a mass scale by spreading the deadly toxin ricin across an atlanta freeway, not just that. they wanted to drop the stuff from a plane over washington, d.c. as well. their motive? patriotism. the four men appeared to be unlikely terror suspects as well. if you look at them, they are in their 60s, 70s and they just appeared in court. george howell is right outside that courthouse in gainesville, georgia. george, what happened in court? >> brooke, first of all, want to tell you what is happening behind me, waiting for relatives

and friends to come out of the courtroom. i will step out of the way if it happens while we are talking and we will bring it to you live. inside the courtroom, tough keep in mind, these are old suspects, again, you have to remember, in their 60s and 70s, could you tell they were hard of hearing. at times, three of them were cuppinging their ears like this to hear the judge a little better. again, they were respectful in court, they were reserved, referred to the judge as yes, ma'am and your honor, which is a very far cry from all of the quotes that we have seen in these affidavits where they allegedly had a real hatred for the government and threatened to kill, brooke, government officials. >> how -- how, george, did the fbi find out about this group? it was an informant, correct? >> they had two informants two inform map thes at least who were following their every move, these informants were tipping off police, telling them information. when it got to the point these men were ready to purchase ammunition and explosives, preparing to or trying to

prepare that toxin that is when the mfeds moved n >> talking about four guys in their 60s and 70s where do they go next? what happens next? >> next week, we will hear more about another court hearing here where they will discuss bond. also, just so you know, all four men requested to have requested have the court appoint their attorneys, so we're waiting to see what happens next week. >> thank you so much. in gainesville, georgia. now, to one of really today's top stories here. we are closely following the sexual harassment allegations against herman cain. all sides here are bound by this confident confidentiality agreement. it goes back to 1999, so if people are not allowed to talk get i getting the facts can be difficult. just about two hours ago, we got a statement here at cnn from the restaurant lobby group that cain once headed. here's what it said. quote, attorney joel bennett, the attorney for one of cain's

accusers, contacted the national restaurant association this morning. a representative promptly returned his call and asked mr. bennett to contact the association's outside counsel. mr. bennett indicated he would do so tomorrow after he met with his client. so why is this so important? because according to this attorney, cain is not telling the truth and his client wants to tell her story, but in order for that to happen, both sides here have to agree to waive that confidentiality. so now we know that both sides are talking, so perhaps this time tomorrow, we should know a lot more about whether we're going to hear this woman's story, so stay tuned for that. situation room mere minutes away. wolf blitzer joins me from chicago and you have even more on herman cain today. >> we're going to be obviously going in depth and taking a closer look. once these stories start, no

idea where they're going to wind up. we know that there's high interest in a story like this. not only to journalists, community, but political community. not only democrats, but republicans. people want to know what's going on and it puts enormous amount of pressure on the candidate in this particular case, herman cain. we saw some of that spill over today in that testy exchange he had with reporters. normally as you know, he's very po polite, nice, always a smile. always seems very gracious and it was sort of out of character for him to sort of blast some of these reporters peppering him with questions. he could have handled it better, but given the sexual harassment allegations, the pressure on him, it's been intense. but as i write in my blog today, if you want to be president of the united states, if you want to get the republican presidential nomination, you got to expect that kind of heat. you don't want the heat, get out of the kitchen. it comes with the territory, so he's going to have to get used

to it. these kinds of stories and i've covered many of them, politics, allegations of some sort of sex or whatever, they have a life of their own. you don't know where they're going to end up. i'm reminded back in 1992, i was covering bill clinton. all of a sudden, the jennifer flowers sexual allegations came up. he went on "60 minutes" with hillary clinton. not only did he capture the nomination, he won the presidency in 1992 as well. he should go back and take a look at some of those earlier examples. he's got to deal with a real crisis and has to get ready. no doubt about that. if in fact he wants to be -- he wants to get that republican nomination. >> i think he does, wolf blitzer in chicago. see you in a couple of minutes. thank you so much. still ahead, condi rice reveals how moammar gadhafi was infatuated with her.

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former secretary of state condoleezza rice had a strange story to tell on "the daily show" and it involved moammar gadhafi and a music video. joe johns has the scoop. this is kind of funny. >> we knew just a hint of it. there was a headline waiting to be filled in with the story. we knew gadhafi had a thing for condoleezza rice and we knew condoleezza rice was going to have quite a story here. pictures of the former secretary of state were actually found in the libyan leaders personal affects and now, we know a little bit more of what was going on there after she went, condoleezza rice, on "the daily show," to talk about it. listen. >> were you aware that he had a strange and shall i say creepy fixation on secretary of state condoleezza rice? >> i was aware. several of my foreign minister colleagues had told me before i went to visit him back in 2008,

that he had this fixation and when i got there, i thought, just get through your business. do a diplomacy, just get out of here and everything was going fine, then he said, i have this video for you. and i thought, what is this? but it was actually just pictures of me with hue jintao, vladimir putin, set to a song he had written called black flower in a white house. >> how's the song go? >> hilarious. >> i know. i've actually called her a few times trying to get her to talk about it, but she wouldn't because she was working. >> you didn't have a song. >> she was working on this book

and now we know. >> now, we know. hilarious. also today on the hill, i don't know if we have the music to cue it back up, but -- bob barker. talking animals. >> that's right. host of price is right, former host, teaming up with jim moran among others, going after the circus. the point here is that the circus, he says, is pretty much an an akronism. he's a long time animal advocate. he's been speaking about the traveling animal protection act. legislation on the hill that is supposed to restrict the use of animals like elephants, tigers and so on in traveling circuses. he says they suffer and a lot of people have said this. they're kept in small cages, beaten with clubs, forced to do things they wouldn't naturally do and he says it's wrong. he says some circus handlers actually starve the