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their crimes were horrific. governor barbour is unvanl to answer questions. despite our are repeated attempts to reach him. his office issued a statement which we will read a portion of shortly. when he has spoken about this, not on this program, the governor suggested these men committed "crimes of passion" and experts say such killers are the least likely to reoffend. we have shown you he is wrong on both accounts. this man, one of the four killers he shot a clerk three times on his way to the convenient store that he was robbing. on his way out, he shot a clerk twice more as the clerk was begging for his life. he got away with $60. osmond was spard possible death sentence when he ratted out his partner. this was not a crime of passion. this man shot and killed his estranged wife and badly wounded her friend randy walker.

tammy's mother said he relentlessly stalked her before seeing an opportunity to strike and she was holding on to her baby. doesn't sound like a crime of passion. here's how the officer on the witness describes david gatlin to martin savidge. >> i think he is a barbaric individual that can senselessly cold-blooded shoot someone like that, especially holding his child, his own child and him leave that child laying in the floor. not to the at least pick him up and take him with him? this individual is not where he belongs. >> do you think he's still dangerous? >> i think he's very dangerous. >> and he's free. they are expected in court where the legality of the pardons have been questioned. governor barbour appeared on john king usa. during the interview, john played a clip of the sister and

mother. they were understandably outraged at the governor's decision to pardon the killer and the anger grew after what he said to john. listen. >> he's in jail for 18 years. she's 20 years old when she died and had her child laying in her arms when he shot her in her head. and he's pardoned. >> is governor barbour going to pardon us for our aches and pans and heart ache we have to suffer. is he going to pardon a child that had to grow up without a mother. >> what do you say to those people? >> the family came and met with my lawyers two years ago because they understood if any of these men, including that one, successfully served at the mansion they had been serving almost 20 years. on average they serve 20 years and if they successfully complete it they would be pardoned? you heard the governor say he

claims his office met with betty ellis and tiffany ellis brewer. we asked them if that is true. governor barbour claims his lawyers met with your family two years before gatlin's release. is that true? >> no. that's absolutely false. we have had no contact with the governor or his lawyers, any of his people. no one has made an attempt to contact us. >> betty, when you hear the governor refer to this as a crime of passion, what goes through your mind? >> rage. i mean, this is not a crime of passion when somebody rents a car in georgia, buys a gun, drives to mississippi, stalks my daughter and then shoots her, i don't believe that is a crime of passion. >> so, randy walker, the man david gatlin wounded, he fears for his life now.

he will join us shortly. the closer we look the worse it gets. when the state parole board last reviewed david gatlin's case they voted against releasing him. that was late 2010. gatlin was working at the governor's mansion and the parole board still recommended he not go free. but the governor disregarded that, disregarded that recommendation and pardoned him any way. as we said this happened without consultation or notification to the dead victim's family. nothing either for randy walker, the wounded man. when we first learned that david gatlin was going to the governor's mention they tried to meet with someone, anyone with the power to stop him from being able to work in the governor's mansion. they finally got that meeting but only after gatlin was placed at the mansion. governor's office sent a statement reading how it happened. it reads this is solely at the discretion of the department of corrections and the department of pub safety not the governors.

the governor had no real rowe role whatsoever in decide who served. >> the governor said he had no control over who gets in mansion but who gets free or pardoned? in considering gatlin's pardon did he know about the parole denial that happened while gatlin was serving him in the mansion the parole board is required to investigate all requests for pardons or clemency. did he ask them to. we don't know and he's not talking. joining us senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin and randy walker. how did you find out that gatlin was serving as a trustee in the governor's mansion? >> i have never been contacted by the mdoc or anybody about that. the way we found out was the website for the department of corrections in mississippi. you can look up an inmate by last name or inmate number and i

kept a check on david every time -- probably about every two weeks i'd look to see where he was. there for a for a while he was transferred between different facilities as a trustee and it was a shock when i saw in november of 2009 that he came a trustee at the governor's mansion. >> you knew, if he was a trustee at the governor's mansion you knew that was a road eventually to getting pardoned as other killers have in the past. did you try to contact him and tell them he should not be working in the governor's mansion? >> we tried to plead our case. when i found out in november, we tried for about four months before we got a meeting with lucien smith. one of haley barbour's legal advisers. it was pretty much a pat you on the back kind of meeting. they listened to what we said and said yeah, that's not going to happen. he's a trustee. live with it. that was pretty much their attitude. since then we have written

numerous letters, around 20 phone calls, just really being relentless. we have not had anymore contact with them. we think that if we could have got on the haley barbour for a few minutes and pled as case as david pled his case for two years, i just needed five minutes we thought we could change the outcome on this but we never got that opportunity. >> as you know, the former governor is saying this was a crime of passion and that because of the so-called crime of passion, experts say he is not likely to do something like that again. we found no experts that say that. experts say it is a silly antiquated notion. to you, was this a crime of passion when he pointed that gun and shot you? when he shot the woman you were friends with clutching her baby? >> absolutely not. if you take it back on the time line, three or four days before he came, he told a girlfriend he

was involved with in georgia that he was coming to do this very thing and she would have been subpoenaed to show up in court to testify that. so he told somebody before he even left georgia. if you look at his statement, his own words at the time that he wrote his confession out, he pretty much point blank says it's premeditated. a crime of passion for me is if a spouse comes home early from lunch or a business trip unexpected and you walk in and catch them in bed with somebody and you beat them to death with a lamp on the side of the bed. haley barbour, his definition and mine in a crime of passion are not in the same dictionary. >> the fact this guy gatlin his parole was denied tells you a lot. >> it does tell you a lot. the united states department of justice has the office of pardon attorney and there are elaborate public procedures for a ply

applying for a pardon. it is complicated and takes a long time and they have to consult the prosecutors and the victims and i think they give too few but they avoid the problem because there is a system in place where everybody gets a chance to be heard. instead you have this thing, which haley barbour obviously ran out of his back pocket and decided on his own without input from anyone except the people applying for the pardons and this is what you get. >> did anyone at the governor's office tell you that gatlin was being pardoned? >> no -- well, i got that letter that said he had been declined parole on friday. i forget the date, like the 5th, i think, or might have been the 6th. whatever the friday was before the 6th. so that's on friday and then saturday at 10:00 i get a phone call from a lady at the corrections department, the victim's coordinator. she said he had been unconditionally pardoned and would be released on sunday. i get this letter, not even 24

hours later i get a phone call saying the worst possible thing has happened. i didn't get a say in anything. i didn't get to plead my case about anything. my rights have been violated. >> does it seem odd that the files that would normally contain documents about the process they don't exist for the trustees that work in the governor's mansion. >> it is more odd when you consider the people that worked in the governor's mansion were not any ordinary criminals. they were murderers. these are people you want to take extra care, not rely just on their good works and the fact that they appear to have done a good job around the governor's mansion. you want to take extra care because you don't want to release murderers lightly. there were no procedures. this was haley barbour making up his mind and these are the consequences. >> remind our viewers, randy, how many years gatlin was sentenced to. he avoided the death penalty.

how many years he was sentenced to and how many he actually served. >> he was originally charged with capital murder which would have carried a death sentence. close to the end of the -- we were actually getting ready to go to trial. trial was the same week he pled guilty to simple murder, a lesser charge and he got a life sentence on that and consecutive to that he pled to aggravate ed assault, which was 20 years on that. and then consecutive to that house burglary, which was a ten-year charge. so i read it to be one after the other, consecutive, life plus 30 years and he did 17 years, six months and three days. >> and two years in the governor's mansion. >> and two year necessary governor's mansion. david has never been a quote, behind-bars inmate. from the first time i started to see him on the website when i started to follow his case he's always pretty much been a trustee. he's never really been, what i consider to be incarcerated.

>> randy walker, i'm sorry you are in this position where you have to even talk about this. this shouldn't be the case. appreciate you being on and talking about it and we will continue to follow it. thank you, randy. >> thank you for having me mr. cooper. >> jeff toobin, as well. thank you very much. we will continue to follow the case. let us know what you think. i will be tweeting tonight. let me know what you think of this case. does it make any sense to you. up next, what are the keys to victory for the four candidates. john king crunches the numbers tonight. we are looking thaegt headline statement that mitt romney made today. was it taken out of context? we will play the whole thing for you. one survivor in the florida highway tragedy. she lost her family but another dimension to the story no one saw coming. you never take an upgrade for granted. and you rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above.

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what happens next after mitt romney's crushing victory in florida? newt gingrich's vow to fight until the end and no sign the other two challengers are getting out either. now for a look at what lies at the end of it let's check in with john king.

>> we begin february with a map that should favor mitt romney. should because there are some mine fields. saturday in nevada is next. it is caucus state. he won it in 2008 but watch ron paul. sometimes with quirky rules, passion can beat organization. romney is favored in all of these places but quirky caucus rules watch colorado, minnesota. santorum and paul looking to spring a surprise. no delegates at stake in the first round. gingrich not on the ballot. that's a factor. the main caucuses, romney is a new englander, should be his state. ron paul working hard and it could be a paul win in maine. these are the big prizes, michigan and arizona. both wired at the moment at romney states. he was born in michigan and they look good for him but we will

have to wait and see how the situation is at the end of the month. say we go that far and gingrich doesn't a victory. watch the washington caucuses and why does speaker gingrich say he will stay in the race, supertuesday, in tennessee he is on the ballot, could win the state an come out short. some delegates not on the ballot in virginia. that's a place newt gingrich could have had as part of his kbak comeback strategy. he thinks he will win oklahoma and georgia. if gingrich and no one else wins in the month of february, money matters, romney is raising more money after florida. no one is close to start the year. they have raised some money sense but they are spending it as the calendar gets more crowded. >> appreciate it. >> mitt romney's victory lap interrupted today. he stumbled over something he said. he was talking this morning to soledad o'brien. >> i'm in this race because i care about americans i'm not concerned about the very poor. we have a safety net.

if it needs repair i will fix it. i'm concerned about the heart of america, the 90, 95% of americans who are struggling and i will continue to take that message across the nation. >> headline, as you can imagine went up on blogs and news sites. romney said he is not concerned about the very poor which prompted the governor to try to clarify what he said. >> you have to take the whole sentence and change it a little bit. it sounds very different. i said throughout the campaign my focus will be to help the middle income people. we have safety net for the poor in the country and if there are holes in that i will fix that and if there are people falling through the cracks i want to fix that. >> the fact he spent a valuable campaign day feeling with the fallout of this says something. here to talk about is aray

fleisher. and james carville. james, is it fair for that headline to have been around over what romney said? >> it was an eruption among conservatives. the weekly standard, national review. i saw three or four comments people came out. it was a really -- not a very good candidate. by the way, he doesn't even understand conservative doctrine. i happen to live with it in my house. they say they care about the poor and these programs hurt the poor. not only does it come across as voters in the middle is callous, that is after saying corporations are rich people, to real conservatives it comes across as dumb and doesn't represent what they say they think. >> ary, what use your take on what he said? >> it shows you why politicians are politicians. they have to be so perfect and watch every word. everyone knows it was a mistake in statement. people have heard him talk about how he wants to focus on the middle class.

that's the group that needs the most help in this country but it was a slip hen he shouldn't have done it. president obama had a slip that i thought was pretty bad this week. he was introduced to jennifer's husband was seeking a job and he couldn't understand how the husband couldn't get a job how there could be unemployment in the semiconductor industry he was working in. line those two up. romney had a slip of the tongue but barack obama showed he doesn't understand how bad the economy is. >> james? >> it goes -- mitt romney is just not a very good candidate. i said that before. yes, if he outspends somebody 5-1 and dumps 95% negative spots on the air he is going to win the primary and be the nominee. there is no chance of the other guys come close though nomination. he is scaring republicans. did he mean it? was it a slip of the tongue? he has a lot of slips of the

tongue and these are the kinds of things that scare people. that's a problem that he has. i don't think his campaign can trust him to go out on his own. i think he can do okay if he is scripted and has 5 to 1 money but that won't happen in the election. >> now you have 24 hours distance on it. how do you look at his victory. >> i think you have to give mitt romney increasing credit. he's won 2 1/2, 3-3/ 4 of the primaries so far. he won iowa, and lost as the votes came in. huge win in new hampshire and florida. in terms of the percentage margin over the number two finisher. most candidates don't have that big gap between them and the second place finisher and february is a strong month for him. he is in a well-positioned place. he still has problems and james eluded to this with a conservative base. he hasn't stats fied the

conservative base but independents like him and that is why he is running neck and neck with barack obama. no one else is running as close as he is. he is neck and neck. >> he did make enrods among tea party voter and evangelicals. >> he's not running against anybody. none of these people, and i have been consistent on this, ever had a chance to be a nominee. barring a breakdown that he can't get to 50 which is almost impossible, he will be the nominee. the problem that mitt romney has, he just is not that good of a candidate. the guy is not good on his feet. politically he comes across as a detached dufus and i said politically. i'm sure he is a bright guy but politically he is out of it sometimes. >> this is where james has a short memory. this is why politics is so tough. four years ago is when barack obama had a fund-raiser and he

thought no one was listening and said blue collar voters cling to their gains religion and james worked for hillary at the time. barack obama had his share of mistakes. i wouldn't say that mitt romney is a bad candidate. he is what every candidate is, someone who made a mistake and the test of a campaign is people learn from it and go on and do better. >> he paid a price for that. he paid a price for that. romney, you look at the comments today, among conservatives. you look at the concern and he always conforms. he has a stereotype, whether it is accurate or not, that he is out of touch. he that's why i said politically he comes across as a detached dufus and this comment feeds in to a perception about him. he's not able to deal with it. he's not that good on his feet. obama is not the greatest candidate ever. he paid a price for saying that.

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a 360 follow about the horrible multivehicle crash sunday in florida. florida highway patrol says an 11th has been found in a truck pulled from the wreckage. one of the survivors was a 15-year-old girl named lidiane carmo. her parents, her sister and uncle, all perished in the crash. her and her family were in the country illegally. it turns out they were from brazil. tlont is word about her status. martin joins us with that part of the story. >> here's how it broke out.

the family came here legally on a visa 12 years ago but it had expired and that's why there is concern that she may be deported. the federal government stepped in and said absolutely not. that is not going to happen. ice, which is the immigration customs enforcement agency released a statement and said quote, our thought and prayers are with miss lidiane carmo as she deals with the tragic loss of her family. ice's stated priorities include convicted criminals immigration fugitives, repeat immigration law violators and recent border crossers. no deportation. >>. >> how's she doing. >> she does not have a memory of the accident. she was told yesterday of what happened to her family. we talked to a close family friend. here's how he described how they

told her. >> the first thing she was looking for was her older sister, her mom and dad. what happened to me. where am i? what happened? so, they explained to her what happened. she's simply cried a little. we know she's trying to process everything. but, she's doing well so far. >> 15 years old. to lose your parents, your sister like that. have we learned anything more about what she'll be facing? any challenges? >> she has to heal. it's expected she has a lot of broken bones, some burns. probably going to need another surgery. she has no health insurance and money is another factor here. you have five members in the vehicle they all died. the church said they do not have the money to even transport the bodies back here to atlanta where they live, let alone carry out the funerals. so there's a lot of suffering going on and the church is so

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hienchts-ranking u.s. intelligence officials are sounding an a warning. they say that iran is prepared to launch terrorist attacks in the idea. they also said they have seen no intelligence to indicate that iran is actively plotting attacks on u.s. soil. these officials believe that iran's involvement in a botched plot to assassinate shifts their boldness and that has been a decades long feud set on simmer is on the verge of quickly moving to a boil. here's what leon panetta told 60 minutes. ? the united states, the president's made this clear, does not want iran to develop nuclear weapons. that's a red line for us. it's a red line obviously for the -- we have to do it we will do it.

>> what is "it? >> if we get intelligence they are proceeding with developing a nuclear weapon we will take whatever steps are necessary to stop them. >> including military steps? >> there are no options off the table. we were surprised to hear how far he thinks iran has come. >> the consensus is that if they decided to do it would probably take them about a year to be able to produce a bomb, and then possibly another one to two years in order to put it on a deliverable vehicle of some sort in order to deliver that weapon. >> if we have to do it, we will do it. that's what panetta said. let's dig deeper with national security adviser fran townsend. fran, along with more than 100 members of congress and former senior national security officials probably advocated the united states take the iran opposition group off the list of terror groups as the europe union has already done.

and also joining me is -- with the endowment for peace. what do you make of the likelihood that iran may attempt an attack in the united states. >> that is a shift. remember, his -- iran is responsible for the barracks bombings in the '80s and they attacked cultural sites in buenos aires. they tended not to want to plan and plot attacks in the united states. we always believed that is because they feared retaliation. the plot against the saudi ambassador was a shift. i think intelligence officials, law enforcement officials are taking it seriously that they would be willing to take the risk to plan and plot such an audacious attack. >> there are some people listening to this who will say it is just an excuse to provoke fear in the united states or for a building a drum beat against iran. do you buy they might be willing to plot attacks? i'm skeptical, anderson, that the iranian regime after 32

years of not committing acts of terror on the u.s. soil have changed their actions. he is not osama bin laden. meaning he is a state actor. if they were to commit an act of terror on the united states, we'd know where their return address is. it would be teheran. he is not hiding in a cave somewhere. what is paramount for the iranian supreme leader is to stay in power. if they were to dmit an act of terror on the united states he would be gambling with his life and the regime itself. >> to those who say it behooves iran to preserve the status quo. >> maybe. it is committing. to say he is not osama bin laden, i understand that point. but let's remember, iran is the single largest state sponsor solve a terrorist organization in the world. they use hezbollah, a terrorist organization as an arm to execute their foreign policy some they are a terrorist group. very much in the making of al

qaeda and prior to 9/11 hezbollah was understood to be world wide more mil militarily capability and more deployed worldwide than any other terrorist organization including al qaeda. this is a serious organization with real capability that we ought to be concerned about. >> if they have done operations through hezbollah in buenos aires and elsewhere and if they were involved in a plot against the saudi embassy in the united states does not argue against your position? >> certainly the iranian regime has been committing acts of terror beyond its borders since the 1979 revolution. we're not here to debate the ruthlessness of this regime. they do it in places where they think they can get away with it. they did it in the '90s in europe and argentina and sometimes in the arab world but they haven't yet committed a major act of terrorism in their 32, now 33 years of existence

against the united states. so, my line about the iranian regime is that it is homicidal. it is homicidal especially toward its own population but not suicidal. it wants to stay in power. >> did it surprise you to hear secretary panetta giving details on the time line of the iran nuclear program, what the u.s. perception of it is, and the line no option is not off the table is not anything new. >> i think the fact that he said we will take action if we have to is not surprising. that is in keeping with what president obama has said. he has made clear that iran getting nuclear capability is unacceptable. what is surprising is the specifics of which he laid out the time line to iran acquiring a nuclear weapon. one year to get a bomb. two to three years until you have a deliverable vehicle. what he is talking about there, it is one thing to have enough enriched uranium and it is another thing to deliver it on

target and they have to have that weapon, that missile technology. i think this sunday in the "new york times" there was an extensive piece about israel versus iran and iran's growing nuclear capability. the surprising thing is to hear somebody with clearly access to classified information laying out a specific time line. >> how tough would a strike against iran be the to try to cripple, is that possible? my understanding is there sites are hardened and spread out. it is not like israel bombing iraq under saddam hussein to eliminate their program. >> anderson, according to many israeli estimates, they could set back iran's nuclear clock, one to three years. the concern that many of us including myself have is if israel or the united states were to take military action against iran it could prolong the shelf life of the iranian regime another decade if not longer. when you measure it in terms of cost benefits. the costs are pretty high in

term of domestic repercussions with iran and globally in terms of the price of oil skyrocketing and iran's ability to retaliate throughout the middle east. when i talk to members of congress, whether democrat or republican, there is almost the universal consensus that americans want to reduce our entanglements, our military entanglements in the middle east and bombing iran would of course prolong our entanlements. >> we have to leave it there. thank you. a look back at the impact don cornelius can had on pop culture with his ground breaking television show "soul train" longest syndicated show in history. pan moan yum and violence breaking out in a soccer match in egypt. dozens are killed. more on that ahead. diesel self-serve fix a flat jumper cables 5% cashback right now, get 5% cashback at gas stations. it pays to discover.

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a show shst showcasing music and dancing to the r&b music the brain child and host don cornelius >> it is magnificent. one of the baddest things around. >> don cornelius was originally a journalist and deejay from chicago inspired by the civil rights movement in the '60s. he realized there was no snow show designed to appeal to the growing african-american audience. so using $400 of of own money he created a pilot for "soul train" and premiered the show in chicago. it was an instant hit. in a year it went national and quickly became an appointment viewing every saturday for many families. >> the statement we hope we are making is african-american guys and girls can achieve in tv

media. >>. >> we shouldn't be people who we just see on television grinning and making fools of ourselves and telling jokes and singing. we have the ability and should be given the opportunity to create as well. >> gladys knight and the dancing, swinging % ips. >> they featured african-american musicians giving a face to glad nis knight who performed on the first episode. ♪ >> he was taking a giant step to even compete in that arena where dick clark had such a hold with "american sfwand" he was brave. he went out and did it. we as artists are so grateful to him for giving us that faith. >> he presented a parade of

performers to the "soul train" audience including aretha franklin, marvin gay, the jackson 5 and non-r & b stars like david bowie and elton john. the show lasted for 35 years. a lasting legacy for a man who increased the visibility of african-american culture and changed the face of television. >> i'm don cornelius. we wish you love. >> love, peace and soul. isha is back with the 360 news bulletin. >> deadly violence following a soccer match in egypt. at least 73 people killed and 1,000 injured. rioting broke out inside the stadium. fans from the competing teams attacked each other with rocks

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time for the ridiculous. tonight we are adding an excellent adventure called joan river's' blaze of glory. joan river was feeling tense. on the advice of a friend, got a prescription for medical marijuana. here is what happened next. >> i think the louie would be great for you. >> i am liking this. it is french. suck it in while i light it. >> oh, my gosh.

>> oopsy. >> are you stoned? >> no, i'm not stoned. >> are you getting there? >> joan rivers and her friend asked themselves a question asked by so many aficionados, can we get food? >> i want to eat right now. let's go. >> what do you mean? >> i can't tell if i'm moving. >> since friends don't let friends drive when friends can't tell if they are moving or not, joan got melissa to pick them up and the quest for food continued. luckily there was a burger joint nearby. >> thank you. >> oh! >> we need ketchup. >> this is a great meal. you have great a great meal. you make a wonderful meal. >> get in the car. get in the car. >> this is a meal. they make a wonderful meal. >> next up dessert. >> if you love me you would

drink out of my shoe. i will drink to you, too. to you. >> mrs. zimmerman. >> this is fabulous! [ howling ] it. >> wasn't all giggling and howling on this long, strange trip, she took time to expand her mind, to ponder the universe, before the cheeseburger showed up. >> look at that sky. generally people are looking at the same sky. >> how many people are looking at the same sky? >> that's why i asked you. i don't know. >> even baked out of her mind she's a true comedian. she is 78 years 'ole and just so happens to be the same age as willie nelson who made no secret for his affection of the buds and someone beaten on jeopardy of cheech