we begin with a story you may have missed. president obama's campaign is encouraging big donors to write big checks to priorities usa action. a super pac supporting his election. the republican primary is swimming in super pac money but the story is the president is doing this at all because it represents a 180 degree shift in his position on superpac money. on the to what he said in october of 2010. >> thanks to a giant loophole

these special interests can spend unlimited amounts without even disclosing where the money's coming from. we don't know where it is coming from. we don't know if it is from the oil industry, from banks, insurance companies joshua komisarjevskying from overseas. we don't know. they won't tell you. they don't want you to know. they don't want you to know. they won't stand behind what they do. this isn't just a threat to democrats but our democracy. >> here he is a few weeks earlier identifying some groups he considered culprit and talking about how democrats may oppose their influence without becoming like them. >> every one of these groups is run by a republican operatives every one of them. even though they are posing as nonprofit groups with names like americans for prosperity, committee for truth in politics or americans for apple pie. i made that last one up, but --

[ laughter ] but this is why -- look, this is why we have to work even harder in this election. >> we will. we will! >> this is why we have to fight their millions of dollars with millions of our voices. voices who are ready to finish what we started in 2008. >> the last fall the president's answer to the growing money power was growing people power. this shows how much a they can make. massively outraising democratic ones. we crunched the numbers from the federal election commission. the big republican leader super pacs raised four times what the democratic super pacs have raised and that's how the obama campaign is justifying the 180 degree change on what sounded until this week like a bedrock

principal. campaign manager said our campaign has to face the reality of the law as it currently stands. with so much at stake we can't allow for two sets of rules in this election where by the pub -- republicans call it a flip flop. here's the picture they sent out. president obama's yoet on the side of the soles followed by the words just kidding. bill burden, the former deputy white house secretary of and seen on former bush secretary ari fleischer. whether it was driven by necessity, whether it is right or not for democrats, is there any other way to paint this other than a big flip flop on the part of the campaign's campaign. >> i think it is a recognition that the rules aren't as he wants them to be but he will play to make sure the hundreds of millions of dollars that karl

rove and doesn't wash over the campaign. >> what's the difference between playing by the rules and a change of a position and flip flop? >> the campaign said that this was a recognition that there's a set of rules that the republicans are going to live by and the president and his campaign are going to live by them, too. the president hasn't changed his position on whether or not he thinks this is a bad set of rules. the campaign finance system is broken. he is saying this is our reality. if we want to compete in this reality we better make sure that we are prepared. >> what is wrong with that? we have to face reality and play by new rules. >> i don't think there is anything wrong with super pacs. it is free speech and everybody is entitled to it. here's the problem with what barack obama has done. this is part of a pattern of pe hair with barack obama that goes back to 2008. if you recall back then he said he would accept public financing

forrer the campaign as john mccain did. as soon as he figured out he could raise more money than public financing would get him he flip flopped and took unlimited money to fund his campaign and he wants to act as though he is changing washington as a reformer. he seth said his staff wouldn't be allowed to meet with lobbyists at the white house. so they walked out the front door across a park and to the coffee house where they met with lobbyists and now a flip flop on the superpac idea itself. this is a super flip flop. what is worse is he has to act as if he is smarter, better, more moralistic than his opponents and everybody else while his patten of behavior are to have words that wind but actions just like everybody else's in washington. nothing reformist or change oriented about barack obama when you get to the heart of it. >> you know, it is hard to take seriously criticism of reform

from an administration that really didn't do anything to reform washington at all. the president did take steps to reform the way things are done. to reform the information that people had about the administration, about the people who were coming to visit it, about keeping lobbyist influence out and he pushed campaign finance reform during this presidency not just the campaign trail but from the white house working with senate democrats and democrats in the house but since it was blocked by an on stin innocent senate republicans wasn't able to make its way through. >> to his point he changed his position on that when he realized he could raise more money without it. >> the president has not changed his position. people who support reform have not changed their position. they realized that the rules exist the way they exist. the president is continuing to push for reform and he will continue to push for reform in a second term. it is the republicans who are stopping it and the president wishes that he could change the rules. he can't.

ari knows the president has to work with the united states senate in order to change the laws of the land and he will continue to try to do that. a long as senate republicans are blocking that he can't change the rules. >> it seems like either wants to admit their candidate has flip flopped. it is always the other side that has done a flip flop. when it is your candidate it is ununderstandable change or facing reality. >> i have said it before. i think one of the reasons mitt romney is in trouble because he changes his position on abortion and gay rights. it doesn't come across as authentic. barack obama has a similar problem. it is not only those issues. when he was a senator he said we shouldn't raise the debt limit and voted against it and when he became president he said we have to raise the debt limit. it is a regular pattern with barack obama. here's what looks worse with the president and the standard he sets for himself. he said in 2007 about bt john edwards super pack pac, you can't just talk the talk obama told an audience during a

campaign event. the easiest thing in the world is to talk about change during election time. everybody talks about change in election time. you have to look at how they do and how they act when it is not convenient, when it's harder. that's the standard he set. that's my problem with president obama. he constantly tries to act as if he is somehow somebody special and different when he really isn't. to make it connect to policy -- this is why there is a sense of frustration in dealing with barack obama on the most important issues of the day. how to reform debt, spending and reduce the debt. president obama keeps -- again, words are wind, making promises saying things and his actions go 180 degrees against it. hi entire presidency is about move ma nufing and protecting his brand not to follow through on reform. >> do you think the president is going to send out people to speak at thooe the super pac events and the like that that will make a huge difference in terms of fund-raising?

>> i think it is remaining to be seen how big of an impact. for starters, it is president obama. i know you would appreciate when president bush was in the office. as for the practical results it will take time to see. in the next couple of days i don't think we will see a huge spike but the medium and long term we will see how much folks are really willing to get involved in progressive donors and folks in the community to decide this is an important part of making sure the president is re-elected. >> appreciate your time. let us know what you think we are on facebook, google+, i will be tweeting tonight. up next, serious broken promise. one day old to stop the violence. how many promises have they already broken? we have more from the streets of homs. the shelling so bad people have to wait until night fall to bury the dead in secret. a reporter who snuck in to syria

is joining us with his chilling account and a man shot dead in the head by sniper fire. and a 360 exclusive, james clementy speaking out about the suicide of his brother after tyler's kplej room mate allegedly was spying on him when he had a sexual encounter. first let's check in with isha. >> another development in the powell tragedy. josh powell setting fire to his home killing himself and his two young sons. we have a woman's 911 call can. the social worker powell had just locked out of the home. what she said to the authorities when "360" continues [ male announcer ] we know you don't wait

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incoming artillery rocket fire on several city neighborhoods where this video was taken today five dozen people killed. reports that field hospitals and medical professionals are being targeted along with the wounded. the killing the atrocities unfolding despite assad's stated commitment end toing the violence. he made the promise to russia's visiting foreign minister yesterday. he made the promise before, of course, and it has always been broken. this morning, his sincerity could be measured in dead women, men and children. the activist opposition member known as danny has been risking his life daily and posting videos on you tube. he filed this after the spehellg began. it is not especially graphic but horrible. it is the sad simple reality in homs right now.

>> about 3 years old. he got hit with a slaughter bomb at his house. this is what the u.n. has waited for. kill all the children. kill all the women. the child lost his -- what is the u.n. waiting for? >> we have been trying with no success to reconnect to danny. we thought we had him several times. communications are difficult. the streets are deadly. just before air time we managed to get in touch with another activist who had just witnessed a friend die. i understand you lost a friend today. >> yes. we are here four activists.

he went and he got shot in the head by a sniper. >> what keeps you going? >> we have no choice, no other choice. we tried to save each other -- i mean to keep somebody alive. we believe that we are all going to die here. the city, it's been under shelling and bombing and everything. there's nothing to do. >> you really believe you are all going to die? >> we do. >> another syrian bearing witness. the regime calling such accounts a lie. they are not letting reporters in because they would confirm what people like he just said and what we have been seeing out of syria for months. however, the bbc's paul wood did manage to sneak in and he just got out with this. >> the shelling is constant now.

we hear impact every few seconds. in reply you can hear a little retaliatory fire. it is a pretty futile gesture. >> that is portion of his reporting. he is joining us live from beirut. what did you see in homs? you just left. tell us firsthand what did you see? >>. >> well, first of all, i think there are hundreds of mortar and shell impacts every day. we simply lost count. people spend most of the time hiding in the middle rooms of their houses or in stairwells. the hospital that danny, one of the activists you spoke to was at is where we spent a lot of time and if you spend a couple of hours there it is clear the civilians are bearing the brunt of this. we saw 20 to 30 people come in. one of those was a fighter.

some elderly and a good number were children. we saw 7-year-old girl come in. she had been killed. she was sent off for burial. as you were saying in your introduction, those burials are taking place at night because it is so dangerous. in that particular part of homs, those burials have been taking place at night for a long time. 17 people were killed just in the few blocks surrounding the house we were staying in. 17 people had to be buried at once in a mass grave hurriedly at night because they couldn't afford to give them individual funerals. no relatives, no prayers, very little dignity because of the fear of attack. >> i want to play video of one of the stories you were talking about. the lengths that people have to go to just to bury their loved ones. >> like all the dead here, she must be buried in darkness. daytime is too dangerous. >> you describe homs as bleeding and terrified.

does it seem there is any rationale to where the mortars are landing? it is just like it was in sarajevo in bosnia in the mid-'90s, random shelling, indiscriminate firing? >> well, i don't know what the syrian army is aiming at but it certainly feels indiscriminate like collective punishment when you are there. bear in mind, these are the worst days that homs has had but it has been going on for a long time. i think more or less every single family there has had some kind of loss or had someone close to them have a loss. there is a man in the hospital called the shrouder whose job is to wrap bodies. he's wrapped hundreds so far and i asked if he had to wrap any of his relatives and he gave me a long list, his son, his kouz, his brother in law, a second kouz on the burial. those are typical stories you hear in homs, the number of dead

if you believe the activists is 100 today and some 300 if you take everything since the weekend. it has been going on much longer than that. >> what kind of capabilities does the free syrian army have? are they able to mount any real resistance to incoming mortars and rocket fire? >> well, they try, but they have only got rocket-propelled grenades. we have been on several actions with them. they always end up essentially having to retreat because when tanks are brought up and armored vehicles are brought up, that is the only real choice. i did speak to a senior office, a member of the military council who had only a week ago been a serving full colonel in the syrian army. he defected a week ago. he said, this is his account, that morale had collapsed within the syrian army that people knew they were killing civilians and

they wanted the bloodbath to stop. this is a slim hope that the free army is putting on things in homs, that it will collapse and they will stop. we are hearing reports that special troops have been brought up by the regime presumably because if they have to go in to homs they need people who are motivated and willing to do it. willing slipped out of that place within the last 24 hours the one word that sums up what is happening there is despair. people look to the u.n. to help them. the u.n. resolution was vetoed and now they think there is nobody going to help them. >> is there a moment or image or person that, you know, when you close your eyes tonight and try to go to sleep you are going to remember and for a long time to come? >> one thing that comes back to me all the time is an 11-year-old boy who was brought to the hospital on the first day. there were mortars falling beside. he had been hit in the face with

a mortar and everything was gone. i got a glimpse of his ice. a bloody mess of his face. they managed to save him but he died this morning. that is the one that comes back to me. >> paul wood, i applaud your bravery and appreciate you talking to us tonight. thank you. up next tonight, a 360 exclusive, tyler clementy's brother speaks out about his suicide. his college roommate allegedly used a web cam to spy on his sexual encounter with another man. >> probably had so much hope and optimism for a great experience at college and found himself living through a nightmare. >> an interview you won't see anywhere else tonight. also ahead the 9181 call from the social work who are witnessed the explosion in a washington state home where two little boys die.

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for the first time we will hear from the brother of tyler clementi. he killed himself in september of 2010. he jumped off the george washington bridge after his college roommate allegedly used a web cam to spy on a sexual encounter he had with another man. the roommate faces trial later this month on 15 counts including bias, intimidation.

he's refused a plea deal and insists he is innocent of the charges. his brother spoke to cnn today and he is joining us with the details. there's a lot of speculation on tyler's death why he made the decision to do that. you asked his brother about that, his brother james about that. i want to play what he said. >> the set of circumstances was the exact worse-case scenario that could have happened. i think he was being brave with being honest with the people around him about his sexuality and he tried to be a strong person and be an honest person, but it seems like he was punished for that forth rightness and made to be a joke or laughing stock. i think that must have taken its toll on him emotionally and mentally. i think that was a lot. i don't think he knew how to respond to that.

obviously he responded in the wrong way. suicide is never the right choice. it was the choice that he made and that i and my family have to live with the repercussions of it. >> there was a lot of reporting at the time that tyler clementi hadn't told his family he was gay. his brother said he had told them before he went to college. >> right. he was 18 years old. told them when 18 and james said he basically knew before he was 18 that he suspected his proer was gay because james is actually gay, as well. but he wanted his brother to come out on his own and on his own time. he said that he had come out to darwin robbie, his roommate and now we know that he is accused of cyberbullying and prosecutors say that cyberbullying that ultimately led to tyler's death. >> you ask james about his feeling toward tyler's roommate o who is now standing trial.

let's play that. >> very hard for me and realizing the environment that my brother found himself in and he probably had so much hope an optimism for a great experience at college and found himself living through a nightmare. >> is forgiveness something that you think about? >> yes. i think that there's a time for that. i don't know if i'm there right now. the trial is going to be incredibly emotional, and every day is going to be harder than the last, i think. i don't know. i want to -- i just want to get through this and make sure my family gets through that period. i think we're hoping for some kind of justice in the court system, and putting our faith in the prosecution to do what they need to do. >> did he say what he thought

justice would be? >> i think from the family's point of view, jail time would be some form of justice. but ultimately i think even before things had gotten started, if someone had apologized, maybe they could have avoided this. to this day they have not received an apology from the robbie family. >> often in a situation like this, lawyers will tell somebody, you know, don't say anything to the family. don't apologize. but that is a legal maneuver and often adds to the pain of the family to not hear that. how has the family getting through this? >> the pain is intense. they are more than a year out but you can tell in speaking to james and i spoke to clementi's parents, as well. for them it is day to day. james said some days he has good days and when he feels like crying he allows himself to do that. one thing that struck me is he said sometimes i wake up and still feel like my brother is alive and then the reality sets in of what has really happened.

>> that happens so often for a long time after a loss. the family has remained silent and other than an article i read in the new yorker which is the first time i have seen him on television being interviewed you ask why he is speaking out now. let's play that. >> words are devastating. until you have been the target of that kind of hatred, you don't understand the pain that you are inflicting on other people. i just think about, you know, the epidemic that suicide has become among gay youth and it breaks my heart. every child that i've seen on the news since and before my brother's death. he's one of many unfortunately and this needs to stop. it's not the answer. there's always somewhere that you can go. you know, at any point, no matter what, as long as you are still here, there's something to be worth fighting for. life is the most valuable thing.

i think of my brother. i think if he had gotten through that night, that dark hour, i think a day or a week or a year later he would have looked back and been grateful that he didn't do it. >> you know, studies often show about suicide, if somebody is able to resist that initial urge or is thwarted in an initial attempt, even just beefly it will often not reoccur or happen again or they can get help. what else did he want people to know about his brother? >> that he was the shy quiet one. he also felt as though he was the stronger of the two. >> that tyler was the stronger. >> that tyler was the stronger of the two and the better of the two with. i think that is what is so heart breaking for james. i know it is still a grieving process for him to get through and eventually someday he might get through that as well but for him he felt his brother was the stronger of the two. >> great interview. thank you for bringing it to us.

jason carroll. let's check if with isha for a 360 bulletin. >> funeral services are scheduled for saturday afternoon for the two buys who were killed when their father, josh powell, burned his home in washington state. authorities released the 911 call from the social worker who reported the exmotion. here's a portion of it. >> the kids and the husband were in the house? >> yes. yes. he slammed the door in my face. so i kept knocking. i thought it was a mistake. i kept knocking and then i called 911. >> you saw him go back in the house right before the flames? >> he didn't ever leave the house. he just opened the door. the kids were one step ahead of me. they are 5 and 7. they were one step ahead of me and he slammed the door in my face. >> you think he may have done this intentionally?

>> yes. >> producer of the reality tv program "survivor" has been extradited to mexico to face murder charges. redmond is accused of killing his wife there in 2010. and look at this. fishermen in pakistan used two cranes to reel in this nearly 40 ton whale shark that was found dead in the arabian sea. >> wow. >> i know. doesn't even look real. >> yeah. looks like metal or something. really strange. >> like a monster. any way. >> a whale shark. isha. thank you. we will check in with you later. up next, warren jeffs is behind bars for life. that's not stopping him from calling the shots and ordering strict new rules for his poll list lig mist sect. those who don't follow along the rules will face the wrath of his followers. we have a report from the community. and a victim of a vicious beating from a gang shouting anti-gay slurs. while protecting our environment.

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it has been six months since polygamous sect leader warren jeffs was sent behind bars for assaulting two teenager girls who he claimed were his spiritual wives. six months later he is still controlling his church from prison. he is imposing strict new rules on the 10,000 followers living in texas along the utah/arizona board paern ztd zd and british columbia. anyone who fails to follow his rules gets booted from the church. that means no contact with their

families and facing the wraths of jeff's faithful followers. >> david is devastated man. he has ten children, but their toothbrushes remain unused on the sink. their highchairs and their swings stay empty. the 41-year-old father is the only one left in this house. his wife esther and children are gone. taken away from him by the leaders of his church, the flds. mr. jeffs, should your followers still consider you a prophet? the so-called prophet of the church is in prison for sexually assaulting two young girls who he made part of his hair recommend of 78 wives. through phone calls and messages, he is still controlling the church. still banishing those he and the other church elders say are unfaithful to the people banished that means having the church take away their families. >> that night after they left i was in the kitchen chair looking

at that swing, and it just about killed me. i just closed my eyes and felt like my soul was out there floating around somewhere. >> reporter: he has been in the flds his whole life. he believed warren jeffs and the men before him were prophets direct mouthpieces of god. he was told by his brother lyle that he banned a commandment, a commandment that members not have sex without trying to have a baby and therefore he was kicked out. how is this allowed to happen? colorado city, arizona and hill dale, utah the neighboring towns where most of the members live are very unusual places. >> this is the most lawless community the country. it is run by a madman that is sitting in a texas prison. he has complete total power over the people here. they will do literally anything he says and i mean anything he

says. >> same brower, a p.i. who investigates the church is concerned because jeffs realizes he may never get out of prison he may get violent with his revelations. >> yes. i absolutely do think that these people will do whatever warren jeffs tells them, including killing themselves. >> recently the flds put ads in newspapers including the "new york times" in which jeffs claims revelations it was time to prevent and be prepared for full judgment. he sent similar apocalyptic warnings to politicians including president obama. >> how come warren jeffs isn't on here anymore. >> i ripped him up and threw him in the garage. >> how many brothers and sisters do you have? >> 43. >> he believes in his faith and the principal of pentagon ligmy as long as it involves women of legal age but not warren jeffs. his neighbors say she bad in the dwlies of god and they got angry

at him and us when we were taking video. >>? >> because we are allowed to. >> because warren jeffs is a false prophet. you are full of the devil. >> no warren jeffs is the devil. warren jeffs is the devil. >> in the name of jesus christ -- >> we wanted to find warren jeff's brother lyle and ask him about david's situation. anybody here? anybody home? no answer at the fortress like home where warren jeffs used to live and lyle jeffs is believed to be now. a security car was parked outside of the huge home. >> somebody is in the vehicle but he is ignoring me and won't look at me. sir, sir? just ignoring me. >> david said his wife and

children are living with other relatives. we went to that house. >> can i ask you a question, please? >> reporter: we best hind the home we saw a woman that looked like his wife and some children but we were warned to stay off the private property. she said just before esther left him she wrote a letter to warn jeffs but it was never mailed. it starts off our dear prophet uncle warren. she says she loves him and his teachings. i earn with my heart to be worthy of presence. she says i want to be an honor to my dear husband. >> david is now on his own. his wife instead choosing to pay honor to a man in prison who calls himself a prophet. >> gary, as long as you have been and we have been airing these reports and we have been doing it for years, it amazes me this is happening in the united states of america in this day and age and this guy in prison

has the power to divide families. how did jeffs, and or the church elders know that husbands and wives are having sex for pleasure and not to pro create? who's ratting them out? >> they are ratting themselves out. david and two other men that didn't want to go on camera said they are required to be honest. if they are asked if they were having sex with their wives they said yes even though they knew they may lose their family. >> appreciate it. could some of those pardoned go back to prison? we will talk to ed who has been reporting on this. family vacation gone horribly wrong. a little boy was attacked bay mountain lie yoon on. --

the fate of 200 pardons from haley barbour will be in the hands of the state supreme court tomorrow. that includes four convicted murderers these men of trustees at the governor's mansion. the state attorney general wants to change it. jim hood says the inmates in question did not file legal notices in newspapers where their crimes were committed, as required by law by the state constitution. for weeks we tried to get governor barber to explain the pardons. he refused. on john king usa program here's what haley barbour said. >> the power of pardons is to

give people a second chance who have repented, rehabilitated and redeemed themselves. >> they say that is not the case with har ary bostick who was arrested for driving under the influence last fall. it was his fourth dui. investigators say he was drunk when his truck slammed in to charity smith's car. she was killed in the crash. she was just 18 years old. still being investigated but he was drunk. bostick was in jail after the accident when the governor signed his pardon on a previous dui. we talked to charity's mom last week and she said she never heard from governor barbour and never got an apology. an open invitation stands for the governor to come on this program. just as we have been offering for the last couple of weeks. we are joined right now by ed. you were able to get a glimpse this to how the case will be argued tomorrow. how dud does the governor's side plan to defend its decisions. >> reporter: there's two main points that stick out from the brief that was filed in the

supreme court here in mississippi today. one of them and they are arguing quite plainly they don't believe this court or any court here in mississippi has any jurisdiction any way of overturning these pardons. they say a pardon issued by the governor is his sole power . that nobody can take that away from him and no one can contest that in any way. that's the overall theme they will be arguing and they have pointed out that they feel, in their words that if indeed they feel like this wasn't done prop erly, that these notifications and pardons hasn't been patsed out properly n the end this is a harmless problem in the words of n those documents that we read today that in the case of many of these people who may have posted these notices for 28 out of 30 days that those missing two days were essentially harmless and because of that shouldn't be overturned, as well. what was also interesting from the documents that were filed in mississippi today, anderson, is the dig that governor haley barbour's people take at the

attorney general here in mississippi, saying that, essentially, he's going after these cases, pushing all of this for his own personal gain, his publicity to try to make himself look good. a clear political shot as they get ready to head to court tomorrow. >> there maybe politics in what the attorney general is doing. he is a democrat in a republican state and the governor is republican. but the law clearly states that you have to publish in the newspapers 30 days in advance and that frankly was not done. so the governor is basically saying, that law doesn't matter. that violating it is harmless? >> yeah. harmless was the clear word in this document. it seems they are prepared to argue before the judges that look the full intention was there. the vast majority of these we are talking about 180 or so of the 203 people that were pardoned. there's almost two dozen that were properly published but they are saying this was a harmless mistake and they should be allowed to stand. >> we will see what happens.

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>> okay. sorry. that was not courtney. that was suze orman. her commercial has a similar graf tass tass take a look. >> oh, gee. >> the next word she says makes it too, he zifous for primetime. she scored an aking role and we are proud of her on the show. her first on-line commercial. she killed it. she killed it. you can see the emotion. the commitment to the moment. wow! yeah. not since daryl hannah in "splash" has an actress brought such depth to the role of mermaid. >> what's your name? >> it's hard to say in english. >> just say it in your language. >> all right. my name is [ squealing ] >> i an idea for a movie, a mermaid shows up in new york

city, learns to speak english watching movies and tom hank falls in love with her. what does a mermaid have with free credit score. she loves to be near the water and it inspires her creativity. ♪ don't put on it me girl don't put it on me girl ♪ >> i think courtney also may have been referring to her commercial when she wrote this on twitter a few days ago exand i quote feeling like a midnight mermaid as i immerse my mere mistearnessness in to a misty moon kissed mouth. if you sbrnt to her twitter page, check it out. especially if you like bible versus, pets for adoption. there is something for everyone. courtney and her husband have faced skepticism and always with grace.