stuff that you don't see in the 22-minute television show. so yeah, there's a lot of stuff that the viewer doesn't get to see. and we have -- i think we have as much privacy as we actually need. however, we love doing what we're doing. we love the show. we love working together. so you know, the viewers have been emotionally invested in our family since day one, episode one. season one. so it's sort of a journey. we've all been on it together and they've seen the evolution of our family and that includes weddings and births of babies and my kids meeting new people and friendships and just everything that life is all about. and you know, kim's not the first person in the world to ever go through a divorce and she won't be the last. >> and it could also include a divorce proceeding. are you okay with that if cameras are allowed into the divorce proceeding? >> i haven't heard anything about that to be honest with you at all. what we're doing right now is

living our lives. we're constantly film filming and we're having a really, really good time doing what we're doing. my focus right now, to be honest, is the birth of kourtney's new baby. we're excited about that and a whole bunch of new stuff going on in our lives. >> and zestra. >> yes, my favorite new thing. >> you're a great sport. >> i have a favorite new thing. >> thank you, kris. >> thank you. i hope everybody goes to zestra.com. >> all righty. all right, everyone. thanks for joining us. it is the top of the hour. brooke is off today. we'll begin with a developing story. this afternoon, the first lawsuit by a catholic group has been filed against the obama administration's new birth control mandate. the rule requires religious-run services like hospitals and universities to provide contraceptives for employees through their health care provider ewtn which is a catholic television network filed suit today in alabama calling the mandate

unconstitutional. i want to bring in michael warsaw, he is the president of ewtn. michael, thank you for join us. explain the basis behind this lawsuit. >> first and foremost, ewtn is a catholic entity. our mission statement makes it very clear we are catholic in our identity and every employee who comes here realizes that and recognizes that. the recent mandate by the department of health and human services requires ewtn, which has been in existence as a kaths lick television and media network for over 30 years, to really violate our conscience, to go against the very things that we have been proclaiming and teaching to people for 30 years about the catholic church. under this mandate, the government is forcing ewtn to make a choice. either we provide our employees coverage for contraception, sterilization and abortion-inducing drugs and violate our conscience or we

offer our employees and their families no health insurance coverage at all, which is not an acceptable choice either, and if we do that, the government then imposes fines upon us as much as $600,000 in our case. so, we really believe that we had no other choice but to turn to the courts and ask the courts really to review this matter, and to ask them to look at this really as a matter of religious liberty. >> okay, mr. warsaw, do you employ people who aren't catholic? and the own reason i'm asking that, because there are many who would say why shouldn't people not catholic in your employ be entitled to the same benefits they'd get if they worked for a competitor that's not faith-based? >> sure. we do indeed employ noncatholics. we have 340 full-time employees. of those, probably one-third are not catholic. in our mission statement as i mentioned, we are clearly unabashedly catholic. when people come to work for

ewtn, they don't need to be catholic themselves but they need to understand that's who we are. that's our identity. our values as an organization, as a company are intimately and completely tied to what the catholic church teaches. so when people come in the door, they understand that. they expect that. i think there's no question that if people wish to gain access to birth control, contraceptive medications and so for the and procedures, that's readily available. the federal government already in the state of alabama funds more than 80 clinics, 80 locations where people can go and either receive free or low cost contraceptives. so they're readily available. this is not about access in our view, about access 0 those services. those are readily available. this is about forcing in this case a religious faith-based

organization to acquiesce to procedures and using its donor funds. >> michael warsaw, that's going to have to be the last word. we have 0 move on. we appreciate you joining us here on cnn. thank you very much. of syrian government forces have slaughtered scores more people in the country's largest city. the syrian opposition puts the death toll at more than 100 today in the surrounding city of homs. the government says it is targeting armed militants, but the opposition says the dead today include ten children. it also is accusing the government of attacking homes and hospitals. let's listen to this account from inside the city from a syrian activist who goes by the fame of danny. >> more bombs and tank shells and rockets. you can see that in the buildings.

those are civilian houses. you can see all the ground. you can see how the rockets have landed here. more than seven people dead just in the this street. women, children, men. you can see the whole veet. the bodies are in there. there's bodies in that house. pieces of bodies in that house. this is a civilian house. civilians there. pieces of bodies are still in here these are bodies. these are civilian bodies. these are civilian bodies. this isn't the army. these are children, men, women being killed. >> joining us from new york, fareed zakaria, straight off the

top here, does this small rebel force in syria stand any chance against the powerful syrian armed forces? >> it doesn't seem that they have much of a chance because the regime has decided to be utterly brutal. this is a regime that decided that looked at gadhafi and mubarak and said the lesson is don't waiver, don't show any weakness and grind them down. the one problem they face is the regime is not an oil rich regime, not like saudi arabia. it can't bribe its people. it doesn't have that kind of ability even to bribe the army. eventually, they're going to face real cash shortfalls. and what that means going forward is the really interesting question. this is not a regime that can outlive the sanctions and all an this pressure unendingly. they've got one source of cash right now, iran. that too is drying up. >> we are hearing, fareed, calls here and there to arm the syrian rebels. i want to put yourself in the shoes of the president of the united states. what would you do?

>> i think it would be a very risky move and i wouldn't do it. i'll tell you why. firstly, this is geographically a difficult place. it's landlocked. you don't have the kind of access you had in libya. in libya, the country sort of got divided into two parts, an eastern part with benghazi, easily suppliable from the sea, you had rebels who set up a capital there and created a transition government. you could funnel arms and pone to them from egypt and through the mediterranean. none of that is available in syria. the chinese and russians are dead set against it. so it couldn't happen through the u.n. there there would be a unilateral ornate toe operation with no international legitimacy. and finally, the odds of success are frankly not that high. this is a still a regime very much in control, no real defections from the army. no defections from the intelligence service. there's no point in doing something noble and failing. i would be very, very reluctant to advocate an american

intervention. >> you mentioned the surrounding areas. how will the outcome -- how will the outcome in syria affect its neighbors iraq and iran? >> if you assume what's going to happen is a slow motion either civil war or collapse of the regime over the next year or two, the biggest loser here is iran. iran is all-in in syria. it has made a huge number of bets on the regime. it is supporting the regime. as it unravels, it faces the prospect of the loss of an ally, the loss of a buffer. the russians don't look too good. frankly, nobody looks very good because you're going to having low grade chaos and instability in the region. everyone's going to get worried. the great danger is this becomes, syria becomes a battleground for the forces of iran, iranian proxies with the syrian regime and the forces of saudi arabia which will tend to be sunni, somewhat religiously motivated militias that will go

in in the name of god and jihad to overturn the assad regime. a sort of play of what happened in iraq might take place in syria. remember in iraq, it took a decade before it stabilized. and there were 140,000 american troops helping stabilize it. this could get very messy for very long. >> and fareed, as you know, the russians are being accused of giving aid and comfort to president bashir al assad and for giving a green light to the slaughter occurring in homs. what's the russians motivation? >> they've always been reluctant to have the u.n. used as an instrument to get rid of the regimes. it's their last cold war alliance. the soviet union used to support half these middle eastern countries. they're left with syria, the one russian ally. i think that some of it is that. finally, remember, if the u.n. is allowed to intervene every

time you see mass protests on the street, claiming that a regime is undemocratic, they've got protests going on in moscow right now, protests taking place all over russia, and the last thing the russians wants to do is establish some kind of international principle that when you have protests against an undemocratic regime, the u.n. security council can vote to intervene in some way or the other. >> fareed zakaria, thank you very much for your time. make sure you tune into fareed zakhar yar gps every sunday. now this. >> i thought you would be interested in knowing that running for president of the united states is really one series of humiliations after another. . >> you know what? she has a sense of humor. michele bachmann opens up about her gaffes on the campaign trail. just as conservatives gather in d.c. to choose one of these four guys to challenge the president

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the 2012 presidential campaign just won't have been the same without her. we know that. minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann exited the race right after the iowa caucuses last month but she's still a force. she's speaking at the cpac

conference this afternoon about the lessons she learned on campaign trail. take a listen. >> running for president of the united states is really one series of humiliations after another. but it's also a very educational experience. and i learned three things when i was running pore president. first of all, i learned where john wayne was born. that's very important. and then second, i learned the day that elvis presley was born. these are vital issues to our republic. and third, i learned never forget the three things that you learn. >> we're going to ask her the answers to those questions. i'm just kidding. congresswoman michele bachmann joins me now. thank you so much. listen, you know the reality of running for president now. recently you said that you were the perfect candidate, and america missed its chance. are you sorry you got out when you did? >> well, of course, that was

tongue in cheek when i said that. but i also think that i was the clear conservative choice in the race. now, that's au behind us at this point. but it was marvelous experience to be able to run. i ran because of what was going on in the country. i laid everything on the line. i suited up for the battle. it won't be me on the ticket but i'm going to remain in the battle because don, i'm running again for my house seat and the house of representatives because the battle continues. >> yeah. the reason -- another reason i ask you that is because this race has been up and down and even sometimes rick santorum was below you in the polls at certain times. mitt romney is using your ex-debate coach. and it seems like he's doing a lot better, at least he was before florida. so it's got to make you feel like maybe he is feeling stealing from your playbook maybe a bit? >> i know i made a very important contribution to this race because when i got in, we had candidates saying they were

going to issue an executive order to get rid of obama care or say they would issue waivers, to get rid of obama care. now there's only one right answer when it comes to the government takeover of health care. full scale repeal. on dodd frank, it's the same thing. i'm the chief author of those bills. also we've seen a very strong embrace of national security policy. i was the only candidate in the race that is had current national security experience. i sit on the house intelligence committee. i think now more than ever with the segment you just showed with all this happening in syria, these are very trying times. and our next commander in chief has to be up and ready for the job. it's very important. >> your speech at cpac was all about foreign policy. you mentioned fear, health care. i want to talk to you about the first lawsuit filed a by catholic organization, ewtn which is a christian network. just filed the first lawsuit in alabama. what do you make of that? >> well, this is exactly what i

warned. i filed, again, the legislation to repeal obama care because the argument was what we're seeing is the federal government is not only taking over health care, they're also taking over our religious decisions. our personal moral decisions. this is outrageous to have the president of the united states tell a religious organization that they have to violate their freedom of religion and their conscience to be in conformity with the president's view of either religion or morality. that's wrong, completely unconstitutional. against our first amendment. and that's why i think president obama clearly will be overturned on this area because this will come before the courts. i don't know how the courts could possibly find this constitutional. >> and this has been debated back and forth in the media. we know your stance on the president's health care program. i don't think it's worth talking about it anymore. so let's move on now and talk about -- >> let me just add one thing, don, that is also very important because obama care is the social

engineering playground of the left. that's really what it's going to become. you're going to continue to see a lot of these social battles played out under the realm and under the legal authority of obama karat the federal government level. so again, it's the federal government. >> here's the thing. >> taking over. not only our health care but morals and religion too. >> i want to move on. >> this is where the battles will happen. >> if you're talking about social issues which you are continuing here, as far as social issues go, most polling will show and if you talk to most americans they say you know what? i'm not really that concerned about social issues. i care about the economy and care about jobs. yet, you see someone running on social issues like santorum who's doing pretty well empty last couple of caucuses and primaries. what gives here? if the economy and jobs, if that's more important then why this focus on social issues and why is it that people are coming out to support rick santorum on social issues? >> well, you're asking a great question because we saw a

profound change in the electorate, the republican primary raerp when they came out this week. i think clearly it's bad news for president obama. that's what this is. because voters have been looking at jobs. they look at national security. but because of what the president i think fatally made a fatal mistake when he made this decision regarding roman catholic church. i think that this struck a chord with the american people. and that's why they sent a very strong signal because they're recognizing these issues are important. people do vote tear values when he had he go into the voting booth. i think that's what you saw the result with santorum. the voters haven't made up their mind yet which capped they're going to embrace. so depending on the issue that comes up that particular week, i think you seep sometimes a varied result at the ballot box. >> i just want to move on because of time here. listen, would you be open to running on the ticket as a vice president or taking a cabinet position? >> well, that isn't something that i've been approached about. that's not something i'm looking at. i'm looking at the battle.

>> would you consider it. right now what i'm planning to do is be a part of the eem that makes sure that barack obama is a one-termer. i'm not looking at position, i'm looking at the battle. the battle has to be won. that's why i gave my foreign policy speech today because i believe barack obama has had some of the most devastating national security policy of any president in modern times. that's another reason why i believe he shouldn't have a second it erm. >> congresswoman, thank you so much. congresswoman michele bachmann. >> don, thank you. i want you to listen up. if you own a house, if you're selling it or thinking about buying one, a huge deal has been reached that will give cash to some homeowners. plus, i want you to take a look at this. a guy on the run from police. corners himself on a roof. this standoff is happening right now. you'll hear how officers are trying to get him down. that's next.

the nation's five largest lenders promised today to make good by struggling homeowners. among other wrongdoing, they are accused of cutting corners to speed foreclosures. these are the lenders, jp morgan chase, citigroup, wells fargo, bank of america and allied financial which was formerly gmac. in this deal announced by the justice department today, the lenders agree to back a fund worth $26 billion to help struggling homeowners reduce tear principle balance and help them reoffense at lower mortgage rates. some of that money will go to state government pay direct aid to home hoownerhomeowners.

eric holder said this is not the end of the story. >> while today's agreement resolved certain civil claims based on mortgage loan servicing activities, it does not prevent state and federal authorities from pursuing criminal enforcement actions. >> the white house we go, and our correspondent jessica yellin. is the obama administration claiming credit for this? >> sure they are. and they did work hard to get this deal done. in fact, they preyed attorneys general for a year to cut a deal that a lot of attorneys general, don, resisted because they thought it went too easy on the banks and a lot of attorneys general got the carve out you just heard the attorney general of the united states bragging about. so, there was a lot of the negotiating going on. here is how the president took the victory lap a little earlier today. >> under the terms of this settlement, america's biggest banks, banks that were rescued by taxpayer dollars, will be

required to right these wrongs. that means more than just paying a fee. these banks will put billions of dollars towards relief for families across the nation. >> reporter: make this deal a lot tougher on the banks than it initially would have been, don. >> listen, housing market is in terrible fix right now. this is one thing. jessica, does the administration expect that this could finally help end the housing market crisis? >> yes. but help. >> help. >> it is a piece of the puzzle because it won't solve the big picture, and it's just one step to sort of giving some stability on the bank side, but as a homeowner, this isn't necessarily going to solve some problems for some homeowners but not the overwhelming majority of all homeowners. >> kind of every little bit be the helps sort of strategy. >> there are lots of little pieces. they're trying, yeah. >> jessica, appreciate it.

>> thanks. if it is interesting and happening right now, an your about to see it. rapid fire. so let's go. we're watching the big board where the number is crawling toward 13,000. the dow hasn't hit that mark since 2008. before the financial crisis. we'll see what happens in these final minutes of trading. so stay tuned. a change in this country's no child left behind mandate to tell you about. last hour, president obama announced rate here on cnn ten states can opt out of the program and come up with standards of their own. . >> each of these states has set higher bench marks for student achievement and come up with ways to evaluate and support teachers fairly based on more than just a set of test scores. >> 39 states applied. only ten got it. colorado, florida, georgia, indiana, kentucky, massachusetts, minnesota, new jersey, oklahoma, and tennessee.

take a look at this guy. he is a suspected car thief cornered on the roof of a two-story house in los angeles. and he's been there for hours. look at him. police say he bailed out of the car while police were following it. and then he climbed up there. he's been jumping back and forth between two houses. and walking to the edge of the roof as you see the there. look at, he's looking over, moving around. police have propped a ladder up against the house. but so far, he is refusing to use it. there he is. moving around. for the first time in three decades, the government has signed off on the construction of two nuke yee yar reactors both of hem in georgia at a plant east of atlanta near the south carolina line. many companies have avoided the technology because of the high cost and the risk. so what's the closest nuclear plant to your home? head over to cnnmoney.com for information you can find out

there. up next, worth of a dramatic break through. are you listening? a dramatic break through in the fight against alzheimer's disease. what scientists have just discovered in their efforts to find a cure. elizabeth cohen standing by with the news that's just in. don't miss it.

whole lot of people. word of a dramatic break through in the fight against alzheimer's. it's time now to play reporter roulette. we're going to begin with a cancer drug that may be the next thing in treating alzheimer's. a study released in just the past hour shows incredible reversal of the disease in mice. cnn's senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen tells us all about it. elizabeth, when you hear about a break-through in alzheimer's, everybody perks up. >> everybody knows someone with alzheimer's.

how promising is this? >> the researchers i've been talking to this afternoon are genuinely excited about this. wa they saw was promising but they offered this huge caveat, this is mice. we have cured alzheimer's in mice before and it didn't work out in humans. this time they really hope there is some promise. they got very dramatic results or one of the reasons. i'm going to show you a picture. when they gave this to mice, their memories improved. i know these pictures look weird. >> within a short amount of time. >> 72 hours. that's a great point. so see how there are a bunch of tissue papers all over that cage on left? the researchers put them there. what a normal mouse does instinctively is put them in a corner and form a nest. alzheimer's mice like the one in the cage on the left don't know what to do with them. they see the tissues and can't remember they're supposed to make a nest. they gave that mouse this drug, this cancer drug, within 72

hours they knew how to make a nest. >> but just because it works in mice. >> does not. >> does that mean -- it doesn't mean it can work in a human. does that mean this promising drug is going to hit the market? when might it be available? >> can i get this for my grandmother. >> this drug is on the market now for cancer. but the researcher i talked to said don't try this at home. don't give this to grandma right now because it may actually hurt her and it may not help. but they're testing it quickly because this drug is already on the market within a couple months, they'll try to try it in hups. >> you may not use the dosage, it may be different, you may use it in different increments. can >> you don't want to use it right now. it could take years before they know this is safe and effective for alzheimer's patients. they said it was very serendipitous that this turned out to work forever mice. >> a lot of cures, a lot of

drugs that weren't supposed to use that happened just by chance. >> viagra was not supposed to be for what it's used for. >> thank you very much, elizabeth cohen. next we'll talk with george h howell. you have spoken to a man who was brutally attacked on camera. what did brandon white tell you? >> don, i talked to brandon white about those first moments after he walks out of the store to an ambush waiting for him. before you roll this video, i want to warn you at home, may want to the ask kids to leave the room. you see these men punching, kicking, laughing yelling derogatory comments. in this surveillance video, you can see them throw a tire at him right there. brandon white says after all that happened, he basically walked away. he says those men ran away. i sat down with him to talk to him about those moments after the attack.

and to talk to him about how he felt after realizing that that video was posted online. listen. once i got out of there, you know, i packed myings, i left. once i seen it, you know, i'm not the type of person that cries for anything. once i seen that, all emotions from anger to sad to embarrassed, all of that came out at once, and i cried. i cried like a baby. it was just embarrassing. >> don, basically, brandon says his mother helped him get to the point where he was ready to speak publicly. he says his plan now is to put the attention on these men, clearly they were brazen enough to post that video online. so now he is putting the attention on them with national exposure and the fbi looking for them. >> sometimes we sanitize it. we don't want to say the "n" word or the word.

but basically they were calling him the f word. you nope what that means. >> laughing through the whole thing. >> saying no f words is here in this neighborhood and calling him that as they were kicking and stomping on him. incredible story. let's hope they get them. >> $10,000 reward for information. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. dramatic new video coming into cnn of a school bus on fire. find out what happened to the kids and the driver. that's next. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures.

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this is incredible video. a school bus bursts into flame. goodness, just look at that fire. this ises in charlotte, north carolina. the kids who were on the bus are all a-okay according to our affiliate. wsoc. the bus driver unloaded the kids quickly when it started to smoke. fire investigators say electrical wiring in the dashboard caused that fire. glad everybody's okay with that. so as kids, we turn to i an whole new set of teachers, custodians and lunch ladies.

the first lawsuits are filed. investigators have uncovered 200 more disgusting pictures of students in bondage allegedly taken by former third great teacher mark brandt. lawyers representing eight children are holding a news conference to announce they're filing a lawsuit. the l.a. teachers union is fighting the unprecedented permanent removal of the entire school staff. >> you take away the faculty who have done nothing who are being tarred, who are being sigmatized for no reason does not stabilize this community. lausd is making a tran i can situation worse and traumatising every child in this school. >> about 200 parents and students protested the teachers' removal. up next, she is the new face of jcpenney, but a group of moms want ellen degeneres fired

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there has been a revolution in the retail world. the end of clearance sales at jcpenney. >> 55, 55, now 45.

got 45. right there. thank you, sir. 35, 35. i got 35. now i'm going to bid 20. got 20, yes, 20. now $20. sold. $20. >> yeah, that's jcpenney, part of a new strategy to save the american brand that's been around for more than a century. back in the day in the '70s, we would call it jcpenney. ron johnson joins us live from jcpenney headquarters in texas. thank you so much for joining us. you can see there's a strategy behind this. it's now jcp. you've gone with the letters. i see you have a twitter account and just tweeted you were going to be on. you're moving now into the now and the future. but here's my question. why get rid of clearance and everyday sales? your competitors aren't doing it, mr. johnson. >> it's very simple. what i learned at apple was if you put the customer first, things just turn out really well. you know, apple worked really

hard to design great products, great software. we made the store experience really wonderful where there were so many services for the customer. as i came to jcpenney, it became very obvious there was one fundamental flaw in the business model. and that was our pricing strategy. you know, we would intentionally mark things up at prices a customer would never buy at to create an artificial value through a sale. i just thought that was wrong. we want to treat people with integrity, we want to treat people fairly and squarely. i believe every day should be a great day to shop so the customer can shop on her terms and not ours. >> okay. so then. >> so we're changing our pricing. >> you say her terms. her terms. you didn't say his terms. your strategy is focusing on women? >> yeah, well, you know, 80% of the people who shop you know in department stores are female. but obviously, we care about men and women. but the big idea here i think is that ultimately, everyone knows the right price. if you're walking through your

closet and look lieu through the minutes, you'll remember remember where you bought it, about how much you paid for it and what day you bought it. if the customer is that smart, let's give him or her the right price the first time so they can shop on their terms. >> what you're doing too, you're going to create mini stores within your store which is what a mall already is. you saw some of the celebrities there. you're going to sell celebrity products as well in the store. one of the celebrities, it's a controversy that has been everywhere. recently a conservative parent group one million moms denounced jcpenney for selecting ellen as the its spokeswoman because she is gay. >> so they wanted to get me fired. i'm proud and happy to say penny stuck my their decision to make thee their spokesperson. i would like to read just a few comments from the million moms facebook page on their page.

and not that there's anyone counting, but for a group that calls themselves the million moms, they only have 40,000 members on their page. so they're rounding to the nearest million. and i get that. anyway, here are some of the comments that people have written on their facebook page. the first one is, love ellen and everything she stands for. i'm going to shop there more now. yeah. >> so ellen took them on. so jcpenney publicly supported ellen. what did you say to her? >> i just told ellen this is the easiest decision i'll perhaps ever make. you know, i stand behind you. our entire company stands behind ellen because ellen shares the values that are so deep to us. you know, 110 years ago, our company was founded and the name of the store was the golden rule. and the whole idea was to treat others as you'd like to be treated yourself. and ellen pore son phis that as well as anybody in america today. she's honest. she's funny.

she has great values. she treats people with integrity. and so when this issue came up, it was really an easy decision to stand squirely behind her. >> you're a smart man. you have an mba from harvard, you went to stanford. you had to have anticipated pushback from some segment of the american population. you had to have known that. >> yeah, actually, you know, as we thought about having a spokesperson it was kind of interesting. spokespeople aren't necessary to do good marketing. but when you're making dramatic change like we're doing here at jcpenney where we're basically rethinking everything, to have someone who's independent and uniquely thought of for their integrity, well, that could be a pretty great thing. if we looked at the landscape of american people that were well-known, ellen was the only one we considered because i view her as being probably the highest integrity person that is in america today what's in a public figure.

so the chance to work with her was just perfect. so that's what counts. that she's honorable, she's kind, she's funny. and she speaks on behalf of all of us. >> i have to ask you about a story reported recently about layoffs. president obama asked business leaders to bring back jobs to the united states. have you taken that to heart at all, especially as it's being reported about layoffs at jcpenney this year and 4700 employees have been offered severance? >> what we're doing at penny's, as we change our business strategy, there will be some work that goes away and new work that needs to be done. over type, we hope to be one of the great net adders of jobs in our country because we have to put america back to work. that starts with a great business strategy and great results. so i look forward to the next few years really adding a lot of employment in every state of the country where we have stores and here in texas, as well. >> ron johnson, thank you for your time.

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all right "the situation room" with mr. wolf blitzer just a few minutes away. hello, wolf. he joins us with a preview. what do you want?

>> we've got a live interview in the next hour with republican presidential candidate ron paul. i tweeted earlier in the days asking my followers out there for some suggested questions, and as you know, don, a lot of great questions came in. so we'll have an interview in the next hour with ron paul, plus all the day's political news. we'll go to syria, what's going on there as well. so a lot of news over the next two hours. looking forward to that. >> nothing as hard-hitting as my interview with the kardashians. i watched it. you were terrific. >> thank you, wolf. we'll see you in a bit. 3, 2, 1 -- >> all clear! >> it is an edge of your seat hollywood thriller stars real navy s.e.a.l.s, but some aren't too happy about the movie or the secrets it reveals. that's next. to do business. in here, inventory can be taught to learn.

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a hollywood thriller about navy s.e.a.l.s, but they aren't actors. here's cnn's barbara starr. >> 3, 2, 1 -- >> all clear! >> reporter: the s.e.a.l.s are

called into action. >> be safe. >> you know i will. >> reporter: when a deadly terrorist plot against the u.s. is uncovered. >> this is a personnel recovery. proceed to target. recover the package and move to extract. >> reporter: it's an edge of your seat hollywood thriller, but wait, those are real s.e.a.l.s acting in "act of valor." everybody that was asked to participate said no. >> initially all the guys turned us down. they weren't about making movies. >> reporter: the director mike mccoy convinced the navy only s.e.a.l.s could play s.e.a.l.s. >> it's a brotherhood of men you didn't even know existed. >> reporter: they embarked on a 2 1/2 year this movie is as close as you get to what he really does. the combat is actually the crew filming s.e.a.l.s on training missions. >> nice if i could be here we're talking while addressing this threat. you see this guy move.

>> it is extremely authentic. we were there at every turn with the production company and the directors during the filming of "act of valor" we could see this is the way it actually happens. >> reporter: the movie is not without controversy. the navy originally wanted to make a s.e.a.l. recruiting film. the crew shot hundreds of hours. suddenly it became a movie that never got the pentagon's official stamp of approval. navy officials say they know some will be critical of real commandos being used in a hollywood thriller. >> it did not follow the typical approval process, but the navy did support the film and the s.e.a.l.s were involved with the film every step of the way. >> reporter: but to keep their secrets, some camera angles were adjusted on weapons. classified procedures left out, and there was a lighter side. >> we made fun of each other constantly. you know, you're running around trying to simulate combat, and you're going to take a fall and tumble and look silly. that's now on camera, where you can get away with that on the

battlefield, only your buddies see that. so it had some moments. this is the most compelling members, and humble good dudes, maybe you want to have a beer with and go surfing with, hang out. >> and what about a real s.e.a.l. -- >> if clint eastwood calls, i'm taking that phone call. >> reporter: barbara starr, cnn, washington. a store surveillance camera captured a georgia girl that literally kicked and scratched her way out a kidnapping. britney baxter 7 years old, how the man cannot keep his double-arm hold on her. he has to let her go. police say this happened wednesday while britney's mom was just a few feet down the aisle. britney says the man started talking to her, grabbed her and put his hand over her mouth. >> yeah, i was just like kicked as hard as i can, tried to get