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tomorrow night. thanks for watching. erin burnett starts now. "outfront" tonight, iran defies the world and showcases a new nuclear capability. and breaking news on whitney houston, her doctor subpoenaed. what she took before she died and the siege in syria continues. senator lindsey graham offers his plan for american action right now. let's go "outfront." i'm erin burnett and "outfront" tonight, hot rod show and tell. yes, you heard me right. hot rod. iran today defiantly flaunting its first iranian made nuclear rods. if iran is going to -- this is a crucial step towards building a weapon. now, a lot of this of course is propaganda and wearing the white labcoat for the cameras, president ahminedjad was on hand at a tehran nuclear facility as fuel rods were lowered into a

nuclear reactor. rods contain the pellets of nuclear fuel. that's essential for nuclear reaction. while that was going on, iran was sharing other news. the plans of producing yellow cake, which is another step to enriching uranium to the 90% holy grail weapons grade level. now, ahminedjad, as we're all well aware, insists that iran's nuclear program is for medical and peaceful purposes. i.e. nuclear power. but no one buys it not even the watchdog i.a.e.a. and definitely not washington or tel aviv. have we reached a tipping point with iran? where sanctions will not be enough? a new research poll shows 58% of americans would consider military action to prevent iran from developing a nuclear weapon. again, iran says they don't have them. but how do we know?

we need to get it right this time. no one will tolerate another iraq. let's take a look at this map from the center for strategic and international studies. it shows the many nuclear facilities in iran. they also have this satellite image of the construction of one of iran's nuclear facilities. this is a before image. in the picture, you see a vehicle entrance ramp that goes under ground, right? that u. now, we'll show you the after. this is the photograph of the completion of the under ground building. as you can see, the ramp has been covered with a dummybuild ing. we'll show you from another angle. there is it is. csis says there is a center fuge well underneath the ground. we don't know what's actually under ground in iran. we've reported that to destroy the facilities in iran would

take 30,000 pound bomss. massive ordinance penetrators. so far, the u.s. has only 20 of those and israel only has 5,000 pound bombs, but using them could mean war. that is why it is worth knowing a few things about iran's military. it has a ground force of 500,000 people. more than 1600 battle tanks. at least 300 combat fighters an some 3200 artillery weapons. that doesn't count the revolutionary guard. so, is it time to strike iran or is this folly and if we don't do it now, then when? tonight, general spider marx and paula broadwell. great to have you with. i really appreciate you taking the time. some have described this as bellicose rhetoric that has been building up.

a lot of what we see, sanctions doing everything to show that they are moving ahead, but are they? >> we have to assume they are moving ahead and no one is backed into a corner. you allow yourself to get into a position where you have limited option. in this case, what iran is doing is sending a clear message that they are intent on producing a nuclear capability and everyone agrees that we have to assume that this development is for military purposes. it would be fool hearty for anyone to assume otherwise, so there has to be some type of i.a.e.a. inspection. there has to be an open door type of regime so they can get in there and look at what the development looks like, how progressed they are. now, also bear in mind that the united states produces national intelligence estimates. the capability that iran is

trying to produce and have been established. so there's a known timeline and i'll tell you the year of 2012 is clearly the year of decision relative to iran's nuclear capability. >> do you agree with that? and how are we getting information right now? how are we finding out what iran is really doing? and who is on the ground there doing that work for the united states? >> well, as you know, we don't have an embassy presence there. we haven't for a while so we work through our allies to gather the intelligence. we have platforms gathering intelligence, so i think we have a pretty good idea with nie that iran will be capable of producing a bomb by 2014 or 2013 and so this is a pressing issue. but the question we're probably leading up to is how can we stop them and is a military strike one of those options that make sense? >> how do you answer that? >> i would say it doesn't make since.

you have to look at what the rest of our military is doing right now. we couldn't achieve our objectives with a strike option. we have a limited number of mops and we don't have the forces and the funds or resources to sustain that right now nor i think the political will. i think when americans say they're willing to support military intervention, i don't think we're clearly communicating of what the reprecussions would be. there would be instability in the region and that could upset the balance of power. who's side the russia or china likely to take? they have some pretty important partnerships with iran as far as energy is concerned. would they take the sides with the u.s., israel or iran? then you have to look at what iran's retaliation will be. i think it's likely they will take advantage of some proxies. they have ties with hamas and hezbollah who could open up

attacks on our softer targets like u.s. embassies, troops in afghanistan. we have a very large, unprotected u.s. presence. in a sense that we haven't been targeted by iran in that part of the world yet, but i think they're probably thinking through what their retaliation would be. >> general marx, do you think, it sounds like from what paula's saying in a sense and maybe i'm reading too much into your words, whether for will or ability, is what it is. they're going to get a nuclear weapon. they're going to get a nuclear weapon. do you think that is fair and do you think we have a way, the united states militarily, that could prevent it that does not involve a ground war? which nobody in the country would really want. >> i'm in complete agreement with paula in terms of the political will or capability. but we can't let the tail wag the dog here. in this particular instance, putting multiple boots on the ground, to have a large military presence in iran is off the table.

that's not an option. however, what is is an effort to take what iran is doing right now and disrupt it. clearly, what we want to do is extend the timelines that iran has essentially put down and probably we have been able to discern. in terms of when they're going to be fully mission capable, fnc, in terms of a new capability, so let's disrupt that and push that off to the right until we can continue to work other means of influence, which are diplomatic, don't handicap that very well, but there are also some economic sanctions that we can continue to put in place and we can continue to work as paula suggests, with russia and china and others. clearly, they have a dog in this fight and they have a side and they've already declared where they would reside here, but we have to continue to work from the outside in, but we cannot allow the capability to be built up in iran.

that is simply a nonstarter. >> thanks very much to both of you. one thing i will always remember being in iran last december, the most common build there has nuclear symbol on it. if it was one thing they agreed on is a nuclear program. an issue of patriotism and they supported it. the republicans shot themselves in the foot? shocking new developments in the powell murders as well. did one of the children try to tip off a waitress before their mother was killed? and linsanity and new york around the world. i talked to a member of my family about the latest sports superstar. schedule. schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need.

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president obama is going hollywood. he's raising big money in l.a. right now. traditional gold mine of support for the president. steven spielberg is 100,000 to his super pac. one of the events tonight will be hosted by will farrell. look at that. all right. at the home of the bold and the beautiful soap opera producer bradley bell. for those shelling out, they'll be treated to a foo fighters concert. 200 to $300 to attends.

now, the 80 people who stay r for dinner after the fund-raiser, they are rich. they will pay $35,000. it's no joke. they will pay that. this comes as a brand new poll shows the president would beat every republican candidate in the general election. even more notable, he's winning over the highly sought after independent voters. this is not good news for the republican party, which as we're well aware, has some real problems picking its nominee come november. erick erikkson says, it's panic time. >> indeed, it is. i think panic is legitimate, but there are many months to go before the election. remember bush, he was faring very poorly relative to michael do you caucmichael do you cast caucus and john avalon is

obsessed with this vote, rightly so. 40%. and now, president obama is sailing in that group. >> on the new polls, but i want to caution everybody, he's doing better by comparison. mitt romney was beating president obama among independents handily for months. it starts to change when the primaries begin in earnest. when romney says i'm a severe conservative, that may play well with cpac, but doesn't work well with independents. that plus the avalanche of negative ads, so president obama benefits by comparison to this process. >> jamal, so that's good for the president. no question, but when you look at some of the polls, the latest polls we have here at cnn, the president is not doing as well among men and among white voters. we'll put those up. as you can see in terms of his approve disapprove, more

disapprove for men than for women. clearly, and you see a similar trend among right white voters, so what does this mean for the president? what does he need to do to woo these people over and does he care? >> certainly, he cares. every politician wants everybody to support them, but you can't get everybody. when you talk to some strategists, they look at unmarried women. that unmarried women are really at the place where they make up a lot of their votes. those may be women who are single, never married, women who are divorced and some may be disenchanted with the economy, but now, they've heard a lot about conservatives and breast cancer, contraception, and those issues that may move them back towards president obama and for john, he says it's comparative. every election is always comparative. always going to be compared against romney. who cares what he is compared to the perfect person. >> i'm curious, john, about the gop establishment. we talked about this different primary season.

states were fighting and losing their delegates. then there was a sort of idealistic way, which is that you draw your season out. because there's not a super tuesday will mitt romney can rack it in and be done, it helps rick santorum, but then the dragging it out causes the -- >> you can die a death of 1,000 cuts. here's the irony here. is that this whole system was set up by a rnc. in part is a a reaction to 2008, to benefit candidates like mitt romney. there was criticism that john mccain cleaned it up too fast. they said we're going to open it up. no that you process, ironically, is really hurting them and then today, texas announcing it's going to move back. big deal. makes it much harder for any candidate. that means this is going on and

it's going to be bloody. >> good to watch. >> think that mitt romney has a strong chance in texas? i mean, if texas happens, seems like santorum or gingrich would be the one who benefits. >> i think the conservative kansas is going to look to wrap it up but texas is proportional. this whole scenario is mitt romney's worst nightmare. >> the money didn't determine the race. >> which is an interesting point. the guy that paid the most so far, has not finished the deal. thanks very much to the muskateers. new details in the case of susan powell. josh powell killed himself and two sons in a murder-suicide two weeks ago. late word stayed josh powell's father is invoking his fifth amendment right and will not answer any questions about how all this began. in 2009, when daughter-in-law, mother of those children, wife of josh powell. steven powell has been considered a person of interest in the case.

now, we are learning new details about -- the image we have all now seen which killed josh powell and his sons. the sheriff's office says powell actually may not have even lived there. >> kind of believe he was using that mostly as kind of a prop. >> joining me now is miguel marquette, from los angeles. let's start with josh powell's father, steven. now that he's pleading the fifth, does that mean we might never know what happened to susan powell, the woman at the center of this horrible tragedy? >> it is possible, but he may still talk to investigators yet because keep in mind, a resident he's listen arrested on pornography charges after police searched his home and they may be be able to use as that leverage to get him to talk to them eventually. and it's not clear how much he knew about it.

they've searched his home and taken tons of material from there. they've also searched a storage facility off site and have tons of material from there as well. they have some blood evidence from that storage facility. they don't know whose blood it is yet. >> and what about the story that the sheriff's office said this may have been a fake comb. -- home. he said he set it up like a rental place with pictures of t i think it was staged so when family. child protective services came, it would look like a loving family. was this a sham house and when did he start plans to blow it up? >> the quick answer, yes, it was a sham house. he rented it in october. investigators say that because there were just a few pictures the neighbors around there never saw him there. the neighbors around his dad's house saw him there all the time. his van was always out front. they believe this house was mainly to present the idea that this was a normal family and it was anything but. they believe on february 1st when the judge ruled he had to

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we start the second half of our show with stories we care about, focus on our reporting and find the "outfront 5." and first, iran going big with its nuclear program. today, president ahminedjad flaunted the first iranian made nuclear fuel rods. if iran is going nuclear, it's a crucial step towards building a weapon.

ahminedjad was at a tehran nuclear facility as rods were lowered into a nuclear core. they contain the pellets of nuclear fuel for peaceful power and weapons making and iran says they plan on producing yellow cake, which is required to produce uranium to the 90% weapons grade level. two, the prosecution rested in the george huguely trial. the defense began by called a toxicologist who testified that yord yeardley love's blood alcohol was .16 when she got into an argument with huguely. they say she died from a combination of aadderall and alcohol. after her ex-boyfriend slammed her head into a wall. number two, the vice president of china met with key members of the united states this week.

we've been tell you he's likely, will be the next leader of china and went to iowa where he stayed in 1985 as a young man as part of a chinese delegation studying farming technology. by the way, there's big business with iowa and china. the chinese signed a deal to buy more than 8 million tons of soybeans. and yes, they use it for soy sauce. they're a big buyer. four, u.s. homebuilder sentiment rose to the highest level in five years. the national association of builder index rose for the fifth month running. that is good news, but any number below 50, this was 29, is considered bad. that means contracting still. they have not seen 50 or higher since the height of the housing boom. an economist from barclays told "outfront" we see this report as consistent with our view that housing will not hinder economic recovery in the same manner that it did at the end of the last recession. at the peak, housing was 15 to 20% of the entire american economy. it has been 194 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back?

well, the economy growing is going to help. but production was flat in january and manufacturing continues to improve, but we saw a drop in mining and utilities. the warm winter has been hurting them. we have breaking news on the death of whitney houston and we've been hearing some details on what she did hours before her death. don lemon has been following this case and he's "outfront." don, you've been reporting on this. what can you tell us? >> well, it's important because it contradicts things we're hearing that her friends are saying about her state of mind and behavior in the days and hours before her death. i've spoken to a source on her activities in the days before her death. i want to get this straight. i don't want to get it wrong. i'm going to read from my notes basically, it is saying the days before her death, she was seen ordering and consuming considerable quantities of alcohol before 10:00 a.m. in the morning, sometimes as early as

9:00 or 9:30 in the morning on wednesday. or thursday at the beverly hilton will bey and pool and they're saying she was walking around and she appeared disshelved and mismatched. and she was overheard complaining about the drinks saying the drinks were being watered down. that there was too much ice. other guests became concerned and complained about it. that's important because if she was using prescription drugs and we know they found them in her room, that is definitely of concern and quickly, i think it's important to point out that you can be in recovery, addicts know this, you can be in recovery a while, even years and think you'll have a harmless glass of wine or beer, then you're back down that slippery slope again. >> absolutely. i wanted to ask you and these are big details, don. everyone around her has been trying to say something different, that she really recovered and this does paint a different picture. what you're reporting.

i wanted to ask you what authorities did today, issuing subpoenas. subpoenas for her medical records and prescriptions from doctors, west and east coast doctors and pharmacists. is this standard or do you read anything into it? >> nothing is standard when it come to a celebrity that is this high a profile. it's not standard. they have the power to do it, but the coroner did issue subpoenas for several doctors and pharmacies here on the west coast and east coast and they want to know exactly what she took so they can compare it to the toxicology reports and again, as you said, it's important that the people around her are saying one thing. but here is what's important. this is a copy and it's not a photo copy that i have here. this is an actual copy from the coroner's office of whitney houston's death certificate. i never thought in a million years i would be holding this in my hand. that's the reality of it. that's what investigators are trying to get to the bottom of, why this happened. why now, this death certificate

at such a young age? >> thanks so much, reporting on what whitney houston was doing before her death. the private funeral is set for saturday in newark, new jersey. it could be weeks before we learn that killed her. if her past is any indication, of what contributed there's a wealth of information. she admitingly abused drugs and alcohol for years. you've been hearing friends and family saying she was on the comeback. what don reported seems to indicate that was not the case. prescription drugs also seemed to have played a part. given they were in her room although, again, unconfirmed at this point. dr. kapoor was charged with writing prescriptions for anna nicole smith in 2007. he was cleared. shelley ross worked with whitney houston at abc, also the founder of the blog, daily express. good to have both of you with us. doctor, let me start with you. we talked about this subpoena today and how doctors have been subpoenaed. what kinds of prescriptions they gave her. you were in this situation where people came in, gave you fake i.d.s. you gave these prescriptions to

anna nicole smith and weren't even aware of it. what do you think could happen in this case? >> i think it's kind of hindsight again, is 20/20. but you treat a patient with good intentions all the time and a lot of times, this nightmare occurred to me about five years ago and i hadn't seen her in about nine or ten months. so now as they look at the medical treatment that whitney houston had received, it's going to be difficult to piece together a pattern of how to figure this out. they're on two coasts and they're trying to figure out how medication ended up in her system and may have perhaps interacted with other substances like alcohol. >> you've known whitney houston for a long time and wrote a blog about it today. are you surprised what don reported? are you surprised, that now it's coming out that people in the hotel, people 24 hours before

her death, was drinking to such an extent that she was complaining people were watering her drings down? >> i'm not surprised. i won't say i knew whitney houston well. i know people around her i and i know the people that work with her. there are very well-meaning people around her. ultimately whitney houston gets the responsibility for what's happened to her. her shortened life. but i'm not surprised or shocked. this has been not so well kept secret for i gather, it's nearly 20 years now. really since 1992. >> and you say you mourned her death a decade ago. when you wrote in your blog and you talk about the enablers around her. tell us about the enablers. >> some are unwitting. i question i know that clive davis discovered her, nurtured her, loved her as much as anybody loves anyone else they're not related to. yet, i question whether trying

to rediscover the angel within her extended her life or destroyed her life. she's been -- i would really come out and say that whitney houston was a junkie. we can call it addiction, we can dress it up and it's really tragic. even last night, i watched on your network, on cnn, it's an industry denial. two producers who worked so closely with her in a recording studio were saying that they was actually suffering from an ageing voice that was not what it once was. and the truth is, she was suffering, her voice, suffered the ravages of cocaine abuse. ask sanjay gupta what it does when you smoke marijuana regularly, laced with cocaine. regularly, what snorting cocaine does to vocal chords. i worked with the three tenors, who were so protective of their

throats, other than roses, because all flowers had pollen, which were irritants to a masterful vocal chord. >> appreciate you taking the time. people saying don't even have xanax with anything. the combination could be lethal. never minds what it appears may have been the case in whitney houston's situation. the siege in syria continues and cnn has a reporter who has risked her life to be this homs and senator lindsey graham, is on the show tonight. and jeremy lin, his story tonight. that's tonight's essay. gathee with minimal collateral damage. but rather than neutralizing enemies in their sleep, you'd be targeting stocks to trade. well, that's what trade architect's heat maps do. they make you a trading assassin. trade architect. td ameritrade's empowering, web-based trading platform.

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outside the building to find out the fate of their loved ones. rafael romo is cnn's senior latin american affairs editor. >> erin, prison officials say they're investigating two possible causes. an inmate may have set a mattress on fire or the fire could have been started by a short circuit. the fact the prison was overcrowded made the fire much more tragic than it would have been otherwise. there were nearly 900 inmates inside the prison when the fire broke out. more than twice its capacity. we have heard stories of prisoners who said they had to breakthrough the roof to escape the fire using their bare hands. others were sleeping. they were awakened by screams of inmates caught on fire and were dieing in front of their eyes. the flames quickly spread engulfing half the prison and leaving inmates with little opportunity to escape. erin? >> thanks to you, rafael. now, the slaughter in syria. 32 people reported killed today. the fighting intensifying and we have some video.

it's disturbing and we want to warn you, but this is new video of a victim, a child. we want to warn you it's graphic and disturbing. this is the body of a boy. he was shot in the left torso and arm. his brother in the video, is crying over the body while the men in the background are reading a prayer. it is very hard to look at that. he is one of thousands who have died since the uprising began. arwa damon has been in the very dangerous neighborhood where there are snipers. government forces have been shelling the city for days. i was able to speak to her earlier and asked her what she saw today. >> you know, we spent a better part of the morning at the medical clinic in the neighborhood and this is the area if you'll remember, that is really seen the bombardment over the last 12 days. we call it the impact of some of the shells landing here, they

shook buildings, shattered windows. a 9-year-old girl burst into tears. at the medical clinic, we really got a sense of appreciation as to what the activists and medical staff there are up against. bearing in mind that this clinic has been struck by shells in the past on three or four occasions and the doctors there, they're not specialists in this type of emergency care. one of them actually specialized in internal medicine. the other is a dentist and they have bed upon bed of patients, many in critical condition, many of them who at the very least, get out of the neighborhood and out of the country entirely. >> what can you tell us about the children and women? obviously, others have come on and told us the women and children have been targeted. yesterday, we saw a child being, someone risking their life. risking their life to save a child. have you heard or seen of women and children being killed, being targeted by asaad's troops?

>> well, there was a woman wounded in clinic. she did not want to be filmed. she and her sister had been wounded in one of the shelling instances that took place and she was lying there covered in shrapnel wounds that had been very coursely and rapidly stitched together. her sister was in another clinic. they hadn't seen each other since the attack had taken place. she said they were out walking in the street. you look around and you see children in the street every here and there. we've been wondering why these families don't leave and it's because they can't. it's simple for them. they can't. >> thank you very much, reporting live from syria for us tonight. this uprising began about year ago. 6,000 people have died according we've been telling you, to activists. the question for the united states is perhaps a moral one more than anything else. tonight, lindsey graham, senior

member of the senate armed services committee. i appreciate your taking the time to come on the show tonight. arwa damon, you just heard her r reporting and i don't know if you could see the picture of the dead child with his brother at the top, which was very moving and disturbing. arwa damon is saying there's a sense that government forces are beginning to fray. obviously, many people in the country still support the government. they feel there could be a civil war. is this something that is front and center for you as a member of the armed forces committee and of the senate? >> i don't think it's nearly as front and center as it should be, so reporting like this really helps. but i can show you places in the world where children are poorly treated and killed, sudan, the congo, and we have to look at this as a humanitarian issue, just as we did in libya, stoppinging the slaughter, but our strategic interests in syria are much greater than they were in libya. this regime is the biggest to

-- the biggest ally to iran. so it's in our national security interest without a doubt to replace assad and break up this syrian-iranian alliance. we should press the russians and chinese. bring a resolution a week. expose them for signing on the wrong side of history and do parallel agreements with the arab league. we need a dual track. >> let me ask you about each of those things. first, providing arms. should we do that and do you feel we really know who this opposition is? >> that's a very good point. who we've got to convince is the people around the president to basically say that you have a place in syria. the coalition that's fighting asaad has to be inclusive and i don't know who we'd be getting weapons to yet, but the arab league seems to be providing some assistance. turkey is a key player here. i'd like to have a parallel track.

i'd like to get to know more about the opposition. press them to be inclusive to bring the community in and say listen, our problems with asaad, not with a particular group and arming people with something to consider, but right now, i'd like to know more, but surely, we can help them economically and with doctor care and we can really push the world community, russia and china particularly, to get behind getting asaad out and he's very close to falling. we just need to push. >> it's interesting you're saying not yet with the weapons. i think that's an important point to emphasize. what about russia? they do provide the weapons here to the syrian government, the migs and the navy facilities. you have an election coming up in russia and in ten days. but russia is not bending to u.s. pressure. they're sort of giving us the you know what? >> john mccain made a good point. the russians are provides weapons to the assad regime, why shouldn't he arm the opposition. what i want to know is i believe the idea of arming these troops

is something we should consider but i'd like to push them to have a game plan. if we do arm you what happens when asaad falls? is this going to be a purge of the community when that probably doesn't help us? russia, i think, is on the wrong side of history and what's odd is that russia is taking a position that, i think, is more about their own fate in russia. the russian government, putin, is not in great standing with his own people and i think he's exposing himself for the sort of the thuggish guy that he is. i can understand why he wouldn't want people to have, you know, a chance to determine their own destiny. we need to push him, quite frankly. >> senator graham, thank you very much. it's always a pleasure to talk to you sir, thank you. "linsanity" is coming to new york! and we look at jeremy lin's impact on the game and meet the latest member of the "outfront"

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you see the headlines everiy you go. all for one person, jeremy lin. the 23-year-old new york knicks phenom has taken the league by storm and he's started and won six games in a row this season including the one last night when he scored the game-winner toronto with less than a second on the clock. his success? it's been huge for the nba. tv ratings for the knicks up 70%. and it's estimated he'll increase revenues for the league by as much as $20 million for the year. that's pretty darn incredible for a player that went undrafted after cool lerch and cut by two nba teams. and in addition, he's asian-american. the first taiwanese-american nba player ever and that's a big deal for the nba.

he's adored by many in the asian community. his fan page has more than a million followers and fans are packing bars in taipei to watch the games. his jerseys are selling out in china. but it's also taiwanese fans in this country that are excited. for perspective we reached out to a member of the "outfront" family and my own family, my nephew is taiwanese sports fan and he came out front, actually, lin front earlier today. >> i was thinking we don't talk a lot about that you're taiwanese-american and i've been thinking a lot about that recently because he is and i was wondering if you felt something -- a connection to him or something special about him because he's taiwanese-american? >> umm, a little bit, yeah. i think he makes a lot of taiwanese americans proud. he's also changed americans

points of view or maybe, how they think about taiwanese americans. and he's also given shows that taiwanese americans can be good and succeed and, yeah, he's one of the first nba players to be taiwanese-american. so it gives taiwanese-american something to follow. something to be proud of. shows that they can do it. >> and someone like you, you can really do it? i mean, i was telling everyone today, there are not many people on this planet who love sports more than jasper yang. >> yeah. >> i don't think there is anybody who loves sports more than jasper yang. but i have to say this, i'm grateful for