president clinton there. also arsennio hall with the hair style. >> a little heavier there and i was too, at that point. bill clinton did a lot of donut stops in that campaign. that was also the boxers or briefs campaign. ground breaking. >> it's nice to see what arsenio's doing. >> he hasn't aged. i have. erin burnett "outfront" starts erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com well, we have breaking news. we have learned the name of the american soldier accused of murdering 16 people in afghanistan. details are coming in tonight and we have the very latest that we've been able to figure out for you. an attack ad today accusing mitt romney of waging a war on women. really? and a verdict in the rutgers web cam trial. let's go "outfront."

tonight, we have breaking news. cnn confirms the identity of the man accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians in a house to house shooting spree last weekend. 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bails, an 11-year veteran. let's get to chris lawrence at the pentagon. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you he's originally from the midwest and he was living in ohio until about 2001. after 9/11, that's when he joined the army. he's been based out at joint based lewis mcchord for the majority if not all of his military career. did about three combat tours in

iraq. this was his first in afghanistan and as his lawyer has pointed out to cnn earlier today, apparently, he did not ever think he woul get a fourth deployment. a fourth caught him by surprise. get a combat veteran. we know he's been decorated for his service having served three tours in iraq already, but apparently from his lawyer we're learning, that he did not expect to be deployed for this fourth deployment to afghanistan. >> thank you very much with the latest of what we know about staff sergeant bales tonight. his name was not officially released by the military. of course, it has been the subject of intense speculation in recent days. sources say the military was tight lipped on his identity because they wanted to protect him and he has a wife and two young children. at this hour, he is on his way back to american soil and here's what's going to happen. he's going to go straight to kansas. locked in the military prison. the main prison there. he has not officially been charged. not yet.

this came on a day of high tension between the u.s. and afghanistan. hamid karzai said he was at the quote end of the rope and slammed the american military's investigation. he says family members, the victims tell him they're convinced there was more than one shooter. the u.s. military says there is no evidence to indicate any such thing. there is no word yet on when there will be a trial. it likely will be held in military tribunal, but we'll talk more about what that might mean. his lawyer said the case is more political than legal and hinted his defense will focus on his client's post-traumatic stress disorder. >> two young children. he's a devoted father. a career military individual. he has never said anything racist or hostile toward muslims or afghanys.

this is a great surprise to his family. >> a former j.a.g. officer, now a criminal defense attorney. sebastian younger has been to afghanistan countless times. good to have you with us. i appreciate you taking the time. steven on this issue of where this is going to be tried. military tribunal and is that what you expect and what would that mean? >> it's going to be a court marshall and that's because the united states military has jurs diction over him because of the s.o.f.a. agreement. in country, it is the military that will try him as opposed to estate jurisdiction. there was tom security concerns. now, so far, they've determined they have probable cause, enough to hold them. which could mean that the speedy clock will begin to tick 120 days, so from that point, what they're going to have to do is dpo to the article 32 proceeding, which is akin to the

civil proceeding. in that case, if they do find that there's enough evidence to hold him and continue to charge him, he will then go to the trial phase and in that sense, it's very much like a civil trial. the only difference is the fact that in the grand jury proceeding, you have the witness for witnesses. >> i'm going to ask you about the punishment in a moment, but ptsd is going to be a big part. what's your take on whether that makes sense, is fair, something that could be used as a defense? >> i mean, obviously, i'm not a legal expert, but an enormous number of soldiers have ptsd. every single one had it. i think the question is why does an individual choose to become a mass murder. ask the same question in the united states. when does a teenager decide to

kill his classmates? you have to be careful talking about underlying causes because eventually, they're choosing their own actions. >> it's interesting. on the army website today, we found a story from 2009, the battle of zarka in iraq. staff sergeant bales was there and he's quoted, so it's not as if he was the guy he put forward, saying once we started clearing the town, we started carrying people back out. we'd go in, if there were a lot of dead people, we couldn't put them on the collection point. this wasn't a guy that seemed to have problems. he was quoted in their own stories. >> soldiers can be pretty pragmatic about the realities of war and clearly, he was a highly functional person. i heard he was a sniper. they are highly trained. the question is how do you identify these people before they commit a crime. i think it's very hard like a principal of a school can't necessarily identify a future killer in the school.

likewise the military is a very, very hard time doing that. complicated. >> 800 meters he was certified to shoot. steven, what is your sense of p punishment here? leon panetta indicated that the death penalty could be on the table. what is your sense of what could happen and is there a difference in interpreters of the mumt? >> clearly, this is going to be a capital case. there's 16 people dead here. there has to be the death penalty will be on the table. that's where the ptsd argument is going to come in. either a defense against the charge to show that he had limited capacity, but they can also use it as a mitigating factor at the time of sentencing because in the military courts, you need a two-thirds verdict from the panel as opposed to unanimous. if they don't get a unanimous verdict, the death penalty will not be considered by the panel. >> okay.

>> but it will be a death penalty case because of how serious and the political ramificatio ramifications. if we don't treat it like the most heinous crime, there's going to be a backlash. >> karzai saying end of the rope, but strangely not a lot of the if you believe uproar in afghanistan over this. certainly not as much as the korans. >> you know, it's going to sound strange to say it, but it's a country that's been at war for 30 years and the poor people of afghanistan have seen a lot of death. the thing that almost never happens is desecrating the koran, so in a strange way, that's more shocking. >> thanks very much to both. as we get more, we'll bring that to you tonight. next, we have breaking news on one of the men behind the most viral video in history. the man behind kony 2012 is

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we have breaking news on one of the film maimers behind kony 12. the man behind it has been picked up by police and taken to the hospital today. an official familiar with the case confirms that jason russell, just on cnn last week, was found in his underwear running through the streets of san diego yesterday screaming and acting irrationally. is a very strange twist to this. >> it's strange and gets more disturbing. the website tmz came up with some video of a man they claim was in fact mr. russell who was on the streets there in san diego. this was yesterday morning. you can see him there. he appears to be fully naked and pounding on the payment. police will say yesterday morning, they had several calls of a man in his underwear

running through the streets, screaming, interrupting traffic. when police showed up, they said that there was one caller who did say that the man was naked and masturbating. police say when they showed up, they didn't see any of that and that the man was taken to a local medical facility, that he was not arrested. just taken to a medical facility. a statement from van said he was suffering from exhaustion and is receiving medical care. the past to weeks have taken a severe medical toll and that manifested in an unfortunate incident yesterday. that video went viral like no others. brought a lot of focus on invermontable children, a lot of it negative because of their finances and whether or not they oversimplified the situation in

uganda. >> interesting. they mentioned malnutrition. he's described as a christian and family man. he has a family because his son is in that video. this is a guy who by all other measures used to be a perfectly normal guy who traveled. things in his life, it is not clear why he would react in this way. >> not arrested, but in a hospital tonight. >> he is being taken care of. >> thank you very much. just a very strange turn in that tale of kony 2012 tonight. apparently, there is a war of women. that is what democrats say republicans are waging through legislation and debates over contraception and abortion rights. take a look at this dnc ad running in illinois, which holds its key primary tuesday. >> mitt romney's come tog illinois and looking for support from women. but here's what women need to know about mitt romney.

romney says he wants to get rid of planned parenthood, ending federal support for critical health care services like cancer screenings for thousands of women here in illinois. >> planned parenthood, going to get rid of that. >> the romney camp says the governor does not want to get rid of the organization, only he wants to end government funding for it. but how effective is the argument that republicans are antiwomen? john avlon, leslie sanchez and jamal simons. leslie, you are the republican woman, so yes, i am going to des criminate by going to you first, do you think this ad will mick people think twice about voting for mitt romney and women will b affected? >> not at ul. i want to give a tiny bit of kudos for the obama pr team to think this shift the conversation away from the real attacks are and that is on republican women, independent

women, suburban women, walmart moms who are very much in that contraception debate we've been having over the last month any way. this is really a political tactic. the central issue is that the obama team is losing support among those independent voters. they know they need women to be successful. and it's really going back even to the contraception issue, what we're finding, it's like pulling a thread unraveling at the seam. it's not just the issue of the contraceptive and religious freedom, it's that these are not decisions being made by market forces or ethical reasons. they're made for political reasons and that's the big suspicious that women have. >> john avlon, this is all coming up now. a sonogram potential issues in virginia an pennsylvania. it is happening in a lot of places right now. kind of hard to believe it's

accidental. >> no, but it's uncoordinated. they're putting forward these bills, whether it's mandatory or forced ultrasounds, attempts to restrict abortion. they're saying the republicans ran under libertarian effort last time, but you turn around and they're advancing a social agenda. when you use the phrase war against women, we know what this is. that's fear mongering and it's no better or based on fact than alleged war on religion. when you start drawing the lines, kegting the dots, republicans have a problem. a real problem. not just based on perception, but policy. >> and i would imagine the democrats are going to seize that and try to make it a lot stronger. right? why wouldn't they? >> oh sh absolutely. this is a real, the issues of women in this campaign are going

to be front and center. there are major issues. elections are decided based upon where women vote. i had a republican strategist friend say to me the other day, men decide the republican nominee and women decide the general election president. and that sends to be sort of true and i think what's really interesting, campaigns are not places for nuance, so you end up making statement that is might be a little bit overblown and we see in that video, mitt romney, he says he wants to cut planned parenthood funding, but if you rook at the tended video of the democratic ad, they talk about romney's position on health care and a bunch of other things that impact women, so this isn't really a good place for nuance, but it is something haas going to be important. >> i think we need a lot more. just going to say that right now. we need it in campaigns, cable. that is a separate rant that i will go on at another time. leslie, i want to ask you about

something else. i feel like i'm being discriminatory. now sanchez, but i want to talk about puerto rico and english as an official lang wanl. it's a prerick wii zit to become a state. is that something that you think is right that h work for them or not? >> it doesn't work in puerto rico. i mean, the whole argument is really nonsensical. it has two official languages. for 89 years, pannish, in 1991, embraced english. there was a cry among some republicans and there's a lot of reasons why that issue is important in a primary. the bigger issue, a misstep on santorum's part. it's not really an issue. everybody embraces it as the language of opportunity and it's

certainly the language of the united states. >> when it comes to this issue, santorum's wrong, but sometimes when you get yourself in a hole, the best thing is to just roll with it. i would make the argument that i went to puerto rico and i said what i believed. wasn't popular, but i said what i believed, unlike mitt romney. he says what he believes is politically popular. that may help him in other places. >> speaking of puerto rico, rick santorum, i just wanted to show something. this is, that's rick santorum. he found a little bit of time. he found a little bit of time to hang out by the pool and i don't begrudge him that. you've got to take some time off the trail, right? he said look, i guess i need to lose 15 or 20 pounds. he doesn't look that bad. >> i give him points for acknowledging there's room to improvement. >> when i lie by the pool in puerto rico, i look that white.

>> enjoy the beaches of puerto rico. >> good for him. >> before we go, illinois. john, must win? >> romney, this really has become his latest fire ball state. it's a state where he should do well. polls have been underestimating his strength and it's a midwestern state as well, so a big battleground coming up on tuesday. >> thanks very much to all of you. appreciate it. a north korean government today announced something that could be very important for the u.s. they prlan to blast a satellite into orbit in honor of kim il-sung's 100th birthday. they are condemning the announcement from kim jong-un, who is in his late 20s and suddenly in charge of one of the largest militaries in the world an of course, a nuclear power. u.s. said the deal would be a deal breaker for the food aid

agreement. >> so, frankly, if they were to go forward with this launch, it's very hard to imagine how we would be able to move forward with a regime whose word we have no confidence in and has violated its international commitments. >> north korea's promised to dial back its program in exchange for food aid, but even at that time, a lot of people didn't take that seriously. north korea's done that before. gordon chang knows korea's politics well. gordon, good to see you, as always. what do you make of this? some are saying that when north korea says it's a satellite, it's more of a military test. >> the launcher for a satellite and warhead are the same. so clearly, north korea has shown that it does not really want to talk to the international community with good faith and that's really a problem. we should have known that last

month when we came to this deal. but now, we do and i think that means we need new tactics. >> it's interesting. a lot of people said that kim jong-un, the young and untested leerd, you were saying he might do something like this, a little more dramatic to show he was powerful. others hoped it was an opportunity for di ploplomacy. does that settle the verdict for what direction he's going to go? >> i think that youb, you look at 2006, they tested a long range missile. 2009, you had three year to that and get 2012. they need to actually launch to test all of the improvements on their missiles. >> the way you put that, it sort of sounds like whatever they promised to stop, they didn't. they're still on their same regular schedule. >> basically, north korea wants a long range missile. it's had that joint missile program with iran for more than a decade. so, it's not just north korea we need to be worried about.

we've got to be worried about the iranian because a north korean test is an iranian test. >> is the coordination that close? if they make a decision to go ahead with the program, they have to develop the missile heads. sounds like you're saying well, if north korea is doing it, that would make their lead time to get a weapon much shorter. >> yes, people say that iran's longest range missile is about 1,500 miles, which means it can put a dent in a field in southern europe, but the north koreans have missiles much longer than that. the iranian have a shahab 6 and if it does, it can just about hit alaska. so this is really important for us. >> thank you very much. we appreciate it. a man that's been studying the nuclear program in north korea for a long time. there's a verdict in the rutgers suicide web cam trial. paul cowen said that dharun ravi

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about where we focus on our own reporting, do the work and find the "outfront 5." cnn has confirmed the identity of the man accused of murderinging 16 afghan civilians last weekend. he is 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bales who joined the military shortly after the 9/11 terror attacks. chris lawrence reports that bales worked frequently with the tribal elders in afghanistan. at this hour, bales is on his way from kuwait to a prison in kansas. he has not been charged. number two, a new round of sanctions designed to cripple iran's economy are set to take effect tomorrow. the shoet for worldwide inner bank telecommunication, it's really important for moving around and funding economies. it's going to expel as many as 30 iranian based banks. it is designed to cut iran off to deal with companies overseas. sources say iran will still find a way to get paid especially for its oil trade.

one option, you could set up a new system for transactions, use smaller banks not under sanction. i've heard about suitcases filled with cash with rubles, there are various ways including barter for them to get what they need. number three, a los angeles county doctor pled not guilty today. she is still being held on $3 million bail, which the judge refused to lower. prosecutors accused her of contributing to the prescription overdose deaths of three of our patients. found more than 27,000 prescriptions over three years. number four, cpi which measures inflation rose .4% in february. that's a lot for one month. just one month. did your income go up that much in one month? the rising gas prices, a big part of the problem. one economist says 80% of the

rise is due to high gas prices. that's what economists and the fed say is the right number, but that is kind of bogus. it has been 225 days since the u.s. lost its top create rating. what are we doing to get it back? high gas prices not helping how everyone feels. consumer sentiment fell to its lowest level of the year. guilty on all counts. this was the verdict today against dharun ravi. after four weeks of testimony and two and a half days of deliberations, the jury convicted ravi of invasion of prifsy, biased intimidation and hindering arrest. ravi didn't show any emotion as the verdict was read, nor did his parents. but you're looking at his reaction as it was read. afterwards, clementi's family said it was painful to speak through the trial. his father made a point of speaking out gens bullying. >> doing something wrong. tell them. that's not right. stop it.

you can make the world a better place. the change you want to see in the world begins with you. >> ravi faces up to ten years in prison and possibly deportation back to his native country of india. paul cowen, regular viewers know you've been following this case all the way along. you had said dharun ravi needed to take the stand. that ordinarily, you would never say that, but in this case, he should. >> i almost never put defendants on the stand in criminal cases, but in this case, i would have put him on the stand because the one thing he had to do was tell a story to the jury to make them think this is a stupid college kid who made a big mistake, sorry for it. maybe if he were to break down in front of the jury, he had a chance of jury nullification, but he didn't do it and i think that was his one shot at acquittal in this case. >> and he was offered a plea

deal. didn't accept because they thought they would do better and get a complete acquittal. now, they must be really -- >> it's easy to look back and now that you made a mistake. they rejected it for a number of rbs. first, they wanted 600 hours of community service and were fearful of deportation because the feds can come after him now and try to deport him even if he took the plea, so these things were things defense attorneys were thinking about. they thought there was going to be an acquittal. my people tell me the defense attorneys thought they were winning throughout the case and were stunned. >> which is sort of stunning to me because our coverage, seemed there was some damning events. you mentioned he could serve five years. obviously, the full conviction means up to ten. you think five why?

>> because he has no prior record and the judge probably would hit the middle of the sentencing range. five, sir or seven-year sentence. that would be where a first offender would be sentenced. hard for the judge to go less than five years. just to put in context, you might serve that much time in new jersey for sexually abusing a child and he's going to serve that much time because he broadcast his roommate on his web cam with hate in his mind. which is what the jury decided. >> so does this change the concept of privacy in courts? is this a landmark decision? >> it's a landmark, game changing, bell ringing decision because it sends a message for the first time i think that if you abuse somebody on the internet, cyber bullying, broadcasting pictures like this, your going to go to jail and we've got a bunch of young people in this county tru.

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we do this at the same time every night. our outer circle where we reach out to sources around the world and tonight, we go to syria where leaked e-mails are causing outrage. they are from various points over the last 12 months and show al assad and his wife. the president sending youtube clips, his wife shopping online for jewelry and requesting harry potter dvds for their kids. others reveal iran's influence own the president. today, kofi anon briefed and

arwa damon has been covering the story from beirut. i asked her what the former secretary general told the u.n. >> he was basically briefing the security council on the proposals put forward and was also trying to urge members of the security council to set their divisions aside. international community habiterly divided over how to handle syria, with russia and china vetoing all resolutions so far. he was also warning, highlighting how sensitive a topic syria is, saying any sort of misstep would have grave consequence. he's expected to be dispatching a small technical team to damascus next week, but there are few that believe that is going to bring about any sort of change. erin? >> that was arwa damon in beirut. we're hearing me about osama bin laden's grand plan to take america down.

this was a treasure-trove found in his pakistan hideout in may. it was the computer and also some handwritten notes. now, "the washington post" david ignatius has seen some of the documents written by bin laden. he was on with candy crowley and talked about what he saw. >> the most striking thing was how worried he was that al-qaeda had tarnished its image so badly in the muslim world by killing so many muslims in the midst of its jihad against the united states. he wrote in one document, al-qaeda should change its name and rebrand itself. i found that fascinating. >> that is fascinating. miguel has been looking into the documents. more details on what osama bin laden was planning. what did you find? >> it's just these documents are fascinating, he got this look into the actual documents that osama was writing.

he did not like obama and thought little of joe biden because one of the quotes, obama is the head of infidelity and killing him automatically will make joe biden take over the presidency. biden is totally unare prepared and will lead the u.s. into a crisis. as for petraeus, he is the man of the hour. another thing he mentioned was kashmiry, the guy he hoped would undertake some of these efforts to bring down planes carrying the president or general petraeus. kashm kashmiri was killed a month after bin laden was killed. >> and you mentioned that they were -- it was plane attacks again. any detail on that or just take down this plane? >> yeah, he did want his, he acted as though herp a manager

of the small or medium sized firm, telling he wanted his people to step up and recruit u.s. people where people could easily travel to the u.s. he wanted to have amirs and others serve two-year terms. have them write reports that they would then report back to the head office so they could fig yur out what was going on down below. he also wanted to do a name change. a branding change because he thought al-qaeda had become a useless brand basically and came up with ten alternatives. number one was i'll translate to english. monotheism and jihad group. >> i just, hard to make jokes about it. it's not a good name. >> if it weren't real, you

wouldn't believe it. >> thank you very much. been going through those documents. pretty stunning, the view it gives into that man's mind. let's check in with anderson cooper. >> ahead on the program, more of the rutgers web cam spying trial. we'll speak to two of the jurors and a personal story out of indiana of a couple who watched the storm in henryville. they were capturing it on video when they realized their own lives were in grave danger. sadly, one did not make it. also, a story that's caused both outrange and pain. a young soldier's photo used ads on a dating website. the problem is, he was killed in iraq more than four years ago. the family says the sites took the photo without permission. >> now, outrage, fear and calls for a high level investigation into the sanford, florida police

department. the man who admitted to shooting an unarmed 17-year-old boy who died nearly three weeks ago continues to walk the streets. today, the mayor said 911 recordings from the night trayvon martin was killed will be made public. in fact, we can tell you right now, we know that trayvon's family is listen to those calls at this moment. 28-year-old george zimmerman was on gated watch duty when he crossed paths with martin, who was there visiting family. zimmerman said he called 911 to report a suspicious person. they told him not to approach martin and martin was shot in the chest by the volunteer, who says it was in self-defense. david, thank you very much. the 911 tapes, obviously, the family is listening to them at this moment. any sense right now of exactly what was on them and what color they may give about what really

happened? >> that's why we want to listen to these tapes, to find out chaktly what happened. once the family is finished looking at them, the city is going to sign off and put them on their website so everybody can hear them. the reason why this is so important is because it goes right to the heart of the matter about self-defense. did george simmer mann act in self-defense. as we've known about these tapes, some people as they were calling in, police could hear the altercation going on in the background as well as the gun sh shot. if we hear someone calling for help and it's the voice of simmsi zimmerman, that backs up the claim. >> and there is the issue of if this is race. the family said if their son was the shooter, he would have been locked up immediately.

florida paper is reporting that the shooter is hispanic, so this is getting even more question marks around the situation. >> zimmerman's father sending a letter to the orlando sentinel. in that letter, the father said that george zimmerman is actually hispanic. comes from a multiracial family and that he is not racist. in fact, there was a quote from that letter that read he would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever. the media portrayal of george as a racist could not be further from the truth and said george has received some death threats. police however tell us they have his phone number. they know where he is and they know they'll be able to reach him anytime. >> the gated community has been described as a white community and as part of the assertion i suppose, that this could have been a racially driven.

is it fair to describe it as that? that this was predominantly white? >> it could be. but it is racially mixed. and as you saw that zimmerman himself classifies himself as hispanic, so the family has been raising these issues about race and they say that the point that profiling came into this was when zimmerman pointed out this lone black male walking at night and chose to call in a suspicious person, then to get out of his car r to continue to follow surveillance on him. >> david, thank you very much. russell brand has turned himself into police today because he was charged after an altercation with a photographer and we have all the strange details. and vladimir putin continues to face protests in russia. but his biggest political opponent could be an all girl punk band. . . you ready?

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that's the dollar amount comedian russell brand was forced to pay in bond today to get out of jail. brand is the star of films like "forgetting sarah marshall" and "get him to the greek" booked on simple criminal damage for breaking a photographer's iphone. brand got p.o.'d, threw the phone through a window. oh it happened to belong to a law firm. oops. brand offered to pay for the window but the d.a. still filed felony charges. why a felony? because the incident occurred in new orleans, and new orleans, damages that exceed $500 bring a felony charge. tmz reports that this iphone was the top of the line iphone. after all a paparazzi botox phone and cost $500. if apple only didn't charge so much for great products, russell brand would have gotten away scot-free and this segment would have been all about apple. beginning to show cracks.

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putin posted the photos he claimed were of the cat back in the wild, on his website. a great story in it. it helps solidify his reputation as a manly adventurer. unfortunately, it is probably not true. according to a tiger expert analyzed the photos, the markings are different enough he's competent the captured and released tiger are not the same. the tiger putin shot and tagged was actually a cat from the zoo. putin, say it ain't so. come on. a lot of subterfuge. switching off the tigers and all that. if that isn't true, how many of putin's other amazing exploits are made up? i'm questioning whether he's a judo master. a champion swimmer, rugged kommando, evcomman commando, or speaks force. now this. could this be why putin seems to be slipping in the polls in josh and protesters like this all-female bunk band called

pussy riot felt comfortable singing the song "putin wet his pants" in the square this week. we've seen a lot of leaders fall and fall hard. you can't keep up an overblown image forever. a lot of these guys, mubarak, remember, the dyed hair, gadhafi, plastic surgery, creating an image that wasn't real? putin took it to a new level. thanks to fancy iphones someone's always going bust you when you switch off the tigers. putin, you look good without a shirt. here's betting you can pull this off without switching anything. quick update on brackets. basketball on everyone's mind that's trending every night. in the out-front poll, stephanie mikolitch is number one. add trying to