a chance to sort of amend or back off of and that he kept pushing ahead. now there are other people who say the military is trying to have it both ways, that the military is very active on social media, pushes out press releases, pushes out recruiting and things like that on social media and at the same time restrict how its members may use that same social media. >> so it's a less than honorable discharge, what does that mean? >> it means he'll lose his benefits. you know, it -- there are a lot of benefits that come with being honorably discharged that he's not going to get, and sergeant stein actually posted something on a statement saying i have spent the last nine years honorably serving this great nation and the corps. even though i will be discharged, no one can take the title of marine away from me. carol? >> chris lawrence, live from the pentagon. still to come on "newsroom,"

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checking our top stories. rupert murdoch now admitting to a phone hacking cover-up at his "news of the world" tabloid and while murdoch wouldn't name the people responsible, he did apologize for not taking more control of the situation. >> i have to admit that some newspapers are more special to my heart than others, but i also have to say i failed. >> dozens have been arrested in the scandal which forced murdoch to close one of his best-selling newspapers. police in riot gear run through the streets of montreal to control violent crowds of protesters. dozens of people under arrest. the protests started after talks broke down between student leaders, college student leaders and government officials. college students have been demanding the government drop a planned tuition hike of $375 a year for five years. and there is no suspense about the top of tonight's nfl

draft. the indianapolis colts have said they will take quarterback andrew luck in their first pick. the washington redskins are expected to take another quarterback, robert griffin iii with the next pick. mitt romney will be fund-raising at private events today, president obama is getting ready to officially kick off his campaign. it will officially start on may 5th. the president will hold re-election rallies in columbus, ohio at ohio state university, and in richmond, virginia, too. now, of course, those states are considered among the key states in the general election come this november. mitt romney's campaign, it's watching you, at least online. it started using the same website that helped president obama win the 2008 election. this is optimizely. it helps people customize a website, simple things like picking colors and strategically placing buttons, but then it tells you which setup will get you the most hits in a web

trial. here's hln digital lifestyle expert mario armstrong. this is so innocuous. >> it is, but they call it very effective. called ab testing and right now on my apad i'm looking at the elect romney page and can you see the donation button is in red. let's go further down on the screen here. we'll also notice that the connect now button is in red and make a donation is in red. there is a reason, it's not just party colors and things of that nature, just looks great on the wednesday sglit or it's patriotic. >> it's really about ab testing. what this means is optimizely works for starbucks, abc and cbs use this, large enterprises, crate & barrel, large businesses use to this use data maining, to find out what works best when someone comes to a website. the romney campaign said if we make it a purple button, do more people click on that and do we get more funds because it's

purple? we can test that over time to see which changes to the website have the most impact. >> what in my online presence would tell mitt romney's campaign that i'm more likely to donate money if he puts the buttons in red. >> nothing personal about your personal settings or something about you, it's really a random test that's happening, but it's happening concurrently, so the website at any given moment could have four different versions of that website that are out there, and then they see which one are people really clicking the button that we want to click the most. it could be donations. it could be, you know, supporting a rally, could be following a video to watch for a specific cause. whatever their goal, is they can see, okay, if we move this video clip here, more people click it when it's there than down in the bottom right-hand corner of the page. >> that really helped president obama get elected in 2008? >> that's a part of it, this is a bigger piece. i'm calling this a data election. this is going to be won by data, and what i mean by that the ability to understand how to manipulate your website, your mobile apps but then also

personalization, going back to your point. if i'm one on a mobile newsletter or app they can get other things about me to figure out how to use me as an influential voter or rallier or supporter of their campaign. more than this just piece it's all about data analytics. i think the election will win is the smartest, most techiest election but i would say that being a techie. >> yeah, you would. fascinating, mario armstrong, thank you so much. still to come this next story simply amazing, being called a medical first this morning. a transplanted kidney failing in one patient is taken out and placed in another, and it's working. also ahead, have you heard the latest allegations about secret service agents acting like oversexed frat boys, not in colombia but in el salvador? a store we strippers, prostitutes and lots of alcohol. our political buzz panel weighs in next. this at&t 4g network is fast.

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e welcome back to "newsroom." it is the first case of its kind in the united states, a transplanted kidney that was failing was removed from a patient who is still alive. it was taken out of him and given to someone else. the kidney originally went to ray fehring who you see there in the blue shirt. his sister donated the kidney to her brother and days later his body reject it had so they decided it take it out of her brother and give it to erwin gomez. >> my strength is back and my appetite is going. >> to find out that this was going to be something bigger than, you know, just a failed transplant, you know, it's going to help someone else. it's going to help people.

>> literally my life and my function, i owe it to them. >> an amazing story. our medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here, and so how did this work? i mean, this patient's body rejected the kidney so doctors said bring erwin in. >> right. that's basically it. >> geez. >> because in the past what doctors have done is if someone's body can't tolerate a kidney they basically kid rid of it. i mean, that's what we're told. well, it didn't work. there's nothing wrong with the kidney. it was that the recipient had a blood disorder that made it so he just couldn't handle it, so it was in the first recipient for two weeks, and they realized it wasn't working, and they took it out and gave it to erwin gomez who actually is a cardio vascular surgeon and he's back at work. sort of like this light bulb over the head before. >> why didn't we do this before? >> doesn't work in one person. doesn't mean it won't work in another person. >> what happened to mr. fearing,

the first person that the kidney didn't work for? >> he's on dialysis, and that's have he took his sister's kidney so he could get off dialysis and maybe there's another kidney out there for him, who knows, but what an -- they said to him, look, if the kidney is not working in you, but it is your kidney so you tell us, is it all right with you if we give it to another person, and he said yes, of course. he saved a life. >> wow. >> it's amazing. >> how many more kidneys could be available because this light bulb went off? >> my colleague stephanie smith who wrote this story for cnn.com asked that question, and they don't know exactly, but the doctors she talked to said this could be like 400, 500 kidneys a year that we could basically reharvest and give to another person. that's a lot. hundreds of people might live because they thought of this new technique. >> amazing. elizabeth cohen, thank you. >> thank you. now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning. why is climate change such a hot-button issue? we haven't heard a lot about climate change this election

cycle, but that maybe change. in an interview with "rolling stone" magazine president obama said, quote, this is going to be a debate that will become part of the campaign, and i will be very clear in voicing my belief that we're going to have to take further steps to keel with climate change in a serious way, end quote. but why the slow jam on the climate issue, mr. president? mr. obama said that with more people worried about jobs and the economy the other side has been able to pour millions of dollars into debunking climate change science. his opponent, mitt romney, has expressed skepticism on climate change, like in this video from an october fund-raiser posted on thinkprogress.org. >> my view is that we don't know what's causing climate change on this planet, and the idea of spending trillions and trillions of dollars to try to reduce co2 emissions is not the right course for us. >> of course, the lightning rod in the climate change debate this year is the keystone pipeline. environmentalists oppose it in

part because they say the use of more fossil fuels adds to global warming, but still, the president hasn't talked much about the climate change part. is it because republicans keep talking about the much-needed jobs the pipeline would create, or is the issue just too hot to handle so the talk back question for think morning. why is climate change such a hot-button issue? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. still to come, newt gingrich finally throwing in the towel, and we've asked our political buzz panel to name their favorite newt moment of the campaign. now, that should be good. that's coming up after a break. [ horn honks ]

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catholic teachings because ryan is catholic to justify his cuts to social programs. ryan addressed those concerns moments ago. >> the overarching threat to our whole society today is the exploding federal debt. the holy father himself, pope benedi benedict, has charged governments, communities and individuals running up high debt levels are, quote, living at the expense of future generations and living in untruth, unquote. we in this country, we still have a window of time before a debt-fueled economic crisis becomes inevitable. >> ryan says the poor deserve help but says big government makes people depend on handouts. he said instead help should come from neighbors, churches and local governments. guilty, that's the verdict for former liberan president charles taylor. an international court said he helped sierra leone rebels

commit war crimes and he's set to be sentenced next month. attorneys for john edwards are attacking the credibility of his former aide. andrew young is the star witness in the trial against edwards. he's accused of using political donations to cover up an affair. political buzz is your rapid fire look at the best political topics of the day. three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. playing with us today, sirrious xm radio host and comedian and all-around pete guy, pete dominic and cnn contributor, will cain, another smart guy and chris moody, you too, from yahoo! news, he's in the middle. welcome to all of you. >> thank you. >> first question, cnn affiliate in seattle quotes a source who said secret service agents got wasted in el salvador ahead of president obama's visit there last year. they partied with strippers. they took the strippers to their hotel rooms and even said we do this all the time. don't worry about it. the secret service is offering no comment this morning to cnn, but the question for you, is

this more evidence of a cultural problem? will? >> yes. i think so. it shouldn't come as a surprise. when we heard about the colombian incident, you know, 11-plus guys decided to venture into the world of prostitution, i can promise you this. it wasn't a spur of the moment decision. it wasn't 11 guys sitting around saying, know what, there's nothing on tv i've got an idea. this is something that manifested over time. that being said, be careful. i would like to know when are these guys on and off duet? are they always on duty, 100% of the time you are on duet whet president is there, not there, how far in advance of his arrival? because the truth is at some point these guys are regular human beings as well. >> chris? >> i think one of the biggest problems the secret service might have is a flood of applications. this sounds like a really fun place to work, but that's the problem. it's not supposed to be a fun place to work. this is the united states secret service, not sterling cooper, so these guys, i mean, with the secret service really going to need to implement some real

policy changes here, and it's really going to take some time for this culture to change and certainly some restraint as well. >> pete? >> no. i mean, listen, these are guys whose job it is to protect the president from getting killed, keeping him from being safe. that would be like saying because will cain may or may not like to take bath with rubber duckies, is that a sign of his ability to leave his childhood behind? no, no, it's not. these guys deserve to blow off some steam, not condoning any way getting prostitutes, but -- but, you know, when they are so focused all the time, in their free time they might do crazy things. these are security guys, not diplomats. it may happen from time to time. it's not going to happen anymore i'm imagining. >> hopefully no. second question. president obama is on the cover of "rolling stone." he told the magazine's founder that climate change will likely be part of his campaign in 2012.

climate change is an emotionally charged issue and i'm wondering why is it such a hot-button issue? pete? >> because the button is getting hotter, that's why, because the -- because we had a snow storm on halloween, because a hurricane made it to new york, because the oil industry decided to launch a disinformation campaign paralleling off the tobacco industry because if president obama wants to actually pass any kind of legislation the supreme court will -- will strike it down saying it doesn't -- it's not covered under the commerce clause and then we'll have to ship everything by sea anyway because that's all we're going to have. that's why it's a hot-button issue. >> holy cow. will? >> you didn't need an explanation, you got an illustration there with pete. it's a hot-button issue, it's like religious belief, like zealotry. we can't move from a debate of whether man is causing climate change to talk about whether man anybody can do anything to

remove carbon emissions and if it's worth the cost, if we can, if it's worth the cost. we can't have the debate because this debate exists in the realm of religion. >> chris? >> you know, i'm taking the president's comments with a grain of salt. this is an election year. the economy is at the top of all the public opinion polls, and climate change is often at the bottom. can i not imagine president obama is going to give this more than just lip service on the campaign trail. he's not going to use the political capital that it takes to pass forward a big piece of legislation in this election year. it's just not going to happen. he may mention it a little bit, but this is going to be an economy-driven campaign and that's going to be the main focus. >> okay. on to your buzzer beater. 20 seconds each. newt gingrich giving up -- he's giving up the ghost next week and supporting mitt romney. no newt to kick around anymore. what i want from you, guys, to name your favorite newt moment of the entire campaign.

chris? >> there were so many, and, you know, newt liked to be kicked around a little bit, liked to play that game, but i remember it was all encapsulated so well i believe it was the arizona debate when the moderator asked all the candidates to say -- to define themselves in one word and newt kind of smirked a little bit, looked and he said cheerful, and the whole press corps erupted, not because they -- not because they were laughing at him, but because they knew that deep down it was really true. >> will? >> mine also comes from a debate, no surprise. newt shined or was tarnished in every single debate. it was his moments. after he kind of got after john king for asking him about his personal life and scored a ton of political points, wolf blitzer asked him about it again and he tried that same trick or he tried to use wolf blitzer as his proxy to play the victim and score political points and wolf wouldn't and came right back at him and said, no, newt, you brought this into the debate. it was a good moment. >> yeah, especially for wolf

blitzer. pete? >> yeah. i think will cain might be on "the situation room" this afternoon. my favorite moment, carol, come on. let's start at the beginning when he was honest and said paul ryan's budget was right wing social engineering. what about when he talked about his gazillion air salary for achistorian. recently at the nra convention he said everybody in the world has a god-given right to own a gun. i mean, i don't have enough time for one moment, carol. he will be missed as a comedian, for sure. >> oh, geez. chris, pete, will, thanks for playing today. >> thank you. >> we mentioned that the secret service has a new scandal to deal with, this one out of el salvador. secret service agents there reportedly got drunk and partied with strippers. got a statement from the secret service and i'll read it now, from the secret service. the recent investigation in colombia has generated several new stories that contain allegations by mostly unnamed sources. any information brought to our

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just about 40 minutes past the hour. welcome back. kim kardashian is on the guest list for the white house correspondents dinner. what's up with that? going to be this saturday and it will be a star-studded event. every year this is turning into a circus, a star-like circus. "showbiz tonight" host a.j. hammer is in new york. amazing how many celebrities will be at the dinner? >> for kim i don't know if the reality cameras will follow her around but miss kardashian has been invited and she's bringing her mom, kris jenner will be attending with her. this peaked during the democratic administrations and drop off during the republican administration has been going on since the late '80s this.

isn't the white house doing, people invited by the media organization paying big bucks for the tables, we've seen stars ranging frommes osbourne and kim kardashian, george clooney, stevie wonder, viola davis, the cast from "the hunger games" and, carol, even lindsay lohan made the list this year. quite a party, quite a party. >> okay. i mean, i can remember the days when you brought some boring congressmen to the dinner, by i guess those days are gone. >> yes. >> let's talk about carrie bradshaw's townhouse from "sex in the city." incredible how much this sold for. >> yes, nearly $10 million, $9.85 million to be exact. the facade and the stoop of this building has been a destination for fans who go on the "sex in the city" tour in new york city. fans that aren't bothered by the fact that the building exists in the west village. of course, on the show it exists

on the upper east side. well, the new owners get four floors, a basement, six fireplaces, herring bone floors and some really terrific mouldings. after checking out the listing, i would bet it still needs work because i noticed there were no photos of the bathroom or my kitchen. in my experience of real estate shopping that implies they need to be upgraded and as crazy as that number may sound to everybody, carol, for people who don't live in new york city the price does seem appropriate for this market, but i would bet that "sex in the city" connection probably hurt the market for this townhouse rather than helped it because really who wants to have tourists trying to look into your windows a few times a day? not like that's going to stop. >> especially on the upper east side. >> no, no, it's in the village. >> story. >> in the show it's on the upper east side. we had this belief here. >> i didn't watch "sex in the city." i don't get out.

>> i'll send you the dvds. >> a.j. has all the news on "showbiz tonight" tonight at 11:00 p.m. eastern on hln. if you've been to the sporting event lately you know about the kiss cam, fans kissing on a video board and usually ends by making fun of a couple of guys who are fans of the visiting team. oakland a's pitcher brandon mccarthy does not think that is funny. after a recent game mccarthy went on twitter and he tweeted they put two guys on the kiss cam tonight. what hilarity. by hilarity i mean offensive homophobeia. enough with this stupid trend. he told "the san francisco control call" can't assume that gay people that come to the game are not comfortable with the gag, though in my experience it's not two gay guys but two guys they want to make fun of. that's what mr. mccarthy says and that's what we're listening to this morning. a test pilot prepares for the jim of his life from 120,000 feet up. he would break a record falling at the speed of sound, if he is

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the faculty. rupert murdoch now admitting to a phone-hacking comfortup at the "news of the world" tabloid but says his company was actually the victim and while murdoch wouldn't name the people responsible, he did responsible for not taking more control of the situation. >> i have to admit that some newspapers are closer to my heart than others, but i also have to say that i failed. >> dozens have been arrested in the scandal which forced murdoch to close one of his best-selling newspapers. and there's not much suspense about the top of tonight's nfl draft. the indianapolis colts have said they will take quarterback andrew luck with the first pick. washington redskins are expected to take another quarterback, robert griffin iii, with the next pick. felix baumgartner is not like you and me. he's an extreme sky diver who is aiming to set a world record

with a jump starting at 120,000 feet up into space. think about that for a moment, 120,000 feet. that's like 82.5 empire state buildings stacked on top of one another. this test jump pilot has already lept from a space capsule at an altitude of more than 71,feet, but if he is successful at 120,000 feet, he will become the first parachutist to break the sound barrier. that's how fast his body would be traveling. felix baumgartner is in london. so how do you prepare for such a leap? >> well, we have been preparing for five years just for this motion, and i had to become an astronaut and do a lot of practice in the capsule, trying to make sure i can push all the right buttons in the right order. also had to become a gas balloonist. did a lot of practice jumps in the suit, pressurized and

non-pressurized, and we also did unmanned launches and three weeks ago we did a very successful man balloon launch. right now we're very confident and have a positive energy and want to keep that momentum and take it forward to the next jump. >> you're going to jump from this capsule 120,000 feet from the air, and have you to fall head first. i would much rather fall feet first myself, but i'm wondering why do you have to fall head first? >> well, the reason is we want to break the speed of sound so you have to be aerodynamically perfect and that requires a head first position right off the exit. >> your body is going to be traveling what, more than 700 miles per hour? how will that feel? >> well, i don't know, because i still didn't travel 700 miles an hour, i only did 380 miles an hour in the last test jump. the big problem is you do not feel how fast you're traveling because you have no sensation of speed. you don't have reference points in the air.

the air doesn't make any sound at all and you don't -- your suit is not flapping because it's pressurized so you travel so fast but you don't feel it. >> and you have this special kind of suit that actually stiffens as you fall through the air. explain that to us. >> if you want to go up to an altitude of 120,000 feet you need to have a pressurized suit. the reason why, if you cross the armstrong long which is about 67,000 line, the blood in your body starts poilg and the pressure keeps the pressure with you and it's not going to happen to you, but also at the same time it's very limiting. you have a lack of movement so it's hard to sky dive in a suit like this. it's hard to exit the capsule in a suit so that requires a lot of practicing and that's what i did in the past. >> so i understand you have -- your suit is equipped with three parachutes in case the first two don't work. i mean, is any of that going through your mind as you're falling? i mean, what are you thinking as you're falling that fast?

>> i don't even think about these three parachutes because i totally trust my skills and my equipment and last but not least my team. they did a tremendous job the last couple of years, and there's not much you can think of in free fall because you have to be so focused on what you have to do. just keep in mind right before i exit that capsule i have to go through 45 accepts to get out of the capsule safely. this is a checklist, a very sophisticated check list that we have developed over the last couple of years, and it works. >> i hope it does. thank you very much for joining us, fascinating stuff, and we'll be watching. felix baumgartner, thanks so much. coming up next, the latest in our age against the machine series. we'll tag along with some baby boomers as they get tips on navigating the job market. why? i thought jill was your soul mate. no, no it's her dad. the general's your soul mate? dude what? no, no, no. he's, he's on my back about providing for his little girl.

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baby boomers, an estimated 77 million americans born after world war ii. they are now set to enter retirement, but those who decide to keep on working are finding a very different job market, one where age and experience can help and sometimes hurt. christine romans has more on our series "age against the machine." >> i'm not trying to move up the ladder. >> reporter: vaughn is a 27-year-old telecom veteran with an mba, a baby boomer looking for a job since july. >> if i had to describe how it's been going, well, it's not been very fruitful. >> reporter: she's followed all the advice about networking, resume and online job searches. >> i spend a lot of time looking at jobs, looking and saying is

this something that i really want to do? do i have the skills that this employer is looking for. >> reporter: the good news for e. von, the good news is -- men aged 50-61 are 39% less likely to get a job each month than younger workers. women, 18% less likely and for older workers that number jumps to 50%. glen grossman found himself in von mccann's position ten years ago. >> i had no real opportunities. i got very depresses about it, and, you know, you've got to take control. >> now he is the one hiring. with his background in finance and accounting he started dinosaur securities, pun intended. >> you've got first generations that are working for you? >> any generation, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s.

>> hard to be an out-of-work boomer, and he says sells and contacts count, not age. emphasize that. >> it's not about age. it's about working and just forget about, you know, gender, age, anything like that. >> recruiters see better days ahead for boomers. boomers have experience and less turnover. >> and that means ultimately less cost for the employer, so it's good to have some adult supervision around the office and employers are finally beginning to realize that. >> all right. then, you know, let's start off again. >> von mccann is an adult ready to supervise again. >> it's a new year and i feel like a lot of good things will happen. >> we asked you to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question is climate -- why is climate change such a hot-button issue? i will read your responses after a break.

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we asked to you talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question this morning. why is climate change such a hot-button issue? this from paul. i don't know how many droughts, tornadoes, disappearing ice shelves and extreme weather occurrence it's going to take before some of us realize perhaps there may be something to this climate change nonsense.

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