study just came out, it was fascinating. it said 66% of women are now ranked career higher than 59% of men. so things are changing. >> yes, they are. poppy harlow, thanks for an interesting story as usual. thank you so much for joining me today. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com it's 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 out west. we've got a busy hour. straight to the news. the plot is kaput. the bomb now a teaching tool. the bomber revealed as a hero, but now, the world knows the straight out of hollywood details of the latest al-qaeda take down. the focus, the leak. some top u.s. lawmakers and others say future take downs could be jeopardized if terrorists now they've been duped. here's what was supposed to stay secret. a mole working for saudi intel

infiltrated al-qaeda in yemen. he volunteered for a suicide mission to blow up a u.s. bound airliner, but then gave the bomb and details to the saudis and other agencies. the man also had info that took out a top al-qaeda operative. so now, i call on nic. what are your sources telling you about the mole, the fallout and the fact the bad guys realized they were duped? >> an arab source told us the saudis are also upset this information has leaked because they have more many acts as part of a network inside al-qaeda and they're concerned this will have a direct impact because this is all playing out in realtime. it's not events that happened months ago.

we also have new details from a counterterrorism analyst who's been briefed directly by saudi counterterrorism officials and he tells us this operation was in planning for months and months and months and the way that it came down was this. that through their intelligence assets, the saudis got indications that a yemeni plot was coming together that would target u.s. aircrafts, so they sent an agent to penetrate that particular cell. when it became clear that plot was maturing and involving a bomb and that it was becoming a very serious and more imminent threat, they say that's when they told the cia about what was happening. we're getting different versions from different sources that this bomb may sbeend have gone an

aircraft and been flown out of the country. if it's the case, that should show the weakness of yemeni security at yemen's airports and we wouldn't know which one, but that is also another concern arise i arising with this new information. >> also, too, we talked a little bit about this yesterday. you know, here in the states, there's been a lot of money put into new standards at the airports. we've had to go through all different types of procedures. so now since this plot has been foiled, we're learning more about this bomb, right? how sophisticated is it? does it look more sophisticated than other bombs and i guess for here in the state, will the tsa and other law enforcement firms be trained on how to deal with more sophisticated bombs if it looks like this one is? >> well, there are a number of things that we are being told about this bomb. from sources in the region. and this is coming directly from

saudi account terrorism operatives themselves. this was the whole thing was directed we're told by the head of counterterrorism in saudi arabia, so it doesn't get much higher than that. but what we're being told is that potentially, this bomb could have been embedded in clothing, but not underpants as before. another item of clothing, a jacket, a coat. that sort of thing. we're being told that the bomb was sort of smaller and more compact than before. we're being told that it did definitely involve as with trying to analyzed before and sort of speculated that it was petm, an explosive substance used before. so there's a lot there that won't be new for agents trig to sort of pick up and spot these bombs coming through at airport

security, but there are new things that we're learning and no doubt will be passed on in training. >> thanks so much. well she is an "american idol" finalist, a grammy award winner and a movie star. jennifer hudson's story definitely captured america's hearts and did it again, but unfortunately, with her most tragic lost. americans shared her grief when her mother, brother and nephew were murdered and today, closing arguments get underway in the trail of the man that prosecutors say killed her family. ted, a lot of pressure on prosecutors there, what can we expect? >> well, prosecution basically has to work around the fact there isn't any physical evidence tieing william balfour to the crime. we're going to hear he threatened julia hudson with this scenario on several occasions. witnesses have testified to that as has jewel ra hudson.

they'll say this is a guy that had the murder weapon in his possession days leetding up to the murder and the car keys of an suv used to depose of the 7-year-old's body, julian king, a car owned by jason hudson. so they have some work cut out for them. they have some evidence here, but they don't have that dna or any physical evidence tieing the suspect to the crime. >> do we know if jennifer hudson is going to be there for this? >> yes, definitely. she's been here every single day of this trial, which has been a lot of long days, but she has sat through it and it has made the difference because jurors, every time they walk in, they scan to see if she's there. i guarantee you, she'll be here today. >> thanks. just let the children go. the desperate plea from the former sister-in-law of adam mayes. he is the suspected kidnapper and killer of joanne bane and

her older daughter. he's believed to be holding bane's two youngest daughters now. two people are now under arrest. mayes' mother and his ex-wife, teresa. both charged with kidnappinging. the bodies were found in mississippi on property connected to adam mayes. teresa mayes says mayes threatened and beat teresa. >> your sister admitted to helping drive joanne and her three daughters from tennessee to mississippi where the two bodies were found. any idea why your sister would do that? >> her attorney called me today and my sister had already made the statement that adam had threatened to kill her as well. >> so you're saying that's why she was involved, because she feared for her own life? >> right. yes, he is a very aggressive, he has beat her several times.

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fullerton police officers and they point to this key moment. the screams and again, a warning. you're probably going to find this extremely upsetting. >> okay, man. i can't breathe. >> relax. >> i can't breathe. [ bleep ] relax. >> i can't. i can't breathe. please! help! >> now, the big question right now boils down to whether that video and other evidence will be enough to bring these two cops to trial. officer manuel ramos -- a judge could make the decision today. the hearing resumes in less than an hour. let's go straight to casey winen. the coroner and the e.r. doctor

testified yesterday. the focus was on how he died, right? they talked a lot about chest compressions. >> that's right. the emergency room doctor who treated thomas after that beating testify that chest compressions was one of the main reasons that he died after that struggle. he talked about how some of those officers had their knees, their legs on his chest and how it became, pointed to the videotape, that it showed it became more difficult for kelly thomas to breathe. his voice continued to get weaker and weaker. he also stopped struggling at one point. let's hear what that doctor had to sate. >> at the point where he's no longer responsive, i believe at that point, he was without intervention, he was, that was the point where he was not going to recover from. he went into a respiratory arrest.

>> now, also, the pathologist testified later in the day and she said that it was a combination of factors. that respiratory difficulty, but also, the injuries that kelly thomas received to his face. the blood as a result those injuries that gathered into his lungs were the forces that combined to prove fatal for kelly thomas. >> so, what is the defense's argument here? >> they're trying to bring up several different possibilities. different ways you can interpret the tapes, those autopsy results. one of the things they're suggesting is that perhaps improper medical care after the struggle that kelly thomas received according to them, may have contributed to his death. also, the attorney for officer ramos, the one who's facing the more serious charges, second degree murder charge. showed point in the tape where officer ramos is not going near

kelly thomas. he's standing, observing the scene. so they're trying to point to different possibilities to persuade this judge not to let these charges go forward. >> and kelly's mom and dad were in the courtroom and just couldn't take it. both walked out. casey? >> that's right, they did. 21 different autopsy photos were shown during testimony yesterday and i got to warn viewers, that we can show unand it's very, very graphic, the purpose of those is to show the extent of the injuries to kelly thomas' body. not just his autopsy photos, but throughout his life. his father did say after the hearing that he was very angry that the attorney's for these officers and officers themselves are blaming everyone but themselves for his death. >> thanks so much. more testimony from the coroner,

the judge may issue his ruling on whether to proceed today.

he is accused of sexually assaulting little boys. now, the case against former penn state coach jerry sandusky is in jeopardy. not only did the prosecution accidentally release the victims names, mike mcqueary, his testimony is now in question. so, sarah, now mcqueary wants to sue penn state. why? >> he only l filed the intent to file a lawsuit, about four pages and doesn't say that much, but

does say if it's a whistleblower lawsuit. he is still on payroll by the university, but hasn't been coaching since the scandal vote in november. not a single game. they took him off the sideline, which they said at time was a security issue because he was receiving threats, but he hasn't gone back. there is a new head football coach and a new coaching staff. and there's no indication that he's been involved with any of that. he hired this attorney last year sometime in november, december and they just filed this intent to file a lawsuit. at this point, it would be speculation what he's going to say, his employment status. >> we also talked about the names of some of these victims got released. how did that happen? >> basically, prosecutors spoke with a -- that included paper work that should not have been included. it was a big mistake.

they took it down up on a public website specifically for this case. national victims groups were outraged, but the attorney told me it was an innocent mistake, it's not ideal but these things happen and the best they could do is remedy it as fast as possible. >> what can we expect today? >> there's going to be some fights over evidence. but also this morning, there was a question for this trial to be delayed. that was made by jerry san d sandusky's attorney who had decided he had gotten so much evidence, but there's no way he can prepare for trial in the next three weeks. he's just getting volumes and volumes of evidence. this attorney, it's not a defense team. it's really just him. there's another guy, but really trying to build it's kind of

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there's definitely always plenty to talk about when the head of the fbi goes to congress. often, tl breaking news such as

an al-qaeda plot that was blown up by a saudi mole and that was the case today as robert mueller goes before the panel. has he said anything yet about the bombshell? >> he has. this committee is taking on a whole slew of issues, but the director did acknowledge it in his opening remarks. first, i should say this was a previously scheduled hearing by the fbi director, but it takes on a whole new significance in light of this foiled bomb plot. we know that the fbi has this device and is analyzing that and that is something that the fbi director acknowledged in his opening remarks. want dwrou take a listen as a point of reference. aqap is the al-qaeda affiliate in yemen. >> aqap has attempted several attacks on the united states including the failed christmas day airline bombing in 2009. and the attempted bomb of u.s.

bound cargo planes in 2010. and of course, we are currently in the bureau are currently exploiting an ied, which is similar to devices used by aqap in the past. >> worth noting that director mueller was just in yemen last month meeting with the president of yemen there. beyond those remarks really by director mueller, the committee has focused largely other issues. outside this committee though, you will note the focus is very much squarely on what is happening in the latest, specifically bipartisan anger and serious concerns by members of both sides of the aisle. they're calling it a devastating leak to the media. top members like the chairman of

the house homeland security committee, peter king, mike rodgers, voicing serious concern this information was leaked to the media prematurely calling for a full investigation and trying to get down to the bottom of how this information got and and their focus, rodgers saying to cnn that this information getting out has the potential of doing long lasting damage to our intelligence gathering and counterterrorism efforts. >> thanks so much. well, the fbi says it's absolutely hopeful that two young tennessee girls are still alive. they're believed to be held by adam mayes. the prime suspect in the kidn kidnapping and killing of the girls mother and older sister. mayes' mother and former wife are now under arrest charged in the kidnapping of joanne bane and her three daughters. george howell is covering the case for us. what's the latest? >> we just saw, there is a

desperate search to find them and obviously, finding adam mayes. what we're seeing now, we got video showing these check points and roadblocks. they're doing everything they can to talk to people, to get any information on where adam mayes could be. this is from whiteville, tennessee, where the family lived. where they were abducted down to guntown, mississippi and again, that's where mayes lived and where we found the shallow graves of two bodies. >> i tell you what, i mentioned this to martin savidge, to you days ago, i had a suspicion, possibly an affair was taking place because the case seemed too bizarre and it looks like information tied to a possible affair is coming out. >> we heard from mayes' center in an interview from anderson cooper and she gave some insight into what you suspected. >> what's in your gut? what do you think went on here?

>> i think there's an affair of some type going on. i just don't know what. >> so, you think he was having an affair with joanne? >> yes. >> does it make any -- is there any explanation why he would kill her or why he'd kill a daughter? >> no. i have no clue why anybody would kill a person. >> now, that we're hearing from her sister who was also adam mayes' ex-wife and we know from the arrest warrant she helped to drive the car. we also heard from mayes' mother and apparently, she saw her son digging on that property in guntown. >> thanks so much. the fbi asks if you have any information that could lead to adam mayes, please call 1-8 1-800-tbi-find.

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if you leave the house, you can continue watching cnn from your phone, your desktop. go to cnn.com/tv. so many of you, the viewer, are unbelievably generous when it comes to donating money for our veterans of war. unfortunately, there's also people that take advantage of that. drew griffin spent months investigating one such company who said it's raising funds for a veteran's chart, bity, but actually, it's making money for itself. in part two of his inv investigation, he exposed how

they raised millions of dollars of your money, but it didn't all go to disabled vets. >> reporter: over the past three years, thanks soth generosity of thousands of americans, the charity has raised nearly $56 million, yet according to its own tax forms, not one dime of that has been used for direct service to military veterans. >> you're the one from cnn -- >> reporter: meet priscilla. we found a small office in baton rouge, louisiana. >> this is for veterans of foreign wars and i really didn't think you'd do something like this. we've agreed to talk to you. >> reporter: so, here is the question -- three years and none of the money has gone to any veterans. while she is the former liaison, it's another group we wanted to

discuss. so the bottom line, you're not going to give me an interview. cnn has been trying for two year to get an interview with the foundation since we began tracking its fund raising. we've gotten angry phone calls, e-mail, promises of written responses and now, a slammed door, but no answer. when you sigh just how this charity operates, you'll understand why. >> we're paying down our start-up costs. >> reporter: they like to boast about the charitable gifts her group gives away and they do give away stuff. stuff the group says they really don't need. it's called gifts in kind on tax forms. instead of giving away some of the $56 million in cash raised over the past three years, dvnf gives away stuff it got for free. in 2010, the group filed this tax form claiming it provided

more than 838,000 gifts in kinds to u.s. vets, a charity in arizona. u.s. vets showed us what actually was sent. 20 pairs of men's football pants. more than 100 chefs coats, 125 chefs aprons. a needle point designed pillow case. two pages worth of stuff the director told us we don't need and take a look at what showed up in birmingham, alabama, where j.d. simpson takes homeless vets off the streets. he said the shipment including some useful items. 2,300 disaster blankets, good for a couple of days use and some cleaning p ining supplies, also included this. >> 2,600 bags of cough drops and 2,200 little bottles of sanitizer and 11,520 bags of

coconut m and ms. >> reporter: here's what the dvnf posted on its website about the work they were doing. >> we send by the truckload items that these centers and shelters say they need desperately. >> reporter: for our veterans who have given so much and now need our help, did they ever ask you what they wanted? >> no, they always call and say we've got a truckload coming. >> everything on the top is a lot of the stuff that came in on the last trauk. the bandages, the lotion. some hand sanitizer. it's unpacked. >> it's unpacked. >> because you don't really have a use for it. these shelves should be filled with this food, not that. >> reporter: do you ask yourself, where's the money? >> after i ask myself what the heck are these people doing stealing from our veterans because that's what they're doing. i don't care how you look at it.

these people have sacrificed for our country and there are some people out there raising money to use and it just makes me mad. >> reporter: executive director j.d. simpson because even more angry when these showed up. more than 700 pairs of surplus navy dress shoes. those are now part of the yard sale this group uses to raise real funds for the things they really need, not shoes like these. here is the question -- she wouldn't tell us why she sent homeless vets in alabama shiny new navy shoes. wouldn't really tell us anything, but the group and its president continue to tell you, the american public is to keep sending in those donation. >> joining us now live out of miami. so drew, this group is essential

hi raising money for itself. >> reporter: well, the group, dvnf, is raising money. they say for vets, but all of the money, kyra, that we've been able to account for goes to a private company adrega arts in new york city. a company that says it fund raises for more than 500 charity groups. we have been trying to reach them along with its subsidiary along with its president equally as long as we've been trying to get ahold of dvnf. we've gotten the same kind of response. angry e-mails and phone calls and no answers as to how you can raise $56 million in cash for vets and apparently, give none of it to the vets. we're going to keep pressing on this, kyra. >> you are, indeed and we were able to get an e-mail sent to us

from the group and i just want to get your response to this, if you don't mind. it says quote over the past four years, the disabled veterans national foundation has changed the lives of more than 80,000 servicemen and women. we equip our veterans with the tools they need to find jobs. we help prevent evictions and care for those suffering from the visible and invisible wounds of war. our fund raising has one goal. to bring hope to the heroes who have bravely served our country. drew, is any of this true? >> reporter: unless they say preventing homelessness, fighting off depression, caring for the troops all involves hand them a bag of coconut m and ms, we have no reason to believe that's true. because as you've seen in our

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so how can you forget the national debt gridlock from the right, the left, in between. we sat back and watched consensus slowly start to dwindle. a disappearing d.c. moderate. olymp olympia snowe at home. >> people are just stunned by bipartisan ship and overall dysfunction. the institution and the political process has become to the point of extreme. >> now, republican dick lugar tossed by his own party, apparently too willing to compromise with democrats. his final words, ideology cannot be a substitute to think for yourself. roland martin and -- are we seeing the death of consensus in washington? >> i think we are.

it's not just a republican issue. democrats will say oh, my goodness, what's happened to these moderate republicans, they're being run out of congress. but the same thing is happening on the democratic side. you've seen several democrats in the house who are blue dogs choose not to run. what is happening in politics when it comes to these primaries that if you're a democrat, if you're a republican, you have to run to the fringes if you will, in order to win the primary. look at senator john mccain just a couple of years ago. that's a fundamental concern and we need to have folks who have the ability to reach across the aisle to have conversations and discussions versus saying let's just fight. zwl dana? >> i have to disagree. he is the likely republican nominee. but look, democrats, moderate democrats especially, they've been run out of the democrat

party but it's interesting because they play moderate. claire mccaskill acts like a moderate except when she goes to washington, d.c. in terms of consensus, it's not supposed to be a cake walk in washington, d.c. that's the whole reason the government's structured the way it is. that's why the senate and house of representatives is the way it is. it's not supposed to be super easy because if it were, can you imagine what we'd have? >> it's not meant to be e zhu easy, but it is a horrible thing when you are someone who tries to break gridlock, then that is how used against you. again, you saw what happened the senator mccain. i have no problem if you're a are republican or democrat and you want to make the argument about getting elected, but then it's like you committed treason because you chose to work with someone on the opposite party.

that spells trouble. >> you're presupposing that we're talking about something that's completely constitutional. if you're talking about nationalizing huge chunks of the private sector, that doesn't really jive nationalizing huge junks of the private sector, that doesn't gibe with what's written in the constitution. there are going to be people who are going to say maybe let's look at the enumerated powers and let's see what the government is allowed to do, and this isn't one of the things that they're allowed to do, so, yeah, they're going to stand their ground. that's to be expected. that's why they're voted in. >> i'm going to take us for a little bit of a turn. we'll have a little fun and then talk same-sex marriage in north carolina, okay? apparently president obama's campaign is holding this contest now. it's going to be a drawing. you come up with your own grassroots group, okay, and you've got to enlist your friends. i think it's five friends, and then the first to do that is actually going to get a tweet

from obama. so here is my question. roland, i'm going to ask you -- >> sure. >> -- dana the same thing, if you were going to enter what would you call your grassroots group and who would you enlist? >> easy, ro's mo, mo, mo, money for all. i would have some music in the backgund. it would be "for the love of money." i need the new jack swing one. i would call floyd "money" mayweather because he just got paid $32 million and since he needs a presidential pardon since he's going to jail in june, he probably would pay well for it. follow that, dana. >> he may not be floyd "money" mayweather for long if he goes up against manny pacquiao. >> lay na kndana knows her boxi. you can pick, grass group roots

for obama or mitt romney. i'll let you choose. >> well, grassroots group for romney. i would call us the 53%. >> and who -- >> that's boring. oh, my god. >> we would go out there and take money from the every man because the 53% of people who pay into the system excluding sales tax. >> no, i got your new song. >> and big belt muck cbuckles ty money. >> no. your song will be flip, flop, flip, flop. >> i have one more question. >> all right. [ male announcer ] fighting pepperoni heartburn and pepperoni breath?

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live pictures now of mitt romney campaigning in colorado visiting kp kofmaufman. it's his first visit as a campaigner in colorado since the caucuses. let's get back to "fair game." dana and roland, we're just getting fired up. now let's talk north carolina and the ban on gay marriage. now, if we were to look back within, i guess you could say within the last month, okay, you've got joe biden that says he's comfortable with gay marriage. you've got former pennsylvania governor ed rendell. he says the president should, quote, man up and take a stand on this, yet the president still saying my feelings about this are evolving on this issue. why is he still evolving,

roland? >> easy. it's called you're running for re-election. look at the map. in 2008 president obama won iowa. in 2009 the iowa supreme court declared a ban on same-sex marriage to be unconstitutional. in 2010 three of those justices were thrown off the bench. you look at north carolina. he won north carolina by 14,000 votes in 2008. yesterday, 61% of the people voted for this. he is in a very tight election, and this election depending upon the state, could be swung by some 50,000 to 100,000 votes. this is a hard core political call. this is not a moral call by him. it's exactly what it is, it's absolute politics. he already said he supported same-sex marriages in '96 but then switched his position when he ran for national office. it's called politics. >> dana, does he need to be giving a clear message and does he need to be in cahoots with his vice president? >> well, i think so. i think he needs to at least give an answer as to where he stands.

this might be well and good back in 2008 or if you're running for state senator but he's running for the president of the united states, re-election, as roland said. i think the community is owed an answer to where he stands. we saw how everybody reacted when mitt romney had to take a couple minutes to get back to lily ledbetter. i'm curious as to whether or not the democrat base demands whether the dnc moves out to north carolina. >> not going to happen. >> i'll let you respond to that. >> it's not going to happen. the commission is going to be in charlotte. and, in fact, the real issue is this here. this is actually a constitutional question. you can't have a situation where you have in some places referendums and then some places supreme courts making the decision. so the california case will likely go to the supreme court and that's, again, where it's likely going to be decided. it's going to be a constitutional question. the president has given an answer. he's not going to move off of that from the evolving because

he's not going to take a position that potentially could jeopardize winning certain states and so he will say, i have given the lgbt community a lot, but he's not going to move you a of that because he knows it could boomerang against him and keep him from winning. >> dana, go ahead. >> well, he said just four or five weeks ago when he was talking about the health care law, he was saying people voted for us, they voted us in and we passed this and so on and so forth. that's been his excuse before. he could say this for this particular piece of legislation in north carolina, but the administration cherry picks. i think that invites more attacks because they cherry pick which legislation and which people's voices they're going to allow to be heard and which people they're going to ignore. like arizona completely come in and go over the will of the people. we'll see what happens in north carolina, but i think barack obama it's been years, it's time he gives the community an answer. >> reminder, vice president dick cheney believed in same-sex marriage but the vice president didn't say anything about it, didn't go against his boss. >> we're not talking about bush.

it's obama now, bush is here. >> follow me here, please. i'm making a point. >> he's gone. >> politicians make decisions based upon politics and not personal. billion clinton didn't want to sign the defense of marriage act but he knew he had to. that's what politicians do. >> maybe he should bring bill clinton back. he could help clean some stuff up. >> and i'm sure after he beat republicans twice, the last thing you want to see is bill clinton back. >> after three defeats in primaries last night, i don't think you can be taking a victory lap right now. >> i'm not. i'm making a point the last thing you want to see is a two-term democrat who frankly beat gop candidates, beat them bad. even after -- >> it won't happen. >> you don't want that. you don't want it, seriously. >> it's not going to happen. >> don't ask are to a beat down when you already got it twice. >> it's okay. >> suzanne malveaux is waiting over here to kick off her news

show. she's shaking her head. that was a good four minutes right there. i just cut them loose and listen to the conversation. >> there's a new segment. it's called bring the funk. >> and i think both of you brought equal amounts of funk to the program. jive a little more funk than dana. be honest. >> dana, roland -- >> we're going to have to come back for a do over. >> that's fair game. >> bring it. >> thanks for watching. you can continue the conversation with me on twitter @kyracnn. cnn "newsroom" with the patient suzanne malveaux begins right now. live from cnn headquarters in atlanta, it's 12:00 noon, 9:00 a.m. on the west coast. want to get you up to speed for this wednesday may 9th. a would-be sauicide bomber turns out to be a mole.

he intifiltrated al qaeda in yemen. he handed over the new improved al qaeda underwear bomb. it is now in the hands of the fbi, but authorities do not know who leaked the top secret operation and why. some lawmakers say future spy operations now could be in jeopardy. a russian airplane is missing. it is just gone right now. a plane just like this one, russia's newest civilian passenger jet. one of the planes took off from the airport in indonesia today on a demonstration flight. it was supposed to return after just 30 minutes. it did not. there has been no contact with the pilot. 44 people were on board. no official word yet what might have happened. and same-sex couples in north carolina facing uncertainty after voters approved a constitutional ban on gay marriages. >> let no one define your marriage for you. >> opponents say the ban amounts

to discrimination. the amendment defines marriage as between a man and a woman. the head of the group that supported the amendment says, quote, we are not anti-gay. we are pro-mare garariagepro-ma. 61% voted for the amendment, 39% voted against it. protesters rallies outside the bank of america's annual shareholders meeting in charlotte, north carolina. what is happening here? the members of the so-called 99% power coalition, she organized this event and they're prote protesting bank of america's foreclosure efforts. protesters say the bank has also hired private security. a bomb went off in syria today near a convoy carrying united nations observers. none of the u.n. team was hurt, but several syrian security people went to the hospital. the head of the observer mission said that the explosion is an example of what syrian people suffer on a daily basis.

36-year veteran of the u.s. senate loses by a landslide. that is right. the defeat of senator richard lugar, it's not really just about one man losing an election. it could be a sign of a lot more partisanship and gridlock ahead in washington. this is at a time when the country is facing tremendous challenges. richard murdoch beat lugar. he had a strong backing from the tea party but in his parting words gug ylugar warninhad a wa. he said his embrace of an unrelentings partisan mindset is irreconcilable with my philosophy of governance and my experience of what brings hults to hoosiers in the senate. he will find that unless he modifies his approach, he will achieve little as a legislator. dana, we're talking about six years ago, nobody even put up anybody against lugar.

now six years later he's out. first of all, how did it happen? >> reporter: well, i think what happened is that senator lugar, all of the things he thought were the good qualities, the reasons why he should be re-elected, his seniority, the fact that he brought home the bacon with earmarks to indiana, the fact that he was willing and eager to work across the aisle on things like the supreme court justices and the fact he has such a history and experience on the international stage and foreign policy, all of those things which he xand on that he thought were good things turned ourt to be -- out to be the exact reasons they wanted him out. they wanted somebody new. they wanted somebody who didn't compromise so much with president obama and the dn democrats. i asked about the fact that not only with him gone but other republicans, what exactly that means for washington.

you look across the country, republicans like you who have lost in republican primaries have lost in many respects because they've done too much reaching out across the aisle. does that concern you? >> well, unfortunately, it concerns me that people don't understand the legislative process. some people say, well, we do understand it, and by golly, we're going to wait until we have a majority in both houses, the white house. whether it's two years, four years, six years, but the country has to keep going in the meanwhile. >> reporter: so, dana, first of all, explain to us, he's just the latest in a string of moderate senators who is not going to be returning. you have olympia snowe, joe lieberman, ben nelson, kent conrad among others. how does this set up the tone? does the tone change at all in washington and specifically in the senate in terms of whether or not folks are going to be able to get things done? >> reporter: there's no question

that it will change the tone, a tone as you mentioned that was already changing. you just ticked off some of them, we've counted about half a dozen centrist senators, democrats and republicans. they won't be there next year, and it already is incredibly divisive. with somebody like senator lugar gone, it just adds to it. there is no question about it. that is why he released this pretty extraordinary three-page statement. you read from some of it. just as he was walking off the stage warning from his perspective that bipartisan is not a dirty word and that republicans and democrats should not be as intransigent. not clear if anybody is going to heed that warning. >> for folks watching at home and they're wondering what does this mean for me, are they specific policy that is might change or even things that might be abolished because you don't have any kind of bipartisan cooperation? >> reporter: i think the biggest thing that we're looking for and looking towards in the future is

what's going to happen with people's social security, with people's medicare, these big, monstrous programs that are in big financial trouble, particularly medicare, that you're going to need bipartisanship on. you're going to need people willing to take big political risks in order to get things done and make those programs solvent. whether or not that can happen with not only divided government but divisive government, that's something people need to be thinking about big time at home. >> the strength of the tea party here, it certainly seems to be a real factor in lugar's defeat. are there moderates on both sides who should look at this and say, you know what? we're going to have to modify our agenda here because tea party folks, this he want limited government, and they are clearly gaining some sort of traction here. >> reporter: well, it's interesting. i think actually in this particular case with senator lugar, there's no question the tea party came in big time here in indiana with money, with manpower to help his opponent,

but this really seemed to be more of a referendum on senator lugar, his longevity here, the fact he didn't necessarily vote the way they wanted. you look at other republicans, for example orrin hatch in utah, who is tied for senator lugar as the longest serving republican senator, he did tack to the right. he tried to do whatever he could in terms of his votes to fend off the tea party challenge, and ultimately it looks like he will prevail. that is not something that senator lugar was willing to do. >> all right. dana bash, thank you. as always, dana. we know president obama has the democratic nomination all locked up, right? but an opponent who is locked up gave the president a run for his money. that is in the west virginia primary. i want to bring in paul steinhauser with the details. this is something a lot of folks are talking about because it was a little weird, a little surprising what happened in west virginia yesterday. >> yeah. a meaningless primary because the president has it all locked up. nice line on him being all locked up. >> can't take credit for that

one. >> it's a good one. here is the story in west virginia. according to the unofficial results from the secretary of state's office, right now according to the latest count, a guy called keith judd, we have a photograph of him, he's a prisoner down in texas serving 210 months, a sentence for extorti extortion, he has just over 40% of the vote in west virginia right now according to the latest numbers. and it's just proof that president obama does not do well electorally in west virginia. let's go back four years ago when he was running for the democratic nomination. he lost the primary to senator hillary clinton by 40 points and he lost the general election to john mccain. here is another example, a meaningless primary, but somebody who is never going to go anywhere in this election grabbing 40% of the vote in west virginia. >> really just kind of unbelievable there. the state the obama carp should be more worried about, that is north carolina. i remember in 2008 when he made history, the first democratic presidential candidate to

capture the state since 1976, but yesterday's primary you had about 20% voting no preference instead of voting for president obama. should the white house be worried? >> exactly. a good point because west virginia is not a state they're going to try to contest in november. they don't feel like the president can win it. but north carolina, of course, that's where the convention is going to be as well, a battleground state they would love to recapture again this year. 20% saying no preference, 80% going for the president. another meaningless primary. i spoke to somebody close to the obama campaign, the re-election campaign in chicago. they point out that the president did better in north carolina. he won 80% of the vote, than mitt romney did in a meaningless republican primary, romney only winning 66% of the vote there in north carolina. regardless of the results last night, president obama is going to have a tough time taking north carolina again in november. >> it's a state we're going to be watching very closely. thank you, paul. good to see you. >> thank you. here is a run down of some of the stories we're covering.

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they've got super high unemployment, high taxes, massive debt. all this combining to create a national economy that's quite unstable. it is unpredictable. greece might soon have to get out of the 17-nation eurozone. i want to bring in michael holmes to talk about this. first of all, it's simply a group of countries that all use that common currency. >> the our row. >> the euro here. if greece decides to bail, get out of the eurozone, not use it anymore, go back to its original currency, what does it mean for us? >> it's complicated whether they can do it, even get out of the eurozone. when they formed it, there was no mechanism for a country to leave it. they could be what's called an orderly exit with 12 to 18 months. they could have a disorderly exit. greece would become an economic basket case. why do we care? it could happen in portugal, it could happen in spain. spain is a massive economy within the eu. what happens in europe does flow onto here. european and u.s. economies are

incredibly intertwined. they account for half of the world's gdp, a third of the world's trade. we talk all the time about how important trade with china is. trade with europe is three times what trade with china is, and the u.s. needs thoet exports to keep its own recovery going. so it's sort of dominos here. >> michael, the euro is, what, 12 years old or so. a lot of travel back and forth in what we do to europe, and every time i go, the dollar, the u.s. dollar, is worth less and less. how do we reverse that? >> it's reversing at the moment because of what's going on in europe. the euro is actually going down at the moment. if you were traveling down, you would get a little better value for your dollar if you go to the europe right at the moment. but it is true. it's like any currency. you go to australia, now the australian dollar is worth a little more than the u.s. dollar depending on the day. that's just the way it is. >> for folks who don't travel, how does the euro affect them?

>> it will affect them in what they buy because of the trade. when with buy stuff from europe, and we buy a lot of stuff from europe if the euro is stronger, it will cost a little bit more here. it will hurt people here sitting at home when they go to the store and they buy anything from europe. it is incredibly intertwined. the u.s. recovery is largely dependent on europe not going down the drain which it's not going to do but you have serious troubles in greece. serious troubles in spain. watch spain. we talk a lot about greece because of the political problems that are going on there. keep an eye on spain. much bigger economy. >> is there a possibility that this whole thing could implode and these countries go back to using their local currency? >> right. >> the franc and the mark and the lira and all that? >> i don't think so. it's way 2002 intertwined. and it is a strong union when it comes down to it. you just have nations suffering like other nations around the world are with the economic

crisis. greece had the most generous pension payments. you could retire at 50. it was the giveaways. >> nice. >> nice, but came time to pay the bills, they can't do it. if greece left tin a disorderly fashion, overnight everything would be worse 80% less. it would be an economic basket case. it does matter to us. and it matters also to barack obama. it becomes part of the election year thing, too, because if what happens in jurp does slow down the recovery here and the u.s. economy starts to falter a little bit because it's europe's fault, he'll get blamed. >> and he's trying desperately during this election season to essentially say i'm the guy to stick with because we are doing better. >> that can get impacted if this goes worse. >> michael, thank you. good to see you. hear why the naacp thinks that new voter i.d. laws are suppressing the minority vote. i'm going to talk to the head who is hosting a huge voter

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so when i was a white house correspondent, there was some strange mementos that could go missing when we were with the president on air force one. here is piers on conan o'brien. >> you collect toilet paper do you not? >> only particular toilet paper. >> oh, that's normal. >> i have her majesty the queen's toilet paper. i went to buckingham palace for prince charles's 50th birthday. you know, when in rome. >> when in rome steal the toilet paper? >> yeah. >> that's not the saying.

>> that's all right. that's all right. we'll give piers is break here. you don't hear much from ron paul but he's still very much in the presidential race. earlier on cnn our carol costello asked him why. >> well -- >> lost our sound there. essentially he was talking a little bit about how he wanted to influence the conversation for the republican convention, how he wants to bring libertarian issues to the forefront even if he is not the main guy. want to bring in our political panel, lenny mcallister and robert zimmerman. let's talk a little bit about ron paul, first of all. do we think, lenny, that he really by carrying forward some delegates in the convention, that he's going to be able to change the discussion or the agenda? >> he will be able to change the discussion, suzanne, and it's not necessarily because he'll have these delegates. it's because he's been running out there as a presidential candidate for several cycles

now, and he has a genuine following that hasn't gone anywhere. he has a following that is very much tea party. they were tea party before there was an actual tea party over these last three years. they will have a say-so. now, the question is how much of a say-so, but people will listen to them. people will follow what they're saying, and they're going to have a plank in this platform somewhere. it's just a matter of how big of a plank and how big after voice ron paul is going to have moving into the summer. will he of much of one after the summer? possibly not, but he will continue to have one within that strong but small group he has of supporters. >> go ahead, robert. do you think it's pretty smart politically he's staying in the conversation, perhaps to get a speaking role out of all this? >> from perspective, i'd pay for his air time. his articulated positions are so extreme and irresponsible, his giving iran a pass at having nuclear weapons and his other

positions on the economy domestically, he not only hurts his own credibility but given too big an audience he can pull the republican party off message and hurt the credibility that the republican party is trying to build. >> do you think that's true? do you think he's pulling them away from the main focus? >> no. because if you look at the issues in regards to the national debt, the ron paul supporters were talking about this years ago before the republicans or the democrats were talking about this in the mainstream. they were the ones that initially brought this up into the conversation. they took hold of a lot of segments of the tea party element and got this in a conversation to the point we were discussing this full bore in 2011. this is something that the president and governor romney both have to answer to. you have to thank the ron paul supporters for a lot of this when it comes into the national conversation. they could be something that could save the country as a result. >> the reality is it's all well and good to talk about the national debt, but their sol luths is to dismantle the federal government and that's where they're going to have a problem when they start talking

about dismantling the environmental protection agency or consumer protection or programs that benefit students or small businesses. that's where they have a real risk. the reality is you may be right, he might fit into the republican party agenda because ultimately that convention is going to be like an anger management therapy with all the competing temperments. >> here we go with that again. >> let me turn to senator john mccain. he's criticizing president obama saying that he has been bragging about killing osama bin laden. let's listen. >> well, i think one of the things, and i hope this isn't viewed in the wrong way, but, you know, heroes don't brag. heroes don't brag, and his continuous bragging about taking out bin laden, you know, most of the guys i know would say let somebody else talk about that. >> lenny, do you think that's fair? i mean, president obama was -- not obama, i'm sorry, president bush was before that mission accomplished prematurely before

the end of the iraq war and essentially everybody wants to talk about -- highlight their accomplishments. >> yes, and to be fair, if you look at the mccain/bush dynamic over the last ten years, i would have to imagine that senator mccain wasn't too thrilled about mission accomplished either. i think there's something to be said about this, but at the same time when you're rubbing fnninge post of commander in chief, there are instances you have to show you're an effective commander in chief. i have no problem with him taking credit and showing this is something he did a as commander in chief. it is one accomplishment. we have to look at the record over four years. we have to look at how he's dealt with iran, how he's been able to continue our relationship with israel and how we move forward there in addition to the national economy there. if republicans focus too much on foreign affairs, they're going to have a harder argument to make. they need president obama from a political standpoint to not talk so much about foreign affairs and get back to the economy. that's where obama's weakness is

and that's where governor romney needs to attack this president on if he wants to get elected in november. >> roobbert, i want to bring in the issue of rick santorum. he was on jay leno explaining why it was in the 13th paragraph of this endorsement of mitt romney, kind of buried the lead there, that he was eventually going to support him. here is how he explained it. >> i have some concerns and i voiced some of the things i thought were important for us if we were going to be successful in this general election that he would take the cudgel and run with it. i felt comfortab abable after t meeting. we decided to put it out late at night so it would be the first thing people would see in the morning. >> robert, do you buy it? >> if he was so concerned about getting it out there as the first thing, remember, he put the endorsement in the 13th paragraph. let's be real. if senator santorum could have used a carrier pigeon or if the telegram existed, he would have tried that tactic. this was the most haunting, halting type of endorsement i think i have ever seen from a

serious presidential contend mother didn't get the nomination. it was obviously very -- he was very conflicted about it and gave it with great hesitation. >> does it make a difference he was conflicted or he hesitated. ultimately he got it. >> it makes a difference in may. what the message is moving forward though is governor romney, you need to get fervent support from the conservative base, not just de facto support from the conservative base. and in order to do that, these are the things that you need to do. in that regard it was a good move by senator santorum to make sure that there were certain things that were spelled out to basically give a road map to governor romney to say, listen, in the months that you'll need to fire up the conservative base to not just vote for you but to get other people to vote for you, to convince independents, you need to do these things and speak to these issues in order to get us fired up to get you elected in november. in that regard it's a good move. it may seem swishy now, but we're not worried about how it looks in may.

we're worried about the results in november. >> suzanne, lenny's comments and rick santorum's e-mail goes back to my original point. that republican convention is going to be an anger management therapy session for the right wing. >> no it's not. they're angry at president obama for what he's been doing and they're going to take that anger out at the ballot box in november. >> i think they're angry at each other. >> do you think they'll be swearing sweater vests? there was a moment on "leno "wtion when san t" there was a moment on "leno "wtion when san t" when santorum give him the sweater vest. >> and they are going to be using the child labor to create the sweater vests. >> do you want to come back? >> i'm not going to get into that. president obama has enough issues to worry about in regards to flip-flopping and backing away from things and staying away from north carolina. as long as they're not wearing sweater vests in the middle of the summer in north carolina and florida, i think everybody will be okay. >> rough crowd there. rough crowd. all right.

lenny, robert, good to see you both. >> good to be with you. -hear why the head of the naacp thinks new voter id. laws are suppressing the minority vote. why he's hosting a voter drive in atlanta today. (spoken in mandarin)

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counted only if the voters can produce a foe sow photo i.d. wi days. they argue showing photo i.d. is an acceptable part of everyday life. i'm joining by naacp president ben jealous. you're kicking off this voter registration drive here in atlanta, but it's a nationwide campaign. you have compared these new voters i.d. laws to jim crow, and there's some people who say, wait a minute, that sounds a bit extreme, that this is a scare tactic. why do you make that kind of comparison? >> sure. first of all, let's start with the fact that we're actually still dealing with jim crow voter suppression laws. just put back on the books in florida pushing 500,000 voters off the roll. they were put in place as a wave after the civil war for the express purpose of suppressing the black vote. so we are still dealing with jim

crow voting laws right now, but these voter i.d. laws are like jim crow because it put the first financial barriers between somebody and casting their vote that we've seen since we got rid of the poll tax. >> how so? >> somebody has to pay to get their i.d. or they have to pay to get their documents to get the i.d. the state says the idea is free but you have to go get your birth certificate and you have to pay for that. we have a doctor in rural south carolina, dr. williams, has belonged to the association, her family, for two or three jen rags. she spent thousands of dollars hiring lawyers, working with her patients in her medical practice to help them get i.d.s because these are rural folks born to midwives, too poor to own a car. their midwife didn't make sure they got a birth certificate when they were born decades ago. they've been too poor to get a car so they don't have a current

driver's license and they're literally getting them documentation just so they can vote. >> help me understand this because documentation and photo i.d., it's a normal regular part of life living in the united states. isn't there assistance for folks so they can comply with these laws and they can actually vote? groups like the naacp can help people actually get that kind of money, the funds, to produce an i.d.? >> just think about that, right? we're back to the naacp having to help people get the money to vote again. it's insane. we're a free country. in every western democracy voting is free. in fact, in places like the uk it follows you where you go like selective service does here. we can actually expand the vote and secure it at the same time but that's not what they're trying to do. this problem they say we have of people impersonating voters, the republican lawyers association did the most extensive survey. they found 350 cases out of tens of millions -- hundreds of millions of votes cast over 15 years, maybe 20 daysescases a y.

many states haven't had a problem in the past several cycles. you have to ask yourself why are you making it harder for millions and millions of people to vote to stop maybe 25 cases in the entire country in an entire year? the question is the impact and the impact is that we know that for instance three-quarters of young black men in some cities in the midwest don't currently have an up to date valid i.d. we're saying to folks go out and get your i.d. we also know it's going to be much harder for them to vote. >> people inside the obama administration are very concerned they don't have the same kind of enthusiasm moving forward when it comes to black and latino voters. is this a campaign, an empt to get people to vote, or is it a campaign essentially to vote for obama? is this a re-election campaign? >> we don't work for this candidate or that candidate.

we work for people to make sure that they can vote. we were out here fighting voter suppression when it was democrats doing it. now we're fighting voter suppression when in most cases it's republicans doing it. you have peep out there who have a partisan goal on the other side. they have targeted so-called battleground states like florida, like georgia, like north carolina, like pennsylvania, trying to push these through. we saw governor scott walker first push through voter i.d. and then saying they're going to shut down licensing stations in ten of the poorest areas. the naacp is 100 years. what we have seen in the 100 years is whenever we have a massive expansion of the vote, it's followed by a backlash. it happened 50 years before we started right after the civil war. it happened 50 years ago during the civil rights movement, and

now it's happened again following the breaking of the color barrier at the white house by the largest most diverse presidential election ever. >> you're saying there's a backlash at this moment. effectively -- >> i'm saying we're fighting people who are partisan but we're not partisan. >> before november what can you actually do? you know the justice department is obviously taking on some of these voter i.d. laws, but before november, is it better, is it more effective to simply try to help people get their i.d.s or are you trying to change the law? >> before november we are fighting attempts to change the law wherever it happens. before november we're pushing doj to invalidate unconstitutional laws and laws that violate the voting rights act across the country. most importantly, before november we're signing up as many people as possible to vote and getting them to commit to turn out and vote because the reality is that, look, 40%, 50% of this country in a given year who are signed up to vote may not vote. so that we know that we can overcome these hurdles if we

push more people to get signed up to vote. we push more people to turn out and vote. >> ben jealous of the naacp, good to see you. taking to the streets to take on big banks. we're going to find out what's going on at the bank of america that's got all of those protesters fired up. also, don't forget, you can watch cnn live on your computer while you're at live. head to cnn.com/live. re's big n. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you can save on your monthly prescription. [ male announcer ] dosing and application sites between these products differ. women and children should avoid contact with application sites. discontinue androgel and call your doctor if you see unexpected signs of early puberty in a child,

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we've all heard about occupy wall street. what about occupy the bank of america? there are protesters outside the headquarters in charlotte, north korea. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange to talk about why are they demonstrating against the bank? >> they have a few gripes withbawith bank of america. we are talking about that 99%. they're back in a big way and taking aim of bank of america outside the charlotte headquarters. they're called 99% power

coalition, and this is happening right between b of a is holding their shareholder meeting. one protester, suzanne, calls b of a the worst of the worst. they want bank of america to cut prin principle payments. ther ca they're asking for the ceo's pay package worth up to $7 million, they want that pay package voted down. >> alison, you have these demands, you have protesters outside of the building. do we think that there is going to be any kind of impact here? are they going to affect the ceo pay vote after all? >> as far as the ceo's pay, good luck with getting shareholders to vote that down. shareholders are probably going to okay that big pay package for ceo brian moynihan because the way they see it, they see that $7 million as actually one of the lowest pay packages among bank ceos even though 7 million bucks seems like a lot to you and me. moynihan took a $3 million pay cut. he made $10 million the year

before, but one analyst says moynihan actually ranks as one of the worst big bank ceos because you look at how bank of america's stock performance has been, shares are down more than 40% under his leadership, and this is even after the recession, but to be fair, other ceos, they're having a hard time, too, in the face of tougher regulation, lots of problems in the mortgage market. many people don't shed any tears over that situation, suzanne. >> millions of dollars there that those guys make. and we're looking at the stock market here, alison. triple digit loss again. >> it looks like it could be day six down for stocks. investors, suzanne, they're nervous about this political situation that continues to brew in greece. greece right now still trying to form its new government. there are lots of questions as to when that new government is in place. will it throw that entire bailout agreement -- will it be

thrown out? it throws it into question. will it be renegotiated. a lot of uncertainty. that doesn't breed much confidence. also not a lot of economic news coming out of here in the u.s. the to he cuss sitting squarely on greece's issues and we are watching the dow fall 105 points. >> alison, thank you very much. women are fast becoming the richer sex in the country. >> i'll see you tonight. >> i'm out the door by 7:45 and on my way to work and that's when dave takes over full time. >> you're tired and hungry. >> find out why mom is the breadwinner and dad is at home with the kids.

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working women are becoming richer, so much so that almost 4 fought of 10 wives earn more than their husbands. this is a growing trend and it's fueled in part by the recession. poppy harlow talked to two couples where the wives were the bread winners, the husbands stay-at-home dads. >> who earns more? >> i do. >> by a wide margin. >> reporter: welcome to life with the weddies and the landrys. >> bye. >> i'll see you tonight. >> i'm out the door by 7:45 and on my way to work and then that's when dave takes over full time. >> you're tired and hungry. >> reporter: professional stay-at-home dads and their working wives bringing home the bacon. >> we have a little star tower that he loves. >> he has little cars, hot wheels. >> reporter: did this take mental adjustment and deriving

your worth from something other than your job? >> yeah. there would be days when i would be at the supermarket amongst all the other moms shopping and i'm thinking, i'm home, they're home. i should be working but i'm with my kid. what do they think of me? >> reporter: nearly 40% of married working women in the u.s. now out earn their husbands. a trend that's been steadily increasing since the late 1980s. that despite the fact that women working full time still earn a median wage lower than men. >> women are on track to become majority breadwinners in families where women work, and most women do work. if we keep going at the same rate, by 2030 a majority of working wives will outearn their "headline news." >> liza mundy is the author of "the richer sex." >> the recession happened, my job started to become harder and

harder, and she was making more. >> reporter: today 57% of college students are women and more women are getting master's degrees and ph.d.s than men, which is translating into higher paying jobs. do you think we're seeing a societal shift here, something pretty dra mat snik. >> i think so. it's just that the recession put a lot of people out of work and it gave women the opportunity to say, look, i have gone to college, i have -- i can do this, i'm going to prove myself and men now have to prove to themselves, to the world, that anyone can stay at home with their kids. >> i think the recession also taught people that your job doesn't define you. and if you do, it will crush you. >> reporter: does this mean the downfall of men? >> it by no means is the fountainfall of m downfall of men. you're not trapped by that job you felt you had to take to support your wife and children.

>> i know these wives even talked about giving their husbands paid vacation days. >> it's absolutely true. stephanie and bret do that. she works in technology for at&t and she gives him paid vacation weeks off. the more he works at home, the more years, the more vacation he's going to accrue and then the other couple heard that and they thought that's a great idea. i wouldn't be surprised if they started doing that, too. but on a more serious note, when you look at the numbers here, this really interesting study just came out from pew. what it showed is 66% of young women age 18 to 34 now are ranking career high on their list of life priorities and 59% of men are. and that's a huge reversal from the '90s when men were way move women in that. now women more are ranking career higher. things are changing. it's a new world. >> dynamic changes. absolutely. a little more equality it looks like hopefully. how does this impact some of the families you talk to?

>> that's the question. these were incredibly well-adjusted families. the husbands are very happy doing this. the wives are very happy doing what they're doing. i pressed then a lot. i said, come on, is it difficult to explain to relatives or more traditional parents? one of the couples said it was a little to explain to my father who was surprised by this, but, no, they're both photographers, so they both do work. they just don't work every day. they work weddings and that sort of thing. but they seem and i spent the whole day with them, very, very well adjusted to this. at the same time as an experiment when i was at the airport flying back from atlanta i talked to different people and thought them what they thought, would they be okay as a husband staying at home, most of the answers i got was, you know, i would like to say i am, but i'm not really there yet. i think these are unique couples. >> still evolving there, still changing. poppy, great story. good to see you. this is something you'd expect to see in a james bond movie except for the spy story we're about to tell you is very real. the man who pulled it off may

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talking about a spy bombshell. we now know it was a mole who infiltrated al qaeda, walked off with a sophisticated new bomb built by the terror group in yemen. many u.s. lawmakers are angry now that this information was leaked. barbara starr is following this from the pentagon, and i understand that you've got some new information about this. >> reporter: we do, indeed, suzanne. cnn has just learned that the u.s. intelligence community has now begun its own review of all of this, trying to determine if there was unauthorized disclosure of classified information about this entire situation. james clapper, the director of national intelligence, oversees thousands of people, millions of

dollars in work, and he is now ordering a review across all 16 intelligence agencies trying to figure out if his people had any role in this getting out. this review, however, quite interestingly, will not include congress, the white house, or the national security staff because they're not part of the intelligence community. but it's just another step in how concerned the administration is about this information getting out, suzanne. >> how damaging do they think this leak was? >> reporter: well, the question remains to be answered, but look at it this way. we know, as you just said, this is a mole that was put in place apparently by all accounts by saudi intelligence right into the heart of one of the most dangerous elements in the al qaeda organization, and he managed to get the information that was needed and walk off with that sophisticated device which is now being analyzed by the fbi. the saudis perhaps themselves are making it very clear that he

was under their control at all times, that the device pose nod threat to u.s. aviation, about you this now sheds light into saudi intelligence operations, which are so sensitive, u.s. intelligence operations, and what the u.s. does and does not know about al qaeda in yemen. these should be some of the most closely held secrets of everyone in the intelligence community, and it's all out there right now. so it remains to be seen whether folks determine that permanent damage has been done or perhaps, just perhaps, there are people out there that were happy to get the information out and let al qaeda know that the saudis and the u.s. know what they're up to. suzanne? >> barbara starr out of the pentagon, thank you, barbara. we're going to take a quick break. we'll have much more. just takie of all our different items in our festival of shrimp so we can describe them to our customers. [ male announcer ] red lobster's festival of shrimp starts now! for just $12.99, pair any two of 9 exciting shrimp creations like new barbeque glazed shrimp or crab stuffed shrimp.

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