guard and sing the national anthem whenever it is played. i believe in free speech and the constitution and believe mr. press has a right to his opinion, so long as he reflects on the blood spilled and lives lost in order to afford him this right in america. "in all 68 of my years i had nothing but absolute respect for our country and that song. to bill i say, don't tread on me." i'm carol costello. cnn newsroom continues with fredricka whitfield. hello, i'm fredricka whitfield. it's 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 on the west coast. rally on top of rally on wall street. blue chips building on their 287-point jump yesterday, the best day of the year so far followed by a slump that wiped out the year's gains. here is another nice number. 377,000 first-time claims for jobless benefits. 12,000 fewer than the week before. but that follows measly job growth in may and a slowing

economy overall. don't even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress -- live pictures right now -- what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? >> reporter: it's a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve chairman can't come out right and say anything ahead of the federal reserve meeting which takes place at the end of june, june 19th and 20th. so it's interesting that the expectation was that the stock market would actually rally in yesterday's session on the fact they were expecting to hear something. what he's been doing though is basically sort of admitting there has been slower than desirable growth in the marketplace and there could be

room and the fed has left the door open for further stimulus, though not saying specifically what could be there. rather repeating himself that he's got the tools and, quote, is prepared to adjust holdings as appropriate to promote a stronger economic recovery. so far as you well know, things have been tepid. we had that slowdown in gdp, weak jobs growth. the number you mentioned today, fewer people signing up for unemployment claims is good, but it's not really the best we could see. we've still got that deepening crisis in europe. that's taking a toll on investor sentiment. the market has backed off of the rally we saw. we were up 130 points. they are not seeing exactly or hearing exactly what they would like to from the federal reserve yet about what the fed could do and might do at the next meeting. >> trying to be optimistic. tell us about this fiscal cliff that bernanke keeps referring to. >> that is basically the

stalemate in washington. that's what's frustrating. there are nay-sayers that don't believe further stimulus is going to accomplish anything. what he's talking about is there has to be incentives in washington to get businesses off the sidelines and back into the marketplace, whether it's actually hiring people, which is the intention. that's what they want to see or whether they are going to be borrowing money from the banks. that's the fiscal stimulus, the fiscal cliff we are talking about. we can't stand at this precipice any longer. just for viewers to understand, if we did see another round of stimulus from the federal reserve, that actually indicates that things are worse out there than he might have otherwise felt because of the need for that. it's not necessarily a good thing. it's just a good thing for the marketplace, for investors on wall street because it boosts stocks. >> thanks, felicia, appreciate that. overseas as the violence escalates and new reports of massacres surface, the urgent

focus today for the united nations is syria. the special envoy kofi annan is briefing the u.n. right now on the situation. as the u.n. discusses what to do, russia and china are proving to be major road blocks. the two countries and four other central asian nations signed a statement yesterday saying they opposed outside intervention in syria and iran. let's get straight to jill doherty who is monitoring the u.n. meetings in new york. >> reporter: it's a very serious moment. everybody agreeing his plan simply is not working. new violence, new killings, and that was the primary purpose for his plan. in fact, just before he spoke, the secretary-general ban ki-moon said there were reports of new killings in hamma province. they called them shocking and sickening.

he said just a few minutes ago he heard that the u.n. monitors who were there were trying to get in access one of the scenes but were shot at with small arms. that gives you an indication of what is going on. meanwhile, you have secretary of state hillary clinton. she, although saying we still support the kofi annan plan, essentially she is saying the world community has to look beyond that, to look for a post assad future. here is what she said in istanbul. i guess we don't have that sound. essentially she said that the world community has to look beyond what is going to happen when assad is gone. of course, assad isn't gone. there is no indication he is stepping aside. one of the problems is russia and china continue to not support action. what they are looking for is some type of a conference that

might get all the sides, including iran, together to try to influence both sides to stop this violence. >> jill, we do have another expressed sentiment from former defense secretary donald rumsfeld who spoke with piers morgan last night. >> the idea that sanctions will work as long as iran and russia and other countries are supportive of the assad regime is mindless. the sanctions will not work. the next thing is to do what i said, and that's engage in some covert action, to work with some of the dissidents, try to figure out somebody who would be better than assad and then provide assistance to them. the next step would be to move as they did in libya. >> the u.n. would think what about sanctions? >> well, sanctions right now are one of the only things they can

do. there was a briefing yesterday by the treasury department saying that the world community needs to take even stronger sanctions and that they would argue they are working. assad, according to who you talk to, has spent down half his reserves. what they are trying to do is peel away people who are near him, to support him, to give him the idea their future is very bleak if they stick with assad. that all still though is theoretical because there aren't any signs that anyone is peeling away. >> jill dougherty thank you so much, from washington. more from secretary of state clinton and what she says. she says the existing sanctions on syria are having an impact. businesses are cutting their ties to the region. senior syrian leaders have had their funds frozen and travel curtailed. nobody likes a dusty submarine, but the u.s. navy want onto expect its fleet of vacuum cleaners.

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lizzie o'leary has more on this. >> reporter: what they are trying to do here is poke congress a little bit and raise awareness about distracted driving. this has been the transportation secretary ray lahood's baby. it's his campaign. he's been pushing hard against distracted driving. they are giving extra money to california and delaware to try to have distracted driving awareness campaigns. they are needling congress saying you guys haven't passed a big transportation bill that would overhaul the roads since the eisenhower era. they want to get distracted driving stuff in that, as well. it's two part. raising awareness and trying to get the policy to move a little further along. >> if you look at the facts, it puts the danger in perspective. texting while driving takes the driver's eyes off the road for an average of 4.6 seconds. that's the equivalent of driving 55 miles per hour and going the length of a football field blind, many say. what is the key to getting out

the message that texting is dangerous. people do it all the time. >> about 1-10 fatalities is caused by distracted driving. one of the stats the department uses, some 600,000 people are on a device at some point while driving. we went inside a simulator. i got to see how this looks and feels. it takes about four seconds to send a text. it takes two seconds of taking your eyes off the road to lose the focus and put yourself in a dangerous situation. i more or less rear-ended the fake car in front of me. one of the questions is, all right, there is this tension between education and regulation. how far can the government go in terms of what they ban, how much money can they both give and withhold to states for education campaigns? one of the things we have seen is work with vehicle manufacturers to say if you've got built-in hands-free stuff, i've got to have it automatically turn off while the car is moving.

we seem to be moving slowly in that direction. >> lizzie o'leary, thanks in washington. still not convinced how popular texting is? in june last year 196 billion text messages were sent or received in the u.s. according to the website distraction.gov. do you see it ? there it is ! there it is ! where ? where ? it's getting away ! where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it.

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another quick and unannounced visit to afghanistan today by leon panetta. he met with u.s. troops and commanders as well as his afghan counterpart and delivers a warning to pakistan. cnn's mohammed jamjoon is in kabul. what prompted his fourth trip to afghanistan as defense secretary? >> reporter: this trip was to assess the security situation here. frankly, there's a lot to assess. yesterday there were a number of attacks across the country. it was the deadliest day for afghan civilians this year. you have a twin suicide attack in kandahar city. an alleged nato air strike that happened south of kabul. we heard as many as 50 civilians killed yesterday as a result of these two strikes and these

attacks. secretary panetta also had a very stern warning for neighboring pakistan because he said that pakistan needed to do more to route out the terrorist network. this network the u.s. says has ties to al qaeda. they alleged for some time they conduct cross border raids, come into pakistan to target u.s. soldiers. >> we are reaching the limits of our patience here. for that reason, it is extremely important that pakistan take action to prevent this kind of safe haven from taking place and from allowing terrorists to use their country as a safety net in order to conduct their attacks on our forces. >> secretary panetta clearly putting pressure on pakistan to do more to clean up its act

here. the topic of discussion wasn't just pakistan. there is a lot of concern here because of the recent spike in the attacks that have been blamed on the taliban in afghanistan. secretary panetta acknowledged these attacks. he said there is concern the attacks have become more coordinated in nature, sophisticated in nature, but said they were expecting there would be more attacks in light of the season they are in. this is traditional the season for the taliban spring offensive. it's easier for the taliban to get to different parts of the country. a lot of concern here. because this is a time when more provinces in this country are getting handed over to afghan security forces, a lot of people wonder if afghan security forces have the wherewithal to fully protect this country at such a dangerous time? >> mohammed jamjoon, thanks so much. u.s. has 90,000 troops in afghanistan today, fewer than the 70,000 expected there by fall. jeb bush's name has been floating around as a possible vp

pick for mitt romney. the former florida governor told cbs it's not in the cards. >> i'm not going to do it, i'm not going to be asked. that doesn't mean i don't have a voice. doesn't mean i don't want to support mitt romney. i intend to do that. i'm doing it. i'm not going to be a candidate with him. >> under no circumstances? >> under no circumstances. >> he says he is not ruling out a future presidential bid. he admits this year was probably the right time for him to go for it. meanwhile the conservative political action conference or cpac is meeting in chicago.

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one day. it turns out when justin bieber sings, meghan smiles and even kicks her feet, the only time meghan shows emotion. justin bieber does it. >> makes me want to cry. makes me happy. when she is happy, i'm happy. when she is healthy, i'm happy. it's a pretty big deal. >> reporter: bieber said, megan, you stay strong for me and i'm gonna make sure we meet when i come to portland. love you and thank you." in a revealing interview, michael jackson's only daughter paris is opening up about her dad and her childhood. paris jackson sat down with oprah winfrey three years after her father's dad. >> did you feel that he wanted you to have a, quote, normal life? >> yeah. he did. >> yeah. do you feel that he thought that

that was possible with him being who he was? >> he had his doubts because he told us when he was younger, he didn't have a childhood. he would always be stuck in the studio singing while other kids were out playing. and he wanted us to have that so we would go to chuckee cheese and everything. that was one of our favorite places to go. >> paris talks about her dad's death. she told oprah, quote, it never gets easier. the rest of paris' interview airs sunday on own. "america's got talent" and the popular tv show may have a case of stolen valor. contestant timothy poe appeared this week. the country singer who served in the national guard was being deemed a hero after he shared his tale of battle in afghanist afghanistan. >> my career was ended in 2009.

i had got hit by a grenade in afghanistan and it broke my back and gave me a brain injury. that's the reason i stutter a little bit. >> while the minnesota national guard says poe did, indeed, serve in the minnesota national guard and served one month in afghanistan, they say he did not suffer those injuries. military officials say it isn't the first time poe has lied about his service. he reportedly told another tv station he was shot in iraq back in 2005. now for this week's travel insider. if you're looking to save on your vacation, you my want to consider a stay-cation. we recently found savannah, georgia, can be a fun get away. >> reporter: i realize savannah is only four hours from the

city. we love river street. it has a new orleans feel with southern hospitality and, get this, street drinks. you can stroll along river street with a beer in your hand. besides beer there are tasty restaurants. if you want seafood, i suggest you try fiddlers or tubbies. if you want to take a break from river street's festivities, walk seven minutes to lady and sons, owned by paula deen. i recommend you try shrimp and grits. yum. if you're looking for a place to stay, try bohemian hotel. it is across from the savannah river and the world war ii memorial. just keep in mind, hotels along the savannah river are pricey. so i recommend you stay further out of town to save. from river street from savannah, georgia, jamie maglietta, cnn. >> savannah, a charming city.

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net. that is planted into the computer programming in iran that called the centrifuges in one of their nuclear facilities to speed up and render them inoperable. that is one we heard about for a while. the allegations in this reporting was it was the u.s. behind it. the fbi is looking into that investigation for leaks. we know director muller called for an investigation into the leak last month in yemen. you remember al qaeda and the arabian peninsula had been working on developing one of those underwear bombs that uses explosives that are difficult to detect. we were told intelligence had some sort of person in there who had found this out. the problem with that leak though and that information was that operation was still ongoing. we had this cascading effect of leaks that have come out. the fbi is going to look at those. what the fbi said is that it's focusing their investigations on the source of the leaks.

they have not said they are looking specifically at the white house as the source of those leaks. that's really becoming somewhat of a political football right now. >> there are some on capitol hill who are saying the white house is responsible for the leaks. of course, the spokesman jay carney was asked about that. "any suggestion that this administration authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible." it is a political football, even some on political are asking for an independent investigation outside of the fbi. the likelihood of that? >> there are several investigations looking into it. senator john mccain rarely holds back. today we heard from other senators who said that's just not the case. we don't believe, democrat senators, we don't believe these leaks are coming from the top ranks of the white house.

senator john carey one of them. senator feinstein spoke with our colleague wolf blitzer last night. >> it's dismayed our allies. it puts american lives in jeopardy. it puts our nation's security in jeopardy. if you look at terrorism, intelligence is fundamental to knowing what's going to happen and prevent it from happening in the first place. so i think the fbi should continue its investigation. we are going to do ours. >> she is going to take the lead into this meeting that's going on right now as we speak. james clapper arrived for this meeting. john mccain arrived. he was asked what questions are you going to be asking? he wants to know what happened and the impact on security. >> suzanne kelly, keep us

posted. senator john mccain says the armed services committee agreed to hold a hearing on the alleged leaks. on to the jury selection in a high-profile molestation case. some are young, some are old, some have kids, some don't. have worked, teached or studied or used to work, teach or study at penn state university. 16 residents of center county, pennsylvania, are changing their summer vacation plans today because they've been chosen as jurors or alternate jurors in the child rape trial of jerry sandusky. opening statements are four days away. sarah gannon will be there. she is a cnn contributor and pulitzer prize win ner. this is a very diverse panel, is it not?

>> more than half of them have ties to penn state which should not be too surprising. it's very indicative of this community. judge cleland said from the start a tie to penn state university was not going to preclude someone from making it on to this jury because it is such a large university in a small community. prosecutors used that to try to get jurors from another county to be bussed in. they estimated 1-3 people in this county have some tie to penn state. nine of the 16, 12 jurors plus four alternates have some tie to penn state university. >> it seemed unavoidable except for trying to bring in people from another area. was there another effort to try to exclude penn state people? >> there really wasn't. once jerry sandusky expressed his desire to have a jury picked in this county, the judge said if that's what you want, i'll

give that to you and we'll try to pick a jury in this county. we all expected, including the judge i believe, since he scheduled opening statements for monday, we expected this to take a while. it might be more difficult than everyone thought, and it went quickly. it was done in about a day and a half. >> what more do we know about the expected witnesses and evidence that will be rolled out beginning next week? >> we do expect that the first two witnesses for the prosecution are going to be men who allege abuse that occurred over long periods of time. prolonged abuse. one of them has accused jerry sandusky of being like a surrogate father. he would travel with the family. he was constantly at their home. both of those first two witnesses have accused jerry sandusky of abusing them during sleepovers. that's what we expect for day one for the first couple of witnesses. for them moving forward, there are ten separate cases combined into one for this trial.

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this hour, officials with florida a&m university are meeting with officials to discuss the tragedy of the death of a hazing student. ♪ >> reporter: there is much more to band than just the music for many high school programs. the director of the tri-city high marching band in atlanta says competing a competitive edge translates to big college scholarships for his students. >> parents don't have to fork out thousands of dollars for

school years. >> reporter: and tari roland has good reason to boast. this year alone his band members grossed about $2.5 million in scholarships, offers from a variety of schools around the country. as seniors here prepare for their last performance as high school students, many admit their top choice for college marching band programs was not their first pick. where did you want to go first? >> i wanted to famu. >> reporter: why is that? >> because they have -- they put on a great show. >> they're just a great band. they show a lot of pride when they perform. >> reporter: the famed marching 100 haddist last performance november 11th. they suspended the band program following the hazing death of robert champion. florida a&m suspended the band

through the 2013 year leaving students like danny oliver out of luck. >> i have lots of scholarships to other colleges, but famu never came and auditioned anyone because of the suspension. >> reporter: were you disappointed? >> a little bit, yes. >> reporter: every year there is great competition among colleges to recruit from high schools like the tri-city bulldog marching band. with famu out of the picture, several other colleges are seeing a 10% to 20% increase to auditions giving them the opportunity to be more selective. >> some schools wouldn't seek out the most musically achieving students. they didn't have a chance. famu is known as the school to pull the most dedicated and outstanding citizenship. >> reporter: some worry how the long suspension will affect famu. >> they receiving a lot of talented students made them such a great band. >> reporter: it's all about the talent. and the question, will famu be

able to get the talent back? >> university officials are meeting to discuss the future of the university and they are talking about a proposed anti-hazing plan. george, how serious is this potential measure? >>ing this plan has been in the works for several months. we are finally seeing this board of trustees. they will make a decision and vote on this plan. it's got several different parts. first of all, improving the academic standards to make sure incoming students maintain a 2.5 gpa. also bringing in a compliance officer to oversee the band and creating a new role under the president, an assistant to watch out for hazing and anti-hazing personnel person there, to make sure all employees, all members of the band and students are just not involved in hazing. >> this is a historically black college and university. the marching band is very much engrained in the legacy of famu

and other habcu. with this hazing death this investigation, this suspension of the band program, how much will that impact the legacy, not just at famu, but other schools? >> parents are concerned about their kids going to famu, the concerns about hazing, along with this plan the board of trustees will vote on there is an item for rebranding, an advertising and marketing campaign to fix the school's image given all the publicity since this case. >> you have to wonder if there are parents having discussions worried about, while famu may be doing something about the hazing death, the music program, some students who still want to go to famu, how much is there an expressed concern coming from parents who say i'm wondering if there are other programs within the university that may follow suit? s that may also have hazing? >> we talked to other parents before. parents are paying close attention to what the university does. the university is doing everything it can to make sure,

first of all, it stamps out that culture of hazing and make sure parents are relieved or feel good with their students at the school. >> you wonder how much it will impact recruitment in other schools and colleges on the campus. >> you're seeing other universities get more students. >> george howell, thanks so much. appreciate that. the university's national alumni association will have a support rally and a press conference this afternoon, 3:00 eastern time. they want to make note of famu's achievement in spice of the focus on the marching band tragedy. customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.

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security experts who scouted this out and found their own passwords on this list. realized it was from eharmony and most of them from linkedin. as the economy, the labor market slowed here, people, people -- of people are going on this professional networking site. it's incredible popular. they're adding something like two new users on linked in every second. so that's an awful lot of people who could potentially be affected. it's the world's largest professional networking site on the internet. it operates in loads of countries, 200 countries, 161 million users. so this is about 6.5 million different passwords. you've probably been notified by linkedin if your password is one of them. a lot of them are things like 1234567 which is very bad, not secure. human resources, this is my logon, this is my password. a lot of those are out there.

this is a good time to please change your password. >> what else do you do to protect yourself? change your password and nthen what? >> think about pass phrase. these are passwords, not the user names, too. but a password is a gateway for someone who might be trying to steal your identity. so think of like a string of words or a phrase. change some of the key strokes. don't make 12345 -- hundreds of people have a string of consecutive numbers as their password. don't do that. >> it's hard to remember all these passwords. >> and don't use the password across all your different accounts. you have to have like a little piece of paper folded up in your back pocket all the time. don't repeat your passwords. that's incredibly important. there was a story about how the mitt romney campaign was investigating how whether an old hot mail account of his had been hacked because someone was able -- using the name of his pet, guess his old password. they were investigating that. it made me certainly go and

clean up an old hot mail account. i don't know about you. if it says whitfield2 or fredricka1 for your password, can you change it now? >> i won't do that. i have not done that. i'm like a total technology neophyte but at least i know better than that. christine romans, thanks so much. the password hack is the second piece of bad security news to hit linkedin this week. it's mobile app was caught collecting and analyzing data from user's calendars. they said it seeks permission first, but promised to be more transparent about it in the future. and if your google account gets hacked by a foreign power google wants you to know. you may, in fact, have already seen this warning at the top of your browser saying, quote, we believe state sponsored attackers may be attempting to compromise your account or computer, end quote. google won't say how it detects such things, but you should take its advice and update your passwords and anti-piracy

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ireport nominee, logon to cnnireportawards.com. i'll be back this weekend with a fa face-to-face interview with tim mcgraw. >> for a soldier to have that, to come back from being wounded and giving everything we have for us to be able to live in our home, to get in our car and drive around and go our jobs and have that sort of sense of freedom and security for their family, i can't think of anybody better for a wounded soldier to have. >> he's helping to give away homes, mortgage-free to vets. more on my interview with tim mcgraw this weekend. much more of the "newsroom" straight ahead. don lemon in for suzanne malveaux. thank you very much, fred. i'll see you this weekend. suzanne is on special assignment. i'm don lemon. u.s. stocks are on a roll extending gains from yesterday. meantime, there's a warning today from the fed chair, ben

bernanke, about avoiding a financial cliff. he's telling a congressional committee that lawmakers need to take action before bush era tax cuts and other tax breaks expire. a warning also today from defense secretary leon panetta. he says pakistan must do more to root out the al qaeda-linked haqqani network. panetta is in neighboring afghanistan meeting with the country's defense officials and with u.s. army general john allen who commands nato troops in afghanistan. now to the horrific developments coming out of syria and some awful images that go with what i'm about to tell you, and i have to say the video you are about to see is very graphic. it shows dead bodies, some of them burned, and it's not suitable for children to see. but we feel it is important to convey the brutality of the syrian government crack down. it was recorded near the city of hama which is a hub of opposition activity. witnesses say men with guns and knives walked through this village yesterday and killed 78 people, shot them, stabbed them.

most of them women and children, and we're told men who did this were members of a militia loyal to president bashar al assad. arwa damon is following the lebanon. listen, arwa, is the implication here that someone in the government ordered this massacre? >> reporter: well, that's very difficult to determine given how fluid these various front lines are inside syria, but we have been seeing similar instances horrifically repeating themselves time and time again. what happened in this small village and really, don, it's not more than a few cluster of homes. the death toll according to opposition activists is almost half of this little village's population, but it seems as if the government forces were first shelling it with tanks and then these pro-government thugs, these predominant ly thugs went through carryingi out this massacre and the video is so

horrifying. it shows small children wrapped in burial white. their bodies are covered in chunks of ice or frozen water bottles in something of a desperate attempt to prevent them from rapidly decomposing. the voice says five of the children were from one family. it also says their mother and uncle were killed and in images that we most certainly cannot show, those of bodies that were charred. one of these bodies is described as being a mother cradling her two children. this is what is incredibly disturbing about this situation in syria for lack of a better word to categorize it is these types of alleged massacres no matter who was carrying them out are becoming even more prevalent and many people are expressing their growing concerns that this type of violence is what most certainly is going to ignite that full-on sectarian civil warfare. >> has anyone from the united

nations, any observer there on a mission, been able to see this? have they been to this village? >> reporter: well, we've been trying to actually figure that out because the u.n. -- the chief of the u.n. mission in damascus put out a statement earlier saying that the teams were unable to arrive to the village, that they were either being stopped or turned back at checkpoints. we just heard from u.n. secretary-general ban ki-moon briefing the security council where he said one of these u.n. convoys was, in fact, shot at while trying to reach the site of this massacre. bizarrely, state tv flashed a banner a few hours ago saying that the u.n. monitors had, in fact, arrived on site and let's remember, too, that syrian state television is claiming that this was, in fact, carried out by terrorist gangs. it is saying that these foreign-backed terrorist elements killed nine women and children in this jige. other surviving residents cried out for help and that is why

syrian government troops went in and effectively broke up a terrorist cell. we're getting all sorts of conflicting accounts but one thing remains undisputed, and that is that this death toll is continuing to rise. the massacres are becoming more horrifying by the day, and at this point in time the peace plan is effectively failed, dialogue does not seem to be the way forward. both sides refusing to come to the negotiating table, and the international community has absolutely no plan "b," don. >> you mentioned ban ki-moon. let's listen to him talking about it, arwa. >> and i just learned a few minutes ago that while trying to do so, the u.n. monitor was shot at with small arms. peaceful protesters have bravely persisted in calling for dignity and freedom, yet too often they have paid with their lives. we see too little evidence that the syrian government is living

up to its commitment under the six-point plan endorsed by the security council more than two months ago. >> so you hear what officials are saying, and my question is, is we're seeing lots of protests and demonstrations all across syria today. what about the public outcry after these massacres? >> reporter: well, it's been the same cry for quite some time now, don, and that is what is so frustrating, angering to these opposition activists. they say that these are not atrocities that are happening in some sort of a news vacuum. the world is well aware about what is transpiring in syria, and yet incapable or unwilling to put forward a united front to find some sort of a solution. now, we are expecting some sort of a closed door meeting to be taking place between kofi annan and the members of the security counsel to try to find a way forward, but that most certainly as each day goes by seems more

and more like a mission impossible. >> arwa damon in neighboring lebanon. thank you very much, arwa. what to do about syria is dominating the united nations general assembly session today. cnn's foreign affairs correspondent is jill daugherty and he's watching all that for us. jill, despite all we're seeing in syria, is the security council still standing by that so-called six-point peace plan? >> reporter: they are. and arwa was mentioning kofi an an. when we listen to him, we listened with great interest expecting to hear some sort of plan "b," something, a contact group that might take this forward, but he said actually very little other than saying the world community has to work together. the most interesting stuff that came out of the united nations this morning was ban ki-moon, and he warned, number one, that he said assad has lost legitimacy. that's very important when you have a secretary-general saying something like that. he referred to barberity and he said both sides can't work

together. here is how he put this terrible dilemma. >> syria is at the pivotal moment and so are we. syriaened and the reason can quy move from tipping point to breaking point. the dangers of full-scale civil war are imminent and real. >> reporter: so what do you do about it? now, secretary clinton has been in europe. she was in turkey, and she has been meeting with other members, allies, on this, and what she is saying essentially is we still support the kofi annan plan, but we realistically have to look for a post-assad syria. how is this going to work? and she got into some specifics, but essentially she is saying syria will not be stable. there is no hope until assad is gone. let's listen to her. >> assad has doubled down on his brutality and duplicity, and syria will not, cannot be

peaceful, stable, or certainly democratic until assad goes. >> okay. so what they are trying to do it appears, don, is to get all sides, let's say the united states, the europeans, the arabs, and russia to put pressure on whoever they can put pressure on to bring them together to stop this fighting. secretary clinton herself said we're willing to work with anyone as long as the bottom line is that assad ultimately must go. and, don, you know, as he was looking at this, i was thinking what the u.s. now is trying to say is don't be afraid, russia, or other countries, what's going to come after assad. it's already really, really bad. what you have to do now is just have an orderly -- as much of an orderly transitions a possible, but that seems very far away at this point. >> jill dougherty, thank you

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defense secretary leon panetta says his patience sense wearing thin with pakistan. he warns they need to do more to root out the al qaeda linked haqqani network or u.s. troops will fight back. >> it is extremely important that pakistan now take action to prevent this kind of safe haven from taking place and from allowing terrorists to use their country as a safety net in order to conduct their attacks on our

forces. >> panetta's tough talk comes during his fourth trip to afghanistan. he is there to meet with the country's defense officials and with u.s. army general john allen who commands nato's troops in afghanistan. likely topping their agenda, the training of afghan security forces and yesterday's fair strike on the afghan/pakistan border, but what do we know about the history of the haqqani network and the threat the network poses to u.s. forces? we turn to michael holmes. here is here to explain. let's get started and talk about who is behind haqqani. >> the haqqani network, it's part of afghanistan's tribal tapestry, if you like, the patchwork of various parts of the country controlled by various tribes and they're part of the zad rantribe. there's two sides to this family. somebody wrote they're the sopranos of afghanistan. extorti

extortion, kidnaps, hijacks. there's another side. that's the side that's harming u.s. troops and is the focus of what panetta is talking about there, and that is the militant side. it is one of afghanistan's most sophisticated and well-trained and organized militia groups, insurgent groups, and they carry out the big spectaculars we've seen in kabul lately. >> is that why it's so hard for the u.s. to pin down. >> it is, but one of the main reasons is they have safe haven in northwest pakistan in that waziristan area we talk about. they will come across into afghanistan, they'll hit u.s. troops and carry out these bombings as far as kabul, and then they can go back into pakistan where they are safe. the u.s. has been pushing pakistan to attack them, and the pakistanis say we have our resources elsewhere. it has long been said that the ha can kqqani networks has elemf the pakistani intelligence services on their side. the pakistani intelligence

services using the haqqani network as a proxy militia to fight their interests. there's all this web of complexity and self-interest. >> speaking of a web of complexity, there's a history there. it goes back to the soviet occupation of afghanistan. >> it was the father who was one of the leaders fighting the soviets back in the 1980s using cia supplied weaponry because our enemy's enemy was our friend now, now they've just become our enemy. that complicates things. the russians were the occupiers before, now we're the occupiers. therefore, we're the enemy. the haqqanis are so well organized, they will likely outlast the u.s. presence in afghanistan and it gets more complicated because while they've killed u.s. troops and they're carrying out all this rampage around the place, the u.s. has stopped short of adding them to the list of actual terrorist organizations. why? because if there's going to be a

political settlement at some point, the haqqanis have enough territory and strength to demand a seat at the table, may end up having to talk to these guys at some point. >> and they don't want that. >> we're sort of backed into a corner where we may end up having to deal with these guys who are killing our guys at the moment. it's a very complex political situation there. you can be sure that they will have a role in post-u.s. afghanistan. we've been hitting them, hitting them hard, drone attacks and the like, which again annoys pakistan, but these guys have an ability if you don't keep your foot on their throat, they can regenerate and regroup, very well-organized, quite fearsome people. they're under the umbrella of the taliban but they run their own show. >> you need to study up on these guys. i don't think you know enough about them. >> we've been looking at them for many years. a jury is seated in the trial of former penn state coach accused of molesting ten poiboy. we have a preview of the trial.

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sandusky, the former penn state assistant football coach accused of sexually abusing ten boys for more than a decade. sara ganim is a cnn contributor and a pulitzer prize winning journalist for "the harrisburg patriot news." the jury is seated after only three days of questioning. that seems pretty quick for such a high-profile case. >> it's actually about a day and a half if you really look at it, two full court days, and this was a lot shorter than all of us expected, including probably the judge since he had a lotted this entire week for jury selection, scheduled opening statements to begin on monday and yesterday about 3:00, 3:30 they had a jury seated. and they started a little bit late the day before. it really took them only a day and a half to get 12 jurors and 4 alternates. >> are there concerns about the makeup of that jury considering

half the jurors and the alternates have penn state connections. is there a concern about that? >> i think a lot of onlookers have been talking about that. it's interesting though, if you look at those who were dismissed who did not make it onto the jury, there were a lot of people, a majority of people who went in and either said they could not be fair because of what they knew about the case already or really had some significant ties to penn state university or to witnesses, key witnesses on the case. so we ended up with nine jurors who have ties to penn state and three jurors who have ties to key witnesses, and so that did, you know, it did cause a lot of people to talk, but when you compare it to the people that were rejected, it puts it into perspective. this is exactly what prosecutors had feared when they asked a judge to bus in jurors from another county. they said one in three people in this community have ties to penn state university. and, of course, this case has kind of -- very intertwined with penn state, it's become that way. but the judge wanted to move

forward here at sandusky's request and the first thing he said was being -- having an affiliation to penn state is not going to get you off this jury. it's too small a town and too big a university. >> you know, you reported this earlier on about those so-called love letters that sandusky reportedly sent to some of the accusers. i understand they will be entered into testimony, sara. >> well, what we expect is that the two first prosecution witnesses, the two men that are expected to take the stand first, both will say that they had some kind of a sexual relationship with jerry sandusky for several years, not just one incident in a shower but several years of abuse, and both of them received some kind of letters or notes or cards from jerry sandusky. that's confirmed by people close to them. alleged victim number four, who is expected to testify first, apparently got some kind of love letter, that's what his attorney has said, alleged victim number one, who is expected to testify

second, got birthday carts and notes and they were not of a sexual nature. that's what a source close to him tells me. however, they did include things like the phrase, "i love you." >> i understand there's some information coming in that joe paterno's family has issued a statement and you have that statement? >> yeah. actually it was just seconds ago literal. they were responding to something that came up during jury selection. that jay and sue paterno were on the potential witness list for the defense. they say they'd no prior notice that they were on any such list and that they were not intending to give any kind of comments during the trial out of respect for the process, but they also said the only directive they got from joe paterno before he died in january was to pursue the truth and to defend the honor of penn state. >> sara ganim, thank you. we will continue to follow it. a new report finds democrats and republicans are more f

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red states versus blue states. liberals against republicans. the left versus the right. we know our political views can divide us, but now according to a new study we're more divided over politics than race, class, or even sex. we know those pictures, that's a bitter recall fight that just ended in wisconsin. it's a prime example of how polarizing politics can be. we'll take a closer look at why the gap has become and what issues are the most divisive and the folks who can talk about this from a personal perspective, these two people joining us, john avlon and cnn political columnist. and cnn political contributor margaret hoover who happens to be married to john. so margaret, we started having an affair one night i filled in for eliot spitzer and now you're cheating on me with this guy. >> thanks for outing us right here, don. i feel a little uncomfortable

now. >> is this a little odd for you guys to be on together talking about this? >> actually it's fun for us because now we can disagree with you and we don't have to disagree when we have dinner later. >> so it's -- >> it's a good time. >> you're the new madeleine carville. >> i couldn't fill those shows. >> let's get down to business. pew researchers have been looking at 48 different measures of political values and tracking them over the years. here is what they found. the partisan gap has almost doubled over the past 25 years from 10% in 1987 to 18% today. does this surprise either of you and i'm going to start with margaret first. >> you know, actually it doesn't surprise me entirely. maybe it's because i've been living with an i wandependent f the last three years. we all know the millennial generation are increasingly becoming independents like my husband because they feel polarized from either party really. 22% of them only self identify as republicans, 37% as

republicans, 38% as independents. so it doesn't entirely surprise me. >> john? >> don, what this survey shows is that it's not just you. if you think things are worse than ever before in terms of polarization and hyperpartisanship, it's because it's true. what was stunning to me though is that point you raise. that right now americans are more divided on politics than race, class, religion. that is stunning, and it speaks to the extent to which our politics are starting to look like a cult. it's become a tribal identity rather than part of a civic conversation and it really should be a wake-up call to us all. >> and that's where i might disagree just a little bit with my husband, don, because, look, we should always put these polls and this data in historic perspective and we have come a long way in our politics and in our country. we don't have college campuses riots all over college campuses. >> that's true. >> america isn't on fire. this isn't 1968. we've come a long way. we have tran sended some of the

classic divides in history. >> in your previous comment i think you bring up a good point we need to think about, especially the people in news and also politicians, is that most people are somewhere in the middle and not on the extremes of either the left or right, and i hear minorities, i hear gays saying, you know what? i might consider voting for a republican or a conservative if they were to open up their minds on social issues and the same thing i hear people on the left saying i would consider -- or on the right saying i would consider voting for a liberal if they wanted to control government more and not give so many, this is their word, handouts and that. >> which is what goes to the rise of independents. i sound like my husband on american politics right now, but i want to caution us, too, we talk about polarization as a bad thing, and especially as we get into an election cycle, you know, elections are about

providing clear contrasts for americans so voters have a choice to make. i think we should be careful not to point -- >> but nothing is good when it's extreme. either too far left or too far right. that is no good. go ahead, john. >> well, the problem is we've started to lose our ability to reason together, and this survey shows that. the country, 25 years ago when they began this survey, 86% of republicans felt we needed more environmental regulation to preserve the environment and around 90% of democrats. there was a broad consensus. now that's fallen apart. only 46% of the republicans feel that way now. in large part it's about the rise of partisan media. this constant drum beat every day that starts to make fellow americans feel like enemies across party lines. to start to feel like us against them. that is a negative on our civic discourse. >> i want to get to this quickly because it's in the news, the recall election in wisconsin, an example of how divisive things can be.

republican governor scott walker survived an amercht ttempt to r him from office. he talked about how to move forward. listen and we'll talk about it. >> bringing our state together will take some time. there's just no doubt about, it but i want to start out right away. in fact, next week i'm going to invite all the members of the state legislature, republican and democrat alike, and what better way to bring people together than to invite them over for some brats and some burgers, right? and maybe a little bit of good wisconsin beer as well. >> okay. so listen, can you heal political divisions with beer and brats? could something like this help bring people together? i think so when you get to know someone it helps. i don't know what you think. >> of course it does. this might be wisconsin's version of the beer summit that president obama tried to enact in 2009. of course, it didn't actually lead to much. of course it has to be sincere, but you're right. if there is sincere outreach then, of course, you can get through something. tend of the day i think congress

will never do anything unless their next election depends on it. if the electorate demands progress and demands politicians working together, then i think you have a chance of congress actually doing it. >> i don't want -- >> i'll give you two seconds. >> i don't want to place too much faith in the magical qualities of beer and brats but if you sit down and get to know someone as a person, you stop demonizing people you disagree with and that's a step towards progress. >> no fighting. thank you very much. and he actually looked at you. you remember now nancy would look at president reagan. that's how he looked at you. it's very nice. >> will you vote for me? >> really? >> will you vote for me. i appreciate it. great conversation. >> you, too, don. >> thanks, don. anger on capitol hill. the fbi says someone leaked classified information that could affect national security. t right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town,

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the fbi looking into who leaked classified information about a cyber warfare program against iran. the white house denies it was behind the leak and top gop and democratic leaders are about to hold a news briefing. we'll turn to suzanne kelly, our senior national security producer. what's going on, suzanne? >> reporter: boy, it's a big old mess in washington. i'm telling you, there's some stuff going on. a couple investigations have been launched, actually several. there's a meeting going on that we're monitoring that has senator mccain, senator feinstein, levin, chambliss, they're meeting with the director of national

intelligence, james clapper, to talk about what his ideas are for making sure leaks like the ones we've seen recently don't continue. huge problem. senator feinstein last night telling our colleague wolf blitzer that lives are often put in jeopardy because of leaks, and, you know, as you know, the fib and as you just mentioned, has also opened an investigation. now, their investigation is looking specifically at the cyber story, the story about that virus that was launched against iran and their nuclear facilities. it was a computer program that was kind of cool, it actually caused something to happen. it sped up centrifuges that were then left inoperable as a result of the virus. we're actually seeing the beginnings of cyber warfare here and the fbi is very concerned about how details about information like that could have been leaked out. now, the fbi is not saying that this is coming from the top ranks of the white house. however, that's been a favorite political bone this week and we've heard a lot of senators say that that's exactly where this is coming from. democratic senators, however,

are now coming to the defense of the white house and saying that's not what's happened. >> that's the question. is this just political wrangling or posturing because what can be done? they're having these hearings. will nen get in trouble or will they say this was coming from this particular person, stop it, or will someone be censured or get in trouble? >> reporter: the whole issue of the meeting that's happening is bringing more accountability to bear. you also have to understand the differences between authorized leaks of information and unauthorized leaks. and authorized leaks might be something where the president who has the ability to classify or declassify information says, you know what? we're going to let you go ahead and say this. for example, when john brennan came out recently and said, yes, the u.s. does use a drone program. that was a little bit of a jaw-dropper but that was an authorized thing. what they're looking for now is to find ways to make people accountable who are those irritated government employees or for whatever reason they have for leaking, that they go without permission and leak information. those are the ones that are

dangerous and that's exactly the subject of what's going on with these discussions. how to find those people and then prosecute them as a result. >> and we are waiting word to see what happened during those discussions. thank you, suzanne kelly. we appreciate it. talk about adding insult to injury. the state of colorado is asking the unemployed to pay back money that they were sent by accident. [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day

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some in colorado who are collecting unemployment checks have been overpaid due to the state's negligence to the tune of about $128 million. now the state wants its money back. felicia taylor joins us live from the new york stock exchange. good luck with that. we'll see. what's going on here, felicia? >> i know. can you believe this? frankly, don, it's usually due to some sort of administrative error. it's easier than you think for this to actually happen. for example, a worker might get laid off but if the employer doesn't report it for a wile, that worker may have gotten severance and benefits at the same time. or if somebody perhaps got a new job and they didn't report it right away, then there can be that overlap between jobless benefits and the worker's new paycheck so they end up getting a little extra money. but it's up to the state to catch it and not pay out the money. but because of obviously enormous volumes of paperwork, things just kind of slip through the cracks.

that can happen. most of the $128 million in benefit do come from the state and according to the labor department it's about 2%, 2% of the $5 billion in e rhone news payments that went out just last year. and it happens obviously in much larger numbers in other states. >> oh, boy. >> unbelievable. what happens if someone can't repay? >> well, you know, in this kind of an economy that's probably, you know, a lot of people. so what people can do is apply for what they call an overpayment waiver. the state will look at your circumstances and decide if an individual can actually avoid being -- having to make those repayments. colorado's labor website says the decision to waive repayment is based on your financial situation and whether the person can afford it. they do take those things into account, and, you know, often times they do understand and the labor department basically says that that state, colorado, has a very high repayment rate. so they do take into

consideration what your financial situation is, thank goodness. >> all right. okay. moving on now to the business at hand. >> yes. >> yesterday a lot of people breathed sighs of relief. what about the market today? >> you know, it was still sort of rallying on what was the perception that the federal reserve chief was going to say something about further stimulus as in his testimony before the joint economic committee earlier today. the market wanted to hear bernanke speak about it. it didn't get exactly what they wanted to hear so it backed off of its earlier rally. we were up about 130 points on the dow and now we're up just about 90 points. but nevertheless, the market is still expecting it. there will be some kind of impetus from the fev when they meet on june 19th and 20th that we will hear about an additional help for the economy and that's good for the stock market. >> felicia taylor with good news. thank you. finally, we need it. thanks a lot. ever wonder just how much of the road that you're not seeing by texting while driving? you should not be doing that. one of our reporters took a wild

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massachusetts teen gets prison time after his conviction in a landmark texting while driving case. 18-year-old aaron was found guilty of vehicular homicide texting while driving and negligent operation of a motor vehicle. he was convicted in a crash that fatally injured one person and seriously injured another. when the judge sentenced him to 2 1/2 years on the most serious charge. he served one year in prison. he will serve one year in prison. lizzie o'leary has been following the case and joining us live from capitol hill. lizzie, you compare this to the early days of drunk driving legislati legislation. could this have nationwide impact? >> reporter: it has the potential to set a lot of precedent. one of the things going on here, when you use the drunk driving met fa for, think back to the early days of anti-drunk driving

campaigns, drunk driving education, and that is sort of the model that a lot of educators and also people in the transportation department are trying to use here. it's no secret this has been a real sort of focus of ray lahood, the secretary of transportation. he's trying to draw attention to distracted driving, one in ten fatalities is caused by someone who is distracted. you have about 600,000 people on the road with a hand held device at some point. so this is sort of part of their education campaign, but it's also the reason we use the drunk driving anal si, they're trying to cast this as a public health issue, not so much an issue of government regulation but an issue of public health and safety. >> you wanted to find out for yourself. you visited a simulator to experience firsthand the dangers of distracted driving. so what did you find out? how bad can looking away for a second have to be? >> reporter: it's completely changed the way i think about this. so the typical time it takes to

send a text is four seconds, and if you look away for two seconds, that's enough to distract you. so i more or less rear ended the fake care in front of me, this is this national driving simulator out in iowa. and they do this in cooperation with some folks in the federal government to try to understand the different effects of distraction while driving, not just texting but also other things, talking on the phone. it's certainly a big part of their education campaign, and, you know, one other thing that's going on here, there's a little bit of education and a little bit of needling that's going on here. the transportation department today is giving some money, a little more than $2 million, to two states to try to have more campaigns about distracted driving and so they both have the ability to poke them publicly and give and take away funding to try and get more states to do this. 38 states have laws about texting while driving, and so that's kind of how the federal government is making an inroad here, if you will.

>> so that's what the federal government is doing about -- to stop this kind of dangerous driving because really it's on the local and state level now. >> exactly. it's been, you know, local and state laws. you have a number of laws also that ban novice drivers from using devices. you also have sort of a partnership with a lot of car manufacturerings of who say if you have a built in device that let's you make a phone call, you have to have that thing switch off automatically when the car starts moving. none of these are across the board regulatory steps but they nibble around the edges. >> thank you very much. more than a century and a half after abraham lincoln was assassinated we're learning new information about that fateful day and the young doctor who tried to save him. it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ?

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this is a fascinating story. there's riveting new details from the first doctor on the scene when president abraham lincoln was shot, and it comes from his own long lost report. that doctor was just 23 years old, newly trained, and in 1865 thrust into a horrific scene. here is cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: he was 23 years old embarking on a promising career and attending a happening event in washington. sitting at ford's theater for a production of the play "our american cousin" dr. charles leal also sat on the brink of american history. >> hadn't been out of medical school for long at all and so this was certainly throwing him into the deep end.

>> reporter: a researcher from the group papers of abraham lincoln has just made an astounding discovery. a copy of dr. charles leal's handwritten report on what he went through as the first doctor to get to president lincoln in the moments after he was shot. she believes he may have written his report the very next day. he was in an ideal position to try to help. he writes that at the time of the shooting he was sitting in that balcony area where those tourists are right about there only about 40 feet away from lincoln's box. the fatal shot was fired. he wrote a man of low stature with black hair and eyes was seen leaping to the stage beneath. dr. leal rushed toward the stricken president. one of the most riveting parts of his report is what he encounters as soon as he gets into lincoln's booth. when the door was opened and he saw mairy, she explained severa times, do what you can for him. he wrote he sent one man to get water, another to get brandy. he first thought lincoln had

been stabbed because he had just seen john wilkes booth jump to the stage with a dager in his head. he said lrng's condition was such he knew he would never make it to the white house. the only alternative take him across the street to the peterson house. then they finally bring lincoln into this house in the peterson house across the street and what happens then? >> they bring him in here, and the bed, which is not this bed but they bring him in here and the bed is too small for him. he's a very large guy, 6'4", so to make him more comfortable, they laid him diagonally on the bed. >> reporter: an account that strikes her emotional chord. >> he talks about how the president's legs -- his lower extremities from the knees down were cold and they brought him hot water bottles and hot blankets and a very touching part. >> reporter: he wrote clinically of the president's deterti