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his last. it's in the very last line of his report that dr. leale fin finally seems to be absorbed in what happened with his nation. he writes, we all bowed and the reverend dr. gurle y suply kated to god on behalf of the bereaved family and our aflitted country. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> top of the hour. i'm don lemon. you see lawmakers are trying to figure out who is apparently leaking classified information from washington, they're saying from the white house. let's listen to senator dianne feinste feinstein. >> -- in the senate authorization bill which has not been completed. the house has completed their bill, but we have not, and so we will work with the house membership on language that can be acceptable to both sides to codify a certain process which we hope will be more efficient in retarding leaking and also
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being able to stop it and also being able to evolve more tools to control it and where it cannot be controlled to be able to take additional actions. this obviously because of the timing will have to be done in the next month or so i would think. and so we will be working together in that direction. so i now would like to ask senator chambliss, my distinguish distinguished vice chairman, to make some comments. >> well, thanks, chairman feinstein. let me just say that thanks no the leadership of chairman feinstein as well as chairman rogers, ranking member berger, the four of us have worked closely on any number of issues. there is no more important issue that we have to work on than this issue. i think it goes without saying that all of us are extremely upset about the fact that not
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only have leaks occurred, but there's been just a cascade of leaks coming out of the intelligence community over the last several weeks and months, and it's our clear intention to put a stop to this in the best way that we can. leaks are part of the nature of this town. we understand that, but the fact of the matter is when you have the kind of leaks that have been coming out in the last few weeks, it puts lives in danger, and it infringes upon the ability of the intelligence community to do their job. suffice it to say in our meeting with general clapper, we knew before we engaged him this morning that he was extremely upset about this issue. he is, as well as every member of the leadership team in the intelligence community, and we have a pledge from them to continue to work with them on all of our issues, but particularly on this issue as we
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move forward to try to make sure that they have all the tools to work with internally on the issue of trying to make sure that we put a stop to this kind of leakage. now, i would like to call on chairman rogers. >> thank you very much. thank you very much, senators. we have worked on some things in bipartisan ways and i want to thank senator feinstein. through that process we think we have done a lot of important things through our security and working in a spirit of bipartisanship. to have all four of us come forward and talk about the severity of these leaks i hope sends a very clear message about how dangerous this has become. and it's not just an isolated incident, and that's what has brought us together. it seems to be a pattern that is growing worse and more frequent, and the severity of the leaks are serious. i had a meeting just yesterday with a series of officers from the agency and other agencies
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who do important work around the world on very difficult assignments, and to the person, and these are the line officers, these are the folks who we ask to leave their families and go to dangerous places to do really hard things, the frustration and their inability to get a handle on this, their inability to keep a secret not just in this town and what it means here, but what it means for their ability to conduct their work overseas is incredibly damaging. this has been as serious a problem as i have seen. just a few weeks ago i launched an independent review of a very specific leak that turned into something a little bigger, and i just want to tell you through reviews with ic officers, review of materials, public sources, there is a clear need for a formal investigation. the committee has material suggesting that the agencies were directed to expand the scope of classified information they gave to the press. we know in some cases someone
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from a segment of the media was present in a classified setting. recently a group of intelligence officers, i said before, has disclosed directly how many of the leaks over a period of years have made their jobs more difficult in their liaison relationships and their ability to interact with sources and assets around the world who are doing great things for their own countries and the united states as well. just today the cia informed us they cannot respond to our requests for information regarding leaks, a very troubling event, indeed. the doj's national security division has recused itself from at least one element of the investigation suggesting some of these leaks could have come from the sources within the doj or the jib. and from publicly available comments it appears the sources of these leaks could be in a position to influence the investigations. so the investigation must do this, and we agree on this, we're still trying to work out where this may be the best place
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for this to happen, it must be complete. it must be empowered to examine any office or department of the united states government. it must be free of influence from those who conducted or reviewed the programs at issue, and it must be fair and it must be nonpartisan. two problems here, one is that we get to the bottom of what is a growing and serious problem and the nature of these leaks, and, second, that we put together legislation quickly that moves to put -- give the tools to the intelligence community to prevent this from happening in the future, and i look forward to the community to work with all of the members here to make sure that that happens. i turn it over to the ranking member. >> good afternoon, and first thing i do want to acknowledge the relationship that has developed between senator feinstein and senator chambliss and congressman mike rogers and myself. the stakes we deal with and the issues we deal with in the intelligence community, we have
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to work together as a team bipartisan so we can come together, go to the administration and get issues resolved that are important to our national security. i've been on this committee close to ten years. this has been some of the most serious breaches i have seen. it puts us at risk. it puts lives at risk. it hurts our ability with our allies to have them work with us and get information. and it hurts us in recruiting assets that give us intelligence information that will allow us to protect our citizens, to work through issues that are so important to the whole issue of peace throughout the world and how we protect our citizens throughout the world. now, we know how serious this is, and we have to deal with it, and we will deal with it, and we started today coming together both the house and the senate intelligence committees deciding where we're going to go, but the issue has to be solutions. what are those solutions? the first thing we have to do is we have to change the culture of anybody who works in the intelligence community to educate them and let them know how serious these leaks are and
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the ramifications, which means we need to put together a policy that people know what the policy is. if you violate that policy, you're going to be held accountable. that's important. sure, we would love to find out who did the leak here and how it occurred and how important and dangerous it is. whether that happens or not, those are tough cases, but we need to use this as an example to change those policies, and that's where we are right now, but it's got to be a partnership between the administration and between the senate and the house. we are going to work forward and move forward on this case, this leak case, and we feel very strongly that we will -- we have to do this to protect our national security. >> would you address your questions to a specific person? dana? >> thank you. this is for you and fthe congressman. we are five months before a presidential election, and do
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you have any concern that by making such a big deal out of leaks in the obama administration, maybe not the white house, but the obama administration that this is going to be finger pointing politically at the white house? >> this is not finger pointing at anybody. what we're trying to do is say we have a problem, and we want to stop that problem. we're not finger pointing, and the house will do its own investigation. we're doing a bill. we're going to put changes in the bill, but, dana, this has to stop. when people say they don't want to work with the united states because they can't trust us to keep a secret, that's serious. when allies become concerned, when an asset's life is in jeopardy or the asset's family's life is in jeopardy, that's a problem. the point of intelligence is to be able to know what might happen to protect this country.
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and we can't do that if the intelligence is no longer kept with strict scrutiny within the number of people that need to have it. and one of the problems is -- that we're learning is so many people know that it becomes very hard to make a prosecution. so what we were saying about changing the culture really is correct, about limiting the numbers of people that know given things is correct. so we have some ideas, we've discussed them somewhat today, and, you know, you will certainly know where we have points of agreement. >> may i just quickly follow up with the chairman rogers and with senator chambliss? do you believe knowing what you know about the leaks that they are politically motivated to try to help president obama? >> well, i'm not going to prejudge what the fbi is charged
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with the responsibility of doing, and we're going to meet with director muller this afternoon. we know that an investigation has already begun and it's going to be done very thoroughly, and, you know, we have been through this before in the bush administration. wherever the responsibility falls out, that's where it's going to be and if it's in the administration, fine. if it's not in the administration, fine. this is not meant to be a political exercise. this is too critical to the future of the intelligence community of the united states, and it's our intention just to get to the bottom of the issue of these leaks and as we move forward to try to make sure that we put measures in place that not only make it more difficult for future leaks to occur, but the consequences of those future leaks be dealt with immediately and strongly. >> senator feinstein, obviously
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because you are discussing legislation, you have come to the decision that current legs la lation or current statutes aren't strong enough. divulging classified information is a crime. what are you looking to do legislatively to change this? >> i just can't go into it right now. this morning was actually the first time that i had a chance to outline some of my thoughts to the committee, and we need to discuss it. it's important that the house and the senate work closely together because we'll never get it done if we don't, and so the first people that will know are the three people here, and we need to go through that process. >> senator feinstein -- >> okay. you're looking at a press briefing. let me give our viewers some background. this is all over a supposedly leaked information about a program that targets computers in iran, and it was featured in "the new york times" last week, and this is a bipartisan
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commission here. you can see senator feinstein there. these four people met with the head of national intelligence, james clapper, earlier, and they're coming out now to talk about what they found and what they talked about. you heard the senator when asked what do you want from this? she said it's too soon to tell. i want to bring in suzanne kelly, our senior national producer. suzanne, i heard two interesting things here, one from senator rogers. he said there's a clear need for some type of formal investigation. and then the other, one of the most serious breaches of intelligence that he has seen. >> it's pretty astounding, isn't it? also senator saxby chambliss, there is no more important issue for them right now than getting to the bottom of these leaks. and the problem is it's not one leak. it's a series of leaks that have been happening really since april. we had april, may, we talked about drone programs, about a cyber program aimed at iran, all sorts of information.
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the al qaeda in the arabian peninsula leak that came out in may that actually jeopardized lives which we heard some of the senators talk about a few moments ago. getting to the bottom of the leaks is critical. how they're going to do it not so easy. we have a little bit of information about some of the dni's thoughts on that, james clapper, who did meet with this committee just moments ago and this briefing is following that, but we do know that he is looking to push something forward with polygraphs to try to get employees to submit to maybe more expanded polygraphs with different questioning and things like that. that could be a crucial way to really find out and narrow down the question of who gave information to journalists or anyone else who wasn't authorized to get it. let me just for one second so that you understand why that might be a good way forward, you heard them also say too many people know things. that's why it's so hard when you launch these investigations. however, remember 9/11 and the
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big criticism being that agencies weren't sharing enough information with each other and you realize really you have your hands tied on this if you don't have tools that worked. >> he mentioned limiting the number of people who know this intelligence. i want to bring in dana bash now. i want to read this to you and get it properly. good job, by the way, of asking those questions and holding her feet to the fire. here is what james carney said yesterday, that the administration takes all appropriate and necessary steps to prevent leaks of classified information or sensitive information that could risk ongoing counterterrorism or intelligence operations. any suggestion that this administration has authorized intentional leaks of classified information for political gain is grossly irresponsible. and i said that because you brought up the political question here. it's going to be hard, isn't it hard to say that this is politically motivated when you have a bipartisan commission and someone like dianne feinstein saying, listen, we want to get to the bottom of this because lives are in jeopardy. this has nothing to do with who is in the white house right now. >> reporter: certainly, and that was the point that the chairman
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diane mine fine was tstein was make. the answer saxby chambliss said was we don't know what will come out of the investigation. they don't know what the motivation was. one thing i want to give you a little bit of an update on what i thought was the most stunning things that was said which we took live is when the house intelligence chairman mike rogers talked about the fact that agencies were directed to expand giving access to classified information to the press and that media even sat in on classified briefings. i just talked to a source here to try to get a sense of what he was talking about, and the answer was apparently all about this documentary or film actually that is being done on the capture of osama bin laden which, of course, has been quite controversial. apparently that is what he is talking about, that in order to help make that film, that apparently according to the
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chairman members of the press or the media or maybe even filmmakers, it's probably the better way to put it, were included, which is quite extraordinary and that is clearly what is angering them in a bipartisan way. >> this is only the beginning, folks. this is only the beginning. this is going to grow. thank you, dana bash. our senior congressional correspondent and suzanne kelly reporting both from washington. spain makes a move that's boosting u.s. stocks. we'll explain why your money is looking so much better today. if you're on linkedin or eharmony, better change your password. 6 million passwords were hacked today. and a frightening new strain of gonorrhea that's resistant to antibiotics is spreading around the world. we'll tell you what you can do it protect yourself. [ male announcer ] this is sheldon, whose long dy setting up the news
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economic problems all by themselves. richard quest live in london. hello, richard. so listen, all of europe is watching spain hoping it doesn't become another greece. will this bond auction be enough to prevent a bailout or does it just buy some time here? >> oh, well, first of all there is almost no danger that spain becomes another greece. the economics are totally different. the size of the country is totally different. spain is by no means in any way like the situation. however, that said, what today's bond auction did was it only raised 2 billion euros so it was hardly a lot of money, but it showed the appetite for the market to eat spanish debt, and ten-year bonds, 600 million of it at a higher interest rate. it's a bit like your credit card company, don, saying, mr. lemon, we will lend you or raise your credit limit, we will increase your interest rate for now.
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in other words, be warned, lemon, spend much more and you could find we will cut you off. >> cut it off immediately. we're going to do it for now and just to see what happens and how you handle it, but fair warning. all good things must come to an end. >> basically. >> who is coming to the eurozone's rescue? can the stronger economies pull everything up? what about britain? >> well, britain, of course, has basically said ain't, won't, can't, won't, not, forget it. because brit sentence a noneurozone country and is basically saying any money will go by the imf. instead it is our old friend angela merkel in germany. it is the big northern countries like austria, the wealthier countries that are going to have to pull the train. and what they have singularly failed to do so far is say that they are prepared to give an open-ended check to countries
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like greece, italy, and spain. ultimately it will be europe's equivalent of the fed, the ecb, the european central bank. it will be up to the ecb to have to do most of the heavy lifting. the only question say with ben bernanke on the hill today is when and by how much? >> you brought it back to the u.s. so i have to ask you, richard, any bump in u.s. markets after this bond auction? >> i mean, the bond auction, again if there was a bump, yes, it's because things are bad, they could be worse, but it's volatility. thin markets, summertime. i will discount the market on the way down, and i will discount the market on the way up because all bets are off until the greek election in the middle of june and we have a european summit at the end of june. >> appreciate your expertise. richard quest, thank you. always a pleasure, sir. other news to cover here, a new strain, look at that, of
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can you believe this? a presidential election less than five months away and once again a handful of states are shaping up to be make or break battleground states come november. joining us to talk about these stories and more is our brian machine row. he's editor of the cnn.com politics page. that's a long title you have. which states are you talking about? >> we just put up on cnn.com our electoral map which will map through the states that are in play. you know, this is going to be a nationwide election but particularly the yellow states, florida, ohio, iowa, nevada, colorado are where the vote is going to come down to and it may be decided late election night on that tuesday night. but even with those states in play, you know, you can see if everyone is trying to get to 270, both candidates, if, for instance, obama takes ohio but romney takes florida, it makes them close. you can play along with this online, but even in the states
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where they may be solid romney states or solid obama states, there's still going to be a lot at play when it comes to the congressional races and the senate races where turnout is a must. >> we're looking at the map and you have it on your ipad. this is an interactive feature you have on cnn politic that is let's people create their own electoral maps. you go to the site and game each scenario. you can start with the 2008 results which shows which states obama won and which states mccain won. or you can look at what cnn projects right now. >> let me show that real here. and then there it is right here on this camera. and then you can click, here is what it did. here is one thing and then it changes and then you go to something else and you can decide -- pick out whichever ones you want. can you do your own scenario? >> you can do your own scenario. you can save these and share them with friends. and you can also see some of our
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cnn contributors, carville, they do their picks and go back and back. each time news happens, the wisconsin vote, or what happens happening in virginia or florida, we'll update this. you will see john king talk this through. >> how do you like this term, the veepstakes? it gets a little stale but let's talk about the number two spot, the vice presidential spop.former florida governor jeb bush he tried to put this speculation behind him. >> i'm not going to do it and i'm not going to be asked and it's not going to happen. that doesn't mean i don't have a voice, doesn't mean i don't want to enthusiastically support mitt romney, i entend to do that, but i'm not going to be a candidate with him. jund no circumstances. >> under no circumstances. >> it sounds like under no circumstances, that sounds pretty definitive to me. he's out. who do you think is on mitt romney's short list? >> they're starting the vetting process right now. >> it seems like they're auditioning.
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>> big time. >> they're out there playing the attack dog. >> like why is this person on this show talking foreign policy, hmm? >> we did a piece about the auditioning process, the attack dogs that are happening. you have marco rubio who has been talked about in florida. whether he's even able to bring not only the florida vote, remember that map, pl is one of the swing states, but also the latino vote. then you have rob portman from another swing state of ohio. he is solid credentials, is thought to be a leading candidate. there are other latinos they're looking at, brian sandoval, s susana martinez. >> is that the long list or short list? >> i think you're still in long list. this is june. this will get serious in july and august when they get it down. >> mitt romney just really captured the nomination officially last week. when he gets to the convention it will be official. and then we're talking about vp a little early. stand by. hold your horses.
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>> we have a long race coming. >> i like the interact map. thank you, sir. former defense secretary donald rumsfeld calls president obama weak on foreign affairs. hear exactly what he told piers morgan last night. you can watch cnn live, watch from your computer, on your pda, phone, whatever. watch it at work. head to cnn.com/tv. and zoom... in your car. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. ♪ don't worry. we haven't forgotten. you still like things to push. [ engine revs ] the all-new cadillac xts has arrived, and it's bringing the future forward.
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donald rumsfeld has no love for the current administration. the former secretary of defense compares the leadership of president obama to that of president jimmy carter and, trust me, he does not mean that as a compliment. rumsfeld appeared yesterday on cnn's "piers morgan tonight." >> you said that president obama's one of the weakest if not the weakest presidents of your lifetime. do you actually mean that? >> i was asked by somebody if i
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thought that the current president was the weakest president, and i said i thought the competition probably was president carter, that the two presidencies did not have the energy or the leadership. i mean, think of president obama on many pieces of legislation. instead of fashioning a piece of legislation, taking it to the congress, recommending it, urging it, working it through, he kind of left it to the congress to figure out what those pieces of legislation that he considered his major priorities ought to be. he didn't fashion them. he didn't take the leadership. and that i found kind of unusual for a president to do. i think the other big example was his decision to, quote, lead from behind in libya where the argument was made that it was a humanitarian effort and, of course, it lasted much longer
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than it would have lasted had they said at the outset that gadhafi would be gone when it's over. >> so how weak can a president be when he ordered the hit on osama bin laden and he took him out? only today we saw another senior al qaeda member, abu yahya al libi yesterday got taken out. this is a series of victories president obama has had using predominantly in this case drone attacks where there is no loss of life to american troops. it's a very different way of going about taking out the bad guys. there are lots of people who say this is not a sign of weakness by president obama, it is a more sophisticated and smarter way of deploying the american military than the one that you and george bush deployed. >> well, you keep saying i said he's the weakest and i have said once and i'll say one more time
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only that i was asked a question. in my adult life if you look at the presidents, how would you rank them on that subject? and i said i would rank this president as a general leader up with president carter. now, you can phrase it any way you want, but the way you're phrasing it is twisting it in an inaccurate way. i did not volunteer this. i responded to a question and answer to the best of my abil y ability. >> he calls himself the million dollars scholar because he was able to get lots of scholarship money for college. now he's helping others find the money they need for school. 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.
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former president bill clinton is focusing on jobs today. he's hosting the clinton global initiative in chicago. one key to getting a job is education, of course, and a participant in the clinton conference today knows a lot about how to pay for that education. darius quarterlies is the author
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"million dollar scholar requesti." he joins us from chicago. darius, welcome. how were you able to tap into so much money for college? >> first of all, thanks for having me on again, don. it's a pleasure. and tapping into that million dollars really the biggest thing was starting early in my high school career. i had the opportunity win my first scholarship my junior year and just thinking about the whole process a little bit differently. i really thought about how i was going to pay for it before, you know, i thought about going to college itself and i know that's kind of weird, but the economic situation i was in here on the south side of chicago, the first thing that came to my mind was if i want to go to college like how exactly am i going to pay for it? and so that really kind of fueled me going forward. >> how many students do you hope, darius, to help through your foundation?
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>> i really -- right now i really can't put a number to it. in my mind right now as many as possible. but really with the resources that we have and the infrastructure we have, really at the local level we've really been able to kind of make an impact and get into the high schools, but i think as we become a little bit more known, i think this is something that could potentially go national. >> yeah. so you came up with this system, the first time we had you on, you came up with this system to get scholarship money and you got all that scholarship money despite the odds. people who even had better gpas than you and so forth. how does your foundation work? >> well, it's a social business, so we are for profit entity, and really that was the best way i thought about really creating a sustainable solution to the problems we're seeing with finance and higher education right now. so we offer products and services at a -- on a fee -- per fee basis, but really in the future what we're trying to do
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is use that generation of revenue to create more scholarships. we're not not only trying to help students tap into the great deal of money out there through educating them, but through providing that education and creating revenue through that, we want to also increase the number and amount of money that's out there, which is also extremely important. >> you are ahead of a lot of people in college, a lot of people who are my nage, doubage your age. what's ahead for you? you're a junior. >> actually i'm a senior now, just finished up at moorhouse. i will be entering the school of medicine. that's what's up next with me. just continuing to push million dollar scholar and this is a weekend for it with the clinton foundation hosting cgi america, so that's a really huge thing.
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>> talk to me more about that. don't just breeze by that. your participation in the clinton global initiative, we said you were going to be there as i led into you. that's a pretty big deal. >> right. >> you are a senior, as you said, and you're going on to medical school, which is great. but you're getting to work with a former president. that's a big deal for anybody. >> that is a big deal, and especially the first time i got to interact with these forumings he he's created was actually my sophomore year of college. so it's a really big thing. it's funny how at that stage million dollar scholar was just an idea, nothing really tangible yet. creating a book was just an idea and that was the first time that i was able to go to a conference down in miami with the clinton global initiative university and so the next year i was invited out after that and then it was no longer just an idea, but it
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was a plan, and things were in motion and the book was being written. and now, you know, being invited here in my hometown, everything is to fruition. >> say hi to all my friends back in chicago and don't forget about us when you're running the world. thank you, derrius. >> again, i appreciate it, don. later this afternoon bill clinton joins wolf blitzer in "the situation room." you saw that screen coming up for that. he'll share his opinions on the wisconsin recall lex, mitt romney and his relationship with president obama. 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. we have a serious warning for parents of kids getting too many cat scans. stay tuned. it's getting away ! where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru.
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ar began. cases of a sexually transmitted disease resistant to antibiotics are showing up in europe, asia and australia and see about here in the united states. elizabeth coen joins us with the details. how dangerous is this new strain and we're talking about gonorrhea. >> right. at the moment it is not a huge danger, and i will tell you why. in these countries you mentioned and parts of europe, australia, japan, they're finding these cases which they try the drug on it it doesn't work as well as it should. that's what they're finding. it works most of the time but in these cases it doesn't work and they have to use high doses or in combination with other drugs. it is not good that gonorrhea is beginning to out smart our drugs. gonorrhea has out smarted four other classes of drugs over the year. it is a nasty bug that apparently is very intelligent and so it is not good that these drugs are starting not to work. >> europe, asia, australia, all
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places that we visit on vacation. >> and have sex maybe, yeah. >> it is the truth. it is what it is. >> right. >> any cases of super bug here in the u.s.? >> we spoke to folks at the cdc and they have not seen cases here in the u.s. what they have seen is when they put the bug under a microscope they have seen cases where they can tell that it is getting smarter. they can tell it is changing. they can tell it is not the same bug. this drug has only been around since about the 1990s or so so quickly figured out how to do a work around. >> besides abstinence. >> condoms, yes. >> what's the solution? >> the solution is to find another drug. as i said, this bacteria out smarted four classes of drugs and we need to come up i guess with the fifth. so far they haven't, and it is part of what the who is trying to do is say we need to get things moving and find a new drug. >> any time you have a warning from the world health organization, that's pretty
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serious stuff. >> it is serious. you need to listen to it. i don't want anyone to freak out and think oh my gosh because in in this country the drugs still work and it is a warning to scientists we need to step it up. >> and watch yourself. >> always watch yourself, absolutely. i said wash yourself. i meant watch yourself. >> that, too especially considering the next story. it is about you. i have a programming note that involves elizabeth cohen, doctors with dirty hands. thousands die every year because of fixable blunders doctors made. elizabeth cohen counts down her list of 25 shocking medical mistakes and how you can keep them from happening to you. it is a simple sometimes and someone not washing their hands. it is right here saturday night at 8 p.m. eastern. tune in. when was the last time that you logged into your linked in or e-harmony act? 6 million passwords have been hacked. we'll show you what happened. [ female announcer ] did you know the average person smiles
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i am sure you get the linked in alerts and you joined and so on. at first it was linked in and now it is e-harmony and accounts have been breached. that's millions of passwords compromise and had felicia taylor at the nog. let's focus on linked in. what do we know about the
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investigation. there is an investigation going on, right. >> absolutely. they take this seriously naturally because it is sensitive information that's at risk. evidently russian hackers released a big list of passwords this week, more than 6.5 million came from linked in, and a small portion came from e harmony. nobody knows how they were stolen. that's the problem. experts say that linkedin in particular used an out dated form of encrypting and people need to understand that this is very serious. we don't really know what these websites are using. the site does say they put in enhanced secure measures and no user names were not at risk. so they're aimless passwords without a user name associated with it. people should change the password nevertheless and be safe on the safe side and don't make it so easy. people pick simple words like hiring or linkedin itself as a
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password. that is not so difficult to crack, right? >> they did get in. that's the start. that's a start. it is not the first security issue linkedin has had recently. >> no, not at all. earlier this week it came out that linkedin's mobile app was collecting data from user's calendars including meeting notes, contact information, things like that. users had to opt in to use the calendar feature and didn't know the info was going back to linkedin and you don't want that to happen. linkedin does say it was trying to match profile information so you could know more about people before you met them but people aren't happy about that. that's sort of a business linked site and going forward they say it will stop gathering notes and get more clarity to people before they opt in. regardless, privacy is a big issue. >> before the top of the hour, you are city stock exchange. what's going on with stocks? >> we're seeing a rally yet again. stocks up about 100 points on dow and that follows the testimony from federal reserve
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chairman ben bernanke on capitol hill. >> appreciate it. always a pleasure. change your linkedin password. you could change passwords frequently on all of your accounts as i know kate baldwin knows. she is a smart cookie and here she is right now. >> i am a smart cookie and you are, too. i am kate baldwin in for brooke baldwin today. as i peek our wolf blitzer is sitting down with bill clinton as the former president has been taking quite a bit of heat for comments he has made about mitt romney and the economy. first, as you will remember, clinton complimented romney's business experience and then he seemed to contradict president obama's position about the extension of the bush era tax cuts, so is one of the president's biggest surrogates hurting his re-election chances? we'll get wolf up live as soon as the interview ends and it will be very interesting to hear what he has to say. first, loose lips spilling highly classified intelligence. who is leaking top secret details about covert u.s.
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actions and why? the fbi is investigating as some lawmakers are charging it is coming from the white house. there are three glaring examples in just really the past month. on friday the "new york times" reported president obama ordered cyber attacks against iran's nuclear facilities. days before that the times broke the news the president personally oversees a quote, unquote kill list for expanded drone attacks and on may 7th word got out a u.s. double agent helped foil another kind of underwear bomb plot out of yemen. cnn learned the man in charge of our nation's secrets is proceed poising more lie detector tests at the highest security level. that's new information coming out in the last hour and james claper is the man we're talking about, the director of national intelligence and wants to subject more government employees to counter intelligence polygraphs. today he briefed the top four leaders of the intelligence committees in congress on these recent intelligence leaks and you're seeing video right now. we'll be joined by one of those
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top leaders in congress in just a moment. his name obviously congressman mike rogers, the house intelligence committee chairman, but first i want to bring in my colleagues senior congressional correspondent dana bash. you're on the phone with me. you just got out of this press conference, a pretty unusual press conference to have all four of these top intel leaders in congress there together. what did you think was the highlight? >> the highlight as you said i think was just the fact they had the press conference and each of them, democrat and republican was so strong and tried to get the idea across that this is really, really serious in terms of how they see the danger to people's lives, not to mention the whole concept of the very sensitive intelligence materials. what chairman rogers who i know will you speak to soon, one thing that he said was really extraordinary that he had
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uncovered as part of his own investigation is that agencies he said were directed to expand the scope of classified information they gave to the press and not just that, kate, he said they found in some cases someone from what he calls a segment of the media was present in a classified setting which you and i know as members of the media nobody coming out of a briefing will talk to us and never mind being invited in. afterwards i was told that what he is referring to is a film being made on the raid of osama bin laden and perhaps a film maker was invited in to get exclusive access and it was a classified setting. the fact is that what they want to do, all four of them, they say, is to somehow come up with some new law, new legislation that makes it more difficult and makes the penalties higher for leaking classified information because they say it has been a, quote, cascade of leaks which you laid out very well at the beginning there. >> i also saw you ask a very
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important question, one that's getting a lot of attention and was kind of spearheaded by senator john mccain, this question of is there a political motivation behind these leaks? what did they tell you? >> well, the democratic chair woman of the senate intelligence committee was adamant this is not finger pointing and that they really simply feel that it is so bad and it has been so detrimental to the intelligence community, all of these leaks, they just want to find out where it has come from and it is not political. you know diane fein sign. she is somebody who is impervious to political issues, and she clearly though understands politics very well, that this is going to be perceived as potentially hurtful to the administration, especially when in conjunction with this as you said you have somebody like john mccain really saying that he believes that these leaks are politically motivated to help president
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obama. the senior republican, though, on this committee, i asked him the same question and he said he is not going to prejudge. he said we'll look into it just like we did when they were released in the bush administration and wherever the responsibility falls, that's where they're going to try to prosecute. >> so interesting. the more they talk about it honestly the more questions we end up having for how they're going to legislate, how they're going to prove it, how they're going to -- how they propose punishing people who are caught to be leaking this information. we'll get to a lot more of these questions with the chairman of the house intelligence committee mike rogers coming up next. thanks so much, dana. >> thanks, kate. >> first other news that we're watching, no hints of new economic stimulus from the chairman of the federal reserve, but the stock market is rallying for a second day without it. right now the dow is up just 102 points we're seeing right now and federal reserve chairman ben bernanke testified before
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recent very high profile leaks of sensitive intelligence matters that have really been all over the media and just earlier today the director of national intelligence james clapper briefed the top members of the intelligence committees in congress. joining me is one of those members, congressman mike rogers, the chairman of the house intelligence committee. i know you're dealing with some votes over there on the house, chairman rogers, so thank you so much for making it over to speak with me. you got out of this briefing a short time ago. you did hold press availability, and i know this is classified, but what can you tell us? what did you learn about these leaks? >> well, just it is a very serious nature and really the meeting was about two things, how we go forward between the house and the senate as the leadership diane feinstein and myself work exceptionally well together and in a very big bold statement of having all of us do a press availability at the same time and i hope reinforces how serious these leaks are to our
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national security and so two-pronged approach here. one is to say how do we move forward? how do we give the intelligence community the tools they need to go after leakers of this caliber, number one, and number two, we do have to get to the bottom of these leaks. it wasn't just a leak. it was a pattern of leaks over a period of time that led all of us in a bipartisan way to come to the conclusion that this is serious, dangerous, and we have to break that culture if we're going to change people's attitude about leaking this very sensitive information. >> i want to get to the tools shortly. i want to also get to first something that you said in the press conference a short time ago that a quote, unquote segment of the media was present in a classified setting and i was talking to dana bash just a few minutes ago and who agrees it is highly unusual. she tells me it had to do with a film being made by osama bin laden and the raid to kill osama bin laden. can you tell me, what did you mean by that and what agencies are you talking about?
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>> well, it was found out in a preliminary review of a whole bunch of questions to the intelligence community and other things and it was certainly a serious event, and i think it just was part of a larger broader understanding that there is lots of this kind of thing happening and the level of these leaks just kept getting ratcheted up. it was part of a pattern of activity that led us to believe, at least me as chairman that the preliminary review should lead to a full investigation. there is enough information there about this culture that we have to somehow break, and i am really not at liberty to discuss the agency at this point or the type of medium or media organization. >> okay. i want to get to, well, a big part of this now which seems to be the politics. senator john mccain, you of course know this, made it clear that he believes these leaks have been politically motivated. quick, listen to something
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senator mccain said and i will ask a question afterwards. >> the really disturbing aspect of this is that one could draw the conclusion from reading these articles that it is an attempt to further the president's political ambitions for the sake of his re-election at the expense of our national security. >> it is a serious accusation. point-blank, mr. chairman, do you believe the white house and politics is behind these leaks? >> i am the chairman of the intelligence committee, and i can tell you as a former fbi agent, i think it is dangerous to walk down the political route here. this is very serious. there is a pattern. there is a culture here that's a problem. we need to figure out in a non-partisan way, we need a complete investigation that is fair and thorough and that has access to every element that had
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this particular information, and that in and of itself in a bipartisan way by the way is serious. so it is really not my role to do that. i hope this doesn't become a partisan issue because this is so serious and the leaks are so damaging, we need to take it where this investigation goes. >> of course everyone wants to see this investigation, this issue fully investigated and you don't want to speak out too early. you will recall you told my colleague wolf blitzer back in may after this came out that you kind of called it funny season in this town when with the timing of the press conferences after the foiled bomb plot leak came out and do you still think it is funny season? do you still think that all of this stuff leads to a lot of questions, you told wolf? do you still have that opinion? >> it is clearly still funny season in washington, d.c. any time you have an election. that relates to a whole bunch of topics. in this particular case and again in a preliminary review by my committee, i have asked my investigators to pull some
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things together, i believe this warrants a fair and complete investigation. what i mean by complete is someone that would be able to have access to all elements, not just the intelligence community, not just the department of defense, but all of the elements who had access to this information, and the reason some call for a special prosecutor is because in order to do that you may in that chain of investigation find someone in your chain of command including the political environment. i don't know. we shouldn't speculate one way or another. what we should do is find the right forum to have a fair, complete and balanced investigation. >> say you could prove that politics is behind this. what do you think should not punishment? >> i think politics is irrespective of the fact that someone who had access to information that is very narr
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narrowly protected found that for whatever reason they leaked it which is a crime, and they should be punished with a crime to the severeeverestextent of t law. it is damaging not just to the men and women putting themselves in harm's way today and this made their job expo terribly harder, it is serious in and of itself and hurt our liaison partners and also over the whole pattern of leaks and public discussion about things that should be kept classified has hurt our ability to do creative and innovative things to protect the united states of america. that's what this needs to be about and when they found the person who clearly had high level of high access of information, that person should be i think punished under the full extent of the law. >> i know you along with your colleagues in the senate are also now thinking, trying to find new tools and new ways to bottom line try to make it
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harder for leaks to happen or at least if they do easier to track these people down, is that right? >> yeah. we're reviewing a package. i brought some ideas. senator fein sign has ideas and these are all four of the both republicans and democrats of the intelligence committees and so we're in the process right now of trying to work through those so we can find consensus in a quick way and get these tools to the intelligence community so for prospect active cases we send a clear signal we will not tolerate leaks of this nature as we move forward. >> you know leaks span administrations. leaks are not new. what was the final straw on this one? what is different about these leaks that has you speaking out so forcefully as well as your other intelligence colleagues? >> again, this is a bipartisan meeting and that says a lot, so the severity of the leaks over time, not any particular leak that i am talking about
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today, but over the period of time details have caused serious damage to our national security and our partnerships over seas, so it just got to the point where it was getting so ridiculous, more brazen, more broad, and so concerning for the future of our ability to protect ourselves that we all believe, republicans and democrats on these two committees had to do something about it. >> we can tell that many more questions as this investigation is just getting under way and we all have so many questions we want answers for. chairman mike rogers, thank you so much for hustling out and speaking with me now. just a short time ago the u.n. special envoy to syria stood before the united nations outraged by a report of another massacre in that country, and in a blunt warning kofi annan warned expect an all-out civil war if action is not taken to stop the syrian government from killing its people.
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listen as he says his peace plan is being blown off. >> i must refract and confirm that the plan is not being implemented. if things do not change, the future is likely to be one of brutal repression, massacres, sectarian violence and all-out civil war. for the safety of the people of syria who are living through this nightmare, the international community must come together and act as one. >> pictures of the latest massacre where 78 people are believed to be dead have been posted online, but it is extremely difficult to watch, we missay. these are the homes torched by syrian troops, opposition activists saying the forces on the ground moved village to village killing residents with knives and even ak-47s. i want to bring in arwa damon in
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beruit right now. we have world leaders continuing to try and apply pressure on the assad regime and learning about this massacre there in syria just yesterday. what more do you know? >> well, according to opposition activists, the target of this or the site of this alleged massacre was the small village of kobear and not more than a cluster of homes. activists saying it was initially shelled by tanks and government forces accompanied by this shadowy entity, pro government armed thugs, went through and massacred anyone who stood in their way. a lot of the victims were women and children and in these videos that are as you were saying incredibly difficult to watch, you see the small bodies wrapped in blankets and others are shrouded in the white burial cloth and some are named.
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in one case you have four small children from one family, their mother also and their uncle said to have been killed as well and then the images we are not showing our viewers and that is of the various bodies that have been charred. one of these bodies apparently a mother cradling her two children and the government is denying that it was the one that carried out this massacre and instead it is saying it was responding to a cry for help from the villagers and that it went in and raided and saved them from this terrorist cell, kate. >> and, arwa, what are you learning about u.n. observers being shot at? >> we heard it at the united nations, the secretary general saying the u.n. monitors that were trying to reach this area to conduct their own investigation, their own fact finding mission were prevented from doing so and either stopped or turned back at check points
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and at one stage they were shot at. it was not specified by whom on the road. it under scores how difficult it is for these observers to even begin to carry out their mission when it comes to trying to implement something of a cease-fire and at this point in time as we heard kofi annan saying the peace plant is not being implemented. when it comes to much of what he said you were playing earlier, a lot of people inside syria, a lot of syria analysts, experts will tell you he was stating the obvious. >> excellent point. i don't know if you can see it. i want to show the viewers the latest poll from cnn o.r.c. where it show that is americans still don't think the u.s. has a majority still don't think the u.s. has a responsibility to intervene in the fighting in syria. when i see that, it begs the question what do the people that you're talking to on the ground there say, though? it has been going on for more than a year. what do they think will end the
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violence? >> well, kate, it will be no surprise when i tell you that when it comes to the u.s. and its policies towards the middle east, they are most certainly viewed by the majority of arabs as being skewed and a lot of opposition activists will tell you that if the u.s. really wanted to, it could in fact have taken action that would have brought down the assad regime by now and many people point to the war in iraq and saying the u.s. effectively went in there unilaterally without a u.n. resolution and a loosely brought together coalition. people want to see the u.s. on their side. they want to see western nations behind them, especially when it comes to the fact that they want that to counter balance what they're saying is influence amongst the opposition of nations like qatar and saudi arabia and the opposition does not want to have to turn to those gulf nations that are no example of democracy themselves for any sort of major support, and the other thing that
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opposition activists are warning about and this is something that america is going to have to pay attention to, is that the vacuum that is being created in syria by this uprising is the exact type of vacuum that extremist organizations like al qaeda thrive in. there are grave concerns that that is going to begin taking even greater hold in syria, kate. >> all the while the violence and innocent civilians are continuing to die. all right. arwa damon in beruit. thank you so much. the face of a presidential front-runner ends up on a billboard about sex. the company's motto, life is short, have an affair. if you can believe it. this man is about to be the millionth customer. would you mind if i go ahead of you? instead we had someone go ahead of him and win fifty thousand dollars.
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a favorite for mexico's presidency has literally become the poster boy for a website dedicated to adulters. ashley madison.com links married people to interested singles if
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you can believe it. it now has a billboard in mexico city showing the face of enrique pena with lipstick on his collar and you can see it and the caption in spanish that says unfaithful to his family, faithful and committed to his country. the company did not ask permission from him. he is predicted to win the election on july 1st by many. to get this perspective on this interesting story i want to turn to fernando and this is going to be news to a lot of viewers. first, why? did he cheat on his wife? bring everyone up to speed. >> yeah, actually he has been outspoken, has been honest about this issue, hinted about in several interviews. he had two children when he was married to his first wife, so it is not a secret. it has been out there for a while. now, the thing, the important
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thing about him is that the biggest number of the potential voters for him are women. i don't think this is going to help him in terms of perception when you are talking about women being the force in terms of that. >> he acknowledges he has had an affair in his past. he has been open about it. when you look at now this billboard as well as the fact that the election is coming up in less than a month, this can't be good, though, for him. do you think it is not a deal breaker, though, you're saying in terms of his chances? >> i don't think it is a deal breaker, but we have to think about this. the thing is he has been under attack because of a movement of students over there in mexico called i am 132. this will be the second hint for him in just one month. he actually hasn't said anything about this advertisement and
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neither his campaign team, and it seems like they're not going to talk. it has been four days with this ad and nobody has said anything. >> i want to make sure the viewers know we did reach out to ashleymadison.com spokesman and they readily acknowledge they're doing this to get people talking about adultery and the billboard and here is a quote saying, quote, people have a problem with infidelity. it really outlines the hypocrisy that we live and everyone does do it and even the people you choose to lead your country. this company has kind of pulled this stunt before in other countries. >> yes. >> as you said, it has been four days this has been up. it is not like it is a secret. the campaign is not saying anything about it, but if they -- >> not yet. >> if they wanted -- when you talk about being up in mexico, if he wanted it to be taken down, they would have to take down the billboard, right? >> i don't think so. i think there will be some sort of legal enforcement or he cannot just ask for it and the
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company will bring it down. they have to go through maybe the electoral institute or to some sort of institution that can legally force the company to bring it down. it is not just about asking to bring it down, though. let me tell you something. the company is also saying that he is not going to be the only one. they're talking about some other possibility of some other ads with other candidates, so we have to wait and see. >> very interesting. i am very interested to hear what the campaign has to say and if this whole kind of messy controversy is going to just lead all the way up to election day. we'll have to see if women voters turn out and what they have to say about it. >> it is the point. >> very interesting. thank you so much for joining me. nice to meet you. >> nice to meet you, too. >> very interesting story. another interesting story, joe is a huge success on and off the payable field and we'll talk with him about the violence he saw as child and how he is now
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some 3 million children suffer domestic violence every year in the united states and in this week's human factor sanjay gupta introduces us to one of them, a kid from brooklyn who became a famous baseball player and future hall of fame manager. >> joe tory, one of the most successful baseball managers in the past 40 years. >> i can't tell you what the emotions are. they're just running all into each other, and i can't tell you how happy i am. i have never been this happy in my life. >> just as he was reaching the pinnacle of his career winning four world series titles in five years he began opening up about his childhood and growing up with an abusive father. >> my older sister rae came from the kitchen into the dining room and had a knife protecting my
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mom and my dad was going into the drawer in the dining room to get his revolver, and i did witness that, and i still remember vividly going over to my sister and grabbing the knife and putting it on the table. >> for young tory who grew up to be an all-star player and is expected to be inducted into the hall of fame, baseball became his sanctuary. >> i had low self-esteem, and i was lucky i played baseball. i had an opportunity to go some place to hide. >> what time do you guys have to be in class? >> today he is giving back by providing a real sanctuary for other abused children. >> the perpetrator, you know, we do them favors when we don't talk about things like this. awareness is so important in this. >> tory and his wife have started the safe at home foundation which funds dedicated spaces inside schools where kids can speak openly and get counseling about domestic violence.
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>> it is very serious what's happening to kids and the bus and the people that are abused, and they don't have advocates for them and we're trying to be those advocates. >> torre names each site margaret's place in honor of his mother who was physically abused by his father. >> youngsters are strong. they bounce back but i don't think they realize that it hurts them. i get choked up when i talk about that. >> that's okay. >> retired from managing teams he is still in the game overseeing operations for major league baseball and also giving his time to end violence. dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. that's our human factor. defense secretary leon panetta arrives in afghanistan with some pretty harsh words for pakistan. the country with the stock piled nuclear weapons and terrorists who might do anything to get their hands on them. good morning! wow.
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united states and pakistan is growing more tense. militants use pakistan as a base to attack u.s. troops in afghanistan and the u.s. wants it to stop. listen to the tough warning defense secretary leon panetta delivered today while in kabul. >> 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. >> i want to go to the pentagon correspondent chris lawrence pentagon. what's going on? what do you think is behind this? >> the fact that the u.s. and pakistan are in a really bad spot right now and when you're in a bad relationship, you often have a lot of things to talk about and try to work out. that's what's happening right here. secretary panetta is very upset at the increased attacks by the
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hakani network, the terrorist group based in the tribal areas of pakistan and launches attacks on u.s. troops over the board inner afghanistan. he wants pakistan to step up some of the their control or crackdown on the network, but he went way beyond that. during this trip he said that the u.s. is at war in the tribal areas of pakistan and before he got to afghanistan when he was in india, he laughed at the pakistanis, how they were dupd on the osama bin laden mission and to laugh at them while in india is a dicey proposition. he also compared the u.s. relation ship to pakistan to india's relationship with pakistan. india has fought three wars with pakistan and still has disputed territory they're fighting over, so some very, very provocative comments and we just spoke with
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our colleague res asai aand he says they were not pleased and he we do not sdesh to be laughed at and we deserve to be respected and he thinks this is the pakistanis think it is washington's way of deflecting from some of their failuring in afghanistan. >> tough words on their side as well. talk about the timing. seems to be interesting. aren't they still in negotiations on the way over the supply routes in which the u.s. needs pakistan's cooperation? >> yeah. in fact, i spoke with the senior defense official who says there are u.s. representatives that have been in pakistan this week trying to make progress on that very thing. those are the most expedient routes to get supplies into afghanistan and have been shut down since november and the u.s. used to pay about $250 a truck to use that border processing and recently the pakistanis are asking $5,000 a truck and the defense official said there is
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no way that the u.s. is going to pay anywhere close to that. we'll have to see if they're able to come to some compromise. >> and if the latest remarks have any impact on those negotiations. chris lawrence, thanks so much. very different story. you see political round tables every day on just about every network. nothing like this one. this is in greece. right versus left and now take a look, there you go, and now there is an arrest warrant. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement insurance card, too.
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trending today, greek politics getting down right nasty. a morning show round table debate turns into an all-out slapping fight in front of the cameras. there you go. i think that was water and just watch out it unfolds and starts when a spokesman for the far right party throws a glass of water at a female politician from the far left party and another woman tried to intervene and you see what happens next. the man who started it all was actually locked in a room at the tv studio and he broke down the door and escaped. police have been searching and no arrest has yet been reported. that's tough politics. another story we're watching, she once will to wear a face
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mask to go out in public. now michael jackson's daughter is talking about moving from the family estate and her new movie role.
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in a revealing interview michael jackson's only daughter paris is opening up about her dad and can her childhood. 14-year-old paris jackson sat down with oprah winfrey three years after the king of pop's death and here is what she says about him as a dad and living in the public eye.
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>> did you feel that he wanted you to have a, quote, normal life? >> yeah, he did. >> do you feel that he thought that that was possible with him being who he was? >> he had his doubts. i remember he told us that when he was younger he didn't really have a childhood. he would ald be stuck in a studio singing while other kids were outplaying and he wanted us to have that, so we would a lot of times go to chuck e cheese and everything and that was one of our favorite places to go. >> paris also talks about her father's death and told oprah, quote, it never gets easier. the rest of the interview airs sunday on own, the oprah winfrey network. coming up it is a body of water that supplies six states and the chesapeake bay has dead zones caused by and conservationists say it is a critical situation. also, bill clinton had praise for romney.
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was he misunderstood? did it hurt the obama campaign? the former president sits down one-on-one with wolf blitzer and wolf will join me live in a few minutes.
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pollution is threatening to kill the chesapeake bay watershed and at stake is the livelihood of thousands of species of wildlife already affected. it has been a problem for years. the government is enforcing a cleanup policy and some counties
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there are refusing the plan. athena jones explains. >> the chesapeake bay, the largestest wear in north america fed by 100,000 creeks, streams and rivers. it is home to more than 3,700 species of plants and animals including crabs and oysters and it is in trouble. conservationists say plugs from farms, wastewater treatment facilities, stormwater run off and power plants in the 64,000 square mile water sh he had that includes parts of six states and the nation's capital is slowly killing the bay. >> what happens is too much pollution causes an explosion of algae. when the algae die they decompose and use up oxygen in the water. when you have no dissolved objection yen you have dead zones and dead zones kill fish and oysters and kill crabs. >> warm waters fuel the growth of the dead zones during the summer threatening an important
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economic engine for the region. >> it means much reduced tourism and unhealthy seafood and unhealthy water to swim in and the lack of revenue from all of the areas that the bay generates. >> we rode out to take a closer look. >> we're going to head where the water is about 30 feet deep and that's where i was seeing a lot of really bad water the other day. >> measured oxygen levels in the water. >> and most critters like 5 parts per million or greater. woulder hoping for a number of 5.0 or greater. getting close to the bottom. this is not a good reading. odds are good there are not a whole lot of fish on the bottom. >> can anything survive down there. >> not well, no. >> the readings were poor all the way up to the surface. in an effort to improve the condition the environmental protections agency set limits on the amount of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment allowed in the water, a so-called pollution diet agreed to by the six states and district of columbia. the goal is to cut plugs to the
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levels by 2025 and halfway there by 2017. it has borne fruit according to lisa jackson who we spoke with along the river in washington, one of the most polluted rivers running into the chesapeake. >> the progress has been steady but not fast enough. i keep saying now is not the time to quit. we are so close to actually turning that corner, but it is going to require all of us. the federal government, the state partners, local and county government and municipalities and all alike to keep putting in our share. >> meeting the goals will cost billions of dollars and while some federal help is available, those funds won't cover the whole bill. failure to meet the targets can result in fewer federal grants, tougher factory permit regulations and stricter regulations for farmer who is the epa says are the biggest contributors. opponents like the american farm bureau question the data and say the plan will kill jobs. they filed suit to block it. >> this approach by the epa is too heavy handed and it will cost people in this watershed
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significantly. >> don parish says farmers already cut back on fertilizers and created buffer zones to reduce run off. >> farmers want the cleaner bay. from their standpoint, they're already on a razor edge and if you push this envelope, it could really have a significant impact on the ability for farms to operate. >> now, kate, i mentioned we're here in the chesapeake bay and the stakes are high. this is a bay that contributes billions of dollars each year into the local economies in the region and for maryland a lot of it is seafood and a lot of us heard about the maryland crab and it is one bright spot in all of this. the crab populations are beginning to rebound according to the state. oysters are a different story. they're also beginning to recover but they have a lot further to go and of course healthy oyster beds are important because they attract a lot of fish. kate. >> it is very interesting, athena. in regard to your story, tell me where there is a lawsuit against
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the government when really all they're trying to do is clean the water? >> well, exactly. the american farm bureau brought this in federal court and joined by the national home builders association. they believe the epa is over reaching and they're trying to monitor the activities of states and farmers and home owners and businesses and they say that the plan doesn't take into consideration the immense costs of cleaning up the bay, the costs of these pollution reduction efforts. supporters say that the epa plan does give the starts a chance to come up with their own ways of reducing this pollution and meeting these targets. they say the suits have no merit and either way you can bet that whatever happens with this lawsuit both sides will keep fighting because the epa says they're in it for the long haul. >> athena jones on the chesapeake bay for us. thanks so much. top of the hour