tv Anderson Cooper 360 CNN June 15, 2012 10:00pm-11:00pm PDT
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go to postsecondary school. >> i promise not to drink until i am 21. >> i promise not to get into a car with someone that has been dripping. >> i promise to give back to my community. >> i think mariah's challenge is something that makes people think a little more, to say we can do better. mariah is forever, i can't get her back, but i can help other parents keep their kids safe. if you save one child, you save a generation. we begin with a major change in immigration policy. to stop immigrant that came to the united states as infants before they knew what that meant. obama administration will stop deporting people younger than 30 that came to the united states before they turned 16, as long as they have clean records and were successful students that served in the military. young people can apply for two year deferral for deportation,
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and if accepted can have the chance to work legally in the united states. in a speech at the white house, the president said it is a step towards lifting the shadow of deportation for young people that are americans in every way except on paper. >> this is not amnesty, this is not immunity. this is not a path to citizenship. it is not a permanent fix. this is a temporary stop measure that let's us focus resources wisely while giving a degree of relief and hope to hope, talented, driven, patriotic young people. it is the right thing to do. >> there was swift reaction from republicans, we want to tell you about that in a moment. want to tell you about heated reaction before the president's speech was over, a reporter from the daily caller yelled out questions along the lines of what about american workers that are unemployed while you employ foreigners, yelling these while the president was speaking.
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take a look. >> it is the right thing to do. >> why do you favor that over american workers. >> excuse me, not while i'm speaking. the answer to your question, sir, next time i prefer you let me finish my statements before you answer that question, is this is the right thing to do for the american people. i didn't ask for argument. i'm answering your question. >> that reporter, neil monroe said he had no intention of interrupting the president, he thought he was wrapping up. he told cnn he asks the questions you all won't ask. do with that what you will. one of the more tempered responses came from mitt romney. listen. >> i believe the status of young people that come here through no fault of their own is an important matter to be considered and solved on a long-term basis so they know what their future would be in this country. the action the president took
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today makes it difficult to reach that long term solution, because an executive order is a short term matter, can be reversed by subsequent presidents. >> for the record, the change action not coming from executive order but change in homeland security policy. romney's point it is a temporary solution, that is accurate, and it is something president obama himself actually acknowledged today, something that senator marco rubio in florida criticized as well. he said today's announcement will be welcome news for many of these kids desperate for an answer but it is a short term answer to a long term problem and by once again ignoring the constitution and going around congress, the short term policy will make it harder to find a balanced answer and long term one. also, some republicans are worried about rampant fraud. congressman lamar smith from texas. many illegal immigrants will falsely claim they came here as children and the federal government has no way to check whether those claims are true.
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lindsey graham tweeted president obama's attempt to go around congress and american people is at best up wise and possibly illegal. another plans to sue the obama administration saying this is no longer a debate about immigration policy, the debate is now about the constitution and rule of law. i am preparing to bring suit against the president and ask for a court to enjoin him from implementing this unlawful policy. the president asked congress to pass immigration reform and today called on lawmakers to pass the dream act which puts in law for children of illegal immigrants to stay in the united states. it accomplishes that goal temporarily, but there was a time not too long ago when president obama said the onus fell squarely on congress's shoulders. in fact, he said he couldn't just decide to make the change. he was obligated to enforce the laws that existed. listen to what he told a town hall broadcast in univision last
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year. >> the notion i can just suspend deportations through executive order, that's just not the case. there are enough lawson the books by congress that are very clear in terms of how we have to enforce our immigration system. that for me to simply through executive order ignore those congressional mandates would not conform with my appropriate role as president. >> as we said, today's change is not an executive order. in that club, the president did say it wouldn't be appropriate to ignore mandates from congress. joining me now, cnn political contributor and democratic strategist paul begala. also an adviser to a pro obama super pac. also, anna navaro. and alex stewart, former spokesperson for the santorum and bachmann campaigns. paul, what happened? the president said this was up to congress last march. less than five months to election day, just as romney's
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amping up a play for latino voters, there's this directive from homeland security. republicans say this is all about politics. shoring up support among latinos. >> well, this is -- everything we do in this election year is going to be intertwined between government and politics. in terms of government, the president and other reformers really wanted a comprehensive bill. they understood if you just pulled out the popular provisions like this one, it makes it harder to pass the unpopular provisions. that's why he was waiting on congress. i'm sure he's concluded congress is not going to act in an election year. but of course, this is timed politically. this notion everybody has the vapors. duh, this is political. it's an election year. abraham lincoln withheld the emancipation proclamation. so if you can do for the emancipation proclamation, surely you can do it for the dream act. >> why is it something you had to wait for congress to do? why now? why that switch? >> that was a year ago. there's another provision, by the way, you may see.
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this h 1 b. a provision by which very highly educated immigrants are allowed to stay past their visa. so right now believe it or not if you graduate and you're an immigrant and you have a student visa, you have to leave the country as soon as you get your degree. that's crazy, right? a lot of reformers want to basically staple an application for citizenship on to that. that's popular. there's two or three really popular things in comprehensive reform. there's two or three really unpopular things. a year ago march he said it. he has to now eat that. it is a flip-flop. i think both sides, he's got the better of the argument here. >> do you agree with what mitt romney said today? this is a short-term solution. but it's going to make it harder to get a long-term solution? >> i think it is going to make it harder. >> how? >> i think one of the things we may see as a direct result is rubio may not be introducing his bill. it takes away the sense of urgency. this was a very popular -- this compelling story of the dream act is something that may be
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able to get bipartisan support if led by somebody like a rubio who has so much political capital on the right. what he did today, bypassing congress -- congress gets angry when that happens. it does complicate it. anderson, the question you've been asking paul, as to why, well, the why is very simple. even though barack obama leads mitt romney in the polls by a wide margin, the turnout, the enthusiasm, the fire, the passion that latinos had four years ago just wasn't there. so he had to give something to create that. that's what makes it so political. that's the why. >> romney's response today was somewhat muted and for a guy who, you know, was pretty opposed to the dream act during the primaries, he wasn't really talking about that today. he was just talking about just kind of making it harder to get a long-term solution. >> he was out, as you know, on his bus tour, traveling around the country.
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talking about jobs and the economy and what he plans to do to turn the economy around. when asked about this, he made the point this is a long-term problem. sure, everyone's heart goes out to the young people who are here by no fault of their own. but to find the answer to this, this is a long-term problem. >> you're saying -- >> he answered the question. he was asked about this and he answered the question just as pribus, the head of the rnc, answered. this is a politically motivated imposes a policy that is simply not what we need to do. he is taking illegal immigrants, putting them in line for jobs that americans are trying to get. why doesn't he come up with some unilateral executive action to help the 23 million americans that are out of work? that's what we need to see in
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this country. >> paul, do you think this will hurt him in terms of americans saying look, what about american jobs? >> in fact, mr. romney is going to be hurt by this. somehow, this is difficult to do, annoyed both the left and right. he gave that cowardly statement where he didn't take a position, but we know because we had seen it. tea party debate, 2011, he called that dream act a handout. he attacked it. and said this. that only attracts people to take advantage of america. so we know he is against it, but didn't say it today. moderates who want reform and like the dream act, he annoyed the conservative base that he was a few months ago saying this was a handout. >> alice, do you think this changes his view of the dream act? he said i agree with what marco
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rubio said. >> he made it clear, said he supports a pathway to residency but not citizenship and made that clear. in the overall immigration issue, he is right on that. first and foremost, we need to secure the border. what he is doing and he has addressed this issue, been asked about it, but he is embarking on a tour across this country talking about the number one issue people are discussing, that's jobs and the economy. that's why people trust him more than president obama to create jobs and turn the economy around. >> have to leave it there. paul, anna, alyce, i want to see how this will effect the latino vote. john, he says it is the right thing to do from a policy perspective. what about the politics on the ground? >> hope it helps. if you look at the electoral map, seven states are yellow are true tossups. the president has a slight advantage in the electoral college if he can win a few, then gets four more years.
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where might it matter. one of the huge states where the latino votes matters is nevada. won it last time. 26% plus are latinos, up a little from last time. this is a wow. president obama won more than 75% of the vote last time. nevada's economy is tough. the president needs every last one of those votes this time. that's one place the white house thinks this helps them. let's move on from nevada. another one, florida, obvious the latino population matters. again, obama won last time, anderson, it is a tough state for the president this time. more than 20% of the vote latino. up by a bigger slice from nevada for 2008. tougher state, more complicated latino vote. you have puerto ricans and mexican and south american. the president needs better than 57% this time. another state to watch. the white house thinks it will help in battleground florida. a smaller state where the slice of latino population is smaller,
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but we can watch it. virginia, 8% of the vote islah teen oh. look how much it grew. the president got two-thirds of the vote in virginia. if he can match those numbers again, he can probably keep virginia in play this time. another fascinating state to watch, even some romney advisers say the announcement probably helps the president. >> is there anything he can do to close the gap with latinos? >> the president and romney appeared tame event, leadership conference of latinos next week. let's see if he changes his position. they think governor romney will argue the economy, try to move this from immigration. they think one of the reasons the president is doing this is because he needs to gin in the base, get the base voters out, they think he is hurting with white middle class voters. we mentioned nevada, florida, virginia, states where this might help. that's because the romney camp
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calculation, they think maybe the president is worried about wisconsin or michigan, maybe he is worried about pennsylvania. he is looking at other states. take those states away, governor romney is in place. the president make ago play for latino voters because they see more trouble with white middle class voters. everything is about tradeoffs. >> interesting john, thanks. we are on facebook, follow me on twitter@andersoncooper. jerry sandusky's lawyers laid out a diagnosis of histrionic personality disorder. we will talk next about it with mark geragos. for three hours a week, i'm a coach.
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jerry sandusky's defense team gave us a preview of next week. the judge ruled an expert may testify to his alleged psychological state. lawyers say sandusky has histrionic personality disorder and his diagnosis explains what prosecutors allege is grooming behavior. prosecutors accuse him of cultivating relationships with victims to pave the way for sexual assault and abuse. he pled not guilty to molesting boys from the second mile charity. here to talk about it, former fbi special agent mary ellen o'toole. and criminal defense attorney mark geragos. according to national institutes of health, histrionic
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personality disorder is a, quote, condition in which people act in an emotional dramatic way that draws attention to themselves. why would that have somebody grooming children to assault them? >> well, i think that's the important point here, is that histrionic personality disorder does not result in the kinds of behaviors you hear being presented in the courtroom. there's no cause and effect between histrionic personality disorder and a sexual interest in children, particularly predatory behavior. >> mark, the prosecution said the letter sandusky wrote to alleged victims were part of a grooming behavior. the defense says it's consistent with his disorder. do you think that's a strong defense, a wise defense, or is that all they got? >> i don't think it's necessarily a defense. i think what they're trying to say, look, they're not going to
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get in there and argue to anybody with a straight face that he did these sexual acts and he did it because he has this personality disorder. i think what they are trying to do is to say when the prosecution is showing you documentary evidence, which are the letters, and the letters look bad if they're viewing it through this prism of grooming. they're saying, no, it's not grooming. the guy's got personality disorder that manifests itself in things like this letter, and then they're going to argue but he didn't do the sexual act. they're not for a second, if all their neurons are firing, they're not going to be arguing the histrionic personality disorder is somehow an excuse for the sexual act. it's just to explain, to give the jury something to hang their hat on, to explain away the letters themselves. >> mary ellen what are the characteristics of someone with this disorder?
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>> well, some of the futures of the disorder include -- these are individuals that are very theatrical. these are individuals who want to and need to be the center of attention. they form relationships they view as far more intimate than they are. they're actually very seductive in their interactions with people. if you look at all the literature on histrionic personality disorder and you look at their interactions with others, the presumption is it's not with children who are under age, it's with adults. again, it's that absence of predatory behavior. and it's the absence of that profound sexual interest in children who are under age. >> mark, you think the defense may actually put sandusky on the stand. why? >> well, you know, last night when you asked me i said it let me tell you why, there's a couple of things. first of all, he went out and did the costa interview. "the new york times" interview. during jury selection, he
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actually, over his lawyer's objection, like we talked about it at the time, i would have elbowed the guy in the head, he said, no, i want to accept this person. so i think there's a real sense on his part this is his trial, he's going to do it his way, and a lot of times, i've been there, where i've told the client, look, it's suicide for you to take the stand. you're never going to be able to compete with a seasoned prosecutor. you know, you don't understand how this courtroom works. you don't have any control over it. nobody, i don't care who you are as a defendant, can compete with a really good prosecutor's cross examination. innocent, guilty, it doesn't matter. but ultimately it's the defendant's decision. he's got a constitutional right. and the lawyer doesn't make that decision. and i just have a sneaking suspicion he may decide he's going to get up there and he's going to tell it like it is. >> wow that would be something. coming up, revolution interrupted in egypt. really dramatic developments. not only yesterday in egypt but today as well and this weekend,
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the 360 world view tonight. protesters are back on the streets in egypt. accusations of a coup. the military counsel which has been running the country since mubarak's ouster last year dissolved the freely elected parliament just yesterday. the high court packed with mubarak judges threw out most of the laws the parliament has passed. that cleared the way for mubarak's former prime minister to run for president. since the law to block former regime officials from running no longer exists. that's a poster of the guy.
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his last name is shafik. if you're wondering how this is playing with the public, tomorrow's runoff election between shafik and the muslim brotherhood's candidate is going to bring a president to power without a constitution or a legislative body, a far cry from the goals of the so-called arab spring. let's bring in senior international correspondent ben wedeman. and "the new york times" david kirkpatrick. both in cairo. ben, the fact that parliament has been dissolved, what exactly does that mean? >> really what it mean, it's quite a body blow to the muslim brotherhood, which had almost 50% of the seats. the brotherhood saw parliament as its stronghold and was looking forward to possibly getting the presidency as well. now it's lost that. it's got no guarantee it's going to lose the presidency. in addition to that, the supreme council of the armed forces said they will pick the constituent assembly that will write up the constitution.
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that was a body that twice the parliament tried to form but failed to reach a consensus on. so really the brotherhood suddenly finds itself with a lot less cards to play in the political game. now, the brotherhood last night put out a statement calling for a million man march to the ballot boxes. so they really do see this election that begins tomorrow as a critical step to try to maintain their foothold in the power structure in egypt. >> you wrote in "the times" there's grave doubt of what could happen next. regardless of who wins, is the military going to remain the real power? >> well, we always knew the military wasn't about to disappear. they've made it clear they intend to have a major voice in their own affairs. probably including foreign policy as well as defense policy. now it's more clear than ever that the proceeding months, the following months and years are
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going to be a long slow political struggle to try to rest power from the old elite. it's not going to be a quick flip of the switch. it's going to be a long slog. >> what's been the reaction since the parliament was disbanded? , given the importance of this development. we were outside the constitutional court when the ruling was announced. after a while, they said, let's all go to tahrir square to carry on this demonstration. and tahrir square frankly was fairly empty yesterday. there have been more demonstrations today. but nowhere near sort of the crowds of hundreds of thousands we've seen. >> david what do you think is going to happen at the ballot box this weekend? >> that's a very good question. what we've seen since egypt
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started holding elections is they have a tendency to sap some of the energy from the street protest. that people put their emotions into the ballot box instead of the streets. which is probably healthy from a democratic perspective. i would say that it's reasonable to suppose in a free and fair vote based on the results in the first round. mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood would have a commanding lead. islamic candidates have gt ennearly 50% of the vote in the first round. he just needs to pick off a few more of the anti-mubarak voters which shouldn't be hard. but at this point, after all these political decisions, there's a real haze of doubt over just how free and fair that vote is going to be. >> ben, if shafik, who's considered the mubarak ally, win, where does that leave the protest? where does that leave all the work done during the arab spring protests?
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>> i think there still is a certain amount of energy left in the street. despite the sort of exhaustion of the last year and a half. it really hinges on the muslim brotherhood. when the muslim brotherhood says, we are going to fill tahrir square, they can do it. unlike the revolutionaries who have elegance and imagination but they simply don't have the numbers. >> appreciate it very much, thanks. we'll see what happens this weekend. tom foreman is here with the 360 bulletin. >> the head of the united nations observer mission in syria says the latest escalation in violence is preventing his team from doing its job. he says neither side is implementing the peace plan that the u.n. is there to monitor. hurricane carlotta is now a category 2 storm, with sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. it's gaining strength as it heads towards mexico, southwestern coach. expected to make landfall tonight or tomorrow morning. police in germany say they
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have solved the forest boy mystery and it is a hoax. he claimed to be a teen who spent five years living in the forest. police now say he's 20 years old. he left his home in the netherlands. they don't really know why. he's not what they said he was. >> oh, forest boy. tom, thanks very much. coming up, our continuing investigation into charities that take your hard-earned money claimed to help abandoned animals or veterans. drew griffin has new information about a woman accused of soliciting money to save animals that weren't saved. we're keeping you honest next. when it comes to home insurance,
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charities. this week, we've been talking huge response, people really angry obviously when they find out where the money trail leads, not to helping the animals, but to a fund-raising company called quadriga art. we are digging into a story of a program called baghdad pups which has raised millions to allegedly reunite military dogs with personnel they served with overseas. as far as we can tell, they don't really do that at all. as we're focusing on a woman behind that program, her name is terry crisp with spca international. we'd heard of her before. we did a story about her. she started a foundation to save pets after hurricane katrina. more on that in a moment. terry crisp was on hln's morning express with robin mead last march with two bomb sniffing dogs she says were rescued after they were abandoned by a u.s. contractor in iraq. >> how is it they fall through the cracks and get stranded there? that's unthinkable to me. >> it is unthinkable. that's why spca international is making sure these dogs don't get forgotten. >> turns out there's a lot more to the story than what terry crisp would have you believe. i spoke with drew griffin who's been investigating.
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drew, she claims or claimed on hln these dogs were abandoned by the contractor but that's not what you found. >> no, the contractor says in no way were these dogs abandoned. they were working dogs in iraq, and the company basically retired them because the specific contracts these dogs were working on ran out. the company says it found homes for ivy and nugget, good, vetted homes is what they told us, for these two dogs in kurdistan. and they were about to give them over to their new families in kurdistan when terry crisp showed up and asked the dogs be donated to spca international. the company agreed to do that. but says in no way were these dogs abandoned. flat out, no. >> have you been able to talk to terry crisp about this? >> no, the spokesperson for spca international is telling us that crisp is in thailand unavailable. but they're sticking by the claim that ivy and nugget were rescues even though the company told us flatly no.
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>> i mean, i spent a lot of time in thailand. they got phones there. it's ridiculous they're saying she's unavailable in thailand. are they sticking by the claim the dogs are military dogs and they're saving them? >> this is the fine line. they say they're saving military member's dogs and cats. according to the spca international, this $26 million them to bring home home 447 animals. of which, they claim, 26 are contractor dogs. none of these are military dogs. the rest would be strays. but all of this comes from them. we don't know what to believe. it wasn't just on hln. terry crisp has been pleading for dollars for this project. selling a book. just about anywhere she can. even trying to make her case that it's helping soldiers with posttraumatic stress. >> spca international will do everything we can to continue to
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support the military. hopefully, the wars will come to an end and we won't be doing anything as dramatic as this. we've become real attached to the fact that military personnel love their animals. and we want to do everything we can to keep them together. >> we asked the person from a watchdog group to look at this. the financials and the claims. here's what he said. >> what worries me about this one is the numbers don't compute. i can't understand how to connect the dots between how much money is spent on fund-raising to how much money is spent on programming and what the sources of those revenues are. and i also can't really measure the impact of this organization. what difference are they really making? >> what's remarkable here, i mean, this isn't the first time that terry crisp has perhaps deceived the public and, quite frankly, the media, in efforts
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to allegedly save animals. we profiled here in 2005 after hurricane katrina hit new orleans. she told us noah's wish, her charity, was saving thousands of abandoned pets. from the hurricane. is any of that true? >> we just don't know what is and isn't true with this woman. what i can tell you, noah's wish is a charity based in california. and based on her pleas during katrina, that charity raised $8 million in donations. california's attorney general must have been skeptical because according to a settlement agreement out there with the attorney general, that forced the charity to give back half of those dollars, the state of california was conducting an investigation to determine if contributions made to noah's wish for the purpose of rescuing and caring for animal victims of hurricane katrina were not used for that specific purpose. that's straight out of their settlement agreement.
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now, because the settlement was made without any kind of investigation going forward, in other words, noah's wish tried to stop this investigation by just settling. we don't really know what the final conclusion was. but we can tell you an agreement of giving back $4 million of the money. charity agreed to make sure that terry crisp would not be an officer, director, or any kind of board member of a charity, for five years, with any nonprofit organization. i can confirm to you right now, based on our report, california attorney general is taking a strong look at this to see if terry crisp hasn't violated that settlement agreement. >> that's amazing to me she agreed to not be involved in any other charity and clearly she seems to be with this spca international. we'll keep on it, drew, thanks. the group's name is spca international. a family barbecue turns into a tragedy for a texas family.
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the community is standing by the dad. when asked if authorities would press charges, the sheriff reaffirmed the man's right to defend his daughter and said that decision will ultimately go to a grand jury. for a closer look, i spoke with randi kaye and senior analyst jeffrey toobin. what have you found out about what happened on the farm? >> according to the sheriff, the father and the grandfather of this little girl were working on the family farm here behind me. they were working with the horses. setting up for a barbecue. the little girl was apparently in a pasture area behind the barn. maybe even working around the chicken coop. when suddenly her father heard her screaming. he ran towards the screams that he was hearing. and he found this 47-year-old man, according to the sheriff, this is what the father told him, attempting to rape his 5-year-old daughter. he pulled him off her and started punching him repeatedly in the face and that ended up killing him. >> jeff, is it possible the father could be charged with this father?
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-- with this killing? >> it is technically possible according to the letter of the law. in the real world, they're more likely to build a statue in his honor than they are to prosecute. >> it would be up to a grand jury. >> they would have to get a grand jury to indict him. which i can't imagine a texas grand jury doing that. or practically any other state. and then they would have to go to a regular, you know, petty jury. i can't imagine him being convicted. i think this is never going to lead to a criminal prosecution. >> what do we know about the father? >> according to the neighbor who has known him for years, he says he's a spe respectable guy, good guy, family man. single father. he refers to the men around the neighborhood as sir and the general feeling is justice was served in this case. they don't think he should be charged. in fact, one man, who i spoke with, a neighbor here, i asked him, well, what would you do if it was your daughter? listen to what he told me. if this was your daughter, what would you have done? >> i would have killed him ten times worse.
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i mean, it seems cruel but i mean -- i mean, anybody would have snapped. but it's just, it's unspeakable. it should have never -- this person's not right in their mind for them to even do something like that, you know, it's terrible. >> randi, what's known about the guy who was killed? >> the sheriffs and the official investigating it are not releasing the name. either is the district attorney in this case. hard for us to figure out if he had any history of doing this. we know he and the father in the case, the father of the little girl, knew each other casually. he had done some work for the little girl's grandfather. >> would it make a difference if the man knew he would kill -- because he told the sheriff apparently that he didn't know he was going to kill this guy. would that make a difference if he intentionally -- >> it might but frankly given these circumstances i don't think it would either. you can play around with hypotheticals. what if it was five minutes later? what if he didn't see it happening? what if he just heard about it from the daughter?
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that would be a different circumstance. but actually seeing your 5-year-old daughter, an attempted rape, i think basically anything goes -- >> there's also a self-defense law in texas similar to stand your ground, the castle -- >> right, it's broader than just self-defense. the wording is a little ambiguous. i don't think there have been a lot of interpretations of it, but it suggests that self-defense can extend to a member of your family as -- like this. so he might even have a legal defense as well as a factual defense. but in the real world, i don't think any prosecutor, any grand jury, is going to bring charges against him. >> do we know how the little girl is doing? >> we understand she was taken from the farm. she was taken to a local hospital. she was examined. they're not releasing any information about the nature of the attack. but she is now back home with her family, anderson. >> appreciate it, thanks. tom foreman again with the 360 bulletin. >> three masked men apparently tried to break into the home of
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townspeople voted to put a $20 fine on anyone who swears in public. and by anyone, they mean you, you pesky kids. concerned citizens say vulgar teens are a big problem downtown and are making life, pardon my language, darn unpleasant. >> it's intimidating to my customers. to the people that are out here downtown, and i think it's a good thing they're doing something to try to curb it. >> don't think it will solve the problem but i think it will make them understand what is acceptable behavior. and what is not. >> i'm sympathetic to that. residents probably have a point. groups of cursing teens can't be good for business. it's upsetting to hear what some kids scream on the street. in front of little kids and others. but who wants to hear that? don't police officers have better things to be doing than writing tickets for f-bombs? >> these are things that are quality of life issues, community police issues, that a lot of people don't want to see downtown. >> quality of life is important both on the streets of your community and in the halls of your workplace.
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that's why i'm proud cnn is squeaky clean. >> at no point running a gym? >> no, running a gym, you need a workout or something? jesus [ bleep ] christ, i come on the news for two seconds, and you want -- >> all right -- >> every time i do an interview, a guy wants to open his [bleep] mouth. >> all right, andrew, thank you very much. >> you know what, go [bleep] yourself, your [bleep] network. >> we'll go back to -- >> [ bleep ] [ bleep ] -- >> and we'll be back in just a moment to fill you in on the art carney situation. >> i feel bad for allan chernoff there. tried to get things back on track, wasn't meant to be. by the way, the art carney situation allan referred to was art carney was, in fact, dead. that was the situation. he was 85 and he had died. also, tt
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