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their luck. some get away with it and get bigger and stronger. and then that pressures others to compete and so more people cheat. it's a terrible and vicious circle. but the blame is on fans as much as on athletes. thanks so much as always for watching. see you back here tomorrow. "anderson cooper 360" starts right now. erin, thanks very much. good evening, everyone. news we've just learn. republican senator marco rubio is shelving his plan for the dream act in congress. his decision to shelf his dream act alternative comes on the heels of president obama's new policy. keeping them honest tonight. we're asking where mitt romney though really stands on the new policy. he has slammed the move as pandering to the latino vote. he's blasted president obama for bypassing congress where the
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dream act is stalled. romney bashed the president's end run around congress. even though he was asked repeatedly, he refused to say if he would repeal the order if he's elected in november. >> would you repeal this order if you became president? >> well, let's step back and look at the issue. >> what would you do about it? >> as you know, he was president for the last 3 1/2 years, did nothing on immigration. >> but would you repeal this? >> well, it would be overtaken by events by virtue of my putting in place a long-term solution with legislation which creates law that relates to individuals such as they know their setting is going to be. for the term of a president but on a permanent basis. >> would you leave this in place while you worked out a long-term solution or would you just repeal it? >> we'll look at that setting as we reach that. but my anticipation is i'd come into office and say we need to get this done on a long-term basis. not this kind of stop-gap
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measure. >> romney didn't offer any specifics on what long-term solution he has in mind. that's a far cry from the primary season where romney wasn't hedging on specifics and repeat lid took a hard line on immigration issues. watch. >> the question is, if i were elected and congress were to pass the dream act, would i veto it, and the answer is yes. i think we have to follow the law and insist that those that have come here illegally ultimately return home, apply, get in line with everyone else. return home and get in line, at the back of the line, with everybody else that wants to come here. get in the same line, at the back of the line. i want people to get in line legally. >> immigration obviously can be a big issue in the november elections. in a recent poll, president obama had a 34 point lead among latino voters. some of romney's key surrogates believe he'll need around 40% of the latino vote to have a shot at winning. now, both candidates are scheduled to speak this week.
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as we said, romney's accusing president obama of playing politics and says the timing of his new immigration policy speaks for itself. keeping them honest. romney's refusal to say if he'll overturn the new policy is also raising some eyebrows for the very same reason. we asked the campaign to discuss it. they declined. joining me now, ari fleisher. also maria cardona. so, ari, i certainly understand the criticism from romney. what president obama did is about politics. can you make the same argument? isn't that about politics? >> yes. both positions have a lot of politics in them. i think they both have a good dose of substance in them too. as anybody's followed the immigration debate going back to the years of ronald reagan
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knows, this issue is full of both extraordinarily complicated substance and politics. it's also full of deep-seated emotion on both sides. i come at it from a point of view of a bush republican who actually tried to do something in a comprehensive way in congress when president obama tried to get immigration reform enacted. a lot of well meaning people love this country and want to come to this country. i'm the son of an immigrant. by the same token, we're a nation that pays a lot of homage to the rule of law. that's why this is such a complicated issue. >> maria, most republicans, including mitt romney, have reacted and are still reacting very carefully to the president's announcement. romney just said he disagrees with the president's methods. is there a chance the president won't be able to draw the contrast he might have been hoping to? >> oh, no, there's no chance of that. he's already drawn the contrast which is why you see the majority of latino voters even before this announcement are supporting president obama on this. and, look, this is the problem with mitt romney.
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this is the box he has painted himself into because of what you just ran. what he has said during the primaries in order to shore up his conservative base that he would veto the dream act. his long-term sole lushgs if we're to listen to his words during the primary, would be for all undocumented i grants to self-deport. those are his words. he said the draconian arizona law should be a model for the nation. he can't get to the white house with at least 40% of the hispanic vote. there's no chance he's going to get anywhere near that if he doesn't soften his stance on immigration. that's going to be difficult for him because then his conservative base will be up in arms. >> do you see a problem with romney's outreach to latino voters? >> i think republicans have a problem with hispanic voters. if there were no gaps in politics, either race would end
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up tied. both parties have these issues with different constituencies. you can make the case president obama doesn't get more than 60% of the hispanic vote he can't win, therefore he's doing everything he can to appeal, to try to rev up his numbers on a political base s basis. of course what the president did is very thin. if the dream act is a full act, this is just an app. this barely touches all the broad measures that the dream act gets into. that's all he really is doing in this change that he's making. there's also a lot of basis for whether or not the administration has a legality to be able to do this. the bush administration looked to doing it it. we concluded we did not have authority. >> gloria borger is joining us. what do you make of this? we have been told for a long time rubio was working on an alternative to the dream act
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that would be appealing to republicans. we're now hearing he's backed away from that. >> right, look, i think one of the reasons that the white house and the administration did what it did is because marco rubio had not proposed a piece of legislation that everyone kind of thought was forthcoming. allowed the white house to drive a mack truck through it. i think what rubio proposed would have become a real litmus test within the republican party. if he doesn't propose anything, it allows them to say, you know what, the president is wrong on the process. what he's doing may well overstep his constitutional bounds and allows him to remain vague on the substance of what the president has proposed till after the election.
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if rubio were to propose a specific piece of legislation, you would be dividing conservatives in the republican party on the one side and people like marco rubio who were a little bit more liberal on immigration issues on the other side it. >> ari, how do you read this? >> i spent a lot the day talking to his staff. their view is what the president did blew up any chance of getting any type of bipartisan action together on capitol hill. that the president in taking executive action and doing such a narrow slice of it has poisoned the well. senator rubio i think himself used those gakt words. has damaged the chances of congress get anything done. think that's arguably, the administration has its point of view. i still think they have a legal constitutional problem. that's a separate issue. i think there's more to it than what gloria indicated. >> maria?
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>> i actually think marco rubio realized he doesn't have the support he needed. let's remember speaker boehner when he first heard about mar ro rubio's idea, he said it would be very difficult to get that through congress. i also want to say republicans will also criticize the president. to say, this is strictly politic political. the fact is, he has tried to do something before now. let's remember that in 2010 he pushed very hard to try to pass the dream act. the majority of democrats supported him and voted for it. he was only able to get three republicans to vote for it. right now, there are 11 republican senators in congress who just a few short years ago supported comprehensive immigration reform. not one has been able to step forward and say i support it now.
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so that's the reality of it -- >> jessica, you've just gotten off the phone with a rubio aide, is that correct? >> i have. the office says the reason the senator has -- pulled the legislation because he never really introduced it, but they've been working behind the scenes. they say it's not going to happen now at this time. they thought there was momentum to consider their approach ahead of summer vacation when there were kids who were going to go back to school in the fall and they were facing deportation before school this fall and they thought there was a sense of urgency to pass it before school began. and they -- this is from rubio's perspective, now that the president has introduced this new executive move, that there's no longer that sense of urgency, and that means they're not going
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to reach consensus on anything. there's a hardening of positions. and nothing on this will be passed before the election. that's the rubio position. i can tell you, covering the white house, they would have a very different perspective on this and they would likely say there is not likely to be a consensus on this measure anyway. that's the latest update from >> know you wanted to say something. >> the point i was going to make, anderson, this underscores how deep an issue this is. he essentially tried to build a center. the center couldn't hold. it couldn't hold because of opposition from conservative republicans. also from a lot of the afl-cio democrats who don't want an injection of labor come into this country. they view that as competition to keep wages down. there really is -- this is one of the most complicated issues in government. president obama did run on a promise in his first year he would introduce a comprehensive fundamental to deal with immigration reform. he never followed up on it. what we're dealing with now is a
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very narrow slice. >> let's remember that when he came into office, he had to deal with, frankly, trying to rescue this economy from the second great depression. by the way, there was already legislation called the mccain kean did i bill this president was trying to push. again, i go back to 11 senators who supported that. absolutely. one of the best things that he ever did. the things i agreed with him on. no other republicans because president obama was president and their focus was to make sure he was a one-term president not to solve our great problems like immigration, they turned their back on the american people. >> it's both sides. you can't blame one party. >> the afl-cio came around. they were part of the big coalition that supported comprehensive immigration reform. they came around. conservative republicans have never come around on this. >> only with all the exemption built in -- >> but they came around. the conservative republicans have never come around on this and they will never support
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comprehensive immigration reform. that's why republicans have a problem with latino voters. >> we're going to leave it there. appreciate it. appreciate you calling in on the breaking news. let us know what you think. let's tweet about this right now. a new chapter in the child sex abuse trial of jerry sandusky. as defense attorneys called their first witnesses, could be sandusky's own words making their job a lot more difficult. the surprising pretty shock video next on "360." [ male announcer ] every day, thousands of people are choosing advil®. here's one story. i'm keith baraka and i'm a fire fighter. it's an honor to be a fire fighter. my job involves life or death situations and it's very physically demanding. if i'm sore, i have a headache, i'm not at my best. advil® is my go to. it's my number one pain reliever. advil® just works for me.
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crime and punishment tonight. prosecutors in the jerry sandusky trial rested their case today. nbc revealing today a member of the prosecution team recently reached out to the network asking its lawyers to reawe then the case a full unedited transcri transcript. that interview includes potentially damaging clips like this one that never made it to air. >> it's entirely possible you could have helped young boy a in some way that was not objectionable while horribly taking advantage of young boy b, c, d and e, isn't that possible? >> well, you might think that, i don't know. and in terms of my relationship with so many, many young people, um, i would, i would guess that there are many young people who would come forward, many more young people, who would come
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forward and say that my methods and what i had done for them made a very positive impact on their life. i didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that i've helped. there are many that i didn't have. i hardly had any contact with. who i have helped in many, many ways. >> this could complicate the job for his attorneys who called their first witness today. the judge telling jurors he expects the defense to finish presenting their case on wednesday. jason carroll was in court today. i spoke to him about today's testimony. jason, this is the first time we've heard from one the accuser's moms in court. she said her son never spoke to her of the alleged abuse. if that's true, it falls in step with what the other accusers have testified, right? >> it certainly does. what we've seen throughout this trial so far is this pattern of
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accusers saying they did not want to talk about these allegations, not to their friends, not to their family. the mother of accuser number nine, when she took the stand, you got the sense of the guilt she felt. she talked about how her son repeatedly said he did not want to go over jerry sandusky's house. she basically forced him to go over there because of jerry sandusky's upstanding reputation in the community. she even said to this day, she still has not spoken to her son about the allegations. she talked about them on the stand. saying, quote, i just didn't really want to hear. i just knew it would be tough for him to tell me. she was in tears when she described this. and it was definitely one of the most emotional parts of the testimony today. >> the defense began presenting their case. they put a couple character witnesses on the stand. were they able to call into question any of the allegations of abuse? >> not today. perhaps we'll see some of that tomorrow.
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basically, there was several character witnesses who were called. one is a former second mile participant. second mile of course is is the organization that jerry sandusky founded to help young boys. also, two former penn state football coaches who talked very much about this culture of showering with boys. as you know, jerry sandusky has admitted to showering with young boys on several occasions. two of these former occasions talked about this idea of coaches showering in locker rooms. they said sometimes when they were there, young boys were there, they did not think it was anything out of the normal. one of the former coaches when asked about jerry sandusky's character said, quote, i'll wait for full story. i think he's a great guy. this, coming from booker brooks. again, a former assistant coach at penn state. just a final note about him, we were told, he told cnn after testifying he was just chosen to testify in jerry's defense, jerry sandusky's defense, just this past monday, so that just gives you a sense of how quickly the defense is still putting together its case.
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>> interesting. jason, appreciate it. so what can we expect once the defense team lays out their case? let's bring in former l.a. deputy district attorney marcia clark. also with us, criminal dense attorney mark geragogeragos. and also, our guest, a delegate for the american association. saying it wasn't uncommon at all for a coach to shower with young boys. many of the coaches did that. adult males did the same thing. this really isn't a legal question. i've been on teams in college. i've never heard anyone on the planet do that before. does that really sound like a good defense to you? >> actually, can make some jokes, but i won't. the thing i like about it. remember who they're speaking to. their audience is not me in los angeles or you in new york.
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their audience are 12 jurors. six or seven of which have penn state connections. strong penn state connections. they start parading witnesses, especially character witnesses, who have a penn state connection, ton say this is what goes on. it's not something out of the ordinary. and i'm going to tell you something. before people say this is a complete slam dunk for the prosecution, understand, from the defense standpoint, all they're looking for is one or two jurors who have a reasonable doubt. do you start to get character witnesses on there and, frankly, contrary to what the report what character evidence can be very persuasive. because you get a jury instruction that says the character evidence alone can provide reasonable doubt. so you start to get people who are part of the penn state community. the jurors are part of that penn state community. and you may start to see the building block, to reasonable doubt. >> interesting. that's why we have a defense
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attorney on the panel. marc marcia, do you agree? >> of course not. i've heard other people say they were criticizing the prosecution for leaving these witnesses on. the witnesses who are associated with penn state. they feel they'll be sympathetic to sandusky. they'll actually want to cover their own communal behinds by acquitting him. i think they're going to show we take care of our own business here. we're not going to be swayed by this. and we're not going to be -- you cannot lean on our loyalty to penn state. i think that if this is true that coaches at penn state routinely shower with young boy, penn state is about to see a huge drop in enrollment. be that as it may, i don't think these jurors are going to be impressed by this defense. >> marcia, marcia, you know, one of the things that i think, there is this residual feeling at least i get from my 30,000 foot view, that there's a lot of people in that penn state community who feel a lot of resentment about outsiders coming in there, painting them with a broad brush, basically
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killing joe paterno. and i'm not so sure they're not -- the defense isn't plugging into that. >> interesting. >> i take the opposite view. >> i want to bring in dr. kraus on this. the dchs efense is expected to in an expert witness to testify sandusky may have histrionic personality disorder. has this been linked to sexual abuse or pedophilia? >> it has certain character structures to it. over emotion naalityemotionalit. some issues with sexuality. there is no connection that i'm aware of in regards to that diagnosis and sociopathic behavior, pedophilia, anything related to that. >> does it make sense to you that if he had this thing, that he'd be able to maintain this job have a long successful coaching career, be married to the same woman for decades?
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does it fit his profile? >> with any type of moderate to severe character pathology, you won't see it just apply to one issue in your life. you'll see it pervasive over everything. you wouldn't expect if somebody has problematic relationships, superficial sorts of relationships, that in one area of their life they can handle it perfectly but in some other areas, it's completely path logic. that wouldn't be consistent with, say, for example, histrionic pathology behavior. >> how damaging is this nbc transcript? i'm just looking at the transcript. sandusky says at the end of his long rambling answer, he say and i didn't go around seeking out every young person for sexual needs that i've helped. there are many that i didn't have. then he paused. i hardly had any contact with that i helped in many, many ways. did he do himself any favors by giving this interview? >> no, not at all. that's precisely why if you're the defense lawyer the last thing you want to do is put him
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on. we talked about last friday, however, would not surprise me if he does take the stand in this case because he's the one who ultimately makes that decision. no matter what his lawyer tells him. you saw in the jury selection where he was keeping somebody on that joe wanted to excuse and he said no, i think he can be fair. and to the defense's credit, i don't think they're using this disorder to say that's what caused pedophilia or this some kind of confess and avoid. what they're doing is trying to explain what is at least seemingly a potentially damaging piece of evidence which are these letter. they're trying to say, look, i know these letters look bad, but you don't understand what's really going on here is he has this disorder which lets him be flamboyant or exaggerated or have this kind of bizarre idea of expressing himself. they're not saying for a second, at least -- unless they get some of that other stuff on that
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yeah, i did it, but this is what made me do it. >> marcia, if they add in this interview, do you think that's -- continue to be very damaging? maybe i'm interpreting it harshly. >> no, i have to say, anderson, when you played it now, it sounds implicitly like he's saying i don't run after every child for sexual favor, just some of them. so, you know, therefore i'm not a pedophile -- >> why that got edited out of the original interview i don't know. seems to be pretty blockbuster piece of tape. we're out of time. appreciate you being on. really interesting discussion. we have more breaking news tonight. roger clemens today may have scored the biggest victory of his life in a courtroom. jurors finding him not gl on all six counts lying about steroids to congress. what does today's verdict really say about the case? i've always looked up to my brother.
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breaking news now in the federal perjury trial. the seven-time cy young award winner celebrating his freedom tonight after jurors found him not guilty. after an eight-week trial, a tearful clemens. >> really, all you media guys that know me. >> way to go, rocket. i put a lot of hard work into that career.
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so i appreciate my teammates that came in, all the e-mails and phone calls. >> allegations he used banned substances were front and center throughout the trial thanks to the statements he made to congress back in 2008. >> can i look at my two children with a straight face and tell them you roger clemens have always played the game with honesty and integrity? >> yes, sir. >> there would be no doubt that's true? >> without a question. i took no short cuts. >> today's verdict ends the second trial for clemens. and is a big blow for federal prosecutors. just over a year ago, a judge declared a mistrial after they showed inadmissible evidence in court. joined by senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin.
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what happened? >> first of all, look at the record of steroids prosecutions. they have been mostly, not entirely, but mostly a failure. barry bonds. he was sentenced to 30 days of home detention. essentially less than a slap on the wrist. >> lance armstrong -- >> nothing at all. clemens, total acquittal. i think jurors are not sure this belongs in federal court. you know, whether this kind of policing of professional sports is something for a federal criminal case. >> it also was about lying to congress, but is lying to congress always a crime? >> not necessarily. one of the things i thought rusty harnen did artfully saying, look, they weren't inning to do any legislation about this, they just wanted to show. he didn't really say that clemens was entitled to lie to
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him but it's part of the theme -- why are they making such a big deal out of this. >> if they are actually going to do legislation? >> right, if it's what they call a material matter, which is broadly defined. he wasn't talking about the law specifically. he was basically saying congress was just putting on a show. they weren't planning to do anything with the testimony. and, you know, there was -- he had a point there. congress really wasn't -- there was a lot of that stuff going on in congress. politicians are not famous for telling the truth. clemens being maybe less than honest in front of congress, it was sort of part of the whole no big deal defense. he also had a terrible lead prosecution witness who admitted lying before. it was not a great case. but this is a real blow to the
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justice department. >> jeff toobin, thanks very much. a lot more of more we're following tonight. asia's back. >> since john mccain is calling for the u.s. military to lead a coalition to help syrian coalition fighters seen her in battle, accuses the obama administration of failing to do enough to end president al assad's regime. the former coalition government, that's according to an official with the socialist party, which placed third in the vote. the new democracy party took first place. jailhouse trap skrints released today showed george zimmerman and his wife talked on the phone about their finances allegedly in code. prosecutors said the couple lied when they told the court they were indigent. many more phone calls which we don't have the transcripts for.
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new concerns about an alleged epidemic of sex abuse being covered up in new york's ultraorthodox hasidic jewish community. it's also a powerful voting bloc for brooklyn politicians. that includes a veteran district attorney who some say is willing to sacrifice justice for the young victims to win the support of powerful rabbis. >> reporter: the ultraorthodox are a small percentage of jews as a e. brooklyn, new york, is t largest such population outside of israel. one of them is this rabbi. so your judaism is as strong as ever? >> yes, it is.
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>> reporter: but rabbi rosenberg troubled. you're saying you believe 1 out of 5 children in your community has been molested? >> yes. we believe that. we know that. >> reporter: allegations of a widespread sex abuse cover-up in this community has led rabbi rosenberg to create a hotline for victims and their families. he's now subjected to things like this. posters with his face on a snake with the words corrupt trader spelled out in hebrew. also -- so you say you received death threats because of this? >> death threats. on dai basis. >> reporter: the ultraorthodox jewish world is very insular. life is lived like it was many centuries ago. the problem with cutting yourself off from people like police is child molesters and other skond directrells often t
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advantage. people will almost never talk to a stranger on camera. can i ask you a quick question? if there's a crime -- i'm with cnn, we're doing a story about the community. when they do talk, you're likely to hear something like this. do you think child molestations happen in this neighborhood? >> no. >> reporter: not at all? >> not at all. >> reporter: when you hear about things like that happening, you don't think they're true? >> that's not true. >> reporter: you think people make it up? >> yes. in this neighborhood, cannot happen. >> reporter: why do you think that? >> never happen. >> reporter: don't tell that to pearl, a faithful member of the community who says her son, one of her seven children, was molested by a school official starting when he was 8 years old. >> it pains me terribly. >> reporter: she and her husband never knew about it while it was going on. she told leaders in the community when she found out. for the most part she says it was kept quiet. almost 20 years later, it's almost too late to go to police. the statute is expired.
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>> the cover-up is what devastates me. because we're not the kind of people to cover this up. we stand for the truth. we stand for, for justice. >> reporter: her son, now 27, has left the community. so has this man. who says he was molested for years by a tutor. you were how old? >> i was 9. >> reporter: he was how old? >> probably in his late 20s, mid-20s. >> reporter: that's the man who molested you? >> yes. >> reporter: one would presume that brooklyn's district attorney and his chief of sex crimes would be all over these allegation. they say they are. >> anytime we have a single case, it's very serious to us. >> they know exactly whether i'm doing when i'm prosecuting people from their community. they know the people we send to jail. >> reporter: but disturbingly the people you met in this story as well as others believe 22-year veteran d.a. charles heinz is part of the problem. they say this catholic d.a. protects suspected esters so he
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in office. >> this is a bloc vote. when the rabbis say vote for charles heinz there will be nobody here that will not vote for charles heinz. >> he cares about his election. he cares about staying in -- as district attorney, he doesn't care about the victims. >> reporter: there was anger heinz does not release names of suspected molesters. releasing names is standard procedure all over the united states. your position is you don't release the names of accused orthodox jewish suspects? >> correct. >> reporter: and why is that? >> because in releasing the names, within days, magically, they find the fame name of the victim. >> reporter: do you do that with any other community? >> no, no, i mean, if the amish people were living here, i suppose i'd have the same practice -- >> reporter: not the roman catholic church? >> no, there have never been any
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allegations of intimidation by catholic priests. >> reporter: is this getting favor from an important voting bloc? he says he's been able to increase arrests after starting a special program to reach out to victims. pearl engelman doesn't believe much of what the d.a. says but notably admits she, too, did not tell the police when she found out her son had been molested. >> it didn't even enter my mind. >> reporter: how come? >> we don't go to the police. we take -- we take care of things in the community itself. >> reporter: taking care of the community at the expense, it seems, of the victims. it's an incredible statistic. one in five potentially kids have been abused in th community. if that's true, that's believle. has there been an increase in arrests since the d.a. started withholding names? >> the d.a. has been in office more than two decades. he admits for the first 19 of
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those years, there were very few arrests. he says over the last three they've had 101 arrests. is tat a big number? i don't know. is that because he's holding the names? don't know the answer to that either. i do know that the d.a. has just made a decision he will relea the names of people if the victims wants the names to be released. it's a tough onus to put on victims to make that kind of decision in an community where it's so insular. coming up, a porn actor who's accused of killing, dismembering a university student in montreal, mailing body partso politicians, he's back in canada tonight. unless you ask, "what's next?" introducing the all-new rx f sport. this is the pursuit of perfection. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food.
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more than 1700 firefighters working on a massive wildfire in colorado. five neighborhoods outside of ft. collins are under mandatory evacuation orders. it has scorched almost 59,000 acres so far. destroyed at least 181 homes. meteorologist chad myers joins us now. >> hard to keep containme you have wind gusts almost 60 mile per hour. wind gusts right there along the fire line right there yesterday 52 miles per hour. rain chances for today low. that's actually a good thing. we don't want rain along the fire line because when rain comes lightning comes too. show you a picture.
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of what that lightning looks like in a second. the drought killing trees. go look up rocky mountain pine beetle. killing almost half the number of trees in this area now that the fires are. here's what happens when we get lightning in the mountains. you get rain, you get t thunderstorm, you get all the lightning. one thunder bolt comes off to the side and catches that tree on fire, that's what caused t fire, one lightning strike. a lot more happening tonight. asia's back. >> egypt's military counsel has issued a degree giving itself sweeping powers. the move came at the end of a two-day presidential runoff election and strips the office of power. morsi, an islamist, is declaring victory. his opponent, egypt's former prime minister, has not conceded. a canadian porn actor
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suspected of killing and dismembering a student in montreal has returned to his country. the man was arrested in germany earlier this month. the company that powers him facebook apps that detect faces in photos has been acquired by facebook for an undisclosed sum. face.com broke the news naturally on its blog. in colorado near san diego went to the dogs. 50 dogs competed in an annual surfing competition. and according to cnn i-reporters, several records may have been set including, i know you're excited, the most dog s surfing on one board, that's 14 pooches riding the wave. >> i did not that was a record category. >> some seriously chilled out looking doggies. coming up, what constitutes a sandwich emergency? [ male announcer ] this is rudy.
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cheese and a lot of mayonnaise and they are giving me a hard time. i was wondering if you could just stop by and -- i was just wondering if you could -- >> you're calling 911 because you don't like the way that they're making your sandwich? >> exactly. >> so then don't buy it. >> calling 911 because your sandwich is messed up. that may have been a slight overreaction to the situation. there are people all over this great land of ours who seem to have low thresholds for what constitutes an emergency. here's one from wisconsin. >> what do you need the police department for? >> well, i'm eating at this restaurant, i just asked for some more fish, they gave me four pieces. >> okay. >> and they refuse to give me any more fish. and it's right out on the sign in front of the building, all you can eat friday fish fry. >> cut off at the all you can eat fish fry. what do you want the police to do about it?
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somebody get erik estrada to that fish fry because clearly this is a job for chips. then the guy in illinois who called 911 not once, not twice, five times, because his iphone wasn't working. >> yeah, i'm trying -- they told me to get the iphone enabled. >> okay, what's your address, and we can have an officer out and help ya. >> that's really a stupid response. >> if you give us your address, we can have an officer come out, maybe he can help you. >> he can't help me. >> how do you know? >> because they'll shoot me with a gun. >> oh. have you been drinking tonight, sir? >> no. >> okay. >> no, i'm just not very smart. >> i agree with that. i actually think the not very smart phone is a money making idea. no roundup of nonemergency emergency calls would be complete without the cream of the crop, the police officer in michigan who called 911 because he and his wife were stoned on pot
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