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good evening, everyone. i'm erin bernett. america fights back. on the same day north korea flexed its military muscle by firing a missile into the sea of japan p chuck hagel announced the u.s. is boosting its missile defense system. >> the united states has missile defense systems in place to protect us in case of attacks. north korea in particular has recently made advances in its capabilities and engaged in reckless provocations. >> provocations including last month the rogue nation conducted an underground sdpes this week the government threatened to launch a nuclear strike on the united states. north korea scrapped the 1953 arm cyst with south korea. and it comes on top of multiple tests of a payload of weapon

intended to strike the united states. chris, what does the missile defense system look like right now? because i know the former fense secretary was talking about we would be all right and with the new change the president is about to put in place, how will it be different? >> basically, erin, right now it all depends on an early warning system in places like japan. then it gets down to these ground-based interceptor missiles, which are sort of the last line of defense before something would hit the continental united states. right now, that's based on two big bases. one in california, one in alaska. the u.s. has about 30 of these interceptor missiles. what would happen is an early warning system near some place like japan would alert that a launch had taken place and the missiles would launch to try to intercept that nuke that would be coming in. what's going to change, the u.s. is adding another radar system to give it better warning and it will be increasing its

interceptors by about 50% adding 14 new silos by the year 2017. >> and do they have a missile capable of hitting the united states yet? i know they have been testing that with their pay low, but do they have a missile that can do that? >> yes and no. they have a rocket that in theory, it it could carry it as far as alaska, hawaii and even certain parts of the lower 48 united states. the problem is it takes them days to sort of erect and fuel this rocket. that works fine for a test, but that would be very impractical if you were actually trying to launch actual order nants. they have developed a mobile missile. it's something that pentagon officials admitted today surprised them in the threat level. they didn't think it was moving along as quickly as it did. it has now and that contributed to this change in policy. >> all right, chris lawrence, thank you very much. i want to bring in former

general marks. appreciate both of you being with us. spider, let me start with you. the obama administration rather suddenly decided they are going to go ahead with a missile defense system with the development of this which is a plan that george bush put forth that the president moth balled when he got into office. >> they are responding to what they see with kim jung-un. when you look at the timelines in terms of getting the interceptors in place, it's going to take 24 months. we have to make some assumptions that the north koreans are working on the weaponization of a payload whether that's nuclear or conventional and the further development of a rocket and marrying those two up to threaten the the united states and u.s. territories. so the system all has to come together and we need the lead time to get that in place. >> earlier this week the

president talked about the threat from north korea. here's how he answered the question. >> can north korea now make good on its threat to hit the united states? >> they probably can't but we don't like margin of error. >> it's that close? >> it's not that close. what we have done is we made sure we have defensive measures to prevent any attacks on the homeland. we're not anticipating any of that. >> anticipating any of that, but he's saying they probably can. in 2011 robert gates said he thought north korea could have a missile to hit the yielts within five years. we're in 2013 right now. it takes two years to get the plan up and running. is that cutting it too close? are they going to move more quickly than we think? >> they have been moving more quickly than we think. the president when he was talking about that was assuming that the north koreans would airmail a nuke. we talked about the possibility of the north koreans assembling

a bomb in an american city. we don't have a credible defense for it. we may not retaliate if we can't attribute that to north korea. they are moving very fast. i think part of it is because they are getting help. they are getting help from china because of the new mobile missile. the chinese sold them the launchers, which substantially increases their ability to wage nuclear war. >> so china, which is the only one to control north korea and the interest in doing so is helping them be able to attack the u.s. at the same time. >> it certainly is. they sold those six launchers that we saw in the april 15th, 2012, military parade. the chinese sold them that. they probably sold them the kn08. we do know that the chinese have sold that same launcher and same missile to the pakistanis. there's a real question here and right now, we're not willing to talk to the chinese about these

issues in public. we need to have a public conversation about this. this threatens america. >> what confuses me and seems worrisome is how quickly the assessment of the situation seemed to have changed . i was in afghanistan with leon pennsylvania net that and that was when north korea tested a missile. i asked him about it it. . i asked if we were prepared for a strike. here's how he answered that question. >> the fact is that we do have a very strong missile defense that would be able to guard against that kind of potential. >> so we would be able to stop it? >> i'm very confident that we would be able to do that. >> he said that in december. now we're saying we're worried and changing our plans and upping our defense. do we know what they have or have they just come along much more dramatically than we thought? >> we are not completely certain in terms of what we have. we have a really good idea. i can tell you our intelligence

community, we understand the pieces that would go into assembling this capability and threat. the key thing is secretary panetta was saying we'll be able to detect a threat coming in. that's step one to see that it's inbound. but being able to do something about it is the challenge. as the president indicated, we have to up the ante to make sure we're not falling within so the margin of error that would not be to our benefit. this makes perfect sense to me. bear in mind, we have been at war for the last decade. we haven't really focused as well as we should at the national level. we are now. >> those wars making the world perceive the u.s. as much more hesitant to engage now. thanks to both of you. still to come, the president made a joke about the spending cuts today. sort of interesting. his audience laughed. the look on his face not so much. but is it republicans who will have the last laugh?

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will have their wages cut or who will lose their jobs. >> it will curtail our ability to respond to crimes and other threats and investigate wrong doing. >> there are teachers now who are giving pink slips and notices that can't come back this far. >> the big airports, some of them had long lines this week d weekend. >> the sequester cuts will mean enough reduction it it will be the e kwi lent of 5,000 border patrol agent. >> senior adviser to president obama, dan, thanks for taking the time. so far, and i say so far, the reality hasn't backed up a lot of that rhetoric. arne duncan walked back his comments. did the white house overplay their hand? >> no, i think people were clear they weren't going to happen overnight. we wouldn't see them in the first week, but over time. all the impacts are wael really. the republican party is obsessed

about white house tourists. if you look at the 6:00 news, they are talking about people getting furloughed from jobs, layoff notices, kids getting kicked out of head starts. those are real exaimpacts. we're going to create fewer jobs because of this. 750,000 jobs this year. economic growth will be reduced. there were a bunch of estimates that came out today all because of the sequester. >> you mention ed the white houe tours chrks have got an lot of press. you mentioned the other things. obviously most people haven't felt it yet. and the white house tours have become a big issue and talking point. . this week it was brought up repeatedly. here's a little touch of it. >> mr. president, maybe we could have cut the robotic squirrel before we went to white house tours. >> now he's decided to shut down

white house tours. apparently now the only folk who is can get a tour of the white house are those that contribute $500,000 or more. >> they have to safe $2 million this year. the tours will save them $2 million out of the $1.75 billion budget. why let the tours be cancelled to begin with? it was like giving the other side a gift, wasn't it? >> this was a buy nar choice. either we suspend tours or ask the brave men and women of the secret service to take an additional pay cut. while it's unfortunate tours are closed, it's not a close call. we shouldn't ask people who put their lives on the line to take a pay cut because congress couldn't get its act together. >> you're saying the analysis was done they had to cut it, the only thing to get $2 million was

cut their pay or stop the white house tours? >> you know the sequester gives agencies very little flexibility. it's an across-the-board cut. it's a stupid policy. it wasn't every supposed to go into effect. >> the president is trying to make the argument you're making by the charm offensive. lunches, dinners with republicans. one official complained, this is a joke. we're wasting the president's time and ours. i hope you in the media are happy because we're doing this for you. that was a pretty damning statement. was this all a dog and pony show? >> i have no idea who said that. that person did you want reflect the ideas of the president. we don't just do a dog and pony show. he went up there to talk to republicans and democrats about

his entire agenda, creating jobs for the middle class, dealing with the deficits, to see if we can find a way to find compromise. it's the only way to get anything done. >> the charm offensive comes at a time when the poll numbers for the president have fallen. in january it was 55%. now it's 50%. what do you say to critic who is say this charm offensive is because your poll numbers are dropping. you're doing it because you're forced to. not because he wants to talk to these people. >> first, the president has run his last election. he's never going to be on the ballot again. the best way to get things done is work with democrats and republicans to do that. that's what this week was about. that's what the dinner last week was about. i would say for those who are focused on poll numbers, the president's approval rating is at the level it was on the day he won 332 electoral votes and became the fifth president to win 51% of the the vote twice.

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our third story, scrolling with your eyes. that's what everybody has been

talking about. the new samsung phone is getting buzz because of this feature. it even made the front made of "the new york post" which screamed in its typical fashion, an eye phone, as in the real deal. we have been testing the phone. you were at the unveiling last night, which was a huge event. >> it was like a broadway play. >> they put lots and lots of money into this. this eye-controlled scroll thing, you got to test it. >> it didn't live up to the hype. we were told all these rumors you could skrocroll through the phone. you still had to tilt the phone to get it o scroll so it was kind of a disappointment. >> so it's more about the tilt? >> right. >> i'm okay with that. once it can read your eyes t can read your mind and there's nothing good in that. they also spent a lot of time looking at other features. the camera, say a child is

opening a present, you can take a picture of the child and also the present so you can take both at the same instant. >> the the camera is cool. it wowed everybody. let e me break down how it works. so if i'm taking a picture of someone and they are standing outside and a stranger happens to walk through my shot. i can take the photo and delete the stranger from my picture. you can edit the photo. another cool thing is if i'm taking a picture with a group of friends, the person taking the picture can be in the shot as well. i can take a photograph of my colleagues and be in the shot too. >> so a photo can now be it all. i can no longer say look at this picture. it's going to cause havoc. how does it compare to the iphone? >> i think this is going to be a huge threat to the iphone 5. first of all, samsung's s4 has a bigger screen.

one thing that works in apple's favor is the technology associated with the s4 felt gimmicky. so for example, you can scroll thu photographs just wiping your hand through the air. not necessarily that useful. but either way, apple is going to have to come up with something really good to compete. >> thank you very much. i'm glad that the eyes don't have it. rob portman decides he's now for gay marriage. it's a dramatic reversal. we'll tell you why. and another day, another crisis for carnival crews. this has become more than a p.r. nightmare. and breaking news. a deadly plane crash in florida. we're going to go to the scene after this. ♪

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welcome back to the second half of "outfront." we start with stories we care about and reporting from the front lines. we begin with war continuing to ravage the country. the combat military mission in mali. they provided a c-17 transport plane. also the u.s. ambassador raised

concern that extremists keep moving freely. earlier this week, jim jones came on this program and said that america needs to focus on nigeria because he believes al qaeda's ultimate goal is to destabilize the country. it's one that matters hugely to the united states. nigeria is the largest provider of the oil used in american gasoline. disruption will cost directly here at heome. a maryland man died from ray bees. it's an incredible story. doctors knew that the donor had encephalitis, which is an inflammation of the brain, but they didn't know rabies was the cause. a similar incident occurred in 2004. four people died from rabies. a transport surgeon at johns hopkins says they are rare, but donors aren't tested for rabies. such a test is complex and could

do more harm than good. but that means some people lose their lives. another day, another problem for carnival cruise line. today the world's largest cruise company announced that the carnal legend is now limping back to port because of technical issues. it can't go very fast. it's the third time this week that a vessel has had a problem. we told you the company had to fly 4,000 passengers back to florida when the carnival dream lost power. they were docked in the caribbean when it happened. that's why they didn't have the problem like the triumph. carnival is conducting a comprehensive review of its entire fleet. today a senate subcommittee grilled jpmorgan execive its. the scandal led to $6 billion in losses. among those questioned, ina drew, the the woman in charge, she oversaw the trades and lost her job because of this. she admitted mistakes were made but she was deceived by people who worked for her.

this comes a day after a senate report scolded the bank for manipulating results. the allegations are extremely damaging to the man at the helm. the government thinks they can manage risks better. it's been 589 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? consumer prices rose more than expected. the biggest we have seen since 2009. the biggest reason? back to what i said about nigeria, rising gas prices. now breaking news out of a deadly plane crash after a failed takeoff attempt in fort lauderdale. we want to show you the pictures of the horrific scene here. it was a twin engine plane. it burst into flames right after it smashed into a building. the the flames, as you can see there, engulfed an entire parking lot. we can tell you that all three people on board that aircraft

were killed. john zarrella is out front of this story. what do you know about the crash? >> reporter: we know the plane was taking off from the west to the east out of fort lauderdale. that's about 5 to 7 miles north of fort lauderdale international airport. it had nothing to do with international airport. almost immediately after taking off, the pilot began to bank the plane in an attempt, authorities say, to get back to the airport. we know he did not make it. we done know at this point in time if any distress called was issued from the pilot to the tower. eyewitnesss are saying they saw the plane literally spiral into the ground. it exploded. as you mentioned when it hit the ground, engulfing those cars in that parking lot there. about seven cars burst into flames. the thick, black smoke that we saw billowing up from the initial crash site was because the plane was so filled with fuel having just taken off and

from the cars that it hit on the ground. erin? >> john, let me ask you. i know this has to be tough, but do they know why the plane may have crashed? >> reporter: investigators from the national transportation safety board are probably now just getting started with their investigation. but one thing they will probably be able to rule out very quickly is weather. that could not have been a factor. it was clear skies in fort lauderda lauderdale, light winds. what they will do is pretty quickly try to ascertain if that distress call was issued from the pilot to the control tower and gave any indication as to what the problem may have been on the plane then one of the first things they will do following that is start pouring over the plane's maintenance records to see if they can find out any indication that when it had its last service, if everything is up to date and then move forward from there. >> thanks very much to you, john

zarrella. now to our fourth story. a dramatic reversal. staunch conservative rob portman, senator from ohio, on mitt romney's short list for vp. he's dropping his opposition to same-sex marriage after his own son came out. he shared this story with our dana bash. >> my son came to my wife and i and told us he was gay and that it was not a choice. that's just part of who he is and had been that way ever since he could remember. that launched an interesting process for me which was rethinking my position. i have come to the conclusion that for me personally, i think this is something that we should allow people to do to get married and to have the joy and the stability of marriage that i've had for over 26 years. i want all three of my kids to have that it, including our son who is gay.

>> the senator's reversal puts him at odds with every other republican senator now serving, at least publicly. on the same day portman said this, here's marco rubio. >> just because i believe that state should have the right to define marriage does not make me a bigot. >> portman's change of heart changed any minds? ken blackwell, a friend of rob port man's. also our contributor who writes for the national review. you don't think this was the right thing to do? you think it's a mistake? how come? >> look, i think it was a decision that the portman family, who i love and respect, made and made together. choosing to hope that will finds a partner that he can share his life with is that family's decision. but that family's decision

should not undercut, one, the state's rights across this country to determine that marriage is a union between one man and one woman consistent with a design that's been in play for over 2,500 years. so i don't think that this one family's decision is going to impact, let's say, in ohio public opinion, which is strongly in support of traditional and natural marriage. >> republicans were responding. they were all firing back at this. they were all at cpac today. here's what rick santorum had to say. >> i'm not too sure that the rational behind what senator portman was doing is something that has brought application to

the debate. and the fundamental principles that attach to the institution of marriage really haven't changed as a result of that personal story. >> john boehner released a statement saying senator portman is a great friend and respects his position but the speaker continues to think that marriage is between a man and a woman. will portman do anything to change republicans minds? the age divide, people under the age of 35, most of them support gay marriage. republican or not. >> i've seen really striking numbers. there was a survey that found 73% of folks between 18 and 29 favor same-sex marriage. the way i look at it is this. there are two marriage debates we could be having. one marriage debate we could be having about whether or not same-sex couple should be allowed to get married. there's a bigger debate about the fact that stable marriages are vanishing in this country.

when you look at 35% of children are raised by single parents in the united states, 35%, in 2010 over 40% of children were born to unwed mothers. so marriage is still very strong and stable among college-educated americans, but working class and middle class americans, marriage is vanishing. my view is this. if conservatives want to talk about the importance of strong, stable marriages, by opposing same-sex marriage, you're ailuating a lot of the young people who could be allies in making the case we need to revitalize a marriage culture and we need strong, stable marriages. the truth is that the same-sex marriage issue is kind of a distraction from the bigger and important discussion. >> it's a fair point. ken, i want to ask you this, though. portman head ma his decision because he's a conservative. when i thought about what he said, it made sense. isn't the point conservatives say they are about is stay out

of my personal business, government. so marriage and who you marry is a personal decision. wouldn't it be consistent to not say who anybody can marry? >> no. let's be clear about something. making a decision based purely on love is putting us down a slippery slope. what about the person who loves two women and wants to engage in polygamy? if love is a determining factor, what compelling interest does the state have in saying that marriage should be between two people, one man, one woman. if two siblings love one another and it's in their economic interest to marry, what stops? if marriage is determined or the right to marry is determined by love for another. this is a very important decision. there's compelling state interests in supporting and

nurturing a healthy family. marriage is between one man and one woman. let e me just say this. the people who make the argument get government out of my marriage, i bet they don't make the argument get government out of my divorce. >> interesting point. thank you. still to come, donald trump gets terrible reviews at cpac. and a discovery that may hold clues to a vital moment in history. all stations come over to mission a for a final go.

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construction site. this is no ordinary construction site. here they have unearthed some interesting findings. two and a half meters below ground level, well-preserved skeletons were uncovered here. bodies of evidence believes to be victims of the black death. in the 1300s, the black death killed between 20 and 30 million people in europe. no human to human transmission, however, has been recorded in the past 60 years. how the skeletons were found, that remains to be seen. cnn, london. >> just incredible to think about when you think about how many people died of that pr sent died now in some sort of a plague, it's impossible to imagine. let's check in with anderson cooper. good friday, to you. >> we are keeping them honest tonight. the story you will not see anywhere else. a man walking in mississippi struck and killed by a

hit-and-run driver. was it an accident or murder? authorities never took the time to find out. they never investigated the death. we'll tell you his story. not for three years until drew griffin started asking questions. also in crime and punishment, this is what jodi arias was doing in a police station minutes before she was charged with the murder of her boyfriend travis alexander. she was doing head stands. will the jury ever see this video or others like it? a lot o is riding on the judge's decision. we'll talk about it with jeffrey toobin. those stories tonight and a lot more at the top of the hour. >> thank you. now our fifth story "outfront." >> the reviews of donald trump's speech are in and your fired may be the next words donald trump hears from his party. donald trump's speech, is he a democratic secret agent? donald trump gave a nonsensical

speech and conservatives were dumb struck. donald trump says gop i serious trouble and from the atlantic, donald trump fires everyone's ideas. the atlantic may have a point there. >> the fact is we're run by either very foolish or very stupid people. what's going on in this country is unbelievable. our country is a total mess. a total and complete mess. and what we need is leadership. >> he didn't promise a pick me up. will his speech a dud? tim carney, senior clumist, michael medved and anna navorro. you heard the speech. what did you think? >> i thought it was god awful.

there's been some great speeches, some serious and substantiative speeches on all sorts of issues. donald trump was rambling. it was random thoughts on the world according to donald trump. it had no coherence, made no sense, he basically insulted everybody in one speech, insulted bobby jindal, mitt romney, insulted the campaign and republicans and went on to talk about his money. so his was not the speech that i think the cpac folk were expecting from donald trump. it wasn't even entertaining. he got very tepid response, polite applause at some points, but that was about it in a half-full room. >> she staus talks about a half-full room. trump frs the e hero two years ago. here's how it went down then. >> if i run and if i win, this

country will be respected again. this country will be respected again. i you that. >> it is like a super bowl-like cheer and the headlines then, it is like the mirror image of tonight. fox news, trump elective if i had cpac, "huffington post," all right, i'm not just doing the fox news side of things, trump cpac speech stirs buzz, meaningful endorsement from huffing post. and politico, cpac to trump, this was before he launched his all-out assault on the president's birth certificate. where does trump stand now? >> i went to new hampshire early in the primary process and i found a lot of people who were sort of embarrassed but they were embarrassed about the fact this they kind of were interested in him. he was just tap nothing an anti-obama sent.and an anti-washington sentiment but he never had any coherent ideas. never had any coherent ideas. he is a self-promoter around

something of a clown. his past is not conservative to any stretch of the imagination. i'm embarrassed that any conservatives from cpac were cheering for him. hopefully he was cheering for his jokes or obama. a long record of being a developer who takes away people's land. pro-choice until it became politically good to be pro-life. gave more money to democrats than republicans over his life. i think he ought to go back to that party, go back to the democrats, the conservative movement, the republican party would be glad to see him go. >> michael medved, i am heaping that you will defend mr. trump. >> i won't defend mr. trump, because i think he was ridiculous about the birth certificate thing. look, we have a problem, if we are going to treat the republican party like an exclusive country club. we want more people to come into the party, especially people who are, let's face it very successful businessmen. i mean, donald trump -- what strikes me is we ought to be attacking democrats for taking people like ashley judd seriously and talking about

running her for the united states senate from kentucky against mitch mcconnell. that's ridiculous. at least donald trump, first of all, has flirted twice now with running for president, both times has pulled back. i much prefer that if he runs for president or for anything he does so as a republican, we need a big 10 party. glad trump was there i wish chris christie was there, bob mcdone and go proud, the gay republican group. but the fact that donald trump is there, why do we want to throw nip out of our party? >> all right. we will leave it there thanks very much to three of you. please go online and check out the speech. people have been buzzing this week about a facebook study that showed people who liked curly fries on the site have higher iqs. we brought you this story on tuesday with the lament i'm obviously not smart, when i'm at arby's, i go with the potato cakes instead of the curly fries. the people at arby's saw our segment, bob kraut, the senior

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