♪ he's a little boy that santa claus forgot ♪ ♪ and goodness knows >> yes, singing to anderson cooper in this prison interview. you will hear this. you almost have to see it to believe it. >> and almost perfect. one of those oh, so close moments, an unbelievable near miss in baseball. while you will be sorry you went to sleep at all. it is wednesday, april 3rd. "starting point" begins right now. in our "starting point" this morning outrage over the video showing rutgers university basketball coach mike rice physically and verbally abusing players at practice. he's seen grabbing, shoving, even kicking players. he's hurling basketballs at them from point-blank range, including really at their heads. he's shouting obscenities, including gay slurs. >> here's the thing, this coach

was suspended for three games after the school's athletic director looked at this tape. this was last fall. coach wasn't fired, suspended three games. now flash forward four months, rutgers is reconsidering that decision and cnn's pamela brown is following these developments for us. the video tells the story here. >> no matter how many times you see that story it makes you shake your head in absolute shock. rutgers university officials are facing some tough questions this morning, on why they didn't fire rice after learning of the allegations last summer, and then seeing the video several months ago, as pressure mounts for further action, many people including some nba stars are sounding off about rice's homophobic rants and abuse for his players. hurtling basketballs at players' legs. even their heads. [ bleep ] >> reporter: grabbing, pushing, kicking, and punching them. [ bleep ] and screaming homophobic slurs. >> [ bleep ] you're a [ bleep ] [ bleep ]

>> reporter: this video obtained by espn's "outside the lines" shows rutgers head basketball coach mike rice going off the handle and abusing his players during practices from 2010 through 2012, according to the sports network. the footage surfaced after eric murdock who was rice's director of player development until he was fired showed it to rutgers athletic department officials. in an interview with espn murdoch says the abuse caused several players to leave. >> seeing your coach physically putting his hands on players, physically kicking players, you know, firing balls at players from point-blank range, the -- the verbal abuse, the belittling, yeah, i was in total shock that this guy wasn't fired. immediately on the spot. >> reporter: on espn tuesday, the school's athletic director was asked why he didn't fire rice.

>> the moment that we became aware of the video in november, when it was presented to us by eric and his lawyers, we immediately commenced an independent investigation into the matter. we talked to everybody in the program. we evaluated the situation, and we suspended mike in a more significant way than coaches have been suspended in recent memory. >> reporter: now, as this video goes viral, many calling on him to reconsider and fire rice. even lebron james weighing in on twitter saying, if my son played for rutgers or a coach like that, he would have some real explaining to do, and i'm still going to whoop on him afterwards. come on. esteemed basketball coaches lose their cool is nothing new. remember legendary coach bobby knight? he was known for his hot temper and throwing chairs. but it was this video showing him with his hands around a player's neck that led to his dismissal at indiana. >> i mean maybe i grabbed him by the shoulder, touched him by the back of the neck. i don't know. i don't remember everything that i've ever done in practice. >> reporter: now the question

looms, will rice face the same fate as knight? and many are saying pernetti and other university officials who watched the video last year should also go. cnn's attempts for a comment from rice and the university were unsuccessful. we should see what happens today. still a developing story. >> we want to talk, we have a number of guests booked today on but just briefly here on this story, who can forget what happened with tyler clementi, it's so sensitive, this issue, and then to have this, you know, caught on camera, using many words we can't even use on television. it's pretty horrendous. >> yeah. >> from what we've seen so far. a number of guests. talk to john amaechi, a former nba player, "new york times" best-selling author, also the former first nba player to publicly admit being gay, just returned from a conference on sporting integrity of all things and ethics where he talked about the impact of coaches. so, john, good morning to you,

and you've seen the tape. you've been around basketball many years. how common is this kind of coaching behavior? i mean is this the kind of thing where this, this particular coach was just caught? >> i think that the problem we have here is that we foom ourselves as a society into outrage about things like this. because he -- mike rice really is extreme. but the reality is, he's not rare. he's just rarely exposed. >> hmm. >> he's rarely caught on tape. he's rarely brought to the attention and sanctions that we think people behaving like that should. the problem we really have in sports is not shocking homophobic language. welcome to the language of sports. ev any person, i would say from 8 years up, any person understands the language, humiliation of sports, is to align people who have not done well, or are not doing what the coach wants them to do, with either being, if they're men, like women, if they're women, like gay women,

or if they're men, even worse than being like women, being like gay people. there's nothing new to that. what i think is stark here is how we can be surprised, at this point, by this, when this is going on, you can walk on any sideline almost anywhere in america or britain, on any given weekend, and see similar -- similar behaviors, or at lest the vestigeal beginnings of this type of manifest behavior. >> still, all of us who have been on sports teams have had tough talking coaches before. this is sort of the extreme edge of that. there are a lot of players, pro players, who seem shocked by what mike rice has been saying. let me read you some of the tweets we have, some 6 the nba pros, steven curry says man how was that rutgers coach not fired already? if my son was on that team i'd be on the first thing smoking to his soon to be vacant office. i would have snapped from the coach at rutgers, i would sit before i'd take some abuse from that man. a lot of players saying that sure, i'm sure they've heard bad

things but this really does seem extreme. >> it is extreme but the thing that people need to understand is there's research that came out just this last year actually that talks about young people's experience in sports, and that 75% of young people in sport experience psychologically harmful behavior. now i'm not suggesting that in sport you shouldn't have to take adversity. i'm not suggesting that you shouldn't have to take criticism or that you shouldn't have to deal with difficult times or even occasionally a coach that loses his mind. just for one second. but what i'm talking about is a systematic, we've got the systematic ideal in sport where sport is not subject to the rules of the rest of society. i often tell parents who are watching their son or daughter be abused on a sideline verbally, usually, hopefully, if that was a french teacher, if that was a math teacher in your kid's school, would you allow that kind of behavior? >> no, never. >> so should he be fired? >> oh, it's character building. >> we know he was suspended -- >> exactly, exactly right. >> should he be fired?

>> he should be fired. there is no context in the universe where that kind of behavior is acceptable. it's physical and verbal abuse. it's psychological and emotional abuse. no -- he should not be allowed near anybody, i mean forget sports. there is no context where his management style is appropriate. >> john amaechi, we appreciate it. strong words from you this morning. former nba basketball player. thank you. >> yes, thanks so much, john. eight minutes after the hour. new developments this morning in the case of two murdered prosecutors in kaufman, texas. investigators looking at former justice of the peace named eric williams who was fired in a corruption probe. cnn's george howell live from kaufman. george, what's the latest on this? >> john, good morning. cnn spoke to david sturgi, williams' attorney, and we learned that investigators met with williams at a local denny's here to take swab samples from his hand to test for gun residue.

cnn does not know what the result of those swab samples revealed to investigators but his lawyer says his client did voluntarily cooperate because he, quote, has nothing to hide. very important note to put all of this in perspective. this person, williams, could be one of many other people that investigators are talking to and there are many theories out there. for instance the aryan brotherhood of texas. there's that possibility that they're looking into. also, the possibility of a drug cartel being involved. or was this an inside hit? we just don't know. in many ways investigators are chasing the shadows of all the cases that these two men that hasse and mclelland have prosecuted to try to figure out if any could be connected to this murder case. >> george, what are the sort of differences you are seeing as this investigation moves on? >> brooke just the other day, and this was very apparent but you could tell that public officials, they're being flanked by law enforcement officers when they go in to and exit the courthouse. it's an example of the stepped-up security out here.

no one is taking, you know, security for granted at this point. they're taking it very seriously, and you know we spoke to a district attorney from nearby anderson county the other day. you get a sense of just how concerned he is to do his job in this environment. take a listen. >> i feel like that mike was murdered for what he did. so it makes it kind of, you know, it's a little scary to people like me, to change the way i do business. i'm not going to walk in fear. i'm not going to not prosecute people. but you've got to be careful. >> so the person that's taking over mike mclelland's position here, brandi fernandez. she will be acting as intur up d.a. for the next 21 days until governor rick perry appoints a new district attorney for this county. but even she will have -- has 24-hour security given the environment out here. >> george howell in kaufman, texas, thanks to you. new information about the

parolee who allegedly killed denver's prison chief, and a pizza delivery man. evan ebel apparently ditched his electronic monitoring device a mere five days before those murders. police showed up at his house hours after corrections director tom clements was murdered. ebel was released from prison by mistake in late january after serving eight years. he was killed in a shoot-out with police two weeks ago. let's now go to christine romans with the rest of the headlines. >> good wednesday morning. new developments in the saber rattling conflicts between north and south korea this morning. north korea making good on its threat to block south korean workers from entering or leaving a jointly run industrial complex. the move comes a day after pyongyang announced it would restart a shuttered nuclear power plant. the north's increasingly hostile behavior and language prompting harsh criticism and even threats from the west. >> i reiterate again the united states will do what is necessary to defend ourselves, and defend

our allies, korea and japan. >> if we have solid evidence that north korea's going to take action then i think we have the moral obligation and the absolute right to defend ourselves by taking, i wouldn't even consider that preemptive, to me that would be stopping an attack that's about to happen. >> this week the united states positioned two warships and a sea-based radar platform near the korean peninsula to monitor north korean military activity. new this morning former south carolina governor mark sanford is officially the republican nominee for congress. sanford beat charleston city councilman curtis bostic last night in a republican runoff. he celebrated the victory with his fiancee. the first time he's been seen with her, and, together in public he'll take on the democrat elizabeth colbert busch in the may 7th special election. here's what he said to supporters last night. >> incredibly humbled, incredibly gratified, incredibly thankful for this night, for what it means at many different

levels. and i just want to thank every one of you for your part in making it possible. thank you very much. >> sanford admitted he was having an affair in 2009, and divorced his wife jenny in 2010. he's now engaged to the woman who he was having the affair with. okay only on cnn the nra's asa hutchinson telling our wolf blitzer the expansion of background checks for gun sales is on the table. hutchinson is a former congressman who's heading up the nra's national school shield task force. while his new position on background checks appears to be softening, it comes with one significant caveat. >> i'm open to expanding background checks. you can do it within a way that does not infringe upon an individual and make it hard for an individual to transfer to -- to a friend or a neighbor, somebody that if you're in montana and have a casual sale we don't want to infringe upon those rights, either. >> hutchinson's loophole for so-called casual gun sales amounts to a rejection of

democratic senator chuck schumer's bill that would require universal background checks for all gun sales. near perfection in texas. the rangers' yu darvish retired the first 26 houston astros he faced last night. not a bad way to kick off second -- his second season in the lone star state. 170 million dollars that's what he's got a japanese star has 14 strikeouts. overpowering needing just one more out for a perfect game. then up came little-known marwin gonzalez a career .234 hitter. >> perfect game, gonzalez a base hit! >> wish you could see berman's face. a clean single breaks up the bid for immortality and ends the right-hander's night. the rangers go on to win 7-0. >> we need to revel in this for a moment. he was one out away from being -- >> educate us berman. >> from being just the 24th pitcher ever in baseball

history, 24th pitcher to throw a perfect game. he was one out away and broken up by a guy you know who is a .234 hitter who normally can't hit the ball out of the infield next to a nobody. >> alas. >> the perfect game would not be for yu darvish. it does happen from time to time. it happened to mike mussina back in 2001. he was one out away. and a couple years ago -- >> who could forget. >> one botched umpire call away from a perfect game. >> young -- >> it's two days old. already excited. >> the crack of the bat has berman just -- he's a new man. he is a new man. >> spring has sprung. >> our baseball beat reporter. thank you, christine. >> and you. another incredible story we're following, this exclusive and unusual interview by michael jackson's former doctor conrad murray to our own anderson cooper. >> murray was speaking and also singing in this jailhouse fell telephone interview. ship's shannon travis is following this just odd story shannon. >> it is odd.

he said it's time people know quote my story that he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. obviously the coroner ruled that jackson died from a lethal combination of sedatives and the anesthetic propofol. murray told anderson cooper that he did administer those drugs to jackson, jackson had already long been using propofol long before and that murray actually tried to wean him off. but murray says you just don't tell the king of pop what to do. >> i did order propofol to his home. but i was not the one that brought propofol into his home. i did not agree with michael. but michael said it was not an issue because he had been exposed to it for years, and that was how things work. and given the situation at the time, it was my approach to try to get him off of it. but michael jackson was not the kind of person who could just say, put it down and he's going to do that. >> murray also told cnn he feels he's the scapegoat for all of the mishaps that michael jackson experienced in his life.

also there was a bizarre moment where the dr. serenaded our anderson cooper over his innocence. cooper had asked murray if he'd testify in the current wrongful death lawsuit that jackson's children and mother filed against concert promoter aeg live. the family claims aeg was negligent in hiring murray. well murray told anderson, he will testify, and then he broke out in into this nat king cole song, the little boy that santa claus forgot. ♪ he's the little boy that santa claus forgot ♪ ♪ and goodness knows he did not want a lot ♪ ♪ he wrote a note to santa for some crayons and a toy ♪ ♪ it broke his little heart when he found santa hadn't come ♪ >> murray said he sang the song because both he and jackson both experienced pain in their lives. john? >> shannon you can see the look on anderson's face there. the same look that's been on our face all morning. pretty bizarre.

>> what's going on there? shannon travis our thanks to you. >> hmm. >> -- like he is the victim of all of this. or he is the one who's been left behind in all of this and i mean it's really remarkable. >> i think it's amazing he talked. he talked. >> interesting to hear someone from behind bars what their thoughts are about the crime they've been convicted of. >> yep. >> especially when there's a civil trial going on here. >> the circus continues here. >> it does. it does. and ahead on "starting point," kentucky's hero returns home. we're live on louisville campus where kevin ware with his crutches there just returned after his gruesome injury against duke. will he be able to join his team for the final four in atlanta? you're watching "starting point." 18 minutes past the hour.

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gruesome, gruesome leg injury on national television, louisville's kevin ware is back on campus, in kentucky, this morning. >> and so is cnn's joe carter, in louisville, with more on this this one. so joe, obviously the big question, i know, i know kevin ware wants to go to atlanta. i mean, imagining he would want to be with his team when they play on saturday. do we think he'll actually make the trip. >> well, at this point, brooke, it's up to doctors. we're hoping to get some definitive answers about 1:30 eastern time today. both rick pitino the coach, as well as kevin ware are going to hold a press conference in the basketball facility behind me. it's unbelievable that just two days after doctors put a rod in this kid's leg that he was able to walk here on campus on crutches enter this basketball facility. mom by his side holding the championship trophy. he was in really good spirits. he spent about three hours with the team at practice yesterday. we saw him leave in a van about 6:00 eastern time. his mom gave us two big thumbs'

up. him and his girlfriend gave us a big wave and a big smile. there was a handful of fans here just to wish him well to see how he was doing. they were really encouraged by his positive spirit. one fan told us that she believed that this unfortunate situation is just the kind of motivation this team needs to win a national championship. >> i think this right here is making them push even harder to bring the championship home. i mean if we -- we're a great team regardless anyway i'm proud of them. but this is the year and this happening i think has just pushed them more to, to bring it home. >> a lot of questions surrounding who's going to pick up these medical costs. obviously kevin spending a couple days in indianapolis hospital. he's going to have about 12 months worth of rehabilitation that he's going to have to go through. university president at louisville saying they're going to pick up every cent of his medical care which obviously is a big weight off the ware family shoulders. guys? >> all right, joe carter in louisville. our thanks to you. later today, kevin ware and his mother are going to sit down with rachel nichols in

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welcome back to "starting point," everyone. i'm john beurre pan. >> i'm brooke bold win. >> there's been another deadly shooting involving a prosecutor in rad dough. this time the d.a. did kur vief the confrontation. police in the small town of hot sulphur springs, colorado, say an intruder was shot to death monday night inside the home of deputy district attorney and her sheriff deputy husband. cnn's jim spellman live in denver with the latest. >> good morning to you, john. it appears at this point it was just before midnight on monday night, when 911 operators there received a call from this deputy district attorney, saying that there was a stranger at their door acting erratically. then there was some sort of confrontation. unclear at this point what exactly happened. but, within a few minutes right outside the door, this man was gunned down, not clear if he was shot by the deputy d.a. or by her deputy sheriff husband. this was a man who only lived in this community about a week, had moved from michigan, was staying

with friends, apparently looking for work. no idea at this point what he was doing at their door or what led to this confrontation, john. >> jim spellman in denver, our thanks to you. breaking news now out of afghanistan. christine romans has that. >> this just in to cnn this wednesday morning, six suicide bombers stormed government offices in the southwestern province of farah this morning in afghanistan. two attackers were killed by afghan security forces. two others were able to detonate their explosives, killing at least six people and wounding 72 others. the two remaining insurgents, we're told, at this hour, are still fighting. day 40 of the jodi arias murder trial providing plenty of drama. a juror has been thrown off of the case. she left the courthouse in te s tears. and the judge denying a defense request for a mistrial. arias' defense had argued the dismissed juror, a female in their 30s, jeopardized this case by making comments and exhib exhibiting bias in front of

other jurors. president obama in colorado today making his case once again for congress to take action on gun control. he'll meet with law enforcement and community leaders at the denver police academy, not far from the site of the aurora movie theater massacre. colorado just expanded background checks for gun purchases, and placed restrictions on gun magazines. pope francis paying his respects to the late pope john paul ii. the pontiff made a private visit last night to john paul's tomb to mark the eighth anniversary of his death. the pope spent time kneeling in silent prayer at the tomb. pope francis also prayed at the tombs of pope john xxiii and st. pius x. the next iphone could be on its way. "the wall street journal" says apple will start producing a refreshed iphone sometime this quarter. that could mean a summer release. also a smaller, less expensive iphone could be launched this year. there's demand for cheaper phones. last quarter apple's older iphone models sold very, very

well. all right a wild ride in a stolen taxi. a suspect fleeing from police in south florida. 100 miles an hour through two counties in rush hour traffic. this whole thing started in miami. the driver lost control on the florida turnpike. after losing control right there, kept going, and managed to hit over 100 miles an hour speeds. chase on foot. there he goes, look at that. and then the police finally caught him. they say they found marijuana -- >> oh! >> yeah, it's never a good thing. none of this is good for this guy. they found drugs on him. this morning 33-year-old lazaro ricardo castlen facing multiple charges, grand theft auto, aggravated assault on a police officer. berman's been watching this on loop. >> nothing like stealing a bright yellow car. >> they're really lucky nobody was hurt. because 100 mile an hour speeds. people are driving on a packed highway. they have no idea what's going on. all these cops behind them. they're really lucky nobody got hurt. what a difference a day

makes. got really wound up. after their friendly late-night duet, jimmy fallon has reportedly closed a deal with nbc to replace jay leno as host of "the tonight show." that's according to kim masters from "the hollywood reporter." leno is under contract until september of next year. but masters doesn't think the network is going to wait that long. here's what she told piers morgan. >> well, i think they want to start him a little bit before then. i don't know if you're jay leno at this point, how long do you want the farewell to last? i think if you saw the video last night it seemed to me at the very end jay leno was kind of hinting that he's accepting this. >> cnn has learned jay leno is a bit, quote, bothered by how the process has unfolded. but he is upbeat and prepared for a possible change. >> the question then is, where does he go? >> i don't know. >> where does he go? who replaces jimmy fallon at late night? >> oh, the dominoes. >> the intrigue continues. >> christine, thank you.

speaking of intrigue. >> brace yourselves, everyone. hillary clinton speaking publicly for the first time since she left office. two months after stepping down as secretary of state, clinton attended a kennedy center event last night in the nation's capital. just hearing from the former first lady in public is stirring up new talks about a possible run for president in 2016. we couldn't resist. cnn's live in washington. good morning, erin. >> good morning, john. well, all of the adoring fans waiting ready for hillary signs outside the kennedy center last night certainly helped stoke that speculation. but clinton stuck to the script last night talking about global women's issues. then, again, we'll be seeing a lot of her in the coming weeks talking about a range of issues, really and she's working about a book about her time at the state department. at the very least she's keeping her options open. here she comes again. just two months have gone by since hillary clinton left the state department. saying she wanted to finally

enjoy life as a private citizen. but it didn't take long to get her out of the sweats and back into the spotlight. >> we see too many countries where women still face violence and abuse. >> reporter: clinton made her first official appearance tuesday night. speaking at the vital voices global awards ceremony, an event that honors women. on friday, she'll headline a women's event in new york, and later this month, a housing event in dallas. her first paid speech for an undisclosed sum. in june, she heads to the economics club of grand rapids in michigan. >> i remember when she was a senator, she would get upwards of 100,000 requests a year for everything from speeches to appearances to press conferences, to interview requests. >> reporter: but her rollout as a private citizen has all the makings of an agenda, despite promising this just weeks ago. >> you know, i am out of politics right now. and i don't know everything i'll be doing. >> reporter: but it seems like no one really believes her. is it really a coincidence that around the same time she's

making her first big outing, the ready for hillary political action group launched this urging her to run. on staff is a group of fund raisers. some who worked for her first presidential bid, and others tied to her big donors. >> it looks like what was a definite, i'm not going to do this again, has changed, and she's 50/50, so we hear, from some people around her. >> i think people aren't just getting ahead of themselves, they're getting ahead of her. it really, 60 days is in the blink of an eye. we're talking about an election that's 1300 days away. >> reporter: but the clinton watch has left her potential opponents in limbo. worried she would hog the limelight, the money, the enthusiasm. one of those potential opponents, vice president joe biden, also came to tuesday's event. perhaps to size up her intentions as much as the rest of the political world. so, john, republicans are concerned about a clinton coronation in 2016 and they're

starting early, too. there's a brand-new america rising super pac that's starting now, gathering research on all of the potential 2016 democrats, and they intend to start engaging clinton in the next few months before she can put a campaign together, years before she can put a campaign together, that is, john. >> it is never too early. erin mcpike in washington, our thanks to you. >> thanks, erin. a former clinton white house speech writer and communications director, he is now worldwide chair and ceo of a public relations firm. don, good morning. it may be 2013, it's berman said it's never too early. i want to begin with last night. because obviously last night that whole event was about politics, it was about women but everyone is whispering, not really whispering as much anymore about hillary in 2016. you know her. you worked with her. do you think she's considering it seriously? >> i'm sure she's seriously considering it. but i'm sure she's also seriously taking her time and trying to get used to life after the state department, and you

know, more than 20 years in the limelight, she's writing a book that i know she's going to be taking seriously because she always takes projects like that very seriously. i can remember being on this network 123 years ago, the day president clinton actually left office, and i joked then that when they were 85 years old, the media would be interested in whether the clintons went to the early bird special for dinner or not. so there's some, you know, natural fascination with the clintons in all things clinton. >> whether she's going to the early bird or not, the fact remains that her ratings, her approval ratings are near record highs for her. i mean take a look at this, "washington post"/abc news poll in january found that 67% of people hold a favorable view of mrs. clinton. that's the highest rating she's received since people started asking the question about her, you know, 25 years ago. why so popular now? >> look, it's a mark of her great leadership. she is one of the great leaders in the world. she has been a public servant for all of her adult life.

and people recognize that and recognize, frankly, in a time when we need greater leadership in this country and in the world that she's somebody who can fill that void. so there's no doubt that people are attracted to her, and the great work she's done, and the potential for the work she could do going forward, no matter what venue she does it. >> john, let's talk about this love fest. last night, between hillary clinton and another possible contender here in 2016, our vice president. >> you may have heard of him. >> joe biden ring a bell? take a look. >> yeah. >> i am delighted that vice president biden will be able to join us tonight. vice president biden and i have worked together on so many important issues. >> there's no woman like hillary clinton. hillary clinton, that's a fact, so again, tea leaves here. but how would this play out in 2016? would they run against one another? would he defer to her?

what do you think? >> anything's possible. right? first off, they really do admire one another. they were great colleagues inside the obama administration. worked together on many, many issues. they were great colleagues in the u.s. senate. so i think that's genuine admiration and actual friendship that exists between them. i know that's hard to believe in washington but i think it's actually there. what happens now in the next couple of years in terms of who takes on whom, is anyone's guess. we just don't know at this point. vice president biden has certainly made sounds as though he intends to be a candidate. >> john, just quickly. when does hillary have to decide by? >> i guess by the time she has to file for her candidacy, so you know, she's got a couple of years yet. there's no automatic date here. no one -- there's no rule book for this. we've never actually been here before. >> a couple years for us to keep chewing it over. >> give you a lot to talk about here on the morning news. >> don baer great to see you this morning. ahead on "starting point"

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disorder, and yesterday was at sixth annual autism awareness day. >> good morning, and welcome. >> good morning. thank you for having you with me. >> as we mentioned, you wrote this book about being an adult with asperger's and you talk about your son, cubby and tell me, can you take me back to the moment when you first realized you had an a-ha moment, where you realized my son is following in my footsteps in terms of having asperger's? >> every dad thinks his dad is following in his footsteps, and every dad thinks he taught his kid everything worthwhile. when my son was little, we would sit down at daycare and think it would be like dropping a goldfish into the tank and go off with the other kids, and cubby didn't do that. he sort of stayed by himself, and when i saw that, i remembered my own childhood and how i had written about being alone, looked me in the eye and looked at my son and thought is he just like me? so i saw it right from the

beginning, we were different together. >> he wasn't officially diagnosed until he was 17. do you think it made you having asperger's better or worse at raising him? >> i think i remembered my own childhood as i saw him growing up and tried to give him practical advice. that's the important thing for parents. not so much that you say there is some specific thing about your kid. it's that you -- you pick him up and you say if you do this instead of that. that little boy will want to be your friend. practical advice is what it's about for raising children successfully. >> i want to read part of your book here. you say "i always told myself he had my gifts but that he magically escaped the disabilities. i realized that was wishful thinking. the gifts and disabilities of asperger's go hand and hand. he has them both."

your fascination with electronics, technology, building guitars for kiss, for example. have you embraced your son's gifts? >> my son got interested in chemistry, interested in model rockets and stuff, and progressed from model rockets to rocket engines and then to making explosives from chemicals. he could scrounge around the house, and, unfortunately, the climate we live in, being what it is, it attracted the attentions of the atf. and you know the atf said i had a brilliant young man and he could have a promising future as a government chemist, but the local prosecutor i think saw it differently. saw a chance to get the name in lights and saw it differently. >> you wrote about the trial at the end of the book. what did you learn about asperger's and society as you

are watching this? >> i think the lesson isn't really about asperger's. it's a lesson for every family today. you know, your worst nightmare is that your kid will do something a little different and some public official will see what your kid does and seize a chance to build their career by destroying your family. and we have to be so vigilant as parents because of this climate that we live in. we can't discourage innovation. people think explosives are scary, but look what albert nobel brought the world. >> a lovely account. thank you for being with us this morning. >> thank you. ahead on "starting point," the pressure to fire rutger's basketball couch, after he is shown abusing players at practice. and this video viral. >> singing the blues behind bars. anderson reacting to him

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rutger's coach in hot water after video surfaced. >> you are a [ bleep ]ing fairy. are you a [ bleep ]ing [ bleep ]. >> we'll talk to the reporter who broke the story. >> connecticut lawmakers on landmark gun legislation today. all this, as the president plans to visit the community where 12 people killed in that movie theater. is he regaining movement? and the doctor convicted in the death of michael jackson, not only speaking from prison, he's singing. ♪ he's the little boy that santa claus forgot ♪ >> an anderson cooper exclusive you have to see and hear to believe. >> a wow interview. also, a new airline, got this policy creating a bit of a stir. should passengers be charged based upon your weight? wednesday, april 3rd.

"starting point" begins right now. our "starting point," this viral video could cost rutgers university basketball coach mike rice his job. the school, taking a second look here at its decision not to fire him, now that this tape showing him physically and verbally abusing players at practice here is everywhere. >> cnn's pamela brown following this developing story. she joins us live. >> good morning. so many people fired up about this. rutgers officials first watched this several months ago, but it was released to the public yesterday, sparking anger and outrage. now the university is under mounting pressure to fire rice. hurling basketballs at player's legs, even their heads. grabbing, pushing, kicking and punching them. [ bleep ].

>> and screaming homophobic slurs. >> [ bleep ]. are you a [ bleep ]ing [ bleep ]. >> this video obtained by espn's "outside the lines" shows rutgers head basketball coach going off the handle and abusing players from practices from 2010 to 2012. the footage surfaced after eric murdo murdoch, rice's director of player development, showed it to rutgers athletic officials. the abuse caused several players to leave. >> to see your coach physically putting his hands on players. physically kicking players, firing at point-blank range. the verbal abuse, belittling. i was in total shock this guy wasn't fired immediately on the

spot. >> reporter: on espn tuesday, the school's athletic director was asked why he didn't fire rice? >> the moment we became aware of the video no november when it was presented to us by eric and his lawyers, we immediately convinced an independent investigation on the matter. we talked to everybody in the program. we evaluated the situation and suspended mike in a more segue than coaches have been success suspended in recent memory. >> reporter: many are calling on them to reconsider and fire rice. lebron james said if my son played for rutgers or a coach like that, he would have some real explaining to do. and i'm still going to whoop on him afterward. come on. we've seen basketball coaches lose their cool, nothing new. remember bobby knight? known for his hot temper, but this video with his hands around a player's neck that led to his dismissal. >> maybe i grabbed him by the

shoulder, by the back of the neck, i don't know. i don't rm everything i've ever done in practice. >> now the question loomds, wil rice face the same fate as knight? some questions will rice be fired, but will pernetti and other officials involved in the decision face dismissal? cnn's attempts for comment were unsuccessful. john and brooke, you have to remember, this is a school where tyler clemente, a gay student, committed suicide after being the victim of cyberbullying and the don imus case, he was fired, and the university led that charge after his racial slurs against the women's basketball team. a lot of people saying there are inconsistency here with how the university deals with this issue. >> that context will have to color how rutgers chooses to go forward in the days ahead. pamela brown, thank you so much. espn out in front on this

story and john barr is here with us. first of all, terrific reporting. thank you for being with us today. >> thank you very much. glad to be here on behalf of many who have contributed to this. >> i have to ask. we talked to you before this interview, and you told us that when you first saw this video, which blew a lot of people away, including me frankly, when you first saw this video, you were on the fence about whether this was, you know, craziville or whether this was just bad behavior by coaches that happens all the time. you were on the fence. why? and are you still on the fence? >> well, to be fair, you know, when i first saw the video, i saw plenty of instances where mike rice appeared to be just grabbing players in drills and directing them, if they were out of position, for example. i saw examples where he was raising his voice to get your attention. you look at the tape closer, you hear things like the gay slurs. i don't think anybody would

dispute the tact in a lot of college practices, you will hear some salty language. the "f" bomb gets plenty by some pretty high-profile coaches who have kept their jobs. but we can all agree that a gay slur is over the line. even the case that coaches will give kids a hard pat on the rear end to get them moving or grab them by the shoulders to get them in position at a football practice or basketball practice. but shoving a kid from behind is over the line. so, yes, my first reaction was geez, you know, is he coaching them hard or over the line? and ultimately, not my job to decide. we're reportering the tape. we'll let others make that call. >> have you been reporting on basketball and other sports for years. and where do you draw the line? slurs versus the physicality of it. you mentioned other coaches

dropping some "f" bombs here and there. this is an aggressive sport. but how common is this kind of coaching behavior? is this an instance where a camera just so happened to catch this? >> that's a great question. what we've seen in recent months is more and more of these incidents coming to light. and i don't known that means there is a heightened sincetivity to it, but we had a report recently on espn where we talked about coaching millennials and it's the case where a lot of these student athletes are pushing back and not tolerating this type of behavior. how common is it? i think if you were to have cameras at every practice across the country, you might be surprised some stuff goes on that people would be shocked about. but i think the reactions within the sporting community, you know, when you hear athletes at every level, like lebron james.

>> he was appalled. and hearing from the professional athletes, that was surprising for us, if it's common place, the way they are reacting, shocked me. >> i think -- i think what you are hearing from athletes and almost uniformly across the board, is you just can't put hands on guys that way. and that is what has outraged a number of athletes that we have heard from in the last 24 hours. that's certainly what outraged eric murdoch, and i should point out today on "outside the lines," we'll have more information from eric murdoch, he relays a story where rice used inappropriate language, not in front of collegiate athletes, but in front of 10, 11, 12-year-old kids at a basketball camp. it wasn't just rutgers practices, there were other incidents that raised serious questions about their behavior. >> john barr, as you said, more on "outside the lines" today at

3:00. causing discussion all around the country about what crosses the line. thanks. >> thank you. police questioning someone in the murder of a texas district attorney. christine romans has that. >> good morning, you two. new developments in the murder of two district attorneys in kaufman, texas. people have questioned a former justice of the peace fired for corruption and prosecuted by the two dead men. eric williams is his name. he said police met with him at local restaurant, swabbed his hands for signs of gun residue. he says he doesn't even own a gun and police are not officially calling him a suspect this morning. also developing in texas. a man hunt for two escaped and dangerous inmates. 44-year-old brian tucker and 39-year-old john king broke out of hopkins county jail in sulfur springs by squeezing through a gate. both men, you can see their picture there, both men are considered dangerous.

former south carolina governor mark sanford celebrating a big political victory this morning. trying to win back his old seat in congress. sanford beat charleston city councilman chris bostick in a republican runoff. and he celebrated with his fianc fiancee. the first time we have seen them together in public. he will take on elizabeth colbert-busch. here is what he told supporters. >> incredibly humbled. incredibly gratified. incredibly thankful for this night, for what it means at many different levels and i want to every one of you for your part in making it possible. thank you very much. >> sanford admitted he was having an affair in 2009. he is now engaged to the woman after divorcing his wife jenny in 2010. samoa air has a new ticket

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anderson cooper last night, day two begins today in the wrongful death trial between michael jackson's family and concert promoter aeg. >> last night on cnn, anderson asked conrad murray if he expected to testify in the current case? >> have you been subpoenaed to testify in the trial? would you, in fact, be willing to give testimony in this trial if you were? >> at this time i would not been subpoenaed, and i'm not interested in giving testimony in the trial. >> powerhouse victims rights attorney gloria allred is here. >> good morning. thank you very much for inviting me to be on your show, even though i can't sing. >> well -- >> it's not a requirement at cnn, although apparently some people think so. >> speaking of, let's play, just one more clip, one more clip of some of this bizarre singing.

♪ he's the little boy that santa claus forgot and goodness knows he did not want a lot ♪ ♪ a wrote a note to santa for some crayons and a toy it broke his heart when he found santa hadn't come ♪ >> so, gloria, what is your reaction? >> i just -- it's really sad. from the great singing of michael jackson to the singing by his doctor, dr. conrad murray, who one day is a cardiologist and is the next day a convicted criminal and spending his time incarcerated. i think it's sad. the song is essentially about him. he is saying he grew up without anything, and he became a doctor, and he claimed his innocence on anderson's show, and why he even did that interview is open to question.

maybe it's because he is just lonely and wants to talk. and maybe he feels he hasn't had a chance to give his side, and he wants to try to be vt be vindicated. >> let's take a listen to his actual words right now. >> given the situation at the time, it was my approach to try to get him off of it, but michael jackson is not the kind of person you can just say, put it down and he will do that. >> but, doctor -- >> my approach may not have been an orthodox approach, but my intentions were good. >> so you said this was sad, this was weird. i suppose my legal question to you, is it a bad idea to do this kind of interview, given are you trying to appeal your conviction? >> i guess it's from whose point of view. he did claim his innocence. in that way, i don't think it hurt him. the interesting connection with the michael jackson wrongful death case where the jurors are now being chosen, because what

he said in that interview may very well be used by one side or another in the trial. he says he doesn't want to testify, he said that he hasn't been subpoenaed, doesn't mean he won't be subpoenaed and this interview may be played one day for the jury. >> speaking of the jury, i wanted to ask about the jury selection, the 29-page questionnaire. according to reports, they are asking about his family, his music as well. his life. media coverage, whether they would have a problem deciding on a multimillion dollar case. who do you want on that jury? >> it's a question of who is it that wants someone on the jury. attorneys will always say we want someone fair, we want someone impartial, but if you look at these questions and i have looked at them in detail, i can almost guess who was -- who wanted these questions asked. some of them were asked by plaintiff's attorneys, obviously say they were put into the

questionnaire, and requested by plaintiff's attorneys, others by the defendant's attorneys. in other words, they want jurors who will favor their side, not just juror who's are fair and impartial. for example if you look at the question, do you hold the opinion that lawsuits against companies are usually just an unfair reach for deep pockets? that may be a theme of aeg, and may be that they are not just wanting to know if there is a bias in a juror, perspective juror against a large, successful corporation. but they may be previewing one of the themes that michael jackson's family's mom and two kids or three kids going after aeg because they are looking for a big grab of money. >> perhaps foreshadowing of the arguing we'll see in court. >> ahead on "starting point," a beloved pixar movie getting another go round on the biggan

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point." i'm brooke baldwin. >> and i'm john berman. coming up, we're speaking to jake tapper and elidge gentleman cummings about president obama's trip to colorado and gun control. first, christine romans with top stories. if you live in northern arkansas, you may have been shaken out of bed. a small earthquake in northern arkansas, 3.1 magnitude. struck at 7:16 eastern time outside the town of clinton, 80 miles north of little rock. no injuries or damage reported so far. film critic roger ebert is battling cancer again. he is cutting back on movie reviews while undergoing radiati radiation. he is saying he's taking a leave of presence. he has previously had cancer in his thyroid and salivary glands. and a release from an arizona prison after 42 years.

taylor pleaded no contest in a deal that set aside his original conviction in a deadly hotel fire that killed 29 people. he will be our guest here on "starting point" tomorrow. kevin ware back on campus after being released from an indianapolis hospital. 20-year-old sophomore suffered a horrifying compound fracture during a nationally twiced game. is he expected to be off the court for about a year while the cardinals continue on to the final four in atlanta this weekend. ware is hoping go with them, but he needs clearance to travel from team doctors first. who does a 911 dispatcher call when she needs help? how about her mom. a frantic call about a girl drowning in the freezing columbia river, she knew it would take 30 minutes for a rescue boat to get there she also knew her mom lived nearby. >> i thought, okay, i know exactly where that is, and i decided, well, i know some

people in the area, so i then called and asked. i'm glad to live in a community where people are so willing to help out. it's -- it's wonderful. >> mom, cynthia, along with her husband and nephew were able to get the woman on a boat to safety. she is just a little cold and wet, but that is one quick-thinking dispatcher. >> call mom for help. >> call mom. got to love mom. >> i call mom for just about anything. >> i do too. love you, mom. president obama heading to colorado today to make his case for congress to take action on gun control. he will meet with law enforcement and community leaders at the denver police academy, not far from the sight of the aurora movie theater massacre. he is calling on congress to at least vote on an assault weapons ban and limits on large-capacity magazines. colorado expanded background checks and placed restrictions on magazines. so how are the gun laws that are already on the books enforced?

"the lead" host jake tapper is here. good to see you bright and early. let me ask you first, tell us about the president's trip today? >> well, he'll be going to denver as john mentioned and his message will be basically, look, colorado is a state that has a long tradition of gun ownership. a frontier state. take second amendment rights very seriously. even here in colorado, people are able to come together and pass common-sense gun legislation. that's his message, pointing to as john mentioned the improved background checks and the ban on high-capacity magazines. i believe it's over 15 rounds. that's the message that the president gets. >> and your show today, you -- you were in l.a., you embedded with law enforcement there to do what? >> this is interesting. everybody agrees that the laws on the books should be enforced. so we decided to take a look at this one state program in california where they go after

individuals who are not allowed to have guns, but have them. the reason they have this list is because in california, there is gun registration. so they combine the list of all of those registered to have guns with the list of those who are not allowed to have guns, they committed crimes, domestic abusers, whatever. they come together with the list and go out, just about three dozen officers and the attorney general's office if out, try to get the guns that belong to about 20,000 individuals, here is a clip from that report. >> even though he's admitted there are guns in the house and he owns guns, you are not allowed to go get them? >> everybody has rights, and his rights are against search and cea seizure, he denied consent to search his residence. we'll go present the facts to a judge, and ask to search the residence for the illegal weapons inside the residence that we believe to be in there.

>> what's really interesting about this program, we spent the night with these officers. it's an inkrcreasedibly labor intensive process. most people not home or pretending not to be home. this is a house where there were individuals there. they had gun there, not allowed to have gun there, and it took hours and hours. we'll take you behind the scenes of this program. like i said, just about 30 or so officers trying to get more than 20,000 people's guns who are not allowed to have funz, and really fighting a losing battle battle. >> jake, such an interesting issue, jake tapper, thank you for joining us. we will bring in elijah cummings, cosponsor of gun trafficking prevention act. you saw jake's report. a serious issue. everyone agrees we should enforce the gun laws on the books, but as you saw in jake's report. it's really, really difficulty.

in los angeles, people they knew had guns illegally, and it took forever for law enforcement officials to get a hold of them. >> yeah, there are a lot of people who are disobeying the law. when i think about something like sandy hook, where 20 beautiful children, our children, were murdered, i think the time is worth it. we've got to get a hold of this situation. and congress cannot be afraid to take a vote on these difficult issues. we cannot allow sandy hook to happen. we cannot allow what's happening in baltimore and other cities. where young people literally being spotted every day with these guns, we have the aurora situation in colorado without doing something. and what i'm afraid of right now is that we will have a lot of motion, commotion, emotion, but

no results. and hopefully we'll move past that. >> congressman, i want to ask you about that. jay carney, in the white house daily briefing was asked about that, so much commotion back in december, the concern now, has the moment passed? here is jay carney. >> he believes the passion, the urgency, still exists around the country and still exists, you know, if not in full, part in washington, and that's why he's continuing to make the case, in denver, connecticut, why we're engaging in congress on this very important matter. >> congressman cummings, let me point out a map. we did some digging in terms of legislation since then. we know legislation has been enacted in at least 24 states that prevent -- prevents enforcing some federal gun laws. you only have three states, new york, colorado, connecticut, where he's headed today, taking steps toward tougher gun

legislation. has the moment for real legislation, real change, sir, has it passed? >> no, it has not passed. and i think the children who sadly perished in sandy hook, the young man whose autopsy i attended friday, who was shot down and killed at 21 years old. my nephew who was killed would cry out and say it's never too late. we really don't have the right to be silent. and it's going to take -- we need to get away from caution and have some courage about this. this is our watch. we have a duty to make a difference and i want to tell you, if you cannot. if we cannot bring about change, when we've got our children being slaughtered like sandy hook, i don't know how we're going to do it. and the situation can only get worse. hopefully we'll get something done here.

>> talked to a lot of law enforcement officials in the country. they say if they only get one things passed in this round of discussions, they hope it's background checks. this issue came up on "the situation room" with asa hutchinson, leading the national school shield task force, talking about the issue of background checks, let's listen to what he said. >> sure. >> i'm open to expanding background checks. do it within a way that does not infringe upon an individual and make it hard for an individual to transfer to -- to a friend or a neighbor. >> now, that caught a lot of people offguard. he went on to clarify, that he meant increasing data on the national criminal background check system, not increasing background checks for the gun show loophole or person-to-person sales. your reaction to his comments? >> let me be clear. we have created laws that says we do not want criminals to --

convicted criminals to get guns. and there are these loopholes that allow folks to do exactly what we intended -- i mean, they are able to do -- go against the law, in other words, get around the law. it seems to me if we are going to make laws which is a criminals should not have guns, that we need to do everything in our power to make sure we value of the elements in that law to make it work. we want to be effective and efficient. nobody is trying to take away the guns of the collector or the hunter or the person who wants to protect their home. i want them to have their guns, but at the same time, we said our society has made a statement we do not want criminals to have guns, period. and yet and still, we have all of these efforts like you just said, 20 states trying to prevent us from even doing it. >> 24. >> and when i look at the nfrp

nra, if the nra was truly concerned, they would join in the efforts and understand nobody is trying to take away their rights, but to protect our society. >> thank you for being with us. 41 minutes after the hour. ahead on "starting point," even first lady michelle obama gets a little starstruck. see what happens when she met harrison ford at the white house, coming up next. #%tia[ welcome to the new new york state. what's the "new" in the new new york? a new property tax cap... and the lowest middle class income tax rate in 60 years... and a billion dollars in tax breaks and incentives.

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things out. the mri showed she had stage 4 breast cancer that spread to her bones and died seven months later. her struggles, the way i saw three women, my wife and two other dear friends, i called heidi's angels, sort of named after charlie's angels, the way they were there for her is what inspired the story. the story is not about cancer. the story is about the power of friendship to lift people through times of adversity and stacy and i, my wife, created a foundation called heidi's angels and we are donating 100% of the proceeds we receive from the book to the v foundation to fight breast cancer. if you knew heidi, it's the least least we can do. >> the story is about three women. surprising to a lot of people who know you as the co-host of "mike & mike" talking about sports every morning, a lot of guy stuff every morning. >> yeah. >> how hard was that? >> it was hard. my wife -- my partner's wife,

chris golic, has a saying, you don't find the story, the story finds you. that's what happened here. i always wanted to write novels and imagined i would someday, and certainly never would imagine this would be my first one. i had wonderful help. put together a three-woman focus group, helped show me where i was getting it wrong. sara mcgrath, a 28-year-old yoga instructor and said no 28-year-old woman would use blouse. >> we wouldn't. >> and we took out blouse and things like that. there were places where they felt i was getting it wrong and needed to be authentic for a female audience, i hope it is. >> it's told through the perspective of this alternating narrative, first-person perspective of the three women and a point in the book, and i'm curious if you are relating this to your life. maybe there is a reason this person got pregnant, had a baby. maybe you could find the cure

for cancer. >> i'm amazing you picked that up. that was literally one paragraph of me talking in a way. my own sense there must be some justice in the universe was really rocked by this experience. it made me angry more than it made me sad. that in some way was me talking. i'm impressed and moved that you picked up on that some good will come from this. all of the money donated to breast cancer and one of the dollars will keep some other woman from dying so two other little kids don't have to grow without their mom. >> you wanted to be a novelist. what did your wife think? honey, i'm going to write a novel about three women, she would probably say yes, dear and assume by tomorrow i would be on to another project. >> again, heidi was one of her best friends in the world. from the inception, she was aware of what we were doing and extraordinarily helpful. she's been fairly -- not fairly, extraordinarily supportive and fairly impressed by the entire thing.

>> fairly impressed. had t >> had the circumstances other than that, i would agree with you. your wife and my wife should go out together, they would get along very well. she understood it from the beginning. >> all you could ask for. thank you. >> thank you very much for having me on. i appreciate it. >> it is such a wonderful book. all you could ask for by mike greenberg. check it out. "starting point" back in a moment. ersyou've known? we gave people a sticker and had them show us. we learned a lot of us have known someone who's lived well into their 90s. and that's a great thing. but even though we're living longer, one thing that hasn't changed: the official retirement age. ♪ the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years. ♪

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