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i'm don lemon. we begin this hour in houston where thousands are meeting for the nra convention. the executive vice president wayne lapierre for the first time links the boston bombings to gun control. listen. >> imagine waking up to a phone call from the police at 3:a.m. in the morning warning that a terrorists event is occurring outside and oring you to stay inside your home. i'm talking of course about boston where residents were in prison behind the locked doors of their own homes. a terrorist with bombs and guns just outside. frightened citizens sheltered in place with no means to defend themselves or their families from whatever might come crashing through their door. how many bos bostonians wished

they had a gun two weeks ago. >> josh sugar man. first, what do you make of lapierre's comment? >> mr. lapierre's comments are basically as cynical as they are hip lit call. in the is the 70s the nra led the fight to stop the regulation of wlak an smokeless powder which are the key ingredients used in virtually all pipe bombs that are used across the country and are a suspected ingredient in the boston bombing. boston has the lowest gun death rate in the nation, second lowest in the nation because they do the exact opposite of what mr. lapierre tells them to do. >> so how would he suggest that it would made people safer? how would it have made people

safer if they had had guns? >> the nra's answer to any calamity dealing with dwuns ask very simple, go buy more guns. this is what they said after y 2 k. this is what they said after 9/11. the list goes on and own. the nra is a gun industry trade organization masking as a sports federation. their main goal to the represent the gun industry that supports it. when boston or some other event, that's why they come out and their has answer is buy more guns. >> you a member of the nra joining for research purposes and you've been attending the convention. anything surprise you this year? >> i've been a member since the 1980s. what surprised many this year i think was how insular the nra has become. i haven't been for a couple of years. and the language used today at the annual meeting of members,

mr. lapierre, chris cox and others i think would shock most americans. the think the language is paranoid, aggressive kp essentially is absolute. most americans would be scared by it. >> the incoming leader of the national rifle association is saying the nra -- hang on before i ask that question. i was just thinking about what you said. you said most people would be afraid by it? why would people be afraid of the nra? they have a lot of power and money. why would most people be afraid of it. >> most people see the nra in a news clip or a brief citation in the press story. i think if you sat that that audience like i did for a couple of hours an heard the paranoid rep zenation of the attacks on journalists, the president, anybody who doesn't agree with

the nra i think most would find it disturbing. somehow they took the tragedy in newtown an made themselves the victims. i never saw a more self-pitying representation of an organization an on top of that they said they have the answer to gun violence and that the parents of the victims and newtown and other mass shootings they didn't know as much as the nra nra. >> you said they have taken the tragedy of newtown and they sort of turned themselves in the victim. basically you're saying that they're using that for their own advantage. many people have said that the administration and people who support more gun control are doing the same thing. how do you respond to that? >> only if the issue of gun violence does calling for something to prevent the next mass shooting is that term being exploitive or taking advantage of a situation.

imagine if we apply it to a plane crash. you have a plane crash that kills hundreds of people and someone came out and said now is not the time to investigate that plane crash. now is the time to grieve. now is not the time to talk about laws that protect people traveling on airplanes, now is the time to grieve. >> all of the people who are members, the millions of members, thousands of people who show up at the nra convention in houston, so are they all wrong? what are yes saying? can they be that nay eve? are they being fed propaganda? why would they be a member of an organization that uy ear saying could be on the wrong side of history at this point. >> i think to separate the leadership from the membership. i think most nra members we have a gun violence problem in this country and want to do something

about it. when you look at the polling data, there's strong support among nra members and the general public. the issue is the nra leadership. >> yeah. >> and who had i believe a fully engaged leadership may not have the same leadership that we see. >> let's talk about the question i was going to ask you about the incoming leader of the nra. he said the nra is on the front lines of a culture war. your thoughts. >> i think when you look at the nra, their goal is to try and break this debate out of any sort of context that includes guns or focuses on guns. by framing it as a culture war, that's one new way they're trying to approach it and reframe it. we're vug a war that we're trying to prevent children from being killed in their classrooms, 30,000 americans killed across this country. that's the war that we're having. >> interesting conversation. thank you very much. we appreciate you coming on cnn.

>> thank you very having me. now to the boston bombings. nearly three weeks since the deadly attacks at the boston marathon we now have the official report detailing how one of the suspects died. tamerlan tsarnaev has not yet been buried but cnn has seen his death certificate. cause of death, gunshot wounds to the tore so and extremities. the report says there was blunt trauma to his body. police believe tsarnaev was run over and dragged by the car driven by his younger brother. meanwhile the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev is cooperating with the fbi. katherine russell has been meeting with investigators about every other day. her attorney says she's answering questions, not cutting a keel of any kind. i want to bring in tom fuentes. he's a former acitizen tant director of the fbi. tom, good to see how.

how important is tamerlan tsarnaev eats wife to this investigation. is she obligated at all to tell what he knows about her husband even though he's dead. >> no she's not. she's a citizen and has her rights that he does not have to talk to the fbi. if she does talk to them it has to be the truth or she's charged with lying to them. she's under no obligation to do that. she does have to let the fbi in if they're serving a search warrant, which they have done and they are removed material from it. she can't obstruct that process but that does not mean she has to talk to them at all. >> let's talk about some of that evidence. the police found explosive residue throughout the tsarnaev home. can she realistically claim she didn't know what was going on inside her own home when police found things in the home hep was living in. >> she can obviously claim it. the problem is going to be not whether it's reasonable for her to claim it, it's going to be

whether the prosecution can show beyond a reasonable doubt that she knew there was explosives or explosives were being made by her husband and brother-in-law in the home. that's a much further leap to be able to make that case that she absolutely know it or maybe even helped in the process. as far as the residue, saying she wasn't aware of it, we don't know how good of a housekeeper she was. you know, when evidence technicians come in, everybody watches csi, when they come in and find microscopic levels of evidence, explosive residue or other material, the normal person cleaning their own home would not find that. you might just think it's dust or regular. it's possible that they made the work when she was not home, took

the work out and put it dzhokhar's car and she never knew it. maybe sawdust or other debris in the home. that could be her position. just finding explosive residue in there is still not enough necessarily to show beyond a reasonable doubt that she absolutely knew what they were doing in there. >> you call plausible deny blt or something like that. i'm not an attorney but it sound like that to me. the president says he's going to review the communication between the agencies. do you think that it obviously it can be greatly improved. is this the first start, a good start? >> well, first of all, i think the premise that there was a failure of communication is not accurate. now to say -- to look at whether the original fbi investigation in to 1 is was thour roe enough by what was given to them by the russians, what they knew, what they found during the three month investigation, going

through hi phone records, interviewing people that knew him, interviewing he himself, only finding phone calls overseas to his mother and father which would be explainab explainable, that's going to be an issue. they will look at that and examine how thorough the investigation was at that time. that's worth looking at and making positive sure that they did. but to say that people don't talk to each other, don, i've run two jtf's myself when i was in the fbi. you're sitting right next to each other. in this case boston has 20 law enforcement agencies that belong to that jttf. every officer that gets selected to serve op it has to go through a complete background to get a top secret clearance and they have full access to all of the raw traffic. everybody is ith next to each other an has access to the same databases. >> i understand what you're saying but clearly there was a breakdown somewhere -- >> don, i don't except that.

what's the proof that somebody broke down as far as communication. >> the evidence is on the table. there was a bombing where three people. killed. there was an intercept from the russian government. the russian government told us that they thought this young man had been radicalized. hayed that been listening to him. he went away to russia for six months. the government had that information. how is that not a breakdown. >> you can see whether the investigation based on that information was thorough enough and that can be looked at. it's a separate issue so hay that the agencies don't talk to each other or that the information is still being -- people don't have access to each other's databases. that part of it is not true. >> tom fuentes. thank you appreciate it. an incredible shootout caught on camera, a police cruiser's dash camera.

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the pennsylvania home who made headlines this past week after having been missing for 12 years is in jail. she walked away from her husband and two kids. she had been secretly living in florida often homeless. yesterday he turned herself into fli fli authorities on a parole violation. earlier this year she served two months after stealing a woman's driver's license. there's usually a wait going

through customs but not hours. international travelers had long waits. listen to the passenger describe the long lines at atlanta's airport. >> as more flights come in, it's long. i can't -- everybody is complaining. well, it was caused by a customs and immigration computer glitch. among the hardest hit airplanes were atlanta and new york's jfk. we'll continue to update you as we get information on that. now some video we must warn you is pretty disturbing. police released the dash cam video of a shootout during a march traffic stop. our affiliate wio has more. >> reporter: when a person is pulled other for a routine traffic stop as he was here and immediately leaps out of the car, you have to wonder if they

had a death wish. it appears this man did. the car door opens and he immediately begins to fire. he uses if military and circle the police cruiser. at one point after he's hit he shouts killed me, kill me. he fired 37 shoots. eventually he falls to his knee. we stopped to the graphic video here. the audio continues. the cheefr didn't believe he was committing what's known as suicide by police. >> he got out of the car to kill my officers. that's his intent. however the officers got the better of him. >> reporter: found in his car were ammo clips, boxes, gun powder, another rifle and books and materials describing military tactics. >> these weapons are designed to kill people and just annihilate

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the jodi arias murder trial and the media circus that's following it is in its final stretch. he's on trial for killing her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. the jury began deliberation yesterday following closing arguments. ted rollins is in phoenix. >> reporter: the jury deliberated for about abhour on friday before going home for the weekend. they'll be back on monday morning to begin again. before they started deliberations they sat and listened to more than soechb hours of closing arguments. jodi arias sat and watched both sides. absolutely without a shadow of a doubt she's a liar. >> prosecutor told arias planned

the 2008 murder driving from northern california to arizona armed with a knife and a stolen dwun. he says after having sex with around she atamted him while his guard was down while he was posing photos in the shower. >> she absolutely knew and had already planned it. she knew. she was going to kill him. >> family members of travis alexander broke down while mar te nez showed crime scene photos showing the brutally of the killing where around was shot in the head and stabbed nearly 30 times. >> he was killed in three different ways, a stab wound to the hart would have killed him. the obviously the slitting of the throat would have killed him and the shot to the face would have killed him. >> reporter: martinez warned jurors not to believe a word of what jodi arias told them during her 18 case on the witness stand when she claimed she killed alexanderer in self-defense and

can't remember the details because of ptsd. >> why is it you have no memory of killing travis alexander. >> i can't explain why my mind did what it did. >> she's lying. she's making it all up. has lied to everybody. it doesn't make any sense. none of it makes any sense as it relates to premedication. >> reporter: defense lawyer kirk nurmi argued that the idea that jodi arias went to see travis alexander to kill him doesn't made any sense saying if she planned to kill him she would are done it right away when he got there instead of spending the day with him having sex and taking photos. >> she could have shot him right there if that was her plan. she didn't. doesn't make any sense that this is a pred meditated murder. >> reporter: nurmi also attacked the victim, travis alexander, saying he not only abused arias but was a pedophile. he played a portion of a phone

sex tape when travis alexander compares arias to a 12-year-old girl. >> who says that? you cannot write that off to the heat of the moment. that is sick and that is wrong. you can't put any spin on that. >> reporter: combined both sides argued for more than seven hours. prosecutor juan martinez had the last word. >> in this case travis alexander was slaughtered by this woman, slashed his throat, she stabbed him in the heart and when she shot him in the face and all of that thinking about it in advance. thank you. >> reporter: the jury will be looking at four separate choices for potential verds. two of them are first degree murder. if they come back gult on e thur one of those then jodi arias is looking at a potential death sentence. second degree murder is also on the table with a sentence of potentially 10 to 22 years in prison and they can also

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nearly half past the hour now. i want to look at the headlines

here on cnn. the taliban claiming responsibility for killing five u.s. service members in southern afghanistan today. they were killed by a roadside bomb. in a separate attack two coalition service members were killed in western afghanistan when an afgan soldier turned his weapon on them. president obama returns back in washington this hour after a three-day trip to costa rica. he joined the president today for an event. at his earlier stop in mexico she talked about immigration and security improvements along the border. u.s. officials believe israel conducted an air strike into syria. that reportedly shows that the strikes may have occurred as israeli jets were flying over neighboring lebanon. israel has said it will do anything it takes to stop syria

from arming militants in lebanon. there's a lot more than waves washing up on the beeches. try cocaine, multiple packages of the drug have been found along more than ho miles of atlanta coastline. the beaches are closed while the officers look for any additional cocaine bundles. no one knows where the drugs came from. the iron man series off to a great run. iron man 3 set up one of the biggest opening weekends. it's po set up to 175 million through sunday and would put it second all time to last year's weekend of the avenn gers. >> tamerlan tsarnaev is dead. fbi agents are looking at people close to him to fill in some missing information, people like

his wife. >> about 70 miles outside of boston federal investigators have been spending hours probing katherine russell, the widow of tamerlan tsarnaev. they hope she can provide some of the answers that surround the mystery of the bombs that exploded at the boston marathon nearly three weeks ago. now questions are nounting about her and what she knew and whether she too could be in legal jeopardy. this week cnn learned that the younger of the two suspects, dd told nervous garts that the two built their bombs in the apartment. they found explosive residue on the kich, table, in the bat tub of that very apartment. when they identify tamerlan tsarnaev as a suspect and his photos were all over national

tv, he and russell talked on the known just before he died. for the past two weeks unmarked cars like this one have been stationed outside her parents' house aenl those cars only leave when she does. but her defenders insist she had no prior knowledge of the bombings and she's cooperating fully with authorities. her attorney told cnn that investigators are showing her pictures and asking her to comment. early in the week investigators found at least one fingerprint and female dna on the recommend nents of one of the bombs. on the same day fbi entered her house in rhode island where she's been staying with her daughter since it began. that investigative team left carrying dna samples. she's had to deal wither h us. on tuesday she asked that his

unclaimed body be turned over to his family and not to her. his uncle was here no tuesday an now tsarni is taking care of the funeral arrangements. >>er rin you say the uncle is taking care of the funeral arrangements. any word on where he'll be buried? >> reporter: don, not yet. there's controversy in boston about the burial. and the funeral director we are, the owner spoke with cnn said they're going to work on trying to find a is cemetery on monday morning but right now they have to work on a second autopsy that the family has asked for. the winner in a very wet kentucky derby, orb goes to the winner's circle.

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we had our eyes on a lot of story lines at this year's kentucky derby, security, rainy weather, a female jockey, an african american joblg ki. cnn sports, joins us now in louisville. a lot of prerace tack auz usual by in the end a horse named, as the announcer said orb, stole the show. . >> reporter: you should have sat in the chair an done the announcing. that's it. orb, orb. the house race experts were right. we had a favorite win here. it was a rainy day, a sloppy muddy track and a slow pace compared to some of the other races in the pack. he comes from the middle of the pack to win. it's the trainer's first win as well as the jockey's first win.

this horse is red hot. it's won five strait races wib influgd the florida derby. they're looking ahead to the next race, third place to revolutionary. some of the the other notable story lines that we followed of some of the horses and jackies, rosie that pra nick, they finished in fifty place, gary steven and his horse finished in sixth place, the only african american jockey finished in 16th. it's on to the breakness in two weeks. the excitement will build. one win close tore a triple crown winning horse for the first time in 35 years. >> take us there. it's like two minutes of excitement and then it's over. >> yeah. >> at least the race part. >> yeah. >> but there's much more going

on before and after. i mean it's really an event. it's the party, race and then partying after. >> reporter: i think the whole week send an event itself. if you've ever seen the pregame stuff for the race and obviously post game is fine. when you come here that's when you get an opportunity to tap into what is the kentucky derby. it's your first and only opportunity for those who don't live in kentucky to tap into your to really channel your inner southern belle. you see the hats and the guy as girls, all of the colorful outfits, the mint jewel leps, the parties. there was 151,000 people that showed up this year, a lit less than last year because obviously the weather was sort of an issue. but 150,000 people turn out to watch a race that lasts two minutes usually. there's a lot more to it than just the two-minute race, as you

can imagine. >> talk to us about the security especially after the bombings with big i vent like this. what did you notice? >> reporter: you know, it seemtd fine. i mean everything seemed to go pretty smooth. obviously there was a lot of new procedures put in place. i would say some people considered it annoying procedures because inconveniences if you will because they weren't allowed to bring in coolers, duffel bags or backpacks. women were allowed to bring in hers that were 12 inch os smaller. but at the end of the day they put the rules in place so we would be safe. one advantage or one positive spin to not being able to bring in a lot of stuff is that the lines moved a lot quicker. what we say there was a lot of security, state federal an local and it seemed to go very smooth. obviously this is the largest sporting event that's taken place since the boston bombing and it went on without a hitch. all is gone. >> thank you.

appreciate it. we went hands on with google glass. so what the the hottest device in tech really like?

so we are finally seeing people other than google weigh in on goobl glass. recently a cool turn of events. best selling sky fie author who has written a ton of tech, he said i've got to try google gloosz if only or a few seconds. was fantly annoyed at just how interesting afound the experience. lloyd seeing l is in new york. in a sentence google dplasz is a

high-tech glass strapped to your head. are they faintly annoying. >> they're faintly annoying because you know how interesting the technology can be. actually i brought them into the studio with me. check this out, i can put them on, i can say, okay, glass, take a picture of don aeb it will take a picture of you. i mean this kind of tech nonl -- by the way, don, i like them with the shades, i think they look a little cooler. this kind of technology is really interesting but it's just at the beginning. i think, you know it's almost annoyingly interesting because you want to know how much is going to happen and the developers that are going to build. i actually caught wup a developer who is building multiple applications for google glass. he gave me a show and tell. check it out. we're wearing something that a lot of folks want. >> i'm wearing google glass. if i turn it on by tilting my head up or touching it, i can

look at my e-mail, photos, text messages. use it as a headset for phone calls, speak to it, record a video. so now i'm recording a vie voo of you recording a video. >> i'm seeing that sit 57 degrees, 72 in san francisco with lots of traffic. >> they gave me this device about a week ago and i've been developing some fun applications for it. i'm building the twitter application and working on four square. it's a wide open platform. anyone can come in and build these tools. >> reporter: so how do these applications work. >> twitter application allows me to tweet photos directly from glass. i can take a foe foe of you right now, click on that and tweet it. >> reporter: then i think, don, that's the point we should take. this technology is new and we're just at the beginning. it's the applications that are going to be built on google glass that are going to make it really interesting and

innovati innovative. >> you have them right there. >> yeah. >> you've strapped them on. that's the real google glass you have. >> they're real google glass. they've got some dark shades. >> game changer? >> game changer i think the jury is out to be honest with you. right now it's like the smartphone was years and years ago. you have the cool technology. it's playing around with pit in the next couple of years you'll see all of the different app developers build the applicationings to make this really interesting. we'll see then this is going to be a game changer, don. >> is google dealing with a low boil freak out some are having about the collapse. movie theaters say leave them at home. one state is talking about banning them in cars and how comfortable you would be if you were in a public rest room and someone came in with these. what does google say about that. i would not be comfort nlable. having worn these today.

it's freaky to think if people are walking around lake this talk pictures and we have no idea. we've got to see it out there before we're going to see the reaction to it. now there's the hype and people have been talking about it. but now we're seeing people with google glass and we're going to see how it's going to work. you're going to see the reaction. that's what happens when you so new disruptive technology. >> no so much. there's no privacy any way and this one to me is a bigger invasion. but hey, listen, the world moves on, technology advances. >> any way i'm going to put them on going to go out and we'll see, right. >> thank you. don't be distracted. >> i won't. >> my one on one with the master mind behind shows like top chef and the real house wives franchise next. e people are when you tell them they could save a lot of money on their car insurance by switching to geico...they may even make you their best man.

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he is the mastermind behind such shows as "top chef" and the "real housewives" franchise. now bravo's vice president andy cohen is adding another credit to his resume, best-selling author. his book, "most talkative: stories from the front lines of pop kurltd," just released in paperback, and i spoke him on a recent stop in atlanta. take a look. >> how are you? >> nice to meet you. >> all right. so before we talk more about your show, let's focus on the book, "most talkative." it's out in paperback now. >> yes. >> so you've done so many things. but did writing a book change your life? >> first of all, i love to write. and so it was just fun to write. and it also was the most personal thing i've ever done. it was -- you know, i've never written about things about me. i mean, it's always about someone else or -- >> but doesn't that feel weird? like -- >> yes. >> -- you're on television every day and then you write -- in my book that came out, you write about all these things and

you're like oh, my god, do i really want people knowing that? >> not only that. i just kept thinking who cares? i just kept thinking who the hell is going to buy this book? and then i wrote a book that i really loved and i was like, okay, people should buy this book. >> do you think that you are a giant in this industry? >> no. >> you are. but -- >> i'm shorter than people think. i'm 5'9". i think that i've had a certain degree of success and i'm quite happy about it and proud of it. i've had a really good 23-year run in tv. you know, and i've wound up in a place where i never expected to be, which is in front of the camera. >> do you ever sit back and go, my gosh, look how far i've come? >> i definitely sit back -- i say wow, i can't believe what i get to do every day. you know, i feel lucky. i feel lucky to be on a book tour. and i love when people come up and want to talk to me about the housewives or any of our other shows. it makes me feel like great, we're making shows that people want to talk about. >> what are you most proud of? what is andy cohen most proud of in his life? >> i'm probably most proud of my

book just because it's the most personal thing that i've done and my show because both of those are most representative of me. probably "top chef" is the show i'm most proud to be i apart of. i just think it changed food tv. i think if you look at the food network pre "top chef" and post "top chef" it's a different network. and if you look at -- you know, i think the title of "top chef" now means something to a whole generation of chefs. >> richard. you are top chef. >> what? >> you say "top chef" is one of the things you're most proud of. let's get mr. blaze to come in here. would you like an alcoholic beverage? >> you know what? i'll just have a cucumber soda or something like that. >> he said that his book, he's proud of his book and he's proud of "top chef," which you're a part of. what do you think about that? >> about what he's proud of? i mean, that's amazing, that part of -- one of the things that i'm the most proud of is, you know, winning "top chef." and you know, he certainly is

someone who had a part in allowing me to even participate in the show. so yeah, i think we share one of our proudest moments. >> yes, we do. >> being here is a little bit surreal but it makes you feel good to know that -- >> it makes me feel proud and walk into any -- to your restaurant, to anybody who's competed on "top chef." you know, who's opened a restaurant and people come in. and richard is -- richard is like the king of "top chef." he won "top chef" all-stars. he was the guy who people thought should have won his season but choked at the end. is that -- >> that's what i said. i did. >> you choked? >> i kind of did. listen, i went through my sort of like boston red sox, chicago like lovable loser sort of moment. and when i came back i think that worked in my benefit. >> absolutely. but he's also one of the most successful guys to come -- or women to come out of "top chef." and so it's just cool to see

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good news for firefighters in southern california. winds are calming down, helping the efforts to battle a massive wildfire. a forecast of possible rain tomorrow also encouraging. flames got out of control fast thursday, devouring 28,000 acres and 15 homes. 4,000 homes still in danger. this picture taken from space earlier this week shows the smoke coming off california's coast. now, some see this az bad omen. california's fire season isn't supposed to start until august or september. for the first time a woman has been placed on the fbi's most wanted list. joanne chesimard went to prison for killing a new jersey state trooper 40 years ago.

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