mom in her. i feel like she has to be shining down and smiling on her going, that's my daughter. >> a bitter sweet sentiment this mother's day weekend. hug your moms this weekend. tell them you love them. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. thanks so much, jake. happening now, a cnn exclusive. you'll hear the daughter of the alleged cleveland kidnapper say he is now dead to her as she vows to cut off all contact with him. the white house takes heat on the benghazi talking points. how much did the administration officials edit those early statements on the deadly attack? and the irs apologizes for singling out tea party groups for special scrutiny after they applied for tax-exempt status. there were mistakes, but was there a motive? wolf blitzer is off today. you're in "the situation room."

dna tests are now confirming what amanda berry has already revealed, that ariel castro fathered her 6-year-old daughter during those ten years she was held captive with two other women. the ohio attorney general's office says castro's dna does not match any other open state cases but national results are still pending through the fbi. meantime, michelle knight has been discharged from the hospital today. she is the last of the three women to be released. there are new questions at the very same time emerging about how authorities handled her case, which generated far less publicity than the other two. cleveland police removed knight's name from an fbi missing people data base 15 months after she was reported missing because t were unable to reach her family. we'll have more on all of that in just a second, but first i want to get straight to investigative reporter scott taylor with our cleveland

affiliate woio. he is joining us with the latest. scott, you've been doing some great reporting on this truly amazing and horrible story. you have details tonight, new details about ariel castro. what is the latest? we know he is inpron. what are you hearing about the conditions, what he is facing in prison, and any idea of what he is like there? what are you hearing? >> reporter: right now he is in the cuyohoga county jail in downtown cleveland. really can walk from where the house is being boarded up right now, the house where the three girls were rescued on monday, all the way to downtown. easy walk. he is in what is called suicide prevention. he's not threatening to kill himself or hurt himself but he is a high profile inmate, and prosecutors, the sheriff's department, and really all of cleveland want to make sure this guy goes to trial, gets in front of a jury. there is no tv in his cell. he doesn't have access to a radio. he is not allowed any visitors

or even a magazine. now, i have been told in the last half hour he just got a private attorney, kate, so that means he is probably going to get his first visitor sometime late tonight. >> probably not surprising he is not able to see many folks to this point. i want to ask you though about some of the most interesting details that are coming to light today. you've seen some of the writings that we have heard about from what we believe to be writings of ariel castro that were found in the house when investigators were in there following the women getting free. what more are you learning about the details of these writings? they've been described i've seen as both a suicide note, suicide note and even a confession. >> reporter: when you look closer into what he was writing it looks like he was almost playing favorites with his victims. he would take one, michelle, get tired of her, then amanda a year later and then finally gina

dejesus. what is really shocking about gina is she was only 14 years old when she was taken in 2004. he thought she was a lot older and then she took -- he took her down into the basement along with everybody else, bound and gagged her, and there was a strange connection he felt with gina because he knew the family. he said he had a closeness believe it or not with gina and with her parents and felix dejesus, who happens to be gina's dad, he writes that he didn't know that gina was felix's daughter when he grabbed her and that felix was a classmate. now we talked to felix earlier today and he did confirm that he was a classmate with felix briefly at lincoln west high school. now, he did tell us, though, they were definitely not best buds. >> he said he had a sense of closeness with this family. how twisted can that be? one more thing before i let you go. in the letter i've seen that

you've reported ariel castro allegedly placed blame on some of his victims. i can't even possibly begin to imagine what that means. explain that to us. >> well, a chilling little comment in there, he talked about amanda and gina getting into his vehicles. he said would you like a ride home? they said yes. they got in. and he said, that's the reason why they were really locked up for up until 2004 because that is when he wrote this but he did want to send a warning out to other potential victims to make sure whatever you do, don't get into anybody's car especially a stranger's car. so he was sending out this chilling warning which was really bizarre. you did mention that some people thought this was a suicide note so maybe he was going to end up killing himself. he talked about he was going to take all his money, give it to his victims and in the end in this letter he did apologize to

everyone he affected. >> truly impossible to really wrap our mind around the mind of someone that would do any of this. but great reporting regardless. scott taylor of woio, thanks so much. looks like bad weather there today. thanks so much for joining us. do want to make clear as we always do with our viewers cnn hasn't confirmed some of the details scott is reporting there out of cleveland, that is woio's reporting. great reporting. scott taylor, thanks so much. in the decade these three women were being terrorized were there any opportunities to save them that may have been missed along the way? that is a huge question you know so many folks are asking. cnn's national correspondent gary tuchman has been working that part of the story for us and is joining us now. gary, it always begs the question, is this a case of there were real missed opportunities here or is this a case of hindsight? >> well, kate, i will tell you in the middle of this big rain storm where police are still working outside ariel castro's house and inside, there is this question about what the police have done here, you know, over

the years we've done lots of stories about wonderful, amazing outcomes in crime cases because of police heroics. this is a wonderful outcome, but not because of police heroics. eric poindexter believes he could have helped cleveland police end this kidnapping nightmare nine years ago. >> my brother and i was driving down the street the day gina dejesus was abducted. >> reporter: the street is west 105th. only a couple blocks away from the school gina was walking home from the day she was kidnapped. eric and his brother were driving when a car came up on their left in the turning lane. then you saw a girl walking down the sidewalk on that side of the street. >> yeah. right over there by the corner right by that brick building. >> reporter: what did you see this driver do after that? >> once we crossed this intersection, he swerved in front of us almost hitting us to get into the, the parking lane, and as soon as we passed him up he did a u-turn. didn't care if anybody was

coming. hit a u-turn right in front of or toward where the little girl was walking. >> reporter: in this week's police report about the case authorities revealed that gina has confirmed she was kidnapped on west 105th street. after eric and his brother saw the car make a u-turn and head toward the girl they also made a u-turn angry that they almost got hit by the driver and also concerned about the girl. but when they got to the spot where they had seen the girl they no longer did. she was gone. it wasn't long before reports surfaced about a missing girl named gina dejesus so eric and his brother say they immediately called the police to tell them what they saw. >> she was wearing tight, black pants and puffy gray jacket. >> reporter: what was the description of gina dejesus? >> a little puerto rican girl with long, curly black hair wearing tight black pants and gray puffy jacket. same exact description. >> reporter: eric says the authorities didn't ever seem to think their information was credible. >> it seemed like they were looking at us like we were just looking for attention or something like that. >> reporter: the police. >> yes.

they didn't seem to give any real desire to the case. you know, what we were telling them. they thought it was -- we were blowing smoke up their butts or something. >> reporter: why do you think that is? >> i have no clue. >> reporter: after the arrest of ariel castro eric and his brother say that is the face they saw behind the wheel that day. theirs isn't the only story that if acted upon could have ended the terror allegedly brought by ariel castro. in 2004, after castro, who was a school bus driver, had allegedly kidnapped two girls and was about to kidnap gina dejesus, he left a child on his bus as he headed into the bus depot. i asked police why castro wasn't more aggressively questioned about the incident. >> he was interviewed extensively, relative to this complaint that we had. he was not a suspect in any other complaint. this was a -- he was a bus driver who inadvertently, so he says, left a kid on a bus, went in for a lunch break, came back, and then found the young man. >> reporter: castro was never

prosecuted for that incident. a year later castro was accused in court documents of repeated abuse and domestic violence against his common law wife. he was accused of everything from breaking her nose twice to dislocating her shoulders. but the case was ultimately dismissed because of numerous delays caused by castro not showing up and attorneys for both sides not showing up. police strongly defend their work in this case and say they have no records of any recent calls pertaining to ariel castro. they also tell us they have not been able to confirm if they have records of talking to eric poindexter and his brother back when the kidnapping happened. >> i now believe a hundred percent of my heart that he was there to abduct that little girl and i believe that little girl was gina dejesus. >> reporter: police say they will continue to investigate if other calls have been made over the years. now just a couple minutes ago i talked to that deputy chief. he told me that he is not familiar with the poindexters or the poindexter story but he and

the police department are open to further investigations. a couple other odds and ends to tell you about. the greenhouse behind me, the greenhouse next to ariel castro's house, it's got a search warrant to search inside of there. i've been told by the deputy chief they got the search warrant just to be careful to see if anything has been going on in that house because it was abandoned. they saw nothing in that house and all their attention is on the white house where castro lived. in addition this street has been closed off for a few days during the investigation and will be opened as early as tomorrow. however, a fence is being constructed around the house that will say no trespassing but the block will be open once again. the deputy police chief told me he's been with the cleveland police department for 28 years. he says aside from his two children being born, the outcome of this is the most amazing thing he's seen in his life. finally, the last thing i want to tell you, kate. a short time ago we saw workers on top of the roof boarding up the house. it is pouring rain here. i thought the guys were actually nuts to be on that slanted roof doing this work. they've finally gone inside.

we don't want to see any more tragedy or news on this particular block. >> no more news. you can almost be assured that more news will be coming out of cleveland as this story and this investigation continues. great work. thanks so much. talk to you soon. coming up next the obama administration gets a grilling on its response to the benghazi attacks. how much did officials edit those early statements? also, the irs admits it made mistakes in subjecting tea party groups to extra scrutiny. was politics at play? girl vo: i'm pretty conservative. very logical thinker. (laughs) i'm telling you right now, the girl back at home would absolutely not have taken a zip line in the jungle. (screams) i'm really glad that girl stayed at home. vo: expedia helps 30 million travelers a month find what they're looking for.

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after a flurry of complaints from conservative organizations seeking tax-exempt status the irs just today denied any political motives but does admit it made mistakes in singling out these groups for extra scrutiny. tea party activists and some republican politicians to be sure are not satisfied.

cnn's athena jones has been looking into this and has more details. the white house just today said, itself, the news coming out about the irs is very concerning. what are you learning? >> it is. hi, kate. the american civil liberties union is saying even the appearance of playing partisan politics with the tax code is about as constitutionally troubling as it gets. that is what the irs is accused of doing. the internal revenue service is admitting it over scrutinized conservative and tea party groups during the run up to the 2012 election. groups like the tea party patriots, the nation's largest tea party organization, who say they face big delays and mountains of paperwork after applying for tax-exempt status in 2009. >> they came back wanting every single facebook post, every comment on facebook. we have a million fans now on facebook going through and finding comments and every single post on facebook. hours and hours of work and

massive amounts of paper. and the fact that the irs was doing this is absolutely disgusting. it's an abuse of power. >> martin says her group still hasn't gotten an answer from the irs. now the agency is admitting some groups were subject to further review simply because they had the names tea party and patriot. an irs director telling reporters the employees responsible did pick the cases by names and that is absolutely inappropriate and not the way we should do things. the agency insists the practice was not done for political or partisan reasons and says changes have been made to avoid further mistakes. that's not good enough for martin or for republicans in congress who want an investigation. >> let's face it. this is as nixonian as you can get. in all honesty, they not only have to clean it up. they have to do a lot more. they have to know who did this, why it was done, when it was done, how many times it was done. we've got to have answers to

these questions. >> and the white house agrees. >> it certainly does seem to be based on what we've seen to be inappropriate action that we would want to see thoroughly investigated. the treasury inspector general for tax administration is investigating this matter but an official there told me they haven't yet set a release date for their report. one more interesting point, kate, that white house spokesman jay carney brought up, the person who was running the irs was a bush administration appointee. another interesting tid bit there. >> another interesting tid bit but be sure the white house will likely try to be distancing themselves from this especially amid all of the other issues swirling today. you can be sure as well that republicans on capitol hill will be investigating as they do. thanks so much. still ahead i'll be talking to republican senator lindsay graham about just this, what he thinks of the irs action and scrutinizing tea party groups and also talking about much,

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by the fertilizer plant explosion. the announcement of the criminal probe came the same day authorities arrested a local volunteer who was a first responder for possession of a destructive device. authorities haven't tied the arrest to the explosion. they've already ruled out several potential causes. this is being called a disgraceful event and unsavory incident. it happened on the same day south korea's president met in the oval office with president obama and has led to the firing of her spokesman. a washington police report says the now former spokesman is accused of sexually abusing a young intern in a hotel bar. he left the u.s. shortly after the alleged incident. new york today symbolically completed its comeback from the 9/11 terror attacks. workers bolted a 408-foot spire into place atop one world trade center. that raises the building's height to 1776 feet. that's not a coincidence. it is another symbol since that figure is the same as the year the u.s. declared independence.

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the obama administration today is taking quite a lot of heat over its response to the benghazi attacks, the deadly benghazi attacks. e-mail exchanges show officials were more involved than they first let on in tweaking the talking points used to describe the attack and the aftermath. cnn national political correspondent jim acosta has more on this. walk us through this. it can get complex. >> reporter: that's right, kate. the white house and the state department are trying to make the case that they made these adjustments to the talking points in order to preserve what they called the integrity of the investigation into benghazi, but that does not answer all of the

questions about what the white house has said in the past about these talking points. three days after the deadly attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi, obama administration officials were firing e-mails back and forth to each other discussing just how to explain to congress what happened. according to e-mails from the exchange viewed by congressional sources, those administration officials apparently agreed to remove a key cia assessment about who was involved in the incident from government talking points. a version of the talking points made their way to u.n. ambassador susan rice who went on five sunday talk shows and said protesters enraged over an antiislamic video were suspected in both benghazi as well as a separate siege on the u.s. embassy in cairo. >> our current assessment is what happened in benghazi was in fact initially a spontaneous reaction to what happened hours before in cairo almost a copy cat of the demonstrations

against our facility in cairo which were prompted by the video. >> reporter: what rice did not disclose is investigators suspected an al qaeda connected group was behind the attack. in an e-mail dated september 14th at 7:39 p.m., state department spokeswoman victoria nuland wrote why do we want the hill fingering ansar al sharia when we aren't doing that ourselves? the point could be to abuse the state department for not paying attention to warnings. the references were removed. nuland chimed in again. these don't resolve all of my issues or those of my building's leadership. they are consulting with nss, national security council staff. one minute later secretary of state hillary clinton's deputy chief of staff e-mails we'll work it through in the morning. then ben rose a top national security official warns the talking points shouldn't jeopardize the investigation and tables the discussion for a white house meeting the next day. when it appears the decision was

made to drop the reference to the terror group. the end result? this e-mail to rice. you are doing the sunday morning shows and need to be aware of the final postures these points took. the big changes run counter to what white house secretary jay carney told reporters last november. >> the white house and state department have made clear the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two, these two institutions were changing the word consulate to diplomatic facility. >> carney's explanation now? officials were concerned about protecting the integrity of the investigation. but that took a while after the briefing was originally scheduled for 12:30 then moved to 1:45 then again to 3:15. >> that is not a stylistic edit. that is not a single adjustment as you said in november. that is a major, dramatic change in the information. >> i appreciate the question and the opportunity again to make clear that the cia produced talking points as a result of an

interagency process on that saturday morning. and to that -- >> when you say talking points -- >> let me just finish this. i accept stylistic may not precisely describe the change of one word to another. >> earlier this week the number two diplomat in libya at the time of the attack said the administration explanations don't add up. >> she blamed this attack on a video. in fact she did it five different times. what was your reaction to that? >> i was stunned. my jaw dropped. i was embarrassed. >> house speaker john boehner accused the administration of stonewalling. >> i would call on the president to release these unclassified, interagency e-mails so that the american people can see them. >> the white house says it's all politics. on the same day the e-mails surfaced, a new web video from a gop super pack zeroed in on clinton's testimony on benghazi. >> was it because of a protest or because of guys out for a

walk one night decided to go kill some americans? what difference at this point does it make? >> also at the briefing white house press secretary jay carney indicated the white house will not be releasing those e-mails to speaker john boehner and asked whether looking back the white house might have handled this matter differently, jay carney said, no. kate? >> great reporting, jim. thanks so much. a key question and i want to drill deeper on this now with cnn's chief national correspondent john king. john, you heard jim's great report but you also heard from jay carney here today, what he had to say. lots and lots of questions about benghazi and what role the white house played in drafting, changing the talking points we now know were flawed, not accurate. how much pressure is the white house under right now? i think more importantly how do you think they're handling it? >> it depends who the audience is you're asking me about. in the sense the democrats, democrats want to see the white house push back and say this is all a partisan republican investigation. republicans say, no.

actually we have now proven in the report, here is an interim progress report from the five republican committees looking at this, we've had our own reporting and other news organizations reporting since saying roughly a dozen times these talking points were watered down, changed, however you want to put it and key words like terrorism were removed. the white house says this was done to protect the investigation. it was done because all the agencies have to reach consensus. this can be usually a pretty boring process in washington but the republicans say no. you keep saying the fbi wants to take that information out. we have fbi approved talking points where they left that information in. so the questions from the republicans will continue, kate. i think that jay carney did concede a key point today when he said in november those institutions, the white house and state, changed only one thing. today he made clear that, yes, the white house he says changed one thing but the state department was clearly involved in a back and forth in a fight with the cia about what those talking points should say. >> even beyond the issue of the talking points, who changed them, how were they changed, what is the motivation, you've

been watching this finger pointing take place since immediately after benghazi attack on the heels of the hearings on capitol hill this week. you also know very well how washington works. in your estimation is this politics at play as is suggested or is there something legitimate questions out there about how the administration handled this? >> both. you heard jim acosta quote from an e-mail from victoria nuland the state department spokeswoman saying people in my building, leadership in my building are still not satisfied. what does that mean? secretary clinton? secretary clinton's chief of staff? someone else? we don't know. republicans say that is a legitimate question. democrats say sure it is a legitimate question because they're trying to rough up hillary clinton to make it harder for her to run for president. it is a legitimate policy question to try to ask -- four americans were killed here, let's remember that -- the state department and washington had

been warned about lax security in libya including at the benghazi facility. so there are legitimate questions here. four americans were killed. as the questions are being asked there is no question politics are at play as well. >> the politics is never far behind for sure. is there an easy way to even look forward and looking at your crystal ball which i know you have nearby all the time, how this, you see this resolving at this point? is there going to be that smoking gun, one person at fault here? we don't know the answer. there are five house led committees investigating this and they say they'll continue. we also know the white house says it is unlikely to release any more of the e-mails. on that one the republicans are in a bit of a box because when the bush administration asserted this executive right to keep internal deliberations private they were always supported almost universely by republicans in congress. so the history is that all administrations democrat and republicans have been unlikely or unwilling to produce this information publicly at least a lot of it and the white house is correct to a degree in saying

that by sharing the information in private with republicans they have gone beyond what many past administrations have done. here is the challenge for republicans, kate. they have some legitimate questions here . we should all want good, tough, legitimate congressional oversight regardless of which party controls either chamber. however, when at the same time you have a couple of your leading presidential contenders for 2016 saying this proves hillary clinton is not qualified to run, you have the web videos up, fund raising, republican house committee is doing off these hearings, it makes it hard to say we're doing legitimate oversight. we'll go where the facts lead us when then you have all these people out there already making judgments saying they already know the conclusion. it's a coverup. >> that's an excellent point to make. john king, great to see you. thank you. coming up next, republican senator lindsay graham, south carolina, has been pushing for more info, information about benghazi in the aftermath. he has been pushing this for months. he'll join me live with a lot of questions to answer. a cnn exclusive also coming up. the daughter of the alleged

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let's get more now on the grilling that the obama administration has received today and really this week. joining me now to talk more about this is republican senator lindsay graham of south carolina. senator, thanks so much for taking the time. >> yeah. jay carney, good guy.

had a tough day today. >> a tough day. that's his job sometimes, you know? got to answer those questions. >> that's right. >> as i said, you heard jim acosta's report and also heard from john king. the white house is downplaying its role on this most recent issue coming up today about changing the talking points that we now know were quite flawed. and they continue to suggest and say that there has been no cover up. there was no intent to mislead the public in the aftermath of benghazi. they say it was kind of a fog of war, developing intelligence situation. so are you satisfied? >> no. i am very familiar with the fog of war and also the political smoke screen when i see it. there is no way the president of the united states on 18 september should have said the following. here's what happened. we had a video released by somebody who lives here, a sort of shadowy character who made an extremely offensive video directed at mohamed and islam and the perez went on to say,

what also happened extremists and terrorists used this as an excuse to attack a variety of our embassys including the one, the consulate in libya. a week after the attack the president told david letterman and the entire country that the video and a riot caused the death of our ambassador and three other americans. either he was incredibly detached or misleading and i want to know what happened. >> you've had questions all along. every time, you and i have spoken many times. >> i never believed it. right. >> we've talked many times about questions you've had. at this point so many months after the white house continues to say they were not intending to mislead the public and jay carney did say today he says it's never been clear what republicans are even accusing the administration of doing. i think what jay carney is asking is what is the end game? it doesn't seem he believes that there will ever be enough, enough answered questions to satisfy republicans. what is the end game? what do you want to know?

>> that is a good -- that is -- i'm not saying this is watergate. probably more like iran contra. >> how so? >> i want the survivors of the attack, i want, you know, reagan said we're g-- we didn't trade hostages for arms but we did. i want to find out from the people there not from me, not from some political machine, make the survivors of the attack available to the congress. we have been stonewalled. i am asking the administration and insist upon every survivor and participant in benghazi be made available to congress. how did the accountability review board miss all of the e-mails indicating that the talking points were changed? how did they get the story so wrong? there are good people who did the accountability review board but what congress has found is completely different than what the arb report showed. then i want the principles called back into congress and to answer questions about how these

people died and it really does matter. what i am looking for is the truth. what was told by susan rice, hillary clinton, and the president himself was the most politically advantageous story seven weeks before election possible and it didn't reflect the truth. how could they ignore the intelligence and the reports coming from libya and other places that this was a coordinated terrorist attack in the making. it really matters that your government tell you the truth about how four americans died. that would end it for me. i want the survivors to come forward and i want to hear from them what happened. >> when you say you want to hear from the principles again, i assume that means you want to hear from hillary clinton again. i mean -- >> yes. >> we know yesterday the former vice president dick cheney suggested to republicans on the hill that if she doesn't come back for questioning that he suggests that she should be subpoenaed. do you think it will come to that? >> no. i think she'll come back. here is what i like. i like secretary clinton. i think she's a talented person but when it came to benghazi why

were all the security requests denied and how could she not know about it? this was an attack a long time in the making. al qaeda flags were flying across benghazi. ambassador stevens said in august we can't defend the consulate. now we have e-mail traffic about changing the talking points. we got e-mails coming from libya saying definitively on the 12th of september this was a terrorist attack and here the groups are responsible. how could she on the 14th of september tell a family member, charles wood, the father of ty woods, we'll get the guy who made that video? did she know about the intelligence coming from the state department in libya, from libya to the headquarters in the state department clearly saying from the people who lived through it this was a terrorist attack and here's who was involved? how could she not know that? cheryl mills needs to come and explain herself. i want to call sherman dempsey back, who said no one was told to stand down. now we know that lieutenant

colonel gibson and another army person was ready to go from tripoli to benghazi but told they couldn't go because it was too dangerous but the state department sent their people. i just want to know what happened and learn from this. >> clearly seems there are a lot more questions. i do want to ask you, as this drags on and you have heard this, it's no surprise to you, democrats, the white house, they really suggest that this is completely a partisan witch hunt. i want you to respond to why it is not in your view a partisan witch hunt but also consider this. we've heard from the family of ambassador chris stevens. >> sure. >> they put out a statement. of course he was killed in this attack. they put out a statement to cnn after the house hearing on benghazi and they said in part that they deplore any effort to politicize this tragedy. i mean, this is one of the families that suffered the most. this family seems to think enough is enough. they don't speak for all of the families of course. what do you say to them? >> well, here is what i would

say to anybody. the families included. that we need to learn from what happened to your loved ones so other people will not meet the same fate need to understand ho were so blind to the threat before the attack. why was it that for seven and a half hours our country could not come to the aid of your loved one and after the fact for weeks how could we get it so wrong and, quite frankly, be so misleading? >> senator, go ahead. i'm sorry. >> i can't believe a democrat doesn't want to know the answer to that. when we had abu ghraib and the bush administration said it was a few bad mps it was a complete system failure and vice president cheney said iraq was a few dead enders, we didn't have the right strategy. i want to prove to the american people what happened in a way so we can learn from it and i don't think this is partisan or shouldn't be partisan. if it is partisan, shame on us.

>> senator, i got to go and i hate doing this to you. i want your quick reaction though to the news out of the irs regarding the irs saying they made mistakes in making further scrutiny of tea party groups seeking tax-exempt status. short and sweet do you think there are politics at play? they say there were no motives, no political motives. are you satisfied with that? >> no. i don't think you accidently focus on the tea party. but it wouldn't be the first time the irs has been used for political purposes. let's get to the bottom of that, too, and see where it goes all right. you got a lot on your plate. senator lindsay graham, great to have you in. thank you so much for maybie me effort. we'll talk to you soon. up next a cnn exclusive. the daughter of the alleged cleveland kidnapper says she is disgusted by her father's alleged actions.

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father is dead to her. here's her exclusive interview with cnn's laurie seagal. >> my husband and i are in complete disbelief, that the friendly, caring, doting man i knew as my daddy, was in fact the most evil, vile, demonic criminal that i have met or heard of over the past ten years. >> this is part of a letter that angie wrote after learning her father was allegedly behind the brutal kidnappings in cleveland, ohio. now she's speaking out. >> and to go to the vigils, to show these girls a footage of their parents' pleas for their return, to rape, starve and beat innocent human beings, i'm disgusted. >> you've learned that your father wasn't the guy you thought he was. >> no. >> what is that like? >> it's horrible. it's like watching a bad movie. >> only you're in it.

>> only we're in it. we're the main characters. i never suspected anything was going on. but the more i sit and dwell on it, i think of things that make a whole lot of sense now. >> you look back and you say, okay, you can piece together -- you're beginning to piece together a puzzle. wheth where were the signs? >> well, he never wanted to leave the house more than a day at a time. he was adamant in the fact that he wanted to leave home early morning, and he had to be back by evening. >> were there certain areas in the home that were just off-limits? >> ever since my mom lived in that house, the basement was always kept locked. i've never been upstairs in the house. and i never had reason to be. i asked him if i could see my room for old time's sake, and he said, oh, honey, there's so much junk up there, you don't want to go up there. >> when you think about what might have been, what was behind those doors, how do you cope

with that? >> i mean, it all makes sense now. now i know. it's hard, but i have no sympathy for the man. i have no sympathy. he was just another person who's lied and deceived and manipulated people. and i could never forgive him. i could never forgive him. if you would have asked me this last week, i would have told you he was the best dad and the best grampa. >> one thing she did suspect is that her father might have had another child, a child we now know is her half-sister, conceived with one of the women held captive. >> he showed pictures on his phone randomly. he said, look at this cute little girl. it was a face shot. and i said, she's cute, who is that? and he said, this is my girlfriend's child. and i said, dad, that girl looks

like emily. emily's my younger sister. he said, no, that's not my child, that's my girlfriend's child by somebody else. >> angie said she was always close with her father. but she said she witnessed abuse in their home. >> he was pretty jealous. he was always saying that my mom was, you know, messing with certain neighbors, things like that. and i've seen him basically stomp on her like she was a man. like he's beat her pretty bad several times. >> her mother passed away from cancer related complications in 2012. >> i've lost my mother, now i've lost a father. but i don't cry for him. >> if you had a message for him, what would it be? >> all this time, why? why -- i don't even know what to

say. why, after all this time? why did he do it in the first place? why did you take these girls and why did you never leave, and why did he never feel guilty enough to let them go? >> what message do you have for these women and their families? >> i feel so much sorrow, that they had to endure this. i'm glad that you're back home with your family finally, because they never stopped thinking about you. they never stopped -- they never forgot you. right now, these girls need to heal. >> do you feel that you're going to need to heal, too? >> i'll be fine. i wasn't submitted to the horror that they were. >> in a day, you lost the man that raised you. that must be hard. >> he's nothing but a memory anymore. he can never be daddy again. >> i don't know how she can even comprehend. so many lives changed forever. when we come back, "the

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kidnappings. what investigators have learned from suspect ariel castro's dna. obama administration e-mails raise new questions about benghazi, and the political firestorm heats up. and an extraordinary survival story. a young woman is pulled alive from a collapsed building after more than two weeks. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jake tapper, and you're in "the situation room." we'll start with a twist in the boston bombing case that has a small town hundreds of miles away suddenly being seen in a very unwelcome spotlight. we now know the body of tamerlan tsarnaev rejected by cemeteries throughout massachusetts and beyond. it's been buried in virginia, population 1800. about 80 miles south of washington, d.c. but people there say they don't want the boston bombing suspect's remains in their town.

we'll talk to the chairman of the county board in a moment. but first, cnn crime and justice correspondent, joe johns, who is in doswell, virginia. joe, what are you hearing? >> well, jake, the body is laid to rest here. but this is not where the story ends by any stretch of the imagination. tamerlan tsarnaev is laid to rest in a tiny islamic cemetery not far from here. i'm in bowling green, virginia. that body is laid to rest in an unmarked grave. so far, there's no sign indicating the name of tamerlan tsarnaev that was buried yesterday, brought here with the help of a woman from richmond, virginia, who said it was her christian duty to lend assistance in the situation. but it's very clear right now that the county leaders didn't like it at all. they didn't know about it. and neither did the residents. listen. >> we don't want the county to be remembered as the resting place of the remains for someone

who committed a terrible crime. i'm sure that if no laws were broken again, there's nothing we can do. however, if there were, we would -- i think we would -- we would try to undo what has been done. >> he killed americans on american soil. therefore, he shouldn't be buried here. i believe he should have been sent back where his mother is. >> if they did it legal, there's nothing we can do about it. but if they didn't do it legal, dig him up and drop him in the ocean. >> islamic leaders here are saying they do not condone the actions of tamerlan tsarnaev by any stretch of the imagination, however, they say they are adhering to religious principles in returning the body to the earth. and they say whatever he did is between him and god. jay? >> joe johns, thanks so much. floyd thomas joins me on the phone now. he's the chairman of the board

of supervisors of caroline county, which includes doswell. you heard him in joe's piece there. mr. thomas, thanks so much for joining us. what is your reaction to the news that tamerlan tsarnaev, the man accused in the boston terrorist attacks, was buried in your county in virginia? what fallout do you fear? >> jake, first of all, we were not consulted. we had no knowledge before this happened. and most of all, the county did not provide any permission for this to happen. it was basically done without our knowledge. what we did when we found out was try to confirm. we actually had the sheriff's office still trying to confirm that this was actually the case. i know it's been reported. but we're still trying to get full confirmation. we are trying to make sure, or ensure that this interment was done legally. >> why would you need to be alerted? it's private property. they buried a body. why would you need to be

notified? >> it is. it is. we would be notified to obviously make preparations for the obvious fallout that's happening now. during our press conference, the sheriff expressed his concern of public safety. this is probably going to be a public safety issue. as you reported, doswell is a small town. our entire county is only 30,000 people. so we would have been -- or would have preferred to have been in a position to prepare a little bit better. >> you have expressed concern that your town in caroline county might become known for having the remains of tamerlan tsarnaev in that graveyard in your property, in your larger county. but the only reason a lot of americans are hearing about caroline county for the first time is because you're objecting to it. >> well, let's take a step back, first. this is not the first time

the -- secretariat was raced at the caroline state fair. the negative reports that are coming out and the concerns of the citizens in the county are what we look for first and what we try to protect. >> bad guys get buried all the time. virginia put to death somebody in january. i believe his body went back to where he was from, massachusetts. how are counties supposed to supervise whether or not bad guys be buried in their midst? what are we supposed to do with the bodies? >> well, you're exactly right. you're exactly right. i'm sure there are bad people buried somewhere in caroline. but what you just said was that they went back to where they were, and there are no ties to caroline county for this particular individual. >> are you equipped to protect this cemetery if it becomes a

target for vandalism, or for protests? if it becomes a security issue? is caroline county ready, do you have the means? >> those are exactly the situations that we are worried about, and wish we would have known. it is a private cemetery. we will, the sheriff's office will enforce trespassing, and try to make sure, you know, things are taken care of. there's no harm comes to the residents, or people there. you know, we're equipped as we can be. but it's really -- any services required by the sheriff's office regarding this private property will more than likely be the responsibility of the private property owners. >> all right. caroline county virginia board of supervisor chair, thank you very much. have a good weekend. >> thank you, sir.

to cleveland and dna confirmation of one of the multiple horrors ariel castro is accused of, susan candiotti is in cleveland. susan, what is the latest? >> well, one of the main things we learned today is information that probably won't come as a surprise, jake, to most of us, and that is, there has been a dna match, a preliminary one, to prove that the young child, the 6-year-old daughter of amanda barry is in fact the daughter of ariel castro, the man charged in this case. the prosecutor -- the attorney general, rather, of the state of ohio released those preliminary results today, proving in effect that he fathered this little girl while her mother was in captivity. and remember, he has been charged with three counts of rape and four counts of kidnapping, including that little girl. but they're not done yet with

that part of the investigation. they did run his dna up against any other unsolved crimes in the state of ohio, didn't find any match there. however, they are continuing to make that run of all unsolved cases in the entire fbi's dna data base. it is called codis, throughout the united states, to see whether it's possible there might be a match between ariel castro and any other case. >> turning to the suspect in this vile, vile crime, to the survivors, how are they doing? one was released from the hospital today. tell us the latest on them. >> that's right, that's michelle knight. she is the eldest of all of them. she's only 32 years old. but the statement issued -- released on her behalf said that she is in good spirits. she's been released from the hospital. she's very thankful for all of the support that she has been

receiving. and that she, like the others, really wants her privacy most of all at this time. now, i was speaking just a little while ago with a source very close to this investigation, who told me they will not reveal where michelle knight is, only to say that she is, quote, in a very safe place, and that she is very comfortable. we ran into her grandmother, and some of her siblings today, but other than to say that she was in good spirits and feeling good about being out of the hospital, they didn't have too much to say also, to protect her privacy. not surprisingly, jake. >> all right. our thoughts and prayers are with them, as i'm sure from the nation is with them. the political firestorm over the benghazi terror attack heats up with obama administration e-mails. now adding fuel to the fire. and i'll ask the deputy chief of cleveland police why one of those missing women was removed from an fbi data base, just months after she disappeared back in 2003.

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were demonstrations? and the underreported fact of all the revelations today is that these documents bear out what we said all along. the answer is no. the answer is no. >> the answer is no, says jay carney. let's bring in elise. how is the state department responding to all of this? because there is something of a disconnect between what the white house was doing at the time and what the state department was doing at the time. >> that's right, jake. the state department, officials familiar with this inner agency process are saying, what newland was trying to do is raise two concerns about the cia's early drafts of those talking points. first newland was saying that these talking points go far further than even newland was allowed to go at the briefing. and she said, listen, we all agreed to this investigation. we all agreed to let it play out. everybody has to be on the same page. so that's the first thing.

and then she thought that the cia was trying to do an end run using congressional members of its intel committees to kind of exonerate itself at the state department's expense by suggesting that the state department ignored these warnings about the security situation. let's take a listen to a little exchange at the state department briefing today. >> again, excerpts have been taken. >> do you feel that if we were able to read the e-mails in their entirety, they would show some kind of context that we would understand? >> that's only one piece of the discussion of this. so when you take them and snippets of them, it can be taken out of context. >> taken out of context. so i went on to push patrick, the deputy spokesman, that the administration should release these e-mails. and jake, i think the whole state department and supporters of newland hope that the white house will release them. because officials say that they

will show that there was no cover-up, that she was trying to get everybody on the same page. >> except that she was arguing that what would happen if this paragraph that talked about all the warnings towards the state department, about what was going on in libya against western interests throughout 2012, that she was worried that it would cause members of congress to beat up the state department. that was her concern. and that's a political concern, just on its face. no? >> it's a political concern, and jake, you know how these inner agency e-mails back and forth, every agency is trying to protect itself, cover its butt, so to speak, and make sure its equities are protected. newland felt the cia was trying to throw the state department under the bus a little bit and was trying to make sure that didn't happen. those warnings in these early drafts of the talking points, i might add, that the cia suggested that they had warned about a looming threat, a growing al qaeda threat in

benghazi. cia has never publicly acknowledged those warnings. >> except also, at least we know now there have been investigations, that many of the state department employees on the ground in libya were also worried about increasingly violent situations in the country, and asking for security to either come to libya, or be allowed to stay in libya. so it wasn't the state department in this case trying to protect the state department employees, it was the state department trying to protect the senior state department leadership who refused to give those lower-level people the security that they wanted, right? >> and that's right. and that's one of the things that greg hicks was saying in his testimony earlier this week. that they felt that this independent review board had kind of let some senior officials off the hook who made those ultimate -- those security decisions. so it's a little bit of trying to cover your butt, it's a little bit of trying to keep

everybody on the same page. and i think that at the same time, one of the major unanswered questions is, where did this protest come from? the state department never said that there was a protest. always maintained it was a terrorist attack. the cia had always said so as well. so who came up with this idea of the protest? was it a loose piece of intelligence thread that they just went with? nobody really knows the answer to that question, jake. >> thanks, elise. let's talk about the political repercussions for president obama and hillary clinton. gloria, walk us through this. what's the context for this controversy? >> well rlgs it's political. let's go back to last fall. you're in the heat of a political campaign in september. the attack on benghazi occurs. and mitt romney has made some mistakes in how he talks about benghazi. and i think if you're in the

administration, you'd rather let romney's mistakes get played out rather than details about whether this was or was not a terror attack. you have these talking points that are being edited, jake, to go to members of congress who want to go on television, and talk about this. members of congress from the intelligence committee. that is before they were even used by ambassador rice. so today, jay carney says, you know what, republicans have chosen to politicize this. but i would argue that it's very legitimate to ask the question of whether this administration, in the middle of a campaign, having had this terror attack, was somehow concerned about being accused of dropping the ball, jake, or being blamed in one way or another for not seeing the warning signs about what occurred in benghazi. so completely political time of the year, right? the middle of the campaign.

>> so gloria, we only have about a minute left, but tell us where you think this is all going now? where does this head? >> well, i think it's going to head to more congressional investigations. there have been some calls for select committee, which would be a bipartisan select committee, like for example iran contra was. the "wall street journal" today endorsed that idea. i believe congress' job is oversight, jake. they ought to be able to do their job. they ought to be able to try to make this a bipartisan investigation, to get to the bottom of it. largely not only for the political answers here, but also, they don't want this to occur again. and if for no other reason, they ought to do that, and do their job. >> that's right. i think it's fair to say that one of the biggest gifts that the white house has been given in all of this is that so many of the players that are asking for questions are very partisan republicans. >> that's right. >> and it's not the statements

of the republican party, more the attack dog types that allows the white house to dismiss what is a legitimate controversy as just politics. >> right. but if there are questions about whether the state department and cia had infighting in the middle of something that was awful that had been occurring on the ground, whether there are questions whether there should have been more air support given at the time, i mean, these are issues that the internal investigation looked at. but i think it's also -- it also makes sense for congress to take a look at it in a larger context. >> gloria borger, thank you very much. >> sure. >> when the diplomats in benghazi were attacked, the u.s. military did not come to the rescue. they say they were not able to. coming up, we have an exclusive look at how the marines are making sure that they will be ready next time. and also coming up next, the irs embarrasses the white house by admitting a mistake. i started a week ago going pro with crest pro-health. since i've been using crest pro-health,

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happening now, her father accused of monstrous crimes. ariel castro's daughter talks exclusively to cnn. we're with u.s. marines training to prevent the next benghazi. that's another cnn exclusive. plus, more than 1,000 people killed, but one woman miraculously survived. and was rescued 16 days in the rubble of a collapsed build iin. now back safe home. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm jake tapper. and you're in "the situation room." cleveland police say they took michelle knight's name off the fbi's national crime information center data base in november 2003, when they could not find a parent or guardian to confirm she was still missing. police say that's standard procedure. but they also claim they were still checking up on the case as recently as november of last year. i talked about that, and more, with the deputy chief of cleveland police, ed tomba.

sir, can you explain the decision to remove michelle knight from that fbi data base? >> that was a policy decision that was made earlier. since then, our policies have changed. they've been updated. and that would no longer happen. but since we could not contact a family member for verification, and the results of her age, she was taken out of that data base. >> cording to the cleveland plain dealer, your department's policy at the time of her disappearance stated that an officer must go and see that a missing person has been found before taking the person off the list. then inform the fbi within two hours for removal from the data base. i want to play some sound from a neighbor of ariel castro, and have you respond to that, if that sound is ready. >> i knocked on the porch, on the door, like 20 good hard times. there was no response. they walked into the driveway,

and looked all around. they couldn't see nothing, so they got back in the car and went on their way. >> so neighbors are saying that they did make complaints. there were things that were suspicious at that house. the department has said no neighbors have ever called police with a tip on castro's home. is it the position of the cleveland police department that all these neighbors that are making these comments, that they're not telling the truth? >> well, that's not our position. i can tell you that is the truth. we have searched and searched all of our computer-aided dispatch for any assignments to that house, and any other reason the police were dispatched there. the police did not respond to that loeblgs. there were other incidents where neighbors and people throughout the neighborhood have said things. those have all been investigated. and they are not true.

>> one other argument being made in cleveland, as you know, there's a history of accusations that the cleveland police department does not take as seriously as it should the complaints and the concerns of people in low-income neighborhoods. nearly 37% of people in castro's zip code live under the poverty line. how does your department respond to reports that suggests that police officers don't respond as diligently as when there are calls for more affluent areas? is there any cause for concern there at all? >> no, i can tell you that i've been a member of this division for 28 years. and that the members of the division of police take all the calls very serious. and we provide a service to our community. obviously in law enforcement, there is a -- at times there can be a perception. but the members of the second district are very involved in this community. we have a commander out here that's very, very involved with the community. if you ask the community

organizers, the council people, the neighbors, they will tell you that they're very, very involved. from the time that these young girls went miss, i was involved with gina dejesus' disappearance early on, and we were just reviewing our older case files that took place, and the amount of staff hours, the amount of resources that were put in initially early on in this investigation to locate gina was just amazing. the work that the men and women did. a lot of the men and women are now part of our command staff that worked on this. the men and women of the division of police are committed to the whole community as a whole, no matter where they live. low-income, or any other parts of the city, we're committed to serve the citizens of the city of cleveland. >> that was the deputy chief of cleveland police ed tomba. relatives of suspect ariel castro are speaking out. they're as horrified as the rest

of the world, they say, at the crimes he's accused of committing. >> translator: i have a sick son who has done something serious. i ask for forgiveness from those mothers. i suffer the pain they suffered. i'm suffering for my son's pain. my son is sick and i have nothing to do with what my son did. >> shame does not begin to cover -- i don't know what he feels. i don't know how he can feel. obviously this is a man that didn't feel. who apparently had no heart. >> i'm really disappointed, embarrass embarrassed. mainly devastated about this whole situation. >> what would you say if your nephew if you could talk to him? what would you want to know? >> what can i say.

shame on you. >> another of ariel castro's daughters is speaking out at length, and exclusively to cnn. she calls her father evil, vile, and says after his alleged crimes, he's now dead to her. she sat down with cnn's laurie seagal for a powerful interview. laurie, what else did ariel castro's daughter have to say? >> well, jake, she called him vile and evil. but we should note she also said she was very close with him. closer than many of his other daughters. this home on seymour avenue, she actually came to this home, where these women were held captive, and she had no idea. she was here a couple months ago. they had dinner and she often came, she wrote on his facebook wall, i love you, daddy. this came as a shock. but she had a message. listen to what she had to say to me, jake. >> all these weird things that i've noticed over the years, like about how he kept his house

locked down so tight, certain areas, and, you know, how if we'd be out at my grandma's having dinner, he would disappear for an hour or so, and then come back. and there would be no explanation where he went. everything's making sense now. it's all adding up. and i'm disgusted. i'm horrified. my father's actions are not a reflection of everyone in the family. they're definitely not a reflection of myself, or my children. we don't have monster in our blood. >> you look at your dad now, you would call him a monster? >> yes. yes. there will be no visits. there will be no phone calls. he's dead to me. >> again, jake, you hear those words, he's dead to me, monster blood, i mean, she sat down -- she actually sat down yesterday and had to tell her children,

because she's a mother, what their grandfather had done. she said there were tears. she's lucky her youngest son didn't understand the gravity of the horrific events that took place right behind me. jake? >> and she saw a picture of amanda berry's daughter, right? >> she absolutely did. i asked her about this. i said, did you see a picture of a 6-year-old? because a lot of people were wondering, was ariel related to this girl? she said there were signs. listen to what she said, jake. >> he showed me a picture that was in his cell phone, randomly, and he said, look at this cute little girl. it was a face shot. and i said, she's cute. who is that? you know. and he said, this is my girlfriend's child. and i said, dad, that girl looks like emily.

emily's my younger sister. >> and now today, the news that it was in fact conceived by ariel, this means that this is a blood relative of angie. and i asked her, jake, i said, if this is the case, would you want to see her? what would your message be? she said she's got love in her heart. and her heart goes out to these women. and she said if they're able to heal, she would love to see this little girl. jake? >> all right. laurie seagal, a remarkable interview in a horrific situation. thank you so much. >> thank you. most missing person cases do not have happy endings. anderson cooper looks at the frightening number of missing people in america. don't miss "vanished" on "anderson cooper 360" special tonight only on cnn. the marines did not come to the rescue last september in benghazi. next, we have an exclusive look at how they're making sure that does not happen again. and later, she was trapped

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with unrest growing in libya, u.s. marines have put on standby in case they need to go there from spain to evacuate u.s. personnel. that, of course, is exactly what did not happen last september when the u.s. mission in benghazi was attacked. in a cnn exclusive, pentagon correspondent barbara starr spent time with marines training to prevent the next benghazi. barbara? >> hi, jake.

you know, it is the state department that actually assigns marines to protect embassies and diplomatic compounds. the marines were not at benghazi. they weren't assigned there by the state department. but this time the marines are getting ready for whatever may come next. cnn is here for an exclusive inside look at marines training to guard u.s. embassies around the world. the mission? protect diplomats against attack. a mission more crucial since those four americans were killed on september 11th in benghazi, libya. >> ready, strike! >> you go ahead and do the three strikes. >> now it's my turn on the mat. >> you feel your whole body weight. >> i'm going to go ahead and wrap up your arm because i want to control your arm. and i grab right above the elbow at the tricep.

now i have your arm controlled. if you try to pull away, i've got your arm now. >> marines stand guard in 137 countries. since benghazi, where the state department did not have marines assigned, there are changes. the current 1,200 strong marine force will nearly double. there will be more marines at embassies with higher threat levels. and 100 marine guards are now in a special unit able to deploy on a moment's notice. >> what we're doing now is putting more marines out there, and also providing a force that can go in and reinforce embassies or consulates. >> close your eyes. >> if rioting occurs, the marines are trained to keep going even hit with pepper spray. do you think you can take down an intruder? >> we've learned the tactics. >> making these marines ready for the next benghazi, if and

when it happens. the marines we're seeing here, they're training to be those elite embassy guards. but as you mentioned, jake, just a couple of minutes ago, there are also now, post-benghazi, 500 combat-ready marines in southern spain on station ready to go if one of these diplomatic compounds or embassies runs into trouble. that is what they did not have on september 11th in libya. jake? >> all right. barbara starr at the pentagon. thank you so much. after more than two weeks of digging, rescue crews had given up hope of finding anyone alive in the debris of that collapsed garment factory in bangladesh. today they heard a voice. stay with us for a remarkable story of courage and survival. this might get bumpy. red hot deal days are back. don't waste another minute. it's red hot deal days. get the droid razr m by motorola in white for free.

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here's a good news story to end this trying week. an astonishing rescue today. a young woman was pulled to freedom after surviving more than two weeks buried in the rubble of the collapsed garment factory in bangladesh. mary snow has more on who she is and how doctors say she managed to survive. >> this is so amazing. it's a rescue watched around the world. a rescue that no one expected. the woman who survived is a garment worker, a wife and mother. she was able to tract attention by moving a stick through a hole in the debris. and when rescue worker got to her, she said, please save me. >> reporter: her name is rushma and her story is extraordinary. 16 days after a building collapsed in bangladesh that killed 1,000 people, rescuers who long gave up hope of finding

any signs of life discovered her in the rubble. not only did she survive but she is talking. the 19-year-old woman said she rationed two bottles of water according to reports and obtained the water and some dry food thrown into the debris by rescuers after the collapse. there was also an air pocket. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta says a lack of major injuries also helped save her life. >> no crushed bones or deep gashes. that's important because the energy to heal the wounds can sometimes, you know, take away from your overall survival. >> reporter: the lack of major injuries has also been seen in other remarkable rescues like one after the 2011 earthquake in turkey when an 18-year-old man survived in the rubble and crushed apartment complex for four days. in haiti, there were a number of rescues called miracles. this man survived in the rubble of a hotel for 11 days. >> the body will do a lot to try

and survive. it will literally start to digest itself. it's tough to think about. but, you know, your muscle, other sources of calories in the body. and they all start to make themselves available. and you hear about people who lose incredible amounts of weight in a situation like this, it's because the body will seek out energy anywhere it can find it. >> reporter: and there was the case in haiti of evan munsy who was believed to have survived for four weeks in the debris. >> the medical doctors i remember when i was down in haiti, they were calling them miracles. and, you know, when you think of miracle, you think this is one of most rare things that we ever heard of. they are -- every time we hear about this in the medical community, it is a single, you know, usually anecdotal story. they're very, very rare. >> now the young woman reportedly told doctors she ran out of water and food two days before her rescue. the dark space where she was trapped was said to give her just enough room to sit and stand but not enough room to lie

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comedian robin williams picks a fight with one of the kardashians. that's a pop culture story made for cnn's jeannie moos. >> reporter: it was the floral bomb heard around the fashion world. all week people ragged on kim kardashian's dress. >> that dress is horrendous. >> reporter: the one she wore to a star studded gala at new york's metropolitan museum. >> it's too busy. she should really calm down. >> reporter: a dress in which kim's pregnancy bloomed. i thought you'd be sympathetic. you're pregnant. you want to let it all hang out.

>> that's not my style. >> reporter: amid the famous figures perfect beyonce wearing a train to sarah jessica wearing a mohawk head piece, only kim had the honor of being compared to a couch. they even showed her as if she were a couch. but the decorating digs didn't end there. >> it is a little bit wall papery. like a drape. >> people made fun of the gloves attached to the sleeves. but the cruellest cut came from robin williams who tweeted out this split screen of kim kardashian and his character mrs. doubtfire. robin williams' tweet read, i think i wore it better. >> he did. he certainly did. >> yes. >> great. >> good. how about you, mrs. doubtfire? >> oh, no, dear. >> but this cover proves kim kardashian isn't shy about showing skin, even though "the

new york post" screamed would someone please tell kim she's pregnant? >> just has to cover herself up any other way. she's allowed to look like this if she wants to. >> i think 80 pounds when i was pregnant much we need to lay off. that's not fair. but it is an atrocious choice. >> the designer dresses lots of celebrities. >> work it, madonna. >> from madonna to mara. he said, to me, pregnancy is the most beautiful thing in the world. when you celebrate something, you give people flowers. i think she looked amazing. so come on, ladies. maybe kim deserves a pat on the back because her back is probably aching. >> she's definitely carrying the baby in a lot of places. >> reporter: jeannie moos -- >> i didn't know what a kardashian was. i said is a kardashian? a rug? >> reporter: cnn. >> fantastic.

krp new yo . >> reporter: new york. >> you can always tweet me. that's it for us. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. >> "outfront" next, the white house under fire. the press secretary today getting grilled by reporters on benghazi. why his briefing may have raised more questions than answers. and a dna match between ariel castro and the 6-year-old child found in that house, more on their relationship and what it means for the legal case against him and the death penalty. and what's it like to grow up with a monster in your life? the daughter of a serial killer is "outfront" with her story. let's go "outfront." >> good friday evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. the president's press secretary is under fire. >> that is not a single st