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good evening, everyone. "outfront" tonight, we begin with breaking news. the benghazi e-mails have been released. there are a lot of them. under intense pressure from members of both parties. the white house has now released more than 100 pages of e-mails detailing the back and forth between the cia, the state department, and the white house in developing those talking points about the deadly attack on the american diplomatic compound in benghazi. now here are the e-mails. these e-mails were first obtained at cnn by jay tapper. we read through them word for word. they detail the evolution of the talking points used in the days of the attacks by members of the administration to talk to the media about what proprietmpted attacks and what was happening on the ground. i red through every single one of these. there are still a lot of questions. but this phrase spontaneously inspired by the protests at the u.s. embassy in cairo. that crucial phrase is here in every page. in these e-mails, no one questioned it. it is unclear if anyone

questioned it separate from these e-mails that have been released. obviously, knowing the conversations around that designation is absolutely crucial. we do know, though, that initial version of the talking points stated, i want to quote it here, "we do know the islamic extremists with ties to al qaeda participated in the attack." now the final version of the talking points as we can see here in the e-mails a much shorter version, reads this way, "there are indications that extremists participated in the violent demonstrations." those may sound similar to you. let me be clear about the difference. the word attack is now the word demonstrations which is obviously very different. and the words al qaeda are not there. now the white house has long maintained that it made only one edit which by the way it is very clear that edit main by ben rhodes is here. they changed the word consulate to diplomatic compound. so who should be held responsible for the substantive

edits which were made? are there key more documents the white house has yet to release? even though this looks like a lot of pages, clearly there were other conversations. does this document dump exonerate the white house, that is the crucial question. we have a team pouring over the documents from every angle, everything is covered tonight. our chief white house correspondent is here with me. dana bash, our chief congressional spont and our political analyst here's at cnn. let me start with you, jessica. you had a chance to read through these. at first it's difficult. you're figuring out when they have to block out the names from the cia to interpret what this means. what were the key take aways from the documents to you? >> a couple points. first of all, those two most controversial changes that you point out were, in fact, made by the cia, not by the white house which underscores what the administration has been saying all along. they did not make those changes that they have been blamed for

all these many months. and that the cia made them because the cia wanted to protect the, as they put it, integrity of the on going investigation. so that's consistent with what the administration has said all along. now that helps the white house. on the flip side, there is still foder in all the e-mails for the critics. for example, there is an e-mail as i first reported on friday that the state department took issue with the fact that the attack was blamed on an al qaeda affiliate. state department did not want that out. and that came out of the final version of the talking points. no doubt critics will hold that up to say that was politically motivated. now i should point out that cia director, we're told, the cia deputy director agreed with that change. so bottom line, erin, there's plenty in these e-mails for both sides to make their case which means this issue isn't going to go away any time soon.

>> no, absolutely. and, of course, john boehner has already requested more data. on that note, dana, speaker boehner's office, i'm just looking at the note here from a spokesman brendan buck that we received, right, saying we hope this limited release of documents is a sign of more cooperation to come. they want a lot more information. >> they do. we should also remind our viewers that as late as today, this morning, john boehner had a press conference demanding the white house do exactly what they did tonight. so, you know, we should make that point clear because this is exactly what he was asking for. but you're right, erin. they're saying this is not enough. he said this is not enough. they believe there are other, in their words, "relevant documents" that the white house still won't produce. they're saying this is a hopeful sign of things to come. that's the process. talking about the substance, jessica is, of course, exactly right on the fact that critics are saying well, they think this proves some of their points.

the most specific issue in here is victoria newland at the state department e-mailing, this is first on friday, e-mailing saying she wanted things taken out because of concerns about leadership in the bulling. republicans here still insist in reading the e-mails that that was for a political reason. what we don't know, as you mentioned, it's very important to point out, erin, we don't know the conversations that went on off line, not an e-mail, on the phone, that could fill in some of the holes here. but this is what we have. this is what republicans were demanding. >> erin -- >> right. it's interesting -- yes. go ahead. >> you know, what this really does is it kind of lifts the veil on what was going on internally in the bureaucracy there between the cia and the state department. i mean what we can say now, what we didn't know then is that benghazi was really a cia outpost, more cia people there

than state department people there. and what victoria newland was saying was first of all, we have to be consistent when we declassify things. i don't want more information to be in these talking points. i've been able to say from the podium at the state department. also, a lot of this detail would have implied at the very least that the state department had not been doing its job in policing benghazi. and so what you really have here is sort of a group grope, right? trying to figure out what they can say because the former okay director goes to the hill, testifies privately. the folks on the hill say to him, we would like to be able to say some of that publicly. he says i'll get back you to. this gets dumped in the lap of all the people trying to decide what they can release. the white house's main point is this was not political.

it was really driven by intelligence. >> again, i have a question to you on that front. victoria newland, the spokeswoman for the state department. page 37 of the e-mails. she talks about the ultimate point, the point where at that point the talking point said there was multiple warnings of terrorist attacks. it could be aused by members for not paying attention to warnings. why do we want to feed that either? question mark, concerned. as you said, there are things in this e-mail that can exonerate the white house. fwhaut line itse but that line is very political. >> it speaks to the members of congress. almost as much as anything else. >> this is not the state department, this is the okay okay. by giving the sense that there

were all of these warnings and we should have known about it is something that i think she felt was unfair. her argument is always -- this was not for political reasons but just for the fact that she was protecting her turf and she couldn't say it from the podium. so why put it in the talking points? >> erin, as demonstrated by how political this whole process has become. victoria newland was concerned about what has happened. and officials you talk to here will emphasize that the talking points -- the e-mails were just, you know, she phrased that badly. it was clumsy. they say this is a sort of process they go through with many, many, many talking points every single day. and it just -- they don't really focus on how they're wording it. so these e-mails they thought might clean up -- clear up the fact that they weren't trying to be strategic or political for anybody. it's just a process.

>> and the one thing i would point out, erin -- >> do you think we'll get -- go ahead, dana. >> to point out the whole reason why they're having the conversations is because it was a request specifically from here in congress. senior democrat on the house intelligence committee wanted them to give members of the committee, republicans and democrats what they can say to the media. it was an issue of what is classified and what's not. not what is politically accurate and what's not. >> right. >> all right. thanks to all three of you. of course, raises the questions to those of you thinking about this. imagine if there were talking points like this put out after the september 11th, 2001 attacks, the back and forth you'd see, the warnings, things like that. you can realize how complicated this is whether the administration is a republican or a democratic one. "outfront" next, we have much more on this breaking news though. peter king is a member of the house homeland security and intelligence committee. he asked a lot of questions about this. is he satisfied? plus, the other breaking news that we are following tonight, the big move at the top of the

irs. the boss gone. president obama took away his job. and new details on the investigation in cleveland tonight. police back at the home where the three women were held captive for years. they removed more items from the home and backyard. our marty savage investigates. i'm so glad you called. thank you.

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controversial talking points surrounding the attack on the u.s. diplomatic kpount compound benghazi. peter king is on the house intelligence committee. he's been demanding transparency. good to see you, sir. you've had a chance to read the e-mails. are you satisfied these are the answers that you need and that they have given all the information? >> first of all, they have been given all the information. there are thousands of pages of e-mails. even allowing just for these 100 pages, to me this makes it clear in the final result, these were not cia talking points. one, you have the cia public affairs office saying we revised the talking points because of state department concerns. the changes were made because the state department, not because of what the cia wanted to do. and page 95, the director of the cia saying i just as soon not use this. the director of the cia would rather not even use the talking

points. he said in the end it's the final call of the national security council. these were not a cia product. they were revised dramatically. and also, as you mentioned before, all of our references of al qaeda were taken out. victoria newland said she wanted them taken out because there is not enough evidence for her to defend that from the podium. there also wasn't enough evidence to defend the fact that these -- that this attack resulted from a spontaneous attack. so this was a spontaneous demonstration caused by a video. >> and congressman, let my follow up on that point. victoria newland, the spokeswoman for the state department did raise a the love concernings. she didn't want the warnings in there which neither did mike morel, also saying don't blame sharia when we're not sure. but there is also another

question i have to you which is from the very beginning of this e-mail to congressman king, the sentences in here into that these attacks were spontaneously inspired about it protests at the u.s. embassy in cairo. nobody from any part of, petraeus, cia, no one questions that. is it possible that that is indeed what the cia thought? >> well, let me tell you. i can't say what general petraeus said at the first hearing. i can tell you he came back to testify on november 16th after he left the cia. and it was reported in the media that he said that from the very first moments he believed this was a terrorist attack. and obviously we know what the state department people on the ground said. it was a terrorist attack. i believe that there was an notice put out by the white house which worked its way in from the start. he said he thought it was terrorists from the start. we know testimony from people on the ground that they thought it was terrorists. we know ambassador stevens

thought it was an tack. i think this raises questions for the cia and you have mike morel making the changes over the objections of david petraeus, the direct your, how does the number two guy get to make the changes when the director thinks the changes should not be made? >> there does seem to be some discrepancy there. to answer the question, are we ever going to find out who put the words inspired by protests from cairo. that's what the cia has done and handed over for conversation. it appears to back up the white house's assertion that that came from the cia. >> i agree. that's the way it's there. again, if you go back to what general petraeus said after he left the cia, he thought it was terrorists from the start. if he thought it was terrorists from the start, and this is a question i asked, if he thought it was terrorists from day one, why did his initial talking points refer to it being a spontaneous demonstration? was there white house interference from the start? again, the two just don't jive, especially when we hear testimony of those that are on

the ground which the cia had to have access to. >> and one final question, sir. does this change your view on whether hillary clinton should be taking more of the blame? obviously, the one person requesting, again, from the e-mail that's we have which are incomplete but yet there are 100 pages of them, the one person requesting the changes in e-mail is the spokeswoman for the state department. does that then go back to hillary? do you blame hillary clinton more? >> no. i have a great regard for secretary clinton. i think she'll have to answer in detail why this happened. you know, was she in contact with victoria newland? was she dealing with her directly? did this happen below her level? how did this come about? obviously, secretary clin is a key player here and she'll have to explain what happened and why it happened and was victor why newland acting on her own? why was she so intent on removing al qaeda? why were they so definitive about that, again, going back to

the original cia talking points, references to al qaeda were also in there. why did one come out and the other stay? >> thank you very much, congressman king. all right. we appreciate your time very much. thank you, sir. and we have more breaking news next. president obama decided to take ahead of the irs a big change at the top. filing the investigation that found the agency was targeting korve servetive groups. plus, an "outfront" investigation into the cost of keeping gitmo open. does that pricetag add up? i'm on expert on softball. and tea parties. i'll have more awkward conversations than i'm equipped for, because i'm raising two girls on my own. i'll worry about the economy more than a few times before they're grown. but it's for them, so i've found a way. who matters most to you says the most about you. at massmutual we're owned by our policyowners, and they matter most to us.

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our second story "outfront," breaking news. the acting commissioner of the irs gone. technically resigning. in an angry statement to the media, president obama announced that the acting commissioner stephen miller agreed to resign over revelation that's the agency targeted conservative political groups for greater scrutiny over their tax exempt status. jim acosta joins me. he has been following this story intently. jim, you just got the letter that the treasury secretary jack lou wrote to stephen miller. clearly this administration trying to show they are angry about this scandal. what else does the letter say? >> erin, i mean, this is a letter you don't see released very often in washington and to the public. this is it. this say letter from the treasury secretary jack lu to acting irs commissioner stephen miller and it says "while i very much appreciate your many years of loyal service at the irs, i find it necessary at this time

to request your resignation." short and to the point. and another sign that the president is starting to get serious about this scandal. with a growing chorus of criticism that president only offered a weak response to political targeting at the irs, mr. obama seized the moment to get tough. >> today secretary lu took the first step by requesting and accepting the resignation of the acting commissioner of the irs because given the controversy surrounding this audit, it's important to institute new leadership. >> at a hearing on the widening scandal, eric holder vowed to follow the facts wherever they lead. >> anybody broken the law will be held accountable. >> john boehner has the punishment in mind. >> my question isn't about who's going to resign. my question is it who's going to jail over this scandal? >> republicans are furious over an inspector general's report that found the irs inappropriately targeted conservative groups applying for

tax exempt stat justice. roughly one-third of the organization's targeted by the irs had the words tea party, patriot or 912 in their names. but as it turns out, liberal groups also received extra scrutiny. austin-based progress texas tells cnn it received an irs questionnaire similar to those sent to tea party groups. that's not likely to satisfy some republicans. florida gop senator marco rubio accused president obama of creating a culture of intimidation that led to the irs abuse. >> these are the tactics of a third world. >> reporter: some republicans argue democrats have been raising questions about the tax exempt status at tea party groups for years. just last year a group of democratic senators wrote the irs commissioner asking whether the agency is investigating or intends to investigate tax exempt political groups? max baucus says the concern was always bipartisan. >> some of my friends across the aisle are claiming the irs was just doing what democrats wanted, examining the

conservative groups. let me clear up this misperception. i, for one, have never advocated targeting conservative groups. >> reporter: many in congress fear current laws would only lead to firings for the irs officials involved in the scandal. ohio republican mike turner wants to change that. >> we want to make it a felony so we don't have this again. our goal here is the penalty be high enough to stop the activity. >> and president obama will be facing more questions about this. he is scheduled to hold a news conference at the white house at noon tomorrow. and republicans leaders on capitol hill say putting this on the acting commissioner of the irs, they're planning to hold several hearings on this scandal over the next several weeks. erin? >> jim acosta, thank you very much. another big issue facing the president. still to come, late breaking details about what the three women went through in cleveland where they were held captive for a decade who got the

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program tonight with stories where we focus on our reporting from the front lines. there is a lot of breaking news tonight including a jury reaching a verdict in the second phase of the jodi arias murder trial. it only took an hour and a half for them to find that arias was cruel when she stabbed, shot, and nearly decapitated her ex-boyfriend, travis alex ander in 2008. that word cruel was crucial. they had to agree on that and do so unanimously to open up the possibility of a death sentence. now they've done. that they can choose death. that is the next phase of the trial. but our senior legal analyst says the next stage is a lot more complicated challenge for the prosecution because they have to show arias deserves no mercy. that last phase is expected to go on for about a week. today marks exactly one month since the boston marathon bombing and while it was day of remembrance, a new controversy is brewing. 13 deputy fire chiefs say their chief didn't show leadership that day. today the mayor addressed their letter of no confidence in which they allege the chief has become

a spectator at emergency scenes. he says his fire commissioner is looking into the allegations and will need answers before deciding what to do. he defends his actions to us saying he ultimately takes responsibility for what goes on at these scenes. it has been 6 # 50 days since the united states of america lost its top credit rating. stocks started down today but they ended the day with yet another all time high. >> and now our third story "outfront." we have new details late breaking to night about aerial castro who is accused of holding three women captive for more than a decade. according to his attorneys who spoke to wkyc, he plans to plead not guilty. this comes as the city of cleveland moments ago honored the first responders who helped rescue michelle knight, amanda berry and gina dejesus from castro's home last week. we're learning more about how the women were treated. our martin savage is "outfront" in cleveland with the latest.

>> reporter: a family friend says accused kidnapper ariel castro abused all three captive women. but seemed to be especially brutal to michelle knight, using her as his main "punching bag." she was his first victim and held the longest in the home. according to the front, he would hit knight with all sorts of objected including hand weights. as a result, the woman suffered vugs loss, joint and muscle damage as well as other problems. the same source has castro treat add man ed amanda berry slightly better because she gave birth to a child that shows castro fathered. all three women have been described as underweight. >> well, i think that the initial portrayal by the media has been one of a monster and that's not the impression that i got when i talked to him for

three hours. >> reporter: speaking to cnn affiliate wkyc, an attorney for ariel castro says community and media have been too quick to demonize him. so how will castro plead? >> it will be a not guilty plea. >> castro's 25-year-old daughter emily who is serving time in indiana for attempting to kill her own baby, told a private investigator she, too, saw strange things inside her father's home but had no idea he was holding three women prisoner. the private i recorded her account of a conversation she had with her father. >> i said can i sleep upstairs in my old bedroom? he said, no, because it's cold up there. it is blocked off. you know, dusty and so i just was like, okay. >> reporter: detectives were back at castro's home today, removing four motorcycles from the backyard and loading them into trailers. police also could be seen struggling to carry out a five gallon jug filled with pocket change. one more odd sight from a home

that for more than a decade kept its secrets locked up. >> erin, i had a conversation a prosecutor's office. i was wondering where do things and they say right now this case is under investigation. they have to go to a grand jury. it expected charges will come, many more of them and more serious charges. as you already heard, his attorneys say they will plead not guilty. erin? >> big development, a concern we reported at least when he had initial conversations had admitted to much of this. all right. thank you very much. and now our fourth story "outfront." gitmo's growing tab. so tonight the calls continue to grow louder and louder and louder for the military to stop force feeding the 100 detainee who's have been on a hunger strike for 100 days. we're learning now not only how much money is being spent and waste the because of the current standoff with detainees, but

also how much taxpayers, that's you and me are shelling out to keep this prison hope. we have been given this access and reporting on the exclusive series. he has more tonight in an outfront investigation. >> the workers still cook three meals a day for gitmo's detainees. up to 100 hunger strikers send them back, wasting thousands of dollars a day. president obama signed an executive order to close gitmo on his second day in office. more than four years have passed and the president's smiling face is still posted at the prison's headquarters. >> continue to believeguantanam. >> it costs taxpayers $25,000 a year to keep someone in federal prison. in a high security prison where convicted terrorists are held, the tab can top $60,000. sounds expensive until you compare it to what it costs here

at guantanamo bay. it costed $900,000 per prisoner, per year to hold detainees. so each man in gitmo is equal to the cost of operating three months of white house tours, four guantanamo detainees pay for training one new air force pilot. cnn got exclusive access inside the cell blocks of camps five and six. but what we don't see here is camp seven, the ultra secretive compound where mohammed and other high valued detainees are being kept. totally off-limits to the media. but it may hold the clue to what the obama administration really has planned for gitmo. officials won't dif you willth details on potential renovations to camp seven. >> i'll simply say there is a need. i mean, the facilities are in need of upgrade and replacement. >> the military is asking for $50 million to build a new camp seven z that suggest that this

is not closing any time soon? >> we have to always plan to conduct that mission from this point into, you know, the future. policymakers will decide whether that mission is over. >> gitmo's former chief prosecutor says on going renovations suggest it's here to stay. >> if this continues to the end of the obama administration, we'll spend another three quarters of a billion dollars to keep these people at guantanamo. >> so why is it so expensive? because the u.s. has very little relationship with cuba. so all the food, supplies, man pow are, lawyers, all have to be brought in by boat or plane. so do the construction workers. and because all of this was built to be temporary, things are constantly wearing out or breaking down and, again, you have to import all of those construction crews. erin? >> all right. thank you very much. just incredible those numbers

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move over, france. there's a new hot bed of socialism and it's name is the great state of north carolina. this week the north carolina state senate unanimously passed a bill which makes it illegal for a car company to sell cars without a visible store. now the lawmakers behind the proposal say without that law online car dealers have an unfair advantage over traditional car sellers. which brings me to tonight's number, 49. that is the number of test model cars registered in north carolina during the first quarter of the year. the new jersey bill is about one company and bun company only,

tes l tesla motors. they turned a profit. now on the car count, bmw, mercedes, and audi, just today the shares surged 7% after the close of trade when the company's founder put another $100 pll into the company. tesla has done all this without a middleman, ie, a physical dealer. that has other car companies and dealers really upset. look, lately we talk about tesla. i can't imagine waiting an hour to recharge my car, but even if you don't want a tesla, you have to respect its way of doing things. in the past few years, book shops and big box stores have been replaced and face real competition from companies like amazon and google. online eye ware companies cut into bricks and mortar optometry. this is life. this is what happens. tesla should be celebrate for what it's doing. we talked about a proposal to france to tax smart phones. they were going to do that to try to help traditional broadcasters compete. the bill in north carolina is the same thing.

we have to say this, time for law makers in north carolina and france to realize innovation cannot be stopped. legislation should not be the answer. and now let's check in with anderson cooper. we're live from boston for the hour. we return to the city where one month ago the tsarnaev brothers tormented the entire communicate. that was one month ago. you remember a dance instructor whose left leg was amputated below the knee. i spoke to her in the hospital a week after the bombing. we're going to revisit her and her vow to dance again ahead on the program. i talked to her a few hours ago. i'll show that you interview and show you the progress. also the investigation into the night the authorities tracked down the tsarnaev brothers. our drew griffin is digging on this. there is a lot we didn't know about the shootout on the street that night. drew joins me ahead. all that and the president's late evening statement about the controversies engulfing the white house, the irs investigation and the attack on the u.s. embassy in benghazi. that's all ahead at the top of the hour.

erin? >> all right. anderson, looking forward to seeing new boston in a few minutes. and now our fifth story "outfront," the breaking news. tonight the white house making two major announcements. first, releasing the nearly 100 pages of e-mails detailing the back and forth between cia, the state department and the white house. showing how the so-called talking points about the u.s. -- the attack on the american compound in again benghazi changed over time. that came from intense pressure from republicans. it's a lot of pages but not all the pages. a short time later, president obama made a terse statement about the irs targeting conservative groups and saying the acting commissioner has resigned. resigned, of course, after being demanded to do so by the treasury secretary. the question is, you have these scandals, you have the department of justice targeting one of the most important media organizations in this country without a subpoena on its phone records. will any of this cry at the critics? great to have both of our guests

with us. obviously the president moving tonight aggressively to get rid of the head of the irs saying i don't tolerate. this put out nearly 100 pages of e-mails. they are trying to make all this go away. will it work? >> i am very skeptical, partly because the concern is that if you saw this happen here in the irs, if you saw this happen in the associated press, there are deeper concerns about whether or not they've taken a slip shot attitude towards sur veiling other organizations and what have you. this is going to raise a lot of questions. they insisted for so long there was no there there. so this is actually going to be blood in the water. it's not going to be republicans, it's going to be media organization that's are no longer going to take statements made by the white house at face value. >> stephanie, do you agree? is this just blood in the water? >> you know, erin, i got to say, if i hear one more republican say this is worse than watergate, it's worse than watergate. i mean really?

pick up a history book. first of all, this acting director was a bush appointee. the reason we don't have a real director is because republicans have obstructed appointing one like everything else they've obstructed. the irs blew the whistle on themselves. nick ox, you know, that was a nixon plan. he authorize who had to do audits against. look, there is an explosion of tea party groups after citizens united. this was'done correctly, erin. this is not even close to watergate as john dean has said. >> well, stephanie, it's interesting. dana millbank wrote in "the washington post" an interesting take on this saying you're right. this is not like watergate. it's the opposite. it's watergate was a control freak president. this is a president who doesn't seem to have control over anything at all. everybody is doing whatever they want. the implication being it's just as bad, different. >> well, i mean, erin, look, let's look at the ap thing. if this were a republican president, republican was have

said oh, those sissies this is national security. who cares? they're just is a double standard. i mean to have dick cheney say oh, this was lies and this was a cover-up. don't even get me started on the bush administration he's talking about benghazi? there was a three-day cover up before they said this was an act of terror? come on. >> made an astute observation on msnbc. he said that part of the issue, the government is so vast, there is no way for the president to be held accountable. and i think that when you think about it more deeply, it really is true. that the government is so vast, that it's difficult for any one man to really surveil its authority and abuse of its authority. the president has offered to expand the writ, and that's part of why you have conservatives reacting to this set of scandals. that i think, again, these are folks who say that, well, maybe the scope of government is already sufficiently broad we shouldn't rush to expand

further. those are some of the deeper issues raised we have been seeing the last couple weeks. >> all right. thanks very much to boefth you. i have to say this, it does seem republican or democrat, the other side always does seem to see the blood in the water and that's a big frustration in the whole system. next, how technology used by fighter pilots used to kill people is actually saving lives in the most incredible way you can imagine. is there anything you would not do for your family? punch it. ♪ [ male announcer ] back here on earth, your family is your crew. you would do everything in your power to protect them. that's why there's lifelock. and introducing lifelock junior. call 1-800-lifelock or visit lifelock.com/trek today and see star trek: into darkness, in theatres may 17th. rated pg-13.

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so everyone night we take a look outside the day's top stories for something we call the "outfront" outtake. and when post people think search engine at this point, they think google. remember, when george w. bush made it a verb? but if a new start-up succeeds, that could change. at least in vietnam. a newly launched russian vietnamese company is set to spend $100 million over the next five years to try and steal away a chunk of the 97% of vietnamese web surfers who currently use google. 97%. it's a bold idea, and if successful, one that can be repeated around the world. think globally, search locally sort of thing. of course, a bold idea like this needs a bold name, which is why the company finally settled on

coke-coke or koch-koch. we're not sure, but a rough translation of the english phrase "who's there." they believe it can tell you can who is there, because their site better understands the nuances of the vietnamese and therefore their information more relevant. we tested it out. one of our producers searched for my name on koch-koch, and instead of me it was pictures of my head on other women's bodies. since the company is half russian, we started with a search for vladimir putin, which returned perfectly a wikipedia page and amazing articles about his exploits. and then we tried to search for prince harry that returned a bunch of gossip stories about his love life and recent trip to the u.s. pretty fair, right? and finally we searched for prince albert and koch-koch did a lot better than google.

so it sounds like an old joke, right? a neurosurgeon and two ex israeli officers walk into a coffee shop. but what happens next is no punch line. it was a chance encounter that has turned an old idea developed to prepare fighter pilots for battle into an innovative new idea that could save lives. engage, outmaneuver, and eliminate enemy aircraft. the mission of a fighter pilot is often deadly. training vital. to prepare pilots, flight simulators were developed to they could practice before a critical mission. now this 100-year-old technology has inspired an entirely new idea that could save lives. it's called surgical theater. in 2010, dr. warren sellman, neurosurgeon in chief in hospitals in cleveland overheard retired israeli soldiers talking about flight simulator technology in a local coffee

shop. >> they actually design the flight simulator for the f-16. i mean, i thought, wow, that is like the most technically complex thing you could do. >> he wondered if doctors could rehearse surgery in the same way a fighter pilot rehearses a mission. >> when i overheard them talking about flight simulators, it sort of clicked, and i said why can't we do this for surgery? >> sellman says he has often found himself flying blind when performing operations on the brain, because he can't see behind vital arteries. >> the key is to figure out which aneurism clip will best fit it and how do we best approach the aneurism. and previously, the only way we had to do that was sort of in our mind's eye. now in surgical theater, we're actually able to reconstruct that aneurism in 3-d in the surgical theater, rotate the images and tough have the similar tools that we're going to use at the time of surgery. >> with surgical theater, the surgeon is able to practice until he finds the best way to stop an aneurism in its tracks, as sellman demonstrates.

>> what this allows us to do that i can't do in any other way other than imagining it, is go into the image and rotate it. let's take a look at that. so there you see, it looks like we've got both aneurism -- both tines are well beyond the aneurism dome here. we've got the dome secured and you can see that this back vessel we were worried about so much is opened, as well as the front vessel. >> dr. daniel bear, chair of the department of surgery at the emoriel school of medicine in atlanta, georgia. he says surgical theater is an important advance. >> this is a goal that has been present in the field of surgery for many, many years, and is finally coming to fruition. every time i've seen it, it gets better and better. and i anticipate that in the near future, this is something that will be more widespread. >> sellman hopes that other surgeons will agree, and embrace this new idea. >> we're trying to help even the most gifted surgeon to be able to do what the most gifted

basketball player does, football player, golfer, jet pilot, anybody, rehearse for the critical mission. >> in the interest of full disclosure, we want to note, dr. sellman does have a financial interest in surgical theater, the company he created with his israeli colleagues. thanks for watching. a special edition of ac 360 starts now. >> we are live from boston tonight, one month after the bombings that changed so many lives here. tonight we have new details about the manhunt for the tsarnaev brothers. what can exactly happened that night in the shootout with police. new details in the investigation. and i'm going to speak with adrien haslett davis, the dance instructor who lost a leg, find out how she is doing one month into her recovery. she is inspiring. also information about what allegedly went on inside ariel castro's house in cleveland. how the women were dreeted an