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is he a former cia employee who's fled to hong kong. he says he's voluntarily coming forward because he's "done nothing wrong." the george zimmerman trial begins tomorrow with jury selection. we go live to sanford, florida for a preview what have to expect. another victim has died after a shooting spree on a college campus in santa monica. breaking news about the man who says did he it, gave away the nsa's secrets to a british newspaper. 29-year-old computer technician edward snowden says he is voluntarily coming forward and he says he is not sorry for releasing details of the top-secret american program that collects americans' e-mail and phone records. he's hiding out in hong kong. why would he come out publicly
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today? >> right. so many questions about this young 29-year-old. he says he's coming out today because he felt that freedom itself was being threatened by the scope of these government programs and that he thought they were getting bigger from his desk at the nsa. let's look at first how "the guardian" outed him, of course with his cooperation. they did it online, fitting for this young man who was able to get so much information as a computer technician himself. edward snowden told "the guardian" he's worked most recently for the nsa and that's where he got these documents. he also said he was very specific in which documents he leaked. not mass quantities but specific programs that he thought affected large groups of people -- millions, in fact. as for him being in hong kong, he has left his life behind, he tells "the guardian." he says nonetheless he's worried about possible retaliation from the nsa and intelligence communities.
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but even though, he says he was willing to take those risks. >> even if you're not doing anything wrong you're being watched and recorded and the storage capability of these systems increases every year consistently by orders of magnitude to where it is getting to the point you don't have to have done anything wrong. you simply have to eventually fall under suspicion from somebody, even by a wrong call. >> reporter: in that interview, fred, snowden says he did feel government's power was increasing, and he felt it would just keep going in that direction if nobody stood up. this raises so many questions but right off the top, one question for this young man of course is if he was a contractor for working outside of government, how was it that he had access to such highly classified documents? i'm sure agencies will be looking at that. there is a question for our government, how did they prosecute this man who's now hiding out in hong kong? lots of questions. i think we'll hear so much about him over the next couple of
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days. fascinating and important story. >> clearly this administration has been -- the department of justice in particular has been saying it wants to be tough on prosecuting leakers. how might the doj be able to approach this situation? >> you know, i am not willing to say, not being an expert in the extradition laws of hong kong. but i think -- we know, as a matter of fact, edward snowden chose hong kong carefully. he says in the interview it was because he felt like it was a relatively free government that he would work with there. you have to imagine he also chose it because he thought he ran less risk of being extradited or rendered, even, in his words by the cia from that location. i guarantee you that right now in washington, experts at the justice department and also probably intelligence agencies are trying to figure out how to access this man, do they prosecute. it is amazing. we just found out about this story a few days ago. it was only yesterday that the director of national
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intelligence said he was suggesting that an investigation start by the justice department. as far as we know, that investigation hadn't even started and here we have the end product, the leaker. so agencies probably all around washington are playing catch-up with the international laws at play here and also with the politics involved in going after this man who, some say, is perhaps a hero. others say has done his country harm. >> lisa desjardin, thanks so much. so what happens to edward snowden and the united states, for 3 for that matter? joining me, a former nsa officer. good to see you. might edward snowden be looking at charges from espionage to perhaps revealing classified information if the department of justice or the u.s. is able to get their hands on him, given that he is in hong kong? >> i think almost inevitably
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they'll charge him. he he revealed signals intelligence, top-secret. the government is obligated to go after him, bring charges against him. i just don't see any way out of it. whether you agree with him or not, he's vial latted the law. they cannot let this pass. >> apparently he was formally a technical assistant for the cia. he's been working for a defense contractor, one that has offices in atlanta, hawaii, as well as in virginia. he has apparently been working at the national security agency for the last four years as an employee of one of those contractors. he clearly had access to this kind of information and reveals that he thought it was the right thing to do in which to reveal it. but that he chose hong kong to -- in which to flee, to find safe haven, tells you what about maybe the support that he might be getting, about taking this
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information and publicizing it? >> well, here's the problem, is that hong kong is controlled by chinese intelligence. it's not an independent part of china at all. i've talked to a bunch of people in washington today in official positions and they are looking at this as a potential chinese espionage case. i'm not saying this because i disagree or agree prison is necessarily a good thing or this whole program. it is simply that it was unwise of him to go to hong kong to do this. on the face of it, it looks like it is under some sort of chinese control, especially with the president meeting the premier today. you have to ask what's going on. china is not a friendly country and every aspect of that country is controlled. so why hong kong? why didn't he go to sweden? or if he really wanted to make a statement, he should have done it on capitol hill. i'm -- we don't know yet, but you can count on it the fbi and the cia is looking at this now
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as potential counterintelligence problem. >> and if indeed hong kong finding refuge there would make it very difficult for the united states to actually extradite him. given that the president of the united states and the president ever chinese have been meeting all weekend long, you have to wonder whether the dialogue is changing about how and which the u.s. would be able to get their hands on edward snowden, how they would be able to strike some sort of a chord or agreement so that the department of justice or other entities or agencies would be able to pursue him. >> we'll never get him in china. he'll never leave there. he won't be able to go anywhere else. i can't believe a tv interview was done there in hong kong without some sort of knowledge of the chinese. they're not about to send him to the united states and the cia is not going to render him, as he
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said in the tape, is not going to try to grab him there. it is not going to happen. it almost seems to me that this was a pointed affront to the united states on the day the president is meeting the chinese leader, telling us, listen, quit complaining about espionage and getting on the internet and our hacking. you are doing the same thing. i can see the chinese doing that. >> wow. a former cia case officer, thanks for joining us from california. appreciate your input. on to turkey now. thousands of protesters demanding the prime minister's resignation. police fire teargas and water cannons to try to disperse the crowds. prime minister addressed several rallies of his supporters today. he made it clearly his patience for anti-government demonstrations is coming to an end and that people would have the chance to choose their leader in elections next year.
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back in this country, the murder trial of george zimmerman begins tomorrow. first piece of business is going to be jury selection. there can also soon and ruling on whether expert voice analysis of 911 tapes is admissible in court. martin savidge is at the courthouse in sanford, florida. so martin, you actually got a chance to talk to one of the defense attorneys who says is he very specific about the kind of juror he is looking for. >> reporter: right. mark o'mara. i said are you ready? it all begins of course tomorrow. he said, well, they have to be ready, they will be ready. jury selection, as we know, is crucial in any trial. it is going to be even more so probably in this trial. the defense and the prosecution are probably likely looking for two different types of jurors. but i did ask mark o'mara what would be the kind of jurors he wants. here's the response. >> i want open minds. people who have not made up their minds, and people who are strong enough to decide the case
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on the facts and the law and not on external public pressure. my concern about this whole case all along has been we have so much pressure on the case, on the system, that any verdict, whatever it might be, might not be accepted as the proper one even if it is. >> reporter: as it stands right now, there are only six jurors that actually have to be selected. that's because it is a second degree murder case down here in the state of florida. at least two alternates. there are 200 candidates, at least the first 200, will show up tomorrow morning. as many as 500 people have been notified that they could be called in this particular case. >> then the judge still has to render a decision about whether a voice analysis of the 911 tapes would be admissible. are we getting any more information as to when that ruling could come down? would it happen as early as this week or does it take a longer amount of time? >> we thought that we would hear
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that before this would begin on monday morning. we did not. even despite three days of testimony. but because of witness that was unavailable, it is now determined by the judge that that's going to be figured out a little later. what's a little later here? it has to be before they start playing the 911 tape and start bringing in this expert analysis. maybe after jury selection's done they could then take up that matter. the judge was not specific. >> all right. martin savidge, thanks so much for bringing us coverage from sanford, florida. in california, a fifth victim has died after a horrible shooting in santa monica. 26-year-old marcella franco died at the hospital today. she was driving to santa monica college with her father on friday to buy textbooks when a gunman shot them. her father, carlos, also died. sources say the shooter was a 23-year-old man by the name of john zawahri.
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and the biggest mopp mob trial in praerhaps the last 20 years. james "white" bulger. without doubt, this is one of the biggest mob trials in the last two decades. it comes after an exhausted man hunt for south boston's once-feared irish mafia mob boss. it is a trial about murder, betrayal and retribution. for the city of boston, it is about time. after more than two decades as the reputed head of boston's criminal underworld, followed by 16 years on the run, this is how james "whitey" bulger returned home two years ago after one of the fbi's large est and longest manhunts. since that disgraced homecoming, bulger's been housed facing
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charges to which he's pleaded not guilty. >> mr. bulger this afternoon stood up and said good afternoon to the jurors. >> reporter: the trial will likely close a traumatic chapter in boston's history, as well as the history of the fbi. by all accounts, bulger's ruthless empire was allowed to grow unchallenged in the '70s, '80s and early '90s because of this man, john connelly. >> he destroyed the reputation of the boston office. a lot of very good agents were hurt and the whole office was tarnished. >> reporter: connelly was raised in the same housing projects as bulger and ultimately cut a deal with the alleged mob boss. >> whitey bulger was the informant to be had. >> he broke all kinds of laws over the years to keep that alive. >> reporter: protected by the rogue fbi agent, bulger got names of other informants and rival gang members, people he's now accused of killing. he knew when police were
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watching, when they were moving in and knew when to disappear. in 1994 bulger got one of his last tips. he was about to be indicted on federal charges. he had planned ahead stashing cash in various security boxes. he fled boston later taking his girlfriend, katherine agreeicak. sightings in london, south america. >> he was constantly being spotted somewhere. >> reporter: in the end, bulger was found here in santa monica, three days after a public service announcement seeking information about his girlfriend. the couple had been living under the alias "charlie and carol gasco," a self-described chicago businessman and his younger wife. instid the partially shielded third floor apartment, agents found cash and more than 30 weapons stuffed in the walls. whether bulger planned to shoot
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a busy week ahead in washington. immigration reform but the obamaed a pobama ed a administration was hoping to talk about the success of a meeting. snowden was doing some work for the nsa for the past few years but now apparently admits to leaking information about the nsa's surveillance program.
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so, charles, you first. how might the administration best try to deal with this given he is now in hong kong, all this on the heels of the president meeting with the president of china. >> i don't know exactly how they're going to deal with him. they have been very -- some would call it overzealous in going after leakers. he's come forward. we know who he is. he's in hong kong. how you get him out of hong kong, prosecute him, if that is what they intend to do, and all indications is that that is exactly what they would do. how they do that, i have no idea. i think this leads to a bigger conversation which the president says he wants to have, which is what do we think about security and privacy in a post-9/11 world. i think that bigger conversation which is what mr. snowden was getting at, was what says unnerved him about these programs, is the conversation that we really need to have.
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we have kind of disproportionately taken terroristic threats out of of the content of keeping us safe when all sorts of things make americans not safe, all sorts of things kill americans from gun violence to reckless driving to the wars we are now engaged in. we have basically said terrorism is a bigger issue than all of those and we will give up our privacy rights for that pursuit of those terrorists. we have to have a conversation about whether or not that is kind of out of proportion. >> i wonder, ross, if that conversation would kind of get lost now or upstaged by the fact that there is this admission. does the conversation about security versus privacy get put on the back burner now as the u.s. or this administration tries to figure out how do you pursue someone who has leaked classified information, how do you prosecute someone who is admitting to leaking this
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classified information an how do you retrieve that person when they are in a kind of protected zone somewhere where there's no extradition treat ya. >> i know that when i want to go somewhere where i'm confident that civil liberties are taken seriously, i always go directly to china. that's the first place i go. i mean -- look. i completely agree with you. i think what snowden has done by going public and who knows exactly what his reasons are, perhaps he thinks it's self-protection in some sense, has probably pushed the conversation that charles wants to have, this really important to have a little bit off the front burner. i think at least for the next few days and probably beyond that we're going to be talking about this very strange case. it's repercussions for international politics, the fact that it is happening during the u.s.-china summit. the questions that --
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>> the coincidence here, irony here that this would take place, that the location of hong kong, chosen or planned just as the president's wrapping up his meetings, that according to some analysts, was looking quite positive. there was some agreement on climate change, there was some agreement between china and the u.s. -- >> the thing to keep in mind here, too, is there is an incredibly strong bipartisan census in washington, d.c. behind at least -- at least the large majority of the kind of measures that haven't really been debated today. the question is how do you dislodge that kind of consensus. how do you get figures like a senator, mark udall, senator rand paul, how do you get that civil libertarian caucus in congress to sort of shift the
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consensus a little bit. i think it is less likely to happen if we are talking about this contractor. but on the other hand, what does it say about our national security that someone who was not even directly employed by the nsa at this point has access? that was incredible. >> i wonder, too, how embarrassing this ultimately becomes for this administration which, yes swb s, is saying we' trying to be very tough on leaks. you have this taking place involving a contractor who had access to high-security information. >> i think you have to look at it at the same time that technology's making it easier for governments to track us, technology's also making it easier for leakers to get information out. and i think what we have to look at is whether or not and to what degree this administration and the administration wants to make martyrs out of these young men who have come of age in a time when they do not look at this
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sort of thing as something that the government should be doing. you take a bradley manning who had has released a lot of information. this young man who's released a lot of information. this kind of generational shift, these kinds of young people who -- this is the age group where people put a lot of stuff online. they share a lot. they are part of an internet age and they look at information and the sharing of information and the tracking of information, a lot differently than a person like i would who came up 20 years ago when there was no such thing as twitter around facebook and what have you. i think that whether or not the administration wts to get into a tug-of-war back and forth with more and more of these young people who are doing the leaking and making martyrs of them and having it be a standoff about whether or not things should be kept secret that are affecting millions and millions of americans and are these people in fact heroes or are they criminals. i think that's a bigge question
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that the administration is going to have in how force this will they go after this young man. >> thanks so much, gentlemen. good to see you. in a moment, we'll hear directly from edward snowden, the man who went public with nsa's secret surveillance program. we'll bring that to you right after this. anyone have occasional constipation, diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips'. live the regular life. (announcenergy cycle... natural cats. they were born to play. to eat. then rest. to fuel the metabolic cycle they were born to have, purina one created new healthy metabolism wet and dry.
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the man who leaked top-secret details about the nsa surveillance program is now talking. edward snowden gave an interview to glen greenwald of "the guardian." he says he did the right thing by breaking the law and revealing classified u.s. information.
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>> the nsa specifically targets the communications of everyone. it ingests them by default. it collects them in its system an it filters them and analyzes them and measures them and it stores them for periods of time simply because that's the easiest, most efficient and most valuable way to achieve these ends. so while they may be intending to target someone associated with a foreign government or someone that they suspect of terrorism, they're collecting your communications to do so. any analyst at any time can target anyone. anywhere. where those communications will be picked up depends on the range of networks and the authorities that that analyst is empowered with, not all animal lis have the ability to target everything. but i sitting at my desk certainly have the authority to wiretap anyone from you or in your your accountant to a federal judge to even the president, if i had a personal e-mail. >> again, edward snowden has now
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author judy bloom is getting a taste of something new -- the movies. the movie "tiger eyes" is now on big screen. it's impacted people of all ages. kids know her from titles like "super fudge" and "blubber." teens love her coming of age books. and she aeven got best-sellers
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for adults like "summer sisters." but it's her 1981 classic "tiger eyes" that's turned into her first big screen movie, and she was involved in every step alongside with her son, lawrence, who directed it. "tiger eyes" tells the story of a girl who struggles to cope with the tragic death of her father with the help of a new friend. >> when i was young, used to climb here all the time with my father. i hope it never changes. >> everything changes. >> miss blume and her son told me all about making this movie. but first, i asked what inspired her to start writing in the first place? >> my inspiration was i was a creative kid and i needed a creative outlet and i always made up stories inside my head when i was growing up.
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and one day i just sat down and started to write. it didn't -- it didn't all happen that easily, but that's basically it. the inspiration was that i was always a story teller, although i never shared my stories. but they were there. >> so one of the books, 1981 "tiger eyes," that is one that right now is on the big screen. it tackles the loss of a parent. it really may be not just special because mother and son are involved here, but also special because it does deal with with some really kind of risky and touchy subjects. how and at what point did you decide, lawrence, you wanted this to be one of the first projects you would be undertaking with your mom? >> well, when it first came out, i was on my way to college and i read it and i loved it. i thought it was the best thing she had written. i found it very moving and my
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instincts just said, at 18 years old, i want to make this into a movie, because i could see it had imanimalry of new mexico where we were living and i could sort of see it in my mind's eye. it was very cinematic in a sense. i had just -- i had followed the story in the sense that i had grown up in new jersey, then moved out to losalamos, new mexico. it was very close to home emoti emotionally. visually i understood all the places and locations. it just sounded like something i really wanted to do but it was something i always wanted to do. >> mom, miss blume, how gratify, how touching -- what does it feel like to embark on this project with your son being the
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director? >> well, i have to say first that when we're working together, as professionals we're larry and judy. we have to separate the mother-son relationship is the most important and we would never do anything to jeopardize that. but working together on this film, for me, at this point in my life has just been, well, one of the highlights certainly of my professional life. it's been -- it's been a joy. it's been a thrill, and now that it's done and it's actually coming out, it is the most exciting. i'm thankful to larry, because we did this together. i mean we did the casting and i was on the set every single day, every moment of every day, for better or worse for him. and he was generous. >> better. >> -- and lshged me. >> so those are all the
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reregards. were there any real challenges? lawrence in. >> not really. it was sort of a joy. i wish i had a great story for you, but it was a joy to finally be able to get into this material, to dig underneath it, to work together on the screen play, to figure out how to do it together was a lot of fun. to then cast it and shoot it with her sitting next to me every moment and be able to turn and say did we get that right, are we doing the right thing, that was pretty exciting especially after all these years of wanting to do it. >> thanks to judy and lawrence blume for joining us. "tiger eyes" has already won awards for best film, best actress and best supporting actor and different festivals. it's now in theaters. a little girl's health is failing more every day as she awaits a lung transplant that her family hopes would save her life. more on her fight to stray
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improvement in any way involving this little girl? >> no hi, fred. certainly not that we know of. sarah's family is watching her closely. she is under heavization, they said, to let her body rest an try to recover. saturday night the family revealed sarah now has that breathing tube in place. this is family video of her taken recently but her condition is worsening. the tube placed into her airway will not only help her breathe. if necessary, it allows doctors to perform another procedure to keep her well enough to receive a new lung if one becomes available. sarah and another little boy, javier acosta, have both been given a glimmer of hope after a court order last week. a judge granted them a ten-day exemption to eliminate age restrictions that will now make them eligible for any adult lungs that become available as well as from child donors. that extension expires next weekend. javier's mom told us in an exclusive interview yesterday,
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these are very anxious days. >> it is hard for me to tell my son, you have to have faith and be hopeful this is going to happen for you. inside knowing that the chances are slim. every day hurts. it is my only child now. and knowing the facts. >> susan, apparently there's going to be a very important meeting tomorrow trying to determine wla whether should be any changes in the way this sharing -- organ sharing network works. >> that's right, fred. this national board is reviewing its transplant program for children, including how long they now have to wait. even the mortality rate and other matters as well. they are doing this because of that court injunction that's giving sarah and javier, at least temporarily, a chance of receiving an adult lung. it is possible that the board could agree on an interim policy change while the whole program is under review, but there are no guarantees. >> and they're going to consider
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setting aside this rule with just so that it would -- what we call the under 12 rule while they study it more. it would affect just -- that would protect just a very few children in the country affected by this. we hope they do that. >> any time? >> well, i mean, it's really impossible to say in sarah's case, putting in the breathing tube is not a good sign but the family is certainly hoping for the best and her family tells us sarah is at the top of the list in her region. >> keep us posted on that. it is a big news week ahead. and much more in the newsroom. we will let you know what we have straight ahead.
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>> the newsroom straight ahead. don, what have yo got? >> we have a lot. following the story you have been talking about. talking about 29-year-old edward snowden. the whistle blower. we're going to run the entire intervi interview. it's 12 minutes long. you said why did he do it? why? he said i don't see myself as a here r hero. he said i don't want to live in a world where there is no privacy and no room for
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exploration and creativity and then he goes on to say this. take a listen. >> any analyst at any time can target anyone. any selector anywhere. where those communications will be picked up depends on the authorities that that analyst is empowered with. not all analysts have the ability to target everything. but i had the authorities to wiretap anyone. to even the president, if i had a personal e-mail. >> we work for a big company. for someone who is a technical assistant to be able to monitor and listen? >> he has taken great risk in
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which to do this. he has taken advantage of his job and access. he has taken flight. he's in hong kong. >> we are still the tip of the ice burg about this. his story and motivation. >> there is political ramifications. he said he wanted to do this a few years ago but didn't because barack obama was elected president. after a while, he said as he watched president obama and advanced the very policies that i thought would be rained in as a result, i got harder. >> we will get to hear about all that. all right, thanks so much. we will look forward to that. just four minutes now away. in the meantime, what did the
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>> it all starts with jury selection monday morning. identities of potential jurors will be kept secret. the jurors will also not be
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sequestered. also on monday we're watching for u.s. supreme court rulings. affirmative action. voting rights and same sex marriage. remember what happened on this ship back in february? a power outage left passengers with no working toilets and more. some big headliners this year, mumford and paul mccartny. and the newest super man movie this year. >> that's a look at the week ahead.