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the white house said the syrian regime has crossed the president's red line by using chemical weapons, namely sarin, killing up to 150 people. president obama has decided to provide more aid, including military support, to syria's rebels, but how far is the u.s. willing to go? we begin with cnn's pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara? >> reporter: the president has made the decision to act but you're right. the question now, what comes next. the obama administration is now confirming what was feared, that the syrian regime used chemical weapons multiple times. >> a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized. that would change my calculus. rncht pressu >> reporter: pressure is growing on president obama to act. >> i applaud the president's position and i appreciate it but the president of the united states better understand just supplying weapons is not going to change the equation on the

ground of the balance of power. >> reporter: the white house says it will boost military support to the rebels but won't say exactly how. a looming option? arming the rebels. that could include desperately needed ammunition for rifles and machine guns as well as new shipments of machine guns, shoulder-fired weapons to attack tanks, artillery, helicopters, and jets, and mortars and rockets. the white house does not plan to put u.s. troops on the ground in syria and is far from ready to commit to a no fly zone. >> the question is, what is going to make a decisive difference now, and is the administration willing to do that, or is this kind of a throw some guns that way and pretend you're doing something when it's not going to make a difference? >> reporter: the stakes couldn't be higher. >> it's important to us because of the tremendous number of chemical weapons that are there and if these weapons get in the hands of the al qaeda related terrorist groups, they will

certainly be used against europe and against us. >> reporter: the white house announcement comes after word that former president bill clinton is now siding with mccain, calling for tougher action. according to politico, clinton said at a private event with mccain, quote, some people say, stay out. i think that's a big mistake. as we wait to see what comes next, what president obama exactly decides to do, one of the key questions is, can you have a limited military involvement or once you're in do you have to go all in? jim? >> that is the big question, barbara starr, thank you. let's get a closer look at sarin, the deadly nerve agent syria is accused of using against rebels. here is cnn's tom foreman with a look at that. >> reporter: sarin was originally developed in the 1930s as a pesticide and soon after the nation started trying to see if it might be a weapon. we've been hearing for months and months from rebels inside syria they believe it has in

fact been used in many of the conflicts there or some other chemical weapon by the syrian government. how is this deployed? well let's flip this over and talk about it. sarin can be launched in an artillery shell or missile. it can be dropped from an airplane. it goes out as a liquid but as it spreads out it very quickly and easily turns into a gas. we showed it there but the truth is it is colorless. it is odorless. you would have no idea you were even being attacked by it even though it is much more lethal than cyanide. what does it do to people? it can cause blurred vision, rapid breathing, heavy sweats, confusion, headaches, and the worst case is nausea, convulsion, paralysis, and as it shuts down the ability of the body to breathe, even that and in the worst cases that can come very, very quickly, perhaps within even one minute. >> tom foreman, thank you. the obama administration's decision to boost aid to syria's rebels follows major gains on the ground by the regime of bashar al assad.

cnn is inside syria and we'll go to a battleground in the capital. >> reporter: syrian government forces are almost always action on the front line in damascus. this is the closest the rebels have gotten to the center of the syrian capital, but now assad's forces say they believe the tide is turning. trnchs we this soldier says they've gone in many times and captured fighters. things are getting better all the time. there are a lot of snipers and they get weapons through tunnels this one adds but we are doing our best to stop them. syrian soldiers don't usually talk to media, but bolstered by recent advances, these men were willing to speak openly. government troops believe they have rebels cornered in pockets around damascus and the army uses heavy artillery on a daily basis to keep the opposition in check and pound them ahead of a possible assault on the district.

soldiers check everyone trying to enter the no man's land around jobar. this is as far as the military is going to let us go because it is too dangerous to go down that direction. the front line is only say about a hundred yards down that way and that area is full of snipers. >> another reason for the new found confidence among assad's forces recent gains the army has made in central and northern syria. after the military backed by hezbollah fighters took the strategically important town of el qsair and seems to be moving on the largest city aleppo many in damascus feel the government is winning. we have very high spirits he says. we know we are ready to fight the islamists until the end. we will fight night and day to end this our way. but jobar has been in rebel hands for months now. the syrian army has had a hard time taking back other districts and suburbs in the capital. even with confidence and momentum at a high, it's clear opposition forces will not give up the territory they hold

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that nsa leaker edward snowden could defect to china after he told a hong kong newspaper that the united states has long been hacking chinese computers and after he vowed to stay in hong kong and fight any u.s. extradition attempt. cnn's brian todd joins us live with that. brian, good to see you. >> reporter: thanks, jim. given the information he allegedly gave to the guardian about nsa monitoring plus the

information he says he had access to and the fact his exact whereabouts are a mystery there is growing concern edward snowden may fall into a rival's hands. top u.s. officials are now openly worried. will edward snowden defect? >> does he have a relationship with a foreign government and is there more to this story? clearly, we're going to make sure there is a thorough scrub of what his china connections are. >> reporter: a former senior nsa official and cia officer told me the chinese government has likely at least made contact with edward snowden. one analyst says over the past few days it's looked more and more like someone is shaping snowden's behavior, possibly "the guardian" newspaper, maybe the chinese. so what kind of information does he have? to hear him brag about it to "the guardian" besides the nsa's telephone surveillance and internet monitoring programs -- >> i had access to the full rosters of everyone working at the nsa, the entire intelligence

community and undercover assets all around the world -- the locations of every station. we have what their missions are and so forth. >> reporter: senior u.s. officials say they doubt snowden really has all that information. snowden has said his intent was not to harm the u.s. but former cia officer robert baer says there is no doubt he is being closely watched. >> you and i cannot hide in hong kong. it's impossible. chinese intelligence has that place riddled with sources, people, cooperative, police, the rest of it. it is impossible to hide in hong kong. >> reporter: baer says because of that there's little chance the cia could capture snowden through some secret rendition or other method even if they wanted to. snowden told a hong kong newspaper that the u.s. government has been hacking into computers in china for years. if snowden were to defect, what would the chinese want most from him? >> what the chinese don't have is they don't have a knowledge of where we have been successful, whose phone has been hacked, whose computer has been

hacked. they don't know that. and so if he can tell them places, specific places that have been hacked, they can go and close off the source. >> reporter: we called an e-mail the chinese embassy in washington and asked if their government has made contact with snowden and if he wanted asylum would they grant it? they didn't respond. and again, growing concerns about kind of information edward snowden may have and be able to give the chinese on double agents, military systems that were targeted, u.s. officials very concerned about that right now, jim. >> brian, what would the process be like if he were to try to ask for asylum in china, if he were to try to seek some sort of permission from the chinese government to stay in their country? what would happen next? >> well, certainly, jim, there would be back channel discussions between the chinese and the americans if that were to happen. the americans would certainly find out about it through some method or another. the chinese according to experts

we talked to as we mentioned in the piece have likely made contact with him. i asked about what would it be like if they were going to either take him into custody and question him, they said it probably be a fairly, you know, polite process for lack of a better word. they would ask him if they could meet with him, bring him in, question him. now, if he does seek asylum, that would be probably the subject of some very tense back channel talks between the u.s. and china, some complaints from the united states, but probably not a whole lot that the united states could do about it at that point. >> certainly would test u.s./china relations. brian todd, thank you very much. edward snowden's leaks have focused attention on an agency of the u.s. government that has long kept a low profile. the national security agency or nsa. let's get a closer look from cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. >> jim, the jokes have been that it stands for no such agency or never say anything. there is a lot of mystery surrounding this agency. one thing is becoming very

clear. for all of the information that the nsa has already collected, it's nothing compared to what it's about to be able to do. cia spies have their secrets. so do the men in special ops. but they can't compare to the national security agency. >> the nsa is the most secret agency in the country. it's far more secret than the cia. >> reporter: the nsa is headquartered in a highly secure section of fort meade army base in maryland and is building a new surveillance center in the middle of a utah desert. there, spread out over a million square feet of cables and computers, the nsa will capture everything from e-mails to internet searches, phone calls, and personal data. >> it's designed to hold an enormous amount of communications. >> reporter: author james banford estimates the center will be able to store enough data to equal 500 quintillion pages. that is a five with 20 zeros

behind it. if you printed those pages, stacked them one on top of the other, it would be long enough to stretch all the way to the moon and back 66 million times. a former official who spoke on background to cnn described the nsa as incredibly aggressive, but he says i can't emphasize how fanatical they are about americans' privacy. there's a sign in the center of a room that reads, "what constitutes a u.s. person" and then lists a dozen points to consider. >> i think it's absolutely important for people to understand we're not asking for content but for information about threats. >> reporter: the nsa's 35,000 employees are an even mix of military and civilians. the former official says the troops are younger and give the agency its energy. the civilians mostly mathematicians provide, quote, adult supervision and tend to be more socially introverted.

the former official says an inside joke at nsa goes something like, how do you spot an extrovert at nsa? when he's talking to you he looks down at your shoes instead of his own. >> in other words the former official says this is not the cia where they're recruiting agents in coffee shops all over the world. he says the nsa is set up to be secretive. its people rarely talk. they never write books. the nsa has certain protections built in that even some other intelligence organizations don't have. jim? >> chris lawrence, very interesting stuff. thank you very much. and when we come back, a potentially stunning break in a cold case that exposed a murder for hire scheme linked to mexican drug cartels. you're in "the situation room." tiny changes in the brain. . little things anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. ensures support, a breakthrough. and sooner than you'd like.

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we turn to a break in a cold case in florida that exposed a murder for hire scheme linked to mexican drug cartels. it involves an alleged hit man who claims he's killed at least 30 people and how he has decided to open up. cnn has the details. >> reporter: their bodies were left in the back seat of a truck on a rural section of road in central florida with shell casings scattered around. they had been shot to death. for more than half a dozen years, the 2006 killings had gone unsolved. >> it was a cold case. >> no leads. until we picked it up and started going back through the case. >> reporter: that was a year and a half ago when marion county

detective t.j. watts began taking a fresh look at the evidence -- a cigarette butt was the gotcha moment. >> it was inside of a mountain dew can in the console. >> reporter: dna was tested and linked the cigarette to this man, jose manuel martinez, and watts caught up with martinez in an alabama jail where he was awaiting trial for a murder there. he had been captured in arizona crossing the border into the u.s. from mexico. watts says martinez confessed to the florida killings right away, and there was more. detective watts says martinez told him he had killed more than 30 people since he was 16 years old. why? it was, he told watts, his job. >> it's how he explained it. if he didn't do the job someone else would do it. >> reporter: martinez' story. he was a debt collector for the mexican drug cartels. he would pocket 25% of what he collected from the overdue dealers.

then he'd kill them. he told police he made $210,000 just from the florida hits. >> throughout my career, i've never sat across from a guy like martinez. he's definitely a cold hearted killer. >> reporter: in the florida case, authorities say revis was just a friend and may have tragically been in the wrong place at the wrong time. besides the florida killings, authorities have linked martinez to at least 11 killings in california, one in alabama, and possibly one in chicago. there may be more. according to watts, martinez is still talking. john zarrella, cnn, st. petersburg, florida. up next your privacy online. after the nsa leaked bombshell what can be done to protect americans from snooping? and governor christie's late night slow jam.

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joining me to talk about the politics of the week are cnn's senior political analyst ron brown stein who is editorial director of the national journal and cnn chief political correspondent candy crowley the anchor of cnn's "state of the union." ron, your latest article in national journal takes a look at this issue of privacy and the whole controversy over the leak of edward snowden over at the

national security agency and we've seen some polls come out this week indicating americans are pretty ambivalent about this and do tend to trust the government in the sense that perhaps some of these programs are necessary for national security reasons but there was the one gallup poll that indicated people thought that maybe edward snowden had done kind of a good thing here in releasing that information. what do you make of where americans stand right now about their privacy and these programs? >> ambivalence is really the right word. on the one hand if you ask narrowly i think the polls have shown that most americans, however grudgingly, are willing to accept programs like these that's usually not always been the reaction since 9/11, it's not a blank check for anything, but generally they have been willing to accept what -- those on the civil libertarian side would view as intrusions of privacy as a trade-off for security. on the other hand as our heart land monitor poll showed very clearly both in terms of national security and government on the one hand, and commercial

providers on the other, cell phone providers, internet, social media sites, there is an undeniable sense that people feel their privacy is eroding. they have less privacy than previous generations. 90% said so. over 90% expect the next generation to have less privacy still. >> what did you make about some of the talk up on capitol hill? there were plenty of lawmakers coming out of the woodwork saying hey, i didn't know about these programs. it is sort of striking how little oversight apparently the congress had over these progr s programs. what do you think is the next step? are they going to be trying to ratchet some of this down? >> i think not. i think the one thing there will be is a new legislation which will concern who gets access. i think it will be a reaction to snowden rather than any kind of reaction to this program. i think one of the things we've learned when we listened to lawmakers coming out of a briefing this week is that by

and large except for the left and libertarians more the right it is okay with them. >> let's talk about syria. obviously the white house made a very big move this week saying syria has crossed president obama's red line, used chemical weapons against rebels in syria but one of the issues that came up in the briefing that ben rhodes the deputy national security adviser had with reporters is, you know, what kind of military assistance is the united states going to provide to those rebels and how far is this administration willing to go? they're sort of in a pickle here aren't they? >> i think they haven't decided how far they are willing to go because the question is once the president gives an inch and remember this is a man who didn't want to militarily supply the rebels. we've been sending humanitarian aid but not military aid. the question is if the president gives an inch is he going to be pressured to give a mile? the answer is yes he will be. we've already heard it saying

look great to send weapons and ammunition but here is what they need. they need you to bomb the syrian airports that allow iranian planes to come in and bring bashar al assad the ammunition and weapons and sometimes the troops he needs. we need someone to enforce a fly over. we need a protective zone in northern syria. the critics will not be satisfied and the president is in a box. if you're in for a little do you then allow it to go on and maybe your side lose because right now on the ground we are told that bashar al assad is winning. if you get in, how far do you want to get in? that is going to be the pressure on the president. >> that's right. ron brownstein, i have to ask you, once the president starts moving in this direction is there really any exit strategy for president obama for the united states without bashar al assad leaving power?

>> that is very difficult and the threat is a gravitational pull. the domestic politics i think are very different on this than they were on humanitarian interventions earlier. the difference is afghanistan and iraq. i don't think we're seeing anything like we saw for example with bosnia or kosovo in the '90s. i think the dominant perspective of the public is more skepticism after those two obviously much greater interventions than any kind of push to be involved here. i think they will have more leeway to calibrate what they want to do rather than this kind of overwhelming drum beat to get deeper and deeper involved. i think it is going to be a very mixed reaction both on the hill and certainly from the public. >> the president is going to have to explain it. this is something that is going to require right. >> if indeed he does get in deeper in terms of a no fly zone or whatever it happens to be because what he has to keep pressing is no troops on ground and there is absolutely no hunger for that in america nor

in this administration so it is really up to the president to kind of lead this if he is going to move further and further toward helping and being on the side of the rebels. >> speaking of the president let's talk a little bit about 2016. you saw hillary clinton come out and give her big speech at the clinton global initiative. jeb bush made some headlines on friday when he talked about immigration and how in his view immigrants into this country are more fertile and that would be a reason in his mind to have immigration reform. ron, what did you make of this week? this whole thing got jump-started a couple notches i think. >> it sure did. it sure felt that way. first, on the jeb bush point, this week we saw an historic milestone in american history. the census reported that for the first time ever among whites deaths exceeded births. it was a reminder the population growth in this country is overwhelmingly being driven by minorities not only immigrants but native born, the under five population in that same report is projected to be majority

nonwhite possibly within this year, certainly in this decade where all the future growth in the work force is coming from. it is a real issue for the education system, for the economy, for everyone and also politically. mitt romney still got 90% of his votes from whites in a country that is 37% nonwhite now. so jeb bush i think is ringing a gong that his party needs to hear. on the other front, you know, any time you see a hillary clinton sighting it feels like we're heading to iowa soon candy, that brings us to "state of the state the union" this sunday. i assume some of these topics will be coming up. >> yes. we'll be talking to mike rogers, head of the intelligence committee, on the house side will be among our guests. we'll talk about syria and what needs to be done there. also nsa and where we think this is all going. and immigration, which by the way, is on the floor of the senate. they didn't do much this week. it looks a little bit like a hot mess right now. but we'll try to figure out what the future of that bill is. >> all right. candy crowley, we'll be watching this sunday. thank you very much for your time. ron brownstein, thanks to you as

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a year long investigation cnn has partnered in with the tampa bay times and center for investigative reporting is exposing some of the country's worst charities. we've learned a small but aggressive segment of the charity world seems to care little about helping others but

instead generates six figure salaries for charity operators and feeds a multi billion dollar solicitation industry that only cares about profit. here is drew griffin, a cnn special investigations unit reporter. >> reporter: drive down these country roads outside knoxville, tennessee, and into this small industrial park and you'll find the headquarters of a family conglomerate of cancer charities that return lavish salaries to their owners but according to their own tax records donate very little to dying cancer patients. and the last thing the people running this charity want to do is answer questions. >> don't turn your camera on me. okay? >> reporter: across the country in mesa, arizona another outpost of the conglomerate. it's called the breast cancer society. its ceo and executive director? the man escaping in the truck, james reynolds jr. >> excuse me, sir. mr. reynolds? hey, excuse me. mr. reynolds, right here, buddy.

mr. reynolds? hi. hi. can you stop a second? where you going, mr. reynolds? mr. reynolds? back in knoxville there is another cancer charity, the children's cancer fund of america. and this one, run by yet another member of the family. rose perkins. hi. is rose perkins in? >> she is not available and she is not doing any interviews. >> reporter: why wouldn't she do any interviews? she is running a charity here for kids with cancer, right? it seems like a good idea. >> it is. that's just what i've been told to tell you, she is not doing interviews. >> reporter: can you tell us what you guys do, any positive things you do with the money you collect? >> reporter: you can send your questions to her e-mail. >> reporter: okay. what is that? >> and we will answer it rncht if you were asking us for money what would you say you did with your money? >> we help children with cancer. >> reporter: how do you do that? >> what do you mean how do we do that? we help children with cancer. >> reporter: yeah, how. >> we provide them a financial assistance. >> reporter: financial assistance. do you have any idea how many -- >> if you have any other questions please send them to her e-mail.

>> reporter: okay. my question --. rose perkins did e-mail us and tell us her charity has a clear conscience because we feel we are making a good difference in people's lives. but also told us an interview is not something we can consider. that may be because of the questions we'd like to ask her and the other members of her extended family who are essentially making a living on your donations. rose perkins, the ceo of the children's cancer fund, is paid $227,442 a year. her ex-husband, james reynolds sr., is president and ceo of cancer fund of america. he gets paid $236,815. james reynolds jr., president and ceo of the breast cancer society, has a salary of $261,609. it's money that comes from

donors like you who in 2011 sent these three charities $26 million in cash. how much of those donations actually went to helping cancer patients? according to the charities' own tax records about 2% in cash. example, the cancer fund of america raised $6 million through its fund raising campaign in 2011 and gave away just $14,940 in cash. but that is not what you would hear from the telemarketers hired by the cancer fund of america run by james reynolds sr. >> how much of my $10 will go -- who is this to? >> cancer fund of america support services. 100%. >> okay. >> of the donation goes into the fund where we purchase medical supplies for these cancer patients. we also do the hospice care for the terminally ill, and we supply over 600 hospice offices with medical supplies all over the united states. >> how much of my $10 will go --

>> it will be 100% toward the charity itself. i am calling directly from the charity. >> well that's great then. >> according to the iowa attorney general's office which gave us these recordings those phone call statements are one great big lie. the callers were telemarketers being paid to make the call. the state of iowa fined the telemarketing company $35,000 for making false representations. as for donations to other charities, the cancer fund of america claimed on its 2011 tax filings it sent $761,000 in so-called gifts in kind, not actually cash, to churches, some hospitals, and other programs around the country. when we called or e-mailed those other charities to check, many of them said they did get something -- things like these supplies. but several of the groups told us they never heard of the

cancer fund of america or don't remember getting a thing. the cancer fund also takes credit for serving as a middle man, brokering transfer of another $16 million worth of gifts in kind to individuals in other charities, many of them overseas. those contributions double up both as revenue and donations on the same tax forms. back at the cancer fund of america's corporate office, even the chief financial officer who, by the way, has a salary of $121,000, couldn't explain what was happening. >> we just have all these -- pacific medical center. never heard of you. yolanda barko oncology institute, nothing. >> that's one of the ones we looked up but again you have to talk to him. >> the him is james reynolds sr., the founder who finally told us in an e-mail his board thought it unwise to talk to cnn. even though in a different e-mail he called the news a

phantom donations, quote, most disturbing. as for his son, james reynolds jr. and his charity in arizona -- >> hey, how are you? >> the camera needs to stay outside. >> can he stay right there? is mr. reynolds here? >> i am sorry. he's not in right now. >> reporter: the public relations officer for the breast cancer society kristina hixson who is married to james reynolds jr. sent us e-mails telling us the breast cancer society's guiding mission is to provide relief to those who suffer from the effects of breast cancer and that we've made a difference in the lives of tens of thousands of men and women but declined our request for an on camera interview. and when our camera found james reynolds jr., he made sure we got the message with a single finger salute. drew griffin, cnn, knoxville, tennessee. and this programming note. monday morning is a new day here at cnn. you won't want to miss it. here is a sneak preview.

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japanese, is yo sushi's original claim to fame. the flying tray seemed to test reporters' skills in snatching food off hovering plates. the ceo says the flying tray service may be in place by late summer but we're not holding our breath what's next, delivering room service via drone? dominos pizza in the uk is already experimenting with the delivering pizza by drone publicity stunt. what is it with all these food gimmicks lately? did you see what oscar meyer is doing with bacon? it's billed as the perfect father's day present. >> when words just aren't enough. say it with bacon. >> reporter: oscar meyer is selling bacon collections. the commander. the matador. the woodsman. which includes boxed bacon and a utility tool. the matador features bacon cuff links and the set sells for 28

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coming up this hour on cnn. violent protests in istanbul as demonstrators clash with riot police. we'll take you there live. facebook and microsoft say the u.s. government asked them to turn over users' private information. as many as 17,000 times in just six months. michael jackson's ghost shows up at the trial over his death. and a judge allows the testimony. you can't make this stuff up. here in the cnn newsroom i am don lemon. welcome everyone. it is 2:00 a.m. in istanbul. turkey's biggest city is seething with rage right now. just hours ago turkish security forces