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good morning, everyone. i'm ashley banfield. nice to have you with us. it's a busy day. big show ahead. all the days news plus as always, our take on daytime justice. let's begin here. back in berlin, barack obama in the footsteps of reagan and jfk, taking a stand against nuclear weapons, urging russia to join us in slashing nuclear arsenals. another house of horrors in ohio. prosecutors reveal details of a disabled mother and her daughter
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allegedly terrorized by pythons. for more than a year. and michael jackson's daughter, described as lost and devastated, hear what paris jackson has to say to the jury in taped testimony at the wrongful death trial involving her father. and we begin with some pretty stunning allegations that one of the biggest air disasters in united states history was apparently no accident. it happened almost 17 years ago, but it is fresh in a lot of people's memories. twa flight 800 and the explosion in the sky over the waters of long island. one minute a mighty 747. the next minute, pieces falling into the ocean. pieces with people falling. every soul on board was lost. the official cause of the disaster, an electrical short. but today, dramatic claims that the ntsb's conclusion may have
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been false united statified. a documentary out next month is attempting to prove just that. >> what would your analysis have been? >> the primary conclusion was the explosive forces came from outside the airplane, not the center fuel tank. >> would that statement have been in your analysis? >> if i got the right one. >> the agenda was, this is an accident, make it so. >> joining us now is tom stalcup, he coproduced the film. these are stunning allegations. what new evidence are you actually bringing forward that should lead anyone to take this seriously, these exxroerdsly serious accusations that you make? >> well, the evidence that clearly shows what happened is the radar data. now that confirms the eyewitness testimony that everybody has heard about.
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everybody has heard about eyewitnesses see something come up from the surface and the air national guard pilot said it was an ordinance explosion in the area. we have radar data that confirms this, an asymmetric explosion coming out of the right side of the aircraft, consistent with the direction of the object that several, many, dozens of eyewitnesses saw, heading toward that plane, before it went down. >> we've heard about radar data before and it's been debunked. is this the same radar data you're looking at or something entirely flu no one has seen up until now? >> no, no, no. this is completely different. the radar data that has been debunked i agree with, is basically people saying they had the missile on radar going toward the plane. well missiles just aren't picked up by faa radar. they're like stealth fighters. they don't reflect radar very well. once they explode that's what's detected on radar and what we see. the minute this high velocity explosion occurred, right on radar at the same moment the plane loses electric power there
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is debris exiting the aircraft. the debris that exits the aircraft recorded on aircraft, it's never been analyzed by the ntsb. that's what's new and we're trying to get them to reexamine, to show the american public what really happened in this tragedy. >> if that's really what you're trying to do, and i know that you have long sought, you know, a lot of answers from the ntsb, all you need to do is show the ntsb new evidence and they open up the case, but they're saying -- and i can quote this for you -- as required by ntsb regulation a petition for regulation must be based on discovery of new evidence. at this point the ntsb has not received a petition. why would you be doing a documentary and releasing it instead of going to the ntsb saying look at this incredible radar data we've got that hasn't been analyzed before, you need to get on it? >> well, actually, within about a half hour of this show airing, that petition that you described has been given to the ntsb. we have a receipt. they received that petition and
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you're quite right, if we give them the petition and there's new evidence, which there is, they have to reopen the investigation and have to reanalyze it. we did follow that path. that's a legal remedy that is required by law they follow and we are hoping that they do. along with this documentary, which at the end of the documentary you will see family members, eyewitnesses and former crash investigators all sign that petition. >> so tom, the ntsb did exhaustive investigations on this. there was a parallel fbi investigation as well. i'm having a tough time understanding how you, this many years later, 17 years later, has evidence of radar that no one else has had or saw fit to look at up until now? doesn't this sound preposterous? >> well, exhaustsive. quite the contrary. an exhaustive investigation, what you do, you call the witnesses to testify. not one eyewitness was ever called to testify. not one. the fbi identified 670
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eyewitnesses to this crash. and the fbi wrote a letter to the ntsb days before their hearing saying please don't ask any eyewitnesss to testify and none did. >> hank hughs testified. i'm sorry. he testified before a senate committee in 1999, had some pretty negative things to say about what fbi investigators did in that hearing. he said they hammered out some of the evidence and another point that the clothing that had been compiled had been thrown into a warehouse, and mold had grown on it. that's testimony right there. >> yes. that's not eyewitness testimony. he was an investigators inside the investigation. now he did say those things in the senate but nothing was done. did the senate hold subsequent hearings to follow up on his claims? no. that has not been done. >> so, you know, listen, conspiracy theorys have abounded for years. it was destructive to the legacy of the former press secretary to jfk, who died really having his reputation torn to smithereens by some of the conspiracy
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theories about a missile having perhaps hit twa flight 800. what are you saying in your new allegations happened to that aircraft? >> well, pierre salinger was not an accident investigator. what's unique about this documentary is we have inside investigators who handled the wreckage directly that are saying this. these aren't people just on the street. this isn't just me. i have i have investigators behind me backing up everything we say in this documentary. they're saying it themselves as you said in the lead up to the show. there was an external detonation. the person that said that laid out the reconstruction of the aircraft and oversaw the entire reconstruction of the inside of that aircraft. senior ntsb investigator hank hughs who once he retired came to join us in this documentary. >> it will be fascinating to watch. tom stalcup thank you for joining me today and answering my few questions. i'm sure it will bring forth a lot more. i should remind people as well, that documentary, twa flight
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800, it premiers july 17th, and that would just happen to coincide with the 17th anniversary of that crash. it has been a long time since the expression nuclear holocaust was part of our collective conscience. those are the days of reagan and gorbachev and the cold war between the united states and shadowy figures who lurked behind the iron curtain. today, though, it's kind of doubtful whether anybody really knows where the nearest fallout shelter is. they probably don't know what a fallout shelter is. just a short while ago, though, president obama was speaking at berlin's historic bradenburg gate and calling on russia to join the united states in minimizing the chance of nuclear war from ever happening. big step in that direction, further reducing each country's nuclear arsenals by a third. famous place, famous faces. jessica yellin traveling with mr. obama, joins us live from berlin. the images are awesome. you can't be at the bradenburg
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gate without harkening back to so many moments in history. let's talk about the politics and reaction to what the president has been saying and what the president has been doing, jessica? >> well, ashleigh, it is a remarkable sight to see a u.s. president on the east side of the bradenburg gate, a place no president has been able to stand, no u.s. president, because the walls stood there for so many years. when reagan came and john f. kennedy came, they both stood on the west side and now that the wall is down, president obama was able to address a crowd on the -- where the soviet block once -- had total control. president obama made remarks that both touched on, as you say, the reduction of a nuclear arsenal. he called for a reduction by one third. but he -- by both u.s. and russia. he also more broadly talked about u.s. values, the u.s. vision for his second term around the world, and spoke to a
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crowd that had a very different sense of the obama that came here five years ago. there was such high hopes. a crowd of 200,000 that turned out to see him then. this time a crowd of less than 10,000 people. probably closer to 6,000. and that's because president obama is -- well, first of all, the hopes couldn't have met his -- his reality couldn't have met those extraordinarily exub brant expectations, but also he's continued so many of the policies of george w. bush from gitmo to drones and now nsa surveillance. he addressed all of them in the speech, the loudest applause coming when he talked about still his dedication to shutting down guantanamo bay. ashleigh? >> all right. jessica yellin, on the road for us and live from germany, thank you for that. by the way, this was the second time that the president delivered a major speech in berlin. as we said first time was back in 2008. presidential candidate obama to hundreds of thousands as jessica mentioned. they all turned out to hear the
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man that many europeans viewed as a much needed alternative to then president george w. bush. here is part of what he said way back then. >> the importance of europe's role in our security and our future. both views miss the truth that europeans today are bearing new burdens and taking more responsibility in critical parts of the world and that just as americans, we know that these walls have fallen before. after centuries of strife, the people of europe have formed a union not in berlin, but they've come down to belfast where protestants and catholics found a way to live together, in the balkans, where the alliance and wars that brought savage war criminals to justice and in south africa, where the struggle a courageous people defeated apartheid. >> joining us now is presidential historian douglas brinkley, a professor of history
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at rice university. i just want to get your take right off the bat, since it's all fresh and it's all live and it's just wrapping up, as you watch the remarks today, as you saw the backdrop, you saw the turnout, comparing it to what happened in '08, what are your thoughts? >> my first thoughts listening to the speech was that it was obama's second inaugural speech, except only for the world. he hit on climate change, gay rights. it was, you know, many of the same themethemes, sort of reintroducing himself to a world community. the headline is nuclear weapons reduction. he used a great historic setting and backdrop to do it. he evoked john f. kennedy 50 years ago. as jessica yellin said, he's speaking on the east side, not the west. it's a major speak for barack obama. it's why people like him and he delivered it quite well. it's clear that guantanamo bay is going to be closed now. >> you know, for a lot of us, mr. gorbachev, tear down this
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wall, is the legacy of ronald reagan. clearly a lot of other bits and pieces in that puzzle as well, but that's a major, major part of who reagan was and what his history is. is it -- is this the time in a president's career that he starts legacy crafting and did today do anything towards that? >> there's -- somebody is going to do a nice and important book on the collected speeches of barack obama but let's not confuse this with kennedy's very important cold war talk in berlin or ronald reagan's fighting words about tear down this wall. this was a healing speech. it's not one that's going to be that memorable. it was exceedingly well written and delivered, and has a lot of news pulls to it. but this was not a moment that is going to be a gold star on history's calendar. >> no. i mean honestly, i think if you asked a lot of people under the age of 30 right now, they'd say really, nuclear proliferation is
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still an issue? we have bigger fish to fry elsewhere. just to that discussion, in terms of legacy crafting, do you think that the legacy will sort of orbit around the night osama bin laden died? >> oh, that's going to be, of course, a big one historians are going to be talking about. but he has many. what happens to obama care, the bailing out of gm, getting us out of the great recession. but this was a foreign policy speech. it was unique he had gone as a candidate to berlin and he came back and remember, this is a nobel peace prize winning president and this was a speech that had a nobel aura to it. it was about citizenship and of peace and justice around the world. people in stockholm and oslo will be applauding a speech like this, and particularly he told people look, we're going to get our drones under control and who doesn't want to have nuclear weapons reduced in the world? there's been a lot of tension between obama and putin and particularly over syria and the
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fact that they're negotiating and we're getting rid of many stockpiles of nuclear weapons, it's a positive moment, so it's a big speech but just not a daglow one. >> doug brinkley, always good to talk to you. thank you. >> thank you. a story that should outrage us all. deprived of freedom, denied basic dignities, prosecutors say a mentally disabled woman and her daughter were held captive and these three are being alleged to be the ones responsible. the conditions unthinkable. you will not believe what you're about to hear. also blockbuster testimony at the wrongful death trial for michael jackson. his only daughter paris taking center stage on tape. >> my dad didn't like her, so he tried to like keep her away from us. >> does her testimony help or hurt the case against the concert promoter aeg and how has this young woman recovered just weeks after an apparent suicide attempt?
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>> so i'm locked in the back of a blacked out van somewhere in northern california being driven to an undisclosed location where they grow vast amounts of marijuana. >> and later, morgan spurlock, back at it with his clever storytelling. he's going to join us on cnn. hear about a brand new show "inside man" coming up a little later on.
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callahan ntsb ntsb callahancalln . this is being called a case of modern day slavery. three suspects arrested for alledgedly holding a mentally disabled woman and her daughter captive in an ohio apartment for more than a year, forcing them to perform manual labor, feeding them dog food, and threatening them with snakes and pitbulls, in conditions described as, quote, simply subhuman. prosecutors say the suspects also collected the woman's government benefits and beat her, all in order to get painkillers for themselves. the mother of one suspect calls the allegations lies. a defense attorney calls it
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ludicrous. want to bring in cnn's legal analyst paul callhan and defense attorney midwin charles. i don't even know where to begin here. i feel like we just started getting our heads around a house of horrors with three young women who had been kept as captives for ten years and then comes this. let me start with this. paul, the first set of charges that you see as a potential that these three could face? >> well, what's unusual about it, i'm starting to wonder about ohio, ashleigh. oh, my word. another ohio city with forced labor and slavery charges floating around. by the way, the forced labor charge here is a very unusual charge. you don't usually see that in criminal law. usually it involves sex trafficking when you're bringing young women into the country for prosetycusion purposes. it's an unusual charge with high exposure, 5 to 15 years tends to be the range of sentences i've seen in prior cases where it's been charged.
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>> mid wynwin, there's a child involved as well. what does that do in trumping up the degree, the severity of what these allegations are suggesting? >> well, i certainly think that it's an aggravator. you're talking about child abuse charges, kidnapping, false imprisonment and whenever you have a child involved, obviously i think the criminal justice system society at large is a lot more interested in making sure that whoever the defendant is, is really going to pay for what they've done or at least the charges are going to reflect the severity of the crime. >> paul, if you're a prosecutor in this community and you know that this thing thing is coming down the pike and going to hit your desk, what are you hoping the police are doing right now as they comb through that house? what kind of evidence are you hoping they get and what kind of evidence are you hoping they don't destroy? >> the biggest tim comes from the defense attorney who says the charges are ludicrous. he's saying we were renting rooms to them and they worked voluntarily for us, so you've got to counter that.
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you're going to need witnesses to show that they were held in servitude. i think the biggest problem the prosecutor is going to have with the case, were they locked in, chained down, like the victims in the cleveland case? there are some allegations here that they were allowed to leave voluntarily. now that would sort of mitigate against, you know, a slavery or forced labor charge. that's what the prosecutor is looking to disprove. he's got to show sort of psychological domination that caused imprisonment. >> good point. because one of the suggestions in these three -- in the defense of these three is that the woman did come and go, ran errands, outside the home, but then the counter to that is that because they held the child as ransom so to speak, either get out, do the work we want you to do and keep your mouth shut or we've got your baby? midwin, can you see where the conundrum is for both sides? >> of course. they probably used the child as a sort of, i guess, bait or what have you, in order to get her to come back. but also it's my understanding
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that she was mentally disabled or challenged, so i think that they preyed on her. she was vulnerable. so that's something that i think law enforcement, as well as the criminal justice system, gizzing to be looking into -- is going to be looking into. >> if she's mentally challenged, what kind of a witness does she make? notwithstanding whatever evidence she can find in that home, if she says, the child says, and the three of them say, and you mental, you know, challenges, how does that craft the case? >> well, it depends on the level of mental disability that she has or of physical disability or what have you. i'm sure that the prosecutors, defense attorneys r all going to try to decide whether or not she's someone who could stand trial or give proper evidence. >> it's so disquieting in every level. can you both stick around, i want you to touch on the michael jackson case coming up in a bit? >> okay. >> more riveting testimony in the trial of a reputed former
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mob boss. a hit man, john martarono is back on the stand tout and his details -- back on the stand and his details pretty chilling. if you're the executioner, what everybody calls you, i bet everything that comes out of your mouth is chilling. a live report from boston just ahead. helping business run ♪ ♪ trains! they haul everything, safely and on time. ♪ tracks! they connect the factories built along the lines. and that means jobs, lots of people, making lots and lots of things. let's get your business rolling now, everybody sing. ♪ norfolk southern what's your function? ♪ ♪ helping this big country move ahead as one ♪ ♪ norfolk southern how's that function? ♪ a .
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in boston a killer nicknamed the executioner, you know, i couldn't write this better than the facts are giving me, the executioner stares down another alleged killer in court. can you imagine the tension? the details sound like they're right out of a movie but john martorano has been taking the stand three days in a row now, testifying against reputed mobster whitey bulger. imagine the eye contact. he's calling bulger his partner in crime. it's his best friend, but he's trying to put him away right now. bulger's 83 years old, charged with a litany of bloody crimes including 19 different murders. doesn't get more serious than this. the guy on the stand is what i think you officially call someone in the business, a rat. deborah feyerick is covering the
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case and joins me now from boston. i don't even know where to begin. i would ask you the typical, you know, legal questions, how is the case, what's the testimony like? what i want to know is, are there like movie producers in there trying to write this thing as it develops? i can't believe some of this stuff that i'm seeing actually play out in real time. >> it's really incredible. you know, john martorano, in fact, has sold the rights to his life story and the movie rights to somebody already. he's just waiting to see whether it gets done. we can tell you whitey bulger's defense lawyers spent two days cross examining bulger's hitman and they suggested to the jury this was a mass murderer, a serial killer. martorano objected to the word serial killer. he said no serial killers kill because they like it. i didn't like it, he said. he basically suggested he was doing it because that was his business, that he was doing it to protect his partners, whitey bulger and steve fleming. he said the term he liked to use is the delanty. but when bulger's lawyers asked
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him about that, he said, but you aren't a vigilante because you didn't just kill crime associates you killed innocent people, you killed strangers, you even killed friends. the word judas came up because being a rat, informant as you mentioned, is central to this case and martorano looked at whitey bulger and said, you know, the worst thing you could be, my father, the nuns, the priests taught me was to be a judas, a rat, the worst of the worst. it was interesting because the defense lawyers tried to make him out to be a lawyer and ashleigh, this is one of those things, they said, you lied to your good friend before killing him, didn't you? and basically john martorano said, well, yeah, i lied to him, that was a necessity. i told john i wanted to see him. i couldn't tell him i wanted to shoot him. >> oh, good lord. >> they were able to get martorano to say there were 11 people that whitey bulger and martorano scored together. they scored a big point on that. the defense was strong, they came out firing, and they got in
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a lot of information and really i think made the jury think about what was going on, ashleigh? >> who needs "the sopranos" when you have something like this. it's unbelievable we're talking about crimes of this severity when you ask these characters at play. keep us posted. it will be out on netflix i'm sure very soon. reporting live for us in boston. speaking of mobsters, here at cnn, i have this breaking news, rats, no luck in finding the remains of jimmy hoffa. a big dig going down in michigan. everybody thought maybe this was the one. gone through so many before. no. it's oakland township and apparently nothing. nothing was turned up. did everything they could to find the former teamster boss. he disappeared back in 1975. feds have been looking for him ever since. poppy harlow has too, so she went to oakland township and it's a bust yet again, another bust. i can't believe we have to go through this over and over again, poppy. >> yeah.
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i mean imagine for his family, the hoffa kids, we can talk about that in a little bit, but this is a search, a hunt for the former teamster boss that has confounded the fbi for almost four decades now, ashleigh. just within the last hour, the bob foley, the fbi special agent in charge here, came out and told us, the media, who have been cammed out here since early monday morning no jimmy hoffa remains in the field behind me, none at all. they've searched a plot about as big as an acre. they called this a diligent search over two plus days, saying they are absolutely certain that no human remains are in that field. why did they come here? they came here because an 85-year-old guy named tony zerilli, an alleged mob underboss here in detroit, admittedly a good friend of jimmy hoffa, tipped them off, went to the feds within the last year and said, he was taken here, jimmy hoffa, hit over the head with a shovel, buried alive. the fbi says no.
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listen. >> of course we're disappointed. i mean certainly what we do in the fbi and with our law enforcement partners is endeavor to reach the conclusion of a criminal investigation. and at this point, with respect to the fact that we had no evidence uncovered, we're not at that conclusion, so certainly we're disappointed. >> reporter: now the fbi said that they vetted this information, this tip, over and over again, over months, they went to other sources to confirm it. they have probable cause to come here, but we won't know the details, ashleigh, maybe ever, of why they actually came here because the search warrant is sealed. >> you know, i've been in this news business for 25 years now and i can't even remember the number of stories like this that i've covered. we get all excited that oh, someone's got a lead on hoffa only to have it turn out this way. if i'm counting we're around four decades we've had to put up with this revisited story. are his children that dashed by this? aren't they used to this by now?
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>> they are. so we had a chance to talk on the phone, our susan candiotti today, with barbara crancer the daughter of jimmy hoffa. i spoke to the phone on her yesterday, and she said i'm not hopeful, but i'm thankful to the fbi for trying. she said the same thing today after she heard the search was called off. she's always thankful but they've been through it so many times they don't get their hopes up. another thing she said, this was interesting, she said we were brought up strong, we will remain strong and that's what he, our father, jimmy hoffa would have wanted. they're disappointed. they want to know where their father was buried after he was murdered. >> i think so many of us do as well. it's become the unsolved legend everybody wants to know. poppy harlow, thank you. so coming up, some testimony you're going to want to see in michael jackson's wrongful death trial. his daughter paris giving a rare glimpse into the pop star's life in a recorded deposition, but for the first time, you get to
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devastated without her father. that's how michael jackson's daughter is being described by the personal chef in the michael jackson wrongful death trial. a confused teenager who has refused to have any more birthday parties since her father died and even apparently attempted to commit suicide earlier this month. have a listen to paris jackson in recorded testimony about their nanny. >> get creeped out. no joke. like, the doctor, like i don't know, like when he would stay in a hotel or whatever, um, like, she would call like the hotel and say that she was his wife. like she was obsessed with him. she called, said she was his wife, and they'd let her in and he'd wake up and she'd be like in his bed. >> our entertainment reporter alan duke is live in los angeles. first and foremost, do we know
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what doctor she's referring to? the only doctor that seems to be sort of a star in this whole story is conrad player ray. are they suggesting the nanny was sleeping with conrad murray? >> no. it wouldn't have been in that time period because i don't know, but that was unclear and it he was kiwas kind of odd. it was really talking about then in nanny and why she was let go. the content of what paris said was not that significant in the trial. what was was the fact that they played it and, in fact, that is basically their announcement that we're bringing paris into the trial. the aeg live lawyers have previously said they weren't going to say if they were. i can tell you that the jackson lawyers have told the court they're not going to allow paris jackson to be brought into the courtroom. even though she's one of the plaintiffs, her doctor says she can't come. she's in a hospital after the suicide attempt three weeks ago, so they're going to have to rely on her video deposition done over two days in march. and i can tell you, in that
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video, there will be some very, very serious allegations made by paris jackson and also by prince jackson when he testifies live and we hope to bring that to you soon. >> so, do we have any sort of sneak peek? do we know in advance through any kind of discovery what sort of allegations these kids could make, whether they're in previously recorded depositions as paris' is or those other children showing up live in the courtroom? >> michael jackson confided in his two oldest kids quite a bit. prince was almost like his assistant, his number two. writing his e-mails for him, that sort of thing. he was so close to him, going to meetings. michael jackson was very frightened according to his kids -- and they're going to talk about this in their testimony -- how michael jackson was afraid of the aeg live executives promoting and producing his concert in the last weeks he was terrified. there was some testimony yesterday that the chef said, she saw him fre frightened and scared of the aeg live ceo.
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so yes, they're going to talk about how terrified they were and they're going to tell us what their father said, what he thought the aeg live executives and one of his former managers planned to do to him and it's going to be shocking. >> oh. alan, you know, it's just distressing to see her, knowing she's in that hospital room now and our thoughts go out to her and her family and hope she recovers well. thank you. so as the other children in their words start to come into play in this case, just what kind of light can be shed? as alan just mentioned, well, they suggest their father was scared of aeg, but how powerful are kids when they get on a stand or weigh in in court? our legal talk continues after this. i'm a conservative investor. i invest in what i know. i turned 65 last week. i'm getting married. planning a life. there are risks, sure. but, there's no reward without it. i want to be prepared for the long haul.
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the death of michael jackson? who is going to end up paying big or who he's not going to pay a cent? want to bring in paul, midwin back again. paul, let me start with you, what does the michael jackson family need out of these three children if they are going to put them through all of this, whether it's on a taped deposition or up there on the stand, what information do they need out of them to prove their case, which is aeg killed our beloved mike until. >> there's only one thing they're looking for and that is enormous sympathy. they've lost their father. he was a wonderful father and he's been taken away by this big, bad corporation that was just in it for the money. that's a. there are some collateral things. i think they're going to show that even the kids saw that michael jackson was deteriorating while working for aeg, suggesting that aeg executives should have known this themselves if these kids could see that their father was deteriorating. >> sympathy is a very powerful thing in a courtroom, but midwin, if you're going to be the defendant and you need to cross examine a witness, how on
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earth do you cross examine these adore dorble children who were so young when all of this happened? >> it's really hard. as paul said, these kids are the ones that were there, they were at the forefront, and they were familiar with what michael jackson looked like, what he was eating, how his physical appearance was, medication that he took, and so from the defense perspective, what they have to do is just try to show that dr. conrad murray was the one who had direct contact with michael jackson and who decided that michael jackson should take propofol and that they had absolutely nothing to do with it and would not have any way of knowing. >> all right. midwin charles, paul calllan, thank you both. the trial continues and the developments fast and furious. thank you. my next guest is an oscar nominee. how about that? now he's one of us here at cnn. morgan spurlock, the true inside man, is going to join me on set to talk about his brand new show that's premiering and he starts off with weed. how is that for a tease? [ female announcer ] what if the next big thing, isn't a thing at all?
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if you ask me, he's the world best inside man. morgan spurlock he was known for super size me and a million other things and now he's going to be known for his ability to sniff out good weed. have a look at the premier, a snippet coming up on sunday night. take a peek. >> so i'm locked in the back of a blacked out van somewhere in northern california, being driven to an undisclosed location where they grow vast
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amounts of marijuana. there's other stipulations that we have to follow now. we can't show any of the people who work there. we can't show any of the people who work there, faces, hands or body parts. this isn't sketchy at all. we're driving to a building right now. hear the dogs? they're closing the doors so that we won't know where we are. they're getting out. >> what happens next? don't leave me there. morgan spurlock, you had me at body parts. >> good. >> then creepy. >> good. >> we're about 11 minutes to lunch time, as we have our conversation we could have a bite to eat. >> yeah. >> so i brought a little bit of some of your favorite things.
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>> oh, see. look at this. big mac. >> all the stuff i would never eat. all this stuff that i would never indulge in. >> big mac for two and a couple of big tall cokes. of course -- >> that is all you. >> everybody knows you. >> that is all you. >> from "super size me." i want to watch as you stare this down. i know you like the smell, right? the minute i smell it my mouth does start watering. they're not even like real. it's not even like a real french fry. if you put this under the seat of your car it smells like it. >> i'm going to prop it up right there. if the world ended today they would find this pile of food. they would find this pile op food. i watch super size me.
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i was revolted by everything that happened to your body. i still eat it all the time. >> it's making you last forever. let's talk pot. the first episode is great. >> it was a lot of fun. >> it's a great show. it's about medical marijuana. they were saying there's no way to legalize this. i went to work in maryland. i went there and became your weed connoisseur. i was the dope guy. i was your dope man. i was
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>> did you learn anything that you didn't know? >> i tell you what i expected going in is it was place for a pun bunch of stoners. >> that's kind of what i thought. i was meeting people on six, seven, medication and they were all strung out and addicted. they are now off that medication. once they went on the medication now they are completely normal and have great relationships with their families and friends. >> it's amazing. i think there's a lot of people who come up with conditions like i can't sleep. >> i have a lot of stress. how do i deal with that stress?
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>> are they handing them out like water? >> it's pretty easy to get a card. i got mine fairly easy. >> i heard you just have to say something like i'm having trouble sleeping. >> it could be that or stress or insomnia. >> i love how you start with weed. that's pretty good stuff. what about the rest? >> we go from that to guns. guns also a hot topic. we do one about elder care and end of life care where i move in with my 91-year-old grandmother. i become her buddy. >> how did that go? >> once you move in with an old lady funny things happen. it was pretty
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>> how did all this come about? how did it end up you chose these topics? >> you dare me to eat one of these? you absolutely will not eat one of these. i had a feeling you were telling the truth. >> i do love them but they're not food. it's not real food. it's like you're biting into beef plastic. >> they are very real. >> it's like beef plastic. >> i can't wait to see what you got
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some say that doctors make the worst patients but in this particular doctors's case her cancer diagnosis really motiv e motivated her to help other people who were dealing with the same kinds of things. i want you to meet dr. johnson in today's human factor. >> her research got national attention. >> kate says advanced breast cancer in younger women is on the rise. that's the alarming headline. >> it was dr. rebecca johnson's own diagnosis at age 27 that
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motivated her to conduct the study in the first place. >> when i was diagnosed i was trying to figure out how common bre breast cancer was in young woman. all the articles i read said brother and sister cancer was rare in young woman. she discovered a lump in her chest. >> i looked over at the surgeon and his eyes were huge and i said what. he said i think this is cancer. >> four rounds of chemo quickly followed. today she heads the addleprogra. her patients are in their teens to mid-20s. when she's not at the hospital she's conducting research on cancer in younger people. she wants to give her patients fie value information that she
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didn't have when she was in treatment. >> chance to be able to do something for these patients that are having a hard time in way that i understand very well. it's a tremendous opportunity. >> dr. sanjay gupta. >> thank you for watching. "around the world" is next. 230 people died when twa flight exploded over long island. the makers of a new documentary says they have proof that their deaths were caused by an explosion outside the plane. after two and a half years on the run and a fugitive american professor is finally captured while sitting in a cafe in a mexican resort town. brand new details on the birth of the royal baby. it's a private wing i
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