"the situation room" on twitter. tweet me or the show. thanks very much for watching. i'm wolf blitzer in washington. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. next, bradley manning found guiltile of charges for releasing classified information. but he got off on even greater charges. so, win or a loss? what does it mean for america's security? then, a brazen escape caught on tape. this one, you have to see to believe. so, you will. and sleeping on the job. stealing the contents of our luggage. this is what's happening at the tsa. a special report. let's go "outfront." good evening, everyone. i'm erin burnett. tonight, a verdict for spy bradley manning. a military judge ruled the man

accused of the largest leak of classified information in american history is not guilty of aiding the enemy, but manning was found guilty of 19 of the other 20 charges against him. so, who won? chris lawrence was there today inside the military courtroom when the verdict was read. chris? >> reporter: well, erin, yeah, i was about ten feet away when the verdict came down. supporters of bradley manning gasped. but he himself did not show very much emotion at that point, though his lawyer did have a slight smile as he heard those words, not guilty. but the most serious charge came down to wikileaks and if bradley manning giving this information to julian assange was the same as giving it to an enemy that could use it to attack the united states. private first class bradley manning snapped to attention in full dress blues. likely one of his last acts as an american soldier. he stared straight ahead as the

judge found him not guilty of aiding the enemy. but smiled slightly as the hearing adjourned. manning was convicted on six counts of espionage, as well as stealing video of u.s. military air strikes, classified state department cables and detainee records from guantanamo bay, which could put him in prison for 136 years. prosecutors could have accepted manning's guilty pleas to lesser charges in february, crimes which carried up to 20 years in prison. but the government pushed ahead on the more serious aiding the enemy charge, and critics say it never proved there was any real damage done to national security, beyond the embarrassment of state department officials when their cables went public. >> i don't think there's been any evidence put forward that either bradley mannings leaks or more recently edward snowden's leaks have put people at risk, have harmed people, have led to death. >> reporter: the aclu's ben wiesner says a conviction on aiding the enemy would have

meant anyone that shares information with the enemy could be labeled a traitor, if the information is publish and a potential enemy could read it. >> the government equates leaks with the press to treason in a way that could chill investigative joernlism. >> reporter: manning's acquittal means no appeal and, thus, no further examination of what the government considering intent to aid the enemy. >> had there been a conviction on that, we learned a lot more about what article 104 of the uniform code of military justice requires. we're not going to know that. it's going to continue to linger as an area of potential uncertainty. >> reporter: we are just hours away from a sentencing hearing, on wednesday morning, where defense and prosecutors will argue of over what is an appropriate sentence. the judge could decide to let the charges run concurrently or string them out, and come up with a number of years that manning will serve. erin? >> that number of years so important. thank you very much, chris.

republican congressman peter king, a member of the house homeland security committee and the house intelligence committee. good to see you, sir, as always. >> thank you. >> are you happy, dispointed? what word would you use? >> i'm gratified that he was convicted on five counts of espionage, plus the other theft counts. this is a serious, serious crime. and five counts, that should have a very, very significant prison sentence and hopefully it will be deterrent to other people such as bradley manning or edward snowden, that type of individual that blooechls they can disclose national secrets. >> so, the essentisentencinsent this court-martial is going to start tomorrow. he could get up to 136 years. what is the appropriate sentence? should this guy be in jail for the rest of his life or not? >> i believe he should. i believe the information he gave out was so damaging and it's hurt american interest throughout the world. i believe it cost american lives

and people in your government, deciding on their own to disclose top secret classified information, which can only help our enemy. you can't play government role yourself. you have an obligation, once you take the oath, what secret, you keep secret. you can't take it upon yourself to disclose secrets and put american lives at risk. >> so, a life sentence is fair? >> i think a life sentence is more than fair for him, yes. >> julian assange has just responded to the verdict and i wanted to play you something very specific he said. >> sure. >> throughout these proceedings, there has been an absence. the absence of any victim. the only victim was the u.s. government's wounded pride. >> what do you say to julian assan assange? >> i totally and entirely disagree with that. without going into details, this was leaked at a time of the surge in after began stan.

when it became known that the u.s. cannot protect those who are cooperating with us, that, from my understanding, caused us to lose people who would have worked with us in afghanistan, who were willing to stand with the united states, but were afraid that their names would be made public in the future, that's why they backed away. and that right there cost american lives. i can't go into other details other than to say that clearly, this prevented us from recruiting agents who would have worked for the u.s. who had been willing to work for the u.s. under the guarantee that their names and identity would never be made public. after they saw what happened here, it scared people away. >> the death penalty is off the table and you said life in prison makes sense. eric holder, the attorney general, has already taken it off the table for the nsa leaker edward snowden. he told the russians he would do so in the hopes they would give snoelden back to -- put snowden back in american custody. should the death penalty be off the table in all these cases? and i guess already it is in the

manning case, so, what about in the snowden one? >> no, i don't think it should be, but again, if it's part of negotiations between the u.s. and russia, you know, i'm not going to second guess the attorney general on that. >> is it possible, though, that the u.s. government, you know, and i say this as both the democratic administration and the republicans overreact a little bit here. snowden, i just recently was talking to a senior law enforcement official, said snowden has killed people by what he has released. but the president refers to him as a kid. the president said, quote, i'm not going to be scrambling jets to get a 29-year-old hacker as if snowden is no big deal. so, which is it? how do we know if these guys did any damage or is there a grain of truth of what julian assange said, that the u.s. government just had it pride wounded? >> this is not pride. we're talking about life and death. and i am critical of the president when he really sends a mixed message at times, for instance, he says that al qaeda

is decimated, but at the same time, he's expanding nsa coverage, which i think is necessary, because al qaeda is not decimated. when he says that snowden is just a 29-year-old kid, at the same time, the justice department is going after him on espionage charges. it's a very mixed signal. i think the president has to be much more consistent and really throughout his administration, it's been -- he says one thing, says another, and it's very mixed message, which is misunderstood by our allies and our enemies. >> thanks to peter king, appreciate it. next, the man accused of holding three women captive for a decade faces his fate this week. so, is he going to speak? and will his victims also say their peace? and a young girl fighting for her life tonight against a brain-eating amoeba. doctors say she caught it doing something a lot of us do, often, in the summer. later, president obama's so-called boys club is center stage today. so, why did "the new york times" step in? and a brazen jailbreak

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our second story, a developing story in arkansas tonight. a second jailbreak has just been confirmed in that state. two prisoners escaped from the jackson county jail early monday morning. now, this comes on the heels of a bold escape on sunday in garland county caught on tape. i mean, watch this. and the guy just sprints off. authorities are looking for 33-year-old derek estelle. he escaped with the help of an accomplice, but i mean, that video is just incredible. the guy squeezing but a window. and he is at large. david mattingly is out front

with the details. >> reporter: look quick. in less time than it takes to tell you what happened, arkansas inmate derek estelle was out of jail, out the front door and off to who knows where. it happened sunday in garland county, arkansas, and the only thing authorities are sure of, estelle got past deputies because he was not acting alone. >> they had their back turned at that time. >> reporter: authorities say estelle was being held, accused of steaming a car back in march, leading place on a chase that ended in a standoff. the garland county sheriff says this time, he dove past deputies through an intake window, when an accomplice distracted the guards. he ran out with a deputy in holt pursuit, through the parking lot, to a waiting car. >> current it will we're investigating several leads that we've received. >> reporter: one of the leads, pretty obvious. this man, almost harding, is suspected of distracting the guards and providing the getaway car. he's now in custody.

they're also looking for this woman, tamera upshaw. this mug shot is from june, when she was brought in for skipping bond and a theft charge. authorities found that getaway car abandoned just a few minutes away, with the couple nowhere in sight. estelle already had a prison record of theflt and burglary. he was facing a multitude of new charges after his arrest in march. that list is sure to grow after his escape in broad daylight. >> now, david, just amazing, when you look at the video of that, i know you've been talking to the sheriff in arkansas, but i mean, when you look at that video, the guy squeezing through the window and -- it is just amazing. what are they most concerned about? >> well, at this point, he is known to have carried a firearm in the past, when committing crimes, so, they are letting everyone know that he could be armed and dangerous. and we're also being told that, putting it out in that fashion is a way to let everybody know, this is someone you don't want

to approach, someone you don't want to try to apprehend yourself, so, they're asking everyone to send in as many tips as they possibly can and they are getting a lot of them today. >> that's just -- that's amazing. amazing it's on tape. all right, thank you so much to david mattingly reporting there. great to have him back. ariel castro, the man who held three women captive in his home for a decade facing sentencing this week. it's a really important day. castro has already pleaded guilty to over 900 counts of kidnapping rape and attempted murder. thursday's hearding is likely to include hours of testimony. now, one source items cnn this is meant to ensure he spends the rest of his life behind bars. this is going to be incredibly details. there are reports there could be chains brought into the courtroom to show the horrific conditions under which he imprisoned these women. scott, i know you had a chance

to speak with castro's defense team today, so, what do you expect from him? >> reporter: i did, a couple of hours ago talk to his defense lawyer and he tells me, erin, that he expects ariel castro to make a statement. i'm not sure how much that statement will be, but you have to wonder, is he going to try to dominate these three women again like he did for ten years in that house? is he going to try to victimize them again or is he going to apologize? i'm told by his defense lawyer that he is going to make some type of an apology, show some type of remorse. you have to wonder if you are going to believe this guy or not. >> right. and when he had a chance to speak, it was all about blaming pornography, no remorse at all that we saw. >> ye all we've seen so far, scott, the three women, that short video they put out where they thanked the public, said they wanted to move on with their lives and amanda berry, the woman who made the original 911 call, she was at a concert this weekend, you can see her there

in the front. >> reporter: yeah, that was shocking. >> it was, wasn't it? >> reporter: i heard that backstage, the taerms started coming out, just an overwhelming feeling of the support out there, thousands of people supporting her. i believe, at least one will possibly show up on thursday during the sentencing and you have to think that's amanda. she looks like she's going out publicly and that's helping her to heal and really the entire community of cleveland, to heal, too. now, you might think michelle might show up, as well. but right now, i'm hearing at least one, the other two, possibly on video. erin, you have to understand, the sentencing, according to ohio law, gives all the victims a chance to make a statement to about yell k ariel castro. you could see gina's family show up, nancy, her mom, and really make a statement to ariel castro that they are not happy with any of this. >> it would be amazing to hear them speak, of course, only if

it's, you know, something that makes them feet better about it. thank you so much, scott, who, as we said, broke so much on this story. still to come, the people that want to keep you from drinking big sodas suffered a big set back today. plus, the crash in san francisco. while have police charged men with a horrible crime related to that plane who didn't have anything to do with the actual crash? and later, the deadly high speed train crash in spain. investigators confirm exactly how fast that train was going at that instant that it killed so many, 79 people. and also, we now know tonight exactly what the driver was doing at the moment this happened. i'm here at my house on thanksgiving day,

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and we have some breaking news right now. anthony weiner, tonight, in a new video that we have just obtained here at cnn, is rejecting calls, calls that are very loud from a lot of people, to withdraw from the new york city mayoral race, despite dropping to last place in new polls, after acknowledging he exchanged extremely lewd and disgusting messages with as many as three women, although it's unclear, he could only estimate how many they are. weiner remains adamant that he is staying in. >> you know, sometimes people say to me, you know, this campaign is pretty rough, you may want to quit. i know that there are newspaper editors and other politicians that say, boy, i wish that guy

weiner would quit. you don't know new york. you certainly don't know me. quit isn't the way we roll in new york city. someone wants to come out with something embarrassing about you in your private life, you have to talk about that for a little while. >> for a little while. we'll see how long it happens. weiner has been enduring questions about the scandal at every public event since his latest disclosure that he continued to sext with multiple women, even as he posed for heartwarming pictures with his wife and newborn son. new york city's primary is september 10th. and now to our third story. t does spousal privilege apply to same sex couples? a hearing about whether a lesbian will be forced to testify against her wife in an upcoming murder trial. the stakes are high. the judge is debating whether the women should be entitled to the same rights as other married couples. here's john zarrella. >> reporter: geneva case sat in

the courtroom. a few feet away in handcuffs, her wife, accused of murder. but case is here not just to support her spouse. prosecutors are asking the judge to force case to testify as the only other person who knows what really happened. >> question at issue before this court is whether there is any law that precludes -- >> reporter: attorneys argue case should be granted spousal privilege like nil married couple. >> only because they are both women does the commonwealth kentucky seek to turn that on its head and say their relationship has no legal meaning. >> reporter: they were joined in a civil union in vermont nearly a decade ago. but kentucky does not recognize same sex marriage as legal. spousal privilege, prosecutors argue, does not extend to same

sex couples. >> we can't change the law. >> reporter: in an exclusive interview with cnn, case said her refusal to testify is less about what she knows and more about equality. so, this is really a larger issue, as far as you are rn canned. >> yes. >> reporter: this is not aboutch thing or not testifying -- >> right. to me, i think that is my right, not to testify. i think it's anybody's right, not just mine. anybody's. >> reporter: she's claimed self-defense, saying she was being raped, fought off her attacker and killed him with a hammer. two years ago, case told detectives that's exactly what clary said to her. but prosecutors still want to get her on the stand. >> a jury that's trying the case has ever right to know every piece of evidence. that's how we get the evidence before them is through witnesses. >> reporter: as clary was led out of the courtroom, she blew a kiss to her family and geneva case.

the judge did not rule today, saying that because constitutional issues are involved here, she wants to hear from the commonwealth's attorney general. now, the attorney general's office said they are going to need some time to clarify exactly what the judge is looking for and to take a look at the case file. erin? >> all right, john, thank you very much. been reporting on this story from the beginning. still to come, a new report shows our government gone wild. the number of workplace violations involving tsa employees is way, way up. these include things like sleeping on the job and stealing your stuff. but they say it's just minor. plus, a young girl fighting for her life tonight against a picked up at a local water park. we have a special report on that. and did human error cause this massive explosion at an american propane factory? american express credit card, every purchase earns you 2% cash back,

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welcome back to the second hac half of "outfront." i want to begin with a series of explosions at a propane plant. authorities believe equipment failure and human error likely caused cylinders, sort of the like the ones you connect to your gas grill to go off like bombs. residents say they saw pulsating

glow in the sky. there were 53,000 cylinders at this facility. that is more than a million pounds in all. fire chief richard keith was at home a few miles away from the plant and tells cnn said the blast sounded like a car hit his house. gay athletes and tourists could be arrested during the 2014 olympics in russia. a russian lawmaker sails the gay propaganda law that president vladimir putin is going to be in effect. this comes a day after some gay rights groups have called for a boy colt of the games. but u.s. olympic figure skater, johnny we're, married to a russian-american man sails there should not be a boycott and everyone should stand with the community to urge russian lawmakers to change their stance. he says he is going to sochi. another setback against the crew said against letting americans eat what they want.

an appeals court in new york city said the city of new york can not exercise sweeping power to create whatever rule they deem necessary. but shooting down the ban on those big double gulps may be a short-lived win for we the people. each american drank nearly 44 gallons of soda last year, which amounts to, just because we checked, 3,900 teaspoons of sugar a year. in new york, major bloomberg sails obesity is killing more than 5,000 new yorkers each year and one survey shoechls the prevalence of die bee teems has increased 31%. so, drink up but then pay the price. all right, how about this? growing human teeth from urine. this is reality now. researchers in china have found a way to recreate teeth in a lab using stem cells. that guile needs one. we looked through their reports to see how it works. the teeth are made from human urine. the success rate is pretty good for just getting started. it's 30%. the teeth have a long way to go.

they are only about a third as hard of human teeth right now. anyway, this big news about growing human teeth comes a day after we learned a dutch professor is going to cook and serve a burger made from cultured beef. it will not look like what you are looking at there. it's actually not made from beef. it's made from stem cells and the burger is going to be eaten on august 5th. you see the one on the left, the color on the bottom? the beef is gray in color and slippery in texture, like squid. it has been 724 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. yesterday, we told you about the fed going after one of the biggest money management firms in the country for insider trading. another person was indicted today, because it was not the founder and owner of s.a.c. if the government can't get him, they say they trial to go for second best, in the form of fines. now, tsa, asleep on the jop. that is just one of the violations cited in a new

government report that shows misconduct by tsa workers has increased by nearly 30% in the past three years. the tsa screens about 1.8 million passengers every day at nearly 500 air ports in this country. rene march has this "outfront" investigation. >> reporter: the list includes everything from forge little, sexual misconduct to physical fighting and using abusive language. >> there's not even a proper way to report some of the offenses. this may be the tip of the iceberg. >> reporter: offenses like a tsa screening supervisor at newark airport, who admitted accepting bribes and kick-backs from a coworker who stole money from passengers at check points. at orlando international, a screener pleaded guilty to federal embezzlement and theft charges for stealing more than 80 laptops and electronics valued at $80,000. and at new york's jfk airport,

tsa employee pleaded guilty to ste stealing $40,000 from a checked bag. the new report moments in a three-year span, more than 9,000 cases of tsa misconduct were documented. 56 screeners were involved in thefts and more than 1,900 incidents that could hurt security, like sleeping on duty and allowing family and friends to bypass security. >> if you look at a population the size of a small size, 56,000 people in this work force, and the numbers then on an annual basis are really very, very small. >> reporter: the union representing screeners says the numbers suggest the majority of screeners are doing a great job. congressman john mica, a long-time critic of the tsa, call ed for the audit. >> what is tsa doing about this? the report says they can't get a handle on it. >> reporter: the government is

calling on the agency to improve how they monitor allegations of tsa misconduct and how they follow up after investigating. the tsa telling cnn, in part, they are already working to implement the recommendations. >> all right, now, rene, i know the house subcommittee is going to be holding a hearing about so, what are they going to do about this new report? >> reporter: well, erin, we know that this report, which we have here, it will come up, most definitely, in this hearing tomorrow, in part because a representative from the government agency responsible for putting this report together will be one of the witnesses testifying. we know the deputy director of the tsa is expected to testify. >> and there was another disturbing development tonight. this was not tsa, but it was an airport employee at san francisco international. he and his fiance arrested and charged with theft after authorities say they stole leggage that belonged to passengers related to the asiana

crash, who were diverted. pretty awful thing. what can you tell us about that? >> reporter: yeah, pretty awful. we're told this man is a customer service rep for united airlines at san francisco's airport. and the district attorney's office says that cameras caught him and his fiance in the act, after stealing the luggage, some of which contained valuable clothing. the fiance reportedly returned many of the items to nordstrom, receiving $5,000 in return. both are now out on bail and both have been charged with three felony counts including grand theft. erin? >> wow. $5,000 -- incredible. all right, thank you, rene. tonight in arkansas, a young girl is battling a deadly brain-eating aimee day. doctors believe kali hardig may have been infected at a local water park, which has listen linked to the illness once before and would have served as an i deal petri dish.

there's an experimental new treatment that could be the key to saving kali's life, if that miracle happens. our medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is outfront. i know you spoke with kali's mother, so, what did she tell you? >> reporter: she told me they really are taking it wound day at a time. they are feeling some hope, because she does seem to be getting better. in the beginning, she said, they were just devastated when they first got the diagnosis. >> my husband asked, what was the prognosis for this amoeba and he explained to us that there was not a cure for the amoeb amoeba. we just both couldn't believe that we were going to lose kali, but we decided that we weren't going to accept that and we were going to start praying and hopefully our daughter would beat the odds. that's all we had to hang onto. >> reporter: now, kali is still in critical condition, but she is showing some signs of

improvement. they are even able to back off some of the medications they've been giving her. erin? >> that is pretty incredible. makes you think of the other case we've been following, with the zip line, 98% chance of not surviving and she survived. obviously, this is very rare. 32 cases between 2001-2010, i believe. but -- what are her doctors doing to try to save her? seems in cases this rare, they don't have time to do a lot of experimental drugs and stuff like that, not a lot of people to test them on. >> reporter: this hospital has really done an amazing job. from the very beginning, first of all, kali's mom was smart and brought her in when she was having a headache and feeling tired. instead of just saying, kids get viruses, it's nothing, they took it very seriously and they diagnosed the meningitis. they looked in her spinal fluid and they could see amoebas retu running around. so, erin, what they did is, they were very smart. again, they reached out to the cdc. they heard that the centers for

disease control had an experimental drug and they gave it to her and because her mom got her there so quickly, it actually work and they've looked in her spinal fluid and they don't see the amoebas anymore. now, again, she is still not out of the woods yet by any stretch, but a smart mom and smart doctors have really made a huge difference. >> miraculous. okay, thanks to elizabeth and of course you can see more of her report beginning tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. on cnn's "new day." next, does the president have a woman problem? or is it just the imagination of the op-ed page in "the new york times?" and then, someone steams more than $100 million in precious jewels. where was security? one person going into the store and just stealing it. and investigators know exactly how fast this train was going at this exact moment when it killed 79 people. and what the driver was doing at that instant. i think farmers care more about the land than probably anyone else. we've had this farm for 30 years.

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we're back with tonight's outer circle, where we reach out to our sources around the world. tonight, i want to begin in spain. officials have opened the black box from the train that derailed in that crash last week, where 79 people were killed.

investigators have discovered new details about the speedle of the train tonight and crucially what the driver was actually doing in the moment before the crash. dan rivers is outfront and dan, have they been able to find in the black box? >> reporter: erin, the black box contains crucial data on that spanish train and they have been inter galted by investigators and they though that the train was going at 95 miles an hour when the crash happened. that's almost twice the speed limit of 50 it should have been going. and they show that the driver was on the phone to a colleague rather than paying attention as he went around that curve. he should have applied the brakes 2 1/2 miles before that curve. instead, they were slammed on just seconds before that train derailed, killing 79 people. erin? >> thank you, dan. and now to france, where officials are investigating how a thief, one thief, just running in, basically, in a hoody, was able to escape with $136 million

in preeshs jewelry in cannes. some are blaming security at the carlton international hotel, where the jewelry was actually on display. there was a big sign, it was part of a big event at the time of the heist. erin mclaughlin is outfront on this story. what are officials doing to try to find this one rogue? >> reporter: hi, erin. police are scouring very say lens footage to try to identify the man behind sunday's brazen heist. meanwhile, members of the union that represents carlton hotel employees are speaking out, saying they were shocked to learn the value of the jewels on display as part of this diamond exhibition, saying that even management was amazed to learn that there was $136 million worth of jewelry in their midst. they were very critical of the hotel security systems, saying that they lack the kind of specialty system that you would find in a normal jewelry store. meanwhile, questions persist as

to how this could have happened and what kind of security needs to be in place in cannes to prevent it from happening again. erin? >> all right, thank you, erin. let's check in with anderson cooper with a look at what's coming up next. >> hey, erin. we have more on that heist. i'm fascinated by this. one group that could be conne connected, the notorious pink panther gang. tonight, my interview with the director of an upcoming documentary on the gang, called "smash and grab." she interviews five members of this gang, they reveal how they operate, from the heist, to smuggling to fencing the loot. also tonight, keeping them honest, part two in our special series. rehab racquet. we had the first part last night. shady rehab clinics. they file bogus claims for phantom patients. it's happening in california. because it involved federal medicaid funding, all of us are paying for it, nearly $186 million in state and federal tax dollars over the last two years.

those stories, a lot more coming up. >> i'm really excited about the pink panther. >> fascinating stuff. >> thank you, anderson. now, our fifth story. obama's woman problem takes center stage today. in "the new york times," this op-ed, it endorses janet yellen to take over for ben bernanke. it's been a position always held by a man and it is believed that her chief rival is larry summers. now, he is a former member of obama's economic boys club, as some people called it, which led the times to write this. miss yellen is not part of the fraternity. indeed, she's is reminiscent of other accomplished women with whom mr. summers or his supporters, have tangled with in the past. great to have all of you with us. the times goes on to say, they say, oh, she's qualified.

by the way, they both are qualified for this job. they get into the whole woman thing, saying, you know, summers had disagreements with other woman, including christina roamer and elizabeth warren. just because you disagree with a woman, that's disqualifies you? >> yeah, i think the times is making a big mistake. if they want to advocate for janet yellen, focus on her incredibly impressive record. janet yellen is a really, really strong candidate. so, by the way, is christina romer, who was a very key official during the first obama term. there are a lot of women very qualified. when you make this a boys versus girls fight, you actually detract from the fact that yellen has a very strong case to make, on her own, rather than as a woman as such. so, i think they are making a big error if they want to boost yellen. >> and dean, on paper, let's just talk about this, the qualifications. they are both qualified. they see the economy in different ways, but yellen, vice chair of the fed board and led

the federal reserve bank of san francisco. very well known. summers, former treasury secretary and the president's national economic council director, among other things. why in the world should the new york times bring up her jender? that is to me like saying, box checked to help you get it over the guy. >> i don't think they should vote getter whatsoever. i'm very in favor of diversity and

>> so you cross it and then there is another one. how about the sound and furry that signifies nothing and starts working on actual solutions? still to come, if you're a millionaire, are you rich? maybe not. mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004.

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wealthy people think a million dollars just isn't enough. but of course, we want to know what you think. how much money would you need to have to feel rich? let us know on twitter at erin burnet. "ac 360" with the pink paernlts "ac 360" with the pink paernlts starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com tonight part two of rehab racket, billing taxpayers for a bundle and how teenagers that don't need rehab at all are being recruited to help. judge mtd day for bradley manning. he leaked 750,000 classified documents and videos but the question is, how much damage did he do? jeffrey toobin and glenn greenwald and later, believe it or not, $136 million in stolen jells was the tip of the iceberg. we'll go inside a heist gang some are blaming for that crime and more than 300 other rip offs the gang known