in her car with her hands bound but otherwise unharmed. you can always follow what's going on here in "the situation room" on twitter. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. ariel castro explains why he's not to blame for kidnapping and raping three women. one of the women responds. his let's go "outfront." good evening, i'm erin burnett. out front, michelle knight and

ariel castro speak. life behind bars plus 1,000 years with no chance of parole. that's what castro, the cleveland kidnapper, is sentenced to today. he abducted the three women and held them captive for more than a decade, subjecting them to constant physical and emotional torture. knight was the only one today who chose to confront her abd t abductor face-to-face, and she didn't hold back. >> ariel castro, i remember will all the times you came home talking about what everybody else did wrong and act like you wasn't dog the same thing. you said, at least i didn't kill you. you took 11 years of my life away, and i have got it back. i spent 11 years in hell. now your hell is just beginning. i will overcome all that you put me through, but you'll be in hell through eternity.

i cried every night. i was so alone. i

now blames everyone else, blames society, and even says that what

was happening was consensual. that is the delusion that keeps someone like that alive because if he were to face what he actually did, i think he'd probably kill himself. >> martin, the state introduced new evidence today. i mean, we heard things we didn't know before, about how he abducted these women, specifically the stories, and there were a lot of pictures of the chains that he used to restrain them, of a gun. they even brought in a model of a house, exactly where they lived, showing where the women were forced to use the bathroom. what new did you learn today, martin? >> reporter: well, i mean, i guess what's interesting is, of course, this is a sentencing hearing so it should have been a arather perfunctory event, but it became a mini trial. the reason the prosecution wanted to do this was to get on the record how bad ariel castro was and just the fact that he had pled guilty and that he's got life and 1,000 years, no. they wanted to make sure he would never get out and they wanted to make sure that history new the recording of his

depravity. so that's why you saw these images of the rooms, and they weren't just rooms. they were cells. they had chains in them. and these were horrible chains, not that there's any good chain. but to look at them, they weighed over 90 pounds added up, stretched over 90 feet. you saw that this was beyond just someone being held captive. it was torture. it was depravity. and it was someone being diminished as a human being to just a sex object, which is another justification he gave. he said that he had a sexual addiction. >> and, of course, he has given that excuse, that he was himself abuses and that he had an addiction to porn. amanda berry and gina dejesus put out a statement. but michelle knight who struggled to speak before, she showed up in court. her nose is running, she is saying what she believes. why do you think she and only she chose to come today? ug,x they were all tortured,

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the attacks on benghazi. and that the cia edge abled all officers to meet with -- we are not aware of any cia employee that has experienced any retaliation or who has been prechbed from sharing a concern with congress about the benghazi incident. among the many secrets still yet to be told about the benghazi mission, is just how many americans were there. the night ambassador chris stevens and three others were killed. cnn has now learned that number was 35 with as many as 7 wounded seriously. while it's till not known how many of them were cia, 21 of them were working in the building known as the annex. the lack of -- who is district

includes cia headquarters in languagely, virginia. >> is this an lee lab rat attempt to cover it up and push it under the rug. >> i think it is a form of a coverup and to push it under the rug. and i think the american people feel the same way. we should have the people on the scene, come in and testify under oath, do it publicly, and lay it out. and there really isn't national security issue involved with -- with regard to that. >> the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia. >> reporter: wolf has repeatly gone to the house floor asking for a select house committee be set up. involving several investigators assigned to get to the bottom of the failures that took place in benghazi. more than 150 fellow republican congressmen have signed his request, and just this week,

eight republicans including senators and members of congress, september a head of the new fbi asking he brief congress within 30 days. >> the speculation on capitol hill has been that the u.s. agencies involved in benghazi at the time were actually helping to move arms, specific surface to air missiles from libian rebels to turkey to the rebels fighting in syria. we know of two u.s. agencies operating in libya at the time, one was the state department, the other was the cia. we did reach out the state department and they told us they were only helping them troy weapons that are damned or too unsafe to retain. and that -- the state department did not say anything, they could not speak, they said for any other agencies involved. that would be the cia. and erin, when you speak about

missions to the cia, they flatly will not discuss it. air rip? >> drew, thank you very much. as we all know right before that attack ambassador stevens was meeting with -- as you know we have devoted our program to the benghazi. police join us on tuesday night the truth about benghazi. wire going to take you back that night nearly a year ago. and talk to a suspect. and most importantly, we're going to be speaking to the families of those who lost their lives. tuesday night at 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. and still to come, russia declares war on the gay community. plus president obama versus the liberal media. it is true, this is a battle going on today. and the most heart warming photo of the day, a marine comes to the rescue of a 9-year-old boy.

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our third story out front, russia's crack down on gays. there's been a lot of international pressure on this, but they said today that the country isn't bowing to it. they will not suspend anti-gay laws during the olympics. anyone that goes to the olympics sochi could be arrested and deported if they're gay.

>> speed skater trains in his event physically and mentally. the only gay athlete known to be planning to compete in the games. >> i would say i'm a little bit worried. >> reporter: not afraid despite the risk. he is well aware of russia's intolerance of gays and lesbians. and they find any people who express any support of gays. the police have the power to arrest anyone who appears to be spreading, quote, prop began that of nontraditional relations." russias supports minister and a prominent lawmaker say the new law will be enforced. >> what kind of statement are you making by attending the games. >> i think it's important to stand up for this. and i think it's important for

something to say something. and that person at the moment is me. i feel there's a small responsibility on my part to voice my concerns. >> russia's laws have already sparked grass roots protests in cities around the world. los angeles pouring out russian vodka into the streets. black american jesse owen competed in the 1936 games in defiance of post hitler's nazi german regime. americans tommy smith raised black fifgts in absolute of the black power movement. for 2014, gay athletes have united saying power is to show up and not boycott the games. tennis champion and four-time olympian gaye stubs is a -- >> to be there and to say, hey,

we're here to compete and equal as everybody else. we want to go there, i think as a gay athlete, you you want to go there and compete and go there and compete and show everybody in the world that we're on level pegging with any straight athlete. it doesn't matter to us. >> and it's not just the athletes we're hearing from. we are hearing from u.s. lawmakers. senator jeff merkel from oregon says he plans to introduce a resolution in the u.s. senate that one, opposes russian laws but is demanding protection for visitors as well as spectators and the athletes. we should point out that this is a resolution and it won't have any force of law in russia. >> as you heard, vodka boy kwco are going on around the country. but are they hurting russia? still to come, russia pumps

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80 joints. >> we told us a couple of weeks ago about an actual paper version of shindler's list. you might have seen steven spielberg's shindlers list, he saved more than 1,000 jewish refugees by hiring them in his factory. the auction house trying to sell it tells us there are still multiple parties they say are interested in purchasing it. where did anthony weiner come up with the name carlos danger? he was asked that just today, and i guess he answered the question. he said it was just a joke between him and someone else, but he wouldn't comment on who that person was. meanwhile an online carlos danger name generated by the website has received more than half a million hits.

it's a man's name, carlos santiago hazard. if you ever see it on the web, it might be me. it has been a while since the u.s. lost its credit rating. the s&p closing -- fed are going to keep pumping money into the markets. now our fourth story out front. russia punches the united states in the face. it wasn't even given a head's up from russia before they granted edward snowden asylum today. this isn't the first major blow the obama administration has suffered this week. chris laurens is out front. >> reporter: edward snowden is free to live an work in russia for now. even after president obama asked them to hand him over, they gave him asylum. >> we are extremely disappointed that the russian government

would take this step. >> russia has stabbed us in the back. and each day that snowden is allowed to roam free is another twist to the knife. >> reporter: pressure is building on barack obama to capture a meeting with the president next month. >> i wish the president had made the consequences more clear to putin that may have changed things. >> reporter: snowden's asylum is the second blow to the barack obama administration this week. after a judge acquitted brandly manning on charges that he aided the enemy. he had already pled guilty to crimes that could have sent him to prison for decades. the government pushed ahead on the more serious charge and came up short. president obama claimed he had opened a newerra of cooperation with russia. but on the day of snowden's

asylum, they did not even get a courtesy call from moscow. >> we were not given any advance notice by them. >> reporter: snowden stays in the land of transparency and human rights. time to hit that reset button again. nsa officials say no one has been fired over snowden's abilitity to steal huge amounts of classified information from the computers. with snowden out of reach for at least the next year, he won't be giving any answersment and with that asylum, it means he's free to share even more information. >> chris lawrence. pretty incredible development. democratic adam shift. congressman, good to talk to you. this feels like a really big slap in the face, doesn't it? >> it does. and it's deeply disappointing, although probably not altogether

unexpected. putin has made a past time out of poking his finger in the eye of the united states. but it's all the more reason why the president shouldn't give him the benefit of a one on one meeting. that's something that he also looks to boost his credibility at home. and there ought to be significant consequences to this slap in the face and this really ignoring of international law and precedent. >> as you mentioned, the president is set to meet with the president of russia in moscow before the g-20 gathering in russia. and today they said they're evaluating the ability of a summit altogether. and i just want to play exactly what senator schumer said for you. >> the president should recommend moving the g-20 sm

summit. what russia has done is a serious blow. and i believe we should take additional steps to put an end to this chase. >> what should the president do? should he say, i'm not going to the g-20 if it's in russia? >> i think he should certainly cancel the one on one meeting with putin. i certainly favor moving the g-20 summit. but that's something they have to carefully evaluate. and they would not be inclined to move it. and you don't want to make that kind of a push unless the answer is going to be yes. but in addition to canceling the meeting, we ought to look at other ways to place our distrust with moscow. sometimes they don't highlight some of the human righted abuses in russia because they're wary of offending russia and harming other u.s. interests. that's going to have to be --

>> the whole issue that russia stood up today. and if we want to put gay people in jail during the olympics then we're going to do it. >> that's exactly right. we need to make our displeasure to those kind of steps in russia very plainly known. i would love to see people throughout the olympics games wearing rainbow ribbons on their jackets. but more broadly than that, i think we ought to take steps to expose, for example, something that i've been working on which is that journal lifts in russia who exposed corruption are routinely murdered. if he doesn't like surveillance, mr. snowden just moved to big brothers bag yard. there is no right to privacy whatsoever, where there's no right of region, the free exercise of region, assembly or speech. he needs to be careful what you wish for. >> and i wanted to say, jay

carney talked about this today talked about how the administration was dealing with it. >> we are extremely disappointed that the russian government would take this step despite our very clear and lawful requests in public and in private to have mr. snowden expelled to the yates. >> and obviously, eric holder, sort of saying i promise we don't torture him or do the death penalty. and they still did this. the president has down played this. here he was in june when he talked about snowden and he really seemed to act like i'm not going to lower myself to deal with this. here's what he said at that time. >> i'm not going to have one case of a suspect who we're trying to extradite suddenly being elevated to the point where i've got to start doing wheeling and dealing and trading on a whole host of other issues.

>> he may not want to have to wheel and deal on other issues, but you've got the gay ban, whatever we do in syria, they do the opposite. do we start to look like a u nick? >> no, i think what the president was doing and you see this is what the attorney general was doing, it was an effort not to put russia's back dependence the wall. frankly, if we wanted snowden back, that would be counter productive. to a agree that the president would get in putin's face that would not help. we basically removed any legitimate reason that putin could claim to his public for holding him. tact tickcally it was the right thing. but now the president needs to show there are consequences. and he think it would be a huge mistake to go forward with the moscow meeting and make sure that russia understands that there are consequences. they can play against us for

domestic consumption at home but they'll pay a price for that in the u.s. >> still to come one of president obama's important nominees. appear the president took the site on. he took on the liberal media. are they turning against the president? the president's profile encouragement is next. a decision by a very boring town. and now our shout out. never leaving a man behind. this photo posted on facebook shows a marine running a race in his home town. according to the post, a boy got separated from his group and said, sir, will you please run with me. and he did just that. so our shout out goes out to him for doing the right thing.

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exit from the square in cairo. a lot of people don't believe them. we're in cairo with a rapidly evolving situation. and what's been the reaction from protesters? >> despite various warnings, promorrissy demonstrators have no intention of going. in fact, they're making preparations already. they were putting together this make shift gas mask earlier in the day. it's basically a paper cup stuffed with charcoal and gauze. that helps with the toxins from the tear gas. and they're erecting more barricades. the question right now is just how bloody is it going to potentially get? >> thank you. and now our fifth story out front. obama's profell in colonel. so the president appears to be up set over the website huffington post of larry

summerers. he's on the short list of the most important job in this country. the huff positive, has it's called has criticized summers. >> the media have always had this liberal slant since the earth cooled. but what's happened is that with obama, it got completely out of hand. >> it's one month into the obama administrationing and the liberal media is still drooling and slobbering -- >> mainstream liberal media isn't likely to start pointing out that president obama has a women problem. >> oh. isn't that exactly what some of the so-called mainstream liberal media has just done. the liberal times is endorsing january yet yellin to replace him because she is a woman.

our panel. great to have all of you with us. michael the reporter for the huffington post kweeted they attacked huffington post for -- huffington post has published pretty lauer summers would be a terrible fed chairman in case you were not sure where they stood on this issue. is the president right to be up set? i mean the huffington post is one of his most loyal supporters? >> yeah, they are. and this entire spat is bizarre. i mean as a conservative who is not a big fan of larry summers or janet yellin or donald cohen, he gets to appoint the head of the federal reserve. what's a dissafr is that all three of these people are qualified. but the point is, it soipt be a

political football. the whole idea that the head of the fed is it's supposed to be beyond politics. anded administration let it get out who was on their short list. and when you do that in advance of making the pick, then of course you're going to have this kind of back biting behind the scenes. >> stephanie, the president, you know, got involved in this. the huffington post wrote something on larry summers who has had some challenges with women. but they wrote that his pick would re-open fresh wounds between summers and leading women economists who clash with him in the obama administration. you said yes, larry summer, janet yellin, both qualified. but you talked about male politician fatigue. why does her gender have anything to do with it? >> a., we won't see pictures of her private parts, lady bitted

applying about the internet. we learn not a fan of anybody, but i do agree with him that i think what's been unpress denned in this administration is that this president has not like any other president gotten his picks whether it's because so i think that he may be a little prickly and i'm not sure he'll apoint larry summers. i think he was defending him. i think he was loyal because larry summers did help him get out of the mess that george bush left us in economically. >> yes. >> as a liberal, i think he did help us get out of the mess and i think the president was personally loyal and i think he's prickly about not everybody criticizing his picks, when every other president got whoever they want to serve with them. >> we heard administration is po d frankly. if she's qualified, she's

qualified and we'll pick her why is the left wing media making this about gender? this person is qualified. we don't have to make the case, do it because they check a diversity box. >> erin, because gender is an easy story. like trayvon martin and george zimmerman, that was turned into white versus black or white hispan hispanic. it's easier to talk about man versus woman, mr. obama this is your chance to show you're in a woman's corner. forget qualifications and past policy decisions. it's about let's apoint her so we can satisfy a quota. let's play nancy pelosi. >> i think it would be great to have a first woman of the chairmen fed. yellen would be talented, not just that she's a woman. >> she's a woman. but even so, why? why not just that she's a woman?

>> well, what i want to know is why is the president talking about and going after it. the president for a guy that won two terms and seemingly confident as thin skinned as alec baldwin? why is he attacking the media? >> it's extraordinary -- >> i think -- >> final word, michael. >> erin, i think janet yellen -- >> ladies first. >> it may be nancy pelosi are doing shots after hours going really? not another man. i can't take one more internet picture. let's be safe with someone that's qualified this time. >> i'm just going to go out on a limb and say i bet larry summers would not tweet or send such a thing. i would bet my life on it. every night we take a look at the top stories for "the out front out take". from what we've seen online it seems like a nice place, it's pretty right? i feel for the citizens of bland

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art. >> italy has always stood for so many wonderful things. we really wanted to explain to these young people that there is hope, that you can get recognized, that there can be a future. >> reporter: for "out front" i'm >> reporter: for "out front" i'm malina chow. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com erin, thanks very much. the words from a man that says he's not a monster and the proud, brave words from one of the three women who says he was that, a captorer, rapist, monitor, the three women endured all of that year after year held captive by ariel castro in his torture chamber cleveland, ohio home. they were victimized but not victims. aman amanda, gina and michelle are survivors. calling them a