governor, just give me my permit, give me my pardon, and i'll shut up. i ask god every night for two things. either free rebecca back to me or just let me forget about it. >> that beard is amazing. i've said it before, i'll say it again, it's hard not to be sell pathetic when a grown man waxes poetic about his pet raccoon. i'm not generally fond of people keeping wild animals as pets, but there is a bond there. that's it for us. erin burnett starts now. the developing story tonight, what caused a plane to crash in alabama? the fire is still burning. did the crash have something to do with something that was on board the cargo plane. at least 278 dead in cairo tonight. the obama administration still says what happened there is not

a coup. are they dead wrong about the egypt? and the 16-year-old girl abducted by her father's friend gives a surprising interview online. how she says he was able to kill her mother and brother without her knowing. let's go outfront. ♪ good evening. i'm erin burnett. we begin with the developing story. new details on the ups cargo plane that crashed near the birmingham airport. we know the plane broke to pieces, as you can see. it was an inferno. both pilots on board lost their lives and according to ntsb officials, they have not yet been able to recover the plane's black box. at this hour that wreckage is still burning. david mattingly has been at the crash scene today. what is the latest on the ground that you know? >> reporter: the people living around this airport have gotten

used to living with jet noise. what woke them up this morning is something they will never forget. the broken and burnt wreckage of the cargo plane sits in an open field a half mile from a neighborhood. nearby broken trees and power lines show how close the jet came to killing people in their homes. >> i'm just thankful that it did not kill us. that's dangerous. i mean, it was just like the plane was like this and we were in the middle. >> reporter: pieces of the plane litter barbara benison's yard. the last seconds of what had been an uneventful flight. the ups plane was out of louisville, kentucky, flying over roof tops. people say they awoke to what sounded like a flight in trouble. >> it was low and then it sounded like it was sputtering like it was out of fuel. >> reporter: seconds later fire and explosions.

>> i heard three booms. like boom, boom, boom. >> reporter: federal crash investigators are only beginning to find answers, a mystery compounded by an absence of critical communication. something really unusual here, that missing communication was from the pilots. they confirmed today a short time ago, saying that the pilots made no contact with the tower in birmingham to tell them, erin, that they were in trouble. >> interesting given what the eyewitness are saying. it sounded to them that there was trouble. when you hear about a cargo crash i'm thinking recently there have seemed to be quite a few of these. a spate of these, right? >> reporter: that's right. very high profile, in fact. we had very disturbing video that you have probably seen in the past. this was back in april at bagram air base in afghanistan. a 747 cargo plane crashes when a

heavy load suddenly shifts on takeoff. there are two other crashes 2010 and 2011 in other parts of the world. those were attributed it's believed to a problem with the cargo, as well. that lithium batteries may have contributed. when investigators start looking at every little piece they pay very close attention to what that plane is carrying. >> david mattingly, thank you very much. reporting live from birmingham tonight. our second story out front spiraling out of control in cairo. state tv in egypt reporting at least 278 people killed today in battles between supporters of the military government and the ousted president mohamed morsi. pj, great to have you on. let me start by asking this. this all comes -- it has been a month here, over a month of

fighting and battles, people losing their lives. the obama administration has avoided calling this a coup. doing so would mean $1.3 billion in american aid going away. over the past two decades, israel and egypt have been the top two recipients to get that aid. that, of course, u.s. government says would hurt national security to end that aid. does that add up? >> i think the decision to avoid calling it a coup and trigger a suspension of the aid was based on a presumption that you gain more leverage by maintaining the relationship with the egyptian military. it is the most influential and stable element of egyptian society, that we would be able to use that leverage to help egypt move along a path to inclusive democracy. obviously the events of today coupled with other violence we have seen makes it much more difficult. i would say much more unlikely that anytime soon you are going

to see a restoration of conditions that can lead in the direction that the united states wants to see egypt go. >> you have seen people say it gives america leverage but leverage to do what, calling the government to move back to democratic process hasn't happened. the u.s. said that they wanted to continue aid because it would increase stability in the middle east, but aid has gone into egypt for three decades and obviously the region is far from stable. john mccain was in cairo, and he said what he thinks it is. he was very direct about it. let me play it for you and get your reaction. >> if it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck it is a duck. >> he is talking about a coup. is it time for the obama administration to say this is it, we draw the line, enough, guys? >> i think john kerry said the right thing. the violence is deplorable and is a setback in terms of where egypt needs to go. i think under the surface there

has to be serious review of where we are and the policy that we have because it is not sustainable and not necessarily related to events on the ground. i think it is time to call it a coup. i thought it was time six weeks ago to call it a coup. suspend military assistance so the military is invested in the process of rewriting the constitution, setting the parliament and electing a new president. i am hard pressed at this point because there have been two serious incidents of violence largely responsibility of the military on top of what was a coup so precisely what does the egyptian military have to do to put military aid in jeopardy? i think it is time for the obama administration to review where we are. >> thank you very much. you heard pj crowley saying it is time to call it a coup in cairo and time to suspend u.s. military aid.

please let us know what you think as that situation desolves. still outfront bradley manning speaks for the first time in more than two months. the government has released a photo of bradley manning dressed as a woman. and the san diego mayor in trouble for sexual harassment. so when hooters turns against you, is it all over? plus facebook with a new feature. you will most likely be able to take part in. sorry, that was kind of a bummer. and later tonight's shout out, a step closer to you being able to go into space. there is an optimistic end to the tease. [ male announcer ] what's important to you?

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our third story "outfront," bradley manning dressed as a woman. let me show you this picture. take a look at this. this is bradley manning. it was released to the public today. it shows the former army analyst in a blond wig and makeup. it was the defense which used this picture. manning e-mailed it to a superior to argue he was mentally unstable when he leaked more than 700,000 classified documents to wikileaks. manning was convicted of espionage last month. right now it's the sentencing part of the trial. he could get 90 years in jail. chris lawrence was in the courtroom today. let me ask you, the defense going to great lengths to reduce bradley manning's sentence.

what were they trying to accomplish by releasing that picture of bradley manning in drag? >> they are trying to show the judge that bradley manning was a very confused and misunderstood, troubled young man who was looking for help and could not get it from the army. that picture that you saw was actually part of an e-mail that bradley manning sent to his master sergeant while he was deployed in iraq. that master sergeant never passed up the e-mail or picture because he was afraid the picture might get circulated among the unit and bradley manning would be humiliated. in retrospect, officers had to admit that not doing so was a huge mistake because if they had seen that and seen the lynxes to which bradley manning had gender identity issues, he should have been taken out of the area where

he had access to all of that classified material. >> it is ironic that the person he sent it to didn't do anything with it trying to protect him when it might have protected him to share it. manning spoke today in court for the first time. what did he say? >> reporter: he was emotional. he got a bit choked up. his family was there. they also spoke on his behalf. he basically started off by saying i'm sorry. he said i'm sorry for the people i hurt. i'm sorry for hurting the united states. he went on to say i understood what i was doing in the decisions i made, however, i did not fully appreciate the broader effects of my actions. when i made these decisions i thought i was going to help people, not hurt people. bradley manning knows he is going to spend a long time in prison. but remember he is still in his mid 20s. getting 20 years in prison is a big difference from getting 60. and that is what the defense is trying to do, convince the judge

that there are mitigating circumstances bringing his family out to try to humanize him, show his tough upbringing in order to get the judge to come up with a number on the small side, not on the high side of that 90 years. >> chris lawrence, thank you very much. pretty fascinating. now our fourth story. banned from hooters. the san diego mayor bob filner accused of sexual harassment is being refused service from all four san diego hooters locations. last night, we reported the ban from hooters. tonight the story is even bigger. ♪ >> oh, man, what's going on in our city? i abuse women. no, i don't. hard to say. >> reporter: you have to laugh but under the chuckles of mike slater's radio show you hear the rage.

>> what do you think about him resigning? >> we are saying you can't rule over us. please resign. >> it is a giant joke. that's all it is. this guy needs to go. ♪ you have to get down to hooters ♪ >> who changed the locks? can't even go back in my office. i'm not allowed in hooters. >> reporter: not allowed because of this, a sign posted in front of all four san diego area hooters restaurants that reads the mayor will not be served in this establishment. we believe women should be treated with respect. >> it's a fun job. >> reporter: for a chain that capitalizes on their young waitress' physical assets -- >> the irony with hooters is a little thick. >> i think it is very poetic. >> reporter: slater is pleased because he and glen beck urged businesses in san diego to print and post it. >> people don't realize this isn't a sex scandal. this is a lust for power. he has an absolute lust for power. that is why he won't resign. and he won't let go of that on

his own, so we have to drag him out of the castle. >> reporter: one way for a city to fight filner. he won't resign. no one can find filner, a democrat, who is away on personal leave and has not been seen in public for 21 days. the city charter says they can't get rid of him without a recall, a process that could take months. there are also legal routes, but they could take just as long. >> business is paralyzed. the city is paralyzed. things aren't moving forward. >> reporter: jerry sanders, former mayor, republican and head of the chamber of commerce he says companies are already choosing to take business elsewhere instead of san diego. tourism funds are frozen. jobs will be lost if filner continues to hold the city hostage, says sanders. >> you have to put the city first, the communities first, the people first to have someone in office who doesn't think about that in the least is an embarrassment to the city. >> reporter: and that sign that

says you're not welcome, mayor, well, it's not just at the hooters. it is at a number of businesses. in fact, we drove by one here in downtown san diego. they're just popping up. we did call the mayor's office as well as his attorney. they still did not call us back. >> thank you very much. facebook celebrity appeal. apparently facebook is testing a feature that will make it easier for celebrities to use the social network. it is reported that the new mobile tool is being tested by a small group of celebrities that make it easier for them to monitor what is going on and respond to what people are saying about them. it will help facebook compete with twitter. which celebrities have embraced with a way to communicate with fans. let's be honest. exactly how this works may be a mystery and probably won't be the celebrities using it, more than likely their handlers stuck with updating their facebook pages anyway. better just avoid facebook all together. sinkhole nightmare.

guests and staff at a resort in orlando were sent running to safer ground after a sinkhole swallowed an entire building and parent of another. but here's the question, what's going to happen to that giant sinkhole? we took a look at the most notorious sinkholes around the united states and what they look like now. >> reporter: snack dab in the middle of town, a perfect spot for a park with shade trees and a gralsy pond. if only city planners here had come up with the idea them -- themselves, instead it was mother nature. the ground opened up, 75 feet deep, 350 feet across, swallowing some of a car dealership, five porsches, and parts of a swimming pool and two streets. it is still considered the grand

daddy of all sinkholes and it was impossible to rebuild over the hole in the earth. >> if you look at florida overall, it's full of beautiful lakes. most of them are sinkhole lakes. >> reporter: near tampa -- >> i couldn't get him out. i tried so hard. i tried everything i could. >> reporter: the only person none to have been killed in florida by a sinkhole is swallowed up as he was asleep in bed. today, the house is gone and there are no plans to rebuild. even if you don't live in florida, you're not completely out of the sinkhole woods. over the years, the ground has opened up in north carolina and swallowed cars in illinois. >> sinkholes occur regularly in texas, new mexico, pennsylvania, kentucky, tennessee. a wide variety of places around the world, as well. >> reporter: look at this scene in toledo, ohio, from earlier this year. the driver was stuck in her car underground until the fire department finally rescued her. today, that spot has been paved

over as if nothing ever happened. but it's florida's natural geology, its swiss cheese bed rom that's made the sink the most sinkhole prone in the nation. just this year alone, this week's collapse at a timeshare near orlando and not par north -- >> i came over and as i was walking out here, i stepped right here and my foot went down in the hole. >> reporter: while it may seem there's a sudden rash of sy sinkholes, it has more to do with geology than geography. >> sitting on a sinkhole. still to come, what happened on the afternoon that 13 soldiers were shot and murdered by one of their own? tonight, a moment by moment account. but first, from the trial of

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welcome back to the second half of "outfront" where we start with stories where we focus on reporting from the

front lines. i want to begin with cisco. the biggest maker of networking equipment for the web, cisco says it is laying off 5% of the workforce. sales came in well short of expectations. it's global economic well bellwether. shares of cisco are falling as much as ten percent after the stock market close. the ceo of the company says that cisco, quote, isn't growing as fast as we need. outfront learned prosecutors have offered katlyn hunt a new plea deal. she was an 18-year-old florida teenager charged with having sex with a 14-year-old girl. the deal still includes a felony charge. but it means she would not serve jailtime and would not have to register as a sex offender. by all accounts this was a consensual relationship. hunt's attorney turned it down but it is not clear as to whether hunt has declined a deal. her family and she are not commenting. outfront update on the aol employee fired for taking a

picture of the ceo during this conference call. >> abel, put that camera down right now. you are fired, out. >> we have the pictures that cost the employee his job. it's not like anybody was naked or anything. armstrong said he is sorry, not for firing him but not for firing him in such a public way writing it was an emotional response at the start of a difficult discussion dealing with many people's careers and livelihoods. the parents of a 2 year old in texas are in shock. they discovered a hacker had been watching and abusing their child via baby cam. it seems the hacker gained control of a camera that connects to the web. when the parents entered the room, the hacker started yelling expletives at them. it is easy to hack into devices in the home. it took him one to three hours

to find flaws in several devices including remote control door locks. a lot of people have them. apparently they don't require a user name. it has been 739 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? stocks fell today but apple rose above $500 a share for the first time since january. this is the day after billionaire investor carl eye kahn tweeted he is taking a large position in the company. i wonder how much money he made off of that tweet. new details on exactly what happened on the day of the fort hood massacre. dozens of witnesses have taken the stand in the trial of nidal hasan. he admitted to killing 13 people and wounding 32 more in 2009. it's taken a hell of a long time to get this to trial. from their testimonies we are able to give you an account of what actually happened that day for the first time.

ed lavin dara has this investigation. >> reporter: since 9/11 major nidal hasan wanted out of the army. in early 2009 according to investigators, he started plotting a violent escape. on his computers officials found hasan was researching terrorist killings, how to plot attacks and other extremist literature. three months before the killing the radicalized army psychiatrist started buying his weapons and ammunition from this gun store. on the morning of november 5, 2009 hasan started the day at 6:00 a.m. with morning prayers at this mosque. hasan's behavior that morning was strange. witnesses say he insisted on leading the morning muslim call to prayer. even though someone else had been called on to do it. at the end he said goodbye to his fellow worshippers and told them he was going home. as he started walking out he shook hands with a friend and told him he was going on a journey. at 6:30 in the morning hasan walked into this convenience

store, a routine visit, to buy coffee and hash browns. the store owner said he looked cool and calm. hasan who learned he would be deployed to the afghanistan war zone was about to make sure that didn't happen. later that morning hasan returned home to this apartment complex and started shredding personal documents. hasan dressed himself in u.s. army fatigues, packed up weapons and more than 400 rounds of ammunition and then made the short drive to fort hood. it was just after 1:00 when nidal hasan walked into the soldier readiness processing center. what nobody knew is that hasan had the hand gun in his pocket and 16 magazines. he stuffed paper towels in his pockets so other soldiers couldn't hear the magazines clank together. hasan walked into a room filled with soldiers getting final medical approvals. preparing for deployments to afghanistan and iraq. according to court testimony, hasan sat down in a chair, placed both hands on his knees and stared at the ground for a

moment and then stood up and started firing. >> i thought it was a training exercise where, you know, smoke is in the air and gunshots going off and it would be over in a minute. and then when i saw the blood and the people running around i realized that it was not. >> reporter: the smell of gun powder, smoke and blood filled the room. hasan reloaded magazines quickly firing nearly 150 shots. hasan targeted unarmed uniform soldiers and tried to avoid civilians. red and green colored laser lights from hasan's gun flashed across the room. one soldier described it like a laser light show. some soldiers were killed instantly, left sitting in their chairs. others scrambled for cover under desks, wherever they could. michael cahill, the only civilian killed in the massacre,

charged from behind a cubicle, throwing a chair at hasan. but it wasn't enough. hasan shot and killed cahill on the spot. some played dead on the ground all waiting to figure out how to escape from the room. hasan walked out of the back door and kept shooting at soldiers trying to escape. a police officer finally fired the shot that dropped hasan leaving him paralyzed from the waist down. the savage attack had been stopped but the horror of what happened haunts the victims today. >> you just saw ed's exclusive report, the reenactment of what happened on that horrible day. it's incredible when you see that re-enactment. please let us know what you think about that. now our seventh story, a cause of death. tonight an idaho coroner reveals james dimaggio, the man accused of kidnapping 16-year-old hannah anderson was shot five times by

fbi agents in the head and chest. five times. the show down took place in the idaho wilderness this weekend. we are getting a first-hand account of the kidnapping from hannah anderson. she has been answering personal questions from random people on the social media website called ask.fm. a user asks how did he separate you from your mom and brother? hannah replied he tied them up in the garage. she was asked how did he keep the fire a secret. she responded. he had it set where it would catch on fire at a certain time. dr. jeff gardere, good to talk to you. hannah seems to be very open about this ordeal. i wanted to mention that website specifically. it is one that the vast majority of people are not familiar with with. she is taking questions from people she doesn't know around the world. she was also asked why she didn't run. she responded he would have

killed me. what do you make of what she is saying and how open she is being to people she doesn't know about this ordeal? >> i think it is a very dangerous thing she is involved in. yes, i understand that is a young person. she is trying to get back into a routine, getting into social networking and using this as a support. i would caution her that you have to be careful because this is fraught with dangers. you have people that may ask questions that you are not ready to answer and may be retraumatizing you with with information that you haven't processed this yet and she is in shock right now. there is no two ways about that so i don't think she is ready for this. >> she is a child. at 16 you don't feel that way but she is. some of the questions and answers, to your point, she was asked did he rape you. she replied i'm not allowed to talk about it so don't ask questions about it. thank you. polite, firm. what do you make of that?

that's a horrific question. people may have it. but is it one she wants to be answering? >> she is not ready for that right now. look, i admire the fact that she has the strength to go out there and do this. whomever may be advising her needs to tell her there may be wild cards out there, people trying to manipulate you, people asking you questions that may really debase you and set you back in what your journey to wellness has to be. after something so horrific. >> let me try to understand because one of the men who spotted hannah and dimaggio in idaho, he spotted her specifically. i want to play what he said about her quickly here. here he is. >> she said, looks like we're all in trouble now, or we're in real trouble now, and then we rode on out. >> obviously that seems to give a different picture of what happened. this is a girl under an incredible amount of stress and duress.

obviously, those stories don't all match. in her own mind is she ever going to be able to come to terms with what happened? >> that is the issue that she is so young. this is a jumble in her mind. we know that she is 100% the victim here. she is probably feeling some guilt in that perhaps she feels there are some things she could have said earlier. she has said that before. in order for her to be able to work with that guilt and understand it is not her fault it will take time. it will take a trained professional to get her to process a lot of these things. >> she says i will never forgive myself for not trying harder to save them. that is not something that is going to just go away. >> let's not forget that this individual probably not only manipulated her physically but emotionally and psychologically. took advantage of a 17-year-old, and those are the issues she needs to address. >> thank you very much. >> my pleasure. you know how we love hump day around here. today we decided to change it

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tonight, jcpenney is defending a tv ad that some people say encourages bullying. the outrage is directed at one scene. in the scene, a mother explains the importance of buying kids new clothes for the school year. >> i've been told this stuff can make or break your entire year. but i'm not going to pretend to know what cool is. >> that scene of the child sitting alone caused a number of

parents to vent their frustrations on jcpenney's face book page. so do they have a point or is this just a total overreaction? great to see all of you. dean, let me start with you. do these parents have a point? >> first of all, obviously things have changed. when i was a kid, you wore jcpenney clothes, you got bullied. >> they tell a lot of brands there. >> every ad tells you if you buy that product, you're going to be popular, attractive, successful. we see this all the time. when i was young, i didn't have the coolest clothes. i wanted puma sneakers. was it the most popular kid? no. did it make me become a comedian

because i need the attention of strangers? yes, probably. >> all advertisers try to pressure consumers into buying your product. apple is great for making you feel uncool for not having their product. usual live they don't target kids. having been bullied as a kid, i know how terrible it feels to sit alone at a cafeteria table. i've been there. so now to have jcpenney join in the act bullying parents into buying their clothes and bullying kids who might see that commercial into telling their parents, buy me cool clothes, i think it's a real misstep. >> stephanie, what do you think? i was thinking when i saw this today, i was remembering, and i'm not going to use names, i was remembering incidents of erin, where did you buy that and me trying to lie because i didn't have the cool brand and then being called out for it. kids can really be mean to other

kids about clothes. the fact that i still remember it, it's not a small thing. >> erin, i still remember the agony of the day my mother let my catholic school uniform down ten inches without telling me and it was humiliation for weeks. to i agree, this is just -- you know, it's classist for people who can't afford new clothes all the time. secondly, that poor kid at the lunch table was like lord of the flies. does he get killed with a rock next for not having the right flies? it is really stressful for kids enough. >> let me play a scene for you, dean. >> this is unbelievable. >> let me play a scene from "the mean girls," the movie. >> okay. >> tina, you're wearing sweat pants. >> it's monday. >> so?

>> so that's against the rules and you can't sit with us. >> whatever. those rules aren't real. >> it was real the day i wore a vest. >> you can't sit with us! >> explain that, dean. >> just so you know, that's not a documentary. it's a comedy written by tina fey. statistics show that 90% of kids do suffer some bullying in their childhood. i suffered it, too. kids are horrible. >> kids are nasty to other kids. >> but i can't believe you're not buying jcpenney or the jacqueline smith collection from kmart. >> it's a fact of childhood, but it's so tough because teachers and administrators are hamstrung how to discipline kids in public schools. parents have become complacent in defending bad behavior. now they have one more thing to go against, add to that social media, it's almost impossible to

survive as a child these days. >> just so it's clear -- >> i agree, but those who bully don't end up doing well. >> sometimes they don't. >> erin, here's what i take from all this. i would get on facebook tonight and say guess what, bullies, i have a show on cnn and you don't. but that's just me. >> i even remember the brand. but that's the point, it's memorable. dean, just from a pure perspective, this is just not smart of jcpenney? >> you're not going to have friends, and to me it's ridiculous. but every business, mercedes-benz, they want to sell them. >> they would never run an ad of you sitting alone on the curb as they kid with the kid. >> jcpenney has been reporting some tough losses in their earnings. so it seems like it's abattempt

for them to seem cool again and i don't think it works. >> they lost over $3.5 billion last year alone. >> thanks to all three of you. let us know what you think on twitter. were you bullied and for what brand, by the way? every night we take a look outside the day's top stories. every generation of billionaires has a different favorite toy, right? speaking of kids who bully. over the years, we have seen the richest of the rich compete over cars, horses planes and real estate. but now it's all about boats. if you want to be the biggest and baddest guy, you need to have the biggest and baddest boat. for the past three years, that guy has been roman abramovich. he's the proud owner of the

"eclipse," and it's been in new york harbor for a while. 70 crew members are required to operate the yacht and it's docked here in new york city. and yet it does not measure up anymore. sorry, roman, the ruler of the united arab emirates has a bigger boat. he has recently taken possession of "azam," a 591 foot super yacht. it reportedly cost $500 million to build. it has a 6,000 square foot salon. with a top speed of 31 knots, it's called the most challenging yacht ever built. built by the way in germany. most important, it eclipses the "eclipse."

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saving time by booking an appointment online, even smarter. online scheduling. available now at meineke.com. a lot of americans criticized congress for taking a five-week vacation with a full government shutdown looming. it makes it seem like washington doesn't care. at least the president is only taking a week off and preparing for something big. he's about to go on tour. next week, president obama will fire up the tour bus, and hit the road for a two-day tour which will crisscross new york and pennsylvania. the goal is to convince congress to support his propose ats for boosting the economy. we don't know which cities will be selected. the president hinted at what it will take to avoid the government shutdown. >> if washington will just shake off its complacency and set

aside the slash and burn partisanship that we seen for way too long, if we just make some common sense decisions, our economy will be stronger a year from now. this moment does not require short-term thinking. it does not require having the same old stale debates. >> slash and burn partisanship and old steal debates. the republicans obviously have refused to have any kind of jam with the democrats. we can be critical of the do-nothing congress, but in this case the president is right. we won't get anything done if the elected officials repeat the same thing over and over and over again. >> so, i expect we're going to hear a lot more of that over the next four days, more of the slash and burn say anything, do anything politics, slash and burn say anything do anything politic. slash and burn politics. slash and push partisanship. slash and burn partisanship. slash and burn. slash and burn.

take no prisoners, anything goes politics. >> look, at least he knows the top song. he plays the hits. but a two-day tour won't change the economy. i bet tickets will sell out fast. president obama slash and burn, economic recovery tour kicks off on august 22nd in selected cities. at least he'll be working. congress, not so much, they will be on vacation for a few more weeks. piers morgan is next. the postal service is critical to our economy. delivering mail, medicine and packages, yet they're closing thousands of offices, slashing service and want to layoff

over 100,000 workers. the postal service is recording financial losses, but not for reasons you might think. the problem? a burden no other agency or company bears. a 2006 law that drains $5 billion a year from post office revenue while the postal service is forced to overpay billions more into federal accounts. congress created this problem, and congress can fix it.

this is piers morgan live. welcome to