the culture for all of us and for the world. i think president obama was right in admitting that he slipped up. >> i think you are right. he admits it himself. thanks very much for joining us. >> thank you for having me, wolf. >> that's it for me and thanks for watching. newsroom starts now with brooke baldwin. >> we begin right now political violets. the picture told the stories here erupting all-around the world, usually peaceful cities are under fire. anti-government protesters are seizing the streets from venezuela here to the capital city of ukraine and also in bangkok, thailand where they are retaking part of that city. in kiev, to put this into perspective, this roughly the size of chicago. look at this.

these buildings are smoldering right now. these pictures, we are getting here at cnn today show fires still raging. dozens of dead. hundreds more injured and the numbers continue to rise. ukraine is a country potentially on the brink of civil war. most are protesters. many have been hurt, killed, and some have just up and disappeared. police and security personnel there throwing molotov cocktails at civilians. shooting people in the middle of the streets like the man you are about to see. just a warning, this video is incredibly graphic. so turn away if you need to. >> washington has called the ukrainian president three times.

force must pull back and deescalate the violence. protests flaired back in november. this is the big picture for you. when the president backed out of this popular deal with the eu, instead, he chose closer ties to russia and the president there, vladimir putin. it was a move that angered the people in ukraine who want closer ties to europe. closer ties to the united states. phil black is in kiev right now for us. phil, i'm hearing reports that journalists among those being attacked in the streets. it is just after 9:00 at night your time. can you set the scene for me? >> sure, brooke. here on the square, it is a large and thoughtful and much quieter crowd after we saw at independence square yesterday. after that day, terrible violence and loss of life. when there was a feeling in the crowd, the security service were

going to punch through the barricades. that hasn't happened. tonight they have the barricades and they lit the fires around in an effort to keep it away. it is personal a quieter and more thoughtful food out on the square. they have quietly spoken speeches and they prayed together. it is a day of reflection following that terrible violence and loss of life that we saw yesterday. the security services are still here in big numbers, standing a short distance away in full protective gear and now today the ukrainian government has threatened to launch what it describes as an anti-terror operation. it has labeled all the people responsible for yesterday's violence as extremists. they try to paint all of the protesters and it said it will mobilize the resources to deal with them in the coming days. >> let me ask you this. the pictures here at independence square, the times

square just to put it in context of kiev are incredibly compelling. i was talking to a colleague earlier this morning about the situation and she was telling me not two blocks away from what we are looking at is quiet. is that the case? >> it is. you don't have to travel too far. you wouldn't know that it's going on. last night when we arrived to cover this story, making her way from the airport, you wouldn't have known this is a country in crisis. it was only as we really approached the center of the city, the police roadblocks were there as they found it difficult to get through. it is really here in the heart of independence square where the camp has been set up and the protests have been taking place. either here or a short distance where all the main government buildings are and where the protests have been focused. there other protests and other

cities across the country as well. >> for us in the capital city for us. my thanks to you. i want to turn to the crisis that erupted much closer at home. the socialist oil-rich venezuela, a large crowd gathered awaiting the arrival of leopoldo lopez. the country's opposition. lopez is under arrest. he turned himself in yesterday after a final speech to all these supporters here. peaceful demonstrations have now turned deadly. opposition leaders now raising the stakes and calling for an end to socialism. standing by in caracas. the opposition leader lopez is supposed to have been in court. do we know if that happened yet? >> yes.

-- [inaudible] when we arrived outside the courthouse, several thousand protesters had gathered, but when leopoldo lopez didn't show what he brought, those protesters went on and by the end anti-riot police far outnumbered the protesters. one really does have to start a question of the opposition strategy. are they really organized enough to push now what has become one of the demands and that is the socialist government that he should resign. >> i think we lot of him. i hope he is okay. we lot of him. we will make sure he is okay. i can promise you that. we are expecting remarks from president obama very soon. we will bring that to you. also another nightmare playing out on board a cruise ship, but

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vacations are a dream for some, but one woman said her cruise turned into a nightmare. a 31er yao old american woman said she was brutally attacked by this man on a seven-day round trip caribbean cruise out of florida. he worked as a cabin attendant.

according to a complaint, he told authorities on february 14th, he delivered breakfast to the alleged victim's room. when he knocked, he said he heard a voice shout wait a minute, son of an expletive. in order for punching her in the face and he was unable to find her. he said he used his master key card to enter her room and hid on the balcony. he had accused of beating and sexually assaulting the unsuspecting woman. at point attempting to throw her off the balcony near the coast of honduras. >> there no cameras in ships that record what happens on the balcony. if he was successful in getting her off the ship, it could have been just another mystery on the high seas. >> the victim managed to escape and he faces federal charges of attempted murder and aggravated sexualual abuse since the

alleged attack happened over international waters. >> it happened before. people have disappeared from these ships. the prosecution rates are exceedingly low and this is the perfect place to commit's crime to assault someone and to throw them overboard. most people get away with it. >> that all the happened the night before in the early morning hours of valentine's day. what about the legal ramifications here? >> first thing i'm thinking is what happens when you have a crime committed on the ocean and the suspect was apparently under guard, put under guard on the ship. can a cruise line just toss someone in a contained area like that? >> yeah. the cruise line is responsible for the safety and security of everyone on the ship. absolutely. the cruise line can confine this worker because he was under

their control as well. i do think it's interesting that the fbi is involved. most people don't realize that, but if you are traveling and you are on international waters under maritime law, it's a federal charge. the fbi is investigating. i cruise all the time as you know. people don't realize when you flip over the cruise ship, there all these legal rights on the back of it. if this ends up being a civil case and she wants to sue, typically you would have to sue in the state of florida for many of the cruise lines because a lot of the tickets say that and a lot of them are registered outside of the country because of tax breaks. >> as we discussed before, there is a lot of fine print with cruising. flip your ticket over. let me get this in. holland america said this is has shaken the entire holland america family to our core. this individual was hired in 2012 that included a clean

criminal history check and he had no performance issues and came with good references. if this victim this this case sue this is cruise line, would she have a case here? >> i think so. absolutely. no question that she can sue. clearly people can see for anything, but holland america is responsible for the safety and security of their passengers. >> they vetted this person. >> even if they vetted him, there is room for a legal case. this woman was attacked. he admitted the attack. is it safe enough? you are a captive audience on the cruises. you can't go anywhere. did holland america do everything to prevent something like this? i suspect she does have a case if she chooses to file something civilly against holland america. >> thank you, thank you. appreciate it. >> coming up, michael dunn, the man convicted of attempted murder in the loud music trial was not convicted of first-degree murder, but at

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. a juror from the so-called loud music trial is breaking her silence that left a number of people outraged. her name is valerie and she was

juror number four. she and 11 others attempted him on second-degree murder changes and others. dunn fired into an suv full of teenagers in november of 2012 after arguing over their loud music. the bullets hit and killed jordan davis. dunn was not convicted of first-degree murder because the jury was deadlocked on the charge. valerie told abc news that dunn got away with murder. >> do you think michael dunn got away with murder? >> at this point, i do myself personally, yes. >> you thought michael dunn was guilty? >> yes, sir. >> of killing this 17-year-old? >> yes, sir. >> what convinced me? >> to me it was unnecessary. >> you didn't think he had to kill him? >> i don't believe so. >> you took your first poll. what was the vote? >> 10-2.

>> ten people thinking he was guilty? >> yes, sir. >> and two said? >> self defense. >> why were they so convinced he was guilty? >> we believed there was another way out. another option. >> what was the option? >> roll your window up. ignore the taunting. put your car in reverse. back up to the front of the store. move the parking spot over. that's my feeling. they watched that interview and here's reaction to that. >> we believe absolutely with all of our hearts they did everything they could to come to what they believe was the most just decision. >> i'm in constant contact with trayvon's father. i just wanted to let them know that every time i get justice for jordan, it will be justice for trayvon for us. the ultimate justice for me, i wanted him to be tried and found

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. >> just about the bottom of the hour, you are watching cnn. a difference in political opinion in the ukraine led to the deaths of 26 people from both sides with government forces turning on its own people. look at this. 240 people are at hospitals. more than 70 arrested and ukraine's army chief has just been fired. this began as peaceful protests for more westernized governments. they claim corruption and the other side said radicals are at work. president obama has just spoken. we will be getting the tape very, very soon and we will play that for you. we will look at the headlines. these are cool notes on the president's comments. he is down in the town of the mexican president and the president, president obama said they condemn in strongest terms

and they are taking place in ukraine. we have been deeply engaged with the partners and the opposition to make sure this violencents. he said we will hold the government responsible for ensuring their handling protesters peacefully. the people are able to assemble without the fear of oppression. . we are watching the tape coming in to precisely what obama said. at the heart of this thing is the people who just want a say in how their country is run. here is a glimpse into a nation divided. >> i am afraid thinking about this because these people are not going back.

>> more over, despite the fact that they blocked the metro and the roads leading in. residents are still coming. >> there a lot of people who are holding shields. the crowd and the police which we believe on the other side. >> i'm happy because there was no discussion and they have the opportunity to make a choice to protect the people that he

serves and all of the people. and compromise and dialogue versus violence and mayhem. >> that was already taking place and we continue to condemn either side. we will not resolve the crisis. >> ukraine deeply divided by language and by history and politics. russia used to rule ukraine. half the country still speaks russian. the geography here is pretty significant. many folks have had enough. they are now fighting against the government and they say they are selling out to russia. a government they say is dopely corrupt. >> i am a ukrainian, native of kiev. now i am on the central part of

my city. i ask you now to help us. this freedom is held inside our hearts, we have this freedom in our minds. now i ask you to build this freedom in our country. >> let's explain what is happening and how it sounds like history is repeating itself. jim clancy knows the region well. we were talking about the revolution. here you have and you look at the map. you have the ukraine and west and russia. it is sitting right there in the middle and it is a tug of war for a while. >> the russian-speaking population in the eastern part of the country when you look at the map, you have people looking forwards europe. they see their future in europe. the people in eastern regions and the president see the future still tied with russia. mr. putin led russia down a more authoritarian path. they have been nervous. earlier this year, three months

ago last year, november, when they decided he would toss aside a trade deal with the eu and pursue closer ties with russia and get loan guarantees and money. it would help their economy. people went out and protested. they said you are taking us in the direction we don't want to go. this is a country divided in flame tonight. beautiful buildings have been occupied and destroyed. that whole central square they called is lying in ruins and being torn up for bricks to throw at police. >> going back to ten or so years ago, you have this revolution where you have this opposition group and this leader and they are clashing. the leader leaves and the opposition gets their guy in charge. >> here does this and he was ousted so to speak. >> the previous.

>> he was in that race against the other victor. now i just told you his name and now i am forgetting it. the point is when the revolution got into power, they botched the job. they didn't save the economy. not the last election, but the before, he regained power and learned to speak ukrainian. >> why does russia care so much? what's the significance? >> it's tied to the country historically. it is seen as a part of their sphere of influence after the collapse of communism. they have few things to hold on to. ukraine is one of them. it's an important country strategically and it is being thought out over the future of their country that the protesters were out in the square and that the government is fighting so hard. giving them everything and conceding and not giving them what they want. what they want is for the direction of the country to be

towards europe and not moscow. >> thank you for that perspective. we are waiting for the remarks from the had the of the united states. he talked about that matter a little while ago. we're waiting for the tape. the president is on this one-day-trip to mexico. he touched down just about an hour ago with his counterparts both from mexico in canada. the big topic there, a pacific trade zone. 12 nations. here we have them highlighted in yellow. 12 nations that is 40% of the global economy. one problem. powerful leaders in the president's own party don't like the idea one bit. gloria borger is the chief political analyst. let's talk about really strange bed fellows. it's sort of like you have barack obama and house speaker john boehner now on one side with nancy pelosi and harry reid against them.

why? >> it's interesting because the president gave his state of the union speech back in january for this free trade agreement. the next day harry reid, the leader said i'm not for it. the very next day. the reason democrats are opposed is because of labor. labor unions believe this is eventually going to cost democratic workers, american workers jobs. i think that's a big problem for democrats. they had into the mid-term elections. they don't want to be seen as supporting anything that could cost american jobs. whether this take away authority from the congress, they don't like that. this agreement would not allow amendments to any trade packs. they kind of like to put restrictions on trade packs and

democrats are not in favor of it for that reason. >> okay. other big issues whether the president is fighting his own party. democrats are pushing the new sanctions against iran which he is a posed to that and possible changes in social security and the upcoming budget proposal. the democrats don't like that and the keystone pipeline and the president gives the green light there and he will anger his party even more. is this enough to make the white house a little concerned? >> yeah. what you are seeing is a moment in sdpim it happened with the congressional party decides it has to go their own way from the white house. congressional democrats want to keep control of the senate and there times they want to split with the white house. i would argue on the pipeline there is a commit within the party on that. there some red state senators

who would like to see the approval of that pipeline in alaska. that would help them because they can make the case that it would create jobs. constituents, but the president has an issue here. if you wanted to coombe pain with me, i will be with you. if you don't, i won't. this is a moment when everybody has to kind of go his own way because they are looking at that mid-term election. >> thank you very much. >> in washington as always. coming up, we rarely hear speaking of presidents from george w. bush. today he is speaking out and his speech in his presidential library where he talked about the veterans who suffer from ptsd and what the institute is planning to do to help them. that story is coming up. the alleged inspiration for one of the characters in the film wolf of wall street.

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. >> the lawsuit takes issue with a character named nicky rug rat and jokes about his toupee. this is pj burn. former employee and he believes his life inspired the character and he said he was wrongly

portrayed as a criminal and a drug user and toupee wearer. drew, let me bring you in. we will talk about whether this has legs as we say. i think particularly this guy is irked because the movie mocks the fact that he is wearing this toupee. not the fact that he had a toupee, but it's mocking this toupee. >> what's interesting is they have to be able to show this was a portrayal of him and they did have a nickname for him. because he wore a wig and that ties it in. no one would even know it's this guy but for the lawsuit and all of the stories like your own that are now going to tie him into the story. that's the movie itself. sayings he is calling attention to it and we now know who he is. does that have merit? can toupee mocking be a legal

thing? i find this questionable. he was an investment banker and not practicing law. he is moving his law practice or what they didn't have in new york, waiting to get sworn in and files the suit in new york. when he hangs out of his door. whose permission do they need to get? all characters involved. i imagine not. >> they do not. you have to think that with a company of this magnitude, making this film, they are consulting lawyers. when they watch that, you see the lawyers's names now.

they are making sure they are dotting their eyes and they didn't have his likeness and did everything he needed to do and he is doing everything to promote himself. >> lawyers's names in the crowd. thank you very much. coming up next, rare remarks from george w. bush today. he is speaking out about ptsd and veterans rufring for that. how he would like to help and tell their stories. cute girls here. do not miss this family. also ahead, president obama as we mentioned just spoke out about the out of control violence in the capital city of ukrai ukraine. he is placing blame on the government and we will share that sound with you, next. at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored

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to be loyal. we have good leadership and teamwork skills and develop. that should mean a lot. >> president bush said the initiative will work to end the stigma and the conception surrounding ptsd and get the help they need. american soldier sitting next to me who champions efforts is perry haley, iraq war vet injured in the arm while retrieving a military truck in 2007. he endured multiple surgeries and is disabled. he learned he developed brain tumors and with the support of his lovely family, his wife, autumn. he is trying to manage his health. i am lucky enough to have him sitting with me. this is the haley family.

thank you so much for the service to this country. let me begin with asking you, sergeant. when you can get back out into the works, how would you and all your colleagues given your time on the battlefield speaking of getting work, how would you pitch yourself to the employers back here? >> it can be complicated because the hingo is different. how you say and phrase things. luckily with the military. >> that's your daddy on tv. >> the military is starting to -- yes. they are starting to teach us how to communicate with employers thanks to people like president bush and other senators. it's a step in the right direction. >> kids, i want to hear you from and mom in a minute. take me back to what happened in doesn't of 2007. you were a vehicle mechanic

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two brain tumors. one is in a manageable place, but the other one not such in a good place. >> you are by your husband's side through the whole way, through the surgeries. while this is happening, this is happening. you have a family. you go to the doctor. >> yeah. >> what did you find out? >> that i had cancer. i had been having pain prior, but everything with charity, i put myself on the back burner. i am the rock of the family and i have to make sure we are together. finally when we had passed his brain tumors and surgery, i finally went to the doctor to find out what was going on. that's when i was diagnosed with cancer. >> wow. so all of this is happening and

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>> [speaking foreign language] >> the united states condemns in strongest terms the violence that is taking place there. >> we have been deeply engaged as well as both the ukrainian government and the opposition. to try to assure that violence ends. [speaking foreign language] >> we hold the ukrainian government primarily responsible for making sure it is dealing with peaceful protesters in an appropriate way. that the ukrainian people speak freely about their interests without fear of repression.

i want to be clear that as we work through the next sfl days in ukraine, we will be watching carefully and expect the government to show restraint and not resort to violence in dealing with peaceful protesters. we also expect peaceful protesters to remain peaceful. we will monitor the situation and recognizing that along with the european partners and the international community, there will be consequences if people step over the line. [speaking foreign language]

>> that includes making sure that the military does not step into what should be resolved by civilians. [speaking foreign language] >> so the united states will engage with all there. our interest is to make sure the

people can express their own desires. we have an integration with europe and cultural exchanges possible for them to expand opportunity and prosperity. regardless of how the people determine their future, it is the people themselves and the united states will continue to strive to achieve. >> so that is the end of what we have now heard from president obama down in mexico reacting to the fiery scenes in independence square in the capital city of ukraine.

the violence has been erupted around the world today. these capital cities normally peaceful and they are under fire. you have anti-government protesters seizing the streets from caracas and venezuela. we have been talking about ukraine and bangkok and thailand. taking parts of the city there as well. let's begin in kiev. roughly the size of chicago. it's smoldering. the fires and the smoke. these are pictures from today. fire still raging and dozens of dead. hundred more injured and the numbers continue to rise. most of the injured are protesters. many have been hurt. killed. some have just disappeared. police and security personnel tossing molotov cocktails at civilians. shooting people in the middle of the streets. just a warping, the video you are about to see is graphic.

if you need to turn away, do so right now. . >> washington called the ukrainian president not once, not twice, but times. government forces pulled back and deescalate the violence. the protests flaired up in november when the president of the ukraine backed out of the popular trade deal with the european union. instead he chose closer ties to russia to vladimir putin and that was a move that angered a lot of people who want to have closer ties to the west, to europe and to the u.s. jim acosta is with the president in

mexico. let me begin with you. we just turned on the sound from the president. sounds like he is saying the people in kiev should be able to speak freely and the answer is not violence. >> that's right and keep in mind this was not supposed to be on the president's agenda with the summit of the north american leaders with the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada. world events have intervened and the president is responding and the president made the comments with the adviser. not too far away. one thing jumped out at me with the president that said there would be consequences when people step over the line. they have already invited to that red line. president obama drew with respect to syria when he warned the regime didn't use chemical

weapons. when it was reported that they did use chemical weapons. the president came close to using military action against that country and pulled back, choosing the diplomatic route. you have to wonder what the president will do with respect to ukraine. especially when the ukrainian government seems to cozy up to vladimir putin who has been a nemesis of president obama. not just in ukraine, but this syria as well. >> the president's comments and a big picture here. i want to you explain to the viewer here in the united states. as we look at the map, it tells this story. they are stuck in the middle and figurative speaking, back and forth. >> this is not new at all. you can see that kiev is close to russia. the modern day russia.

it started in kiev. ukraine has been part of russia for 300 years. this is a very complicated relationship. many, many russians. they are very liberal and think of ukraine as an ex-pensitensio russia. they are split in 4568 between a catholic side on the west and oerth box side on the east. western ukraine tends to be more western. some is old news. a younger generation of ukrainians that clearly wants to be part of the modern world and you have this west versus east. it's like watching the cold. the pictures we are seeing are so different from what we saw in

egypt. this one has two geopolitical and dimension to it. we have great powers on either side in europe or the united states and russia on the other. >> let's talk about the relationship outside of ukraine, russia. how about russia and the u.s. the infamous f bomb, the secretary of state and victoria newland. she is talking about the ambassador to ukraine. here's part of that conversation. >> that would be great to glue it. >> we have to do something stick it together. if it starts to gain altitude, the russians will be working behind the scenes to torpedo it. >> the it here is the fighting as we have been describing which is blown out there in independence square. explain what we think she is saying going around the eu.

is she saying let's just take this u.s. and i crane? . >> they have not been trying to win them away from the russians and they put their own set of conditions and they felt frauft rated that the europeans are not -- they don't realize they have to see that the big issue is obama versus putin and united states versus russia. henry kissinger said on my show, vladimir putin probably views what is going on as u.s.-inspired and a dress rehearsal for what they would like to do. they are encouraging a regime change and hopefully in russia. whether or not that's true. that was kissinger's view of how putin is looking at the situation. the stakes are high for russia. they don't want to let ukraine

out of the sphere of influence. the stakes are high for putin because of the elected president of ukraine. because of the popular revolution, that sounds like the elected period of russia and his opposition. >> you have the putin-obama relationship which is to add an adjective, sense. you heard our president speaking in mexico to jim's point saying there could be consequences. how may that play out between the u.s. and russia? >> it's a tough one. you don't want to make a threat that we can't carry out. what would we do? we will send troops into kiev. we could do sanctions. that is meaningful because it's a trading company unlike syria

whether they are meaningless, but what would they do? they would drive further into russia's arms. if they can't go west anymore, they would trade more and more with russia and the economy is more closely tied with russia. do we want that? we have to think through what is the best strategic way to deal with this? there is no getting around the fact that we would have to have some kind of dialogue with the russians to try to figure out how we can allow ukraine to have real independence and have a real relationship with the west in a way that russia considered acceptable. if the russians viewed this as totally unacceptable, i don't see what levers we have to force ukraine out of russia's hands. >> a dialogue with the russians. thank you. watch every sunday on cnn. also keep in mind, thousands of americans live in ukraine and one american teaching in kiev

right now took these pictures are looking at and showing what life is like in a country on the brink of war. josh davis who took these photos, joining me now from kiev. josh, i know you are over there for this finite period of time. you happened to be there while this is happening in independence square. you are teaching this journalism workshop. tell me what you have seen. >> it's good timing. i got here and i spent a couple of days walking around. taking it all in. did a little bit of other sightseeing. things changed a bit last night. i walked out of the hotel room and the streets were more surreal and empty. it's peaceful there, but the city is on edge.

>> some who are ukrainian, pull up the picture that you took. the class today realized you taught and other classes were canceled. what are they telling you? how did they say they are inspiring the up risings? what's their feeling? >> that's right. they canceled classes for the university and the workshop i'm teaching is a special. the students that i had come in my class, some of them are tired. one student drove his car into the center of the city to independent square to bring food and help supporters of the opposition. my translator during the class

yesterday during the news and the deadline is 6:00 for the protesters to disburse the streets. her boyfriend was there. he's a reporter. he was having a hard time getting in touch with you. i can see you trying to fight back tears. >> the crowd looks incredibly intense. the pictures and the fires and the smoke. be safe and safe travels back to the states. thank you for sharing your photos with us. coming up next, dramatic videos from the mountains of afghanistan. a 500 pound bomb lands feet away from american troops. the whole thing is caught on camera, but it wasn't the enemy attacking and the bomb dropped by a u.s. plane. more about the mix up into the conversation and what happened there. plus power ball fever reaching a frenzy. tonight's jackpot is $400 million. we are hours away to see if we

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the protest for a more westernized government. one side claims police corruption and the other said radicals are at work. just a short time ago, you play the sound from president obama down in mexico. addressing the crisis happening in kiev. it is up to the ukrainian government to handle the growing protests appropriately. i know you listen to what he said. >> the pointed moment about what's going on in the ukraine. there will be consequence fist people step over the line. that's will there be some of the obama senior advisers that traveled with him to mexico and talked about all the different possibilities the sanctions and the individuals and the government officials.

right now the threat remains fairly vague. secretary of state vehicle was a little bit more specific earlier in the day when he spoke in paris about the situation in ukraine. >> talking about the sanctions and other steps with our friends in europe and elsewhere. in order to try to create the environment for compromise. >> the message all along here has been that he needs to reach out to the opposition and needs to compromise. they do not want to take the steps of imposing sanctions. there others who are calling for sanctions immediately including senator and senator robert menendez who chairs the former relations committee. >> you will have much more on this. jake tapper and the lead starts in a half hour from now. thank you for that.

when you look at the global victim, the crisis in the ukraine and a crisis in venezuela, just a mess. total disarray and you have iran all falling in the lap of this man. we played sound and secretary of state john kerry. kerry has come in for criticism lately, but none stronger than this. look at this from newt gingrich who swetweeted this. they must demand his resignation. a dilutional secretary of state is dangerous to our safety. that came after kerry said this. >> the climate change can be considered another weapon of mass destruction and perhaps the more fiercesome weapon. >> newt gingrich went on to tweet this. does kerry think global warming is more dangerous than korean

nukes and chinese nukes. really? here he is. newt gingrich with van jones, two of my colleagues on crossfire. welcome to both of you. >> thank you. >> good to be with you. newt gingrich is how i goat refer to you now. i believe you heard this exchange, but let's listen again. taking you back to 2007. this is you and john kerry discussing. >> what would you say to others who are resisting science. what's your message. >> my message is that the evidence is sufficient. we should move towards the steps. >> and do it urgently. >> so newt, this is 2007, it is such a threat and requires

urgent action. you have john kerry saying hey, we need to take action. you say he should resign. >> there is a huge difference. i think we can have a serious rational conversation. we can adopt positive policies and we have. i recently wrote about a brand-new plant in mississippi that does a dramatic job that the southern companies developed. there things we can do. what john kerry said on sunday in indonesia, jakarta is profoundly wrong. >> how so? >> he said this could be the greatest weapon of mass destruction and the greatest threat that we face. now, you just showed kiev. russia is a neighbor to kiev and has several thousand nuclear weapons. the iranians announced that the ayatollah, the chief dictator said nothing will come out of the negotiations. he doesn't mind them going on, but nothing will be agreed to. you have the problems of over

100 nuclear weapons. several hundred in china to suggest that climate change is comparable as a threat to human beings to these weapons i think is lunacy. >> seems like that is a misat the same time. john kerry said climate change can be considered another weapon of mass destruction. we have the files he is challenging. >> read the next sentence. no, no. read the next sentence. >> thinking down the road, we need to curb our impact. is that not a mischaracterization. he said indeed it could be the most dangerous. >> perhaps. he said perhaps. let me say a couple of things. i am proud that john kerry is willing and able and one of the few that are trying to connect the dots. he mentioned in this speech, he does talk about terrorism and the other threats. there is not a single problem withy have that doesn't get made

worse if the climate is more destabilized. if you look at syria, what's going on in syria. a million plus people because of big drought there. that became a part of destabilization. 93% of libya is arid. we have to connect the dots. i don't think it's fair when you have a secretary of state as energetic and creative as john kerry who said he should be fired over one line in the speech. i want to turn this around. since terry has been in office, you bring up syria. still the situation in iran. zero progress? >> north korea is still a mess. >> that is improving all of the situations. >> first of all, we have the iranians at the stable. we are trying to figure out a

way short of starting another ground war in the mideast to get them to back off. that's the real progress. i agree it's a mess, but i don't think the american people or the democrats or the americans wanted them to start a war. inside of not starting a war there, he has been trying to be effective. the geneva situation didn't work out well. not for a lack of trying. the idea that these problems are easy and simple to solve. john kerry is there and you can see every day he is on tv doing the best job he can. >> newt gingrich, please react, sir. >> john kerry is a sincere and energetic person. he also has a set of values and goals that make no sense. you read the speech from jakarta line by line. it is a speech that has a series of factual errors in it and sets i standard for the state. this is not a senator. this is the secretary of state

for the united states and telling them they believe the greatest danger we face is global climate change. >> among them. >> putin thought to himself this is a guy who is not in touch with reality and putin decided that he could take more risks than he has already taken when he dealed with the station that is this misfocused. >> last word and i have to go. 30 seconds. >> i respect the speaker, however that's completely wrong. you know who else agrees with john kerry? the pentagon. the cia. they all say that climate change is a major threat to national security. everybody in the pentagon should resign as well. >> ben jones and newt gingrich, we will have to have part two. >> we will tonight. >> we will watch. thank you very much. >> coming up here, a couple of stories and i know a lot of you are talking about the major

change. we will tell you which star announced he is up and leaving. very candid about his time in washington, d.c. president bush opens up about a lot of things and reveals what he misses most about sitting in that white house. that's next.

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>> president bush george w. bush pushing for more employers to hire u.s. veterans. he hosted a warrior summit at the presidential library to introduce the service initiative. they will coordinate support for military veterans, helping them transition with resources for their families and get them jobs. >> i miss air force one. in eight years they never lot of my baggage. i do miss saluting men and women who volunteered to defend our nation during war. many are coming home and are preparing for new missions. as civilians. i intend to salute these men and women for the rest of my life. since 9/11, more than 2.5 million americans have worn the uniform. they faced down enemies and

liberated millions and in so doing so, the true compassion of a great nation. they are the 1% of america who kept the 99% safe. we oh, them and their families a deep debt of gratitude. >> yes, we do. in addition helping him get work, he said the initiative will help in stigma and misconceptions around post traumatic stress disorder and help men and women in uniform to get the treatment they need. coming up next, a warping from the united nations about a nation making international headlines. the un released a 372 page report on north korea. in it, brutal details of tort ur and imprisonment. some compare them to what adolph hitler did decades ago. more on this eye-opening report next on cnn. aflac.

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i know we've been focusing so much on the intense uprising in the ukraine, but you need to see this as well. ♪ just take a moment to note, these images of resistance you would never see in north korea, a country that's made headlines for nuclear threats and its leader in this bizarre-o relationship with nba bad boy

dennis rodman. but united nations just released a report detailing a state so oppressive the authors say it does not have any parallel in the contemporary world. think about that. the commission finds there is an almost complete denial of the right to freedom of thought, conscience, and religion as well as of the rights to freedom of opinion, expression, information, and association. the images of north korea that accompany the report are disturbing. we don't have much video. we have cartoons here. these are drawings. starving people eating snakes. people tortured so severely they are throwing up. all drawn by a prison camp survivor. another survivor told the u.n. of a north korean guard beating a pregnant woman because of her crying baby and then the mother was forced to silence her child. >> reporter: with her shaking hands, she picked up the baby and put the baby face down in the water. >> john park, let me bring you in. lecturer at harvard's kennedy school of government.

and it's sick reading the details out of this report. it's got testimony from some 100-plus victims, but going through all of this, for me it was what they did to this pregnant woman. did anything surprise you? >> the document that we see right now is a collection of a lot of reports, a lot of snippets in the past. the unique thing is that it's all gathered in one document, and as -- has the united nations' seal on it. it's being taken teersly. it lays an important foundation. this is a marker of sorts going forward. >> as we go forward, we get a comment from the north korean government calling the report an "instrument of political plot to defame the regime," but again, like you're saying, even the existence of this report all in one place is crucial because why? >> the methodology is quite unique. if you look at it, there are 80 witnesses who are interviewed not only in asia but frankly all

over the world. there are 240 confidential interviews that were conducted and a number of experts who were consulted as well from those in the advocacy groups and others who researched this area for quite a while. when you look at the collection of all of these different details and the key findings, the authors, three authors, are able to lay out key findings that inform their recommendations that hopefully will guide some kind of action going forward. but even the authors are managing their own expectations. but i go back to this point that it lays an important foundation, a marker of sorts, going forward. >> when you talk about action going forward, what action? i mean, what signs are there that this -- these atrocities will stop? >> it is a tall order. there's one particular recommendation that calls for the u.n. security council to adopt targeted sanctions on those deemed responsible for carrying out crimes against humanity. those type of targeted

sanctions, though, it would be very difficult to move forward in terms of actually getting those as a resolution and implementing them. but national authorities, governments around the world, can adopt their own targeted sanctions, and there are precedents of this. but at the end of the day it really boils down to the implementation and the record there is quite thin. >> john park, thank you very much. on this horrifying study out of -- what's happening in north korea. thank you. up next, a dream come true for a teenager who idolizes playing professional basketball. the 18-year-old has down syndrome and signed a contract with the philadelphia 76ers. he hit if court and we have some heartwarming highlights next. with at&t's new pricing for families you get 4 lines on at&t's network... including unlimited talk... unlimited text... and 10 gigs of data to share. 10 gigs? 10 gigs. all for $160 dollars a month. you know, i think our family really needed this. it's really gonna bring us closer together. yep. yep. yep. yep. yep. [ family ] yep. [ male announcer ] introducing our best-ever family pricing.

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a pennsylvania teen's dream comes true to play with the philadelphia 76ers. the nba team signed the 18-year-old, who has down syndrome, and cnn entertainment correspondent nischelle turner

introduce us to this young man who has become a star player. >> from mississippi high school -- >> reporter: meet the new breakout star of the philadelphia 76ers. already a fan favorite and the center of the team huddle. his name is kevin grow. before he was a free agent, the 18-year-old with down syndrome was already a star player. for four years kevin was the manager of bensalem high school basketball team. tw two minutes remaining in the final game of the season, kevin's coach took him off the bench and put him in the game. he scored four three-pointers, knocking in this buzzer-beater. after the play went viral, it was only a matter of time before the pros came calling. the sixers signed kevin to a ceremonial two-day contract with the team. >> congratulations. >> thank you. >> i know you can shoot, but you

can play defense too? >> yeah. >> i say we give him a three-day contract. >> kevin hit the court for team practice, sporting his new custom jersey, scoring extra points with fans and family. >> the joy and love that he brings is just incredible. >> nischelle turner, thank you very much. by the way, kevin's mother says his accomplishments show others they can dream big and not let a disability stop them. awesome for him. a 3-year-old arizona girl is the youngest mensa member in her state. cnn affiliate knxv interviewed the parents of alexa martin. her parents say she has an iq, wait for it, over 160. the average person's score, like you and me, 100. >> she would recruit her bedtime stories from the night before. talking 20 to 25-page books, she would recruit them from the night before, not just resite

them, recruit them exactly. >> she's at a fifth-grade level and fluent in spanish. wow. well, i'm just going to leave it there. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. see you tomorrow. "the lead" with jake tapper starts right now. president obama personally puts the ukrainian government on notice demanding an end. but how seriously do despots take our threats anymore? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." the world lead -- a threat from the u.s. raising the specter of sanctions against the ukrainian government for the bloody crackdown on protesters in the capital of kiev. will it make any difference? the national lead. he gunned down an unarmed black teenager after a dispute over loud music. was it murder? the jury could not decide. but now a woman who served on that very jury is saying, yes, it was murder. she also says race was not