the country. as we head towards tomorrow what we're going to see is temperatures continuing to rise here. 70 in minneapolis for your sunday and 82 in denver and atlanta only at 67 and holding at the 70s in the northeast tomorrow, as well. have a good day. >> thank you, alexandra. >> we'll be back here in an hour. >> smerconish is now. hey, good morning, i'm michael smercsmercn onish. mccain send u.s. special forces to rescue nigerian girls. that's a call by arizona's senior senator john mccain to put boots on the ground in nijoria. this coming thursday the house foreign affairs will convene a special hearing to examine the white house response of boco haram. the u.s. has promised to help

nigeria rescue those girls. so far some 50 advisors are there and the u.s. is flying intelligence flights over parts of that country. the former deputy director of the cia counterterrorism center knows exactly what it means to use u.s. intelligence in terror hot spots and phil mudd is here this morning a ranking member of the house foreign affairs committee convening next week's hearing is elliot engel. i want to play sound from high-ranking members of congress about the u.s. role in the crisis. >> i would like to see special forces deployed to help rescue these young girls. >> if the president decided to use special forces, i certainly would not oppose them. >> i would utilize every tool that we have to rescue these young girls. and that means it would be done surgically, it could be done in a way that is very efficient. but for us not to do that, in my

view, would be an obligation of our responsibilities. >> a lot of tough talk from your colleagues. do you buy into what you just heard? >> you're hearing from the frustration. these girls are captured and what happened to them is horrible and we feel frustrated bout not being able to do anything. but it's easier said than done. i don't know whether boots on the ground would accomplish anything. you you know, if we put boots on the ground and then god forbid girls were killed they would say we botched the operation. i think we have to be very, very careful and see what all our options are as the days go by and do what we can to save the girls but i think we have to be realistic. >> phil, if the lawmakers make the decision to go and then they come to guys like you, how practical and can we pull this off? what are some dynamics going through your mind as you assess the issue? >> how well can we look at the site if we can't even locate it. do we understand what the

intentions of the adversary are and the second in the reality is think of these compounded factors. we want a geographic space that is presumably pretty large. 230 girls that might be held in different locations and, three, unpredictable hostage holders who might shoot these girls as soon as you show up. nice to talk about special forces. but if you took these three characteristics and lined them up, this is going to be tragic. >> this is something we should be doing so long as it is contained, discreet, targeted and humanitarian. easier said than done. >> how about no. you're taking those characteristics and telling me you're putting a u.s. boy or girl in the line of fire and those are the characteristics you have to meet, it's not going to happen. >> the u.s. government looks weak if, in fact, we're not directly involved in a situation like boco haram. >> i think we're directly involved. we're trying to work with the nigerian government and there are problems with the nigerian military and all kinds of problems not a plaque and white

issue. i want to save the girls as much as anyone and i hope we can and i hope we will and all things going on behind the scenes that we don't even know about yet. we are doing everything we can. but whether or not i agree with phil and whether or not we send special forces there and god forbid someone gets killed, then we botched the job. >> was secretary clinton slow at the switch in designating them as a terror group? >> i don't think it matters one way or another. they are a terror group and designated them as a terrorist group. i think the problem really lies more with the nigerian military and the fact that it's very difficult to coordinate with them because there is corruption, there's incompetence. it is, again, easier said than done. >> are we spoiled by the success of seal team 6 in abodbad. there were no casualties, thank god and they completed that mission and therefore we think this is easy. look at these guys in nigeria.

we could overpower them and free all those school girls. >> you look not only against the operation against bin laden. i remember reacting to that when i was just out of cia. this is on the verge of a miracle that everything worked right there. the operations of drones and standoff operations and say we can do this without putting a human life at risk and with that many girls on the ground. either the girls are going to die or the captors are going to die. just not going to be clean. >> from a gathering intelligence standpoint how difficult, i know you're out of the business these days. i never buy that with guys like you. how difficult do you think it is to get data? >> never out of the business. two pieces of data that you can focus on. the imagery data and the data from the drone that gives you a sense of where the camp is and what's happening. the second is technical data. the complication here, though, is what we call human. human sources. my guess is the nigerians have

alienated boko haram that it's difficult to recruit members. >> you are the ranking democrat on the committee that will convene this wednesday and i also looked at a statement from the chairman and much tougher talk than you're offering here. what would be the net of the wednesday hearing? >> well, we have representative from the state department and one from the defense department and we really want to hear what our options are. conducting this hearing together in a bipartisan fashion which we try very hard to do on the foreign affairs committee and i think our views on this are not dissimilar. we want to rescue those girls and also do what's feasible. we want to listen to our witnesses, see what they have to say and make our decisions then. it's very easy to sort of be emotional and say, well, rescue those girls and put boots on the ground but, again, we don't know if the girls are still all in one place. we don't even know if they're all alive. >> i know we're catching you both cold and i'm about to put

my own headline on this story. if you were writing a headline on this story, what would the headline be? phil, anything come to the top of the mind? >> tragedy impending. this is going to be, there will be a capture operation at some point give on the complicated nature of the target and the geographic dispersal all of these girls, someone is going to die. >> congressman, what headline would you put on this story? >> i think phil is quite right on that. it's easier said than done. we tried and we did our best and hopefully it will be enough. >> here comes mine, you remember that original headline, put that up. we'll go back to the original headline. mccain send u.s. special forces to rescue nigerian girls. no vital u.s. interest, no troops. gentlemen, thank you for being here. donald sterling's rant and michael sam's kiss both raise the bigger issue, what are you free to say or do without fear of condemnation?

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mistake and i'm apologizing and asking for forgiveness. am i entitled to one mistake after 35 years? i love my league and i love my partners. am i entitled to one mistake? it's a terrible mistake and i'll never do it again. >> his ban raises questions about free speech and so does this. last saturday michael sam became the first openly gay player drafted by the nfl. when he got the call he kissed and hugged his boyfriend. their show of affection got a huge reaction on social media, positive and negative. one miami dolphins player tweeted omg and horrible. don jones has since deleted those comments, but he got suspended and has to go to a form of sensitivity training. cedric maxwell played for the clippers and radio broadcaster and noted first amendment attorney who was one of the first to raise this free speech issue on cnn.com. gentlemen, thank you for joining

us now. cedric, i have to say when i saw the tweet from the miami dolphin player i thought of you because about two weeks ago here on cnn you were the one who said to me, i'm worried about the slippery slope and where this is all leading. i guess you're entitled to an "i told you so." >> it is true. i think this way about it. slippery slope and everything that goes wrong. we talked about over and over again that there are going to be some people who are going to get in trouble because of this. the problem i have, michael, is one thing. you know i am very much about everybody living their lifestyle, but at the same time, you cannot say anything that might be negative about anybody living a different lifestyle without being persecuted yourself. that, to me, is going way over the top. you are giving those kind of people that much more power if you're telling people who have an opinion that they can't use it because it's different. >> hey, mark, in "usa today" ken paulson wrote on this very

subiesu subject and he said imagine what would have happened if the dolphin player congratulations to michael sam and it offends my deepest religious beliefs. i think he raised a great issue. if he tied it to his faith, maybe he wouldn't have been reprimanded. help me sort this out. >> well, maybe he wouldn't. but i think we need to sort out a difference between your first amendment rights and prince ple. anybody keeping these guys is not violating their first amendment rights. the nevertheless, i don't think he says if it's because of his religious beliefs or if he has bigoted beliefs. shouldn't we have the belief to be bigoted. that's different than defending bigotry. i subscribe to the orthodoxy that they're trying to enforce but my beliefs are strong enough that they can stand in opposition to a bigot's beliefs.

i believe the marketplace of ideas will eventually cause what i believe to be the winning side of the story. >> cedric, does that make sense to you? do you think the market can respond to this? do you think a public reaction to donald sterling would have been sufficient and maybe a public reaction to the miami dolphin player would have similarly been sufficient? >> no, really, i think there is going to be a backlash. over and over again when you think about what happened with donald sterling. i love this part. big, bad, magic johnson. what has he done? donald sterling keeps digging a bigger and bigger hole. this will be protracted and not go away. this is nba worst nightmare and going over a long distance of time. >> marc, what it makes me wonder is if this is not just a celebrity issue. might this get into routine americans workplace where now something that's said after hours that gets back to the boss causes them to be targeted and reprimanded in the workplace?

>> mike, we're already there. this all really percolated in the early '90s on academic campuses where you had civility codes and speech codes beginning to develop already. and by the time we all realized it was too big, it was too late. you know, places where you're supposed to have the greatest ability for freedom of thought have already shut that down. i'm not surprised that now it's leaking out into the public sphere. you know, i think that we should have freedom of explosion and you should let the marketplace of ideas deal with that problem, not coercion. >> hey, cedric, as a super star of the game and a guy who still got more than just a hand in. you speak to both the retired players and i'm sure those who are active today. are the concerns that you're expressing here, concerns about where this all leads, things that you're hearing from athletes? >> yes. very much so. i think the athletes right now are looking at it and saying this is that slope.

what can i say? what can't i say? every time you see an athlete tweet, tweet about any kind of social issue, it seems to be a problem. and everybody kind of goes at them. so, it's almost like to the point now where you just want to pull back and not really say anything at all and not have an opinion. and i don't think that's what we want from our athletes, from our people, anybody out there. everybody should be entitled to an opinion. >> hey, marc, what then are we saying? it seems like there's a consensus among the three of us that we have a concern that perhaps the ripple effects of this are going to go too far but, of course, none of us are buying into any of that crazy and racist talk from donald sterling. what, marc, are we saying should happen to individuals like him going forward? >> you know, i have to agree with mr. maxwell. there should be this wide-open and robust debate and i think we eare getting into a place where debate is going to suffer. having the bad guy say something

that we don't agree with, it doesn't mean that we're okay with it. it sxhim sometimes gives us the ability to put up a negative example. sometimes that we can hear say something we don't like and the chorus of other speakers comes up and says, no, you're really an isolated individual if you have these bigoted views. that progresses society. that progresses ideas. if people are afraid to speak, as mr. maxwell said, well, you know where we wind up? we wind up with just an echo chamber of what the orthodox view is and that's not good for anybody. it's not even good for the people who subscribe to the orthodox view. >> marc, cedric, thank you both, gentlemen. stick around and listen to my headline. i think you're going to like it. remember that opening headline? donald sterling tells nba he won't pay fine. here's how i would have rewritten it. new speech standards, not so sterling. how is your health care plan at work?

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world's population know nothing about it? that's a scary thought. the answer is education. the answer is education in both the home and in school settings. you remember that headline, the headline that said 26% of the world is anti-semetic and 46% unaware of holocaust. what i would have written, polls show history doomed to repeat itself. second headline from "tampa bay times" businesses may quickly abandoned health insurance for workers so reports suggest. many health care experts are saying something that i predicted after i enrolled my family at healthcare.gov and that is that perhaps it's time for the u.s. to move away from the model where we look to our employers to supply all of our health coverage and insurance. we're unique in this regard and this whole process originates at the time of world war ii when fdr froze wages but allowed employers to increase benefits. i like the trend away and the

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let's check our next headline this one comes from politic oo karl rove, hillary clinton might have brain injury. raised helalth questions about the 2016 potential presidential nominee. rove's comments were in response to the bad fall that hillary clinton took in 2012. she was in the hospital for three days. he apparently said she was there for 30 and the glasses she wore after the incident were designed for people with traumatic brain injury. all major news outlets ran with the story. i want to bring in my special guest, senior editor of nati "national review." he is the right messenger to launch this into the 2016 conversation? >> well rove may have made some

factual mistakes there. but i think that it is legitimate issue. the question of getting the full truth about the medical history of mrs. clinton, or secretary clinton is very important and it's going to have to be something that candidates don't raise themselves but other people do seeing rove is not running for anything. makes as much sense for him as anybody else. >> my question, i agree with you. i think that age and health of someone who wants to be the chief executive, the commander in chief is a legitimate issue. you and i both remember this is something that came up relative to ronald reagan, came up relative to john mccain. i'm hard pressed to remember an election where frankly it hasn't come up, but i asked whether he was the proper messenger because the fact that it was rove who threw this into the mix, i think now causes this issue to be diminished in the minds of many who pay close attention like, oh, it's just something rove said and he's such a hard core

guy on the right and does he really have credibility to advance an issue like this? >> the important comment this week, though, was not rove's, it was the one that bill clinton made in response to rove where he said that it took hillary clinton six months to recover. that means that was a very serious issue. far more serious than the state department said at the time. one month after the incident state department spokeswoman said that she made a full recovery. so, we've got, i think, if rove's comment was designed to elicit a response that got us more information, it succeeded. >> but i think it's a comment that frankly stirred the base might be good relative to getting out the vote in 2014. but let's say it's now 2015 and there are issues that are raised relative to her health or age. i think in the mind of many, they're going to say, oh, yeah, karl rove brought that up back in 2014 and it's already been dealt with. i guess i'm trying hard to drive the point that i think by rove having been the messenger, he

diluted what would have otherwise been a credible issue for republicans. >> it's going to be a partisan issue. look, if you go back to the 1996 polls on bob dole's age, 20% of the electorate thought he was too old in february of '96. vastly disproportionately democrats who thought he was too old. republicans are fine with it. just a natural partisan filter and if it's not rove or some other republican who raises this issue, i don't think that we can count on the press to raise it itself and really create a drum beat that forces the release of medical records. >> i think if you had writtyou ask you a final question. how old is too old? 69 when elected and how old is too old? >> i don't think age should be a deal breaker but i think it is a factor that voters are going to weigh. and i think that that evidence suggests that that's exactly

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>> the zodiac killer has come to san francisco. >> wouldn't school children make nice targets? >> give himself a name. >> morris code, this guy has used them all. >> i like killing people because the man is the most dangerous animal of all. that was a clip from the 2007 movie "zodiac" about the hunt for the notorious serial killer. today the mystery may be solved. here's the headline from "l.a. times" in new book, man claims zodiac killer was his father. that man is gary stewart, a

51-year-old louisiana man who went searching for his birth father and uncovered a criminal that he believes is one of this nation's most notorious serial killers. stewart has written the most dangerous animal of all, searching for my father and finding the zodiac killer and i just had the chance to sit down and talk to him about his claims. >> the zodiac killer terrorized the residents of california in the 1960s and '70s. and to this day has remained america's version of jack the ripper. the most notorious unsolved serial killer in all of america. >> and taunted law enforcement. >> similar to jack the ripper. i believe he copied jack the ripper. with his obsessions of the uk because he committed his acts and then he sent letters bragging about it. >> not only send letters, but send proof so that people knew when he spoke. what was that opening line?

this is the zodiac speaking, but he was able to speak with authority. what was the event that triggered for you the recognition, my god, perhaps my father was the zodiac killer? >> i was told very early on when my biological mother asked one of her police friends to help me find my father that there was information in his file that he was not going to share. over the course of the next two years as i would run into a dead end here or dead end there, i would go back to my mother and ask her to go back to her friend and say, please tell gary what's in that file. i eventually learned that he had passed away and i went back -- >> your father. >> my father had passed away. i went back to my mother pleading one last time. he's dead. i'm the only one around. it's going to affect nobody. please tell me what's in that file. and the response was to my

mother that what was in that file was so heinous that it would destroy you. >> by now you had your own son, the two of you were watching tv one day -- >> so, we're watching tv and on this interesting documentary cold case files when they flash up the picture of the wanted photo from 1969 of the zodiac killer. >> and your son, zach, says to you. >> he said, daddy -- i go get the only photo of my father that i which was actually a mugshot. i was not aware it was his mugshot from the underage rape of my mother from 1962. i was told by the san francisco police department that it was an old dmv photo. i said, zach, it's not me, it's my father. and that's when i ceset out to

prove, no way. this can't happen. >> you put that together with the fact that you've been told that your father's file has something heinous in it and you're not going to see it and now you have the resemblance. >> i ultimately acquired his entire public record, including from the fbi and the system. the only thing in it has every account of every arrest and every conviction that he had. >> gary, one other aspect of the story that deciphers the code, the language with which he used to speak and taunt law enforcement. in the book, you argue that you cracked some of that which law enforcement was never able to. >> his first ciphers to the three newspapers, "the examiner" "herald" and "the chronicle" had a hidden message. every time the zodiac sent a new siver, they were sending a new message. his name is all over that one

and the next one and the next one and he kept saying, have you cracked it yet? my name is -- indicating my name is, i knew the name to look for, law enforcement didn't. >> what am i looking at in. >> you're looking at my father's name. my father's name was earl best junior. >> however, his father's name was earl van best. both of them signed their name e e. e.v.b.e.t.s.t.j.r. you remember that original headline, in new book man claims zodiac killer was his father. here's how i would rewrite it, plumbing contractor claims he did what sfpd couldn't.

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our nexted headline from the "san jose mercury news" graduation speakers starting to back out. the former chancellor of the university of california at berkeley who backed out of his speech after students protested his invitation. before him, it was former secretary of state condoleezza rice at rutgers. and imf managing director christine lagard who backed out after protests at smith college. many taking issue with the protesters. timothy egan wrote this. give me a brisk, strong, whitey defense of something i disagree with over a tired replay of platitudes. it matters little if a speaker is a convict, seminarian, a statesman or a comedian. the author of "you are not special" and delivered a commencement address with that

theme two years ago that went viral. >> none of you is special. you're not special. you're not exceptional. contrary to what your u9 soccer trophy suggests, your glowing seventh grade report card despite every assurance of a purple dinosaur, that nice mr. rogers and your batty aunt silvia. your caped cruseder swooped in to save you, you're nothing special. >> david, i loved it when you said it. i was one that helped in some small way making it viral because i kept watching it. were you speaking only to students or were you also speaking to their parents? >> i was speaking only to the students, but i was aware the parents were there. >> and you, yourself, are a father of three teenagers. i, too, have three teenage sons. i would be interesting to hear you articulate what is the proper role of a commencement

speaker in 2014? >> to help celebrate the occasion. to be thought provoking and relevant and brief. >> and what do you make of the controversies this year? it's been going on for a while, but they seem more pronounced >> yeah, i think i'm embarrassed for the schools. schools are supposed to be places of open mindedness and receptiveness to other ideas, to civil discussion. i think it's shameful what's happening. >> and it makes you worry, i'd imagine, because if there's intolerance in this environment -- the environment where people should most be open minded -- it doesn't bode well for the remainder of society, or am i taking it too far? >> no, i think you're precisely right. we get this cyclone of opinionizing, which pretty soon looks like consensus. what's supposed to be a happy occasion, and a forum for interesting ideas.

one should be open minded to and respectful of differing opinions, even contrary opinions. this is what colleges are for. >> you know, i watched on cnn early this morning, and i saw the first lady delivered a commencement address in kansas just yesterday to high school students, and her theme was to say we may be many years removed from brown versus the board of education, but there are signs that we're heading back in that segregated direction. an appropriate theme for a commencement address? is that thought provoking? is that the kind of thing that should be addressed? >> absolutely. and we should be receptive to that kind of discourse. >> there's something about u mull cull las, rolling the gold standard of what i think as gold standards of commencement addresses. you will recognize the speaker. >> do what you can to cure the verbal virus so rampant among your generation. i'm talking about the

relentless, worrisome use of words like, you know, and awesome, and actually. just mannen -- imagine if in his inaugural address john f. kennedy had said, ask not what your country can, you know, do for you, but what you can, like, do for your country, actually. >> hey, david, i was going to say that was an awesome commencement address, but i would think your father would reprimand -- >> like, really awesome. >> you've delivered the speech. the speech went viral. your students, i know because i've watched many of them being interviewed, they're so receptive to your message. what's the bigger picture you wanted to convey in the book? >> that students should do what they do because they're interested and believe in the endeavor that not worry not so much about opportunities downstream, to have confidence

in themselves, think independently and do some good for the rest of us. >> do you think we've coddled too many of them to think they're invincible, and that if we don't level that playing field soon, they'll enter the world of work and have a rough go initially? >> that's right. and for so many kids, we need them. you know, their education isn't just for their benefit. it's for the rest of us who will rely on them later in life. >> society suffers if we don't right this ship soon. i get it. it's a great message. thank you so much for being with us. best of luck with the book, and regards to your father, as well. you remember our original headline? graduation speakers starting to back out? here's how i'd rewritten this one. commencing intolerance. so on one side, you have a former late-night talk host backed by even more star power, and on the other, you have the leader of one of the wealthiest nations in the world. but almost forgotten in the middle, all of those incredible people who are probably working paycheck to paycheck, they're

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hey, i've got one last headline this morning. two weeks ago, i spent a weekend in los angeles and one afternoon i came back to my hotel and i saw a commotion across the street. but i wasn't initially sure of the cause. inside my room, i watched the local news, and i learned that jay leno was outside, among a few dozen protesters, and they were complaining about the hotel's ownership. the landmark where i was staying, best known for five-star service and that iconic roof line that adorns the album cover of the eagles' "hotel california" was the beverly hills hotel. leno and the others were calling attention to the fact that far up the ownership chain of the

hotel is the sultan of brunei who is in the process of instituting shariya law. i had no idea of the ownership connection. the night after my departure, the beverly hills city council passed a unanimous resolution, which calls for the brunei government owners to sell the hotel and other properties that it owns in beverly hills. soon thereafter, at a town hall for employees of the hotel, the management announced that all jobs and wages of employees were secure despite a decline in business. i was happy to hear that. because it's not the sultan for whom i have sympathy. the idea of shariya is abhorrent. it's the workers. they say the employees at the hotel, and over two nights, i had interaction with lots of them. the valet, the housekeeper, the concierge who gave me driving directions.

these are members of hollywood's rich and famous. i doubt any of them live in beverly hills. they're american workers hustling to earn a living, and they're now probably fearful about their jobs in a tough economy. despite management's assurance, one has to wonder whether a protracted protest will ultimately jeopardize their livelihood, and the only certainty seems to be the protest will have no impact on the intended target. he's too rich to feel any pain. perhaps a better way to protect those innocents would be a response from the white house. last march, president obama met with the sultan in the oval office and opened a media availability with this remark. >> well, it is a great pleasure to welcome my good friend, his image industry, the sultan of brunei. he is a key leader in the southeast asian region, but also widely respected around the world. >> perhaps the hollywood elite would be better served enlisting the support of a president whose attention they could certainly command.

rather than putting american workers in the cross hairs. so the headline i'd write for this story, time for the president to check in. thanks so much for watching. i'll see you back here in two weeks. have a great weekend. our investigations continue into the cause of these fires, and they will continue until hopefully we're satisfied with the results. >> we have worked very hard, senator isakson, to root out the inappropriate uses of the scheduling system. it's inexcusable. >> so today by some measures our schools are as segregated as they were back when dr. king gave his final speech.