light, you can imagine that people's perceptions would start to change. >> and don't forget, premiering this thursday on cnn, the decade that changed the world, the free love, british invasion, all of it chronicled in the new ten-part cnn series "the sixties" from tom hanks, thursday at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. that's it for "the lead." i'm jake tapper. i'll turn you over to wolf blitzer in "the situation room." >> thanks, jake. breaking news. end game. president obama will keep troops in afghanistan beyond this year but will combat really be over? and the white house accidently outs the cia chief in afghanistan. is his life now at risk? and deadline day for donald sterling as the nba demands that he ends the ownership for his

team as his wife already found a buyer for the clippers. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." 12 1/2 years after the united states went to war in afghanistan, president obama has announced a new plan to end america's military involvement but that plan calls for thousands of u.s. troops to remain in a hostile environment beyond this year. it will require the cooperation of afghan leaders and it's certain that the taliban and al qaeda will not be cooperating. cnn's barbara starr is standing by. i'll speak with the national security adviser. first, let's go to jim acosta. jim? >> wolf, for months the white house has not specifically said how many troops will be in afghanistan after 2014 but today the president put his plan on the table. declaring the combat mission in afghanistan over by the end of the year, president obama laid out the final chapter for the

nation's longest war. >> the bottom line is, it's time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our foreign policy was focused on the wars in afghanistan and iraq. >> reporter: a small residual force will be limited to training counterterrorism operations and there will be just 9800 u.s. forces next year. about half that by 2016. and embassy security only in the afghan capital as president obama prepares to leave office. mr. obama's proposal stops short of the full withdrawal he promised voters in 2012. >> we will have them all out tlf by 2014. >> reporter: but worried about the repeat of the pullout from iraq, u.s. military commanders pushed for a minimum of 10,000 troops and that plan, the general cautioned, will not be perfect. in a statement, three key gcop

senators call the plan a mistake and hinges on a new security agreement with afghan leaders. hamid karzai has refused to sign it leaving the two men vying to replace him to steal the deal. >> the two final afghan candidates in the runoff election for president have each indicated that they would sign this agreement probably after taking office. so i'm hopeful that we can get this done. >> reporter: and a senior administration official tells cnn that the two run-off candidates have said that they will sign the agreement. without that agreement, white house officials say there will be no u.s. troops a past 2014 and aides to the president say that it will be part of a larger speech at west point tomorrow. he's going to talk about the forest, wolf. >> live coverage starting tomorrow morning at 10:00 a.m. at west point.

jim acosta, thank you very much. the troop drawdown may have a ripple down effect in the region. right next door, as all of us know, is pakistan. with fewer troops in afghanistan, will that limit u.s. options in dealing with terror in pakistan? >> wolf, this may be a key question for what does happen two years from now when u.s. troops pack up and go home. what happens if the u.s. spots an al qaeda terrorist training camp right on that afghanistan/pakistan border in what if pakistan's nuclear weapons are not secure? how does the u.s. operate against terrorist elements inside of pakistan? no one is really talking about that right now. that seems to be a black hole of discussion but behind the scenes, u.s. officials say they are going to look at all of this and figure out, do they need additional basis in the region? do they need places to base troops if there is a crisis? a place to possibly be able to

fly drones if they have to take action. wolf? >> and on other fronts, syria, the war is raging on. now the obama administration is looking to expand military training for anti-bashar al assad and syrian rebels. do what do we know about that? >> we know that the administration has been considering this. the state department would like to have additional opposition forces and the pentagon is a little more wary of it. the pentagon owe fitfficial tel me, how do you know that they are not part of the growing al qaeda movement i side of syria, that if you give them the training, the weapons, they won't use it with their -- with an al qaeda cell in syria. so where do we stand on this? the administration considering it? a lot of people saying that president obama may, may be

close to signing some kind of order to move ahead with this kind of idea but we are told, still, no final decisions have been made. wolf? >> we'll see what, if anything, he says about that at the commencement speech tomorrow. the u.s. drawdown in afghanistan down to fewer than 10,000 troops next year will still have a sur advising price tag. tony blinken is joining us from the white house. thanks for coming in. >> thanks, wolf. >> the president made an announcement. there's a couple of technical questions that you can answer for our viewers. first of all, 10,000 troops will remain in afghanistan. i assume they will have immunity from afghan prosecution, that is what forced the u.s. to pull troops from iraq. >> they will only remain if they have immunity and what is required by that is the

bilateral security agreement. both of the candidates have said that they will sign it promptly by taking office and that's when the president made the statement that he did today. >> how much is it going to cost american taxpayers to keep troops in afghanistan next year? >> well, you're looking at the tens of millions of dollars. we're looking at the vicinity of $20 billion when you factor everything in. >> $20 billion. that includes an addition of 9800 u.s. troops, nato forces as well as private contractors. do you have any idea how many private contractors will be needed to support the 9800 u.s. troops? >> you're being looking at several thousand private contractors but also significant support from our nato allied and partner who is will remain engaged. it will be in the vicinity of 4,000 partner troops in 2015.

we'll be down to about half of that by the end of the year and then by the end of 2016 we'll be into a normalized opposition where we have our embassy and small number of troops to protect the embassy. >> we're getting an indication that as many as 1,000 american troops will be stationed in and around the u.s. embassy even after 2016. is that right? >> the numbers are not yet set but here's what would happen. there would be a certain number of troops required to secure the embassy and we're talking probably in the hundreds. you also have, in any embassy where we have a defense relationship with the host country, some troops who are working on military contracts, you have experts who help them acquire and use it. and then those advising of the afghans, the defense ministry, other security ministries, you'll have some folks there to do that. >> tell our viewers why it's in their interests, american citizens, to spend tens of billions of dollars to stay in

afghanistan next year and the year after, especially because the afghans themselves, they have more than 350,000 of their own domestic police and security forces. >> wolf, we want to complete the job that we started. that means that as we draw down our troops, building up the afghans to the point where they can take full responsibility for their own security in the future and that's what we've been doing. doing it as the president announced today. that is, going from where we are now, which is about 32,000 troops down to 10,000 and then down to about half of that and then finally down to a very small presence to secure the embassy is a trajectory that makes sense and will allow the afghans to continue to assume responsibility for their future and do it in a way that, again, gets our folks out and builds them up. >> i'm going to play for you two comments that the president made, one in 2012, one in 2013

about his objectives. take a listen. >> we are bringing our troops home from afghanistan and i set a timetable, we will have them out of there by 2014. >> this drawdown will continue and by the end of next year, our war in afghanistan will be over. >> so on the first point, in the 2012 when he said that all u.s. troops will be out by the end of 2014, that's not necessarily happening, if you think 9800 u.s. troops are still going to stay there. >> first of all, let's put this in perspective. when the president took office, there were 170,000 americans in harm's way. by the end of the year we'll be down to 10,000. the president was very clear, the combat mission in afghanistan ends this year. and so the americans who remain in afghanistan in 2015 will not be out patrolling the streets or in the mountains and the valleys. they will be there to support the afghan military and help train them and advise them and they will be there to help them

deal with the remaining terrorism threat. that's what they will be doing. that advances our security and helps afghanistan. >> you saw the statement that john mccain, lindsey graham, kelly ayotte put out. the president's decision to set an arbitrary date for a full withdrawal of troops is a monumental mistake and a triumph of politics over strategy. this is a short-sighted decision that will make it harder to end the war in afghanistan responsibly. your reaction? >> first, it's very important to let the afghans know what they need to do going forward so they can work on their responsibilities and step up to the plate. that's worked very effectively. when we told them we'd be doing that at the end of this year, we need to give them a clear trajectory. second, it makes no sense to keep 10,000 or more troops in

afghanistan. to do what? third, military was fully supportive of this trajectory down. and finally, we can't be in an endless war posture. this is about ending these wars responsibly and then redirecting some of these resources in different parts of the world in different ways. >> in afghanistan, how much damage was done by the inadvertent naming of the cia station chief over the weekend in kabul? >> wolf, it shouldn't have happened. we're trying to understand why it happened. denis mcdonough asked the council why it happened and make sure it won't happen again. >> will that individual have to leave afghanistan because his identity is well known? >> wolf, you'll understand that i can't comment on the details but you can rest assured that the security of this person is in our foreminds and we'll make sure it's taken care of. >> can you tell me where the

blunder owe occurred? >> i cannot. he asked for it to be looked into and make sure it doesn't happen again. >> tony blinken, thank you for joining us. >> thanks a lot, wolf. valerie playne calls this latest incident astonishing. she'll be my guest here in "the situation room." up next, are their lives in danger right now? plus, our exclusive reporting of the l.a. clippers. is donald sterling's wife already shopping for offers?

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there's growing fallout from the outing of the cia station chief. joining us a bob baer and jeremy. both of these guys know a lot about this subject. so what do you make of this, jeremy, this outing of the cia station chief. is it a big deal as far as national security is concerned? >> wolf, it was clearly a mistake. it was pretty sloppy. it was one of those makes you wince moments. but look, i think the agency is probably taking steps right now to figure out what this means. as you heard from deputy national security adviser tony blinken, the counsel will look at why this happened. >> i think maybe some criminal action. is there any suspicion, as far as you know, that somebody may have broken a law? >> i don't think we know that

yet. i think it's too early to know what happened, under what circumstances was the name revealed. look, this is serious and it's why the white house quickly corrected the mistake and why they want to figure out how to not make it again. >> bob -- is there a difference and i suspect there is, between the outing of valerie plame and a former cia station chief, who i presume is well-known to counterparts, afghan intelligence officials in kabul? >> ji agree with jeremy. white house staff, probably low level, prepared a list and it got sent out to the press. it's serious in the sense that i don't see any choice but to pull this man out. he will become a target. yes, the afghan government knew who he was but not the taliban and he certainly would be the focus of an attempt on his life

if he were to stay. >> bob, if you were the cia station chief in kabul and high-ranking afghan intelligence officials, you deal with them on a daily basis, don't you automatically ast automatically assume that that information could be leaked? how secure is that intelligence information? >> wolf, you're absolutely right. i wouldn't trust it myself but presumably he meets with the top people in that country who are committed to one side but the names always do leak out and you see cia people that hold out on very short notice because they are under threat because of this very problem. >> jeremy, valley plame was outed during the bush administration and she tweeted this. "astonishing, white house identified a cia chief in afghanistan." but there is a difference in the world of espionage. >> this individual is declared to the afghan government.

he's also probably declared to other governments with to whom he works, probably the pakistani government. there are other ways to protect an officer. there is trade craft. i think the cia is probably reviewing all of that today and try to figure out how best to protect the officer and if bringing him home is the answer, that's what they will do. >> i would assume they will. wouldn't you bring him home, bob baer, out of an abundance of caution, since the name is out there? >> wolf, absolutely. why take the risk? you know, it's a very dangerous country and we can't depend on the government completely. pull him right out, same day. >> do you have a good handle of how this happened, jeremy? >> i don't. i presume it was an innocent mistake by some staffer who put together a list on a frantic trip to afghanistan to the pool reporters. we don't know that yet and that's why the chief of staff

have asked the white house counsel to take a hard look at this. if any wrongdoing or negligence happened, i presume that person would be admonished and probably punished. >> there's a lot of concern out there about this blunder, bob. how do you make sure it never happens again? that's what tony says wants to be done to make sure it doesn't happen again? >> you can't. they don't understand that the cia has to operate under cover, especially young staffers coming in. they say, so what, the cia station chief. they put it on a list. it's a constant problem and can never be fixed entirely. >> you say this was a blunder by presumably a low level staffer. the president made that memorial day visit and all of these

military officers, diplomats, and then it said station chief. this is a different kind of outing of a cia operative than the valerie plame outing. that was different. >> it is different. it appears to be a blunder, an accident. but the agency is very sensitive to it the safety and security of it is officers. there was a bad day in eastern afghanistan in 2009, the worst day for the agency since the 1983 beirut bombing so the agency is very sensitive to how its officers is treated and handled in a country. and i assure you, wolf, they are going to do everything that they can to ensure that this officer's cover is tradecraft, his approximately protection is bolstered here in the coming days, possibly to ininclude bringing him home. >> i assume that this cia

station chief, as far as being an officer of the cia, whether as a station chief somewhere else or some other kind of role, that's over? >> you could send to london, paris, but a war zone, i'd keep him out just as a earth ma of precaution. his name is out there and it really will complicate his career, for the rest of his career. >> and like other news organizations, we're not revealing the name of the cia station chief in kabul. jeremy bash and bob bcaer, than you. valerie plame will be my guest tomorrow here in "the situation room." we've got lots to discuss with her. coming up, a cnn exclusive. with the clock ticking on the nba's demand that donald sterling gives up his team, has his wife already found a buyer for the l.a. clippers? and the families of those missing on flight 370 finally

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breaking news. we're getting some exclusive new reporting about possible maneuvers under way right now on shelly sterling's behalf to sell the l.a. clippers in the wake of her estranged husband's rant. what are your sources telling you, brian todd? >> shelly sterling has been meeting with potential buyers. she met with former microsoft owner steve balmer at her home in malibu and that balmer made an aggressive bid to buy the clippers. her attorney has no comment on this. we could not reach steve balmer. the nba has no comment. our source tells us that shelly sterling is interested in other potential buyers, including that man there on the left, former laker and nba hall of famer magic johnson. johnson told anderson cooper a couple of weeks ago he would be

interested in the clippers if the right opportunity came up. we're continuing to gather more information on all of this and we hope to have more at 6:00. >> as you know, today is the deadline for donald sterling and his lawyers to actually respond to the nba charges. >> working our sources really hard on this. as of right now, we have not had any response yet from donald sterling. we're going to continue to work that angle as well. >> he has until midnight to respond. he still hasn't paid that $2.5 million fine that the nba imposed on him for the racist comments as well. >> he has not. >> we're still working our sources. don't go too far away. i want to continue the conversation right now. dramatic developments. jeffrey toobin is joining us as well as don lemon and lz gunderson. we're talking about $2.5 billion. there's a bidding war going on

right now for the clippers. >> well, you know, i was just telling someone that i've been hearing this $2.5 billion number and i think people are getting ahead of themselves. this is the in. nba. not the nfl. to let you know how much value the team actually could pull in when the team does sell, i wouldn't go 1.5 to 2 billion just yet. there will be a bidding war but i don't think you're going to see those numbers. >> i'm hearing that those numbers are pretty realistic. apparently there's a serious bidding war. the word on the street, oprah may be out but magic johnson's name is certainly in there. how appropriate would that be in magic johnson, who is the victim who was attacked by donald sterling emerged as at least one of the co-owners of the

clippers? >> i think it would be very interesting and i have to tell you the talk over at dinner, everywhere i went, people were like, hey, what is going on with donald sterling? wouldn't it be amazing if oprah was the owner? wouldn't it be amazing if magic was the owner? and i have to say, though, $1.5 billion seems like a lot to you basketball people and to a lot of people but i have to say it's great for the clippers that if out of this mess the team goes for a lot of money. i know it means more money for donald sterling but it means more money for the league and more prestige for the clippers. i'd say, get as much money as you can and go clippers, go oprah, go whoever is going to buy it and go sit down, sterling. >> jeff, on the legal side, as you know, the nba said you have until today, midnight tonight, to respond. apparently as we are speaking, they have not yet responded. they have not paid the $2.5 million fine that the nba

imposed. if he doesn't respond, they are going to go ahead on june 3rd with the 29 other owners and they are going to vote. they need 23 to kick him out of the nba plus several others if not unanimously. what happens? >> this looks like the sterlings are throwing in the towel on any sort of legal fight. they are recognizing that their choice is to sell now or sell later after they were forced to do it. if today passes without them not having passed a legal stipulation, that's another sign that they are giving up. and remember, we are talking about an asset that donald sterling bought for 12 or $13 million and he's talking about selling it for a billion or perhaps more. for a guy who did something wrong, this is a pretty sweet conclusion. >> that's a nice consolation prize if he's forced to do that.

the nba would be thrilled if he just sells the team, gets a billion, billion and a half, 2 billion, whatever he gets and they wouldn't have to get into a legal war. it would be good for business, for the fans because then the clippers could go on to the next season. >> absolutely. what the nba doesn't want to do is air his dirty laundry because if you start putting donald sterling through this longer process, then the media, us, will be forced to start asking ourselves, well, who else could be like donald sterling? and then you start looking at comments like the orlando magic owner about what he has to say about gay people and the other activities that other owners are doing. the longer we have this kind of institute gee scrutiny, the more the nba doesn't want to do that. and we know the investigation pulled a lot of information together over the last 10 or 12 years. the question is, why do you wait

until you get this tape that was leaked by tmz? why didn't you do anything sooner? >> lz, i say bring it on. if there are other racists, homo phobs, i say bring them out. >> the nba doesn't say that. >> right. >> jeffrey, the nba is making it clear to both sterlings that neither one of them can have any equity role, any interest at all when they sell the team, not even have a little piece of the act. they want them both out, not just donald sterling but shelly sterling as well. that's the case that they are making. >> that's the case that they are making and i also think that this is a good teachable moment for lawyers. think about how often we heard from don's lawyers, shelly's lawyers that this is outrageous, we're going to fight it, it's unlawful and now it appears that

they are going meekly to sell the team and cash their checks. when lawyers threaten something, that's one thing but it's very different than filing one and there's been no lawsuit filed by either of them. >> let's see if this is resolved by june 3rd. that's when the board of governors by the nba meets. lz granderson, thank you, don lemon. we'll be watching you tonight. we're checking with sources and working to get more information. of course, we will share that with all of our viewers. coming up, a rare challenge to the congress from the first lady michelle obama. she took issue with house republicans who are weighing major changes to the 2010 child nutrition law, a hallmark of her let's move campaign to end child obesity. let's listen to this. >> we're now seeing efforts in congress to roll back these new standards and undo the hard work that all of you, all of us have

done on behalf of our kids and, you know, this is unacceptable. parents have a right to expect that their kids will get decent food in our schools and we all have a right to expect that our hard-earned taxpayer dollars won't be spent on junk food for our kids. >> the house appropriations committee plans to allow cash-strapped schools to opt out of the new regulations. up next, bullets and bloodshed as ukrainian troops take on accept separatists. plus, a surveillance camera catches a peaceful night at a pizza place turning to panic.

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ukraine's new government taking forceful and deadly measures. bodies are piling up. militants are appealing to moscow for help and foreign international observers are now missing in the volatile eastern part of ukraine. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is joining us from kiev right now. he spoke with top government officials there. what can you tell us, jim? >> reporter: well, wolf, it's a measure of the instability in the east that even the observers aren't safe.

the osc lost touch with the team last night. they still don't know their whereabouts. you may remember last month another team disappeared and ended up being held for more than a week. this happens as the new government here in kiev fresh off successful elections on sunday greatly escalated its assaults on the militants. an official telling me that it is, quote, now or never for this government to fight this insurgency. ukraine's new government is only two days old but it is already riveted with gunfire and drenched in blood. a newly aggressive ukrainian military assault on pro-russian militants in the east has left dozens of militants dead. residents lined up to donate blood for victims on both sides. a senior ukrainian official told us, quote, the time is now or never to confront a broad

insurgency numbering in the thousands. >> they just abandoned, they just a killer, they just a terrorist. that's the case. and if you expect that they will find out the support of these people, no way. no chance. in no civilized country of the world, nobody have negotiation with the terrorists. >> reporter: perhaps surprised by the scope of the operations, the militants appealed to russia for rescue. >> translator: we have to appeal to the president of the russian federation vladimir putin personally and to the whole of russian people. >> reporter: an appeal mr. putin answered, calling on kiev to stop what he described as a military operation against its own people. ukrainian officials blame russia, however, for directing and supplying the insurge general see. they reported 40 trucks filled with arms attempting to cross

the russian/ukrainian border. the deputy foreign minister said it's time for penalties. >> the community has to customer size stronger plans on the russian authorities to get back on the civilized relations. >> meaning more sanctions? >> i do believe that you have to exercise more sanctions. >> reporter: president obama two weeks ago had set the standard for new economic sanctions against russia's sector ral sanctions as russia, quote, impeding this election. if you speak to officials here, they say it's clear that russia impeded this election. there were many polling stations shut down in the east. we visited many of them over the weekend forcibly shut down voters intimidated as a result turnout there greatly reduced. a spokesperson at the white house said they are still assessing how russia reacts to sunday's election. they have no new sanctions to

announce yet. wolf? >> jim sciutto on the ground in kiev, thank you for that report. i want to share with you an important programming note. thursday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern and 6:00 p.m. pacific, don't miss "the sixties." that's literally changed the world. smothers brothers with clean cut and satire every time they appeared in america's living rooms. >> they have been asked to refrain from traveling to foreign lands. >> okay. all of you in vietnam, come on home. >> the times were changing so quickly in the '60s and we didn't change them. >> we just reflected them. >> what are you doing? >> getting ready to go to college. >> cbs gave the smothers

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getting some breaking news, some dramatic new video from inside a pizza restaurant near the scene of that horrific santa barbara shooting. kyung lah is outside the university of california santa barbara stadium, where a huge memorial service is about to get under way. kyung is joining us live. this is very dramatic, powerful video. what a horrible tragedy has occurred, kyung. what's the latest? >> reporter: what it tells us and what it really depicts, wolf, is the sheer terror. what was happening inside these businesses. remember, this happened on a friday night, 9:30 friday night. the streets are packed, the businesses are full. take a look. what you're seeing is a pizza restaurant. this is right along the street where the gunman was firing.

no one inside this restaurant was hit by any bullets. there was nothing shattered, but you can see them crouching, see the students running. we also spoke to a number of people who were outside the pizza restaurant who were in the apartments who live right above this pizza restaurant, and they happen to be rolling on their iphones. i want you to listen as the bullets went right by them. [ gunshots ] so this gives you a sense of just how frightening it was for many of these people who were only 20, 19, 20, 22, 21, just in that general age range, and what they all tell us is that they tried to hide, they tried to run. they didn't know where it was coming from, because it was that loud, that chaotic. this community, wolf, is trying to heal. where we're at is a vigil, as

you mentioned. it's going to be a large memorial service. there's going to be many, many students who are coming here, a number of speakers. among them, richard martinez, he is the father of a victim who died, not in that pizza restaurant, but at another business, and there are also going to be speakers like janet napolitano, the president of the university of california school systems, so a number of people, all with the same message, that they have to get beyond this. wolf? >> showing pictures of richard martinez, who lost his son. what an emotional, powerful statement he made. he, clearly, is so, so angry. he wants major gun control. >> reporter: he absolutely does. what he is saying is that it is washington and the politicians, who have failed in trying to do anything in light of the sandy hook shooting, and that, wolf, that inaction, is why he says his son died. >> what a horrible story that is. kyung lah, we'll stay in touch with you following this memorial service about to begin.

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clippers, hoping to reach a deal this week. sources are now revealing new details to cnn about efforts to head up a for sale by the nba. flight 370 data has now been revealed. the world gets a first look at communications between satellites and the plane in its final few hours, but if experts are reading it correctly, why hasn't the plane been found? risky move, hillary clinton attempts to define herself with a new memoir. is it a brilliant launch of a presidential campaign, or does she risk overexposure? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." this is cnn breaking news. >> breaking news about the disgraced l.a. clippers owner donald sterling and the behind the scenes efforts to sell the team before the nba forces him to. sources tell cnn his wife and team coowner shelly sterling is accepting bids right now for the team and has already had one serious meeting with a high

profile potential buyer, but if she fails to reach a deal, the league owners are expected to force a sale all because of the racist remarks made by donald sterling. we're covering all angles as the clippers face an imminent change of ownership. let's begin with cnn's brian todd. he's working his exclusive sources for us. you're getting some new information. >> that's right, wolf, sources telling us shelly sterling has aggressively been meeting with potential buyers. we're told this is moving fast, that it involves some high stakes players and that the nba is watching it very closely. shelly sterling will accept offers for the l.a. clippers this week, a source tells cnn, "things are moving quickly." over the weekend, shelly sterling met with steve ballmer at her home in malibu. ballmer made an aggressive offer. >> it looks like it's going to happen on a time table that adam silver has pushed for and that the sterlings may find

acceptable. >> reporter: our source says nba commissioner is aware of shelly sterling's deals with potential buyers and silver is, quote, very much involved. shelly sterling's attorney has also stayed silent. in addition to ballmer, shelly sterling's interested in offers from magic johnson and his guggenheim partners. california moguls david geffen and larry ellison. oprah winfrey, according to our source, is out of the running. magic johnson was recently asked by anderson cooper if he was interested in the clippers. >> if it comes out and it's for sale and my guggenheim partners and i say we want to look at it and buy it, of course, we'll make a run for it. >> reporter: any sale of the clippers would have to be approved by the nba's board of governors. >> i prefer he sell it than us go through this process.

>> reporter: if the team isn't sold by june 3rd, the nba will be forced to vote to remove donald sterling as owner, a process that could be messy. >> the nba has to have this, it's much cleaner to have acquiescence and a sale. this is almost tantamount to, you can either resign, or we can fire you, but you can no longer work here. >> and a source with knowledge of the negotiations tells cnn there is no scenario in which donald or shelly sterling can retain any equity in the l.a. clippers. wolf, looks it's almost over. >> say steve ballmer gets the l.a. clippers, what are the chances he'd move the team from l.a. to seattle? >> ballmer has said he'd like to keep the clippers in l.a., but with his microsoft connections, he's closely tied with seattle. he tried to keep the seattle super sonics there before they became the thunder. we have tried to contact steve ballmer if he would keep the clippers in l.a. or move them and ask him about the shelly

sterling meeting. we have not heard back from steve ballmer. >> if you do, let us know. >> will do. >> brian todd, thanks so much. let's dig deeper now, jeffrey toobin is joining us, along with don lemon and l.z. granderson. l.z., do you think after all that's happened to the clippers, the nba would actually allow the team to move the clippers to seattle? >> you know, that really depends upon who the owner is. i don't see a scenario like that, because the reasons why the seattle team left in the first place, i don't see that situation changing, but with that being said, if it expedites the situation, then i can see a scenario in which a team being moved to seattle will be beneficial. but in the likeliness of it, i just don't see it. i don't see it either, don, and i'll tell you why. the media market in seattle is a lot smaller than it is in the los angeles, and if they are going to go for a billion or billion and a half, whatever

they are going to sell it for, the value of that team is in a huge media market like l.a., not necessarily seattle. >> right. if you're going to sell for that much, it's not worth the same there. wolf, can i talk about what brian todd talked about, the people who are interested, oprah being out? just looking up their net worth, right, and these are just estimates. oprah is worth $2.9 billion. you could see she wouldn't want to give up $1 billion, but people like larry ellison, this is an estimate, $43 billion, $8 billion for one of his partners, $9.9 billion for his other partner. that's a lot of money. i mean, that's kind of pocket change for them. i could see why oprah might be out and these other guys might be in. who knows? >> jeffrey, he makes a good point. the nba really wants this over with, out of the way, they'd like the team sold as quickly as possible, hopefully by june 3rd, a week from today. that's when the board of governors is supposed to meet, if 23 other owners vote to expel

him, it's all over. >> it's all over one way or another. this team will not belong to the sterlings by june 3rd. >> either one of them? >> right. either they'll sell or be forced to sell. it's interesting, something adam silver said, look, we are a league that is 75% african-american players and there's only one african-american owner, michael jordan. i think to the extent adam silver has any influence on the process, if there's an african-american owner realistically, even if it's magic johnson in partnership with guggenheim, which also owns the l.a. dodgers baseball team, silver is going to want to see that. there would be considerable poetic justice in an african-american owner, at least in part taking over the clippers, given how sterling lost the team. >> grant hill is african-american -- lz, grant hill's got a group apparently he's putting together. i'm told he actually met with

shelly sterling yesterday. he wants to put together a group to buy the team, as well. >> yep. you know, wolf, i've worked with grant hill a long time, one of the first nba players i interviewed as a reporter, i like him a lot, but what i don't like is this situation being painted or narrative, if you will, of poetic justice by a billionaire black person owning the team and somehow that makes things a little better. i'm more concerns with the victims of housing discrimination. the l.a. times is in the process of investigating to see what exactly the sterling family did over the course of the decades as landlords. i see those people, those victims of housing discriminations, as the true victims in all of this story. and the true poetic justice, to me, is us finding those people who were kicked out of their homes and forced to live elsewhere and making sure that they are okay, because they, to me, are the true victims in all of this. >> you know, don -- >> you are absolutely right. >> we have discussed this very point, if donald sterling wants

to sell at least some of his reputation, i don't know how much of a reputation he has left, you know, if he gets a billion or $2 billion, take millions of dollars and give it away to causes like the one lz just spoke about, maybe, maybe, he could salvage a little bit of his reputation. >> i think you're right, but can you put a price on an ego? is an ego worth billions of dollars? i think lz is absolutely right about this, victims of housing discrimination, but i have to say, sticking specifically to this particular point where he said such terrible things about magic johnson, you know what they say, karma is a female dog. i won't say the word on your show, i might say it later at 10:00. that would be amazing karma to come back to him if that, indeed, happened, that magic johnson ended up owning this team in part. >> don, we'll see you later tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern, don lemon will have much more on this, a whole bunch of other news, as well. jeffrey, lz, guys, thanks very much. still ahead, it's the raw

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82 days after malaysia airlines flight 370 disappeared, the satellite company so crucial to the search has now released information that wasn't available to the public before. are the answers to the plane's fate and the fates of 239 people somewhere in the complex lines of data?

rene marsh is here. she's got the latest. what are you learning? >> well, wolf, this is what everything hinges on, 47 pages of satellite data, and tonight we hear from the critics, who doubted whether the data and the search zone were correct. the question now, does this convince them? this is what raw data looks like, the last digital traces of the missing plane. this is the moment critics and flight 370 families have been calling for. >> bottom line is, we want to make sure inmarsat didn't make any mistakes. >> the map isn't easy. lines of numbers show the milliseconds it took to go from an inmarsat ground station, satellite, plane, then back again. that determined the plane's distance from the satellite, which led to these seven arcs. the plane would have been anywhere along them at the given times, and analysis of these other numbers determine the direction the plane was moving, but just hours after the release, critics are weighing

in, saying they need more to determine if inmarsat got it right. >> right now with what we have, our hands are really tied. we've got the raw data, but we don't have a good explanation of how to interpret all those values. >> and some passenger families aren't placing much value in the data. >> we never believe it. >> but inmarsat says the malaysia government decided what should be released. >> we have absolutely no problem putting our model in the public domain, and that is a decision for the leading country to put out. >> even some of the critics say this data disproves some of the wilder theories, like the belief flight 370 may have landed at a u.s. military base. >> i think the inmarsat data is very accurate in that regard. we knew that before, and this data released today just re-enforces that conclusion. it did not go to diego garcia.

>> the data isn't perfect. the arcs could be off by about six miles either way. plus, after losing fuel, the plane could have glided for 23 miles in either direction. put together, that's a margin of error nearly 60 miles wide. well, tomorrow we reach a major turning point. we know the underwater search using bluefin-21 comes to an end. we do know that there will not be any searching until about august. that's when they hope to switch things over to the private sector using different equipment to search for some debris. >> at least for the next few months, no search at all. >> exactly. >> thanks for that report. let's talk about all these developments with our panel. peter goelz is our aviation analyst. tom fuentes is our law enforcement analyst, former assistant director of the fbi, and tim farrar is a satellite communicates expert. tim, what do you make of the data that's been released? i know at one point you thought

maybe a final turn could have resulted in some misidentification of the location. what do you make of what we learned today? >> well, i think that the information is useful as you said before, in validating and disproving some aspects of it, but we don't have everything there. inmarsat said, for example, that some of the calibration was done against data from other planes that were flying at the same time. we don't have that calibration data, so it's a bit difficult to go through and validate the model that inmarsat used. i think that the data we have now allows people to try and reverse engineer that model, whether full validation of that is possible, i think that's going to rely on additional information. only then can you really look at the search areas, look at the other possible paths, and make some assumptions, which really are more on the avionics side,

things like how long the fuel's going to last, depending on what speed you're flying at. i think we're still in the stage of validating the inmarsat model, and i think more information's probably needed to do some of that. >> now it's up to the malaysias, right, to release more information. they've released raw data. everyone wanted to see that, but the analysis, the models, the options, that hasn't been released yet. >> no, it hasn't. i've spoken to u.s. investigators, they are completely comfortable with the work that's been done. they've brought in outside folks who have looked at the data, they have retested it independently, they have tracked it as we've seen on other flights that evening. they are comfortable, they've got it right. i think the malaysians will check it. i think this is a good step and i don't think there's connecting

of the con spear -- conspiratorial dots. >> why don't they release it? >> that's right, wolf, they should go ahead and release it, but they tested that model, the models that they came up with in this analysis, they tested it against a number of other aircraft and it matched, and so to him and to the other experts that looked at it, it indicates that the model's correct. >> did they do -- >> formula's correct. >> did they fly a boeing 777 as a test flight on that model where the -- towards the southern indian ocean to see if the pings, the handshakes would have been the same? do you know if they actually did that? >> i don't know. >> do you know? >> i know they tested other flights of 777s that evening and in future evenings to see if whether their analysis put the plane where it ended up. >> why don't they do that, why don't they take a boeing 777 and fly it on the suspected route of

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can certainly be a brilliant public relations move launching an historic bid for the white house, but hillary clinton's new memoir is also a risky move that could wind up as ammunition for her critics and add to what some call clinton fatigue. our senior political correspondent brianna keilar is joining us with more. we're getting a look at the first audio excerpts now released from the book. >> and we also got another look before, wolf, around mother's day, hillary clinton talking about her mother, but this is the first time where she's really gotten into her time at the state depd department, the crux of this book. both of these sets of excerpts carefully cue cure ated. hillary clinton narrates the author's note for her upcoming book, what she calls her hard choices.

>> perhaps the most famous example from my four years as secretary of state was president obama's order to send a team of navy s.e.a.l.s into a moonless pakistani night to bring osama bin laden to justice. the president's top advisers were divided. the intelligence was compelling, but far from definitive. >> clintons and others pushed for the mission. the rest is history, and it appears one of the chief accomplishments she will point to as she details her time as secretary of state. not mentioned here, a favorite republican focus, benghazi, libya, where islamic militants killed ambassador chris stevens and three other americans in 2012. >> every day, they are defining her legacy at the state department. she hasn't had a chance to do that yet. that's what this book is about. >> as she did in 2003 for her first memoir, "living history," there will be interviews, a book tour, and speeches, but is it all too much hillary clinton, allowing opponents to pick apart her achievements as she lays

them out more than two years before election day? >> it is impossible for her to be under the radar. the only question is, is she the one putting herself above the radar, or is she there because other people have put her there, and it's usually better when you're doing it yourself. >> and clinton is trying to define herself, but for who? she makes clear it's not the inside the beltway naval gazers, the press among them. >> while my views and experiences will surely be scrutinized by followers of washington's long-running soap opera, who took what side, who opposed whom, who was up and who was down, i didn't write this book for them. >> in part, it seems, she wrote this book for americans who might cast a ballot in 2016, delivering them a message of optimism for america's future and dropping this hint about hers. >> one thing that has never been a hard choice for me is serving our country. it has been the greatest honor

of my life. >> and, wolf, the publisher tells me that the first printing of 1 million books is already basically sold and that book stores and retailers have sold another million or have requested another million, and, certainly, i think one of the things that's striking about this author's note is that if it's reflective of the book, she really doesn't cast a lot of stones. it's pretty cautious. >> she's going to make millions and millions of dollars on the book sales and already made several million on the speaking, so she's emerging financially in pretty good shape, i should say that. all right, thanks very much, brianna keilar reporting. this important programming note, don't forget, premiering this thursday on cnn, the decade that changed the world. the space race, vietnam, free love, the british invasion, all of it chronicled in the new ten-part cnn series, "the sixties" from executive producer tom hanks. thursday night, 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific, only here

on cnn. remember, you can always follow us on twitter. tweet me, tweet the show. please, be sure to join us again tomorrow in "the situation room." certainly, you can watch us live. you can dvr the show so you won't miss a moment. that's it for me, thanks for watching, i'm wolf blitzer in the "the situation room." now let's step into the "crossfire." >> wolf, we're trying to make sense out of the obama doctrine before president obama goes to westpoint to confuse us all again. >> actually, you can sum up the obama doctrine with these words, no more dumb wars. the debate's going to start right now. >> tonight on "crossfire," a new deadline for u.s. troops to come home. >> we will bring america's longest war to a responsible end. >> is president obama making america stronger or weaker on the world stage? on the left, van jones. on the right, s.e.