third place, saying that no country is doing enough to prevent dangerous climate change. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i'll see you next week. >> right now inside the ferguson grand jury. witnesses lied, changed their stories. what happened behind closed dorz that may have led to no enindictment of officer darren wilson in the michael brown shooting case. plus we don't know if it's an only oscar knows. he is not here anymore.

>> the mother of reeva steenkamp breaking her silence to cnn. she opens up about her daughter and whether she thinks justice was served against oscar pistorius. we're in the cnn newsroom. >> hello on this sunday. thanks for being here. some of the people who say they saw what happened in ferguson, missouri, were not telling the truth, and they admitted it. others so-called witnesses to michael brown's death changed their stories in front of the grand jury. and bad untrustworthy came for it on both sides. we know all of this because of the thousands of documents that are now available for anyone to read. cnn josh is here. also with us, cnn analyst danny. josh, let's start with you. i know you have gone through

really thousands of pages of documen documents. >> they have what we call data dumps where you suddenly get thousands of pages of documents and what we wanted to do here at cnn is lael to take the time to go through them and say what can we learn from this, and so in the coming days we're going to be rolling out a series of stories, and the first one that you can see today on cnn.com is kind of a stunning look at people who came before the grand jury but were in no way at all helpful to the grand jurors if they were trying to figure out what may have happened. a grand juror said all of your statements before this is that

you saw that police officer shoot him at point-blank range. yes. all right. that's one example. here's another one. this witness number 40 that gave the testimony that was so strange ask changed so often that a prosecutor actually said to her, is it possible do you think that you dreamed about this after it happened, and it feels real to you? that you were up there? he insists no, i never dreamed about it. let me tell you about her. had he is very pro wilson, pro the officer in this case. she had posted a racist rant that day of the shooting. she's organized a group that's supporting him. what we have in these documents as we go through them is a series of witnesses, not the majority, but a series of witnesses who were only brought up there as an opportunity for prosecutors to show people here are some people that you cannot trust. >> which could have clouded really the whole picture of what happened in front of the grand jurors. danny, i want to ask you, are you surprised to hear these discrepancies and specifically the witnesses may have lied?

>> our brains do not work like videotapes, and while the concept of lying and truth is sort of an elusive concept, what happens more or not is that witnesses receive after acquired information or depending on the way the interview is conducted, they take their snip ets of memory and then piece it together to form a narrative. so when we talk about lying not lying, many people are doing this without their memory, does not even aware that they're lying. some people may be flat out fabricating to become famous or to support the side that they prefer, but i think most defense attorneys and prosecutors would say that it's more towards the

middle. >> i know one of these witnesses in your reporting really goes on to say that she said what she said because she just wanted to be part of the story and she was reiterating what a boyfriend or friend told to her. do you think there are a number of people who really intensally misled the jury? >> what we have is the whole collection of everything. we have what danny is talking about, which is that there are certainly people who have faulty memories, and that's always a difficulty. it's quite possible that the majority much the witnesses that most witnesses were just trying to say what they remembered, but, sure, when you take a look really closely at this testimony, you find some people who came from a very specific point of view who wanted to support one specific side who went ahead and said what it was that they said even though it was quickly provening to not not be credible.

actually, didn't see anything. sometimes have you people with a narrative. people who are teaing one side. as you point out, it's a good example, sometimes you just have people who want to feel like they're part of it. >> danny, i want to take one more question to you. you know, if you look at this issue that we're seeing with the witnesses, some might say this is greater proof that the process wasn't done right, that the prosecutors should have screened the witnesses and then only presented those who they deemed credible. what do you think? >> well, that assumes first that the ultimate objective for a prosecutor is to always secure an indictment? if you take a step back, that's want the prosecution's role. >> yes, the prosecutors may have had a preformed idea that influenced the way they presented this information, but that's what we pay prosecutors to do. looking at it from another

perspective, if the prosecutor knew all this information was out there, it's what we call brady information. the defense was going to have it at trial. it raises a bigger question, should a prosecutor seek an enindictment when he knows that there's so much exkulpatory thaefd there -- should they still proceed and try to skir an indictment when they know legally speaking, a supposed defendant is ultimately going to be not guilty? >> i'm hearing you say you believe the prosecution may have done the right thing. >> rather than the usually taylored information was presented. maybe the real question is the process of letting the prosecutors select only his favorite information to be

presented to a grand jury is that inherently unfair? if we seek the challenge, then we might have to start rewriting the constitution because that's how firmly entrenched the grand jury process is in our system. for more details, if you want to read it for yourself, you can check out josh's full report right now on cnn.com. now, the ferguson case ignited a nationwide conversation about race. tens of thousands of people marched in several cities yesterday protesting what they see as rampant racial injustice. for the most part these protests were peaceful but in new york two police officers are still recovering after officials say they were knocked down and beat on the brooklyn bridge. police arrested 23 people for disorderly conduct as they marched from the state capitol. in oakland, california, police say there were several incidents of vandalism and at least 45

people were arrested. >> the yeahs are 56. the nays are 40. the motion to concur is passed. >> last night the senate passing that $1.1 trillion spending bill. this bill is now headed to the president's desk. aaron mcpike is joining us live in washington. aaron, this bill did not pass all that easily. how did it all go down? >> well, it did pass with broad bipartisan support, but there was also pretty substantial bipartisan opposition. 21 democrats, 18 republicans, and one independent voted against it, and how they got it done was essentially appeasing ted cruz to some degree. you may remember that mike lee and ted cruz with a pair of junior republican senators who are holding up final passage of the bill on friday night, and they had to go into a long

series of procedural votes on saturday. >> tonight both democrats and republicans will have the opportunity to show america whether she they instant with a president who has defined the will of the voters or with the millions of americans who want a safe and legal immigration system. this point of order is targeted not to the onnibus, but that it will be spent unconstitutionally. if you believe president obama's amnesty is unconstitutional, vote yes. if you believe president obama's amnesty is consistent with the

constitution, then vote no. >> that particular vote failed even 20 republicans voted against it. we should point out that this $1.1 trillion spending bill, while it funds the government through september 30th, it only funds the department of homeland security and what it does for immigration until the end of february. we know that mike lee and ted cruz will go to great lengths to get what they want, and yesterday we heard from a number of republicans from the moderate republican senator susan collins in maine all the way to the conservative senator in arizona. they're not very happy with ted cruz.

>> right now the u.s. marshalls are joining a manhunt. the authorities there captured two out of the three inmates who broke out of jail after they apparently over powered a security guard yesterday. the man you see on the right side of your screen is gemmel. he is now in police custody. also justin terrell gordon was captured yesterday. he was being held on robbery charges there. now, the county sheriff says it all started when a jailer opened the cell door because he thought one of the inmates was very sick, but once that cell was opened, the men attacked the guard and were able to flee. the state remains on high alert. the alabama state bureau of investigations is helping with the search there. dick cheney weighing in once again on the senate's torture report. >> it's a very, very poor piece of work. it should not be used to judge the agency or the program. >> we asked a former u.s. navy survival trainer who has been

waterboarded himself to join this conversation.

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>> torture to me, chuck, is an american citizen on a cell phone making the last call to his four young daughters shortly before he burns to death in the upper levels of the trade center in new york city on 9/11. there's this notion that somehow there's moral ekwifl ens between what the terrorists did and what we do, and that's absolutely not true. for 13 years we've avoided another mass casualty attack against the united states. we did capture bin laden. we did capture an awful lot of the senior guys at al qaeda who were responsible for that attack on 9/11. i would do it again in a minute. >> he would do it again in a minute. that was former vice president dick cheney just this morning staunchly defending the cia's controversial enhanced interrogation program. we're joined now by malcolm nance, a former master instructor for the u.s. navy's survival assistance and escape

cool. malcolm, thanks so much. first, i want to get your response to what we just heard from the former vice president. >> well, it's absolutely an incredible dmenlt to hear from an elected vice president of the united states. i'm a intelligence professional. i've spent my entire career going after terrorists and people who were threats to the united states of america, but i stand for honor first. i cannot believe that we have decided under that administration that they would compromise the honor of the united states set forth by general george washington himself on the treatment of prisoners to take techniques that we had gleened from the nazis, the japanese, the north koreans, and the north vietnamese and apply them to these captives. that's want the way we do things. that's not what we taught. >> help us understand what you taught at sear because i know as you were a trainer there, you

and the entire staff were required to undergo waterboarding. what is that experience like? >> it's a demonstration tool that we use, and the difference between what we use at the school and the nazis used was exactly the same. we used the exact same device that they had by their exact same design and what we did was we would give a demonstration application that an enemy who had no ability to -- or i'm sorry, an energy that had a complete disregard for human rights, an enemy that was totalitarian, that had he had the ability to make you talk, and away we would teach at sear is how to talk. you were going to fail, you were going to endure a bit of torture, but under a real enemy they would give you -- >> what did it feel leak some. >> it was a simulation that was

a controlled drowning. there was nothing fake about it. what we did was we would apply water in measured amounts, and what we would do is bring you beyond your ability to resist, and to do that we had to bring you beyond your ability to breathe, so this is why that was a torture, but it's a matter of intent as well. when we give that to a student at sear training, it's what we call stress inoculation. we are applying just a touch of it to show you that this is what an enemy will do to you. when you take that and extrapolate it -- sure. go ahead. >> this report shows that at least one of the captive that is they used this technique on experienced 167 times do you think there's any gray area where, you know, maybe some of these techniques are considered torture if you go to a certain extend.

okay? within sear, which is a program started after the korean war because many of our prisoners were dying in captivity, dying from abuse and torture, and were breaking in such a way that they were die divulging real classified information. this program was put together on the basis of blood. it was put together on the basis of lessons learned from every captive soldier, american, since the american revolution. when we took -- when the bush administration took that information and took these enemy techniques and turned it on its head and decided to apply it as an american policy, we violated the honor and the spirit of all of those soldiers who died in captivity. >> malcolm, one last quick question. do you believe that america is in a stronger position now that this information has been revealed, or are we more vulnerable? >> we were vulnerable the day that we decided to use these

techniques. i have written several books about al qaeda. i lecture on al qaeda internationally, and let me tell you, osama bin laden himself had always framed the united states as hipocritical torturous liars to -- then to have this revealed in 2003 and 2004 and 2005 that we actually did that. we actually took our enemy's techniques and used it. we validated osama bin laden's beliefs. releasing the report has nothing to do with how we're going to be treated around the world by our enemy captors. okay? it's the very fact that we did it and violated our own code of honor to do it that's going to hurt us. >> it's so interesting to hear all these different perspectives coming from people in very similar positions. malcolm, thanks for joining us the conversation. >> it's my pleasure. >> just a month after several americans were released from north korea, another american is

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a u.s. citizen being held in north korea after swerg the country illegally last month. the state media there just gave him a national platform. what did he say? well, he pretty much bashed the

u.s. economic and foreign policy, and now new details are coming about about who this man actually is and why he may have decided to make the dangerous journey into north korea. here's cnn's will ripley. >> here's what we're learning about arturo. he is 29 years old from el paso, texas, and most importantly here, he has a history of mental instability, including a bipolar diagnosis. his mother says he is off his medication right now, sh & she's been very concerned about him since they last had contact in november. that's when the pyongyang leadership says martinez illegally crossed from beijing into north korea. that was his second attempt, by the way. he crossed into north korea and told the government there that he had a message about the united states. a message that he delivered in a press conference on saturday in front of a crowded room of north korean government officials and members of the state media and also foreign press as well. he went on a rant against the united states criticizing its domestic and international policies accusing the united

states of acting like a mafia figure taking control of smaller countries. he uses the iraq war as an example of that. now, this type of language, of course, plays in very well to the message that north korea is trying to send not only to its own people, but the rest of the world, that america is an imperialist that is unfairly treating north korea and accusing north korea inaccurately of widespread human rights abuses that were laid out in the united nations report earlier this year. even though this young man has a history of mental instability, he is being taken very seriously in north korea, but whether he will be allowed to leave the country or if he possibly faces criminal charges for entering illegally, well, that has wret to be seen. martinez in his statement thanked the north korean government for pardoning him for his crimes. he says he plans to seek asylum in venezuela if and when he is allowed to leave the dprk. will ripley, cnn, tokyo. >> back here in the u.s., protesters filled streets across

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for an end of police brutality and racial profiling by law enforcement. >> a moment of silence for everybody that we lost. >> most of these protests were peaceful, but there were a few notable exceptions. let's bring in alexandra field. she's joining us from new york. i know in new york two police officers were hospitalized. what happened on the brooklyn bridge? >> thund cameras in it. the officers were taken to a hospital. they were treated and doing just fine now. >> good to hear it. we know this was a huge protest, and, again, the majority of the protesters there were peaceful. they were planning to end their

march at the nypd headquarters. any response to those protesters' demands? >> you know, i think that the protesters in new york city and the protesters who we also saw in places like washington d.c. and boston know that there is a very long road ahead of them here. they are calling for some specific reforms, but they're calling for a much broader change than that? they're talking about certainly they generated conversation earlier today. the governor of massachusetts duvall patrick spoke to candy crowley on state of the union to talk about what officials are do to listen to protesters and how the protesters are conducting themselves when they take to the streets. >> we went to great lengths to try to connect with the organizers to the extent they were organized to get a sense of what they needed so that we could accommodate the protest and respect their right, and they weren't interested in engagement because part of the point was to be disruptive.

i think it does beg some questions what is it we're trying to accomplish beyond disruption? >> and certainly we have seen some protesters trying to be disruptive. the vast majority of them certainly remain peaceful. really just walking and chanting. western in boston 2,000 to 3,000 people mamped. they left the state capitol, and there were two dozen arrests in that march. most of those arrests were for disorderly conduct. >> these are from coast-to-coast. oakland continues to be sort of a hotspot. >> we certainly all had our eyes on oakland because that's where we've seen some of the more violent images. a little more violent than what we've seen anywhere else really. 45 arrests were made there overnight. they said they had some incidents of vandalizing broken windows. a couple of small fires that were set there. police continuing to try to get a handle on that situation there.

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viktor. >> she can understand and accept anything that is explained to her and proven to her even her son's suicide, but she says that under such bizarre circumstances and with so many questions, investigators have a long way to go to convince her that her son lennon killed himself. >> the last time she heard lennon lacy was around the time she snapped this selfie. last night pic before the game. he was a high school student and a lineman on the football team focused on a professional football career. >> he was a physical fit 17-year-old, very athletic. very, very athletic. down to his food, everything he drank. >> lennon had asthma and had to exercise at night after the temperature dropped. something his family says he did often. lennon headed out for a walk the

night of august 28th. they never saw him alive again. the next morning -- >> it's a black male hanging from the swing. >> lennon's body was found dangling, covered in fire ants, in the center of a mobile home park. >> it's out in the open. there's trailers all around. people were, you know, around the clock at these hours of the day. someone should have saw something, but no one had seen anything. >> it was unreal. it was like a dream. it was like i was not seeing what i was seeing. >> the state medical examiner's office declared lennon's death a suicide, but lennon's mother believes they're wrong. >> he didn't do this to himself sfwloosh do you believe your son was lynched? >> yes. >> pierre lace yea is lennon's brother. >> he may have either been strangled somewhere else and placed there or he was hung there while people were around watching hem die. >> when questioned by state investigators, lennon's mom said he had been depressed because a

relative had died recently. lacy says she did not mean that he suffered from depression. >> when you just lose someone close to you, you're going to be depressed, upset, and in mourning. >> lennon's family says he was focused on football and college ask distracted by his ex-girlfriend. his mother says 17-year-old lennon had been dating a 31-year-old white woman. the age of consent in north carolina is 16. still, some people in this small southern town did not like it. lennon's mother did not like their dramatic age difference. >> i was shocked, disappointed, and i also initially told him how i felt. i did not approve of it. >> in the wake of his hanging, some wondered if he was killed because he was in an interracial relationship. racial tension can often exist just below the surface, and here it can break through. local news covered a ku klux klan rally at a nearby county just weeks before lennon's body was found. >> there were people in this

community that didn't like a 17-year-old black male and a 31-year-old white female? >> a week after lennon was buried, a teenager was arrested for desecrating his grave. reverend william barber leads the north carolina conference of the naacp. >> there are too many questions, and it very well could be a lynching or staged lynching. we don't know. what we do know is that it has to be a full investigation of these matters. >> the naacp hired forensic pathologist christina roberts to review the case, including dr. debra radish's autopsy completed for the state. her first concern? basic physics. lennon was 5'9". the crossbar of the swing set is 7 1/2 feet off the ground. with no swings or anything else found at the scene that lennon could have used according to the naacp's review, how did he get up there? >> his size, his stature does not add up to him being capable of just constructing all of this alone in the dark. >> according to the police

report, the caller, a 52-year-old woman, was able to get the 207 pound teen down. >> i'm going to try to get him down. >> if you can. >> then seconds later -- >> according to the naacp review board, dr. radish also noted that she was not provided with photographs or die mentions much the swing set. without this information she would be unable to evaluate the ability to create the scenario. lacy says she told state investigators the belts used to fasten the noose did not belong to lennon. >> i know every piece and every stitch of clothes this child has. i buy them. i know. >> the initial report from the local medical examiner, however, notes that the belts appeared to be dog leashes. according to the naacp's review, radish says she thought some poshes must be missing because there was no secondary cut in either belt, a cut that would have been made to take the body down. and lennon's family says he left home that night wearing size 12 air jordans, but he was found

wearing these size 10 1/2 air force ones, shoes that were not with lennon's body when he arrived at the medical examiner's office, according to the naacp review. >> he is going to walk a quarter mile from his house in a pair of shoes that is two sizes too small after he takes off his new pair of shoes, and this is a 17-year-old black kid with a brand new pair of jordans on. he is going to take those jordans off and just get rid of them and put on some shoes that ain't -- that's not his. we don't know where he got them from. no laces in them. and continue to walk down this dirt road late at night to a swing set in the middle of the trailer park and hang himself? >> and there are questions in the naacp review about lennon's death being ruled a suicide. dr. radish noted that her determination of manner of death in this case as suicide was based on the information she was provided by law enforcement and the local medical examiner. she would have likely called the manner of death pending, while

awaiting toxicology and investigation, but the local medical examiner had already signed the manner of death as suicide. however, in the summary of the case written the day lennon was found, the local medical examiner asked did he hang himself? will autopsy tell us? and let the conclusion on the manner of death pending. we asked radish who declared the death a suicide. instead, a department spokesperson sent cnn a statement confirming the conversations between roberts and radish in writing. "the comments that were released by the naacp were a sin nop sis of the professional exchange between the naacp's independently retaped forensic pathologist and dr. radish. local police and state investigators declined to speak with cnn on camera for this story. >> we don't have confidence in this local group here to be able to carry out the depth level of the investigation that needs to be done. >> now, the fbi is reviewing the circumstances surrounding lennon's death. >> that's all i would ask for.

what is due, owed rightfully to me and my family. justice proved to me what happened to my child. >> well, as for the local police department, it has only 11 members. it's very small. it called in the north carolina state bureau of investigation to assist. now, that agency has confirmed that it has the case. >> oscar pistorius has a new chapter in his book perhaps. reeva steenkamp's mother breaking her silence about the verdict in her daughter aers death. and this as we learn that oscar pistorius may be tried again. the reason next.

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watch your personal dvr library where ever you go. with the x1 entertainment operating system. a judge rules prosecutors can appeal oscar pistorius's conviction, but not his sentence. that means a legal battle possibly could extend well into next year. pistol or yushgs you'll recall, was found guilty of culpable homicide in the death of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. he was sentenced to five years in prison. the prosecutor called this punishment "shockingly light." our christian amanpour sat down with reeva steenkamp's mother to talk about this verdict and a new book about her daughter. >> you have lived through something that really is so hard for anybody to understand. you have lost your daughter.

what made you write the book at this time? >> i have written the book as a tribute to my daughter. i wanted people to know exactly what she was like. a lot of people loved her. she was loveable. she was beautiful inside and out. >> what was that emotion that you must have felt the day the judge handed down her ruling, that it wasn't murder? >> shock. it was shock. i really thought -- i really had shock. reeva is not here anymore. >> what do you think happened knowing your daughter? >> well, i have got my own opinion. everybody has -- the really believe from all the things that

were read out in the way he was treating her and trying to control her and she would never have allowed that. she was a strong woman. she had her own career. she didn't need to be mrs. pistorius. she would always want to be reeva steenkamp. >> what does she tell you about their relationship? >> she said we are fighting all the time. >> throughout the time? >> the whole time from the beginning to the end they were fighting. right after she said i thought you would be proud to go out with me, but you pick on me constantly. >> yet, there were affectionate tweets as well, messages, texts between them? >> i think there was a huge attraction between them, and i think that's what made it so difficult. >> when you came out of court after the verdict was read, it

was said that the family was "satisfied by that verdict and wouldn't challenge it." >> we didn't say we were satisfied with the verdict, but we were both satisfied when he went down the steps, and he was taken to the prison and locked up, and all his lucxuries taken away from him. he has to pay what he has done. he can't go and shoot himself. >> oscar's story, i don't believe. it seems to me he did not look for her when he says he thought he heard intruders. >> exactly. i mean, if you are lying if bed yoo w your husband or whatever, your wife, and you hear a noise and you think there's something wrong, the first thing you do, you don't call them if there's no answer, don't worry about it. you go and get hold of them and say, listen, there's a problem in your house. >> so as -- >> and you would keep that person with you to make sure

that you were safe. >> june steenkamp also told christiane she wrote this book to help abused women, and she and her husband have started the reeva steenkamp foundation for the same purpose. a tiny little box found in a stone could be a window to the past. this is a time capsule from more than 200 years ago. what could be inside next? zooimplgts first, it was a discovery that stunned scientists. the most t-rex fossil ever found. >> took me over to this big cliff, and he said take a look. i looked at it, and i looked at him, and i said is that t-rex? he said yes, and i think it's all here. >> we haven't moved anything around. we've been looking at it and taking pictures and try to figure out how to proceed. >> well, what happened after this discovery is even more shocking. don't miss dinosaur 13.

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now, in the coming days we might get a look at some of the stuff that was sealed in a box by paul revere himself. look at what some workers found in the cornerstone of the historic massachusetts statehouse. this was just a few days ago. history buffs are convinced they found a time capsule intentionally put there by paul revere and then governor samuel adams. at first they talked about just leaving it there. but, come on, it's 220 years old.

there's an 1855, they dleened the contents with acid so, we're concerned that things may be deteriorated inside, so we want to preserve them as best we can. >> they are going to x-ray this box today. we'll probably crack it open sometime this week, we're told. a boston official says they may even add some modern day items and then put it all in a new box. we have much more just ahead in the newsroom, and it all starts rain. hello again. thanks for staying with us. i'm anna cabrera in for fred yeek whitfield. for sony pictures, the hack attack may not be over. the hackers just