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you. a lot going on fred movies debuting here. we'll see you later from sundance. they like our terminology. >> they've been wanting to do that. >> all right, adam scott and jason, thank you so much. congrats on "the overnight." they are still talking. keep going. we have much more straight ahead in the news room which all begins right now. this is cnn breaking news. all right, welcome back thank you so much for joining me. we're following breaking news this hour involving japanese hostages held by isis one of two japanese captives reportedly has been killed. in a new video posted by a known isis supporter hostage kenji goto is holding a photograph showing his fellow hostage beheaded. cnn is unable to authenticate the video, but these are images of him on the right and fellow
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hostage released by isis more than a week ago. these images released by isis more than a week ago. now new demands. instead of a $200 million ransom ransom isis demands release of a female suicide bomber that you see right here. she confessed to her participation in the 2005 deadly terrorist attacks in jordan killing 38 people. we have the latest now live from jordan and so is the discussion taking place now between jordan and japan about the latest demand with jordan giving the woman up? >> reporter: highly unlikely at this point. we reached out to the jordan government who are not commenting at this point about the demand. they are saying they are working closely with the japanese government to verify the authenticity of the video. after that is done they say they will be making statements
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about that. it is very difficult to see the jordan i jordan jordanians giving into the command. they say they will not negotiate with terrorists and will not go into a deal like this but what we've seen over the past week since the release of that initial isis video of the japanese hostages is jordan has been working with the japanese government a crisis center of sorts was set up at the japanese embassy here in amman, headed by the deputy foreign minister of japan. now, both jordanian officials have been really tight lipped. they have not been disclosing any information about what's going on behind the scene, but one would assume that the reason jordan is playing a critical part, perhaps, the japanese government's utilizing whatever back channels jordans may have
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in talks to try to secure the release of these hostages jordan has its own captive held by isis a jordan pilot whose m 16 crashed in raqqa in isis territory in december. >> what is the status of the female prisoner? she was sentenced to death. >> reporter: yes. an iraqi national part of the four member suicide bomber team that attacked jordan in november of 2005 in those coordinated attacks at the three amman hotels. a video released at the time on jordan television was a confession by her in which she said that herit failed to detonate and her husband carried out an attack in the wedding party in a hotel in amman. she was sentenced to death in 2006. the death penalty in jordan that year really had been halted for
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eight years since. there's been some de facto moratorium that ended with the resumption of the death penalty in jordan just last month with 11 men executed. it's really important to point out here that those bombings in jordan at the time were claimed by al qaeda and iraq. that is the predecessor of isis and they were believed to have been orchestrated by the jordanian born terrorist founder and leader of al qaeda in iraq who was killed by the u.s. military in an air strike in iraq in 2006. really there, there's the links between isis and tracing it back to al qaeda and iraq. symbolic here demanding release. >> all right. very complex. thank you so much. appreciate it. from amman. here in the united states the national security counsel is responding to reports of that image that appears to show the beheading of one of the japanese
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hostages held by isis. cnn is at the white house with more on that. >> reporter: fred we got a statement from the national security counsel a short time ago from the deputy spokesperson patrick, and i'll read the statement to you saying we have seen the video purporting to show japanese citizen has been murdered by the terrorist group isil. the intelligence community is working to confirm its authenticity. the united states strongly condemns isil's actions, and we call for the immediate release of all of the remaining hostages. the united states is fully supportive of japan in this matter and stand in solidarity with japan and are coordinating closely. i point out, though we learned from the defense department in the last few days that they believe that air strikes against isis killed some 6,000 isis leaders, and they had some success in taking out some isis targets. of course that's not stopped some of the gruesome executions but they do believe they are having some success in trying to hold back isis. >> all right.
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thank you so much from the white house. so what happens next in the dealings with isis? joining us now in new york is cnn global affairs analyst and former "new york times" reporter david rhode. good to see you, david. isis shows it has the upper hand, first demanding $200 million in exchange for the release of the japanese and now they change the demands after purportedly killing one. the prisoner swap involving now jordan in a very different way. does isis seem to have leverage? is it a case now where no country really wants to be in a position where they are negotiating with isis even if it means trying to save the life of one of their own? >> reporter: it's a really difficult position for al these governments, and i just want to take a moment to look at what's happened here and the tactic they are using. the gentleman that was executed
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today had a history of mental illness. he had tried to kill himself at one point in his life. his wife died of lung cancer. he lost his home and his business to bankruptcy and he was a self-style adventurer a security consultant but he really had no clients who just wandered into the war zone in syria and was captured. you have a man that's potentially mentally ill executed by the group. bottom line, though, governments want to see they are trying to do something, but i would be surprised if the jordan government or japan really pushed forward and released this female suicide bomber as isis requested. >> and this really does underscore the -- we've been using the word a lot, the evolution of terrorism, the real change in terrorism, the tactics, et cetera and just reminding people that you were held as a hostage by the taliban while you were reported with the new york times and escaped.
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i remember being on the air when we reported that you had escaped, and that was incredibly heroing, and we did not have the information report until you were in a safe place, but what's different now, and, clearly, the taliban is different from isis and al qaeda, we're not hearing about attempted escapes by anyone held by isis. what is it about this terrorist group and maybe that of, you know aqap that they have such a network now that they are able to take so many people hold them hostage for sung, threaten governments or country, and by way of doing that make a lot of money because there are some countries that have negotiated given millions for the release of their people. what has happened with the terrorist group that there is such an upper hand so to speak? >> reporter: well the difference is frankly, you know isis is much more powerful than the taliban has been since
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2001. they have, you know, a vast amount of territory from syria into iraq. there's 6 million people that live in the territory they control. that's much larger than anything the taliban has had since 2001, and that's why they are essentially able to take captives and execute them. you know there was -- the white house correspondent mentioned the figure of 6,000 fighters killed. i think the air strikes by the u.s. have slowed down the advance of isis, but they are not really shrinking the territory isis is holding, and particularly in syria, isis is very strong and so the situation has gotten worse in the last five years. we didn't think it would happen but now the taliban are comparatively not nearly as strong as isis this new formed group that emerged edemerged. >> while drone strikes are a part of it but there's other ways they have been picked off, they have been killed but the opposite is happening as you underscored. recruitment seems to be picking
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up. the groups are smart about using those either assassinations or attempts to their advantage, and somehow recruit new members? >> reporter: yeah. the isis again, this new generation of terrorist group, if you will more effective than bin laden was at recruiting people because they use social media and twitter, and asoma used speeches that did not work. isis is slicker, a better use of social media, and the issue is the good news is that in the u.s. there's very few people interested in isis. the number of americans potentially fighting alongside isis is one or two dozen. the problem is there may be as many as a thousand europeans going to syria to join isis. that's alarming, but the bigger threat is europe it is a new, more effective generation of terrorist group, if you will. >> yeah. it's frustrating to have to end up using words like you know
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effectively able to do this, or they are smart or cunning or even savvy. those are all complimentary terms for groups of people carrying out heinous activities and making people feel fearful globally. david rhode, thank you for the time appreciate it. >> thank you. >> up next who could come out ahead from the late education turmoil in the middle east. how iran could emerge with more influence in the region.
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a new leader in saudi arabia and political chaos in yemen add to instability in the middle east and as tom explains the complexity of the situation could end up benefitting iran. >> there are good reasons that leaders all around the world are watching the middle east because of the uncertainty there that could affect many nations. the death of the king the asession of his half brother to power theoretically means a continuation of the existing policies. an ally of the u.s. influencer of the region but there are questions how that will proceed. remember this is the largest oil exporting nation in the world, and their military's a force to be reckoned with there. beyond that what about yemen down here? yemen is in chaos now.
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rebel forces push the government. it's not clear who is in charge or who will be in charge once the dust settles. we do know though that many terrorist elements have been at work in yemen for years right now. al qaeda in the arabian peninsula down there. who knows where they wind up. what about up here? syria and iraq. they are together here although they have different issues, syria with a civil war for four years, but they are together because they have a common problem, and that is isis. isis is trying to carve its nation its islamic call fate out of the territory that spans that border so that's just four of the nations, and there are many more that right now cause uncertainty in the region. e jiptd continues to be an uncertain country in terms of its future. we don't know what's going to go on there as time moves forward. israel remains a strong u.s. ally, but it could feel pressure from all this uncertainty, and
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relations with the u.s. are not the best right now, and what about this one over here? iran. big influence on the region already. if this continues, if things are shaky enough there, iran might be the big winner coming out of this with even more influence in the middle east. >> all right, tom, thank you. straight ahead, efforts to raise the fuselage of airasia flight delayed again. what led crews to put the plans on hold? but, first, our look into the future. here's richard quest with tomorrow transformed. photographs, they capture that moment in time. we all cherish them. we share these moments with family and friends, show them a photo album of our favorite holiday picktures. when the digital camera got rid of film e-mailing photos was
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rough conditions in the java sea temporarily stopped an attempt to recover the fuselage of air asia flight 8501. indonesia's search and rescue say four more bodies have been recovered bringing the total to 69. 162 people died when the plane crashed on december 28th. cnn has more. >> reporter: search teams hoped to recover all bodies without having to lift the aircraft. that was their priority. but when dive teams went down into the choppy java sea, they were not able to get inside the fuselage. one official explains why. >> translator: when the divers tried to go deeper into the wreckage of the cabin, they were
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obstructed by cables and debris. it's a problem for the divers to find out how many bodies are in there. >> reporter: so they decided to lift the entire fuselage by attaching a giant balloon to it effectively to raise it to the surface. now, dive teams managed to get into the water early saturday morning around 6:00 a.m. a team of six different teams of divers took turns to go down into the water to attach this giant balloon to the fuselage using belts and straps blowing it up and we thought they were very close to mission accomplished bringing the fuselage back to the surface, and then one of those belts snapped, so for today, the acements failed. dark has fallen. divers have to stop the work but will attempt to go into the water at first light, but let's not forget they have been hampered many times because of those choppy waters high winds,
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and incredible waves. in the meantime what we understand from officials is that they have been crawling through all the information they get from both the flight data recorders and the cockpit voice recorders. one official told cnn they are 90% of the way through of reading the data effectively. we're also expecting a preliminary report at some time but we're not sure if they will share that with the public under indonesia law, they don't have to. so far, 69 bodies recovered, not all of them identified. cnn, indonesia. >> all right, thank you so much. spanish police waste no time breaking up with they say could be a terror cell. coming up the eerie similarities the cell had to the terrorist attacks in paris.
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welcome back. hello, again. we are following developments out of spain on the terror front. four have been arrested who may have planned an attack similar to those carried out at "charlie hebdo." we are in madrid. what can you tell us about the raid and how concerned police are? >> reporter: well the difference they say, is that with the arrest of these four men compared to the arrest last year in spain of dozens of other alleged mill tonights for recruitment, these four were ready to carry out an attack right here in spain in europe and here's what the interior minister had to say. >> translator: what is especially noteworthy with the breakup of the cell are parallels with the attacks in paris recently carried about against the "charlie hebdo"
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magazine. two brothers with training and willing to carry out an attack, and according to the police to blow themselves up while trying that. >> reporter: now, the police found knives a gun, military fatigues and they are still investigating. back to you. >> all right, al goodman, thank you so much in madrid. all right, back to the other breaking story. one of two japanese captives held by ice sis reportedly have been killed. in a new video of a known isis goto is holding a picture of the hostage who was killed. cnn cannot awe then kate the video. rather than a $200 million ransom, now they demands the release of a female suicide bomber. joining me from denver is ambassador christopher hill now
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a dean at the university of denver and from washington, cnn global analyst and writer for the daily beast, kimberly doser. is there a chance that jordan would step into help? would it take seriously the possibility of a prisoner swap for the release of a japanese hostage? >> well i mean, it's hard to speak for jordan at this point or speak for any of these -- speak for isis at this point. certainly, the record of trying to do business with isis has not been a very good one, and i think what is on everyone's mind is the idea that if you get into swaps, you'll -- it'll never end. it'll be an effort by isis to just take more and more hostages. so i'm sure there's a lot of consideration going on here. i'm certainly not going to presume i know how the japanese would feel about this except to say that this is a very tough
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situation with isis, and the history of dealing with these people is not positive. >> i wonder what in you view you can't speak for other countries, but what in your view or isis for that matter is the real objective here for isis by offering these conditions that very few countries would ak acquiesce acquiesce, what does isis stand to gain other than publicity that it's a horrible, terrible organization that wants to kill people to do that and will carry out its threats? >> well clearly, the opening gambit of the 200 million was designed to kind of tell the japanese if you're going to give countries against us $200 million, you have to give it to us. as a clear effort to sort of go at the japanese public japanese public that's really not been up for these kinds of overseas projects in the past. and an effort really to
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intimidate them and in this spectacle of beheadings, so, you know it's their idea how to influence japanese public opinion about japanese policy and the middle east. >> then kimberly you know isis knows that these are long shot requests. so is there a way of really clearly understanding what the objective is here? it's not reasonable to think it takes over an entire country. right now, it's in pockets, but then what is the sole objective here for isis? >> well the objective with them is also to keep themselves in the public eye for recruiting to generate funds, generate donations. the way they've done this they have stretched this out first. one hostage, then another, and now they changed the demand something that was done once before but the japanese hostage speaking in the video explains this by saying look this is a
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more reasonable demand by turning over this woman prisoner you're not going to be funding a terrorist organization. it's interesting. it's as if isis has been watching all of the coverage and is responding to it saying okay we got it. here's another thing that you could do. it does also bring in the jordan public and possibly what isis is trying to do is sort of psychological warfare creating riffs between different members of the coalition that's a raid against it. >> all right. shifting gears, talk about yemen now, unless ambassador, you had a thought about that. i saw you nodding your head. >> well i think what is on isis's mind is kim's last point which is to find ways to break up the coalition. it's important to understand things have not been going well for isis on the battlefield. i think they have to be primed for some additional losses coming up in iraq 10 hasn't
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been easy times for them and, clearly, they are trying to deal with this coalition. >> before you go, ambassador thoughts on yemens concerns with what's taking place there with the minority being able to help overthrow a government there, and the u.s. continuing to keep some presence there in the counterterrorism efforts. >> well certainly, the u.s. has a great interest in working with whatever yemeni government there is to deal with a very large al qaeda presence in that country, but this is coming right now during a crucial period in saudi's succession and they cannot be happy at all with the potential of a shia led government coming in yemen, and, certainly, we'll see real efforts in yemen on the part of al qaeda to do something about this. tensions are rising there. i think the u.s. is trying to
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old bosses coach bill belichick, and the team owner, they are on the prosecution's witness list. the patriots fired their star tight end the day he was led out of his home in handcuffs arrested for the murder of semipro football player oden lloyd, shot seven times. at first, it seems there's a mountain of evidence for the star who pled not guilty. 18 months later, the case is not the same. the universe of damming evidence has slunk. >> reporter: because of a team of attorneys, the most of which is a text to his sister sent minutes before lloyd was killed. lloyd writes nfl, just so you know. a judge ruling it's inadmissible not enough proof
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lloyd thought he was going to die. if the jury believes hernandez was with lloyd before lloyd was killed is not a big leap to conclude aaron hernandez was involved in the murder. >> reporter: yet prosecutors say they have videos of the victim getting into a car with hernandez and co-defendants wallace and ortiz who pled not guilty to murder. videos of the same car driving into an industrial park and, later, hernandez back home less than a mile away holding what prosecutors say is the alleged murder weapon. but it was never found. >> there is no. murder weapon. or a witness that's credible would testify that aaron hernandez did it. there's no such witness. >> reporter: the judge blocking mention that hernandez is indicted for two more murders in boston. the prosecution witness al exapder bradley cannot say he's suing hernandez for allegedly
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shooting him in the face a few months before lloyd's murder. will the state overcome any weaknesses? >> so there still is a good amount of evidence against him, just not the slam dunk case it seemed to be. >> again, court could start on tuesday for that case. all right. in the meantime, he was a hall of fame player on the field and off. eernie banks, the first african-american player ever to play for the chicago cubs. he passed away friday night in the spring of 2013 i had the hop nor of talking to him, and i asked him about breaking the cubs' color barrier and how much jackie reportson mentant to him. >> jackie robertson breaking the color barrier, did you consult him or study his plight in order to best handle what was like for
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you to be the first with the cubs? >> yes, i did. i really did. i first met jackie at wrigley field. he came over to third base. we shook hands. he said ernie, i'm glad you are here nice to see you. just listen and you will learn. i followed exactly robertson life all the way through to 19 7 it 2. >> did he seem bigger than life then to you since you got to know him personally? >> yes, he did. i got to know him, i went to japan with his wife rachel around him a lot, listened to him, followed the speeches when he was president of the freedom bank when he gave in new york and when he started free housing in brooklyn, new york i just followed jackie robertson. he was like my father my uncle, my friend. >> oh ernie banks, one of the
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there's a new face of the measles outbreak in california that looks like this. more than 30 children in isolation because of the expanding outbreak of a disease that had been eliminated in the united states. the map shows the spreads of measles, now 68 confirmed cases, and two tlirds linked to the initial outbreak in disneyland in california. nick is with us now. what are parents to do? >> well vaccinate their childrenings that's what we hear from medical experts. we asked the top e deem yoelgs in california if it's safe to travel to california he says yes. if you have not been vaccinated yet or child is under 12 months old, it's better safe than sorry than to go to the park. this started in december when someone traveled in or somebody who had the virus, somebody
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contracted the virus that snowballed into the current outbreak. we spoke with a pediatrician at vanderbilt university and he gave a solution to the current outbreak. >> it's time to become vaccinated. what it takes, you know many generations now have not seen these illnesses, and they don't have an appreciation and understanding even a fear of these very serious infections and many think it's a theoretical thing, and outbreaks like this drive home this is a real threat to our society. >> very real threat. five states have current measles cases including mexico as well and some california students have been asked to stay home who are not vaccinated and others isolated for 21 days. the concern is yes, get vaccinated but if you do there's a chance you can still get it. the l.a. times reported at least five of the current cases are of people already vaccinated. that's troubling. >> that is troubling. >> absolutely. >> thank you so much.
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let's talk about what happens after this. >> you're not going to really take me to court, are you? eloise is happy where she is. >> she needs more love than what he her grandfather can give her. now, carol, god rest her soul. she was a mom. we had a bond. therefore i had no reason to worry about my granddaughter. >> now you do? >> certain things a man can do certain things a woman can do. i don't want to spell that out to you, especially a man your age. >> i said you're all welcome to visit. >> i'm thinking with things the way they are, dealing with all the hands we've been dealt, she's been dealt, we have to talk about shared custody. >> not going to happen. >> no? >> no. like i say, you're all welcome to visit. >> you don't want her down here down here with the black folks. >> don't, don't sarttart with that. >> got a black math tutor, that
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going to do it? take care of that half of her soul? >> what is it with you? why do you always go there? >> what is it with you you don't want to admit there's a there there. >> this moment underscored divisions, but ultimately, it's about inclusion, isn't it? >> yeah. at the core this is about the welfare of a child, and that's -- that's what's on everybody's mind but what happens is as custody is becoming an issue and somebody thinks they are going to lose race comes in. it's handled so deafly and in a way that we hate seeing ourselves do that but we know we do it and the movie's mirror where we are at. because we see it on the big screen we walk outside in the light of day and say i don't want to be that anymore. i don't want to be that. when you see it i don't want to be it. if you can't look at yourself you're never going to have that moment. you just keep on and sometimes
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a movie reflects something that changes us. >> are we seeing the start of an evolution in hollywood where no longer does -- is there a perception that a black person is cast as a black character. why can't a black character play any karg? >> i think that goes along with your representation. i've been very fortunate that seven -- about 70% of the roles i played have not been specified as black men in the script. "hurt locker," a bunch of them and i think we're at a place now in hollywood where people are starting to take control of their own legacy and their own future. if you look at what happened with you know "selma," it was a dying project with no director and david worked with ava on the movie before that and then told the producers they had to meet with her and bring her in and that's how she got on that movie. i feel like we're starting to hold the reigns a little. i think there's a lot more to do for ourselves to make sure our
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movies are made and our stories are told. >> i always thought whitney was really pretty you know and that was not designated as white or black, but it was who can sing or act and she was the prettiest girl. never bothered me that idea. i know what you're saying but it comes into play. >> you're behind so many successful movies whether it be in production or you know starring in "dances with wolves," you think "field of dreams," you know, "my body guard," what's most gratifying for you? starring in them or making them happen? >> i think making them happen at the end of the day, you know, you go what anthony was saying they look at the movie that does not have the value anymore. these movies can travel through time. i will tell you what bet you it's made $200 million now, and why? because it was not dependent on its opening weekend. was this movie about men and women set against the backdrop of minor league baseball.
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it struck a cord and why it's difficult to be with women, and we laugh at that, and why is it so difficult to be with men. what happens is this movie was a classic, and that's what we think happens with black or white. black or white might have a giant life and, you know hopefully people see it. we think it is a movie that everyone should see because i think anthony's point is bears repeating. somebody that does not look like you, go see this movie, and then have a talk. it is about things that i think that movies can be, which is we wish we would have said those things. >> if i could, talk sports because you brought it up a little bit. you know you do have a history with you know sports movies. >> that's right. >> from "field of dreams" to "draft day," and you with "i am marshall," thoughts on football or feelings on the patriots and tom brady? >> i said look you know there's a lot of people talking, some people that i really
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respond to a lot. troy aikman a very astute guy, and i say when another man says to me i didn't do that that means something to me too. so it's a very difficult point blank say to somebody like bill belichick or tom brady who i really like that said i didn't p do it. i'm just going to stay with that. you know, because i don't want to be confronting a man saying you know you're a liar. i'm not going to say that to tom. i heard what tom said. i'm going to accept that. you know i don't blame him for reaching in if it ball felt better than the other. you go i'm taking this one. that's what you do. that's why there's 12 in there. now, you know you can get into the details of it but fundamentally when a man says to me, i didn't do that i accept it. >> you want to leave it there? anthony anthony? >> i'm interested to see how roger goodell handles it with up and downs and trepidation with
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him as commissioner and a lot of things he said he has not held true to. being a saints found with bountygate we were punished in a way that set a benchmark for the rest of the nfl. i want to see him stay on that line. >> kevin costner, what's next? >> i hope i end up making a cowboy movie. you know but i do have a little movie coming out. >> what is it about that? >> what is it about that? who doesn't want to get on a horse and get the bad guys. that's what you do. >> right. >> i have a movie coming out called mcfarland about the sons and daughters of migrant farm workers, a true story, and i think it's a very special movie. disney made it. i have a book coming out in the fall call "explorers guild," i'm a cowriter on it. i have stuff. the kids's baseball starts pretty soon. >> you are staying busy. who doesn't love cowboy hats and
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boots. love to wear them. anthony? >> started shooting "captain america 3" in a few months. i'll be falconing back up again. >> exciting. thank you so much kevin, anthony, thank you. >> very fun talking to them. that's right, first name basis now. hey, kevin costner believed in "black or white" so far he largely financed the whole thing. see it next friday. thanks so much. much more of "news room" up straight ahead. hi everyone you're in the cnn news room i'm poppy harlow. ice sis may be testing a new strategy after a chilling new video of two hos tamgs is revealed. the video appears to announce that only one hostage is still alive now
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