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febru -- >> here's the thing. if men really primped like that in front of mirror, we have some major problems in society. it's on buzzfeed. thank you so much for joining us. "ac360" hosted by the aftermentioned john berman starts now. good evening. john berman here sitting in for anderson tonight. a new ryan williams war story emerges and quickly comes under fire. we have exclusive reporting to get right to the truth of the matter or the lack thereof and we have breaking news. brian stelter and tom learned nbc investigation is nowhere near done, the words of a senior network source. it has widened, we are now learning beyond his initial inaccurate account of the 2003 iraq war mission in which he falsely claimed his chopper was hit by enemy hire. there are new questions about his account of being in berlin when the wall came down and his claims that he met pope john
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paul ii in college. huffington post another questionable story come to light like the one that got him suspended for six months involves a helicopter a dangerous mission and troops that he bonded with. and just like that story, this one is utterly compelling. it is packed with a vivid detail and masterfully told. a gripping account of flying in iraq during the war with seal team 6 and later being sent to souvenir from that raid that killed osama bin laden. it sounds too good to be true which of course is the concern. in a moment our exclusive reporting on what troops and a top official say that could settle the question. first, the story itself. may 2011. an mh 60 black helicopter is engulfed in flames after navy seal team 6 successfully killed osama bin laden at his compound
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in aibattaabattabad, pakistan. it crashed in this courtyard. an attempt to destroy the helicopter's critical technology. in an interview with david letterman in january of 2013 brian williams had this to say about a piece of the burned out wreckage. >> about six weeks after the bin laden raid, i got a white envelope and in it was a thank you note unsigned and attached to it was a piece of the fuselage. the fuselage from the blown up black blackhawk in that courtyard. i don't know how many pieces survived. >> sent to you by one of them? >> yeah, one of my friends. >> reporter: those friends, according to williams of the secret seal team 6 but that's being questioned by the members of the special operations community. it could be one of the things that internal nbc investigation is focused on. in 2011 williams described a
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long relationship with seal team 6 when talking about the bin laden raid in another letterman appearance. >> we have some idea which of our special operations teams carried this out and it happens to be a team i flew in to baghdad with on the condition that i would never speak of what i saw on the aircraft the aircraft that we were on what they were carrying and who they were after. but all of it was shared with me. it's common when covering a war because to reveal that would be to endanger americans. >> reporter: and then in 2012 during yet another letterman appearance that perhaps raises the most questions, williams goes further. >> i have a throat cutter on my desk at 30 rock which is helpful in staff meetings. it just sits there. it was sent to me by a member of seal team 6. i flew in to baghdad invasion plus three days with elements on
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seal team 6 and was told not to make eye contact with them or initiate conversation. it was like horses in the gate right before a mission. this guy had a wristband with his human target that he was after when we landed. one of the members of the deck of cards, one of the leadership targets. they are amped. this is the best we have. and until he reached into my box of wheat thins, my last remaining american food it could have been a wheat thin commercial. because this hand the size of a canned ham goes and i lost half of my net supply of wheat thins but then i chatted him up and admired a knife as part of the utility, darned it if that knife didn't show up at my office a few weeks later. >> reporter: whether brian williams will be allowed back at the office is now being decided by nbc. >> we asked nbc for comment. they declined. we also do not know how brian williams himself explains all of this.
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we only have on-air words to go by and fact check. cnn national security analyst peter bergen joins us with what he's been finding. peter, one of your special operations sources, a command official said, quote, we do not embed journalists with that unit or any other unit that conducts counterterrorism missions. bottom line no. so does that leave any wiggle room for brian williams' account of things? >> john i really don't think so. his account of being embedded with seal team six did not pass the smell test just on the face of it. i spent time reporting on that group and people that i've talked to within the seal team community, report journalists
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embedding with seal team six and of course the special operations said this never happens. his account is puzzling john. >> i talked to friends of mine in the journalism community and we can't think of anybody who's embedded with seals before. is it possible that he'd share a transport with them maybe, it wasn't an embed but just on the same helicopter? is that possible? >> in talking to somebody who's in the seal community, that seems pretty unlikely because, you know maybe that could happen in the case where you're in the middle of a long war and going between places but the way he's presented this is that this happened right at the beginning of the war. right at the beginning of the war, that was, you know, these were serious operations that were going on. they weren't taking people for a joyride. >> the timing here certainly does matter. there's also a question of whether brian williams was sent a piece of one of the military
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helicopters, the one that went down during the osama bin laden raid. now, he was also sent apparently a knife, supposedly from a member of seal team six. this is what you were told by a seal officer about this. let me read this. does it pass any sniff test even the knife story? not our m.o. if you were going to give it to someone, you'd just hand it to them. we don't have a mail carrier system waiting to shuttle war trophies around the world. that's problematic according to your source and problematic, the timing here of that kochthelicopter. zero dark thirty but the helicopter was blown up right? after the bin laden raid on the ground there. so how would they get the pieces? >> well that's right, john. you know the seals were in the bin laden's compound for half an hour and wanted to get out very fast. the last thing they did was glue up the helicopter that had gone down. the idea somebody would rush back to a helicopter that was
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basically on fire grabbed a hunk of it and wasted a lot of valuable time and teammates all worried the pakistan military might react, it doesn't make any sense. the idea of getting a toerophy, it would have blown up it was piping hot and no one under a great deal of stress to go under there. >> why would someone send it to brian williams peter, in the first place? your sources saying it doesn't pass the smell test here. what reason would they have to be thanking brian williams? which is what he's sort of suggesting. >> well that's right. i mean we've done a lot of reporting on this episode and i know the cia director at the time leon panetta, was given a momentum from the building. i've seen it myself. the commander of joint special operations command that proceeded who led the raid stanley mcchrystal given a flag
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taken on the mission. these are people instrumental in making this happen not people who were just completely not even involved in any way. none of this adds up. >> all right. peter bergen appreciate you being with us. thank you so much. >> thank you, john. all right, let's dig deeper now. we're joined now by a retired member of seal team six, who spent a dozen years in the navy. author of the last rescue how faith and love saved a navy seal sniper. also joined syracuse university robert thompson center for television and popular culture. howard i want to start right with you. you heard what peter bergen just said. giving brian the benefit of the doubt, maybe not embedded with seal team six, any way he was on a helicopter with seal team six on invasion plus three as he said into the airport in baghdad? >> i would say absolutely not. there's certain things in a
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helicopter ride you have to consider. one of which is procedures. if the helicopter crashes, you have to know what to do how to react and the way he's describing having the arm bent on the deck of cards, so to speak, means these guys were ready to hit the ground hot. the last thing you're going to do when you hit the ground hot is being babysitting. that's no reflection on any embedded reporters but i've got 300 exmilitary patients thousands of combat vet, motorcycle association of people who i've spoken to and nobody has ever said, you know we really loved our embedded reporters so much that we gave him tokens of our esteem because he was so great. to have somebody along with you hinders you, you'll take care of them if something goes terribly wrong and i tell you this. i gave one knife away in 12 years in the military and it was to a fellow nor weegs special ops guy who i spent a month in a
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snow cave with. not just because somebody said hey that's a cool looking knife and shows up on the desk a week later. that story is so preposterous i can't elaborate further. >> in the interest of full disclosure i've embedded with marines and given a picture and coins by them. you can get things from them. i'm not sure that's the most preposterous notion but what about the idea williams would have instructed in the chopper not to look anyone in the eye, not to initiate any kind of conversation? >> see, and i've been in choppers where people weren't teemed as part of the op and definitely not in a war zone. and i've never one time heard them instructed not to look at us or talk to us. i was in haiti when christiane amanpour was down on the docks and we had to dispatch a whole detail just to keep her and her camera crew of people away to help the haitians coming back into the country. this is not something that you want to do on a direct action
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op an immediate action op. as far as like babysitting these guys but you're right. giving some small token to somebody but it's for appreciation. i'm not trying to crucify mr. williams here but he would have to be more forthcoming on what exactly he did for seal team six to warrant such a great piece of equipment and by the way, knives guns are hard to come by in a war zone. i carried one knife in the war zone. if i lost the knife or gave it away it's a lot of logistics to get a new one. >> robert thompson i want to bring you in the conversation. when brian williams was first given the six-month suspension it was thought, is that too harsh or light? let's leave that aside because that's a few days ago. let's talk about the now. now that more information seems to be coming out, is there any chance he sits in the anchor chair again at the nightly news? >> no i don't think there's any chance of that whatsoever and i
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think these six months was probably surprisingly not so harsh. i don't understand how someone can do something so bad you get six months without pay but not bad enough to not come back into an important journalistic position like managing editor of the number one news broadcast in the country. you know all of this stuff continues to come up and i don't know what's true what's not. i'll leave that for the investigators. and it looks like there was this whole sort of brian williams was creating a parallel fictional story of his life on the david letterman show but forget all of that for now. i think what brian williams confessed to on wednesday night was enough right there to say, you know you can't continue in the role that you're in and everything we learn in the rest of these investigations is to some extent gravy because what
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he confessed to on wednesday night was a pretty serious offense. >> what now then for brian williams? what can he do professor, what should he do over the next several days and weeks? >> well i mean, i don't know what the six months is all about. i suspect it's an opportunity for nbc and brian williams to figure out how they're going to extra kat each other from their relationship and buys a little time leaves some options open. i don't know what brian williams will do. i don't think he will ever do anything for nbc again. but he's a guy with a deep set of skills and who knows where he may end up but the problem is he's really become the symbol of something that a distinguished journalist never wants to become the symbol of. >> robert thompson howard
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you can also get our most popular 7 inch tablet with no money down and no monthly payments. a dramatic day in court at the american sniper trial after killing the former navy seal who is the subject of the blockbuster film the shooter left the scene in chris kyle's pickup truck and went to taco
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bell. that was the testimony of an investigator in texas today. jurors saw a video of a high speed chase by police as the accused try to flee in kyle's truck. he's charged with killing kyle and his friend chad littlefield in a firing change in 2013. the defense said he killed a man in the throes of severe psychosis thinking he himself was in danger. our martin savidge joins us now with more. martin i understand the testimony today of what happened after the shooting. what did the accused do? >> reporter: two kinds of officers we heard from today. crime scene investigators and then those officers and detectives who were the first to interact with eddie ralph after he committed the killings. i got to say, it was the video today that was the real star witness. there were two of them and the most dramatic is the high-speed chase that you just mentioned. this came hours after the shooting when police were closing in on eddie ralph. inside of chris kyle's pickup
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truck. the big ford f-350 built like a tag and he just takes off, leads him in a high speed chase that gets to speed plunged to 100 miles per hour and at one point, the officer makes a daring move. takes his squad car and slams into the front of the pickup truck. a glancing blow but later prove to be fatal because even though the chase continued, the couple miles down the road as the prosecutors said the vehicle just gave up the ghost and that's how they managed to get eddie ralph into custody. >> amazing. the juror also heard comments this guy, the shooter, made to police after this correct? >> reporter: yeah well this gets to that second video i'm talking about. this was a body cam video. i can't play you the audio of that breaks the rules of court but i can give you quotes. police talked to him before he took off and these are some of the things ralph quoted as saying. he said i don't know if i'm going insane.
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is this about, like hell? is work walking on earth right now? is it voodoo upon us and finally says is the apocalypse on us now? the officer saying he definitely sounded odd but to most people that sounds crazy talk which fits exactly into what the defense is trying to maintain that he is innocent because he was insane. however, back to the first video, the prosecution would say, oh he isn't a crazy guy. he acted like a guilty guy because he took off. thereby, he's not insane. two videos with two very different stories, john. >> martin savidge, thanks so much and of course this all gets to the crux of the case to the defense here. the insanity defense they're mounting. joined now by cnn legal analyst danny. i read a lot about the insanity defense. a lot who watch tv thinks it's a
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common think that people get off all the time on this and it's not so. >> it's a myth. the insanity defense is used in a tiny fraction of cases and once invoked, it's successful in even less than that. so it's really actually factually a very rare instance that someone is found not guilty by reason of insanity. >> mark let me tell you what i hear as someone who has not been instructed by a judge. over the days i heard the victim sent a contemporaneous text that he looked nuts to him. talked in gibberish about the apocalypse and in the hospital from before. if i'm a naive person on the jury or just doesn't know the law, that seems like he's got issues in his head. >> look, danny is right it's
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rarely used but when someone is far gone mentally they usually aren't competent to stand trial. you can't medicate them to get to a stable position to then convict them and sentence them. so this is one of those rare cases where because of the publicity, they've decided to proceed against this guy. you, john have exactly put your finger on what the problem is for the prosecution here. the text was, kyle saying this guy is straight up nuts and saying watch my six, which is apparently the nomenclature for watch my back. and then you talk that's the victim. you then move forward, fast forward a couple of hours and you've got the cops in realtime observing him, talking, for lack of a better term, talking in tongues and this has all the makes of a not guilty by reason of insanity. one reason people don't like
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this is there is a kind of legacy of john inkly with president reagan. someone will get off. hingly is in custody, barely able to get out on weekend passes and things of that nature. it's not that somebody gets off but we have got a position in society that we don't punish people to the extent the same extent as if they are guilty and they've got our faculties about them. >> danny, explain why mark and i are both wrong on this. why will the insanity defense not work here? >> we can apply texas's standard. one of the more limited standards in the united states. of course some states don't even have an insanity defense but comparatively speaking texas uses a very stripped down limited version of the insanity defense and asks whether or not the defendant was aware that society considered his conduct wrong and for our purposes the texas courts have said you can substitute wrong for illegal.
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so if there's any evidence the defendant knew what he was doing was illegal and exhibit a, if i'm the prosecutor that's going to be hey, look at this video where he's fleeing from the police you know the police. the people that chase you when you do something illegal. so that combined with the fact that texas is again, a very strict interpretation of insanity oddswise makes it very difficult in a case like this to establish that this defendant was unaware of the wrongfulness of his conduct. >> mark put yourself in the prosecution. >> you want to know something dan danny? i was going to say one of the things i was astonished by the prosecutor in the opening statement already committed prosecutorial misconduct. what the texas standard is not guilty by reason of insanity the right from wrong you just articulated and the defense is going to say yes, this guy fled from the police but he thought it was apocalypse.
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he doesn't know if it's the police or armageddon is coming down. this guy was to quote chris kyle and this is what they're going to say in the closing, he was straight up nuts. >> danny niny cevallos mark geragos. thank you. i'm sure we will talk about this again. up next the buzz about what's being called yolobama. you and i both have to come back to see what that means up next.
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like mr. truman uses the media, in this case a bud buzzfeed video. you haven't seen the president like this. >> signing up for -- the deadline for signing up for health insurance is february, febru -- that's not right. >> wednesday. wed-nes-day. >> february 15. you can get health insurance for less than a hundred dollars a month. just go to healthcare.gov to sign up. february 15th. >> thanks, obama. >> thanks obama. >> pretty good. >> that's pretty good.
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>> seconds left in the game. down by one. he gets it. mr. president? >> can i live? >> you do you. >> yolo man. >> joining us chief national correspondent, anchor of politics and national political reporter, and john litny. you've spoken about the controversial video. any reservations about this? >> no they say knew doing it but had the conversation. you know what's going to happen. people will say it's not presidential, doesn't dignify the presidency and here's
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another example of him demeaning the office. go back with zack galifianakis, people criticized it then not presidential and it drove a boat load of traffic to health care.gov. they're trying to create a buzz especially young people not watching us they don't watch traditional news programs like this to sign up for healthcare.gov and if you look online over 13 million in the room. who knows where they are now. >> peter, you are the younger generation at least a little bit younger than john k and i am here. >> just a little. >> just a little and john is right, the criticism was exactly what you would predict. this is undignified, the president shouldn't be doing this. why is he taking fake basketball shots here? did the naysayers have a point here or is this just the way to reach the audience where the audience is? >> yeah look. i mean the
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sanctimonious. people aren't getting news from the new york times or tuning in to the evening news the way they used to. they believe the associated press was extremely valuable to reach voters and local news is extremely valuable but this video, this buzzfeed video john now has 13 million video starts. i mean that crushes the ratings of "nbc nightly news" with or without brian williams and there are people just not tuning in as john said to sort of traditional media. these are, you know, quote unquote millennials who live on their phone all day long and the white house realizes they have to reach those people where they are. now the journalistic problem with that is you frankly come in to sort of comply interviews at time the youtube interviews for example. one of them, hank greene got an autograph from president obama after interviewing him. so you have to give a little bit more credit to buzzfeed though
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they did another interview with ben smith, and asked about kayla mueller, aye cyst putin. there was a corollary to the fun social facebook video. >> doesn't mean real interviews are not important. perhaps the right measurement here john is is the video entertaining? george w. bush used the stupid barney videos i say in a nice way. it's just entertaining. >> john boehner put out a video with his office with the silly monkey. he's the speaker of the house, the top republican in the land. some republicans try this too. this president has more success with than them. this is just jealousy. arsenio hall said how can he do that and then live through boxers and briefs. times have changed. business is changing and republicans do the same thing. go to conservative outlets to do their thing. the day after you ask the war authority, the day you sign legislation to deal with veteran suicide, some people say it's unpresidential and sort of
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linear news processors. young generation do go to facebook and see the cat dancing. >> peter, jeb bush of course his entire campaign started on instagram and other things. i mean this just goes to show that the game has changed. >> the game has changed, but it's not just that. speaking of jeb bush's instagram, it's not just using the platforms but using them smartly. just because jeb bush announced on instagram to his pack doesn't mean he gets digital. the white house understood that buzzfeed has a symbiotic relationship with facebook. guess what? 71% of adults in the united states are on facebook. so by getting that video out there, it's not just on buzzfeed. this thing is going all over the place. white house understands smartly and they have done that since going back to 2007 when he announced. >> it's on cnn among other places. there's a link to
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healthcare.gov. so they get what they want. thank you for being here. appreciate it. just ahead for us bobbi kristina brown's boyfriend said he's considering legal action to be allowed to see her in the hospital. we just got the statement. that and other lingering questions about this case. that's next. 3rd and 3. 58 seconds on the clock, what am i thinking about? foreign markets. asian debt that recognizes the shift in the global economy. you know, the kind that capitalizes on diversity across the credit spectrum and gets exposure to frontier and emerging markets. if you convert 4-quarter p/e of the s&p 500 its yield is doing a lot better... if you've had to become your own investment expert, maybe it's time for bny mellon a different kind of wealth manager ...and black swans are unpredictable.
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breaking news in the bobbi kristina brown case. tonight, her boyfriend is denying reports that he is considering legal action. according to local reports in atlanta, nick gordon had not been allowed to visit her at emory hospital. his lawyer put out a statement saying he is not taking legal action and his only concern is bobbi kristina's recovery. there's been nearly two weeks since brown was found in a bathtub in her home and many questions remain. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: bobbi kristina brown was found unresponsive in a bathtub at her home january 31st. was it an accident or was she injured? we know she was found face down so why were there bruises on the front of her body? a woman who knows both bobbi kristina and the man she called her husband, nick gordon shared
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what gordon told her. >> immediately from the beginning, they asked him about injuries in the chest and he told them that it's when he was doing the cpr. >> reporter: police aren't commenting. they will only say this is a criminal investigation. so what about drugs? were any found in bobbi kristina's system? again, no firm answers. a toxicology report is standard procedure when someone is unresponsive. but the results have not been released. when the incident occurred nick gordon and this man, max lomas was at the house. lomas has a history of drug related arrests. he found bobbi kristina in the tub. >> he was the one that found her in the bathtub. he was the one who called 9-1-1. and he is the the one who cares about her well being. >> reporter: lomas' attorney said his client's criminal record has nothing to do with
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what happened. even though max lomas is a friend what exactly was he doing at bobbi kristina's home? another question what happened at her home on january 23rd? eight days before she was found unresponsive. a security guard called 9-1-1 about a disturbance. >> just had a neighbor call and report that there was people hitting each other and swinging outside of their, the town homes in ellard village. >> other people involved? >> i do not. >> reporter: could that have to do with what happened a week later? that's unclear and so is this. what about bobbi kristina crashing her car in atlanta just four days before this latest incident? police say she lost control of a jeep and then crossed into the eastbound lanes colliding with another car. she and her passenger were taken to the hospital for injuries. the other driver is in critical condition. also while bobbi kristina is
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fighting for her life many are asking if she doesn't wake up what will happen to her inheritance? whitney houston left everything to her only daughter. who was supposed to get her full inheritance when she turns 30. if she doesn't survive, it appears her inheritance will be divided. between whitney's mother brothers and perhaps her ex-brother bobby brown, but the family isn't ready to face that yet. randi kaye cnn, new york. >> thank you from randi. sunny hostin joining me now. you have sources close to the family. what are they now saying about bobbi kristina's condition? >> you know they are telling me that they are seeing some improvement actually. they're saying that prayers are working and that they are watching her. this talk of pulling the plug, that is not happening. they want her to live. they say she is fighting and
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that she continues to progress. i think many people are thinking that is not possible. i can tell you, john the family has said that from the very beginning and at this point, that's all we know. >> they're not commenting on this alleged car accident that she was in the days before she ended up in the bathtub, but one of your sources did speak to her that night. >> that's right. >> what did say they about the conversation what she was like? >> my understanding is that she was perfectly normal that she was happy. that she sounded very much like herself, and no indication she had been in some sort of car accident and that something was going wrong with her mind. she seemed to be normal and actually happy the night before. >> randi in randi's piece, there were talks of what happened to the inheritance. she inherited from whitney houston and your sources are saying what the grandmother
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would likely get everything? >> a couple things. they are not thinking about that at this time. they believe she's doing better. they want her to live. they say she's a fighter. they're also saying though if anything happens, they're sure that they'll work that out. there may be challenges but the court documents will rule. and so i think the family really is not so concerned about the money, they're not so concerned about these things. their only worry at this point is getting bobbi kristina better. i want to mention, people are talking about nick brown and the fact he's not seeing her at the hospital. that's true. the family doesn't want him at the hospital with bobbi kristina and he has been kept from the hospital. >> sunny hostin appreciate you being with us. thank you so much. >> you bet. up next for us breaking news. the fbi opens up an investigation into the murder of three muslim students in north carolina. ♪ t-mobile's network has more data
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preliminary inquiry into the case trying to make sure that no federal laws were violated. that would be a parallel investigation. in addition to the investigation opened by local law enforcement here but as you mentioned, a number of people here have already drawn their conclusions. many people came out here tonight at nc state university for the vigil, many of the victims' family members and friends who attended the memorial service earlier today believe very strongly that this was indeed a hate crime and not what investigators have determined so far which is that this was most likelyhood a case involving a dispute over a parking spot. so this investigation now also going to be looked at by the fbi. that will certainly be encouraging news to the family, which has wanted this all along. >> jason, you went to the apartment building today. what were you able to learn about the idea that this was a fight over a parking space or parking spaces?
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>> reporter: well, it's interesting. i spoke to one neighbor who said that there definitely was some confusion at the apartment complex over assigned parking spaces. another neighbor who was out there, she made it very clear that the suspect in this case had on several occasions become upset not just over parking, but over things such as noise and things like that in the neighborhood as well. and so there are a lot of issues going on there but once again, was this a crime that had to deal with a parking space or something more? that's what this investigation will eventually determine. >> jason carroll, appreciate you being with us. thank you so much jason. up next anderson's tribute to legendary cbs correspondent bob simon. >> these officers in the hill say they needed this cease fire.
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williams and story telling gone wrong, we want to tell you about story telling done right. we talk of course about cbs news man bob simon killed last night in a car crash here in manhattan. like so many reporters, i revered him. sadly, i never got to meet him. anderson did. he worked with him. as you know anderson's off today but before he left town he wanted to honor bob simon and left us these memories of his colleague. >> it was nothing simple about bob simon except he was simply the best. >> in the arctic circle chillingly close to the north pole. we've traveled to remote places before but never on an ace breakice breaker. >> the best writer. >> the cameras triggered by
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motion and there isn't much motion up here that's not a polar bear. >> as he wrote of gatsby the best of the whole damn bunch. he started in northern ireland and never seemed to stop. >> this is the most real position on the southern front. >> hurling himself into the pain time and time again. >> just about the right amount of breeze this morning to bring the flag alive of iz sraelisrael. >> how many careening cars and kissing to loved ones good-bye? >> young rock throwing arabs up a steep and rugged hill by israeli soldiers. >> how many tragedies and tears? >> it was methodical went on for 40 minutes. >> bob saw everything with keen fresh eyes. >> as little as they look. in fact i feel like i'm in an elephant sandwich.
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>> he died at 73 still curious, still doing the work boarding the planes asking the questions, writing the stories, making them sing. >> so people stole images with cell phones and deemed them to the rest of the world. it was to become the youtube revolution. >> he was a warrior poet traveling word smith, voice shaped by all he'd seen. >> i knew the names almost all these men, their names and their deeds. i never thought i'd be standing a few inches from them having a chat. >> vietnam, somalia, south africa bosnia haiti, israel iraq barbers and brutality, kindness bob knew often intertwined. >> soldiers and teenagers playing with tear gas grenades. >> got captured moments. saw details others routinely missed. >> the boys not surprised by it not the way americans were. for them islam and terrorism
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went had. >> he wrote sentences we had not heard, showed us stories we had not seen and lucky he came our way. >> we scurried the tree tops and touched down. we landed right in the middle of a party. >> for many of us he was the correspondent we dreamed of being, the writer we wished we were. >> did you hear that? the calls ominous, not crackle and pop caused by the enormous weight of the province on the coast here. >> not too long ago, he wrote a piece for "60 minutes" about a choir. >> we had no idea. seemed confident, began the evening. >> in a place known for poverty, found an ode to joy.
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on this sad senseless day, perhaps it's best to remember that. >> a warrior poet. that does it for us. morgan spurlock "inside man" starts now. love. one of the most powerful things on earth. inspiration for films, timeless poetry and awe-inspiring monuments. it can make us feel alive and it can drive us mad. >> i'm not going to be your. >> everybody wants love but finding it can be