hello. i'm wolf blitzer. it's 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 6:00 p.m. in london. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. 9:30 p.m. in tehran. wherever you're watching from around the world, thanks very much for joining us. up first, more fallout from the clash between the u.s. president and the israeli prime minister over nuclear talks with iran. simmering tensions between president obama and prime minister benjamin netanyahu have reached the boiling point. the israeli leader is responding to criticism that he failed to present any alternative to the current negotiations with iran. after he returned to israel following his speech before the u.s. congress he issued this statement, quote, i presented a practical alternative which

would impose tougher restrictions on iran's nuclear program extending iran's breakout time by years. i also called on the p5 plus 1 to insist on a deal that would link the lifting of those restrictions to iran ceasing its sponsorship of terrorism around the world, its aggression against its neighbors and its calls for israel's destruction. let's bring in our senior international correspondent fred pleitgen joining us live from tehran and our reporter oren lieberman who joins us live from jerusalem. the secretary of state of the united states john kerry, said today that negotiations have made progress but significant gaps remain. update us on what you know about the state of these fragile talks. >> reporter: it appear as though the outstanding issues are apparently in two areas, two very significant areas. one of them is the area of research and development where apparently the iranians want to develop more sophisticated centrifuges than they have in the past.

that of course is something that worries the united states and many other countries as well because that could significantly decrease the breakout time if in fact the iranians were able to make better centrifuges. there's also apparently some disagreement as to how many centrifuges the iranians would be able to maintain. now, the other big area, this is probably an even bigger one, is the question of sanctions relief. the iranians of course want all of the sanctions to be taken away immediately once a deal comes into place. that's something apparently the u.s. is saying that they're not willing to do. and the big question is how fast would sanctions get taken away? the u.s. of course is for a step-by-step process but the iranians want that to happen as fast as possible. i can tell you from being on the ground here in tehran if you speak to people here in iran they will tell you the sanctions are what's hurting them the most. that's what they want to see go. >> what else are you hearing from speaking to regular iranians there in tehran? what are you hearing specifically about the prime minister's speech before

congress what he said about iran the whole state of u.s./israeli relations at the same time? >> reporter: it's very interesting because many people actually did -- they didn't watch the speech but they were able to glean what the prime minister said. of course, a speech by an israeli prime minister would never be broadcast on iranian television. however, it's surprising to see how well-informed people here are. it's not surprising to see, wolf that most people didn't like what they heard from the israeli prime minister. many people here telling me they believe that iran was unfairly criticized by prime minister netanyahu. 70% of people here believe the nuclear program of their country solely is for peaceful purposes and they also said they believe that netanyahu is trying to destroy iran's way back into the international community. and of course that's very important to them because as i said the sanctions are really biting many people here. they want to see those sanctions go simply so that they can have a chance for economic

development. certainly didn't play very well with ordinary iranians also didn't play very well with the government. there's one thing we need to add. there was a press conference that happened earlier today by the iranian foreign ministry where they essentially said they don't care about what prime minister netanyahu said what they're focused on right now is trying to achieve a deal wolf. >> do you know fred if on state media there in iran whether they actually call israel israel or do they simply refer to it as the zionest ent estest estest entity? >> reporter: simply as the zionist entity. netanyahu's speech wasn't being broadcast but there was video of him speaking without hearing the sound, of course. and the iranian state media labeled that as an iranophobic speech and they also referred to the israelis as the zionist regime. that's the wording that is used

here. if you hear the public statements that have been going out from iranian officials, they certainly are ones that seem very combative. >> fred stand by. fred pleitgen is the only u.s. television network correspondent in iran right now. let's go to jerusalem and get some reaction. the prime minister is now back in israel. what's the mood over there? i understand some polls are about to be released by one of the tv channels. >> we just got our first look at the polls from our affiliate here in israel. it's interesting what they reveal. according to the latest polls, the zionist camp, viewed as netanyahu's biggest rival in the elections, will win 24 out of 120 seats. netanyahu's party will win 23 seats. it's interesting the insight that gives us. it means at least from these figures that netanyahu's speech didn't have all that great of an effect here on the israeli public. those are roughly the numbers we've seen not only in the last poll but leading up to here. these are very close elections.

occasionally you'll see one party eke out a one-seat vote and then in the next poll, it shifts back and forth. but it also mirrors what we learned before the speech which was that the israeli public was split on this. we had a poll from our affiliate here that said half the people supported it and half opposed it. that's exactly what we're seeing in this poll. netanyahu's speech as charismatic and powerful as it was, didn't change any opinions here on the ground here in israel. >> and normally the party that gets the most seats in the israeli parliament they get first crack at forging some sort of government. we'll see what happens 13 days to go before the israeli election. oren, thanks very much. fred pleitgen in tehran, thanks to you as well. here in washington lawmakers are divided over the israeli prime minister's speech before congress some calling it historic others saying it was political even condescending. the minority leader the democratic leader in the house, nancy pelosi, said that.

republican senator james reich of idaho is joining us from capitol hill right now. i take it you loved the prime minister's speech is that right, senator? >> well, it was a great speech, wolf. i've been doing this for almost 50 years. i've heard hundreds of speeches. that certainly would be at the top, not because it was eloquent but because it hit the mark so clearly. the speech was very clear. it was full of clarity. he left no doubt about number one the state of play the facts, the history and where this thing's going to go. having said all that it wasn't a speech to entertain. it wasn't really a speech to call to arms. it was a speech to tell people we have to do this differently than where the administration is headed. and i think he was successful in that regard. and indeed if you were in the room, the room was electric. i can't recall seeing anyone get

a reception like he got on the floor of the house of representatives yesterday. >> we know the republicans loved it. but many of your democratic colleagues about 50 or 60 of them even refused to attend because they thought it was inappropriate to do so at a time when the u.s. was engaged in these very very sensitive negotiations with the iranians and only two weeks before the israeli election. but what's the alternative? say these negotiations in geneva fail. would you be ready to support u.s. military action to destroy iran's nuclear capabilities? >> wolf, i don't think we need to go there yet. i think that needs to be an option that is always on the table and clearly understood by the iranians. but the sanctions are painful over there. they brought them to the table. only in my judgment so that they could stall and get more time. to your point about the people who boycotted that speech, it was really unfortunate. this is an american issue. this isn't a republican or

democrat issue. everyone understands, of course that the president views this as part of his legacy. but, look we need to all be together on this. the white house is threatening a veto of the bill that we're going to try to move that includes congress as it should the constitution includes congress for the ratification of any agreement between one or more countries. and we ought to all be pulling the wagon together on this. and if this is a deal that's a good deal we need to get behind it or an acceptable deal we need to get behind it. but if it's not, we need to go back to the sanctions. that's another bill coming down the pike. >> do you want the senate to pass this new legislation that would require senate approval for any deal worked out with iran even before the deal with iran is worked out if in fact there will be a deal? >> wolf two points. number one, the constitution already requires any treaty to be approved -- >> well the administration says this is not a treaty. >> they can say whatever they want.

you can look at a cat and call it a pig. but this is an agreement between nations. it is a treaty. but point number two, the iranians when they sat down said, we want you to know we're here to negotiate. we'll work towards an agreement. if we get there, though it's got to go to our equivalent of a parliament and they have to approve it. you mean to tell me that iran have a more representative government than america? it's a bizarre situation where you have a president of the united states protecting the iranian administration when the elected representatives of the american people want to say just what the constitution requires that we approve or disapprove of the deal. it doesn't make sense. >> you think you'll get 60 votes in the senate to do that? >> you know, i wouldn't be surprised if we do get 60 votes. this is a bipartisan piece of legislation that was crafted last week. we have about half a dozen democrats on the foreign relations committee that are already signed onto it.

the democrats know as well as republicans that if we're going to do this we need to all pull the wagon together. this is a dangerous regime we're dealing with. it's a dangerous situation. we need to all be pulling in the same direction on this. >> senator risch, thanks very much for joining us. >> wolf thanks for having me. the future of the affordable care act here in the united states now in the hands of the u.s. supreme court. it could be, though, in jeopardy. we'll have a live report from the supreme court coming up. plus hillary clinton's office so far saying nothing nefarious was at play when she used her personal e-mail address while serving as secretary of state rather than an e-mail account that could have been provided by the state department. we have new information on what's going on. and a potential presidential contender says prisons prove being gay is a choice. >> a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight and when they come out they're gay. >> more of dr. ben carson's

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you got this. the united states supreme court heard legal arguments today which, depending on how the justices ultimately rule could put the president's affordable care act, also known as obamacare, in jeopardy. the argument basically boils down to four words in the law, quote, established by the state. does the law allow federal subsidies only for states that set up their own health care exchanges? the government argues that it also applies to healthcare.gov which is in use in 34 states which so far have refused to start their own exchanges. let's sort out what happened

today. our justice correspondent pamela brown is with us here. we're watching what's going on. fill us in on how it sounded today. you were there today when you heard the oral arguments. >> you could feel it sitting in that room during the oral arguments. from the get-go the justices the liberal justices came out of the gate with some tough questions for michael carvin who's representing the plaintiffs in this case. the liberal justices breyer kagan, sotomayor saying you can't just look at a snippet but the context of the law as the whole. it's clear according to these justices that everyone who is part of this whether they're in a federal-run exchange or state-run exchange deserve subsidies. and one of the justices said it would cause a death spiral if those people in the 34 states lost their subsidy. the conservative justices scalia and alito mainly made it

very clearly that they sided with the plaintiffs' attorney that the law was sloppily written and couldn't this go back to congress and fix the law? but what was so interesting is for both justice kennedy and chief justice roberts, it was really tough to see what side they were on. kennedy was very focused on the federalist issue, how this would impact the states would it injure the states if those subsidies were taken away did the states know this could happen when they made the decision not to have exchanges? but chief justice roberts you could tell he didn't want to tip his hand. he barely spoke. and he surprised a lot of people when he upheld the constitutionality of the affordable care act several years ago. so of course all eyes were on him in that courtroom today and he barely spoke. so it's really yet to be seen which way this is going to go. it was sharply divided from the beginning and it could ultimately end up being -- the

decision could be made either through justice kennedy or roberts. >> we should know by the end of june when their session ends. it's a critical factor. you have four liberal justices presumably they will support the obamacare. but the conservative justice, but it will depend on justice kennedy, as you point out or justice roberts. we don't know. we don't have a clue right now how these two justices will eventually determine whether it's constitutional or not. thanks very much, pamela brown. still to come the police shooting of michael brown sparked months of protests claims of racial inequality in the heartland of the united states. today, the u.s. justice department's investigative report on ferguson has been released. stand by. we have the details.

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just a short time ago, the u.s. justice department released its findings of an investigation into the ferguson, missouri, police department. if you remember this inquiry was sparked by protests which followed the fatal shooting of michael brown by the white police officer darren wilson. cnn's justice reporter evan perez is joining us now from the justice department. you've gone through the actual report, evan. there are two key components we're told. first, what has the justice department decided about charges against that former police officer, wilson? >> reporter: wolf the justice department has decided not to bring charges against darren wilson in the shooting of michael brown. the key finding by the justice department is this that there is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove

darren wilson's stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety. this turned on a couple of key pieces of evidence things really that have been at the center of the dispute over the shooting. whether or not michael brown was the aggressor, whether darren wilson shot and killed him as he was trying to give himself up with his hands up. the justice department decided that they could not disprove that darren wilson feared for his life in a struggle over his gun, as he reported. and also that in the end, michael brown was moving towards the officer. and, again, that is part of one reason why they decided that he had reason to fear for his life. >> in a separate report the justice department described what it said was a pattern and practice of discrimination against african-americans in ferguson. what kind of recommendations did they release to try to correct in? >> reporter: they gave 26 recommendations to try to

improve the ferguson police department. now it's up to the department to try to accept these recommendations. i'll read a couple of them for you. among them is getting the ferguson police to provide training to ensure that officers aren't using bias in policing that officers get out of their cars and practice community policing, get to know people that they're trying to protect and serve. and also that they focus their searches and stops on protecting the public rather than on raising revenue. that's one of the accusations here in this 100-page report is that the city was using stops of african-americans essentially to raise money for the city's coffers. >> we're going to be hearing shortly from the outgoing attorney general eric holder, right? >> reporter: that's right, wolf. he's going to be talking about these two reports at 3:00 p.m. we expect that he'll announce that they'll begin negotiations with ferguson for some kind of

court-supervised agreement so that they don't have to sue the city to force these reforms, wolf. >> eric holder at 3:00 p.m. eastern, thanks very much, evan, for that report. we'll continue this discussion later in "the situation room." cornell brooks the president and ceo of the naacp will be among my guests "the situation room" airs later today, 5:00 p.m. eastern. up next the hillary clinton e-mail controversy. i'll talk about the impact and the fallout with the chairman of the house select committee on benghazi, congressman tray gowdy. stand by. the real question that needs to be asked is "what is it that we can do that is impactful?" what the cloud enables is computing to empower cancer researchers. it used to take two weeks to sequence and analyze a genome; with the microsoft cloud we can analyze 100 per day. whatever i can do to help compute a cure for cancer, that's what i'd like to do.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer reporting from washington. let's get to the controversy now surrounding the former secretary of state hillary clinton and her e-mails. while she was at the state department for four years, secretary clinton didn't use an official state department e-mail account. instead, she relied on her personal e-mail account for official government business. the "associated press" reports that secretary clinton even used her own e-mail server that was run from her new york state home. and joining us now the south carolina republican congressman trey gowdy chairman of the select house committee on benghazi. mr. chairman, thanks very much for joining us. first of all, are you making new

requests for additional e-mails that she may have had? >> yes, sir. we want all the e-mails regardless of who they were to or who they are from, with respect to benghazi. so yes, we are making new requests in light of the fact that our request to the state department they don't have access to or control over all of her e-mails. so we'll be making requests to her individually. >> has she already provided some of those benghazi-related e-mails to your committee? >> yes, sir, we have some of them. but i have no way of knowing whether that represents 10% or 50% or 100%. there was a production made recently of about 800. so whether or not that represents the full universe or not -- part of the issue with the way that these e-mails are kept is instead of going to the state department to ask whether or not we have everything now we have to go to another source which makes it interesting when you're going to the source

himself or herself, to say, do we have all of your documents? >> how long have you known that secretary clinton was using a personal e-mail account instead of an official government account? >> well wolf we have known since late last summer that she used personal e-mail accounts and in fairness to her, she is not the only government official who uses personal e-mail accounts. what we did not know until recently was that she was using exclusively personal e-mail accounts. there is no official state department e-mail account for hillary clinton. so we were not surprised that we saw episodically e-mails from a personal account. what did surprise us is we never once saw an official government e-mail account. >> she and her staff have said that they did provide 55,000 pages of her personal e-mails to the state department. do you believe that was everything or is that 55,000 that she decided to provide?

>> and, you know wolf we have no way of knowing, which is why we have certain schemes and regulations in place so you don't have to take the word -- not just of hillary clinton but of any, a republican attorney general. that's why we have certain statutory and regulatory -- in fact the president had a policy himself for staff that worked for him, don't use personal e-mail. so somebody would be able to answer the very question you ask do you have everything? i have no way of knowing whether secretary clinton provided everything to the state department and i have no way of knowing whether the state department has provided everything to us. i believe that they have provided everything that they have but whether that 55,000 is the entire universe or whether it's half the universe, how would we know? >> i assume you and your staff, mr. chairman have looked into whether or not she broke any laws. do you believe she did? >> well i would be among the

last people to be able to answer that question. i was a really mediocre lawyer, wolf. i have no area of expertise when it comes to this. i'll let smarter people figure that out. really, i just want the documents. i was asked to write the final report of what happened before during and after benghazi and i cannot do that without the secretary of state at the time's documents including her e-mails. so i'll let smarter minds than mine figure out what violations if any exist. >> because we did do some checking. there were much stricter standards imposed in 2013-2014, that's after she left her four years as secretary of state. in 2009 when she was the secretary of state, the national archives did issue some regulations that said employees, presumably including the secretary of state, could do official business on nonofficial e-mail accounts but had to ensure that any e-mails sent are, quote, preserved in the

appropriate agency recordkeeping system. you're familiar with that regulation, right? >> yes, sir. you cited the code of federal regulation, which is a subset of the u.s. code. there was also a policy that president obama sent out. you read all of those in conjunction and, yes, episodically -- i'm not aware of anyone who has not episodically had to make use of personal e-mail. i think every one of your viewers has both a work and a personal e-mail account. what i do think is unusual is you don't have any work account at all and there's no way of us -- i want you to assume that secretary clinton would have used her personal e-mail account to e-mail someone else in the state department on a personal e-mail account there would be no way for that document to be captured by the state department. so if you had an inquiry and you wanted to send a foia request,

how would you know what to ask because both accounts are being used? >> what is the hearing before your select committee going to happen? >> i have maintained all along -- i want it to be a constructive conversation which means i need all the document. i need the state department to give me the none-mails. this is going to necessitate us talking to her more than once. i have a lot of questions about the before during and after benghazi. but i'd be a lousy lawyer if i asked any of those questions before i had some assurance that i had all the documents necessary to ask constructive questions. >> will you subpoena all those documents from her private e-mail account, assuming the 55,000 pages are not everything and they might be everything as far as we know, we don't know, right? >> well we're going to use every bit of legal recourse at our disposal to make sure -- if

you look at the resolution that says all policies all activities all decisions and the word "all" is a big word. if i'm going to be able to do what my colleague ask me to do i have to have all the documents. if that means sending legal recourse to the secretary herself, that's exactly what we're going to do. >> congressman, thanks very much for joining us. >> yes, sir, thank you. up next we'll have more on the clinton e-mail controversy including a closer look at how the issue could impact the race for 2016. also another possible candidate, dr. ben carson is making headlines with his comments on prison and homosexuality. ♪ [upbeat music] ♪ defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old.

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joining us here our cnn senior political correspondent brianna keilar and joining us from new york our chief political analyst, gloria borger. the "associated press" is reporting that secretary clinton's e-mail server was actually based at her family home in chappaqua, new york outside new york city. >> they're reporting it was registered to her. we're still trying to figure out exactly where it was located. but basically that she owned the server. and that's key here. not only was she using a private e-mail account but it wasn't something like maybe if you have a g-mail account or a yahoo! account that it would be out there in the cloud. even as it was transmitted and received, it was in her possession. you have experts saying a little of what they said yesterday even before we found this out this is an indication of someone really trying to keep a private hold on these communications. >> how is this playing politically, gloria?

is it having an impact on her decision which we expect in the next few months that she'll run for the democratic nomination -- >> i doubt it but it's giving you a taste of things to come. i don't think this is going to change anyone's mind, wolf. people who like hillary clinton will defend this. people who don't will criticize it. but "the wall street journal" today had an editorial which was entitled "the clinton rules." and i think this reminds people or raises the question again about whether in fact the clintons do play by a different set of rules. they have not yet answered the question -- and we were talking about this on your show last night. they haven't answered the question of why? why did they do this? was it just more convenient? was it to be protective? was it to be evasive? was it to shield her from freedom of information requests? you interviewed trey gowdy and what the congressman was saying was, we don't know the extent of

the e-mails that are out there because they're effectively being curated by hillary clinton's people which is saying, okay trust our judgment and we will give you what we think you need. and that's why folks are sort of scratching their heads about this. >> yeah the story is clearly not going away, clooes for now. another presidential hopeful, dr. ben carson the former johns hopkins university pediatric neurosurgeon. he made controversial comments about homosexuality while speaking earlier today with our own chris cuomo on cnn's "new day". >> you think they have control over their sexuality? >> absolutely. >> you think being gay is a choice? >> absolutely. >> why do you say that? >> because a lot of people who go into prison go into prison straight and when they come out, they're gay. >> gloria, first to you. he came in fourth in that cpac straw poll over the weekend. he's obviously got a huge

following. but this is another controversial comment that he's making that's going to disappoint a lot of folks out there. >> yeah it's kind of bizarre, to tell you the truth, wolf. i think what we go through in the republican race -- and we saw it when we went through it the last time around. you have a large field of candidates. people aren't really sure who they are what they stand for, how they would explain their positions. and just look at what happened today with chris cuomo. and so i think at this point, people are being voted on on name recognition or he seems like a nice guy, without kind of looking at all of the details. it seems to me that these kinds of statements are so ridiculous on their face. does he have any proof to suggest what he even stated? of course he doesn't. so maybe there's a segment of the party that believes it. but i've got to believe that a lot of the people who will be on stage with him debating him would disagree with him.

>> the reaction only in the last few hours has been enormous already to these comments. >> yeah it's been enormous. and also i think it's odd for a medical professional, one of -- his credentials are that he is a retired neurosurgeon and not just any neurosurgeon, a brilliant one. and yet the medical community is not where ben carson is on this. so you would think coming from a doctor that you would hear something different than this. this is sort of -- it's not just clumsy it just isn't really based in fact, it isn't based in numbers. i also think that you have -- certainly as gloria said part of the party may feel this way. on average, the republican party is moving on same-sex marriage. and i think you would have a lot of candidates who wouldn't certainly stake out this position that ben carson has here. so i just think it's tucking him really into a certain corner of the party. >> that follows several other controversial comments he's made

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now to iraq and the bitter battle to retake the key isis stronghold of tikrit. iraqi forces are pushing closer and closer to that city best known as the hometown, the birthplace of saddam hussein. iran is taking a leading role we're now told in this fight. joining us our senior international correspondent ben wedeman who's live in baghdad. and in new york bobby ghosh, cnn's global affairs analyst and managing editor of the business news site quartz. i want to play a clip. this is the white house press secretary josh earnest speaking about iranians who are now engaged in this battle. listen to this. >> we're mindful that iranian forces are also involved. and we have said from the beginning that the united states will not coordinate militarily with the iranians. >> let me go to ben wedeman first. let me go to ben wedeman first. we know iraqi shiite militias

are backed by iranians. the white house are saying iranians are directly involved. what does that say to you, ben? >> this really confirms what we already know is that in addition to iranian advisers more than 100 here in iraq you have suleimani, according to the iranian media he's helping supervise the operation. the iranians are manning artillery batteries, rocket batteries and flying drones over the battlefield as well. keep in mind wolf that we saw the performance of the iraqi army in mosul and tikrit last june. the iranians clearly recognized they needed to step in and in a sense run the show. we don't know to what extent they run the show but they're definitely playing the role of strong adviser providing advice that appears the iraqis are listening very closely to.

wolf? >> ibani, what is your analysis? >> to have suleimani there openly a person who has had iraqi war on his hands from the war between '80 and 88 is a red flag to a lot of iraqis. not only the sunnis. the analogy i make imagine if pakistan's fight against terrorists were being led by an indian general. it would be unthinkable for many pakistanis and certainly a lot of iraqis would feel that. the iraqi government obviously feels it is necessary at this time but it does send an awfully dangerous signal. >> what do we know i know you spend a lot of time in erbil up north, ben. what do we know about the status for the battle for tikrit right now? forget about mosul for the time being but tikrit. >> reporter: well what we know is that they're making progress. they are taking territory and approaching the city from five

different directions but progress has not been quite as rapid as was predicted initially by iraqi commanders who said it would take maybe ten days to take the city. here we are in the fourth day of this offensive. they have gotten closer but they're nowhere near the outskirts of the city and there are reports that in one five-mile stretch of road as iraqi force, the militias and army and police are moving toward tikrit they encountered more than 100 ieds and of course that's on an open highway. when you get to the city itself the expectation is that there will be many more ieds, booby traps, mines, snipers that will make this operation potentially quite long and quite bloody not only for the combatants but the civilians as well. >> bobby, how awkward is that the u.s. is providing weapons training to the iraqi forces moving towards tikrit and the

iranians are now directly involved they have their own personnel. it's awkward to me. >> it is pretty awkward and it might explain why the u.s. on this particular operation with tikrit we heard from the spokesman at the pentagon saying that the u.s. is not providing air strikes so this particular operation with the iranians taking the lead the u.s. seems to want to keep at arm's length from it but that's not fooling anybody in iraq. everybody assumed automatically that the u.s. has a role in this if not directly than in an advisory capacity so the message that goes out to eyea lot of iraqis and across the region the u.s. and iran are working together in the fight against isis. >> very awkward i'm sure a lot of people actually believe that. ben wedeman, bobby ghosn, thanks very much. stay with cnn, please for our international viewers.

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watch this. the victim of that gang rape later died from her injuries. sumnina is following this. why did the government not allow the bby documentary to air in india. >> reporter: well the main reason wolf is really it could possibly incite violence against women in this country, at least what the government is saying and as the minister said in the parliament he would not allow anyone to leverage such incidents for commercial uses.

now, basically these were clips that were being broadcast for a while in india, until that ban was uhm posed yesterday. so people did get a sense of what exactly this rapist said in that interview and i just we haven't been able to talk about it in india since the ban but i can tell you what he said now, in the u.s. basically along with what you just showed there, he went on to say people have a right to teach these women a lesson when being raped, she should not fight back she should just be silent and allow the rape. so these are the comments that are causing a lot of the outrage that we're seeing now inside parliament outside parliament on social media, not really on the streets yet, but certainly a lot of people talking about this right now, wolf. >> so basically if any of the tv channels there were to air this documentary, that would be a violation of the law, they could go to jail for just airing a documentary like this?

is that right? >> that's correct. it is a violation of the law here. of course this is something that was imposed just yesterday by the ministry of broadcast information here and also the home minister of this country went on to say in parliament today not only does he want it to be banned in india but also worldwide, and it's not just the government. i should mention this wolf a lot of the women's rights activists are also saying that they're against the broadcast of the documentary, because after all, these are the viewpoints of a rapist a very brutal rapist one of the most this one was one of the most brutal rapes we've seen in india, back in 2012 and so just highlighting what he says is basically giving a rapist such as him a platform and of course he is still in court right now. he is on death row, he's fighting his case so why give this guy a platform is what a lot of people are asking not just the government also a lot

of activists. wolf? >> sumnina thanks for that report. we'll stay on top of the story. that's it for me. thanks very much for watching. i'm be back 5:00 p.m. in "the situation room." "newsroom" with ana cabrera starts right now. >> good afternoon, i'm ana cabrera in for brooke baldwin. two major developments out of ferguson missouri. the justice department announced former police officer darren wilson will not be federally charged for killing unarmed teenager michael brown and here's why. officials say and i quote, "there is no evidence upon which prosecutors can rely to disprove wilson's stated subjective belief that he feared for his safety." now also minutes ago the department of justice released a 105-page report that officially confirmed what protesters in ferguson missouri have been claiming for months that long before brown's killing, ferguson police