ould be a executive agreement. >> president obama accusing law make he is of siding with america's enemies. vice president biden blasts the letter calling it an effort to quote, undercut our president. we have complete coverage on this from washington to tehran. let's begin live at the white house where they are not happy about this this morning. >> reporter: this was an unpress unprecedented move, a letter sent directly to the leaders of a country who is still on the state sponsor of terrorism list. and i have to say it really highlights how the political battle is being waged on capitol hill are now aggressively spilling into foreign policy. now the white house calls this reckless. and in a statement released overnight vice president biden says quote, in 36 years in the u.s. senate i cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country, much less a longtime foreign adversary, that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful

understanding with them. the decision to undercut our president and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a matter of principle. and that exactly there is what set off the white house so fiercely. this attempted notion that it undermines the president's authority, something i should say the white house is especially sensitive to coming off the heels of that controversy over israeli prime minister netanyahubenjamin netanyahu's visit to the you states last week. now the freshman republican from arkansas did get 46 other republican senators to sign on to this letter including senate majority ladier mitch mm mcconnell,ing and he fiercely defended the letter saying he believes there are nothing but iranian hard-liners in iran that won't agree to any deal. >> the president already said a deal could have as little as a

ten-year sunset on it. iran could have uranium enrichment capabilities. the critical component of developing a nuclear bomb. whatever else those terms make it unaccept to theable to the united states and the world. >> reporter: there is worry from republicans, but i should note members of the president's own party that the president wants this deal so badly, alisyn that he will sign on to any deal even if it's a bad one. >> thanks for all that background. iran's foreign minister mincing no words in his response to this unprecedented letter. he calls it a propaganda employ. nuclear talks are set to resume on sunday. live in tehran with more fred? >> reporter: good morning, alisyn. from a snowy tehran. most iranians said maybe eye

rain wrans aren't familiar with the process. certainly the foreign minister is aware of the constitutional process and is calling this letter a propaganda ploy and is using the republican senators of being afraid of any sort of nuclear deal. i want to read you part of the statement he sent here to cnn tehran. in our view this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy. the world is not the united states and the conduct of interstate relations is governed -- >> we just lost fred pleitgen. they are saying this is a political ploy. what good can come from this letter? here to weigh in editor in chief of "the daily beast" mr. john avalon and republican consultant and sirius xm host margaret hoover. margaret answer my question what good comes from this move? >> this letter is an essentially

uniform reminder to everyone around that a bad deal is being negotiated by the executive branch of the country and congress many many senators aside from the 47 who signed that defensemenmocrats and republicans alike, want to weigh in on the deal. >> but sending it to our adversary? that's the president's point. >> this is an open letter -- by the way, the president has been corresponding directly and privately with ayatollah. it's not unprecedented, just reminding of the constitutional process. we have no idea how iran's government works. we have an open and transparent government. we have no idea who calls the shots. here the president calls the shots and the senate calls the shots, and it is this is a reminder that congress wants to weigh in. by the way, 71% of americans, according to a new "wall street journal" be and nbc poll did not trust the president that this deal will prevent iran from nuclearizing. >> that is an admirable spin.

we have 200 years of precedent in this country at stake here. this is a dumb letter unlike five different levels especially if you oweppose what seems to be the deal that is being negotiated in real time. this letter is a ted cruz-esque move that makes it difficult to cobble together a bipartisan coalition. >> meaning there will be backlash against the senator in the future. >> absolutely. one of the statesmen did not sign on to the letter. >> the head of the senate foreign relations. >> absolutely. this is about positioning. this is about scoring political points. it's unpress tent that had it undercuts a sitting negotiating and makes it more it difficult. >> that's ridiculous. >> it's accurate. so this is a really dumb partisan move that further polarizes the debate and also undercuts a sitting president of the united states mid negotiations which is unresident

unresidented. >> this is a congressional letter. they are having their own interactions. if they were smart, they would use this as leverage. they would say, sorry, i can't give you that deal. you know why? i have to go back to my congress. >> why don't they accepted it to hem? >> why are they pretending the congress of the united states instead of acting like they are negotiating from a position of strength. that's the problem with this president. no one trusts he can negotiate successfully. >> let's say everything you said is true -- >> do you think i make all this up? it's not like i'm inventing things. >> they're only as good as the paper they're written on most of the time. let's say they're truth, the voice of god, you send this to the president. you don't send it to your enemy. this by definition is designed to undermain the process. own it. that's what they want. i'll bet you what i'll bet you the senator will go down that road of course we want to influence the process.

of course we want to change the dynamic of this negotiation. of course that's why we're reading and writing this. he should say the same. >> the problem is we're talking about domestic politics and not that this is a bad deal. this is leaving centrifuges spinning. they said initially there will be no centrifuges spinning. now we know there will be around 6,000. a ten-year sunset deal. that's a ridiculous number. why aren't he we talking about the substance of the bad deal -- >> because it's not done yet. >> this will make the world less safe. >> after it's done it's done. it's a done deal. so these senators are saying we want input while the negotiating is still happening. >> "a," you don't break historical precedent, you don't undercut your own government when you're negotiating you can take a bipartisan stand against this which would make it more difficult for the president to ratify. he said we'll walk away from a bad deal. >> you know you have people on both sides. senator hines sitting where you

were yesterday, hey, i was with mitch mcconnell we have to really weigh in here. we have to have a role. then things got politically out of line. this is not going down the right road. >> exactly right. it undercuts the aim of people who would want to caution and be skeptical of this deal. the bottom line we don't know what a final deal is until it's done. that's what's so unprecedented hear this is an ongoing negotiating. and every action taken needs to be put aside against what's the alternative, the practical alternative? what are we really talking about here folks? and this letter, which is largely political theater actually undercuts goals that might be bipartisan. >> i think it helps it. honestly you think the hard-liners in eyeiran who see the president at the table making concession after concession after concession knows he has to go back to his congress and that he has an untenable congress who won't support what the president is negotiating. i think he's in a stronger position. >> the president is going to use it. >> i know you disagree because for whatever reason you think

this is going to be a good deal with eyeiran. >> i don't -- hold on. we don't know what the teal is. >> i like what you just said. because that would be great. what do he we want? we want them to not have a nuclear weapon for a million reasons. >> correct. >> do you think the republicans would have done this if they thought the president could use it as leverage to get a better deal? >> nope. >> i can't hear you? would they have done this if they thought it would get the president more leverage and a better deal? >> here is the problem, chris and john and all of you, you are all caught up in the domestic who's up who's down of domestic political partisan politics. if he were smart he would use it to his strength. >> but you keep saying the deal is not done yet. what they know of the deal they don't like. so bhar they supposewhat are he they supposed to do? >> that's the point. it's an ongoing negotiating with which is why this is unprecedented. there used to be an idea that it

stopped at the water's edge. this blows up the concept of national unity. the other thing that's' sengs essential, this is clearly done to undercut any negotiation. and it takes a political debate and projects it. >> to suggest that they are doing this to undermine the president -- >> they are. they are. they are. >> it is to strengthen the you states of america not to undermain theunder undermine the president. >> thanks for the debate. better than could have he fee. >> angus king is who was with us yesterday. >> god bless angus king. >> we'll see what the republican senator who drafted this letter is the first name on it, obviously he had a he co-ligs of 47. why didn't he have all of them?

put this letter to the test. also this morning, growing fallout over the racist chant caught on video. members of the sigma alpha epsilon fraternity ordered to vacate their house on the university of oklahoma campus by midnight tonight. the school's president says he hopes they leave the school altogether calling them a disgrace. for more we are joined on the ou campus. what's going on there this morning? >> reporter: yeah good morning, alisyn. students and factulty both speaking out at the university of oklahoma after it was rocked by a racist scandal. sigma alpha epsilon has until midnight tonight to remove all of their belongings from the chapter house as university president says they are severing ties with the fraternity. that highly offensive racist chant belted out by fraternity members of sigma alpha epsilon is sending shivers through the university of oklahoma. prompting the oklahoma football team the sooners, to march in

solidarity. the moment taking precedence over practice. but outrage over the varl video elicited a more guttural response from the team's linebacker eric striker lashing out in this emotional rebuttal on social media. >> racist don't exist, be the same [ bleep ]. >> reporter: he spoke with cnn's don lemon. >> we shouldn't tolerate that behavior here. it was bad reflection on the people here. >> reporter: never night the national president issuing another apology via facebook writing, to those hurt and offended by these actions, especially the african-american community and our many african-american brothers i apologize. on behalf of our now closed chapter and its members who will be expelled. a top high school recruit is backing out of his early commitment to play for the oklahoma sooners.

>> it was very disturbing to he me. i don't like it. >> reporter: the university's president taking swift action severing all ties with sae demanding all members remove their belongings from campus saying students could be expelled. >> we have zero tolerance for racism. as i said i have a message for those who misuse their free speech to use racial slurs. you're a disgrace to this university. >> reporter: several students i spoke to yesterday said that they were shocked sae was the fraternity caught on camera because there are other frats here at the university of oklahoma they say that are much worse. they're calling for an entire investigation of the greek system here on campus. michaela? >> we'll keep watching nick. thousands of students taking the state capitol for storm calling for change after a teenager was gunned down with by a white police officer. the victim's family and protesters are demanding justice and they are demanding it fast. ryan young has the very latest for us from madison.

good morning. >> reporter: good morning. michaela we were here as those thousands of students walked inside the state capitol. they were chanting largely. they formed a circle inside the state capitol and you heard the chant, black lives matter. i can stress the fact they want to make sure it's not just about black lives but the entire community of support of the familiary because they believe the unarmed teen should not have been killed. there were reports he was causing trouble in the streets. a 911 call response had an officer show up to the house and said he heard a ruckus inside, pushed had his way in, and reports he was hit in the head. shots were fired and the teen was killed. now this community and this family is asking for calm. chris? >> thank you very much for the reporting from there. obviously we've to stay on this story. so also in the news this morning iraqi forces are closing in on tikrit, and they are confident they can retake the city from isis in just days. they say they can do that without help from the u.s. the shiite paramilitary force is

getting help from iran. meanwhile, isis, believed to be holding nine foreign oil workers hostage in libya. officials say terrorists abducted the group in an attack last friday when a libyan oil field was set on fire. the kidnapped foreigners were working for an you austrian oil services can company headquartered in tripoli. the abductions come as some militias pledge allegiance to isis. developing overnight two french olympic athletes are among ten people that were killed in a midair helicopter crash in argentina. gold medal winning swimmer camille muffat and alexis vastine were part of the cast of a survivalist reality show called "dropped." the government spokesman says it appears the helicopters they were in collided and went down in flames while taping a scene for the show. two argentine pilots, six other nationals, french nationals, were also killed. >> that's terrible. just a terrible story. >> horrifying.

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the students of sigma alpha epsilon have until midnight tonight to move out of the from certainty house on the university of oklahoma campus as the president of the school says the university's affiliation with that frat is over. >> will not be tolerated. that is why that house is immediately close it had. that is why those young men will have to have their belongings out of the house by midnight tomorrow. and as they pack their bags i hope they think long and hard about what they've tondone. >> let's talk more about this with chelsea davis and megan johnson, co-directors of a group called unheard, an alliance of black students at the university of oklahoma. ladies, anyways to see you this morning. >> hi good morning. >> chelsea, let me start with you. you heard the president of your university. he says the frat brothers of sae

have until mid nate tonight to move off campus. does that go far enough for you? >> it does not. i think all those parties involved need to be expelled male or female everyone on that bus should be expelled from the university. i don't believe it's taking it far enough just to suspend the campus here on campus. >> megan, what have you heard about possible expulsion from ou? >> some things i've heard about expulsion is that legally, from a legal standpoint, it's probably not plausible. but the university does have other avenue ss and ways to discipline those students. >> megan, we had you on "new day" yesterday, and some of what you said really stuck with us. because you told us you were not surprised when you saw the video of that racist chant, and you said in fact that on a daily basis you confront racism on campus. can you give us some examples what your life is like? >> i wouldn't say that racism on

campus is as blunt as that video, using the "n" word or specifically pointing and laughing at us but i would say in smaller ways as far as not being able -- not feeling as welcome in a class or not being able to give the same responses from your peers as others and just not feeling as welcome on campus as we should be. >> and, chelsea, because of those experience ss that you both have had, in january of this year you sent a letter to your campus president as well as to other campus he oweofficials outlining what you wish the university would do. let me read a couple bullet points that fr that letter. you say the university has failed to provide an adequate amount of black factulty. you say they have failed to provide adequate financial assistance to the black student body in order to make it feasible for black students to attend and stay at the university long enough to obtain

a degree. chelsea, what was the response to that 11-page letter? chelsea, can you hear me? can you hear me megan? >> yes, i can hear you. megan, i was just talking about the 11-page letter that you sent to the president of the university and officials, what response did you get from that letter? >> we got an immediate response interest president boren. as far as our request for a meeting, we met him with the following week to sit town and talk about our seven grievances. the university is working on those grievances. we still want to see progress and see them actively doing things on our campus to affect our seven grievances that we submitted to the university. >> you immediately got a meeting, but did you see any change? >> no we haven't seen any

immediate change as far as student life and the sooner experience which is one of our specific grievances. we have seen immediate action as far as meetings to change the way homecoming works at ou and our campus activity council works but we haven't seen immediate change as far as things that we know will take longer as far as retaining african-american students, the lack of black faculty on our campus equitable funding for black student organizations, and the other grievances which we know will take a longer time. >> as far as the numbers, we believe there are 27,000 students on your campus only 5% of which are black. chelsea, can you hear me? >> yes. >> the president of your university said last night that he is now working with your group to try to change things. have you now met with the president since this video came out to talk about what actions will be taken?

>> we haven't met with president boren since the events of the past weekend. however, we do have a follow-up meeting with him to the beginning of our movement later on this month. we will talk about the events that happened as well as how to further better our movement along with our seven grievances. >> megan, there was news that came out last night a top high school football recruit who was going to be coming to your university has now said he is not interested in coming to the university of oklahoma because of all of this. that's sad. that's a sad development. what do you think of people who now, because of this reject that campus? >> i think it's very sad this video has to come to light and the way the university is being portrayed now. i agree with his decision. if you don't feel comfortable somewhere, you should never come to a place you aren't welcome or don't feel welcome.

the university is a great place and they have many opportunities for students of color and students in general. everyone on campus is not a bad person. everyone at the university of oklahoma is not a racist. we stand here before you because we love our university and want to change it to be a more inclusive and diverse place so people like us can feel more welcome. that was his personal decision. the university of oklahoma is not a bad place. >> well megan johnson, chelsea davis, thanks for coming on. we wish you the best of luck in affecting change that is desperately needed on your campus. nice to see both of you. later on we will talk to president boren on what comes next. we have never seen this video of the boston bomber running from the scene after the bomb detonates.

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we have never-before-seen video for you the images track the movements of the suspects before and after a pair of homemade bombs detonate at the finish line. the latest live from boston. the case is as plain as what's in front of your face on this video. >> reporter: well there's no question chris, and his own lawyers have said he did it. the importance of this video for the jury there are two things. first of all, it shows a man who ret before the bombing did have several minutes in which to xhang his mind and a man who right after the bombing seemed to care more about the milk he was buying than the people he maimed and killed. nearly four hours after the race

began, the tsarnaev brothers rounded the corner together onto the marathon route. tamerlan in the lead the young younger dzhokhar keeping pace. then the two split up. tamerlan he had hadding ingheading to the finish line. standing by himself four minutes, among spectators several of them children. at 2:49 records show using a disposable phone bought the day before dzhokhar calls his brother. the first bomb explodes. dzhokhar moves quickly in the opposite direction, reaching the corner justs sas the second bomb detonates. neither dzhokhar nor tamerlan have their backpacks. less than 23 minutes after the terror attack, dzhokhar tsarnaev enters he a nearby whole foods and pays cash for a half gallon of milk. he swaps the milk before getting

back into the passenger side of a are car. the driver speeds off. prosecutors say 19-year-old tsarnaev returned to his dorm room seen here at 9:05 p.m. the next night entering the university fitness center with a friend and staying for about an hour. the fbi gathered 4,000 hours of surveillance videos photos and home movies from that day. witness jessica, the remnants of her legs sticking out from her dress. the scars onner erher her stumps visible. a newlywed and trauma nurse described the bomb saying it did exactly what it was designed to do tear the skin and muscle away leaving body parts exposed. now prosecutors have introduced two twitter accounts. the second is much more radical in nature. it talks about the extremist preacher and a victory over the

nonbeliever. his own lawyers are expected to cross-examine and raise questions about those accounts and what they seem to suggest, but, chris and michaela we've heard testimony about bomb components that were found by two of the witnesses spes if specifically at the blast sight where dzhokhar tsarnaev dropped his backpack. >> deb feyerick, thank you for that. republican efforts to derail nuclear negotiations with iran. an open letter signed by some 47 gop senators warns any deal could be undone by a fewuture administration. president obama says it is a nod to iranian hard-liners. iran's foreign minister calls it a propaganda ploy. an update on the university of oklahoma severing ties with the sigma alpha epsilon fraternity after this video of a racist chant surfaced. hundreds of faculty and students including the sooner

football team, marching in protest last night. one football recruit so disturbed by the video decide edd to back out of his commitment to attend the university. the school's president ordering sae members to pack their bags and vacate their house by midnight tonight. he is considering expelling those students involved. breaking news in the "charlie hebdo" attacks. officials say four people had close ties to the terrorists that killed four hostages at a kosher store in january before he was killed by police. the latest now in that incredible survival story of 18-month-old lily grosbeck. they describe hearing a mysterious voice saying help me even though her mother had already died. here is what they told anderson coop erer on "360." >> for two nights i've laid awake trying to figure out what it could be. so many things go through your

mind. it was there and we all heard it. that just helped us to push harder like i say, and do what we could to rescue anyone inside the car. >> four incredible men there saving the life of this little girl. lily's family says they are blown away by her astounding progress and are grateful, of course, to her rescuers. apparently she was singing and laughing yesterday with grandpa and grandma. >> my gosh. so mysterious. >> it's such a story. >> right. because kids that age rarely talk at all let alone being able to survive that amount of time and then say the words help me -- >> over and over to be articulate through the windows of the car. >> under that duress in those conditions at that age, very unusual. >> so fascinating. thanks so much. i want to hear more about that story. iraqi forces on the offensive trying to retake the city of tikrit from isis. can they defeat the terror group in just days? we are taking you to the front lines next.

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so the battle for tikrit

fighting is intensifying now. anti-isis forces say they think they're going to take back the city in just days. let's hear from someone on the ground. we have lieutenant colonel reiss and delta force commander joining us live from baghdad. let's put up the graphic here. it's a big city, over 250,000 people. the key is isis took it in june showing their mandate that they could control territory along the tigris river. of course it has the symbolic meaning of being from saddam hussein, al tikrity meaning he was from dick right. so valuable for us right now, give us your observations rt starting with the he key one that you have about this number of 20,000 fighters against 2,000 that he we keep reporting over here. what's your take on that? >> chris, good morning. i want to try to remind

everyone whenever anyone is throwing out numbers, you have to keep something in mind that the number of combat troops that are literally engage edd in combat operations on the front lane whether they're infantry engineers, aviation whatever there's usually about a 3 to 1 ratio. if you do the math you're only at 5,000 to 7,000 real involved combat troops where everyone else is that pail that goes behind it, the support, the medical. when you hear that 20,000 you have to put it in perspective. >> even if you cut that number down, they still have a 2-1 advantage over the enemy. how is that playing out on the ground? what are you seeing? >> anytime the enemy has months to prepare themselves the enemy has an advantage especially in a place like tikrit which is the city. i've been very impressed with what the iraqi forces led by the paramilitary forces have done

over the last several days they've moved very quickly. they have some good organization, some good leadership. i'm impressed with their ability to take the fight. >> a big concern which is what would happen after the forces were able to take it back from isis the thought of fighting ethnic cleansing, shia versus sunni and all that ethnic cleansing that goes along with that. you say you don't see that concern on the ground. why? >> chris, not right now. i see a lot of people have been banging that drum for months about it. right now both shia, sunni, iraqis that's all they have one common enemy and one common goal and you should talk to the soldiers and the leadership out there. they are focused. they are driven. they have a lot of morale. they have a lot of cheer going on while they're out there and they'ring moving deliberately with a lot of force.

i think politically we need to take this wave and continue to work with the iraqi politician ss and the government to continue to have that solidarity of what they say is the common enemy and go together as we move in the future. >> let's talk about why you think that. another big point for you. you're referring to isis they don't like it and it's used in that part of the world. the u.s. forces are advising but from the green zone from from baghdad, not on the front lines, the iranians are there. that creates an optics issue they're on the front lines, building loyalty. let's put up the quote from one of the commanders about how he feels about the coalition. we don't need it. we won't need it. anyone who puts their faith to liberate iraq is putting their faith on a mirage. the people of iraq will liberate this country and put an end to isis. is that just patriotism or is there an optics issue the coalition isn't doing enough?

>> well, it's both, chris. two things one, it is a patriotism act. when you talk to them later and make sure that they understand and you think about the big picture strategically of what the air strikes by the coalition specifically led by the u.s. aircraft with night drops and everything else, precision fires, they do admit that the degradation of isis has been critical for them moving along and conducting the operations in tikrit. at the same time you have the qods force there the iranian special forceses, a small number just like we deploy a small number of special forces that advise and assist. one commander said it right. four qods special forces on the ground at the point of impact does a lot more than 200 u.s. guys sitting in the green zone sipping coffee working with the leadership. so that's one of the things we have to take a hard look at. right now i think we're losing the information fight.

>> lieutenant colonel james reece, on behalf of the good guys for the city of tikrit you've been doing great work. stay safe. we'll check back in soon. thank you, sir. all right, chris. it appears it's happened again. another commuter train crash involving a vehicle be on the tracks. the third in less than two months. the cell phone video capturing this amtrak train slamming into a truck in north carolina. how can our nation's rails be safer? we'll take a look. n 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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terrifying moments captured on this cell phone video when a new york bound amtrak train slams into a tractor-trailer stuck on the tracks in north carolina. cnn's renee marsh joins us live from washington. another train accident renee. >> reporter: another one. alisyn, this morning federal investigators are on the scene of this crash to determine the official cause. meantime eyewitnesses are describing a great detail the forceful impact that happened right in front of them. >> oh, my gosh. oh, my gosh. >> reporter: a frightening scene

on the tracks. an eyewitness catching the moment of impact on camera. this amtrak passenger train from north carolina to new york barreling into a tractor-trailer stuck on the tracks sending cars flying off the rails and the train's engine on its side. >> it sent both the engine and the trailer in the air at least 20 foot. it looked like a bomb went off. >> reporter: more than 200 passengers were aboard the train. dozens of injured were transported to hospitals with nonlife threatening injuries. the train's conductors among those treated. witnesses say the tractor-trailer got stuck on the tracks while trying to make a difficult left turn. >> like an explosion. and everything just flew. it was a shock. >> reporter: there are roughly 2,000 accidents at american railroad crossings every year. 239 people were killed last year alone. this is the third major train accident in less than two

months. two weeks ago the engnearineer of a commuter train was killed when it collided with a truck on the tracks incal california. and last month section people were killed when an suv was struck by a commuter train in knock. amtrak said in a statement it was monitoring the situation and an investigation was ongoing. the overwhelming number of fatalities happen at these rail crossings. recent isly the department of transportation launched a campaign to ramp up safety at these crossings. part calls for law enforcement to issue citations. when you see that happening, like what we saw yesterday, is that enough? michaela? >> a very good point. we appreciate that. let's discuss it more with mary schiavo schiavo, an attorney who represents the victims and

families after airplane disasters. i want to talk specifically, if you will mary about that crossing because we know both of these accidents happened at crossings. this is an unusual one. wasn't right angles and perpendicular so that could have played a portion, this tractor was trying to make this tough turn and got stuck. what else sticks out to you in this incident? >> well, this incident will be one of the things we call the department of transportation a rail crossing geometry problem, and what that means is literally where the train crosses the highway in such a situation that there is an intersection and not a clear, straight 90-degree intersection perfect pen dikpendicular crossing of the rail over the highway, that makes the crossing difficult. why? because sometimes it's hard to see the train and sometimes exactly as here traffic makes it difficult for the vehicles to clear off the track. where you have a stop sign on

the highway near the rail that can make it difficult if traffic backs up and the federal rail administration has recommended such things as even traffic signals so traffic does not back up when there's difficulty clearing off the tracks. and of course here with this very wide load some planning should have been done beforehand about making this turn. this will be what they call a crossing geometry accident. >> interesting. we learn something from you every time it happens. sadly, it's been too frequent. you've been telling us about the new advancements made to increase safety positive train control, management technology. do we know if this train had any such technology onboard? >> it did not appear this engine -- that this locomotive did have it. it didn't look like one of the newer ones. amtrak is actively investing in that. amtrak has put in literally millions of dollars trying to buy this new equipment. the problem for amtrak they do not own all of the track over which they have to travel and i do not believe they own this

section of the track. what amtrak has pledged to do if the owners of the track install the controls, they will put it on their engines. they are busy getting new rolling stock to bring this cushion zone into their trains. >> another point that i find really interesting is the fact that this truck was stuck for 15 or so minutes trying to make this difficult turn with the help of a state trooper there trying to assist. to me it seems there should have been some sort of communication with the conductor of the train, amtrak to let them know there was a problem ahead. we know it takes them learning for you, a while to be able to stop that train. >> that's right. a train going 55 miles an hour needs about a minute several football fields 18 football fields to stop. so if you're stuck on a train track and you know that you would think there would be some way to alert trains.

apparently there wasn't. the trooper did not know how to go about ahadlerting train personnel. the entity that owns the track is not necessarily the owner of the trains that will be crossing over the track. there was difficulty with that. the question in my mind, it's a state trooper, they couldn't clear the traffic to get the truck to back up is the question i have in my mind and how long was the traffic line behind it bringing us back once again to the question of would traffic signals on the road timed with the train make it so the traffic would never back up at that intersection? >> a 911 call wouldn't they be able to route it to amtrak or to whoever is in charge? it seems a failure of communication that seems fixable. >> that's right. absolutely. and particularly after a minute or so on the track, but you would think that a call would have done it, and weigh don't know at this point if any attempt was made to do it. it appears there wasn't. >> mary schiavo, we appreciate

your expertise as always. have a great morning. >> thank you. a big story there. we're following that one and a lot of other news for you, so let's get to it. 47 republican senators releasing a controversial open letter to iran. >> i think what we're going to focus on now is actually seeing whether we can get a deal or not. >> i have a message for those that misuse their free speech. you're a disgrace. >> that chant that exists in 2015 is sad. racism is alive and well on the american campus. >> thousands of people walked to the state capitol to show the displeasure in the shooting death of this team. >> what this is about is find ing out exactly what happened that night. >> i want the conversation to be about tony robinson. >> we have never seen this surveillance video of the boston bomber before. >> less than 23 minutes after the terror attack dzhokhar tsarnaev pays cash for a half gallon of milk. >> this case is not a whodunnit. this is a he did it.

>> this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. 47 gop senators signed an open letter to iran's leaders trying to prevent negotiations from moving forward. they warn that any deal with the u.s. could expire when president obama leaves office. the white house denouncing this letter. >> vice president biden saying the letter ignores two sentcenturies of precedent and sends a message that is as false as it is dangerous. the question now, does this move make a deal or war more likely? from washington to tehran we have the story covered as only cnn can. let's begin live at the white house. >> reporter: chris, this was an unpresscedented and unusual move. this letter from senate republicans was sent directly to the leaders of a country who is still on the state sponsor of terrorism list and i think it really does underscore how this fierce battle between capitol hill and the white house is

really spilling over into foreign policy. now the white house calls this reckless and in a statement overnight, vice president biden says quote, in 36 years in the united states senate i cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country much less a longtime foreign adversary that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them. the decision to undercut our president and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a the matter of principle. and that's where this especially set off the white house on this this feeling that this move by republicans really undercuts the president, swrundundermines his authority. this is is something they're sensitive to coming off the visit by benjamin netanyahu last week. now listen to president obama's tone in the oval office as he slams this move by republicans. >> i think it's somewhat ironic

to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hard-liners of iran. it's an unusual coalition. i think what we're going to foe focus on is seeing whether we can get a deal or not. >> reporter: the freshman senator tom cotton who organized the letter notably got 47 other republican senators to sign on to the deal including senate majority leader mitch mcconnell. he says he believes that the contours of what they're hearing about this deal coming together with unacceptable and they're trying to push forward not to get a bad deal. chris? >> i'll take it sunlen. the president's tone there was noteworthy. thanks for that report. iran's foreign minister calls this letter a, quote, propaganda employ and says those who signed it need a lesson in international law. fred pleitgen joins us.

>> reporter: from a snowy tehran the people and the government here found the letter from those gop senators quite condescending. they say especially the part where the gop senators write that perhaps the iranian government is not familiar with the u.s.'s constitutional process. in an answer to all of this that he did send to cnn in tehran said he believed the senators themselves needed a lesson in constitutional process. as you said, also said he thought all of this was, quote, a p.r. ploy. i want to read you more from his response. he said in our view this letter has no legal value and is most ly a propaganda ploy. the world is not the united states and the conduct of interstate relations is governed by international law and not by u.s. domestic law. so certainly the iranians there taking offense to this letter somewhat. javad zarif believes this letter havewill have no impact on the

ongoing negotiations. the iranians themselves here are facing backlash as well. there are hard laners who feel that iran should walk away from the negotiating table. some believe iran is thriving under sanctions. if you ask the majority of the population here in this country, they want a deal and he they certainly want the sanctions to go as fast as possible. >> fred, so valuable to have you on the ground there and find out from the people where their minds are. thank you. we'll check back. 47 republicans signed on to this letter. one man drafted it and appears first, freshman senator tom cotton of arkansas, and he joins us now. senator, thank you for joining us. please tell us how you think this letter helps the situation. >> well many of iran's leaders don't understand the u.s. constitution. the president may negotiate deals but congress has to approve deals to have lasting effect. and if congress doesn't approve this nuclear deal, congress won't accept this deal now or in

the future and this is ultimately about stopping iran from getting a nuclear weapon today, tomorrow ten years from now, 15 years from now. >> is this letter really about explaining the constitution or is it an overt move to undermine the president? >> no this letter is about stopping iran from getting a nuclear deal. iran's leaders need to understand that under our constitution congress plays a critical role in approving international agreements. if congress does not approve an agreement, the agreement will not have lasting effect. future congresses or a future president can change them. and the deal that is emerging would allow iran to develop a path towards a nuclear weapon, and that's not acceptable because it's too dangerous to the united states and too dangerous to the world. >> putting the politics aside for one second you say this letter is about the constitution. there is an error in this letter that goes to the larger point about the president being the person who really drives the ball when had it comes to foreign deals. you say in here the congress

needs to ratify by two-thirds vote. on your own senate website it says that in fact the congress does not ratify treaties. it gives advice and consent to the president through the votes, which you know how they work, two-thirds, certain deals is a majority. and the president ratifies orthopedic chooses not to ratify treaties. now this isn't a constitutional law class. this is about who drives the game and it is the president. by sending this letter instead of sending it by him, you are undermining his authority, isn't that the truth? >> now we're actually giving the negotiators more authority because the iranian leaders need to know any deal has to be approved by congress if it's going to have lasting effect. if it's not it won't be accepted by congress. so we are the constitutional backstop that our founding fathers created to ensure just this situation that you wouldn't have single president in a lasting deal with the leading

sponsor of state terrorism to get nuclear weapons. a regime that has been killing americans for 35 years and extending its reeggional dominance to five capitals in the middle east all without a nuclear weapon. >> i think that's the right fear and concern. the question is how do we achieve the goal of not having iran have a nuclear weapon? you talk about precedent. 90% of all agreements done with foreign entities since 1939 have been executive agreements. the history is long. the power of the president in foreign affairs is clear. let me ask you this, you're a decorated veteran. you know the realities of war. if you don't negotiate and get a deal done right now, what is plan "b"? what is your alternative? >> as benjamin netanyahu said last week the alternative to a bad deal is a better deal. one way to make sure we get a better deal is to stand strong to keep the credible use of force on the table and to drive

a harder bargain. >> to drive a harder bargain. that's what's going on right now. sure as you well know and are learning in the haulhalls of the senate and the congress, the guy you're negotiating with doesn't have the power, we do. not only is that not true but hows to that help the negotiating do anything but hinder the efforts we all agree are vital to u.s. security interests? >> well it is true. the simple matter of constitutional law that the congress only has the power to approve international agreements to make them have lasting and binding effect. president obama himself has overturned executive agreements his predecessors made with other foreign leaders. and certainly -- certainly there should be congressional approval when you're talking about a nuclear weapons deal with the world's leading state sponsor of terrorism. >> understood. as we have discussed earlier and, again, this isn't a gotcha session, senator, this letter was an unprecedented move in this context.

the senate doesn't ratify treaties. the president does. he's the one holding the power. you also suggest in this letter hey, it this deal would only be an executive issue. you have the p-5 plus one signing on. this is among major powers in the world. it's not just about the u.s. and iran. do you believe you're playing politics here with the situation that really doesn't benefit from it it? >> no, nor do i believe this letter is unprecedented. the only thing unprecedented is an american president negotiating a nuclear weapons deal with a leading state sponsor of terrorism without seeking congressional approval at the end of that deal. >> there is no question that what you're talking about going on with iran is unusual because usually it would be the focus after treaty. deals with iran have a lot of precedence, have never involved congress and i can't find another letter like this ever. members of congress often visit foreign nations that are

controversial, sometimes with sometimes without the white house consent, but not a letter like this. and that takes me to you, senator, you're a decorated veteran but you're a freshman there. why are you the one drafting this letter? what do you think of the idea you're being set up in this situation to take the fall? >> i'm speaking out for the people i represent in arkansas and for 70% of americans who don't believe that the deal the president is negotiating is going to stop iran from getting a nuclear weapon. i'm pleased i have so many of my colleagues join me of all different tenures and we welcome more people to join us republicans and democrats alike. i'd welcome the presidential candidates to join us. we have four on the letter. i'd welcome even hillary clinton to join us. i suspect me shoot have reservations about this ill-fated nuclear teal with eye be ran as well. >> look, how does this help the bipartisan situation? you know the politics that are playing out around you. you didn't get seven of your own senators. one is bob corker.

he is the head. this isn't authored by mitch mcconnell for a reason. they're trying to work to form a coalition. this does nothing but blow up efforts. how do you see this as progress? it's not going to help you with the it democrats. it's not going to help make a deal with iran and only hurts the president. what is the benefit? >> 47 senators recognize we can the not allow iran to have a nuke here weapon and it is critical congress approve any deal and they will not accept any deal congress doesn't approve. it's an open letter. i welcome others to join us. many expressed the exact sentiments we wrote in the letter that congress must approve any deal even if they didn't want to sign it for whatever reason. >> but you do realize congress does not have to approve the deal. the president can do it himself. there's plenty of presscedent for that. and the deal on the table is one clear goal. how long can we keep iran from getting a nuclear weapon. what's the best we can do to stop it? do you not see the goal of the

negotiations as being just that? >> the deal on the table the president himself announced would pavin the path to a bomb. the president said the deal would have a sunset clause for as little as ten years. his national security adviser said iran would have massive uranium enrichment programs. we're not talking about just stopping iran from getting a bomb today or tomorrow but ten years and 15 years from now. whatever the final terms of the deal those two terms alone are too dangerous for the world to accept which is why congress would not approve those terms of any deal. >> senator cotton we'll see what the impact of this letter is. so far it hasn't proved helpful for the brez or with the iranians based on their immediate response, but we'll be following this very closely. thank you for coming on "new day" and answering for this. appreciate it. >> thank you. >> alisyn? chris, over to iraq now. iraqi forces confident they can crush isis saying they are making decisive gains against the terror group. they expect to reclaim tikrit

within days. we are joined from baghdad with the latest. ben? >> reporter: the offensive to retake tikrit from isis is now in its eighth day, the latest we've heard is iraqi forces have retaken a town just outside of tikrit. w watched as iraqi forces moved out in the direction of the city. however, they don't seem to have entered the town just yet. we spoke with the head of who told us we don't need and he we won't need the help of the u.s.-led coalition. he said the iraqis by themselves will liberate the country from isis. this despite the fact that the u.s. chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, general dempsey, was in baghdad yesterday. he met with the iraqi prime minister the iraqi defense minister and stressed the role of the u.s.-led coalition in the

fight against isis. at this point that coalition has hit more than 2,000 targets in iraq and syria. they've trained more than 5,000 iraqi soldiers in addition to peshmarga fighters. the shia-led militias said we don't need the u.s. one officer told me that it's better to have four iranian advisers on the frontline than 400 american advisers sitting in the green zone. >> ben wedeman reporting. more fallout from the racist fraternity video rocking the university of oklahoma. members of sigma alpha epsilon have been ordered to vacate their frat house by midnight tonight following that racist chant. the president calling the students involved a disgrace.

cnn's nick valencia is in nor norman, oklahoma. good morning to you again. >> reporter: some students here on campus don't think the penalties against sigma alpha epsilon went far enough. the university president here says he's severing all ties with the fraternity. that highly offensive racist chant belted out by fraternity members of sigma alpha epsilon is sending shivers to the university of oklahoma. prompting the oklahoma football team the sooners, to march in solidarity. the moment taking precedent over practice. but outrage over the viral video elicited a more guttural response from the team's linebacker, eric striker, lashing out in this emotional rebut altal on social media. >> the same [ bleep ] talking about racism don't exist.

>> reporter: he spoke with cnn's don lemon monday night. >> we shouldn't tolerate that type of behavior here. it was such a bad reflection on the people here. >> reporter: overnight the fraternity's national president issuing another apology via facebook writing, to those that were hurt and offended by these actions, especially the african community and our many african-american brothers i apologize. on behalf of our now closed chapter and its members who had will be expelled. backlash from the video already has a top high school recruit backing out of his early commitment to play for the oklahoma soon ersers. >> it was just very disturbing to me. i don't like it. >> real sooners are not bigots. >> reporter: the university's president severing all ties with sae demanding all members remove their belongings from campus saying students could be expelled. >> we have zero tolerance for racism. as i said i have a message for those that misuse their free speech to use racial slurs. you're a disgrace to this

university. >> reporter: and one african american student i spoke to says that she was surprised it was sae caught on camera saying this racist chant because she says there are fraternities here at the university of oklahoma that are much worse offenders. they're calling for an investigation of the entire greek system. michaela? had. >> all right, nick. we'll be watching that. in fact in our next hour we will speak with the president of oklahoma david boren, about the next steps for his school. breaking overnight, the u.s. ambassador to south korea released from the hospital but still recovering from last week's knife attack. mack l iifford says he's doing well plans to return to work soon. he had more than 80 stitches in his face. he is experiencing pain in the wrist and arm. he was stabbed in those places. his attacker now faces attempted murder charges. remember the amazing poise he showed during that. well, the u.s. declaring

venezuela a national security threat and imposing sanctions against seven top officials. venezuelan president midoro rejecting those sanctions. this is the worst dispute between the two countries since he took office in 2013. an embattled judge in ferguson resigning. this action comes after a scathing report accusing judge brock meyer of using the court. judge richter will replace him . besides hearing pending and future cases, richter is being tasked with turning ferguson's justice system around in order to restore public trust and confidence. he certainly has his work cut can out for him. isn't it amazing to see the ripple effect from one terrible event, one day, and then all of the things that have happened to that town since then. >> and he very important for them to be kept separate. one of the problems with the case it was marked by this culture that surrounded it. when people were saying hands

up don't shoot, yes, it was about what they thought happened with michael brown that the grand jury didn't agree with but the culture they had been dealing with and the truth about that is out. >> and it's changing. jurors in the boston marathon bombing trial seeing new video showing dzhokhar tsarnaev at the scene. you will not believe what cameras capture him doing after the blast. american hero john lewis marched hand-in-hand with martin luther king from selma to montgomery 50 years ago. what does he have to say about how far we have come and how far we need to go? we'll ask him next. good to see you, sir.

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demonstrateors taking to the streets over two accept the rat race related issues. in oklahoma students protesting a fraternity singing a racist chant all caught on video. in wisconsin a walkout and a march following the shooting death of a bi-racial teenager it at the hands of a white police officer. this is all a very stark reminder even 50 years after bloody sunday in selma, race relations in our nation remain a challenge. joining us congressman john lewis who marched in selma 50 years ago documented his involvement in the civil rights movement in the book series "march." we will talk about that with him. congressman, very good to have you here with us this morning. >> thank you very much are for having me. delighted and very pleased to be here. >> i can't help but watch that video of the protests happening over the weekend, the demonstrations the fact that an unarmed teenager bi-racial teenager lost his life at the hands of a police officer.

we see that racist video that surfaces. this is the same weekend that world leaders and national leaders mostly gathered to walk across edmond pettis bridge. it's significant, it's disturbing. i wonder what your thoughts and reactions are to that. >> we've come a distance made a lot of progress but we still have a great distance to go. the scars and stains of racism are still deeply embedded in american society. we have not yet created what dr. martin luther king would have wanted. we must still work and work. one of the reasons for writing these books to help educate, to help inspire another generation to get out there and push and bring down those walls of separation and division. to teach our children, our young people.

>> it's a great way to teach them in a graphic novel form. what was it like for you 50 years latetory walk back across the pettis bridge the very bridge you were knocked unconscious by a police nightstick? >> it was very moving just to be back on the bridge. to stand there 50 years later, to realize i'm still here. 50 years ago i gave a little blood on that bridge. i thought i was going to die. i thought i saw death. i thought it was the last nonviolent protest. to be standing there with the president of the united states, almost 100 members of congress. >> where are the john lewises of the next generation? had is that one of your concerns in putting these books together? and thank you very much. i can't wait to have my kids read them. we've heard about it from men like you and bellefonte who was

pivotal with you as well. do you see that next generation? i see young people black, white, latino, asian men, native american playing role studying the way of peace, the way of love the way of nonvieolence. i visit schools and i see kids putting on their backpacks and their trench coats. i went on the set and a young man had on a backpack and a trench coat looking like me. i said boy, give me my tren of coat. i want my backpack back. the people then just needed some help some assistance. that's what we received. march ten luther king jr. inspired me, rosa parks inspired he me. when i was growing up in 1957 at the age of 17 i heard of martin luther king jr. and rosa parks. i met are rosa parks when i was

17. met dr. king when i was 18. i was reading a comic book called martin luther king jr. and the montgomery story. that book set me on a path. it's my hope these books will set another generation of young people on a path committed to peace, the way of love the way of nonviolence, and they will find a way to get in good and necessary trouble. >> i want to talk to you about good trouble and nonviolence. that's something some of our young people have struggled with in reaction to feg son, for example, . we saw a lot of people leaders come out with love and questioning and frustration, warranted frustration, but there are some among us us that the violence comes -- the frustration comes out in the form of violence. help us understand how when someone has a foot on their neck how they can respond with love and not with violence because that's an important message. >> i saw it in the '60s.

i saw it in selma. i saw it in nashville, in mississippi, in other places around the south. people went through training. we just didn't wake up one morning and said we're going to protest, to march, to sit in, we're going on a freedom ride. >> you trained. >> we trained. we prepared ourselves. so when someone would be spitting on us pouring hot water on us put a cigarette out in our hair or on our backs, we didn't strike back. dr. king just loved everybody. love is a better way. >> it always is. >> congressman, what did you think? have you seen the video out of the university of oklahoma? >> i have seen it. it's unreal. it's unbelievable in this day and age on a college campus. i think the president -- i know he this president. he has served in the united states senate. his son served in the house with me. i think he's taking the necessary steps.

>> do they have to be expelled? >> i think it's not a place for a college or university campus for young people or any group to be acting the way they're acting. >> they should be gone? >> they should be gone. >> one of the conversations we've been having we don't have a the lot of time left but i want to talk about the lessons and how to move forward. when we look at the efforts in our communities to better relationships between law enforcement and the communities, what is the key there? because love is important, but how does the conversation and the dialogue begin? >> we should bring law enforcement individuals and community individuals, leaders, students young people together. we all should have a little nonviolent training police officers the community, even in the congress i feel sometimes just be a little bit more peaceful respectful and be a

sense of community. >> great messages in both of these books. in fact i hope you're giving them to your colleagues in congress. >> well, we're making them available to all members of congress. >> lots of pictures in the book. they'll be able to get through it. >> yeah we will. >> these are two fantastic novels "march" back one, book two and book three will be out in months. thank you. >> such a pleasure talk inging to you. well, more gripping testimony of the trial of accused boston marathon bomber dzhokhar tsarnaev and stunning new surveillance video showing the defendant before and after the attack. what was he doing? sir, we're going to need you on the runway later. don't let a severe cold hold you back. get theraflu... ...with the power of three medicines to take on your worst pain and fever, cough and nasal congestion. it breaks you free from your toughest cold and flu symptoms. theraflu. serious power.

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hillary clinton appears ready to address the controversy over her e-mails. sources say it will come at a press conference in the next several days. clinton is expected to say she did use a classified government e-mail system at the state department but could not use it with her blackberry because the system was too antiquated. meantime, the white house says the president and mrs. clinton did exchange e-mails on her private account during her tenure at the state department but he did not know how her e-mail was set up. the co-creator of "the simpsons" has died. sam simon passed away at his los angeles home sunday following a long battle with cancer. his storied career spanned four decades getting a start as a newspaper cartoonist and working for shows like "cheers" and "the george carlin show." he won nine prime time emmy awards. he was just 59 years old. thanks so much, michaela.

the racist video shaking up the university of oklahoma's campus and raising tough questions. how widespread is racism like this? let's discuss it with an anti-racism writer and activist, the author of six books including "colorblind: the rise of post racial politicos." gentlemen, thanks so much for being here. i know that you have both seen this video of this racist chant out of oklahoma university. mark let me start with you. do you believe this is an outlier, is this a small bunch of bad apples or is something more widespread going on on campuses? >> oerngs there's absolutely something more wide on campuses. i've done studies and looked at the research of other folks like harper and those who have done research around the country and they find students talk about black students in particular talk about micro aggression on

campus. racial interactions that leave them feeling like the campus doesn't like or love or support black people. and students say they're called the "n" word or treated in emproper fashion by white students. oftentimes unless there's a videotape or white people get caught on tape we don't believe it. we dismiss it. the same way there are other eric garners or michael browns in the country there are other o.u.s and other chants around the country. >> it is such a sickening eye opener. tim, i want to talk to you about this. we had on one of the black students who is part of the head of a small black alliance at the university of oklahoma, and she talked about this very thing. she said that it's not as overt, obviously, as that racist video that we saw. however, she's often chosen last to be part of a group. she's often asked to leave a party. it's just unbelievable that these things are happening. do you agree with mark? >> oh, absolutely. there was a study a few years

ago by scholars joe fagan and leslie where they had 626 students who they recruited to keep track of for i think a 12-week period how many racial incidents they themselves heard just in their own social circle whether it was comments jokes, or racial perfectormances of some kind up to but not excluding things like black face just these 626 kids even when you excluded the incidents that were sort of margin calls where it wasn't definitely racism, you still had each of those kids saw in 12 weeks dozens of cases every week, hundreds of cases over the 12 weeks. now that's just 626 kids. extrapolate that out over the universe of american colleges and we're talk inging about thousands of times a year that white folks are making racist comments doing racist things on college campuseses because there's very little accountability. i applaud the president of the wrufrt of oklahoma for his very strong statement on this matter but i think schools will have to

get serious about enforcing their mission statements. i looked at the university's mission statement, and it says that the purpose of the university of oklahoma is to educate students for service to the state and society. you cannot be of service to this multicultural society holding these kinds of bigoted views. universities will have to get real not just clamping down on fraternities and sororities but clamping down on students whose actions violate the very purpose for which the schools exist. >> mark is there something about the culture of a fraternity, it's so exclusive that it engenders discrimination discrimination? >> there's something about the group think mentality where three or four people may not have wanted to sing the song but there's something seductive about white privilege and it allows them to do that. that's part of the culture of fraternity. i don't think it's just about that. this is less about fraternity can culture and more about whiteness. what happens when students feel comfortable singing a long like

that which is a ritual of that fraternity, when there's no one around they feel comfortable. that's what gives people anxiety. what are white people doing when they don't think black people can can hear them? that's a fear that emerges. these students go on to become judges doctors, engineers, policymakers. and we don't know what they did in their fraternities in college, but we do know that same mentality may seep into the way they operate in the world and that's what's really scary about this. >> tim, you're nodding along as if you agree with everything. i want to bring up one more thing and that's this talented high school senior was being recruited, football player being recruited to play football at oklahoma university. he is now rejecting that. he says these are uneducated people. he doesn't want to be around them. is that the answer? >> that might be a good move for him personally. just about anywhere else he goes to play college ball these kinds of things are going to

exist. we can't just react. we have to have a pro-active approach beginning in k-12 so that students like those who were caught on video are exposed to principles of equity and justice and inclusion from the time they're children so by the time they get to college they're less likely to do this. when they do it there will be more folks prepared to call them out like thankfully the person who took the videotape and made it public. >> thanks so much for the great discussion. obviously just a starting point. we want to know what you think about this. please tweet us at "new day." we'd love to read your thoughts. chris? new video from the boston marathon bombing. jurors are seeing surveillance video of the boston bombing suspect after the blast. how will it impact the outcome of the case? some 4,000 hours of police work on display. hey pal? you ready? can you pick me up at 6:30? ah...

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i wanted to paint my toe nails. i wanted to see my foot in the sand. they'll never be able to do that. the work that they did in determining what he did after. you're getting milk? you're buying milk and being callus? and then three, in the triangulation picture, the fact you look at the actions he engaged in and the callousness with his tweets and he's radicalized, you have a cold-blooded killer. >> before and after. you see him coming into shadow in a second. here he is. they're showing him in the immediate moments after. he's running away. now we get to the next one. they're all looking at the first explosion, right, oh, my god, what happened. there he is. and then we're going to see him flee again. again, they place him at the scene. they know it's him had. that's very important. and then there's what joey was referring to mel, this is the guy after this.

not only did they use the moments before but look how casual what he does afterwards buying milk and exchanging it. >> good morning. this is not only callous it is chilling. we've talked a lot about the death penalty phase and just like the defense is focused on it this tells us all that the prosecution knows what is at stake here whether or not he is sentenced to the death penalty, chris. you take into account these videos not only showing that he's running away showing how callous he is showing that he's buying milk but keep in mind he goes on to kill shawn collier, the police officer of from m.i.t. the most damning piece of evidence against the defense is his own words. not only the tweets, chris and joey, but, more importantly, that note that he scrawled in pen on the side of the boat

chris. >> let's talk about the tweets here. they are putting two accounts up for kifrp different reasons. goes by the screen name dzhokhar. they will spend their money and then will be defeated. who is they? what's the intentionality? >> the intention is to show he was radicalized and had an jent. we know this that the defense is going to say my brother made me do it. it's as a result of the brother, the influence that he had on me. i don't have a mind of my own. when you examine the twitter accounts that the are prosecution is bringing to bear it is clear that he had an agenda. he had a mind of his own. and certainly as a result of this he had a message. and that's the focus here. >> mel, here is the second one. listen to anwar al awlaki. you will gain an unbelievable amount of knowledge, again, they traced this to his account and its impact. >> yes, he's not talking about his brother and, you know listen to may brother. he is owning his point of view. what i think is really interesting, you guys because

of this evidence not only these tweets but also the video after the fact and the note unless he takes the stand and recants or comes up with some sort of direct it testimony to that jury i think this is really difficult evidence to overcome in the death penalty phase. >> all right. let's discuss that because that's the last big point. they didn't go straight to sentencing here even though the guy admits it. why, mel? >> well the reason why is because the prosecution has the burden of proof in this case. and they've decided they don't want to let him get away with this terrorist act and only be sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. they're going for the death sentence. and so they know if they put on their case if they prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, before the sentencing phase, that means this jury, chris, hears compelling testimony. they get the triangulation effect they understand that

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47 republican senators have written this unprecedented open letter to iran. >> i support a good bill that stops iran from getting a nuclear weapon. >> i think it's somewhat ironic. it's an unusual coalition. >> the racism is alive and well on the college campus. >> i have a message to those who misuse your free speech. you're a disgrace. >> that chant that exists in 2015 is sad. >> thousands of people walked towards the state capital. >> i want the conversation to be about tony robinson. >> we need to do better. >> in life-changing accident. >> they had to do an above the elbow amputation. >> our perception of risk does not match the reality. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning. welcome to your "new day." tuesday, march 10th just before 8:00 in the east. president obama is

understandably infuriated over a letter signed by 47 republican senators warning iran's leaders that any nuclear deal they make would only be a mere executive agreement. >> the president accusing the republicans of siding with america's enemies and vice president biden calling the effort by gop lawmakers, quote, beneath their dignity. we have complete coverage starting with cnn's sunlan sunlan serfatti. >> reporter: alisyn, this was an unprecedented move sent to leaders of a country that we should know is still on the state sponsors of terrorism list. this demonstrates how the republicans on capitol hill and the white house are really locked in these fierce partisan battles and that's spilling out into foreign policy. the white house calls this reckless am. and vice president biden released a scathing statement overnight reading in part quote, in 36 years in the united

states senate i cannot recall another instance in which senators wrote directly to advise another country, much less a long-time foreign adversary that the president does not have the constitutional authority to reach a meaningful understanding with them. the decision to undercut our president and circumvent our constitutional system offends me as a matter of principle. and this specifically is where the white house was so set off by this decision by republicans, that determination by the white house that it seems to undermine the president's authority. and it comes on the heels when they're especially sensitive to this after benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister's visit to washington last week. now here's how the president responded in the oval office directly to the republicans. >> i think it's somewhat ironic to see some members of congress wanting to make common cause with the hard liners in iran. it's an unusual coalition.

i think what we're going to focus on right now is actually seeing whether we can get a deal or not. >> tom cotton the freshman senator from arkansas who spearheaded this letter he was able to get 46 other republican senators to sign on to this deal most notably senate majority leader mitch mcconnell and he defended the move to move forward, he said there's nothing but hard liners in iran who have already opposed getting any sort of deal. chris, there is some real worry on capitol hill both from republicans but also from the president's own party. democrats that the president wants this deal so badly that he's willing to accept any deal even if it's a bad one. chris. >> the question becomes what will the impact of this letter be? here's an early indication. iran reacting to the gop letter on nuclear negotiations. it's not good. the country's foreign minister calls it quote, propaganda

ploy. what's the feeling on the street? let's go to cnn's fred pleihgen? >> reporter: the feeling is the government wants the deal and on the other hand you have hard liners that oppose the deal. there are some in iran that say iran is thriving under international sanctions. they call this resis tabs eetance economy. they want the deal. if you talk to the iranian government and the iranian foreign minister, he says that the letter by the gop senators is a humiliation to president obama. i want to read you a quote from a note that he sent to us here at cnn tehran. he said in our view this letter has no legal value and is mostly a propaganda ploy. the world is not the united states and the conduct of interstate relations is governed by international law and not by

u.s. domestic law. that's the point there from the iranian foreign minister. he also noted that he believes the gop senators are afraid of a nuclear deal. one of the things that the iranians took offense to in the gop letter you'll recall they said perhaps the iranians are not aware of the u.s. constitutional process. the foreign minister saying they believe that any agreement made by the obama administration would be binding for the united states. alisyn. >> so let's analyze all of this fred. thanks so much. we want to bring in dan jones, he's our cnn political commentator. good morning, dan. >> good morning. good morning. >> republicans say they needed to write this letter before the deal is done and the ink is dry, they want to have their input. in fact we had senator tom cotton he's the author of the letter on for us. let me play for you what he says the motivation was for writing this letter. listen. >> this letter is about stopping iran from getting a nuclear deal. iran's leaders need to understand under the

constitution we play a big role in getting anna agreement. >> he says he feels the congress has been circumvented. >> well, first of all, this is shocking. this is an unprecedented move. let me just lay out a few facts before we even get into this first of all, conservatives supposedly honor american's traditions. our tradition is that we let the head of state engage in foreign relations. we used to say politics stoms at the stops at the waters edge. can you imagine at the height of the cold war while reagan was trying to get a deal with the soviet union democratic senators sent a letter to our enemy and said guess what our president doesn't have the authority to do anything. can you imagine what that would have done to reagan's ability to bring that conflict to a successful close? that's what we are dealing with. dealing with something unpress

dented in american history. it's never been done before. it's incredibly dangerous because iran is the most dangerous enemy that we have right now on the world stage. >> is it fair to push that unprecedented quality of this to also the fact that this is the first time we've had a president unilaterally negotiating with a terrorist organization incompetent stead of it being an open treaty process that would involve the congress and that that's what the president should have done here is brought congress in on this? >> well i have to disagree with you on this. as we know the head of state earn gauges with all kinds of regimes, covertly overtly and otherwise. we do have agreements with governments around the world. some have been approved by treaty some have not. my hope would of course be that when you're dealing with an enemy as dangerous as iran that congress would be brought in. however, this is not the way to go about doing it. you do not -- i mean the entire

world is basically now laughing at us. now this young senator, senator cotton who i think up until now was a very promising rising star in the country. he's a veteran. he's a young guy. he knocked off a sitting senator, but for him to now kind of become almost -- becoming a playbook now for the young republican senators to do the ted cruz move now the cotton move of trying to shock the world. trying to get your name in the newspaper. nobody who knows anything about diplomacy, who knows anything about world history, that a big sense of congress going renegade is not a good strategy. it's never been done in world history. this is a shocking development to the united states at a very perilous time. >> let's bring in host of the ben ferguson show ben ferguson. see if he agrees. >> good morning. >> you heard what the president and vice president say, that these gop senators are undermining the diplomacy and

they're siding with one of america's adversaries. >> i would say that's definitely not the case here. you have a president, unfortunately, that has not actually done a very good job at understanding people that he's dealing with. look at how bad their foreign policy has been with vladimir putin in russia. look at how bad their foreign policy has been with iran over the years and also look at how bad their foreign policy has been with isis calling them j.v. the reason why congress is acting is because the president has chosen to deliberately leave congress out of this issue and on other foreign policy issues when they've allowed him to lead he has not understood his adversary or the enemy. he didn't understand isis. look where we are now in iraq and afghanistan. look at syria and the issues there when he said there was a red line with chemical weapons. so i think they had no other choice but to do this. >> they certainly had other choices. let's talk about the one that they made ben. they say it's about teaching the

constitution. they get the constitution wrong and they get it wrong in a way that really reveals the ploy here which is we don't want the president to have the power to do this we want to do this. so they're wrong about the constitution and how are they not undermining the president in a way that leaves no alternative. if iran walks away from the table right now, what's the better deal that senator cotton and others like you hope exists? what better deal? this is the deal. >> i think, look even the president has said look no deal is better than a bad deal. the point is republicans are fearful that the president will make a bad deal which is trusting iran. look at iran and what the u.n. has said to them recently when they have violated international law, which they lectured us about yesterday in a laughable letter. you have a country that consistently has not been able to be trusted and/or verify their actions and now the president thinks that somehow because, you know he is all the knowing that iran's going to

play by the rules, and i think what congress was saying was not as much about the cons city tugts was it was about this -- >> they said it was about the constitution that's all i'm saying. >> hold on. let me finish this. he's saying this look you guys might be thinking you're getting the deal of the century. let us remind you that a new president can undo this. that's the reminder here because they think this is a bad deal and this president has deliberately left congress out of this which he should never have done. >> isn't it funny how ben can say that much and not move his lips for part of that time. that was quite a trick, ben. van, last word. >> well it's interesting the one republican who's probably the most important republican who's on the senate foreign relations committee, the chair, center corker refused to have anything to do with this. in other words, the republican leader that is closest to this refused to be a part of this and said this is a very bad thing. when you say all republicans think this, that's actually in fact not true. republicans in the senate are divided over this andersen tore

corker refused to go along. that tells you all you need to know about how reckless and the dangerous this is. if the chair of the senate foreign relations committee won't sign on to a stunt about foreign policy that lets you know right there there is something desperately wrong in washington d.c. this is reckless it is dangerous, it undermines the president, it undermines our safety. it pushes us closer to war. it takes off the table our ability to possibly resolve this thing and i cannot believe that anybody that knows anything about foreign policy thinks this is anything other than a shocking stunt on the part of a young congress person. >> commentator van jones, we have to leave it there and ventriloquist ben jones -- ben ferguson. >> ben jones is a ventriloquist. i love him. >> everybody's speaking for everybody here. >> he was frozen on skype. that's what we're talking about. your points came through loud and clear. >> thanks so much. a great conversation even in real time or not. all right. let's move on to this. members of the sigma alpha

epsilon fraternity at the university of oklahoma they have until midnight to pack up and get out. it's the latest fallout of the repulsive racist chant. the school is severing ties with sae president. nick valencia joins us from norman obamacareklahoma, where it's all happening. >> reporter: good morning, michaela. students and faculty speaking out. here is the headline in today's campus newspaper. it says real sooners are not racists. a majority of students are selferself er verying ties with the sigma alpha epsilon. >> that highly offensive racist chant belted out by fraternity members is sending shivers through the university of oklahoma. prompting the obamacare football team the sooners, to march in

solidarity, the moment taking precedence over practice. >> [ bleep ]. >> reporter: but outrage over the viral video elicited a more guttural response from the team's linebacker eric striker, lashing out in this emotional rebuttal on social media. >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. the same mother [ bleep ] talking about -- >> reporter: he spoke with cnn's don lemon monday night. >> we shouldn't tolerate that here. it was such a bad reflection on the people here. >> reporter: overnight the fraternity's national president issuing another apology writing, to those that were hurt and offended by these actions, especially the african-american community and our many african-american brothers, i apologize on behalf of our now closed chapter and its members who will be expelled. they have a top high school recruit backing out of his early commitment to play for the oklahoma sooners. >> it was disturbing to me.

>> real sooners are not bigots. >> reporter: the university's president taking action severing all ties from sae saying students could be expelled. >> we have zero tolerance for racism. as i said i have a message for those that misused their free speech to use racial slurs. you're a disgrace to this university. >> and moraliesye >>. >> reporter: and more rallies are expected today. many students we've spoken to calling those that have been viewed in that video to be expelled. >> we'll talk to the president of oklahoma university to see what's going to happen next. also an unarmed biracial teenager was shot dead by a white wisconsin cop. was itself-defense or use of force. students from the state are descending on the nation's

capitol and asking for victim's families to come forward with demands of a thorough investigation. let's get to cnn's ryan young. he has the latest from madison. what's going on there on the ground? >> reporter: well chris, there's a conversation that a lot of people want to have. we were here with those students as they walked through the state capitol. they were chanting very loudly black lives matter. they were also saying tony robinson's name. they want to make sure everyone doesn't for get the 19-year-old who was killed by a police officer. now the police officer says he was responding to a call and heard a commotion inside a house. pushed his way in and then a struggle started. shots were fired and of course that teen was killed. now the family is calling for calm and peace in the community and they want to make sure that this does not become a black issue, they want the entire community to be involved in the march and they want to know exactly what happened to their loved one. >> thanks so much for that ryan. well new this morning, isis terrorists blowing up a bridge

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may have been hidden in the cave by local residents who fled during a period of unrest. 2,000 years old. what a find. >> i find like old socks and shoes, do you know what i mean? >> right. >> that's amazing. what a find. >> not as much. back to one of our top stories. the university of oklahoma's sigma alpha epsilon chapter closing down. members have to pack up and leave campus by midnight tonight. will they be expelled from the school? we will ask ou's president live. 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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members of the university of oklahoma chapter sae have until midnight to vacate their house after they were disbanded by a national fraternity. so far no action has been taken by the university after the video was revealed. investigation is ongoing and action will be swift. let's find out how swift and how severe. the man that will change that the president of the university of oklahoma. president david born. thank you very much for joining us. how does the investigation go? >> thank you. >> what do you believe the timing is and the expected punishment? >> well, it's hard to know what the investigation will turn out. we have to look at the federal civil rights act of 1964 title vi and see what we can do under the federal law, but if i'm allowed to these students will face suspension or expulsion because we cannot put up with what they've done. we took very swift action yed

with literally an hour this chapter was kicked off campus. we're moving them out. they have to get their belongings out tonight. the windows are being boarded up today. the greek letters were taken off their house yesterday and we wanted to send a strong message and we hope people in the rest of the country will take it up when they have these kinds of situation, zero tolerance for racism and bigotry. that's not who we are and i think by setting this standard and showing that we have already moved to take this fraternity off campus hopefully we'll get other people in the country to show zero tolerance too. >> zero tolerance will obviously be focused on through the lens of what happens with these kids. what irony that the '64 civil rights act may be what is protecting kids who said things that were indus put bli racist and ugly. what is your concern legally? >> legally our concern is we have to demonstrate exactly how the educational experience of our students was threatened or disrupted by their actions, and

it really has to focus also on the students on the bus. did the other students have their educational experience disrupted? so our lawyers are piling through that now just as our investigators piled through the evidence looked at the video, see if we can identify those who are the ring leaders. i think that's who we have to concentrate on in this chant and leading the chant, but we're not going to tolerate it. we're not going to put up with it. we just simply can't. if i have to take a risk to send those students home permanently or for a semester the rest of the year whatever it is we're going to do it. >> so the question is is this event casting a shadow on the experience at the university overall? some numbers for you to explain. you have some 27,000 students there. 5% black. low. your board of regents doesn't have any black members of it. you know that in january you got the letters from the african-american students organization with their list of seven grievances. they keep saying on your campus

we are not surprised that this happened we're just surprised that it got caught on camera. how do you respond to that? >> well first of all, you have to commend the students because it was caught on camera and it was released because of students who were really offended by it. and i would say we have made incredible progress on this campus over the years. i have not used that -- i have not used that racial epithet used on our campus in 15 years. i heard it 20 years ago when i first got here so we've made incredible progress. we have had a diverse board of regents over a period of time and the students and i, the students who wrote the letter were very constructive in their suggestions and we've been working together on that as i'm sure they've told you for -- ever since they wrote their letter. we've had very good meetings. i've been at the dean's council. we're going to get more people. we've already had more people of color on all of our major committees homecoming and so

oranges camp crimson orientation program, whatsoever. they're not blatant, they're subtle forms of what i would call discrimination. the important thing is we want to make every single student here feel they belong and we've come a long way on that. we're going to go a long way further. i think by demonstrating our students demonstrating they're not going to put up with it. that's -- you saw those students who were marching yesterday -- >> right. >> -- who were walking yesterday, student athletes. those are our students. that's who we really are. and that's where the administration is too. solidly behind them and we're going to keep on making efforts. >> as you know i don't have to tell you as governor of the state and a long serving u.s. senator from the state, you know that actions are going to speak louder than the promises at the university. it is very important to note that the experience the atmosphere down there right now isn't like ferguson missouri. the kids who came on this show and talked they say they love this school. they say they believe in this school -- >> yes. >> -- and they want the

experience to be better for them. i think that creates more pressure than open hostility. i know there will be legal hurdles. if you have kids that are allowed to drop the "n" bomb and sing it in a celebratory manner on your campus and they don't get expelled that will be a tough situation to overcome don't you think? >> i think we have to keep faith with the students. i'm really proud of the students. i think it demonstrates the real nature of the university of oklahoma. we don't have situations as you said like ferguson. we do have young people who care and they're not going to put up with this kind of thing and neither am i. we're going to do whatever we can do under federal law, whatever we're allowed to do. we're going to take action. we've done it in the past. we have sent students packing, sent them home because they've engaged in activities. this has been almost 20 years ago. so i thought we've set this straight. we kicked them off campus immediately. we're going to continue to do that. i do think actions speak louder than words and our actions, i

hope have sent a message to the nation. all across this country we sit silent don't we in social conversations and everywhere elsewhere people make jokes and comments. we've got to stop that. we've got to say zero tolerance and that's exactly what we're doing here. that i hope is the message that comes out. >> president boren, thank you very much. we'll be following the situation very closely. appreciate you coming on "new day." we look forward to having you again when you announce what the actions are. >> thanks very much. thank you. >> mich. >> good call to action for all of us chris. thanks so much for that. have you seen this ad proposing a ban on certain bullets? gun rights advocates say it's a sly attempt at gun control. we'll have our experts weigh in ahead. when we breathe in allergens our bodies react by over-producing six key inflammatory substances that cause our symptoms. the leading allergy pill only controls one, flonase controls six. and six is greater than one. flonase the 24 hour relief that outperforms the

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vacate the campus by midnight tonight for a racist chant that was caught on video. thousands of students in wisconsin taking the state's capital by storm demanding alisyn. >> in this week's impact your world, this long winter has been particularly tough for those most at risk on the streets. cnn's miguel marquez spent one

bitterly cold night with outreach teams in a race against time to get those outside in to safety. >> it's a windy, cold night. a accuweather, minus 20. >> i've spent cold nights out here but tonight is the top one. >> hello. homeless outreach. these are the kind of locations that we find people in. >> this is freezing out here. this is a code blue. what is a code blue? >> code blue is the city calls a code blue to let the outreach teams know that the weather has dropped to the point where it's very dangerous. if you get someone who's drinking alcohol, if you get someone who's not properly dressed someone could suffer hypothermia and just pass away. >> when people see homeless people on the street they just sort of throw up their hands and think it's hopeless but you don't see that do you? >> no. no. the thing is every person has a story. >> this is a home. you can barely see it there, but that's a home. >> there's a gentleman that we've known for quite some time and i've worked with him

personally probably a good maybe five years or so. >> since 1964. i never ask for a thing. >> this is colder than any of those years? >> all my life. >> these are folks that over time we've gotten to know them we know their story. you're moving into a room tonight? >> yes. >> you have the keys? >> yes. >> tonight he'll get to sleep in a warm bed. >> victory in little tiny degrees. >> that one we'll hold on to for a while. that kind of carries us too. you know? >> every person counts. every person counts. great piece by miguel marquez. thank you for that. here's a provocative question for you. the second amendment clearly protects your right to use armor piercing bullets, doesn't it? that's the question at the heart of a gun control controversy. this is not the same old argument and you'll see why when we test both sides ahead.

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armor piercing bullets. i'll give you three questions -- three guesses what they do and the first two don't count. they pierce armor. they want to ban them staying they're deadly to cops. they say it's a back door attempt at gun control. joining us to discuss dave workmen with the second amendment foundation and lad everett to stop gun violence. the two of you look like ruth bader ginsburg and sam alito. dave workmen, what do you think about this in terms of a second amendment precedent? >> well it's not really clear why this came out of left field all of a sudden back on the 13th of february. nobody understands what this proposal is all about. there's been no rash of shootings involving this ammunition. certainly out of any handguns chambered for it. so it's -- i think it's understandable that the shooting

community is wondering what's going on here. >> shooting community's wondering what goes on here. you're okay with having armor piercing bullets? >> well, these really aren't classified as armor piercing bullets. in fact they've been exempted for quite some time and the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms and explosives suddenly came up with the notion that they need to change that do a reversal of existing policy and declare these armor piercing bullets. >> so is this a red herring in terms of lad, when you talk about the m 855 green tip, is that an armor piercing bullet or is it just being given a bad name? >> no i mean, absolutely it's an armor piercing cartridge. it's the cartridge used by nato soldiers and it was designed for battlefield use. this is a good call from the at t atf. it's not something new. the authority for them to do this dates back to 1986 to enact called the law enforcement officers protection act.

that was signed by none other than president ronald regan. it got 400 votes in the house and 97 in the senate and was totally noncontroversial. this is about protecting our men and women in blue and making sure they're safe and what's changed that made atf take this step is that the gun industry is now marketing ar-style pistols that can take this cartridge so the particular concern for law enforcement here is now the power of this round combined with concealbility. >> you ignored that fact when you said there have been none of these rounds that fit for handguns. lad said yeah but they're fitting them now for this type of cartridge and that's the concern going forward. why not protect the cops? how does it disadvantage hunters and shooters? >> well there's been no history of any of these rounds being used in a handgun to harm a police officer. in fact a couple of the major national police organizations are also wondering what this is all about. fraternal order of police the

national association of police -- >> why would police want armored tip bullets out there? why would they say, this is weird, let them have them? why would that work for them? >> well again, this is not a situation where these have been classified as armor piercing bullets. the atf is asking for public comment on whether to reclassify these as armor piercing rounds. >> right. >> it's a rifle cartridge. >> right. if you shot it at me and i had a bullet proof vest if you shot it at me would it go through it? >> well it's a rifle cartridge so yeah. the rifle cartridges typically can pass through soft body armor. that's why the soft body armor it was designed to stop handgun bullets. >> is the question to you then lad, are you doing an end run here? you're reclassifying these bullets because what you're trying to do is curtail the ability to have munitions? you're going to say this bullet is something that it isn't so then you're going to take that away from me and then you're going to say, by the way, the

gun that it goes in you might as well not have that either and slip, slip we a away down the slippery slope of taking away my gun rights. >> no this is very specific in the authority it gives the atf. it solely applies to armor piercing ammunition. that law has been in effect for 30 years now and this is the first debate we've ever had about banning the specific round. the atf has used this authority very wisely very prudently. they've been utterly restrained in the way they've dealt with it. this is a very limited step that will only effect -- and really it's an incredibly minor inconvenience for a small minority of gun owners out there. >> and just so you understand i'm not posing these questions to you as someone who's just straight anti-gun. i get it that there seems to be this duality going on out there, either you love guns or you hate guns. i'm a gun owner, but i'm saying at what point do you draw the line about what you need to shoot or hunt?

if these bullets are armor piercing, you're saying all rifle cartridges can do that. reading about m 855, it's not an ordinary rifle cartridge, it is fairly specifically designed. at what point do you draw the line about how this isn't necessary for what we use weapons for if we're using them in the right way? >> well this ammunition has typically been used for target shooting for predator control, shooting prairie dogs. it's not the kind of ammunition that you typically find in a gun fight. the -- there has been no record of any of these rounds being used that i can find in a handgun to harm a police officer. i think this as you mentioned, it is kind of a red herring, and -- >> but is that a red herring also? you keep saying they haven't been used in a handgun. that's because they don't work in handguns yet. that's what lad is saying. they're fitting handguns to take these cartridges and shoot these bullets. that's a little bit of a red

herring too, isn't it? >> well no. there have been handguns chambered for this round for several years. i think the development of these started back in the early 1990s. somebody just got the idea to design a handgun around the ar-15 action. but i think the precedent setting is what concerns a lot of people. if you can ban a particular cartridge, then you can ban another cartridge on the same argument that this gee whiz it'll fit in a handgun someplace so we should ban it because it pierces soft body armor. >> dave workmen, lad everett, thank you very much. we'll see this debate play out. thank you for setting the table for our audience. appreciate t. michaela. all right. his life was changed forever after he lost his arm in a freak accident. cnn contributor miles o'brien opens up to his friend our dr. sanjay gupta, about that harrow harrowing experience. room is ready, ya know what he becomes? great proposal! let'stalk more over golf. great.

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contributor. after he suffered a life-changing accident hard to believe a little more than a year ago. he was on assignment in the philippines when a case of equipment fell and hit his arm. left a nasty bruise but he ignored it. that seemingly minor accident resulted in him losing his arm and, in fact, almost cost him his life. dr. sanjay gupta is here to talk about it. it's important to point out, he's your friend. this is a pal of yours. someone we know very well. >> we journalists don't do that very often. this is someone i know well. he's a science guy at cnn for a long time. he was the rocket scientist, i was the brain surgeon. we had a lot of fun with that. >> sure. >> we're just interested in the same things. i think like many people maybe me even more so when i heard the news i literally -- it was like someone punched me in the gutt. it took the wind out of me. >> i imagine. >> the opportunity to be able to tell his story, what happened but also the recovery was -- he obviously took this very very seriously. >> his recovery has been remarkable. we'll talk about that in a

second. i think we have to back up to what i highlighted about what happened to him. i'm a klutz. i knock into myself all the time. what happened was this case fell on his arm. >> a heavy case. a pelican case. seemingly harmless injury. it started to get worse. keep in mind he was in the philippines when this happened. he wasn't in the states. he wasn't on home turf. he didn't know where the hospital was, who to call. it's not getting better this is getting worse. my hands are starting to tingle. >> is the bruise spreading? >> it was getting worse, turning different colors. i can tell you briefly what was happening is that the pressure inside his arm, it's called acute compartment syndrome that pressure was building up and basically cutting off the blood supply to his muscle and his

muscle. >> and that's why he lost the arm. >> when he went in they thought, okay what they're going to do is open up the area around the muscles, give it more room so you take the pressure off. it was too late by that point and they had to do an above-the-elbow a.m. bu tagsmputation for miles. >> he was back at it of mh 370, he was so front and center during all of that. it probably helped him to get back to would. as a doctor do you suggest somebody throws themselves into work so quickly? >> you know mich i've learned something here. i think we like to have neat tidy packages in terms of what we expect people to do in terms of recovery. you deny things, you're angry, then you bargain, then you accept. >> the stages agree. >> the stages agree. what i've learned from miles is it's messy. it's sticky. you go back and forth. nothing fits into real patterns necessarily. everyone's going to be different. and also this idea of coming out of the gate going a million

miles an hour. that's miles. let me fly a plane again. let me ride my bike 300 miles across the state. let me go shoot in alaska with one arm. all these things. he did all those things. but i will tell you, this is the learning for me as well. is that i don't know that that's always or maybe even sometimes the right thing to do. i don't know that you in some ways -- you just delaying i think, the inevitable. when you have the psychological reckoning it can be harder because you've been going so hard charging for so long. >> so much psychologically and emotionally when you suffer a trauma like that. there's also some physical things that happen. you learned about this phantom limb syndrome. that's for real. >> it is for real. people talk about this all the time. the pain that comes with it sometimes but also just the sense that your arm is still there. >> why does that happen though? >> your brain -- think about your brain rewiring itself. what happened here? it lost part of the body.

let's figure out how to maintain some of the brain signal. >> i asked miles to describe it. >> as it is waking up and you get the sensation back it's partially numb and kind of tingly that's the feeling i have almost all the time there then i'll get electrical jolts or switches in my missing fingers. it's a bizarre experience to have sensation and pain in a place that doesn't exist. except if your mind. >> incredible except if your mind. very powerful place. >> you have to look down because it would feel like his arm was absolutely there. it would feel like it was clinched up. it was remarkable to hear him describe this. >> i appreciate this. this will touch many many people the fact that you sat down with your friend and colleague to tell this story. we'll hear it from miles

himself. be sure to tune in tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. sanjay thank you so much. >> thank you, mich. >> horrible situation but anna mazing come back to be sure. so what can end the terrible trends of cyber bullying and body shaming that we're seeing more and more? maybe the power of the good stuff. check it out.

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that's what it was really about. >> pay it forward. >> what a great story! well there is some breaking news to tell you about. it involves hillary clinton. let's get right to "newsroom" with carol costello. >> hi carol. >> get to the breaking story in a minute. "newsroom" starts now. happening now in the "newsroom," a blistering response to senate republicans' letter to iran. both the obama administration and the iranian government hammering back. is the gop's plan about to back fire. also more fallout at the university of oklahoma. a fraternity under fire over this racist chant. >> [ bleep ]. >> i'll talk with the national chapter. plus -- >> whoa -- >> a third major train crash in recent weeks. is it safe to ride the rales. let's talk live in the "cnn newsroom." this is cnn breaking news. and good m