ahead by five seats. according to unofficial numbers, these are numbers from the ballot boxes, as opposed to polling or surveys, netanyahu's likud party won 29 seats, and his rival won 24 seats, a larger margin of victory than anyone expected. netanyahu declared victory last night. it looks like today he can celebrate the victory. isaac herzog calling him to congratulate him this is six years now that benjamin netanyahu has had the premiership. it looks like he'll have another few years here. because of such a wide margin of victory, it looks like he has a lot of options in the coalition government. a lot of parties in the right and center to work with. he's a master politician a master deal-maker and he'll put the tools to work to create the coalition government he wants. today he'll be celebrating the margin of victory and the call from herzog congratulating him. meanwhile as relations between the u.s. and israel are

near rock-bottom in recent months it's no secret the israeli prime minister and president obama don't care much for each other. what can we expect during the next two years, if netanyahu remains in power? let's turn to cnn white house correspondent michelle kosinski with that part of the story. >> given that netanyahu vowed to stand up to washington well his rival was saying that his goal was to repair relations with the u.s. you can pretty much see where things stand. i mean that's part of the rhetoric of campaigning. but it shows you that it mattered. you look at netanyahu's campaign. coming here to the u.s. giving the fivy speech before congress. criticizing the administration's negotiations with iran over its nuclear program. saying if he were in power, there would never be a palestinian state. which is one of the key u.s. goals for peace in the region. and also the differences of opinion between the u.s. and netanyahu over israeli settlements. it is clear that washington would have welcomed with open

arms someone else in that position. but what this administration has been saying publicly is that they were willing to work with anyone whoever would win, the u.s. would work closely with. and that close relationship the shared values between the u.s. and israel will remain strong. alisyn? >> thanks for all of that let's talk about it more we want to bring in cnn political analyst and editor in chief for the "daily beast," john avlon and republican analyst and cnn consultant and sirius xm host margaret hoover. john what does it mean for the already-strained relations between the white house and netanyahu? >> it's unlikely they're going to get better. but the relationship between u.s. and israel is much deeper than the personality of a president and a prime minister. that said with the implications if there is a deal with iran it gets more difficult it gets more difficult on some fundamental level. >> think it's a major pain in the neck for this white house.

the white house was expecting the election if not to go the other way, to be a lot closer. it feels like the shell accing he's got to deal with it now, it's not just iran it's what happens to the whole idea of peace negotiations in the middle east with a two-state solution which affects the relationship with europe. it's a big deal. >> i think president obama wants a deal with iran and he wants to be able to use it as a political victory lap. and if he gets a deal with iran there's no way bibinetanyahu is going to be okay with it. there's no way the american congress is going to be okay with it. so it does make things more difficult for president obama's legacy pieces. >> does the government in israel change do they cobble together a different coalition now? >> that could take some time to cobble it together. but it does look like bibinetanyahu is in the pole position on that. i think some of the tactics in the last couple of days will also make coalition building

both at home and abroad more difficult. coming out against the two-state solution saying that arab/israelis are voting as a turn-out. those are tactics that go beyond pragmatic and that will increase the difficulty. >> can we talk about elections here? we have a presidential election 18 months from now, but we have an awesome new poll that takes a look at the republicans in the race and the crowded field of republicans here. this is the favorability numbers we have to look at right now. this is how the republicans are doing with voters. you can see mike huckabee most favorable. >> jeff bush,jeb bush he's in the lead among the horse race numbers bay little bit. but the field is all bunched together. >> 15%, 14%, 13%, jeb bush walker 16 13 12. it shows a crowded field, it's a

tight horse race this is going to be a real election. it's going to be a real competition. it's going to be a real race for voters' hearts and minds. >> what do you think about mike huckabee being at the top? >> he spent a lot of time in iowa. that's his constituency. mike huckabee he wins iowa he beat mitt romney in iowa in 2008. >> that's high name i.d. time on fox news that's time just resonating with evangelicals. one of the ways you can tell this is a little bit tricky is that huckabee is the only one above 50% fame among republicans. so the silly season sauce is still kicking in here. >> how they're doing against hillary clinton. i understand who might run for president. >> i've heard rumors to that effect. rand paul among all the republican candidates gets the closest to hillary clinton in a match-up. >> i think that's significant. it's only by a hair. but it does make a more credible general election argument for a candidate who had been considered top tier.

right now still kind of rounding out the top three. that's a number to look at if you're a republican if you're paying attention to where the puck is going. >> let's look at the democrats' favorability ratings, we have a poll that shows that hillary clinton is way out front, that won't be a surprise for anybody. clinton is 62%. there's joe biden, 15%, then elizabeth warren and everybody else. >> that's almost 200 times the lead over that jeb bush has over the rest of the field. this is an unprecedented situation, folks. the two people who are actually running against hillary clinton right now, you know -- >> o'malley and -- >> getting staff and starting to funds -- >> 1% 1%. against 62. you're saying there's a chance? but that is stark, man. >> margaret i want to shift gears to the last administration which you're quite familiar with. vice president dick cheney did an interview with "playboy" magazine. he talked a lot about the current administration which the vice president likes to do. he talked about ferguson. i want to show you what he said

about ferguson. we put that on the screen right here. he essentially said well there wasn't about ferguson he talks about the issue of race and the president and eric holder. he says that the president and eric holder played the race card. he was suggesting when people criticize the administration the president and the attorney general say it's because of race. and then he went on to talk about ferguson also. he said that the focus on ferguson is misplaced. he thinks that the administration has turned it all over to the burden of race and racial inequality and hasn't talked about the crime itself what do you make of the vice president's comments? >> first of all, i worked in the bush administration i worked for dick cheney and george w. bush and i was proud to work for them. what i will say is that many white republican men like dick cheney and rudy giuliani really have a paradigm about race in america that is from the 1990s or late 1980s. and they don't understand that the rising generation of americans is 40% nonwhite the largest subgroup in that is duly hispanic not african-american. they have a very old prism

through which they see -- >> what does that mean? >> they're entirely out of touch. they come from a time where you actually had the rainbow coalition and jesse jackson and al sharpton -- actually in some cases undermining race relations. you can mention tawna brawley. it hurts the republican party in the sense that it doesn't demonstrate the sensitivity of racial issues and it frankly further alienates not just african-american voters or hispanic voters but also white suburban voters who we need to vote for us. we need to demonstrate we have a sophisticated understanding of race relations. >> which isn't happening here. when white guys in their 70s are more exquisitely sensitive to politicians allegedly playing the race card than they are to race relations and racial history, that's a real problem and that came out. this is a fascinating interview, i was surprised at the

centerfold didn't expect that from cheney. >> it's too early. >> never too early for a good dick cheney centerfield joke. but really that is tone-deaf stuff and he clearly believe it is. >> john margaret great to see you. michaela? >> i'm still trying to remember what time it is this morning. 6:09 is the time. the first american military veteran accused of trying to join isis. authorities say the new jersey man recently fired from his job as an airline mechanic is in custody and due in federal court in brooklyn this morning. cnn's miguel marquez is covering it for us. this is a very interesting twist. >>ty >>tyrod webster nathan pew is his name. authorities says weigh trying to undermine the oath he took to the united states. he was trying to cross into syria from turkey. he was picked up he was an air force mechanic in the 1990s and

recently a mechanic for airlines in the middle east. he was fired from his job recently. a search of computers found isis videos they found searches for border crossings into syria. and found thumb drives that had been wiped down and an ipod that had been completely wiped as well. they found a, this statement on one of his computers, saying i am mujahedin, i am a sword against the oppressor and a shield of the oppressed, i will use my talents and skills given to me by allah. he will be arraigned in federal court. he's expected to plead not guilty. breaking overnight, a letter intended for the white house has tested positive for cyanide in an off-site mail facility. the envelope now at another facility for further testing. officials say there were no injuries or exposure concerns. the envelope apparently bears a return address of a man known to the secret service dating back to 1985. a dramatic fall for

congressman aaron schock who is stepping down as allegations of lavish spending come to light. showing he may have benefitted from donor projects and may have received questionable mileage reimbursements. his "downton abbey" inspired redesign of his office. last year the church cleared the way for ministers to preside at gay weddings with approval from their congregation in states where the unions are legal. the church's new marriage definition will take effect in june. this is a sea change. >> it is it sure is. >> major. >> it's a major piece of news there. all right. we have been telling you about the former airman who was an air force mechanic from new jersey who was busted trying to travel to syria through turkey becoming the first u.s. military veteran charged with trying to join isis. is this the beginning of a new

trend? we'll take a closer look at what's going on. yet another college fraternity suspended. this time penn state, a secret facebook page that triggered a criminal investigation, we'll tell you more, ahead.

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he is the first american military veteran charged with trying to join isis. a former u.s. air force airplane mechanic accused of trying to enter syria through turkey charged with trying to give material support to the terror group. joining us is co-author of "isis: inside the army of terror" michael weiss joins us this morning. >> good morning. >> how significant is this to you. what does it say about this american military veteran trying to join isis? that's significant, isn't it? >> i mean it is and it isn't. in a sense that look how many thousands of people are former military veterans? i mean this guy was a mechanic he wasn't an air force pilot. i don't know that he was recently deployed anywhere. we don't know the back story or psychological motivation.

it seems that he was definitely radicalized. he had told his wife his new wife that he wanted to go off to palestine to do jihad. obviously the authorities have confiscated or retrieved various sort of radical islamic imagery on his mobile devices and so on. everyone wants the perfect, you know explainer for why people go off to join isis. it's different reasons for different people. this guy could have had a psychological breakdown in his life and just decided, you know committing holy war is the way do go. you know i've seen cases of people who are just lured to the ultraviolent totalitarian spectacle of isis thinking they should cast their lot with this movement which is now changing history. it's recency to read too much into one isolated case like this. >> you can see, michael, because we're so desperately trying to understand this foe, we want to

understand what it is that's drawing our, you know western people our western citizens teenagers, veterans to this cause that is not our own. >> well right. and look there's something in human nature i don't quite pretend to know what it is. what drove people to national socialism, what drove them to stalinism. to maoism. you know there is some kind of tropism to this sort of totalitarian ultraviolent ideology. which professes to have a perfect explanation for the way the world works, offer as very pat and coherent solution to the world's problems. you talk to these isis guys who join isis most of them come from the middle east or the islamic world already, they're not necessarily pius muslims, they don't have a particular devotion to their faith.

isis gets their tenterhooks in you, they brainwash along the lines of a cult. any cult known to man. so this guy might have been communicating with them on skype or some various you know platform like that. or he might not. he might have just looked at their videos and thought, this is the real movement that i want to be part of. and that's the danger we don't know what drives every single human being to want to go off and do this. >> once in reprogrammed and ready to be a fighter, let's say he had succeeded in getting there, and being amongst the fighting force, how would they have used him, considering he was a military veteran and he had this sort of avionics expertise, how would they have used him within the organization? >> let's say they decided we would really love to do a spectacular, blow-up of a commercial airliner. i think it would have been very difficult. if this guy crossed from turkey into a syria, hypothetically.

he would have been on a watch list if he tried to get out of syria, to board a plane or do something on a plane, that would have been stretching it. they probably would have used him for propaganda value. here comes a guy from the great crusader army. the scales have fallen from his eyes he has seen the true path of islam. he has joined the caliphate. >> like jihadi john? >> obviously this guy speaks fluent english, he comes from new jersey. right in the heart, the eastern seaboard of the united states and i think they probably would have ginned that up as much as they could. >> do you think this is going to be a new trend? i think of jihadi john. i think of the situation in brooklyn. we've seen in france, military french military personnel leaving to go join the fight. we see this happening in the united states. is this a new thing? or is it an exception? >> not particularly. i mean we had the fort hood

massacre a few years ago, which was a very lethal and successful terror attack in my view. the recent case of the kazakh and uzbek guys in brooklyn who were arrested because they were looking to go off and join isis. in one of the transcripts, one of those guys had said maybe what i should do is join the u.s. military and shoot up a bunch of soldiers. in that case you have i mean with fort hood i don't know that he was necessarily a jihadi before he joined the military. in this case you have people who are actively seeking to infiltrate the u.s. defense establishment in order to perpetrate attacks like this. in this particular case of a u.s. airman or a mechanic in the air force, it seems as though it occurred to him after the fact. although we don't know again i mean could he have been harboring these views? i've heard and i've read that he exhibited sympathy to osama bin laden -- >> back as far as 2001. >> right. and the fbi knew about this and he still was able to be a mechanic. >> that raises massive red flags, michael, 14 years later.

>> that is one thing -- if he was known about, i mean look let's be honest american authorities, they're overtaxed, the resources are limited. to monitor every single person that comes across their radar. if every nut in america had some kind of watchlist was supposed to be kept tabs on 24/7 it would be impossible. but in this particular case given the sensitivity of his job, i think yeah there was probably some failure and who knows, somebody might lose their job for this. >> michael weiss, really appreciate getting some context from you in your insight. keep on doing the great work you're doing and we'll talk to you again soon okay? >> thanks a lot. okay. another college fraternity under fire. a lewd secret facebook page triggering a criminal investigation at penn state. what was on that page? it has police so concerned? we'll explain. when laquinta.com sends craig wilson a ready for you alert the second his room is ready, ya know what he becomes? great proposal! let'stalk more over golf. great.

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. fraternities on campuses across the country under greater scrutiny this morning. the latest a penn state fraternity suspended after revelations that members created

a private facebook page with naked photos of young women. this of course comes on the heels of the scandal at the university of oklahoma where the fraternity's racist chant. so begging the question -- are american fraternities out of control? this morning, three more fraternities in hot water. the latest shocking incidents involving allegations of nude photos of intoxicated women, antisemitism and hazing. the kappa delta rho fraternity at penn state, suspended after allegedly posting graphic photographs on a secret facebook page of nude women, including some who appear to be asleep or unconscious. police say the private page included photos of women and screen shots of cell phone text exchange including one from a woman who allegedly had no recollection of a sexual encounter or whether protection was used. the one-year suspension of the frat house comes as police and officials investigate the use of the online page with 150 active

members including current students and alums. the executive director of the fraternity says they're investigating and they will be cooperating with law enforcement and the school probe. at vanderbilt university in tennessee, anti-semitism at the historically jewish fraternity. three swastikas spray-painted inside the house vanderbilt's vice chancellor condemned the vandalism as police investigate the incident as a hate crime. and the university of houston punishing the sigma ki fraternity because of allegations of hazing immediately suspending the house, including five students pending investigation. under texas law, hazing is a criminal offense punishable by jail time. the suspension in houston comes a week after the infamous nine-second video surfaced showing members of a university of oklahoma fraternity sigma alpha epsilon singing a racist

chant. that fraternity was suspended and two members expelled. it sparked debate about greek culture on campuses across the country. >> what is going on? there needs to be a national conversation about this. >> i think the question is -- has this always been going on or are we more just acutely aware of it right now? or is there a resurgence or a rise in this bad behavior. >> do not think that maybe social media is exposing certain factions within it? >> i'm not condoning the fact that it's always been going on. i think we're just becoming more aware of this behavior. >> were you a fraternity guy? >> i was not. >> but they also do good things not all greek life is unfortunately represented by these isolated incidents. but it is -- >> some really benefitted from life inside the greek system. upsetting, for sure. >> you can find us all on twitter. a look at your top stories -- breaking overnight, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declaring victory in

the parliament election. insisting he will act quickly to form a new coalition government. early results show netanyahu with a lead over his chief rival who has already conceded to the prime minister. even though the official results are not expected to be released until next week. a former airman with u.s. air force due in official court in brooklyn this morning, on charges he tried to link up with isis. authorities say tairod nathan webster pugh tried to enter syria via turkey in january. he was caught by turkish officials and returned to the u.s. authorities allege a letter on his laptop says that pugh was waging jihad. dramatic pictures violent protests in germany, as the new headquarters of the european central bank opens in frankfurt. thousands of anti-austerity protesters clashed with police and firefighters. the police there saying that station, an historic opera house came under attack and at least seven police cars set on fire. some 350 people were arrested in connection with the violence. about 80 police officers have been hurt.

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on social media. they were interviewed by an italian magazine a week ago. the topic was families. gabbana was asked, do you want to have children? and he said yes this is something i've always wanted to do. and the question was put to doe minicodolce and he said no i'm a gay man, but he did not mean to offend. >> i support all the world. every people. >> maybe choose the wrong word. >> maybe -- >> fashion icons dolce and gabbana after igniting a firestorm. the designers behind the luxury brand told an italian magazine that babies born from invitro fertilization are synthetic, coming from wombs for rent. stefano gabbana and dolce say they're personal beliefs based on their upbringing.

>> i think in a different way from dominico. but not by this. the tolerance. i think there is -- >> in a different way, in what way? >> i believe in in vitro. for example. i don't have anything about this. >> you support ivf? >> yeah. but -- >> dominico you don't support ivf? >> i think today we don't need the support. you think what you think. i think today -- >> it's not supporting it's just your belief. >> singer elton john did not agree. posting on his instagram, how dare you refer do my beautiful children as synthetic. john vowing never to wear their brand again and calling for a boycott. the fashion duo firing back defending the freedom to speak. dolce and gabbana took aim at same-sex parents, saying quote, you are born to a mother and a father. or at least that's how it should be. this morning, they have a different tune.

>> i love elton john. i sink every day. >> we love gay couples, we love gay adupgs. we love everything it's just an dominico is express -- >> my point of view. it's my private point of view. i am i talk with you. i'm sicilian. i grew up in the family. my company is a family company. and i believe in the tradition of family. >> the duo are prominent in the gay community, romantically involved until 2005. >> what would you say to elton john and other celebrities who -- >> i want to say that life is long. life is happy. you don't need to be angry for nothing. >> so alisyn the boys are basically calling for peace with sir elton john. they hope that this coming out i guess on cnn, that this will somehow settle the conversation. >> so ana, we know as you said that elton john has called for the boycott. is there evidence that what

they've said is hurting their brand? >> look alisyn are they concerned that this backlash will hurt their brand? they said no. that they are not concerned. that their clothes speak for themselves. speak love speak truth. speak tolerance. obviously a bit of fashion jargon going on there. but you know they reiterated throughout the interview that they are tolerant of other people's beliefs and that basically dominico dolce was expressing his personal beliefs but does not support those who do use ivf. >> elton john feels judged. >> absolutely. >> even though that wasn't his intention. >> just my opinion that they're synthetic kids. don't listen to my opinion. >> synthetic kids. >> sometimes technology gets out ahead of people's comfort zone. and he says he's an old-fashioned sicilian guy, you know that's his perspective. >> yes, very interesting perspective, especially when you think about the fashion industry and the amount of the gay

community supports the fashion industry. >> he's a gay old-fashioned sicilian guy to boot. doubly interesting. >> i feel that people at home are going to have some ideas about this. sound off, tweet us. go to our facebook page we'd love to hear your comments. real estate heir robert durst accused of murdering his best friend. we'll speak with a journalist who followed the case closely for years, does this journalist think that durst is a killer? financial noise financial noise financial noise financial noise

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you know bobby durst isn't your typical alleged serial killer. he's a fascinating guy. he came from so much privilege and wealth. and ends up cross-dressing in galveston and the three characters the victims, are all, are fascinating, too. >> absolutely. let's talk about susan berman. you've written extensively about her. susan berman is described as having been bob durst's best friend. from what we know about bob durst, from having seen the hbo series he seems like a tough guy to be friends with he's peculiar, he's cold. he's standoffish. he's violent. what did she like about him? >> both of them had, she had, he has a lot of eccentricities. seuss-a lot of phobias, she didn't like to go above the third floor, she wouldn't cross certain bridges. bobby, and they also had another thing in common and i think this was really the bond -- they both

had larger-than-life fathers. susan's was mobster. bobby's of course is an enormous real estate mogul. difficult men, both. and mentally ill mothers. both of their mothers committed suicide. >> wow. that is an incredible nexus. so these two had this connection. and they bonded. and they were really close friends. >> brother and sister. >> then in 2000 it came out that she was going to have to speak to the police about information that she had about the disappearance of his first wife kathy. what did susan berman know about that? >> well at the time kathy went missing, and this is 1982 susan served as bobby's spokesperson. and basically put bobby's version of events out there. which was at the time i put her on a train, i talked to her later that night, and then i never heard from her again. now he has now admitted that he never spoke to her that night.

later. but susan put everything out there. now how much more she knew? >> part of the story was also that his wife had called work the next day. to say that she was sick. though it appears that she was already dead. she had already disappeared by then and possibly was dead. is it possible that susan berman made that call? >> it's possible that susan made the call. i'm not sold that she made the call. because susan was really smart and would be smart enough to know that a woman in medical school is not going to call up the dean and say i have a tummy ache. it just doesn't -- >> but somehow she knew something and that is the theory is that's why he allegedly killed her? >> yes. the theory is that he was you know worried that she would say something to the police. that would incriminate him. >> you have a theory or maybe it's just wishful thinking. that it is time for robert durst to do the right thing. what would that look like?

>> you know i think it's possible. when he looked at the photograph in the docu-series of susan with him, you do that there's still a heart in there somewhere. but what he would, what i think he needs to do is tell what happened that night with susan. and tell the mccormicks where kathy's body is. >> you think it's possible that he would confess in that way? >> i do. >> why? >> because there has to be a part of him that feels enormous guilt. he would not have done this whole docu-series. there has to be a part of him that feels remorse. >> what if it's just ego? even he said they asked him what his motivation was for doing this documentary, he said i want to get my side of the story out there. everybody has talked without me. >> he knows his side is not a great side. and he still did it. i'm not saying he will do this. i'm saying he has a chance to do it and i think if you factor in

the fact that he seems to be very ill, you know we might not get to a trial. >> you think he's ill because he seems very frail. he has all of these tics. he definitely seems frail. >> we always have tics he always talked to himself. he always bumped in public even when he was a young, dashing handsome guy hanging out at elaine's. so that's not new. at all. but yeah he -- he does look very ill and his lawyer said he had some kind of neurological surgery. >> so you think that he is not just a cold calculating psychopath. you think there may be some heart in there. and now at 71 years old, this is his chance to do the right thing? >> yeah. i hope. >> that would be fascinating. that would be a fascinating -- >> i don't think dick deguerrin is going to go for that though. >> that's his lawyer. >> yes. >> lisa depaulo thank you very

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stunning early retirement of up-and-coming lineback certificate making waves this morning. 24-year-old chris borland decided to walk away from the game foregoing potentially millions saying the fear of concussions is not worth the fame and fortune that come along with playing professional football. this is what he told espn's "outside the lines." >> i've had close friends who say well why don't you play one more year it's a lot more money, you probably won't get hurt. i just don't want to get in a situation where i'm negotiating my health for money. >> negotiating my health for money. joining me now is george martin. former president of the nfl players association, pretty good football player for the new york

giants and lamar campbell a former detroit lion. gentlemen, thanks so much for being with us. this one is different. you have a 24-year-old kid whose game was only getting better. a 24-year-old kid who hadn't had any real serious injuries. it wasn't like he had 14 concussions the season before and couldn't get up to play the game. he's making the decision it's not worth it going forward. >> i think it's unprecedented. first of all, for all the reasons you just stated here's a guy who, he's living his dream. he's gotten here proven himself, he's a known quantity to the 49ers, even with that he's weighed the pros and cons and he's decided he's not going to negotiate his health going forward because he knows the implications of career in the national football league. >> lamar, you know how i know this is different? because the nfl put out a statement when a single player who is 24 who played one season decides to leave. let me read you, he said we respect chris borland's decision and wish him the best. by any measure, football as

never been safer and it makes the points about all the changes that football has made over the last season. the fact that they put out the statement shows you how concerned the league is. >> i think it's very serious. when you look at it we have a new generation of football player right now. these guys grew up in the dave dorsen or andre waters or junior seay. watching these guys. and it's more astute professional athlete that knows there's opportunities outside of football. when they look at the risks versus reward it becomes a situation where you're negotiating with your health you can make that decision. i think when the nfl lawsuit was filed, think that they got under a lot of players' skin, was we did not know. the difference is that the players now are informed and have the numbers in front of them to make informed decisions. >> let's listen to more about why chris borland said he made this decision. he's not saying he claims i doesn't want people to play football. so listen. >> i don't want the message to be absolutely don't play

football or decide not to do this. orror that. i think the thing that i can convey to youth and to parents is just to make an informed decision. if you weigh the risks and you decide this is something you want to partake in it's a free country. however, i just if i can relay a message to kids to their parents -- it would be two-fold. one, make an informed decision and two, don't play through concussions. >> make an informed decision. look at the facts, the facts are right now that three in ten former players will develop a debilitating brain condition, twice the right of the general population. account nfl handle it if all of these players start making informed decisions? >> i'm not certain the nfl can handle it. i think it's a watershed moment for the nfl. i think it will have reverb rations, not only through the league but among the horde of guys coming into the league. i think they'll do an assessment. i think they've looked at this individual and they're going to have a similar reaction. they don't want to run the risk of having long-term damage as a result of going out and

fulfilling their dream on the nfl field. >> lamar, a lot of players have come forward and said they support this decision. i think players want to support each other in general. however they choose to live their lives. but some players have said look this is not the decision i'm going to make. listen to vince wilfork, one of my favorite players with the patriots going to the houston texans listen to what he says. >> we sign up for a sport. we understand what we signing up for. so -- should not be a point where a ball player put everything and point all the fingers at the concussions, because i think it's bull crap. >> so clearly, lamar, some players are still going to look at the facts and choose to go out and play. >> i mean let's just say 100% football will never be safe. will never be able to legislate a situation where football will be 100% safe and still call it the football that we know. but it is going, it is going to reverberate around the nfl. i think what we're going to have to deal with moving forward is when you look at these situations if you're dangling

$60 million or $120 million contracts in front of players, their risk/reward decision may be completely different from chris's decision. it's a trickle-down effect from collegiate athletes to pop warner football. we look forward to making sure these guys find themselves outside of football while their helmet is off. these guys can play five or six years and still have substantial amount of money to say hey the risk may be worth playing five or six years, cashing in on 20 $25 million and setting up my family for the rest of my life. >> we don't know if he walked away from $25 million. but he certainly walked away from his next year's salary. it's a lot of money to turn your back on. >> if you have someone willing to forfeit those kind of fortune fortunes it's significant and the nfl will notice. the nfl is not in danger of going out of existence, but i think it will have a deep impact. >> football in a way is

threatened i have two 8-year-old boys can you look at me and say, that i should allow my 8-year-old boys to play football they won't be at any serious risk? >> not at all. i can't make that claim, neither can lamar or the national football league. >> the way i look at it we all have to have skin in the game. the players' biggest concern in the lawsuit is we didn't know. parents, you know the nfl, the nfl p.a. we know. and now of course the kids know as well too, we all have to have skin in the game. you have to make an informed decision based on what you know and information you have in front of you. for myself i have a 7-year-old son, i'm not in any rush to push him on the football field, i didn't play football until my freshman year of high school dlxt was no rush for me to get on the football field if you're good enough they'll find you, let's give our kids a chance cognitively to develop a little bit more. >> i have a feeling that chris borland will be part of the conversation going forward. >> i agree, thanks john. a lot of news going on. let's get right to it. >> this was a surprise victory

for benjamin netanyahu. >> local israeli reports say that isaac herzog has called benjamin netanyahu to concede. we're coming up at the deadline at the end of march, we still have a lot of work to do. jurors really learned a lot about dzokhar tsarnaev. prosecutors called their 60th witness. >> the serial numbers on the gun were obliterated. synthetic children rented uterus dolce and gabbana said same-sex couples should not raise children. >> maybe choose the wrong word. this is "new day," with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning, everyone welcome back to your in yourday, our chris cuomo has the day off. mr. john berman joins us it may not be official but that is not stopping benjamin netanyahu from declaring victory in the israeli election. the prime minister announcing he's ready to forge ahead in forming a new coalition government. >> netanyahu's top rival calling

do concede and offer congratulations. official results are not expected until next week. but we have complete coverage starting with cnn's oren lieberman live from jerusalem. what's the reaction there, oren? >> well alisyn by all accounts it looks like benjamin netanyahu will have a fourth term as prime minister. his lead very significant, five perhaps even six seats over isaac herzog's zionist union party. this looked to be a much closer race in the polls leading up to the election. and in the exit polls it looked like the two were neck and neck. then we started to see actual results, not polls, not surveys, but actual counts from ballot boxes, that's when netanyahu opened up a big lead. again five perhaps six seats. so isaac herzog knows what benjamin netanyahu knows, that it will be up to netanyahu in all likelihood to create a coalition government and because netanyahu has the lead he'll have a lot of options in how he wants to create the coalition government. he's done this before he's a master politician a master deal-maker. and it will be up to him to talk

to the different political parties and forge his coalition how he wants to forge it and include which ever parties he wants to include. because of the strong showing from the right. he'll do that in the coming days he'll talk to president reuben rivlin it's up to prime minister benjamin netanyahu. by all accounts it looks like he's the next prime minister in israel. >> it will be interesting to see thousand all comes together. it is no sket that the israeli prime minister and president obama don't get along. what's in store now that benjamin netanyahu stays in power? let's bring in white house correspondent michelle koskinski. any response yet? >> we're hearing we may not see white house reaction to this victory until this afternoon. folks here not exactly falling over themselves to issue a statement on this. but i mean we saw netanyahu vow during his campaign to stand up to washington. we saw him come here without the white house being notified of it initially. and deliver this fiery speech before congress criticizing the

administration's stance on iran. meanwhile his opponent was saying he wanted to repair the relationship between the u.s. and israel. so you know the right now the white house is hardly high-fiving and celebrating this win. analysts are saying that even though president obama and prime minister netanyahu may despise each other as it's been said when you look at the longer-term deeper relationship between the two countries, the cooperation on security intelligence economics, that is going to remain strong regardless. >> michaela --? >> all right, michelle so many things to look at with the news out of israel. we want to turn in to aaron david miller the vice president for new initiatives and distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. also a former adviser to six secretaries of state on the arab/israeli peace process. so you're the man to turn to. good morning to you. you know that obviously the results aren't official-official until next week.

you're saying it could perhaps take even longer. is that still the case? >> i think it will take a minimum two to three weeks, there will be some bargaining going on. if in fact i think it's likely that prime minister netanyahu will be called upon by president of israel to have an opportunity to put together the next israeli government he'll want to broaden it out as much as possible. i mean the high road of course would be a national unity government. but i'm not sure the labor party would participate in such an enterprise unless they got a rotation. that is to say, unless they split up the next four years, divide it into two, netanyahu serves two years and herzog two. so i suspect it will be a narrower center-right government. with the religious parties. and the mystery here the wonder boy is mosha kahalon. >> he's a figure in this. >> a life-long likud-nik. one of seven kids libyan ancestry.

revolutionizeded cellular industry in israel. he's not terribly charismatic. but he's effective and he pushes primarily on a socioeconomic agenda a crisis in housing, supporting the middle class, and he is in effect the king-maker in this enterprise. so -- i think it's clear, one last point. you know netanyahu has now won back-to-back-to-back elections. and within a year he'll become the longest-serving prime minister in israel's history, surpassing even israel's greatest prime minister david bengorian, it's remarkable truly. >> what's remarkable and must be considered is given the last-ditch efforts to sort of come from behind netanyahu made a series of statements over the last week that contradict things that he had said previously and also flying in the face of u.s.

policy on israel. how do you think that is going do play going forward with the obama administration and the white house? >> i think michelle had it right. it's either meltdown or dial-down. and i suspect that neither the president, nor the prime minister after the last five years of this guess i would describe it as the soap opera between these two, really has a stake in a fight. i mean the iran deal if it's done is going to be done and there's not going to be a whole lot the israelis are going to be able to do about it. peace process such as it is frankly may not be dead but it's it's in a deep freeze. and i think you know we have a presidential campaign coming up. a candidate that are going do want to demonstrate their pro israeli cressdentials and the administration has to sell the iran deal and selling the mullahs in washington is not easy. so all of these things i think

will constrain the prospects of a major fight. tensions but no meltdown. >> on the other side of it i want to read the statement that the spokesperson for hamas had speaking of the middle east peace process, quote hamas doesn't see any difference between israeli parties, because they all share the denial of our people's rights and keep assaulting them. and he goes on to say, all occupation leaders, whoever they are, should reassess their positions after the defeat in gaza. so clearly hamas doesn't care about the inner workings they have a stance against israel through and through. >> well yeah. i mean essentially you've got three, three states you've got the state of israel and two state-lets. that situation frankly in the beard ahead is not going do change. sadly, i think the two-state solution is kind of in a bermuda triangle sandwiched between situation that's too hard for it to be implemented. and too important for all of the parties, including the prime minister despite what he said

to abandon wouldn't surprise me in the least if you end up with an effort to at some point in the next 22 months to revive this peace process based on a two-state solution. wouldn't surprise me at all. >> i'm curious, how his win, netanyahu's win potentially could affect the nuclear discussions going on with iran right now? >> if there's a deal, a framework agreement, there's going to be a lot of opposition do it in congress. there's -- there's going to be a tendency among republicans and i suspect more than a few democrats, to at least have congressional input. and the israelis will watch that situation extremely carefully. and to the extent they can they will try to marshal opposition to it there are no good deals from israel's perspective. only deals with varying degrees of risk. and unlike the other candidate, isaac herzog who i think would have been more inclined not to

fight the administration publicly on this this prime minister is way too committed on the iran issue. it's almost messianic for him and he's going to want to fight. so there is a real opening there for, for some continuing tensions over this deal. >> we always learn so much from you. i want to start calling you professor aaron david miller. >> whatever you do michaela don't call me a professor. truly. >> we learn so much from you regardless, thanks so much we appreciate it. john? you and the professor were talking about the effect of the israeli elections on the negotiations between united states and iran on the nuclear development. those negotiations happening in switzerland, our senior international correspondent nic robertson is there. what's the latest? >> good morning. well the latest is energy secretary earnest monitz is meeting with his sort of iranian counterpart sulahi who is the

head of the iranian atomic energy organization. they're talking technical issues but what secretary kerry has said and we've heard repeatedly from the state department, there are still gaps to cross, political decisions that the iranians need to take. but so far, today, secretary kerry has not met with the iranian foreign minister zarif. indeed they're waiting for the outcome of this technical discussion that's going on right now. but earlier on today, zarif, the iran foreign minister took a walk along the waterfront here. i was able to shout out and ask him how things are going. he said they're going. i said where are they going? and he said you know we're trying. he seemed quite relaxed. smiling and happy. but the reality is the clock is ticking, the deadline for a framework agreement the 31st of march is approaching right now. and the fundamental, fundamental hurdles have to be crossed, although ground has been covered, remain big and time is really of the essence here. alisyn? >> nic, thanks so much for that.

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unlocking potential project. good morning, miss fiorina. >> good morning, alisyn. please call me carly. >> i'd love to carly. thanks so much for being on new day. let's talk about the news of the day, that is that prime minister benjamin netanyahu appears to have won and pulled off a victory by a bigger margin than polls had suggested. are you pleased? >> well i am pleased. and not only was it a fairly decisive victory. it would appear, but 70% of israelis voted. so i think this is a pretty clear mandate that the people of israel respect and appreciate a very strong leader. and that's what bibi netanyahu has been. >> in the days the last say 48 hours, he really sort of ramped up his rhetoric. and in fact he vowed just yesterday, that if he were to win, he would not be interested in any sort of palestinian statehood or two-state solution. now that's different than what the white house has said it wants. and what benjamin netanyahu

himself said he wanted in 2009. how do you explain that change of course? >> well i think bibi netanyahu has demonstrated over and over again his willingness to come to the negotiating table with palestinians to try and find a solution, a two-state solution. but i think it's also clear he has been rebuffed over and over and over again. and unfortunately, this white house seems to continue to equate hamas a terrorist organization to a legitimate democratic state, israel. so i think netanyahu is basically saying look until i see progress on the other side, a willingness for example, to indicate that israel has the right to exist, sort of basic table stakes i'm not interested in a state on the other side. i think obviously the majority of the israeli people agree with him. >> let's talk about a fight that's going on back here at home. and at the moment it's within the republican party about what

to do about the budget there are defense hawks and there are fiscal hawks. some who want to tighten our belt and some who want to beef up military spending. whose side are you on? >> well you know i actually think this is a great example of why we need leadership not management. management is people doing the best they can within the existing chairman. leadership is changing the system when that's required. and let me be very specific about what i mean. i think honestly it's time we go to zero-based budgeting, we have no idea how our taxpayer money is being spent. we never examine any budget from top to bottom. and haven't from decades. what we're arguing about now and what we have been arguing about for years, is the rate of increase or the rate of decrease. we never see the whole budget. so people are forced into these agonizing choices. i'm quite certain that if we had zero-based budgeting and could actually look at all the money that's being spent, we could figure out a better way. >> one of the things that republicans talk about doing is

doing away with obamacare. just yesterday we reported that 16 million americans are now covered by obamacare. are you comfortable with them losing their insurance? >> well obviously we have to have a better solution than obamacare. and when we don't provide a solution people are rightfully concerned. i think what we need to do is try what we have never tried. we have never actually tried a competitive health insurance market. the truth is health insurance companies have worked with regulators to build laws that protect their competitive position. they've done it within 50 states for decades, they did it to try to help write obamacare along with the drug companies, let's try competition. the one force that we know that lowers prices and provides better value. and yes, let's take care of those people who truly need to be taken care of. so that they have access to quality affordable health care. i'm a cancer survivor. i know how important it is that preexisting conditions be covered. but obamacare has boiled the

ocean. for the 16 million people that are now covered, there are so many people who find themselves worse off because of obamacare, not better off. >> carly, we have some new cnn polls just out at 6:00 a.m. this morning i want to show you. it asked republicans about their choice for nominee in 2016. let me put these up on the screen for you. it talks about jeb bush it talks about scott walker rand paul mike huckabee ben carson. there's one name that's absent here. what's going on? you apparently did not -- you needed to get at least 1% to be considered there. so statistically, you weren't in that list. how do you change that? >> well i'm new to politics obviously. so there are a lot of american voters who don't know who i am yet. so i'm not at all surprised by that positioning in the polls. and i would just say, we talked at the top of the segment about how the polls in israel were wrong four days before an election. my goodness me. this is a long time before the

election. i think it's a little soon to start worrying about the polls. >> what do you do to get traction among the republican field? >> i continue to reach out and meet with lots of voters all over this country. i've spent a lot of time in various states including iowa and new hampshire in 2014 where i worked hard to help elect others and i will continue to do that in 2015. there's plenty of time. >> there sure is. okay i want to show you two book covers. one is yours. and one is former secretary of state hillary clinton's. yours is on the left. and it's called, "tough choices." hers is on the right called "hard choices." it's hard to miss the similarities between the two book covers which one came first? >> my book was published in 2006. so quite a long time ago. >> and what do you make of hillary clinton using a very similar cover and title for her book now? well i could ask what difference does it make.

or i could say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. >> you're being very circumspect and diplomatic. you have had some tough words for mrs. clinton. you have been quite critical of her. particularly with the whole email controversy that she's embroiled in. what do you want to see happen there? >> well you know i think mrs. clinton needs to understand that transparency is a core principle of leadership. because people need to trust leaders' character and competence and motivation. they need to see that actions match words. and so honestly i think she believes this is a partisan issue. it's really not. this is a person basically who is saying her server can't possibly have been hacked because it was guarded by secret service agents goodness if hackers can get into sony and bank of america, they can get into a server in her basement.

secondly she says basically, trust us everything i deleted is personal. but remember this is the same person who told us that benghazi was -- a demonstration gone bad and the fault of a videographer in l.a. when clearly she knew this was a purposeful terrorist attack. i hope that she will be more trabs parent and i would just say that leaders need to build trust. and she's not building a lot of trust right now. >> do you want her to hand over her server? her entire server? >> i think it's in her interests to be as transparent as possible about this. >> i think it's also clear she does not intend to be so. >> carly fiorina, thank you for being on "new day." >> if your dresses were the same color, who bought it first? >> what difference does it make you could ask. still ahead, damage control by two of the world's most famous fashion designers. dolce and gabbana. speaking exclusively to cnn

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. gut-wrenching testimony expected at the boston bombing trial today. jurors set to hear crucial forensic evidence including how the suspect got his hands on a gun to kill an m.i.t. police officer. alexandra field has more for us from boston. >> new testimony from a long-time friend of dzokhar tsarnaev. 21-year-old steven silva, shown in a prison jumpsuit said he gave tsarnaev this .9-millimeter handgun two months before the boston bombing. prosecutors say it was used in the watertown shoot-out with police. the same gun also used to kill m.i.t. police officer shawn collier. according to silva, the serial numbers on the gun were obliterated, scratched off. >> having been as good a friend of dzokhar's as he was, this i'm sure was very difficult for him. but i think he knew it was right. >> in prison on weapons and drug charges, silva told the court the two met in eighth grade.

they would hang out and smoke pot. one day tsarnaev asked to borrow the gun for a robbery, but never returned it. jurors also hearing from the man who discovered a bleeding tsarnaev hiding in his boat in this watertown back yard. after spotting what he says was a lot of blood, david hanberry testified he looked inside the boat and that's when he saw the body. an fbi agent also testifying that tsarnaev carved the words "stop killing our innocent people and we will stop" in the boat's wood planks while hiding inside. other evidence found nearby destroyed cell phones and an atm card belonging to dunn mang who was carjacked during the tsarnaev brothers' terror spree. alexandra field, cnn, boston. let's look at some of the top story, breaking overnight, prime minister benjamin netanyahu claiming victory in israel's election announcing he's ready to move forward with

a new coalition government. early poll results show netanyahu maintaining a slim lead over his rival. official election results are not expected until next week. a former airman with the u.s. air force is due in a brooklyn courtroom this morning on charges that he tried to link up with isis. authorities say tairod nathan webster pugh tried to enter syria via turkey in january, but was caught by turkish officials and returned to the u.s. authorities allege a letter on pugh's laptop says he was waging jihad. russians including president vladimir putin, celebrating the first anniversary of the annexation of crimea. expected at a huge concert in moscow's red square today, featuring some of his favorite artists. "newsweek" reports the kremlin is giving russians cash to attend the celebrations. italian fashion designers dolce and gabbana trying to extinguish a firestorm of an uproar after dominico dolce

referred to invitro fertilization babies as synthetic children born from wombs. >> they're saying it's been blown out of proportion and are shocked at the firestorm that's erupted on social media. they were interviewed by this italian magazine over a week ago. the issue was on families. they were asked if either of them want to have children. now stefano gabbana said he would love to have children. whether through ivf or adoption. when the question was put to dominico doll which i. who is a little bit older, 56 years old from sicily. he said i'm a gay man, i cannot have children. it does not adhere to my family values. he clarified during our interview, michaela that he does not judge those who do. take a listen. >> i support all the world, every people just --

>> maybe he choose the wrong -- word. >> word. >> fashion icons dolce and gabbana after igniting a firestorm. the designers behind the luxury brand told an italian magazine that babies born from invitro fertilization are synthetic, coming from wombs for rent. stefano gabbana and dominico dolce defending their views, saying they're personal beliefs based on their upbringing. >> i think in a different way from dominico but not by this. i start to -- insult him. you know the tolerance. i think -- >> you're thinking in a different way what way? >> i believe in invitro, for example. i don't have anything about this. >> you support ivf? >> yeah. but -- >> dominico you don't support ivf? >> he's a personal. >> i think support we don't need the support. you think what you think. i think today there's too much -- >> it's not supporting it's just do believe. >> yeah. >> singer elton john did not

agree. posting on his instagram, how dare you refer to my beautiful children as synthetic. john vowing never to wear their brand again. and calling for a boycott. the fashion duo fired back calling for a counterboycott and defending the freedom to speak. dolce and gabbana also took aim at same-sex parents, saying quote, you are born to a mother and a father. or at least that's how it should be. this morning, they have a different tune. >> i don't boycott, i love him. i sing every day. >> we love gay couple. we love gay adoption. we love everything is just dominico is express -- >> my point of view my private point of view. i am i talk with you. i'm sicilian. i grew up in the family. my company is a family company. and i believe in the tradition of family. >> the duo prominent in the gay community romantically involved until 2005. >> what would you say to elton

john and other celebrities who are -- >> i would say life is long life is happy. you don't, to be angry for nothing. >> dolce and gabbana calling for peace with elton john. they once again reiterated they did not mean to offend anybody. apologize if they did. purely sharing their own personal views, michaela? >> anna thanks so much. to be angry about nothing. it is something to parents of children who are born via ivf. >> when you have public figure who is say things out loud and are surprised when people react to them. they say no no these are my private views i spoke out loud as a public figure that millions of people know. >> it sounds like this has been a clarifying exercise for them. to -- >> i wonder. >> i think so to try to define his old-fashioned values with his market and the customers and how all of that is going to reconcile. meanwhile, former vice

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right now, to "inside politics" on "new day" with, mr. john king. john? >> mr. berman good morning to you. got to take a deep dive. a brand new cnn poll looking at the 2016 presidential race yes, it's early. but important numbers, let's get to them with jeff zeleny and peter hanby. hillary clinton is way ahead in among the democrats. this poll taken in the middle of her email controversy. hillary clinton, 62%, joe biden 15%, that's the wrong one. we'll get the right one up for you. elizabeth warren 10%. bernie sanders, 3% the most significant part to me is one no significant damage from the email controversy. that's about where she has been for some time. but there's been this very significant draft elizabeth warren movement. people who support her have had big high-profile events in iowa and new hampshire. these are national numbers, but not moving the numbers at all if

you're hillary clinton you're not worried. >> i mean i think a lot of her movement is on social media. on twitter, facebook. this reflects the reality of american out there. there's room for her to grow but there's a not a groundswell for her. >> there's always going to be a vocal slice of the democratic party that's either more progressive than clinton or they don't like hillary clinton, that's always going to be there, that doesn't mean there's room for her to grow past hillary. what's interesting is if you take warren out, hillary's support actually jumps, it jumps among democratic women as well. it's not like her numbers would move to biden or o'malley. sanders gains two points. >> a more than formidable battleship. we often say don't pay too much attention to national poll when is it comes to the presidential horse race. don't pay too much attention. we've elected presidents based on the electoral college. if you're five or six or seven points ahead nationally you're probably going to win the

electoral college. it's march 2015. look at hillary clinton versus the republican candidates at this point if you're the republicans, this makes awe little bit nervous. rand paul comes closest at 11 points marco rubio, 13. jeb bush 15 points behind her. chris christie 15 points scott walker 15 points. dr. carson 16 points. it's early and president rudy giuliani can attest to the fact that be careful about these early polls. but 11 points is the closest any republican comes. again she is formidable. >> no question about it. president giuliani also president hillary clinton from 2008. she was also leading the polls. i think the rand paul number was interesting to me. he definitely is getting out there. he's getting you know a stronger in name identification. he's growing a broad popular base of support. so he is someone who jeb bush is certainly watching, but it's so early early. >> the upside for republicans,

and we've seen this for many years now,ned. she's polarizing her favorable numbers, 53. unfave 44. the don't know or unsure is like 1%. on the republican side they've got to litigate the republican primaries and introduce themselves to american voters. >> let's look at the republican primary race national numbers, it tells you you do not have a big front-runner. we looked at polls in new hampshire and iowa. jeb bush at 16%. he leads the republican pack up a little bit from our poll of february. scott walker 13%, he's pretty much walker bush have been the people getting most of the buzz. rand paul at 12%. relatively stable for those three guys. up a little bit from the last poll. mike huckabee now at 10%, dropped from 16%. now he ran it before. so think in the early polls, it was mostly name identification. it's early, there's a lot of time to get out there. but if you're dr. carson or especially chris christie. marco rubio, ted cruz, elected officials, your names are known as you're in single digits. >> i was surprised by that

especially marco rubio and chris christie. it's a pretty small number across the country. early, it shows room for growth. the jeb bush number was smaller than i thought it would be as well. people should know him. >> that's a good point that jeff raises sort of not to say that we live in a bubble. in political journalism. but we talk so much -- >> okay. i am saying that sorry. we talk so much about scott walker walker. and you look at the numbers and most americans have no idea who scott walker is. >> which is good and bad for him, he can define himself. >> let's dig deeper we asked favorable and unfavorable opinion of the republican candidates. most americans say they don't know enough to form an opinion. look as you go down 55 marco rubio, 40 rand paul 35. you get down into the 29%, a little bit lower. but it shows number one, they still have a lot of time to introduce themselves. and number two, to your point

about hillary clinton. about 99% of people think they know who she is her numbers will move marginally. these guys have a chance for better or worse to swing the numbers dramatically. >> that's why they're in the early stages trying to make the impressions or change impressions, but mainly to make impressions. >> what i'm fascinated by is how bad chris christie's numbers are among republicans. his unfavorable in the poll is 44%. the nbc/"wall street journal" poll that came out last week they asked the question could you consider voting for this person 57% of republicans said flat-out no. it was closer to donald trump than other republicans. how he fixes that will be interesting to watch. >> ouch. >> yeah. >> the closer to donald trump -- >> republicans have to like him. >> politely said point taken. let's move on. there's an interview, former vice president dick cheney in "playboy" magazine. he repeats a lot of things he said before about the president's foreign policy. he's not a fan of president obama, he thinks he's weak when it comes to the war on terrorism.

but he also responds to criticism that comes sometimes from the white house and sometimes from allies of the attorney general eric holder that a lot of the republican criticism of those two leaders, the president and the attorney general, are based on race. listen to dick cheney. i think they're playing the race card in my view to say that we criticize or that i criticize barack obama or eric holder because of race i just think it's obviously not true. my view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance or lack of performance. because of incompetence it hasn't gotten anything to do with race. >> certainly interesting. always interesting to hear from the former vice president. he speaks for himself there. so i think that you know, we shouldn't question what he says. but i think there's no doubt some of the criticism at least against this president from some in the republican base is related to his race. i mean there's no question. we've all talked to voters out there who have said so. so i'll take him at his word. but i think he doth speak for all republicans. go when cheney says something, he usually attaches it to a policy issue and makes his case

against what the president is doing. where with some people it's more reflects a reaction visceral reaction. some people might take offense at this but i want to give governor mitt romney. he's about to get in the boxing ring against a former heavyweight champ, evander holey holyfield and jimmy fallon finds it funny. >> the boxing match in utah it turns out they're trying a bunch of nicknames to hype up the match. first they considered vanilla in manila. next up they tried lean and mean versus l.l. bean. and then ebony versus very ivory. and finally -- mitt romney loses to another black guy. and -- >> wow. >> some might take offense, i think you should give governor romney a ton of credit for getting into the ring for a charity match and number two, humor is a good thing. >> those were some funny

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financial noise time for cnn money now, christine romans in the money center. >> all eyes on the fed. any clue how quickly the central bank raises interest rates, it comes down to one little word. the word pay shethtient. if the fed makes no mention of the word patient. it could signal from rate rises. apple will take its place at the close of trading today. it's the biggest company in the s&p 500. you can still trade m&a bell it just won't be in the dow 30. and hackers stealing a huge

amount of information from health insurer premera blue cross. the company still investigating, but up to 11 million customer records were compromised. so what was so what was taken, birthdays, e-mails, social security numbers, insurance claims. premera is offering its members two years worth of free credit monitoring and identity theft protection but cold comfort for another one of those big breaches john. >> the subject on business news christine romans getting ready for a huge productivity slowdown. march madness finally here getting underway last night with two of the play-in games. one ending with an epic rally, the other with a coach reaching for a higher power. andy scholes with the bleacher report. good morning, andy. >> the opening match-up featured hampton taking on manhattan. the roar a date with undefeated kentucky. hampton with a losing record going into this game pretty much dominated from start to finish beating manhattan 74-64.

they get extra points for mimicking the movie major league. pretty cool stuff from the bench there. hampton, they will be massive underdogs against kentucky. their head coach, well he's looking for a little divine intervention. >> i had jesus on speed dial. they want to know how much of a mountain and what our odds are. hello? hello? i guess he'll get back to me so i'll get back to you, but it's a heck of a mountain. >> the other game last night looked like it was going to be a snoozer. byu led ole miss by 17 at the half but the rebels went on a huge run in the second half. 2:00 to go stefan moody hits the three in transition. that gives ole miss the lead. they would hold on to beat byu 94-90. tomorrow the play-in games continue on truetv starting at 6:40 eastern. dayton playing on the home floor against boise state.

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if you want to win your bracket pool you almost have to pick kentucky because everyone else is. >> sometimes i pick based often the color of their outfits. >> right. >> i'm not sure i would pick kentucky. >> not a big blue fan. >> let the madness begin. andy thanks so much. can't wait. it will be fun. we're following some breaking news. death threats have been leveled at u.s. ambassador to japan, caroline kennedy. you recall that knife attack against the u.s. ambassador to south korea? we have the very latest details just ahead. the bleacher report brought to you by --

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japanese police are investigating death threats against caroline kennedy. phone calls have been made threatening to kill kennedy who is the u.s. ambassador to japan. >> indicted for allegedly trying to join isis. >> a u.s. air force veteran stopped in turkey. >> his experience in the private aviation sector disturbs me the most. a dramatic fall for illinois

senator aaron schock. new allegations of lavish spending. >> taylor swift said haters are going to hate. >> police raid robert durst's home. >> they're brilliant, brilliant attorneys sitting over there fighting for him. this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning, everyone. welcome back to your "new day." it is wednesday, march 18th. 8:00 in the east. chris cuomo is off today. john berman joins us. great to have you with us. we do begin with breaking news for you because police in japan investigating death threats made against u.s. ambassador caroline kennedy. the threats were phoned into the u.s. embassy in japan. >> the threats come as first lady michelle obama has just arrived in tokyo. you'll also recall that just two weeks ago a knife wielding man seriously injured the u.s. ambassador to south korea during a speech. let's get to michelle kaczynski with breaking details.

obviously the white house is going to be very concerned about this. >> reporter: so far they're not making any comment, neither is the national security council or the embassy in tokyo. we expect to hear from the state department this morning possibly confirming these threats. what we know right now is what's being reported in asian news outlets saying there were multiple threats phoned in to the embassy in tokyo and that this happened last month. allegedly they were made by an english speaking man threatening to kill ambassador carolyn kennedy. threats allegedly were also made against another consul general of the u.s. based in okinawa. that's what we know at this point. we're also being told by the white house that we don't expect this to affect the first lady's travel. she just landed in japan. she's going to be spending the next two days there but, you know if these threats are confirmed and we're hoping to hear that sometime soon from the state department you have to expect that they're taking security of u.s. officials in general there very seriously, especially since you mentioned the attack just this month on

the south korea -- the u.s. ambassador to south korea, michaela. >> all right. those are the pictures there of the first lady arriving there in tokyo. we're going to keep watching that situation. thanks so much michelle. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu declaring victory in tuesday's israeli elections announcing that he's ready to begin forming a new coalition government despite the fact that the official election results won't be released until next week. let's get to cnn's oren lieberman live in jerusalem. oren. >> reporter: michaela, you're absolutely right. these are unofficial results, but they're as solid as they can get especially for benjamin netanyahu. he declared victory. based on the numbers we're seeing it looks like he can celebrate the victory. up until we saw these numbers it was very close, exit polls, then we saw actual results, not surveys, not polls but numbers in ballot boxes. that's where it looks like benjamin netanyahu has opened up what it looks like to be an

insurmountable league against isaac herzog. he is called benjamin netanyahu congratulating him. he's held onto the premiership for six years. it looks like he'll have a few more years here. this victory, very convincing. it gives netanyahu a lot of options in how he wants to create a coalition government. he had a a-- he's had a very strong showing. he's a master deal maker. he'll be able to create a coalition government pretty much however he wants to. it's all up to him at this point. the ball very much in netanyahu's court after these election results. >> such an interesting turn of events. thanks so much oren. we want to bring in right now the white house director of political strategy david seamus. >> good morning. >> we have a lot of breaking news to talk about. let's talk about the developing

story we've learned in the past hour about death threats against caroline kennedy. what can you tell us? >> reporter: alisyn right now i don't have anything i can add to or really comment on. obviously folks are looking into that and that's as much as i can say about that breaking news at this point. >> i mean we heard a little bit from our own michelle kaczynski, but it seems as though given that this falls on the heels of the knife attack against the u.s. ambassador to south korea, how concerned is the white house about the safety of our ambassadors? >> well again, we take -- we take any of these threats seriously. we look at them critically. folks are taking a look at this. i don't have anything further that i can add besides what you have heard and what you know already, alisyn. >> thanks for that. >> of course. >> let's switch gears in a huge way and talk about the interview that dick cheney former vice president, has given to play boy in which he has said some controversial things. i don't know if you've had a chance to read this article yet. let me just read you one excerpt

from what dick cheney said. he says -- this was in response to james rosen, the reporter asking whether or not he thinks dick cheney thinks it's fair that the president and eric holder believe that some of the criticism against them is race based. here's what dick cheney said. i think they're playing the race card. in my view to say that we criticize or i criticize barack obama or eric holder because of race i just think it's obviously not true. my view of it is the criticism is merited because of performance or lack of performance. it hasn't got anything to do with race. what's the president's response or the white house's response to this? >> well first of all, let me just disclose because folks might be -- folks at home might be watching. i have not read this "playboy" interview, i can assure you of that but in terms of the substance -- in terms of the substance, look here's the profound disagreement with vice president cheney. we're more than happy to compare

the record of this administration over the past six years that inherited the worst economic crisis since the great depression and is in the fifth year of record job creation,, which is the fastest pace in this country's history. we've taken historic deficits and reduced them by 2/3 and we're gradually bringing to an end two wars that the previous administration got into. here's where i will agree with vice president cheney. if his critiques are on the merits our critiques of what we walked into are on the merits and let's have a debate. >> do you take him at his word that none of the criticism that's been leveled at president obama is race based? >> look i take vice president cheney at his word in terms of his krit sifrms that he has leveled across the board. this is a great debate between two contrasting visions and

frankly the house budget yesterday which i assume vice president cheney supported so let's keep this debate in terms of our view of middle class economics in his view of trickle down economics. that's where we'll have this debate. >> let's talk about the news out of israel. it appears that prime minister benjamin netanyahu has pulled off a win in a surprisingly big win, much bigger than the polls there had been suggesting. given all the tension between prime minister netanyahu and president obama in the recent weeks and months is it fair to say that there is not a massive celebration happening at the white house this morning with this news? >> alisyn we want to congratulate the israeli people for the democratic process for the election that they just engaged in with all the parties that engaged in that election. as you know now, the hard work of coalition building begins. sometimes that takes a couple of weeks. and we're going to give space to the formation of that coalition government and we're not going to weigh in one way or another

except to say that the united states and israel have a historic and close relationship and that will continue going forward. >> but how do you think this complicates, say, the iran negotiations that are underway right now as well as any sort of mid east peace process since on the eve of his win prime minister netanyahu said that he does not believe in any sort of state hood for palestinians? >> alisyn i'm going to defer to my colleagues on some of the issues that were raised during the campaign and some of the comments that were levied during the campaign that can raise some controversy. what i do know is that those negotiations are ongoing. they're at a sensitive stage. we're serious about moving forward and fulfilling them but i'm going to defer in terms of comments and issues that specifically came out of the israeli election i'll defer to my colleagues who followed it more closely than i did. >> let's talk about one of your strong suits and that is the budget and all the budget talks that are underway. as you know there is a bit of a

battle going on in the republican party between defense hawks and budget hawks. these things seem to be mutually exclusive. which one wins? >> so alisyn that's an open question about which one wins. here's the state of affairs and the facts as we know them. yesterday in the house republican budget they basically punted on the entire debate because what they did was they used something that senator john mccain referred to as a gimmick. they used the loophole that congressman paul ryan said really took away from the entire integrity of the budget process by using the emergency slush fund to resolve the defense issue. this is a missed opportunity because we have real needs both on the defense side as well as on the domestic side so it's an open question how the gimmick and the assault on the budgetary integrity that paul ryan discussed is going to be worked out by house andersen nate republicans.

>> david, let me help illustrate what you're talking about. we do have a graphic that we can show of the house defense budget. well it's actually the next one that i wanted to show because the one i want to show i need your help with the math here. this -- let me show you something. the house gop budget on defense is to the left side. the white house defense budget is to the right and these things look strikingly similar to us. for defense, 523 billion the house wants. the house wants 520 billion. the white house wants 51 billion. you end up with the same point 613 billion versus 612 billion. where's the nuance here? you're in agreement. >> so here's the nuance. when you use gimmicks and loopholes in emergency funds to go into actually year-to-year spending it prevents adequate military planning in the capacity of our men and women in uniform and their leadership to

plan for and sustain moving forward which is why john mccain referred to what they did as a gimmick and why paul ryan referred to it as attacking the integrity of the budget. here's our approach. we need to get out of sequester and do it both on the defense side as well as on the domestic side. the president has made very very clear as we've reduced deficits by 2/3 over the past five years that now is the time to make sure that we're making the investments in education, job training and manufacturing as well as making sure that our men and women are adequately prepared for any contingency that arises. we can't resort to these gimmicks and loopholes which unfortunately using republicans' own words is what they did. >> look here's one thing the republicans are clear about and they don't think this is a gimmick. they want to repeal obamacare. that's a nonstarter for the white house. you're the guy tasked in making it work and reaching out to capitol hill. what do you do about this? >> so here's the reality first.

16.4 million people now have coverage who didn't have it before. i think what you have begun to hear and you heard towards the end of 2014 was even republicans saying it's time to move away from this constant repeal discussion. we are more than willing to engage with republicans on a debate about improving the affordable care act but, alisyn here's what they did on health care yesterday. it's the triple play of an assault on health care. not only do they say they're going to repeal aca, but then they said they were going to privatize medicare turn it into a voucher program, and then block grant medicaid and just to dig deeper into what that means. that means there's a cut of billions of dollars for the children's health insurance program that's going to affect then above and beyond that 20 million people over the course of the next few years just on medicaid. so if we were just isolating the debate to the affordable care act, that would be one thing.

but interestingly enough they expanded the debate in the name of fiscal sol ven si. while at the same time if you're a millionaire in the united states there's something great in the house republican budget for you. you get a tax cut of $50,000 while 28 million working families get tax increases of between 1100 and $900 per year. that's where this debate is going to be. >> okay. david simas, we threw the kitchen sink at you this morning. thanks so much for giving us information on all of these topics. thanks for being on "new day." >> alisyn i appreciate it. thanks. >> thank you. you too. the meteoric rise and now dramatic fall for republican congressman aaron schock of illinois. he is stepping down as new questions arise about this spending. dana bash. >> shock phased six straight weeks of unrelenting stories about questionable spending about taxpayer dollars and

political donations. finally yesterday morning he told those close to him he would end his once promising congressional career. >> reporter: sources close to aaron schock tell cnn it was a pair of new revelations that cemented his decision to resign a report that schock may have purportedly benefitted from a real estate deal and another from politico that he was reimbursed by taxpayers for tens of thousands of miles he never drove. by resigning to congress schock is no longer going to have a house ethics investigation but he could face legal troubles. even after announcing his resignation he's trying to clean up his financial mess. a source saying congressman schock has reimbursed all monies since election to congress for official mileage. >> i stand here as a nominee for congress at the age of 27. >> reporter: it has been a dramatic fall for the 33-year-old once rising star in

the gop. starting six weeks ago when the washington post reported he decorated his congressional office to look like the set of "downton abbey." to the tune of $40,000. some of it was billed to taxpayers but it was returned. he had hoped to shake some of it off. >> as taylor swift said haters are going to hate. >> reporter: schock hired lawyers and reviewed his own expenses. instagram pictures left a trail of how he financed his jetsetting lifestyle tangoing on the streets of buenos aires, hobnobbing with celebrities and taking his staff to a katy perry concert. then came other revelations like a $10,000 junket for his staff to new york city. it all kept him on the defensive. >> i take my compliance

obligations seriously and i'm conducting a full review of that. >> reporter: in the end his decision to resign happened so fast house gop leaders and even con sit two went in town to see him were, well shocked. >> i'm very surprised that it happened. i'm sad that it happened especially the way that it did. i honestly didn't think it would cause him to resign, but it's still sending a bad message to the constituents. >> schock's resignation is effective march 31st. under two weeks. there will be a special election to fill his seat sometime likely this spring or summer. this is a historically republican district in rural central illinois. it should stay in gop hands but these days you never know. >> sure. anything is possible. all right. dana thanks so much for all of that. we do have some of tunisia to tell you about. three begun men have attacked the parliament and museum.

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their family situation is what their job situation is and i think when you find these singletons these individuals who are joining isis you're going to find it a large number of them are coming from situations that they're trying to escape in looking for a situation where they can find belonging, almost like joining a gang organization. not dissimilar to psychology. on the singleton cases i'd urge you not to think about isis first, think about the individual's personal background first and that's going to give you some clues. >> that's a good point. he had recently lost his job so he was feeling apparently more desperate. we do have a little bit of insight into who he is from this letter. it was found on his laptop. he is believed to have written it to his wife in january. let me read you a portion. he says i am a moujad hudin. i will use the talent and skills to defend the islamic states. this is someone who has clearly been speaking that language or radicalized or on websites in

the past. based upon this it sounds a lot like some of the other testimonials we've heard from other isis fighters. >> that's true. i don't think we should assume he's deeply ideologically committed to isis. i think you have a couple of categories of people. we're seeing some of these people. in iraq there's a major story in "the new york times" about people moving away from isis because they're becoming disaffected by the ideology. here's where the parallel is. people who are joining today might not have the same ideological commitment to the organization that the leaders have. the leaders of isis. the worker bees if you will they come they're emotionally committed. in this case they might be escaping a difficult situation at home. they want to join a group that gives them a sense of belonging. my sense here based on that letter is he just copied something off a website. he copied something that somebody told him. it's not as if he spent years studying the ideology saying i understand i understand the theology i'm a true believer

and i want to join. that might be what he thinks but that's not who he is. >> phil i'm glad you brought up the reports that there's dissension in the ranks of isis. these are the first reports we're hearing people want to leave, they're trying to escape. they talk about how there's all sorts of dissatisfaction from high to low in isis. let me repeated read you a portion of that. there is growing anecdotal evidence that some members of the group, particularly locals who may have joined out of opportunism have been repulsed by the extreme violence. finally, phil something that makes sense. normal people cannot be around mass beheadings very long without trying to escape. >> that's true sort of. let's keep some balance here. when we were speaking about this issue last summer into the fall one of the things we talked about was the risk to isis of taking too much geography too fast. they're committed to a cause that they believe is ordained by

god but when they move into cities they can intimidate the population they fail to understand that they have to transition to governance. when you follow insurgencies take isis off the table. you can look at asia and africa. ng isis are becoming disgusted by what they represent. isis is using intimidation but the ideology isn't using that. >> i don't think it will work. what isis has done is to attract people at the fringe. that's why we've seen a couple thousand people. >> from europe. it's shifting from the core to

the center. it's sort of like american politics. you can be at the fringes. if you want to win an election you have to win the core. isis and al qaeda has never figured out how to get from the fringe to the core. that will be the achilles heel. that was the achilles heel from day one. the problem is the amount of timing and amount of bodies you'll get between when they take over this territory and when they can be pushed back. i don't think that will happen in 2015. it may not happen in 2016. i don't think it will happen too fast. it will happen eventually because they will destroy themselves with too much fringe violence. >> we can only hope. phillip mudd thank you so much. let's go over to john. >> thanks alisyn. the budget showdown begins in washington. we just heard from the white house now we will get the republican response. you would expect diet soda might help you keep off the pounds. you would not believe what part of your body might actually expand thanks to the diet drinks. get dr. sanjay gupta to explain.

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promises to balance the budget in ten years. part of how it does it is by repealing obamacare and reallocating money from programs such as medicare medicaid and food stamps. tom cole joins us. congressman, thanks so much for being with us. >> john thank you. >> one of the interesting debates happening in washington much of it in the republican party; is between the defense hawks and people who want a strong defense are calling for an increase in defense spending. a lot of republicans on capitol hill are and the white house is too. this new republican budget however, says no no no we're not increasing defense spending even though the overall military spending will go up. let me throw up a graphic which explains what's going on right now. the white house on the right is calling for an increase in defense spending to $561 billion along with 51 billion for what's called the emergency fund. now the house gop is saying no no we're not going to increase

defense spending. we're going to put $90 billion into the emergency fund so we'll have more spending on military. isn't this the kind of gimmickry that house republicans have fought against for years? >> no not at all. it's actually a flexibility. look war is a very difficult thing to calculate the exact expenses on. we want to provide maximum flexibility. if you actually look at total military spending over ten years, we do almost $400 billion more than the president. this year coming up we're actually just about the same point. we propose about $613 billion in total military spending the president about 612. now we get there different ways but i would expect given the different priorities the two parties have. >> you get there with the use of the emergency fund which even republicans like senator john mccain say a little bit sketchy to do that. rowell labrador says a little bit sketchy to do that. white house political director david simas says a little sketchy to do that. let's listen to what he said.

>> that now is the time to make sure we're making the investments in education, job training and manufacturing as well as making sure that our men and women are adequately prepared for any contingency that arises. we can't resort to these gimmicks and loopholes which unfortunately using republicans' own words is what they did. >> he called it gimmicks and loopholes once again. congressman cole you say in your own press release, you compare this to what every household has to do when it balances its own budget. if i'm going to increase my food budget by saying i'm taking it from the garage budget but i'm not really taking it from the garage budget how is that not a gimmick? >> it's not a gimmick. for the white house to talk about gimmicks when they propose tax increases that there's no way they can get democrats to vote for let alone get beyond republicans is rich beyond believe. we want to provide maximum flexibility. that's what the overseas contingency fund does. it's not an emergency fund.

it's what finances military operations in afghanistan, military operations against isil and the middle east. it's a real fund. the expenditures are real. we don't have to use it but it also provides the military with the flexibility it needs for training and equipment. again, we just have a different point of view of how to get there. the spending levels are essentially the same. >> this budget calls for the full repeal of obamacare. you confident that the president would sign that? >> no, i don't think so but he doesn't have to sign the budget. the budget is a negotiating document. the president has issued one. it doesn't have to pass congress. i assume our senate counterparts will present one. we've been able to change obamacare. people forget that. eight times we've gotten the president to sign laws that have lowered the costs about $62 billion but i expect the full repeal? no. would i expect republicans to back off from that? no. that's been our position consistently throughout the

debate. i wouldn't abandon negotiation up front. >> you're counting the savings in the repeal of obamacare that you're calling for but you don't count the reduction in revenue that certain taxes associated with obamacare provide. is that also not a little bit of gimmickry? >> no it's really not. look we arrived at our numbers the way we arrive at our numbers. and this is -- these are taxes that are on the books that are unlikely to be repealed in any event. as you point out, you have to have a presidential signature to get it done. so to say revenue is going to automatically disappear when you're not sure you can get it through i think is probably not the wise thing to do. i would tell everybody to sort of step back and remember a budget whether it's produced by the president, the republicans in the house, the republicans in the senate is not law. it's where you begin. it's an aspirational document. it lays out your vision where you would take the country if you could, it's where you begin your negotiation from. do i expect we'll win every single battle? no.

i expect we'll have to compromise. we've brought the deficit down. we've passed our budget four in a row. we hope the senate can do the same this year. we'll see where the president ends up. >> i think we appreciate your willingness to have these discussions, congressmen. it's important to have it. i think we envy your degree of flexibility that you provide yourself there. can i ask yourself a story that's happening on capitol hill. aaron schock congressman from illinois resigning following a series of allegations about money being spent by his congressional office also from his campaign. it's a money issue right here. what's your reaction to his resignation? >> well you know first of all, i know aaron. i think highly of him am i like him. i'm very sad that he's been overtaken by this situation. i don't have any information beyond what's in the press about the ins and outs of financial issues. it's a human tragedy and he's a talented good guy. a young guy. i hope he works his way through it and comes back.

>> what's your message to members of congress coming in on both sides of the aisle here. no party has a monopoly on bad decisions here. what do you say to a congressman to keep them to walk the straight line? >> frankly you're under scrutiny all the time. you accept the public trust when you hold these offices and you ought to hold yourself to the highest standards. frankly, if you don't, it tends to catch up with you. in this case again, aaron's a very young guy. i'm sure he's learning some really hard lessons right now. my heart goes out to him, but you just simply can't afford to live beyond your means and frankly the public purse is something that you need to guard and take care of. you're being entrusted by taxpayers with it so you've got to set an example, frankly, not taking advantage. >> congressman tom cole thank you for being with us. >> thank you, john. >> alisyn? all right. diet soda adding inches to your waistline, john? isn't it supposed to do the opposite.

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they'll meet with president obama. for more on the five things to know go to newdaycnn.com for the latest. in today's "new day" new you, diet soda could be adding inches to your waistline. a new study suggests that the drink is linked to increased belly fat. cnn's chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. what did this study find for us? >> this is going to make a big splash i think. a lot of people paying attention to diet sodas. there have been studies in the past that have shown that people who drink diet soda actually tend to be heavier. now why is that exactly? we don't know for sure. this particular study was a ten-year study. they looked at under 1,000 people followed them along, and found that in fact the same held up the people who drink the most diet soda tended to be heavier. could it be a psychological thing? could it be that they eat more calories elsewhere and think i'm drinking diet drinks therefore,

those other calories are fine. it could be part of that. this study pointed to something else. as you mentioned, the idea of belly fat specifically. they looked at waist circumference. take a look at what they found here. people who did not drink any diet soda on the left versus people who drank the most on the right. >> interesting. >> pretty significant increase in belly fat, the waist circumference. 3.8 inches for the people who drank the most diet soda. why would that be? that's another part of the thing. >> right. >> the waist circumference increasing is a new sort of finding. >> a lot of people talk about these artificial sweeteners in soda. if you're drinking that much soda you're having that much artificial sweetener. what is it about them that would increase belly fat? >> it's a great question and i think it's one of the questions that in nutrition hopefully we'll have a good answer to. where this study seemed to point is that while you're not getting calories obviously from these

noncaloric sweeteners could those artificial sweeteners be changing what's called the micro buy biome. the bacteria in your gutt. and by drinking these artificial sweeteners does it change that normal bacterial flora and as a result make us more likely to gain belly fat. >> wow. >> it could be that. again, that's not been proven. there are a lot of people who still believe that calorie is a calorie is a calorie. if you don't eat or drink calories you're going to be better off. this study seems to suggest something different. >> and it goes to that point. remember back in the day when we were growing up it used to be the debate about coke versus pepsi. then it became diet versus regular. now it's more like coke or soda rather versus water. people are turning to other beverages because they real soda is just so bad for you. that is the conventional wisdom avoid soda altogether. >> people used to point to

cancer and say artificial or diet drinks could cause cancer. that's been debunked. as bad as some of these chemicals sound in those drinks there doesn't seem to be a correlation with cancer. you're absolutely right. if you want to get hydrated then drinks like water, mineral water, flavored waters. if you need caffeine drinks like tea, even coffee, certain number of cups of coffee a day can provide a health benefit. there has been i think, a push towards these other types of drinks away from soda. >> well it is always a challenge. what goes in and how much we exercise all of that stuff, that's why we're so glad we can talk to you about it and get some realistic knowledge about it. dr. sanjay gupta, always a pleasure. >> you've got it mich. >> alisyn. back to this incredible crime story. robert durst's houston home raided overnight. after 15 years, what evidence could be left? we'll give you an update on the case.

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new developments in the robert durst case. authorities raided the accused murderers houston home yesterday leaving with two boxes. >> joining us is michael daily. he's a special correspondent with the daily beast. michael, thank you for being here. you've been covering this case. it is fascinating. we've been reporting this morning that police have raided durst's home but it's been 15

years since the crime for which they're looking for evidence. what are they still going to find? >> you never know. for all you know there's some keep sake from something. this is not a guy who goes by a normal trajectory. he may have thought that well they haven't searched my home in 15 years, why not keep this. i think it's one of those things you just don't know about this guy. >> when you look at how things have played out, i find it very interesting to see sort of this confluence of entertainment and news and in a different way than say, michael jackson, phil speakerc spector and it's taken on a place in our society. >> kind of unsettling kind of unseemly. it may be a total coincidence, the timing. first off, if you look at the hbo thing, you get the implicit assumption that this interviewed just happened. they don't put that that

interview was three years ago. there's nothing on that screen that says this was shot three years ago and so you think that this thing just happened they found the fit and all of this. you find out it's three years after the interview, nine months ago they found that audio. >> the audio where he says what have i done i killed them all, of course? >> right. >> nine months ago the film makers had it. >> the saturday before the series finale he gets caught. >> does that pass the smell test? >> you couldn't flip it around and argue that they were worried that that last episode would make him flee. >> that is what they say. >> that could be. if you were a press agent, you were sitting down all right, what's the best way to get this thing really going? well we'd like to do it saturday night so you have all the sunday shows, sunday papers get everybody talking and everybody in the world will watch the thing. maybe it was the ratings god. >> from covering this case you believe that the most damning piece of evidence is not that

audio where he says killed them all, of course it's that envelope where the same handwriting and the same misspelling exists on the front of this envelope to susan berman one from the killer telling police where to find her body and one from her good friend robert durst and they are identical. >> yeah they are. beyond the misspelling, i mean just -- it's really startling. >> that's what will be his undoing? >> i would think so. you would have thought it would be his undoing back in texas when he dismembered the guy but he's got the lawyer you want to go to if you cut a person up. maybe this is also the lawyer you want to go to if you've got an envelope that would put you in a life sentence. >> you make a good point because things in los angeles where this case will be tried don't always go as planned, particularly high profile celebrity cases. look at o.j. look at robert blake. sometimes the unexpected happens. >> you know this is a guy who has very skilled lawyers. if you take that recording, you

figure the guy is gone right? well let's say they convince one juror that he knew the thing was being recorded and he's kind of a weird guy and he was playing with these people because he resented the way they confronted him. then let's say, well the killer saw that envelope in her papers and said i'll copy that exactly. that will incriminate. there's a lot of things they could say. i don't think they're going to fly. there are a lot of things they could say. >> you aed to it so many years, right? the 15 year time line plus perhaps and then you look at the various crime scenes in various states and locations and cities. do you look at the investigation and sort of say, look if somebody had done their job differently, better in another way maybe lives would have been saved along the way? >> you have to think that. to me the really critical point was that when the detectives were canvassing her apartment building. >> susan durst. >> kathie durst.

>> he goes up and asks the door man, did you see her come in? detective writes that the door man saw her, right? and because of that the cops up in westchester, it's not their case because she didn't disappear from there according to what they're thinking. you've got the manhattan people looking but that's not where she disappeared from really. then durst hired a very good private detective, a master detective. he went and talked to the door man. the door man said i never saw them. >> so that one door man was the key. >> so that moment i mean that moment if that -- if the cops had put in their dd 5 which is their reports that the door man said he never saw her, he's the guy who operates the elevator. if he didn't see her, she wasn't there, which means she never made it to man han at that time. they would have looked in westchester. >> michael daly thanks so much for sharing your reporting with

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time now not just for the good stuff but the better stuff. >> oh. >> talking about the boys basketball team who walked off the court during a game and defended their cheerleader, desiree, when they heard someone in the stands making fun of her. >> she's like family and there's probably no other person that i would rather be more happy doing it for. >> i love hearing those kids. >> that's great. it gets better. for their extraordinary act of on the court kindness the team was honored by the city council who called the boys heroes and gave them medals. the biggest honor comes from desiree herherself. what did she think of this team? >> sweet, kind. they're awesome and amazing. >> yeah, they are all of that honey. they sure are. >> they are all of that. kindness decency goes a long long way. >> standing for one another. isn't that a good thing? >> love that. that is so great. i love those boys. and desiree.

>> me too. >> thanks so much. time for newsroom for brianna keilar in for carol costello. >> what a sweet story. i love that you guys. >> thank you. >> you guys have a wonderful day. "newsroom" starts now. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, i'm brianna keilar in for carol costello. we begin with breaking news. new death threats against caroline kennedy. japanese police investigating. according to the associated press, the threatening phone calls are not only targeting kennedy who is the u.s. ambassador to japan, another american envoy also facing threats and the news arrives at an unsettling time. first lady michelle obama arrived this morning in tokyo. and the u.s. ambassador to south korea still nursing wounds from a knife attack just a couple weeks ago. we want to cover all of the angles and we have michelle kaczynski. sh