foreign ministers involved in the talks have left with significant hurdles remaining. >> u.s. negotiators briefing president obama late last night. will all sides today agree to any deal or even a framework? why have this story covered the way ohm cnn can. let's begin with global affairs correspondent elise labott live at the talks in switzerland. what do we know at this hour? >> well alisyn negotiators worked throughout the night, they're meeting again today. they'll continue to have meetings. it seems as if there's still some key areas that are unresolved although there has been a lot of progress. we understand it's down to just a few areas of the text. but those are key things alisyn. and it just making more difficult if they don't agree today, to have that comprehensive deal later on. we know that now we've passed the deadline if there's not something in the next 24 hours or so congress is going to threaten to impose sanctions against iran. that will certainly scuttle any

kind of deal. so the pressure is really on. but we're talking about a very vague statement, even if one comes out today, because it's very clear there is still unresolved issues. it seems as if at the best they're agreeing to keep talking. chris? >> elise, please keep us informed of any movement in the talks. there is no question that president obama has a lot riding on the iran situation. the question is now, what if this plan to negotiate doesn't work? let's bring in cnn senior white house correspondent jim acosta with more. >> the white house is adamant that president obama is not going to accept a bad deal with iran. last night the president held a video conference call with his national security team and with secretary of state john kerry, and energy secretary earnest monese leading the u.s. side of the talks in switzerland. at this point u.s. officials cannot say whether they'll reach a breakthrough at the negotiations the one thing that press secretary made clear to reporters yesterday is that the u.s. is prepared to walk away

from the talks. he said the option of military action against iran is on the table should these talks fail. and there's obviously a lot at stake for secretary kerry, as well as the president. as you mentioned, after the talks missed its deadline yesterday, the rnc put out a statement saying the president had crossed another red line. if you thought the republicans would give the president a break if the talks failed -- guess again. back to you. >> jim, thanks so much for that update. let's bring in cnn's chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. tell us what your sources are telling you about where they are in the talks? >> well a wire has just dropped from "reuters" out of switzerland saying that unless this is from the iranian point of view unless a framework for the lifting of all sanctions is in place, there will be no deal. and we've been reporting that for a long time. yesterday i spoke to one of the key negotiators from a previous period but under president

rouhani who says there has to be proportionality. that's where it's sticking in terms of the iranian deal at the table. want to see a framework for the sanctions being lifted. that's apparently not forthcoming. because there's the united states france is also quite strict on the idea of not lifting all the sanctions in the same timeframe that iran wants it. so that is where the sticking point is this morning. >> more than just a sticking point, also right? because the alternative, christiannecyst christiane christiane is that if the negotiations fall flat congress is going to impose a new set of sanctions. how is that playing into the leverage? >> obviously people are trying to use as much leverage as they have on all sites, the you state, europe congress prime minister netanyahu and speaker john bain remember speaking right now in jerusalem. they don't want this deal. that has been the sort of mood music around this these negotiations since they began.

the number of people who don't want it to happen have been so so loud and those who do want it to happen have slightly been on the defensive. the iranians according to the iaea the u.n. nuclear watchdog have been keeping their end of the bargain since the interim deal went into effect. and then was extended. and they want sanctions released. this is the sine quenon of the iranian position. r&d in the future. how much of the stockpile of enriched urine young will stay in iran how much will be sent out or diluted. but iranian experts and people inside the negotiations i talk to say this is what they want. the sanctions is the biggest thing at this precise moment and you've seen the wire drop from "reuters." we haven't confirmed it. that seems to be part of what they're saying now. >> all of this is set against this big cultural background. david sanger wrote a very interesting article for "the new

york times" this morning. and it gives you a real sort of fly on the wall perspective about the cultural differences that he says are sort of causing a rift between the two sides. basically that americans are detail oriented transactional. and that iranians deal in more symbolism. what do you think about the cultural differences getting in the way? >> well look symbolism on the one hand yes. because they want to see these negotiations succeed. and it is you know what president rouhani and foreign secretary zarif have brought to the table. their government sort of depends on being able to better the life and the economy of the iranians who voted for them. and as you know in iran there is a massive majority of people who voted for this moderate leadership. so symbolism to an extent. but it's not just symbolism. it is about lifting sanctions. that is what their economy and their country has suffered from. so they want that gone.

when it comes to symbolism, i spoke to a former negotiator who said look for 35 years, there has been estrangement hostility, outright enmitty between the united states and iran this is the first time in 35 years since the revolution they've had this time together negotiating, talking to each other at personal and professional levels and getting down to the serious business. but being so close together for so long after so long estrangement. >> christiane quickly -- when we talk about the symbolism, you have what's happening when they're together and then you have what's happening when they're not. in terms of symbolism, yemen is iran driven. and what's going on in iraq in terms of what's iran-driven and moving in to take ownership of the iraqi fight there. what's going on in syria. how is all of that contaminating the process at the table? >> to be honest i don't think it is.

because i think the negotiations around the table are pure and simple arms control negotiations. if you want to throw it back to the soviet time the united states and the soviet union had arms control agreements while they disagreed on just about everything else. that was going on in the world. the soviet's fear of influence, the american's fleer of influence, that was happening while there were arms control agreements on the table. it is i think very separate and each side has said that they're keeping them very separate. although there has been a little cross-pollination when it comes to iraq. because iran has backed the shiite militias they've had boots on the ground so to speak to try to push back isis. the united states has come in and bombed tikrit areas, bombed the positions of isis and they have helped a lot in the liberation of tikrit. so there is a little they're on the same page to an extent right now in the fight against isis. but all the other things they're not. >> christiane always great to get your perspective, thanks so

much. all right. developing overnight, police denying claims that cell phone video exists from inside flight 9525 capturing the final moments before the jet crashed into the french alps this as lufthansa now acknowledges it knew about the co-pilot's bout with severe depression during training. cnn's senior international correspondent frederick pleitgen is following the newest developments live from cologne, germany. fred? >> as far as the cell phone video is concerned michaela there are a lot of questions that are out there. the french prosecutor came out this morning with a statement saying so far, there has been no cell phone video that's been used in the investigation. he also said if anybody has any cell phone video from inside the cabin, that that person needs to come forward immediately so there is a lot of criticism also out there of the media reports. it certainly is something that is very much playing out here in the public's view. let's have a look at what the two publications say the cell phone video contains.

a chilling discovery purportedly pulled from the wreckage of germanwings flight 9525. cell phone video shot from inside the cabin purportedly captures the chaos and horror of the final moments before the crash. french magazine "paris match" and german newspaper "bild" say they've seen the video. though a french official says the reports are quote completely wrong and unwarranted. the publications say from watching the video, it's disturbingly clear the passengers knew what was about to happen. >> it's very shaky. it's it's very chaotic. but there are some things that are very much in line with what we know about the investigation so far. >> according to "bild" and "paris match" as the plane descends descends screams can be heard with cries of "my god" in

several languages. metallic bangs can be heard three times, which they believe is the captain trying to break his way back into the cockpit with a heavy object. towards the end, the heavy shake reports say as the cabin abruptly jerks, presumably as the plane's right wing scrapes a mountain. the screams intensify, then silence. lufthansa ceo visiting the crash site this morning to pay his respects. this just a day after the stunning revelation that lufthansa new andreas lubitz had a history of psychological problems before he deliberately crashed the jet. in 2009 lubitz told his flight training school he suffered from quote a previous episode of severe depression. >> if they withheld information intentionally, that's not good. >> lufthansa said lubitz provided that information in medical documents, he submitted to resume flight training. after taking a break for several months he was cleared to fly shortly after. >> all the safety nets we're so

proud of here have not worked in this case. >> and guys this very morning the lufthansa ceo carsten spohr was close to the crash site and once again he did thank the french who were trying to work there on the crash site. he apologized that the crash would have happened there and said that all of the victims' families would get lufthansa's support. he was also asked about the new information that lubitz had told the company that he was suffering from depression previously. he did not answer that question from reporters. chris? >> fred thank you very much. and the quest to answer the question there. to a very different kind of question back here at home. what kind of america are we becoming? both sides in indiana agree that is the question. and that's where the agreement ends. the latest governor mike pence who said he would not change the state's controversial new religious freedom law. now says he will consider efforts to clarify the law. so everyone understands it was never meant to allow discrimination against gays and

lesbians. despite the uproar there, arkansas approved a similar measure overnight so let's get to cnn's rosa flores live in indianapolis with the latest. rosa? >> well good morning, governor pence telling reporters that this is all a perception issue, that can be changed. that can be fixed by changing the language of the actual law. opponents not so sure. saying that they're asking for a repeal and fearing that the bad perception is already casting a shadow on the hoosier state. >> was i expecting this kind of backlash? heavens no. >> today, indiana's republican governor gets closer to a quote fix. for sb 101, the religious freedom reformation act. opponents calling the law the latest attack to legalize discrimination against gays and lesbians. >> we must repeal this offensive rfra law. >> governor mike pence's public

appeal comes as the nationwide uproar continues. those against it speaking out in protest. and nike one of the world's largest athletic apparel companies, joining the growing group of corporations condemning the state's action. the white house blasting the governor on tuesday, saying pence tried to falsely suggest that indiana's law simply mirrors a federal religious freedom law signed by president bill clinton in 1993. >> this is a much more open-ended piece of legislation. that could reasonably be used to try to justify discriminating against somebody because of who they love. >> pence says though the bill's intent is not discrimination he now wants a fix. >> i've come to the conclusion it would be helpful to move legislation this week. that makes it clear that this law does not give businesses a right to deny services to anyone. >> but the governor still says he won't sign legislation that includes protections based on sexual orientation. >> will it stand in court do you

think? >> you know i don't want to start going into our legal analysis. >> indiana's attorney general says he'll take what he's heard from protesters back to the capital. as lawmakers work on the fix. but wouldn't discuss any legal specifics. >> we shall overcome! >> despite national outcry arkansas just passed a similar bill and georgia is considering one as well. republican governors in both states have said if the bill hits their desk they'll sign it. >> this bill is not about discrimination. this bill is about the first amendment person's individual right to believe and your rights stop where someone else's rights start. >> now speaker of the house telling cnn he is crafting the fix, talking to activist groups other stakeholders about the particular language. and hear this -- that the lang wamg could be finalized as early as today or tomorrow. >> thanks for the update.

now to an update in iraq. iraqi forces declaring victory in their battle against isis for control of tikrit. but even though iraq's prime minister says they've retaken control, pockets of fighting remain as iraqi forces and shiite militias work to clear the battle zone tikrit had been under isis control since june. a new day in nigeria. a new president, muhammadu buhari defeating incumbent goodluck jonathan by about two million votes. after calling the president-elect. jonathan issued a statement thanking thigh jeerians s ianian ianian -- nigerians for the privilege of leading the country. legend joni mitchell is in intensive care this morning at a california hospital. paramedics were called to her home in l.a. and found her unconscious there. a message posted overnight on joni's website says she's awake, in good spirits and undergoing

testing. the message asks fans to light a candle sing a song and send all good wishes her way. >> we wish her well. a canadian pressure very proud of her. the story of indiana governor mike pence continues, now he's saying he wants clarification clarification. i guess that's sort of a fix. but it certainly concerns this religious freedom law and he's not happy about the fallout. so what is this fix? will it be enough or too little too late? also a cnn exclusive to show you, our one-on-one interview with yoga guru bikram choudri, responding to allegations of half a dozen women claiming that he sexually assaulted them. >> this word is that i'm a rapist? shame in the culture, western culture. >> stay tuned for that interview ahead on "new day."

indiana's governor now says that he is open to a clarification of his state's religious freedom law. clarify probably be a step short of fixing which he says he doesn't need to do. but the problem is clear -- people believe it's opening the door to discriminating against the lgbt community. did you know there are 82 similar measures up for consideration across the country? and several 2016 hopefuls saying they support the idea of

indiana's law, fixed or not, so let's bring in richard sakarekes, former strategist to the president and mr. ben furgeson. let me clarify one thing before we get into the points of debate of what needs to happen. which is -- >> there's an assertion that this law is simply the federal law of 1993 that bill clinton signed moved into the state realm because the supreme court said the state needed to own this law. that is not necessarily true and here's why. put up the graphic. okay? federal law on one side indiana on the other. federal law was designed to protect rituals of religious minority specifically native americans using peyote. which got caught up in a bundle of drugs that were outlawed and the native americans said it's part of their religion and went to the supreme court and that got the law and this indiana law

flips that. it protects religious actors unundered law the law, under federal law you must show a substantial burden to your religious exercise. indiana, burden or likely burden which means you don't have to be harmed but you may be. government must be a party. what does that mean? it's key. it was supposed to stop state action the government from infringing on your rights of religious exercise. here it can be a private party. that's a major concern. that means when someone doesn't like something, they can sue you about it and this extends protection to those suits. and the last one, anti-discrimination amendment was rejected. which means that under the indiana law, that part of the graphic is wrong. under the indiana law, the democrats in the general assembly said we should add this provision that says this law can't be used to discriminate and it was rejected. that was never an issue under the federal law. now what should happen next ben

ferguson the governor says we want to clarify not fix. semantics aside, what's the right thing to do? >> i think they need a fix. i think he realized this has become such a bad pr stigma for the state, even though other states have done virtually the same exact thing. and to clarify it is probably the right decision moving forward. >> clarify it how? >> well clarify by saying look if are you gay or lesbian and you walk into a business you can't be kicked out just because you're gay or lesbian. here is the other issue, though. does this infringe on the rights of a business owner to stand up for what they believe in? a great example of that would be this if you own a gay bar and someone comes in and says i want to rent your facility for a traditional marriage rally, should you have the right to say, that goes against my beliefs, i'm not going to rent my private business to you. the same way that if a kkk member comes in and says, i want a birthday cake made to celebrate the birth of the kkk, should a baker regardless of the color of their skin be able to

say -- i am not going to make that cake? it also would apply to christian who is asked to make a wedding cake for a gay marriage. >> gotcha. sakaredes, ferguson is flipping the script on you and putting the onus on you, how would you like it? >> nothing short of an outright repeal of the law is going to be acceptable to the american businesses the american businesses that are speaking out. i mean more and more businesses last night came out against this law. i think insin going to be in an intenable position. >> what about with what ben says? >> you can come up with all kinds of examples. the differences you laid out at the top of the segment about how this law is different from the federal law is important. most important is the fact that this law came up under a certain context. context is very important and laws convey values.

this law comes up in a context where the supreme court is about to rule that gay marriage needs to be allowed in all 50 states and we all know what indiana was trying to do. they were trying to give businesses in their state an opportunity to discriminate against loving couples who wanted to get married once the supreme court decision came down this happens in a context. you have to interpret everything that happens in a context. >> ben? >> the context is this -- does a private business have the right to have their moral beliefs and practice those beliefs when it comes to business? recently -- >> ben, one second you need to clarify something for us. can you clarify why you link a belief with a practice? because -- that's what this law was always about. is it stopping you or burdening your practice of a religion. how does this burden your practice as mattias ohlund blmpb as opposed to being offensive to your ideas. >> if i'm having a christian

business i should be able to hold true to those standards, without having to worry that i'm going to be sued and my business is shut down because of my moral beliefs. the same way that you may not be a religious belief. but someone comes in and wants you to participate in something that goes against what you believe in as a private individual. you as a private business should have the right to say i do not want to participate in this event this is a protection for multiple people and unfortunately it's being distorted in a way that i think sin credibly unfair. >> ben, you're trying to have an academic debate about this. and the fact remains and -- >> it is an academic debate. >> the problem for governor pence is he's getting up and saying this was never our intention to discriminate. but it is so clear, the record is so clear, and i hate to say this about the man, but the man is just lying at this point. i mean it is so clear what they were trying to do. it is so clear what they were trying to do. if you look at the legislative history of this bill this is exactly what they were trying to do.

they saw that indiana was one of the 13 states that remain where gay marriage is not permitted. it was coming this summer. they needed to do something. and now he's saying that it was never our intention, it was never our intention to discriminate against anybody. >> let's see where they goe with it that will be a reflection of intentions. we'll pick it up on twitter, ben. i want to start with send me a tweet about your explanation of why this fits into an extension of no shirt, no shoes, no service. no gays as an extension of that. because it sounds like you're treating gays like a hygiene issue. so let's start with that. >> i don't think so. >> send that tweet. we'll pick it up online. >> let me say this though if someone comes into your business and they want to have a racist rally, should you, chris, be able to say i'm not going to participate in your racist rally and allow you to rent my business? i think you would want to say no to that. >> pick it up online send me the tweet and we'll get the dialogue going. this is about you, that's why we're going to do it online.

can you tweet us on "new day." we'll continue the conversation. we're going to cover the story from all angles throughout the morning. we're going to have indiana's controversial measure with state law-makers from both sides of the aisle. in the next hour arkansas just passed the same law, will the governor approve it? we have a lawmaker who proposed the bill on to debate it. new developments in the germanwings crash investigation. lufthansa originally said the co-pilot was 100% fit to fly nothing off in his background. now a very different tune from the airline, next we'll tell you about an email from six years ago, that very well could have prevented the crash of 9525.

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unmarked car to use a blinker while parking. watch what happens. >> you understand me? i don't know what [ bleep ] planet you think you're on right now. >> i'm not planning i'm here. >> planet. >> [ bleep ]. get in the car and stay there next time you do it again -- >> okay what? >> you going to let me [ bleep ] finish? stop interrupting me. >> okay. i apologize, i'm sorry. >> how do you think you're talking to here? how long have you been in this country? >> almost two years. >> almost how long? >> two years. >> i got news for you, remember this in the future. don't ever do that again. >> passenger in the back obviously capturing the incident. the detective is assigned to the fbi's joint terrorism task force, he's now facing suspension reassignment and the loss of his high-level security clearance. thoughts? >> i don't think his anger management courses are working. it was such a disproportionate response. and the driver was being so

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airline knew. he disclosed it to them that he suffered a severe depressive episode. he sent them an email later saying it subsided. so he self-reported it it would appear. yet there was no follow-up. >> yes. well and that's the big problem here and the crux of the issue. and follow-up under the guidelines and certainly if it's comparable in germany to the federal aviation administration the airline was required to do so. particularly where medications were involved and apparently this person had it not one, but perhaps more than one form of medication. you have to go through a series of monitoring he has to have a special medical license. that has to be monitored very carefully by the airline. including at three-month intervals, so i think the airline clearly dropped the ball. we have no way of knowing that was done. apparently not, because the airline said they just found this in their records that suggest it was not done. >> and justin you made that point before here with us.

there are levels of depression mild moderate where a pilot well treated, well medicated can still fly. >> i think what has to be looked at is why this guy self-reported. he self-reported because he was their flight training program. and under their flight training program, the pilot basically goes pays his own way. you know to his housing, his food. the airline prefinances the training. and when the pilot gets a contract with lufthansa, with germanwings, the pilot pays back pays the airline back for all the training. so there's a big incentive, i believe -- >> to self-report. >> no i believe there's a big insentive for the airline to get the pilot through training. the pilot had to take a break. the big question is why after this guy in the training was unable to finish it why he had to leave, why they let him back in the program, why they hired him after that and i think it has to do with the way the program is set up. >> mary all of this is

important because if the airline is deemed responsible, that is it changes the liability, and it changes the compensation for the families correct? >> well not to the degree that that would be the case in the united states. but with the domestic flight. because this flight is governed by something we call the montreal treaty it's a treaty signed by most nations, the airlines automatically responsible for the initial amount which is something called a special drawing rights about $175,000 u.s. dollars, it varies literally daily with the markets. but then the airline is responsible for unlimited amounts thereafter if they can show they took all reasonable measures to prevent this tragedy. obviously they did not. but under this treaty usually you cannot get punitive damages. in other words, damage because you're just egregiously and horribly negligent. usually the treaty just doesn't allow that. >> all right. just quickly, we want to switch focus for a second. we learned that a sim card was found at the scene of the crash. i've got to imagine that this is

helpful to an investigator. but it brings up all sorts of other questions. should it be seen? what are your thoughts on this justin? >> well you know videos or audio tapes or any photographs taken by victims can be very crucial evidence in the asiana crash that we're working on right now, the people on board were videoing taking pictures we were able to use that and basically get a very good picture of what actually happened during the approach and after the crash landing. my problem is is that this information came out so quickly during a period where to a tabloid. during a period where the families are grieving and i'm just -- i just feel you know i work with families and i just -- they go through, i never say that i know what they're going through, because i don't think you can. but i do know going to the supermarket and seeing this on a to be lloyd is not something helpful. >> such sensitivity requires we should point out one of the editors from that german tabloid

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ice the world-famous creator of the bikram yoga method a guru to legions of devotees but big ram yoga's success story now threatened wi lawsuits from a half dozen women claiming he sexually assaulted or raped them. i sat down with choudhury to talk about those allegations and the effect on the bikram empire. >> welcome to bikram. usually 90 minutes, but i don't know how long today.

>> for five decades, bikram choudhury has built an empire through his signature hot yoga that bears his name. >> i implant my mind into your brain. >> with studios heated to 105 degrees, bikram credits the steamy sweaty stretches with transforming people's bodies and minds. he says he's guided by a deep calling to help. >> go around the world, share your knowledge and wisdom. help people. heal people and make this world better world. >> and for millions of bikram students all over the world, it's worked. >> i love him. every class, i feel like it's church. i've been kissed by the divine. >> but he's more than a spiritual leader. he's become a celebrity icon. with a long list of famous followers and friends. >> i invited them to --

>> from brooke shields to elvis and lots in between. he credits shirley maclane with putting him on the map in 1971 when he moved to the u.s. from india. >> from the day i came here she put me on johnny carson show i don't know who is johnny. everywhere i'm the cover page "time," "life" "new york times." everywhere. >> but now the bikram brand is in jeopardy. some yoga studios dropping his name after he's been accused of rape or sexual assault by six of his former students. choudhury sat down with cnn to address the allegations for the first time. >> i watch this show to tell the truth to the world that i never assaulted them. >> i've read all the affidavits there's a pattern. found vulnerable young women. and they came because they believed in you. and then something happened during the training they say that you somehow managed to get them alone. you became physically aggressive

with them. you demanded sex. and when they refused you, you raped them. >> i never assaulted them. the answer is i feel sorry for them. i have nothing against them. i don't think they're bad people. it's not they're saying that. they're influenced by somebody. which is -- >> a lawyer? >> lawyers. >> choudhury who has been married to his wife for more than 30 years goes even further saying he would never have to resort to physical aggression to have sex, because he has so many offers. >> women likes me women loves me. if i really wanted to involve the women, i don't have to assault women. >> the complaints tell a story of a different bikram choudhury. one who preyed on young women who looked to hirm as their guru sarah vaughan explained

how she thought bikram yoga would be the answer to her years of back pain and depression. >> it really was life-changing for me. i went back the next day and the next day, it was raining and i was singing "the sun will come out tomorrow" from annie and i didn't care if anybody heard me i felt good. for the first time in a while. >> you credit a bikram yoga class with transforming your life. >> yes. absolutely. and i knew then i wanted to be a teacher. >> baughn said her dad helped her take out a $7,000 loan so she could attend bikram's teacher training. within a week, one episode left her feeling uncomfortable. >> i was asked by him to come into his office and he sat down behind his desk and immediately went into what should we do about this. and i asked him what. and i and he said what do we

know about us. we need it make this a relationship. i've known from you a past life. it was instantly shocking. i felt like my whole system just sort of -- imploded. >> after that baughn said she told a staff member who suggested she not be alone with choudhury again. but late one night after making a group of students watch a bollywood movie, bikram cornered her. >> he crawled on top of me. he put his hands on my inside of my thigh. and the other hand he wrapped around me. and he was holding me there. he told me that he needed somebody to be with him, to massage him. to brush his hair. and i need someone to to have sex with me. >> baughn says choudhury made it clear she must sleep with him in order to advance her career.

>> he told me i would never win the yoga competition if i did not have sex with him and i looked him in the eyes i pushed him off of me and said i can do this by myself. and he said no you can't. there's no way. and i got up and i left the room. >> besides sarah's claim of sexual assault, five other women have come forward with civil lawsuits claiming choudhury raped them. crowdry vows to clear his name. but he says the damage has already been done to his family. >> how has your wife responded to this. >> wow, that's a tough question. i just -- i can't answer that question. my wife will not look at me any more. my children my wife. we die only once in our life. i'm dying every day when i get

up in the morning. >> does your family believe you? >> what can i answer? how can i share my heart, my spirit to you? 24 hours a day. i work harder than any human being in this earth, you know. and this is the reward? i'm a rapist? shame. of your culture, western culture. shame. shame, the job to go and tell the world, the truth. >> my goodness. >> what was your sense of him, sitting with him? >> he's passionate he's enthusiastic. he's at times friendly he's charming. you see how he you see why people follow him and how he sort of reels people in. but i also found the accusers compelling. tell a compelling story, also. both the stories are compelling. and you know it's important -- >> what makes his side compelling other than the women loves me?

>> he gives evidence of why he says he claims he's never been alone with a student. he says he's very careful about that. he's never been alone with them. >> did anybody corroborate that? >> no. in fact they say he was alone with them. >> well certainly the people who were saying he violated them is. but i'm saying as a practice. was he able to show how -- >> no, his claim is he's very careful about these things. they say that's not true. but he just as you'll hear coming up also he just says that he would, this is against his sort of all abiding philosophy. he would never hurt anybody, he would never harm anybody. his whole mantra is to help people. you'll see much more of my exclusive interview on cnn tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. you'll see it in a long version. we'll have more tomorrow on "new day." where bikram talks about his complicated sexual history with his students. >> that changes the conversation. >> it may, tune in for that tomorrow. one story for you.

bs so much news this morning, that please, let's all get to it. will all sides today agree to any deal or even a framework? >> the united states has not ruled out military force to prevent iran from going nuclear. lufthansa said it knew that co-pilot andreas lubitz suffered depression. >> police denying claims that cell phone video exists from inside flight 9525. >> how much do you want to know about how awful this moment was? that's the basis of what america is. >> if people can exercise discrimination based on sexual orientation, that is wrong. >> in arkansas a similar bill could soon be law. the republican governor there says he'll sign it. >> announcer: this is "new day," with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. >> good morning, everyone welcome back to your "new day."

a diplomatic scramble at this hour in switzerland as all sides try to cement a framework on iran's nuclear program. talks are in overtime at this hour. though three of the six foreign ministers negotiating have left. >> so after all these months are we on the verge of an historic deal or historic impasse that may lead to even stricter sanctions and bigger problems? we have the story covered only the way that cnn can. let's begin with global affairs correspondent elise labott live in switzerland. reports bubbling up about what may be happening. what do you hear? >> that's right, chris. the iranian deputy foreign minister one of the lead negotiators here just told state tv there would be no deal today, just some kind of press statement. and it has been looking like that over the last few days we know that there have been key sticking points that the negotiators could not agree upon. they went into overdrive last night, past the 12:00 a.m. deadline. working throughout the night.

but even this morning the british foreign minister said key differences unresolved. we've been talking about them all week. related to u.n. sanctions, related to the amount of advanced nuclear research iran could do. the iranian enrichment program. there's been a lot of progress in these talks over the last 18 months and even negotiators say even more progress in the last week or so. than they have been all along. but these key issues are so important to the agreement that would make even a comprehensive agreement in june even more difficult. so now we're understand maybe just a press statement about the progress. so i think it's going to be an agreement to keep talking, whether that's going to be enough for congress when president obama tries to talk to them about what's been achieved or hasn't been achieved at these talks is very unclear, alisyn? >> elise, it sounds like things are happening by the minute and might come out this hour so please keep us posted. so much riding on these negotiations for president obama. he had a late-night call with

members of his national security team as the deadline came and went. so let's bring in cnn senior white house correspondent jim acosta with more. >> the white house is adamant that president obama is not going to accept a bad deal with iran. last night as you said the president held a video conference call with his national security team and with secretary of state john kerry and energy secretary earnest monise. there they are on the big screen in the situation room. leading the u.s. side of the talks in switzerland obviously. and at this point administration officials are telling me they cannot say whether or not they will reach a breakthrough at these negotiations. the one thing that white house press secretary josh earnest made clear to reporters yesterday is that the u.s. is prepared to walk away from the talks. he said the option of military action against iran remains on the table, should these talks fail. now there's obviously a lot at stake for secretary kerry. but also for the president. after the talks missed the deadline yesterday. the republican national committee put out a statement saying the president had crossed

another red line. so if you think that the republicans were going do give the president a break if these talks failed you can guess again on that one. back to you. >> all right, jim. there's a lot of guessing going on right? because there's a lot of politics and we're not at the table. how do you know what's going on? you have to talk to somebody who has been at the table and understands the process and has insight into this one. we have that man for you, aaron david miller a distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center and has advised several secretaries of state on the arab/israeli peace process. good to have you with us as always. we hear that people are walking away from the table. still big ideas that have not been agreed upon. the timeline was always self-imposed. but the real-timeline is how long can the president hold off congress so what are the tactics at play here as you see it? >> you know i think the structure of the negotiating process really only allowed three options. breakthrough which you're clearly not going to get today. that is to say, six to ten-page

document that does produce a political framework with all the requirements it needs on both sides to create a compelling sense that the process is actually succeeding. probably not. then there's breakdown. a collapse of the negotiations a walk-away amidst acrimony and a fundamental split and break that these negotiations simply have not been credible. they're not going to produce, the gaps are too wide. i don't think that's going to happen either. negotiators fall in love with their negotiations i know a lot about that from the arab/israeli negotiation. the president wants this to succeed. he's not ready to give up. and i suspect neither are the mullahs and certainly rouhani and zarif. and finally, there's muddle-through. which frankly, i would argue is what the negotiations almost guaranteed from the beginning. it's not the june 30 agreement. the iranians have always said they don't want two deals, just one. the americans are under pressure to be sure from congress. but even then if they can

demonstrate in effect through, through written understandings through classified briefings that in effect the iranians are actually seriously moving toward a smaller, slower more transparent, more easily verified nuclear civilian nuclear program, i suspect the beat will go on. and there will be more process than agreement. but -- >> no breakthrough in the sense that a normal human being, chris, like me and you, would understand the terms. >> but the political pressure and the definition of success for obama and for rouhani or for iran and the u.s. are different. if there isn't a real deal here that obama can celebrate the president, he loses. but if iran walks away from the table with sle little how do they lose? they have plenty of oil money. they built up all these centrifuges and have an economy under sanctions, they've got their hand in every situation

they want around the world it seems a little lopsided isn't it? >> it's an asymmetry. the iranian expectations on the streets are high and there's a real sense among the public that they want this deal that it's somehow going to lead to an improved economy, more immigration to the rest of the world. the mullahs have to consider the disappointment if in fact there's no deal. on balance, i think you're right. look i said yesterday, we measure our lives in terms of four to eight-year increments. this president has got a year plus left on the presidential clock. in that region they don't measure their timeframes in terms of administrations. it's a decade or generation. so in that respect, i think you're right. there's an asymmetrical time pressure here and we we clearly, are more in a hurry which is one of the reasons critics of the deal fear that all this urgency is going do create concessions that will come back to haunt the american negotiating position.

>> so the israeli prime minister is expected to come out and give a statement about this. that is going to work somewhat in concert with the republicans in congress and some democrats, pushing for sanctions. what happens if these talks break down and congress moves ahead with locking down more sanctions on iran with the benefit of support from the israeli prime minister saying and this is the right thing to do for us. as well as your greatest ally in the region? >> and the saudis and the emiratis. if it gets serious and you end up with a fundamental split. additional sanctions, more political pressure the mullahs won't respond to that. clearly they won't. then you're going to see a different kind of process. you're going to see drift and deterioration. whether iran will accelerate their program and risk the possibility of military action is unclear. somewhere along the line over the course of the next 18 months you're going to end up with a crisis and i expect it's

the one the administration wanted to avoid, a preemptive israeli military strike. and to try to make an american strike unnecessary. falling markets, rising oil prices attacks on american soldiers in iraq and afghanistan, maybe a dust-up along the israeli/lebanese borter this is the pandora's box out of which all the negative arguments the administration makes will emerge if we can't get some sort of agreement. i wouldn't rule it out. i'm suggesting at this stage unless you get a compelling document that convinces normal people that there have been substantive concessions and a framework to rule out iran's quest for a nuclear weapon both through plutonium and uranium processes, vare dpi indication and monitoring then this has been more process than results. and at the end of the day. we're going to feel as if we've

been diddled and snookered by the iranians. there's no other explanation, it seems to me. one last point, if congress does in fact scuttle this the down side is going to be that the sanctions partners could conceivably walk away and instead of putting the own us on where it belongs, tehran's unreasonable demands, the narrative is going to be that the american side screwed this up. and you definitely don't want that. in these dueling nature i have beens in the region right now. >> aaron david miller thank you very much for the perspective. we'll see how it plays back and come back to you. mick? big developments and details overnight in the crash of flight 9525 officials are denying reports that cell phone video exists from inside the plane in those final moments before the jet crashed into the french alps. also lufthansa says now it knew that the co-pilot suffered from severe depression before he finished training. cnn's senior international

correspondent frederik pleitgen following the developments live from germany. >> yes, certainly there's a lot of new developments that happened here overnight. and of course the video is of the center of it. the two publications that put forward the report that they say is based on having watched the video say that they verified it however as you mentioned. the french are saying the reports are untrue and now they're also demanding to see the video. they say that so far, no videos have been used in the investigation and if anybody has any, they need to come forward immediately. let's have a look at what these publications say they saw on that cell phone video. a chilling discovery purportedly pulled from the wreckage of germanwings flight 9525. cell phone video shot from inside the cabin purportedly captures the chaos and horror of the final moments before the crash. french magazine "paris match" and german newspaper "bild" say they've seen the video recovered from a memory card by an

investigator. though a french official says the reports are quote completely wrong and unwarranted. the publications say from watching the video, it's disturbingly clear that the passengers knew what was about to happen. >> it's very shaky, it's very chaotic. but there are some things that are very much in line with what we know about the investigation so far. >> according to "bild," and "paris match" as the plane descends screams can be heard with cries of "my god" in several languages. metallic bangs can be heard more than three times, which they believe is the captain trying to break his way back into the cockpit with a heavy object. towards the end, a heavy shake, reports say as the cabin abruptly jerks, presumably as the plane's right wing scrapes a mountain. the screams intensify, then silence. lufthansa's ceo visiting the crash site this morning to pay his respects.

this just a day after the stunning revelation that lufthansa knew andreas lubitz had a history of psychological problems before he deliberately crashed the jet. in 2009 lubitz told his flight training school he suffered from quote a previous episode of severe depression. >> if they withheld information intentionally, that's not good. >> lufthansa said lubitz provided that information in medical documents he submitted to resume flight training. after taking a break for several months he was cleared to fly shortly after. >> all the safety nets we're so proud of here have not worked in this case. >> and, guys when the lufthansa ceo, carsten spohr, was at the crash site today, he once again thanked the recovery crews. he once again apologized for the air crash and he guaranteed that lufthansa would continue to help the victims' families as long as possible. he was of course also asked about the information, that lubitz in fact had put forward

to the company's flight training school that he had been suffering from depression. however, carsten spohr refused to answer that question. >> that would be helpful if he were to answer that fred thanks so much for the update. some other headlines for you now, because today the state of arkansas may pass a religious freedom bill just like the one causing outrage in indiana. the arkansas general assembly passed a measure tuesday, the state's republican governor asa hutchinson pledged to sign it however he is expected to announce his final decision later this morning. meanwhile, indiana governor mike pence ordering a new bill to amend his state's new law. to make it clear that the measure does not permit discrimination against gays and lesbians. a house panel investigating recent secret service lapses wants to talk to two agents very badly. the two who were on the scene when two other agents allegedly drove drunk through an active bomb threat investigation near the white house. the house panel has subpoenaed them. this comes after secret service director joe clancy refused to make them available to testify.

google getting a bit of a jump start on april fool's day with a blog posting from google. australia warning that their map engineers have discovered the earth's tilt is changing so fast that aussies could be up north within a decade. >> they are looking to have the equator slip as far south as the tip of cape york. the northern-most part of australia by the year 2055. that i think is really the phenomenal part of the story. it looks like it looks like australia could become a northern hemisphere country. >> and april fools, apparently this was one of more than a dozen google april fools pranks posted worldwide. be on the lookout, be suspicious people there's pranksters among us. >> are you one? >> depart i send you an email about perpetrating something on you. >> why me? because you're a great target. >> i was going to post it in your office.

i had all sorts of thoughts. >> are you a prankster, too. >> i'm not normally a prankster, i keep forgetting today is april fool's day, so i think i'm going to be a victim of a prank. >> how do you tolerate pranks? >> not well. >> she loves it. >> reassess. >> we'll see what happens later in the program. meanwhile, outrage in arkansas this morning. protesters demanding the governor veto a bill that is very similar to the controversial religious freedom law in indiana. we're talk to the lawmaker behind the arkansas bill next. and hillary clinton trying to climb out from the email woes may announce her bid for the white house this month. but the timing of a house hearing could be designed to complicate things. how what when? john king explains.

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lawmakers in arkansas defying the public outcry over indiana's religious freedom bill just approved a bill that's almost exactly the same as indiana's but has not gotten a lot of attention. if the governor signs it today, arkansas becomes the 21st state with such a law. joining us is the lawmaker who proposed the arkansas bill republican state representative robert ballinger. thanks for being on "new day." >> thank you. it's nice to have the opportunity to be with you. >> let's talk about your intention. in crafting this initiative that you did.

where did you see religious freedom being squelched? why was a bill like this necessary? >> it became necessary, actually way back in 1990 when the supreme court basically reduced the standard from a heightened scrutiny down to intermediate scrutiny. it's been necessary for a long time. and in fact everyone at one time kind of agreed that it was necessary. that's why in '93 you get the federal rfra signed by bill clinton. >> well sure i hate to interrupt you. but people say that this law that you proposed goes further than that 1993. and let me put up on the screen so people know what we're talking about. about how different the bill that you proposed is from the federal law. they say that in your bill rights extend to for-profit corporations as you know the 1993 law was about relimgous minorities that say native american who is wanted to use peyote. your bill applies when a person's religious freedom is

likely to be burdened. they say that is much broader than what the federal law does. and number three, it extends to proceedings between private parties. so it's not about government overreach. it's about say a private proprietier or business owner who wants to refuse service if they're not comfortable. explain how yours is different. >>or or business owner who wants to refuse service if they're not comfortable. explain how yours is different. >> >>. >> just like the constitution is interpreted by the supreme court, so are laws and with rfra they said the federal rfra does apply to private corporations that's where you get the hobby lobby decisions, we've taken rfra and additional information that's been collected over years and put it in there. so substantially it is the same. substantially it is a strict scrutiny standard. established by this and established by the 21 other states that have state rfras, and the federal government and several other states through their constitution or through their supreme court as interpreted a strict scrutiny

standard. so essentially the law is same. there may be little peripheral things that are different. >> when you say rfra you mean the religious freedom and reformation act. there are unintended consequences of your bill. so while you may have felt that you were protecting the rights of people to express their religion freely there are businesses in arkansas in fact the largest employers in arkansas walmart, and axiom, a little rock-based technology firm that employs almost 1800 people they don't like this bill that you proposed. let me read to you a quote from the ceo of axiom. he said we're not alone in the belief that the bill is a deliberate vehicle for enabling discrimination against the lgbt community, and should not become law as it effectively reestablishes the shameful period before civil rights when some used religious beliefs as a thinly veiled justification for discrimination against our fellow citizens. he a saying it's a deliberate

vehicle for discrimination. what's your response? >> yeah that's a pretty strong statement for somebody who has not been in my mind or the mind of many other people. this bill has been around or this type of law has been around since basically '97 when the supreme court said if states want a rfra they'll have 0o to put forth their own rfras. people in arkansas have been working on this way before i came around. i think he's wrong. that's okay, people have a right to be wrong. yet there's a lot of passion, they don't want to see the bill passed. so i think that a lot of times people are getting the cart out before the horse. they don't realize what this is. this is really a relatively minor increase in protection for what a person believes. and for the most part everyone believes an individual should be carry able to carry out their beliefs the way they want without government interference. >> on a practical note it can't be good to alienate your state's biggest employers. let me tell you what walmart

says here's what walmart feels about your bill. today's passage of hb 1228 threatens to undermine the spirit of inclusion present throughout the state of arkansas. and does not reflect the values we proudly uphold for these reasons we are asking governor hutchinson to veto this legislation. is it possible that your bill goes too far and that for whatever reason it's being misinterpreted and it's actually counterproductive to what were you trying to do? >> you have two questions. whether it goes too far. and the answer is no is it being misinterpreted? absolutely it is. but that's you know, we have a little bit of kind of a fight going on within our family here in arkansas that is you know there's a discussion and debate that's going on. and in the end, what happens when the dust settles and people realize that this is the same as the law is in 31 other states that this is the same as the the law is under the federal rfra within the federal government. in the end all this is going to people realize that it's not

nearly the significant change they expected it to be. and people go on and join each other here in arkansas. >> governor hutchinson has to decide today. whether or not he's going to sign it. given all of the blow-back and controversy, what do you think is going to happen? >> well he said repeatedly that he intends to sign the bill if it came to him in the form that it was. that he's going to sign it. so at this point i would say i have to say that i'm taking him at his word that he's going to sign it i don't have any other indication that he would. >> state rep robert ballinger, thanks so much for being on and explaining your perspective on the bill. in the next hour we'll talk about indiana's controversial law with members with both sides of the aisle. you can tweet us at "new day" or go to facebook.com/newday, we try to read all your comments. >> this issue is going to bleed in to the race for president, in the 2016 hopefuls who for these religious controversial things

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we have new information for you on the iran talks. one of iran's lead negotiators tells iranian state tv there will be no deal today, even after talks were extended past last night's deadline. now it's unclear whether talks will keep going past this deadline indefinitely or if everybody is going to step back and try to regroup. and developing overnight, lufthansa saying it knew that the co-pilot andreas lubitz suffered from severe bouts of depression. the 27-year-old apparently came clean to officials while he was training back in 2009. meanwhile, police are denying cell phone video exists of the frightening final moments inside flight 9525 before it crashed into the french alps. reports claim that you can hear banging, people screaming and then complete silence. a day after introducing him, comedy central is now defending their choice for new host of the

daily show. trevor noah coming under fire for some jokes that he tweeted about in the past. about jews and overweight women. okay. here's one of the biggest offenders, i feel weird reading one of the jokes he's getting. almost bumped a jewish kid crossing the road he didn't look before crossing but i still would have felt so bad in my german car. many daily show fans are complaining to the comedy central. >> to reduce my views to a handful of jokes that didn't land is not a true reflection of my character nor my evolution as a comedian. >> i mean jokes aren't supposed to all be benign right? can't you offend people with jokes? >> yeah. >> he is in a different world now. >> no for real. >> it's a huge pressure point on what he's going to be dealing with especially the audience for that show where what you say is very important and who he offends is going to be measured in a different way. >> he and the pc police. >> i don't think he should get

into the business of defending himself, either. you invite more criticism. >> if you just make fun of chris cuomo on the show it's fine. maybe he should just use that rule. >> that is fine because there's no artificial degree of you know offense involved. i'm just actually going to find you and give awe beat-down. a lot of political news going on. let's get to "inside politics" with mr. john day. what's up john? >> a lot that talk about, we begin with the iran negotiations with me to share reporting and insights julia pace of the "associated press," peter hanby of cnn. give us a sense, do they think you just heard the iranian member of the iranian delegation saying no deal today. the president agreed to let secretary kerry and the rest of the team stay for an extra day. trying to get a framework. no one expect as final deal. they're trying to get a framework, a political document that says this is what will in the final deal. >> the white house is in a tricky spot with the negotiations in switzerland and the political fallout back here

in washington. people continue to say that this is a 50/50 prospect at best. the big question now is they are making small incremental progress on some of the toughest issues. but does another day, another two days another week actually get you to the decisions that have eluded these negotiators for 18 months now? the longer that this drags on and what we're hearing is that if anything that would be finalized would be far short of the real framework we had thought. even if this drags on and they can come up with a deal can obama sell it to congress? it's looking very difficult right now. >> one of the questions is can he even sell continuing to talk? they've had these deadlines over the last couple of years. these negotiations have been going on for a long time. tough get the deadlines where you get so far to keep talking. the competing pressures are fascinating. in jerusalem, prime minister netanyahu came out and criticized this deal. with him in jerusalem, but not in the picture significantly, he did meet with house speaker john boehner. boehner did not come out when the prime minister made a press statement about the iran deal

there. speaker being careful not to criticize the president i think while he's overseas. the president last night as i noted, checked in by video conference with his team and peter, listen to this this ed royce, a leading republican voice on foreign policy in the congress saying what congress needs to do if the talks collapse and he doesn't think the president is going to get a good deal ed royce says walk away and strengthen the sanctions and force iran back to the table. >> let's shut down their economy and leave it shut down. until they agree to allow the inspectors in anywhere any time to see if they're cheating. and i think it goes back to that fundamental bottom line. you've got to be prepared to do that. and cut off their hard currency and collapse the economic system. >> that's a republican voice, but a lot of democrats also think the best approach here if iran doesn't say, we're ready, is to just walk away and strengthen the sanctions. >> to play hardball and republicans say strengthen sanctions or walk away or be

prepared to walk away. obviously they don't think we should be talking to iran in the first place and that president obama you know violated something by agreeing to do that in the first place. but republicans have said that obama has you know crossed red lines before like syria is a good example they say. so that just by he has too much invested in this. that he's going to keep going and gng. that they're going to give away too much. this isn't a practical hardball negotiation and president obama something too soft. that's the republican line. which is in keeping with their line on his foreign policy. anyway. >> if they can get a loose framework. i don't think anyone thinks they're going to get what they sought at the beginning. the idea was a tight framework and finish the talks. sometimes walking away gets people back to the table. we'll see what happens. >> but again, obama has so much invested in just opening a relationship and a dialogue with iran. so like it just seems, it's

tough for him to back away from that. >> another big political story we're watching is the indiana governor mike pennsylvania says he wants a legislator to fix a religious freedom law that he says was never meant to discriminate. even though some of the folks behind him immediately put on their website, says it would allow folks to deny service to gay people. a lot of the supporters say it was part of their intent. the question is how does it play off the republican party. we'll see what the language is when they try to fix this. the arkansas governor has a big choice to make. walmart, corporate interests saying please don't do this. that to me tells you how far the conversation has changed. 30-plus states recognize same-sex marriage. the chamber of commerce in indiana, the walmart in arkansas tell these socially conservative republican governors, don't do this. why do they do it? >> that's why mike pence came out yesterday saying he's going

to seek a fix to the law to clarify the language to what it can and cannot do. not because of the politics it's because of business. republicans, especially republican governors and democratic governors, they all call themselves the ceos of their state. jobs is the bottom line. economic development. the minute this became an international story and companies like apple and sales force started saying we're not going to do business in indiana or we're going do reee-evaluate their contracts or travel to the stay. that's when mike pence started getting a ton of pressure here. that's the big deal. that's why pence sort of had to back away. >> business chamber of commerce crowd at the republican party is hugely influential in this party. we've seen them break with republicans on immigration. this is another moment where we're seeing this possible rift. toor someone like a jeb bush in particular who is pitching himself in a primary as someone who is going to be reasonable going to be moderate going to try to pull the party away from these divisive social issues i think for him this could be

particularly troubling. because he's aligning himself with pence right now. >> let's listen to jeb bush from two days ago. he'll be in san francisco today raising money. we'll see if protests come up there. listen to jeb bush saying mike pence was doing nothing wrong. >> i think governor pence has done the right thing. florida has a law like this. bill clinton signed a law like this at the federal level. this is simply allowing people of faith, space to be able to express their beliefs. to have to be able to be people of conscience. i just i think once the facts are established, people aren't going to see this as discriminatory at all. >> there's nothing wrong with giving people of faith their space, and we have to respect disagreements and differences of opinion. but when bill clinton signed the law in the 1990s, number one the indiana law has tougher language. it's not exactly the federal law. number two our conversation in the country, our practices in the country are handling of these issues in the country has changed dramatically and the republican party in presidential

elections whether it's on immigration issues the republican party has an image with some voters as being intolerant. >> they continue to say they want to avoid talking about the issues the problem is you can't avoid them completely. they haven't figured out how to talk about them when something like this does come up. gay marriage gay rights in particular. the speed at which this country has moved is really incredible. when you look at young people in particular new voters there is just overwhelming support for gay marriage expansion of gay rights. and the republicans are going to run into a real problem over and over again i think in this campaign. unless they can figure out how to talk about this. >> two things worth noting about what jeb bush said. he said it before mike pence came out and said we need to fix this law, so did marco rubio and a variety of other republicans. secondly and jeb bush knows this we all know this. people that work sort of in the political ecosystem know these laws in arkansas and indiana and elsewhere came about last fall and we're starting to be

pushed after a cascade of rulings in states allowing same-sex marriage. so they didn't come out of nowhere. when jeb bush is saying that he's talking directly to conservative who is understand that. so -- to say that this is similar to your point, to the clinton law in '93 is not true. >> the conversation has changed, i'm sure president clinton would probably say he wouldn't sign that bill today. alisyn back to you in new york. we'll watch governor bush and the 2016ers on the trail. but the soft cover of hillary clinton's new book is coming out. a color photo of "hard choices" in paper back. >> thank you, john. meanwhile investigators are responding to reports that cell phone video was recovered showing the final moments of doomed flight 9525. are those reports real? we'll explain. not to be judgmental, but from where i'm sitting... it's your gas that's out of order in this court. the pressure. the bloating.

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officials deny reports this morning that krill phone video has been recovered capturing the final moments on board flight

9525 before it crashed in the french alps. as lufthansa acknowledges that the co-pilot who downed the plane reportedly suffered a severe depressive episode in 2009 he disclosed it to the company. with us this morning, mary sciavo sciavo cnn analyst and david soucie. good morning to you both. i want to start with playing that clip from the ceo of lufthansa. take a listen. >> the pilot has passed all of these tests, all his medical exams, we have at lufthansa, a reporting system where crew can report without being punished their own problems or they can report problems of others without any kind of punishment. that hasn't been used either in this case. >> that's a change now, mary we do know that the pilot did indeed suffer from a severe depressive episode. he was not 100% fit to fly.

what does that about-face say to you? and is it odd to think that at this stage in the game a company of this size would take them as long to dig through their medical records? >> i think what it says is actually that. they have gone back and after the investigators and after a crash, the investigators swoop in and they pretty much take all the documents and they have a right to and they should. and this has come to light that they he reported it. for them to say well he reported it and we want reporting without repercussions, that's utter nonsense we've reached the day and age in mental illness treatment that it's like other treatments and you have to report what drugs you're taking there has to be a period of assessment at least six-month period where it's assessed if you can tolerate the drugs. the airline has the responsibility to report on that and to check on that through their medical office at least every three months. for them to say it's reporting and there's no repercussion it's utter nonsense. and if they didn't follow up and admit the guy was not fit to fly, it's pretty clear.

>> is it reasonable and manageable to have a standard set for mental health in this industry? this is a global industry. i can imagine how unwieldy that would be. >> well there is a standard and that standard is set by the person himself and that's the problem. the person is left to determine am i fit or am i not? well honestly they may not be qualified to assess themselves in that way. especially if the mental illness influences that. that decision to report that. so yes, we need to move forward with something better than what we have right now. >> let's talk about the video, the cell phone video, the clip that was found apparently seen by german tabloid. if this video exists mary in your estimation is it helpful to investigators or is it more hurtful to the families? >> it's both. it's interesting about families

it's interesting to the investigation, this a crime scene, this is a murder scene. they need every piece of evidence they can get. families we had an situation like in in the united airlines flight 93 from 2001 they had a cockpit voice recorder. the voices were on it they battered down the door the passengers did, with a cart to get in the cockpit and the families wanted to hear it because it was their last chance to be with and empathize and know ha their loved ones went through. i would imagine that some family members will opt to see this. some will not. >> that's a powerful thing to imagine. david, it's interesting because you know french prosecutors saying they want to have every piece of video, if it exists they want to see it they're trying to compel whoever has the video to come forward. what does it say about the investigation, mary mentions it's a crime scene, what does it say about the investigation that something like this would be leaked? >> it's just repost rouse that someone would let this get out and the investigation team.

there's a trust, it's built together in this trust. so it's just it lacks professionalism. the problem is if the chain of custody was broken on that particular piece of evidence what about the rest of the evidence? this is where we get into trying to prove something. the chain of custody in an accident investigation is paramount. it has to be done properly and documented where everything went and who touched it and where it came from. the fact that this leaked is going to put a lot of question on a lot of answers that we think we have down the road. >> as always we appreciate it. chris? well the man who founded bikram or hot yoga as it's called is now in the hot seat himself over sexual assault allegations. bikram choudhury spoke exclusively to cnn about those accusations. >> and this is the reward? i'm a rapist? shame of your culture. western culture.

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. the sports world continuing to speak out against indiana's controversial religious freedom law. now some high profile figures are canceling their final four plans in indianapolis. let's get the story from andy scholes. he has it in this morning's bleacher report. we've never seen anything like this have we andy? >> certainly have not, chris. a lot of people speaking out a lot of sports figures. the latest is pat hayden. hayden says you know, the committee, they had a meeting scheduled this week in indianapolis but he tweeted he's not going to be attending. his tweet read i'm the proud father of a gay son and in his honor i will not be attending the cfp committee meeting in indy #embracediversity. defending champion uconn huskies said coach kevin ollie and his

staff will not be going. they are honoring the travel ban to indiana that was put in place by connecticut's governor. with the master's tournament just a week away the big question still in everyone's mind will tiger woods play? tiger ramped up the speculation yesterday when he showed up at augusta national and played an 18 hole practice round. the four-time masters champion hasn't played in a tournament since february 5th after taking a hiatus to work on his game. he dropped out of the top 100 in the world golf rankings for the first time since 1996. he's currently 104th in the world. final four tips off on saturday night. on the "tonight show" last night jimmy fallon enlisted some puppies to help predict who is going to win. and, check this out, they went with a huge upset picking michigan state to win it all. now this goes against our cnn bracket guru, alisyn camerota who has picked kentucky.

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>> everyone believes an individual should be able to carry out their beliefs the way they want without government interference. >> they know they have lost gay marriage battle. >> i love him. every class i feel like it's church. being kissed by the divine. >> they say that you somehow manage to get them alone. >> i -- this is "new day" with chris cuomo, alisyn camerota and michaela pereira. good morning, welcome to your "new day." it is wednesday, april 1st 8:00 in the east. in switzerland a deal not looking good. the self-imposed deadline expired last night. the big problem is three foreign ministers have already left. >> after all of the back and forth, is the deal dead? is it suspended? is a framework still on the table? some new comments from a top iranian negotiator could lend insight into all of this. let's begin with elise labatt.

alisyn, the deputy foreign minister said that there are still unresolved issues but he thought there could be some conclusion tonight. but he was careful to say it would not be a deal. why is that? because iran doesn't want to sign on to anything before that full deal is due on june 30th. this was just supposed to be a political framework, but there are still key issues unresolved. the british foreign secretary speaking just a short time ago tells reporters, there has been a lot of progress. key issues unresolved. we've been talking about them all week. they've been the pace of lifting u.n. sanctions against iran the pace of nuclear development and research that iran could do. wants to do advanced nuclear research in technology in the end years of the deal and also the iranian enrichment program. there has been a lot of progress. these are the key issues that

remain elusive. so even if there is some statement tonight, we understand it's going to be very general. it's going to be very vague. it will keep some of those larger issues unresolved kicking the can down the road, if you will. it's more of an agreement to keep talking, chris. >> elise, thank you very much. keep us updated. president obama is getting regular updates from the talks as well. the stakes are very high especially for him both practically and politically. let's bring in cnn white house reporter jim acosta. jim. >> reporter: chris, the white house is adamant they're not going to accept a bad deal with iran last night. the president held a video conference call with his security team and john kerry and eastern nest moniz. there they are on the big screen. they are leading the u.s. side of the talks in switzerland. at this point they cannot say whether or not they will reach a break through. as elise was saying these negotiations are not moving

towards a concrete agreement. the one thing white house press secretary josh ernest said yesterday is the u.s. is prepared to walk away from these talks. he said the option of military action also the option of sanctions against iran remain on the table should these talks fail and there's obviously a lot at steak for secretary kerry as well as the president after these talks missed their deadline yesterday. the republican national committee put out a statement saying the president had crossed another red line but the white house is saying you know what they are not going to accept a bad deal and that nothing is agreed to as they like to say here at the white house until everything is agreed to. alisyn. >> jim, thanks so much for that update. let's put all of this into some context. we want to bring in douglas brinkley. he of course is our cnn presidential historian. professor at rice university. he joins us now. douglas, great to see you this morning. there are so many different ways to look at these talks, and often we do dissect the details of them as we have been this morning, but you're sort of a

big picture guy, that's why we brought you in. tell us the historical context of what we're seeing happen today. >> well since 2008 barack obama's talked about wanting a deal with iran. he's put a lot of resources into it. we have to admit, john kerry has been working around the clock trying to get a deal there. i don't know how he does it. he should be very exhausted because he's poured his heart and soul into this and in the end coming up largely empty handed. so it's a setback for the obama administration. the only silver lining i'm seeing now, thomas edson used to say you can have 100 ways of doing something and you fail on one, it's 99 to 1, then you fail and it's 98 you know you get it down. i do think these talks have boiled it down to a few key issues but the idea that we can even get a framework for this going by june seems more and more remote and we have a congress that obviously has been wanting to firebomb these talks

and the republican party's probably happy that things seem to be disintegrating right now. >> it seemed to be more optimistic when we heard they were extending the deadline past midnight late into the evening. now this hour the news that we're getting from there feels as though something's fallen apart. some foreign ministers have already left. we're not seeing a deal. so if they do leave empty handed what does that mean historically? >> well what it means is that you don't call it a loss you just say things didn't work. we boiled -- we boiled it down to a few key issues that we're still debating and big ones. it's the metaphor everybody is saying kicking the can down. talks are going to continue on a lower level, not so high. that doesn't bode well for iran. there is a lot of thoughts in the united states that economic sanctions need to be continued and that will inflame iranian people against the united

states. we're at a very kind of dangerous flash point but the obama administration is correct. if you don't get a good deal walk. nobody has trusted the iranian government from day one but the idea of just refusing to have any kind of talks is dangerous in the extreme. every administration says we're trying to have talks between israel and palestine and solve the middle east peace problem. the question is how often do we keep it as a priority and how often do we kind of backpedal. right now i see the administration in backpedal mode on iran. they give it their best. it's a big time-out. they don't want to say they failed miserably, but they'll keep stringing the talks along for a time to come. >> we have had others come on talking about the ground breaking nature of what we've been watching happen in switzerland. how do you put it? do you think that this -- they've likened it to nixon going to china. how do you see it?

>> well i see it as a kind of a camp david like moment that jimmy carter brokered. it could have been nobel peace prize. this is a big deal. the middle east is the tinder box of the world. this would have been a very big deal positive step forward, but there are so many things not working right. the united states and saudi arabia for example, are backing the rebels in syria while iran is you know backing assad. that's a pretty big difference. that's not even part of the negotiation, and i think the real problem is the united states rightfully is doing the old arabian trust but verify. the united states is saying we want to go in on spot inspections to military installations wherever we want and see what we're doing and iran wants to have a secretive cloak nuclear program.

so i think there were good-faith negotiations but thus far it hasn't reached a huge profit. >> very quickly douglas, if john kerry leaves empty handed today, does that mean that iran and the u.s. go back to their old positions or have we turned a permanent corner here by talking to them for so long? >> i think we've turned a corner meaning as i've suggested by the edison analogy. we've boiled it down. that's useful and helpful. now it has to be more of an a.m. bass -- ambassadorial level. the middle east is a frustrating place to do business. >> always great to have you on "new day." thank you. >> thanks. the complexity of that we'll

see right now. iraqi forces are battling isis for control of tikrit. they're now declaring victory. even though iraq's prime minister said they've retaken control, pockets of fighting continue. arwa damon has a firsthand look at the city. >> reporter: war in tikrit city center. this is the main road that leads through it. the tank behind me right there is one of those belonging to the popular movement units. you have iraqi police. that building we were told had a sniper and a suicide bomber in it and over here you see what was tikrit governor. now we were told that this is an example of one of the many buildings that isis fighters had booby trapped. inside here one of the majors here was telling us that as one of their officers stepped onto the stairs they detonated. the stairs themselves had been

in lain with explosives. two officers were killed, three were wounded. further down you can see smoke continuously rising. this is a scene you see throughout the entire city. that is because according to what we are being told there are so many ieds, so many booby trapped homes that in some cases they cannot be diffused. forces are being obliged to detonate them in place. there are some homes that are actually on fire in the distance. >> arwa damon, calm amidst chaos. thank you for your reporting and showing us what that situation is like in tikrit right now. please stay safe. we'll check back with her if there are any developments and get them for you. now in other news officials say reports that a cell phone video from9525 was recovered. they say that quote, completely wrong. meantime lufthansa says it did know that the co-pilot who downed the plane suffered from bouts of severe depression

because the 27-year-old told them back in 2009. more questions to come about that. president obama commuting the prison sentences of 22 people convicted of drug offenses. that more than doubles the number of reprieves he has issued while in office. the white house called this move a push by the president to make the justice system a level playing field by reducing harsh sentences handed down under outdated guidelines. the interesting study here, letting curious children take sips of alcohol may not be as harmless as you think. a new brown university study shows kids allowed the occasional sip are more likely to begin drinking in high school. they followed 500 students in rhode island for three years. those who had sips were more than four times as likely to have a full drink by ninth grade. the findings suggest sips don't encourage responsible drinking and reduce alcohol's appeal. very interesting. are you thinking back?

i thought back. >> definitely. i was allowed to dunk a finger in and that's what i allow my children to do dunk a finger in the glass of wine to taste it. maybe that's the wrong approach. >> how did you do on the ninth grade test that they put out there? >> it might have been a gateway. >> i didn't drink -- i didn't take my first sip of alcohol until like 21. >> we should study you. >> so you did take a sip as a child? >> i don't want to indict my parents. >> so rhode island h'm. not true in canada where i grew up. >> i'm not sure i buy it. just because it's a study doesn't mean it's absolute. >> interesting to see the results. >> something to be said removing the taboo of things. bing binge drinking is not as big of a deal in europe. >> we'd love to hear your thoughts. back to our top story. can the indiana religion law be clarified in a way that -- chris

tells me this is his read. >> this is my tease. i wrote it and i told alisyn that i was going to read it and she takes it because it's april fool's day? no she does this every day. please continue. >> as i was saying will it pass or there will be an acceptable fix? we have the men trying to make it happen. top lawmakers. chris is going to interview them and put their ideas to the test for you. >> very well said. cnn exclusive. the man who developed bikram yoga breaks down. >> that's a top question. i -- i just -- i cannot --

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wants a clarification. still not saying he'll fix, but what's going to be the difference? he's not going to do it anyway. comes down to the lawmakers with his religious freedom law on the books in indiana now that some say is built to discriminate against the lgbt community. the man tasked to come up with the fix is representative brian boss ma bosma. thank you very much mr. speaker, for joining us. let's go with the obvious. >> thanks chris. >> what is this clarification/fix going to be? >> well senate president david long and i pledged privately a

week ago and publicly on monday that we would find a legislative fix to what really is a mischaracterization of the bill but it's no longer time to justify or defend it it's time to fix it. we've been working with community leaders, the convention folks here members of the lgbt community to just try to find the right language to bring this discussion to a close and re-install hoosier hospitality. we really are a hospitable group to everyone. we want to make sure that's clear to the country and the world. >> well i'll tell you, i think in following the coverage this isn't about the hoosiers this isn't about the good folks of indiana, it's about what some special interest groups and you guys did with this law. i don't think people are blaming the citizens of indiana. now during the debating process, didn't the democrats offer you a piece of language that said, this law may not be used to discriminate against the lgbt community and you rejected it isn't that true?

>> well there were concerns that the language that was one of 15 or 20 amendments that were offered, the language added to our version of the rifra law which was very similar to other laws would make us an outlier. you couldn't look at the case law in other states which clearly didn't allow that discriminatory intent that some had given to it. we're finding language that is not too dissimilar to that that i think is going to be more inclusive and expansive than what the democrats had proposed. >> well but obviously the suspicion is if that was rejected what will be accepted. maybe you're in a different state of mind now. along those lines, are you rethinking the need for this law? why do you need this? it's certainly not in line with the original federal statute. it's nothing like it. >> actually it's very close to the original federal statute. the only change is following the hobby lobby case of last year in saying that small corporations and businesses have constitutional rights as well.

so those who have said it's vastly different, they're just inaccurate. if you'd like to look at the bill itself you can do so on our indiana house republican rifra page. you can see for yourselves that legal experts say it is the same. >> i have read this law so often that i'm seeing it in my sleep, mr. speaker. let me put up a graphic. these are the key points of difference as i assert between the indiana law and the original federal law. the original federal law, the big headline is it was designed to protect religious minorities. you know the background. i don't mean to con descend to you, you know it. >> absolutely. >> this one is designed to protect christian businesses which are a majority effort not a minority. substantial burden was the strict scrutiny standard under the federal law. this is burden or likely burden under yours which makes it a potential injury not an injury. and then federal laws of course about state action because that was the concern, and you could even extend that to hobby lobby

which was state action mandate a business pay for contraceptions including health care. this includes that the government does not have to be an entity. this could be a private party bringing the action. and of course the federal law didn't really have to deal with any discrimination because it was dealing with an aggrieved class. here you have a class that wants to aggrieve others and say we find you intolerant. we don't like your beliefs so we don't want to do it. those are key distinctions don't you think? >> well chris, you're trying to get me to defend the law. >> yes. >> i wasn't the author the sponsor of it. i did vote for it. and that was -- i will tell you that the intent that's being stated was not the intent of those legislators who voted for this. we don't support discrimination. it was not the intent. my focus now is to fix that concern and we're extremely close to making that happen. to make it very clear that we're not trying to discriminate against any class of hoosiers including those that are gays or lesbians. >> but the concern is obvious,

and now you said we're rethinking -- we're in the rethinking phase. you said during a presser, it is true under current indiana law you could put a sign in your window no gays are allowed and that would be legal because no lgbts aren't a protected class. how can you tolerate that? >> first of all, we don't see that happening in indiana. i get that there's concern that it could. so we are having concerns about the future of our civil rights laws here in indiana. we have a few weeks left in our session so it's just not realistic that that major policy leap can happen in those few short weeks, but what can happen is to make it abundantly clear that the law that was adopted doesn't impact the rights of any hoosier, especially the lgbt community in any way. >> all right. and lastly when you say, hey, this was never the intention, never the -- the speculation is that this was the intention

because there was politics on the table here. you didn't get the marriage as defined by a man and woman amendment through and this was the give back that this law would be an accommodation to people like you who want to define under your constitution marriage as between a man and a woman. you are pushing that amendment once again for 2016. is this your gift because you didn't get the amendment you wanted? >> absolutely not. i'll tell you what the real catalyst was here was the hobby lobby case that legal scholars looked at and said you know this would have been decided differently in indian sna or at least unclearly in indiana. you can see those legal opinions on our website and if you carefully read it you'll see that was the motivator. >> so the whole gay marriage thing, you trying to stop it you don't think that has anything to do with it? >> absolutely not. it didn't in my mind. i think if you talk to legislators on the republican side that voted against the

marriage amendment last time that were supportive of the rfra law, you'll find uniformly there was no connection and that was not the intent at all to discriminate. >> all the businesses all the groups coming out saying they don't like this type of law, is it going to make you rethink your gay marriage amendment? >> we're not even talking about the marriage amendment at this point. what we're talking about is the rfra law and clarifying that there's no discrimination there. i know you want to make that connection. it's not there for me. it's not there for the majority of legislators. >> it's there for all the people who are fighting against it now, that's why i ask. mr. speaker, thank you very much. we look forward to what you come up with as a fix. >> thanks. >> that's half the equation. the other half will be the democratic minority. let's bring in representative scott pellet. he's the house minority leader. you heard what the speaker was saying there. is that a legitimate representation of the spirit of this law, that that's why it was made that it has nothing to do

with discrimination has nothing to do with them wanting to define marriage between a man and a woman and being afraid of what the supreme court might deliver to indiana? >> well it absolutely was a consolation prize, chris, for the anti-marriage advocacy people in indiana. they felt they took it on the chin. they wanted something to keep their narrow group of supporters stirred up and this is what they were given. and i know what the characterizations have been that it had nothing to do with discrimination or treating people differently, but if you look at what some of the key proponents were saying about the statute right after it was passed it certainly was about the ability to treat people differently. >> can i ask you something? >> sure. >> why didn't you make more of a stink during the debate about what this law could possibly do? i did the research. you were out there a little bit. others were out there. not really. it almost makes it look like you were giving in to this deal. help me with this. >> absolutely not. as a matter of fact chris, that

was our longest debate of the legislative session. >> okay. >> it had been -- it had been fought tooth and nail. i will tell you what has changed, chris. originally the debate was about the civil rights aspect of this and the moral issues about treating people unfairly. but now it's become an economic conflagration. now it's about the jobs in our state. it's about investors and businesses rethinking their commitments to indiana or even pulling out. that is what could not be foreseen is that now our state's economic future is at risk. >> how do you feel about that though that the morality of it and the riotousness of how you treat one another under law wasn't enough. that it had to be that you would get stung by potential big donors and job makers that will force action in the legislature? >> well unfortunately there are some leaders of our state, and i have to put governor pence at the top of that list they just don't get it.

they don't understand that america has changed and indiana has changed specifically with the respect that it thinks about sexual orientation. and we've moved so far beyond the debates of the past and the old attitudes and old-fashioned ideas. our leaders just haven't caught up to that. that's what's saddening. now there's an economic impact. we have to address it specifically boldly understandably. that means taking the statute, repealing ift immediately and replacing it with protections for all people so everyone again understands that indiana is a great place to do business and welcoming to everyone. >> the speaker wasn't talking about repeal and replace unless i have him wrong. he's talking about additional language. the governor said making lgbt a state law for protection what are you pushing? >> they're caught up on their

own internal politics. they're trying to mollify conservatives and make the business community happy. they can't do it. they have to clearly show that economics comes first and i've been advocating every day as well as all other democrats that repeal is the only answer. it's the only way to fix it. you can't -- you can't repair it without pulling it up from the roots and throwing it on the brush pile. >> unless you make lgbt a protected clast under state-- class under state law. we'll follow this very closely. thank you for joining us on "new day." please come again. >> thank you, chris. you heard both sides there and what the potential might be? what do you think? what are the questions and concerns? tweet us or go to facebook. mich. back to our other top story. authorities deny that cell phone video exists of those final moments aboard flight 9525. but two european publications say it was found at the crash site and was authentic.

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welcome back to "new day" cell phone video that captures the unimaginable last few moments aboard flight 9525 reportedly has been found at the site. there were published details of the video. authorities say that those claims are completely wrong. julian wrightfeld is the editor in chief of "bild" online. first of all, julien keeping in mind the sensitivity of our viewership what did you see on that video? >> well good morning, michaela. we saw the video with our colleagues and it was kind of disturbing upsetting material. it's shot in the cabin. it shows that there was, you know, a lot of chaos going on. people were very much aware of where this was heading. it also seems to document that there was kind of a metallic bang on you know what sounds

like a metallic bang on a door which, you know is kind of in line you know of results of the previous investigation saying that the pilot was trying to break into the cockpit. that is what we saw. >> how did you come to see this video? how can you be sure that it is legitimate? >> it was, you know shown to us by a reporter who we trust and who has been with the magazine for a while who's a very seasoned reporter who is known for his great sources, and, you know it was shown to us so we could look at it in detail and, you know run it through a process of verification until the point where we felt comfortable in going ahead with the story. >> have investigators seen this video?

>> well that is something, you know, the investigators would have to tell you. from what i just heard from the prosecutor he went out and said that you know he asked anyone that possesses this video to turn it in. i'm not in a position to you know confirm that they have seen it. >> what do you think is the value of this? you know it's going to be very disturbing for the families. it may very well help investigators. they need to see this video. >> well you know that's what we tried to do. we tried to reduce it to its news chorus which is two points. a, that it seems to support something that the investigation so far learned from the voice recorder that you can hear this banging that seems to be the banging on the door and also that you know something that wasn't entirely clear so far, you know did the -- did the

passengers actually know where they were heading, where they were what was coming. and, you know, that is what we tried to point out in all the reporting. >> we have been learning here at cnn about lubitz's revelations to the airline some six years back about his mental health issues but you have some new reporting. what can you tell us that you have found out? >> well our reporters learned from sources today, and that is something, you know we are still checking and double checking but from what it seems from what we know is that andreas lubitz has been seeking medical help for quite a while. everyone was wondering, you know why he never turned in his sick leave, why he never reported sick for duty or unfit to fly. what we have heard now is whenever he was seeking medical advice medical help that he apparently told doctors that he

was not in the cockpit, that he was off duty that he was on sick leave, that he was not fit to fly and, you know was trying to get back in the cockpit, which seems like you know he was trying to prevent any, you know doctor he would have told about his condition to you know maybe report it to someone. he was as it seems to us right now, he was actively trying to get doctors not reporting that he was on sick leave and not in the cockpit. >> thank you so much for that. we should point out that this is not something that cnn can verify at this point. we'll continue to dig and it sounds as though you'll continue to do the same thing. we appreciate it. >> fascinating to hear from him, michaela. millions of people follow this yoga method. bikram's method is in jeopardy. stay with us for our exclusive to hear his side. >> we die only once in our life.

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time for "cnn money now." chief business correspondent, christine romans in the money segment. >> good morning. >> more backlash. >> nascar and nike joining a long list saying indiana's religious freedom law is bad for business. these, too, say it allows discrimination. they are into inclusion. all of these oppose the law. eli lily an important employer there says the law will make it hard to attract and retain workers. arkansas has a similar law heading to the governor's desk. walmart which has its headquarters has asked the governor asa hutch chininson. it says it does not reflect its values or the values of arkansas. >> christine, thank you so much for all of that. coming up, his bikram yoga

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he's the world famous creator of the bikram yoga method. bikram choudhury is being sued by women saying he sexually assaulted them. i sat down with him to talk about the allegations and the impact on his empire. >> welcome to bikram. usually 90 minute but i don't know how long today. >> for five decades bikram choudhury has built an empire through hot yoga that bears his name. >> i implant my mind into your brain. >> with studios heated to 105 degrees, bikram credits the steamy sweaty stretches with transforming people's bodies and minds. he says he's gooded by a deep

calling to help. >> around the world sharing your knowledge and wisdom help people heal people and make this world better world. >> and for millions of bikram's students all over the world, it's worked. >> i love him. every class i feel like it's church. i've been kissed by the divine. >> but he's more than a spiritual leader he's become a celebrity icon with a long list of famous followers and friends. >> i invited them to tokyo in 1971. >> from brooke shields to elvis and lots in between, he credits shirley mcclain with putting him on the map in 1971 when he moved to the u.s. from india. >> she put me on the johnny carson show. i don't know who's johnny. every magazine i'm the cover page time life everywhere. >> but now the bikram brand is

in jeopardy. some yoga studios dropping his name after he's been accused of rape or sexual assault by six of his former students. choudhury sat down with cnn to address the allegations for the first time. >> i want this show tell the truth to the world, that i never assaulted them. >> i've read all the affidavits and there's a pattern. you found vulnerable young women and they came because they believed in you and then something happened during the training they say that you somehow managed to get them alone. you became physically aggressive with them. you demanded sex, and when they refused you, you raped them. >> i never assaulted them. i feel sorry for them. nothing against them. i don't think they're bad people. it's not they are saying that they are influenced by somebody

which is -- >> a lawyer? >> lawyers. >> choudhury has been married by his wife for 30 years goes even further saying he would not have to resort to physical aggression to have sex because he has so many offers. >> women likes me. women loves me. if i really wanted to involve the women, i don't have to ask all the women. >> the complaints tell a story of a different bikram choudhury, one who preyed on young women who looked to him as his guru. sarah bon explained how she believed bikram yoga would be the answer to years of back pain and depression. >> it really was quite life changing for me. i mean even that first day. i went back the next day and i went back the next day. it was raining and i was singing the sun will come out tomorrow from annie and i didn't care if anybody heard me because i felt good for the first time in a while. >> you credit a bik ralram yoga

class with transforming your life? >> yes. absolutely. i knew that i wanted to be a teach zbler baughn said her dad helped her take out a $7,000 loan. within the first week one episode left her feeling uncomfortable. >> i was asked by him to come into his office. he sat down behind his desk and immediately went into what should we do about this. i asked him what? he said what should we do about us. we need to make this a relationship. i've known you from a past life. it was -- it was -- it was instantly shocking. i felt like my whole system just sort of imploded. >> after that baughn said she told a staff member who suggested she not be alone with choudhury again, but late one night after making a group of students watch a baliwood movie

bikram she said cornered her. >> he crawled on top of me. he put his hand on my -- inside of my thigh and the other hand he wrapped around me and he was holding me there. he told me that he needed somebody to be with him, to massage him, to brush his hair and i need someone to -- to have sex with me. >> baughn said choudhury made it clear she must sleep with him in order to advance her career. >> he told me that i would never win the yoga competition if i did not have sex with him, and i looked him in the eyes i pushed him off of me and i said i can do this by myself. and he said no you can't. there's no way. and i got up and i left the room. >> besides sarah baughn's claim of sexual assault, five other women have come forward with

civil lawsuits claiming choudhury raped him. he vows to clear his name but the damage has been done to his family. >> how has your wife responded to this? >> oh, that's a tough question. i just -- i cannot answer that question. if i look at my children my wife we die only once in our life. i die every day when i get up in the morning. >> does your family believe you? >> what can i answer? how can i share my heart, my spirit to you 24 hours a day? i work harder than any human in this earth you know and this is the reward? i'm a rapist? shame. on your culture, western

culture. shame. shame. go and tell the world the truth. >> what's the truth? >> i don't know what the truth is. i've read the affidavits. the affidavits sound compelling. they sound honest. you know look, very rarely very rarely do they go to the los angeles court and file an affidavit on the false claim. false claims are between 2 and 8% of all the claims. they are a fraction of the claims so what motivation would they have? however, when you're with bikram choudhury he makes a compelling case. he's friendly. he's enthusiastic. you heard him on some level this ruined his life and it never happened. >> any criminal investigations? >> the lapd decided not to launch any criminal investigations because it had been years ago. there will be much more of my exclusive interview at 10:00 p.m. eastern. we'll also have more of that interview on "new day" tomorrow where he will talk about his

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tradition. rebirth/renewal. do nice things. with what's going on with the intolerance, reaching out to others similar and different. >> we did well on this april fool's. no shenanigans. turn it over while we're safe to carol costello in "newsroom." >> now i'm worried. >> what is it behind you, by the way? is that part of the show? gotcha. >> have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. >> knucklehead. happening now in the "newsroom," indiana's governor in a fix over a fix despite major backlash he says it's not about changing the law, it's about changing how people perceive the state's religious freedom law. plus what did lufthansa know and when did they know it? what we're finding out about the co-pilot of that plane that plunged into the alps. nuclear talks go into overtime. negotiators extending the deadline to hammer o