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problem. >> we got to leave it there. be sure to tune into "the situation room" tomorrow at 5:00 p.m. eastern. senator rand paul will be right here. we'll have a live interview with him. that's tomorrow. you can follow us on twitter. tweet me at wolf blitzer. erin burnett outfront starts right now. we have video of a white police officer shooting a black man many the back. the police officer charged tonight. more breaking news russians hacking into the white house computer system accessing the president's schedule. how the pesticide sprayed at their resort left two sons in a coma could be in the food you're eating.
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we have just obtained this video, i'm going to show it to you. this is a white police officer shooting a back man in back as he runs away. what you're watching here see the officer shooting the black man in the green shirt as he runs away. eight shots. this happened in the town of north charleston, north carolina on saturday. the officer has been charged with murder. what you're about to continue to see is graphic and violent. it's important to understand this story. according to the new york times the officer, michael slager has pulled walter scott, that's the man he shoots over a traffic stop for a broken taillight. at some point scott ran. officer slager chased him, fired
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his taser and a scuffle may have ensued before scott ran away. eight shots were fired in total from the officer's gun. the new york times report says he said scott seized his taser and the officer said he feared for his life. ed is out front tonight. we're going to show everyone more of this video including right after the shots what the police officer does, how he treats the man. what more can you tell us about the incident right now? >> this is a stunning development especially when you consider this shooting took place on saturday. within three days the officer in this case has been charged be murder by state authorities in the state of south carolina. just a fast pace of this investigation the quite stunning. obviously, the video playing a key role in this investigation for authorities there in south carolina. as they were saying the officer said he feared for his life because a 50-year-old walter
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scott reached for his taser. this video what we've been able toll see so far, doesn't show anything like that at this point. what you see is walter scott, the 50-year-old victim here being shot in the back as he's running away from the officer. a great deal of emotion surrounding this case. family members have been saying there to local reporters over the last few days they did not want this situation to become a ferguson situation. obviously, relating to the issue of michael brown who was shot in ferguson, missouri back in august. a great deal of attention being paid to this case now. >> ed let me ask you a follow up. when you see that initial shot and you see how the officer reacts. he shoots and walking slowly as he's shooting. he says he feared for his life because the victim walter scott, reached for his taser. the victim was unarmed. did the officer try to say he thought the victim was armed or he acknowledges he knew he was
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unarm and just thought he was reaching for his taser? >> everything we heard is the officer was talking about fearing for his life because the taser had been reached for. there's an object right in front of the officer's foot that's hard to make out exactly what is seen when walter scott falls to the ground. you don't see anything in his hands and what's interesting is in the new york times points this out, at one point the officer walks by the body of walter scott and you see him drop what appears to be the taser and later on in the video picking it up. as the reporter of the new york times told us kind of odd behavior given the situation and circumstances that's in that. what kind of role that played into investigators decision to charge this officer with murder we're not exactly sure at this point. obviously, the magnitude and the power of this video, i think played a key role in this investigation and these charges being announced so quickly. >> ed thank you very much. ed's going to stay with us.
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i want to go to the police chief of north charleston south carolina. i really appreciate you taking the time sir. can you tell me what your thought is when you first saw this video? you have seen this many many times. what do you think? >> my initial reaction to it was it was a tragic event. we're sworn to uphold the law in the state of south carolina and the city of north charleston. there are a group of men and women here dedicated for that. >> do you know anything more? your officer is saying he feared for his life. obviously, they went ahead with charges against him for murder very quickly. this happened on saturday. do you think they did the right thing going ahead with the murder charges? >> i think they -- the investigation revealed what it revealed. we are obligated to do what the
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law dictates if the investigation so revealed that and it appears through this video tape that's where it fell. >> have you heard anything that would justify the officer's version of events here at all as the police chief? >> a lot of this has been taken over by sled. we turned everything all the investigation over to sled as an independent agency. a lot of those questions will have to be answered as this investigation still continues to unfold. >> can you tell us anything more about this officer? his history, his past his record? >> the record has been sent out.
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we don't have anything. there were two previous complaints on him but i can't recall exactly what they were at this time. >> as you know this is something that the whole nation is now watching and going to be paying attention to. chief, do you think that race played a specific explicit role? >> you know i want to believe in my heart of hearts that it did not but it certainly, a white officer and a black individual i want to believe in my heart of hearts it was a tragic set of events after a traffic stop of an individual who had a minor infraction on his vehicle a brake light being out. >> is there anything in your mind that could lead that incident to this conclusion?
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>> again, i always look to the good in folks. i would hope that nobody would ever do something like that. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your taking the time tonight. the police chief in north charleston, south carolina. it was his officer that's been charged with murder. let me go straight to you van. you just heard the police chief say in his heart of hearts he wants to believe and hope this isn't about race but not ruling it out. it is about race. when you hear it's about a broken taillight and a guy shot from behind eight times. three in the buck one in the upper buttocks and one in the ear. what do you think?
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>> first of all, all condolences go to the family. what i would say is wh we justat we just saw is a cold-blooded murder. we saw a blatant attempt to cover it up and it's not the first time. african-american communities have been saying for years, for decades there are two standards of justice and you can wind up we have to tell our children you can wind up dead over a minor traffic stop. had it not been for the video, we would be in situation where the police report said this was a violent black man threatening my life and as they always say, i feared for my life. that's the legal standard whether it's true or false they put it in the police report. it would have been another dead black man and people would say it's a justified killing. this is the kind of thing that's happening across the country. it's wrong. it's a cold-blooded murder and a blatant attempt to cover it up.
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it's wrong for these things to continue to happen and for the families to be put on trial and the black community of being accused of playing the race card when this happens over and over again. >> you said two things one cold-blooded murder and two covered it up. i want to show you a couple of things we haven't shown you that would address those points. the shooting itself when he's standing there and the man is running away. he's standing. he's not run as if he's terrified. then he's walking very slowly over to the man after shehe shoots them eight times. is that something they would fit with their life or more of cold-blooded killing or exclusion? >> between subjective and objective. objectively this was a homicide no question about that. no policeman can justify shooting somebody in the back. >> eight times. >> subjectively who knows what he believed. he may have feared.
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there doesn't seem to be any evidence. >> he doesn't look like he's afraid. >> we don't know what's many his mind. we have to distinguish two things very clearly. one was this racial and two was it homicide? clearly it was homicide. clearly the stop seems like it was racial. white people are not stopped for a taillight and then arrested and then tasered but the question is once he was involved did the policeman shoot him because he was black or shoot him because he was a policeman who had a gun and authority and policeman sometimes do that and then cover it up even if it's a white person. we have to at least with hold judgment on the racial element of the actual killing itself as he's been stopped. sdm >> van talked about covering it up. after the officer shoots mr. scott, he wakes over to him and
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he says put your hand behind your back. at that point it's unclear he's dead or not. then you see the cop drop what appears to be the taser next to the victim. that's actually a very clear moment when you see that which we'll show you. you can see. it's in his hand and flings out and drops next to mr. scott. can we show it again to make sure everybody can see it? jeff when you see that what could possibly have happened? could he dropped it by accident. was it to put it next to him as if he's taken it? how are we supposed to interpret? it falls on the ground next to mr. scott. >> the most obvious interpretation is he's planting it there. he's putting it there as if it was indirect proximity to the victim and thus potentially a threat to the officer.
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there is a lot we don't know about this situation. at least the parts not on video. the thing speaks for itself. the video speaks for itself. there's nothing in this video that looks helpful to the officer. this does look like a murder. we'll hear his side of the story, but certainly based on the video, this does look like a straight out murder. >> van, the mayor of charleston of north charleston. the mayor also weighed in. i want to play what he said. >> when you're wrong, you're wrong, and if you make a bad decision don't care if you're behind the shield or just a citizen on the street. you have to live by that decision. >> did he say the right thing,
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van? >> absolutely. you do see in this case all the establishment establishment, all the authorities are doing the right thing because of the video. my concern is people begin to believe that a police report is an absolute state from god himself. officer are taught to put i feared for my life even if in the situation like this it's obvious. he may have been angry but he thought a guy running away from him was a threat to his life. we have to start as the news media, as jurors voters ask the question every single time you're fearing for your life every single time it's the same legal language. this is being coached by lawyers. these are legal documents that lawyers are coaching them these police reports. it's not always the truth. here is a classic case where somebody was not in fear of their life. it's unlawful use of force. yet, i guarantee the police report says the opposite.
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>> of course he did say he feared for his life. our panel with stay with us. next, our breaking news. the white police officer now charged with the murder of a black man for shooting him eight times in the back. the justice department is weighing in tonight. we'll show you part of this video, a new part right after the break. breaking news of hack into the president's personal schedule. details highly highly important details hacked into. a family nearly killed after exposure to paralyzing chemical. our report on how farmers are using that pesticide right now on american strawberries and tomatoes.
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basic with our breaking news a white south carolina police officer charged with the murder of black man. the video is very graphic. it is this killing. we have just obtained it. the officer on the right shooting the man in back as he runs away. that's 50-year-old walter scott being shot. he was shot eight times. according to the new york times the officer, michael slager pulled him over for a broken taillight. scott ran. the officer chased him fired his taser. scott ran away again and that's when the eight shots were fired. slager's version is walker tried to seize his taser.
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this happened on saturday. you already have murder charges a couple of days later. very unlike these other case wes have seen. they went straight to it. the police chief just appeared the mayor spoke. they have condemned this. the justice department is involved. what are they telling you? >> this is really fast moving story now. i think this is a lesson from ferguson is what we're seeing. the justice department says the fbi in south carolina and the civil rights division for the just defense here in washington are now opening their own investigations alongside the state officials. they say the justice department will take appropriate actions in light of the development in this case. clearly, video is making the big difference here. you don't have to rely only on the officer's version of the story and what he said happened. >> thank you very much. evan talking to the justice department already moving on
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this story. don, you now have watched this video. >> yeah. >> we were talking briefly in that commercial. i was saying one of the things so chilly is how the officer is standing there so calm and stoicicly as he fires the gun. there's no physical signs of duress and fear. >> he's a person in control and in charge. he's the long arm of the law. what's stunning is he shoots the man, you hear it. it's in the report and he says put your hands behind your back. >> he just strolls over. it's not a sprints and he asked him to put his hand behind his back. what's your interpretation the moment where the police officer is over. he said put your hands behind your back and you see his hands release what appears to be taser. could be a gun next to the guy. >> it looks to like a plant.
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>> so he is say this guy tried to take my taser. >> i guess he said the taser didn't work. he shoots him eight times with a gun and you see that. it looks like he's planting something. that will come out in evidence. you can't unsee that. your eyes see what you see. he's putting something next to him. >> you saw that as plant also. >> i saw that clearly. that's admitted as an acknowledge of guilt that he knew he done something wrong. that's not necessarily racial. tragically there's a police culture among bad cops you plant a gun if you've shot somebody and it's bad shooting. some cops have carried saturday night specials in their waist. >> just to plant? >> just to plant. >> other evidence as well. >> this is unfortunately fairly common. we have to be careful about
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which aspects of this we attribute race and which we attribute the police underculture that has to be stopped regardless of race. >> it's fair question. the police chief said in his hearts of heart hopes it's not race but hopes it's not. >> it is definitely power. >> before we go i have to ask you about the other breaking news. that's related to you. there was a woman who charged prince andrew you, others with rape. those charges have been thrown out. >> charges have been stricken. the judge said they were improperly put in. i've been vindicated legally. i want to be continue to be vindicated factually. i don't know this woman. the judge said they never should have said it. we're now back to the position as if it has never been done
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before. you can't unring a bell. my reputation has still been harmed. that's what happens when there's false allegations. the real victims are real rape victims. when you have a woman making up a story like this whether it's this one or the rolling stones whether it's the story that happened at duke university a few years ago. the real victims are rape victims who shouldn't be burdened by false stories. >> thank you very much. now the breaking news. an attack at the white house. a hack attack. officials telling cnn russia succeeded at an incredible hack. the fbi and secret service, other agencies are now desperately investigating the breech. they call it one of the most sophisticated attacks launched against the united states. he speeshlcializes in cyber security. this is one of the most serious breeches ever. the most serious against the
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united states government. they got access to the president's realtime schedule. that's pretty scary. >> it is. especially from an intelligence standpoint. the types of information you can glean is enormous. where the president is going, perhaps who's phone he will be talking on. what types of things he'll be looking at to what his legislative agenda is and foreign policy. all of these things are important. from a technical standpoint what you're looking at here is the ability of a foreign power to get into systems that belong to the u.s. government. it's well documented that the state department has been hacked for basically several month, several years and that's what they used to move forward with and find another way in to the government so they could get into the white house. >> it's pretty scary. the u.s. says they have the best cyber defense and offense in the world. obviously, someone else had a better offense. that's the bottom line here when
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you look at it that way. is anything safe? >> the answer is it is not as safe as it should be. there are a lot of technical things that one can do. one can protect messages, for example, one can encrypt things. there's a lot of stuff that can happen that we're not doing. we as a collective we across the u.s. it's not just the government but private industry can do a lot more to protect their data. what you're looking at is really a lot of vulnerability. we may have a good offense. if we don't have a good defense the other offense can score a point or two. >> thank you very much. next president obama firing back at governor scott walker. he said if he was elected president he would back out of the iran nuke deal. the president tells him the bone up on foreign policy. family is fighting for their lives still in a coma. we'll show you the chemical because it's still being used on the food in your fridge. h, scott. i was just about to use the uh...
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president obama striking back on his critics on iran. walker said he would pull out of the u.s. deal with iran if elected. >> it would be a foolish approach to take and perhaps mr. walker, after he's taken some time to bone up on foreign policy will feel the same. >> jim, the president coming out and talking about scott walker by name and saying something that directly insulting take some time to bone up on foreign policy that's not normal for this president. he's under a lot of pressure because it's the candidates and it's the gop. it's congress that can scuttle this deal. >> and democrats. you have democrats and others who are saying they will vote for republican proposal that they get a chance to vote on this deal. they are judging their way
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toward a veto proof majority to do that. this makes the administration nervous. they say that congress will have other chances to pipe in. they'd have to vote to lift sanctions on iran. the white house said it's willing to discuss other ways they can have buy in. that's not satisfying to republicans or democrats. you're now seeing them move towards a damaging vote not just for the administration but these very delicate nuclear talks with iran. >> certainly. the president gives his word and the u.s. doesn't follow through with it. thank you very much. a man adamantly opposed to this deal. good to have you with me again. you just heard jim. president obama coming out and saying look to scott walker who is running for president, most likely. he needs to done up on foreign
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policy. the united states has given its word it will do everything to push this deal forward. why isn't that the right thing to do? >> well first of all, the deal is not finished. the deal as we sit is worse than the worst case scenario that we anticipated. this is a bad deal that doesn't destroy one centrifuge. it doesn't shut down one underground facility and paves the way for iran to acquire nuclear weapon but when they're free. they've got all their economy up and running. it just doesn't make sense. it's not too late to fix it. >> one of the things to quote, unquote fix it that you have supported and prime minister benjamin benjamin netanyahu, president obama said forget about it. here is how he put it. >> the notion that we could condition iran not getting
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nuclear weapons in a verifiable deal on iran recognizing israel is really akin to saying that we won't sign a deal unless the nature of the iranian regime completely transforms. that is, i think a female misjudgment. >> what do you say to that? is prime minister netanyahu misjudging this situation? asking for something that's impossible just for the sake of it. >> this is very possible. first of all, i want to point out the supreme leader of iran recently published a document that says what is the proper way of eliminating israel. this is the leader of iran coming out with a document talking about eliminating and destroying israel and all we're asking is to do away with this. you can't go sign a deal with someone who explicitly said he
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wants to destroy us. it is possible to achieve a good deal. here is what you need to do. just keep the sanctions. you don't need to change anything. just wait. for the past two years the crippling sanctions in banking and finance have succeeded in bringing iran to the table. if you don't let up now, sooner or later within a year or three years they will be at a point where their economy cannot sustain the sanctions and they'll have to give up on their nuclear weapon program, and it is possible. >> what i want to ask you is when prime minister netanyahu says it should be recognition of israel a lot of people say that makes complete sense. the former chief agrees with president obama. in an op-ed he said iran will
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not change its spots. anyone who voices such a demand is signaling that he doesn't want an agreement and has his eyes on a direct solution. that's a slap in the face. >> right now we have a prime minister who is responsible for the security of the only jewish state that we have. we have to defend ourselves. it's passover now. every generation there's someone that wants to annihilate the jewish. now it's iran who want to eliminate us. here is what we need to do to avoid a war.
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we need to insist on not giving the oxygen to go ahead and pave their way to a bomb. i think president obama said when the time is out the break out time will be zero when this deal is over in about ten years. my daughter abigail, will be 15 years old. this is nothing in the time of a nation. what we're doing effectively, this bad deal legitimatizes and pavers the way for iran to akwar acquire a nuclear weapon. if they want nuclear energy fine but not weaponize it. that's all we're asking here. i don't know it's an unreasonable request. >> thanks very much to you. i appreciate that. i will also note it wasn't long
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ago where israel wasn't allowed for the possibility of nuclear power from iran. that will be a pretty significant concession. next, two children in a coma. their father paralyzed from exposure exposure to a pesticide that's still widely used to help grow your food. we have a special report ahead. rand paul already running for president. already under fire from the right for flip-flops. who is the real rand paul? financial noise financial noise financial noise
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serious questions about a chemical that poisoned a delaware family on vacation in the u.s. virgin islandss. steve and his son are still fighting for that are lives in hospital. both sons remain in comas. the epa banned this chemical more than three decades ago. now we're learning that the chemical is more widely used on things to this day, at this hour like our food. jean casarez is outfront. >> reporter: it's a toxic
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chemical ruled to dangerous it's been banned since 1984 because of its harmful effects on human beings. >> it's a potent neurotoxin. there's been a movement to recommend it's not used at all. >> reporter: it's used by a fumigation company in the u.s. virgin islands have made a father of four ill after they inhaled the fumes. they had no condo beneath them had been sprayed with the toxic chemical a day before they arrived. three of them remain hospitalized. two in critical condition. why is methyl bromide still being used on fruits and vegetables across america. it's used to prevent bugs fungus and weeds from damaging crops. more is used for strawberries
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than any other kracalifornia crop. it effects the ozone layer which protects the earth from harmful radiation. there's been a gradual decline, cnn has been told it hasn't been tracked by the department since 2000. kra california is the leader in the country when it comes to using the pesticide. >> the reason for that is the crops are grown on a year round basis. >> reporter: advocates say it's not dangerous to consumers because it never touches the produce we eat and only goes into the soil. the epa says it can be harmful and is used once crops are harvest and stored and also on imported produce. those believed most at work the farm workers who apply it because the dangerous chemical is airborne.
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something the esmond family is now trying to recover from. strawberries had the most because they're the first to go into the ground. before they go in the ground the methyl bromide goes into the soil. some say it completely leaves the ground because it's airborne but others say not necessarily. food that is harvested and imported gets it. i read the national institute of health where a warehouse worker in california was breathing in grapes from chile and he got it in hislings lingling lingungs and was seriously ill. >> this is pretty unbelieveableunbelievable. it gets ban from indoor use and they don't track it for out door use and then they say california is using it on strawberryies in my fridge.
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>> it's been surprising because it was phased out ten years ago. these exemptions allow close to 800,000 pounds of it are still predicted to be used this year. phased out, lots of concern, toxic to humans. most of it in strawberries most in california. that's one of the big products that got that exemption. i will tell you this degree of toxicity this degree of poisoning we're hearing from this family they haven't heard of someone becoming as sick as this entire family has become. dangerous but this particular case is pretty extraordinary. >> extraordinary. also extraordinary, is there any way to avoid it? a lot of people watching are in shock. is organic even safe? >> you're not using pesticides. it's worth pointing out we eat a lot of strawberries that have
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been treated with this sort of pesticide and people have done okay. it's not something that lingers indefinitely but i think that's obviously a concern. i think it's worth asking why so much is still being used especially when there's other options. >> as you point out it's banned and supposed to be phased out. thank you very much. next, rand paul announcing he's running from the white house. can he win? plus the 12 hour pain relieving strength of aleve. be a morning person again with aleve pm.
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tonight, rand paul. republican senator on anti-establishment but is it going to win? dana bash out front with why rand paul is already being called a flip-flopper. >> reporter: rand paul's path to the republican presidential nomination would be an unorthodox one. >> we have come to take our country back. >> reporter: he must reenlist the activist who faithfully backed his father's presidential runs. >> if we nominate a candidate that's democrat light what is the point? why bother? we need to boldly proclaim our
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vision for america. >> reporter: at the same time paul must broaden his appeal among mainstream republicans, that means trying to e lay gop concerns about some of his views like non-interventionist foreign policy. >> i'll do whatever it takes to defend america from these haters of mankind. >> reporter: it's a tough needle for paul to crack especially on the steadfast opposition to wiretaps as invasion of privacy. >> i believe we can have liberty and security and i will not compromise your liberty for a false sense of security. >> reporter: but on other national security issues like defense spending paul's gone from wanting cuts to supporting an increase as gop primary voters have moved from war weary to fearful of threats like isis. >> without question we must defend ourselves and american interests from our enemies. >> reporter: but even before he announced the man who made infamous swift boat ads against john kerry released one against paul criticizing his stance on
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paul. >> rand paul is wrong and dangerous. he didn't want iranian bomb would be a disaster. >> reporter: in an unusual move for an announcement speech paul got into the weeds to explain his iran position saying he would oppose any deal that doesn't end iran's nuclear ambitions but -- >> trust but verify is required in any negotiation but the goal always should be and always is peace. not war. >> reporter: and paul is already on the campaign trail tonight in new hampshire. the first in the primary. the first in the nation primary state, i should say. he's going to make trips to iowa and to nevada to states that have caucuses where the paul family traditionally do pretty well because it's all about organizing and they're very good at that. and then erin he's also going to south carolina because that is a place he has to do okay but it's going to be a little
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bit difficult because of that issue he has with defense cuts. >> absolutely. and i know a lot of people point out one of the biggest hurdles he has. thank you so much dana. next jeanne moos on one man's terrifying idea how to settle a road rage dispute. your eyes depend on a unique set of nutrients. that's why there's ocuvite. ocuvite helps replenish key eye nutrients. ocuvite has a unique formula that's just not found in any leading multivitamin. help protect your eye health with ocuvite.
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big day? ah, the usual. moved some new cars. hauled a bunch of steel. kept the supermarket shelves stocked. made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. what's up for the next shift? ah, nothing much. just keeping the lights on. (laugh) nice. doing the big things that move an economy. see you tomorrow, mac. see you tomorrow, sam. just another day at norfolk southern.
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- not only for them, but everybody, myself included that lives in the community. i'm very proud to do the work that i do and say that i am a lineman for pg&e because it's my hometown. it's a rewarding feeling. in a case of extreme road rage a guy brandishes a blade.
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here's jeanne moos. >> reporter: there have been road rage incidents where someone used their bare hands or even a golf club. but this this is a new road for road rage. this threat has teaked. no this isn't some remake of the chain saw massacre with its drive-by slicings. this actually happened in the suburb of montreal, kwequebec. they were driving with their two kids. >> we hear, come in. >> reporter: it was a tree specialist driving this van. the couple said the van and the mini van cut them off from driving erratically, so they followed him to try to get his license and to tell police where he went but then ended up in a dead end street. the couple blocked his exit. he brandished the chain saw.
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yelling do you like this? and making an obscene gesture, karine siri yelled back that they called police. okay your chain saw she yelled. bring it on. the mini van drove off. the next day, police arrested 37-year-old manuel delile who pleaded guilty of assault. much of the rage directed at the couple. what in god's name were they thinking with the children in the car as well? the couple agreed telling nuvel it wasn't the most intelligent move. we haven't seen such road rage since the tailgater pulled alongside to give the one finger salute and then cut her off only to lose control, instant karma. >> that's what you get! >> reporter: he wasn't hurt and
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at least there was no chain saw massacre. the only thing massacred was this guy's dignity. jeanne moos cnn, new york. >> and thank you so much for joining us. be sure to dvr outfront to watch us anytime. "ac360" starts now. good evening. we begin with what authorities in north charleston south carolina say is murder. murder plain and simple. murder caught on video tape. murder committed they say, by a police officer. the video, which we're going to show you in a moment is shocking to say the least. a man shot while running away from a police officer shot multiple times with his back turned. the officer is white. the suspect african-american. the fbi is now investigating, as is the civil rights division of the justice department. the officer said he believed his life was in danger after the suspect took his stun gun. the video, however, seems to tell a very different story.