♪ o night divine ♪ ♪ o night o holy night ♪ >> larry: susan boyle with "o holy night" from her new album "the gift." time now for anderson cooper and ac 3 p 60. thanks for watching. tonight breaking news. the death of america's top diplomatic troubleshooter. the remarkable career of richard holbro holbrooke. we'll talk to those who knew him well and what you know about the killer that cut him down and can strike often without warning. keeping them honest on the tax deal. as lawmakers vote on the deal

president obama worked out with republican leaders, how do the president's statements stand up to his campaign promises on taxes for the wealthy and how john mccain's thoughts seem to have evolved. a picture-perfect honeymoon. a husband and wife go scuba diving in auls but something terrible happened underwater and only the husband returned alive. he served jail time in auls for manslaughter and is now back home in alabama on trial for murder. did he do it? you can judge the evidence for yourself tonight. we begin with breaking news. the death of richard holbrooke, america's special representative for afghanistan and pakistan, ark tech of the peace agreement that ended the bosnia war. all-around troubleshooter. president obama calling him one of the giants of foreign diplomacy. he became ill on friday in secretary of state hillary clinton's office and died today of a tear in a major artery leading from his heart. surgery to fix it not enough to

save him. he was 69 years old and the shock waves from his passing are traveling around the world as we speak. joining us now "360" m.d. sanjay gupta and paul begala who worked with him and jill dougherty who covered his exploits. paul, let's start with you. you knew him and worked with him during the clinton administration. what's his legacy? >> what a towering figure. as you said, he began his career in vietnam where he worked then to try to bring peace to that war. in his career, in his life working to bring peace to afghanistan. for the 40 years in between he seemed to be in the middle of every hot spot. a towering figure. it's kind of hard if you didn't know him to imagine. he was drawn into a business diplomacy that usually attracts bright but sort of shy and retiring people and dick was a larger than life figure in every sense of the word. i still haven't fully digested the shock of thinking about an

american foreign policy without richard holbrooke. >> i know he was a friend of yours, not just a professional loss but personal loss for you. he faced down slobodan milosevic and brought peace to the dayton peace accords. what made him a good peace negotiat negotiator? >> he was very tough. president obama said today at the state department he was one tough son of a gun. that's right. he is a man if you were president and had to face somebody who was a criminal or one of the really bad guys out there, you'd call for dick holbrooke. that was especially true of the clintons. bill and hillary groomed him to be secretary of state. some thought he should have won the nobel peace prize for the work in bosnia. others thought he should be sos you secretary of state. he never got there but was willing to go out and do the messy jobs. >> thankless jobs. >> afghanistan, pakistan, you were just saying before we went

on air there was something in "the washington post" about his talking to a is your jonl, last words, talking to a pakistani surgeon saying you've got to end this war in afghanistan. and that it was him. he was -- i've never seen anybody who lived to be a diplomat. everything else in life was waiting. he liked to be up on that wire. really doing things for american foreign policy. >> this all happened suddenly. he had a promise i guess in the past. i guess he was in a meting with secretary clinton and what exactly went wrong? a tear in the aorta, is that right? >> yeah. i heard that he stood up and was able to walk out of the office. but what we now know somebody that has chest pain like that, you know you're going to think about the heart potentially being a problem here. this is different. this is not a problem with the heart specifically. there's a major blood vessel that carries the blood away from the heart. it's called the aorta. as you might imagine blood is flowing very fast high pressure through that aorta. and sometimes you can get a tear

in one of the inner layers of the aorta. and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> it's unclear for sure. there are a couple of main risk factors. one is hypertension, high blood pressure. and that high blood pressure over time can sort of erode the inner layer of the aorta. sometimes people may have a genetic predisposition because the tissue is not as strong as well in that area but usually that hypertension is sort of the main cull plit. >> is it something that can be caught with an ultrasound or something like that? >> it's a great question. typically if someone has a true aortic dissection, the first time they have any problem unfortunately is something like this, when you get the dissection and you get the tear and they may not have ever had any problem with this in the past. if they have what's known as an aneurysm, that's when the aorta starts to get big because those walls are weak and the aneurysm starts to get a little boggy. you can see that sometimes on a chest x-ray or ct scan but

typically this is something just undetected, anderson, until something tragic like this happens. >> he was a close friend and confidante to secretary of state hillary clinton. what does this mean moving forward in terms of the war in afghanistan in terms of diplomacy in pakistan or afghanistan? >> he was the architect of that afpac strategy as it's called. looking at the region, not just afghanistan or pakistan but a combination. you'd have to say that that policy really is already set. and if you look at the last two years, i mean, he was out there in the wilds of afghanistan and pakistan meeting with the people in the field, talking with them. and that's what's really going to be missed. i mean, the policy is one thing. but the guy who could go out there, do the deals, sit across the table and really talk with people is gone. however, as he himself pointed out, this is a very different war. maybe if there were negotiations with the taliban, he could do it. but as he pointed out, there's

no slobodan milosevic. there's no big leader. there are no armies. it's terrorists and that's a very different ball of wax. >> david? >> there was also a very different side of dick holbrooke. he was tempestuous and larger than life. i think he was difficult to live with. his first two marriages ended in divorce. he had a couple of kids, sons, of whom he was very proud. but in 1995 he married connie martin who had been married to peter jennings. that was one of the great romances in new york city he pegsly in foreign policy circles. he told me on many occasions how devoted he was to her and how important he was to her life. there was a soft side to him that connie filled and i think a lot of people who knew them will remember them as that romantic couple. >> i want to play for our viewers something president obama said earlier. >> richard is relentless.

he never stops. he never quits because he's always believed that if we stay focused, if we act on our mutual interests, that progress is possible. wars can end. peace can be forged. this is the conviction that an mates his work in afghanistan and pakistan. >> paul, i mean certainly his career was not without bouts of turbulence even in this administration. >> oh, absolutely. i see a lot of people use the phrase bull in a china shop. what i think was unique about holbrooke is this. a lot of people in diplomacy particularly at his level are very bright. and a few people are very tough. but it's never the same person. frankly, a lot of people who are not too bright, they tend to overcompensate by being too macho and too much swagger and maybe those overly bright have the paralysis of analysis and never want to act. richard always was the toughest and the smartest guy in the room. i think that's why he was so

successful. it would have been the highlight of anybody else's career but we haven't mentioned in 1996 he brought peace in cyprus between the greeks and the turks. it could have been a war but it never was. he brought peace to bosnia. he relished having the hardest job in the world fixing this war in afghanistan and pakistan. it was that combination of absolute brilliance and remarkable toughness. >> i never heard this medical condition before. we have talked about heart stuff a lot because of commonly family histories here. someone watching this suddenly hears about tears in the aorta. what can they do or what should they do moving forward? if it's not something that shows up until it's too late. >> here's the good news. first of all, it is still pretty rare. in the united states, for example, maybe around 2,000 cases of this sosht of problem in a given year. that's rare. two things. hypertension, high blood

pressure. we talk about it all the time. this is one of the worst consequences of high blood pressure. most people have high blood pressure will never have a problem like this. but if you do have it, it obviously needs to be controlled. there are a couple of genetic syndromes as well which cause the connective tissue within your blood vessels to become kind of flimsy and not so strong. marfans syndrome. if you have one of those you may need to be screened for this, getting tefrts to see if there is any problems with your aorta. but it is a difficult thing to screen for. most of those 2,000 people i was just mentioning, the first time they know they have this sort of problem is when they have the actual dissection and this occurs. >> he had actually had heart problems in the past. and i think they were keeping a close eye on him. >> just to be clear, heart issues are different. when people have blockages of the blood vessels going to the heart, that is a much more

common thing. and obviously people are much more well versed on heart disease. this is the major blood vessel leading away from the heart. john ritter in 2003 -- this was the same thing that he had. and at first people thought it was a heart attack but in fact it was this aortic dissection. >> certainly our thoughts and prayers are with his family. david, appreciate you coming on. paul begala, dr. sanjay gupta, jill dougherty. let us know what you think. up next, president obama's tax deal with republicans, how he changed his position to get it. how john mccain has done a 180 of his own on taxes, too. and the chances the deal will go through after clearing a big hurdle today. later the fallout from bernie madoff's ponzi scheme, a really tragic horrific development over the weekend. another life claimed, this time his son's. we asked people all over america where the best potatoes come from.

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tomorrow we may see a major development in the senate on the tax deal president obama hammered out with republicans. the senate voting 83-15 to move it to a final vote president obama spoke about a few hours ago. >> so i urge the house of representatives to act quickly on this important matter because if there's one thing we can agree on, it's the urgent work of protecting middle class families, removing uncertainty for america's businesses and giving our economy a boost as we head into the new year. >> keeping them honest you didn't hear him mention the other key part of the deal, extending bush cuts to the wealthiest americans. it's something candidate obama talked about a lot. >> ends the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. it means letting the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans expire. rolling back the bush tax cuts

to the top 1%. we have to roll back. i'm going to roll back the bush tax cuts for the very wealthiest americans. for the wealthiest americans. for the wealthiest americans. for the wealthiest americans. it is true that i want to roll back the bush tax cuts on the very wealthiest americans and go back to the rate that they paid under bill clinton. >> that was mr. obama on the campaign trail making a pledge he kept making well into the white house but gave up on to cut the deal. liberal democrats now accuse him of caving and punting as house democrat wiener said on third down. what was interesting this weekend was john mccain latched on to some of those clips you just saw. >> i guess it was my old beloved friend that said the politician's prayer is may the words i utter today be tender and sweet because tomorrow i may have to eat them. we see clips all over the place we can't extend these tax cuts. the clips we've seen of the president. >> we don't know if he was offering the president free political advice or taking a

poke at him or something else. you can decide for yourself but keeping him honest as well we did some checking and didn't take long to see senator mccain also seems to have changed his position on taxes on the welty. >> i'm not sure we need to give two-thirds of that tax cut of that money to the wealthiest 10% of america. >> i won't take every last had dime of the surplus and spin it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the welty. >> i want to give working familiar littles a tax cut. i think that's very important. governor bush wants to take 38% of this surplus and give it to the weltdiest 1% of americans. >> when you reach a certain level of comfort there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more. i voted again the tax cut and voted against it because i didn't think there was sufficient relief for working americans and i think events that have happened since then validated that vote. >> he held that until 2004. he voted for the compromise today even though he disagreed

with parts of it. the question is what happens next with the deal in the senate and the house and in the election in 2012. earlier i talked with eric erickson, democratic strategist james carville and democratic pollster cornell belcher. james, what are the politics of this? does the president get a boost from the compromise or since he campaigned on not extending the tax cut for the rich, does he get hurt? >> he campaigned on extending them for the middle class. i don't know. i think the republicans may get hurt slightly. elections have consequences and one of the consequences of this election if you're a rich person, you did very well. i think they should make the argument that the republicans are doubling down on failure. the bush tax cuts did not work and why we continue with this policy i have no idea. that's the situation we're in now and the democrats lost the election and they have to deal with that. >> eric, you say conservatives should oppose the bill but it's not a hell to die on. i believe was your quote.

what what do you mean. >> >> they think they could have gotten a better deal in january but there's no guarantee. did they want to take the gamble or not? a lot of republicans privately said they might be able to other than on the estate tax issue. the question is what house democrats will do. republicans didn't want to be seen as killing the deal. they would much prefer it if house democrats would but it looks unlikely. >> cornell? >> i have to tell you that eric saying republicans are complaining they didn't get a best deal is news to our liberal democrats. it's really interesting. i think that the president has is slightly different -- i think james is absolutely right. house democrats have to say this is doubling down on failure. for my guy, the guy who i work for, i think for him when you listen to people out there in middle america talk about -- not understanding what all the fighting is about and saying why can't they all get in the room and work together, the president's imperative was to finds bipartisan. to me for him to finds it to

bring this up was important for him to look like a leader and adult in the room with all the kids around and fighting. >> by setting this up that it comes up again in two years during a presidential race, isn't the president kinds of walking into a trap of basically letting this become a major issue during the presidential race? >> well, no. a lot of provisions will come up within a year. it's the stuff that the rich people get that comes up within two years. the stuff that the working stiff gets is in a year. they get half a loaf here. let's be careful there. i suspect that that was about all he could do because this makes the deficit nims -- the ten-year projections look awful because the tax cuts are hideously expensive, something like $4 trillion over ten years. everybody comes and says we're going to do something about the deficit and then i'll make a deal. i'll give you everything if you want if you give half of what we want. they agree with that and that's where we are. >> eric, do you have see this as something for the obama

administration good to have come up in two years? >> i see it as a great idea for republicans particularly if everything goes to plan fighting over obama care. that will come up as well. i'm sure by then it will be in the supreme court and have a decision. the tax cut issue in 2012. i see this as helping republicans. democrats can quibble over it and say it's helping the rich but fundamentally they make the argument every time and consistently lose on it. >> but it's not a quibble. it's a fact. it's a fact people don't like them. and it's also a fact it didn't work. >> jim, that's not true at all. >> they didn't work at all. there was no income -- >> after 2003 -- >> it was not. >> after the tax cuts were passed in 2002 and 2003 -- and remember we were in a recession when they were passed -- we had the lowest unemployment we've had in years, even lower than bill clinton had. we had a stock market higher than when bill clinton was president. they worked -- the bottom fell out when the democrats came back in and uncertainty was

introduced. >> erick, come on, man. >> james, those are the numbers. >> five years -- i'm sorry. you're going to say the stblth under bush was better than under clinton i'm going to fall right out the chair. the whole world -- >> those are the numbers, james. >> take it back. you're not looking good. you're not going to look good when you compare the clinton market with the bush market. >> you always say how awful they were and didn't work but the fact is under george bush after the tax cuts were passed we had ridiculously low unemployment. the unemployment didn't go back up until 2007. >> let's look at income growth, stock market, deficit, everything and compare clinton and bush. in the entire eight years bush was president created 1 million jobs. please -- you got to deal with the facts. >> the facts is the unemployment rate under george bush after 2003 was significantly low. >> okay. all right. the stock market was better under bush. you're going to look like a

fool, man. don't do it. >> james, i could be wrong on the stock market but i'm absolutely right on the unemployment. >> you couldn't be wrong on the stock market. you are wrong. >> you know i'm right on unemployment, james. >> if i could -- >> jobs created not close. not close. >> what's interesting is you're tubinging clinton/bush and not bush/obama. >> obama, the stock market is much better under obama than bush, much better. >> here is what is really clear is that under clinton, you did have a peace and prosperity that was broader to more americans. right now under george bush -- sorry, but under george bush you've got prosperity that was fairly concentrated on a very few individuals and this was part of the problem with the country right now. the middle class -- you're in a class warfare. you just don't know it yet. you better start shooting. >> i appreciate the two against one but the bush record speaks for itself. you are so interested in blaming bush than now. the unemployment under bush was a low number.

you had massive amount of people employed. >> i can't believe you're defending eight years of bush. >> i mean, the fact that you have guys prefer to ignore it and ignore obama's record as well. >> i can't -- it's breathtaking. we live on two different planets. >> james, the 2012 election, though, does it then become a referendum on health care reform and on tax cuts? i mean, is that -- are those the two central issues? >> you knows. a lot can happen. i don't think -- i really think the election is about economic growth. i don't think it's about tax cuts people making over $250,000 a year. the tax on estate over $5 million a year. it may be that but i beg to differ. i do not think it's going to be about that. the republicans argue we need incremental small changes in health care that we have the best health -- deepest, best health care in the world. democrats think otherwise. i think that's something that we're going to have to slug it

out on. it -- sometimes elections have to be about something. the democrats lost this election. we'll see where it goes. the president has to make the case. >> we're going to leave it there. cornell belcher, james carville, erick erickson. you heard erick and james going at it over the tax deal. the bush and clinton record on economy. job growth, economic growth and the stock market. we wanted to check as many statements as we could. we try to check the factual accuracy bearing in minds external factors like the 9/11 attacks made a difference and timing swlt regarding job growth and according to the nonpartisan website poltifacts. erick was focusing on unemployment numbers -- percentage. growth rate according to the world bank 3.34% for '92. 3.62 in 2000 and dipping below in the bush years.

peaked in 2005 at 3.65, then down to the low point in 2008 obviously with the economy shrinking half percent. stock market dow rose about 7,000 points during the clinton presidency, dropped 2,000 during the course of the bush years though again timing and 9/11 attacks also played a part. still ahead another tragedy related to bernie madoff. his son who turned in his father two years ago hanged himself in new york two years to the day his dad was arrested. also in crime and punishment, is he a grieving husband unjustly prosecuted for a second time or murderer who drowned his new bride while scuba diving in australia? the latest. [ male announcer ] this is lara.

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a story that's ruined thousands of lives took another sad turn this weekend when the oldest son of bernie madoff committed suicide. his name was mark madoff and hanged himself in his new york apartment two years to the day his dad was arrested. bernie madoff you remember swindled $50 billion from investors. many victims were relative, longtime family friends. there's basketball a lot of speculation about whether he might attend his son's funeral. he's serving a life sentence in a north carolina prison. i think about 150-year sentence.

joe johns joins me with the latest. what do we know? >> police say mark madoff hanged himself with a dog leash in his apartment in soho. it was attached to a ceiling pipe. his 2-year-old son was in the apartment. police said the boy wasn't hurt. authorities said apparently before committing suicide mark madoff apparently sent an e-mail to his wife, who happened to be in florida with their daughter telling her to have someone check on their son. his father-in-law went to the apartment and found the boydy still hanging. it came from the two year anniversary when he and his brother told police bernie madoff had confessed to fraud and actually they're the ones who turned him in. bernie madoff 71, 72 years old serving a 130-year prison sentence. >> bernie madoff is not going to be attending his son's funeral, right? >> there have been at least reports bernie madoff did not want to attend that funeral out

of respect for his children and grandchildren. he apparently told somebody he was going to have a private ceremony in his prison in north carolina. but the truth is, there's no way of telling if the federal bureau of prison would even give him a furlough to get out because he hadn't been in that long. >> we also know -- it was obviously -- mark madoff worked for his dad's firm but then turned in his father. >> right. >> was he implicated in the fraud? >> well, there was an investigation and they checked him out and it's not clear at all that the investigation was over. but about the relationship, i mean, we know that it wasn't a good one. for one thing, mark madoff worked at the firm, turned him in. he confessed. there are also reports he hadn't really had any contact with his parents since that day when all of this happened two years ago. he still got sued, though, through the bankruptcy trustee. and this was a guy who apparently was looking at mark

madoff saying, you know, this -- mark madoff is a guy who knew or should have known about the fraud even though mark madoff made it pretty clear that in his view or at least his assertions were that he didn't know about the fraud. >> and what happens in the madoff case now? it goes on. >> yeah. there's every indication it's going to go on. this bankruptcy trustee is very aggressive. he filed a lot of lawsuits to try to recover money. one of those lawsuits actually names mark madoff. "the wall street journal" says the trustee claimed in a lawsuit that mark improperly received something like $66.9 million through his father's investment company. his attorney has denied it and said that's an absurd claim, pretty much. but the trustee is still going to try to get whatever money he can get for the people who were ripped off. >> and who else is -- there's a lot of folks getting sued. who else is getting sued here? >> you name it. there's family members,

associates, accountants, banks, one austrian banker. people all over the world who have really been drawn into this as the bankruptcy trustee goes about the business of trying to recover the money from basically the largest fraudulent transaction scheme in history. >> i read in "the times" over the weekend the trustee may be able to get 60s 50 cents on the dollar for some of the folks who lost money which is more than they initially thought. it depends how much they get from the various lawsuits they filed. they filed an awful lot. in crime and punishment, a man accused of killing his bride 11 days after their wedding while scuba diving on the honeymoon in australia. he already served time there. now he's in jail in alabama facing another trial for murder. find out what the alleged motive was. first susan hendricks joins us with a "360" bulletin. a ruling on president obama's health care reform is expected to start a legal battle that could wind up in the

supreme court. a federal judge in virginia today found a cornerstone of the reform package unconstitutional. the judge struck down the mandate that requires most americans to buy health insurance by 2014. the justice department is expected to take the issue to a federal appeals court. republican national committee chairman michael steele has broken his silence and says he will in fact seek a second term. steele made that announcement on a conference call with rnc members tonight. yes, those dreaded baggage fees the airlines are charging are earning them bags of cash. the bureau of transportation statistics show airlines have made more than $2.5 billion so far. up 2.5% from a year ago. >> i couldn't believe they made that much when i read that this morning. russian president vladimir putin showing a video gone viral on youtube. a shot at a children's charity dinner in st. petersburg where he took the stage and sang fat

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tonight in crime and punishment, a man accused of killing his bride on their honeymoon is in jail in alabama. he married his wife tina in 2003 in birmingham. just 11 days later on their honeymoon prosecutors say he killed her while scuba diving off the great barrier reef. watson pleaded guilty in australia to criminally nechblg manslaughter. according to his attorney he did that only because he didn't rescue her and didn't do enough to save her. he spent less than two years in jail in australia but back in alabama he faces murder and kidnapping charges. so seven years after the honeymoon trip the story has just begun. tom forman has the latest. >> reporter: simply and brutally put, this is the story of two

images. the first captured in this home video of gabe watson and his new bride tina on their wedding day in alabama in 2003. the second, a week and a half later on their honeymoon at australia's great barrier reef. that's tina on the ocean floor minutes after beginning the dive of a lifetime lying dead under 85 feet of water. now after years of legal wrangling, gabe watson is back home charged with murder and tina's parents are grimly awaiting trial. >> until that day comes, until he faces the evidence for the first time in a criminal trial before a jury, there can be no rest or no peace for anyone in our family. >> reporter: australian police who made this re-enactment video theorize this is what happened. watson put his new wife in a bear hug, cut off her air supply and then watched her drown. why? alabama prosecutors say it was to collect a $200,000 life

insurance policy which they say he asked her to increase dramatically right before the wedding. she did not get around to it, they say. but told him she had. the story from watson even his lawyers is of course quite different. >> gabe was upbeat. he was positive and optimistic. >> watson told australian investigators they found unexpectedly strong currents underwater. he had a problem with equipment that separated him from other divers and then his wife, a novice, panicked. he had much more experience and swam to help her. her hand hit my mask, he told police. it knocked my mask sideways so i had to let go and kind of turn back so i would have some space because at that point i didn't know if she was still flailing. when tried to return to her she was sinking, she was looking up, had both her arms out, you know, reached, stretched looking at me. i remember getting to the top yanking my mask off, spitting

out my regular lator and yelling tina's gone down. he pleaded guilty in australia to manslaughter saying he should have tried harder to save his bride. he was locked up a year and a half. his attorneys safe that's enough suffering for a grieving husband and call the capital murder charges he faces here nonsense. but alabama prosecutors insist watson was plotting the murder even as he took his vows and that's why they can bring charges even though it happened in australia. they say that he's told 16 different versions of what happened, that all the dive equipment was checked and found fine, that tina had a full tank of air and her regulator in her mouth when she died. and if they prove all they say, he could spend the rest of his life in privilegeson. tom forman, cnn. >> it's a really strange case. i talked about it earlier with legal analyst jeffrey toobin. how hard is it to prosecute a

case like this when it's circumstantial evidence and happened eight years ago. >> in australia. it's a difficult case to make for all sorts of reasons including the issue of motive, which he's -- there was some insurance policy there, but it wasn't an enormous amount of money. and mostly the technical aspect of the case. the physical evidence which involves the scuba equipment is very questionable in this case. >> in australia, a paper came out with a story saying australian police made mistakes early on in the investigation related to the diving equipment. >> that's right. because the central evidence in this case is basically what he did or didn't do with her diving equipment. did he have pull it away from her? did she just die the way people in scuba accidents sometimes die? this is not only eight years ago. it's an investigation that took place eight years ago. and you've got the problems from then, which are incurable now. >> had there not been disagreement about the death

penalty, do you think this would be a death penalty case? >> alabama is a state that really embraces the death penalty. this is a state where 50 people have been executed in the last few years. given -- if you believe that this guy killed his wife intentionally on their honeymoon, it is certainly a case that alabama would have sought the death penalty. >> can they even though they made this agreement or -- can they reverse that? can they go again it. >> absolutely not. they cannot go back on this agreement. these sorts of arrangements are fairly common, extradition on the condition you do not seek the death penalty. we're one of the few developed countries that still have the death penalty. there are a lot of countries that won't extradite people to the united states if we say we're going to use the death penalty. so it's the state department, the u.s. state department, not the alabama government that monitors those sorts of agreements. there's no way they can go back on it. >> obviously no double jeopardy. they can retry because it was in

australia. >> it's a lot less protection than people think. you remember the rodney king case where you had a state prosecution of the cops which failed and then a successful federal prosecution. when you have different jurisdictions you can almost always get around the problem of double jeopardjeopardy. sarah palin's visit to haiti. gary tuchman is there and joins us with the details. an nfl coach suspended for the rest of the season. his bad behavior lands him on the ridiculous. c s.

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you may have heard that sarah palin was in haiti over the weekend. she arrived saturday, visited some cholera clinics and traveled with a relief group led by franklin graham. it's a tense time in haiti. commercial flights were canceled last week because of civil unrest. demonstrations broke out after disputed election results were announced. gary tuchman joins me now from haiti. gary?

>> reporter: when sarah palin was here this weekend, she didn't see the rain, but she did see the tears. she talked to earthquake victims and cholera victims. the cholera epidemic is still raging here. she was a guest of franklin graham. franklin graham is the son of the reverend billy graham. he is the president and ceo of samaritan's purse. it's a charity organization that does a lot of good work. they built more than 10,000 shelters for earthquake victims. it was unusual because most of us didn't get to cover it. as a matter of fact we never got to see sarah palin with one haitian because sarah palin and her people made the decision that not just cnn but the associated press, haitian news organization, nobody could cover her visit except for the place where she works, the fox news channel with her the entire time. she's not ofgly running for president. she has every right to have anyone she wants with her but traditionally considered a vip and they work together. fox news helps us. cbs helps the bbc. we help the vips. the vips help us and get the

news out there for desperate people like the haitian people. we wanted to ask her why she didn't want the news media with her. she said she would have a news conference. we went there but it wasn't one because as soon as we got there franklin graham announced she would not take any questions. therefore it's a statement, not a news conference. she said she didn't want to get political and that's why she wasn't going to answer questions. instead, she made a statement. >> don't want americans to forget the need that is here. more importantly, for americans and people across the world to know what an individual can do to make a difference, to contribute, to kind of get out of your comfort zone and volunteer to help. >> reporter: we still wanted to see if we could make it a semi-news conference so i then tried to ask her at least one question. >> thank you. you are doing god's work. thank you. >> thank you, governor. thank you. >> could i ask you a question? >> thank you.

>> much harsher than i expected. the conditions are much are you ever. >> how about the violence at the moment? in terms of political situation on the ground, is port-au-prince calm? what's happening? >> reporter: yeah, last week was very rough, very violent, anderson. it quieted down over the weekend while sarah palin was here. there was fear, though, a lot of rumors on the radio it would pick up today but it's been raining all day. this is nature's policeman. this keeps things quiet. there's a lot of concern and keep hearing things on the radio things will pick up tomorrow on the violence. one of the reasons for the violence remember this name sweet micky martelly. the first two finishers sweet micky just by 5,000 votes. a lot of his supporters feel that there was a lot of criminal action in this election campaign, a lot of fraudulent voting. therefore, they think he should have been in second place. that's what started this all.

remember that name if this picks up again this week, the violence. >> i should point out i talked to the candidate, to mr. martelly on the phone on friday. and he was saying that he's appealing to his supporters for calm. he does not want violence on the streets. but folks have been demonstrating and isolated pockets of violence but folks have been demonstrating because they do feel that the elections have been stolen and that he was a very popular candidate. again, it remains to be seen what's going to happen in terms of whether there's a full recount or just an occasional recount of some of the votes. that's where the demonstrations really are kind of focused on. glad you're there. we'll continue to talk to you through the week. we're throwing a penalty flag on the jets football coach whose unsportsmanlike conduct was caught on camera. the latest addition to the ridiculous but first susan hendricks with a bull pin continue. swedish authorities say the bomber who apparently killed himself in stockholm saturday

was probably on the way to a more crowded location when the bomb went off prematurely. the chief prosecutor in the case says it's likely the man will get confirmation through dna testing and it's likely him. authorities link him to a nearby car blast. two people injured there. juan carlos cruz, the former food network chef sentenced to nine years behind bars for trying to hire two homeless men to kill his wife. julian assange's lawyer says a secret grand jury is meeting in virginia to consider criminal charges against the wikileaks founder. attorney general eric holder said he authorized actions related to releasing diplomatic cables but hasn't elaborated what those actions are. it's not even winter yet but winter weather advisories are in effect for half dozen states. the storm that hit the upper midwest is taking aim now at the northeast. it's a mess there. meanwhile in washington state, the concern is major flooding

along rivers in nine counties. the culprit, rain, that has also triggered mud slides. and is there more to mona lisa's stare than we can see? art historians say with a microscope they have found the letters l and v carved into her eye presumably of leaf nardo da vinci. the left eye is not as clear. this leads many to wonder if this is the true da vinci code. in unison, hmm. it's our nightly salute to those who cross the line. tonight to an nfl coach totally tripping last night sal alosi. he actually stuck his knee out and tripped miami player nolan carroll as he ran past him on the jets sideline. here's how it played out live. >> this is just uncalled for in

the nfl. watch the knee here being stuck out on purpose to trip up nolan carroll. not sure who that person is, but they should be ashamed of themselves for that type of action. that has no place in any athletic event. >> the offending knee and offender attached to it has since been identified as a fan of hard knocks on hbo. i've been watching the jets a lot lately but this is one hard knock i never expected to see although frankly we have seen unsportsmanlike behavior from coaches before. in the '70s woody hayes threw a punch at a player will from clemson before he was retrained by his only players. he was fired the next day and never coached again. sal alosi sayings he's sorry and it was inexcusable and irresponsible. and naive. wean all the cameras and instant replays and slow motion from every angle, did he really think he'd get away with it and no one would notice? the nfl suspended him for the rest of the season without pay and he'll be fined $25,000.

we're not sure which have will be more painful, that or added to tonight's list. the death and remarkable life of diplomat richard holbrooke. wlng for itchy dry skin.

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. tonight breaking news. the death of america's top diplomatic troubleshooter. the remarkable career of richard

holbrooke. we'll talk to those who knew him well and to "360" sanjay gupta about what you should know about the killer that cut him down and can often strike without warning. keeping them honest on the tax deal. as lawmakers work on the deal president obama worked out with the leaders how do the president's statements stand up to campaign promises for taxes for the wealthy. we'll look at how john mccain's thoughts for the wealthy seem to have evolved. a picture perfect honeymoon. a husband and wife scuba dive in australia but something terrible happened under water and only the husband returned alive. he served jail time in australia for manslaughter and is back home in alabama and often trial for murder. did he do it? you can judge the evidence for yourself in tonight's crime and punishment. we begin as always with breaking news. the death of richard holbrooke, america's special representative for afghanistan and pakistan, architect of the dayton peace agreement that ended the bosnia war, all-around troubleshooter, president obama calling him one

of the giants of american foreign policy. he became ill on friday in secretary of state clinton's office, died today. at nearby george washington university hospital of a tear in a major artery leading from his heart. surgery to fix it not enough to save him. he was 69 years old and the shock waves from his passing are traveling around the world as we speak. joining us sanjay gupta, david gergen and paul begala who worked with him and cnn's jill dougherty that covered his achievements and exploits. paul, start with you. you knew richard holbrooke and worked with him during the clinton administration. what's his legacy? >> what a towering figure. as you said, he began his career in vietnam where he worked then to try to bring peace to that war and to his life working to bring peace to pakistan. he seemed to be in the middle of every hot spot. a towering figure. hard to imagine if you didn't know him.

he was drawn into a business diplomacy that usually attracts bright but sort of shy and retiring people and dick was a larger than life figure in every sense of the world. i still haven't fully digested the shock of thinking about an american foreign policy without him. >> david, i know he was a friend of yours. professional obviously but personal loss for you. he faced down slobodan milosevic and brought peace in the dayton peace accords. what made him a good negotiator? >> he was very tough. president obama said today at the state department he was one tough son of a gun. that's exactly right. he's a man if you have were president and you had to face somebody who was a criminal or one of the really bad guys out there, you'd call for dick holbrooke. that was especially true of the clintons. both hillary and bill clinton loved dick holbrooke. both groomdz him to be secretary of state. and some people thought he should have won the nobel peace prize for his work in bosnia

ending with the dayton peace accords. other people thought he should have been secretary of state. he never got there but he was still willing to go out and do these really messy jobs. >> thankless jobs. >> thankless. afghanistan, pakistan, you were just saying before we went on the air there was something in "the washington post" about his talking to his surgeon -- his last words, talking to a pakistani surgeon saying you have to end this war in afghanistan. that was him. he was -- i've never seen anybody who lived to be a diplomat. everything else in life was waiting. he liked to be up on that wire. >> this all happened suddenly. he had had a problem i guess in the past but i guess he was in a meeting with secretary clinton. what exactly went wrong? a tear in the aorta, is that right? >> yeah. i heard that he stood up, was able to walk out of the office. what we now know -- somebody that has chest pain like that -- you think about the heart being potentially a problem here.

this is different. this is not a problem with the heart specifically. there's a major blood vessel that carries the blood away from the heart called the aorta. as you might imagine blood is flowing very fast. high pressure through that aorta. and sometimes you can get a tear in one of the inner layers of the aorta and then blood sort of starts seeping into the wall of the aorta. >> why does it tear? >> it's unclear for sure. there's a couple of main risk factors for it. one is hypertension, high blood pressure. and that high blood pressure over time can sort of erode the inner layer of the aorta. sometimes people may have a genetic predisposition because the tissue is not as strong as well in that area but usually that hypertension is sort of the main culprit. >> is it something that can be caught with an ultrasound or something like that? >> it's a great question. typically if someone has a true aortic dissection the first time they have a problem is unfortunately something like this where you get the dissection and the tear.

they may not have had any problem with it in the past. if they have what's known as an aneurysm, that's when the aorta starts to get big because the walls are weak and the aneurysm starts to get boggy. you can see that sometimes on a chest x-ray or ct scan but typically this is something that's just undetected until something tragic like this happens. >> jill, weighs a close friend and can have danltd to secretary of state hillary clinton. what does this mean moving forward in terms of the war in afghanistan and diplomacy with pakistan? >> he was really the architect of that afpac strategy as it's called, looking at the region, not just afghanistan or pakistan but a combination. you'd have to say that that policy really is already set. and if you look at the last two years, i mean, he was out there in the wilds of afghanistan and pakistan, meeting with the people in the field, talking with them. and that's what's really going to be missed. i mean, the policy is one thing. but the guy who could go out there, do the deals, sit across

the table and really talk with people is gone. however, as he himself pointed out, this is a very different war. maybe if there were negotiations with the taliban, he could do it. but as he pointed out, there's no slobodan milosevic. there's no big leader. there are no armies. it's terrorists and that's a very different ball of wax. >> david? >> anderson, it was also a very different side of dick holbrooke. he was tempestuous and larger than life. i think he was difficult to live with. his first two marriages ended in divorce. he had a couple of kids, sons, of whom he was very proud. but in 1995 he married kaat ifdz marton who had been married to peter jennings. that became one of the great romances of new york city especially in foreign policy circles. he told me on many occasions just how devoted he was to her and how important he was to her life. there was a soft side, a vulnerable side to have dick holbrooke that kati filled. i think a lot of people who knew

them will remember them as that romantic couple. >> i want to play something for our viewers what president obama said earlier. >> richard is relentless. he never stops. he never quits, because he's always believed that if we stay focused, if we act on our mutual interests, that progress is possible. wars can end. peace can be forged. this is the conviction that an mates h -- an mates his work in afghanistan and pakistan. >> his career was not without bouts of turbulence in this administration. >> absolutely. i see a lot of people use the frals bull in a china shop. what i think was unique about holbrooke is this. a lot of people in diplomacy particularly at his level are very bright. and a few people are very tough. but it's never the same person. frankly, a lot of people who are not too bright, they tend to overcompensate by being too macho and too much swagger.

some people who are too bright have the paralysis of analysis and never want to act. richard was always the toughest and smartest in the room. i think that's why he was so successful. it would have been the highlight of anybody else's career but in 1996 he brought peace in cyprus between the greeks and the turks. it could have been a war but never was because of him. he brought peace to bosnia. he relished having the hardest job in the whole world, trying to fix this afghan/pakistan problem for the united states. i think if anybody was ideally suited he was that combination of brilliance and toughness. >> i never heard his medical conditional before. we talked before heart stuff a lot because of common family histories. when somebody hears about tears in aorta, what should they do about it moving forward? if it's not something that shows up until it's too late. >> yeah. here's the good news. first of all, it is still pretty rare. so in the united states, for example, maybe around 2,000

cases of this sort of problem in a given year. that's rare in the scheme of things. two things i i would really say. hypertension, high blood pressure, we talk about it all the time. this is one of the worst consequences of high blood pressure. most people with high blood pressure will never have a problem like this but if you do it obviously needs to be controlled. there are a couple of genetic syndromes as well which cause the connective tissue within your blood vessels to become kind of flimsy and not so strong. marfans is one of those. you don't have to remember the name but the point is if you have one of those types of problems you may need to be screened for this sort of thing getting tests to see if there is any problems with your aorta. but it is a difficult thing to screen for. and, again, most of those 2,000 people i was just mentioning, the first time they ever know that they have this sort of problem is when they have the actual dissection and this occurs. >> he had actually had heart problems in the past and i think they were keeping a close eye on

him. >> just to be clear, heart issues are different. when people have blockages of the blood vessels going to the heart, that is a much more common thing. obviously, people are much more well versed on heart disease. this is the major blood vessel leading away from the heart. john ritter back in 2003, this was the same thing that he had. at first people thought it was a heart attack. but in fact it was this aortic dissection. >> certainly our thoughts and prayers are with his family, with kati and his kids. david, appreciate you coming on. paul begala and jill dortdy. let us know what you think. up next, president obama's tax deal with the republicans. how he changed his position to get it. how john mccain has done a 180 of his own on taxes too and the chances the deal will go through after clearing a big hurdle today. we'll tell you about that. the fallout from bernie madoff's ponzi scheme. a tragic horrific development over the weekend, another life claimed, had time his son's.

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few hours ago. >> so i urge the house of representatives to act quickly on this important matter because if there's one thing we can agree on, it's the urgent work of protecting middle class families, removing uncertainty for america's businesses and giving our economy a boost as we head into the new year. >> keeping them honest you didn't hear him mention the other key part of the deal, extending bush cuts to the wealthiest americans. it's something candidate obama talked about a lot. >> end the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans. it means letting the bush tax cuts for the wealthiest americans expire. rolling back the bush tax cuts to the top 1%. we have to roll back. i want to roll back. >> we're going to roll back. i'm going to roll back the bush tax cuts for the very wealthiest americans. for the wealthiest americans. for the wealthiest americans. for the wealthiest americans. it is true that i want to roll back the bush tax cuts on the very wealthiest americans and go back to the rate that they paid under bill clinton.

>> that was mr. obama on the campaign trail making a pledge he kept making well into the white house but gave up on to cut the deal. liberal democrats now accuse him of caving and punting as house democrat wiener said on third down. what was interesting this weekend was john mccain latched on to some of those clips you just saw. >> i guess it was my old beloved friend that said the politician's prayer is may the words i utter today be tender and sweet because tomorrow i may have to eat them. we see clips all over the place we can't extend these tax cuts. the rich people -- you know, all of the clips we've seen of the president. >> we don't know if he was offering the president free political advice or taking a poke at him or something else. you can decide for yourself but keeping him honest as well we did some checking and didn't take long to see senator mccain also seems to have changed his position on taxes on the wealthy. >> i'm not sure we need to give two-thirds of that tax cut of that money to the wealthiest 10% of america.

>> i won't take every last dime of the surplus and spin it on tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthy. >> i want to give working families a tax cut. i think that's very important. governor bush wants to take 38% of this surplus and give it to the wealthiest 1% of americans. >> when you reach a certain level of comfort there's nothing wrong with paying somewhat more. i voted against the tax cut. i voted against it because i didn't think there was sufficient relief for working americans and i think events that have transpired since then have validated that vote. >> stating a position he held until 2004. he voted for the compromise today even though he disagreed with parts of it. neither he nor president obama have been perfectly consistent over the years on this. the question is what happens next with the deal in the senate and the house and in the election in 2012. earlier i talked with eric erickson, democratic strategist james carville and democratic pollster cornell belcher. james, what are the politics of this? does the president get a boost

from the compromise or since he campaigned on not extending the tax cut for the rich, does he get hurt? >> he campaigned on extending them for the middle class. i don't know. i think the republicans may get hurt slightly. elections have consequences and one of the consequences of this election if you're a rich person, you did very well. i think they should make the argument that the republicans are doubling down on failure. the bush tax cuts did not work and why we continue with this policy i have no idea. that's the situation we're in now and the democrats lost the election and they have to deal with that. >> erick, you say conservatives should oppose the bill but it's not a hill to die on i believe was your quote. what do you mean. >> >> the deal -- a lot of republicans think and conservatives think they probably could have gotten a better deal in january but there's no guarantee on it. did they want to take the gamble or not? a lot of republicans privately said they might be able to other than on the estate tax issue. the question is what house democrats will do. republicans didn't want to be seen as killing the deal. they would much prefer it if

house democrats would but it looks unlikely. >> cornell? how do you see it? >> i have to tell you that erick saying republicans are complaining they didn't get a best deal is news to our liberal democrats. it's really interesting. i think that the president has -- is slightly different -- i think james is absolutely right. house democrats have to say this is doubling down on failure. for my guy, the guy who i work for, i think for him when you listen to people out there in middle america talk about -- not understanding what all the fighting is about and saying why can't they all get in the room and work together, the president's imperative was to find bipartisanship. to me for him to finds it to bring this up was important for him to look like a leader and adult in the room with all the kids around and fighting. >> by setting this up that it comes up again in two years during a presidential race, isn't the president kind of walking into a trap of basically letting this become a major issue during the presidential

race? >> well, no. a lot of provisions will come up within a year. it's the stuff that the rich people get that comes up within two years. the stuff that the working stiff get is in a year. they get half a loaf here. let's be careful there. i suspect that that was about all he could do because this makes the deficit numbers -- the ten-year projections look awful because the tax cuts are hideously expensive, something like $4 trillion over ten years. everybody comes and says we're going to do something about the deficit and then i'll make a deal. i'll give you everything if you want if you give half of what we want. they agree with that and that's where we are. >> erick, do you have see this as something for the obama administration good to have come up in two years? >> i see it as a great idea for republicans particularly if things go according to plans for everybody fighting out obama care. that's going to be coming up as well in 2012. i'm sure by then it will be in the supreme court and have a decision in the election year 2012. the tax cut issue in 2012. i see this as helping

republicans. democrats can quibble over it and say it's helping the rich but fundamentally they make the argument every time and consistently lose on it. >> but it's not a quibble. it's a fact. it's a fact people don't like them. and it's also a fact it didn't work. >> jim, that's not true at all. >> they didn't work at all. there was no income -- >> after 2003 -- >> it was not. >> after the tax cuts were passed in 2002 and 2003 -- and remember we were in a recession when they were passed -- we had the lowest unemployment we've had in years, even lower than bill clinton had. we had a stock market higher than when bill clinton was president. they worked -- the bottom fell out when the democrats came back in and uncertainty was introduced. >> erick, come on, man. >> james, those are the numbers. >> five years -- i'm sorry. you're going to say the stock market under bush was better than under clinton i'm going to fall right out the chair. the whole world -- >> those are the numbers, james. >> take it back. you're not looking good. you're not going to look good when you compare the clinton

market with the bush market. >> you democrats always say how awful these tax cuts were and didn't work but the fact is under george bush after the tax cuts were passed we had ridiculously low unemployment. the unemployment didn't go back up until 2007. >> let's look at income growth, stock market, deficit, everything and compare clinton and bush. in the entire eight years bush was president created 1 million jobs. please, what are we arguing about? you got to deal with the facts, erick. >> the facts is the unemployment rate under george bush after 2003 was significantly low. >> okay. all right. the stock market was better under bush. you're going to look like a fool, man. don't do it. don't say that. >> james, i could be wrong on the stock market but i'm absolutely right on the unemployment. >> you couldn't be wrong on the stock market. you are wrong. >> you know i'm right on unemployment, james. >> if i could -- >> jobs created not close. not close. >> what's interesting is you're talking clinton/bush and not bush/obama.

>> obama, the stock market is much better under obama than bush, much better. >> here is what is really clear is that under clinton, you did have a peace and prosperity that was broader to more americans. right now under george bush -- sorry, but under george bush you've got prosperity that was fairly concentrated on a very few individuals and this was part of the problem with the country right now. the middle class -- you're in a class warfare. you just don't know it yet. you better start shooting. >> i appreciate the two against one but the bush record speaks for itself. you are so interested in blaming bush as opposed to looking at it now. the unemployment under bush was a low number. you had massive amount of people employed. >> i can't believe you're defending eight years of bush. i'm shocked. >> i mean, the fact that you guys prefer to ignore it and ignore obama's record as well. >> i can't -- it's breathtaking. we live on two different planets. >> james, the 2012 election,

though, does it then become a referendum on health care reform and on tax cuts? i mean, is that -- are those the two central issues? >> who knows. a lot can happen. i don't think -- i really think the election is about economic growth. i don't think it's about tax cuts people making over $250,000 a year. the tax on estate over $5 million a year. it may be that but i beg to differ. i do not think it's going to be about that. the republicans argue we need incremental small changes in health care that we have the best health -- cheapest, best health care in the world. democrats think otherwise. i think that's something that we're going to have to slug it out on. it -- sometimes elections have to be about something. the democrats lost this election. we'll see where it goes. the president has to make the case. >> we're going to leave it there. cornell belcher, james carville, erick erickson. thanks. you heard erick and james going at it over the tax deal. the bush and clinton record on economy.

job growth, economic growth and the stock market. we wanted to check as many statements as we could. we try to check the factual accuracy of what our guests say bearing in mind external factors like the 9/11 attacks made a difference and timing as well regarding job growth and according to the nonpartisan website poltifacts there was a net gain just over a million jobs during the bush administration and more than 22 million on the clinton administration though erick was focusing on unemployment numbers percentage. growth rate according to the world bank 3.34% for '92. 3.69% in 2000 and everyone dipping below 2.5% in the bush years. the economy peaked in 2005 at 3.65, then down to the low point in 2008 obviously with the economy shrinking half percent. stock market dow rose about 7,000 points during the clinton presidency, dropped 2,000 during the course of the bush years though again timing and 9/11

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a story that's ruined thousands of lives took another sad turn this weekend when the oldest son of bernie madoff committed suicide. his name was mark madoff and hanged himself in his new york apartment two years to the day his dad was arrested. in the largest ponzi scheme in american history. bernie madoff you remember swindled $50 billion from investors. many victims were relatives, longtime family friends. there's been a lot of speculation about whether he might attend his son's funeral. he's serving a life sentence in a north carolina prison. i think about 150-year sentence. joe johns joins me with the latest. what do we know about how all this tran pird, joe? >> it's pretty awful. police say mark madoff hanged himself with a dog leash in his apartment in soho. it was attached to a ceiling pipe. his 2-year-old son was in the apartment. police said the boy wasn't hurt. authorities said apparently before committing suicide mark madoff apparently sent an e-mail to his wife, who happened to be in florida with their daughter,

telling her to have someone check on their son. his father-in-law went to the apartment and found the body still hanging. mark madoff's death as you said came on the two-year anniversary of when he and his brother told police bernie madoff had confessed to fraud and actually they're the ones who turned him in. bernie madoff 71, 72 years old serving a 130-year prison sentence. >> bernie madoff is not going to be attending his son's funeral, right? >> right pf thereof been at least reports bernie madoff did not want to attend that funeral out of respect for his children and grandchildren. he apparently told somebody he was going to have a private ceremony in his prison in north carolina. but the truth is, there's no way of telling if the federal bureau of prison would even give him a furlough to get out because he hadn't been in that long. >> we also know -- it was obviously -- mark madoff worked for his dad's firm but then

turned in his father. >> right. >> was he implicated in the fraud? >> well, there was an investigation and they checked him out and it's not clear at all that the investigation was over. but about the relationship, i mean, we know that it wasn't a good one. for one thing, mark madoff worked at the firm, turned him in. he confessed. there are also reports he hadn't really had any contact with his parents since that day when all of this happened two years ago. he still got sued, though, through the bankruptcy trustee. and this was a guy who apparently was looking at mark madoff saying, you know, this -- mark madoff is a guy who knew or should have known about the fraud even though mark madoff made it pretty clear that in his view or at least his assertions were that he didn't know about the fraud. >> and what happens in the madoff case now? it goes on. >> yeah. there's every indication it's going to go on. this bankruptcy trustee is very aggressive. he filed a lot of lawsuits to try to recover money. one of those lawsuits actually

names mark madoff. "the wall street journal" says the trustee claimed in a lawsuit that mark improperly received something like $66.9 million through his father's investment company. his attorney has denied it and said that's an absurd claim, pretty much. but the trustee is still going to try to get whatever money he can get for the people who were ripped off. >> and who else is -- there's a lot of folks getting sued. who else is getting sued here? >> you name it. there's family members, associates, accountants, banks, there's one austrian banker. there's people all over the world who have really been sort of drawn into this as the bankruptcy trustee goes about the business of trying to recover the money from basically the largest fraudulent transaction scheme in history. >> i read in "the times" over the weekend the trustee may be able too get as much as 50 cents on the dollar for some of those folks who

lost money which is more than they initially thought. it depends how much they get from the various lawsuits they filed. they filed an awful lot. in crime and punishment, a man accused of killing his bride 11 days after their wedding while scuba diving on the honeymoon in australia. he already served time there. now he's in jail in alabama facing another trial for murder. find out what the alleged motive was. weigh all the latest. first susan hendricks joins us with a "360" bulletin. a ruling on president obama's health care reform is expected to start a legal battle that could wind up in the supreme court. a federal judge in virginia today found a cornerstone of the reform package unconstitutional. the judge struck down the mandate that requires most americans to buy health insurance by 2014. the justice department is expected to take the issue to a federal appeals court. republican national committee chairman michael steele has broken his silence and says he will in fact seek a second term. steele made that announcement on a conference call with rnc members tonight.

yes, those dreaded baggage fees the airlines are charging are earning them bags of cash. the bureau of transportation statistics show airlines have made more than $2.5 billion so far. on the baggage fees. that is up 22.5% from a year ago. >> i couldn't believe they made that much when i read that this morning. for tonight's shot, russian president vladimir putin showing a softer side in a video that's gone viral on youtube. a shot at a children's charity dinner in st. petersburg where he took the stage and sang fat domino's blueberry hill in english. watch. ♪ berry -- last melody is this blueberry hill? that didn't sound like blueberry hill. apparently actors goldie hawn and kurt russell there as you saw them in the audience seemed to be enjoying the rather odd show. it sounds like he's auto tuned. i'm not sure.

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11 days later prosecutors say he killed her while they were scuba diving off the great barrier reef. he pleaded guilty in australia to criminally negligent manslaughter. according to his attorney he did that only because he didn't rescue here and do enough to save her. she drowned. watson spent less than two years in jail in australia but back in alabama he's facing trial. tom forman has the latest. >> reporter: simply and brutally put, this is the story of two images. the first captured in this home video of gabe watson and his new bride tina on their wedding day in alabama in 2003. the second, a week and a half later on their honeymoon at australia's great barrier reef. that's tina on the ocean floor minutes after beginning the dive of a lifetime lying dead under 85 feet of water. now after years of legal wrangling, gabe watson is back

home charged with murder and tina's parents are grimly awaiting trial. >> until that day comes, until he faces the evidence for the first time in a criminal trial before a jury, there can be no rest or no peace for anyone in our family. >> reporter: australian police who made this re-enactment video theorize this is what happened. watson put his new wife in a bear hug, cut off her air supply and then watch her drown. why? alabama prosecutors say it was to collect a $200,000 life insurance policy which they say he asked her to increase dramatically right before the wedding. she did not get around to it, they say. but told him she had. the story from watson and his lawyers is of course quite different. >> gabe was upbeat. he was positive and optimistic. >> reporter: watts yochb told australian investigators the couple found unexpectedly strong currents underwater.

he had a problem with equipment that separated him from other divers and then his wife, a novice, panicked. he had much more experience and swam to help her. her hand hit my mask, he told police. it knocked my mask sideways so i had to let go and kind of turn back so i would have some space because at that point i didn't know if she was still flailing. when he tried to return to her, he says she was sinking. she was looking up, had both her arms out, you know, reached, stretched up, almost like looking at me. i remember getting to the top, yanking my mask off, spitting out my regulator and just yelling, tina's gone down. he pleaded guilty in australia to manslaughter saying he should have tried harder to save his bride. he was locked up a year and a half. his attorneys say that's enough suffering for a grieving husband and call the capital murder charges he faces here nonsense. but alabama prosecutors insist watson was plotting the murder even as he took his vows and that's why they can bring

charges even though it happened in australia. they say that he's told 16 different versions of what happened, that all the dive equipment was checked and found fine, that tina had a full tank of air and her regulator in her mouth when she died. and if they prove all they say, he could spend the rest of his life in prison. tom forman, cnn. >> it's a really strange case. i talked about it earlier with legal analyst jeffrey toobin. how hard is it to prosecute a case like this when it's circumstantial evidence and happened eight years ago. >> in australia. it's a very difficult case to make for all sorts of reasons, including the issue of motive, which he's -- there was some insurance policy there, but it wasn't an enormous amount of money. and mostly the technical aspect of the case. the physical evidence which involves the scuba equipment is very questionable in this case. >> in australia, a paper came out with a story saying

australian police made mistakes early on in the investigation related to the diving equipment. >> that's right. because the central evidence in this case is basically what he did or didn't do with her diving equipment. did he pull it away from her? did she just die the way people in scuba accidents sometimes die? this is not only eight years ago. it's an investigation that took place eight years ago. and you've got the problems from then, which are incurable now. >> had there not been this agreement about the death penalty, do you think this would be a death penalty case? >> alabama is a state that really embraces the death penalty. this is a state where 50 people have been executed in the last few years. given -- if you believe that this guy killed his wife intentionally on their honeymoon, it is certainly a case that alabama would have sought the death penalty. >> can they even though they made this agreement or -- can they reverse that?

can they go against it? >> absolutely not. they cannot go back on this agreement. these sorts of arrangements are fairly common, extradition on the condition you do not seek the death penalty. we're one of the few developed countries that still have the death penalty. there are a lot of countries that won't extradite people to the united states if we say we're going to use the death penalty. so it's the state department, the u.s. state department, not the alabama government that monitors those sorts of agreements. there's no way they can go back on it. >> obviously no double jeopardy. they can retry because it was in australia. >> it's a lot less protection than people think. you remember the rodney king case where you had a state prosecution of the cops which failed and then a successful federal prosecution. when you have different jurisdictions you can almost always get around the problem of double jeopardy. thanks. strange case. sarah palin's visit to haiti. gary tuchman is there and joins us with the details. an nfl coach suspended for the rest of the season. his bad behavior lands him on

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you may have heard that sarah palin was in haiti over the weekend. she arrived saturday, visited some cholera clinics and traveled with a relief group led by franklin graham. it's a tense time in haiti. commercial flights were canceled last week because of civil unrest. demonstrations broke out after disputed election results were announced. gary tuchman joins me now from haiti. gary?

>> reporter: when sarah palin was here this weekend, she didn't see the rain, but she did see the tears. she talked to earthquake victims and cholera victims. the cholera epidemic is still raging here. she was a guest of franklin graham. franklin graham is the son of the reverend billy graham. he is the president and ceo of samaritan's purse. it's a charity organization that does a lot of good work. they built more than 10,000 shelters for earthquake victims. it was unusual because most of us didn't get to cover it. as a matter of fact we never got to see sarah palin with one haitian because sarah palin and her people made the decision that not just cnn but the associated press, haitian news organization, nobody could cover her visit except for the place where she works, the fox news channel with her the entire time. she's not officially running for president. she has every right to have anyone she wants with her but she is considered a vip and traditionally in disaster zones news media works together.

fox news helps us. we help cbs. cbs helps the bbc. we help the vips and the vips help us. we get the news out there for desperate we wanted to ask her why she didn't want the news media with her. she said she would have a news conference. we went there but it wasn't one because as soon as we got there franklin graham announced she would not take any questions. therefore it's a statement, not a news conference. sarah palin said she did not want to get political and that's why she wasn't going to answer questions. instead, she made a statement. >> don't want americans to forget the need that is here. more importantly, for americans and people across the world to know what an individual can do to make a difference, to contribute, to kind of get out of your comfort zone and volunteer to help. >> reporter: we still wanted to see if we could make it a semi-news conference so i then tried to ask her at least one question. >> thank you. you are doing god's work.

thank you. >> thank you, governor. thank you. >> could i ask you a question? is it what you expected? >> thank you. >> much harsher than i expected. the conditions are much are you ever. >> how about the violence at the moment? in terms of political situation on the ground, is port-au-prince calm? what's happening? >> reporter: yeah, last week was very rough, very violent, anderson. it quieted down over the weekend while sarah palin was here. there was fear, though, a lot of rumors on the radio it would pick up today but it's been raining all day. this is nature's policeman. this keeps things quiet. there's a lot of concern and keep hearing things on the radio things will pick up tomorrow on the violence. one of the reasons for the violence remember this name sweet micky martelly. he was the third place finisher in the presidential race. the first two finishers sweet micky in third place just by 5,000 votes. a lot of his supporters feel that there was a lot of criminal

action in this election campaign, a lot of fraudulent voting. therefore, they think he should have been in second place. that's what started this all. remember that name if this picks up again this week, the violence. >> i should point out i talked to the candidate, to mr. martelly on the phone on friday. and he was saying that he's appealing to his supporters for calm. he does not want violence on the streets. but folks have been demonstrating and isolated pockets of violence but folks have been demonstrating because they do feel that the elections have been stolen and that he was a very popular candidate. again, it remains to be seen what's going to happen in terms of whether there's a full recount or just an occasional recount of some of the votes. that's where the demonstrations really are kind of focused on. glad you're there. we'll continue to talk to you through the week. we're throwing a penalty flag on the jets football coach whose unsportsmanlike conduct was caught on camera. the latest addition to the ridiculist. but first susan hendricks joins us again with a bulletin.

swedish authorities say the bomber who apparently killed himself in stockholm saturday was probably on the way to a more crowded location when the bomb went off prematurely. the chief prosecutor in the case says it's likely the man will get confirmation through dna testing and it's likely him. authorities link him to a nearby car blast. two people injured there. the calloway commando is headed to jail. that's juan carlos cruz, the former food network chef sentenced to nine years behind bars for trying to hire two homeless men to kill his wife. julian assange's lawyer says a secret grand jury is meeting in virginia to consider criminal charges against the wikileaks founder. u.s. attorney general eric holder has said that he authorized significant actions related to investigating the release of diplomatic cables but hasn't elaborated on what those actions are. it's not even winter yet but winter weather advisories are in effect to the for more than a half dozen states.

the storm that hit the upper midwest is taking aim now at the northeast. it's a mess there. meanwhile in washington state, the concern is major flooding along rivers in nine counties. the culprit, rain, that has also triggered mud slides. and is there more to mona lisa's stare than we can see? art historians say with a microscope they have found the letters "l" and "v" carved into her right eye presumably the initials of leonardo da vinci. the left eye is not as clear. they say it seems to have several letters and possibly some numbers. this is leading many to wonder if this is the true da vinci code. >> hmm, i don't know. interesting. >> it's our nightly salute to those who cross the line. tonight to an nfl coach totally tripping last night sal alosi. of the new york jets. he is the team's strength coach. but thinking clearly is apparently not one of his own strengths. check this out. he actually stuck his knee out and tripped miami player nolan carroll as he ran past him on the jets sideline. here's how it played out live.

>> this is just uncalled for in the nfl. watch the knee here being stuck out on purpose to trip up nolan carroll. not sure who that person is, but they should be ashamed of themselves for that type of action. that has no place in any athletic event. >> the offending knee and offender attached to it has since been identified as a fan of hard knocks on hbo. /i don't know it you -- if you watch the show. i do. i've been watching the jets a lot lately but this is one hard knock i never expected to see although frankly we have seen unsportsmanlike behavior from coaches before. in the '70s woody hayes threw a punch at a player from clemson before he was retrained by his only players. he was fired the next day and never coached again. sal alosi says he's sorry and it was inexcusable and irresponsible. and naive. between all the cameras and instant replays and slow motion from

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