around the world solo. she's already gone 11,000 miles since last april. i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. president obama today firing back at accusation that is his administration deliberately leaked classified information about a cyber attack on iran. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. it's wrong, and people i think need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. >> the president also hammered away at congress urging lawmakers to pass a jobs plan to boost the economy. republicans were quick to

respond to the president aassessment of the u.s. job market. >> we just listened to the president say that the private sector was doing fine. my question would be to the president, are you kidding? did he see the job numbers that came out last week? the private sector is not doing fine. >> the president says the u.s. is facing headwinds from europe. ahead this hour we'll talk with cnn's richard quest about how the crisis in europe is already affecting the u.s. and florida's republican appointed secretary of state is defending his plan to try to purge nonu.s. citizens from the state's voter roles saying it's necessary and legal. critics say the plan unfairly targets minorities. >> we at the present time during this 90-day period, we do eliminate individuals that are felons, people that are mentally incompetent, and those that are deceased. it seems no logical question that those individuals might have more rights or the individuals that are noncitizen would have more rights than

somebody that's a felon. >> ken detzner has been locked in a heated battle with the justice department over the legality of his plan. it's playing out five months before the presidential election with florida playing a crucial role in the big vote. and there will be no triple crown winner this year. that's because i'll have another, the heavy favorite to win tomorrow's belmont stakes, is out of the race. the worked out earlier this morning but was scratched a little more than an hour ago. he could have been the first triple crown winner since 1978. and it's described as the real, real challenge facing the world diplomatic community today. syria, a u.n. peace plan that nobody is following. world leaders with no agreement on what to do next, and a string of civilian massacre that is the u.n. secretary-general says may be a crime against humanity.

and this is the city of homs. artillery shells exploded in residential areas. we have no word on anyone hurt or killed there today. elsewhere in syria, furious crowds filled the streets. people are fed up with the government crackdown and the killings. let's get to beirut, lebanon. cnn's arwa damon is there. tell us about those demonstrations that did get violent today. >> reporter: it's pretty incredible, fredricka, when you think about it, for more than 15 months activists have been taking to the streets, getting shot at, dying by the hundreds. thousands, in fact, killed up until now, more than 12,000, and still they continue to go out there. we saw demonstrations in a town where they were carrying a banner that no longer said go to the president, it said quite sarcastically and in a very dark way, no, do stay, because we're coming to get you. in another province masses gathering as well. throughout the entire continue, in fact, but again as has been

the cycle since the onset, activists say they came under government fire as they were demonstrating. up to 40 people killed countrywide. also in various acts of shelling and military assaults that were taking place as well. the syrian government is saying that it is being targeted by these terrorist gangs. state tv airing video of the alleged aftermath of a bombing that is said to have killed two civilians. so most certainly, as you said earlier, the violence is continuing and there is no cease-fire. >> and arwa, kofi annan and hillary clinton met today at the united nations. they're the ones call this, quote, a real, real challenge. is annan still sanding by his so-called six-point peace plan? >> reporter: he is to a certain degree, although he and others are highlighting the fact that for it to work, there has to be consensus behind it, that all parties need to truly be on board. he and others have by and large

placed the blame for the fact it's not being implemented largely with the syrian government. but he's coming under some pretty harsh criticism for the failure of his six-point peace plan and for the fact that there is no plan "b." this is what mr. annan had to say in reaction to that. >> some say the plan may be dead. is the problem the plan or is the problem implementation? if it's implementtation how do we get action on that? if it is the plan, what other options do we have? >> reporter: clearly, fredricka, more questions are not what syrians want to be hearing at this stage. they want to be hearing the answers to those questions, and it's going to be very concerning for all those who are involved that the individual who is at the center of this plan, who is the one who came up with this very plan, is only answering critical questions with even more questions. fredricka? >> arwa damon, thanks so much.

in beirut, lebanon. another story we're following, the search for a source in a deadly e. coli outbreak in this country. 14 people affected now in six southern states. in one case a toddler in new orleans died. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here with all that you need to know. so what is the latest on this? >> there is still a lot that we don't know, a lot of mystery here. so they have these -- this group of people, it's a relatively small group of people in six states, who have come down with e. coli. it's a 145, the number for the strain. when they look at it under the microscope, they can see the molecular fingerprint is identical. >> the source is the came? >> that leads them to believe that the source is the same. so what's the source? that's the big question mark. >> how do they go about finding out? >> they interview the folks who are sick, and they ask them what did you eat? when did you eat it? where did you buy that food and it's actually -- it's epidemiological investigation work, shoe leather work, and

eventually they hopefully will come up with something. they do this all the time. this is what they do in an outbreak. this is a real classic kind of outbreak and they usually do come up with that one thing all those people ate. >> those people are being treated, handled, what about everybody else. what have they come into contact with? >> there's nothing you can do because they don't know what it is you're supposed to avoid. i can't say don't eat this brand of ground beef or don't eat this kind of lettuce because we don't know what it is. you should always observe regular precautions. you shouldn't be having medium rare hamburgers. they should be cooked thoroughly. you should be washing your produce. >> we have to wait and watch and hopefully learn something more. >> and also watch yourself and your family. if you have a terrible bout of diarrhea for example or a fever, it's worth going to the doctor if you're feeling ill. keep in mind this that is happening and ask if it's a

possibility. >> and those are the symptoms. severe stomach cramps, diarrhea, and even vomiting. >> and fever. when you look at that, you think everybody has had that at some point. when you hear about this outbreak, it's something to keep in mind. if you have a disease that's unusual for you, you have those symptoms but it's intense, you don't usually get this, it may be worth going to your doctor and saying, hey, i hear this e. coli outbreak, is it possible that's what's going on particularly if you're dealing with a small child, an elderly child, or someone with immune problems. >> elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. elizabeth will be back with us later in the hour to talk about her prime time special empowered patient, 25 shocking medical mistakes. you don't want to miss our preview. and here is what we're working on for this hour. more american troops die by suicide this year than at the hands of the enemy. we'll take a look at why that is and what can be done about it. plus, uncivility in

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court today. but johnny, who gets on him every day, is a great kid. bet ta who came out here just in case we needed a backup. sensia, benjamin who is grazing him right now, leandro, i know i'm missing guys, thumper, rio, tyler, marcos, but it has just been an incredible ride, an incredible run, and i have taken so many notes, a lot of mental notes and i know we're going to be back here again and i know some people have asked if i thought that the detention barn had anything to do with this and absolutely not. just a freakish thing. he has been showing a little bit of -- you know, he's been a little quiet the last few days of galloping but his legs have been great. yesterday he galloped great but

in the afternoon we noticed some loss of definition in his left front leg to which, like every other owner and trainer, we prayed he just kind of hit himself and it was just a little bit of skin irritation. we did him up in a special poultice. this morning he looked great so i thanked the racing gods there and we did just a little easy gallop with him today. i thought he looked great on the track, and then cooling out you could tell that swelling was back and at that point i didn't feel very good. i talked to mr. redem and immediately we got dr. hunt over here. he scanned him, and said it was the start of tendinitis in his left front tendon, and, you know, you could give him three to six months and start back with him, but obviously he's done so much that it was unanimous between the redems and my brother and i and everyone at the barn to retire him and it is

bummer, but again far from tragic, but it is very disappointing. >> can i state one more thing? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> i just want to thank doug and his entire team for the great care they have given this horse and it was a hell of a run, and i know they're all personally very disappointed, of course, that he didn't get to show his stuff for tomorrow because we tried to be quiet, but i really thought he was going to run off tomorrow and really show something, so we were all a bit shocked, but we have to do what's best for the horse, and if he can't compete at the top level, you know, he's done enough, and doug, thank you. >> lots of disappointment coming from the trainers of the horse, i'll have another. we heard first from doug o'neil and then paul redem all saying that it was one heck of a run

for that horse nailing two crowns of the triple crown and the hopes was it would be able to run tomorrow there in new york at the belmont stakes, but after doing a practice run this morning, finding that after doing an easy gallop, there was still some swelling in a left front leg. something they had noticed earlier while the horse was galloping, there was some loss in definition and saw that again the swelling was back and knew they couldn't push this horse any further. it wouldn't be up to par in order to race tomorrow. it would be -- it would really mean a recovery of three or four months. they didn't have that. they have elected to retire that horse, i'll have another. it will not be in the belmont stakes tomorrow. richard quest is there in belmont -- i'm sorry, richard quest, not in almont but in london watching from afar. big disappointment for the racing world, business disappointment for the owners of that horse as well. but, you know, the show will have to go on there.

let's go on to richard quest. we'll talk about instead the european markets, not the horse racing. the president of the united states is very worried about europe with the u.s. economy showing signs of slowing down. president obama today appoipoin across the atlantic and said in so many words that europe had better get its act together. richard quest let's talk now from london about the economy and whether, indeed, you know, the winds from the european final markets and financial status is impacting the u.s. was that a good explanation from the president? >> frankly, you'd stand more chance of winning belmont than getting any sense out of the europeans at the moment. the truth of the matter is when the president of the united states on a friday in june goes before the world's press to basically tell the europeans it's time to get their act

together, and then gives them a long list of economics about what needs to be done and why it needs to be done and how worried he is about the effects it could have on the united states' economy, then you know it's serious. mr. obama the latest in a list of politicians but by far the most important who basically said today do it and do it now. >> what we've tried to do is to be constructive, to not frame this as us scolding them or telling them what to do but to give them advice in part based on our experiences here in having stabilized a financial situation effectively. and, you know, ultimately though they're going to have to make a lot of these decisions. >> now, as the president pointed out, they've got to stabilize

the banking system by recapitalizing. they have got to get growth moving again in a similar way to the united states and on the question of greece, he said there the grooek people would have the final choice on the euro but obviously they had to live up to their word. while we're talking about greece, have you seen the pictures of the greek -- >> oh, my goodness. >> have a watch. have a watch. these are just -- there goes the water. >> oh, no. that is beyond wrong. what in the world is the explanation there? >> well, he says that she raised her fist first. we beg to differ. the guy is from the golden dawn party now called the black dawn.

it is the far right wing party. he's in hiding. the police are after him. it's generally believed it will cost this right wing extremist party. they're anti-immigrant, anti-everything. the sort of people frankly who have no hesitation in saying you wouldn't necessarily want to sit next to at dinner. and the truth is now it will be up to the greek people next sunday whether they actually give them the 3% necessary to get them into parliament or not. what an end, fredricka, to a week that -- i mean -- >> really underscores tempers are flaring but come on. that's just so out of control. >> absolutely. >> bad stuff. all right, thanks so much, richard, for straightening it out. i had you in london and now we're focusing on that. >> have a good weekend. >> a new poll finds politics

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heckling at campaign events, campaign surrogates using terms likeb bs to describe the other side's position, the presidential race is getting ugly. remember this seen from last week when romney supporters tried to drown out obama campaign chief david axelrod at a news conference? >> and i think some of my -- i get tweets from some of these folks so i feel close to them. >> that's just one of the incidents mentioned in a "time" magazine article about the loss of decorum in presidential politics written by michael sherer "time's" white house correspondent. this is just one example you gave about the lack of dignity and decorum in politics, but is it reaching new depths or is this a continuum of a tone we've

witnessed over the last 3 1/2 years beginning with that state of the union address and that you lie moment? >> i think it's all of the above. presidential campaign politics has always been nasty. the difference is it used to be nasty ain subtle and secretive ways. you remember richard nixon's dirty tricks. here was a case it wasn't somebody secretly doing -- >> it's overt. >> these were campaign staffers and interns in boston coming not to disagree with david axelrod but to prevent him from speaking. when mitt romney the candidate was asked about this, he said good for them. what's good for the goose is good for the gander or whatever that phrase is and said i have been heckled at my speeches. i'm going heckle them at their speeches, and i think this is part of a larger trend we're seeing in politics generally where candidates and politicians and campaigns can be rewarded for behaving badly. that's because the american

people are really fed up and democrats and republicans, the bases of both parties, tell pollsters that they don't think their own parties are doing enough to stand up for the values of their own values. so they want their parties to be tougher. so there's really not a lot to lose for someone like mitt romney to play hardball in this overt way. the effect on the national conversation is a different matter altogether. >> that is hard to understand because then you hear the sentiment from some voters who are saying i am so tired of the bickering but then there's sentiment swirling around the campaign saying if you don't stand up for yourself then you won't be respected. you mentioned mitt romney's response to that incident. here is what he actually said to a reporter when the reporter asked him directly about that kind of behavior. >> for many of the events i go to there are large groups of if you will obama supporters there heckling me, and at some point you say, you know what is sauce for the goose is sauce for the

gander. if they're going to be heckling us we're not going to sit back and play by very different rules. >> that's exactly what you were talking about. you know, it's kind of this tit for ta t, you started it, no, he did. it sounds to elementary, doesn't it? >> the obama campaign doesn't do what the romney campaign did last week. there is no evidence that obama campaign staffers or interns, the people who work on the campaign, with some with signage to disrupt romney events. it's clear the chicago operation doesn't mind when romney's events are disrupted by hecklers from various left wing groups but they don't do it themselves. the other interesting thing about that press conference is that was mitt romney standing in front of solyndra delivering a message about solyndra and his message was the inspector general had found that president obama had steered -- that the contract with solyndra had benefited friends and family of president obama. it was a statement that just wasn't true. now, in past campaigns if a candidate came out and said something that just flat out was not true, there would be a

consequence. he would be punished for that. we all know that's not true. it's been reported that it's not true, but romney is not backing off it. he hasn't apologized. it's just another example of this decline in the quality of the debate we're having. juf >> you have to wonder when is it counterproductive. you have cur gasurrogates droppe "f" bomb. off the record comments. even using terms like bs on the record. listen to what stephanie cutter had to say. >> another special interest attack ad, another set of outright distortions, and another time when i need to ask you to do what you do best, get the president's back. karl rove is relying on you doing nothing to call out hisb s, and i know you will prove him wrong. >> so it's all right now? i guess this is the new norm? >> it is and there are other youtube videos the obama campaign has put out that you wouldn't play on your air because they involve words that

are a little more explicit than bs. the obama campaign from the beginning has been a potty mouth here and they're trying to use it as a way of demonstrating they're tough, they're not going to take anything lying down, they're going to go at mitt romney and both campaigns are being rewarded from their bases for that posture. >> boy, and still five more months to go. >> we're just getting started. >> ugly, uglier, ugliest. we'll see what the threshold is. michael sherer of "time," thank you so much. now this a pretty tough turn. we're talking about more american troops now killing themselves -- more of them killing themselves rather than being killed in combat, and we're talking about afghanistan. this year alone. we'll take a look at why and what can be done about it. people with a machine.

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almost one suicide a day. last week alone there were eight recorded. barbara starr has been looking into this for us. can you give us an idea just -- these are terrible numbers. is there a common thread? what's the explanation behind one suicide involving a military service member a day? >> reporter: it just seems staggering, doesn't it, fredricka? we've talked about this over the months and years of the war but it just doesn't seem to get any better. that's right. in fact, the pace of suicides in the u.s. military for those on duty, it's now becoming that suicide is a higher rate, cause of death, if you will, than actually being this combat. let me start by just showing a couple numbers to help people understand this. active duty suicides in the u.s. military so far this year, 154 across the military. that is a very unexpected jump

compared to the previous two years. you see the numbers right there. interestingly, one of the services that has seen an unexpected jump is the u.s. air force. they have had 32 suicides so far this year compared to 23. what on earth is going on? and, of course, that's the problem for the pentagon. defense secretary panetta sending another letter to the chiefs saying redouble the efforts on suicide prevention programs, buddy programs. if you got a buddy out there and they seem to be in trouble, you know, more behavioral health specialists, mental health counseling out in the field, but over the years, fred, what they have really found is that there's no single one reason. and that's really been the problem, how do you attack the problem when there seems to be so many different causes for it? >> that's the big quandary. they got this information, now what can the military, the pentagon, department of defense, what can be done? how do they pare down these numbers and try to come up with

better solutions, programs, answers to head off the numbers? >> exactly. i mean, well, i think one of the things they do feel is working is to put more mental health counselors into the u.s. military but the problem there is you are talking in large part about young people, mainly young men, and they feel a great sense of stigma attached to this. so one of the things the military is doing is trying to get to that root cause. if you have a problem, if you believe you may be at risk or your buddies think you are at risk for suicide, there is no stigma in asking for help, that you must ask for help. this is one of the things they're really trying to change the culture inside the u.s. military, but it very much mirrors civilian society, the three basic reasons for this tragedy often remain the same. that's relationship or love problems, money problems, family

problems, substance abuse. these appear across the board to be some of the enduring root causes for these types of tragedies, fred. >> barbara starr, thanks so much, from the pentagon. a very different journey. now she was trying to cross the pacific ocean by herself in a kayak but she just hit a snag. one of the best things about state farm is our accessibility.

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discovery and meeting many of these people? >> well, as you said, we cover such a vast array of topics on "our america", but one of the episodes is called lost american dream. it's about americans who are living below the poverty line for the first time in their lives, and we all know that the middle class has been hit particularly hard, and this episode is about the notion that the american dream here in the most industrialized biggest economy in the world is increasingly more difficult to achieve. we spent time with a number of middle class americans, a man who is 56 years old, father of four who lost his six-figure job and is now really struggling, and people who are 50 and older who lose their jobs are finding it more and more difficult to find employment because it's much more difficult to get back into the job market once they have been employed for a very long period of time. we also spent time with a recent law school graduate.

i think there's an adumption that if you go to law school, you will be able to find employment shortly after graduating, but a lot of these law school graduates are not only unable to find employment but they're finding themselves having incurred a tremendous amount of debt and having a hard time paying it back, but one of the hopeful stories that we encountered, we spent time with a couple in retirement who actually lost their pension in retirement due to the tumultuous stock market and they have decided to go back to base i cans. we're a culture that has been consuming pretty grossly over the last decade, and they have realized that they want to start living a little more simply and conserving more and perhaps it's a lesson that we can all learn something from. >> and then you also profile somebody else, this is like the complete polar opposite and, you know, sweeping the country has been a real fascination over the years of pageants, especially as

they involve little girls. you profiled some little girls who were part of these beauty pageants and you made some real discoveries of your own about some of the presumptions people make about the moms, the parents behind the children, and the children, and you met some people that kind of changed your point of view on the whole culture of the pageants? >> i did. our first episode is called "sparkle babies," and i think that pageant parents are some of the most vilified people in pop culture, and certainly the first pageant i went to i was as aghast as anyone. i saw these little girls in microscopic dresses, faces covered in makeup with fake tans and i was quite appalled, but by my fourth pageant, i stopped seeing these girls as sexualized objects and i started to see what they were wearing as uniforms, not dissimilar from a cheerleading uniform or a -- >> was it an issue of getting used to it? >> it was. i mean, pageant -- child pageants are pretty distinctive

and pervasive in the american south and i think we on the coast, since we're not so exposed to it, it comes as such a shock to us, but one of the things that surprised me was seeing how involved parents are at these pageants. i mean, these routines are so elabora elaborate, someone has to teach these girls these routines and often it's the mother. i was soso touched to see so ma fathers who were involved. i was a little girl who wished her father was at more of her extracurricular activities. like with every episode of our show, we take you a little deeper and allow you to he can plor something that you may have heard about and have a judgment about. >> insightful views of "our america," the name of your show and series premiering this weekend on own. lisa ling, good to see you. >> thanks, fredricka.

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every year, that's pretty shocking in and of itself, but some errors are more preventible than others. we have a special report coming out this weekend. it's pretty stunning that so many mistakes can be made and really ken danger a patient. >> saturday 8:00 we're going to count down 25 shocking medical mistakes. people don't always realize what can go wrong in a hospital or in a doctor's office. people don't ask questions and terrible things can happen. >> the surgeon cuts into the left eye instead of the right. >> my husband and i were in awe. we were like, can you repeat that again? she said frankly, i lost sense of direction. >> they messed up, did this eye and then did this eye.

>> surgeons are supposed to initial or mark the correct site like they did with jesse. but here's one way we can still get confused. >> we place drapes over the entire area. mistakes can be made when you have draping that obscures the mark. >> reporter: in the u.s., seven patients every day suffer body part mix-ups. just before surgery, make sure you confirm with the nurse and the surgeon the correct body part and side of your operation. and don't be shy about doing it. yeah, don't be shy. that really has to be underscored. >> we talked to the surgeons just minutes before and said right side, remember, right side. >> you wanted to make sure. >> that's right. >> there's also some advice to people. they have to be very vigilant. they have to ask questions, they have to be their own advocate,

don't they? >> you do. >> to help avoid some of these things. >> exactly. we were talking before. often in medicine there's more than one way to handle a problem. when a doctor says this is what we're going to do. ask what are the other options? there may be other options that are better or safer. >> elizabeth cohen, don't miss the prime time special, empowered patient. 25 shonging medical mistakes. >> a janitor get into an ivy league college. that's why programs like... ...the mickelson exxonmobil teachers academy... ...and astronaut sally ride's science academy are helping our educators improve student success in math and science. let's shoot for the stars. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this.

some called her story a real life version of "good will hunting." she was a young woman who was homeless, washing floors at her high school for money and now she's going to harvard. >> while other teens still sleep dawn is in the holloways, classrooms and bathrooms of burns high school where she's a senior and janitor. each morning she cleans the rooms where she'll later to turn to learn. >> that i myself should be the root and father of many kings. >> then comes seven hours of advanced placement classes and honors classes. then two more hours of dumping trash and picking up after her classmates. >> i don't mind cleaning because if you have to wade through trash to get to your desk you're note going to have an environment that encourages learning. >> finally she tackled home work

until 2:00 a.m. besides being dedicated, school officials knew something else about dawn. life at home wasn't exactly perfect. there were the eviction notices. the family moved. a lot. burns high was her sports school in eighth grade when she asked about candles. her boss realized the teen was living in a house with no electricity. >> she came to me and she said i need something to be able to do my homework by. i said okay, we'll get you some candles. we'll take care of that. >> there was also no water. . >> we would use the bathroom and use that to flush the toilet and cook with and things like that. >> reporter: it got worse. last year when dawn tried calling home from summer school in raleigh, the phone was disconnected. her mother and stepfather moved again. this time leaving her behind. >> i never expected my parents to just, like, leave.

>> reporter: you were homeless. >> yes. >> reporter: dawn would crash a few days on a couch here or a night or two on a floor there, but still cleaning and still keeping up her grades. >> i think what motivates me is the fact that when i was younger, i was able to look at all the bad choices, at the neglect and the drug abuse and i was not going to have to have ask myself, was i going to buy food this month or pay rent? >> reporter: the moment it realized that dawn was abandoned and homeless, she should have been turned over to the state, the department of social services. that didn't happen. that didn't happen on purpose. >> we kind of took it upon ourselves to become her village. >> reporter: so teachers and staffers made sure she was dloeted adloet ed -- clothed and fed and had a place to live. >> we have good people in

longdale. yeah, it's a nice community. >> reporter: enit didn't end there. that same village was now out to get her to college. and not just any college. harvard. her history teacher simply told dawn's story. >> this young woman has known hunger. she's known abuse and neglect and homelessness and filth. yet she's risen above it all to become such an outstanding student. >> reporter: months passed. then one day an envelope with a harvard seal applieapplied. >> i am delighted to inform you, you will be admitted to the harvard class of 2016. >> wow. what an inspiration she is and that community. and actually, she graduated from high school last night so we wish her the best. that just leaves chills, doesn't

it, don? >> it's always possible. where there's a will, there's a way. >> take it away. >> i'm don lel mon. brooke is off today. mysteries unfolding right now. it's got a lot of folks on edge. it's a strain of e.coli spreading across the south. we're talking a dozen cases in at least four states. it's already turned deadly. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is going to join us to talk about that. also, we're learning new details about a major surprise op the eve of the belmont stakes. i'll have another scratched as the horse tried to become the first triple crown winner in more than three decades. we'll hear from the trainers. but first, president obama hammers congress and gets riled up over leaks of classified information. >> hello, everybody. good morning. >> the president called a sudden news conference this morning to

talk about the economy. more on that in a moment. but what really got mr. obama's dander up was a question about accusations that his team is leaking classified national security information for political gain. >> the notion my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. >> strong words from the president. offens offense, brianna? >> that's right. he wouldn't say that there is a specific investigation that is going on, but he did say that there are mechanisms this place to root out folks who have leaked. he said they'll suffer the consequences. he said in some of these cases, they are criminal acts when information like this is released. he also said, and this is something we're checking on.

he said the writers of these articles, and this have been a number of them in recent weeks said he is, as the president put it, unequivocally, that they didn't come from this white house. that information. now, we're not so sure, don, that that is exactly right on. we're actually checking because a number of these authors have done a number of interviews. so we're checking to see if they've unequivocally said that. but i think it's important to note that the stories we're talking about, a lot of them took months. one, for instance, "the new york times" article on the cyberattacks on iran took a year. when you think of a leak, like someone just kind of dumping a solitary bit of information, you know, one of these writers said they had to fight, scratch and scrape to get this information. it wasn't a handout. so it may not be a leak in terms of what you might think of it. so an investigation may not be as simple as rooting out that one culprit or those few culprits. >> thank you, breanna. the president also urnled

congress to pass long-stalled parts of his jobs plan. he warned that cutbacks in government spending coupled with worsening of european troubles could take a toll on the economy. >> the private sector is doing fine. where we're seeing weakness in our economy had to do with state and local government, often times cuts initiated by, you know, governors or mayors who are not getting the kind of help that they have in the pags from the federal government. >> but the budget conscious republicans say wait just a minute. here's house majority leader eric cantor. >> the private sector is not doing fine. and frankly, i would ask the president to stop engaging in the blame game. it's not because of the head winds of europe, it's not despite his attempt and his party's attempts here in congress, it is not because of

house republicans. it's the failed stim mus that small businesses in this country just aren't growing. >> stephen moore is a senior economics writer for the wall street journal and a member of the journal's editorial board. what do you make of what the president said? then we'll talk about eric cantor. what do you make of the remarks today? >> i think the president misspoke there. maybe he needs to get out of washington a little bit there. the private sector isn't just fine. we had lousy gdp numbers last quarter. we had pretty dismal jobs numbers. i think that was a misstatement of fact. i think the president probably regrets saying that. actually government spending is actually in the last three or four years been on a record tear. but i think he's also right that

the european problem is starting to hold back even the u.s. economy. >> eric cantor's remarks? >> i think he was in large part correct. to say private businesses and workers are doing just fine i think is kind of an insult to the people who can't find jobs and for the businesses that are really struggling out there right now. there is this big tug of war obviously between the republicans and this white house in terms of a legislative agenda. the republicans say look, we passed about 20 or 30 bills out of the house that are stalled in the senate that would help pick up the economy. but look, that's the normal tussle that you're going to get four or five months before a big election. . >> europe is a major trading partner. so are we looking at our fate? are we looking at our future here when we look at what's happening in europe? >> don, let's hope not. you're is a mess right now. their stock market is lousy. the currencies are falling and obviously they've got very high unemployment rates. some of these countries have unemployment rates as high as 10% to 15%.

we don't want to look in the mirror when we see europe. i think europe's problem really is that they have these cradle to grave entitlement programs that simply aren't affordable any longer. you don't have enough people working in europe to finance these big programs. and the problem has been that nobody wants to cut them back in europe. they've become like human rights. and let's hope that the united states citizens don't view these entitlements as human rights. because what we learned is once you give these benefits to people, it's hard to take them away. >> what about the president saying that the private sector is doing just fine? >> no, it's not. when you've got 8.2% unemployment. when you've got businesses that aren't spending, when you've had three months now of a really rocky stock market, those are all signals that the private sector isn't doing just fine. if you look at consumer and business confidence numbers, they're just not showing the kind of bullishness that the president was talking about today.

>> more news unfolding right now. roll it. jerry sandusky gets his day in court. the assistant football coach of penn state will stand trial. that will start on monday. today a judge rejected a request by sandusky's lawyers to dismiss the charges. >> i grieve with their families. >> this is just in to cnn. the leader of nato's troops in afghanistan grasps the hands of an elder as 'apologizes for the deaths of civilians two months ago. nato forces said it happened in the province of logar as they were targeting a taliban member. much more on general john allen's condolences to the survivors of the victims in a live report from the pentagon coming up. a manhunt under way right now for the suspect in the killing of two children and their baby-sitter. the bodies of 9-year-old twins and their 73-year-old baby-sitter were found on a dirt

road south of montgomery, alabama. police are looking for this man. marquis lee. they say he should be armed and dangerous. we have much more to cover in the next two hours so watch. a young dad is murdered and authorities admit a big-time screw up involving the suspected killer. plus, chilling accusations that a women's shelter sold newborn babies. but that's not all. and rand paul says mitt romney wasn't his first choice, but he's backing the presidential candidate anyway. isle speak with the senator as he fires up the republican base today. 3

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bacteria. we return now to elizabeth cohen. so how did investigators figure out the child was getting sick and what it was from? >> what usually happens in these cases is a kid will have fever, vomiting diarrhea, and it looks like it's a run of the mill virus. but then it gets worse and they will often start seeing blood in the diarrhea. that's often the first sign that this is e. coli. this bacteria produces a toxin. and that toxin really can attack a young child. >> contaminated food that's probably sickening these people. why is that? >> e. coli usually comes from food. it's often from undercooked hamburgers or sometimes from produce. we don't know in this case. and that's the next step, don. that's what they need to figure out. they know when they put it under a microscope. they see a identical molecular footprint. it lets them know it's from the same source, but it doesn't know the source yet. >> how do you keep people from getting snik. >> we don't know what to tell

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>> threat of civil war in syria remains imminent as reports of more killing surfaced today. u.n. envoy kofi annan met with secretary of state hillary

clinton just a short time ago and stressed the real challenge when it comes to stopping the mas killings that have been going on for a year now. they're trying to come up with a plan too save his peace plan which he says is not being implemented. we also say that union observers finally made it to the scene of a massacre where 78 people were killed. they say they got shot at when they tried to see the burnt homes and graves yesterday. we go live to the state department coming up here on cncn cnn. a military leader mentions his own kids when he apologizes for killing people that had nothing to do with the enemy. he did just that after what happened in logar province on wednesday. a drone attack ended up killing 18 civilians, including women and children. to cnn's chris lawrence now. chris, general allen metd with the loved ones of the afghans killed. and he got pretty personal and emotional.

>> meeting is not unyao usual. the head of nato paying the family of these civilian victims also not unusual. but the emotion that general allen had in his voice as he spoke about this accidental killing, that was something different. >> we are very sad, and i have come here today to offer you my condolences, my regrets and importantly to apologize to each of you for this strategy. i have a family of my own. and i see the faces of my own children and i know that no apology can bring back the life of the children or the people who perished in this tragedy and this accident. >> and allen also added quite simply, our weapons killed these people. don? >> can you tell us more about that, just a little bit more about how these people were killed and about the incident? >> well, there were some reports

out there that there was a wedding in this house the night before and that the taliban used the wedding as sort of a cover. the nato forces thought they were going after a local taliban leader who had been holed up there. but when they got to the scene, they did order all of the civilians to come out, but it's unclear if the taliban even would allow something like that. >> what does this mean? how is this going to impact the pullout of u.s. troops in aft afghanistan. >> you've got all of the 30,000 troops that president obama surged into afghanistan, they'll be out in a couple of months. the big question is incidents like this wear down the trust with the afghan people.

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a child's father was one of thousands of people at a park. the suspect is dea inndre marqu lee who was supposed to be wearing an ankle monitor that

police say would have proved he was at a beach party. but the system failed in this case, not only was he not wearing his monitor, there was no record he was ever fitted with one. sunny hostin is in new york. how does a murder suspect slip through the cracks like this? >> that's the question that everyone is asking. and quite frankly, don, it doesn't appear that they know the answer to that. they don't seem to know what happened here. but the harris county community supervision and corrections department has acknowledged three things. one, that there's no documentation showing that he was ever fitteded with this monitoring device. two, that he was ever assigned even a bond supervisor and three, there was no documentation that he was even in the system as all, don. >> do they do anything right? anything right in this case?

>> there was an opportunity to catch him when gray was arrested again. is that right? >> that's right. he bonded out. the very next day, ant $10,000 and no one noticed that he was pending a homicide case and that he hadn't met any of the bail conditions. and apparently no one even noticed that he wasn't wearing a monitoring device. >> how often does this happen? this corrections and supervision sexual harassment out on bond. in my understanding, this is the first time of something like this happening. >> are is he now? >> luckily he's being held right

now in jail on a $1 million bond. >> after he ran from police, he tried to hide in a walk-in freezer. but they found him. he was cold, but they found him. he's now being held on bond. >> have a great weekend, will you? >> thanks, you, too. >> a shocker for one of the most anticipated sporting events in quite a while. i'll have another won't be making a run for the triple crown of horse racing this weekend. he's been scratched from the belmont stakes on the eve of his attempt to become the first triple crown winner in 34 years. richard roth, what an assignment you had there. sad news about the horse. so what happened? >> what happened is an injury to one of his front legs. the left leg. tendonitis for i'll have another and they decided to look out to the future of i'll have another, which is the lucrative stud career and they decided to retire him. he will not race in the belmont

stakes tomorrow despite the high hopes of many in the racing industry and elsewhere. he was paraded for journalists and a crush of media. the horse walked around. at times we could see a little bit of a ginger handling of a leg. and then there were hug, emotional hugs between the ownership group, the trainers, all the connections of i'll have another. everyone gathered around oblivious to what's happened. it's only happened three times i believe in the history of a racing that the horse won the first two legs of the triple crown, the famed triple crown, the kentucky derby, the preakness and now he won't race in the belmont stakes. there would have been over 140,000 here tomorrow. the owner and the trainer both saying that this was a freakish injury.

>> we were all a bit shocked but we have to do what's best for the horse. he raced at the top level. he's done enough. >> now, a veterinarian very experienced in these matters a consultant to the networks and works at the churchill downs and handled in injuries, he said it's minor compared to what could have happened. >> it's minor in the scale for triple crown contenders. it's huge. it's an exercise induced injury. >> so that's it. no triple crown chance for isle

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>> conservative all-stars and the ghosts of primaries past, gratherring right now in president obama's backyard as we speak. the april conservative action committee is meeting with rick santorum. it'ses a who's who of the republican party including rand paul who took the stage just hours after endorsing mitt romney. one of my interviews with him

got pretty contentious. so senator, let's start with the business at hand. the president this morning pointed the finger at congress not passing his ideas to create jobs. let's listen and then we'll talk. >> there's no excuse for not passing these ideas. we know they work. if congress decides they're going to do anything about this because it's an election year. wouldn't you take away his ability to campaign against a do-nothing congress? >> with will we compromise on the details? absolutely. but they have to have a plan. they have to come to the table. i'm willing to go to the white house anytime. i've sent him many letters. i'll go there tomorrow. >> you endorsed mitt romney.

why did you decide to do that? >> you know, i've always supported my dad. he eels always been my first choice and still is my first choice. however, when i was 11 years old, i knocked on doors for him. i worked in every one of his campaigns. but, you know, the nomination is now done and romney has achieved the amount of delegates necessary to be the nominee. those are just facts. and i've decided to endorse romney after meeting with him and talking about a lot of areas that we actually do have common ground on. >> you mentioned your father. i want to play something that your dad said on cbs in april, listen. >> i have no common ground on economics. he isn't worried about the federal reserve. he didn't worried about the foreign policy. he doesn't talk about civil liberties. i have a hard time to expect him to ever invite me to campaign with him. >> has something changed with him? is your father go i think to, do you know, i know you can't speak for him, do you know -- you're his son -- is he going to endorse mitt romney?

>> you know, i don't know. but i did talk with mitt romney about some of the issues important to me, my father and many of his supporters like audit the fed. mitt romney does support audit the fete. will he talk about the fed as much or as eloquently as my father? maybe not, but he is supporting audit the fed, which is a big deal for myself and many of my support supporters. >> did you talk about the possibility of joining his ticket? >> no, we didn't talk about that. >> would you consider it? >> i'll say what i said before. i think it would be an honor. i think anybody who says they wouldn't be honored by it wouldn't be honest. >> a year, year and a half ago, i was a physician in a small town. and it would be a great honor to be considered as a vice president for the republican party. i think that would be something that anybody who said otherwise would no the be truthful. >> listen, i've told you this before a lot of people love your father.

he has rabd supporters. a lot of young people as well. and in march, "time" magazine quoted an adviser for your father saying if you're talking about putting rand on the ticket, and this is a quote, of course, that would be worth delivering our people to romney. so the question is, is there a possible deal, some sort of deal going on here? if you're on the ticket, or your dad, send his supporters romney's way? >> no real secret deal. i always tell people if there's a secret deal, it's so secret that i don't know about it. my dad's supporters are very, very independent. many conservatives and libertarians are independent people. i don't pretend to speak for them. some of them might be influenced to at least hear the governor out, listen to the areas of common interest. they're not going to agree with everything that governor romney stands for. >> did romney's health care plan in massachusetts that's been compared to the president's plan, did that give you pause at all in your support of myth romney? and did you discuss that with him? >> we didn't discus obama care

because i think he's been pretty clear they give all 50 states waivers. and it does seem his tenth amendment position is states can do things the federal government is not allowed. if i was in massachusetts i probably would not have favored it. >> you did not support romneycare. and this is an area you compromised on. you don't agree but it's not enough to not endorse him? >> i agree completely with his position on obamacare. immediately give all 50 states waivers. >> i'm talking about romneycare. >> i know. but i'm not in massachusetts in 1996, had i been there, i probably would not have sup forted. >> another pastor is in hot water. this one arrested. we'll tell you who it is and what happened.

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>> police say a shelter for women and children turned out to be their house of torture where newborns were sold. those allegations happened in india. agents arrested seven people. sara? >> it's a disturbing case when two girls managed to run away from this women and children's shelter partially funded by the government and they managed to get in touch with investigations from the national commission for child's rights. that's where this all came to light. because in may, investigators raided the shelters where the girls had complained of abuse and in it they found many women and children, all complaining of being abused, forced into prostitution, gang raped and no, sired to have abortions.

now, there's also an allegation that the owner oof the place, if the women did indeed end up having babies that she would then sell some of those children to childless couples. it's just a horrific situation in a shelter where people had hoped they would find refuge. and now they're saying that not only the people in the shelter were abusing them but they said that some police officers were also taking part in their sexual exploitation. this is an absolutely huge case. the investigators are saying that there will be a full blown investigation, of course. but at this time, the deputy superintendent of police where this has happened, which borde s delhi said there's not enough strong evidence to prove that police are involved. some people are calling for an outside team to investigate due to the relation that police officers may have been involved in this. but an absolutely terrible case. the women we do know now have

been taken out of the shelter and they're in another safe house. and their ages range from r 55 years old to newborns. one investigator said yes, there have been other ace cases like this in the past but this is the absolute worst case of abuse he's ever seen. don? >> terrible story. thank you very much. there are 18 veterans committing suicide every single day. this week cnn's hero gives veterans who suffer from traumatic brain injuries and oth invisible wounds a positive outlook on life by enlisting man's best friend. >> when i got back from iraq, i stood away from large crowds, malls, movies. >> i wouldn't leave the house. >> i would stay inside. windows were blacked out. >> i was really numb. >> dependent feel like i had a purpose anymore. >> nightmares constantly. fl flashbacks. >> everything to me is still the

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america is desperately in need of more students with degrees in sciences. that's according to a report released just this week. but there's an 18-year-old nuclear scientist right here in the u.s. who's already built a nuclear fusion reactor. at 18, i was just trying to master algebra. he is the youngest in the world to do it four years ago. it got the president's attention, you better believe it. >> so president obama has a

really good initiative to kind of support science. and he invited me to the white house to attend the white house science fair. >> hey, mr. president. >> good to see you. >> i was so proud of him. >> i developed a system for detecting nuclear threats. we use water instead of helium 3. >> well, that's pretty important. . >> of course, tyler has his rolling. doubled over. >> the secret service wouldn't let me turn it on. >> he's like his best buddy. no nerves at all. >> well there is taylor right there. he joins me from arkansas. not that you are an overachiever. i'm sure you are. but at 14 years old, what inspired you to build a system that detects nuclear threats? what made you think you could do that, i guess? your big brain, right? >> well, something like that. i joke with me that i built a fusion reactor and then i wanted

a real problem so i decided to solve these big problems. but i grew up, experienced 9/11 and that was very bad. a nuclear attack in the same area would tell ten times more people. it's a serious threat and always something that was on my mind. and i had these ideas that could fix the problem. >> 9/11 was horrific. i think it's amazing you used that as inspiration to help. that truly was an inspiration to you. that was an impetus behind doing this? >> definitely. the counterterrorism, for sure, yeah. >> i can hear the passion for you to find, not only for that, but to deal with ways to cure cancer as well. how is that going? >> yeah, i mean, it's going really well. counterterrorism had been a big passion of mine. but at least from a medical standpoint, the personal impact is unparalleled. that's something i wanted to do. i developed some really cool

technologies to treat cancer. the isotopes they use, radioactive elements they use to, say, diagnose or treat cancer are really great. they're, like, the doctor's best treatment for diagnosing and treating cancer. but they're very short lived. there are companies that make their living flying isotopes from where they're produced to hospitals in times for the scans. that's very expensive. if you're in a third world country for example you don't have access to these technologies. the technology produces these isotopes on site. hopefully i think this will be a big tool in the fight against cancer. >> are you telling us the truth, are you shoe you're just 18 years old? >> yeah, just turned 18. >> before i ask you about your response from the white house in attending the hiscience fare. you're not going on to college.

what are you going to do? >> the co-founder of papal, i'm taking his fellowship for the next two years to start my company. homeland security, big medical institutions are interested in buying my technologies. so at least for the next two years isle be starting the company to produce these technologies. >> i wanted to ask you a response from the white house for your nuclear detector. >> the be the was a little taken aback by this 17-year-old who came and showed him these nuclear technologies. i think he was somewhat wondering why the government scientists on his payroll hadn't come up with them. >> i've got a few seconds left here. if america can't employ more people with back grounds and science, what will happen do you think? >> yeah. i mean, i tell people that we're constantly losing manufacturing jobs to china. that he's horrible. but something that america has that china doesn't have and that's innovation. the thing that drives innovation

of science and technology. i tell people and kids, if you want to change the world, if you want to do something that has abimpact and is really cool, do science. science is what's going to change the world and science is what's going to get in my opinion this country back up on top. >> good work. you're amazing. thank you very much and best of luck to you. and make sure you tune in for more of taylor's story this sunday. on the next list at 2:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. hello, everyone. top of the hour. >> president obama hammering congress, telling it to pass long stalled prts of his j