in general by president-elect mohammad morsi. >> reporter: well, it was here in tahrir square where jubilant followers hanging on his every word. he certainly knew how to work the crowd up into a frenzy. he was talking about the kind of blood of martyrs that have been spilt in this square and the blood of martyrs spilled to get egypt to its first-ever democratically elected president. at one point saying, look, i'm not wearing a bullet proof vest. the only person i fear is god. so that was the kind of tone of it. he tried to include christians and women. but at times it was pretty far ri. and at one point, especially when he mentioned political prisoners in the u.s. and specifically shake omar abdul a cultural figure to say the

least. this is the man before osama bin laden was on the scene who was kind of public enemy number one in many ways. he was convicted back in 1993 for planning a sort of urban war of terrorism in which he and his fellow conspirators were going to blow up two bridges in new york, two tunnels, a federal building. they were going to try and assassinate hosni mubarak. he was a pretty full-on terrorist that's now someone they are saying they want to free. now, since that speech people are rolling back saying we just want him extradited back here to serve out his sentence. but nevertheless, it's going to raise some eyebrows in the u.s. >> it definitely will. dan rivers out of cairo tonight. thank you so much. we want to dig a little deeper on this with cnn national security contributor fran townsend. fran, bottom line, the chances even that the u.s. would

transfer him to cairo are slim to none, correct? >> zero. there's no possibility. look, in these really big cases where they're terrorism or spy cases, foreign governments make the request. our viewers will remember jonathan pollard. every year it seems israeli leaders ask for his return to israel. he spied against the united states when he was in the navy for israel. the answer is always been no across republican and democrat administrations. and this will be no different. look, the troubling part about this, candy, is that what -- in the speech the president-elect suggested his views were a legitimate political ideology. >> right. he called him a political prisoner. >> exactly. i mean, when you look at that and you take that together with his earlier statements after the election results about wanting to strengthen egypt's relationship with iran, you can understand how there will be grave concerns not only in israel and in the region, but here in the united states about

what exactly the views of the president-elect of egypt are going to be. and his relationship with the muslim brotherhood, what that portends for our relationship. >> often when we hear these sorts of speeches, if we put them in a local context, it often makes more sense. in other words, sometimes you say things for the hometown crowd. here is egypt's first democratically elected president. he will be sworn in tomorrow. he gives this speech in a square where freedom literally started for the folks he's talking to. is this perhaps sort of a hometown couple of graphs for morsi? >> candy, there are a lot of policimakers in washington hoping you are exactly right. i think that's fair. look, israel, as i mentioned, israel makes these requests every year. it's a political move. they know the answer is going to be no. and i suspect, i would hope that the president-elect of egypt understands that he can say that

in tahrir square and sort of politically whip-up, as dan rivers talked about it, the crowd there for domestic political reasons understanding there is exactly no chance of that transfer taking place. >> what does it say though? what does it bode for the future of u.s.-egyptian relations? a man educated here in the u.s., two american-born children. it sort of sounded like it was a promising beginning. does this kind of shade that a bit? >> well, look, i think you know people in washington who i've spoken with have said you've got to be realistic. as you pointed out, candy, all politics are local. so he's going to be pulled in a direction, a more right wing extremist direction by his own political constituency in egypt. he's going to have to balance that in order to be an effective player on the international political scene. so we're going to have to see how he walks that line. it's true of every politician, american, international, our allies, these are always

difficult balancing acts that take place. and we're going to see how he does. this will be new for him however. >> exactly. this is his first rodeo. so we'll see how this all works out. fran townsend, our national security contributor. thanks so much. >> thanks, candy. within the last few minutes cnn has learned that the justice department, as expected, will not prosecute attorney general eric holder, who was found in criminal and civil contempt of congress yesterday in a republican-led vote. the citation stems from a long-running dispute over a failed atf program that allowed guns to go from the u.s. to mexican drug cartels. the house oversight committee accuses holder of withholding documents pertaining to the program known as fast and furious. the matter will still move forward under a congressional civil contempt charge, but that could take years to work its way through the courts. mitt romney is vowing to get rid of obama care despite the supreme court ruling upholding it. but repealing might prove just as hard as passing it was.

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the supreme court decision upholding health care reform is energizing both the obama and romney campaigns and underscoring the starkest contrast between the candidates. both of them talked about the decision hours after it came down. >> that's why even though i knew it wouldn't be politically popular and resisted the idea when i ran for this office, we ultimately included a provision in the affordable care act that people who can afford to buy health insurance should take the responsibility to do so. in fact, this idea's enjoyed support from members of both parties, including the current republican nominee for president. still, i know the debate over this law has been devisive.

i respect the very real concerns millions of americans have shared. >> this is a time, a choice for the american people. our mission is clear. if we want to get rid of obama care, we're going to have to replace president obama. my mission is to make sure we do exactly that. that we return to the american people the privilege they've always had to live their lives in the way they feel most appropriate. where we don't pass onto coming generations massive deficits and debt. where we don't have a setting where jobs are lost. if we want good jobs and a bright economic future for ourselves and for our kids, we must replace obama care. >> let's get more now with cnn contribut contributor ryan lizzer. first of all, the white house thought this would be a popular loss by what the president says. and despite what mitt romney says, it's not like he can walk it off and say i repeal this

law. doesn't work that way. what's behind this? >> obviously has to win the presiden presidency. if he wins the presidency, a possibility republicans did well in congress. but then he's got his republicans' best friend, the filibuster to deal with in the senate. and repealing obama care would be almost as difficult as passing o babama care, right? >> 60 votes. >> so then you move to this procedure known as reconciliation. there is a budgetary device where you can get things through the senate with just a simple majority, 51 votes. and this week just within hours of the supreme court decision, lots of republicans now are gaming out, can we, if romney is president and we take over the senate, can we repeal obama care through reconciliation? there's a big debate about that. >> just defund it? >> that's an option. you can defund it, but then you leave all kinds of pieces. just as when obama was trying to pass the law, the white house had this debate, do we do it with overcoming a filibuster with 60 votes?

or do we do it with reconciliation? they decided at least at first to do it with 60 votes because they decided that doing it through reconciliation would create what they called the swiss cheese law. you couldn't do everything you wanted. so it's not as easy for romney to get rid of this thing as he stated in those remarks yesterday. >> and then comes the hard part, replace. >> and that's where the obama team now is coming back with him and saying, okay, if you're getting ready this, put pressure on romney and say what are you replacing it with? >> so far the romney camp has been shy about giving details on that. >> one of the things that interested me in the notes that we saw on the supreme court was justice ginsburg noting that congress' basis for this health care law was mitt romney's health care -- it just seemed like a political -- >> you know, it reminded me both scalia and ginsburg in decisions this week took little shots or at least references as to what's going on in the campaigns. which i don't think there's anything wrong with that.

these guys are political actors in a sense and they watch what's going on. scalia and his arizona decent i believe mentioned president obama's recent decision on not deporting certain classes of illegal aliens. and ginsburg talked about how the idea for obama care originated in massachusetts. neither which is factually true. on the other hand thooshe's bei political -- >> a little we get it, folks. >> exactly. >> health care has not been a winning issue for the president. he hasn't talked about it on the campaign trail. is it more of a winning issue now? it's a little bit like he's gotten that good housekeeping seal of approval and maybe people take a second look. >> look, i always think part of the reason the polls are so down on health care is, one, there are a lot of liberals in those polls who wanted his health care law to go further. it's never done well in the polls. and this campaign, they've not

really talked about it. his biggest achievement, he's not running on it. but i think a lot of people don't know what it does. the opinion polling on health care is highly sensitive to the data that people have. so perhaps, we'll see now that the supreme court, which still garners a great deal of respect in america has upheld it, we'll see if that affects -- >> new light on it for some people. >> right. >> ryan lizza, thank you. >> thanks, candy. congress gets to work in the nick of time. the vote on lower interest rates that affect millions of student loans. and no shady spot, no snow cone big enough to beat the heat around most of the country where the temperatures are soaring past 100 degrees. [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up.

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we have just received news about professional cyclist lance armstrong. lisa sylvester has that and some of the day's other top stories. lisa.

>> hi there, candy. well, we are just getting it confirmed that the u.s. anti-doping agency has decided to file formal doping charges against lance armstrong. this goes back to lance armstrong and his win of the tour de france in 1995 to 2005. armstrong has always maintained he is innocent. we have a statement that we can read now to you. it says "the u.s. ada can confirm that the independent three-person anti-doping review board has conducted a full evaluation and has made a unanimous recommendation to move forward with the adjudication process in accordance with the rules." essentially what this means, candy, is both sides will have a chance to present their case and their story and it will be up to the arbitrators to decide. in other news, congress only had until july 1st to extend a 3.4% interest rate on federally subsidized stafford loans for another year, otherwise the rate would double effecting more than 7 million students.

lawmakers decided to pay for the extension through changes in the way companies fund pension programs. the same package gives the green light to $109 billion in transportation funding for highways and bridges. and president obama is expected to sign both bills. and we've seen the dangerous situation the scorching temperatures have created in colorado. well, now the massive heat wave stretches all the way to the nation's capitol. a third of americans, about 100 million are under some type of heat warning today. temperatures across much of the country will be at 100 degrees or higher. and forecasters predict little relief to come in the next week. and the world's most powerful rocket launched into space today carrying a new spy satellite. it's a classified mission for the u.s. military. its makers say the delta iiii heavy booster has the most powerful rocket engines ever built. today's launch was just the second mission in just over a week. a partnership between lockheed martin and boeing.

and the dow leaps 277 points. that's more than 2% as european leaders reach a deal to help troubled banks. the eu hopes to have a plan immaterial ple implemented within the next two weeks. meanwhile, the official end of the first half of 2012 ended with all three major indexes posted gains. i'm sure a lot of people liked that news. >> we'll take good news wherever we can get it. thanks so much, lisa sylvester. all eyes on supreme court chief justice, some say john roberts surprise vote wasn't really surprising at all. on the other hand, we will also talk with long-time court watchers about signs that roberts may have made a dramatic last-minute switch in his vote. one that continually monitors and corrects for wheel slip. we imagined a vehicle that can increase emergency braking power when you need it most. and we imagined it looking like nothing else on the road today. then...we built it. the 2012 glk.

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he's a new hero to some, but now seen as a traitor by others. for the first time ever, supreme court chief justice john roberts sided with the court's entire liberal block yesterday to uphold president obama's health care reform act. and in doing so, he thrust himself into a very hot spotlight. cnn crime and justice correspondent joe johns is here. joe, if you look closely at roberts, there was always some indication that he could be a surprising guy. >> that's true, i think. and it's not entirely a surprise, candy. because roberts was able to preserve some conservative ideas

in this ruling while still protecting his legacy on the court. conservatives are still shaking their heads. >> it was really a shock. >> i'm disappointed in their decision. they came to the decision. i respect it. >> reporter: how could one of their own on the supreme court side with liberals on the court to uphold the constitutionality of the democratic president's health care plan? but in many ways it was still a conservative decision. >> this was a conservative judicial philosophy that says the role of the courts is to be the last resort, not the first resort. we only strike something down when it's a big piece of economic regulation if we absolutely have to. that's still quite conservative. >> reporter: this type of thinking shouldn't be a surprise coming from roberts. you need look no further than his confirmation hearings for the evidence. >> judges and justices are servants of the law, not the other way around. judges are like umpires. umpires don't make the rules. they apply them. the role of an umpire and a

judge is critical. it makes sure everybody plays by the rules, but it is a limited role. >> reporter: translation, it's not about legislating from the bench. it's about finding a narrow path to deciding cases. not exactly what then-senator obama thought of roberts when he voted against his confirmation back in 2005. >> that he has far more often used his formidable skills on behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak. >> reporter: and as president, obama kept up his criticism calling out the supreme court over the citizens united decision opening the flood gates for outside money into campaigns. >> i don't think american elections should be bankrolled by america's most powerful interests. >> reporter: for roberts, the health care decision is a legacy builder, which helps the credibility of the court without throwing away a policy idea that almost every president has grappled with going all the way back to theodore roosevelt. >> no doubt he voted this way because he believed it.

but for him as chief justice and supreme court as a whole, incredibly smart decision. insulates both of them from criticism of being partisan out to get liberals, anything like that, for decades. >> reporter: what's in the background says so much about roberts. a lawyer worth several million dollars, harvard grad, 57 years old, husband, father of two adopted children. roberts has had brushes with health issues including seizures, one as recently as 2007. tom goldstein doesn't think the chief justice's health issues impacted his decision. >> i think the idea that his health somehow influenced this is silly. this was a real legal question. he is the consummate lawyer. and there's no reason to believe that anything external influenced him. >> reporter: the big picture it kind of goes without saying that chief justice roberts is still very conservative and he is not somehow moving to the middle. this was an unusual case. also, there are likely to be

more health care cases related to the president's plan. so he and others on the court will once again get a chance to show their stripes, if you will. >> that's the best thing about a court is we can't predict it always. we're not really sure what they were thinking other than what we read in their -- >> that's right. but it's a great game. and everybody tries it. a lot of people don't get it right. >> most of us lost on that last one. that's for sure. thank you so much, joe johns. the health care ruling has sparked a supreme court mystery. the text is peppered with signs that chief justice roberts may have switched his vote at the last minute. cnn's tom foreman is sifting through the clues. >> i'm seeing that in this umpire analogy here there are a lot of republicans who wish they could go to the instant replay booth on this because they want to know what happened from the time they heard the oral arguments and they went into that private room where the nine justices made their first vote and then started talking about it and writing opinions about it, what happened in the meantime? here's what we saw yesterday when the vote was actually

taken. sotomayor goes over here. breyer over here, thomas over here, scalia over here. nothing unexpected. kennedy winds up over here. ginsburg over here. elena kagan over here. and now there's this thought that maybe roberts was headed this way. maybe he was headed this way or already there. why do they think that? because legal scholars were reading over comments and noticing things like this. first of all, bear in mind, the winning group is called the opinion, the losing group is called the dissent. we have it backwards in case roberts were over here. so you have a comment written by scalia, thomas over here where they're saying a few respectful responses to justice ginsburg's dissent on this matter suggesting that they were writing as the majority as if they had won, as if roberts was with them. so they're talking about her

dissent. again, another part, same thing. the dissent claims to say that we failed to explain -- the bottom line is, these people are writing in language that says they think they're the winners and this group is the losers. so much so even here justice thomas says i suggest for the reasons stated in our joint opinion, he's talking about their opinion as if they are the winners. so the bottom line is some legal scholars are looking at this language and saying this suggests that through the writing process for some considerable period of time this group over here thought that they had roberts in their camp. and somewhere along the line they were either mistaken or he switched and wound up over here. this became the opinion. this became the dissent. it's an awful lot of tea leaf reading i'll tell you, candy. a lot of often going to the instant replay booth, which we don't have. and frankly, i'm not sure i buy it having read through all of

it. but it's an interesting theory to which we will probably never ever have proof unless somewhere way down the line justice roberts retires and i'll write my memoir and tell all. >> yeah, right. i'm a step behind you. i'm not sure i know enough to buy into the mysteries of the supreme court. i'll stick with politics. >> they made the decision. that's the way it goes. >> exactly. tom, thank you. for more on the mysteries surrounding roberts' vote, i talked with tom goldstein, publisher and co-founder of scot is blog.com. so there are a lot of signs, one of them being that in the dissent the conservatives didn't address john roberts' reasoning until the end of their dissent. and that's taken as a mystery. do you go with it? >> this is all a possibility. when you have a really long opinion that goes on for so many pages, you can always kind of find tea leaves in there. i still think it's unlikely for two reasons. the first is, we can tell from who was assigned opinions throughout the course of the term that chief justice roberts

always had the principle majority in the health care case. so we know he was always writing. and second, it seems very unlikely that at the last minute he would have changed his mind given they've known this case was coming to them for years. so i think that there's probably some indications that the votes may have changed around some. things may have moved some. but i doubt that this was a last-second switch in time. >> and some people think there were hints in his questioning that he might have gone this, okay, you could call it a tax route. >> that's right. his questioning. that's exactly right. during the oral argument did raise this question of, well, it might be unconstitutional under the commerce power, this idea that conseatives were so concerned about overreaching as an attempt to regulate interstate commerce. but maybe the fallback position of the obama administration might be enough to save the law. >> you have to listen to them very carefully. >> that's right. >> let me ask you about the chief justice, i read in some of the commentary afterwards that this was an opinion that seemed to be the chief justice in his

role as chief justice. that he was very aware that the court is seen as an increasingly politicized and that this was his sort of, okay, american people, you can trust this court to follow the law, decision. take us inside his mind if you can. >> well, you know, the chief justice only speaks through the opinions. there's a lot of speculating going on. a lot of psychology. but i think you can start with the premise that he believed this was the right outcome. but the premise actually follows from a philosophy that says with big economic legislation that can effect hundreds of millions of people, the supreme court ought to be the last resort rather than the first resort that this is simply congress' job. i think in him writing it, because that's the choice he had to make, just join somebody else's opinion or would he be the author, he was showing the country that it's not a partisan institution. that the conservative appointed by republican president chief justice of the united states can be the pivotal vote to save the signature accomplishment of a democratic president. even if that's not the

necessarily intended result, it is certainly the result. >> right. so the law was there that helped him back up his decision as a justice. but the opportunity was there for him to act as a chief justice. >> yes. that's exactly right. and many people have said and i agree that this is really going to be remembered as a pivotal point in the roberts' court. the supreme court over the decades is known by the chief justice. and it's going to be incredibly hard to criticize either him or the court as a whole over the next ten years for being too conservative because people can always point to this decision. >> next term, major cases on affirmative action. we may get some voting rights cases, perhaps even same sex marriage. anything that chief justice roberts said tell you about how he's going to view these next cases? >> i don't think so. remember before yesterday there had never been a single case that we had 5-4 with john roberts joining the four more liberal members of the court against four conservativeconser.

his first year one 5-3 decision. this was unusual and doesn't suggest a trend in any way. i don't think this fundamentally changes his philosophy about how the law ought to be interpreted as a conservative. instead of this notion limited role. i don't think you should read anything else into it. >> tom goldstein, tell us the name of your blog again. >> thank you so much. >> thank you. the countdown to november is on. ahead, our strategy session weighs in with advice for both candidates with just a little more than 100 days to go. and, the star couple calling in divorce lawyers. you're in "the situation room."

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joining me for today's strategy session, hilary rosen and john fear ri, president of quinn gillespie communications. thank you both. 130 days away from the election. so we have four months for them to write their campaigns and win it. when you look at the obama re-election campaign, what worries you the most? >> well, we started out this

month pretty sour. polls were going down. our jobs numbers were not moving as quickly as we'd hoped. but we're ending on a high note. and i think for a couple reasons, obviously health care puts a little bounce in the president's step. they know he took a risk and it was worth it and we'll see it play out. but also we're going to see congress this week now passing the student loan bill the president's been calling for for the last several months. maybe even a transportation bill the president has sought that can help with construction jobs. so i think going forward the president has a lot to talk about in terms of what he's looking for for the future. the biggest risk of course is always overconfident. remembering that it goes bad just as easily as it goes well. >> which this month of june would tell us if you just look at it. >> right. >> take to the other side. when you look at the mitt romney campaign, what worries you? >> well, i'm going to answer like hilary. >> tell me the good things first. >> if i were the obama campaign, i would be most worried about the economy. unemployment is still above 8%.

things don't seem to be getting better. and the thing for the romney campaign is they are focused on that like a laser beam. even with this health care ruling with a tax argument, mr. romney can make the argument that it's keeping back the economy. the thing i'm most worried about if i'm the romney campaign is we have to pump up the hispanic vote for romney much more. we have to have a better answer on these questions on immigration and things like that. he's got to focus on getting that answer right if he wants to do better with that community. >> let me ask you both, do these candidates have time to get themselves right with issues that are this big? my sense of it is along about august or september you better have your act together. we're still a little off broadway now. >> i don't know that the country's really intensely focused on the campaign at all. but i do think that people are obviously paying attention to the economy. they're paying attention as they're making their summer vacation plans. can i afford to go away? is it a little better this year? gas prices are down from last summer some. so people notice that.

i think that people are starting to relate the politics to where they live. come august and september it will be more about the bigger picture. >> consumer confidence is going down at the same time. so somebody's living somewhere where they're not feeling great about it. let me ask you about -- you brought up immigration, some things that the romney campaign has to get right by. what is the holdup here? not in a big wholistic plan for immigration, but just a simple answer, of course i'll leave the president's directive in place, but i'm going to come up with something much better. or, no, i'm going to immediately turnover what the president has done which is allow young illegal immigrants come here under the age of 16 and stayed clear of any law enforcement violations that they can stay and get work release. >> that's a very good question. the thing for him is he's worried a little bit about the white ethnic vote. i think he could say i'm with

marco rubio and we need a long-term solution. i think part of this is feeling things out. there are so many other things going on. you have this health care ruling. you really want to focus on that for a while. you want to talk about taxes. you want to stick to the economy. we've kind of gotten through this thing, but he does have to have a better message at some point in time to get that turnout. >> he's trying to figure out if he can get away with saying something exactly opposite of what he said during the primaries. and i think right now they don't think they can. that's a good thing. >> isn't now the time -- if you're going to say, without buying into that, if you're going to say something that seems to contradict yourself from several months earlier, shouldn't you do it now? >> sometimes evolving slowly is the best option. i think they'll probably get there. >> they're allowed to evolve on gay marriage. >> yes. this doesn't tend to be one of those issues. immigration is not a social issue. it's an economic policy issue. >> for romney the most important thing with the hispanic community is talking about the economy because the economy with

hispanic voters, they're just as worried as anybody else about not being able to find jobs. many hispanic people are small business owners, you have to talk about small business. for romney, you have to really focus on that like a laser beam because it helps with the general message. >> john feehery, hilary rosen, we have to stop there. have a good weekend. >> you too. loopholes in international sanctions against iran. large enough that u.s. allies are doing big business in the islamic republic. and only months before -- after being orphaned, four children are now homeless as well thanks to colorado's massive wildfires. it's your teenager's first varsity game. it isn't just your annual exam. it's your daughter's wedding. did you know with your health insurance you may now have some preventive benefits with no co-pays or out-of-pocket costs? it isn't just your cholesterol screening. it's all the tomorrows you're looking forward to. learn more at healthcare.gov.

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this week the toughest sanctions yet against iran are going into effect, but there are loopholes that may keep iran from feeling the full impact. cnn's erin burnett is going out front on this story. erin, describe to me what these loopholes are. >> it's pretty amazing candy. this weekend we're going to see europe stop buying iranian oil. the u.s. has another round of even tougher sanctions. this is the worst it's ever been in terms of sanctions on iran. and it has really hurt the economy. there's no question about it. you know, average iranians were getting a subsidy every month

for food. that's been cut back because the government's been hurt so badly. but there are some amazing inconsistencies in the u.s. government's handling of the sanctions. this is a samsung galaxy phone. outsold the iphone, right? everyone wants this device. samsung is a south korean company, it does a lot of business in iran. when i was there they were full samsung stores, televisions, you name it. over 2,000 south korean companies operate in iran, and yet the united states congress signed off on the biggest free trade deal since nafta with south korea. so there are some real inconsistencies in how the u.s. has handled it. obviously samsung is doing nothing wrong. it's going about its business. so far this year as we've seen all these angsts take effect, this is an amazing number, candy. iran is importing 49% more from south korea than it was a year ago. so sanctions may be working and may be tough, but there are some real serious questions about how

effective they may be and whether the u.s. government's really doing everything it can. >> so basically just quickly you're just saying that these loopholes could mitigate the actual effect that we want? >> yeah. they absolutely can mitigate. and there are other small loopholes allowed by congress where u.s. companies that have subsidiaries overseas even fully owned subsidiaries overseas, if they do business with iran, that's allowed in some cases. that's been dramatically scaled back. press conference of some things. people find out you're doing that, that gets pulled back. there are loopholes out there. and they're being exploited. although, again, south korea, it's not a loophole. these companies are doing what they're allowed to do. the u.s. isn't using the leverage that we have on something that our government says is so important. >> out front with erin burnett, we will be watching tonight. thanks, erin. >> thanks, candy. firsthand look at scenes of devastation. president obama visits colorado where wildfires are burning out of control. also, the celebrity split sending shock waves through the

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tom cruise and katie holmes are splitting up after almost six years of marriage. a lawyer for the actor confirms that holmes has filed for divorce and that the actor is "very sad about it." "people" magazine owned by our parent company, time-warner. tell us anything you can about what caused it, was it a surprise? how did this happen? >> it was definitely a surprise. we interviewed tom a few weeks ago in the magazine and he was talking about how much he loved katie. he was talking about how much he loved his family. he seemed pretty satisfied. so this is a huge surprise that they're getting a divorce. katie, she filed for divorce. the details we're still reporting them out, but it's definitely a shocker. a huge surprise in hollywood. >> actors are pretty good at acting. so it just seems to me not quite conceivable that katie holmes could be unhappy enough for a

divorce and tom cruise would not know about it. is there anyone kind of in their immediate circle that, you know, saw something like this coming? have you been able to figure that out? >> you know what's interesting, is that for the past few months they have not been photographed together. this is a couple we're used to seeing them together. she's always by his side. he's been out promoting his film "rock of ages" and katie hasn't been at a single premier. they've been apart. even now the last time she was photographed she was in new york and he's in iceland filming a movie. she's usually with him onset with suri. that's a huge shocker too. maybe that was the writing on the wall that they were getting a split. >> and i also know that little news from adelle, the singer, today. >> yes. she's expecting. she went to her site and says she's expecting a baby. she's pregnant with her boyfriend, simon. >> this is going to take probably some of the angst out of that music that's made her sofa mouse, i would think. >> you would think so. she's been wanting to be a mom.

she told "people" that that's one of the things she really wants to do. she's extremely over the moon and will probably change the tune of a lot of her songs. >> now was this a surprise? >> that she's pregnant? >> yes. >> it's not a huge surprise because she does want to be a mom. she's young. and she's been dating him since last summer. she's a very private star. but i'm not surprised she's pregnant. i'm actually very happy for her. >> carlos greer, "people" magazine. thanks so much. >> thank you. the first family's food goes from farm to table. granted we're talking about the white house garden here. but lisa sylvester discovered an idea is growing out of the rows of fresh vegetables. it's not just what's for dinner, lisa? >> i think the first lady really wanted to start a conversation around our food, where it comes from and the implication it has on our health especially for kids. when kids are empowered as actors in this and they get to become part of the process of

planting a seed and watching it grow and preparing it to eat, their minds just open up because they take real ownership in the process. that can happen even just in cooking. we have some cherry tomatoes over there that are starting to come in now. >> does this actually end up on the first family's table then? >> absolutely. harvest something pretty much every night for dinner. you want to see a sneak peek of the first potato? these are baby red ones. >> oh, i bet the kids love doing this, don't they? >> yeah. potatoes always great for kids. >> it's like a treasure hunt. >> exactly. the first family eats -- any time the president's in town, they eat dinner as a family. it's a great way for families to use food to sit down and be a family. it's critical in getting kids to eat their vegetables too. these plants are doing so well. let's see if we got a bigger one. there's a zuccini for you. >> the thing about have been fresh foods is it really does make a big difference in taste.

>> it's so good. >> i know. juicy. >> yeah. >> you can see the juice literally coming off of that. >> yeah. >> this is great. >> i'm incredibly worried, so is the first lady. right now one in three of our youngest generation will have diabetes in their lifetime if we don't significantly turn this around. >> how do you get kids to eat healthy? >> i think really it is including them in the process. when you go shopping, one thing that works is, okay, you get to pick out three different vegetables. now your kid has a role to play. >> so is there like a go-to one that they love that the president really loves or the first lady really loves? >> that's top secret information. there's no way i can disclose -- no. we really balance healthy meals. we also have a lot of fun with food too. we also have young children. so we make sure we throw them a bone now and again and serve just some fun stuff for them. but they practice what they preach. there's balance on the plate. we cook the my plate and then go from there. >> so where are the beets?

>> well, we don't have any -- we've already harvested the beets. >> i heard the first lady saying something about not being a beet family. >> she's not -- they're not the biggest beet fans, but we find other ways to use beets. it's not the most staple crop. this little thing right here. see it? this will turn red. that thing packs a punch. >> you're not going to eat this? >> no way. don't let the size fool you. >> how did you meet the first family? >> my dad was malia's teacher. i'm a high parker. just known them from the area. it's a small neighborhood. got lucky enough to come here. >> tell me about the state dinner. i'm fascinated about this. i love this idea. >> we're so excited. families have been putting in their recipes for healthy lunches for kids, working with their kids. and a winner from every state in the nation's going to come to the white house and have a state dinner with the first lady. and it's going to be so much fun. >> so, lisa with me now, do they

have a date for the dinner? >> they don't have a specific date yet. we're still waiting. i know there are a lot of kids out there that are excited and want to know if they're winners. he's a very modest guy. he was actually named one of "people" magazine's 100 most beautiful people. he just brushes all that to the side and just wants to keep the conversation going having parents and kids talking about healthy eating, candy. >> so in his honor, we'll keep the conversation going. does he have any specific advice, you're a mom, i'm a mom, it's just tough to -- i realize when someone says they'll eat anything if you put it in front of them. mine used to run around snacking on green pepper until they hit school. >> yeah. it is, as a mom, i can tell you it's tough to convince the kids to give up the chicken nuggets, the macaroni and cheese and reach for something healthier. but he says families need to make it interesting. get kids involved. give them choices.

give kids a sense of empowerment of they're making the decisions. he also says plan meals. this is something he does with the white house. on sunday, take a half an hour, plan your meals. figure out what you're going to be making. and also he says families need to have conversations about this. you know, if you get a kid to start a garden in the backyard, plant some seeds, make it their plants, make it their tomato plant, now it has a whole different level and much more exciting for them, candy. >> okay. i'm not sure i'm going to go home and start a garden in the backyard. >> i haven't done it, but i have to tell you i want to start doing that. after doing this story, it's something i'm really looking forward to doing. i asked him also about the deer and rabbits, he said of course we have the secret service for that. he was obviously making a joke. but that's the big thing. but you can always start, you can do container gardens. there are so many wonderful things you can do, candy. >> lisa sylvester, thank you so much. you're in "the situation room." happening now, an epic fire

lands on the doorstep of a family already reeling from tragedy. this hour, the heart wrenching story of a grandmother who had to step in to care for her grandchildren. now they're all homeless. plus, 100 million americans are desperate for relief from extreme heat. temperatures are soaring into the triple digits from the midwest to the east coast. is this what we can expect the rest of the summer? and a new campaign to try to abolish one state's lottery in the name of protecting the poor. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm candy crowley. you're in "the situation room." i'm leaving my house for probably the last time. oh, my god, the smoke in the

air. so bad. >> that terrified woman is just one of tens of thousands of people who have escaped from the most destructive blaze in colorado's history. now they're desperate to know if their homes have been swallowed by flames. president obama just got a firsthand look at this growing disaster. more than 300 homes in the area have been destroyed. and at least one person is dead. more than 20,000 homes are dangerously close to the flames. this is how the fire zone looks from space. firefighters say the blaze is now just 15% contained. but with weeks to go before the danger is over. you can see the sadness and worry on people's faces. we will have reports on the massive battle against this fire and on the president's trip to colorado. first, jim spellman joins us from colorado springs with one of those personal stories. jim. >> reporter: hey, candy. yeah, you know, as firefighters have been able to get into these neighborhoods and assess the damage, people here are starting to find out the fate of their

homes. for a lot of people, it's bad news behind each one of those hopes is a tragic story. here's one. take a look. for fire victim susan and her grandsons, justin, connor, brandon and tyler, their pain and heartbreak began long before the flames hit their neighborhood. in the fall of 2010, susan's daughter, kim, the boys' mom, died in her sleep. then, just three months later the boy's father, nolan, died after a heart attack. >> i spent a couple months packing them up. wrapping up their lives. and moved them here. sorry. >> reporter: susan now had four grieving grandsons to take care of. >> it kind of feels like sadness in my heart. >> i just miss them so much. >> most of the time i think, why me? but that's pretty much normal

because like people that go through that think, why me, why does this happen to me? >> reporter: do you ever get an answer to that question? >> no. not really. >> reporter: they managed as best they could. >> it's been a struggle. been in some counselling. we've gone up and down. but everyone's doing much better. >> reporter: and then the fire came forcing them to pack up what few things they could and head for safety. >> and as we drove we could see in our rearview mirrors the side of the hill just exploded. there had to be 40 fires just bam. >> reporter: grandma's house was destroyed. the boys would have to start over yet again. connor, tell me how all this makes you feel. >> like a little kid. >> like a little kid he says. >> reporter: does it feel better when you're sitting with your grandma? they gain strength from each other and a few special

possessions. what is the best thing you got? >> probably my mom and dad's blanket. it makes me feel safer. >> reporter: what would you say to them if you could have them back for one day? >> i love them so much. >> reporter: susan says when she needs strength, she gets it from the boys. even when it's hard to make sense of what has happened. she's not sure if she will rebuild in her old neighborhood, but she knows no matter how uncertain their future, they'll take it on together. >> you can't just walk around feeling sorry for yourself. i have a lot of people to consider. and if you fall apart, what's going to happen? so it's like, you know what, we're all together, we're safe. and it's just stuff. and, you know, we can replace it. we'll always have the memories. >> reporter: susan and the boys are staying with some friends, candy. tomorrow susan will get the first look at her destroyed home on a small bus trip that the

city's put together. she's bracing for that. she says that's what will make it really seem real. >> oh, wow. i confess, you got me on that one, jim. what a story. but she's right, they're together. they have each other. the rest of it is stuff. thank you so much for bringing that story to us. firefighters recruited from across the country are throwing everything they can at the inferno in colorado. now u.s. army troops are preparing to get involved as well. we want to bring in our pentagon correspondent, barbara starr. barbara, what's the military planning right now? what can they bring to the table? >> well, candy, as we've seen so many times in the large-scale tragedies, the military is now beginning to step in. the military by tomorrow night will have all eight of its c-130 aircraft equipped with fire fighting capability from the air on station in colorado. these essentially are the big guns. they've had four of them there for some time. the rest of them are joining. that means the entire fleet.

what do these c-130s do? they've already dropped -- the ones that are there, 140,000 gallons of fire retardant. each mission can drop 3,000 gallons in five seconds of either fire retardant or water. we've seen those pictures before. they are now throwing all their airplanes at this. and when they drop their fire retardant or water, they can cover an area one-quarter mile long, 100 feet wide. when they hit the ground again, they can reload, refill those tanks within 12 minutes. colorado of course is a huge area for the u.s. military. there are a number of military families that are displaced. i can add to what jim said, just two nights ago i got an e-mail from someone we know quite well in afghanistan, he was trying to find out if his house had burned down and exactly where his family has evacuated to. >> the problem is there are stories like that throughout

colorado. >> absolutely. >> it's still just 15% contained. i understand, barbara, you also have some information on ground troops? >> yeah. you bet. the military putting more against this starting today they began training 530 soldiers, many of them afghanistan veterans, in fire fighting. so they are on standby ready to be called in by the forest service if needed. they will learn over the next three days to dig ditches, how to clear brush, they're going to make sure they keep these guys safe. they're not sending them right into the front line of the fire. but the firefighters, the private firefighters, the community firefighters are so exhausted from all of this of course. they need that backup help. and so they're going to use these troops, potentially, to do that hard tough work like digging fire breaks, digging ditches. candy. >> wow. reinforcements are on their way. that's always good to hear. especially the people of colorado right now.

barbara starr, thank you so much. >> sure. president obama is promising to help colorado deal with the enormous devastation from the wildfires. he's wrapped up a brief visit to the state to see the disaster firsthand. our white house correspondent, dan lothian, is traveling with the president. >> reporter: well, candy, colorado has been dealing with prolonged hot temperatures and dry conditions. it's the perfect environment for these explosive wildfires. progress is being made, but the battle is far from over. so today the president came to colorado offering help. as helicopters scooped up water and attacked hot spots in the mountains surrounding colorado springs, president obama arrived in this battleground state to assure the victims of one of the state's worst wildfires ever that the federal government would provide substantial assistance. >> one of the things i've tried to emphasize is that whether it's fires in colorado or flooding in the northern parts of florida, when natural

disasters like this hit, america comes together. >> reporter: aides say the president saw some of the damage from the air as he looked out the windows of air force one. on the ground he was briefed by the state's governor and others leading the wildfire response effort. and took a walking tour of the neighborhood scorched by the waldo canyon fire. >> what's remarkable is obviously how devastating these fires are. once they hit a house and they take root, it is very difficult for anybody to imagine the kind of devastation and how quickly it happens. >> reporter: the president thanked the firefighters whose hard work he said saved countless lives. >> what'd you guys have to do to protect these homes? give me a sense of how you guys go about that. >> this first one right here that has the garage kind of broken open, they had a little bit of fire inside the garage. we put that out and knocked

holes in the garage door to get the heat out of there. >> reporter: more federal assistance is on the way. eight c-130 military planes equipped with special fire fighting technology, the entire inventory, are being deployed here. it's a massive response to confront a massive disaster. the wildfire in colorado springs that destroyed 346 houses and is responsible for one death is only 15% contained. another fire in the northern part of the state destroyed 257 houses, also claimed one life, but is 85% contained. with small gains, some people who are evacuated are being allowed to return home. like colorado springs resident, walt ost, who's lived in this city for more than 50 years. how did it feel to come back and see your house here? >> well, it feels real good. especially after seeing those aerial photographs of the neighborhood. >> reporter: he and his family were forced to evacuate with only some photo albums, insurance papers and a laptop as

a fast-moving wall of fire threatened their home and their lives. >> was it terrifying to watch that happen? >> yeah. it's scary. you can't do anything. nor could the firemen when something moves at 60 plus miles an hour. >> reporter: for others, there is no home to return to. recovery will be much more difficult. more than half of all federal fire fighting resources are being staged here in colorado. officials are hoping in addition to that the weather will cooperate. candy. >> dan lothian, you can help the victims of these fires. to get more information, go to cnn.com/impact. in some parts of the u.s., the heat index could reach 115 degrees today. we'll get the big picture on the extreme temperatures and how long they may last. plus, stock prices skyrocket amid talk of a new breakthrough for the global economy. and a new case of a flight attendant losing his cool and taking it out on passengers.

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a huge day on wall street. the dow jumped 277 points. mirroring markets around the world that rallied on what eu leaders consider a breakthrough in the effort to rescue the global economy. the eurozone agreed today to a series of steps designed to stabilize its credit markets and banks. it's a move the white house calls encouraging but cautions more steps will need to be taken in the future. joining me now, cnn's richard quest. richard, the u.s. stock markets went crazy with this news. way up. europe will not go into recession, translate this for us in u.s. terms. >> it was all of those things and none of them at the same time. it was hope, perhaps more hope

over expectation and experience. the truth is any good news out of europe is reason to go off to the races. and that's what we saw. the summit in brussels did more than expected. but i would go further than that. it's the first time they've taken concrete long-term and short-term action that people believe is necessary. banking union, a fiscal compact, moving towards the purchase of government bonds, getting debt off government books and onto bankbooks. these all seen as being called necessities if the crisis is to actually come to some sort of fruition and settlement. >> i'm afraid to ask you this question, what could go wrong? >> well, i don't think we've got long enough to go into that. i'll be reading the news into the next program if we do. but to give you the headlines, if you like, a, the markets

could not believe that they've got the political will. b, they may not have the political will when push comes to shove. c, now they've got to put flesh on the bones of the road map. and they have to do this and do it by december. the squabbling could begin between the various countries over who will get what, when and why. and, four, d, again, economies could take a serious turn for the worst. and you're still in the united states, let me kick the football well and truly back across the atlantic. you still got a u.s. presidential election and a fiscal cliff. now, the fiscal cliff frankly if the u.s. does end up going -- big if, if, if, it could make the eurozone problems look like a tea party. >> i don't want to leave on a downer note. so just tell me kind of the crux of this deal. who is now accountable for the debt? >> right. the core point to realize is

nothing's actually happened yet. i mean, this is a promise to do things. a plan to do a road map. it's all what will, may, should, could, possibly, might happen. that's why we're so dubious about it. but if it goes according to plan, this is what will happen, the spanish will get their bailout money for the banks and it won't go on the government's books. the italians, if they want to, can ask for help. and the money will be given directly to italy, not some route. and finally by the end of the year they should have a plan for banking union and something that looks pretty much like a european treasury. there's a long way to go. but there's a reality and a realism after this summit that we haven't seen before. >> unfortunately we all know what often happens to the best laid plans of mice and men. but richard quest, thank you so much for your take on this.

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it is sweltering hot here in washington. over 100 degrees. but don't cry for us, argentina, we are not alone. millions of americans are looking for relief from extreme heat across the east coast into the midwest. one-third of the population is under some kind of heat warning today. and it's not even july. meteorologist and severe weather expert, chad myers is at the cnn weather center. what's happening here? >> the bubble of hot air that was over the fire area last week that caused the fires just to be so brutal and so hard to fight has now moved to the east. and weather does move from west to east. so the bubble of high pressure, which is here, now has all this heat all across the deep south. and for you too, in d.c., it feels like 111 outside. so it's not getting any better

all the way across texas. the air temperature in new york not so bad today. it goes up tomorrow. if you think today was hot, tomorrow we go higher than 93 for sure. richmond, virginia, you were 102. there you go. 102 again. get down farther south on i-95 to petersburg for at least one hour it was 108. so a lot of times we say it's not the heat, the humidity. today it's the heat. the humidity's there, but it's not as bad as it could be sometimes during the middle of the summer. i walked out in atlanta, it's 103 right now. it's hot. it's brutally hot. but when you start to sweat, the sweat evaporates a bit and you do cool off. so if you can keep yourself cool -- let me give you a picture here. here are the smartest kids. there's a show "are you smarter than a fifth grader?" all the parents over here not smarter than fifth graders because they're in the water. that's where you want to be, in the water. get yourself wet. the water will evaporate and you will be cooler thanks to that

zoom-in. 103 for memphis. today and tomorrow about the same. a hot day in nashville. 107 today. same story for tomorrow. it doesn't go away. i know you were going to ask me is at some point in time, how long is this going to last? candy, this will be here for a week. it will end in nebraska and hill city, kansas, by the end of the weekend. but that means the heat slides to the east and it stays in the east. it stays where most people live and where the air conditioners are going to be straining the power supplies. all those things you can do to keep yourself safe. when you do leave the house, turn the air conditioner up a little bit so there's not a blackout when you come back. it's kind of do things for your neighbors. make sure the neighbors, especially if you have elder ones, are taken care of. make sure the pets aren't outside without any shade from the sunshine, without water, any of that kind of stuff, candy. >> hey, chad, what does this bode for july and august? or do these things just sort of happen in vacuums? >> they happen in vacuums. they come and they go.

it doesn't mean that the middle of july's going to be above normal. in fact, it could be below normal. way out to the west right now phoenix, all the way up into los angeles, san francisco, they're well below normal. and today this is a great number, i tweeted this out earlier. this has nothing to do with our current weather, but it was 108 in petersburg, virginia. it's 93 degrees below zero on the south pole. 201 degree difference from petersburg, virginia, to the south pole. at least if you're in the south pole, you can find some cool, but you'll probably want to find warm. if we could spread it around a little bit, kind of like the rain and wildfires, we'd all get a bit better. >> only you could come up with that figure. thank you so much, chad myers, appreciate it. lisa sylvester is monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. lisa, that deadly shooting at fort bragg now looks like it might have been the result of a soldier facing punishment. >> that's right, candy. officials say a soldier facing a dishonorable discharge shot and

killedbattalion commander. the unit was gathered for a safety briefing. the military says the accused shootder, who is not expected to survive faced court-martial for allegedly stealing a tool box worth almost $2,000. janet jackson's infamous wardrobe malfunction at the 2004 super bowl will not cost cbs a half million dollars after all. the supreme court threw out the government-imposed fine saying the fcc's punishment was unfair considering it was an isolated incident during primetime television. and let's see, swimming 103 miles from cuba to the florida keys through shark-infested waters, you'll need a few things, flippers, a wet suit, definitely a shark cage. one australian woman has none of those things. 49-year-old penny paulfrey has a crew following her and a suit to protect her from jelly fish. she says it could take 60 hours to complete that journey.

and a canadian hockey coach is suspended after he allegedly tripped a 13-year-old player on the opposing team. take a look here. the video. it went viral shortly after the game. it shows the coach shaking one player's hand and then, oh, yikes, sticking his foot out to trip the teenager who suffered a broken wrist. the boy's mother says the coach should be banned from children sports. another player also found the coach is claiming it was an accident. candy. >> that's a problem with all these video cameras around. lisa sylvester, thank you very much. some republicans are branding the president's health care law as a middle class tax increase. the politics of the supreme court bombshell ruling could get ugly. we'll hear from two lawmakers with a big stake in the election year debate. and would the poor be better off if one state gets rid of its lottery? that's why programs like...

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they don't decide whether this is a good idea. and it's specific in when they found that it was constitutional what they said was the reason why they said it's constitutional is because it's a tax increase. millions of americans may now have an irs problem as a result of this ruling. >> so, senator, how does this play out on the campaign trail? as we all know, when mitt romney was governor of massachusetts, he certainly had a very similar plan in place. it takes away some of his ability to argue the individual mandate, but how do you go at this in terms of politically and in terms of what you say your ultimate goal is, which is to turnover this law. >> three things, let me first mention that when governor romney was the governor of a state, that's a state policy. if you don't like the state policies of a state, you can easily go to another state. and the state doesn't have the irs. this turned the irs into an enforcement mechanism for obama care. and this is a broken promise.

the president said he would never raise taxes on the middle class. this is a middle class tax increase. you know why we know it's a middle class tax increase? not because i'm saying it, because the supreme court has said it. it's the basis for upholding it. i think americans really understand what this law is all about. and i think now more than ever you're going to see opposition to this law increase. i think it's going to hurt economic growth, which was already doing very poorly. new figures today showed the economy is not growing. this is not going to help. this becomes a central issue of this campaign again like it was in 2010. >> talk about the politics of the supreme court decision with congressman chris van holen of maryland. he's also the senior democrat on the budget committee. a tax argument is very powerful. and you have had the supreme court say, oh, you know, it's really not commerce, but if you call it a tax, you're in. how do you not say and suffer politically from the fact that most people hear tax and sort of draw back from it.

>> well, candy, this is designed exactly the way mitt romney designed the plan in massachusetts. in fact, i've got the massachusetts requirements right here. they call it a tax penalty in massachusetts. call it whatever you want. the idea is the same. the idea is that everybody should pay something toward the health care they're getting. because if some people pay nothing, it means you and me and everybody else pay more. we pay more in premiums. we pay more in taxes because people who go to the hospital without insurance, the hospital doesn't provide that charity care. in fact, taxpayers provide help to the hospital. so at the end of the day everybody ends up paying for the deadbea deadbeats. in fact, governor romney called them essentially deadbeats and making sure that we didn't have everybody else having to finance the free riders and free loaders. he called them free riders. >> well, we are where we are now. and the fact is this has not been an issue the president has campaigned on. this is not something he's seen to want to talk about now. does the supreme court decision

make it any better? it still remains unpopular, the law in its totality. i realize there are popular elements, but if you ask people how they feel about the health care law, they don't like it. >> there are two things, first all the popular elements. the republicans want to come back about two weeks from now and repeal this entire law. take away all the provisions that protect kids from pre-existing conditions and ultimately everybody from pre-existing conditions. they want to take all that away. they want to hand the power back over to the insurance industry. why is it unpopular? it got totally demagogued. >> there's a flip side you all didn't do a very good job selling it? >> well, i think we could have done a better job. i think this opens an opportunity for fresh conversation. republicans will now have to talk about why they are the party who wants to reward the free loaders, the people who want health care for free and not participate in any way in covering their own costs. i mean, why should taxpayers get

the bill for people who can afford health care but choose to free ride on the system? that's not fair. >> i want to talk a little bit about the penalties or taxes or fines or whatever we want to call them. i don't completely understand it. so the way the law reads now in 2014 the penalty for a family will be either $285 per family or 1% of their income, whichever is larger. if the actual cost right now -- the average cost of a family's insurance is over $7,000. so if you could, if you were forced to buy an insurance policy for $7,000 or pay a penalty and still get health care until someone gets really sick and then you can get insurance because now you're not allowed to discriminate against people with pre-existing conditions, why won't people just opt for paying the penalty if it's so low? >> well, first of all, most americans will continue to keep their current health care system. but those who -- >> except for the people whose employers opt out. >> well, if they opt out people,

they still have the opportunity to go into the health exchange and access the tax credits, the tax credits, subsidies that are available to them to make sure they can now pay for health insurance. so will there always be some people who totally try and gain the system? yes. but congressional budget office, the nonpartisan referee, has estimated that when you have a penalty for people who decide to try and freeload the system, the reality is most people when given the opportunity to get affordable health care will exercise that option. >> sure. so then you're left with people who can't afford to get health insurance and probably can't afford to pay the penalty. >> well, no, because under this system for people who are very poor, they will be able to get health care under medicaid. for people who are stretching it, they're not qualified for medicaid, they will be able to get tax credits. they're going to be able to get a little bit of help so they can afford health care. so the only people who are

payingpay ing the penalty are the people who can afford health care but are trying to game the system, trying to freeload on the system, trying to send you and i the bill because they decide ds they're going to try to get health care for free. >> i want to turn your attention to sheer politics and the makeup of the house next february, let's say. we've seen two major reports, say they don't see a wave election coming up. basically they say it's going to be maybe a six-house pickup for democrats or a one-house seat pickup for republicans. meaning that you all will stay in the minority. is that enough to make a guy retire? >> no. no one's going to retire. just means we're going to work even harder between now and then. and steve israel, who is the chairman of the democratic national campaign committee has been doing a really good job. we believe momentum is building in our direction. we believe it's all about the economy. and i think that the american people are going to see and i think they're seeing this every day while the president has

worked very hard to turn around the economy and he was able to stop the free fall with emergency actions that were taken, that the republicans have been rooting for failure in this sense, they refused to allow a vote on the president's jobs bill. you heard the report the other day that mitt romney's folks were calling the governor of florida and saying, hey, governor, don't talk about -- it was reported. so that is the sense people are getting. >> but consumer confidence is down. that's not a good sign for democrats. i just wonder what you think the chances are that democrats could retake the house. >> well, i think the chances are growing. we have always said this is a jump ball. but we believe when people really focus in on the total obstructionism that they've seen in the house of representatives from republicans of congress starting with the very infamous comment made by the senate republican leader, mitch mcconnell, who said their number one objective was not the economy or jobs but to defeat president obama, that's been their game plan.

they had a meeting, as you know, the night the president was sworn in. a member of the house republican leaders to plot their plan for a, you know, just burn the place down strategy. >> politics ain't -- >> no, it's not. but i think the american people expect people to try to work together for the good of the country. >> democratic congressman from maryland, chris van hollen, thank you so much. >> thank you. when a bullet tore through a chicago home, the family decided to move town. the gang violence is getting close to town. and a flight attendant loses his cool on video. you'll see it. find out what happens for yourself. >>what? >>sorry. he wants you to know about priceline's new express deals. it's a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. >>and save big. >>thanks negotiator. wherever you are.

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a 7-year-old girl selling candy in front of her home was shot in the back in chicago this week. she is one of the latest victims of exploding violence in the city. for her family and way too many others, the skyrocketing murder rate is hitting home. our ted rollins talked to one family that's doing something about it. >> reporter: candy, it isn't often that a 14-year-old kid getting ready to start his first year in high school is excited about moving. but this is the south side of

chicago. and things here are different. >> i was shot through the window. >> reporter: 14-year-old josh turner is talking about the time gunfire on his street got uncomfortably close hitting his neighbor's window. >> and the bullet went right through the glass. >> reporter: street violence has been a part of life here on chicago's south side for decades. but for josh and his mother, marissa, it's becoming too much to handle. >> it's gotten so bad that i'm ready. i'm more than ready. >> reporter: she says she's moving to rome, georgia, where she grew up and where she hopes josh can have a normal life. this family knows firsthand the devastating effect of street violence. josh's father, jeremiah, was murdered when josh was 18 months old. >> not having his dad probably put more on me as far as protecting him. and that's all, that's all that matters. >> reporter: the murder rate in chicago is up more than 35% so

far this year. many of the victims are innocent and young. last wednesday 7-year-old heaven sutton was shot standing in her front yard selling lemonade. >> i'm glad that, you know, marissa is moving him out of this environment. >> reporter: josh's grandmother, nora, who lives across the street from josh and marissa, showed us this photo display of josh's father. she says the pain of losing a child is unbearable. while she'll miss josh, she can't take the thought of losing him to violence as well. >> when i'm watching the news and i hear of someone else that has been killed, i just -- you know, my mind goes back to that process of the initially hearing it and then after that. that after, when everybody leaves you, that after. and you're left with yourself. >> reporter: josh says moving away from his friends will be difficult, but he's looking forward to living close to relatives in georgia. living somewhere that's safe.

josh and his mother will be moving to georgia in august so that josh can be there in time for school to start. candy. and a flight attendant loses his cool on a plane delayed for hours. and passengers caught the whole thing on tape. you knew that would happen. plus, a local naacp effort to axe the texas lottery. we'll tell you why next. d@

to texas now where an naacp branch has jumped into an effort to eliminate the state lottery. they argue the move could be a matter of life and death for some of the poorest people living there. and who in many cases may be the most vulnerable. our brian todd is working the story and joins us with details. >> candy, the head of the naacp in dallas is fed up with poor people and minorities spending money on lottery tickets in her region and points to one case where she says it was a matter of life or death. she tells the saddest of stories of a man she knew who she says spent what few dollars he had on lottery tickets instead of on things he needed, like health

insurance. >> no insurance because his insurance had elapsed. it was left up to the community and people that loved him to try to pull together funds in order to bury him. >> reporter: wallace is president of the dallas chapter of the naacp. that group's trying to get texas officials to abolish the state lottery. what are the primary reasons you want the lottery gone? >> research shows that there are more poor people that purchase these lottery tickets and scratchoffs than the people that actually can afford it, the middle and upper class. >> reporter: wallace says the lottery preys on the poor. uppe. >> reporter: she says the lottery prays on the poor and there are more lottery stations set up in poorer than middle and upper class neighborhoods. they said they tried to reach all segments of the population and they don't target poor areas

specifically or do any different marketing in those places. the texas lottery commission is required to do demographic study. the most recent one says people in texas that are more likely to play the pick three earn less than $12,000 a year. professor william morris who studies the lottery says he hasn't seen evidence that the state lottery target the poor. there is a reason they spend more than the wealthy. >> it is an opportunity to change your living circumstances. someone who is relatively wealthy, it would take a dramatic lottery win, a lotto, to significantly change living circumstances. if someone is of much more meager means, a much smaller win could literally change the character of their living circumstances.

>> the naacp in dallas isn't alone in its campaign. officials with the baptist general convention of texas tell us they are also pressing state officials to axe the lottery. both groups say the texas lottery has not been the cash cow for school funding that many thought it would be. they say the money from the lottery sent to public schools has stayed relatively flat over the past several years while overall expenditures have risen. they say the lottery has contributed more than $14 billion to the schools, not an insignificant number. the money is there for the schools but some argue it is kind of flat in relation to the other spending for the schools. >> that's just a tough one, i think. i can see this being a giant argument. >> brian todd, thank you so much. a plane delayed for hours turned to a scene of chaos when the flight attendant on board lost his cool and passengers caught it all on tape. some of them say he isn't solely

to blame. to straighten this out, with he go straight to our mary snow. >> candy, as one passenger described this, this was a perfect storm of things that could go wrong on a flight, a rain delay and a backup on the runway, all leading to frustration. a flight was delayed for several hours, an american eagle flight attendant loses his cool and takes it out on passengers. >> i don't want to hear anything. we don't want to hear anything once we close the door. this is your time. otherwise, you are going to have to fly -- >> what's not on the tape. passengers described the flight attendant also saying something about this being his last flight. david ables was with his 9-year-old daughter. >> people were shocked.

bravely, some people got up and walked out and i wish i could have but i had to get my daughter home to her mother. she was frightened. the kids were crying. >> this guy is the one that's been doing it. multiple people on this aircraft. >> reporter: this is what it looked like when the flight attendant confronted passengers after he made his announcement. by then, american eagle flight 4607 had been delayed for about five hours. it was supposed to go from new york to raleigh, north carolina. rain prevented passengers from boarding until several hours after the flight was scheduled to leave. once on the runway, there were more delays and the plane had to turn back to refuel. >> unfortunately, our hands are tide. we can not leave until that release is obtained. >> reporter: passengers deplaned and by the time they got back on, things came to a boiling point. police were called. >> reporter: passengers john worcester, who was sitting in

first class says it wasn't just flight attendant to blame. he faults passengers as well. >> i did feel some of the passengers overreacted. >> reporter: how so? >> i didn't feel any kind of threat coming from him. i felt when he went to the back of the plane, you know, you have got to remember, this is one guy against 100 or so. yeah, he by no means chose his words properly. and he is definitely at fault. i think some of the passengers are also. >> reporter: not something david ables agrees with? >> for any passenger who was on that plane to say it was the passengers' fault, it was the flight attendant, the captain, they are supposed to reassure everybody and calm everybody. you think he did that? >> reporter: as for american airlines, it apologized saying we do not believe that the passengers frustrations were met with the lefl of service that we expect from our people, and for that we are truly sorry.

>> you may know the flight wound up being canceled. we did try to reach out to the flight attendant through the airline. the airline said the incident is under review and that it won't discuss personnel matters. the faa also says it too is investigating. candy? >> mary snow, thank you. a set of subway stairs is tripping up lots of new yorkers and generating lots of laughs in the process. [ creaking ] [ male announcer ] trophies and awards lift you up. but they can also hold you back. unless you ask, what's next? [ zapping ] [ clang ] this is the next level of performance. the next level of innovation. the next rx. the all-new f sport. this is the pursuit of perfection. that's a good thing, but it doesn't cover everything.

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>> a set of subway stairs is tripping up a lot of new yorkers. >> reporter: it is hard not to stare when everyone is tripping on the subway stairs or more precisely on one particular step. everybody loves to watch people trip, though. >> it is true, as long as it is not you. >> reporter: it was him. this is filmmaker dean peterson's subway stop in sunset park, brooklyn. he videoed all of these other people tripping, because he kept tripping on that one step that was slightly higher than the others. >> i know it is there but that doesn't stop me from tripping. >> reporter: it definitely

didn't stop him from editing together and putting to music a montage of trippers. 17 shot over a total of an hour. there is even a guy carrying a kid. >> i felt bad videotaping some of the people. luckily, nobody got hurt. >> reporter: they did get famous after dean posted his montage. the next thing you know, the video was on a trip of its own around the world on the internet. let's all laugh at people tripping on stairs was the headline out of australia. you know who wasn't laughing? the metropolitan transportation authority the day after the video went viral, repair guys were pacing the steps. at lease tht guy didn't trip. neither did this one. commuters were happy to see them. >> i almost bust my entire behind on that step. >> reporter: this can't be what the mta means when they say, have a nice trip. jeanne moos, c nchl n. new york.

>> that's it for me. thank very much for joining us. i'm candy crowley in washington. the news continues next on cnn thank you, candy. i'm kate bolduan. good evening. tonight, searing temperatures as a record-setting heat wave settles in. it is going to stick around for days. >> president obama flies to colorado for a close-up look at the wildfires there and what he calls enormous devastation. plus, the biggest mystery in the nation's capital. why was conservative chief justice john roberts the deciding vote in favor of president obama's health care reform? we begin with the heat and a lot of it. locations around the country are setting all-time record highs. 100 million people here in the u.s. have endured above normal temperatures so far today and sorry folks, the heat wave is only beginning. meteorologist, chad meyers is in the cnn severe weather center

with more. hey, there, chad, of course, it is almost the fourth of july and it is supposed to be hot but not like this. >> exactly. the same bubble of air that was the heat bubble over the fire lines has shifltted to the east wechwe talked about how hot it was in colorado, plus the fire, plus the sun. we had heat indexes of 110, 111 up and down the coast. d.c., 111. 91 in new york. the heat will come up from the south. right now, 97, philadelphia. the heat all the way down to richmond, virginia, petersburg for a while south of richmond, 108. that is not a heat index. that's the thermometer. you have to understand, the thermometer is placed in a hotbox with shutters on outside so the wind can blow through. and, it is in the shade. all the numbers you see are in the shade. if you are working outside or

standing with the dog or whatever, outside, it is going to be warmer than the numbers you see here. here is centennial olympic park in atlanta. you get yourself wet and start to evaporate and things feel cooler. the pool doing the same thing. a couple of live shots. let's first turn to nashville where it turned to 107 today. we are down to 106. get a sweater. i don't know. it is so hot right now everywhere. the humidity is still high, although not high enough that if you did put, let's say, a wet towel around your neck, it would evaporate and feel pretty cool, at least cooler. here is washington, d.c., heat index, 111, temperature, 104. it doesn't go away. for the rest of the weekend, temperatures are going to stay above 100 from the rocky mountains all the way to the east coast. the beach. i don't know, the pool, the shower, the $1 movie. something to keep you cool this

weekend. kate? >> this is when parents start taking their kids to the shopping mall even when they have no shopping to do. >> stay away. >> have a good weekend, a cool weekend. today, president obama traded washington's 104 degree heat for the 90 degree temperatures of colorado springs. this is the view from air force one as it flew over the mountains. you can clearly see the smoke from some of colorado's wildfires. the president walked through what he called the enormous devastation in one of the neighborhoods charred by the waldo canyon fire. that 16,000 acre blaze is flamed for at least one death. another person is missing and at least 346 homs have been destroyed. one family that got out safely, thankfully, didn't know their home's fate until they saw it on the front page of a newspaper. jim spell man has their story. >> reporter: as the flames tore through his colorado springs neighborhood, major ted

steffanie, an army surgeon, knew it was time to get out. >> i looked over at the mountain and saw flames shooting over the mountain. >> reporter: he packed up his car and raced out of the neighborhood meeting his wife, kate, and caleb at a son's friend's house. the wait began. would their house be spared? the answer came the next morning when they saw this picture on the denver post website. their neighborhood in flames, their house, a bonfire. >> when we saw the photograph initially, it was kind of shocked. >> that's our house in flames. i just started crying. there was no way around it. i was never going to go home again. so, it is pretty sad. >> reporter: the photo went viral, also published on cnn.com and the front of "the new york times." more photos can be seen at denverpost.com. >> it was total shock to see your house pretty much in a fireball. i think that was also therapeutic too, because we knew where there were a lot of

families that don't know the outcome of their home. we knew from pretty much the get-go that we had lost the house. >> we got these boxes, top boxes that i had from iraq and afghanistan. >> while managing to escape with these boxes of books and important documents, there were many precious items left behind. ted's metals from iraq and one of caleb's beloved toys. >> it is crazy. it is this little teddy bear thing, scout, and caleb played with that all the time. >> reporter: they saw another scout for sell at a bookstore, caleb lit up. >> it was an emotional event. >> yeah. we both about lost it in our store. our son just beamed when he saw that bear and hugged him and he just said, scout, scout. >> reporter: piece by piece, they insist they will rebuild, beginning with a small bear. where kate, even though firefighters hearsay they have made a lot of progress, they are not letting up.

these are not clouds here on this ridge. this is smoke. we are at the us air force academy where the airport here that's usually used for cadettes taking their gliders up has been repurposed as a helipad. >> the fire in and of itself is awe-inspiring in the devastation. the family story, they have some amazing perspective and what a great attitude despite what they are going through right now. jim, thank you so much for bringing their story to us. jim spellman, colorado. as of today, colorado's firefighters are getting some help from the u.s. military. barbara starr is here to show us how. so, barbara, the military is offering a little help from above, it sounds like? >> indeed, kate. the big guns are going to move in. by tomorrow night, the entire military c-130 fire fighting fleet will be on station in colorado. they only have eight airplanes and already four of them have been working this fire. eight more now under orders and

on the way. dc-130s, we have seen them in the skies over previous fires. we have seen them in this fire. they do some pretty awesome work. what dc-130s are able to do is drop a lot of fire-retardant or water already on the fire. they have dropped 140,000 gallons of fire-retardant. each time they go up, they can drop another 3,000 gallons of either retardant or water in five seconds covering an area one quarter mile long and 100 feet wide. when they come down and reload, they can do that in 12 minutes and go right back up. so this is some serious muscle power. in addition, the army today started training over 500 troops, ground troops, that can be used if the forest service needs them to do some of the grunt work essentially, that very tough work, digging ditches, digging fire breaks, trying to help out where they can with the fire. kate? >> so, barbara, you talk about

this being some serious muscle power, it sure seems like it. is the pentagon making any prediction this help they are offering is finally going to help the state turn the corner in controlling the fire? >> they hope so. it is going to really be a lot weather dependent at this point. this is the kind of help that will be supplementary to what they are already doing. the other aircraft already working this fire. a lot of this, especially those 500 u.s. army ground troops, they are going to be able to give, if ordered in, they are going to be able to give the firefighters a break after so many days on the line. everyone is exhausted. they are going to need a break. so what these troops can do is come in and help out that way. but, you know, this is a battle against mother nature and the weather at the end of the day. kate? >> absolutely, bash wra. in covering wildfires in the past, the amount of work and nonstop work that these firefighters put in, they must

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one of the biggest mysteries in washington is why chief justice john roberts joined the supreme court's liberal wing in upholding president obama's healthcare law. almost everyone considered him a vote against the law. perhaps roberts decision shouldn't have been such a surprise. >> reporter: conservatives are still shaking their heads. >> i am disappointed. they came to' decision i respect

it. >> reporter: how could one of their own uphold the constitutionality of the democratic president's health care plan. in many ways, it was still a conservative decision. >> this was a conservative judicial philosophy that says the role of the courts is to be the last resort, not the first. we only strike something down when it is a big piece of economic regulation if we absolutely have to. that's still quite conservative. >> this type of thinking shouldn't be a surprise coming from roberts. you need look no further than his confirmation hearings for the evidence. >> judges and judges are servants of the law, not the other way around. judges are like umpires. umpires don't make the rules. they apply them. the role of an umpire and a judge is critical. they make sure everybody plays by the rules but it is a limited role. >> reporter: translation, it is not about legislating from the bench. it is about finding a narrow path to deciding cases, not exactly what then senator obama

thought of roberts when he voted against his confirmation back in 2005. >> he has far more often used his formidable skills on behalf of the strong in opposition to the weak. >> reporter: as president, obama kept up his criticism calling out the supreme court over the citizens united decision opening the floodgates for outside money into campaign. >> i don't think american elections should be bank rolled by america's most powerful interest. >> reporter: for roberts, the health care decision is a legacy builder that helps the credibility of the court without throwing away a policy idea that almost every president has grappled with going back to theodore roosevelt. >> reporter: no doubt, he voted this way because he believed it. for him, as chief justice, a whole and incredibly smart decision. it insulates both of them from criticism of being partisan, out to get liberals for decades. >> what's in the background says

so much about roberts, a lawyer, worth several million dolls, harvard grad, father, adopted children. brushes with death, including seizures as recently as 2007. tom goldstein who has argued 25 cases before the court doesn't think the chief justice's health issues impacted his decision. >> the idea his health impacted this is silly. this was a real legal question. he is the consummate lawyer. there is no reason to believe that anything external influenced him. >> the big picture goes without saying chief justice robert is still very conservative. he is not somehow moving to the middle. this was an unusual case. there are likely to be more health care cases related to the president's plan. roberts and his colleagues will get other chances to show their stripes. kate? >> for more on the supreme court entry, we are joined now by cnn senior political analyst, rob brown stein e is also the

editorial director for the national journal group. the relationship between president obama and chief justice roberts has been a complicated one to say the least. obama voted against his confirmation back in '05 and publicly criticized the supreme court decision in citizens sue nighted in 2010. chief just is it is roberts had to readminister the oath of office when the president was sworn into office himself. do you think president obama views the chief justice and this court any differently now after this surprising ruling? >> reporter: i think he has to. i think the chillyness you described between the president and the chief justice was more generic than personal or individual. it really was a broad sense of the democratic party that the five-member republican appointed conservative majority of the court has been an activist court. certainly, citizens united has been exhibit "a" in that. i think the roberts joining with the four liberal justices to preserve the most important

democratic legislative achievement in 45 years causes everybody on right and left to step back and take a new look at this court and what it means. >> very, very interesting. i want to read to you part of the majority opinion that the chief justice wrote. it is very interesting. the affordable care act's requirement that certain individuals pay a financial penalty for not obtaining health insurance may reasonably be characterized as a tax, because the constitution permits such a tax, it is not our role to forbid it or to pass upon its wisdom or fairness. he is defining td individual mandate as a tax. there has been a lot of talk about this today. giving republicans really, it seems, a new mantra. listen to a member of the house republican leadership, congresswoman kathy mcmorris rogers. >> the court ruled today that, in fact, the affordable care act is a tax. it is the largest tax in america's history.

>> so this happens in the middle, in the heat of the election season. do you think this tax penalty, this tax penalty, does it create a messaging problem for the white house? how do they respond. >> it requires obama to do something he has never really tried to do effectively, which is explain the individual man date and how it works. as you know, from the beginning, they have focused on aspects of the bill that are more attractive but somewhat peripheral, letting kids stay on their parents' policies until 26. they have never grappled with the central issue of why, under the lodge he can of the bill, it is important to bring more people into the system and eliminate what the president called free-riders. the most immediate response is, this is exactly what mitt romney implemented in massachusetts as the only other executive, political leader who has signed an individual mandate before president obama. in fact, it is exactly the same thing. the bills work the same way on this one key question. >> bottom long, long-term,

politically, who benefits the most from this supreme court decision? >> well, right now, i saw some initial polling, the country divided on whether it was a good decision or bad decision in gallop. it does put more pressure on president obama at the end. there is an even split on whether it is good for the country. they have never gotten a majority of americans to say, it is good pore for me and my family. that is a fundamental failure of the attempt to explain what the mandate means and what the coverage expansion means. i think they will be -- the economy is going to be front and center. there will be more pressure on him to explain what this bill means for average americans. i think you clearly see republicans are going to double the attacks both legislatively and in a message format. >> ron brownstein, thank you so much. have a great weekend. >> thank you. still to come, the justice department's quick decision to do nothing about the contempt of congress citation against attorney general eric holder. up next, the supreme court

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welcome back. here is mary snow with the latest news we need to know right now. hey, there, mary. >> hey, there, kate. good evening. congress passed a largely bipartisan highway bill

approving more than $100 million in roadway and bridge programs. included in the bill is a deal to keep student loan rates from skyrocketing, kipieeping the 3. rates for another year. it is pleased congress heeded the call to grow the economy. >> u.s. and euro marketing rebounded after they pledged to help struggling in italy. in response, all three indexes were up, including the dow, which rose 278 points. the supreme court made another important decision this week. remember janet jackson's wardrobe malfunction during the 2004 super bowl. the court dismissed fines against cbs for airing a brief shot of nudity during her halftime performance with justin timberlake. there was a half million dollar

fine for the mishap. it seems like just yesterday tom cruise jumped on oprah's couch declaring his wife for his soon to be wife, katy holmes. now, the couple is splitting. their primary concern is their 6-year-old daughter, suri. >> didn't see that coming. of course, you need to remember, they have a child and that's something that needs tosh their primary focus. i was amazed that it was seven years ago he was jumping on coaches. oh, how time flies. >> it really does. >> thanks, mary. we will talk to you in a bit. sure. egypt's new president may be getting off on the wrong foot with his country's military and the united states. what he says next about a militant cleric the u.s. put in prison for plotting terrorism. new details about why a soldier at ft. bragg allegedly killed his brigade commander. it turns out the two men had a long history. it's very important to understand

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this this half hour of john king u.s., egypt's president-elect vows to free the man in a plot to blow up u.s. landmarks the soldier that allege i hadly shot and killed his brigade commander, we have more information. another meltdown. this time, not from a cranky passenger. it was the flight attendant. president-elect, mohamed

morsi, staged an informal swearing in ceremony in tahir qu square today. he told reporters, there is no power above people power. some of the other things he told the crowd aren't sitting well here in the u.s. >> reporter: kate, a hugely significant day for president-elect mohamed morsi as he addressed tens of thousands of jubilant supporters here in tahrir square. he was addressing the crowds as if he was already president, a rabl rousing speech in which he talked about reaching out to other sections of egyptian society, christians, women, lots of reference to the martyrs that had fallen in tahrir square and a salute to the whole nation. he also talked about the free of freedom that had been planted decades ago at the beginning of the mass watered by the blood of

martyrs down the years and also at one point opened his jacket to the crowd and said, look, i'm not wearing a bullet proof vest. i am here with you. i am one of you. i trust you. that was the kind of rhetoric. there was also reference at the end controversially to a convicted terrorist who is in prison in the usa. his family was here and president-elect morsi was calling for the release of all political prisoners including this sheikh. that will no doubt anger officials in the united states. all eyes will be on what he does after those rousing words here. it will be his actions in the coming weeks and months and whether he can lead egypt forward economically. >> dan rivers, thank you so much. we also have new information about a soldier who army officials say shot and killed his brigade commander at ft. bragg and tried to kill himself. chris lawrence has more on why

this shooting happened. so many questions, chris. do we know if the soldier had any ties to extremist groups like the hasan case at ft. hood? >> right now, there is no indication he had any ties to an extremeist group. we do know of an interesting connection between this soldier and the commanding officer that he allegedly shot and killed. this soldier, i'm told, was part of the security detail for this lieutenant colonel when both were deployed on a tour in afghanistan. back here at home in north carolina, i'm almost told that the shooter was facing court-martial charges potential court-martial on criminal charges. the army had accused him of stealing a tool box from the motor pool. this tool box is worth nearly a couple,0 thousand dollars. he could have faced dishonorable discharge if convicted after court-martial.

this was just a routine pre-july 4th safety briefing. the bat tallian commander got up there and said, good job, guys, don't drink and drive, stay safe over the holiday weekend. that's when the specialist, the soldier, pulled out a pistol and shot him five times. a third soldier was also wounded. he is out of the hospital and he is okay. this battalion commander was shot and killed and the shooter turned the gun on himself and shot himself. we are told right now he is not expected to survive. >> we know ft. bragg is a very big military base but has also been at the center of a lot of problems recently. is there any talk of this being a systemic issue with the base itself? >> hard to tell right now. a couple months ago, there was an investigation launched at ft. bragg because you had six sue sides and two dozen domestic violence incidents all within a

span of a little over a month. no full details of why this shooter did what he did. it is hard to tie it into a larger case and the fact he may not survive means we may never get all the answers in this case. >> an excellent point. >> chris lawrence at the pentagon, thank you so much, chris. >> you are welcome. the justice department says the contempt citation against attorney general eric holder is going nowhere. they have obtained this letter, it says, quote, the department will not bring the congressional contempt citation before a jand jury or take any other action to prosecute the attorney general. basically, in party line votes, you will probably remember, many democrats walked out. house republicans cited holder for civil and criminal contempt, refusing to hand over documents related to the controversial gun walking operation called fast and furious. we are joined by a constitutional law professor,

gloria law. thank you so much for joining me. i have a lot of questions. i'm sure our viewers also do. we learned a short time ago that the justice department will not be prosecuting the attorney general, eric holder. what are the legal options that are still in play here? >> well, that's one of the reasons why congress decided it would go with criminal contempt of congress as well as civil enforcement of the subpoena. civil enforcement of the subpoena means that they are now allowed to hire counsel to go forward and bring a civil action against eric holder in his capacity as u.s. attorney general. that means that they get to hire counsel and there will be a civil action brought and that civil action could lead to the possibility of within the next weeks or next months some type of litigation. >> litigation is a word that there is a claim filed, not that there is actual court action. >> of course, that means a claim

filed also means this could drag on for who knows, even years. the point of the civil action is just to try to get these documents from the attorney general. in your experience, in your view, what are the chances that house republicans can actually get the documents that they want through this action. >> well, it has not been successful in the past. this was very similar to the issue under ronald reagan with the environmental protection agency in 1982 when there was attempt by congress to get documents regarding toxic waste dumps from the environmental agency. it went nowhere. under the second president bush, there was this issue by harriet miers and what was known. was it politically motivated? those documents were not forthcoming. we think this will be dragged out. in any instance, what we could see is if there is a claim

during the time in which eric holder is in office, he could always then once again invoke executive privilege and not turn anything over and once again, the case goes nowhere. i think more than anything else, the litigation is the impact politically that is motivating, i believe, a number of these issues. >> an excellent point. the best case scenario for the attorney general is that the civil action goes nowhere and this basically goes away. what do you think is the worst case scenario for the attorney general realistically? >> realistically, we know under congressional contempt charges of this nature, the punishment, one year in prison or up to $100,000 fine. that's not realistic. that's the punishment. under a civil litigation, it is long, drawn-out and costly. it means he has to have his own attorney representing him. that means it is coming out of his pocket. there will have to be a fund of some kind to pay for these

attorneys. we know that can be very expensive. >> in the meantime, it will be a big talker on the campaign trail and will continue to be talked about for months, weeks, years to come, who knowns. gloria browne-marshall, thank you so much for coming in. have a great weekend. >> thank you. why mitt romney's new ad features hillary clinton and from court ruling to campaign cash, is the supreme court's decision a bigger shot in the arm for republicans or democrats? in here, opportunities are created and protected. gonna need more wool! demand is instantly recognized and securely acted on across the company. around the world. turning a new trend, into a global phenomenon. it's the at&t network -- securing a world of new opportunities. ♪

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people are figuring out the long-term impact of the 200-page supreme court ruling. the campaigns didn't waste any time raking in the cash. romney spokeswoman tweeted this. in 24 hours, @mitt romney raised $4.6 million with 47,000 plus doe nations online. thanks for everyone's support for full repeal. the obama campaign slasheded it for caring more about fundraising than the insureds. they say they out raised romney in the past day. on barackobama.com, you can get this t-shirt. we have guests, hilary rosen and republican strategist, ron

bonjin. >> hillary, which base do you think is most energized by the ruling and this fund-raising effort? there is a lot of debate. >> no surprise in a political campaign. it is only the bases that are energized. they are excited. that's okay. i think from our side, we will take that. people are excited. the president kind of started out the month a little on his heels. he is ending the month leaning forward and going into the summer this way is a good thing for the president. >> ron, this repeal effort, kind of the repeal route, is it a smart route? will it work long-term in november? it worked in 2010 when you talk about repealing health care. doesn't this take them off of jobs, the economy? >> not when you talk about it raising taxes. when you talk about raising taxes and impacting those who are having trouble right now in this economy, that's the way to thread the needle. that's what's exciting the base right now. that's the one thing that republicans have, to say this is

an unfair tax on american people and romney can talk about and other republicans talk about it in battleground states. >> it is going to be extremely difficult for either candidate to make sense out of it. first of all, if it is a tax, then mitt romney taxed his own constituents in massachusetts when he said that he never did. but, the other thing is that the penalty, as it were, affects so few people. only people who can't afford health insurance, who can afford health insurance and don't buy it. so, you know, the estimates are that is like 1% of the people, where as when you have president obama looking for broad scale middle class tax cuts and mitt romney looking for broad scale tax cuts for the wealthy, i think a tax debate would be welcomed by the president. >> i hear the messaging already. i want to move on to romney. i want you to listen to this new ad featuring none other than

hillary clinton. >> barack obama's attacks against mitt romney, they are just not true but that's barack obama. he also attacked hillary clinton with vicious lies. >> he continues to spend millions of dollars, perpetuating falsehoods. >> mitt romney has a plan to get america working. barack obama, worst job since the depression. >> shame on you, barack obama. >> that was a memorable moment. does this work, this kind of portraying a little bit like the victim or the david against the obama goliath in terms of spending? >> here is what romney is trying to do. he is trying to take the like ability factor down from president obama. the president does lead in like ability. he is weaving in policy and talking about jobs and the economy and using hillary clinton as the weapon. so it is a well-crafted ad. it can have some impact. >> there is nothing better than bringing up what happened in the past and throwing it in your face in the present? >> that's true. it is a good ad.

hillary clinton obviously has huge approval ratings across the country, particularly with the swing voters and independents. so it is smart. on the other hand, if barack obama started playing all of the clips of what mitt romney said and what his opponents said about him during the primaries, that's just going to be a wash. >> that's a problem with having a long political history, a long political record on both sides, right? >> you were talking about like ability. i want to show you this poll. romney's negatives have gone up this month. there is a poll out this week, nbc wall street journal poll in battleground states. in may, romney's like favorability, even. now, unfavorable is 11 points higher. it seems clear that the romney campaign is trying to drive up obama negatives to dry to balance it out, right? >> absolutely. obama is trying to play the nice guy.

he is trying to take him down a notch or two. good play by romney to try to make that happen. it is a smart move. >> i think that people -- no surprise, people are just getting to know more of mitt romney when it was during the primaries, it was a crowded field. it feels like, dare i say it, the more they know him, the less they like him. the attacks on him being a guy who sends jobs overseas when he was at bain, i think this is a problem for mitt romney. the more people hear about his record, the more his unfavorables go up. >> we haven't seen enough attack ads yet for it to have turned the corner to have the opposite effect yet. >> i was going to say, romney needs to start better defining himself on the economy, better defining himself on jobs. he is still doing that. people are still getting to know him. there was a tax by the obama campaign on bain capital. i am sure that has something to do with that. >> a little bit of payback. >> trying to even out the

numbers. we know we are going into a holiday week. it has been a big week here in washington. not only did congress do something in extending the student loan break but we have the health care decision in the supreme court. i was wondering and we were wondering here as we were lanning the sh planning the show, what is the message that they should be hammering this holiday week? >> voters actually like it when their government works. they preelly don't like this back and forth, he said, he said and it is mostly the he said, he said. >> unfortunately. >> i actually think we have some things this week that people can start talking about in a positive way. if i'm a republican house member looking to be reelected, i would be bragging on the student loan bill and the transportation bill the same way the democrats are going to. having bipartisanship of that,

having the chief justice of the supreme court vote with the liberals on the court on health care, you actually can make government work for the people if you work together. that feels like the right message. >> let's not be pollyanna, it is still partisan. >> i think the republicans have two messages. they are going to go after the tax on health care. no question about that. they are trying to rally the troops there. they can talk about the student loan issue and how they tried to make it fiscally responsible. at the same time, their constituents are going to benefit from it. >> thank you. have a great weekend. hilary rosen, ron on this flight, folks. after pass engers were delayed for hours, the flight attendant lost his cool. you'll hear it next. and new trouble for lance armstrong.

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call or click today. a plane gets delayed for hours and the passengers get angry. this time, the flight attendant is the one who loses his cool. passengers catch him on video. now, some think he shouldn't get all the blame. our mary snow has the details. >> reporter: on a flight that was delayed for several hours and never got off the ground an

american eagle flight attendant loses his cool, taking it out on passengers. >> i don't want to hear anything. we want to not hear anything. once we close the door. so, if you have balls -- >> if you have balls, is that what he said? >> this is your time. otherwise, you're going to have to fly with jose. >> what's not on the tape, passengers describe the flight attendant also saying something about this being his last flight. david abels was with his 9-year-old daughter. >> well, people were shocked. and then, you know, bravely some people got up and walked out. and i wish i could have but i had to get my daughter home to her mother, you know, and she was frightened. the kids were crying. >> this guy is the one doing it, he's the -- multiple people on this aircraft -- >> reporter: this is what it

looked like when the flight attendant confronted passengers. by then, american eagle flight 4607 had been delayed for about five hours. it was supposed to go from newark to raleigh, north carolina. rain prevented passengers from even boarding until several hours after the flight was scheduled to leave. once on the runway, there were more delays, and then the plane had to turn back to refuel. >> unfortunately, our hands are tied. we cannot leave till that release is obtained. >> reporter: passengers deplaned. by the time they got back on, things came to a boiling point. police were called. but passenger john worster who was sitting in first class says it wasn't just the flight attend an end. he faults passengers as well. >> i felt passengers overreacted. i didn't feel any kind of threat coming from him. i felt when he went to the back of the plane, you know, you got to remember, this is one guy

against, you know, 100 or so. yeah, he by no means chose his words properly. and so he's definitely at fault. and i think some of the passengers are also. >> reporter: not something david abels agrees with. >> for any passenger who was on that plane to say it was the passenger's fault, it was the flight attendant, the captain. they're supposed to reassure everybody and calm everybody. you think he did that? >> reporter: as for american airlines, it apologized, saying "we do not believe that the passengers' frustrations were met with the level of service we expect from our people and for that we are truly sorry." we did try to reach out to the flight attendant but the airline says the incident is under review and it won't discuss personnel matters. also, the faa says it, too, is investigating. kate. >> a tough, tough situation for everyone there. hours and hours on that plane. i can only imagine.

mary, you mentioned that the police were called. was anyone arrested? what came of it? >> no, they weren't. two officers came on board the flight. they decided to turn this over to the airlines. so no one was arested. in the end, kate, that flight was canceled after all that. one passenger said it was really a perfect storm of what could go wrong on a flight. >> talk about a travel night mare. all right, mary. you also have a look at some -- a few of the other stories making news now. >> we do. we'll start in syria where the fighting there has claimed at least 42 more lives today. world diplomats hold an emergency meeting in sweitzerlad to consider a new peace plan. hillary clinton will be at that meeting. a senior state department official says there are still areas of, quote, difficulty. in the u.s., a guilty plea today for bernard madoff's younger brother. he told the court, quote, i know

my conduct was wrong and i'm ashamed. peter madoff faces ten years in prison. the u.s. anti-doping agency unanimously recommended today that cyclist lance armstrong be charged for using performance enhancing drugs. armstrong's attorney put out a statement, calling the charge wrong and baseless, adding, there isn't, quote, one shred of credible evidence. now, forget olympic swimming. australia penny palfrey dove into the waters off havana, cuba, today, in a quest to swim across 103 miles of shark-infechted waters to the u.s. without a wetsuit or flippers. she says it should take between 40 and 60 hours to get to the florida keys. last year, she set the record for the longest unassisted swim. she'll have a crew nearby following her. amazing. and it's the 200th anniversary of the war of 1812. and what better way to celebrate than with some cake?

check out this delicious-looking replica of the oldest commissioned u.s. warship, the "uss constitution." made of 100 pounds of flour, 80 pounds of butter and 10 gallons of milk. forget about eating that, just making a cake like that is pretty incredible. >> i always wonder if people actually after all the work that goes into it, do they actually cut it up and eat it the? it seems like a travesty to do that. >> it looks like a piece of artwork and it would be a shame to cut it up and have it all gone. >> mary, have a fabulous weekend. we'll see you later. >> thank you, you too. >> all right. and i want to tell you have a wonderful weekend. that is all from me. i'm kate baouldin. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, the samsung galaxy, one of the best selling

phones on earth. what does it have to do with iran's nuclear program. and mitt romney makes a day one promise. on day one of my presidency. we're going to show you why that usually doesn't add up. george zimmerman in jail tonight, waiting for a judge to determine if he'll be set free on bond. his lawyer is "outfront." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront," we have breaking news. this was a very, very big day. stocks surged. the best day of the year. and the best june in 13 years. lucky 13 i guess. why? well, we were touched by an angel. and considering how important europe is to american jobs and to this presidential election, the president was touched by an angel too. yes. yes, she is, the angel in this case is