so give me the lay of the land. this is stop number two of four in ohio? >> reporter: right. this is stop number two, and the president will be arriving here about, i'd say, within the hour, we should be hearing from the president. it's also a big ice cream social here. and we expect to hear more of what the president said in his last stop, which was about an hour away from here, where his focus really was on the economy and what his administration has done to, as he puts it, pull the economy back from the cliff. the president realizing and letting his supporters know that the situation is still not great, but it's much better than when he first came into office. and what's important about this region is that they've lost a lot of manufacturing jobs over the past few years. obviously, the auto industry is big in this region, gm and chrysler, at providing jobs for folks. and the last town that we just came from. and they're starting to see a little bit of a recovery here. so the president told them that the reason for that is because of some of the things that he

has done. take a listen. >> when the american auto industry was on the brink of collapse and more than 1 million jobs were on the line, governor romney said we should just let detroit go bankrupt. i refused to turn my back on communities like this one. i was betting on the american worker, and i was betting on american industry. and three years later, the american auto industry is coming roaring back. >> reporter: now, the president also took another shot at mitt romney for working for a company, the private equity firm, bain capital, that he says pioneered outsourcing. the president saying that he, in fact, is focusing on in sourcing jobs, offering incentives, tax incentives for those companies that have moved jobs overseas, to bring them back home. >> so dan lothian, tell me a little bit about your shadow detail. i know that you're following the

president, but then someone else is following you. >> reporter: that's right. that's right, we have former presidential candidate tim pawlenty, also the governor of louisiana, bobby jindal. both of them are doing their own shadow bus tour. it's essentially what the obama campaign, democrats, were doing when romney was on a similar tour recently. and what they're trying to do is make sure that romney's message is getting out there. and they're saying that, you know, the president, he can talk about what he has done, but that america and americans in general are no better now than they were when the president first took office. in addition to that, when we first landed this morning, we just have to look up and you can see more reinforcing that message. there was a small airplane pulling a large banner that said romney 2012. so this is president obama's bus tour, but mitt romney is closely shadowing the president. >> okay. so we have that new thing called bracketing, the shadowing.

but do we have what we've seen at other campaign stops? have you seen any evidence of the hecklers, the campaign operatives that show up from the opposite campaign to really throw a wrench into things thi? >> reporter: you know, it's just been one event so far. i know at one point the president seemed to be interpreted. we were sitting behind the venue and people started chanting, four more years. they were trying to drown out whatever was taking place there, but it does appear a heckler or something interpreted the president's remarks ever so briefly. but beyond that so far, we have not seen any large protests or anything like that. but we're just getting started, so you never know what we'll see down the road. >> and it happens on both sides of these campaigns as well. dan lothian, good to see you. thank you, sir. just a reminder as well that the president is expected to speak live during this hour. so we'll keep an eye on the clock and keep an eye on the live shot. we'll bring part of that to you as soon as the it happens. in the meantime, we've got this for you. this is fresh and new today. the french aviation board that's

been lacking into a stunning aircraft disaster has issued a damning report, essentially blaming the flight crew for the catastrophic crash of an air france jet three years ago. here are some of the images. that plane crashed halfway across the atlantic from rio to paris. about four minutes after the air bust 330 began to lose speed. all 228 people who were on board died in that crash. richard quest is in london. he's been parsing this report. at first i thought, richard, that this report was assigni ii some equal blame. because i know there's been a political bus between airbus, the maker of the plane, and air france, the employer of the crew. can you break down essentially what this report really does tell us? >> reporter: the report is clear that the initial surprise event, as it's known, was the failure of the speed censor that led the plane to lose its speed

measurement. now, pilots are supposed to have trained for that and react in a particular way. and indeed, that's not happened here. when the censor failed, the pilots, realizing something had happened, took a course of action and the way the report describes it, the pilots' inputs were abrupt and excessive. they were a starlet effect. the emotional shock of what had taken place. and then as things got worse, and the reactions became more extreme, it says there was a saturation of the mental resources needed to make sense of the situation. so long story short, something happened, shouldn't have been that serious. the pilot flying reacted in a particular way, and that ultimately doomed the aircraft. >> and this is critical, because i think there was a

consideration by french magistrates at one point to investigate these companies for manslaughter. so it's critical what this report says. >> it is. and -- but i'm not going to -- the manslaughter aspect is, you know, for the vast majority of us, you, me, and everybody flying, whether anybody air france or anybody's prosecuted for manslaughter is really rather irrelevant. because it's the safety recommendations. it's the lessons that were learned about the technology on board, the education needed to handle a plane at high altitude, at speed, when there's a stall imminent. those are the lessons of this 206-page report. and i can tell you, having read a lot of this and certainly the interim reports, this has been a seminal incident, because it's drawn very sharp attention to the way pilots not just trained

initially, but the recurrent training. what are they refreshed on? what do they now need to know? and one thing that was quite clear, ashleigh, was that they need to have better handling of the aircraft personally and manually at altitude. >> i would rarely differ with you, except i think on this one point of the separate investigation into manslaughter. because when two companies are facing criminal charges, it may actually chasten them significantly and it may change the way everything happens. the training of the pilots and everything -- >> no, no, no. >> no? >> no, i disagree with you completely on that. no airline, no airline is going to be -- or plane manufacturer, is going to be motivated by whether they are prosecuted for corporate manslaughter one way or the other. air france has a fleet of several hundred planes. airbus has thousands of planes

in the sky at this -- you know, every day. it is in their interests, and i promise you, having spoken to the airlines, spoken to the plane makers, they know, if they do not understand the lessons of this, then they are doomed to repeat them and therefore have more fatal accidents. and that is the motivating factor here. >> i think you do make a great point. they are exposed, no matter what happens, just by the very fact that the nature of their business is so very dangerous. richard, thank. it's good to see you. i appreciate the work that you did looking through that report for us. richard quest, live in london for us. for months, senator john mccain has asked the obama administration to do something, anything, when it comes to the bloodshed in syria. and just a short time ago, cnn has had a chance to sit down with him. you will hear what he had to say. also, we're getting some of the first video of the first nato trucks in months finally

allowed to get back on the road, cross from pakistan back into afghanistan. this is huge, folks. in america's strained relationship with a nuclear-armed nation, these things have been sitting there, getting rusty while our troops have needed them. so we'll explain why they're pack on the road, how long it's going to take for our troops to get what they need. back after this. ♪ ( whirring and crackling sounds )

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states to lead an international effort to protect syrian citizens. he's just finished an interview with our arwa damon in lebanon and she joins me live now from beirut. so the salient points of what the senator is suggesting we do, arwa? >> reporter: well, it's what he's been advocating for quite a few months now. and that is for the u.s. to take on a leading role rather than a following role when it comes to trying to resolve the crisis in syria. he was saying that it is quite clear at this point that the russians are not going to back down when it comes to their support for the assad regime. that they continue to send in weapons and other means of military equipment that the government is using, and that basically, the playing field or the battlefield, rather, needs to be a bit more level than it is at this point in time. and that effectively time is running out. take a listen to some more of what he had to say. >> practically speaking, this plan you have, these calls for military intervention, how do

you foresee -- how would you foresee that playing out? >> first of all, the arab world and the people in this part of the world are waiting for american leadership, which is lacking. obviously, what we are proposing is a safe zone where they could organize, where they could equip and train people. it would have to be, obviously, a no-fly zone. and i am confident that the other countries in the region, some of whom are already supplying the resistance with weapons, would be far more engaged. >> reporter: and ashleigh, senator mccain was also pointing out a number of potential consequences should an action continue when it comes to trying to resolve the crisis in syria. that at this point in time, no, quaid was not the opposition, as some have been claiming, but that al qaeda could potentially base itself in syria because of the conditions that exist there. he was also talking about the

type of blow the fall of the assad regime would deliver to iran. but at the end of the day, the most important thing was to end the suffering of the is civilians. to stop the killing, stop the torture, and somehow bring an end to the bloodshed. >> well, i mean, american leadership is a very complex notion when it comes to syria. it's unlike any other nation in that part of the world. and this is a report that just came out early this morning from iraq, and in fact, these are the iraqis reporting this, that al qaeda elements are, indeed, either en route or in syria. so that really does complicate thing ifs you're talking about arming or giving aid in any way to this opposition, doesn't it? >> reporter: oh, most certainly. and this is not a simple or an easy solution, should that at the end of the day be the solution that is put into play in some way, shape, or form. when it comes to the iraq element in all of this, you must also remember that when the

insurgency was at its peak in iraq, there were dozens of fighters crossing from syria, many of them syrians themselves. they have all returned and they are more than ready and willing to fight the regime and a lot of the tactics we have been seeing now being employed in syria are really echoes of what we saw taking place in iraq. and lest not forget the tribal ties between both nations too. so most certainly, the syrian battlefield is incredibly, incredibly murky. this is something that senator mccain acknowledges, but then he also goes on to say that as m k murky as it is right now, that is only going to be a worsening situation. the options are only going to become even worse if this is allowed to drag on even longer. >> yeah, there are certainly no easy solutions, and particularly with that extraordinary porous border with iraq. arwa damon, excellent work. thank you very much. just 24 hours after a breakthrough in america's

strained relationship with pakistan, the nuclear armed nation is opening up those supply routes to nato trucks for the first time in seven months. look at the tarps on them. look how shattered and tattered everything is. they have been there for a long time, sitting, wasted. this is some of the first video we've got. the trucks are beginning to pass from pakistan into afghanistan. those trucks carrying much-needed supplies for the nato forces in the ground war, in that war zone. including supplies for u.s. troops, not just nato troops, but u.s. troops as well. are you one of those people who can just not put down your cell phone or your blackberry or iphone after work. still e-mailing, making calls, work related, even after you're off the clock? if so, i've got news for you. you will not believe how much overtime you have just put in. you will not believe the math, because someone has finally done it. ot with no pay. you might want to reconsider how much effort you put into your

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because it is hard to get those. so you think after a long, hard day of making all that money to pay your mortgage that you'd be able to take a break, take a breath, put your phone down, stop checking your e-mails. there's a brand-new survey that says that it is just way too hard for a lot of us to do that. apparently, we americans put in about a month and a half of overtime every year. stop and let that germinate. a month and a half of over time, unpaid, just by answering the calls and the e-mails at home. ot, no pay. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. why do i feel so empty right now? >> because you're as guilty of it as i am. and you know what i think it may be? it may be kind of a reflection of the times we're living in. you know, since the recession, companies have cut their head counts and they're squeezing more work out of the people who they do have, so, you know, no surprise, there's a survey out from a web security firm called good technologies saying a big majority of us, about 80%, we

continue working even though we've left the office. the survey finds that we're putting in an extra 45 days a year and we're not getting a penny for it. most say they do it to stay organized and others say we don't have a choice because their customers deserve responses, and others are just kind of addicted. they find it hard to push that off button. but some are saying it's so common, it's a complete nonissue with their significant others. it's an everyday thing. not such a big deal anymore. >> more than 80% of us apparently okay with continuing to work after we've left the office. so let's switch that around a little bit and talk about executives. because apparently executives may be don't feel exactly the same way we do, particularly when they're on vacation. there's this new survey that found that 51% of them don't check in with the office when they go on vacation. 51% of cfos say, no, that's my time. i get off the clock. >> nice for them, right? well, you know, the hope is when

you hear something like this that, hey, this could be the wave of the future. that maybe our management is going to set an example, kind of pave the way for the rest of us worker bees, right? the survey says that the number of cfos that don't check in with work when they go on vacation has actually doubled from just two years ago. in this survey, though, it says that change is coming to the corporate world, we can only hope, and companies are really trying to keep employees from feeling like they need to be in constant touch with the office. it makes employees feel trusted if the boss can just unplug. it also gives employees permission to achieve, you know, their own work/life balance that ultimately makes them more productive when they're in the office. and it also gives managers a chance to feel like they've unplugged, they've relaxed, they've actually taken and enjoyed their vacation, making them more productive as well when they return, and hopefully when they return more rested and they spent that time unplugged, maybe that will have that trickle-down, where they'll say, okay, mr. and mrs. employee, you go ahead and unplug as well. i'm okay with it.

we can only hope, right, ashleigh? >> yeah. i'll give them the benefit of the doubt. maybe they're actually working even harder than the rest of us and they're reading a lot more e-mail than we are when they are on the clock, so that whole unplugging notion, maybe they deserve it more. >> true. >> i am so trying to butter up my boss right now. alison kosik -- >> i can see that. >> right. it's not going to work. thank you, my friend. see ya. >> sure. she's known as the pretty one, and also one of the most wanted drug gang bosses in the world. bet she checks her e-mail all the time. but get this, though, the feds just found her right here in the u.s. of a. wait until you hear how this bust went down. ♪

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now to a big arrest made in the war on drugs, and it's not your average arrest. it's a woman. los angeles, too, being the arrestees. they handed over la bonita, meaning the pretty woman, to mexican authorities after her arrest on immigration violations. the police believe that she was the top u.s.-based operative in the notorious la familia drug cartel. she's accused of helping oversee the cartel's meth distribution in california and in washington state. latin american affairs editor rafael romo joins me live now. so as i understand it, this arrest went down without incident, which is not what you usually expect when you're talking about a cartel like this. >> that's right, ashleigh. and this particular arrest talks about what has been happening in

the last few years between u.s. and mexican authorities. it's a coordination and exchange of information. and what they say is that there was an exchange of information, information coming from mexico to immigration authorities in the california area. they received that information and acted on it. interestingly enough, this woman is famous for appearing beautiful, wearing makeup and using designer clothes. when she was arrested, she was found in a very modest apartment and if you look at the pictures and you think about the fact that she's known as the pretty one, there's a little bit of a -- i mean, the nickname doesn't really apply when you think about it. and her arrest is very significant, because she was in charge of distributing not only cocaine but also meth to both california and oregon, belonging to the mexican drug cartel known as la familia.

this is one of the most violent cartels in mexico, but in the last two years, it's been decimated. >> so let me tell you about la bonita. she's been relocated to mexico five times. what makes us think this time is going to be any different? >> talks about how elusive is the border. and in case, if you think about the fact that she's only 27 years old and back to 2004, she was basically a teenager when she was arrested the first time. all of these times we're talking about immigration violations. this time, she's going to jail for sure and she's going to spend several years there. there was a 64-page criminal warrant in the mexico state and now extradited to mexico. >> la bonita. a republican congressman

says his democratic challenger talks too much as serving type as a black hawk helicopter pilot in iraq. service that cost her both of her legs. so does congressman joe walsh regret his comments that were caught on videotape or does he stand by those comments? i'll get a chance to ask him live, because he's on the split box with me now and we're talking after the break. what ? customers didn't like it. so why do banks do it ? hello ? hello ?! if your bank doesn't let you talk to a real person 24/7, you need an ally. hello ? ally bank. no nonsense. just people sense.

a congressman from illinois is backing down from some of his

comments, questioning of his election opponent is, quote, a true hero. the opponent is lieutenant colonel tammy duckworth, who lost both of her legs in 2004 as a blackhawk helicopter pilot in iraq. she took an rpg hit and that chopper went down. she's now running for congress in illinois. and she is running against republican incumbent joe walsh, who at this town hall video meeting is shown making a controversial comment. he'd been talking about how senator john mccain has been reluctant to talk about his time serving. >> now, i'm running against a woman who -- i mean, my god, that's all she talks about. our true heros, the men and women who served us, it's the last thing in the world they talk about. that's why we, we are so indebted and in awe of what they have done. >> for her part, lieutenant

colonel tammy duckworth responded. have a look. >> he's just trying to shift the focus away from the fact that he's done nothing in his two years in congress, other than be an extremist loudmouth for the tea party. >> yesterday, walsh told cnn's wolf blitzer that he does think that duckworth is a true hero, but that he doesn't, quote -- or that that doesn't, quote, command our vote. congressman walsh joins us live now from chicago. sir, you are taking it on the chin for this. are you regretting making those comments? >> oh, god, no, ashleigh. look, this is what happens when you've got a congressman that's always out in front of people talking. look, those comments were made a week ago at a two-hour town hall with 400 people talking about obama care. and like i do at the beginning of every one of my town halls, i introduce the heroes in our presence, the veterans.

look, i'm not going to back down -- >> are you saying this is just a slip-up? >> no, ashleigh, this wasn't a slip-up. i don't regret anything i said. understand me. every man and woman who's worn the university form is a hero i book. i've said that thousands of times. i've called tammy duckworth a hero hundreds of times. this is a manufactured issue, because when i'm out there, look, this is the lay of the land out there now. when i'm out there, i'm being taped by tammy duckworth's people. they are manufacturing this crisis -- >> it doesn't matter whose -- i've got to be honest with you, sir, it doesn't matter who's running the tape. it doesn't matter who's got the tape. >> ashleigh, i know it doesn't matter -- >> hold on a second. it's not the only time you've said something like that -- >> ashleigh -- >> you've told politico this. what else has she done, female, wounded veteran, eh, and i'm paraphrasing, eh, what is that --

>> ashleigh, ashleigh, ashleigh, you are paraphrasing. i didn't say "eh." what i said is, she's a war hero, but she's running for congress. and i don't know about you, ashleigh, but hopefully voters think, like every other candidate for congress, tell us whether you stand on issues -- >> well, she's done that. i'm not sure why you haven't seen that. >> no, she hasn't, ashleigh. no, ashleigh, she hasn't -- >> do you want to hear it, congress, or do you just want to rail on me -- >> no, ashleigh, ashleigh -- >> the supreme court hearing on june 28th, she talked at length about the contentious climate in washington on may 2012, she talked about health care reform, talked about the economy, food stamps, pell grants, student loans -- >> ashleigh, ashleigh, ashleigh. >> why do you do anything about talking about her service -- >> ashleigh, give me a second to talk, all right? she spends a lot of time talking about her war service. i've asked her to debate me monthly. she won't. i've asked her to get directly

in front of voters with me. she won't. she will not get in front of voters and take questions directly from voters. because she's a war hero, ashleigh, that demands our respect. but that doesn't demand our vote. but what demands our vote is -- >> but it is not respectful, congressman -- >> what's not respectful, ashleigh? >> when you say, now i'm running against a woman who, my god, that's all she talks about -- >> ashleigh -- >> let me finish, sir. she comes from a military family, she did lose both of her legs fighting in iraq. she has done, and i do have a list, because i am your opponent in this interview, a list of things that she has actually -- >> no, she -- >> -- accomplished for the government, she served in veterans affairs. >> ashleigh -- >> let me put it to you this way. >> ashleigh -- >> sir, i'm not finished asking my question -- >> ashleigh, i'm not going to sit here if you don't let me talk. >> i'm asking you a question.

you ran a campaign in 1996 -- >> ashleigh, you're going to go back to 1996? >> yes, i am. you were running for the u.s. house of representatives -- >> well, that's ridiculous. hey, ashleigh -- >> do you want to hear this question or not? >> this campaign is about obama care -- no, i don't want to hear about -- >> 87 years old and you -- >> the voters want to hear -- >> -- lit a birthday cake with 87 candles on it to show how old he was in an attempt to slam his age. is that respectful of your opponent? >> no -- ashleigh, ashleigh, it was simply to say happy birthday to him. hey, look, ashleigh, too many republicans and democrats stay in washington too darned long. if you're 80 or 90 years old and you never come home to your district, you shouldn't be a member of congress. makes sense, no? look, every candidate for congress has to be held to the same standard. we all come from different places. this country is about to fall off a financial cliff, ashleigh.

and what voters want to know is, what are you going to do about all this debt? where are you on obama care? what are you going to do to help small businesses -- >> but i just told you that she's speaking in front of voters about obama care, and yet -- >> ashleigh, she's not in front of voters. >> -- you're saying all she does is talk about her record as a war hero -- >> ashleigh, when was the last time, ashleigh, you saw her directly in front of voters? when was the last time you saw her in an open public forum in front of voters? >> well, i'm not on the campaign trail, but i can read up on it -- >> but you did plenty of research for her. >> because i am challenging you, sir, in your contention that she speaks of nothing else. >> ashleigh, ashleigh -- >> yes, congressman. yes, congressman. >> ashleigh. you ready? she was on tv a month and a half ago. she was asked a question about gay marriage. do you know what she talked about? her time at walter reed.

look, i'll say it again. i have respect for her and her service. my thoughts and prayers go out to her, like they do every wounded warrior. but that doesn't demand our vote. ashleigh, if that's what it took to be -- to get your vote, john mccain, another hero, would be our president. come on! >> well, let me ask you about that notion -- >> this election is about what we're going to do about these issues. >> -- you suggested that the real heroes don't talk about their service. i'm actually working with dave right now, who's to the left of my camera, who's a vietnam war vet, who disagrees with you. not everybody talks about their service or doesn't talk about their service, because of honor. sometimes it's just really difficult to talk about your service. and sometimes a lot of people are very proud to talk about their service. so who sir, are you, to suggest for a moment that you shouldn't talk about your service because it's honorable? >> that's not what i said, ashleigh. i said most veterans i know don't talk about their service

or the combat they saw. it's part of what makes those who served so noble. and you know, like i know, most veterans -- >> but who are you to suggest that that makes them noble? it makes them noble if they served. have you served? >> no, no -- ashleigh, that's my opinion. ashleigh, that's my opinion. >> have you served? >> ashleigh, i'll say it again, no. but ashleigh -- >> then who are you to suggest what a veteran's mind is when he or she decides whether or not to talk about his or her service? >> oh, ashleigh, i'm confused. did you serve in iraq? >> i've just become a citizen of this country. and you know what, i would like to. i just am perplexed by how you could suggest that it's not honorable -- >> no, let me finish -- ashleigh, let me finish -- >> -- to talk about your service. >> let me finish a thought. you didn't serve in iraq, i didn't serve in iraq. does that mean you and i don't

have the right to have an opinion about the war in iraq? >> i would never suggest that i know why my colleague does or does not speak about his vietnam service. >> no, ashleigh, you didn't -- ashleigh, you didn't answer that question. >> i answered your question. >> do you have a right to have an opinion? >> and you are the politician, sir, who made the comments. i did not make the comments about tammy duckworth, and i'm asking you when you say it's not honorable to talk about your service out on the campaign trail because it's more honorable to do it the way john mccain did, who are you to suggest why john mccain did not talk about his service? do you know that it's just out of honor or do you know that perhaps he does not like to talk about it because it's difficult? >> you know, that i know, that most veterans, because they are noble -- by the way, ashleigh, that's my opinion. just my opinion. you may disagree. they don't talk about their service and they don't a talk about their combat. and you know the ironic thing about this whole conversation, they don't consider themselves heroes. that's for our benefit. i recognize every man and woman

that's served as a hero for our benefit, so we never forget them. they don't call themselves heroes, ashleigh. that's the beautiful thing about our veterans. all of them. don't you agree, ashleigh? >> for the record, i have never heard tammy duckworth call herself a hero. for the record, i have never heard her call herself a hero, but i have heard many other people call her a hero. >> you've heard many other -- ashleigh -- >> she gave her leg and her arm for our service. i think she has the right to say so -- >> she is a hero. >> and her father was a veteran too, of two wars, so she's lived it. >> ashleigh, have you heard -- have you heard any veteran call themselves a hero? have you heard any of them? >> you are suggesting that -- you know, we could go back and forth on that -- >> but have you. >> i don't want you to suggest for a minute because you're the republican and she's the democrat, that i'm taking her side, as you suggested earlier. when i go up against someone in an interview, i play the

adversary. and in this, i am your adversary and also very proud of any veteran's service, including my colleague standing just to the left of my camera. and i don't think it's for any of us to say why or why not they speak of their service. >> ashleigh, have you heard any veteran call themselves a hero? >> we're beyond that. and tammy duckworth did not call herself a hero. >> you can't answer that. >> speaking about your service does not suggest you are calling yourself a hero. >> i called her a hero. >> it's something someone should be able to speak of. and i wish more vietnam veterans felt like they could get out on a campaign trail and speak about their service, but they didn't feel like they could, because they didn't get the reaction they should have when they came home, and that's a change. so i don't think you should be suggesting that tammy should be quiet. >> no, no. ashleigh, i called her a hero. let me ask you one more question -- >> but don't disdain her campaign -- >> should she get elected because of that service?

yes or no? >> you know what, she should get elected if her voters like the fact that she has a list of accomplishments when it comes to tax credits for illinois businesses, she established the first veteran's caucus, she started up -- >> yes, ashleigh, thank you -- >> don't, stop. she established the nation's first health insurance for vets. >> ashleigh -- >> you said all she did is talk about it. these are her actual accomplishments. >> there you go. when it comes to issues, that's why we should elect people. so i'm taking it that, again, you don't think someone who served automatically should get elected when they're running for congress. it comes to what you've done and where you stand on these important issues of our time. and right now, ashleigh, i can tell you in our district, that we're running for, people are losing their homes, they're struggling to get by every day and they're unemployed. what voters want to know is what is duckworth or walsh going to do about those things.

that's what i'm trying to engage her in -- >> and the voters will decide and they will use character as well. >> absolutely. >> and i thank you very much for being a part of our conversation. >> absolutely, ashleigh. >> joe walsh, you're a worthy adversary and i hope we get to talk again at another time. >> ashleigh, anytime. >> thanks for your congressional service as well. still ahead -- whoo, i need to take a big breath. they are powerful, they are rich, and they've got a lot of money to spend. they are the france, folks. and they're coming here and buying up our fancy-schmancy luxury paapartments. we'll show you the apartments and tell you why this is happening.

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moment. >> reporter: he's not the only frenchman setting his sights on a swanky manhattan apartment. barnes editor says the number of citizens interested in buying in new york is rising fast. >> over the past month by people that never came to new york, but they read here and there that the market is strong. >> reporter: chalk some of that up to the election of france's new socialist president, franco francois hollande. he's pledged to raise tax rates to 75%. other taxes on the rich could rise as well. and with socialists now in complete control of the french legislature, those goals are within reach to the dismay of many. >> you have to give up 75% of whatever you make over $1 million. >> reporter: he says the socialist sweep has been a wakeup call for french citizens

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a convicted groper says caffeine made him do it. that's what kenneth sands actually decided to tell the judge as to why he molested four teenage girls and a woman at a school event that wasn't even related to his job as a school bus driver. he got five months in jail, but he got a suspended sentence too. sands explained at his sentencing that he is mentally ill and he had to switch medications and then he had this massive intake of caffeine when those incidents happened. >> that caused a psychotic episode. as stated, my son-in-law and daughter had never seen that kind of behavior from myself. >> joe jackson's on the case like nobody else could be. caffeine made me do it?

seriously? >> it's interesting because we hear about alcohol making people do things, don't we? but caffeine? wow, it's beyond the pale. listen, it didn't work. he was suggesting he had bipolar disorder and other issues. i think the judge did the right thing here and that is with the suspended sentence. what that means is, yes, the judge gave him 30 days for each count, right? he'll spend about six months in jail. but there was a five-year sentence that he could have imposed and in fact he did, but a suspended sentence means it hangs over your head. so if you do anything else, you're going to serve that time. if you don't do anything else, then you're okay. after that five years then there's the five-year probationary period. so this person better walk the straight and narrow for guess how long? ten years. if he doesn't, he could find himself serving this sentence. >> do you ever as a defense attorney ever run the risk of throwing something out there thinking it's spaghetti that might stick. when you suggest caffeine to a judge he's going to throw the book at you.

>> in my case all too often. but you have to make arguments within reason. i think reasoned arguments judges respect. but when you start throwing anything out there in terms of trying to justify why your client would do what they do? >> like the twinkie made me do it. >> it's all about credibility. if you lose that credibility, then you lose the fight. caffeine makes us do a lot of things, keeps us up. but makes us grope people? i think that's ait of a stretch, don't you? >> i think if something happens where you're driving and speed up too quickly or something. >> no. not groping. >> not so much. >> being in places you're not supposed to -- let me go to a volleyball game when i'm not supposed to be will and just grope people. >> joey jackson, on the case. nice to see you. thanks so much. it's time now to turn things over to my pal, wolf blitzer, who's in "the situation room." >> ashleigh, thanks very much. happening now the battle for the white house becomes the battle of the buses. president obama kicks off a major campaign tour in a critical battleground state. with the romney campaign hot on his trail. we'll explain.

and romney weighing in on the chances her husband will pick a woman to be his running mate. what she's now saying in a candid new interview. and the d.c. fire department puts medical emergencies and reports of dangling electrical wires on hold. guess why? to fill up a swimming pool right in the aftermath of friday's devastating storm. what happened? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." all right. look at this. this was then pf president obama us bus last august making its way through the midwest. look a this. this is now president obama's bus with a seemingly new accessory front and center. we're talking about a presidential seal. it's a bold reminder as he kicks his campaign into full gear in