: here we go. top of the hour. surprise guest this afternoon in the white house briefing room. jay carney, move over. >> i appreciate the question in these incidents. they remain deeply concerning to us. >> hello, everybody. >> looks like there's a surprise guest here. >> jay tells me that you guys have been missing me. >> so the president has been getting some heat lately for not taking questions from the white house press corps.

his last give and take was june 19th at the g-20 summit. we have seen rash of takes on u.s. soldiers in afghanistan. we'll hear more about that in a moment. here is the president taking a question about mitt romney's insistence that the president cease and desist demanding that he let the public see his tax return. >> if you look at the overall trajectory of our campaign and the ads i've approved and produced by my campaign you'll see that we point out sharp differences between the candidates but we don't go out of bounds. when it comes to releasing taxes that's a precedent that was set decades ago including by governor romney's father. on afghanistan, obviously we've been watching with deep concern the so-called green on blue attacks where you have afghan

individuals, some who are enrolled in afghan military and in some cases dressing up as afghan military or police att k attacking coalition forces including our own troops. i just spoke to the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff who happen to be in afghanistan. he's having intensive consultations not only with our commander john allen on the ground but with afghan counter parts. i'll will reaching out to president karzai as well. we have to make sure we're on top of this. >> president obama was asked about the remarks over the weekend by congressman todd akin in missouri who has ignited the political fire storm about his comments on abortion. he was asked if he opposes abortion in the case of rape. >> people want to make that as one of those things how do you slice this particularly sort of

ethical question. it seems to me, first of all, from what i understand from doctors that's really rare. if it's a legitimate rape the female body has ways to shut that thing down, but let's assume maybe that didn't work. i think there should be some punishment but the punishment ought to be in the rapist but not attacking the child. >> those comments we just played have echoed across the political spectrum and not long before the congressman spoke there congress akin went on radio show to try to explain what he meant. >> i care deeply for the victims of people who have been raped. they are equally vulnerable and a rain is equally tragic. i made that statement in error. rape is never legitimate. it's an evil act that's committed by violent predators. i used the wrong words in the wrong way. what i said was ill-conceived and it was wrong. for that i apologize. >> i want to go to washington to

dana bash where president obama was asked about congressman akin's remarks. we'll get to what the president said. talk to me about the backlash from akin's own party, republicans here. >> reporter: the walls are really closing in on him big time from his own party from the highest levels of his own party. i spoke to a source at the arm of the republican party that's in charge of electing republicans and this source said it's been communicated that the nrsc is going to take the 5 million dollar that it has planned to put into the race and hold onto it. they're not going to put it in if he is the guy who is going to run against claire mccaskill. the reason is because they believe he puts the majority at risk for republicans. we have a statement carefully

worded. he said i believe he should take time with his family to consider whether the statement will prevent him from effectively representing our party in this critical election. you understand the way he talks it's pretty clear what he's trying to say. c john corning, his formal statement says over the next 24 hours he should consider what is best for him and his family. they are making very clear they do not want him to be in this race because he could cost them not only the seat but ultimately pig picture getting the majority back in the yiunited states senate. >> the deadline is 5:00 tomorrow. i want to play the remarks from president obama. >> is views expressed were offensive.

rape is rape. the idea that we should be parsing and qualifying and slicing what types of rape we're talking about doesn't make sense to the american people, and doesn't make sense to me. what i think these comments do underscore is why we shouldn't have a bunch of politicians, a majority of whom are men, making health care decisions on behalf of women. >> so, dana, democrats are hoping this will help the president. >> reporter: absolutely. it's funny because i was talking to a republican congressional source scratching his head wondering why he would jump in when republicans are doing a good job of hurting themselves. the answer is what the president was talking about, women, women, women. republicans on the top of the presidential ticket, mitt romney

and now paul ryan are struggling with women voters. that's precisely why you saw the president come out and talk about this to try to capture and capitalize on the political fallout from akin and the fact this is really just a huge problem, really a nightmare for republicans. he wants to have that nightmare kind of a dream for him, politically to lure some of the women and continue to lure some of the women voters that are not so sure about the republican ticket for president. >> dana bash. thank you for us in washington. mitt romney was out and about campaigning with his running mate today. they appeared before a pretty enthusiastic out door audience. he's not made foreign policy really huge part of his pitch thus far. a agree a veteran in the crowd prompted romney to spell out a plan for afghanistan. >> i want to know what you guys are going to do about afghanistan. we got those characters over

there shooting our guys and our guys are coming home in body bags? you guys take over washington, what are you going to do about this mess in afghanistan. >> >> i ci can tell you this, w become commander in chief i will address the american people about these issues. i will do everything in my power to transition from our military to their military, bring our men and women home and do so in a way consistent with our mission, which is to keep afghanistan from being overrun by a new entity that would allow afghanistan to be launchening point for terror again like it was on 9/11. thank you, sir. >> mitt romney in new hampshire and one week from today, i'll be anchoring live in tampa, florida where republicans will be holding their national convention. it kicks off august 27th. i can't wait. see you monday from tampa. on this monday a lot going on. take a look at this.

a woman seven months pregnant loses her child after a drunk driver slams into her car. today she joins me live to tell the whole world what she wants done about it. i'm brooke baldwin, the news is now. a big time movie director behind some major hollywood blockbusters jumps to his death, but why? yet another attack against nato troops by insiders. afghan security forces. the chairman of the joint chief goes to the war zone to find out why. read it

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hours after eileen smith and her husband were involved in this crash. this happened in new mexico. their son was born by c-section. he was alive for only 60 s 0 seconds. the tiny, tiny victim of an alleged drunk driverer. i want to express my sympathy. this is an incredibly personal story but it's something i know you want to talk about. i say welcome. this is very fresh. i see the sling on your shoulder. this happened in june. welcome. if i may and just warning to our viewers because we're going to show pictures. it's tough to look at. this is very real. i want to begin with the picture. you're holding little dimitri. can you tell me about this photo. >> yes. thanks for having me. i talked to my husband before the doctor bringing dimitri in.

i knew i wanted pictures. i wasn't prepared for what i was going to see. >> what did you see? >> my newborn baby already passed. >> that's what we're looking at? he's passed and it's you holding your child for the one and only time? >> right. >> take me back. i know this is difficult. just breathe with me. this would have been your first child and you and your husband were headed from home, colorado springs to your native san diego for a baby shower when a car pulls out and pulls across your lane. what do you remember next? >> we stepped on the brakes and turned to the car today side and attempted to go in between the ditch. he was too close. there was no choice. we had to hit him. we took a glancing blow rather than the head on blow. >> with this blow, what kind of

injuries did you sustain? what was your first thought. >> my water broke instantly on impact. that was my number one concern. all the air bags deployed, broken glass everywhere. i broke my sternum in two places and had internal bleeding. my baby was my number one concern. >> you go to the hospital and doctors decide to perform this emergency c-section to save your unborn baby. did you ever see dimitri alive in those 60 seconds? >> no. i was under for surgery. >> the man who t-boned you, his name is ramon hernandez. i was reading the albuquerque journal. they had all kinds of facts on him. they state motor vehicle records show that h man was convicted of dwi twice in 2000, one in 2003

and again in 2004 and his driver's license was revoked when this june crash took place. he shouldn't have been on the road. what are you doing now? you want stronger laws. >> absolutely. it was a suggestion of a friend of mine to start the petition at change.org. that's what we've did. we received a lot of support. >> what do you want changed about the laws? >> i want stronger laws. i want them to revisit the laws and make it so it reflects what's going on in the country. >> do you think that stronger laws would have kept a man like this off the streets? he had a revoked license. >> i can only hope. i think if they enforce the laws that they had set out, it could have kept a lot of people from drinking and driving. >> i know a spokesperson says

she supports your efforts. have you spoken directly with her? >> i've spoken with her office, a few of her aids but i have not spoken with her herself. >> what do you want her to know? >> i support your efforts to strengthen the law. i support it 100%. >> here you are sitti intin int tw two maonths after this incident. if he was sitting next to you, what would you say to him? >> i don't know. i don't know what i would say to him. >> could you ever forgive him for what happened? >> it would take a long time. it would take his repentance. >> thank you for come can go on.

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you have two russian cosmonauts. here you see they are spending six and a half hours in space. they are installing debris shields and deploying a small science satellite. a commander and flight engineer performing the spice walk with a six member international crew. it includes space travelers from the u.s. and japan. i want to go to my fellow space geek with the details there from miami. the morning it was delayed. what happened? >> about an hour and a half delay. he's the only one of the two that's wearing a helmet cam. usually both have them but in this case it's only one. they had a problem sealing an air lock hatch in between a couple of the compartments.

they had to work through that. it delayed them about an hour and a half. they are out there now. they've opinion working a good three and a half hours and expected to be outside accomplishing those missions over a period of about six and a half hours. another three hours to go. >> let's talk x i want to move off of that, let's talk about mars curiosity. we're still waiting for curiosity to head toward mount sharp. >> first target. >> we have some pictures. talk to me about what we're seeing. >> litter this week they're going to move for the first time. curiosity will make its first baby steps. that will be big news. what you're looking at is a rock that they zapped. that's on the top of the mass. we were out in pasadena talking about that. they zapped the rock which they nicknamed coronation. i guess the first rock zapped on mars. when they zap it, it emits

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just in, some sad news to pass along. we're learning of the death of phyllis diller. she was recovering from fall and had been sick for the past couple of months. she had been living in hospice care. northeast signature part of her routine was the cackle. she was 95 years old. tony scott, the man behind so many popular movies and shows. movies like top gun, beverly hills cops. police in los angeles believes he killed himself. he climbed to the top of a bridge in san pedro and jumped sunday. a note was found on the car and

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he leaves behind a wife and twin sons. the death of a man handcuffed and later found shot in his head. this has been ruled a suicide. that's coming down from the coroners report. we've been all over this story. tell me more about the report. >> i want to read this quote from the report from the medical examiner who says at the time of the discharge, the nuzzle was placed against the right scalp. the cause of death ruled suicide. this depose right this goes right along with how this could go. they released a showing of how a person flexible enough. you remember many in the community they remember that somehow police officers had something to do with this. there were three people in that truck. two were released. two white smts but carter was kept in the back of the car. still we heard from some witnesses just last week who back up what police had to say.

let's listen. >> he let two of the guys go. >> they kept one. >> what did they do with him in. >> i think they put him in the backseat of the police car. then about 10 or 15 minutes after that you heard a loud pop. i'm like what is going on. >> you heard a pop. it sountd like a gun going off. >> where were the police officers? >> they were standing on the outside of the car. >> how far away from the car were they? >> they weren't too far from the car. >> again, she says that the officers were not in the back of the car but they were away from the car. that backs up what police said. >> questions over how this would have happened. the questions over how he was searched twice and they found a bag of marijuana and no gun. we've seen the mother tearfully

saying she doesn't believe this could be suicide. does this end, does this continue? >> i think the report makes a big statement in the community. there are people who say that african-american suspects are treated differently than white suspects in jonesboro. they believe the officers had something to do with it. i would imagine you will continue to see protests. thank you. a stunning development from the augusta golf club welcoming female members. we'll talk to the woman who led the protest against what was an all men's club, next.

the augusta national golf club has power and prif religion. it's home to the mast ers. one of the most prestigious golf tournaments of the world. it's also known for refusing to

admit women as members until today. billy payne has announced that condoleezza rice and darla moore have accepted invitations to join this exclusive club. it was almost a decade ago when martha burke staged a protest outside the gates. remember these pictures. the club would not budge. the issue faded but never went away. martha burke joins me. big day. i know you see this as a huge win. do you feel vindicated? >> absolutely. i personally feel vindicated. i underwent a lot of death threats ten years ago. people didn't like what i was doing. a will the of people did like it, mostly female people. the women's movement in the united states certainly deserves the credit for this. >> moving along. another brick in the wall but it

was back in 2003 that then club chairman responded to your letter asking about women members by saying the club was not going to change its policies. the real question today is why now? you think this invitation to two women would have happened without your efforts so many years ago? >> no i do not think it would have happened without our efforts ten years ago. we've been working behind the scenes. we have facilitated a couple of sex discrimination suits against corporations who's ceos are members and collected quite a bit of money for those women. stuff has been going on as they say. >> this progress began with you but it continued as recently of april with what happened with ibm and ceo.

do you think billy payne deserves a bit of credit? >> no. i do not think he deserves any credit. if he was going to do anything he should have done it seven years ago. i think he made a deal saying i'll do the no girls allowed if you let me be chairman. he just could not hold out. i think he made that deal with him and i don't think he deserves any credit now. >> martha critics say all this means is that wealthy, powerful women play golf with wealthy powerful men. how does this help progress? how does this help the rest of our society? >> it's a statement to statement. i always say it's not about golf and playing golf. it's about making deals in corporate america. it's about those halls of power that you're talking about.

the more women we have even if it's just a couple to begin with that cracks open that glass ceiling just a bit further. i hope corporate america will take a lesson from this. augusta national took a beating pr wise for their treatment of women and corporate america needs to take notice. they could do better too. we still just have about 10% of women on corporate boards in the fortune 500. that's not good enough. >> that's what you want to see next. a couple of weeks was the first female ref for football. the news with augusta today. you say the next chipping away would be corporate america and women? >> absolutely. they needed to be doing better. they should have been doing better for the last ten years. we've been hearing for 40 years we have to have more women in the pipeline. i'd say that pipeline is pretty full. let's go ahead and put women

where they ought to be. they node to be working toward party in all of the halls of power. augusta national just one. it's an important one symbolically but we have a long way to go. don't forget this is a great day for women, working women in america that never will think about playing dpol of but it's a step toward equality in terms of that pay gap, that promotion. all of these things we haven't seen women getting, this someone small step. >> martha burk, thank you for joining me. >> thank you very much. each and every week dr. sanjay gupta introduces us to the innovators of the world. he's featured in this week's

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high school valvaledictoria without her diploma from may. >> she was in every curricular activi activity. he's been with the banks on the bank boards. if there's anything to do, she does it. >> reporter: that's why david is upset his daughter caitlin who happens to be the valedictorian wasn't given her diploma. >> excelled beyond anything of her being my child. >> reporter: the issue was with her graduation speech given earlier in the year. >> her quote was when she first started a school she wanted to be a nurse and she decided to be

a vet and now that she was getting closer to graduating and she people said what do you want to do and i said how the hell do i know. >> reporter: a audience laughed. she didn't know there was a problem until she went to pick up the real certificate this week. >> went to the office and asked for the diploma and he said it's right here but you ain't getting it. close the door. we got a problem. >> reporter: she said she would have to write an apology letter. a move dad believes is illegal. >> she earned it. she did all the state curriculum. it's four years of straight a's and 4.0s. >> reporter: she started college on a full scholarship in few

days. we tried to get the school's side of the story. the superintendent said this matter is confidential and we cannot publicly say anything about it, end quote. >> let me add on today cnn made calls to see if the district has changed its position. the decision we wr told there's no comment at this time. american and native forces being attacked by afghan forces. now u.s. military officers are demanding answers as president obama weighs in on the insider killings.

he's holding meetings on the troubling surge and nato attacks. let's go to the pentagon. she's monitoring the trip to afgs, and the so-called insider killings. the latest happened just

yesterday. do we know who general dempsey is talking with, and being in afghanistan, what is he hoping to accomplish? >> well, this trip wassed long before all of this. but general dempsey in fact there speaking to both afghan and coalition leaders about all of it. but interestingly president obama weighed in today, and listen to he's talking to, have a listen. >> i just spoke today to marty dempsey, the chairman of the joint chief of staff who happens to be in afghanistan. he is having intensive consultations with afghan counter parts. and i'll be reaching out to president karzai as well, because we have to make sure that we're on top of this. >> president karzai, to expect a phone call from president obama about all of this. nine u.s. troops killed in this fashion since august 10th. now really grabbing everyone's attention, if it hadn't before.

so what are they doing about it, brooke? well, improved intelligence, improved screening of those joining the afghan army, u.s. troops wearing their weapons. fully loaded at all times, even on base. but this is now a front and center issue of more troops getting killed. it seems to be happening almost every day now, and no real end in sight, brooke. >> do we know -- i mean, you spoke to the prevention, but the motivation. what is motivating the attackers, might they be taliban attracters? >> well, it's interesting. they're not ruling out that a small percentage of them are. and it's very smart strategy on the part of the taliban to drive a wedge between the afghans and the united nations. they believe, however, that the vast majority of them are afghans with perceived cultural differences with the united states, perceived insults at the hands of coalition forces, some

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as we reported this hour, we have now learned sad news. phyllis diller passed away peacefully in her sleep this morning. in fact, her son found her with a smile on her face. she was 95 years old, and apparently she was recovering from a fall. she had been sick for the past couple of months. she had been living in hospice

care at her home. and i have joan rivers -- joan rivers on the phone with me to talk a little bit about phyllis diller. you were telling me in the commercial break you saw her three weeks ago. >> i saw her three weeks ago. she was fine. she was losing her eyesight just a little bit. but she was fine she wasn't ill. she was just fine. and how wonderful she was until the end. >> i think of her self depry kating humor, that cackle. tell me about the relationship. tell me what you loved so much about this woman. >> i met her when i was first starting in the village. she laughed the loudest and was such a generous performer. she was so generous to people that were starting. and we stayed friends all these years. and so smart. if something happened at 4:00,

it was in her act at 8:00. she didn't need a funny hat, a funny wig, the stupid shoes. the mouth was so brilliant. the brain was so brilliant. i adore her. she was so on top of everything. >> how did she help inspire you -- i assume she inspired you. what legacy has she left? >> she was the first. i never thought about it until just now, but she was the first that really did standup. she didn't sing. she didn't dance. she came out and did an hour of great talk. i think she's the first woman that ever really did that. and she came right after tony fields. and tony fields was wonderful. she did big songs. and news came out, and she had things to say, and she said them.

and she said good night. and she flicked a cigarette, and she left. and that was a big, huge change from what women were doing on stage. >> she also, joan, was one of the first in talking very publicly about plastic surgeries. it was pretty taboo. >> she was the first that did it. we were laughing about that. that mantle fell to me. she was very homely. nobody wants to be very homely. when the money started coming in she began to look better and better and better. she became a joke because it was so early for a woman to do this. but she had a great private life. she was an uber -- >> an uber wasp? >> she in a christian dior suit when i met