>> it is fierce, but it is also a beautiful thing. mother nature is something else. >> so impressive. i wish there was audio because i would like to listen to it. there isn't. >> that's fascinating. thank you for teaching us a little science there. i like that. >> you're welcome. >> thanks, chad. sdmrimplt hello again. the cnn newsroom, breakthrough new surgery that allows a woman to get a transplanted uterus from her own mother. more fallout from the mitt romney comment as the presidential candidate heads to miami to smooth things over with latinos. let's get straight to it. a french magazine stirs up more anger among muslims. this satirical magazine published cartoons today depict aing figure resembling the prophet mohammed. the french muslim council calls

the cartoons insulting. french authorities have stepped up security outside the making sfwleen's offices. they also plan to close embassies and schools in 20 countries tomorrow as a precaution that a cartoonist for the magazine says the concerns are overblown. >> there was a big fire of french paranoia of the media that link us to -- that put us into this -- put us into the top of the news just right now. for the moment it's just -- it's just a big deal built by the media. >> hmm. last november the magazine's office was firebombed over an issue mocking islam. france has the largest muslim population in western europe. back in this country mitt romney goes after the latino vote when he appears on a spanish language network tonight, but romney may have to

explain those secretly recorded comments from a may fundraiser where he joked that being latino would help him win the election. jim accosta joining us live. jim, romney has a pretty sizable interview tonight on univision's meet the candidates forum, and he may have to deal with this remark. >> and i think elections are always about choices, but i think the choice is many more stark relief -- >> auz probably know, was the governor of michigan and was the head of a car company, but he was born in mexico. and had he been born of mexican parents, i'd have a better shot at winning this. he was born for americans living in mexico. they lived there for a mof years, and -- i say that jokingly, but it would be helpful to be latino. >> all right. he says right there, you heard

on the tape, that he was joking when he said that, but he faces some serious problems gaining ground with latino voters, so, jim, back with us now, what do we expect him to say tonight to that audience? >> reporter: well, what we expect him to say, fredricka is he will be making an outreach to latino voters. he has been doing this the last several days. this all started out in los angeles on monday when he gave that speech to the u.s. hispanic chamber of commerce, and then these videos came out of nowhere for mother jones making sfwleen and has forced his campaign to sort of play a couple of days of defense. now, he is starting to turn that around. you're right. that video that you just showed him talking about, well, maybe i might have a better time getting elected if i were a latino, i would expect, yes, tonight at this univision forum that jorge

>> what's the translation for you? >> i don't know whether to laugh or cry. the underlying tone here is somehow you have this rich white guy who thinks that his life would be easier -- you can see that they give the same reference, and i think there's an element of folks out there -- i always have to remind myself of this, who really do think that gee whiz, if i can only been born a latino male or an african-american woman, man, i would have my pick of colleges, i could go to any job i wanted to. a really bizarre statement. >> you write in particular, i'm tempted to respond with this --

mitt romney thinks it would be helpful if he were latino. well, mitt, i'm latino, and it would be helpful if i were worth $250 million. want to switch? you know, so what do you suppose that reception might be like tonight? you know, univision's meet the candidates forum, a little cool? >> i think it should be a little cool. this was a devastating set of comments because it shows just how cynical mitt romney is. certainly he is not the only politician to be cynical to go mr. latinos and speak enspan yoel when they don't really have their best interests at heart. the audience's best interest at heart. this is now out in the open, and he has to deal with the fact that he treated such a trivial matter, this idea that we never have had a latino president, it's never been the case of being latino makes it easier to become president. i would like to say mitt romney -- i know he is watching -- primo, mitt, mexican that we are together, i tell you, given that you feel picked on today, you feel like you've been betrayed and like you're not being treated fairly. welcome. you made it. you're mexican.

terrific. >> before these comments, you know, wasn't your feeling that mitt romney was gaining any ground among latinos? >> yeah. to be fair, you know, one of the problems that barack obama has had is this deep sense of ambivalence. they still like him and support him by a wide margen, but all those same polls show they are not sure they're going to get up and vote for him on election day because they have mixed feelings about his immigration policy, a policy that has torn apart hundreds of thousands of families and deported over 1.5 million people. so there was always an opening for romney and the republican party to take advantage of barack obama's support among latinos, which is an inch thick and a mile wide, but, bow, mitt romney has blown it, and he continues to blow it because he doesn't get the beat. he doesn't understand the first thing about latinos even though his dad was born in mexico. isn't that ironic? >> you know, simply put, you know, you write in your commentary that romney's comments are clearly absurd and so it's hard to take him seriously. did the rich white guy really claim to want to be latino because he thought it would help him win the presidency?

well, that's strange, you write. being latino didn't seem to help bill richardson, the former new mexico governor that ran for president in 2008. he didn't get beyond the primary. what in your view is this saying about romney? you've kind of -- you are inferring, you know, that there is this feeling that it's easier if you are non-white, and as you mentioned at the top of this interview, that he, mitt romney, is not alone, you believe, in that kind of thinking. that everyone else is feeling that they're entitled if they're non-white. >> we -- i think we get it all the time. i say in my column, mitt romney has two harvard degrees, and i have two harvard degrees, but i can insure that he never encountered people that he got into that school because of affirmative action. if you are an african-american and latino and you have succeeded in this society, you hear all the time from folks who really think it's easy for us. that we have -- they think that we can have any job we want, we can get into any college you want. >> you got that opportunity because you're not white. >> because you are qualified.

yeah. somehow you have had t all backwards, and i think the people in that audience, that's the telling part. the fact that they were laugh and nodding. they got the joke. there are folks out there who think that junior would have gotten into yale, but, man, some black kid took his spot. it's not fair. >> overall in your view, how damaging to his campaign was this moment, these two moments? we're talking about the 47% and we're talking about the, you know, if only i were latino? >> i think his support among latinos now is cooked. i think that pretty much will cost him the election in the long run. people will look back on this. i don't think he can recover from this. i think the smart thing to do, though, is exactly what he is doing and sort of own the comments, take up this idea of entitlement because, understand, we do have a problem with entitlement thinking in this country. people do think that they're entitled, for instance, to do jobs. not do jobs that immigrants end up doing. what mitt romney missed it is the people, the fat cats in that audience, they're the most entitled of them all. they believe in entitlement. they think of themselves as victims, and so, you know, he looked at them and wynned and said present company excluded,

but he should have included them in the mix. >> thank you so much. to read europe ed on cnn.com. thanks so much. president barack obama wasted no time answering his challenger's 47% comment. the president paid a visit to late night with david letterman and said mr. romney has it wrong. >> i promise you, there are not a lot of people out there who think they're victims. there are not a lot of people who think that they're entitled to something. what i think the majority of people, democrats and republicans, believe is that we've got some obligations to each other, and there's nothing wrong with us giving each other a helping hand. >> and here's what we're working on for you this hour. a black georgia homeowner shoots and kills a man who came on his property after allegedly threatening his son. now the shooter is in jail, so why wasn't he protected by the self-defense castle doctrine? is there an issue of race here? three people die after

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we're waiting for a report from the u.s. justice department on the botched gun running plan known as fast and furious. the operation was launched in november of 2009 to help lead u.s. federal agents to drug trafficking king pins in mexico, but hundreds of firearms went missing, and two were found at a shoot-out that killed u.s. border patrol agent brian terry. earlier this year congress voted to hold u.s. attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress for not turning over documents related to fast and furious. joe johns has been following the story. >> reporter: fred, everyone is waiting to see if justice department inspector general michael horwitz has answers to the big questions surround this case, whose idea was the fast and furious strategy in the first place? who knew about it and for how long 1234 how high up did it go, and why didn't somebody stop 2? this is a story badly in need of

an honest impartial broker because the fast and furious story reached its peak in a political atmosphere during a political year, and inspector general's report is supposed to be about accountability and possibly contained information we haven't heard before because it is our understanding based on sources that the i.g. may have had access to documents and information that were not provided to some of the other entities investigating it. as you know, a few of the key players involved in fast and furious from the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms have already resigned or been reassigned. i spoke to one of the atf whistle blowers just yesterday, larry alt, who said the agency has made some strides since brian terry's death. though, he also said there's still more work to be done. the question, of course, again and again that will be asked is how high up this went in the justice department and if it did, what will happen with those involved? that will be left presumably to the white house and attorney general eric holder because we

also should point out the inspector general does not have the authority to hire and fire just to make recommendations. fredricka. >> thank you so were, joe johns in washington. all right. there have been three big food recalls in just the past few weeks, so we'll look at how you should protect yourself. the only time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chapter. i i had pain in my abdomen...g. it just wouldn't go away. i was spotting, but i had already gone through menopause. these symptoms may be nothing... but they could be early warning signs of a gynecologic cancer, such as cervical, ovarian, or uterine cancer.

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it seems like there's a food recall just about every week, and for those unlucky enough to end up with bad food on their plates, symptoms can range from gastric distress to many very severe cases death, so how can you stay safe? let's bring in cat kinsman of cnn's blog. she's joining us from new york. always good to see you, cat. what foods are we talking about, because i think i've lost track. >> oh, fred, i swear i'm not here to put you off your lunch, but as you said, if it seems like there is one every week or two, that's because you're paying attention. just last week there were three deaths linked to imported riccota cheese. that was tainted with listeria. just before that two people were killed by salmonella in a contaminated cantaloupe crop.

103 the week before that were sickened by salmonella tainted mangos, and the week before that 33 people were sickened by ground beef tainted with salamon elwra, and if you want to read more cases, the fda website does a fantastic job of keeping track of all the recalls. >> oh, my gosh, from processed foods to produce, so what do we do as consumers? how do we play it safe? how do we pick the right things? how do we avoid getting contaminated? >> well, you know, again, the fda does a really great job of keeping track of a lot of these recalls, and they distribute that information to grocery stores and other vendors across the country. they do a great job of that. there's a lot of stuff you can do up front to be a really informed and safe consumer. a lot of that starts with the grocery store. first of all, you want to avoid cross contamination where you can. those little bags that they give you with your produce. that's not just to keep your celery separate from your broccoli and keep it straight at the counter. that helps keep things not cross-contaminated with each

other. if does is tainted tshg won't get on the other one. you want to store these things separately in your refrigerator, and any cutting board you use, you want to wash all that in between. especially if you are working with meat as well as produce. keep your hot food hot and cold foot cold. this starts the second you get home from the store. you can make sure that you're storing everything at the proper temperatures. that's going to vary somewhat, but generally you want to keep your produce -- the produce that does go to the refrigerator, you want to keep that below 48 degrees. when it is time to cook all of this, you you want to make sure you cook it to the proper temperature. go to the usda website for disease control, and make sure to put those leftovers away quickly and make sure they get to the proper temperature. also, make sure you wash everything. wash all of the produce that you get. even if it's a chore. do it all at once when you get home from the store. put it all in the sink and wash it. also, make sure to wash your hands and any utensil that is are you going to use, and that will keep -- that will keep things to a minimum, ideally, and also, the best -- really the

best advocate that you have is you. use your gut, and, you know, really -- if something tastes a little gruny at a restaurant, if you're just not sure, the last thing a restaurant wants to do is to make its clients sick. talk about that. you know, make sure to talk to the produce people at your store, and just be loud about it. >> yeah. i wonder, are there foods or certain products that any consumer needs to consider and just say, you know what, i'm staying away from that because it just is likely too dangerous to consume? >> you know, everybody has their own particular metrics at this. i personally don't have a lot of boundary with this because i'm really, really careful about where i get my food from. i spoke with a food safety attorney and food safety advocate bill marlor, and he gave me his dirty list that he won't eat, and that includes raw milk, unpastureized juice, sprouts, bagged salad, and ground meat of any kind. that is his personal list. you can also look up the dirty dozen list that is published

every year, and that tends to include a lot of fruit with the skin on and really, again, a lot of it comes back to the bag salad and leafy greens. just make sure you wash the heck out of that stuff. >> i was hungy until this segment. thanks a lot. >> i'm sorry about that. >> i do appreciate it. you're making us smarter. we needton these things. appreciate it. i like the necklace. it says barbecue on it, for those that are trying to figure out what is that red stuff there. barbecue. like it. >> thank you. in georgia black leaders in a town want to know why a homeowner who shot a man on his property is in jail. the man shot had allegedly threatined the shooter's son, so why didn't the castle doctrine kick in? we have a special report. zarchlgts don't forget, can you watch cnn live on your computer while you're at work, anywhere you go to. go to cmn.com/tv. ♪

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about 350,000 public school students are in chicago schools today. for the first time many more than a week the city's teachers ended an eight-day strike after union leaders reached a deal with city officials on pay and work conditions. teachers will now get raises of about 18% over four years. the city won some concessions as well, including expanding the school day and overall school year. rank-and-file union members are expected to vote on the contract in a couple of weeks. an arizona sheriff known for his tough stance on immigration is speaking out about a controversial immigration law in his state. sheriff joe arpaio supports the show me your papers law. it allows police to question people about their immigration status if they're suspected of being in the country illegally. yesterday a federal judge ruled police can enforce it. critics say the law will lead to racial profiling. sheriff arpaio denies that.

>> i would recommend to the detractors at least give ace chance and let us see how this works instead of jumping to conclusions and accusing us already that this will cause racial profiling. it's unclear when arizona police will start enforcing that law. the castle doctrine just got a little bit more controversial. of course, it is the law that thrust the name george zimmerman and trayvon martin into the headline, but a case in georgia is raising some serious questions about whether race plays a part of self-defense laws. george howell has that story. >> reporter: your husband was given life in prison. is it hard to visit? >> it's always hard. the hardest part is seeing him

and leaving him there and knowing he shouldn't be there. >> reporter: to understand anita mcneil's frustration, you have to go back some six years to the day her husband shot and killed a man, john mcneil who claimed did he so in self-defense on his own property only after getting a call from his son who claimed that brian epp, a contractor who built the family's home, had threatened him with a knife. when mcneil arrived, the two men argued. mcneil fired a warning shot into the ground and then shot epp. anita says her husband did what any parent would do. as she continues to fight for his freedom, she now faces her own battle with terminal cancer. >> even though i am battling this disease, i'm free, and he is not. >> is it wrong to believe that you cannot protect your children and your property if you are black man in george fworj?

>> the case has become a rallying cry forsively rights leaders who question whether self-defense laws are biassed. they insist mcneil should have been protected by what's known as the calf doctrine, legal protection for people who use deadly force on their own property if threatened with deadly force. >> whether it be trayvon martin in florida or whether it be john mcneil here in georgia, we are victims of both ends of the -- >> prosecutor pat head says race had nothing to do with his decision to try mcneil for murder. >> he shot a man who was coming at him and shot him when he was within less than three feet with no weapon on him or at least no weapon exposed. i don't believe that's justified. >> mcneil lost an appeal to the georgia supreme court, but he has since hired a new attorney who recently filed a petition claiming that the state of georgia is holding his client in violation of his constitutional rights. >> the petition claims that mcneil was denied a fair trial because the jury was not informed of epp's criminal

record and that of at least one prosecution witness. anita insists her husband did everything right. >> he called the police, and he said come, and he begged the man to don't keep coming up on me. >> george howell is here to talk more about this case. so mcneil, the man who is now in jail, he wants out. why is this case now six years after the fact kind of bubbling to the surface again? what is happening that might give him momentum to restate his case or claim? >> well, when you talk to members of the naacp they say this is a case that they've been watching. it's a case that deserves to be brought back to light. you have to go back to the day that it happened. some six years ago. on that day, fred, the lead investigators in the case who looked at all the evidence, they decided not to charge mcneil. they decided that this was a self-defense case. again, it took some 274 days for that prosecutor to move forward on this case, but he says that it took time for him to look

through although facts. he says facts did not add up. first of all, he says that mcneil's son claimed that he saw epp move forward with the knife toward his father, but in court the prosecutor says that the son changed his story, so epp did not have a knife. >> was that knife even submitted as evidence? >> well, you know, it was part of the testimony. they did determine that a knife -- he had a pocketknife on him, but of the knife being brandished at the time that he approached? the prosecutor says no. then also, he says the way that the shooting happened, it was at pretty close range. the shot to the head, and the prosecutor says that if it's a self-defense situation, typically it's shooting at center mass, not at the head. >> is there a chance for a new trial? is this the direction it's moving? >> the -- well, talk to the prosecutor. the prosecutor is very confident in the case that he moved forward, but the new defense attorney, he says that he is pretty sure that he has a good case here. you know, he has filed that case in a local county to see a judge hoping that that judge will rule in his favor, and he believes

that his client just did not get a fair trial. that the jury didn't see the full story. he believes that if this case is brought back to light, it could get a better opinion in his favor, he believes. >> george howell, thank you so much. >> thank you. all right. on to politics. mitt romney's controversial remark about how nearly half of all americans depend on government handouts is not just angering democrats, but several conservatives. here are some of the comments next. there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are used to treat men with low testosterone. androgel 1.62% is from the makers of the number one prescribed testosterone replacement therapy. it raises your testosterone levels, and... is concentrated, so you could use less gel. and with androgel 1.62%, you can save on your monthly prescription. [ male announcer ] dosing and application sites between these products differ. women and children should avoid contact with application sites.

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is when you introduce your campaign with a compelling message. they sort of got sidelined during the democratic convention. romney sort of stumbled during the libya debate, and then kind of had to new message. just the other day for weeks we have the romney campaign kind of backing into a new message and trying to reframe the debate, and no candidate wants to be in that position with less than 50 days to go in a campaign. >> so, on the other hand, there are some die-hard conservatives who are rallying around romney, so i wonder whose voices are going to be heard the most by mitt romney. will it be, you know, those disenters within the republican party, or those who are saying, you know, you're right on? >> well, i mean, we are seeing

some republicans, especially in tight races in this country back away from romney's comments. saying, though, they're probably poisonous in tight races, and some some of these states like massachusetts and connecticut, you see republican scott brown, a candidate in massachusetts, and linda mcmahon in connecticut put some space between themselves and romney. there are more undecided voters in these senate races than there are in the larger presidential electrics, so they're actually competing for persuadable voters, and now we've heard from dean howler, the senator in nevada, who is also distancing himself from mitt romney saying he doesn't view the world in the same way that romney does, so this could be problematic down. you are also seeing that in some house raise. you haven't seen a ton of republicans running away, but are you starting to see it in those competitive districts because it is a problematic message. >> you wonder how in the world might it change with just two months or so to go before election day. peter, thank you so much. >> oh -- >> you got a comment on that? >> i was going to say, fred, that, i mean, if romney loses in

november, this kind of prestages, i think, some of the republican infighting that you might see after the election. you saw that a little bit with john mccain in 2008 after he lost, but just by reading some of the conservative blogs and listening to talk radio, you're going to hear from conservatives, and if romney loses, this candidate didn't have the skills to compete, and, two, what was his message and did he really believe in conservativism? i think you're starting to see some of those fights starting to happen, and if he does lose in november, can you see some full-blown civil war in the republican party, fred. >> all right. peter, thanks so much. >> thanks. other comparisons being made between mitt romney and barack obama. the president. well, when it comes to military plan. very different budget plan for those two candidates. we'll give an idea -- give you an idea of how they differ.

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just to more ships and more aircraft, but also in my view to more members of our armed forces. >> reporter: president obama wants a small are conventional force and $500 million in pentagon spending cuts over the next ten years. >> so long as i'm commander in chief we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. >> reporter: let's start with the romney plan. the candidate says he favors a larger force of naval ships and aircraft, but has not said how he would pay for it. rom my has also said he wants to add 100,000 troops to the current force of 1.4 million. now, for a look at obama's plan. as part of $500 billion in spending cuts, president obama says he wants to get rid of older ships and delay buying new ones. he also proposes cutting the army by some 66,000 and reducing the marine corps by another

20,000. obama urges continuing use of small special forces teams and unmanned drones, a signature weapon of the last decade. but romney's sur gat and former dod comptroller says not so fast. >> there's no objection, no idealogical objection at all to having drones. unmanned aerial vehicles, unmanned subsurface vehicles. all kinds of unmanned vehicles. the issue is to what extent do you rely almost exclusively on drones and on special forces? >> for president obama secret cia drone attacks against militants in pakistan and yemen have had results without risking putting u.s. troops on the ground. he told cnn's jessica yellin. >> it has to be a situation in which we can't capture the individual before they move forward on some sort of operational plot against the united states. >> i don't think whether or not

whether obama or romney wins we're going to see this technology go away or see any greater minimized use of it because of their own approach. i think we've seen that president obama is most definitelying willing to exskut this signature apart from his counterterrorism agenda, and it would be very hard for romney to roll that back even if he wanted to. >> reporter: whether it's romney or obama in the oval office, the bigger problem with drones may be the international pushback from governments and human rights groups increasingly voicing their opposition. barbara stahr, cnn, the pentagon. an intriguing new piece of history. a tiny piece of paper, or shroud, is once again raising the big question of whether jesus of married. a harvard professor says she's been studying the three-inch writing sample that includes a reference to jesus' wife. the fragment dates to the second century. the professor karen king is quick to say that the fragment,

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decades now. and this makes total sense when you think about it. you don't have a uterus, i'll give you mine because i'm done with it. in this case, this was two mother-daughter pairs. so these were two daughters who didn't have a uterus. one daughter didn't have a uterus because she was born without one, which can happen, it is unusual, but it can happen. the other one lost her uterus to cancer, it had to be removed. so what they did, this is so amazing, really in its simplicity, they took the mom's, who obviously was done having children, the daughters with in their 30s so the mothers were obviously older than that, they took the uterus out of the moms and put it into the daughters and then left in there, sort of kept them open on the operating table for like 20 minutes, you can see it here, they sort of reconnected everything, took all the vessels and reconnected it into the daughter, out of one body, into the other body, into the daughter's, reconnected everything, sewed it in place, attached it -- >> as far as they know right

now, they're working. it's working. >> it can hold a baby for nine months and they don't know. they want to wait about a year, right. they want to wait a year until these women get pregnant. in a year, hopefully they'll know. what is really crazy to me is if these women do get pregnant, that baby is going to be in the same uterus that the mother was in. so that mother was -- right. they're carrying -- that uterus is carrying their baby, they also were in that uterus. it is mind blowing. >> has this ever been attempted before and now it is down to perfection or was this a first all the way around? >> this happened in sweden, the swedish doctors tell us it was tried twice. once with a living donor here, and once with a deceased donor they took from a cadaver, they took a uterus and gave it to someone. in one case, the woman didn't get pregnant and in one case they are -- no one has heard if she's gotten pregnant. there is no live birth from a uterus transplant. if there is a live birth from this, according to the doctors, it would be the first. >> so they're going to wait at

that point to see if, you know, effectively, these two women are able to use these new uterus before they're to perform any more surgeries? >> oh, before they start doing more transplants? yeah, i would imagine they're going to be quite patient about this because they tried this surgery out on rodents and then tried it out on larger animals. so i would imagine they're going to be quite patient about this. >> it is fascinating that is indeed a big old medical breakthrough. >> it is. >> thanks so much, elizabeth cohen, appreciate that. all right, he, you recognize him right there, huge movie star, with two oscars to his name. denzel washington isn't taking all the credit for his major accomplishments in life. we'll tell you what he says and who he says put him on the path to success. ahhhh drill sound chirping electric shaver shaking remote tapping sound shaking drill chirping tapping shaking remote

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he says the real life heroes are the men and women helping to improve young lives every day through the boys and girls clubs of america. that organization provides children with an extra support system for their education and personal growth and sports as well. denzel washington has been associated with the club since he was a boy, some 50 years ago. i asked him about how that experience has impacted his life. >> one of the great things that -- about the boys and girls club, especially -- or as i remember it in those days is that you thought it was all about fun. but you are actually being taught a lot of life lessons and even through sports, you know, sportsmanship and how to accept defeat and how to be a gracious winner and things like that. so we never were, like, sat down and, like, you must learn to be, you know, it didn't feel like that. it felt like fun. and it was a safe place. it was a place where you could compete, meet kids from other neighborhoods that you never met

before, and i loved it. i mean, they used to have to kick me out. >> so you really feel like it shaped you in a big way? >> absolutely. absolutely. when i -- when i was, i think in the third grade, we were -- i was on a track team at the club, on the relay team. and i was, like, the fourth fastest guy. and the new guy came in that was faster than me and billy thomas who was the coach of the team, he knew something was wrong with me. and i said, well, i'm worried about this other kid. he says, well, you know, denzel, you got to understand, he doesn't know how to pass the baton yet, he doesn't know how to run the curves. what he said to me was your natural ability will only take you so far. 20 years later or 15 years later, i was about to graduate from college, i had started acting for two years, and i decided to go to graduate program and study more because i knew my natural ability would only take me so far. i remember that story and i

applied it to my life as an actor. >> and clearly it left an indelible impression. you remember his name, billy thomas to this day, you remember how it shaped you and what it did for you. so how do you suppose it changed -- >> i remember the name of the kid that joined the team. i was so -- >> you'll never forget that. well, motivated you. denzel washington. get more it of this weekend. i'm fredricka whitfield. the "cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> thank you so much. hello to all of you. i'm brooke baldwin. we have news just into us. we're talking about this fast and furious report just released online. joe johns just has gotten his hands on it. we'll go to joe here in just a couple of minutes, he's paging through what i imagine is a multiple hundred plus page account of exactly what may be happening with some of the officials within the atf, et cetera. in the meantime, let me set this up for you and remind you what is at issue here. fast and furious was the

controversial gun running program, operated by the atf. i say controversial because it was a sting that went very, very wrong. but here's how it was supposed to work, supposed to, key word, federal agents put what they thought would be traceable guns in the hands of low level drug runners and they allowed the gun guns to work. now, give a gun to a drug runner and they will take it to their leader, that was the hope, that was the anticipation, except it didn't exactly go as planned. more than 2,000 guns went missing and a lot of those guns ended up being used in crimes both in this country, and also in mexico. and the thing is, we may never have known about this botched operation had it not been for the killing of a u.s. border agent by the name of brian terry

in this gun battle, just outside of tucson, back in december of 2010. just so happens that not just one, but two fast and furious weapons were found near his body. now, the program ended there, but certainly not the fallout. earlier this year, the republican controlled house voted to hold attorney general eric holder in contempt of congress because holder refused to turn over documents related to this fast and furious operation. that vote went down party lines and so that brings us to this moment right now, and this report that has just been released. it took -- let me just say this, it took more than a year of research to put this whole thing together. there was a lot in it and there is a lot of digging that certainly cnn will do. but joe johns, let me go ahead and bring you in as you have this, i imagine a very thick report here. talk to me here just first begin with what you're seeing, what is jumping out at you? >> reporter: well, brooke, this is the report here, a review of

atf's operational fast and furious and related matters. it is a 478 more pages, huge report, very comprehensive, and scathing in some ways in its approach to the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms as well as the justice department. i'll give you some of the takeaways off the top. something like 14 individuals who worked for the bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms and the justice department referred for some type of discipline. absolutely no referrals for criminal prosecutions here, so the first question that many people wondered, how high does this operation go? according to the inspector general's report, it did not, did not extend to attorney general eric holder, at least until february of 2011. the report plainly says, attorney general holder was not made aware of the potential flaws in operation fast and

furious until that time. so there are two high ranking people working at the justice department here, who are named for some type of disciplinary action here that would be a lanny brewer and jason weinstein. now, what did these officials do or not do to get them in trouble in this report? it is pretty simple, according to this, either they failed to send information up the chain about this operation "fast & furious" as it was developing or they failed to inquire, that means they had enough information to know that they needed to ask more questions about operation "fast & furious." but why was it allowed to continue? the simple answer is the people on the ground and in arizona figured they had a very good case, and they were trying to make it. we have talked to a whistle-blower who says there were some lower level agents on

the ground who were trying to make a career out of this, and this was the result. when did the red lights start going off? well, it is pretty clear from this that in large part people really weren't thinking about this until the death in december 2010 of agent brian terry. so i think those are some of the takeaways, brooke. if you want to jump in here, we can ask questions, but 14 people referred for discipline, no prosecutions. >> let me allow you a moment, joe johns, to take a breath. i appreciate you for going through bits and pieces, i imagine, of this 478 page report. so i'm clear, you mentioned 14 individuals, both atf and doj referred for disciplinary action. do we know, you said not criminal, do we know does that mean they lose their jobs, they're suspended, that also rings true, same question for the two high ranking department of justice officials? >> reporter: well, the inspector general doesn't make that

determination, brooke. it is solely up to the justice department. he simply refers them for appropriate discipline, if you will. it is up to the justice department to decide what to do about it. of course, congress will be hearing from this inspector general as early as tomorrow on capitol hill. so there will certainly be calls for the discipline that members of congress think is appropriate. but he doesn't say what he thinks should be done with them, he merely says they should face appropriate discipline. >> what about attorney general eric holder. correct me if i'm wrong, but he's holding some sort of news conference today. what should we expect to hear from him? we mentioned he knows -- this is the first time he was held in contem contempt. you and i were on the air during the breaking news many months ago, congress was holding him in contempt. what happens, if anything, to the attorney general here? >> reporter: well, just want to read to you some of what the justice department has put out in regard to that.

and there is a broad heading here, it says attorney general was not made aware of the potential flaws in the operation until february 2011. the oig found, quote, no evidence that attorney general was informed about "operation fast & furious" or learned about the tactics employed by atf in the investigation provider to january 31st, 2011. the office of inspector general found it troubling that a case of this magnitude and one that affected mexico so significantly was not directly briefed to the attorney general. so they're making it pretty clear here that the information just did not make its way to the attorney general. as you know, the reason why that is important is because the attorney general has been cited for contempt by the united states congress, the first attorney general ever to be cited for contempt by the congress, in large part because congress said he failed to provide them with certain

information that they requested in their subpoena relating to "operation fast & furious." so to that extent, and to that extent only, the justice department and democrats may be able to claim a measure of vindication for attorney general eric holder. >> okay. joe johns, we're going to give you another hour to continue reading and digesting some of what you have in your hands. we're going to talk about this a little bit more next hour and some of the ramifications. we're also talking to republican member of congress who certainly will weigh in on this, the top of next hour. we'll see what he has to say when it comes to the attorney general and the rest of what joe was just reporting. i want to move along and tell you that we have just gotten word of yet another elected republican breaking ranks with mitt romney and romney's widely reported remarks recorded last may that close to half the country is financially dependent, his word, on the government and has developed a sense of entitlement. tip of the hat to my colleague,

dana bash, our senior congressional correspondent. she's just spoken with a representative from nevada. i have five brothers and sisters. my mother was an auto mechanic. my mother was a school cook. i have a very different view of the world. i don't write off anybody. my dad had back surgery and was out of work six to eight weeks. i think government has a responsibility. important to keep in mind here, senator heller is in a race for re-electi re-election, so is scott brown coming out criticizing mitt romney. also, linda mcmann, a republican running for a senate seat in connecticut has broken with romney on this very issue. romney now has adopted a riff on his own original remarks while staying away from the notion he advanced at that fund-raiser that he had written off 47% of the voters. here he is just moments ago in

atlanta. >> i know that there are some people who believe that if you simply take from some and give to others that it will all be better off, known as redistribution. never been the characteristic of america, just a tape came out a couple of days ago with the president saying, yes, he believes in redistribution. i don't. i believe the way to lift people and to help people have higher incomes is not to take from some and give to others, but to create wealth for all of us to create an economy so strong, it lifts everybody. >> again, moments ago that was mitt romney. gloria borger, nice to see you, our chief political analyst. so just out of the gate, gloria, to what extent has that leak from may during that boca raton fund-raiser, the video, forced the romney team to just adjust its whole message, seven weeks, seven weeks, gloria, before the election? >> yeah, they're defensive and as dana bash reported, you know, you've got senators who are up for re-election, republicans who

are nervous about what mitt romney said, and i think what you saw there with the redistribution of wealth issue is an old video they pulled up from the late '90s of candidate obama talking about wealth redistribution. so they're clearly trying to change the subject here. the big issue for mitt romney is that his 47% remarks really plays into the white house narrative that he's out of touch with the middle class, that he doesn't care about average people, and this is, if you look at poll after poll after poll, the president outpolls him on the question of cares about people like me anywhere between 2 and 3 to 1. when you're trying to get middle class voters to listen to you and vote for you, and independent voters to vote for you, that's not a good number, which is why you see candidate romney taking that pivot there, trying to throw it back at president obama. >> i want to just quote what you

wrote, gloria borger, in your column. here is what you say, quote, romney has a businessman's approach to politics, which means he sizes up the situation or an audience, he figures out what he needs to do to cut the deal, then he does it and expects it to work. romney speaks to a group of conservative gop fat cats and tells them what he thinks they want him to hear so they will cough up the dough. belief is almost beside the point. he was closing the deal. doesn't sound like a businessman to me. it sounds like a politician. >> they're not mutually exclusive. i think he's both. it is interesting. in looking at mitt romney, as i have over the last few months, it seems to me, there are two kinds of politicians. one is the kind who comes into politics out of belief in a cause or a loyalty to a party, or with a definite sort of

policy goal in mind. then there is another kind of politician, i think mitt romney is in the second category, which is somebody who has done something first, like mitt romney's been in business just like his father had been in business before he went into politics, and then goes into politics with a businessman's view, which is what do i need to do to get this done? it is almost as if campaigning is just the means to the end. and he considers himself a mister fix-it. in a way, i think barack obama is a lot like mitt romney that way, because president obama sees himself as transformative, not a mr. fix-it, he wants to transform things, and the politics is the way to do it and it is what he has to put up with to get there. >> go to cnn.com, gloria borger, thank you very much. more news developing this hour, including a controversial move by french magazine, one that could stir up even more anger among muslims.

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now, where did this come from? new homes are being built, existing home prices are up, but people are still looking for jobs. i know a lot of you are. today, we hear about a nearly 8% bump in home resales. the economy was supposed to be sluggish, nearly 8%. that's an odd coincidence because that's where our nation's unemployment rate sits right now. and we have yet to break the record, the streak, the longest since the 1940s of that number. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange for me. what is going on? >> reporter: okay, we talk about housing, it is not stuck in the mud like the jobs market is. when we talk about the housing sector, there are a couple of things going on here. we see bright spots, the national association of realtors is saying more buyers are taking advantage of lower prices for houses right now.

even though prices have been slowly climbing, they're still pretty darn cheap because of the big hit we took during the recession. mortgage rates are still near record lows as well. the current 30-year fixed is sitting at 3.5%. and those mortgage rates are expected to go even lower. that's because of the federal reserve's announcement last week that it would buy up $40 billion a month in mortgage-backed securities. what all this stuff does, it makes buying a house very attractive. and, you know, national association of realtors says, you know what, there is a lot of pent up demand accumulating since the recession started, a lot of people have been holding out about moving and the fact that it is still so tough to get credit and people still manage to buy, yes, i think that speaks to how motivated these home buyers are getting, brooke. >> is this bump, though, in resale, is that one specific area or this a nationwide trend? >> the good news is that it is not just the middle pockets of the country, the sales increases are all -- all regions of the country. the biggest jump is in the northeast, almost 9% there,

followed by the west at around 8.3%. the median price of a previously owned home now stands at just over $187,000 and that's been going up for six months in a row. that's good news. the rising prices are really just a good sign overall, not just if you're a seller, but overall, it means, you know what, we finally hit a bottom that you're seeing this recovery really take hold in the housing sector and better yet, this report is just the latest. and in a string of mostly positive housing readings that we have been getting, it is pushing home builder stocks up around 2% to 5% across the board now. >> we'll take positive, we will even take mostly positive. final question for you, oil and gas prices, they're down, why? >> reporter: they are. you to tell me that twice because when i go to fill up my car, i still have to do a double take what i'm paying. but gas prices have fallen for five days in a row. aaa says the price for a gallon of regular is $3.85. it is typical to see the seasonal pullback, the peak

driving season is over, the hurricanes are mostly done with, you should see this kind of stall pattern in prices for a few months. as for oil, crude oil now is tumbling more than 4%, sitting at $91.40 a barrel. saudi arabia said it would take action to keep prices in check. we also learned of a much bigger than expected rise in oil stock prices that is all helping to push oil prices lower. we just want to see if this all translates even more to the gas pump. brooke? >> alison kosik, you have little kiddies, were you up watching the final voyage of the space shuttle "endeavor," per chance? >> reporter: i did watch it, yes, amazing. >> amazing. coming up, i was there as well, i hope you were. those of you on twitter with me were. this is "endeavor" piggybacking on this 747 jet, final voyage, to los angeles. we'll show you the pictures after this quick break. [ owner ] i need to expand to meet the needs of my growing business.

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you know the story, expected to land at its retirement home, if you will, in los angeles, where it will be on display during this hour on friday. right now, it has a pit stop in houston. want to bring in chad myers and, i just always marville vilmarv pictures. when do you see a space shuttle piggyback on a jet? >> you were so excited this morning. >> i was. >> you were up and at em. talking to john zarrella during the morning show. i want to sing "leaving on a jet plane, don't know when i'll be back again." there it is. flew by hobby. you can follow nasa, they are retweeting people's pics that they're sending. it is here, i saw it her, i saw it here. it is in houston at this point and time. it is a couple of days late. >> it was supposed to go monday. supposed to go tuesday. today was the day with the good weather. making a pit stop in houston. a know a lot of texans are frustrated they're not getting a

space shuttle, nonetheless, saying a quick hello to hobby and then to los angeles i believe tomorrow. a lot of folks are upset, a lot of trees cut down, but, hey, l.a., you get a space shuttle. >> big trees are cut down. they're not so worried about the 3-year-old trees they're going to replant anyway. it was some of the big, large ones that have to go. there was no way -- when the boulevard is there, and the trees are in the middle of the boulevard, you can't move the shuttle around it, they will kind of take this thing almost like back and forth on a ski run. if there is a tree here, they will move it to the right and move it back around a tree. they tried to save as many trees as they could. it was a big deal. >> you can't fold up the space shuttle. >> doesn't go on a carrier. >> we'll get the pictures and supposed to be a huge parade, huge party. i think englewood, specifically. we'll talk about it tomorrow. thank you very much. coming up next, the u.s. and other nations launching an exercise in the persian gulf that is certainly has iran's attention. we have talked about this. we have a report straight ahead

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as tensions escalate over iran's nuclear ambitions, the united states with two dozen nations are stepping up movement in the persian gulf. this exercise, we're told, will not reach the strait of hormuz, you see on the map, where it is, very, very close to iran. of course, the waters through which a fifth of the world's oil is shipped every day. iran has threatened to basically shut it down. and cnn's chris lawrence is along for the ride. >> reporter: i'm standing on the flight deck of the "uss enterprise" here in the north arabian sea. and we're just days away from one of the largest anti-mining exercises ever conducted. the u.s. and more than two dozen of its allies will be putting ships -- as well as divers and -- earlier this year the

head of iran's navy said that mining the strait of hormuz would be as easy as drinking a glass of water. iran has also disputed u.s. claims that it would stop iran from mining the strait or could prevent such a mining operation. that is what the u.s. and many of its allies will learn over the next few days, how well they can work together to possibly prevent the mining and if the strait and some of the water ways were mined, how quickly they could demine it. the pentagon has been steadily beefing up its naval presence in the gulf, in response to some of the iranian threats to mine and close the strait of hormuz. the pentagon moved four more mine sweepers to this area. and it also plans to bring another aircraft carrier in earlier. it is all part of the military's new plan to keep two carriers in

the area at all times. now, the navy tells us this training is not meant to be provocative. but iranian officials who earlier this year boasted about having thousands of mines, say they are watching these exercises very closely and call the situation in the region sensitive. chris lawrence, cnn, in the arabian sea. >> chris lawrence, thank you. coming up, it is an interview i really don't want you to miss. chilling words from an american marine 21 years of age to his own father. >> he goes, you got to be able to tell mom and justin and shane, you know, that i'm going to be killed over here. i said, out in the field, you know? he goes, no. in our base. >> a young marine, killed in a green on blue insider attack in afghanistan. i'll speak with the father live next. i have a cold, and i took nyquil,

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this is a tough one, but it is a story i want you to hear. we first shared this story back on monday. and when we hear about deaths of troops in combat, it is always incredibly painful. but this particular story took all of us to really a deeper sadness, felt by families of those who have lost loved ones. the father of a marine told cnn how his own son basically predicted his own death on base in afghanistan. and how an afghan officer repeatedly warned him, maybe threatened him, you are going to die. the words were so powerful that i wanted to talk with the father, myself, of that marine whose name is greg buckley jr. he's one of at least 50 coalition troops in afghanistan killed this year in what are called green on blue attacks, blue is what nato designates as quote/unquote friendly force. and green, an allied force.

back on august 10th of this year, in helmand province, a shooter considered green opened fire on buckley, killing him, who was 21 years of age. also two other americans. the marine's father, greg buckley sr., is good enough to join me live from new york. and, sir, i can't say this enough, my condolences to you. i thank you for joining me. and if i may just begin with, tell me about your son, and why did he join the marines to begin with? >> well, it all starts from 9/11. i was down there for two days helping out the fire department. and after that he wanted to turn around and become a nassau cop. so right thing to do was go into the marine corps and serve his country, and that's where it all started from. and he wanted to do it when he was 17, i was against it, so was his mom. but, you know, at the end after the day, this is what he wanted,

he was very persistent about it, that he wanted to serve the country and at the end of the day, we signed the papers and he left two months after he graduated high school. >> so he left, he ends up deployed in helmand province, and his task is to train these local afghans to become security guards. my question is, and you're talking to him on the phone, i'm sure as much as you can, what was your first indication from your son that he was and tell me if this is the right word to use, but just nervous. tell me about the run-in with the afghan he was training. >> he was just doing duty at night, and he was standing guard. and he called me the following day, told me that when it started, maybe around 12:00 at night, that all the gentlemen, the afghani officer was tormenting him and saying they didn't want him there, didn't need him, just kept on going, repeating it over and over again. and greg repeated back to him, i'm here to try to help you guys, i don't understand and one of his superior officers came

over and heard greg and him going back and forth and told greg to apologize. greg went to apologize, went to shake his hand, like a man, the way he was raised and he refused to shake greg's hand. and all throughout the night, the rest of the night they went through, he was tormenting greg throughout the night, saying the same thing over and over and over again to him, that we don't want you here, we don't need you here. >> for hours and hours on end as they were standing guard. and when he calls you, and as a father and you hear this on the phone, what are you saying to him? and then what is he saying to you in that fateful call in november? >> first he started -- he was upset. and, you know, he just said, dad, i just want to come home. he goes, these people don't love us, they don't care about us, they're cold, they're vicious people. but out of nowhere, he said, but the children, the kids are so great, but he says after they start turning a certain age, they're just vicious people, through and through. and i just -- me and my fellow

marines, we all just want to leave. they don't want us here. if i don't leave here son, you have to be able to tell mom and justin and shane that i'm not going to be coming home. because if i don't leave soon, they're going to murder me here. and as a father, it is heart wrenching because i couldn't get him. and i try to talk to people and they said it is never geeing to happen. you'll never get your son out of there until they let him go. and then, you know, we talk time and time again and he just said he can't sleep at night, because they're underneath him and they're in the same facility. and they walk around with ak-47s and we don't. and i asked him why. and he said, well, it is a marine base but on afghani soil, so they have more authority than we do. and it is just heart wrenching because as a dad, you want justice. now, i have no justice here. the afghani police officer that murdered my son, i found out last week, was released. he's nowhere to be found.

so how can i sit here and just let this happen over and over and over again for these young men that are going over there thinking they're doing the right thing and just being executed? my son was executed. he was in a gymnasium with a pair of shorts on and a tank top, lifting weights. this man walked in, 25 years old, after they said he was 15, he wasn't, he was 25, or in his mid-20s, walked into the gym, walked over to my son, 165 pound boy, a marine, who just turned 21, and put an ak-47 right to his chest, five feet away, and pulled the trigger and then shot him again while his other officers watched. and they called me and told me exactly what happened. i still haven't had a report yet from the marine corps. probably because i know the truth. >> i -- i just have to say this, just, you know, cnn has reached out to people internation a little, to try to corroborate the story and we have yet to get specific corroboration, but i trust this is exactly what your

son what your son told you, and so here you are, your son is inspired because of what happened on 9/11, he wants to be a hero, fight for his country, and here he is taken out by supposed -- should have been a friend, should have been someone he was training. we have heard here, greg, there are more than 50 nato troops killed this year by local forces. and so they have prompted now these suspensions, i'm sure you heard about this, the suspensions of training these new recruits. if your son were alive today, what would his reaction be to that news? appropriate, too little too late? >> too late. way too late now. it is enough. you know, the ambassador -- the u.s. ambassador passed away. my heart goes out to their families. but now there is justice to be served because they were executed, they were blown up, they were murdered. now there is justice, they say. but how about all these young, young men that are out there serving their country, they're

being murdered and nothing is being done about it. >> what is justice -- what does justice look like for you in this case? you're never going to get your son back. i can't even begin to imagine getting out of bed every morning. you have sons. i'm sure they're all coping with this. what does justice look like? >> justice, to me, is to just let the other young men and women come out, leave them alone. you know what, it goes like this, if you want to come over to my house and i don't want you there, you won't come, you know? they don't want us there, why be there? our government tells us that they want us there. they don't. there is so much more involved that i know it is not even -- i don't even want to get into it right now with you. it will all come out, soon enough. my justice is to another parent who feels the heartache that i feel. i'm done inside. they tore my whole heart out. i have a hard time going to bed. i think about him every day, every minute, his brothers kill me when i look at them because

they're hurt, his mom is hurt so bad. but they didn't just take my son. they destroyed my family. i don't want other families to feel the pain i'm feeling. i don't want to see another family out there, seeing their son being brought back on a plane and being rolled off a plane in a box, with an american flag around it. but it was our government that dropped the ball and they won't admit it. this boy should have been protected inside a military base. we're training people and my son said that, we're training people that are going to turn their weapons on us and kill us, as clear as day. i thought it was the most outrageous thing i ever heard. he said, i'm telling you, dad, they're going to kill us. we all talk to our spearieuperid they push us to the side and say, don't worry about it, we'll take care of it. but they didn't take care of it. >> greg buckley, it is tough to put into words, and angry and

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this is cnn breaking news. >> all right, want to take you back to washington, to our breaking news there. we have been talking about this "fast & furious" report this 478 page review released at the top of the hour. we're now getting word of a handful of resignations. i want to bring joe johns back in, live for us in washington. and, john -- joe johns, excuse me. what do you know? >> reporter: well, we know that there are at least a couple of people who have taken steps after having their names come out in this report that would be kenneth mousen, the former acting director of the federal bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms. we're told now that he has gone ahead and retired. a long-serving government official. and the other person has actually resigned that would be jason weinstein, the deputy assistant attorney general for

the justice department. he is one of the couple top officials who were named in all of this. and what they have been named for, by the way, brooke, is failure to send information up the line, so that people like the attorney general and others could get a hold of it and failure to inquire. in other words, failure to ask enough questions, the belief of the inspector general was that they had enough information to ask some questions, but apparently did not do it. now, the -- the attorney general, eric holder, has actually put out a statement here, i'm just trying to get to part of that statement, he said he's reviewed the office of inspector general's report, and it is consistent with what he and other justice department officials have been saying. the inappropriate strategy and tactics employed were field driven, he says. they date back to 2006. leadership of the department didn't know or authorize the use of flawed strategy and tactics. and the department's leadership

didn't attempt to cover up information or mislead congress about it. and so that's what he says and i wanted to throw in before we go, brooke, a statement that came out from eric schultz over at the white house. i have to put on my glasses to read this. it said, today's report affirms the problem of gun walking was a field-driven tactic that dated back to the previous administration, says it was this administration's attorney general who ended it. down further in the statement, they make a political turn and say if republicans still have any legitimate questions about "fast & furious" this report answers them in light of the thorough report in congress, a 16-month investigation. republicans, it says, have no excuse to keep wasting time and taxpayer resources on politically motivated election year attacks. so the back and forth over politics on "fast & furious," it continues, brooke. >> no surprise. mr. jonzhns, i appreciate it.

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about 350,000 kids are back in school today in chicago. the teachers went on strike for eight days, but finally a deal has been made. one that has parents and teachers very much so relieved. here is what got them to call a truce. a tentative contract calls for average teacher raises, 17.6%. they agreed to budge on teacher evaluations, meaning student test scores among other things will count and teacher evaluations. and something mayor rahm emanuel wanted, a longer school day and year. but, this deal isn't done yet until the rank and file vote in the coming weeks. i want to bring in michelle rhee joining me live from new york, the former chancellor of d.c. public schools, founder and ceo of students first. good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> right off the bat, who won

here? >> the most important thing is that the children are back in school. where when you're talking about a city where 80% of the children are not operating on grade level in reading and math, those kids can scarcely afford to be out of school another moment. so the fact that they're back in school is the most important thing that happened. i think, you know, the two other important things that happened through this incident is, one, that the dynamic that it is really a new day in democratic party, the fact that an icon in the democratic party, rahm emanuel, actually stood up to the unions, and was willing to go through this to ensure that he could push education reforms is incredibly important. and i would say the second thing is that the contract shows that you can respect teachers for the professionals that they are, and still stick firm to education reform policies. those are both good things. but me be very clear, this was

also a missed opportunity. rahm emanuel was not able to get some of the things he fought really hard for that would have gone even further in ensuring there was a high quality teacher in front of every single child, every single day. >> it could be seen as a win for the mayor. this is a chicago first, the district and the union are tying teacher evaluation to student performance. they're going to be using test scores, student assessment is part of that evaluation. how exactly does that work? >> so the way that it works is that a model is created where, you know, student test scores or the advancement on student test scores, how much students actually grow in a given year academically will count for some of the teacher evaluation. and then other things will also count, such as observations of their classroom practice, and how, you know, the school overall does factors like that. test scores will count for one piece of it. of the test score portion, it is done in a very fair way for teachers.

instead of saying all teachers need to meet a certain mark, you measure the very children that the teachers are teaching in that given year. measure them at the beginning of the year and the end of the year and see how much grown was seen. it is very fair for both the teachers and the school system. >> let me push you on that. i was talking to randy winegarten last week, she was en route to chicago, she's the president of the american federation of teachers. here is what she called this particular part of this deal, growing obsession with high stakes testing and denying kids rich learning experiences, her words. in your opinion, how does this improve education and might this be more of a trend we start to see nationwide? >> you are absolutely seeing this trend nationwide. in fact, 38 states across the country have agreed to use student academic achievement growth as part of a teacher's evaluation. when you hear the union say this isn't fair, you know, the chicago teachers union president said, well, you can't measure teachers based on how much students are growing, it is not fair because the kids are coming

to school with so many challenges, the home life, the violence in the community, et cetera, and the reason why that is so ridiculous is because we actually treat kids in a much different way. when children come to school, facing all of those challenges, whether they were fed breakfast the morning before they came to school or their electricity was cut off in their house the night before, we still hold them accountable. if they don't do well in school, they get a bad grade. if they get enough bad grades, you don't get to graduate from high school. if we're holding children accountable to overcome all of those obstacles, how does it make any sense that we wouldn't be able to hold the adults who are paid to teach them accountable as well. >> sure. quick question. you touched on this, big picture, as you mentioned, democratic mayor, taking on his own, special interest in his own party. this is a run-up to the presidential election. what does this tell you, michelle? >> it tells me that the tables have absolutely flipped. it used to be that the democratic party would just kowtow to the unions, give them whatever they wanted.

what we're seeing across the country is something wildly different. you have mayors like antonio villaraigosa, my husband, the mayor of sacramento, california, cory booker in new york, and now rahm emanuel, saying, you know what, we support teachers and we support unions, but we have to challenge the teachers unions on the policies that simply are not good for kids, especially at this time, which, you know, for the democratic party is very important, given the presidential election, the fact that the mayor stood up for kids to make sure they have the best contract possible was an incredibly important move. >> the stakes are high, michelle rhee, founder and ceo of students first. thank you very much. >> thank you. still ahead, my interview with wyclef jean. we talk about his apparent affair with lauren hill, why the fujis broke up, president obama and i surprise him with a video clip. you don't want to miss his reaction. ♪ to look at [ sighs ] ♪ oh, he's shaggy

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