>> steve: tomorrow, andy garcia from "the godfather" and passion ocean's # 1 "and cal ripkin. >> brian: also a very good actor. >> steve: he is. >> gretchen: see you tomorrow. bill: here we go on a brand-new week on what could be the biggest crisis against the u.s. and china. new information on the blind chinese activist reportedly taking refuge at the u.s. embassy in beijing. martha: good morning, i'm martha maccallum. you have neither side confirming the whereabouts of this activist. if he's found to be in u.s.

custody it could complicate relations between china and the united states. bill: hillary clinton, voik leaving for beijing later today. >> reporter: a lot of week were asking about this. how does the president plan to balance his support for human rights and not damage his relations with china. white house counter tear rich adviser john been none says the white house is working closely with the individuals involved. the blind human rights dissident who is thought to have escape house arrest and fled to the u.s. embassy. >> i think the president tries

to balance our commitment to human rights. but also that we continue to carry out our relationships with key countries overseas. >> reporter: the entire world is watching this to wait and see where this dissident is. bill: is there any indication president obama will protect him, the activist, and not return hip to the chinese government? >> reporter: that's an important question being posed. there are chinese nationals protesting on the streets stating that chan should be allowed to go free. saying this is china, the world's second most powerful economy. if their own people can't be free, then what will happen if their own people are running free to america.

john brennan said the president will make the right decision. >> i think it will be fair to say the president has faced similar situations in the past with this balancing decision. i'm confident they will find the right way forward. we'll have to wait and see what way the president decides to take. bill: kelly wright in washington. >> this an awful story. there are new details on the horrific crash that took the lives of 7 people. three generations of one family killed when their suv hit a concrete barrier and plunged into a train yard next to the bronx zoo in new york. police say the driver maria gonzalez died instantly. also killed, her parents,

sister, daughter and two nieces. the scene rattled even the most seasoned of first responders. >> they were announced dead at the scene. the vehicle was traveling at a high rate of speed. it hit something that caused it to become airborne. it traveled over the railing 75-80 feet before it hit the ground. it fell 100 feet from the overpass and landed upside down when it hit the ground. i have been in the fire department 30 years. sometimes you come upon events that are horrific and this is one of them. martha: we heard reactions all over the weekend from family members. this is the second time in one year a car fell off that exact same part of the highway. the investigation is underway. bill: extreme weather sparking a

tragedy at stadium in st. louis, missouri. a fast-moving storm with high winds picked up the tent and threw it 100 feet in the air. one person is dead and injuring at least 100 others. >> we saw the storm come out of nowhere. it hit so fast. everyone was running under the tent. the next thing you knew it blows over. the draft caught it and ripped it up. bill: that collapse raising major questions about safety. a spokesman for the mayor says the tent was inspected. but they will look to see if any changes were made to the structure after that inspection. martha: also in st. louis, look at this softball sized hail.

it crashed through everything from building windows to car windshields. people caught in this fast-moving storm say there was almost no time to get out of there. >> it started hailing real, real bad. we just got in. i never been so terrified in my life. >> the hail was so strong after it shattered the windshield a couple pieces of hail went through my speakers. >> there was tennis ball-size hail on the ground. martha: one mcdonald's worker is being called a hero after she huddled every one inside the restaurant's cooler area to get everybody out of that storm. >> i'm so proud of her i can't express it in words. i have a young lady here who had

the foresight to worry about the people in the restaurant. martha: torry johnson is the person we need to recognize for that. this week marks one year since the dramatic u.s. raid that killed usama bin laden. navy seal seams stormed the compound in pakistan, take the terror leader out. ever since then the group has been dismantled. >> we don't see any active plots. but we are on our guard. at this point our counter-terrorism professionals are doing their job both in the united states and abroad. bill: a former cia chief is breaking his silence saying

things like waterboarding provided the most valuable intelligence. general jack keane coming up to talk about that. martha: apple is in the news defending their company after a new report shows how arguably the richest company in the world avoids paying billions of dollars in taxes. they funnel their money into tax-friendly countries perfectly within the letter of the law. is that an example of everybody paying their fair share? let's talk about this. stuart, good morning. this is getting a lot of attention and it raises questions about how companies should pay taxes in this country. what's the problem? >> reporter: contrast the high profit low-cost am with the high profit and low-tax oil company.

start with oil. it's one of the most heavily taxed of all of america's industries. and the president wants to tax them even more. he demonizes them. he goes after the oil companies. am on the other hand makes $34 billion and paid $3.3 billion in taxes. that's a very low tax rate. this year they might make $46 billion. they have a high profit and low tax rate. why the difference between oil and apple? in part it's political. the president wants an up popular target. you don't go after the cool and popular apple even though they make a ton of money in profits and pay have little in taxes. it's a politicized economy and

politicized tax story. martha: you are basically making a moral judgment on one company and what they do and whether they should be taxed more than another company. it's the same with the buffet rule that some should be punished for how successful they are. but you don't hear anybody yelling and screaming about a platt corporate tax that would treat everybody in this country the same in the corporate world. >> reporter: oil is unpopular. we have $4 gas. they are a political tarring net this election year. apple is a cool company. the techies love their i phones and ipads. you don't go after a popular company and turn it into a target regardless of how much money it makes. nobody is talking about whether it would reduce tax all around so everybody would pay a fair stable share.

>> rick perry got a lot of attention. bill: $110 billion cash on hand for apple. martha: they have earned their success, but it raises the question how can you punish one industry because you think what they do is morally bankrupt and reward another and let them get away with tax havens. it's a really big question. bill: the market is open in 19 minutes. the clock is ticking for eric holder. new details on what congress is getting prepared for and what it means for holder's future. martha: some new emails reveal how worried susan powell was about her husband josh. find out what she was thinking when she disappeared.

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bill: a draft citation of contempt has been drafted against eric holder. does the house leadership, guys like john boehner support this citation? >> we want to hold the administration accountable. we want to get that transparency out there. what we have seen in a lot of our investigations is this white house has been probably one of the most secretive, trying to block one of the investigation and denying the american people the facts in fast and furious and solyndra. so you have a pattern by the obama administration trying to hide the facts from the public when they promised transparency.

bill: is john boehner back you. nothing moves forward without the leadership's thumbs up. >> speaker baron said he wants transparency and he wants to get the facts out there. we have been looking at wrongdoing by this investigation. you have got a white house that tries to hide the facts from the american people. we'll continue to go forward and get the facts. we are not drawing any conclusion. we want to hold this administration accountable. this latest epa scandal where you have got rogue administrators that president obama appointed. bill: you have not called for holder's resignation, others have. why not? >> i still want to see more of

the facts. they have not gotten a lot of the facts out there to us. we'll continue to fight to get those facts. to get the information on fast and furious where people's lives are lost. this is a scandal where ierk holder has a lot of questions to answer. just like in solyndra where eric holder has a role to play as well. it's not just eric holder. this goes from the top. president obama has set a clear tone of trying to hide facts. whenever there is a scandal out there the president tries to blame somebody else for his problems. it's not just eric holder at the heart of the problem. this goes to president obama's broken promises on transparency. bill: we'll see if on memorial day is the deadline for eric holder. in the meantime on solyndra if you have hearings that start in may and continue to june and july, what will the american people learn about this. >> each time we get another list

of document from the white house, it still doesn't cover a lot of the information we subpoenaed. we initially asked the white house to comply with the investigation, over $535 million of taxpayer money was lost. in this administration from all that we have seen, ignored the telltale signs from their experts that said don't give the loan to this company. yet president obama wanted to use this as touting his green energy. and yet over half a bidollars of taxpayer money is lost. there is serious questions that still haven't been answered. we await for that to begin. thank you, sir. martha? martha: a man solves a missing child case that is more than 30 years old after discovering a picture of himself. the amazing details coming up.

bill: a symbol to all americans rising to new heights. only hours from now new york city's world trade center one will reach a major milestone.

bill: the commerce department saying consumer spending slowed in the month of march, up 3/10%. u.s. special forces teaming up with local forces out of uganda stepping up the hunt for international war criminal joseph kony.

london ramping up security before the olympic games. surface-to-air missiles could be put on rooftops. martha: this is the most incredible story of the day. he solved a 30-year-old missing child case by figuring out that he was actually a missing child at birth. steve carter was browsing the internet when he recognized his own baby picture next to an age progression image that showed how he would look today. now a story of his past has rushed into the present. >> steve carter's life changed dramatically from the time he saw a picture of himself on a missing kids web site.

>> after seeing the first baby picture i knew it was me. >> reporter: he had questions about his past and started digging and what he found hasn't sunk in. >> it's a lot to take in. he knew most is first few years were spent in a hawaiian orphanage. it all came together after he started talking with his adoptive mother. he did blood work and dna test and it was confirmed he was the businessing boy marx panama barnes. but he doesn't know much about his mom who is still missing. >> she was a free spirit. my only wish is that she is happy. >> reporter: he talked to his biological dad over the phone and they agreed to meet.

it's an emotional process and he has his old and newer family helping him through every step. >> i have got two great parents who have been so supportive. i have a group of friend who have been able to work with me through the entire process. martha: unbelievable. without the internet that story would never have been possible. and you just imagine what it was like for this guy to be looking through these pictures. bill: it is a jaw dropper. what a story he has to tell. bill: new details from emails of susan powells expressing her fears of her husband. martha: we have a great panel that will take on the question

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the former presidential cad andrew young. now we'll hear from young's wife. jonathan serrie is live at the courthouse. what's expected? >> reporter: sherry young was another active participant in an effort to hide reille hunter. she co-signed the donor checks from rachel bunny mellon. and she allowed hunter to move in with her family and live with the youngs for several months. sherry young went into details about the long hours her husband put in catering to edwards and the tomorrow it took on her husband and their family. >> she is corroborating the story of andrew young and it shows how much he was committed to his former boss john edwards.

she is important for the prosecution to corroborate and add extra details and background information. >> the prosecution is trying to undo some of the damage that the defense may have inflicted on her husband andrew during cross-examination. edwards' attorneys trying to portray young as an opportunist. bill: do we expect her to face the same cross questions her husband received? >> reporter: that's definitely a possibility. the defense will try to discredit her just as they did andrew young. because she was such an active participant it may be an intense line of question. also at issue is whether the defense can bring up the sex tape the youngs discovered while looking through reille hunter's

belongings at the rent at properties where she had been in hiding. during cross-examination andrew young recalled a contentious meeting in which he threatened to go public unless edwards came clean. during that cross-examination. lead defense attorney abby lowell asked, did you panic then? he said i panicked before then. he was asked, were you afraid of mr. edwards and he said yes, i was up against a millionon air, two billionaires and a presidential candidate. martha: house speaker john boehner says the president has been stirring up trouble between the parties with fiction, all for his own

political gain. >> i tried to avoid personal attacks on the path. the path is getting some very bad advice from his campaign team because he's diminishing the presidency by picking fake fights, going after straw men every day. we have the buffet rule. it went on for months. even the president admitted it was a gimmick. martha: that's what john boehner had to say. monica of crowley joins me now, kirsten powers. very interesting that he deflected from going directly after the president by saying i kind of feel bad for him because his campaign advisers are leading them count wrong path. and i think that's diminishing the office. what do you think? >> i think he's not at all concerned about the president.

i'll go out on a limb about that. i don't think he many getting bad advice. the buffet rule while it does affect a small number of people, it's part of the narrative of income inequality and the rich are not paying their fair share. it's more of the paradigm the president wants us to think about in the election. in terms of politics i think it's a good approach and substantively i support the buffet rule. it's not transformational. martha: he says the president and his people are throwing out red herrings out there to get people distracted. but the polls are telling us people care about the debt, tax rye form and it's not on his list. >> they care about jobs, economy, unpress don't spending

and debt and obviously the president cannot run on that record, he can't be talking about it, so what the speaker is saying is because they can't run on that record they have got create fights where they don't exist and crises where they don't exist. this is part of a pattern. this isn't something brand-new coming out of this white house. this is who the president is. he needs the division. he needs to create the divisions to get his agenda through and he's done this from the beginning. stoking class warfare, propping up occupy wall street. talking about income inequality. stoke up the bogus war and women. going after oil companies and banks, the evil 1%. when boehner says it's diminishing the president, i don't think it's diminishing the president, i think it's diminishing his presidency.

martha: independents seem to be leaning towards romney. if you are work on the obama campaign, maybe the war on woman isn't work as well as it was. maybe the class warfare or equality movement isn't work with these independent voters as well as we thought. >> there have been people that point out the income inequality issue while i think it's an important issue is not one that's necessarily resonating with independent voters. i think it does resonate with the base and democratic voters which does need to get people to want to turn out. but third way did a study on this issue and basically said independent voters are interested in a prosperity agenda. how are you going to create jobs. i think independent voters have been swinging back and forth between obama and romney. i don't know if you can read too

much into anything at this point until we have a real head-to-head where they are debating each other and having a veal contrast. martha: that will be the big question. we'll see the independent vote probably swinging back and forth the past six months. what's the best way to get at them if it's not these fake issues downboehner would say the president seems to be going for right now. >> i think if you are mitt romney the challenge is to combat that. you talk about the truth of obama's economic record. you ask the question are you better off today than you were four years ago which is what governor romney has started to do, but you also tease it out to a bigger question mark. what is the scope and size of government? that gets to all these issues. is the government's role to stoke income equality? i think if mitt romney does these two things i think he can

prevail. >> i think that is where the conversation will lie at the heart of who wins the next presidential election. that equality issue weighs the other way in terms of what the role of government truly is. kirsten, thank you so much. bill: a terrifying store robbie. two armed men walked into this mini mart, shot the clerk in the arm, bam, while the other suspect apparently shoots at some of the customers in the store. he missed the customers. but that wounded clerk recovering from his injuries. the police are asking for the public's help in locating the gunmen if you can identify them beneath the hood. good luck. he says not on did waterboarding work, they got the best intelligence possible out of one of the most wanted terror suspects in the world.

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martha: some shocking emails have surfaced in the case of susan powell. she says her husband josh changed dramatically from the man she married. in them she writes this. thanks for the input. just found out if i use the counseling services through my employer plan it cannot be reported or used against me. i don't know how you can help except talk with me and be another individual who would

know about the individual if questioned. sad that i'm this paranoid. she said josh powell had become moody and controlling and had crazy beliefs. in february josh powell killed himself and his two young sons by blowing up their home and susan remains missing. bill: jose rodriguez retired from the cia, says the program provided valuable intelligence from high-profile detainees. >> president obama is entitled to his opinion. when president obama condemns the core action activities of a previous government, he is breaking the covenant that

exists between intelligence officers who are at the pointy send of the spear hang way out there and the government that authorized them and directs them to go there. bill: there is a will the to go over. retired four-star general jack keane is with us from los angeles today. what a that nateing program this was last night. what do you think about his view on the obama administration retiring these techniques and essentially tying the hands of the cia officers trying to do this work. >> it's tough to look at it 11 years later. if you were in the shoes of the people dealing with this situation right after 9/11. an unbelievable brilliant attack by al qaeda. i had 85 teammates killed and attended 61 funerals and i also felt that emotion. i think you can understand why the administration and the

central intelligence agency thinking another attack was imminent and possibly using wmds, and knowing they had people in their grips who could give them information that they were trying to do the most sophisticated techniques to get that information. as a matter of principle, no torture, that's against the morals and values of the united states. but the exception should be the president of the united states, given the circumstance, given the dire threat to the american people, he should have a province where he can authorize certain techniques mostly psychological i would say to overwhelm the capacity of a detainee to give us valuable information to prevent a disastrous situation from happening. and i think that's a very limited situation. bill: essentially what he said. here he is when asked about

drone strikes. that campaign is currently underway. >> we don't capture anybody anymore. the default option this administration has been to kill prisoners, take no prisoners. >> the drones. >> the drones. how can it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them? i have never understood that one. bill: what about that, general? >> it's true. the fact of the matter is we have tremendous reluctance to put people on the ground. we have had this confrontation with pakistan since 9/11 and it's simply this. they will permit us to commit drone attacks in their country but they do not want to us put people on the ground that would lead to the capture. the central intelligence agency and other elements of our government would actually want to do both. the reason is simply that. as mr. rodriguez suggests, if we

were able to capture people we would get far more information about the network which would lead to the collapse of that network and we are not doing that because we don't want to violate the southern i of pakistan. i think that policy is wrong, but that's where we are. bill: what do you think or did waterboarding in your view lead to the discovery of finding and capturing and killing of usama bin laden? >> i don't know. i'm reading reports like you do. i believe the leaders who say that that kind of interrogation technique, particularly with ksm and the information they got from him prevented subsequent attacks. whether it led to the capture of bin laden, i don't think so. what led to the killing of bin laden, not the capture, was a counter terrorist unit and the analysts on that unit and got to

the know everybody who were secondary and tertiary. i think it's one of the most masterful intelligence operations we ever conducted. bill: general, thank you. jack keane from los angeles. general thanks to you for your time today. see if you person soon. martha: mitt romney is taking some of the potential v.p. picks on a test drive. why juan williams says he believes mitt romney must look again at condoleeza rice. why she would be a game changer. send me a tweet. who do you think mitt romney should pick as his vice presidential running mate. bill: the world trade center

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bill: over the weekend patrick dempsey found himself in a real live medical drama, jumping in to save the life of a teenager in a car accident. he's the star of "gray's anatomy, pittsburgh the car flipped over in front of his malibu home. he ripped the car doors open to

pull the guy out. he says the teen's first words were, are you famous? he answered, yes, i'm a doctor. the teen suffered a concussion and eye injury. martha: we have been talking about the world trade center as it makes its way back up into the sky. it's the tallest building on the skyline in new york city. workers are expected to put in place the beams that will make the freedom tower surpass the empire state building. look at how cool this graphic is. just watch that as it goes up and the skyline of new york city. it shows the growth floor by floor as it climbs into the sky. that is an inspiring sight in new york city. david lee miller is at ground zero. how tall is the world trade center at this point, david lee? >> it's going to surface the empire state building.

we expect the formal announcement to be made later today in just a few hours. take a look at the building behind me. you can see the work continuing on his crisp, cool spring day. this is 100 floors above ground level, and it's expected later today it will surpass the empire state building by 21 feet, bringing the world financial center to 271 feet. now, this is largely a symbolic event. symbolism does have a great deal of meaning. this building helped transform lower manhattan, it revitalized new york city and it has become a great sense of pride for the entire country. we expect a formal announcement to take place in just a few short hours. martha? martha: there is an incredible camaraderie. that will be an emotional moment for them when it mitts that milestone. how does this building compare

with some of the tall buildings we see around the world? >> reporter: it's soon going to be the tallest building. the building is ultimately going to measure 1,776 feet, 1776, that's no coincidence. it will surpass the empire state building today. it will surpass the willis tower. making it the highest in the united states. but the burj cali a building is still the tallest. bill: new details in the search for young isabel. she was last seen when her parents put her to bed a week ago. they are expanding their search south of the border. why is that. martha: brit hume handicaps the

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martha: well, there is a brand new lead this morning as the search for a missing 6-year-old girl moves to mexico. this surveillance video is now considered a key clue in the disappearance of little isabel solis, the little girl from arizona. her parents say that she vanished from her bedroom in the middle of night. that's how we're starting a brand new hour on this monday morning in "america's newsroom," i'm martha maccallum. bill: and i'm bill hemmer. that video shows a group of three women and two men leaving a club about a block from the solis family home. >> i indicated yesterday that one individual self-identified, detectives have spoken with him and took a statement. i think a few other individuals

were also identified, and they've interviewed those. again, they were from the moment we identified them or put out the video we indicated that we wanted to talk to them, and they were seen as witnesses, and that's what they are, they're witnesses. martha: so now detectives are reaching out to police across the border in mexico. they're asking for help in monitoring hotels and public places. mark fuhrman joins me now. good to have you with us. >> morning, martha. martha: i know you've spent a lot of time going over the evidence so far in this case. what do you think happened here? >> well, martha, you know, it's interesting, the detectives in this case are actually restarting. they went to the normal avenues, they looked for family connections, they looked for any marital situation, they looked for registered sex offenders, they looked for the child walking out. and now up-to-date we have

statements from the police that this child did not leave on her own power, that means somebody took her, abducted her. they have a point of entry or exit that they really haven't corroborated is, in fact, a point of exit or entry which could mean that it's staged. and now they're looking in mexico. so i think that they have actually reengaged this investigation, start looking at all the other interviews and trying to see if there quite possibly is another motive behind this and another type of suspect. martha: you know, i know that they have spoken, obviously, extensively with the parents, and you talk in your observation about this about a vehicle that was adjacent to the house and also just about the statistics in terms of these kinds of abductions and how really rare it would be for an outsider to be able to enter that home, take this child and leave without somebody knowing about it in this very small house. >> well, you know, martha, you

have to balance, do we have an amateur, do we have a mentally disturbed person, do we have a professional. so you look at the evidence. 58,000 children are missing a year, most are accounted for. 115 usually -- 115, that statistic, kidnapped, murdered, and of that amount about 15 are females taken from a home. so with that small number you would think that there would be more of an indicator to what type of suspect you are actually dealing with, and i think if point of entry or exit reveals no evidence, in other words, it's a staged, staged observation, i think that's what they're struggling with with the forensics, to establish that or not. and they have actually said that the parents are not suspects. um, they've alluded to that they used all scientific methods possible but would not commit to

stating that they passed a polygraph. but i have a feeling that quite possibly they have used a polygraph. martha: very interesting. all right, mark, we'll see where this goes. thanks a lot. mark fuhrman joining us this morning. >> thank you. martha: a lot of questions in that case. bill: meantime, we hope for the best for the family, right? we have new details now on a trial underway at the moment of a former political operate i have accused of trying to suppress voters and tilt an election. that's the allegation now. happened in the state of maryland in the governor's race there, and at the courthouse in baltimore in a moment we're going to talk to eric shawn in a moment, he's watching that case closely, let you know what you need to know in a matter of moments coming up here in about four minutes. martha: well, four northern oklahoma counties under a flood warning following heavy downpours that lasted into the early morning hours. up to 10 inches of rain fell in oklahoma's washington county,

trees uprooted, a funnel cloud report inside that area. no confirmed reports of tornadoes as of yet. no injuries reported, but everybody's on tender hooks as they watch that area. bill: also upstate new york a cold spell is doing a number on peaches and cherries and apples, and for weeks, you know, farmers have been fearing this could happen if overnight temperatures continued to dip into the low 20s. >> you're looking forward to next year. unfortunately, i think that the damage is pretty severe. >> i would say close to 100% are all gone. really. i've never seen -- you don't see any, you don't see any blossoms on the trees anymore. by bill what a shame that is. the farmers also saying any surviving blossoms have not been pollinated, that's because bees won't come out of their hives unless temperatures are around 60 degrees. now, the temperatures in march and in april here in the northeast, they were stunning.

it was beautiful to see spring arrive as early as she did -- martha: we already had summer, now we're going backwards. bill: and with such a fury, and we have gone back bards which -- backwards, which it's a little bit of our pattern, so hang in there. martha: to syria now where the government is saying suicide bombers set off twin explosions killing at least nine people and wounding about 100. near a military compound in an opposition stronghold. leland vittert watching this story throughout its horrific progress in syria. he's joining me now live from jerusalem. good morning, leland. >> reporter: good morning, martha. it seems like one of these cases where we take one step forward and then two steps back. let's start in the northern part of syria, an opposition stronghold there. the government blames these blasts, one at a hotel, one at a security facility on, quote, armed terrorists which is what they call those people who are trying to overthrow the government there in damascus. twenty people killed, 100

injured in those suicide bombings, and this could be a very scary preview of what is to come if violence in syria continues to get worse. from homs we have some video that is a little bit encouraging. this is the u.n. observer team there inside homs, and we have heard there are two u.n. observers now permanently stationed there, and according to activists on the ground -- because we don't have people there -- the violence there in homs which has been under assault is now under a little bit of a ceasefire right now. and because of those u.n. observers on the ground, the activists feel as though they are just a little bit protected. now for the bad news coming out of syria. right now we are hearing that there is an al-qaeda-inspired group which is taking responsibility for the friday attacks, those suicide bombs in damascus which could certainly put a whole new twist on this conflict as we move forward. martha? martha: that'd be bad news added to bad news. leland, thank you very much. bill: remarkable, it's still going on all these months later.

martha: awful situation. bill: want to get to eric shawn in baltimore for this trial, stems from an election from three years ago. what exactly is julius henson accused of there, eric? good morning. >> reporter: good morning, bill. well, it's basically suppressing the black vote. the trial started here this morning, dating back to the general election in maryland. henson was then a political consultant to republican governor bob ehrlich and his campaign. this morning henson arrived here in court for the first day of the jury selection of his trial. he is basically charged with a robo call that went out to african-american families, basically, telling them to stay home, that they didn't have to vote that day. take a listen. >> relax. everything is fine. the only thing left is to watch on tv tonight. congratulations and thank you. >> reporter: prosecutors say it was all aimed at trying to dissuade african-americans from

voting democratic. when henson arrived this morning, i asked him if he tried to suppress the black vote, and he said, absolutely not. >> they've been talking for 18 months. we get a chance to talk some now. and i think that the jurors and the judge will find that, um, the call was made, was a good call. >> reporter: well, he calls the call free speech. bill? bill: what are you hearing on reaction on this, eric? >> reporter: yeah, well, the prosecutors here say this goes way beyond political dirty tricks. the republican party wouldn't comment, but even the chair of the democratic party told us that she got the call. >> it was just so wrong on so many levels to do that to another person, to have a party, a group of people think that they had the right to call me and others to tell me that i could not exercise my right to vote. >> reporter: well, the call didn't work because the

democrat, martin o'malley, was elected governor of this state. bill: an interesting case. eric shawn, thanks. keep us posted on that in baltimore. mar that, what's next? martha: here's a question, could mitt romney's vice presidential pick be a game changer in this race? former mississippi governor haley barbour not so sure about that. >> romney give him pennsylvania, give him ohio, give him michigan, does he need somebody to give him florida? would he win it anyway? but the idea that you're going to reshuffle the deck would be very unusual in american history. martha: hmm. so there's that. and there's one pick that our own juan williams says he believes could literally turn this election upside down, folks. brit hume joins us with more on that. bill: also, how much have you done since april 29, 2009? martha: quite a bit. bill: that was three years ago. one thing your government has not done is pass a budget. more on that in moments. martha: and that they have been camping in this very same spot for 30 years, but nothing like this ever happened before.

>> the fact that they could walk away from it is absolutely unbelievable when you look at what's behind us here.

bill: an explosion turning the great outdoors into a virtual death trap. this was the scene of the salmon falls river camping resort in the state of maine over the weekend. police say a couple's propane tank blew up inside of their rv blowing them right out of the trailer. >> the fact that they could walk away from it is absolutely unbelievable when you look at what's behind us here. you know, my mom is definitely going to have a little bit of time getting, you know, getting through this, but she's going to make it, and that's the most important thing really. i mean, there's a lot of stuff here that can be replaced, and they can't be. bill: just about everything was blown up there. they've been camping in the same spot for 30 years. police are investigating what caused that blast. propane in an rv.

martha: back to the election. minutes away right now, campaign rally about to get under way for mitt romney up in the battleground state of new hampshire this morning. the presidential candidate will be appearing with potential running mate -- and there's a lot of people on that list -- today it's going to be senator kelly ayotte, she has been rumored to be on the short list. a lot of folks scrambling to be on that short list right now, and our own juan williams says he thinks condoleezza rice would be a, quote, game-changing vp pick for mitt romney. she has said she's not interested in the job, but sometimes that matters and sometimes it doesn't. good morning, now, to brit hume, fox news senior political analyst. good morning, brit, good to see you. let's start off with condi rice then. she has said, no thanks, not interested, never really ran for office ever. do you believe her, and do you think she'd be a game changer? >> well, i don't know what she would do if she were really pressed by the nominee, and i

also don't know -- i've had very little interaction with her since she left office. i used to see her a lot, a lot of us did when she was here as national security adviser and later secretary of state, but i don't know whether she misses this. people who play at that level, particularly very smart people -- and she is a very smart person -- who play at this level often find that there's nothing like it in the world, and when you go back to school or out in the private sector and somewhere, whatever, that that life cannot match it in terms of challenge and excitement. and the lure of washington becomes powerful again. so she may be feeling that. and if she is, she would be an interesting choice. she would probably pass the first, what's generally regarded as the first test of a vice presidential selection which is someone who could plausibly -- and people would believe -- be able to step in as president if something were to happen. on the other hand, despite the extraordinary depth of her foreign policy credentials, her domestic policy credentials are nonexistent almost. not to say she couldn't get up

to speed, she certainly could, but this is going to be a domestic policy election, i think, and it's questionable whether she would, in the end, add a lot -- martha: but, brit, that's the area people think mitt romney's the strongest in, so that would be sort of the balance in that combination, right? >> well, possibly. you know, look, here's the thing you have to understand, haley barbour's right. vice presidential selections rarely end up mattering very much. normally, it used to be there was a time, you know, when some extremely popular politician from a particular state could be put on the ticket in reverse of candidates, prospects in that state. it's been a long time since that's happened. you know, i can't think of a recent time when we could point, we could point to say that that's happened. the other thing is, i think, you know, people talk about, well, you know, she'd be great in a debate against joe biden. i think she would be great in a debate against joe biden, but i can't remember a time when the vice presidential debate made a particle of difference, and i

remember being involved in one in which dan quayle who was nominated by then-vice president bush had a tough outing. this is all fun to talk about. we keep talking about short lists. we know that -- martha: pretty long list. >> we know that romney has just recently named the person who's going to run the search. so i don't think, i mean, i suspect what we have is a long list. they'll begin to shorten it, and then they'll begin to ask people, you know, if they're willing to be vetted. and remember this also about condoleezza rice, and she's, as i say, an exceptionally impressive woman, but her tenure both as national security council and as secretary of state was not without controversy. donald rumsfeld, for example, was strongly critical of the way she ran the national security council and the fact she wanted everything hashed out before it got to the president. there were people who thought big decisions should go to the president. and in her role of secretary of

state, vice president cheney among others thought she too often took a soft line and hailed negotiating outcomes as big successes, witness north korea, which he didn't believe at least were big successes. so, you know, there's a question about how people who are, you know, foreign policy hawks and the republican party has a lot of them would react to her nomination -- her selection. martha: some of those things might be appealing to some independent voters who might like her take on those things, but it's interesting how you say folks sometimes miss washington, and she has sort of resurfaced in terms of making appearances lately, so perhaps that's an indication she does miss the limelight a little bit. i guess we'll see. brit, thank you so much. good to see you this morning, as always. >> thank you. bill: going to be a great discussion. martha: always interesting to see the picks. bill: later today, special report begins a series called running with romney. bret baier takes a look at

possibly vice presidential candidates. first up, florida senator marco rubio. >> i've been blessed with the opportunity to represent the people of florida. it doesn't escape me that less than half a decade ago my family lived very different circumstances. my dad was a bartender, my mom was a maid. it was unimaginable that anybody in the next generation would be able to attain, i mean, this is what other people did, not, you know, people that came from where they came from. and yet i understand that as hard as they worked and the sacrifices that they made, a lot of that is due to the greatness of this country. bill: so is that a yes or a no? martha: i don't know, but he's certainly out there. bill: you can catch the rest of the interview at 6:00 eastern time only on "special report." well done. martha: well, changing topics now, it's as yummy on pretzels as it is on toast. right off the spoon it is just fine as well, but if you think, let me tell you something, bill hemmer, if you think that nutella is good for you, you've got another thing coming, buster. one woman gets big bucks from

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martha: 25 minutes past the hour now in "america's newsroom", and a tourist bus bound for tokyo's disneyland crashed into a wall, seven people were killed in that accident, 40 others were hurt. the cause of that horrific crash is under investigation today. and a tense standoff in north carolina ended in an arrest. police saying that a 48-year-old man barricaded himself inside

this apartment complex. no word on why he did it. he's now under psychiatric evaluation. and a 13-year-old boy is being hailed a hero after saving a baby from falling off a second story building. >> i ran upstairs, ran upstairs, and then i see the baby crying and crawling up the roof at the same time, so i opened the window and bashed down the screen and grabbed the baby by his arms. martha: wow. that's some presence of mind in that 13-year-old. good for him. the baby's expected to be okay. the neighbors say that the baby and another child got onto the roof through an unlocked window. it's unclear if those parents are going to face any charges. thank you, bill. very polite of you. bill: here for you. martha: good job on that third grader's part. hero. bill: she survived four days in the desert with a broken leg,

and she's now telling her story. 59-year-old victoria grover went hiking near garfield county, utah, bringing only some light gear and a few snacks with her. we get more from fox salt lake. >> reporter: last tuesday afternoon, victoria grover set out for a day hike to sand creek, a remote part of garfield county. she stayed overnight with no problem, but the next day she broke her leg. >> i was working my way back to where the trail head was, and i jumped about three or four feet, and there was a rock under the sand, and it hit my leg, and i had a broken leg. my leg went this way, so my knee was right here, but my foot went that way. >> reporter: using a walking stick, grover created a makeshift splint and crawled 30 yards to sand creek. she found water but had no food or shelter, and another big problem -- >> her main issue, i think, was hypothermia. >> well, i certainly could have died out there because the last night i know i was very hype

thermic because i stopped shivering. >> reporter: the 59-year-old woman slept in the day and built fires at night. battling hallucinations, she prayed rescuers would find her. >> i prayed that i would be found, and i also was by that point, i was much more peaceful with i had faced that whatever happened would be okay. >> reporter: when grover didn't check out of her hotel room, the staff called 911, and cops found her car rental agreement. that was key because they tracked the car down and then eventually her. it was a uhb helicopter that spotted her. >> i am tremendously grateful to be here. i'm particularlyuateful to the sheriff's -- particularly grateful to the sheriff's department, to the deputies in garfield county and the volunteers that came out to find me. >> reporter: doctors say she'll be out of the hospital this two to three days. >> she had minimal preparation, but she was prepared, and she didn't give up, you know what i mean? she kept holding on.

i bet she could have -- today's sunday, she probably could have made it through sunday night, but we would have found her in horrible shape. bill: good for her. 59, out there all by her lonesome, so well done. and, you know, hikers out there, take note. she did it right in order to survive. martha: don't hike alone. better way to do it. all right, the u.s. government now marking three years, folks, without producing a budget, and that's really their top job description, but they haven't done it in three years. paul ryan says he thinks it's all about politics. >> the president is hunkered down in campaign mode and seems intent on dividing americans for political gain instead of offering credible solutions to our most pressing fiscal and economic challenges. and as party leaders in the senate, they're about to go another year without a budget. martha: gop weekly address and paul ryan. so can the country really afford another year with no plan on the books? b. bill: also, martha, rumor has it how the future king and queen of

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three full years without passing a permanent spending plan. >> last week leaders in the united states senate, which is controlled by the president's own party, announced they would not advance a budget for the third year in a row. this unserious approach to budgeting has dire consequences for american families. the president and be his party leaders are now insisting that washington take trillions of dollars from hard working americans in an effort to lock in ever-higher government spending. bill: all right, that is paul ryan from about a week ago. steven moore, senior writer from "the wall street journal." good good morning to you in las vegas today. >> great to be with you. bill: went there's not something that's in writing, that's been voted on and passed into law, steve? >> >> the big problem is we're borrowing $1.2 trillion a year, we're on a course where everyone knows we have to correct with respect to how much we're spending, and the problem is for three years now the senate

democrats have simply not put forward a budget blueprint which means they want to stay, basically, on the course that we're on, borrowing a trillion dollars a year. now, paul ryan who you just quoted, he put forward a budget, as you know, a few weeks ago. it passed through the house. some people may agree with that budget, some people may disagree, but at least he's put out a blueprint. the problem is the democrats have no plan, and they're not willing to let the american people see what the plan is. i would ask why are we even paying these people? bill: we have spoken to many people who say they haven't put their cards on the table because they don't want the american people to judge them for that. they refuse because they don't want to be held accountable. they would rather hide the details of the plans and then take political pot shots at republicans who have had the courage to produce and vote for a serious budget. do you agree with that? >> 100%. that's exactly what they've been doing.

you saw all of the shots they took at paul ryan's budget. he wanted to push grandma over the edge of the cliff in her wheelchair. those kinds of, you know, ads have been running against the republican budget. but the point is there is no democrat plan. now, the president put out his plan, bill, as you know back in february. it was voted in the house and senate. it was voted down 97-0 in the senate, 400 something to zero in the house, even nancy pelosi wouldn't vote for that budget. so the republicans have plan, the democrats don't. i think this is extreme financial malpractice by the democrats. put out, show your cards, let the american people know how you want to deal with this deficit if you do at all. bill: well, you call it financial malpractice. democrats in the senate say they passed the budget control act last year which is adequate enough because it puts caps on spending. is it? >> well, no, i don't think so. i mean, that still would leave us with close to trillion dollar budget deficits each year. and by the way, the democrats have proposed a number of

spending measures that would already pierce those spending caps, and it's only a year old. so i don't believe the democrats have been very serious about living under those financial constraints, and i don't think that they're tough enough, bill. look, this is a financial disaster that we're facing if we don't do something about these -- we can't borrow $10 trillion over the next ten years. i mean, on top of the $15 trillion national debt we have right now. i mean, it is simply a financial catastrophe if we do that, and it's time to get serious about it, and both parties have to. but if one party is basically playing rope a dope, i don't think you're going to get any solutions. bill: john boehner would say that's what elections are for, and we will find out in november if he's right. >> that's a good point. bill: thank you. martha: how about will and kate? have you thought about them lately? they celebrated a big anniversary over the weekend. sunday marked one year since that very beautiful moment when we watched them tie the knot in london. the duke and duchess of cambridge celebrated their

wedding anniversary in a typically quiet manner for the way that they do things, with friends and a private dinner at home away from the cameras. eloise parker is a correspondent for people.com. hi, eloise, how are you? the big question is, now, when does the baby come? >> well, if i were to place a bet, i would say certainly within the next year. but, unfortunately, we don't believe she's pregnant just yet. a couple, of course, have a huge year coming up with the olympics and the queen's diamond jubilee. it's always been said that they would wait until after those two major events are out of the way -- martha: yeah, a lot of international travel over the course of the summer with the queen's jubilee year understood way. so -- underway. so just overall when you think back to charles and diana, now we know what a difficult year that was for them, but all the outward signs seem to be that this is going very, very well for her and for them, right? >> absolutely. kate appears to settle into royal life flawlessly.

eyewitness events say the couple are very relaxed, they're very tactile. kate displays none of the nerves, none of the tension that we saw with diana and, certainly, between her and charles this their first year of marriage. martha: you know, in terms of what she's doing, she's also made some speeches, he seems -- she seems to be increasingly comfortable with all of that, how much focus is on these two in terms of the future of the royal family? they seem to have done quite a bit to repair the image of the family already. >> that's right. will wrap and kate are -- william and kate are the future. prince charles is going to be no whippersnapper, so william and kate are going to be at the helm of the family in not too many years' time. so really it's all on them, and they're doing a flawless job. we're going to see a big family, i think, from the two of them. kate has siblings, it's not going to be long, and i think we're going to see a very happy

family life -- martha: what about harry? are we ever going to marry prince halve ri? >> well, of course, the pressure's off. >> he appears to be enjoying that. >> right. he'll give us some stories. martha: we'll look forward to the queen's jubilee, next big royal event. eloise parker. bill: she's going to bring the news when a little one comes along. president obama speaking right now, here's a live look inside the building and construction trades conference in washington. the president touting his infrastructure and economic recovery initiatives, expected to call for increased spending on public building projects. you can watch the entire speech, it streams live at foxnews.com. log on and check that out. for us, though, no doubt it's delicious, but is it nutritious? the answer is, no, according to a fearsome judge. and nutella is about to pay a big, big price. martha: and her father passed

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martha: well, a 13-year-old girl is attempting a world record in honor of her father's memory, competing in an inspirational world marathon tour. she's the youngest person ever to do this using her father's battle with prostate cancer as her big motivator. >> stay focused, if i have, like, a cramp or i'm super tired, just think of how my dad went through cancer and had all that pain. if he can deal with that, then i can deal with any type of pain. martha: wow. winter says she hopes one day she will get into the world

record books as the youngest person to run a marathon on all seven continents. how about that for inspiration? bill: right. so as mitt romney cruises to the republican nomination, there are new questions about whether or not he will receive the full backing of the tea party. congressman tim scott out of south carolina who won on a tea party platform in 2010 is live from charleston. how you doing, sir? good morning to you. >> i am very excited to be here with you this morning. bill: all right. what i want to know from you is whether or not you are prepared to back mitt romney, and you have come on today with a, um, a particular message for the republican potential nominee. what is that? >> i'm very -- that's why i'm very excited to be here with you, because it's time for the republican party and all conservatives to rally behind our nominee. we have our nominee, his name is mitt romney, we're very excited to be on the mitt train. bill: is that an endorsement of mitt romney for president?

>> it's a resounding endorsement for the only man who is left in the race who will take us, our nation, into the promised land. we have had a president who's created a bloated government that's grown bigger, and now we have a governor, a business owner who understands how to create a smaller, simpler and smarter government. bill: i note some hesitation just over the past several weeks. why was that? >> you know, i don't know that there was any hesitation. the fact of the matter is that this race has been heading towards the natural conclusion. i think mitt romney is now a far better candidate than he was when he started. he's always been smart. he has now been tested, and that's good news for america because we are now looking at what we know is the next president of these united states. bill: what are you hearing from other members of the tea party? do they, are they in the same position that you are? >> there is a growing momentum and there's lots of encouraging signs within the conservative base of the republican philosophy and of this nation

because what we see is the fact that we have an opportunity to replace president obama with a businessman, with a governor and with someone who comes from outside of washington. that's good news for the american people. bill: what part of mitt romney's political record tells you that he fits the mold and the definition of a tea party member? >> you know, i think if you look at the turn around from a financial perspective in massachusetts, that's a very positive sign that if he could do it in massachusetts, he can do it for america. i think if you look at the work that he did with the olympics, he turned around the olympics. if he can do it with the olympics, he can do it in america. and finally, we have a family man who understands very strongly that the core of what makes our nation great is individual responsibility. he has succeeded on an individual basis, he's helped a state succeed, and he took over the olympics and made into it a smashing success. bill: tim scott, we'll see you in new york again personally.

out of south carolina, the leading state in the country with tea party members in congress at the moment endorsing mitt romney for the next president of the united states. tim scott, thank you for your time out of charleston today. >> good to be with you. bill: martha? martha: to jon scott, let's see what's happening on "happening now" this morning. jon: good morning, martha. there is new information today on the fight for swing states, the battle for independent-minded voters heating up. some analysts now say mitt romney is surging in some important demographic groups. we'll dive into that. plus, is there bias in the mainstream media? what do you think? "the washington post" says it's exaggerated. fox news watch is on it. and bret baier joins us with a preview of "special report" and his in-depth look at his search for the right vice presidential candidate. who is he spotlighting today? that's ahead, "happening now." martha: thank you, jon. we'll look forward to that this morning. jon: thanks, martha. martha: all right. the battle over whether a chocolate spread is healthy.

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>> in the morning, i can use all the help i can get. that's why i love nutella, a delicious spread that's great on toast or waffles. the quick and easy way to give my family a breakfast they'll

want to eat. and nutella is made with simple, qualityic ingredient -- ingredients. martha: that is one good commercial, folks. a california mother takes nutella to court over that ad, and she won. she claimed that that commercial that we just played was packing false nutritional advertising. the italian company has now agreed to pay $3.5 million to qualifying customers. let's battle this out in the court, shall we? keith sullivan, joey jackson, former prosecutor. gentlemen, thank you for being here this morning. >> pleasure, martha. martha: $3.5 million, first of all, how does this work? anybody who thinks that they bought nutella during this period doesn't have to be in on the class action suit initially? they can still cash in, right, keith? >> well, it's a class action, so they'll be entitled to submit a claim for a certain time period. but, in essence, what's going on here is this is a frivolous lawsuit. the fda is very clear and specific about what nutritional requirements are required to be

on a label. they were on the label. they were just on the back of the jar. part of the lute is that now -- lawsuit the that the fat and sugar content, all that stuff we don't want to talk about, have to be on the front of the label. this is a ridiculous lawsuit, and it's going to go away for the cost of doing business for nutella, $3 million. their advertising budget alone is $500 million. this is just a drop in the bucket. martha: it's a very persuasive ad, joey, and i admit i thought to myself, gee, i never thought of nutella as a -- it's not really fudge on toast, it's actually a hazelnut spread that when combined with whole wheat toast as a vehicle for the fudge spread on the toast might actually be good for ya. [laughter] >> well, listen, i'm glad you enjoyed that commercial, martha, because you're not going to see it much in the future. [laughter] as part of this settlement, what they have to do -- it's not only the monetary value, which is significant, but it's also the value of changing a label and an ad which is false, deceptive and misleading. they know better than that.

you can't be marketing products and suggesting they have nutritional value in their balance when they're not. and the point is, apparently, the company didn't think it was too frivolous was they paid out, and not only did they pay out as i suggested, but they're going to alter their whole cost of procedure. and this goes to show you, martha, something very important: nothing, and i do mean nothing, gets in the way of a mother and chair children. [laughter] martha: but, i mean, come on. seriously. look at the jar. it screams fudge on toast, right? i mean, how could anybody possibly believe that it's not loaded with sugar -- i can't believe that this woman won this lawsuit, franly, keith. >> it's a candy spread, that's, in essence, what it is. it derived out of the absence of cocoa in 1946. they came up with the sweetness of nuts for a candy store. what they engaged in in that commercial is free, protected speech, it's protected by the first amendment. it's called puffery in advertising. it takes place all the time.

think of all the jingles that can come to mind, kiss a little longer, big red, right? [laughter] best part of waking up is folger's in your cup. >> good job, keith. martha: the origins of nutella and how -- [inaudible conversations] >> for the next hour. >> keith, i love it, but all of us know who are attorneys that, yes, it's protected speech unless it's false and misleading. there has to be some measure of responsibility on the part of corporations, god bless 'em, let 'em make all the money they can, but they have to do so in responsible ways. and when you market things to children who are susceptible, who develop habits that last throughout a lifetime, you need to be responsible -- maria: okay, come on, you've got to be responsible, that's the key phrase there, and i know i took responsibility when i bought the stuff because it did sound like a persuasive commercial. it's not actually fudge on toast after all. >> then they should market it that way. [laughter] martha: joey jackson, expert on sugar -- [laughter] and keith sullivan who dug into the history of advertising. thank you, gentlemen.

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bill: not even out of second grade brave enough to stop the bad guys. 8-year-old cade hall, while parents in the kitchen. 55-year-old ex-con walks in and grabs his mom's purse. he sprang into action. >> my mom's purse was right by me. he came in and snatched. i grabbed it with my hand and it ripped and he got off. after he ran out the door, i yelled, mom, your purse just got stolen. martha: good for him. bill: the robber was hit by a car. cade's mom says next time allow the guy take the purse.