hearing at guantanamo bay, cuba, defendants mostly sitting in silent protest and at times launching into defiant out busts against the authority of the court. good morning on this sunday morning i'm eric sean. >> jamie: i'm jamie colby, exactly what the families hoped wouldn't happen happened, they were mocking the justice system in that courtroom, i'm jamie colby and we'll tell you more about that and there are even new questions now over whether self-proclaimed 9/11 mastermind khalid sheikh mohammed and four other defendants in court, when will they face justice? one of the defense attorneys predicting a trial will take years to complete. chief intelligence correspondent catherine herridge live at guantanamo bay, cuba and good to see you. i was watching the press conference of the attorneys, who already are complaining about the justice system and the treatment of their clients. what happens from here? >> reporter: good morning, when we think back on court yesterday there were so many peoples and

one that is -- has become a lightning rod came up at this morning's news conference and one of the attorneys chose to wear the traditional black muslim dress in court and she wouldn't take questions on whether she was receiving death threats but explained why she felt the woman on the prosecution side should dress modestly. >> there was somebody dressed in a way that was not in keeping with my clients' religious beliefs. >> reporter: at the news conference, the defense attorney tried to characterize the acting out of their clients in court yesterday, as peaceful resistance, and it was clear when the men came into court i was in there, 15 yards from them yesterday and they had a strategy and were seeking to frustrate and to delay the process. they refused to cooperate with this court, and refused to wear their headphones through which they could hear the arabic translation and refused to simply answer the judge's

questions and at one point one suspect, someone whose family goes way back to usama bin laden's family, took off his shirt to show scars he says came from alleged mistreatment and asked how the proceeding went in court yesterday one defense lawyer replied... >> i suppose we could say it went smoother than some people had anticipated. we got through the whole arraignment process, and, everybody has counsel now and, things are set to progress. >> reporter: the bottom line is the 9/11 suspects deferred their police and whee pleas and the wheels are set in motion for a trial and the defense has asked for delay in the trial until may of next year. >> jamie: peter king, chairman of the homeland security committee said justice will be served and, the trial will take place and it will be a fair trial for these defendants but

their lawyers say they didn't have the kind of access to them they should have, particularly with interpreterers, you have been following the story from the start. do you believe they are able to work with their clients, including wearing the garb the one female lawyer did because she said it would make her client more easily have eye contact with her and talk to her. >> reporter: what i've heard dealing with the lawyers, they are frustrated with the obstacles put in place, by the system and talk about not having translators and not being adequately resourced, not having the money to do the kind of research they want to do, and what i airport is that we are going to see in the next year, before a trial begins, probably, sometime next summer, that they will bury the commission's process in motion after motion after motion because it was clear at the news conference, whatever happens ultimately in court when there's a verdict, they'll appeal and will probably

go to the supreme court and most of the analysts i have spoken to say it will take at least a decade for all of the appeals to be exhausted. >> jamie: incredible. katherine, frustrated as they say they may be, the families certainly are, too. thanks for your report. and we're hearing from the 9/11 victims' families and you can only imagine, many of them watched the hearings via closed circuit tv, at military bases across the east coast. >> it is difficult, but we are here for the long term. it has been a long, long time and we want justice for our families. >> i have only seen body language and that in itself indicates that they have nothing but contempt for our values, and our way of life. and, it would upset anybody to see this demonstration. >> jamie: all five defendants face nearly 3,000 counts of murder. the death penalty could come their way if convicted. we'll bring you the latest on

this developing story throughout the day, an important one. eric? >> eric: a "fox news alert," israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu expected to call for early elections, a year ahead of schedule, a strategy that could potentially put him in a stronger position to act against iran and the suspected nuclear weapons program. meanwhile, mahmoud ahmadinejad suffering a major set back at the polls this weekend. questions now about his political future. peter doocy live in washington. >> reporter: his announcement is expected later this evening and the plans are to hold the elections, september 4th of this year, before our presidential election and experts say that that is the point because if he can lock up a third term in september or october and orders a strike on iran, president

obama would stay out of things because he wouldn't want to turn off voters in the u.s. and netanyahu's aides have not said anything but a rival said in an interview, it is the most serious mistake to turn the issue of defense against iran into israel's biggest problem and in iran, president mahmoud ahmadinejad's popularity is clearly trending downward, because, yesterday, his supporters in iran's legislature won only 13 out of 65 seats up for grabs and we heard from m k marco rubio and he spoke more broadly about iran. >> we need to do a better job of preparing the allies in the world for the reality, at the end of the day if negotiations and sanctions don't work there will be a need for military action, what we cannot tolerate and the whole world would agree, what we cannot tolerate is a nuclear iran. >> reporter: and president mahmoud ahmadinejad is going to

have to step down in 2013 because of term limits and the parliament where he's losing steam doesn't directly control things like iran's nuclear program but certainly is influential. >> eric: all right, thanks. the question is what does it mean for iran and the nuclear stand off for the west and as mahmoud ahmadinejad continues to lose support could it finally be curtains for him? joining us is john bol ton, the former u.s. ambassador to the u.n. and a fox news contributor. good morning. >> glad to be here. >> eric: thanks for getting up this early, you are in los angeles this morning. >> right. >> eric: first question, he god like 20% of the vote, is he toast? >> well, his term will end in about one year and he was a lame duck anyway but he has been engaged in a sustained struggle with ayatollah khomeini and,

these elections are an indication that mahmoud ahmadinejad is on the losing side of that struggle. now, what it means for iran's foreign policy, for its support for terrorism and pursuit of nuclear weapons, i think, is actually very little. there is no real dispute within the leadership about those things. there's a lot of dispute about tactics and economic and social policy inside iran and it is really those latter topics that were the real contested issues in the election. >> eric: in terms of its nuclear program you don't see much changing, even if he loses support? >> no, i don't think so at all. i think the more conservative element in iranian political affairs, has criticized mahmoud ahmadinejad for a number of years on the nuclear program for speaking out about it and their view was, if you keep talking about the nuclear program you will just get the attention of the united states an israel --

and israel and the others in the west and far better to have the centrifuges and lull the foreigners into a sense of complacency. >> eric: and do you think that could happen with whoever succeeds him in 2013. >> look at the last elections in the summer of 2009, they were fraud length and the ayatollah and his clique then, helped mahmoud ahmadinejad win and they'll pick another candidate and i'm sure the upcoming elections will be just as fraudulent but this time i think more likely to have some more -- someone more pliable to the religious leader's desires. >> eric: not just pliable, perhaps, does it help the iran cause not to have such a firestorm, a person who has such notoriety like mahmoud ahmadinejad has, versus someone who -- go ahead. >> i think from their perspective, there is an argument it is better to be

low-key. not to say things like we want to wipe israel off the face of the earth and not to make comments that provoke concern in the u.s. and the west, drawing attention to the continued progress of the iranian nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program. the notion, it is better to be subtle and develop the capabilities without making such a fuss about it. i think that is probably the direction they will try and go in. >> eric: he's term limited out and who do you think and who potentially could become the next president of iran? >> there are other power struggles underway, the revolutionary guard's military officers, actually in some cases more extreme religiously than the ayatollahs themselves, and i think it is a mistake when the west says, let's see who the moderates are in iran compared to the extremists. there could be a lot of political conflict based on personal ambition, on personal animosity. has nothing to do with ideology and here's the key point, has

nothing do with the continued strong support across the entire iranian political establishment for continuing their nuclear weapons program. >> eric: ambassador john bolton in los angeles this morning, ambassador, thank you and we will certainly look forward to the day, august, 2013 when he is no longer in power there. thank you. >> jamie: president obama is definitely coming out swinging as he has officially kicked off his re-election campaign, the president launched his bid for a second term, with stops in swing states of ohio and virginia this weekend. he's taking direct swipes now at presumptive gop nominee, mitt romney. >> president barack obama: now after a long and spirited primary, republicans and gong have found a champion. they have found a nominee for president, whose promised to

rubber-stamp this agenda, if he gets a chance. but, virginia, i tell you what, we can't give him the chance. >> jamie: joining me, national political reporter for real clear politics. great to see you this morning. >> you, too, thank you. >> jamie: i think the president has probably, most people would agree, been campaigning for a while. but, now, it seems that he has elevated mitt romney to a direct opponent. do you see it that way? >> i sure do, because, for so long, he has been talking about justice congressional republicans, and, yesterday, by talking about mitt romney, by name, talking about his experience, too, having run a financial firm and a state, he put him on his level and, he sees them as an equal now, fine nail. >> jamie: given that, the president is also making the argument that, you vote for mitt romney, you get a rubber stamp of old policies, bush policies. mitt romney has been somewhat

specific, though, on things that he would do differently, and, tell me what you think about this. the one thing that i think he definitely brings to the table, is he implemented a health care system that many say president obama looked at in developing obamacare. the health care overhaul. and, he saw what went right with it and what went wrong with it. and, it is going to be krien our deficit and hit us in our pocketbooks, next to a defense budget, which hopefully will go down, it is a big hit. a big number. do you think that he brings things to the table that are helpful? do you see it as a rubber stamp? >> you know, i do think governor romney learned a lot from his own experience with health care in massachusetts. but, one thing that he has not said is what he will do differently. he has said that he'll repeal obamacare, and, has been specific about that, but i think in the next six months we'll hear more from him, potentially on what he'll do, once, if he's successful, repeals obamacare.

>> jamie: the economy, without a doubt as well, number one on the minds of many americans who hopefully will show up for the polls and vote for the plan they think is better. democrats, or the republicans. here is your response from mitt romney's campaign, that came in yesterday, in response to the direct accusations and allegations the president made in those speeches yesterday. i want to read it for everyone. no matter how many lofty campaign speeches president obama gives, the fact remains that american families are struggling on his wife, to pay their bills, find a job and keep their homes. while president obama all but ignored his record over three-and-a-half years in office, the american people won't. this november, they will hold him accountable for his broken promises an ineffective leadership. if the president continues to look to the bush administration to say, they got me into this situation, that i need more time to get us out of, will it work? >> the way he laid it out yesterday, it is possible.

you know? he said mitt romney is a path backward and he's a path forward. so, just stay with me a little longer. will it work? it is hard to say. it depends on how the romney campaign continues to respond to president obama. but, yesterday, he showed with the big campaign rallies he can draw a much bigger crowd and enthuse voters, in a way mitt romney cannot do. it seems superficial but it worked for the president in the past. >> jamie: especially with the young vote it worked, without a doubt, in 2008. but, dozen enthusiasm on campuses like we saw yesterday, in ohio, translate into votes, this time? >> reporter: it may in the way: the president has been going coalition-to-coalition, trying to talk to women voters, trying to talk to young voters, and, mitt romney is just beginning, his general election campaign, he has not really gone to some of these coalitions, the president has to try to shore up

on specific issues-based things like the student loan extension that he is talking about. so, will it work? it is hard to see, but if he can talk to them on specific issues it might. >> jamie: specific is probably what voters will look for. a little bit of time left, not all that much, erin, great to talk to you, we really enjoy when you come on the show on sundays. thanks. >> thank you very much. >> jamie: eric. >> eric: senator marco rubio will be talking about the buzz surrounding his political future. what he's saying this morning to those who are urging him to sign son as mitt romney's potential running mate. >> jamie: plus if you are there you know, if it hasn't hit you yet, you need to know frightening weather, homes literally torn to pieces and streets littered with debris and today we'll tell you what is behind the trail of destruction and if it is going ahead to your area. what ?

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>> jamie: a deadly tornado striking near tokyo, japan, a tornado hitting in a mostly residential area, 40 miles northeast of the capital, officials say a 14-year-old boy was killed. there are also reports of dozens more injured. this particular twister sheering off roofs and shattering a lot of windows, 200 homes were damaged. tornadoes relatively rare in tokyo.

>> eric: seen as a rising star for the republicans, florida senator marco rubio, on the short list of possible running mate for mitt romney and this morning on fox news sunday, he sat down for an exclusive interview with chris wallace, and talked about being up for that potential job. >> i'm not the most experienced person in washington, d.c. but, by the same token i certainly have experienced -- serving in government and particularly in the legislative branch and one of the largest states and more complex states in the country in terms of public policy. and, the good news is, that every day that goes by i gain more experience on these things. >> eric: joining us now is the anchor of fox news sunday, chris wallace. good morning, chris. >> good morning. >> eric: what do yes he think t prospects are. >> one person knows, and that is mitt romney and it's not a

popularity contest but having said that you have to consider him absolutely one of the front-runners to be the vice presidential running mate. and, quite frankly, anybody who is interested in that, you ought to watch him on the show on the fox broadcast network or the fox news channel, and i treated him as a potential vice president and therefore a potential president and we talk in-depth about foreign policy, the economy, the campaign, this dream act and illegal immigration and, also, his qualifications, that question about experience, i asked him, you know, he's 41. he says he looks like he's 35. and i said, do you have the experience to be vice president and he skillfully said, i will not talk about that but here's my experience to be a u.s. senator and went on and what you didn't see after that, after talking at some length about the experience he does have, he says, by the way, i'm not sure experience in washington is such a great thing anyway and kind of turned it around.

you know, look, he's going to play coy, understandably, and if he were offered it, he'd take it and i think there is a good chance he'll be offered it. you know, i don't know that he is the favorite but is certainly one of the front-runners. >> eric: he seemed skillful and, obviously would help in florida, certainly. >> beyond that, would help with hispanics and that is not a monolithic vote, cuban-americans, tend to be more conservative than mexican-americans in the southwest. i think even more than any of that, he's just a bright rising star, who has -- is a very effective communicator and, you know, to make the case, that is what the romney camp will have to make, said obama and the obama administration, have had their chance, they've had three-and-a-half years, and, they haven't gotten the job done, that is the romney argument and he make it a very effective one. >> eric: we'll have to see how he does surviving the questioning. sounds fascinating. chris, thanks so much, always good to see you.

>> you bet, thank you, eric. >> eric: and for more of his interview with senator marco rubio, you can watch it as chris said on your local fox station or on the fox news channel, later on today at 2:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m., eastern time, should be really fascinating. >> jamie: and you know what is minutes away, eric? "sunday house call"! today, those energy drinks, a lot of you may think they help you not only at work but when you are trying to work out and look out, folks, they might also do some big-time damage, we have details of a stunning new report on these energy drinks just ahead on "sunday house call."

>> jamie: it was worth the wait, i've seen the topics, both of you, "sunday house call." joining is is the vice chairman of robotics at the mt. sinai medical center.

>> and associate of the langone medical center and, author of "the inner pulse" and they'll unlock a lot of topics this morning. >> jamie: good to see you both, what a week in medical news, and there is stunning new information, research that shows, you know, the illness you commonly associate with folks in their 60s and 70s? turns out a lot of them, way too many of them, are hitting 2, 3, 4 decades earlier, for example, melanoma, osteoporosis, stroke, breast cancer, alzheimer's, type two diabetes, even gout. dr. samadi, why is that? >> as you mentioned we're getting a lot of great news in medicine and one was this one and part of the reason why we are seeing this in younger generations is because patients are smarter now, they are better educated, we are doing more screening, and early detection and that is part of it, but it is part of it is our lifestyle and the sedentary life led to some of the things we hav