good to have you with us tonight, senator. welcome. good to have you here. >> thank you, martha. >> just a little while ago it started crossing the wires in news stories that the romney campaign decided they were going to make some changes, that they're keeping the core campaign team they have to place, but they want to add some sort of seasoned communications people. what does that message send to you? >> oh, i think in a campaign, you want to continue to build, because there are more issues, more places to go, more things that you have to deal with. i don't think it's unusualth@ a good team. i think he's adding to it every day, every week, every month. i think we should expect that. >> but there have been someh@ cs not somewhat focused enough, that he hasn't been specific enough about his agenda on things like immigration, the outreach to hispanic voters,

perhaps in terms of what he would do with tax reform. you know, what kind of advice would you -- the race is very neck in next, and right now in the four battleground states he's slipped behind the president a little bit. what would you like to see him do at this point? >> well, i think he's done a very good job of drawing the issues about obama. and this campaign is about obama's record and the high unemployment, the overregulation, the taxes that are going up at the end of this year, and obama healthcare, which is a massive government overreach. that is the issue in this campaign. now i do think that mitt romney has said that ask congress to repeal obamacare. we'll start all over, go step by step, give more access to people for affordable healthcare, and we will keep some of the good parts, but we are not going to

have the high taxes on business and indivls that obamacare has, period. he's been very specific. secondly, on the issue of creating jobs, we need to get the debt and deficit down. that's what he has said. he's said we need to stop the overregulation. we need to put a moratorium on regulations right now. it is eating our business people alive. and they're not hiring because they have all of this massive government bureaucracy on top of tax increases, on top of the obamacare that they don't know what to expect in their obligations. so i think that the campaign is about obama's record. we need a change. and mitt romney is that change. >> so the campaign has said that some of what they're doing, to sort of beef up, is kind of par for the course, now that he's the nominee, they have been beefing up to a certain extent

ever since he secured that nomination. talk to me a little bit about the vp choice. there's a lot of names floated out there. some of them, you know, rob portman, some who are seen as more conservative choices in terms of the boldness of the choices, if we can put it that way, and thens there's the marco rubio, the chris christie route. what do you think is the best combination out there for the republican ticket? >> well, i think he's doing some sort of testing of the waters to see what is a good team effort here. he's got a lot of factors to look at. obviously he's got the states that are up for grabs. and he's got the -- the issues of where he wants to fill a gap. he said rightly that he wants someone that is seasoned, has experience, and could be seen as president of the united states. and i think those are his

criteria. i think the names that are out there apparently are the ones that he's looking at. >> all right. well, we will see. we're not going to pin you down apparently on a name tonight. that i guess is understandable. people are reluctant to choose somebody, you know, outright. you know, i do want to address one other thing with regard to healthcare with you, because over the course of the past couple of days we've heard it called a tax by the supreme court. then the obama administration, whose own attorney argued in front of the supreme court that it was a tax backed off that language today, said, no, no, we see it as a penalty. mitt romney has come out, governor romney, says he says it as a tax. he says that's what the supreme court called it, and that's what it is. do you think this is something that resonates with the american people or do they just want to know the bottom line, what it's going to end up costing them, if anything? >> martha, i think you have it. they want to know the bottom line. i mean, this is the most massive tax increase in the history of america. on the individuals and

businesses. it is a game changer. it is a huge tax increase. and people know it. they know what they're facing. you're talking about billions of dollars more in taxes on individuals and businesses that we're trying to encourage to hire people, and yet we're putting so much of a burden on them with this healthcare mandate as well as, of course, the tax increases that are going to take effect at the end of this year. so i think it's a tax increase. and i do think that we need to completely do away with obamacare. i was disappointed in the supreme court decision, like so many people that i have heard. now we've got to move forward. the people are going to make this decision. i mean, this is one time when democracy is really democracy. people are going to be able to

choose. do we want a government-run healthcare system that is going to take out many of the choices that we now have and the freedoms that we have and the patient/doctor relationship and paying fines and fees and taxes on top of that or do we want to stay with our healthcare system and improve it and make more people able to afford healthcare because we want every family to have that coverage in a way that they can choose what is best for them, not a big government mandated bureaucracy. >> senator, dugout the way you have articulated it one of the central arguments of this campaign, and perhaps of the supreme court decision, it becomes even more so in many ways. we thank you so much for being with us tonight. good to see you. >> thank you, martha. >> well, now to one of the biggest battlegrounds in the presidential race, which is, of course, the state of florida. president obama and governor romney both need, of course, to win over the middle, they call

it the i-4 corridor in florida which becomes so essential to winning that state, but the obama campaign has spent millions on an ad blitz over the sunshine state over the past couple of months, and so far the romney campaign has not aired any tv ads there, although romney's supe super pac has done advertising in florida. so is the president concerned about how he's doing in florida? we want to take on that question with debbie wasserman-schultz. thank you for being here tonight. >> good to see you. >> it's your home state over the course of the last couple of months, president obama has spent about $4 million in advertising money in the state. do you think he's concerned? are you concerned at all about florida? >> >> well, florida is a critical battleground state. cycle in and cycle out. all eyes are on florida.

we are, i in the process of setg up the largest grassroots presidential campaign across the country, but expressly in florida. we have offices opened around the state. tens of thousands of volunteers doing door knocks and phone calls. our grassroots people-powered campaign is our focus, an we're going to make sure that the two paths and two visions that are the choice in front of florida voters and american voters are very clear. we are making the case that we've got a long way to go, but we've made progress under president obama's policies going from where we were hemorrhaging 750,000 jobs a month to now a little more than three years later we've had 27 straight months of private sector job growth, the importance of the affordable care act being the law of the land, huge for seniors in my state. you know, martha, i'm tired of standing behind seniors at drugstore counters who have to leave two or three prescriptions behind because they can't afford

the -- all the ones their doctor has prescribed. >> let's talk about florida, which has an 8.6 unemployment rate. it's higher than the nation's average. it's a little better than it was at the worst of things. that's one of the hurdles that needs to be sort of crossed there in florida for both candidates really in terms of what kind of solutions they would provide. the housing crisis hit florida very deeply. construction workers lai off in large numbers in florida as well. trade has also weighed on folks in florida. it's interesting, you know, i mean, when we look at the healthcare numbers in florida, the majority of those who were asked, 53% -- i'm sorry -- yeah, this is a florida registered voters poll -- 53% said they'd like to see healthcare repealed in your state. >> well, if you look at the recent polling, there's a good reason that president obama in all the recent polling, from the most conservative-leaning poll to the most progressive, is

ahead of mitt romney in every poll that's been done recently. and that's because the progress that we've made under president obama's policies through job creation, through focusing on the middle class and working families, through making the kinds of investments in education and healthcare that president obama has made a priority versus mitt romney who wants to drag us back to the failed policies of the past, who said when he was in nevada, of all places, but this is important in florida, that we shouldn't do anything about housing, we should let it hit rock bottom and, you know, let the market bounce back and that way someone can come and buy up all the properties and resell them. you know, that's just another example of how out-of-touch mitt romney is with the needs of people in florida. another example is his embrace -- >> but obama has tried things and they're not working. >> mitt romney is wrong for

everything that floridians care about. there's a huge contrast in the two directions. >> they are, through a lot of folks in florida and across the country feel a number of these things, with regard to the housing crisis, if you want to talk about that, for example, have not worked, you know, foreclosure rates are still extremely high and people are very concerned. you know, they are, i think, at a juncture, a lot of the middle of the road voters in florida, along that i-4 corridor, and they're wondering should we have the president stick around or vote for the other alternative? i mean, that's what middle of the road voters think right now. they look at both alternatives and think, i'm not so sure, i'm sort of in between. >> no, actually they -- >> voters in the middle aren't in the middle? >> no. voters in the middle aren't not so sure is what i was going to say. >> for sure. >> voters in the middle are leaning toward president obama, especially on housing, because mitt romney said, you know, let's just let housing hit rock bottom. the republicans in congress

embraced by mitt romney, their answer to the housing crisis is to repeal all the laws, repeal all the programs, and do nothing. i'm sorry, but we need to make sure that we don't leave those homeowners who are upside down -- >> wait a minute. i guess that's what the homeowners will have to decide. do they think that the things have been tried actually helping them north? that's actually a decision that has to made. >> i'll tell you what floridians are concerned about, they're concerned about mitt romney who is saying that the private sector experience he's got is the reason we should elect him president. when he was governor of massachusetts, he was 47th out of 50 in job creation. now we learn that he has an investment in a bermuda corporation that is shadowy and -- you know, there's a real concern over the investments that he's hiding. was he trying to evade paying taxes that he would have normally owed? there's the a.p. story and "vanity affair" story that come out continue to leave questions about mitt romney's finances,

what he's continuing to hide. he needs to release his tax returns. >> we have four months to hash all this out. no doubt the election felt so far away, and now it's in front of our face. >> just around the corner. >> thank you. >> you too. >> coming up straight ahead, a terror raid near london's olympic park. and that has police swooping in to get six terror suspects there. were they targeting the upcoming olympic games? latest coming up as well with ambassador john bolton. he will go on the record next. and it is one year after casey anthony was acquitted of murder. a lot of questions remain tonight about her daughter caylee's death. we still don't know what happened to that little girl. former defense attorney jose baez answers burning questions tonight. it's an interview you'll only see here as greta spokes to jose baez coming up.

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>> british police are on high alert ahead of this month's olympic games.

they start at the end of the month on the 27th. today a terror raid near london's olympic park. they brought in six people, five men and one woman who was arrested. police say that they have been monitoring these suspects' alleged terror pns, but despite the location of this raid near the olympic park, they say the alleged plot had no link, no direct link, that they could find to london's olympic games. intelligence officials say that there was no credible threat against the olympics right now, but how big of a concern is this? clearly they are on a bit of pins and needles in london as they get ready for all of this. former u.n. ambassador john bolton joins me. ambassador, good evening. glad you to have you here. >> glad to be here. >> how concerning is all of that to you? >> it should be very concerning, because the olympics obviously have been a source of terrorist attacks in the past. you think of the munich olympics where israeli athletes were killed, and there other attempts. this is a circumstance that

gives terrorist of a wide variety of descriptions a lot of opportunities to get their message across sadly. so if i were british authorities, i'd be quite worried. i understand, the point you made, they say despite the geographical location of this particular arrest, it wasn't connected to the olympics. we'll see as more facts come in. it rightly have. >> they made another arrest a week or so ago. they can hold these people for 14 days if they want to to continue to question them under british law. obviously they're taking every precaution, very experienced in handling terrorism unfortunately in london. and that is all evidenced here as well. they were british muslims between the ages of 18 and 30, that certainly fits some of the profile we've seen in these kinds of things in the past.

i guess they're prepared for it, and certainly on their toes in every way. >> one of the most frightening aspects of this bombing of the n transportation system some five years ago was that the terrorists there were british i. and what's frightening about that is that here you have immigrants to the country who have seen all the benefits of a free and open society, all the opportunities that it provides, and have nonetheless turned away from that freedom toward a radicalized, politicized version of islam, and committed themselves to terror. this is not something you can prevent by screening of people as they get on airplanes and foreign capitals. they've had the advantages of a free society and rejected it, and that's hard to detect. >> i want to ask you about another big story we covered today and get your thoughts on it. it has to do with the world

intellectual property organization, a branch of the united nations, and it continues that this very little-known branch to most people of the united nations has transferring electronic equipment, some computers and highly sophisticated electronic equipment, to north korea, and also to iran despite the fact that the sanctions are ongoing. what's going on here? >> that's sort of business as usual in the u.n. system. look, i think these transfers clearly violate existing security council sanctions, resolutions. computers are dual-use technology that is can be used for nuclear and ballistic programs, number one. number two, if these transfers are typical of other u.n. program, not only north korea and iran getting these computers, they're getting them free. the u.n. is giving them this equipment. and finally, the key thing here is that it shows that even within the u.n. system, iran and

north korea can exploit weaknesses or vaguenesses in the regime. if they can get this assistance from the u.n., imagine what they're getting on the market. >> it's sanctions, and it appears that these transactions were being handled in a sort of with a that was intended to be surreptitious, and that they were handled through the beijing office. what doe telat you? >> well, but perfectry routinely through normal channels. the north korea thing is particularly interesting. these computers and servers and otherha technical assistance -- were for the north korean patent office. let me say that again, the north korean patent office. i bet that's a beehive of activity. what could the people in geneva have been thinking when they agreed to this? i think there's more to come. you know, these stories are all fr within wipo,

i hope there are other whistleblowers at other u.n. agencies that can tell us about their programs in iran and north korea, too. >> lots of thomas edisons apparently at work in north korea. john bolton, good to see you. >> thank you. >> coming up, it was the verdict heard around the world. casey anthony acquitted of murdering her daughter caylee in a shocking moment that happened exactly one year ago today. jose baez argued that winning case. does he really believe casey's story? he speaks with greta next in must-see moment here on the record. we'll be right back [ kimi ] atti and i had always called oregon home. until i got a job in the big apple. adjusting to city life was hard for me. and becoming a fulltime indoor cat wasn't easy for atti. but we had each other and he had purina cat chow indoor. he absolutely loved it. and i knew he was getting everything he needed to stay healthy indoors.

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>> it was a verdict that clearly stunned the nation. it happened one year ago today. casey anthony in that courtroom, there's the moment, who can forget that? acquitted of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. anthony has been basically in hiding since she was released from jail last summer. she's now serving probation for check fraud at a secret location in florida. while anthony keeps a low-profile her former defense attorney, jose baez, who became well known from this trial is speaking out. it is an interview that you will only see here. baez grosek with greta

van sustern about his new book "presumed guilty" and the murder case that gripped the country. >> greta: your job is not to decide guilt or innocence, but to effectively represent a client. i didn't believe her. i didn't believe the story that she had nothing to do with it. did you believe her? >> are you referring to early on or eventually -- >> greta: no, no. whether she was, you know, directly responsible for the death of her child. i never believed it, the denials. >> well, you know, when she told me what happened, because of the prior liars, i wasn't so quick to jump on board. so what i made the determination at that point in time is, look, i'm dealing -- or right now i've got the client of the boy who cried wolf, and i've got to -- if i'm going to either put her on the stand or go in this direction for her defense, i'm going to have to corroborate it. i literally made the decision,

this is a situation where if i can't corroborate what she's saying, it's useless to me, because, you know, it won't stand up against cross-examination. so you don't get into that -- you know, i still had that defense lawyer hat on, and i've always had it on, so you don't get into that situation where you're believing or not believing. doesn't matter what i can believe, only matters what i can prove. when she told me what happened on june 16th, i went back all the way to the very beginning. i said, okay, here's what i'm going to do. i'm going to try to disprove what she's telling me. if i can do that, i'm going to have to have another talk with her, we'll have to get a little bit closer to where we are with the truth. what i was noticing is, i couldn't disprove what she was telling me happened on june 16th. in fact, the things that she was

telling me i was actually proving. for example, when cindy came home and found the ladder of the pool up. on the 17th, she went to work and told her co-workers about it. statements i would read like george anthony saying that caylee would wake up at 7:00 in the morning and say jojo swim. looking back, we did a timeline of every single day she was in the pool over the summer, and turned out she was in the pool every single day. couple that with evidence she loved the pool. then there was an incident with tony la lazaro where she almostn into the pool at his house. the phone records solidified it.

we said, we have a defense here. right now it's impossible to rebut. quite frankly i think the reason it's impossible to rebut, because it's the truth. >> george took them around and told them -- they asked if we had moved any plants or done any digging in the backyard. he said, yes, as a matter of fact, within a couple weeks prior we had moved a huge hibiscus plant that we had here, and we placed it over there. the reason for that is because -- we haven't moved this back yet -- is because all last year we had this deck box here. well, caylee can now climb it. we didn't want her climbing where she could get to the pool, so we said, let's put it against the house. >> greta: i've been to the family's home a number of times. your job is not to seek out the truth. most people don't understand, but your job is to challenge the state's case effectively, and lawyers don't take a position whether clients are guilty or

not. i've actually found her story so implausible for a number of reasons, is that somehow, if something happened in that pool, that was an accident, is that somehow that child got from that pool where the child died, according to that theory, to about five blocks away to that wooded area where the remains were found. somebody did that. and you couple that with -- >> correct. >> -- the fact that casey -- that bizarre stuff partying and getting tattoos. how did the baby get from the pool, if that's how she died, to the five blocks away woods? >> you know, there's a lot of questions that will never be answered. i want to know what happened to that duct tape after george used it at the command center. i want to know why he didn't tell law enforcement that for the last 20 years they had buried their pets the same exact with a that caylee was found. i want to know a little bit more

about the car, why did he show up to pick up the car at the tow yard with a gas can? how did he know the car was out of gas? why did he tell simon burch that the car had been there for three years -- i'm sorry -- three days? how did he know that if he thought the car was in jacksonville? so there's -- there's lots of questions that will never be answered. part of that has to do with the way the case was investigated. another part of that is because people just aren't talking. >> greta: are you -- i mean, in looking back at the case, i know there was a lot of -- a lot that went on about george. based on what you just said, are you suspicious that george moved that child, that journey was much more intimately involved with that child's death? >> well, there are a lot of unanswered questions when it relates to testimony. >> but are you suspicious? >> well, you know, i think that

the -- the questions are clearly suspicious. but, you know, i wasn't there. and i'm not the type of person that judges people or makes conclusions or speculates. so, you know, i rely on the evidence. not only is it what i do as a lawyer, it's what i believe is the right thing to do. i don't take those leaps of faith. all i will say is there are a lot of unanswered questions. what i ended up doing with the book is i wrote out what exactly were the pieces of evidence that took me in a certain direction. what i thought about it, what i thought about the evidence that exonerated her as well the ones that were incriminating against accuracy. casey. that's the evaluation and analysis i took in the case. >> did she ever give you her theory as to how the child ended up in the woods? i'm assuming she denied having anything to do with moving the child. what was her theory about how

the child gets from the pool, assuming that's how the child died, to the woods five blocks away? >> her statements to myself and to the psychiatrist was that after -- after she -- she broke down and cried for a while, she was in the fetal position, went into a room, and she said her father told her she would take care of it, and that was the last she saw caylee. >> greta: looking around this area, you can see how dense it is, how much stuff and junk. it certainly is notable that in addition to being very dense and full of trash, it is in very close proximity to the home of george and cindy where casey lived with her daughter caylee. so she actually saw the drowning at the home, the body dead at the home? is that what you're saying? >> yes.

>> greta: and that george was the one who moved it to the wooded area? >> she said that her father told her he would take care of it. that's exactly what she said. approximately an hour later when he went to work, he called her and told her, i took care of everything. we looked, and saw that she had -- that there was an actual phone call at that time. her phone records reflected it. it matched exactly what she was telling me. what's interesting, too, is she doesn't have access at the time to the phone records. so, you know, we're talking about something that she said i want to say about several months later, and to remember a phone calls exactly at that time was pretty remarkable and convincing to me. >> greta: so she actually saw the dead child at the home. did she discover the child? >> correct.

she said george had discovered the child. >> is there any reason why they didn't call there was and what happensambulance,why there was t rid of the child in the woods? >> you know, that's another question that won't ever be answered. in my opening statements what i said was, this was a very common accident that happened to a very uncommon group of people. >> what makes this case different, what makes it unique, what makes the reason we're all standing here today is because not of the commonality, but of the uniqueness of the family that it happened to. >> i think if you look at the facts and the circumstances surrounding this case, you looked at all of the evidence, there were a lot of times that we admitted evidence tryin havio with the family dynamics, and the strange dynamics like hiding

the pregnancy for 7 1/2 months, denying she was pregnant. you know, and then the interactions between lee and cindy and all of these different stories within the family pretty much painted a picture of i guess a strange or different group of people. i don't know any other way to describe that type of behavior other than, you know, something just not right here. >> very interesting conversation with jose baez. you're going to see more of that. greta's interview continues with him tomorrow night. so what were casey anthony's first words to him after that verdict was read? that will be revealed in part two of that very interesting interview. don't miss "on the record" tomorrow night at 10:00 eastern. coming up next here tonight, a new plan to help homeowners with

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this alliance of two cities would use eminent domain to condemn the mortgage notes held by private label securities, and they would acquire these mortgages, renegotiate them at a lower mortgage and reduce the payments for homeowners. >> so, i mean, it sounds like it could work. i mean, isn't this what some people have said the banks should do more of? >> right. the argument that's advanced by the company proposing this, a san francisco investment company called mortgage resolution partners, is that just because of these agreements they're unable to renegotiate these mortgage notes. >> so do some people think this could hurt the homeowner? if so, how? >> right. it's being opposed by people in the financial industry, the

association of mortgage investors, bankers. they believe it could hurt investors because it would undermine the contracts between creditors and borrowers, making lenders less likely to lend to other homeowners. >> hmm. but it would find a way for people to stay in the house, lower their monthly payments. is there some kind of test for these homeowners to sort of figure out if they're a good candidate for this kind of program? >> right. they're only targeting homeowners who are already making their monthly payments, who are good credit risks. >> thank you very much. sounds like an interesting program. sounds like there's controversy around it. we'll see if anything comes of it. >> thanks. >> coming up, the merit of one town is looking for votes, but not for the reason you might think. we'll talk about that when we come back here tonight "on the

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call, folks a holiday fire works show goes off with a big bang but not what everybody expected. san diego fire works display malfunctioned and the whole show went off at once. the whole thing supposed to go on 20 minutes. over in 20 seconds. everybody was excited can you hear them screaming? until ey realized it's over. crowd got a pretty good show but boy was it quick. thanks for joining us tonight. i'll see you again tomorrow morning at 9:00 onu at 8:00. >> eric: hello, everybody. i'm eric bolling, with kimberly guilfoyle, bob beckel, dana perino, greg gutfeld. it's 5:00 in new y city. this is "the five." ♪ ♪ >> eric: well, there he is. just hours ago, president obama deplaning air force one, our $85 million air force one.

as he kicked off his betting on america bus tour today. but with only 125 days left in his term and the race too close to call. mr. cool, starting to sweat the campaign. but those of us who didn't get a ticket to ride aboard the obama bus, don't worry, you are always welcome on "the five" ride. welcome on, buckle up. a lot of stops. first stop, mitt romney. it's a tax already. >> the majority of the courts said it's a tax. therefore it is a tax. they have spoken. there is no way around that. >> eric: next stop, president obama had a few choice words for those of us who doubt him. >> i'll work with anybody who wants to work with me to continue to improve our healthcare system and our healthcare laws. but the law i pass is here to stay. >> eric: now beckel insisted i get ann romney on "the five" ride so here you go. >> they are gointo