i win! what's in your wallet? >> they were bound and restrained and sexually assaulted. they were never free to leave this residence. just as suddenly and unexpectedly as they disappeared, they reemerged. >> depraved, self-gratifying, words used to describe ariel castro after holding three women in captivity for over a decade. not only did we see the first look at the man believed to keep three women prisoners but we learn more about what happened inside that house in cleveland including repeated sexual assaults that led to pregnancies and beatings that led to

miscarriages. the police report revealing a door left open gave amanda berry a chance they have all been waiting for. >> i have a call taker on the phone with a female who says she's amanda berry and she was kidnapped ten years ago. she's at that location now. >> died of a broken heart. my granddaughter is missing and there's no rest for you. it's just something that you carry with you. >> are you going to get to see her in the coming days? >> it's over now. >> in the last 24 hours the suspect allegedly used his own daughter without knowledge to lure his victims into a car ride that ended in captivity. >> i am absolutely so, so sorry.

i really want to see you, gina. i want you to meet my kids. i'm so sorry for everything. >> joining me now at the top of the hour, craig melvin live in cleveland and a legal analyst and criminal defense attorney. bring us up to speed about this police department that's been revealed and allegations that these women have leveled against ariel castro. >> reporter: and also within the past hour or so it was revealed that during the initial search of the home investigators found a suicide note, a suicide letter that was written by ariel castro dated 2004 according to police in that note evidence that they would not provide to me but they did say among other things ariel castro claimed he was abused as a child. we should note there were

roughly 200 pieces of evidence removed from that home so over the course of the next few days and weeks as they seek to build their case, they will be sifting through that evidence. again, details of that suicide note was something that was revealed just an hour or two ago. meanwhile, as you just indicated, ariel castro $8 million bond set by a judge this morning. he did not say anything in court. he held his head down. we're told that within the next 30 days that case will go before a grand jury. he did not enter a plea this morning. the two other castro brothers, onil and pedro castro, for a good chunk of yesterday and the day before a lot of folks thought they would be charged in connection with that case. it has since been explained to all of us that the castro brothers according to prosecutors had no idea what was going on inside the two-story home behind me. within the past hour, onil

castro and pedro castro were released from jail. at this point we do not know where they are. we talked to a few neighbors yesterday who said that the castro brothers would not be welcomed back in this neighborhood. meanwhile, tonight, 7:00 at the church at the end of the street behind me, faith leaders, community leaders, just about every politician in the city of cleveland are going to gather there to talk about moving forward. >> what more do we know about what's going on with michelle knight? we know that gina is back home with her family. we saw amanda go back home to her family so the third woman, michelle knight, where is she now? >> reporter: we saw those images yesterday. michelle knight still in the hospital. she was listed in good condition at last check. we'll continue to monitor her progress and we'll update you on michelle knight throughout the course of the day. >> craig melvin reporting in cleveland.

thanks for that. i appreciate it. we'll go now to ricky, a former sex crimes prosecutor and criminal defense attorney. let's talk first off your reaction to these charges because some have reacted to say these are woefully insufficient. your take? >> first of all, they're fine. they're clearly sufficient in and of themselves. we haven't heard the end of it. if you have four counts of kidnapping including the little child and you have three counts of rape, what you wind up with is someone who is never going to emerge from prison. regardless of anything else, these counts are just fine. however, we know that the investigation is continuing. we know that a grand jury is going to sit and hear evidence and i am sure that we will find there are many other counts that follow. >> what is the defense strategy for castro look like? this as you switch gears? what do you see? >> when we look at legal

tactics, what this attorney must do right away is get him examined by a psychiatrist. there are few defenses in this case. obviously the one that leaps out, if any, would be some kind of insanity defense based on what craig melvin just said. this is a man who said he had been sexually abused as a child already. the next thing the defense attorney needs to do is to see is there any possible way to plead this case down from what would amount to a life sentence? this is no easy task for a criminal defense lawyer. >> the other two brothers that have now been released as craig was saying we don't know where they will end up but they're not welcome back in that neighborhood there on seymour avenue, where the legal process might they foul because it seemed as if they were of interest to police when they took in ariel castro. could they be used for information to find out their brother's actions over the last ten years? >> i don't think the government is done with these brothers by

any means. while saying that, i'm not saying the brothers will get charged with anything. these are two people who appear to be drunks around town who have misdemeanors from the past. one of them not since 12 years ago. but nonetheless, they can give information about what their brother was up to even if it was seemingly innocent. >> the thing that caught me, the fact that the defense attorney when introducing him said that ariel castro was receiving unemployment checks basically the taxpayers are funding this house of horrors and capture of these young women and sustainability of that house is mind-blowing. >> it's mind-blowing when you look at the other allegations that came from the former wife about her own abuse and her beatings. and if you read down drill down into the background of these people, you had ariel castro accusing the ex-wife's husband of doing very bad things to

children and the ex-wife husband then accusing ariel castro. so one of the questions that has to come up is where were the investigators all these years? >> that's a great question. we still scratch heads. more answers to come. great to have you here as always. thank you for joining me. appreciate it. still ahead, amendment after amendment piled on the senate's immigration bill even one that would set a salary limit for permanent residency. our panel will weigh in on that. in an hour the jury will begin hearing a case of life or death for jodi arias. hear what arias said in a jail house interview about the possibility of paying the ultimate price. and then a question for you. are charges against a cleveland suspect enough? you can weigh in. let's hear about this. join us on facebook and twitter. ♪

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300 amendments hurled at the new immigration bill being marked up as we speak. historic vote. new numbers confirm african-americans turned out in record force at the polls in 2012 and debt overload. the new senator wants to take breaks given to big banks and give them to college kids. those are big topics flagged for us today by our panel covering progressive issues. panel, it is great to have you here. heather, i want to start with you. i want to play with everybody where we are on the markup for the bill right now because we have senator ted cruz who made statements about it just in the last hour. take a look.

we don't have that? >> amendments to remove the pathway to citizenship for those who are here illegally and make them ineligible for means tested amendments. the majority has the authority to vote on those provisions, it's likely to cause this bill to be voted down in the house of representatives. >> i'm glad we had that sound to play for everybody just showing everybody else the amendments that gop is going after. mandatory dna testing allowing for domestic service jobs for mike lee. you can keep your gardener and your nanny and all of that stuff. they are not up for any type of immigration needs. you can keep them. and no citizenship for likely to receive welfare. this coming from jeff. this is an amazing turnaround on a bipartisan bill that has already been vetted through eight senators, the gang of

eight. some of this is mind-blowing to think they would allow for the fact that domestic service jobs would be immune from this. >> don't worry, everyone in america. you can underpay your butlers and maids and janitors. it's not too far from the idea that are guiding people working around this issue including the author of this heritage foundation study that frankly people that come from mexico and latin america are only destined to do service jobs and only destined to do terrible jobs because as this person is senior thesis said they actually have lower iqs and mexican americans have lower iqs and will for generations to come. >> i want to show everyone what jason's dissertation on hispanic iq had so say. in it he says that no one knows whether hispanic will hit iq

parity with whites but the prediction that new hispanic immigrants will have know iq children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against. the rnc wants to give the message they have a better outreach line in the future but with stuff like this, it really shakes out any underpinnings for a new foundation. >> one of the big issues here is that it seems that some republicans certainly aren't learning from history. we saw what the results of a lot of this toxic rhetoric was on the election. the there is outraged latino vote. what's interesting now is that everybody did wake up after november to the latino vote including the mainstream republicans like the republican national committee and they've been doing a lot of outreach whereas before the election there was really no reach.

there's a real dissidence between what part of the party is trying to do and these groups that seem to be on the fringe that are driving the agenda and we're talking about it today. >> the heritage foundation does have reaction to this thing that this is not a work product of the heritage foundation. the findings don't effect the conclusions of our study. we had jim making the rounds headin heading up the heritage foundation. how does that conflict with what moderate republicans would like to see when it comes to an immigration reform bill and having fingerprints on something that's productive and seen as a welcoming message to latino voters coming up. >> i think it will be very hard. it's not just the message of the right wing think tanks fueling the conservative orthodoxy here. it's also policies. you also had just this week eric cantor tried to get rid of

overtime pay. these are hard working americans and aspiring americans. it's not just about the rhetoric. it's also about basically am i going to achieve the american dream and unfortunately conse e conservatives have been waging it against the american dream. >> new information coming out from the census talking about the fact that black voters, minority voters have been more inclined to break out and come and vote as we look at the trends we've seen here, the black versus white vote, 66.2% of eligible blacks voted. 64.1% of whites voted in reference to last year's election. this is an encouraging trend where we see more people feeling engaged in the minority communities to express their voice and cast their vote. >> this is great for america. it's great for the democratic party. it's not so great for the gop. >> it's going to scare the white out of the white haired old man. >> it's not just about diffic t

diversifying, it's about voter i.d. laws and restrictions on voting times but it had the opposite effect. black folks were lined up around the block and came out in southern states where there wasn't much attention given, black folks poured in. that's problematic for gop. >> when we talk about why it's problematic, explain the optics. with very people on the right saying we want to have a more inclusive and bigger party. when we break down to see what the republicans are doing, it's the message that doesn't match up with the policy. >> seems like it's all talk. going back to those fringe groups that control momentum behind the gop, it's quite frankly scary for folks. you see the t-shirts and attacks on president obama and an attack on african-americans and quite frankly there's no way that you can pull in those kind of groups to participate in a system that the way it's playing out isn't balanced. >> what's your take on this as we talk about the fact that number of blacks who voted rose

by 1.7 million between '08 and 2012. the percentage of eligible citizens climbed. as we talk about this from the latino community, and as we saw in 2012, that might have been the last election where the republican message as it stands right now where a republican could have won the white house based on who is coming of age coming up in 2016. >> absolutely. there's no doubt in my mind certainly and i think the data bears this out that the road to the white house from here on out is going to go through the schools where a lot of our children, 25% of latino children, 25% of public school kids are latino. they're going to go through that if you think how latinos opening small businesses at three times the rate of the general population. and going back to what we've been talking about, particularly what heather was talking about with the gop policy, it's

important that as the gop tries to do this outreach to minority voters that it is not just about press releases. what's that policy going to be and what will it look line and what will be substance around those policies and that's what will give them an opportunity in minority communities. >> let's talk about youth coming up. i want to show everybody what elizabeth warren had to say about what it takes financially for kids to get educated in the country right now. we knew big banks should be concerned with elizabeth warren in washington, d.c. but listen to this. >> if the federal reserve can float trillions of dollars to large financial institutions at low interest rates to grow the economy, surely they can float the department of education the money to fund our students, keep us competitive, and help grow our middle class. >> as we break it down for everybody, stafford loans are going to rise from 3.4% to 6.8%

rate july 1 if congress doesn't act. the big thing here is the fact that people will have to come down on the floor and fight against the fact that they want big banks to keep their figures where it is but charge college kids nine times more and then explain why they want college kids from lower income families who are trying to get a higher education explain why they want to get more. >> i jumped up and down about this. i've been muttering and mumbling about this for years. how is it the federal government can justify giving banks virtually interest free loan ever since the financial crisis while they charge the future middle class of this couldnntry having to face enormous tuition, a trillion dollar total debt load nearly 7% for loans. there's no justification. so wonderful to see senator warren having the first bill on the floor be this to equalize the rate for a year while congress gets its act together and finds a long-term solution to equalize the rate.

if we let bank of america get off scot-free, why not college students? >> i want to say thanks to our agenda panel for today. thank you so much. great to have you all here. still ahead, life or death for jodi arias? penalty phase under way later this afternoon. jose baez will join me. we'll speak to the nra member featured in this ad for mayors against illegal guns. his sister's murder and why he advocates for universal background checks. [ male announcer ] this is bob,

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police officers assigned to the joint terrorism task force did not know this information? >> that's correct. >> would you have liked to have known that information? >> in hindsight, certainly. i believe death is the ultimate freedom. i rather just have my freedom as soon as i can get it. >> those stunning remarks by jodi arias recorded just right after she was found guilty of first-degree murder for killing her one-time boyfriend travis alexander. >> we the jury duly empanelled and sworn do find the defendant as to count one first-degree murder guilty. jurors find premeditated. zero final felony murder. seven find premeditated and felony. >> an emotional end to a bloody case. in less than an hour she's back

in court for the penalty phase. my next guest is no stranger to this legal drama. he represented casey anthony in her murder trial for the death of her daughter. anthony was ultimately acquitted. criminal defense attorney jose hay baez joins me now from miami. great to have you with me. what do you think arias' defense team was thinking as we look back. she had just been found guilty of first-degree murder and then she's giving a local tv interview moments later let alone being allowed to make those statements about preferring the death penalty because it would give her freedom. >> i can guarantee you that they had no knowledge she would do such a thing. i think it was a slap in the face to her defense and who probably put their live on hold for the last couple of years to defend her and to save her life and she may have just sealed her fate by giving that interview. >> is this a psychological tactic by arias? basically to put this out there and as we noticed after the

reading of the verdict, she stared at every juror as they left trying to make eye contact with them. does this help the court and jurors steer away from the death penalty and think more compassionately on mental health grounds. >> i think you're 100% correct. she's been trying to be manipulative and talk her way out of this situation since the first time she got arrested. a lot of criminal defendants think they can talk their way out of their problems. in all actuality, she can't. this is something where she thinks if i tell them i want death, they'll give me life. and she really needs to just stop trying to help herself and let her lawyers try to save her life. she really had a legitimate shot of getting life in prison because she has no prior criminal history. this is an isolated event. her age she was only five years

above what she would have been and not gotten the death penalty. you can't get the -- if you're 18 years or younger, you can't get the death penalty in arizona. she had a good shot. i'm not so sure anymore. >> right now there is the death sentence possibility. the other would be life in prison. possibility of parole after 25 years. so everybody understands, to get the death penalty the state must prove there was cruelty in this murder. what best determines cruelty in this from a legal perspective since they were also -- since they were able to come back with a guilty verdict, wouldn't that have played into the determination of her guilt? >> yes. what the prosecutor is going to do is go over the gory photos and put a medical examiner on the stand to show this was a long, drawn out, cruel, heinous death. what the defense is going to do is try to show, look, all first-degree murder cases are

ugly. there's nothing pretty about any of them. what you have to do is you have to compare this comparatively. this the worst of the worst that needs death. the legal answer is no but the defense has an emotional barrier to overcome and i'm not so sure they're going to be able to do it here. >> jodi arias took the stand. 18 days of testimony. would you have allowed her to get on the stand if you were her lawyer? >> i don't know. i think the way i would have tried the case, i would have -- i've seen a mock-up of the crime scene. i think i would have tried this case more on a forensic basis to try to show the order which the defense tried to do. what this case really -- the way this case was tried was really more of a mitigation phase. they were trying to save her life all along. they didn't have any allusions she would be found guilty.

>> we should know what the penalty phase is coming up later today. criminal defense attorney jose baez. thanks for joining me. i appreciate it. >> thanks for having me. >> the fight over gun control legislation has become a fight for money, eye balls and opinions. the gun control group headed by former congresswoman gabby giffords raised $11 million over the last four months and compare that to nra lobbying arm raised in 2012, 1.1 million. the nra is keeping up pace ponying up 25 grand for a campaign to support a new hampshire senator. >> ayotte voted for plan to fix the broken mental health system and voted for more resources to prosecute criminals who use guns. kelly ayotte stands with prosecutors and police for new hampshire values. >> despite the defeat of the gun control bill on capitol hill, families of victims are keeping up the pressure. one of them has become the target of the pro-gun lobby. the father of one of the kids

killed in newtown and today a group shows that he was convicted of drug possession, dui and driving without a license. in a group the release says he's living proof that criminals we need to be concerned with do not follow laws and that people who risk other people's lives continue to do so without regard for the law. joining me now is the minneapolis mayor, a member of mayors against illegal guns and a man who turned around a sharp increase in gun crime in an nra member who lost his sister in a shooting. gentlemen, good to have you here. as a relative of someone killed by gun violence, what's your reaction to a campaign that i just told you about that's going against him for a gun rights group to attack the father of a child lost in such a violent situation? >> good morning, everybody. this is the first i hear of that. i definitely think that is a low

blow going against someone who lost a child in such a dramatic way. >> in the money race, we talked about the fact that gabby giffords' group is raising large amounts of money in a short period of time. four months. what does that tell you about the power that she's been able to gather together in her efforts? >> gabby giffords and parents of newtown are all people whose hearts we should go out to but we should support them with our brains. the fact of the matter is right now some of these extremists on guns and congress have a popularity ranking between leaders of north korea and a liver sandwich. they are not very popular out there. they ought to watch this. they may have some lobbyists in the nra kissing up to them but the fact of the matter is that people are absolutely outraged. the fact that kelly ayotte could not listen to the people of new hampshire who want universal background checks and then people turn around and try to support her. what's not going to work. it won't work in an election and

even if it doesn't, we're not giving up. >> you described your sister's story in an ad i talked about for mayors against illegal guns. i want to play a portion of that for everyone. take a look. >> having universal criminal background check been done, my sister would still be with us right now. i am an nra member. i believe in the second amendment. i also believe in sensible gun laws. tell congress we need background checks. >> as we look at the numbers overall more than two-thirds of americans murdered by a spouse or ex-spouse were killed by guns. what can background checks do to start with and to bring that stat down? a lot of people say background checks is a feel-good law and won't do anything. >> you know, i disagree with that. 40% of all gun sales are done without a background check. that is 6.6 million guns annually that go through without a background check. i haven't seen a study yet --

nobody can tell me how many of those went to criminals, went to people that were not supposed to buy or own guns? i think the most important thing that congress can do is have a comprehensive and enforceable background checks for all gun sales. >> when we talk about some of the numbers now, teens who are killed in the u.s. are more likely to be killed by a gun than any other method. since newtown, 74 kids under the age of 12 killed by guns. it should be up to congress to make a difference here. when we have someone like gabby giffords who was almost assassinated by going to a grocery store and that doesn't resonate with members on the hill and we have newtown tragedy with so many children dying so heino heinously, what will it take for lawmakers to refocus and regroup to pass any type of common sense gun reform? >> we have to on our side keep

talking common sense. let's look at how this will work. we're not talking background checks. we're talking about universal background checks. last night let's say someone with a restraining order went to abuse their ex-wife. well, because we have some background checks, they can't buy from certain places because of their restraining order. because we don't have them universally, that person can be on internet right now. they can be at a garage sale and right this minute get a gun. universal background checks are absolutely preventible and that person who was abused last night who is worried about the person with the restraining order getting a gun, talk about a fiefeel good, it won't feel good and we should act. >> i want to thank you for joining me. i want to shift topics with the mayor because there's a big story happening today in minnesota in the house. mr. mayor, they are expected to vote on a bill to pass marriage equality there.

they said in the state house they wouldn't bring to the bill to the floor unless they had the votes. how confident do you feel this is going to go through and what do you think that minnesota could become the 12th state in the nation to make marriage equality legal? >> this is one of the happiest political days i've ever had. for so many minnesotans who fought so hard. we're asking every single person gets a chance to commit to the person they love. we beat back a horrible amendment. we elected people who have interests at heart and minnesota will make history. it's a good day. >> minneapolis mayor, thank you so much. >> thomas, it's alvin daniel. >> i'm sorry. i apologize for that. >> no problem. >> thank you both for joining me. i appreciate you raising your voices. it's really what i was

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community that vets are back. >> with an average age of 30, the mission continues fellows of post- 9/11 vets required to volunteer for 20 hours a month to receive a small stipend. >> you spend the first four years of your adult life waking up every day knowing exactly what it is you're going to do and your purpose in life, it's hard to come back home to a world that doesn't understand that. >> so what used to be just piles of lumber these fellows have now transformed into these picnic benches ready for painting. they get turned over to the youngest volunteers who turn into a how many paint brush. once the work day is done, bridging the divide between military and civil aftian servi they take a new fellowship oath at the site of ground zero. a full circle moment at the foot fingerprint of what was the north tower with one resounding

message -- >> our mission continues! >> great day. the ceo of the mission continues joins me right now. it's great to see you. just so everybody knows and your background, you're a former navy s.e.a.l. you used your combat pay to start the mission continues. where did the inspiration come from? >> i did, thomas. when i came home, one of the things i recognized was that this generation of men and women wanted to find a way to continue to serve. when i came home, i visited some of my friends who had been injured or in the hospital and it was clear to me that what they most wanted was to find a way to get back into the fight. they wanted to serve next to their friends, next to their colleagues and what we've learned at the mission continues is that all of these men and women bring an incredible set of experiences and skills and talents back home and we put them to work again on the front lines of our communities across the country. >> explain why you think it's so

challenging for this new generation to find their footing and get traction when they return home transitioning back into civilian life. >> it was one of the things we're working with is an all volunteer force. if you add up everyone who set foot in iraq and afghanistan over the course of the last ten years, all of that adds up to less than 1% of the population. you have a group of veterans who are coming back from their service and they're returning to many communities where a lot of people don't understand what they've been through in their service. they are leaving an environment with a sense of purpose and comradery and accomplishment and when they get back home, they need to rebuild that sense of purpose and find a new mission. when we put them to work and transition to leadership, they rebuild that sense of purpose and at the same time help to build stronger communities. >> there's image of me painting with my mouth wide was out the

volunteers and it was great. i mean, kids are out there, young kids, they had paint all over them, it was fantastic. they're getting under the picnic benches. jon stewart was out there, working with his kids. what do you think it is about the mission continues that is like a magnet for civilians that are interested in wanting to help vets get reconnected. what do you think the draw is? >> i think the draw, thomas, is that there is a solution. the mission continues represents a solution. every american feels like they want to help this generation of come home and successfully reintegrate. and through the mission continues, they can get involved. through the mission continues, everyone who you work with was out there was supported and sponsored by an american, somewhere, who made a decision they were going to donate, they were going to invest in the mission continues. when people do that, when they invest, when they donate, they know that they're helping to create a solution for this generation of veterans. that's what's so powerful about this. all of these men and women, regardless of the challenges

they're facing, they create successful transitions through the mission continues and i think that's really what makes people want to invest their money, invest their time, bring their families out to join us because we do really have a solution that helps this generation of veterans come back home and successfully reintegrate. >> i love the motto. it is not a charity. it is a challenge. a eric riten, thank you for letting me tag along over the weekend. i appreciate it. >> we had a great time with you, thomas, thank you. today's producers pick brought to you by our segment producer and personal wrangler who was my left arm on the story right there, a humorous new web video from governor chris christie and the political tail spin when he enters one of the most famous articles s of clotg and subtly vanishes. >> sir, we have a problem. >> what now? >> the fleece, sir. it is missing. >> hey, bono, no, no. it is not mary. it's me.

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john boehner is calling on president obama to release more information about benghazi. last hour he said he wants the release of e-mails that a senior state department official sent to her superiors saying she had told the libyan ambassador the attack was conducted by islamic terrorists. the e-mails were brought up during yesterday's house hearing. >> the state department would not allow our committees to keep copies of this e-mail when it was reviewed. i would call on the president to

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thr three suspects. he did not speak, but the prosecution requests a multimillion dollar bail based on the gruesome nature of the crime. >> the charges, again, mr. castro based on premeditated, deliberate, and depraved decisions snatched three young ladies from cleveland's west side streets, to be used in whatever self-gratifying, self-serving way he saw fit. also, while in captivity, they withstood repeated beatings, they were bound and restrained, and sexually assaulted, basically never free to leave this residence. >> today, the victims are safe. two of them are sleeping in their own bed again and reunited with their families. >> i want to thank everybody that believed, even the ones that doubted, i still want to thank them the most, because they're the ones that made me stronger, the one that made me feel the most that my daughter was out e.