today the rolling stone retraction about the bombshell rape. a scathing report released last night by columbia university calling it a failure of the basic journalism. but heads will not roll at the magazine. the editor and the writer of the story will keep their jobs. a statement was released apologizing to uva and any victims of sexual assault but not to the fraternity accused. the lawyer for the accuser in the story, who we've been calling jackie that lawyer had no comment. and let's head to charles had lock reporting from charlottesville. what is the latest reaction on campus? >> reporter: well rolling stone came to the university looking for a dramatic story and what they came away with was a failure according to the

columbia journal. since the article was published back in november, the article has been debunked and retracted. the phat is considering legal action against the magazine for failing to verify facts in the article that accused fraternity members of crimes they did not commit. while fraternity members have been defamed, they fear the entire episode may prompt other sexual assault victims to stay in the shadows, fearful to confront accusers. vow president teresa sullivan said it damaged efforts to address sexual assault across campuses and said irresponsible journalism damaged the reputation of individuals and the fluf -- the university of virginia. >> charles hadlock. thank you. joining us analyst, lisa green, author of the book on your case.

i working at rolling stone for over a decade. i know the guys involved in this. and i foe how good they are and how hard they work and how serious they take the responsibility of putting out this magazine. but they will be the first ones to tell you they dropped the ball in a big way in this situation. the man who edited this story sean woods told "the new york times," ultimately we were too deferential to our rape victim and honored too many of her requests in our reporting, we should have been much tougher. is all of this from the rolling stone side of this is this about a lack of skepticism and not being tough enough on the story or the reporter or is this the challenge of reporting a rape story and not wanting to revictimize the reporter. >> it is about navigating the channels and you have a case that anyone who has worked in

journalism whether as a lawyer as a journalism and you can see how this happens. you fall in love with your story and sometimes you forget to vet and ask that oppositional question what if it isn't true. and there is the promine, if she says she loves you, check it out. and with a serious national problem you are not assisted by your skepticism in the organization whose lowelly job is -- oez lowelly job is to say are you sure it is important. >> and now they need to prepare for litigation and it strikes me to outsource the report to columbia and it led to a third-party investigation and it

means that rolling stone led to how much of this is litigation defense. >> one said this is liken to handle this to a linel case on a silver platter and here is why. and the report had the story been better checked, the reporter and the editors would have seen the friends never had the conversations they were alleged to have had, casting doubt and skepticism. so while there is clever tactical about the rolling stone out-sourcing, what they've done to restore their reputation we're going to show you what happened and we're going to let the team at columbia explain what happened and it is not pretty and that may make us vulnerable. and about libel lawsuits you are suing over your reputation. so you need to be able to defend in court to defend that reputation and that is we'll see

them taking on down the road. >> when you take a step back isn't the biggest failure that it could make it harder for women to want to come ought and speak what -- to come out and speak about what happened to them, to give people a sense, about 170,000 women are raped or sexual assaulted every year just the ones we know about. and only 20% of female students actually report something to the police and someone that was sourced in the article, a former rape victim vow student said this is going to be more difficult to engage some people because they have a perceived notion that women lie about sexual assault so that is a real problem. >> there were stories within that article, more nuance and less sensational stories about sexual violence on campus and it is sad because that seems like a potential casualty. you can only hope that journalists recognize they are

journalists and not counselors or law enforcement and they need to back up when their inclination is i will leave this person alone, and retain that journalist independence streak and make them effective and onory. >> and you worry that this does do damage to the cause of women who are really victimized and sexual assaulted. and other campuses don't handle rapes. in vow they've had zero expulsions for rape over the past decade, even in instances when the alleged perpetrator confesses and over the same time they've 3 honor expulsions like cheating on a test. and that might be bad at vow but research shows that is a common problem across universities they don't treat the crime as

seriously as we could. how can we change that university adjudication to treat this crime more seriously. >> and i think the federal government has led the way in holding colonels to a higher standard. but these sort of sexual allegations and crimes are so difficult and the flip side for under-reporting are also students falsely accused. so schools have really treacherous borders to navigate. and when you add in student privacy laws which the cole report talks about, and to get information about students, whether they are accused or victims. this is a long process. i hope this story is a bump in the road toward better more honest and fairer treatment on every side of stories like this. >> you would hope so. this writer has been around for a long time and has written great stories for gq and the new yorker and you hope her career would not be defined by one

mistake. but you think about folks like jason blair and steven glass, when a writer walks into the magazine with a story that is not true with evidence that has been manufactured it becomes very difficult for the magazine to assess what is real and what is not. and it is troubling, as you were saying it is troubling to have this happen on this issue because now every time somebody said something about racism what about duke la crosse and now when they say something about rape on campus, which happens a lot, and now they say what about vow and now the survivor will have to over-prove their story. >> i hope every time a journalism walks into a room with a story and if you watch the wire season five a reporter in fact comes up with a sort of in vented story that all but one editor really love and see a pulitzer and there is

one lonely editor with the job of speaking truth to power and i won't give it away to say it is an unglamorous part of journalism and no one wants to be that voice and no one wants to say are you sure it is true and it is important in newsrooms and in our web age people are one-man and one-woman bands you have to act as your own best-guesser. >> you don't get the pulitzer for not writing the story. that is such an important fact. >> and look at what this story wreaks across the board. >> and when the mob is going in the other direction and how much we honor and revere pete williams for keeping his head during the boston bombing and saying, no they don't have a suspect when everybody else is saying they did and we respect him so much more because of that. and we treat him as a north star. lisa green, you too, north star. loving the wire. i love you even more today.

much more amed on this psych -- more ahead on the cycle. raising new fears in this country. and then a museum and now a school. many wonder what is stopping it from happening here. as we start a new week. one of the most watched trials is drawing to a close. in boston for that. and tonight college basketball drawing a conclusions and abby and i will eat crow if jordan shows up. sounds awesome. usand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it's 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn't get their vaccine? we didn't think so. from figuring it out to getting it done, we're here to help.

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developing right now on "the cycle," closing arguments in the boston marathon bombing trial. the jury will decide the accept shall question looming over this case does dzokhar tsarnaev deserve to die for what his defense has already admitted he did. nbc's ron mott has been covering this trial from day one for us. he's live near the courthouse in downtown boston. ron, where do we stand today? >> reporter: as you mentioned, the prosecution finished their closing arguments and now the defense has wrapped their closing arguments. and the defense is back up for a rebuttal rebuttal. and as you mentioned there, the defense has said from day one, that dzokhar tsarnaev was involved in this and you'll see it. judy clark, the lead defense attorney said there is no dispute about who, what where and when but there are significant differences between

dzokhar and tamerlan the older brother masterminded all of this. they have receipts of him buying bomb making components and a box that had hammer lan's fingerprints on it and not dzokhar and the government cherry picked information they took off of dzokhar's computer and tweets and things of that sort. they said they didn't see the totality of his activity online which is what they say a lot of teenagers do surfing the web and searching things such as cars and things of that sort. so what the defense is trying to say is that if not for tamerlan there would not have been a boston marathon bombing two years ago. the jury we thought earlier in the day, would have the case by now. they still don't have the case. once the rebuttal is over the judge will give them instructions and considering the late hour he might ask them if

they want to go on or come back early in the morning and start fresh. >> ron mott thank you. and turning from home grown terror to kenya, after the university attack that left 148 people dead. the military has claimed to have destroyed two terrorist camps across the border in somalia and kenya is cracking down on recruitment and asking families to report anyone who has gone m.i.a. or showing tendencies and they want to deport 300,000 refugees. they fear the refugee camp is a military hotbed. the president said the u.s. stands with kenya and his visit is still set for this summer but with several large somali american population al shabab is raising concerns here. and just referring back from the

turkey-syria border tom we're getting to isis and turkey but i want to start with kenya. al shabab, and one of the gunman was a son of a government official. so help us to understand what led it to grow and do they have the resources to combat the threat. >> what is growing is what you find in somalio and over the boardner kenya. i think people thought al shabab was done but they surprised us with the attack in the mall 18 months ago and they are showing us they have great staying powir in the ability -- power in the ability to stab illize in kenya and somalia. so they are a dangerous element. so the second question as to whether kenya can manage this. we have seen attacks. on the university and the quarry

and on the bus in the fall and the west gate mall attack. and any country is vulnerable to a surprise attack and i think kenya has problems in the security services and i think it remains a challenge for them to bring together the ness intelligence policing and military response to al shabab. >> and you hit on this. they have called for attacks here, the mall of america and a call in canada and in u.k. if they can get away with this in kenya, why can't they get away with it here? >> there is the chance they could, in fact get away with it here in the united states. now they would not likely be striking from somalia and be -- it would be the use of those in the united states the ethnic somalia community or those they recruit to their cause which is

difficult because it doesn't have the same appeal as isis or al qaeda does they are a member of the al qaeda family. we have better security and intelligence and better policing than in kenya so it is harder to do. but let's think about the ease of access to guns and materials for bombs in the united states. it not that difficult to get ahold of either. and you could do it. i think that not everyone has their guard up. and if you go after smaller targets and smaller cities it is all the easier for someone to perpetrate. >> tom, you just returned from the tushish-syrian border one of the strange things about this threat turkey has the situation right there on their doorstep and what did you find? >> i found out that turkey and those on the nusra front continue to use turkey as a

sanctuary to repair weapons and make money and get their wounded mended and i saw pictures of isis fighters in hospitals and video footage of the fighters and i have medical records of the fighters inside of the turkish hospitals. so they are in a combination by the government for fighters. they want the fighters to bring down assad. they are at odds with the assad regime and want that to be brought to a close. and number two, they use the fighters to fight kurds, their enemies as well. so they have two reasons to accommodate fighters from iraq and syria and also the foreign fighters comes from around the world. this points to the ongoing differences between the u.s. and turkey. we simply have very different goals and domestic policy goals in particular the kurdish issue continues to drive in part the

turkish issue of fighters. and we have that despite the pressure from the united states and europe you continue to have turkey to allow the fighters to move back and forth. >> tom you spoke with a teen-ager who left isis about the way they recruit folks and the dis-information they use to keep them in the fold. what did you learn? >> well this was fascinating. so this guy was just about 16 years old. he joined isis in january of this year. he was paid 7 lira aday so about $40 a month or $50 a month which is low and after 50dies and normal 30 days of training isis was coming under attack from nusra attack and another group and isis did a campaign to make the young recruits believe these were bandits pursuing control of a -- a salt mine isis was using to make money off of

and they were so afraid the young recruits would not fight the nuss raw front, as far as fighting goes the nusra front is focused on bringing down the assad regime and they made such an effort to pull the wool over this guy's eyes and the other 30 or so guys in his unit so it shows they are clearly afraid of losing out to another group. >> very fascinating. tom sanderson. thank you as always. >> you're welcome. >> and coming up the president defends what our closest allies says is a deal with the devil. and a special report on the ground at the epicenter of the terror fight. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping

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we know the white house has a framework for a deal with iran but we also know they have a tough job framing that deal back

here at home. the details and even the question of whether we should be engaging with iran remains so controversial it will reverberate throughout the 2016 race. and a newly replaced interview with thomas freedman of the new york times, the president defended the framework. >> there is no option to prevent iran from getting a nuclear weapon that will be more effective than the diplomatic initiative and framework that we've put forward. and that is demonstrable. >> for more let's head to the north lawn and alex seitz wald. alex what do you know? >> reporter: white house secretary josh earnest repeating what the president said they are confident about this deal. and they have a week before congress returns and they are trying to sell this to the publish and they did an interview with "the new york times" and doing another one today with the npr and hoping that the members of congress

return and won't cause problems for the white house for the deal and the white house saying they don't need congress they want them to stay out of it and just need them on the martss and we saw the nuclear physicist coming down to the briefing today and they are moving ahead and feeling confident. >> thank you for that. and many republicans disagree with the president on iran and putting their money where their mouth is and as thomas freedman rights with huge amounts of money going to candidates with proisraeli views which party is more supportive of israel is a wedge issue scene an arms race with republican candidates competing over who can be the most unreservedly supportive of israel. and bringing in perry bacon.

and is this good for america? >> it probably isn't good for america to have a dispute over support for israel. both parties are fairly supportive of israel. the underlying dispute is about policy in the middle east. and what you are seeing here is netanyahu and president obama have very different views about the future of the middle east and these are long-standing. back in 2002 netanyahu talked about the benefits potentially from the iraq war. the president also spoke about there was a war we should not fight even then. so these two people have radically different views and it is less about who is pro-israel and who is not and how should the middle east look and it is a sincere disagreement but a strong one. >> and perry, what we have right now is a framework. if we do come to an eventual deal this seems like a clarifying issue for 2016. you have hillary clinton coming out basically supportive of where we're headed and all of the republican candidates lining

up on the opposing side. this seems set to elevate foreign policy to be a bigger part of the 2016 campaign. >> i think you see that already. you saw scott walker last week asked about this and he promised to reverse this deal on the first day or first month in office -- >> would you! >> and it is not a big issue in the primary because all of the republican candidates have come out against the deal so there is not any way to distinguish yourself on the issue. and hillary clinton, if you look at it what you are seeing in the debate with congress most republicans are strongly against this agreement. against this temporary deal. among democrats you've seen and the white house is worried about this, you've seen democrats, they are cautious looking at it closely, chuck schumer, the new majority leader potentially have been very cautious about this. and even hillary clinton's statement is like i want to look at the details. generally supportive but not as positive as jeb bush's statement was opposing it which was sharp

and opposed to the deal. >> you are talking about the potential would-be candidates. let's talk about 2016 because it is starting to heat up. ted cruz made it official about two weeks ago today. tomorrow it is rand paul's turn. and he's announcing in kentucky and then doing this five-state swing tour in the primary states of new hampshire, iowa nevada and ending with a fundraiser in california. and he gave politico of the slogan he'll unveil tomorrow. defeat the washington machine, unleash the american dream. something they hope to work for the primary and also in the general election. i have to say, rand paul is someone who is an attractive candidate in the republican field where he has a broad appeal among folks not just in the tea party group but one thing i think is a challenge for him is foreign policy if you look at the news cycle dominated by foreign policy and the sense that americans have anxiety with terrorism right now so how will

that play out for him. >> i think you have the exactly the right point which is rand paul is saying and in what he released today, he is a different kind of republican. that is true. he is more libertarian and more outreach to black communities. but the one thing he is different on is foreign policy. he was very skeptical of the iraq war and talked about how he doesn't want to see american troops in a lot of places. 'greed to normalize relations with cuba but the problem is now that when rand paul won in 2010 we were talking about shrinking the government and now it is about russia and isis and iran and israel and that is where rand paul has taken vups that the -- taken views that the republican party does not agree. there are some young republicans that agree with what he is saying but the older established parts of the party don't agree.

you have lindsayey graham and john boldin criticizing him and you have mark rubio. there is a debate coming up where you might see rand paul take one view and ten or 11 other people take the other view and that makes it hard to win. >> and perry, it is not just rand paul talking about. we are hearing that former secretary hillary clinton might rub for president. >> it is out of left field. but if she were to run for president, do you think that announcement come this week. >> coming up in the next two to three weeks i'm told. it will shock the world of course. but i will say one thing, about the campaign in particularly. if you asked me in january, who was more likely to run between martin o'malley and marco rubio, i would have said martin o'malley will run against hillary, but rubio would stand down because jeb bush is

running. but no democrat has announced their running because they feel like she'll be insurmountable. and the numbers suggest jeb bush might win but he is not so strong, that where others don't think they can win this thing. >> and thank you for that debate. and as always there is not that much life in washington as they continue the two-week easter session. >> must be nice. >> and they should get back because abby loves the cherry blossoms. 100 years running, and we captured these beautiful images on the mall. and the final four many brackets, including mine are not exactly good -- can we skip this next block.

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if you are like me this weekend, you watched your bracket do this -- >> yes, like the death star the ultimate power in college basketball universe the kentucky wildcats saw their dreams and millions of brackets close after the badgers upset the heavy favorites. they will face the duke blue devils who easily beat michigan state. so can the badgers continue to shock the world or will duke win the fifth national championship. and the next guest has not waivered from the pick of duke. and a friend of the show and host from the beginning you have not waivered.

>> i have to give it up to duke because they wam through for me. look at the rest of my final four. it is a mess. >> what was it about duke from the beginning that you thought they would do it. >> i thought they had a perfect combination of size. okafor and athleticism. coaching and guards. last year i picked uconn over florida. >> oh, no. >> look at his face. >> i think combination of size and guards, athleticism and coaching. and wisconsin has that. and i picked wisconsin over kentucky and i also picked arizonaand look at what happened. i had a lot of mistakes abby. >> utah state, that was amazing. >> and you feeling duke -- over wisconsin. >> they are the under dog. and i didn't think wisconsin beating kentucky was a huge

upset. i think the win over duke was a bigger deal. and i think kaminski came back for this he won the award player and duke played them and hammered them. and so this is a rematch between two teams. >> and who is the -- [ overlapping speakers ] >> there is one thing you are leaving out of the kentucky-wisconsin game is that i feel like kentucky choked they didn't score for four our five minutes and they didn't rise to the moment game after game before that. they've been tested before. but not quite like this. and they sort of just shrunk. and it was amazing to watch. >> i've been talking to people about did they get nervous in the moment. i don't know if they got nervous but they got tight and that impacted the game. and the other note is i don't want to hammer on their head coach, calipari and maybe the

over all pick in the draft, he was 7 of 11 for the second half and barely touches the ball in the final minutes. >> and if you missed the foul shots in the end. >> and they were riding his back. >> so just keep dumping. >> so we have to give wisconsin credit, but kentucky you probably gave this game away in a sense. >> they didn't do what they could have done. >> and so in the final game. what should we look for. and i believe you have a piece of what we should be watching for. >> i do. i would say kaminski versus okafor. they have the two best in the country and they are guarding each other. and sam dekker who played at the lebron skills academy, has not had a great junior jeer and had a great tournament and winslow who might be number two or three pick in the draft and that is a big match-up and we can talk about the big guys but whom ever wins that can win the game. >> out of kaminski and okafor

who will play for the new york nick erknickerbockers next year. >> if somebody goes there, and if they go to the knicks it might not work out. >> of course. >> and that is a team where you either love duke and you are obsesses with duke or you cannot stand duke. krystal said i'm hoping duke does not win. >> that is all i care about. and i care about them losing. >> if people hate duke i understand, because they have the four titles. and if mike krizin ski wins he will have the titles. >> nobody hates unc or anybody like that or hate kentucky like that. but somebody about duke and christian laettner you just want to hate him. >> and wisconsin won the tight until '41, the third ever final

four. so they are a likeable team. >> and you don't even hate sashefski. >> and if you recall last week toure and i made this bet with jordan shults who had duke. >> are you going to put your money where your mouth is. >> let's say duke wins. toure has to come on the air and bow down and say you were right and if kentucky wins you come on and admit defeat and give me full credit. shake on it. >> shake on it. >> i'm not shaking on it. >> but whoever loses has to admit the other is a jeanus -- genius. >> and so here we are. i know why you have a sports show and i don't. >> and i have to admit. you were better than me this year. jordan congratulations. kentucky choked and you are the

ncaa basketball man of the year as far as the "the cycle," 2015 is concerned. and tonight i will continue hating on you as i enthusiastically root for duke to lose even though that means our executive producer will win "the cycle" pool which is horrible. thank goodness baseball opening day is here to pique my sports expertise and interest. right now the yankee are losing 6-1 # in the 8th. goodbye, jordan. get out of here. people ship all kinds of things. but what if that thing is a few hundred thousand doses of flu vaccine. that need to be kept at 41 degrees. while being shipped to a country where it's 90 degrees. in the shade. sound hard? yeah. does that mean people in laos shouldn't get their vaccine? we didn't think so. from figuring it out to getting it done, we're here to help.

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it sound like the plots of a james bond movie. scientistics manipulating the code of a deadly virus to make it easier to effect humans and it is happening around universities like darpa to understand and defeat an outbreak and while researchers in places like syria are suspected of stockpiling strains. and defense one looks at how science will need to prevent itself. and joining us now patrick tucker. patrick you open the piece about talking about a 2012 study out of wisconsin where researchers took bird flu and manipulated it and took it easier to transmit

it through humans. >> this is a gain of function research where you are looking at a deadly pathogen and figuring out exactly that. what could happen to make it more deadly. that is to say it is gaining the function of lethality. at the time at the university of wisconsin and the researchers of netherlands undertook the study they had the full backing of the united states government and a bunch of different grants but when the results were published and they showed that changing the protein profile you could get this virus to exist and reproduce in the lungs of mammals, moving away from birds, all of a sudden it was a tremendous controversy and they placed a morityory um on the findings and in october of 2014 we now have a moratorium on that research, on gain of function research. >> and patrick, you say deadly pathogens is not something that terrorists or you call them

would-be super-villeons -- super villeons could create in their kitchens, but what should we be worried about? what could terrorists do at this moment? >> so i took a broad survey of those in the international security community who have a job at looking at threats that will emerge in five years. this is the area where the advance research project area is focused where the office of the director of intelligence is focused on a special report they are making and a spoke to geneticists and they said right now manipulating pathogens is really hard to do but in a very short period of time it will become easier to do because of the exponential weight of improvement and what we understand about biological science about a function of technology. so we are in a window where we could do something about what

could be a big threat according to a lot of people. but right now we are relatively safe from somebody creating a sin thet cally pathogen but not that long. >> is there any discussion within the scientific community, we are creating these things these studies these viruses, that can be taken and used and terrorists, so maybe we shouldn't do that research that could be flipped around and used against people? is anybody saying maybe we should be conducting business a little bit differently? >> so the biological weapons convention does prohibit the united states from making bioweapons. we don't actually do it. many countries aren't doing it but when you look at what gain of function research is it has that sort of aspect. two researchers out of the university of arizona have proposed this sort of framework where you can kind of predict what science might do before

results are released so you can look at the impact of entire areas of scientific inquiry and determine whether or not we should go down that road or how to go down that road that makes it as safe as possible and that prevents you from having this situation where the government is funding this important research and posing a moratorium on those findings. >> that framework has riled the scientific community correct, because they don't feel like you should be thinking about and anticipating that this is an avenue that could be turned and be turned honest? >> exactly. this speaks to a fundamental argument that's within the core scientific community, which is on the one hand you have the entire scientific ethos that says inquiry should be open research should be open we

should just seek knowledge. in the results of that can be turned deadly that's up to the responsibility of people who do that. then you have this insurgent group that says we're not in that place anymore where any question should be answered in exactly the same sentence in which it is asked, so the two researchers receive a lot of pushback within the scientific community for this idea that we should predict what science does before it does it. but it's also an argument that's gaining traction from top geneticists and many other people from around the world. >> this isn't the first ever area of scientific research where the findings can be used for good or evil. >> i think there are probably a lot. the thing about nuclear material and the idea of research into atomic physics being either

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