. >> and christian ericson collapsed on the pitch and we'll see how he is doing. ! welcome back. it's 22 minutes past the hour. in a matter of hours this man could officially become israel's prime minister endi ing benjami neta netanyahu's time. we have the latest and what will happen in the coming hours. if you could give us a sense of the timing. >> sure, so just over four-and-a-half hours time, it will start with neftalli bennet, who is hoping to be the next prime men stir. he will speak and then it will be person set to succeed neftalli. you can bet that he will double down on criticisms of the government. he has been considered a fraud as far as being a right-wing politician promising not going into government. after that there will be a vote for the new speaker and once that is done then we get to the main event. we will have the vote of confidence in the new governing ko coalition. they will go all of the way around and room. they just need a simple majority. if they get that the new government will be sworn into office, and benjamin netanyahu could be out. it could happen

the euro 2020 match between denmark and finland is halted after a player christian ericson collapsedsuscitated. the terrifying moment was captured on the field. what do we need to know, don riddell? >> well, the news has been more positive in the last hour and a quarter and anyone who was following this sports occasion. i think that people were fearing the worst, because it did not look good, but the news we are hearing from both uefa and that is the football governing body and the organizers of the event, and the football federation suggests that ericson's condition is a little bit more positive than we had feared. the danish federation said that he is a awake and looking for further examination and he is at the hospital, and the news from uefa saying that the player has been transferred to the hospital and has been stabilize. a crisis meeting has been called between both teams and match officials. and fred, look at the reaction of everybody here in the stadium. because, they really did fear the worst. he collapsed under no challenge from any other player. he was prone in the corner

it was rod ericson calling on the phone about 9:45. and he asked me if would take the job as interim football coach. i accepted. i proceeded to make sure i got ahold of the team captains and other people so that we could get started immediately on the process. >> ron, your brother told me earlier today that you face a huge challenge. he said you are really sad about the whole -- the way this unfolded. now you face a toughest three-game stretch of the season. it is almost unparallel. >> first off, i -- i did talk to may brother later last night and i -- i first off i grieve for the victims. i grieve for the families. deeply saddened by that. it is with great emotion that i say that. and, you know, the football part, we will get working on that right youaway. i think you should know where our team is towards the whole issue. towards those children and towards their families and -- our thoughts and prayers are with them. >> jeff? >> i called coach paterno last night around 11:00. i think that's personal in nature. >> corey? >> tom, will m

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we have seen eric ericson address the issue. i was able to speak to some attendees here to get their reaction. we saw the crowd reaction. by and large, it was received favorably. i did speak to one woman who came down all the way from indianapolis. she was upset about it. she is not a donald trump supporter. she said she is probably going to vote for ted cruz or scott walker but she said the media is twisting these words and that donald trump should not have been disinvited. we have heard from carly fiorina, george petaki and lindsey graham and i was able to talk to governor mike huckabee and ask him what he thought about donald trump's comments. >> you know, mark, megyn kelly was a colleague for me for 6 1/2 years when i was at fox. she is one of the most remarkable people i know, intellectually, unsurpassed as a broadcast journalist. she has great integrity. i'm going to stand for megyn kelly. >> reporter: do you think it was inappropriate? did he cross the line with that comment? >> i certainly would never say anything about

eric ericson is here, he's a cnn contributor.ticket, does that greatly influence what has traditionally been a blue state of wisconsin, turning it red? >> it could. paul ryan won his congressional district as did barack obama. will it really make a difference in wisconsin? i'm not sure it makes a huge difference. i don't know that vice presidents make a big difference. >> even though people say this might be the most important decision that a presidential candidate makes is the picking of a running mate? >> it goes towards more is he ready and competent. it used to be presidents picked up vice presidents to swing states, but now it goes more towards policy ideals. he wants to woo states. when you dig into the polling, they are concerned about the national debt. a lot of people don't like paul ryan's plan, but he's willing to admit as he said this morning that both democrats and republicans have been to blame. when you have a vice presidential bid saying it was us as well, that sends a good message. >> how does this pick round out

i was reading eric ericson's blog. he said the reason that donald trump has that percentage is because republicans aren't jazzed about the entire field. >> there is something to be said about that. we really haven't seen the field gel together. tim pawlenty and newt gingrich are the two well-known names that have officially taken steps to run for president. the other ones haven't done so. republicans are looking for somebody to emerge from the field. i think that we will start to see that happen over the next month or so. donald trump says he will make a decision about whether to run for president, right before june. he has the celebrity prentice on nbc and he says he can't run for president. eric ericson, a c in. n contributor, a very-well-known voice, he is absolutely right. nobody is excited. still, there is a long way until the first contest in iowa in february of 2012. >> point well taken. mark preston, many thanks. a program note. later today in the "newsroom," donald tru donald trump, will he or won't he? he ans

or as eric ericson has been saying, there could be a brokered convention.blicans get out of this process and find that they don't have a candidate who is strong enough to face the president this fall, they may try to manipulate it in their favor. >> i thought there was talk that it was going to be jeb supporting mitt romney. >> all talk. horse hockey. >> horse feathers. thank you, goldie taylor. >>> next dan rathers will join me live. it's great to talk to him. he has a lot to say about politics and the media after the break. no problem. you want to save money on rv insurance? no problem. you want to save money on motorcycle insurance? no problem. you want to find a place to park all these things? fuggedaboud it. this is new york. hey little guy, wake up! aw, come off it mate! geico. saving people money on more than just car insurance. it's got 10 speeds, my friend. ♪ is it fast? it's got a lightning bolt on it, doesn't it? ♪ is it fast? i don't even know if it's street-legal. ♪ is it safe? oh, yeah. it's a volkswagen. [ male announcer ] the security of a j

he is marcus ericson. executive director of the five gyres institute.yres because you've been to the five subtropical gyres in the indian ocean. you have been in this part of the world where they're searching. before we get to that, you brought me some props. show me. >> yeah, i brought you a few things from the five subtropical gyres. we saw in 2009 right through the search area from perth, australia. and you find the same kind of debris. there's lots of big stuff from the fishing industry. like fishing buoys. you can see the orange, yellow and black buoys. you don't know what these things are until you get in the water and pick them out and find they're fishing gear. this is a truck tire from the japanese tsunami. a year and a half after that tsunami, we sailed from tokyo back to hawaii and found this debris. >> so when you're out there, because i haven't been to this part of the southern indn ocean. when you're out there and you're out on a boat, are you seeing this junk surrounding the boat, or do you have to go to the gyres to see this stuff? >> we

eric ericson is editor in chief of red state.com and cnn analyst as well. good to see you, from macon. >> thank you. >> all right, gentlemen. this sa pretty bad week, say many, for the president. roland, you first. was that a big gaffe with real staying power, the president would say the private sector is doing fine? >> of course it's a big gaffe. in terms of staying power, look, expect other gaffes to come down. this is not like what took place in 2008, where senator john mccain made his comments about the economy, and then center obama jumped on it. that was a different situation, because that was, you know, right before the election -- >> ultimately did it impact the election? you don't think it would in this case, five months out? >> it's five months out. lots of things are going to transpire over the next five months. what happens when the next jobs report comes out. it's happening now early. big difference. if this was september, october, it would be a different story. >> eric, how do you see it? romney pounced on that pretty immediately, within an ho

penn state's new president, rodney ericson, who took over when former president spanier was fired alongterno of a news conference after the three-point loss to nebraska today. he defended the decision to go ahead with the game after such an upsetting week. >> i personally felt that this was the time to play but it was also a time when we could recognize and bring national focus to the problem of sexual abuse. and to do so in a way that reflected unity and that reflected support and that reflected the need for us to bring these issues out into the open. >> the earliest offense in the grand jury report against jerry sandusky is from 1998. but a story in the patriot news of central pennsylvania shows as early as 1995 there were concerns of abuse. who may have been the victim here? sandusky's adopted son, matt. joining me now is a reporter who wrote the story on matt sandusky. sarah, you report that matt himself wrote a letter requesting to stay at the sandusky house and -- so what did you find out that -- how did you find out matt may have been abused? what's going on? >> reporter: well, i

fellow medic kurt ericson from norway explains how they work. >> we have a list of patients but we don'twrong with them so we don't have any idea before we see them and we do an assessment. >> reporter: our interview cut short by an incoming russian round. at a slightly safer distance from the fighting, they've parked their mobile clinic and treat who they can. alexander says his feet are in pain. >> can you ask him which foot it is? >> both. >> both. okay. >> reporter: he lives in an unheated apartment and he's suffering from frostbite. they will take him to a hospital outside bakhmut. and he couldn't leave a moment sooner. the russian noose is tightening. slowly russian forces are gaining ground, they are on the high ground behind me, they're advancing from the north and they're advancing from the south. the worse is yet to come says british volunteer soldier daniel burke. >> going to try to do a pincer movement around bakhmut, i don't think they're going to try to circle it, per se, but try to go past it through the fields and cut us off a bit. >> reporter: yet residents stay on and v

we are joined once again by erick ericson and van jones.green jobs initiatives. green jobs and jobs in general continue to be a very big challenge facing the president in his next term. what would you say the president needs to do or really can do realistically to try to get over that hump and create more jobs in this economy? >> one thing he should do is take more credit for the good that was done with the first attempt to build a green jobs and clean energy economy. there are 3.1 million green jobs in america right now. there's 70,000 people who are going to get up on tuesday morning, go to work in the wind energy industry. 70,000. only 80,000 coal miners. you've got real success there. he got a lot of heat on the solyndra scandal. >> he sure did. >> what people didn't look at though, that loan program was 95% successful. bain capital was only 0% successful. you actually do have work there to build on. i think there's an opportunity to move forward. i also think that because you have climate now, back on the agenda, the horrific outcome w

but i think what we're seeing from conservative commentators like eric ericson who's a high profile one are taking a stand and saying chris christie is doing what barack obama is not. and that gives them a talking point where they can stand with chris christie as opposed to ignore the story entirely or stand against him. and i think we'll see more of that in the days to come. >> interesting development. chris christie getting flak not just from the more liberal left but also from the more conservative right, especially a lot of those conservatives not happy with him when he welcomed barack obama, the president of the united states, to new jersey when superstorm sandy hit only days before the presidential election with mitt romney. brian, thanks very much. we're going to continue our special coverage here on cnn. the enormous political fallout only just beginning. lots more developments. we'll take a quick break. much more right after this. ♪ ♪ nothing says, "you're my #1 copilot," like a milk-bone biscuit. ♪ say it with milk-bone. [ chainsaw whirring ] humans -- sometimes life trips us

many consider denmark the sentimental favorite after their star midfielder, christian ericson, sufferedfor sha'carri richardson. usa track and field revealed their olympic roster tuesday, and the sprinter's name was not on it. she had hoped to compete in the 4 by 100 meter relay because the one-month suspension she recently received for a positive thc test would have ended before that event in tokyo. but a statement from usa track and field says while they fully agree the merit of the world anti-doping agency rules related to thc should be re-evaluated, it would be detrimental to the integrity of the u.s. olympic team trials for track and field if usatf amends its policies following competition only weeks before the olympic games. >>> i want to thank you for joining us. i'm rosemary church. i'll be back with more news? just a moment. do stay with us. so anyone who says lactaid isn't real milk is also saying mabel here isn't a real cow. and she really hates that. flowers are fighters. that's why the alzheimer's association walk to end alzheimer's is full of them. because flowers find a w

in case, the target was cnn contributor and editor-in-chief of red state.com's eric ericson.ric. >> good morning. >> you have talked about this. and you have been talking about this. now you're releasing the actual 911 tape. you posted it on your blog. it's just -- listening to it, it's just chilling. >> you know, i was really fortunate when the police showed up in the driveway, they were very professional. in fact, the police officer recognized me from cnn and as my kids came bounding out of the house, he pretty much suspected that it was not what it purported to be. and he told me it was an accidental shooting. it was only when i heard the 911 call that i realized it was much more than that. and the other police officer came up the hill with his hand on the gun as my 3-year-old is dancing around in the front yard excited at the blue lights, it finally sunk in this could have been a lot worse. >> who do you suppose is doing this? >> no one really knows. there are all sorts of suspects out there. there's why so many members of congress have asked the fbi to look into it. it i

eric ericson and white house correspondent for the america urban radio network, april ryan.ts on the blog support the xal orships, this is people of different ages and races. nelson wrote -- i'm a proud hispanic. i don't see anything wrong with an all white male scholarship. i've heard of every type of scholarship program out there for every race so it's only fair. april, you don't like it. >> once we start down this road, you may as well start back into saying whites only water fountains and whites only buildings again. i have an 8-year-old child saying, mommy, tell me about what happened back then. we're reverting insteld of going forward. he can say it's not about race. it's about race and gender. it's definitely targeting white men. what about a hispanic woman? what about a black man? not allowed. >> april, what he says is there's already scholarships for all those people. there's scholarships for people with left hands, for people who are tall, for people who are lutheran, catholic. he's saying with the way -- he also says he's not looking to the past but the future. a

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he was implicated by a former acquaintance, charles ericson, who claimed he had dream like memories ofurt he lied. and ferguson believes it's time for him to be freed as well. >> the guy is a lot of things. but the thing is, he's innocent. >> reporter: ferguson emerges from prison surprisingly poised. he's writing a book, he auto go a girlfriend. and friends already say, go into politics. >> mayor of -- >> mayor of columbia. indeed. >> next attorney general. >> yes. that -- [ applause ] >> now, that got a big ovation from the crowd last night after awful that family has been through. but he's not really saying what he wants to do next. he's just taking it a day at a time. there's a new picture up on his facebook page showing what he did last night. he's got a big steak in one hand and a beer in other. >> he just looks -- well, he sounds so surprisingly mentally healthy and not bitter. it's difficult to believe he's not bitter. >> this is a remarkable family. his father was coaching him the entire time he was in prison saying, you've got to get smarter and stronger and faster. that's ho

john ericson picked up a gun, said i can't believe this director is making me stay late. put it to his head, pulled the trigger and killed himself. he was joking around. but these are not toys. so the armorer should have been there. why it was loaded, i have no idea. if we look at the gun itself. a common practice from some armorers, not all, is they used unmodified weapons. you can't put a real bullet in there. a real round if you wanted. any weapon i put on a set, it is modified so you can't put a round in there. i read somewhere this gun was modified to fire quicker so you could do a quick draw scenario. you depress the trigger and take the hammer back like you see in old west movies where they hammer fire it. that made it easier to fire. so alec baldwin's story of it getting caught on his jacket is very appplausible. how did the rounds get there? i don't know. hannah gutierrez reed was very inexperienced. if you can't tell a difference between a live round and blank, you should not be an armorer. her fingerprints are on at least one round. if you can't tell the differ

. >> cnn contributor and tea party supporter eric ericson says in his column today, single parent homesare also blaming violent individual yes games and movies. after all, 11, 11 violent movies are now in theaters just one week before christmas, the day we celebrate christ's birth. >> simply a customer trying to conduct a transaction. >> last chance, fancy pants. >> very well. >> including that one. quentin tarantino's "django unchained." >> a horrible tragedy, you know. what are you going to say about it? it is horrible. but, you know, at the same time, no, i don't think it has anything to do with that. but this is going back to shakes peier -- shakespeare's days. i think that's a very facile argument. >> republican lawmakers, louie gomer, blames too few guns say if the principal had a gun she could have taken out the shooter and prevented the rampage. maybe there are too many guns. dianne feinstein plans to introduce legislation banning assault weapons. but will that or anything else stop the carnage? talk back question for you today. what can be done to prevent another newtown? faceb

if she makes a run, backed by sarah palin, ericson, the blogger, she a conservative but also a woman. if she emerging as the republican nominee against nunn, a fascinating dynamic to watch as we talk about the sort of democratic attacks on the women, karen handel says she'll nu neutralize that because she's a woman. a candidate tough to beat in the fall. as dana reported, tough for any democrat in the obama era to win in the south, carol. >> speaking about the primary, the established republican now in the lead and waiting to see the results with karen handel, the tea party candidate, and backed by sarah palin. many thanks to you, peter. >>> keep talking about the losses the tea party will suffer. that could be the sign of the death of the tea party. two words for you n. that would be rand paul. tea party darling tied with jeb bush for the leading candidate for president. talk about that. commentator and columnist for "the blaze," and a political strategist. so what the tea party may do poorly electorally in the primaries today, but its influence has certainly moved the candidates to

erik ericson, are there some tensions as this new breed comes to washington running into the guys who have been here saying, slow down, kid, it doesn't work that way. >> there are always going to be some tensions. you can compromise with the president, with other republicans. it's a matter of what are you principles though. you will have some of the younger guys coming in, rand paul, marco rubio, who have principles or things they view as principles and they're not going to be willing to compromise on those. you'll have internal struggles and external struggles. to say that the republicans aren't willing to compromise, shut down this debate over the filibuster, last i checked, democrats were able to get health care out out of the senate. the s.t.a.r.t. treaty. they were able to get don't ask don't tell repealed and a whole host of other issues. >> we're here at the russell office building. elaine and i were walking up. we have three branches of government. republicans control one-half of one branch. that's not full control by any stretch. >> but it is important. thanks very visiting w

the conservative ericson said, so abortion barbree had a sugar daddy named ken, not the bio she claimedd time talking to women. >> the mere fact that wendy davis exaggerated her story, doesn't that hurt her candidacy. even some critics say it did. >> let's talk about the embellishment. she said she was divorced at 19. it turns out, she was separated at 19 and the divorce became official at 21. nothing changes the fact that she grew up under some real hardship. she raised her kids. she put herself through a community college, texas christian, with the help of scholarships. she married a man that helped her go and get her advanced degree from harvard law with loans they jointly repaid. this is a really compelling story. this is a personal narrative that a lot of women in texas and men too, frankly, can identify with. that's why republicans are going on the attack. >> they say it was wrong of her to leave out the fact that her ex-husband helped pay for her college education. >> they were married when she was in texas christian college. it is not something she has left out. it is something

of mostly white conservatives, tea party members, who according to conservative commentator eric ericsonrter: and cain's skin color gives him cover to say things that the whites and other gop candidates don't dare say. >> i don't think racism in the country today holds anybody back in a big way. >> reporter: imagine a white person, let alone another gop candidate, uttering or even insinuating the same thing. >> what herman cain said made bigoted statements. >> i think he gets a pass largely because he's a black conservative and can say what black conservatives can say the same way a black person could say or any white person could say. their experience in the united states. >> reporter: and experience that cain believes he's more in tune with than a black man whose job he wants. >> he's never been part of the black experience in america. i can talk about that. i can talk about what it's meant to be poor before i was poor. >> reporter: four years later, like candidate obama, candidate cain. by chance or design, has landed on america's

at the same time, you see eric ericson taking a similar stance right now. he wrote an op-ed called "i support the president." but if you read it, what it says is i don't see anything impeachable right now, but if i do, i will not support the president. what amounts to a pretty big gap. i think you'll see more and more on the right, especially within that media environment, preparing for a post-trump conservative movement. and they want to make sure that they're not so tied to whatever could come out next. >> i wonder if president trump has even thought about the post-trump because right now it seems like, you know, the republican party and president trump are really one in the same. sarah, brian, as always, i appreciate the discussion. you're great voices to have on this. thank you. >>> president trump claims there was no quid pro quo between his administration and ukraine's leaders, but new damning text messages seem to contradict the president's claims. what they could mean for the impeachment fight, next. i work hard and i want my money to work hard too.

so i have with me radio host eric ericson there in atlanta.ou. >> good to see you. >> when you look at ohio and again highlighting this district 35 years republican, you have this republican candidate up by this teeny tiny percentage point, even if balderson goes on to win, it's a bit of a hallow victory for them. and so you tell me if what i'm about to say is total myth or real that this is just the latest signal that republicans will lose big in november. >> i don't know that they will lose big because they have some institutional things in place that help them, but if you go back to 2009 and 2010, the trend lines are the same. 2009 after barack obama got elected, you had a series of special elections and elsewhere that went to republicans, some of them really closely. >> so reality, not myth? >> not myth at all. the end of 2009, democrats in 2009 lost the virginia legislature and then in 2010 there was a steady stream of republican pickups in places no one saw. we're seeing the same pattern in reverse this time which typically happens in th

and i would like to thank chris cross and doug ericson for staying with us and helping us while we were in china and taking care of us. i am grateful for the ucla team that stood strong besides us and made it possible for me to be here in front of y'all today. i respect all the hard work they put into get us back to the united states. and also i would like to thank president trump and the united states government for the help they provided as well. i am grateful to be back home and i will never make a mistake like this again. i am extremely sorry for those that i let down. i am thankful for all the help and love and support that they provided. i will take full responsibility for my action and i am sorry. thank you. >> first off, i would like to apologize all the fans that supported ucla. i felt like my actions have hurt them the most. i think see the pain that i caused to my teammates and family because of how much negative attention that i put on them and they do not deserve this. what i did was stupid and i am not that type of person. i hope this mistake will not define me as a person

. >> michl ericson's mother rhonda called this reported finding of criminal wrong doing by general motors and she told me "it makes me very sad that a company already extremely wealthy would be so callous and evil to knowingly allow a faulty dangerous product to stay on the market and watch it being purchased by innocent trusting customers." i should note candice and rhonda agreed to accept gm's settlement money. they are part of their victim compensation fund but it was a very difficult decision for them to agree to do that because in doing so they give up their right forever to sue general motors. >> is it the feeling that once they accept that money that case closed? there is no other chapter for them as it pertains to gm? >> reporter: exactly. for them they can no longer sue gm in any capacity related to this accident. however, it does not do anything to the department of justice investigation, which as you heard, "the new york times" is saying doj found criminal wrng doing. we'll see what that results in. will there be a settlement? will anyone stand trial? we don't know. >> it's an

image that has given people a lot of hope that emerged 30 minutes ago which would appear to show ericson awake and alert as he was taken off of the field, but you can see that they put the sheets around the stretcher, because they did not want people taking pictures. at this point, nobody knew, and we did not know, and we did not know anything. >> so, don, it was caught on the camera, but were they in the middle of the play? was there a break? i realize you said that he was on the play, but what was happening just prior to his collapse? >> well, the game was approachling halftime. we were three minutes before the halftime, and the game in full flow, and the score between denmark and finland and the game was goalless at this point. the game was happening. but as soon as he collapsed, it became very apparent very quickly that this was very serious, and so that the game was paused while he received treatment, and then suspended. the game remained suspended, and there is a chance that uefa will want to complete the game, and i will tell you why they would want to complete the game, because i