you get through the doors is a challenge. >> go to the west gates, see officer von reagan. >> the maricopa county jail has been the subject of more media attention than probably any other jail in america. in recent years it's been due to the county's policies toward illegal immigrants. before that, much of the coverage centered on its practices. such as constructing an outdoor housing facility with tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear. and the use of chain gangs to perform everything from maintenance work to burying the indigent. behind it all is the man who has run the jail since 1992. sheriff joe arpaio. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposely want your jails to be tough, correct? >> well, i sure don't want it to be a hilton hotel like some other prisons around the nation. it's all this rehabilitation, education. we have all that in our jails, nobody talks about, but we punish our children, take away certain things from them, privileges. why can't we punish people who committed c

the systems work, even how you get through the doors is a challenge. >> gr to the west gates. >> the maricopa county jail is the subject of more media attention than probably any other jail in america. in recent years, it's been due to the county's policies towards illegal immigrants. before that, much of the coverage centered on practices such as constructing an outdoor facility with the tents. the striped uniforms and pink underwear inmates are required to wear and the chain gangs to maintenance work to bury the indigent. the man who has run the jail is sheriff joe. >> one of my philosophies is you should never live better in jail than you do on the outside. >> you purposefully want your jails to be tough, correct? >> i sure don't want it to be a hilton hotel like other prisons. it's almost rehabilitation and education and we have all that that nobody talks about. we used to punish our children and take away certain things from them. privileges. why can't we public people who committed crimes and take away their privileges? >> there is probably not another law enforcement figure in america

no. >>> at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, the average stay is 26 days.as been here for six months while she and her attorney attempt to reach a plea deal with her prosecutor. >> you're in a little box all day, either by yourself or with a stranger that you don't know anything about. you don't know why they're there. and you can't have fun in jail. you can try, but you're here to do time and leave. >> but now at least the end is in sight. daley decided to sign a plea deal reducing her charge of sexual misconduct with a minor to attempted sexual misconduct with a minor. as a result, she will serve another six months at mayor cope pal before going home. but she will also face lifelong probation and must register as a sex offender adhering to the long list of restrictions that come with it. >> the fear i have once i leave is the fact that every time i see someone younger than me or younger than 18 i'm going to have to -- i'm going to have to turn and basically run away. i'm going to be labeled as a sex offender the rest of my life. and it's really hard becau

>> maricopa county is a recipient of federal financial assistance from the department of justice. maricopa county then takes a portion of that assistance and maricopa county sheriff's office is a subrecipient. so the money passes through the county to the sheriff's office. when you accept that assistance, you sign assurances that you will not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin nor will any of the subrecipients to whom you give money discriminate. and so they have liability. when we spoke and wrote to the county attorney back in april, we explicitly noted that. so he has certainly been on notice. he participated as you are probably aware in the february 6th settlement discussions that we had. and so that is the role of maricopa county in this particular case. >> you said that you continue to be willing to sit down. your last letter to them essentially said that negotiations are over. are you still going to sit down? >> i'm willing to -- they have the document. they have a 128-page document. we have to make a finding that we have exhausted all of our efforts. w

made it through it, i got it done. >> kelly mcnut was one of the more colorful inmates we met at the maricopanty jail and her tattoos were some of the more provocative we've ever seen on a female inmate. >> and then the moon doing something to the lady. and look and see how the moon doesn't look happy doing it but she's still like getting her. >> while some inmates have their ink work done before getting locked up -- >> this is the outline of arizona with the building with the flag. i got that in the army. >> -- we met plenty of others who get their tattoos on the inside. >> i got this knocked out in prison. the name of the project is orient heights. the building i grew up in is 191, fairwood ave.. >> everything that i got is a prison tattoo, actually. >> i heard somewhere prison tattoos are like the prison experience. it hurts when you're getting them, it's bloody, some scabs and bruises but when it's all healed up and it's all said and done, there's something left over. >> nice back piece, ain't it? get your back piece on camera, baby! huh? showing off your work, son. >> yeah? >> huh? >> th

. ♪ ♪ >>> life inside the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, is constantly changing. to a steady influx of nearly 400 inmates per day. unlike prison, where all the inmates have been convicted of a crime, the majority of jail inmates have either been accused of a crime or are awaiting sentencing. most of these new arrivals will stay a day or two before leaving on bond or dismissal of charges. others might stay for years, until their cases are settled. but no matter how long they're here, jail has a way of changing people. the dorms at maricopa's women's facility can be as transformative a setting as any. and one dorm in particular has earned a reputation. >> this particular dorm, g dorm, houses a lot of different inmates. a lot of them are repeat offenders and they come back in and see each other and they begin these relationships that are unauthorized or that we don't allow. so it can get pretty wild here in g dorm. >> one of those repeat offenders, kelly mcnaughton, is better known by her nickname. >> mcnaughty. as every officer here knows me. the sergeants. i tried t

and if jake gives them the thumbs-up, i'll take a listen. >> the plan went into effect at the maricopazona. >> he kind of used me for the litmus test, so to speak, on if they were good or not. at one point i was told, come up here. and i went up and there they were. they were two of the most interested inmates i've met working on "lockup." ♪ come out blasting i'm about as hungry ♪ ♪ as a taliban bastard i'm going to fill my plate ♪ ♪ it's a crime buffet >> i was actually blown away. for being two different artists from two different locations they actually worked well together. ♪ just remember if you like it or not ♪ >> cousin ice is really 45-year-old titus fisher. he's at maricopa, awaiting trial on a charge of firearm possession by an ex-felon. >> toilet, write on the toilet, make your own beats. you know what i mean? ♪ >> fisher's cellmate is 20-year-old dinell thompson. better known here as duker. thompson was at maricopa appealing 2 murder convictions that could land him in prison for at least 32 years. >> keep the noise down over there. >> rap has helped the two men bridge their

. >> after a violent dispute, two former roommates both end up in the maricopa county jail. >> you don't seem to be too sad about the fact that she got shot and lost an eye. >> i'm not. >>> few jails in america receive as much media coverage as the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona. while many stories focus on things like the striped uniform and pink underwear that both male and female inmates are required to wear, we tried to learn more about the inmates themselves. it didn't take long before we noticed rita, who was at maricopa facing 11 charges along with various misdemeanors. >> yeah. only 11. not bad. if you're going to go, you got to go all out. right? i got an f-2, fraudulent schemes. eight f-4, forgeries. i got a dui, dui, drugs. drug paraphernalia, failure to appear. >> she proclaimed her innocence on all the charges. and none had to do with the loss of her eye. which occurred shortly before her arrest. >> for such a tragic shocking thing as losing an eye, rita had a fairly decent attitude about it. she was pretty upbeat and positive and she took it out and showed us. >>

such was the case with clark fish, who we met at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, while was awaiting trial for murder. >> as a producer, it's challenging to find your characters and to find the important stories in a place like maricopa county with 9,000 inmates. so you're always looking for reasons to talk to people or things that might be interesting. in the case of clark fish, i came across him in a very, very unique way. i was walking past his cell and i saw how his socks had been folded and his socks had been rolled up in a ball with these little smiles. and as a veteran, i knew that's exactly how you folded -- were trained to fold your socks in the military. and so i said, were you in the service? and he goes, yeah, i was in the army. >> i joined the army straight out of high school. it was a conviction of mine because we as a family, a lot of males in the family, have been part of the service. and so i felt it was my obligation, and i was a health care specialist. i had no idea what it meant to be a health care specialist. all i knew is i wanted to do something me

who is the county attorney for maricopa county, arizona which is sort of, i guess a lot of people call ground zero of the immigration debate in arizona and certainly in the country. we have reverend robin hoover, who was the founder of humane borders, who was criticized and has been criticized very heavily for just trying to, as he puts it, do god's work on the border and protect people who are just coming trying to better their lives, and we also have dr. doug massey, who's been studying mexican migration across the border for 30 years, at least? at least. if there's anybody that understands the issue of why people come here and how long they plan to stay and what they do while they're here, it's dr. massey. so i will sit down and i will turn the podium over to bill montgomery who will lead off this discussion. bill? >> well, thank you very much, todd. appreciate the invitation to be here today, and i want to start off with establishing what my role is as i see it within the context of our immigration system within our country, share with you, then, some initial observations both from

. ♪ >> eliot: quote, the maricopa county sheriff office and joe arpaio continue to to engage in the patternected at latinos. jail employees referring to latinos by derogatory names such as wetbacks and stupid mexicans and holding inmates in solitary confinement just because they don't speak english and a latino woman was physically abused and held in the backseat of an un-air conditioned patrol car for 30 minutes. stories and incidents like this go on and on, a cornucopia of evidence. in addition to the discriminatory treatment of latinos, the suit claims that arpaio's office has focused so much on low level i am placing offenses that is it has resulted in a failure to up old other duties. >> i'm not going to surrender my offense to the federal government. i will fight this to the bitter end. >> eliot: joining mow now house state leader chet campbell whose district is part of maricopa county and alisonandr ra sola ra. it appears to be a police state based on racist principles. >> i think the sheriff has been doing this for quite awhile in maricopa county. he has been playing the politics of

would be in the state that has turned seventy in these groups and so forth also when we don't protest against your pio whom i debated about a month about a year ago and a month in maricopa county so this isn't the first time we saw the incident that happened not to log if you already a member of the federation of immigration reform that also went into arizona also killed a young girl and her father from one photo to be seen in the forest it's out of control it's out of control that's not what this country is all about and that's what these hateful laws do s.b. ten seventy in arizona or fifty six in alabama and we're going to turn this country around so that people realize like the farm workers that were talked about a moment ago these are people looking for a better life which is the foundation of this country. coming from all over the world and allowing us to come in through the front door something they can't do there's no recess for these people that and you have these people promoting haydon and it leads to these hate crimes it seems that there are two obvious. sparks for these kind of things one just good old fashioned bigotry racial hatred religious hatred ethnic

he had has children, the maricopa county sheriff's office came because the papers in the work for 14 plus years had not come through and he was illegal. they took rosa's mother and father from her home and left ross to care to her 119, of 6-year-old sibling as loan. talk about an erosion of social conscience to say nothing about the need to refine our punitive paths towards citizenship. truth is, sb1070 and others are not creating safe communities. they're breaking them. what kind of value system that is? finally, and in addition, in this country, it has been proposed that it is illegal for me and members of the faith community to offer care to offer transportation, to offer assistance, to people who have crossed over the border. often the great political engine that drives our law making skims and slides over a track oiled by ego and political expediency, but sometimes it sinks into the stable track of progress, the emancipation, civil rights, south african truth in reconciliation commission. and suddenly people start hearing words like this being used in forming public policy, fair

county republican precinct committee of course maricopa county is famous for sheriff joe arpaio one of the most radical anti immigration voices in our nation but he was also associated with former arizona state senator russell pearce the author of arizona's radical papers please law referring to piers as his surrogate father the reddy was later forced out of his position as precinct committeemen after he started distributing racist in anti-semitic material he then went on to join the notorious white supremacist organization known as the national socialist movement participating in several events with that organization between two thousand and nine and two thousand and ten he then left to form his own board of vigilante group known as the u.s. border guard here's reddy talking about his job as a border vigilante we have assault weapons we have you know grenades we have a lot of equipment so we're prepared to use deadly force but that's a deadly force situation that say that does happen i mean are you just trying to detain them and we'll kill them and turn them in well tell them ok we'll kil

but at the maricopa county jail sheriff joe arpaio chose the black and white stripe uniforms and thesocks to send a message. >> this is joe arpaio's way to separate us away from regular society. >> put them in pink underwear. because they were smuggling the white underwear out of the jail. that is the official reason. the unofficial reason, they hate pink. you never give them a color they like. why give them things they like? >> though generally not allowed, inmates sometimes alter their uniforms to fit their own fashion sense. at the orange county jail in southern california we met a transgender inmate who prefers to be called alexis. >> myself and my celly are dressed as girls and the rest are dressed as guys. >> despite his physical appearance cortez was a male inmate housed in a men's unit. >> if you are in the process of having a sex change, if you have your male genital parts you are considered a male and be housed there whether or not you have breasts or -- it's what's below the belt that counts. >> at first it was startling watching these tapes when they came in from the fiel

he's accused of civil rights violations including racially profiling of latinos by the maricopa county's department. the justice department wanted reforms including a court appointed monitor. they are accusing the sheriff of cutting off communications. the sheriff denies the racial profiling allegations and says he will not give unhis authority to the federal government. >>> today, suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi is expected to submit his witness list in his fight to keep his job. that list might reveal how mirkarimi plans to defend himself before the city's ethics committee later this month. last week mayor lee submitted his witness list. it includes his neighbor, ivory madison, the mayor's list also includes christina flores, mirkarimi's former girlfriend, and retired sheriff, michael hennessey. >>> police are searching for the driver who hit a 4-year-old in a concord street and took off. doctors say she may never walk normally again. she had surgery on her broken knew her yesterday. her ankle and tendons were also badly damaged. police say the pickup hit the girl as s

federal officials announced plans to sue the maricopa county sheriff's office over allegations of civil including racial profiling. william la jeunesse is live in phoenix with more. william? >> reporter: jenna that battle should land in federal court within the hour. the justice department claims that the sheriff is guilty of widespread discrimination against hispanics. on the streets and in the jails. punishing inmates for speaking spanish. stopping hispanic drivers up to nine times more often than whites. and that his crackdown on illegal immigrants unfairly and illegally targeted hispanics. therefore the civil rights division believes that they need an independent, outside monitor to oversee the day-to-day operations at the maricopa county sheriff's department. the sheriff says that is unacceptable t would mean that every decision he made had to be cleared in washington first. that this is a political hit job. >> i'm the poster boy for this illegal immigration situation. 3 1/2 years it's been going on and why is it now being finalized if they sue? they say they have the intent to sue

>> the minute we met josh pike at the maricopa county jail in phoenix, arizona, he stood out. >> look at this. give us a fricken -- this is all we have to cut our fingernails and sharpen our pencils. that's what the black stuff is on there. after you emery board your nails you have a little sashay action going on. you know what i mean? stop. you know what i mean? >> josh pike was a firehose on full open throttle that was uncontrollable. was whipping around and you just -- you couldn't contain the stream that was josh pike. >> i have to say the dinners have gotten better. i don't know what they did. i guess they have a new nutritionist or something like that that's coming through here and shaking things up. the dinners are a little bit better. i mean, they're edible. >> josh pike is great for tv. huge personality. however, i didn't quite realize he was going to be such a difficult interview subject. >> what's going on with you? you're getting a little approaching over there, huh? what's going on? i see you out of my peripheral, i'm on you like that. i know what's going on, pal. 50, 50

federal authorities say the maricopa sheriff failed to address racial discrimination and other violationsthe sheriff denies the accusation. >>> new fallout from the florida a&m hazing scandal. suspended marching band director white announced his retirement. 11 people face felony hazing charges in the death of drum major robert champion. >>> a possible break in a 22-year-old art heist. law enforcement agents have taken evidence from the home of suspected gangster robert gentili, facing drug and weapons charges but police believe he has information on the 1990 theft of paintings worth $500 million.

federal authorities say the maricopa sheriff failed to address racial discrimination and other violationsthe sheriff denies the accusation. >>> new fallout from the florida a&m hazing scandal. suspended marching band director white announced his retirement. 11 people face felony hazing charges in the death of drum major robert champion. >>> a possible break in a 22-year-old art heist. law enforcement agents have taken evidence from the home of suspected gangster robert gentili, facing drug and weapons charges but police believe he has information on the 1990 theft of paintings worth $500 million. >>> we don't have time for the ridiculist tonight because of the breaking news this evening. see you tomorrow. good night. >>> good morning. welcome to "early start." i'm ashleigh banfield. >> i'm intra rea. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. let's get right to it. >>> the manhunt for one of the

attempts to find solutions have proven elusive here in maricopa county. the department of justice began its initial inquiries into allegations that montgomery county sheriff's -- miracle but sheriff's office were violating rights of people in maricopa county. following repeated at unsuccessful efforts to attend -- obtain voluntary compliance in connection with our investigation, the department took the unprecedented step of filing a lawsuit to force them to comply. this caused them to meet their legal obligations and it was settled in june 2011. six months later the department issued its letter of findings detailing the results of our investigation. we found there is reasonable cause to believe mcso engage in a pattern of practice of discriminatory police sang with latinos, -- policing with latinos, and founded several lawsuits and meritless practices. after we issue our findings letter last december, we tried to reach a negotiated settlement. the united states is not seeking monetary damages or attorneys' fees in connection with our case. title 6 authorizes

. >> we met brian crist at the maricopa county jail in phoenix shortly before his conviction on a murderami, that's my getaway. i have a bird that flies and a frog that jumps. that's the superchamp. front flip. put him in the olympics, man. >> it's really striking and poignant to see inmates who oftentimes are in for incredibly violent crimes sitting there delicately folding this paper over hours into frogs and elephants and that kind of thing. and it really does seem to calm their nerves and almost transform them. >> nobody had a menagerie to match that of philip stroud, who was serving three life sentences for murder at the wabash valley correctional facility in indiana. >> basically making origami figures. you've got the lion, you've got the swan, you've got the rabbit, little puppy, dinosaur, flower. my niece, she loves the little goldfish. this is my favorite one because it turns into like a kaleidoscope-type thing. the hardest one to make was probably the elephant because it got a lot of folds. i'm an artsy fartsy type of guy, i guess you could say. it's basically a way to spend my

they have proven elusive here in maricopa county n june 2008 the department of justice began its initial inquiry into allegations that montgomery county sheriff's office and cher ar pio were violating constitutional rights of people many maricopa county. in september of 2007 following repeated unsuccessful efforts to obtain mcsos and the sheriff's voluntary compliance with the legal obligation to provide information in connection with our

we now have more details on the department of justice is lawsuit against maricopa county sheriff's department run by the infamous sure of joe arpaio included in a lawsuit is a laundry list detailing rampant violent and degrading mistreatment of latinos first there are allegations that are piles of office assaulted pregnant latino women with this example this is from the justice department and m.c.s. america maricopa county sheriff's office officer stopped a latino woman a citizen of the united states and five months pregnant at the time as she pulled into her driveway after she exit or car the officer then insisted that she sit on the foot of the car when she refused the officer grabbed her arms pulled them behind her back and slammed her stomach first into the vehicle three times and then drag her to the patrol car and shoved her into the back seat the woman who was later given a ticket for failure to provide identification. then there are allegations that our pios office stalked latino women with this case highlighted to m.c.s. so officers followed a latino woman a citizen of the united sta

are trying to force the sheriff to accept an outside monitor who will oversee the operations of the maricopaffice. he says that's unacceptable. >> i have complete confidence in my organization. it's a very professional organization. i believe in my dedicated employees. they have a tough job to do. and i'm not going to surrender the office of the elected sheriff to be taken over by the federal government. >> reporter: the sheriff admits his officers made mistakes. but he does not believe there is a systemic problem and he believes this is a political hit job. martha: what do the feds say about that? >> reporter: the government argues that arpaio is guilty of wide-spread abuse. that the deputies punished hispanic inmates for speaking spanish and spanish were times for likely to be stopped than whites. arpaio says, this all anecdotal. this is isolated examples. show me the evidence. the county attorney who prosecutes these cases and must take these arrests into court says he wants to see the evidence as well. so far the feds have refused. >> they neglected to take into account that i have a sep

they accused arpaio and the maricopa county sheriff's office of a bias against latinos and one of histtorneys calls the government's investigation a witch hunt. >>> there's something over at the treasury department that hasn't been seen in more than three years. a budget surplus. last month the government took in more than it spent leaving $59 billion on the books. the last time that happened was september 2008, before the financial crisis when there was a $46 billion surplus, but the celebration is premature despite the windfall the government was still on track to post a $1.3 trillion deficit for this fiscal year. for complete political coverage be sure to read the ticker at cnnpolitics.com. >> two bombs that tara, part syria's capital. dozens are killed and hundreds are wounded. the opposition is blaming each other and but there are concerns another group may be to blame. arwa damon is standing by. >>> he was captured by the taliban in 2009 and we are learning about the controversial ways the u.s. government is trying to win his freedom. [ male announcer ] this was how my day began

we also now have the problem of transnational criminal organizations. we have cartel activity in maricopa county. last year the general in charge of southern command identified that well over 250 u.s. cities there's currently a cartel present. we had beheadings in arizona. we have had local on forcing officers ambushed by those engaged in cartel sponsored smuggling. we've had officers executed using cartel related tactics. this is going on in arizona right now. so securing our sovereign border is important for all of those reasons, as well as if there is always an easy way to avoid a bureaucratic requirement, people are going to seek that route. water flowing downhill will seek the easiest route. i would submit that a definition of operational security includes stating that we're able to detect and interdict those entering our country in an area other than authorized point of entry within five miles of the border. where sensible -- defense doesn't work ever. you can have a eyes on if you can't get to that this. it is a speedball. it's not an obstacle worth spending money on. the use of bo

the u.s. supreme court last week. i can say emphatically because police officers and law enforcement in maricopa county now are enforcing laws in a non-discriminatory manner positive uphold the constitution and many come from the very ethnic backgrounds that opponents of sb1070 declayed they would have been racially profiled. which i find ludicrous in my ten-year history in working in maricopa county. it doesn't happen systemically the way people claim it will. does it happen on a case-by-case basis? sure, just as it does in other law enforcement agencies across the united states. small town, big cities. in terms, is the sky going to fall, this will result in a systemic racially profile approach? no. and it's my job as chief prosecutor to ensure that when we charge cases and prosecute them that it's done with constitutionally admissible evidence. i know what that leooks like. so do my over 300 prosecutors. i find it offensive people think we'll turn a blind eye to this one area of the law when we're completely competent to make the same assessment in every other area of the law that we deal with. >> this question is als

we also now have the problem with transnational criminal organizations. we have cartel activity in maricopa county. last year the general in charge of southern command identified in well over 250 u.s. cities there's currently a cartel presence. we've had beheadings in arizona. we've had local law enforcement officers ambushed by those engaged in cartel-sponsored smuggling. we've had officers executed using cartel-related tactics. this is going on in arizona right now. so securing our sovereign border support for all of those reasons as well as an easier way to require a requirement, people are going to seek that route. adage of water flowing downhill will seek the easier route. i would submit that a definition of operational security includes stating that we're able to detect and interdict those entering our country in an area other than an authorized port of entry within five miles of the border. where we're sensible, put a fence. but a fence doesn't work everywhere. you can't have eyes on if you didn't get to that fence. it's a speed bump. not really an obstacle worth spending money on. t

the maricopa county sheriff's office came because his paper had been in the work for 14 plus years had not come through and he was illegal. he took roosevelt his mother and father from her home and left laughter is a valid to care for her alive and, nine and 6-year-old siblings alone. talk about an erosion of social conscience to say nothing about our punitive path towards citizenship. s.b. 1070 others are not creating safe communities. they are breaking them. what kind of value system is that? and finally and in addition in this country that has been proposed, it is illegal for me to members of the sikh community to offer care to transportation, assistance to people who have crossed over the border. often the great political engine that drives our lawmaking scam than five overt track oil by eco-and political expediency, but sometimes it sinks into the stable track of progress, emancipation, civil rights, south african truth and reconciliation and suddenly people start hearing words like this being used in forming public policy. fairness, a quality, forgiveness we had love to begin of

. >>> the justice department filed suit against joe arpaio over discriminatory practices against latinos and pattern of unlawful conduct by maricopa deputies. >>> controversy growing over the latest "time" magazine cover. highlighting a story on attachment parenting by showing a mother breast feeding her three-year-old son. from questions of appropria appropriateness, the cover may be sensored on news stands. >>> a very rare calico lobster caught in maine is being donated to a science center. experts say the odds of an orange and yellow spotted crustacean could be 1 in 30 million. >>> in guatemala, mayan writings have shown calendars go to the year that is 3500, almost 1500 years farther in the future than others. so much for the predictions of the end of the world in december of 2012, never mind you have more time for the bucket list not to worry. >>> an early look how wall street will kick off the day. dow opens at the 12,855 after adding 19 points yesterday. the s and p up 3 points, but the nasdaq down 1. taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo the nikkei lost 56 points, while in hong kong the hang seng dropped

the extended forecast. ♪ >>> our lead story this ho, president barack obama is promising 23,000 maricopa will pull out of ghanistan by the end of the summer. he's on a surprise visit to the country. obama signed a deal that outlines the u.s. world there oncell-.s. role there once all soldiers go home. >> today a signed an historic agreement between the united states and afghanistan that defines a new kind of relationship bwe o cotrs. a future in which afghans responsible for the security of their nation, and we build an equal partnership between two sovereign states. >> ahead of the speech, obama and afghan president hamid karzai signed a strategic partnership agreement. the deal cents u. commitment to afghanistan after 2014. that's when american combat troops are subject to leave. the agreement aows u. forces to train afghan soldier and engage in sweep operations against al qaeda. >> others will ask, why don't we leave immediately? that answer is also clear -- we must give afghanistan the opportunity to stabilize. otherwise, our gains could be lost. and al qaeda could establish itself once more. as comma

i'm the poster boy from the president down to maricopa county. >> pete williams joins us now live fromday to you. basically they tried to make a deal. the justice department has filed suit now after months of negotiations. they were not able to reach a settlement over the allegations. is that what happened? >> exactly. and this lawsuit claims that sheriff arpaio actually encourages his deputies to unfairly target latinos. it says some parts of maricopa county, latino drivers are nine times as likely of being stopped on suspicion of being here legally. but those pulled over turn oud to be legal immigrants or u.s. citizens. >> at its core, this is an abuse of a power case involving a sheriff and a sheriff's office that disregarded the constitution, ignored sound police practices, compromised public safety, and did not hesitate to retaliate against perceived critics. >> it also says the sheriff's office refuses to speak anything but english to jail inmates. it also says the sheriff has falsely arrested or sued request critics of his tactics. after months of trying to reach a settlement wi

. >>> the justice department is suing a sheriff and his office to stop alleged discrimination. sheriff joe arpaio is accused of discriminating against latinos in maricopa, arizona. the sheriff says he welcomes the lawsuit and wants to see the government's evidence. >>> president obama may get a little rest after a late night fund razer at the home of -- fund racer at the home of george clooney. today the president heads to reno for a speech urging congress to pass mortgage refinanced legislation. >>> owning your own business can be very rewarding, but also very demanding. but there is some extra help for women in business and that's coming up at 5:50. we'll tell you where that's coming from. >>> the reds scirches unveil -- redskins unveil special uniforms in honor of the team's 80th anniversary. >>> howard lets us know if rain will spoil mother's day. we'll be right back. get your cash back! oh, hi. which cash back booth looks better to you, chase freedom or the largest cashback card? oh, i'll try the largest. oh, that is too bad. apparently you don't know chase freedom guarantees you 1% cash back. 4 times more than the largest cash back card, which on

too tough for the department of justice, by the way, which is now suing arpaio and the sheriff's office of maricopa>> there's reasonable cause to believe that mcfl and sheriff arpaio engage in discriminatory policing of latinos. >> he told ime there's no way he's going to stand for the accusations. >> i'm not going to let the federal government run my office. i'm the elected constitutional sheriff. i report to the people, 4 million in this county. they want to take over my office, and i have to tell them every time i want to do something. that's the problem with this lawsuit. that's the sticking point. >> let's go on because you talk about, they say you're racist and you're not. if you look at the evidence and look at what has been reported and what is on the record, for example, just giving one example, and there are a number of them, one example from the complaint, a pregnant latina, a u.s. citizen, was pulled over in her driveway. an officer slammed her against the car and shushed her in the back of a patrol car for 30 minutes. she was cited for failure to show id, and everything was for show id