now let's move to john rapping who is one of the individuals featured in the film. john, i remember when you first talked about starting a training center for public defenders, no one took you seriously. so what happened? you created it and you have been successfully training defenders. what motivated you to do that and how did it all come to be? >> first, i have been waiting 10 years. there is no doubt in my mind there is no civil rights struggle going on this country to make sure that poor people have lawyers. but it's something i really didn't understand when i started as a public defender. i started in a well resource office with manageable case loads and i was able to give clients with a gideon vision and then i moved to georgia for the statewide public defenders system in georgia and then i moved to new orleans in the wake of katrina to help rebuild that office and started to see what i experience nd dc was the exception and not the rule. for example i remember walking into a courtroom in new orleans, very first time ever walked into a courtroom in new orleans

so i met john rapping and he invited me to go to alabama as his training center and i just couldn't believe what i saw. i think being a lawyer, i was a litigate or, i didn't know anyone who was desperate to stay in the profession and desperate to do a good job and all the lawyers were this great energetic talking about justice and constitution and i thought that was a good story. so that's what happened. >> what was the story that you were trying to capture and how do you tell a story to a public that doesn't understand what public defenders do? >> you know, i really wasn't thinking about the public. i was thinking about me as a person. i was thinking, i'm not a bad person and i just didn't know. i agree with karen that people are moved by individual stories. i filmed for over three-and-a-half years. i went to each of the training sessions. gideon's promise they get together every six months. i went to all of those and in between those trips i went to visit the individual lawyers. i thought if i can show people what their -- because i kept wanting to answer the questions why could anybody d

so i met john rapping and he invited me to go to alabama as his training center and i just couldn't believe what i saw. i think being a lawyer, i was a litigate or, i didn't know anyone who was desperate to stay in the profession and desperate

john: i don't know. >> what about the muslims? >> he's making a joke about the catholics because they're having the rap about the sexual hangups. >> john: we're not letting gay people marry but they're allowing this sort of thing. >> wait a minute. >> john: that stuff builds -- >> beating people up because we think that marriage should be between a man and a woman? is that what we come to in this country? >> john: beating people up? >> it is justified catholics get dumped on because a man and a woman should get married. >> john: the hierarchy gets dumped on because they protect the child rapists. >> we did have a homosexual scandal. that's a quarter of a century ago. >> john: it's happened more recently than that. there hasn't been a case since 1985? >> the cases are the murder and rape of the children on the reservations. you know what the average number is? less than 10. 40,000 priests and less than ten credible accusations made each year for the last ten years. you're talking about old news that the media keeps drumming up because they're talking about a case they found in 1958 where some priest grabbed some guy's ass while he

dinner, tonight's dinners were halibut and filet mignon or as cnn's john king reports lasagna and kuz coo. >> president obama stepped behind rappolitical foes and himself. >> rush limbaugh warned you about this. second term, baby. they suggested i should start with some jokes at my own expense, just take myself down a peg. i was like, guys, after 4 1/2 years, how many pegs are there left? i'm not the strapping young muslim socialist that i used to be. my charm offensive has helped me learn some interesting things about what's going on in congress. it turns out absolutely nothing. i understand second term, need a rst of new energy and try some new things. and then my team and i talked about it. we were willing to try anything so we borrowed one of michelle's tricks. >> the president enlisted oscar winner steven stealberg for an off-style spoof. >> you know what? he nailed it. >> was i playing obama? i'll be honest, yeah, i was. it took a while. hello ohio, hello ohio, i love you back. look. look. let me be clear about this. it was challenging. you wouldn't believe how long it takes to put these ears on in the morning. >> it was

john s. mccain, a navy destroyer ship, has been deployed to the region. this ship is capable of shooting down missiles. rap tor fighter jets are also in the region now. the white house is keeping a close watch on north korea's actions and the provocative rhetoric from kim jong un. >> i would note despite the harsh rhetoric we're hearing from kim jong un, we are not seeing changes to the north korean military posture such as large-scale mobilizeation and positioning of forces. >> what this leads to is the fact that we need a solution to the fact that we have basically a nuclearized north korea. i think the country that can play the biggest role in this is china. >> south korea's new president says she will not wait for china to act. the south's first female president is taking a tough stance, telling her commanders if the north carolina rhys out an attack, they are ordered to respond forcefully and immediately and not wait for her approval. >> thank you, kelly. time for your first degree weather update with maria molina. >> yesterday felt like a pwraoufl day in the northeast but today it is going to feel a

back with us onset john meacham who sells a lot of rap albums.awmakers to task for hedging on new gun reforms in the wake of the newtown school shooting. at his speech yesterday in west hart fo hartford, connecticut with relatives of some of the victims in attendance the president pressed congress for action. >> connecticut, this is not about me. this is not about politics. this is about doing the right thing for all the families who are here that have been torn apart by gun violence. it's about them and all the families going forward so we can prevent this from happening again. that's what it's about. it's about the law enforcement officials putting their lives at risk. that's what this is about. this is not about politics. and yet some folks back in washington are already floating the idea that they may use political stunts to prevent votes on any of these reforms. think about that. they're not just saying they'll vote no on ideas that almost all americans support. they're saying, they'll do anything they can to even prevent any votes on these

john kerry trying to ease tensions that north korea may have weapons. plus -- >>> jay-z fights back with a rapip to cuba with beyonce. and there's an app for that. >>> he lost his hands in an accident and now a smartphone is giving him his life back. you're live in the cnn "newsroom." >>> good morning. thank you so much for being with me. i'm carol costello. this morning, nuclear tensions we haven't seen since the end of the cold war as the world waits for north korea's defiance launch of a missile. a u.s. intelligence raises the stakes. the regime may be able to put a nuclear weapon on one of its missiles. if that's true, it would mark an ominous advance in its nuclear program. in south korea delivering north korea a strong message is john kerry. >> we are all united in the fact that north korea will not be accepted as a nuclear power. the rhetoric that we're hearing from north korea is simply unacceptable by any standard. and i am here to make it clear today on behalf of president obama and the citizens of the united states and our bilateral security agreement that the united states will, if

. >> you know, john gonzalez, i don't have any doubt about the case, they'll make the case and this guy is either going to go to jail for life or -- they're going to kill him. murder rapwhat i do ask, i guess i'm kind of edgy and crotchety about this, because it just seems like we're seeing this all over the place. in the midwest in shopping centers and new york and the new york -- in the midtown area, the new york federal reserve. you know, what are these? these are young, radical, young, angry, radical, muslims. moving off these websites, moving off mosques, moving off propaganda, radicalizing themselves. it's all somehow linked to al qaeda. and mr. gonzalez, i guess i'm asking what in the lord's name can we do about this? even if these guys are acting alone, they're not alone, because there is this mini universe that is sustaining more of them. and it is so troublesome, sir. >> well, clearly we have some serious challenges here in this country. and i -- ever since 9/11, and as i speak about this issue around the country, i've always said, it's not a question of if there is going to be another attack. it's a question of when. we've done a lot to make america safer,

john s. mccain, a navy destroyer ship, has been deployed to the region. this ship can shoot down missiles, and add to that u.s. f-22 rap tor fighter jets are already in the region now participating in joint military exercise of south korea's military. the white house is keeping a close watch on north korea's actions and provocative rhetoric from kim jong un. spoiled i would note -- >> i would note we are not seeing changes to the north korean military posture such as large-scale mobilizeations and positioning of forces. >> there have been reports that north korea's leader kim jong un may be shifting his focus towards the north's economy. in a speech before the ruling workers party, kim highlighted economy, but he showed no sign of ending his desire for nuclear build-up. >> what this leads to is the fact that we need a solution to the fact that we have a, basically a nuclearized north korea. and i think the country that can play the biggest role in this is china. >> one thing is clear. south korea's new president says she will not wait for china to act. the south's first female president is taking a tough stance. park g