he says it was set up like something out of iraq or afghanistan. scattered with 30 i am pro mized grenades and glass containers filled with ten gallons of gas for the purpose of adding more fueto the fire in an explosion. jim spellman is in aurora. this exclusive video, the details of it exclusive to cnn. what else can you tell us about it? >> reporter: that's right, the police tell us this apartment was designed to kill with a trip wire right at the front door, designed to set off the explosives to when the door was open. now, it took two days for police here to be able to figure out an approach to rendering this safe. they had to use essentially a water charge to take out the control panel, which then rendered the rest of them inoperable. these are filled with black powder, senly a series of grenades used to something similar to fireworks. when they were able to extract these things from the apartment and take them out into a rural area and explode them in a field, it was a huge fire ball, unbelievable the damage that would have done to the apart

sustaining the commitments that you kept in places like afghanistan or iraq.nfortunately, we withdrew all of our troops. that may be the distinction on which a romney foreign policy could lie. >> romney's trip overseas, three friends of the united states. good idea? >> a particularly good idea politically to go to escapeddial. there is a case to be cap be mt president obama has not been a great friend to israel. >> might be a decisive margin of jewish american votes. a lot of jewish americans feel they have been betrayed by president obama not just in terms of failure as an economic leader but failed commitments to israel. >> when we come back, penn state's football program dealt a particularly crippling blow. were the sanctions justified or did the nca fumble? there is a debate ahead. organic artichokes, organic lettuce, organic kale... does your cauliflower have a big carbon footprint? not at all. that's great. melons!!! oh yeah!! well that was uncalled for. uhh... mr. gallagher. incoming!!! hahaha! it's wasteful. you know jimmy. folks who save hundreds of d

keeps advocating for military spending, i think he's not going to make a lot of noise about afghanistan or iraq. i think he said enough on that record to maybe hurt him a little bit during this election campaign. and to the extent that romney has advocated things that make him sound a lot like george bush, like this american exceptionalism argument, morphing into bush is not a good way for romney to go. i don't think the american public's recognition of the bush years on international affairs as being good ones. the idea that we should have kept troops in iraq longer even though the iraqis no longer wanted us and that troops should stay in afghanistan indefinitely despite the very difficult situation we have there achieving our goals, and strangely enough, i think republicans really feel like iran is an issue that goes to their view of their benefit. obama is weak. he's not willing to use force. he wanted to reach out to ahmadinejad. i actually think the president has a pretty good record here that's one the american public at this point is pretty comfortable with. number one, he used covert ac

what is it we really learn, whether from afghanistan or iraq or anywhere else. when you lift the lid off these highly reimpressive regime, out comes all this pouring of tension and religious and tribal and ethnic difficulty. so if we can manage a process of change, that allows us to manage the aftermath sensibly, that's in everyone's interest. it's easy to say hard to do, but i think that should be the rub rick of our approach. make it clear it is inevitable, he is going to go, but really focus on manage that aftermath. >> from a humanitarian point of view, if you look at what happened in rwanda and bosnia and so on, the longer this is left before people get in there, more people are going to die. >> absolutely. >> at one point is the moral compunction of the international community so overwhelming they' got to do something? >> well, what is the issue. you're right, these decisions are very, very difficult to take, as i well know. i mean, the fact is, there are 20,000 people who have died in this. what we've got to watch is not merely what happens when he goes,

the other 1% of our nation have with worn the cloth of our country in iraq or afghanistan. as a candidate, of course she's going to have to talk about it a little bit. but i know tammy, i have seen her on the stump, i have seen her in front of crowds and she actually downplays her service to our country. her heroic service to our country. so for joe walsh to try and bring in people like john mccain and let me tell you something, the difference here is, is that when people attack john mccain like myself, i have a facebook page, someone wrote a comment that attacked john mccain, john mccain is an american hero, no one ever questioned his service. for people like joe walsh to question tammy duckworth or anyone who put their lives in harm's way and he has attacked her service, multiple times, this isn't something that just happened it's a disgrace. that's why john soltss and i, veterans and republicans across the country are calling for joe walsh to resign from congress. that's how egregious what he's doing is. >> mr. soltss, seems to me, that military service used to be sacros

he will not make a lot of noise about afghanistan or iraq, but he has said enough on that record to hurt him a little bit during this election campaign. to the extent that mitt romney has advocated things that make him sound a lot like george bush, american exceptionalism argument, morphing into bush is not a good way for him to go. the public's recollection of the bush years on international affairs is not a good one. the idea that we should've kept troops in iraq longer, even though the rockies no longer wanted us, troops and state -- iraqis no longer wanted us. strangely enough, i think republicans really feel like iran is an issue goes to their view to their benefit. obama is a week, he is not willing to use force, he is willing to reach out to ahmadinejad. the president has a pretty good record here. it is one that the american public is pretty comfortable with. he has used covert action to try to box up the nuclear program would cyber warfare. he has organized international community's to the extent that president bush could not. tougher and tougher sanctions come up some of which

national interests you might see what you mentioned it's like this civil war in lebanon or or iraq or or afghanistan but i think. probably you also would see as the violence increases in syria as more people being probably you see a friend saying when if i don't go home i can't get there if i can go to you i mean the outlying forces that are involved in the civil war in there are numerous here do they have or are they all on the same page are we just looking at maybe a spanish civil war we've already talked about lebanon how about spain in the one nine hundred thirty s. . oh peter let me say categorically what's going on in syria i've written volumes of what's going on here at times i rate every single day well what's going on this morning before i came to the studio i drafted a new article for tomorrow and my title is syria threatens no one syria is a nonbelligerent country what's going on is not an uprising it's not a revolution it's not a civil war the i.c.r.c. was paid eight million dollars by washington to lie to lie is if their lie change international law international law did not change and

as many as 1 in 3 soldiers returning from iraq or afghanistan suffers from traumatic brain injury, severeepression, substance abuse or ptsd. >> i was dealing with other people that weren't so nice. >> is that weird for you to hear? >> uncomfortable, actually. >> what happens when you hear a noise like that? >> it startles me a little bit. i know it's a truck. >> you see it everywhere you look. ex-soldiers like robert are desperate for steady care and housing. i was stunned about a piece of property set aside for this purpose, veterans for long term housing, literally across the street from the v.a. hospital. the story here actually dates back all the way to the 1880s. back then, the government wanted to create facilities for aging veterans of the civil war. former senator john p. jones and his friend, a glamorous heiress decided to donate all this land. back then, it was mostly ranch land. but today, just a few miles from the pacific ocean, it is some of the most valuable real estate in all of north america. >> it was solely an act of good will, an act of trying to take care of the vetera

the iranians and others in many ways pakistan is a bigger problem for the united states than afghanistan iraq or yemen combined has been over the last decade what do you say to all well i think the jack is on to something here pakistan is the central node for multiple areas of proliferation of nuclear weapons and the terrorist networks that do exist in pakistan have been very difficult to root out and the pakistani government as well has been in many ways betting that and supporting those activities so we have a very complicated relationship with pakistan only think it was out for an apology basic a holiday the heck i think i'm having that we settled that one so i want to i think this is a topic that we talk about constantly on this program which is the obama administration's policy right when it comes to when it comes to killing u.s. citizens abroad which we have done and so esquire did a great lengthy feature piece about this today which i think it's about time i think of the more people that want to. we go in-depth and talk about this the better but to me it probably the most poignant part is

that's the game america's plane because we don't want to get into iraq or afghanistan, and libya is different. people have convinced themselves somehow. it's possible you would bomb and the place would fall apart very quickly and a new government would emerge. that would be the best of all worlds. that's your argument. and is very compelling the trouble is i think america has decided their winning anyway. so that the syrians do the heavy lifting, and you will heard iran and n. in fact, going slow has certain benefits which i outlined, which is that this is an organic process. you can't hurry it along. you're a member of the smc, or you work for a brief moment, and you don't get. i don't know why, presumably because you didn't like what was happening up there. and this is coming in, i could turn to you and say look, making a believer. unite. get along. don't disagree over the most fundamental things like how much islam we will have more are outsiders good or bad? do we want a leader from here or there? so the sense of a lot to do to convince the west to be more interventionist and assertive. >

that shouldn't happen to a 24-year-old kid, man or woman, who has been in afghanistan or iraq, giving to our country what we asked from them. their willingness to risk the whole business of going to war has to be dealt with when they come home. i yield back the balance of my time to mr. boswell. mr. boswell: we yield back and ask for everyone's support. the chair: the gentleman from iowa yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida rise? mr. young: i rise in support of this amendment. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. mr. young: i have opposed similar amendments in the past because of the source of the funding. the defensewide accounts, we we cannot afford to cut into our readiness accounts, this does not take funding from that account. and so i appreciate the gentleman's changing the source of his amendment and i'm agreeing to the amendment. yes, of course. >> i just want to thank you again for your attention and dedication to this cause, mr. chairman. for years, you've worked together to do the right thing. thank you very much. mr. dicks: i wa

i'm sad that every person on any border in afghanistan, iraq, or on the mexican border was killed byying to infiltrate and kill americans, but i would like to know about all of the people who are killed, not just brian terry. that's the problem that i have. you're using his name as a message to get some political agenda across to the american people. >> tucker: wait a second. why is it illegitimate to point out the facts of the case, which are the u.s. government under barack obama gave guns to mexican cartels -- >> so did bush. >> tucker: hold on. is that really the point? the point is the sitting president oversaw this. why shouldn't we know more about it? why shouldn't we know more about what happened so it doesn't happen again? >> the same thing with abu ghraib. there were photos that the administration believed would affect the americans overseas, affect our soldiers. we don't want to put our soldiers, our americans, our people on the border at harm's way with the cartel, whomever is on the border. there are certain things that are secret to our government that are in the best i

a former fbi agent says the setup was like something you'd find in iraq or afghanistan. >> this is thenited states. some of these things do exist overseas. we've seen them in places like iraq and afghanistan. also in colombia. this is the first one i can recall reading or seeing about in the united states where it was set to destroy the home. >> crews spent more than 24 hours sizing up the threat inside that apartment. they took the materials out to this secure field it detonated in. this happed saturday. one theory is that homes booby-trapped his apartment and played loud music to lure someone inside thus triggering the blast. his downstairs music said she almost went inside but decided against doing that. james holmes had enough fire power to turn himself into a one man milita. he had a portable arsenal for the assault on that movie theater. he had an ar-15 assault rifle, a shotgun. a .40 caliber glock. another in his car and a stockpile of 6,000 rounds. all of it purchased legally. none of it raising any red flags for anyone. few of our lawmakers have been willing to talk about gun

he will not make a lot of noise about afghanistan or iraq, but he has said enough on that record to hurt him a little bit during this election campaign. to the extent that mitt romney has advocated things that make him sound a lot like george bush, american exceptionalism argument, morphing into bush is not a good way for him to go. the public's recollection of the bush years on international affairs is not a good one. the idea that we should've kept troops in iraq longer, even though the rockies no longer wanted us, troops and state -- iraqis republicans really feel like iran is an issue goes to their view to their benefit. obama is a week, he is not willing to use force, he is willing to reach out to ahmadinejad. the president has a pretty good record here. it is one that the american public is pretty comfortable with. he has used covert action to try to box up the nuclear program would cyber warfare. he has organized international communities to the extent that president bush could not. tougher and tougher sanctions come up some of which will take place in the next couple of months. t

a former fbi agent said the setup was like something you'd find in iraq or afghanistan. >> this is onest times we've seen a house bomb in the united states. some of these things do exist overseas. we have seen them in places like iraq and afghanistan. also, in colombia, south america. this is the first one i can recall seeing or reading about in the united states where it was set to destroy the home. >> crews spent more than 24 hours sizing up the threats within that apartment. they took some of the materials here to the secure field and detonated them saturday. one theory is that holmes booby-trapped his apartment and played loud music to lure someone inside triggering this massive blast. his downstairs neighbor said she almost went inside to deal with the music and figure out why it was so loud. she decided against that. so many questions about james holmes made his first court appearance since his arrest. the wild hair, the dazed look if his eyes varying from bug eye to barely conscious. what could have gone wrong with him. what could have led him to kill 12 people inside a dark mov

your story because how many of your moms and dads, coming of your moms and dads have gone to iraq or afghanistan? wow, most of you. okay. this is exactly your story. and as the vice president said, what i realize when they went around this country is that many americans don't even know anybody at all in the military. and they don't know how strong you are and how resilient you are when your moms and dads are a way. and some of things that you all go through. so that's why i decided as a teacher at the best way to get that message across was for teachers to read this to their classrooms, and moms and dads to read this to their children. so that people become aware, just what your lives are like. and that's what this whole book is about. so i'll start to read, and natalie is going to read some of it. and actually this is what my son looks like. and this is their dog, webby and this is natalie. you can see this is what she looks like. this was a couple years ago when she was a little bit younger. and so now we will tell her story. oh, she toured this picture for the inside of the book. i love this

your people get more information or helping your soldiers win the war you've been to afghanistan yeah and is the war in afghanistan winnable after your experience or. no. iraq been to iraq no ok sometimes if you can hold a mirror up to those situations then the people back at home in kansas or here in moscow the people in kaluga can understand what's happening over there that's the job of the reporter the job of the reporter is not to carry the gun the job of the reporter is not to follow the orders of the general the job of the reporter is to present this information back to the public so the public can make an informed decision and that's my job and if you've been in afghanistan you basically have to find that. maybe the most patriotic thing that one could do is show people what's going on so we get the hell out of there says jon alpert award winning american journalist and documentary filmmaker spotlighted will be back shortly after we take a break that they would then go. sigrid laboratory here mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should

afghanistan. this kind of hits home for you >> all of us have been to either iraq or afghanistan.he national guard to do this type of mission. we do search and rescue but if you ask most of the crew here and the crew chiefs what their favorite mission is is probably this one. this is literally in our backyard so to be able to get out and help our fellow californians really means a lot to us. >> thanks for your time and stay safe. 1,400 a. have burned, there are still 170 homes threatened and the fire is at 20 percent containment. only eight minor injuries, some sprained ankles. hopefully blackhawks will provide some much-needed assistance. >> although the calendar might say summer, the weather feels a lot like fall. it is the june gloom you would normally see this time of year. it will be clearing up a little bit later this afternoon but below normal temperatures outside. temperatures in the upper 50s right now. >> i'm going to start off doing something wacky here, i'm going to give you a history report because i thought this was really dramatic. this was the scene toward sunset w

it's more similar to what insurgents use in iraq or afghanistan. the ieds were wired to a central control box that had to be diffused, and that task was daunting. the source says that the complexity looked like spaghetti. poppy harlow has been working with her sources to bring these exclusive details to light. she is joining us by phone from aurora. tell us what else was inside that apartment. >> reporter: we know as you mentioned, carol, there were 30 of these ieds. there were also containers, glass containers and gas cans, filled with what i'm told from law enforcement officials about 10 gallons of gasoline. those were taken offsite with the ieds late saturday and exploded. but i want to read you a quote that came from my source. what my source says is that this person rigged the apartment to, quote, enhance the thermal effect of the explosion. i'm told that imagine the fireball you would have in an explosion that would knock down walls of nearby apartments. that flame would have consumed the entire third floor of the apartment complex. and by th

money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs then just sort of get added ad hoc to say the occupation in iraq or the occupation in afghanistan the administration will come up with something that they think is the reason why the war is going so well and they'll throw some money at that and very rarely do they ever consider if that program is even needed or wanted so hundreds of millions of dollars go wasted. just. many more stories still to come in the program including that of investigating eye for discovery we go deep into the mystery of hundreds of fetuses. dumped in russian . to illegal human experiments back door abortions. day protests in california. investigation into police after a spate of shootings in which two people down. here. who are going global. cooling. please. take your stuff. to. make your statement. the world. wealthy british style. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report. live from moscow this is the europe's economic downturn deepens and spreads so to fears of

money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs that just sort of get added ad hoc to say the occupation in iraq or the occupation in afghanistan the administration will come up with something that they think is the reason why the war is going so well and they'll throw some money at that and very rarely do they ever consider if that program is even needed or wanted so hundreds of millions of dollars go wasted. plenty more stories are still ahead for you later this hour including investigating a horrific discovery we delve deeper into the mystery on hundreds of fetuses recently found and barrels of russian wallets and we ask if they are linked to illegal human experiments backdoor abortions or just normal. day in a row a protest in california with an investigation into police after a spate of shootings by officers and which two people died. wealthy british soil. but on the title. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. as the report. is he. free credit patient free. storage free. range month free. free. free. download fre

money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs that just sort of get added ad hoc to say the occupation in iraq or the occupation in afghanistan the administration will come up with something that they think is the reason why the war is going so well and they'll throw some money at that and very rarely do they ever consider it if that program is even needed or wanted so hundreds of millions of dollars go wasted. playing war stories still ahead for you this hour including investigating a horrific discovery. we delved deeper into the mystery of hundreds of fetuses recently found in barrels in the russian woods and i ask if they're linked to illegal human experiments backdoor abortions or just normal research. find a ninth day in a row a protest in california with demands for an investigation into police after a spate of shootings by officers and which two people died. if they shoot something inappropriate for the public they can easily be joined by a. guest he's a warning ok. i wish he would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary witness their own safety all foreign nationals inclu

money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs that just sort of get added ad hoc to say the occupation in iraq or the occupation in afghanistan the administration will come up with something that they think is the reason why the war is going so well and they'll throw some money at that and very rarely do they ever consider if that program is even needed or wanted so hundreds of millions of dollars go wasted. in the program including that of investigating a discovery. of mystery hundreds of recently found russian woods. illegal human experiments. are just routine. in a row of protests in california for an investigation into police after a spate of shootings by. two people. wealthy british. market. really happening to the global economy with. the global financial headlines. russia would be so much brighter if you move it. from feinstein question. for a new start on t.v. dot com. thank you for joining us here on our to today as i europe's economic downturn deepens and spreads so to two fears a full scale social unrest fueled by far right ideas already in some countries business people who have moved from abroad have suffered vio