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up with of the thing athena is doing with its newest service athena collarty is helping doctors formama çprogram, you can get moy by the government for saving money on a population of patients. to do that, you got to know how much everybody costs and how much they utilize before you decide where to refer a patient. the fact that the times and cms guys are just discovering that price is actually a feature in total cost is a little embarrassing. anyway, now we're all on the same paige and a network that connects to everybody is going to be increasingly valuable, i hope. >> let me understand because our people at home have to know this. this is the kind of obscenity of some guys charging so much more than others that your company is trying to remedy? >> we are trying to get our guys to know, our doctors and hospitals to choose us to know when they refer who is the most expensive, who is the most effective so that if they're at risk for how much that patient cost, they're going to end up saving money, not losing money. >> how do you make money dog that? >> we ask for a piece of the savi

athena jones is following the story from washington. good morning, athena. what else is in this letter? >> reporter: good morning, alison. ever since this nsa story broke, there's been a lot of pressure on the administration and on the intelligence community to explain just what it is the nsa is doing, what they're collecting, how they're collecting it, and how it's being useful. the government has been very eager to talk about how this program has helped stop terrorist attacks. let's listen to what nsa director general keith alexander had to say in testimony on capitol hill last week. he's talking about this section of the patriot act that allows this data to be collected. let's listen to the exchange between him and senator patrick leahy from vermont. >> we collect millions and millions and millions of records through 215, but dozens of them have proved crucial or critical. is that right, dozens? is >> both here and abroad in disrupting or contributing to the disruption of a terrorist attack. >> out of those millions, dozens have been critical? >> that's c

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so, athena, what was this video for? >> reporter: hi, don.he video was for a 2010 conference of irs employees that was held in anaheim, california. and while it's a little funny to wat watch, it definitely raised some eyebrows at the irs and we learned this video was going to be one of many things spotlighted in a report coming out tuesday, a report looking into wasteful taxpayer dollars at the irs. it's a video from 2010, but newly obtained by us at cnn. this video produced for a 2010 irs conference was unacceptable and an inappropriate use of government funds. the irs and the government as a whole now have strict new policies and procedures in place to ensure that taxpayer funds are being used appropriately. and so next week we have that report coming out. we also have three hearings dealing with irs issues. the inspector general is expected to testify on tuesday. don? >> athena, as you recall, i'm sure, this isn't the first video. we talked about the star trek parody and also one about gilligan's island as well. they should have known bett

athena jones has more. >> reporter: more more than a decade, this is how jane wicker lived her life.ton, ohio, this is how it tragically ended. >> oh, no. as planned, her plane turns upsidedown. then suddenly, disaster. her and her pilot are killed instantly. the key question, what caused the plane to become to unbalanced during a standard part of her routine? >> we are going to ask that you turn your kids away from the scene. >> terrible. i never seen it happen before. we never expect to see something like that happen. it's awful. >> reporter: the ntsb is investigating but says it's way too early to know what went wrong. >> we are doing the data collection. we are not going to have findings or probable cause at this point. >> reporter: fellow performers say flying so close to the ground, there's no room for error. >> very focused as wing walkers and have a lot of trust for our pilots. we put our faith in them. >> reporter: her daredevil career began here at the flying circus in virginia. >> in 1990, i answered an ad in the newspaper. no experience necessary. >> reporter: danger is a

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what is he saying today, athena? >> good morning, carol.gressman frank said after this situation played out yesterday that he thought that democrats were trying to stoke this controversy. to shift the debate away from the issue of whether abortion should be banned after 20 weeks to something else for this issue of rape. they were trying to distort his words, but heed a ed ed admitt word choice didn't help him in the matter, carol. >> abortion banned after 20 weeks, that includes women who have been raped. that includes all pregnancies. no exceptions at all, not for the mother's life, not in cases of rape or insist. so, what's happening with this bill? >> i can it elyou it did pass the house judiciary committee by a vote of 20-12. passed by an all-male group of republicans. the point is even if this goes through the house, it has bad chances in the senate and not to mention what would happen if it were to ever reach the president's desk. not something he would be likely to support. that's where things stand now. looks like more a matter of d

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athena jones is on the north lawn of the white house. handling this new controversy? it seems to get hit with a new one every week. >> reporter: it does seem like that, miguel. the white house isn't commenting on these videos. the administration is cooperating with congressional oversight of the irs. there are at least three hearings next week, involving irs officials and matters involving the irs. officials here say they have a lot of faith in the new irs commissioner, acting commissioner, i should say, taking part in a system review of the entire agency in order to restore integrity to the agency's operations and warfel has said that that 2010 conference is not the kind of conference that's going to take place under his watch. and he and other officials have also stressed that new rules and policies and procedures are in place to make sure that that kind of excessive spending isn't still going on, miguel. >> so many controversies swirl ing around the white house. some of them, they say, imagined, some perhaps real, perhaps a little bit

in all likelihood right out of washington headquarters and we're getting to proving it. >> we have athena jones now with us live. we saw that representative issa says the irs employee spoke to his committee. how much substance does the claim have and what really is he saying here? >> reporter: good question. i can tell you what congressman elijah cummings, the top dm on the oversite committee is saying. a short while ago saying, "issa's comments on "state of the union" were reckless." he said it is inconsistent with what the inspector general found in his examination of this and so far no witness whose have come before the committee have identified any irs officials in washington who directed them to target these conservative groups. there's definitely some disagreement there. we'll await those full transcripts and the heeshgs tar that are coming this week. >> shocking barts figpartisan fn washington. >> on monday we're going to hear from acting irs commissioner daniel werfel. he's undertaking a full review of agency operations. house will hear from him on monday, the house subcommittee -

here's cnn's athena jones. >> reporter: partial transcripts of house investigators conducted with irs employees in cincinnati raised new questions about who directed them to target conservative groups seeking tax exempt status. here's house oversight and government reform committee chairman darrell issa speaking on cnn's "state of the union." >> as late as last week, the administration is still trying to say there's a few rogue agents in cincinnati when the indication is they were directly being ordered from washington. that tells me that too many people knew that this wrong doing was going on before the election. >> reporter: in one excerpt, an employee is asked whether a supervisor gave any indication of the need for the search, any more context. the worker replies, "he told me that washington, d.c. wanted some cases." but these partial transcripts aren't conclusive. when the worker is asked, "but with respect to the particular scrutiny that was given to tea party applications, those directions emanated from washington, is that right"? the worker replies "i believe so." >> it's tota

let's get to athena jones right now in washington. standing there in front of the white house. you just heard from the former vice president. he says he considers edward snowed an trader. we have a "time" mag zone poll that suggests that most americans feel the opposite is true, at least in that poll. is washington divided down the middle on this or pretty much do people in washington say hey, this guy is a trader, he should be prosecuted? >> a lot of the loudest voices are saying that edward snoweden is someone who should be prosecuted, who should be held accountable for what's done. but there is the division of people who want to applaud him and those who want to condemn him. i spoke with a former nsa director, michael hayden, he says snowden's actions have been very harmful to the united states. there is also debate whether these surveillance programs have made americans safer around really how they work. let's listen to what colorado senator mark udall had to say about all this this morning. >> i don't think collecting millions and millions of americans' phone calls -- now

athena jones is live from d.c. what happened here?testy and the minority leader was angered because a reporter from a conservative leaning publication, the weekly standard, was pressing her repeatedly about her opposition to this bill and this bill that would ban abortions after 20 weeks. the reporter wanted to know what's the moral difference between what this bill is aiming to do and what that abortion doctor, that late term abortion doctor out of philadelphia was convicted of doing. he was convicted of murdering babies in late term abortions and so that reporter was repeatedly pressing her and this is what pelosi had to say. >> this is not the issue. they are saying that there is no abortion, making it a federal law there be no abortion in our country. you are taking the extreme case. are you taking the extreme case and what i am saying to you is what happened in philadelphia was reprirhensible. i am not going to have this conversation. you're not interested in an answer. i am responded to the extent i will respond. as a mother of

it's really a matter of connecting that job with the most qualified, quality clinician. >> cerner, athena want to be a one-stop-shop. are you going to be their competitor or is it likely they'll just say listen, for a billion dollars we'll buy you. >> we are that one-stop-shop on the work force side. so it used to be in our industry you were either a nursing company, physician or allied. today we are the leader in providing all of those services. on top of that, we offer these work force solutions. so, you know, in that way, we're really making it easier for our clients as they want to deal clients as they want to deal with their labor challenges going forward. they can come to one organization. we're not a technology company although we do help with these technology companies as they're implementing their software. our expertise is really on the clinical health care side. >> excellent. this is susan salco, president and ceo of amn health care services. i hope you see why i wanted her to come on. i think this niche is much better than a niche. "mad money" is back after the break. what do

preferring to focus on the messenger instead on edward snowden and here's my colleague on a theatre athena on how the media here goes along with that narrative some journalists believe the shocking us government spying scandal is the biggest story of our lifetime i think my desk certainly had the authorities to to wiretap anyone from you or your account to a federal judge to even the president if i had a personal e-mail but big brother shamelessly watching millions of people in secret seems to be turning into a little more than a cat and mouse chase by the american mainstream media snowden snowed snowden going through these files. is not. was terribly sexy is this just me if you can search the school it was terribly sexy painting the president. of star wars in yet another hollywood blockbuster brought to you by the so-called news of the climax the fact that a major violation of privacy rights is being conducted left and right has been wiped out of this. crypt this is a country based on no reasonable search and seizure if you wanted something else you could head somewhere else but that was

preferring to focus on the messenger instead on edward snowden and here's my colleague on a theatre athena on how the media here goes along with that narrative some journalists believe the shocking us government spying scandal is the biggest story of our lifetime i sit in my desk certainly had the authorities to to wiretap anyone from you or your accountant to a federal judge to even the president if i had a personal e-mail but big brother shamelessly watching millions of people in secret seems to be turning into a little more than a cat and mouse chase by the american mainstream media snowden snowed snowden going through these files. is not. what jared lee is this catch me if you can surface. was terribly sexy painting the president. some star wars in yet another hollywood blockbuster brought to you by the so-called news of the climax the fact that a major violation of privacy rights is being conducted left and right as a white doubt of this. this is a country based on no unreasonable search and seizure if you wanted something else you could head somewhere else but that was kind of in fac

cnn's athena jones following the story. she's live for us this morning in washington.christine. this is an unusual story. also an important one for anyone who's concerned about the government's ability to regulate our roads. >> reporter: in a rare act of defiance, car company giant chrysler refuses to recall almost 2.7 million vehicles. as requested by the national highway traffic safety administration. for nearly two decades, some jeep suv models have had a tendency to burst into flames after a rear end collision. the nhtsa is requesting that upgrades to the older models be installed to keep fires from starting. >> it's a bad design. if it's harmful to people and if it occurs repeatedly. that's all been the fact here. >> reporter: the models in question are 1993 to 2004 cheje grand cherokees and 2002 to 2007 jeep liberties. the company says it's been working with the government on the fuel tank fire issue since 2010. chrysler says their suvs met the minimum standards for rear end collisions. but in a june 3rd letter from nhtsa to chrysler the agency said bluntly, quot

. >> reporter: athena jones, cnn, washington. >> the founder of wikileaks is working to get asylum fordward snowden. he's in touch with his legal team around trying to broker a deal. snowden is still believed to be in hiding in hong kong. >> peace talks have been delayed. the talks have been set today. the afghan government backed out upset. they sparked a furious round of diplomacy with secretary of state kerry calling karzai, trying to broker a deal. no word on when the peace talks might begen. >>> new this morning, the taliban offering trade to the u.s. a group telling the associated press they are ready to hand over an army sergeant in exchange for five people held in guantanamo bay. he's been missing since 2009. this month, his parents received a letter from him. >>> the actress accused of sending letters to president obama and michael bloomberg. she tried to frame her husband for the crime she convicted. she could get up to ten years in prison. >>> aaron hernandez is back home as police continue their investigation into a suspicious death nearby. the body of a man was found in an

athena jones, thanks so much.e george zimmerman trial as the state's star witness took the stand for a second straight day. rachel jeantel was the last person to see trayvon martin alive. george howell is live in sanford, florida. what did you make of the situation, george? >> many people saying not exactly the perfect witness. we're talking about a person here who admitted to lying about why she didn't go to the funeral. she told jurors that certain words that many people believed to be racial slurs she didn't. but when it came to this concept where she was challenged that it was her friend, trayvon martin, who started the fight, jeantel fought back. day four in the trial against george zimmerman started as rachel jeantel take two. a key witness for the state who appeared wednesday to be emotional one moment, combative the next. what a difference a day makes. >> are you okay this morning? >> yeah. >> you seem to different than yesterday? i'm just checking. did someone talk with you last night about your demeanor

let's get more now from cnn's athena jones. >> reporter: in a rare act of defiance, car company giantses to recall almost 2.7 million vehicles as requested by the national highway traffic safety administration. for nearly two decades, some jeep suv models have had a tendency to burst into flames after a rear end collision. they are requesting that upgrades to the older models be installed to keep fires from starting. >> the definition of a safety defect is if it's a bad design, if it's harmful to people, and if it occurs repeatedly. and that's all been the fact here. >> reporter: the models in question are 1993 to 2004 jeep grand cherokees and 2002 to 2007 jeep liberties. the company says it's been working with the government on the fuel tank fire issue since 2010. they say they met the standards. fwhut a june 3rd letter to chrysler, the agency said bluntly, "the existence of a minimum standard does not require nhtsa to ignore deadly problems." chrysler responded in a statement saying, "we believe nhtsa's initial conclusions are based on an incomplete analysis of the underlying data a

athena jones is in washington with more on this. what are they finding out? what happened, athena?sb official tells the investigators, expect to be there on the accident scene collecting evidence for the next couple of days, as they begin to try to determine what went so horribly wrong there in dayton. for more than a decade, this is how jane wicker lived her life. on saturday in dayton, ohio, this is how it tragically ended. as planned her plane turns upside down so she can sit on its wing and then suddenly disaster. they are kille eed instantly. what caused the plane to be so unbalanced during a standard part of her routine. >> we're going to ask, ladies and gentlemen, number one, that you turn your kids away from the scene. >> it's terrible. >> i've never seen it happen before. you never expect to see something like that happen and it's awful. >> the ntsb is investigating, but says it's way too early to know what went wrong. >> we're doing all the data collection right now. we're not going to have any determination on findings or probable cause at this point. >> fellow performer

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athena jones is live for us now in washington. it is driving a lot of conversations involving u.s. lawmakers, even today. >> reporter: that's right, fredericka. since the story broke, we have heard opinions on both sides of the issue and also put a lot of pressure on the administration. especially from privacy advocates to explain to the american people just how these programs have worked, how they continue to work, and whether they've been able to thwart any plots. i had a chance to speak this morning with the former director of the nsa general michael hayden about this whole story. here's what he had to say. >> i understand the sensitivities. i have some of them myself but i do think what's been done, as the president said, is a fairly light hand that really gives us some significant returns in making us more safe. >> reporter: and so, there you heard from general hayden. they believe that the program made americans more safe. one bit of information we have now about a plot thwarted with the help of these surveillance programs is that plot back in 2009 to blow up the new york cit

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our athena jones now live from washington.wmakers saying today about the surveillance programs? >> reporter: good afternoon, fredericka. there are a lot of ideas and positions on both sides, lawmakers or former administration officials, from previous administrations, there's a lot of questions about just what kinds of plots this information, these surveillance programs helped to thwart and that kind of information should begin to be rolled out in more detail this week. i had a chance to speak with the former nsa director general michael haden, also a former director of the cia and spoke with me how about he wishes the surveillance programs had not become public but now it's a chance to talk about them. let's listen to what he had to say. >> on balance, i'm sorry we have to do this but now that it's out it's an opportunity to explain to the american people why this is done, broadly, how effective it's been and to raise their comfort level that this is being done in a way that is very sensitive to their privacy and to their civi

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here's athena jones. >> reporter: pandamonium in this washington, d.c., neighborhood.nd red panda named rusty. the bamboo eating animal just shy of a year old escape from the international zoo between sunday night and monday morning. >> they're great climbers, they can go way out on the branch. >> reporter: they launched a code green alert, like an all points bulletin for annals. the search rusty ended here a few blocks from the zoo. zoo officials found him high up in a tree. eric alder found him unhurt. by midday there were six dedicated accounts posting this one "sorry national zoo, it's just such a beautiful day i'm hitting the town." another "let's meet up." rusty is the latest critter to go on the lam and tweet about it. remember the cobra that went missing from the bronx zoo in 2001 and the pea cook that flew the central coup and later returned home on his own, all proof that well it's a jungle out there. athena jones, cnn, washington. >> reporting to the interweb they are native to the eastern himalayas, southwestern china. they look liereally cute. he said i lo

athena jones, cnn, washington. >>> all right, turkey's prime minister is making an offer to demonstratorss willing to hold a referendum over the parks. at the same time prime minister erdogan ordered a stop to the protests in 24 hours which could set the stage for more violence. he is giving the protesters one last warning to get out of the park. >>> six months after the sandy hook school massacre members are back on capitol hill fighting for tougher gun laws. they plan to meet this morning with joe manchin. one of the architects of the failed background check bill. then they will sit down with the two most powerful republicans in the house. the speaker john boehner and majority leader eric cantor. on friday the group plans to launch a bus tour from newtown called no more names. the national drive to reduce gun violence. >>> riveting testimony at the michael jackson trial. described how michael jackson transformed himself into a superstar in a london press conference in 2009. he was drunk, despondent and emotionally paralyzed when it was time to meet with reporters so he slapped jackson a

athena jones has been following the story for us.on't chrysler recall these vehicles? >> chrysler says they haven't had a full analysis of the data. i can tell you this is an unusual story. it is also important for anyone's concern for the government's ability to regulate our roads. in a rare act of defiance, car company giant chrysler refuses to recall almost 2.7 million vehicles as requested by the national highway traffic safety administration. for nearly two decades, some jeep suv models have had a tendency to burst into flames after a rear-end collision. the ntsa is requesting upgrades to the older models be installed to stop them from firing. >> it's a bad design if it's harmful to people and if it occurs repeatedly and that's all been the fact here. >> reporter: the models in question are 19 knee to 2004 jeep grand cherokees and 2002 to 2007 jeep libertys. the company says it has been working with the government on the fuel tank fire issue since 2010. chrysler says they met the rear-end collisions. in a letter to chrysler the

>> athena jones, something tells me those cupid shuffle videos will not be going viral. >>> new informationnt to president obama for a new york mayor michael bloomberg and a gun control group. test results are in and they confirm the letters did, in fact, contain the poison ricin. cnn national correspondent suzanne candiotti joins me now from new york. suzanne, you've obtained a copy of one of the letters. what does it say? >> all right. this is a letter and they all -- all the wording seems to match precisely. this one that we obtained was one of the three letters. it was sent to mark glaze. now, he is the director of mayor bloomberg's group called mayors against illegal guns. and the wording goes like this. you will have to kill me and my family before you get my guns. anyone wants to come to my house will get shot in the face. the right to bear arms is my constitutional god-given right and i will exercise that right tell the day i die. what's in this letter is nothing compared to what i've got planned for you. now, glaze, miguel, is the only one of the three that actually touched the let

. >> athena jones in washington. thank you very much. let's take a look at the big board.ment that the fed meetings the last few days, no major changes was the headline at least so far in terms of quantitative easing but the market is definitely reacting down almost 200 points as we are just about in time for the closing bell. "the lead with jake tapper" starts right now. >>> is president obama still enjoying hasselhoff levels of love in germany? i'm jake tapper. this is "the lead." our politics lead -- president obama trying to ease german fears of the nsa spying program. back at home the tea party regroups over another controversy he left behind -- the irs seeming to target conservatives. >>> secretary of state john kerry revealing today the dirty secrets of modern day slavery around the world. you might be shocked to learn it's going on in kerry's backyard among diplomats, the world's power players right here in washington, d.c. in national news, a fuel tank explosion brought down twa flight 800 back in 1996 or at least that's what the government told us. a new document

. >> conrad black on emerged athena states as a world power, saturday at 7 p.m. eastern, part of booktv this weekend on c-span2's. >> now, a conversation on national guard capabilities and operations. the center for strategic and international studies hosted this our 40 minute event. please note some of the language used at this event may be offensive to some viewers. >> thanks everybody. i played on an ornamental roll this morning, which usually mild whites laugh when i said that. welcome everybody. like to have your. this is part of the military strategy forum and i want to say sincere thanks to our friends at rolls-royce are able to make possible for us to bring this to the policy committee. from my the question i think is the first time we've had the chief of the bureau do. and i'm glad for that. part of it i think it's quite opportune from a time standpoint because as everybody knows there is a giant war being fought every day inside the pentagon, and it's over money. this happens. it happened a lot when i was over there. it's quite intense and now because w