>>> i'm claudia cowen. former vice president dick cheney is recovering from having a hrt transplant. the 71-year-old underwent surgery in virginia saturday. cheney has had a long history of cardiovascular trouble including numerous heart attacks. an aide says the former vp had been on a waiting list for nearly two years. his family says they will be forever grateful to the unknown donor. president obama arriving in south korea for a visit. arriving in the zone separating the north and the south meant as a show of u.s. strength ahead of a planned rock net launch by the north. also planning on joining leaders for a nuclear summit aimed at keeping nuclear material out of the hands of terrorists. i'm claudia cowen. it. now, back to "justice" with" judge jeanine. >> this is a fox news alert. former vice president dick cheney is recovering in the intensive care unit of a fairfax hospital in virginia after undergoing heart transplant surgery today. the cheney family issued a statement saying they do not know the i

i'm claudia cowen in los angeles.back to "justice" with judge jeanine. >> a young man dead, a community on edge. what really happened in sanford, florida, the night 17-year-old trayvon martin was killed? shannon butler is a reporter for our fox affiliate, wofl. shannon, what's the latest down there? >> the black panthers were in sanford today. last week they had put out a flyer that had george zimmerman's picture on it. it said, "wanted dead or alive." today they offered $10,000 on this man's head. in the meantime the parents say on tuesday they will testify in front of congress. as you know, the stand your ground law here in florida, now frankly across the nation, is coming into huge question now. unlikely that it will stand up in this case. there's been a lot of confusion over mr. george zimmerman was inside his car or on foot when he was pursuing trayvon martin. if you listen to that 9-1-1 call, it's very clear that he calls from inside his suv. he tells the dispatcher the nonemergency line that he sees this kid, h

other cowens. in this law, the stand your ground defense has created a huge ambiguity. i think they tried to see if they could get away with it, and you could see that from the duration of time that the chief stayed in there. and even at this point thinks he is only temporarily detached from his role. i would suggest that is likely a longer term detachment. so it is about accountability. we are naive when we came here, expecting the same kind of quest for truth that we get in britain. i am not saying justice is 100% perfect. there singleton that quest here. >> tell me about this rally that you are attending. who is organizing it? where is it taking place? any special speakers there? >> at the moment there is a rally on monday morning down towards miami gardens. to correct your intro, i am about 20 or 25 miles away from where trayvon lived. there are rallies down there that are being orchestrated over the weekend. we intend to show part because i have three children myself. what is appalling to us,

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as lee cowen reports, their excitement is expected to fuel another successful franchise. >> reporter:ooking for your teenagers this weekend, there's a good chance they were here. standing in a movie line somewhere, talking about surviving in a post-apocalyptic world. >> i don't even if care if the movie sucks. i'm going to love it because it's awesome. >> only 24 and one comes out. >> reporter: "the hunger games" based on a first of a best-selling trilogy, children killing children, all for the amusement of adults after a ferocious war that leaves north america in ruins. >> make sure they remember you. >> reporter: but the story has resonated not because of violent undertones, critics say, but because of its strong young characters. especially the 16-year-old heroine. >> it's a great story, good overcoming evil. just this girl that stands up for what's wrong. >> reporter: the books sold tens of millions of copies, saying young adults would flock to the movie version, which they did for twilight and harry potter franchise. >> just the excitement and fervor and the amount of talk and ch

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claudia cowen with the news live in san francisco tonight. hey, claudia. >> hi, shepherd.m now on they will only silence cell phones in dire emergencies like a hostage situation or a bomb threat. sill the scenarios that aren't listd that worry free speech advocate. >> they mention explosives and hostage situations but then say well, it could be something else, too. and we are worried about that something else being a protest next time and that it going to capture prodebted speec protecr the first amendment. >> bay area rapid transit was the first agency ever to turn off cell phone service to stop a protest. now, it is the first to have a policy. >> we recognize the fact that it is a civil liberties position but you quite frankly the answer to your question is does life safety trump first amendment rights? short answer. yes. >> liberties groups have asked the fcc to look into all of this and clearly state that government agencies cannot interrupt wireless service to stop civil dissent. >> shepard: claudia cowen, thanks. wildfire alert and conflicting stories tonight about t

paul cowen said that dharun ravi needed to do one thing.didn't do it and russell brand turns himself into police today following an altercation and could be facing felony charges. there are a number of things to talk about. all energy development comes with some risk, but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today. i'm here to unleash my inner cowboy. instead i got heartburn. [ horse neighs ] hold up partner. prilosec isn't for fast relief. try alka-seltzer. it kills heartburn fast. yeehaw! >>> we start the second half of our show with stories we care about where we focus on our own reporting, do the work and

. >>> from america's news headquarters i'm claudia cowen.resident obama calling on world leaders to redeuce their stockpiles of nuclear weapons. mr. obama seaing the u.s. can reduce its arsenal while maintaining national security. the president also using the occasion to call on iran and north korea to end their nuclear standoff with the west. >>> a tragic update to a horrible story out of west virginia. a ninth person this one a 7-year-old boy died from injuries sustained in a house fire. the two story home in charleston catching fire friday night. the smoke and flames killing six other children and two adults in their sleep. relatives deciding on sunday to take the 7-year-old off life support. the cause of the fire is under investigation. i'm claudia cowen in los angeles. now, back to "on the record." e record." >> greta: now, our candid conversation with rush limbaugh continues. >> what would you do about let's take detroit with an unemployment number in the inner city of upwards of 25% and it is absolutely disgraceful that is a community

i'm claudia cowen.an a dozen tornadoes reported across several southern and midwestern states today. one woman killed when her home collapsed in southern ell. georgia, alabama, kentucky, indiana and missouri also hit hard. high winds, hail and rain damaging homes uprooting trees and flooding streets across the region. a tornado watch remains in effect for parts of kentucky and indigo until 1:00 a.m. local time. >>> president barack obama saying he would support further investigation into the shooting death of unarmed florida teen trayvon martin. the neighborhood watchman who shot the 17-year-old has hot been charged sparking charges of racism from some critics. members of the miami heat showing solidarity by wearing hoodies like the one martin was wearing when died. i'm claudia cowen. now, back to greta and "on the record." >> greta: now, our candid conversation with rush limbaugh continues. >> what would you do about let's take detroit with an unemployment number in the inner city of upwards of 25% and

. >>> paul cowen joins me again. all right. this story in a sense sounds bizarre. this woman has these children. they were in her stomach. she gave birth to them. they are her children. why is this happening? >> it does sound bizarre on the face of it. if you look at the immigration laws of the united states, they're very, very complicated. most people think it's in the u.s. constitution. right? if you're the son of an american citizen, dawe of an american citizen you're an american citizen. i this constitution says that. in fact, the constitution only talks about the fact that you have to be an american citizen to become president. of course, we had the whole birther controversy with president obama. in fact, congress enacts these statutes and they're very complicated, and they haven't kept up with in vitro fertilization. so now you have foreign sperm for an egg implanted in american citizen living in israel, and you know what they're saying? it's not american dna. so it's not an american citizen. well what is american dna? we all come from someplace else. right?

jessica port and virginia cowen, married in california in 2008. after a couple years the women wanted to divorce they want to court in prince george's county. but a judge found their vows in california were not valid in maryland. since the state did not recognize their marriage, it could not grant their divorce. >> we aren't looking to -- to make any waves. we were a couple looking to get divorced and still looking to do that. we're looking to have our rights granted. >> this case will be argued before the mare atlanta court off peels of appeals in april and could set a precedent for future cases. >>> heating up in a courtroom, where roger clemens, faces a perjury trial in a month. prosecutors asked a judge to bar references to last year's case ending in a mistrial. clemmons is accused of lying to congress whether he used performance enhancing drugs. jury selection set to begin on april 16. >>> presidential hopeful mitt romney come to maryland. republican candidate for president scheduled to campaign in maryland wednesday. at a townhall at 4:00 p.

the co-founder of ben and jerry's, the ice cream company, ben cowen is going to be joining us to talk about other things, occupy wall street. to help the occupy wall street movement around the country. he'll be with us to take your phone calls from new york city. and gas prices, the excel pipeline and what to expect from the obama administration, a republican perspective from the member of the house subcommittee on energy and natural resources. the chair of that committee is a republican from colorado. he will be with us tomorrow morning. thanks for being with us on this wednesday. i hope you enjoy the rest of your evening. >> tomorrow, a hearing looks at the political unrest and violence in syria. u.s. ambassador to syria robert ford will testify before the senate foreign relations committee. that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >> secretary of state clinton testified on capitol hill this week about her department's budget request for 2013. here is an exchange she had with senator john kerry that shares the senate foreign relation's committee. >> i'd like to ask you --

capital allocation so we see here the age of the shadow bank run this is from the new york times tyler cowen he says the bank run is back and modern bank run means a rush to withdraw from money market funds the disappearance of reliable collateral for overnight loans between banks with the sudden pulling of short term credit to a troubled financial institution but these new versions are in some ways still similar to the old both reflect the desire to pull money out of an endeavor and to be first out the door and both can set off a crash so he says now we have the introduction of the term as country as bank so your nation becomes the banker of last resort but also all of these measures he's saying are also permanent from the central bank this permanent quantitative easing and that the central bank may end up taking over much of the allocation of capital so here you have iran's disciple alan greenspan with the help of ronald reagan who deregulated the markets in the name of iran and in order to end communism and what if we had fear communism by financier by the way famously did take medicare a

. >> as lee cowen reports, movie goers forked over $155 million.el. >> ten, nine -- >> reporter: if you didn't see the movie, probably we saw the line for the movie. it was pretty hard to miss. fans hungry for "the hunger games." they can't seem to get enough. >> i was shaking. i was shaking with excitement. >> reporter: based on the best selling books by suzanne collins "the hunger games" not a teen throwaway. most critics say the movie lifz up to the hype and the star, jennifer lawrence, delivers. >> make sure they remember you. >> a great story good overcoming evil and this girl that stands up for what's wrong when something's wrong. >> i volunteer! i volunteer! >> reporter: not only getting good reviews, it's raking in the dough. more than $155 million on its opening weekend. making it the third best movie debut ever. it even knocked twilight off its box office perch. >> people aren't just seeing it once, they're going back because it's a really good movie. and people are inspired to go back, spend that hard earned cash one more time. >> report

>> lee cowen in las vegas. after the incident and emergency landing, passengers from flight 191 arrived in las vegas on a different plane last night. six hours late. as you just heard, they had some vivid stories to tell. earlier we spoke with two passengers who helped subdue the captain. i began by asking them about the moment they realized their flight was in danger and they had to do something. >> the captain came out of the cockpit unannounced and when you fly a lot, you become accustomed to some of the formalities where they secure the forward cabin. that was the first sign that something was off. his behavior was very erratic. he was erratic talking. that continued to escalate. i think what was really a trigger that something was going horribly wrong was the crew had prepared an off-duty pilot to move into the cockpit and so when the captain that was in distress went into the restroom, that co-pilot was moved into the cockpit quickly. that was, i think, in my mind a trigger that something was about to go

here with some recipes is "food & wine" magazine editor in chief dana cowen. here with us. >> i'm so glad. i have chocolate every single day. >> you do? >> a small amount of chocolate, but i've got guilt-free here. chocolate frozen yogurt. i think that when you're making frozen yogurt you should have some fun. there's rum here. there's rum in the bananas, and then toss together with greek yogurt and cocoa powder. >> you actually made the -- >> yes. >> it's already in there is what you're saying. >> yeah. it's in there. we can taste it. >> so sad hoda can't have any. >> that's okay. don't mind me. that double chocolate bounce. >> that's guilt free? >> guilt free. 99 calories versus chocolate ice cream, 270 calories. >> just so we're clear, it's cocoa powder in yogurt? >> in the yogurt. and then an ice cream maker. slivers of chocolate mixed in. so good. >> all right. what else you got that she can't have? >> this is totally no milk, no dairy. >> i like that. >> these are fennel seeds caramelizing. >> you'll love that. >> in an indian restaurant you've got that

i am claudia cowen back in los angeles. now back to "huckabee."ight. >> mike: do you know what is happening when you send your child off to school and would you know if they're picked on and harassed. bullying is a big source of violence . some kids are too afraid to tell parents and teachers and some of them commit suicide because they can't bear to spend one more day in school. their stories are shown in a new documentary called bullied. >> it is so uncomfortable. >> i feel all nervous going to school. i like learning, but i have trouble making friends. he said he was a geek. and some people told him he was worthless and go hang himself . enough was enough. >> the perkins boy just len years old desperate enough to take his own life. >> they trangle me and take things from me. >>> and that is enough. >> he's not safe on the bus. >> i have been on the bus. they are good as gold. >> the last boy is alex lib yenow 15 years old and he and his parents join us from oklahoma city . here in the studio film maker of bully. lee is with me. thank you for be

paul cowen's a criminal defense attorney and has been following the case for us. eight or nine character withins are going to come to support ravi. is that going to be enough to get past some of his testimony, which is hard to see? >> they need a lot more than character witnesses. now, i understand why the defense is doing this. they're going to try to throw up the fact that this is a good kid. he's a nice guy. >> did something stupid, maybe heartless, but he's not a bad guy. >> like waving the white flag when you call character witnesses. it means you don't have the evidence, so let's call his friends to say he's a nice guy. i think they need more. >> should he take the stand? >> you know, the usual thing is, don't put your client on the stand. i would put him on the witness stand. i would let him tell his story to the jury, let him cry, indicate how horrible this has been for his life. i think that's the only thing that could really save him. because if the jury likes him, maybe he walks out of that courtroom. >> before we go, he's deleted text messages, twitter

paul cowen was a contributor, former new york city homicide prosecutor. bashara, then accused again. turned out he had affairs, rather strange personal life, gentz has been charged with conspiracy to commit murder. does there have to be someone else you conspired with or no? >> conspiracy means that there are two or more people involved in the crime. the question is, who's person number two? his original story was that bashara was his coconspirator. >> how relevant is this iq issue? >> it could be relevant. his iq is about 65, which puts him well below average. if they're going to be relying on a confession from someone with a low iq, it's going to have a bearing. gentz has changed his story two or three times and if you're depending upon his confession to implicate bashara, you have a problem out of case. >> but if they thought bashara did it, wouldn't they have already taken him into custody? >> great question, but with a conspiracy indictment, the answer is no. that's because you have to corroborate the story. so you can go into a police station and sa

but sarah cowen was inviting questions. is with the museum where the rock was headed. >> there was trouble making the turn. so we stopped here instead. >> reporter: which is ironic. >> it's parked in front of the church called the rock of salvation. >> reporter: with its own rock that must be jealous. >> i had someone ask me if it will be earthquake safe? >> reporter: it will be. the museum goers will be walking underneath. >> i imagine, like, it's going to knock all the houses down. >> reporter: no houses. but just moments later -- there was a rubber necking rear ender. chalk it up to the rock. a rock star queen would appreciate. >> ♪ we will rock you >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >>> that does it for me, i'm wolf blitzer in

paul cowen has been covering this case for us and obviously, we just saw some of the character witnessese trying to prove is that ravi was not home phobic. >> this was a bone headed tactical decision by the defense in the case. it's been a sophisticated defense up until today, but you put a character witness on the stand. why? to show he's not antigay. so who do they call? seven friends of his father to say the kid is not anti gay. how are they going to know? the jury's expecting his fellow students to be called and if i'm on the jury, i'm being said, why didn't they call his fellow students. why did they call his father's friends? >> assume because didn't know what they would say? >> exactly. if you're on the jury, i think that's what you're going to assume. better to call no character witnesses than to call character witnesses who know nothing about the defendant, so very foolish move by relatively sophisticated defense attorneys who have done a dwraet job until now. >> you had said yesterday that ordinarily, shopt put him on the stand. but they should in this case. >> i think they sho

. >> paul cowen is with us.e attorney and their daughter is now four, so there is something strange to hear about this. she's 4. they would aborted, but there are fewer than ten wrongful death cases -- sets an incredible precedent? >> american courts have been very hostile to this theory that if there's a birth of a disabled child, you should get compensation if the doctor made some kind of a mistake in prenatal diagnosis of the fetus. if this sets the precedence that other courts follow, you could have doctor's premiums skyrocket ing now as a result of the increased cost. it's an important precedent, but we've seen this coming in courts around the country. the only thing i wanted to say, people would say, gee, why haven't courts done this in the past? well they haven't because it was sort of thought that the birth of a baby, disabled, nondisabled, down syndrome, normal, is a blessing and where do the courts get off saying these people should get extra money because they have a down syndrome child, so the courts

>> paul cowen is a former new york city homicide prosecutor who has interrogated dozens of suspects.t heard that ravi admit he invaded his roommate's privacy, but not deliberately. is that enough to convict him? because i know that alone in new jersey could be five years. >> it's enough to convict him. if the injury believes he deliberately invaded his privacy and broadcast this on part one of the case, which is invasion of privacy. this is a classic police interrogation. you've got the homicide detective. he's trying to make it out like he's ravi's friend and he says, you did it deliberately and finally, ravi agrees with that. we have to see if the jury's going to think is this ravi's story? >> and when he doesn't get what he wants, are you going to tell me the truth or lie. let's listen to more. >> you're deliberately lying to us now and telling us, i wasn't spying on my roommate. just watching my valuables. that is an outright lie? >> i wanted to find out what was happening. >> he's by himself, no attorney present, but that is hitting on that one part of this case, that seems to b