just a few weeks ago, officer faulkner's widow, maureen faulkner, pleaded with the senate judiciary committee to listen to her story, and it is a heartbreaking story. it is a story of how 32-year-old a coldblooded killer murdered her husband and how political opportunists then seized the chance to deny her justice and propagate a very pernicious set of lies. it's also a story about how president obama's current nominee to head the justice department's civil rights division, this gentleman, debo adegbile, joined in this gross abuse of our legal system. unfortunately, our colleagues on the senate judiciary committee, our democratic colleagues, did not allow maureen faulkner to testified when the committee was considering this nominee. madam president, i think maureen faulkner deserves to be heard. i think she has a right to be heard. we've heard a lot of voices and a lot of arguments in this discussion. i think maureen faulkner's voice deserves to be heard. and since she was not permitted to testify before the committee, i'm going to read to my colleagues here in the senate the letter that she

sincerely, maureen faulkner. mr. president, as the justice department's web site explains the civil rights division of the justice department -- quote -- "fulfills a critical mission in upholding the civil and constitutional rights of all individuals" -- end quote. clearly this requires that the head of the civil rights division have an absolute commitment to truth and justice. there are many highly qualified americans who can carry out this critical mission. mr. adegbile's record creates serious doubts that he is among them. for these reasons, mr. president, i urge you and my colleagues to oppose the nomination of mr. debo adegbile to serve as assistant attorney general for the justice department's civil rights division and i note the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from rhode island. mr. whitehouse: thank you, mr. president. are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. whitehouse: may i

three other witnesses heard abujamal brag that he had shot faulkner and hoped that faulkner would die. during the trial when daniel faulkner's blood-stained shirt was displayed, the jury saw abujamal turn in his chair and smirk at officer faulkner's young widow maureen. so it was no surprise when a pennsylvania jury took just three hours to convict abujamal of murder, and the next day two hours to sentence him to death. mr. president, instead of allowing daniel faulkner's young widow to grieve in peace, a group of political opportunists decided to use this case to further their own political agendas. that fabricated claims of racism, spread lies about the evidence, they organized rallies that amazingly portrayed abujamal as a victim. before long, abu-jamal was a cause celebre, complete with celebrities, free mumia t-shirts and posters, had his own hbo special and they even named a street after him in paris. in 2009, 27 years after daniel faulkner's murder, the naacp legal defense fund or l.d.f., decided they would join the fray. now, for decades before mr. adegbile assumed his leaders

he was a police officer himself back in the years when daniel faulkner was gunned down. mr. costello, took two shots in the line of fire himself. sir, welcome, good to have you with us tonight. >> thank you for joining us. >> i'm honored, thank you. >> we're honored to have you. i wonder what your reaction is when you listen to maureen faulkner and you know all of the years of anguish that she has gone through. and she finally got this decision today. what do you think? >> well, this whole case has been a circus of evil like a carnival over the bizarre for over 30 years now. we have been forced to endure every left wing hate group in america championing the cold-blooded killer of a police officer as some type of twisted political hero. maureen herself has been trapped in a time warp of heartache, and even though it is 2014 she has never been allowed to leave december of 1971, it has been cruel and heartless. >> i can't even imagine what she went through. her young husband, they were in the beginning of their life the beginning of their life together. so our business can

pleaded , maureen faulkner pleadeddow , maureen faulkner pleaded, mauren faulkner pleaded with the senatejudiciary committee for a chance to testify before the committee as they were voting on the nomination of mr. adegbile but senate democrats would not allow her to testify. they didn't let her tell her story and instead they voted to send his name to the senate floor for confirmation. mr. president, i think maureen faulkner has a right to be heard. so i hope my colleagues will listen as i read a letter she wrote addressing all of us. gear senators. while i would have preferred to do so personally, i am writing to appeal to your sense of right and wrong, good and evil as you consider the nomination of debo adegbile to be the next head of the civil rights division of the justice department. 33 years ago my husband, a philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner was violently moderate -- murdered by self professed revolutionary named mamia abu jamal. i was 24 years old. most of my friends spend their summer at the jersey shore, i sat in not hot, steamy courtroom and watched in horror and di

he specifically cited his conversation with daniel faulkner's widow, maureen, who appeared on "the kelly file" numerous times. it was clear this was going to be a close vote because vice president joe biden was in the chamber and would have been the tie-breaking vote. democrats went in believing with joe biden's vote they had the numbers to be sure that debo adegbile would advance. at the last moment, we know at least one democratic leader flipped. this is what mitch mcconnell had to say about the nominee. >> even seven democrats couldn't support it. >> >> well today, attorney general eric holder said he was very disappointed in the senate's vote, adding that debo adegbile is uniquely qualified and an exceptional lawyer. his record was either misrepresented or misunderstood for the sake of politics, several democrats voted no. and harry reid was an additional last minute no. here is why, by doing that no, with the prevailing side with the no-voters today he preserved the right to take another vote in the future if he can convince any of the other voters to change their minds. there is al

faulkner. and someone who was responsible for mumia abu-jamal's dissidents are being overturned. each of these theaters nations is wrong, inaccurate, and unfair. >> dick durbin speaking wednesday. president obama called the vote a travesty and said -- for more we're joined by two guests. johanna fernandez is with us, professor of history, part of the city university of new york, one of the coordinators of the campaign to bring mumia abu-jamal home. she is the editor of his essays, "writing on the wall." is the director of the naacp legal defense and educational funds political participation group. we welcome you both to democracy now! let's begin with you, ryan, the significance of debo adegbile's rejection by the democrats as well as the republicans? >> i appreciate you having me on the show. it is hard to overstate with the senate did yesterday in a shameful vote that essentially decided being a lawyer disqualifies one from holding a legal position. more specifically, they held yesterday that

on december 9th, 1981, when 25-year-old philadelphia police officer danny faulkner was brutally murdered in the line of duty. >> a former journalist and black panther was eventually convicted and put on death row for the killing of officer faulkner, though then and now he maintains his innocence. 30 years after the original conviction, as head of the naacp's legal defense fund, he led a successful challenge to jamal's death sentence, getting it thrown out in 2011. so abuja malremains in prison for life. police unions in pennsylvania and nationally vehement loppose his nomination. toomey cited the defense of a cop killer as his reason for whipping those no votes. president obama called yesterday's vote a travesty based on wildly unfair character attacks. and msnbc.com's adam stur pointed out that the senate hasn't been so critical of lawyers who helped people considered beyond the pale. before he was supreme court chief justice, attorney john roberts did pro bono work defending one of florida's most notorious serial killers, ferguson, who was recently put to death, tricked his way into a

faulkner knows no man can match the strength of this 16-foot long beast. >> you have to pay credit to lifted this mower up, and he just turns around. >> elvis doesn't take the mower because he's hungry. his motivation is slightly more egotistical. >> elvis' reaction to the mower is purely that of a territorial response. he doesn't want it for food. it's something that's in his yard. that mower is making a rumble. it can stimulate a territorial response from a crocodile. so his reaction was to kill the mower. >> elvis continues to stand guard over the mower and his pond leaving faulkner and the other handlers figuring out how to get it back. >> the mower ended up right in the deep spot within his pool. after that, he proceeded to defend and guard his prey, his catch, what he's got there and show it off. >> in addition to the mower, faulkner also has to retrieve three-inch long teeth that elvis has lost during his display of power. >> he continually loses his teeth. they are very different from humans, they continuously grow. the reason we pull them out, they are enormous teeth and not

faulkner. the latest now on that missing asia airlines flight, nh 370.ng its planes have spotted two oil slicks off the country's southern tip, but no confirmation that is any connection to the plane. the boeing 737 was carrying crew and passengers. three of the passengers we know are american. china, the philipines, singapore, vietnam, malaysia and the u.s. are all joining in the search effort. if u.s. navy is sending a warship to the southern coast of vietnam. anguished loved ones, who you might imagine, still are waiting at beijing's airport for news, a texas-based scale, a three-scale semi conductor confirms 20 employees all from china and malaysia were on that flight. i'm harris faulkner, now back to "justice" with judge jeanine. [ music playing ] >> welcome back to "justice" former alaska governor sarah palen ends the cpac festivities today with a bang. her speech and inspiring call to action for all conservatives. take a listen. >> hope and change, yes, we can. it became, no, you can't. no, you can't log onto the website. no, you can't keep your h

danny faulkner story four-year-old widow maureen. was no surprise when a pennsylvania jury took just three hours to convict him. , after twot day hours of deliberation, they sentenced him to death. instead of allowing daniel faulkner's young widow to grieve in peace, a group of local opportunists decided to use this case to further their own radical agenda. they started fabricating claims of racism. they spread lies about the trial and the evidence. they organize rallies and that amazingly and perversely started to portray him as though he were the victim. the murderer, jamaal, became a cause cÉlÈbre, complete with the predictable ,doring hollywood celebrities free mumia t-shirts and posters on college campuses. he had his own hbo special. they even named a street after him in paris. this was an international .ampaign to lionize it was based on hatred for america, contempt for our criminal justice system, and the goal is to indict america as a hopelessly racist country with a hopelessly racist and unfair terminal just system for whic

i'm harris faulkner.t's the bottom of the hour, and here is what is happening. the search for the malaysia airlines flight that vanished is now expabding. they're looking at land. at least 40 ships, two dozen aircraft searching parts of the south china sea, the last known location of the boeing 777. it's been two days already. vietnamese officials are saying they're trying to get a closer look at a piece of debris spotted by a plane. one of the families of the victims on the flight is speaking. this is the same family that took to facebook yesterday, right? >> yeah, it is, absolutely. even though they haven't foun the plane, they're talking about their loved one in the past tense now, harris. philip wood was 51 years old and was a technical storage executive for ibm. he was taking a trip to tie up loose ends. he just visited his family a week ago in texas where they're all based. his brother spoke to fox news this afternoon, describing him as a man of god, a man of honor, and a man of integrity. listen to

. >> the honor of the purple heart was a long time coming for richard faulkner. the purple heart in new york over the weekend. the world war ii vet was even 19 years olds when nazi soldiers shot down his b-17 unit over german occupied france. 17 died and 12 were taken prisoner, faulkner was the only one that escaped. surviving the crash was only her father's first challenge. >> he had to wait until the germans had looked for him, they had seen somebody had gone down, and after they left, after nightfall started, the farmer came out and found him and started him through the french underground. >> faulkner refused the purple heart seven decades ago saying he never felt he was worthy of the honor. he only recently decided to accept it because of the encouragement of his family members. >> i don't deserve this. there's a lot of others that deserve it. >> he accepted the purple heart so he could show his three grandchildren and four great grandchildren his accomplishments. now that this is over he hopes all the attention will die down and go back to normal. a modest h

if you google daniel faulkner, you get maybe 100. in our culture, we find radicals so romantic. >> the left has always had their priorities backwards. like the koch brothers, it's like ahab and the white whale. and they idolize people who don't deserve idolizing. koch brothers bad, cop killer, good. they should take a lesson from npr, who tried to give this guy his own show from his prison cell. that didn't work so well, but this was horribly embarrassing. the senate majority whip should be embarrassed for not getting the count right and sending biden over there. with all the people they could have picked, why him? it was done to provoke. whether it was shoring up the base early or just getting republicans to get angry about this, this was a deliberate move by the obama administration knowing darn well that the right and the left have a visceral reaction when it comes to mumia or anyone related to him. >> that's a good point, bob. it seems like a contentious suggestion at the least. >> it may have been, but if i could have 15 uninter

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. >> axelrod: an 89-year-old world war ii veteran by the name of richard faulkner got a purple heart today in upstate new york in a ceremony 70 years in the making. staff sergeant faulkner was the sole survivor of a combat crash in france in 1944 that left him stranded behind enemy lines. he originally declined a purple heart but decide year ago he wanted something for his grandchildren to remember him by. that should do the trick. the commissary cuts that could hit military family budgets hard. and the final journey of a native diver, saving the remains of a champion race horse but not track he ran on when the "cbs evening news" continues. continues. the world... [ crowd cheers ] the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. [ male announcer ] enbrel may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, nervous system and blood dis

sergeant faulkner was just 19 when he was first offered the honor. the only survivor of a b-17 bomber shot down by the nazis in world war ii. he crashed in a field in france. the enemy came looking. his daughter knows the story well. >> the germans came because they were looking for him. the farmer who he had landed in his field, came after dark to get him and he was taken through the french underground. >> reporter: he said as a young man, he didn't feel right accepting the purple heart, because his comrades did not survive. >> didn't think i deserved it. they all got killed. and i didn't. >> reporter: all these years later, he changed his mind, he says, so his grandchildren would one day would have that medal. for his grandchildren. an honor earned so many years ago. >>> there is still much more ahead on "world news" this sunday night. getting answers after a moving nightmare. >> honestly, we are just trying to get your side of the story. >> why one company did not want us at their door. why were they holding boxes that belonged to one woman and to

i'm harris faulkner, now back to "justice" with judge jeanine. >> hello, welcome to "justice." i'm jeanine pirro, which presidential hopeful in cpac stole the show and why bolton told cpac pauk paub is the country's biggest security crisis. first to my open. any first-year law student understands a contract is an agreement, a meeting of the minds between the parties. if fraud is underlying the contract, it is nul and void, invalidated. not enforced. the question. did barak obama lie his way into the white house and, if so, has a fraud been committed against you? and does it even matter? it was during a very heated campaign in 2012 that president obama and his fans sold us that bill of goods about a flash mob and a hateful video, posing a massacre for americans and the president's appointees in benghazi ambassador chris stevens. that was a lie and they knew it was a lie. then another lie, obamacare. the president swears we can keep our doctors and our health care plans if we like them. the fraud continued when obama, president obama, belittled then candidate mitt romney. >> when

. >>> i am harris faulkner. it is the bottom of the hour.us it is sunday morning southeast asia and a multinational search on for a boeing that vanished. 239 people on board of that plane. two of those were american children. there was a 51-year-old phillip wood and children ages 4- 2. they lost contact an hour after taken off. there was no distress signal and no word from the pilot that we know of and no sign of bad weather. vietnam said there is smoul and on on smoke and oil select. no word on whether it is connected to the plane. it could be months before we find out what happened. the passenger list issued bow the airline included the napes of two europeans who were not on that plane. both of their passports were stolen or lost in thailand. all of this, we are learning more about the americans on the plane and how the united states is responding. dom, how is the united states getting involved right now? >> reporter: they are very much part of the multinational effort. it is normally based in san diego. and it was in the south china sea i

i am harris faulkner and now back to huckabee. >>> even though the administration said you can keep youred health insurance plan two years, it is up to the insurance companies and state insurance commissioners whether or not to offer those plans back. so can you get your cancelled plan back? we invited the coea to come and they decloined. >> thanks for your expression of interest. this doesn't sound loc a right opportunity for us to participate. cigna said this. we are evaluating the impact on the policy purchase to determine the best approach for our health plan. it would not be appropriate for us to a pore on the governor's show. joining me is samuel gibes. he is a leading on line marketplace for individual and family health insurance products. thank you forking to what very now insurance executives want to do. why will not the companies and executives openly discuss the challenges they are facing? >> the reality is that they are not nimble organizations. for them they spend months and years planning out the products. and for this case to say we'll make a change is leak the airline ind

i am harris faulkner. and a busy nows night and huckabee starts now.d gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. thank you, thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox nows studios in new york city. i normally start the show with opening comments and tonight i will do that later in the show because we are going to leadoff with mystery of missing maylasian flight. on saturday thelp mayasia freed prime said investigators

. >>> live from america's news head quarers, i am hares faulkner. that search shifted 700 miles to the northeastern indian ocean and already sunday morning and new objects spotted in the water. we are told ten planes are out there looking for more clues. the jet liner vanished after leaving malaysia for/beijing. so far those objects did not turn up anything. and the obama care dead lean a couple of days away. and most americans have until march 31st to sign up or face a tax penalty andment administration will take paper applications until april 7th and a grace period to people starting on line and yet to finish the process. i am harris faulkner and now back to huckabee. >> we are in the thick of march madness and ncaa basketball tournament and a big money maker for the colleges and the athletes that play in the games and generate millions of dollars are not getting a doim. college football brings in more revenue but again, the players don't get paid. earlier the national labor relations board ruled that northwestern football players are employees of

here is maureen faulkner, good to have you.at you wanted to do, you wanted to be there and make your own statement which i think many people would expect you should have the right to do given the loss of your husband at the hands of abu jamal. >> yes, martha, over the past month i have urged the senate to please allow me to be able to speak since this was personal on a situation where my husband was so brutally murdered and this man not only defended this man that murdered my husband but championed him. and i asked to go back and was told i was not able to speak. and then last week i sent a letter. i called harry reid's office and i asked them to please not do it this week because i was not able to attend -- to go to washington. >> and did you get a response? >> i received no response. called five times today. harry reid's office, no response. he -- he was supposed to go on monday, tomorrow, i understand it may go on monday, why couldn't it wait until i could be there personally? >> tell me, you have lost your petition because

i am harris faulkner. and a busy nows night and huckabee starts now. ladies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. thank you, thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox nows studios in new york city. i normally start the show with opening comments and tonight i will do that later in the show because we are going to leadoff with mystery of missing maylasian flight. on saturday thelp mayasia freed prime said investigators believe that communications with the airplane were disabled in the plane. molly is reporting. >> reporter: governor, deliberately disabled and it doesn't appear to be an accident. the plane likely now on six or sen and half-hours after the last contact with ground control. that plus the very changes ofality to youed and the shifting directions of the plane led the prime minister to indicate that the latest theory of the plane is shifting. >> in vow of the latest development. maylasian authorities are reinvestigating the crew and passengers on board. maylasian police searched the home of the pilot 53 year old, current and

on december 9, 1981, 25-year-old officer faulkner was murdered by wesley cook, who is widely known as mumia abu-jamal. the officer was shot several times. the fatal shot was when the gun was pointed inches from the officer's face and pulled the trigger. during the trial, it was made known that abu-jamal is a supporter of the move organization, an anarchist group that explicitly advocate for violence against police officers. in a letter to the senate judiciary committee, mrs. faulkner described described that, during the trial and her has and splits they sure -- her husband's bloodstained shirt was held for the jury, abu-jamal turned in his chair and smirked at her, the reading. the jury convened for a matter of hours before they came back with a dual tapered and a death sentence. that was 1982. fast forward 27 years to the year 2009. timenominee was at the director of litigation at the naacp. in 2009, the legal defense fund began advocating for abu-jamal. advocates and then as cocounsel. to be clear, mr. president, every little defendant is entitled to an attorney. jamaal representati

faulkner, thank you for your service. thanks for inviting us into your home tonight.hat's it for this "special report," fair, balanced and unafraid. greta goes "on the record" right now. >> this is a fox news alert. 239 people are missing in what is one of the most bizarre mysteries, 72 hours passing and the world has no idea where the flight 370 is. a boeing jet 777 loaded with 239 people simply vanished. on this hour on the ground in malaysia helping searching for crews. only actively and this lead is iffy. two mystery fliers boarded that plane with stolen passports. information on the two men being run through a terrorist database here in the united states. somewhat latest in the investigation there? >> well, the

i'm harris faulkner. if you were tuning in to fox news, daybreak in east asia and new leads in the disappearance of malaysian nite which vanished without a trace some 37,000 feet in the air over the waters east of vietnam. vietnamese officials are trying to get a closer look at a piece of debris found by a search plane. they're saying it could be part of the plane's door. >> meanwhile, the search for the missing boeing 777 is expanding and it includes dozens of aircraft and ships from several countries along with the united states. they're looking at land now. they're searching nearby stretches of coastline by helicopter. teams from the fbi, the faa, the ntsb, even boeing itself on the way to asia to assist in the investigation. malaysia airline flight 370 had been in the air for less than two hours when crews lost contact. the flight was on it way to beijing. 239 people aboard, including three americans that we know of at this point. a man from texas who had recently transferred to a new job in malaysia

i'm harris faulkner. that meeting, we're told, went on for hours. secretary kerry again making the case for diplomatic solution, saying russia also agrees at this point, at least in principle, that a diplomatic resolution is possible. that's kind of the headline out of the meeting, and also he said no decisions on ukraine's future will be made without ukraine's involvement and approval. remember how we got here. russia invaded ukraine for all intents and purposes. there was an election. people in ukraine voted to stay with russia part of ukraine. the other part wants the democracy they voted for that doesn't have anything to do with russia. secretary kerry laid out our grave concern over the tens of thousands of russian troops near ukraine's border still. >> any real progress in ukraine must include a pullback of the very large russian force that is currently massing along ukraine's borders. and tonight, i raised with the foreign minister our strong concern about these forces. we believe that these forces are creating a climate of fear and intimidat

this is the widow of daniel faulkner, philadelphia police officer who was killed. back then, unrepentant, there was an effort to change that conviction. and the critics of this adegbile said he led a political campaign back then, wasn't really a legal case. this is a political issue, especially if the white house from that statement brings back up this nomination. that could potentially be a big deal for those vulnerable democrats who have already now are on the line voting yes for this nomination. >> i think it's amazing after changing the filibuster rules it still went down to defeat even have the nuclear option. i've got to wrap it up there, brett. i know you're going to be talking about this on "special report." >> thanks, gretchen. >> president obama keeping up a war of words with russian president vladimir putin. so far still no plans putin plans to back down. a government building in southern ukraine evacuating after an explosive device discovered. local authority claiming pro russian protesters who occupied the building earlier today seen here. just hours a

they miscalculated what they were up against with police unions, with officer faulkner's widow -- >>was the officer who was shot. part of the defense in the latter years. >> red state democrats who are facing vulnerable, tough reelection. there is some finger-pointing with harry reid's office. they really miscalculated this one. >> thank you. margaret, megan, let me turn to you. paul ryan says we are going to reform welfare. it is not working and i have a bunch of new ideas. >> this is an over political document from paul ryan. he still wants to cut taxes on the rich but he also wants to punish the poor. the poor are to blame for their situation and medicaid and food stamps make them lazy and not want to work. he has almost no evidence -- he has no evidence for this and he cites social science that does not support his view. this is where the republican party is. there are no compassionate conservatives love. >> megan, you're compassionate. >> i'm not sure i'm a conservative. there is evidence of these traps at various levels with poverty that at some level you are losing benefits be

i'm harris faulkner.>> new developments in the massive and deadly mudslide in washington state. dominick denatali has the latest in washington. >> good evening. why haven't they released the names of the missing? >> reporter: you know, this is a persistent problem all week, judge. there's one reason for it. one of the superior court judges was telling me that the authorities have decided to go with the hip a act prevents them or they believe does from giving them personal details with regard to anybody's medical conditions as a way really of shielding the families from any major intrusion. it's a very close community here and they don't want the -- also a few miles from where i stand. from being actually haranged by the media. the media are trying to cooperate very much with the local authorities. but it's a close community and they're suffering very badly. very difficult conditions at the site of the mudslide today. we had an update from the media. you heard at the top of the show, one body has been foun

. >> officer faulkner was killed performing a police officer's most routine and hazardous task.p. police say faulkner stopped this car carrying william cook a street vendor as he travelled on the street near 12th and locust street. abu jamaal came running and opened fire on the officer. >> the congressman who distributed this film joins me now, mike fitzpatrick. good to have you here today. >> thank you. >> what is it that you want these members to understand about the attorney who is up for this job at the department of justice before they vote? >> i want them to understand all the facts underlying this case. when they vote, they'll have to answer to their communities and their police officers, the national fraternal order of police has made it abundantly clear, this is a significant vote in their mind. either you're with the police officers in this case or you're against them. and i want to make sure that they see the video, because the widow of the police officer was not given the opportunity to testify before the senate judiciary committee, she was essentially kept away from

i'm harris faulkner. report. it's the bottom of the hour. if you're just joining us, let's catch you up. malaysian officials say one of the missing jet's communications systems was turned off before the pilot's to air traffic control. this only added to clues that shows whatever happened to the flight was on purpose. day ten of the search. military missions from 25 xuntryes covering huge chunks of tarot in two rudirections the plane could have gone. north over central asia or south over the indian ocean. and authorities also intensifying their focus on the plane's pilots, searching both of their homes, even seizing a sophisticated flight simulate and cume computers from the home of the senior pilot. they're resimulating the simulator hoping to gather information about him or what his that's may be. lawmakers reacting to the latest in the search. steve sun somy with the latest in the search. what was happening bethe plane's data communication system that cast suspicion on the flight crew? >> you're right.

i'm jamie colby in for harris faulkner tonight. the state department releasing a statement a short time ago saying the secretary will reaffirm the united states's strong support for ukrainian sovereignty, independence, territorial integrity and the right of ukrainians to determine their own future. the world remains on edge, though, this hour as russia defies repeated calls from president obama, the united nations, nato, and all the other world powers that are asking for ukraine's sovereignty to be respected. but president vladimir putin vows to defend what he's calling russian interests inside ukraine and yesterday he got formal approval from his own government for military action. so tonight, there's an intense standoff unfolding as ukrainian troops are trapped. there are pro-russian forces surrounding bases in three ukrainian cities, all in the contested crimea region. armed, unidentified troops that are likely to be russian soldiers are standing just feet away from ukrainian troops, demanding they surrender. and ukraine's prime

denny faulkner was murdered that day. my father, you know, but every cop and every fop felt very strongly about this. so the folks that were paying attention on the ground were not shocked at yesterday's -- they were working hard to stop -- and i hear you. >> and i respect that. but this man, adegbile has an extraordinary resume and to toss that aside because he stood up for one person on a pro bono basis -- >> it was not for profit. >> but it wasn't pro bono. he was getting paid to represent him by the -- >> toure, it's a chilling effect, but at the end of the day, we're not talking about cases where everyone -- and everyone has a right to defense. but you have a choice, and you are defined by the choices of some of the cases you take. >> that is not the standard we've been using, patrick. i love you. we can argue it on amtrak. thank you very much. >>> up next, the group looking to give you free health care for a whole year, and some of you may already be eligible. captain obvious: i'm in a hotel. and a hotel is the perf

so i can see where we had this idea of taking this out of the faulkner book. fortunately the district judge said no and i think that case illustrates that if we give absolute control over literary property to authors, it really announces the enter ship that is just as permissions as dark days in great britain where you are deciding the puritans or though broyles. it just doesn't make any sense. and i think it is appropriate to end on that note at the tennessee williams festival because there is one thing about it in her work. and that is the notion of censoring language i think it would have been part of this. this is a man who had touched his elevated and it's not just the rewards that come out. but it's also how powerfully he can manipulate a single word. all i have do is save the life and you know what i mean. all i have to do is say this and you know what i mean. one word. so i think that words are important. i think authors are important and i hope that other literary festivals will also start talking about the because the issues are important. and i than

today richard faulkner was awarded the purple heart 70 years after being wounded in battle. he was the lone survivor when his b-17 bomber collided in mid-air with another allied plane and crashed in nazi occupied france. after 29 days behind enemy lines, he made it to safety and was offered the purple heart but he declined it at the time saying he felt awkward receiving an award when others had had died. now he says he wants his grandchildren to have something to remember his military service. >>> and this reminder to spring forward. make sure you turn your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed tonight. daylight saving time officially begins at 2:00 a.m. >>> still ahead, after a marathon spelloff, a champion is finally crowned. >>> finally tonight, it lasted two weeks and took nearly 100 rounds. but we finally have a winner. it all went down at a regional spelling bee in kansas city. now that winner goes on to the national spelling bee. our ron mott has the final showdown. >> reporter: in kansas city, missouri, it took 95 rounds and 261 words to finally spell w-i-n-n-e-

today richard faulkner was awarded the purple heart 70 years after being wounded in battle.as the lone survivor when his b-17 bomber collided in mid-air with another allied plane and crashed in nazi occupied france. after 29 days behind enemy lines, he made it to safety and was offered the purple heart but he declined it at the time saying he felt awkward receiving an award when others had had died. now he says he wants his grandchildren to have something to remember his military service. >>> a reminder to spring forward. make sure you turn your clocks ahead one hour before you go to bed tonight. daylight saving time officially begins at 2:00 a.m. >>> still ahead here tonight -- after a marathon spell-off, a >>> still ahead here tonight -- a[ male announcer ] we all think about life insurance. but when we start worrying about tomorrow, we miss out on the things that matter today. ♪ at axa, we offer advice and help you break down your insurance goals into small, manageable steps. because when you plan for tomorrow, it helps you live for today. can we help you take a small ste

i am harris faulkner and now back to huckabee. >> we are in the thick of march madness and ncaa basketballournament and a big money maker for the colleges and the athletes that play in the games and generate millions of dollars are not getting a doim. college football brings in more revenue but again, the players don't get paid. earlier the national labor relations board ruled that northwestern football players are employees of the school and they can unionized. is that what is to come? joining me is a coach, and he's one of my great heroes, coach lou holtz, honor to have you back on the show. >> glad to be with you. >> coach, if this thing continues and players uniononized, it would transstorm and up end college sports. what would happen? >> i think it is as the president of northwestern. they might stop playing football. and that's what happened in the ivy leagues in the '50s. they used to be strong football. and felt that academics was more important. and in the judge's ruling he never played college athletics. and they are athletes first and students second and that is wroj. >> that's

dwash da faulkner. and a busy nows night and huckabee starts now.ies and gentlemen, governor mike huckabee. thank you, thank you very much. and welcome to huckabee from the fox nows studios in new york city. i normally start the show with opening comments and tonight i will do that later in the show because we are going to leadoff with mystery of missing maylasian flight. on saturday thelp mayasia freed prime said investigators believe

comcastnbcuniversal. >> richard faulkner was 19 when the nazis shotdown his plane in 1944.oday. >> it was a long-timeoming for him. he received it in new york 70 years after surviving the event. it was shotdown in 1944 and three planes went down, 17 died and 12 were taken prisoners. he was the only only one that escaped >> he had to wait until the germans looked for him. they saw someone went down. and after they left, after nightfall started, the farmer came out and found him and started him through the french underground >> he refused the purple heart saying he didn't feel like he w was worthy of the honor. >> i don't deserve this. there is a lot other people that should be honored. >> he wanted to show his grand children and four great grandchildren the medals. he wants this to quite down and go back to normal now it is over. >> this is just a big, big mystery. what happened to malaysia flight 370? we have more on what investigators are doing to try to find the answer. be right back. okay, listen up! i'm re-workin' the menu. mayo? corn dogs? you are so outta here! aah! [