kaufman. will the clerk, please, pass out the amendment, without objection, reading the amendment will be dispensed with. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from colorado, mr. kaufman, for the purpose of offering and explaining his amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> two minutes. >> over the last ten years the department of defense has seen historic rates of growth in the number of civilian employee. s on its payprom since 2002, the number of bureaucrats inside the department of defense has grown 20% while the number of uniformed military members has increased less than 1%. while the current administration is slashing the numbers of uniformed military personnel, over the next five years it's shown little indication it plans to take commencery cuts to the federal workforce hired to support the universaled men and women. >> now that the department is making tough decisions about a defense platforms, by retiring ships and combat aircraft and putting off the purchases of some new weapon

james kaufman, outside the crime scene after he rushed home.uthorities won't say if he's a suspect, but they have reportedly impounded his car, and they insist there is no threat to the public. >> let me put it to you this way, i don't think the citizens of linwood should be running around panicked. >> reporter: kaufman's friends say they weren't aware of any problems, that april was actually in a jovial mood the day before celebrating progress on veterans' issues she had been working on. >> she was at the high point of her life after that. i mean she was just like walking on air. >> reporter: lee darby was april's best friend for decades and has spoken with her family. >> we raised our daughters together and they were devastated. her eyes have not been dry. >> reporter: according to friend donna clementoni she sent her an e-mail saying she tried to reach kaufman by e-mail at 9:00 a.m. but couldn't. her body was discovered by a house worker 2 1/2 hours later. >> everybody loved april. i mean she would just light up a room, and she was laser foc

james kaufman outside the crime scene after he rushed home. authorities won't say if he's a suspect, but they have reportedly impounded his car and they insist there is no threat to the public. >> let me put it to you this way, i don't think the citizens of lynwood should be running around panicked. >> reporter: they weren't aware of problems. that april was in a jovial mood the day before celebrating progress on veterans' issues she had been working on. >> at the high point of her life after that. i mean she was just like walking on air. >> reporter: this woman was her best friend for decades and spoke with her family. >> we raised our daughters together and they were devastated. >> reporter: according to donna clemmentoni sent her an e-mail saying she tried to reach kaufman 9:00 a.m. but couldn't. her body was discovered by a house worker 2 1/2 hours later. >> everybody loved april. i mean she would just light up a room and was laser focused on her advocacy. >> reporter: the kaufmans were known to be avid gun collectors. they had a large vau

adam kaufman was accused of strangling his wife.s heard from a medical examiner, who concluded she was murdered. matt gutman is in miami. and jurors heard for the first time the possible motive for murder. >> reporter: the prosecution made that stunning case, that the motive could have been sex. saying that adam kaufman could have gotten rid of his wife to move on. they went so far to make comparison with the man witnesses say was a loving husband comparing him to casey anthony. prosecutors hinted why they charged adam kaufman for killing his wife in 2007. his possible motive, they said, lust. the defendant was on a date, asking out a woman, the following month, in 2007. >> reporter: kaufman is charged with second-degree murder. accused of strangling his wife in the couple's bathroom. adam kaufman's lawyers say, he's innocent. that his wife died from an undiagnosed heart defect. but monday, after a judge asked jurors to leave, prosecutors told a stunned courtroom, that instead of grieving, kaufman started dating. >> by january and f

adam kaufman faces life in prison. prosecutors say he strangled his wife lina kaufman. it was an allergic reaction to a spray-on tan. but can that defense stick? abc's john muller is here with more. >> reporter: all right, sharyn, the spray tan defense made this case a national sensation, but abc news has learned lawyers may decide to go with a new theory. even if they do, the spray tan will still remain a key piece of evidence. both sides agree that in november of 2007, eleonora kaufman died on her family's bathroom floor, but the cause now up for debate. >> come on, wake up. lina! >> reporter: her husband adam says he found her lifeless and dialed 911 in those first frantic moments. >> i don't know what happened. she's on the floor dying. she's not breathing. >> reporter: but tomorrow adam, a prominent real estate developer, will stand trial for her murder. the prosecution's claim, she died of asphyxiation. he strangled her to death. the defense, some say, so out there it made headlines. their initial argument, a spray tan may have contributed to her death. that chemi

this case, this death, of lilly kaufman goes back to 2007.medical examiner waited a year-and-a-half before concluding that the evidence suggested mechanical strangulation and then, the aventura police department charged adam kaufman with second-degree murder. but in the opening statement the prosecutor for the state presented photographs of lilly kaufman's neck and her eyeballs saying all of that indicated that she had been strangled and that she had some defensive wounds underneath one of her fingernails. now the defense claims that she fainted in the bathroom while adam kaufman is sleeping in bed. he comes up and finds her apparently either hitting her neck onto the toilet rim or the magazine rack. >> or if you believe the version where she was on the toilet and slump forward into the magazine rack neither version is we'll possible under the laws of fist sigs. because under the laws of physics you can in the generate enough force to cause those neck injuries. >> reporter: key evidence for the state here is that the cops that arrived on the

philip kaufman is here. he has been making movies for nearly 50 years. you might recognize him as the director of "the right stuff" and "invasion of the body snatchers" or the writer of the indiana jones movies. "no other living director so consistently made movies for adults." his new film looks at the relationship between ernest hemingway and the writer martha gellhorn. it is called "hemingway and gellhorn." and here is the trailer. >> i remember thinking the first time i saw him who is that large, dirty man in the disgustingly soiled clothes? >> oh, my god, that's ernest hemingway. >> when there was no war, we made our own. >> i need another drink. >> you inspire the hell out of me. >> of course there are wars. and there are wars. >> rose: i am pleased to have philip kaufman at this table. welcome to the program. >> nice to be here. >> rose: so let me come to this film. why did you want to do this? >> i'd always been interested in hemingway, you know, read hemingway from high school on. >> rose: was it the life or the work that made you interested? >>

ben kaufman followed by eric williams. >> ben kaufman with the san francisco transit riders union. i want to echo what a lot of folks have said on the ta and the mta in collaboration. i thank you for putting your head together outside the box. we wholeheartedly support center writing brt with right door boarding. i want to acknowledge mr. wong's comments that the stocks should be maybe given a little more thought -- the bus stops should be given maybe even a more thought in terms of accessibility. but as far as projects, this is a great one. it is an investment in our future. it is a connector to an isolated neighborhood, or a group of isolated neighborhoods to transit. and it is the first example of bus rapid transit coming to san francisco and we hope it paves the way for many more in years to come. correct erik williams. the last person to turn in a speaker cards -- >> erik williams, the last first person to turn in a speaker cards. >> if we are talking about the alternative on the right-hand lane and making it a transit- only lane, saving the agency millions upon millions of do

amendment to the bill fell apart the brown kaufman amendment was designed to break up the too big to fail banks the idea being that if there cho large that they could catch the entire world economy to utter chaos because of their misgivings then they shouldn't allow be allowed to exist at that size now robert reich the clinton secretary made a brilliant point saying that you know at this point they're too big to regulate we can't even institute regulations they've already committed millions upon millions a lobbyist dollars to overturning the dodd frank legislation which was watered down to begin with the idea that if we leave the banks to police themselves that if we just let them govern themselves that things will work out great for all of us it doesn't work we can't even get the n.y.p.d. to police themselves why should we think that the banks would do any different and certainly jamie dimon kind of for a really long time a poster child of what's been happening a you know a good example of you know self policing actually working we do remember as you mentioned when some of this legi

eleanor kaufman's own parents will testify on behalf of the accused murderer. in other words, they don't believe adam killed their daughter. >> so interesting. it really does speak -- i mean that's going to speak strongly -- >> real hard to convince a jury when her own parents say he didn't do it. >> thank you, sir. >>> a lot of other news developing and for that we head over to mr. ron claiborne. good morning, again, sir. >> dan and sharyn, hi. john, good morning. good morning, everyone. >>> in the news five men charged with plotting the 9/11 terror attacks refuse to enter pleas during a dramatic day in court in guantanamo. the defendants disrupted the hearing shouting at the judge and ignoring him and praying in court. >>> for the first time in 40 years japan is a nuclear-free power. the last of the country's nuclear reactors has been turned on for checkups following last year's earthquake and tsunami that set off meltdowns. >>> warren buffett says he feels terrific despite being recently fiedzing out he has prostate cancer. he will be replaced when and if ne

kaufman for five minutes. >> thank you, chairman. i -- i -- i think that probably everybody on this committee supports the government, federal government, engaged in doing research in order to make alternative fuels cost kpeft competitive. where we differ, when they are not cost competitive and having the united states marine corps, having serves, i certain agree with the gentle lady from guam and from california where they've both said that marines have taken casualties because f of, in afghanistan, because of convoys. but those convoys would occur whether or not we're moving biofuels or whether we're moving traditional fuels. we have made some in-roads on, although at the margins in terms of solar power for troops in the fields to, for things like recharging batteries. and some, providing some basic heat, but the -- we should mo move -- we should mandate the military to move to biofuels when it's cost competitive to do so, when it's in the interests of the military and the taxpayers to do so and not for some alternative ideological

kaufman is the latest republican to join a whole brand new wave of birth or ism and like the rest of his colleagues the more time kaufman spends on this ridiculous debate the less time he's spending on the issues that americans actually care about like fixing the economy or helping our environment. and the very very ugly virginia delegate bob marshall this week marshall and other virginia republican delegates rejected former navy pilot tracey thorn baghlan for a seat on virginia's lowest trial court because he's gay marshall said the thorn begala is gay lifestyle. lifestyle is exactly contrary to his obligation to uphold the state constitution and on c.n.n. this morning he stood by these outrageous remarks we now know they don't have to the taliban repealed obviously you know blacks used to have to sit in the back of the bus they don't have to anymore there was discriminate women couldn't vote and they can vote now times have changed do you not agree that he could be given a chance. dr martin luther king and rosa parks never took an oath of office that they broke sodomy is not a civi

and that's where ben kaufman comes in.e's a founder and ceo of quirky.com, a consumer products company that helps would be inventors see their ideas come to life. from almost the moment an idea is accepted, quirky's community of 200,000 community members and designers work to make that product a success. i went to manhattan's west side to visit quirky's new 30,000 foot headquarters. how are you doing? and i can tell you i've never seen a place quite like this. ♪ >>> thanks for showing me around. i'm really excited. i want to see it literally from nuts and bolts, like how it all works. >> awesome. we design the office basically around the business. so the space you're standing in right now, come thursday afternoon, gets transformed into sort of a theater style environment. >> all right. we're up. ladies and gentlemen, welcome to quirky product evaluation. 120 folding chairs come out here on this wood floor, projection screen comes down, all the department heads sit there. you have the entire quirky staff plus guests as well

kaufman, for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i was in afghanistan with several of my colleagues. mostly from this committee. and we had met with -- ambassador crocker and we met with general allen and both of them said the same thing in separate meetings. that they would like to see the presence of 68,000 that would be drawn down to september. stay through the end of 2014. the good thing about this amendment is, it says that if we could achieve our objective prior to that, and shift operational control earlier, then certainly do so. you know, i'm reminded having served in iraq with the united states marine corps, in my last assignment during my tour of duty, being in meetings with tribal leaders, convincing them to cooperate with the united states, that we -- we there -- we were in it to win it, and knowing that if that was not accurate that they would be dead, that they would subsequently be killed for having cooperated with us, if, in fact, the insurgents or the al qaeda elements took back that particular river valley. the --

senator shelby voted both against the bliely act and in favor of brown-kaufman when it was an amendment to the dodd-frank bill. thanks again to the witnesses. >> thank you, mr. claireman. and dr. vulkar, thank you for being here. enjoyed talking to you prior to. enjoyed reading your testimony yesterday evening as it came in. i think we all agree we need a safe banking system and we want one that also meets the needs of 21st century economy and that's the balance, i think, that we're all looking for. so i want it thank new particular in your testimony for pointing to the fact that congress still hasn't dealt with the gses. i know as a man wh was under extreme stress during early '80s and made a lot of tough decisions that caused you to be highly honored by people across this country, he must look at amazement on a u.s. congress that fails to deal with an evident, huge problem in our country. but has lacked the courage it deal with that. so i appreciate you pointing that out. and you know, i was thinking as we read a lot of materials getting ready for the hearing and i appreciate all of t

shortly we will hear from mark kaufman.is book, first contact thomas more's the science of master biology which studies extra terrestrial life. >> thank you and enjoy the rest. >> here is a look at some books that are being published this week. four-star general and former secretary of state presents his theories. it worked for me in life and. in predator nation corporate criminals, political corruption, and the hijacking of america, dr. gentry filmmaker charles ferguson argues that public officials have allowed the financial crimes to be committed without consequence. political commentators and journalists contends that hyper individualism is the cause for political dissatisfaction in our divided political parties. the battle for the american idea in an age of discontent. in the first book in a new series about the fundamentals of american government eleanor clift, contributing editor for newsweek magazine and matthews spieler, former social policy analyst for congressional quarterly explains the process of how the united

on the stand, first responders testified that adam kaufman that morning kept changing his story. >> inote of it because it was completely different from the other story he had told me. >> okay. >> this time he mentioned the patient being slumped over a magazine rack. when clearly he told me she was humped over the toilet. >> late today was revealed that the judge that the twin brother of kaufman and another witness for the defense were actually caught watching a live feet of the trial and testimony out in the hallway. a very angry judge says she will address that first thing in the morning, shep. >> shepard: phil keating, thanks. the same south florida courtroom where all of that is going on is courtroom 4-1 in miami-dade's justice building. it has hosted a lot of high profile defendants, going back for decades. in fact, in 1970, a jury in that courtroom convicted the rocker jim morrison of indecent exposure at a concert in miami. the serial killer ted bundy stood trial there for assault in 1979. years after a west coast jury acquitted o.j. simpson, a jury cleared him on caves road ra

jenna: he is very emotional, adam kaufman hearing the testimony so far.he case to see where it goes from here. jennifer, lis, nice to have both of you. thank you very much. jon: there are new developments in the showdown over iran's nuclear program. the u.n. striking a deal with that rogue nation just 24 hours before some high-stakes talks. what all this means for the u.s. just minutes away. jon: here are some stories come up next hour in "happening now." three terror suspects arrested in a plot to disrupt chicago's nato summit making their second appearance in court today. we'll have a live report. >>> al qaeda waging a dangerous new war on america. why a new terror threat is getting a lot of attention in washington. >>> plus hawaii isn't a bad place to vacation now, is it especially when you're not paying for it? why that has a leading republican senator challenging the ninth circuit court over a conference that whole group is planning and you're paying for it. jenna: we don't have any conferences for "happening now" in hawaii. jon: i wish we would. jen

prosecutors have yet to offer a motive for why kaufman would kill his wife.of her family and friends support kaufman, including eleonora's parents, who were scheduled to testify on his behalf. he's currently out on $500,000 bail. if convicted, he could be sentenced to 30 years in prison. >> you said the prosecution's case is going to come down to the testimony of the medical examiner. how convincing that person was going to be. >> yeah. we heard from the former assistant medical examiner, who did the autopsy. offered up the testimony the prosecution needed about the types of injuries consistent effectively with a homicide around the neck, et cetera. there were a couple of problems with his testimony. first of all, conceding he hadn't seen scarring of the heart. that injuries could be the result of cpr. not a slam-dunk in any way shape or form. going forward, what's the case for the prosecution? >> it's a tough one. when you're facing friends, family, relatives of the victim, effectively testifying on behalf of the guy who's on trial, you have a tough case in

services will be held at kaufman auditorium at 11 this morning.be buried at arlington national cemetery. >>> the wife of suspended san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi is sharing her story with the i-team. she talked about her fight with her husband and the public scandal that followed.;çp dan traveled to iliana lopez's home in venezuela over the weekend forea one-on-one interview. she talks -- talks about the way her life changed her fight for justice for her husband and whether she is ever coming back to san francisco. dan just got back to san francisco last night and his exclusive story will begin airing tuesday night on abc7 news at 11. >>> chicago is preparing for more protests as the final day of the nato summit resumes this morning. police clashed with demonstrators during the opening day of the summit yesterday. there were several people injured, 45 arrested. protest are vowing to march to boeing headquarters today. many downtown businesses have told employees to stay home. mover than two dozen rail stations are closing. president obama is

oh, my god. >> that was the chilling call that adam kaufman made to 911. prosecutors say he strangled his wife. he says she died from a bad reaction to a spray tan and now it is a heart defect. guysers first it is a reaction to a spray tan. now, she had some kind of virus that effected her heart. and then she passed out, hit a magazine rack and basically strangled herself. do you think the jury is going to buy this? >> the passed out and hit the magazine rack is the third story. he said he found her on the floor and then he said he found her wrapped around the toilet riding the porcelain bus as we would say when we were kids. >> judge jeanine: riding the porcelain bus. >> in college. >> judge jeanine: i went to college, too, i never heard that one. >> he is not acting leak an at any time guy. he is in trouble. >> fred, let me tell you something. the prosecution's case. they are going down. >> really? >> let me tell you we. you have three he newar nationl experts that say there is no homicide here. they evaluated the case. there is no indication of struggle

the prosecution is alleging that adam kaufman strangled his wife.is arguing that it was a reaction to spray tan. dan harris is here with the details. >> this is a strange and unsettling case. the mother of two, dead. her successful husband accused of murder. shifting theories about the cause of death. and in a fascinating twist, the victim's family standing by the accused killer. >> help is on the way, okay. >> reporter: adam kaufman sat in court monday, tears filling his eyes, as the jury listened to the moment he found his wife, eleonora, unconscious, on the couple's bathroom floor in 2007. >> i don't know what happened. she's on the floor dying. she's not breathing! >> reporter: the prosecution says kaufman made this 911 call, moments after he strangled his wife, telling the jury this is a clear case. >> this defendant is guilty of second-degree murder of his wife. >> reporter: during opening arguments, prosecutors showed jurors pictures they say proves their theory. >> she died of mechanical asphyxiation to her neck. and her husband is the one t

. >> reporter: adam kaufman sat in court monday, tears filling his eyes, as the jury listened to thehis wife, eleanora, unconscious, on the bathroom floor in 2007. >> she's not breathing. >> reporter: the prosecution says kaufman made this 911 call, moments after he strangled his wife, telling the jury this is a clear case. >> this defendant is guilty of second-free murd hf second-degree murder of his wife. >> reporter: prosecutors showed jurors pictures they say proved their theory. >> died of mechanical asphyxiation to her neck. >> reporter: but defense lawyers say that the 33-year-old had a medical condition that suddenly turned deadly. >> the cardiac arrest and the lack of evidence in this case, are going to show you that no crime was committed. none. >> reporter: this case first got national attention back in 2009, after kaufman's lawyers blamed eleanora's death not on her heart, but a violent allergic reaction to a spray tan she had just gotten. the prosecution rejects both explanations. >> it's impossible to have happened either one of the ways the defendant suggests that it h

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police say that kaufman had been shot multiple times.he hosted a weekly talk radio program on a radio station, wond. she is known and be has been known for working tirelessly on behalf of veterans. in fact, he had just recently been chosen by the governor to receive an award for outstanding service to the community. kaufman was on the air wednesday afternoon. co-workers described her as upbeat, nothing unusual. she shared her house with her husband. neighbors say they saw him at the house after his wife's body was found, apparently, he says his wife was sleeping when he left for work earlier in the morning. right now they have no suspects, so this is an active investigation. as we get more, we'll bring it to you. jenna: wow, so strange. rick, thank you. jon: defense attorneys asked the judge to dismiss charges against john edwards. the jury didn't even know it was happening. our legal panel talks about that and other key aspects of this case the jury has not learned about. that's ahead. jenna: new information in john edwards' federal cor

a worker found 47-year-old april kaufman in her bedroom. kaufman was focusing on veterans issues. on a number of issues. but so far, they haven't named any suspects. >>> the farm where a man released dozens of animals before killing himself, is now in danger of foreclosure. prosecutors say terry thompson owes more than $70,000 on 70 acres of land. the notice comes just days after two surviving lepords, bears were returned to the farm. for months, they were being held at the columbia state zoo on a quarantine order. >>> on the hot seat today. monica villamizar has the latest. >> reporter: rebecca faced a pant. looking for this. >> much has been made of relationships. >> reporter: the former editor of news of the word, testified she often exchanged text messages with david. >> you would sign them off. lol, lots of love. actually, until i told him it meant laugh out loud. then he didn't sign like that anymore. >> reporter: they both sent messages after the phone- hacking scandal forced her down. but she denied the contacts influenced her work. >> i'd never compromise my position as a