lz, do you think it's strategic.ill says he's not sure if it was. >> i tend to think it was strategic. it's just another code word he's using to remind people he's not like us. he is different from us. >> i got it, i got it. so, lz, santorum said today that insurance companies shouldn't be required to cover prenatal testing because certain tests often lead to abortions. are comments like this calculated? >> i just wish people in the area would just ask themselves or ask santorum what do you base this on? what facts are you using? did you interview a bunch of doctors? have you interviewed patients and this is what they told you? why are you saying these things? he says a lot of things like this to challenge president obama. he doesn't get challenged himself on the facts. i think that's disturbing and it skews away from the larger conversation about health care. >> lz -- i mean, will, if you want to weigh in quickly. >> i just love to kind of put this comment about prenatal care in context. rick santorum is opposed to

i'm not going to do this to this campaign. >> lz?m still good enough to be your congressman? i can't volunteer and help mitt romney run for president, but i can be your congressman? how does that make sense? >> that only affects his own career. perhaps he is taking a noble stance. i have some negative publicity around me right now. i don't think that should rub off on the guy i'm endorsing. before for my own career, i'll take it on. >> i don't think the gay should be rubbing off on mitt romney is what he's saying. not necessarily my scandal. >> lz, do we need to hear from mitt romney himself on this? >> you know what i would really like to hear from mitt romney? i would like to hear him say i reached out to this man and said i understand you're going through this scandal but you're sexual orientation has nothing to do with your qualifications to be in congress or to help me be the president of the united states. that would go a long way to help him diffuse the idea that the gop and the republicans are anti-gay. you know, the scandal

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. >> do you want to respond to anything that lz said here?> we are friends and we have had a lot of conversations offine and on tv. lz almost invarbly opposes. he made a broad generalization about the gop. i think these stories should be looked at as individual circumstances. by your own standard i don't know how you apply a broad generalization to an entire party. i don't know how you can do that by your own standard. >> i can give you a long list of examples but i don't know if we can take up don's show like that. we have plenty of examples about people in religious front and political front who happen to be antigay or linked to antigay organizations and then we find out they are wrestling with sexual orientation themselves. >> i don't know what broader conclusion we are trying to reach with that. >>> tomorrow night anderson cooper has an under view with sheriff babeu. >>> national security advisor hadf-that might not be enough for israel. whether israel would dare to launch such a strike is the million dollar question. >> reporter: accordi

is right, it would mean you might be able to prevent the spread and progression of alzheimer's which lz really quite interesting. >> reporter: brains of people with alzheimer's contain tangles of a protein called tau, thought to play a role in memory loss. researchers genetically gigineered mice with tau in taeir brains, and then mapped its spread over 22 months. as the mice aged, tau spread from cell to cell, destroying them as it moved. >> there's no... an appreciation that tau, at the very least, is this sort of excutioner. it's the abnormality that results in cell death and dysfunction. >> reporter: coauthor karen duff said the finding raised hopes for new therapies that might lock tau. >> we are fascinated by the idea t can spread from cell to cell prd that allows us a whole range of interventions that can catch it as it's leaving one cell into another. >> reporter: can this be a new therapy? we ask the chief medical officer at the alzheimer's association. >> that might be a useful therapeutic pathway, but there are many steps that have to come before you're actually going to get t

funneledmental tax reform hass lz a bipartisan history. in the 1986, i was in high school at the time, i read the book, we did fundamental tax reform that lowered tax rates and broadened the base. the sponsors of that bill, dick gephardt and bill bradley. i would argue this is not necessarily a left versus right issue. this is about those who are willing to tell the people the truth about our nation's fiscal challenges and those who continue to duck from those challenges. this budget takes the latter approach. it represents a very clear threat to the health and retirement security for american seniors. it threaten es our government w haver higher taxes and commits our children and grandchildren to a deminute fished future. i don't know how you conclude otherwise. second geithner, you probably be the first to acknowledge that having no plan is a plan in and of itself. it's a plan for failure. it's a plan to stay in the debt crisis. and having no plan means we're planning for decline as a nation. the point of this hearing is to find out why

vicious syrian military assault, artillery assault, on this city lobbing mortars, rockets, tank shell lz into -- shells into a densely populated neighborhood which has been an opposition stronghold in the west of that city for the fourth day now. we've seen images of families cowering in basements away from the windows and still that has not done enough. activists say more than 50 people have been killed today alone in this onslaught. we're going to take a listen to what one of these activists has to say, but i have to warn viewers it includes the image of a dead child. take a listen. >> he was only about two years old. he got bombed in his house. this is what the u.n. has waited for. this is what the u.n. has waited for. they kill all the children, kill all the women. >> reporter: brooke, we're hearing a lot of this, the agony, outrage and fear from the people in this community that i've been talking to. one man i spoke with just about an hour ago said he had seen two helicopters firing into this town, into this neighborhood. the syrian government says that the insurgents there blew up

. >>> a shaky wakeup call for lz -- for residents of the san diego zoo..2 magnitude quake about four miles from the zoo out the pacific ocean t struck just before 1:00 this morning the. the us -- morning. the usgs says the depth was p five miles. no reports of -- was about five miles. no reports of injuries or damage. >>> there are still several lawsuits against capitola. this is what the damage looked like in march of latch years. a -- of last year. a drainage pipe ruptured damaging several homes. one homeowner is suing for $130,000 in damages. >>> in the very near futuring it's possible california drivers would be reaching for their license and their smartphone if they get pulled over by the police. a los angeles asimplyman is proposing that police accept -- asimply is proposing that police accept proof of auto insurance on smartphones. >>> we want to check in with sal. we've had some problems out there for sure. let's go out and take a look at what we have now at -- as we get closer to what should be the end of the morning commute on highway 4. you can

as far as her voice is concerned, like every singer, lz go there are good and bad days.not breaking news her voice doesn't sound exactly like did it when she was 19. the last couple weeks, the session we were doing, i was very positive and felt good about. i thought we were getting great material. we were both excited about what we were working on. >> you saw no signs of anything wrong. harvey mason jr., i'm sorry for, again, for having you see this material on our air just before our interview. thank you so much again for talking to us. >> my pleasure. thank you. >> coming up, we're going to talk much more about the future, what the future holds tofor houston's daughter. >>> investigators on a caribbean island are on the hunt for a suspect that robbed stephen breyer at machete point. pete williams is in washington with the latest on this. pete, good morning. >> reporter: matt, good morning. justice breyer was vacationing with his wife and some friends in the caribbean when they all became victims of the robbery. he actually owns a house on the island in the west indies.