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crying wolf on iraq has led this president to have to fight off those who say he is crying wolf now. michaelt's absolutely right. and has a global impact. and there is an enormous irony here that obama's entire career is based on opposing the iraq war. >> it's how he got the nomination. >> now he finds himself on the other side of the coin trying to push is t country into a war. >> by the way, i was telling you guys beforehand, i remember when he testified in 1971, my first year in washington, he was the guy back from the war in vietnam talking about how hellish the war was and how wrong it was. >> and now he is playing the colin powell role, right? he is the one out in front. >> and what is wrong with what you just said? >> i'll tell you there is a big difference. >> what was wrong with what you just said? playing the colin powell role whom. wants to be there. >> he doesn't want to. but there is an important difference if we're talking about iraq and now. in 2003, the weapons of mass destruction debate are about weapons that no one had seen, that hadn't been used for years at that point. an

and the uae are delivering and perhaps particularly in this conflict as we see it right now, wolf and michael, the use of jets really is irrelevant. >> but also i think -- and wolf can speak to that too, there's a political aspect of this, isn't there? that there's going to be a bunch of contractors who wouldn't be happy if that went away. good point. wolf, thanks so much. good to see you. >>> the streets of cairo are relatively calm compared to recently. the government says it will stay in place for a month, it bans people from gathering without permission and allows police to jail them indefinitely. >> the battle just got rid of similar laws. the egyptian health ministry says meanwhile 525 people were killed in the violence yesterday. more than 3,700 wounded. those numbers could rise. in fact, the muslim brotherhood estimates are much higher than that. they put on display there you can see about 100 bodies wrapped in blood-stained sheets at a mosque. they say those bodies have not yet been counted by authorities. >> and they say the protests will continue despite the bloodshed. one senior m

crying wolf on iraq has led this president to have to fight off those who say he is crying wolf now. michael>> it's absolutely right. and has a global impact. and there is an enormous irony here that obama's entire career is based on opposing the iraq war. >> it's how he got the nomination. >> it's how he got the nomination. here he finds himself on the other side of the coin trying to push this country into a war. >> by the way, i was telling you guys beforehand, i remember when he testified in 1971, my first year in washington, he was the guy back from the war in vietnam talking about how hellish the war was and how wrong it was. >> that's right. >> and now he is playing the colin powell role, right? he is the one out in front. >> and what is wrong with what you just said? >> i'll tell you there is a big difference. >> what was wrong with what you just said? playing the colin powell role who wants to be there? >> he doesn't want to. but there is an important difference if we're talking about iraq and now. in 2003, the weapons of mass destruction debate are about weapons that no one had see

crying wolf on iraq has led this president to have to fight off those who say he is crying wolf now. michaelt's absolutely right. and has a global impact. and there is an enormous irony here that obama's entire career is based on opposing the iraq war. >> it's how he got the nomination. >> now he finds himself on the other side of the coin trying to push is t country into a war. >> by the way, i was telling you guys beforehand, i remember when he testified in 1971, my first year in washington, he was the guy back from the war in vietnam talking about how hellish the war was and how wrong it was. >> and now he is playing the colin powell role, right? he is the one out in front. >> and what is wrong with what you just said? >> i'll tell you there is a big difference. >> what was wrong with what you just said? playing the colin powell role whom. wants to be there. >> he doesn't want to. but there is an important difference if we're talking about iraq and now. in 2003, the weapons of mass destruction debate are about weapons that no one had seen, that hadn't been used for years at that point. an

attack in the state of minnesota only two documented deaths caused by wolf attacks in all of north america. >> that is horrifying. michaelow here to answer questions and this is from larry l. can a debt collector life a prerecorded message? >> probably. when you filled out the form if you wrote your cell phone number on the telephone number, fcc says, yes. says you've given permission to call you and leave prerecorded messages i would never considered giving permission for that but that is how the fcc says it. so any number you write down you have given permission. >> a lot of people now don't have land lines. >> yes. but i didn't give them permission to call for that. >> don't yell at me. lewis asks i am a senior and cannot change batteries in smoke detector myself is there a company you can hire? >> they do it for you free or low cost, senior centers all over the bay area have handy man services. in pal yes alto i know they do. there is an organization i think called rebuilding together they have offices all over the bay area they help senior citizens so just call your local senior center they'll be able to hook you up

wolf. >> and the judge, michael russo, he did make reference to the very chilling way that castro enticedhe kidnapped them. >> he did. judge michael russo mentioned that all three of the victims had previously been friends with at least two of castro's daughters or his son. now, we had been told by a private investigator in cleveland, when we were there, that one of castro's daughters would go shopping with one of the victims, gina dejesus, go to festivals with her, and that, apparently, appears now to be castro's entry into this. this is how he maneuvered his way to get close to those victims. >> a real monster, indeed. all right, brian, thanks very much. let's discuss what's going on with our senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. jeff, let me play another clip. this is ariel castro pushing back against the judge. [ inaudible ] >> makes it sound like i'm trying to force myself on to them. >> by virtue of your plea, that's what you did. you pled guilty to that, and by virtue of your plea, when you rape someone, that's what it means. >> what was behind that? i mean it was pretty strange to

wolf on wall street." people are wondering is it going to be like michael douglas and charlie sheen? >> it could be.ie together. >> you've got be interested in that even though it involves bankers. >> it's great trailer. it looks cool through and through. >> what to we have? up next we've got ""the hunger games"" sequel which is highly anticipated. >> yeah. the first one was such a blockbuster. this one they got a much bigger budget for. we'll see better costumes and amped up action as well as the arrival of finnic who fans of ""the hunger games"" will know as the big hunk who makes this less of a triangle and more of a love square. >> that sounds promising. how many sequels are they going to have? >> there's going to be two more after this, so it will be four movies in all out of the three books. >> and we'll have the sequel to "the hobbit." it did good box office but it wasn't -- >> it wasn't a favorite. this was supposed to be -- peter jackson was supposed to make two hobbit movies and they did and warner brothers decided after the fact let's spread it into three movies. >> people are going to tu

wolf, it was not only emotional. it was incredibly engaging. she talked about what it was like to live a life with michael talked about watching a movie with him, "to kill a mockingbird" and calling gregory peck to talk about the movie, and watching his fall into addiction. it was absolutely mesmerizing. >> which side did she shep? >> aeg brought her on and she did one thing for them and that was to establish that michael jackson was using proposal for decades going back to his day for arnie cline who she worked for. for the jackson family attorneys, though, she humanized him more with these anecdotes and stories and jurors were riveted to that. so, i think in totality, she really helped both sides. >> ted rowlands with the latest on that trial, thanks very much. >>> we're learning new details about the mysterious location known as, quote, area 51. for decades a lot of conspiracy theorists out there, they've suggested it's a secret area in the nevada desert where the u.s. government hid evidence of a ufo crash. newly declassified cia reports and a map now tell a very different story. area 51 exists in sou