>>randy: the jury is out.he government announce we are tightening up our rules and regulations, that indicates to everyone with any common sense we not very tight regulations to begin with. so you already know what is wrong. >>arthur: there should be a degree of common sense. >>shepard: when in colombia do not do the blow or the girls. >>arthur: the rule is wherever you are in the world, if it is a crime in the united states, you can't do it. >>arthur: yes when you work for the federal government in that capacity that is a common sense --. >>jonathan: i think they have been doing it since secret service agents travels what is the big deal? really? >>shepard: i want you to tell the story. tell the story. >>jonathan: what story? no, i cannot tell that story. >>shepard: from the clinton administration. you told me. >>jonathan: because i terrorist you. i am not naming names. someone in the white house party missed a flight on air force one coming from now to dublin in 1997 because that particular person was in the

>>randy: that shows you they ain't got it. >>arthur: they are not sure they have it if they put her on, because that's really rolling the dice. she is a wild card. she has been called nuts, crazy, out of the loop, she consults astrologists. rain i do that all the time. >>shepard: i don't disbelieve that. >>randy: would you call me as a witness? >>shepard: i would not call you anything. i would ask you to dinner. but not with him. you can go to dinner but not together. >>arthur: it will be fun if she takes the witness stand. >>shepard: if there were cameras in the court room this would not have happened. >>jonathan: we would be watching every day. i feel like i need to take a you shower after i listen to this. >>shepard: we are spending less for gasoline. prices are down. and the worst case scenario, for this year, is very much less likely. why? gerri willis will tell us.@=h [ female announcer ] research suggests the health of our cells plays a key role throughout our entire lives. ♪ one a day women's 50+ is a complete multivi

>>randy: that is reasonable doubt right there. >>shepard: if it is impossible to separate how is that reasonable doubt? >>randy: because the definition if i need more information to make a really important decision like whether the money was used to hide the affair from the wife, or hide the affair from the voting public the tie go goes to the runner. >>arthur: randy is saying i at not 100 percent sure if it was to hide it from the world or the wife but the common sense jury will say it and both. both. guilty. >>shepard: thank you. a bloody murder-use side outside phoenix appears to be the work of a former marine with ties to a white supremacist group, from investigator whose discovered the bodies yesterday along with an arsenal of weapons. he was then for his self appointed border guard who organized a militia aim at catching illegal immigrants and drug smugglers, doing it by himself. he shot four people and then shot himself. the victims reportedly include his girlfriend, his girlfriend's daughter, the daughter's boyfriend, and

>>randy: i appreciate that.>>shepard: you picked up the phone and this was in dial and sarah answered. and if not, it was a market in dallas and she would get you in touch. >>randy: like maybury. >>shepard: i am sure it was more sophisticated where you were. randy always gets to defend the indefensible. >>jonathan: apple is defensible in this. they do everything fabulously. apple runs perfectly. >>randy: this is ridiculous. >>arthur: it is not their "stuff," but --. >>randy: you use my ipod you have to use itunes. >>shepard: the aim -- same argument with cable and satellite. a young woman, college student, near death after a relatively minor accident but he is near death. it was not the cut that nearly killed her by a bizarre infection that got inside of her. at liberty mutual, we know how much you count on your car, and how much the people in your life count on you. that's why we offer accident forgiveness, where your price won't increase due to your first accident. we also offer a hassle-free lifetime repair g

rejoining me are arthur and randy.r, let me ask you this: as it stands now, how, if at all, has the ultimate verdict if this case been compromised if they come back and they have annan verdict has it increased their chance of challenging the verdict. >>arthur: the short answer is, yes, it could. it depends, what happens after a guilty verdict with a defendant with money like this defendant has, the private investigators are hired to speak to the jurors and ask what happened in the deliberation room. and what could happen here, say on the other five counts it was 10-2 for guilty and the two jurors as we speak have the wrath of ten peoples one has a kid graduating, another has a grandmother celebrating the birthday and they are done. they want to go. ten people have a verdict. and it is guilty. and we don't care what you have to say and there is a lot of pressure. so if that verdict comes down, today, and a week from now the jurors are interviewed by the defense team similar to the case you covered down in florida the po

randy. >>randy: maybe after what we saw yesterday, maybe he could. rain but that is not john edwards' cross to bear, the fact the government cannot produce this evidence that is too bad. >>arthur: but we are focusing on the critical evidence, hand written note from bunny mellon, and a hand written, a check from bunny mellon. check from bunny mellon. >>randy: and checks from bun, andrew young got. and the hand written note talk about let's do this without facility restrictions so in her mind she is thinking it is okay to do it this way we are not violating any laws. >>arthur: that is what the jury is looking at. we will find out on monday. >>shepard: it could take until monday to find out. it could take the jury until then. did you check out facebook? they know very important people. the facebook trading frenzy may have created up to 1,000 knew millionaires, less than four hours after the social network went public. a like look at facebook here, $38.71. it was up to $45 and now at the $38.71, up 1.8 percent, and the founder of facebook rang the bell t

arthur and randy?ds, they thought it was funny, the kids, and maybe someone was embarrassed. >>arthur: big deal. the bottom line, my dad took me first day of school and told the teacher if i get out of line you have every right to hit him. >>shepard: your father did, after all. >>arthur: this cone was not used on her dog but the teacher's own daughter a little girl she had a medical procedure and she used it as the kids found someone not movie "up," a walt disney, and they want dead see it and they brought it in and it wound up on facebook and, now, this bothers me, if she is a good teacher and this is the one thing she did wrong, she should not be fired. she should not be fired. >>randy: wait for the next inappropriate thing. good idea, arthur. put a dog collar on my kid. it's okay. by the way the woman only apologized after having her back put up against the wall. you would not we from the get go she would apologize. >>jonathan: a new slogan for florida schools "use the drone, not the cone." she put

john a consegui casas para delincuentes sexuales. >>> a sus 56 ños, randy john tie un gocio que paras htorias tristes,d maes que están desesperadas scando un lugar para que vivan sus hijos. >>> john es un delincuente sexual convicto. >>> en la florida, las leyes que regulan el lugar donde pueden vivir estas personas son muy fuertes, tanto que muchas acabon vivido bajo un puente. >> losagresores sexuales de libertad cdicional, tiene que parques, muchas municipalidaes han aumentado ese número a 2500 pies. >>> como lo veo yo, no tiene derecho y no tienen que vivir en la sociedad. >>> el municio tiene20 mil habitaes y solo 2 son convictos sexuales. >>> no creo que deberían star en ningún lado, creo que deberían estar en a jungla por ahí >>> orlando y otras ciudades del centro la florida no tienen les eeciales,, esa es la razón que la mayoría de las 25 sas que se alquilan está irónicamente, en la ierra de mickey mouse. > el criterio para escogerla, según randy, que se ajusten a la distancia que ofrece la ley. >>> no podía vivir en nignun lado, ni aquí,i allá, dónde voa vivir. >>> modesto

>> i don't think so, randi. for a couple reasons. economy continues to trump every other issue as it does with latinos and other americans. what we have seen is the famous reagan line that he used in the 80s that latinos are all republican but don't know it yet, has never been borne out, social issues like gay marriage, abortion are not issue latinos bring with them in the voting booth because they are very personal issues and they don't want politicians making those decisions for them. again, the economy trumps. thirdly, in a poll done late last year, it actually showed that 73% of latino voters in this country agree and support equal rights for gay couples whether that means calling it marriage or giving them every right that heterosexual couples do, among those is 68% of latino catholics. so i don't think this is going to sway latino voters, they will focus on the economy and on economic issues they support president obama. >> i know you're quoting the polls, cnn polls indicate a large majority of hispanics may support same sex ma

. >>> good morning, everyone i'm randi kaye. it's 8:00, thanks for waking up with us.7:00, let me check my clock. get you caught up on the news. as 35 million americans get prepared to travel this weekend we want to get you caught up on weather. wild fires raging in six states, including michigan. officials are blaming a lightning strike for that blaze. in kansas, a line of severe storms spawned several tornadoes in the north and central part of the state. officials say there are no reports of serious injuries or fatalities. >>> back here on the east coast, the national hurricane center says a new sub-tropical system is forming in the atlantic. we'll check in with meterologist bonnie schneider, a lot of wild weather out there. how is all this going to impact memorial day travel, do you think? >> definitely going to be impactful, we're expecting airport delays across the country from minneapolis to denver, salt lake city, some due to thunderstorms, other to winds, but look for afternoon thunderstorms, once again in miami, that is something to keep in mind as we go throu

i'm randi kaye. bottom hour. let's get straight to the news.e to get you caught up on some of the morning's headlines. world leaders are getting work at camp david as the latest g8 summit under way. on the aendgentleman, syria, iran, and north karrhea, a reko the european debt crisis. >>> engine jet problems forced space x to scrap its space launch. it was supposed to carry cargo to the international space station. the first private mission of its kind. they may try again on tuesday. >>> a blind chinese activist who asked president owe became kra and congress for help is on his way to the u.s. the state department confirming chen quangcheng, his wife and two children, due to arrive in new york later today. he hid in the u.s. embassy in beijing several days last month after fleeing house arrest. >>> it is food revolution day. people all over the world are taking steps toward a healthier life-style. 58 countries, a total of 641 cities are signed up and the man who started this whole movement, well, you may recognize him. check it out. >> the solu

>>randy: there are two issues. of all, one, can you get to the insurance company and the law firm? if the private investigators goes rogue, and violates the law, why should the insurance company and the law firm be on the hook? is it an invasion of privacy? or identity theft in two very different things. as a judge, you have not stillen anything. you have not stolen a pass word or broken in. facebook privacy policy says, go at your own risk. josh: they will have to decide for the future as we go forward with technology. how much is privacy or stealing an identity for evidence in a trial. did they step over the bounds. >>shepard: we will hear what the court says. newly released video of a hostage in the hand of al qaeda, an american hostage not hands of al qaeda and he now has a message for the president of the united states. plus, the hearing for the self-proclaimed mastermind of the attacks of lend got -- 9/11 got off to a bad start, pursuing other interests, including arts and crafts. that is coming up. ♪ [ male

i'm randi kaye. it is 8:00. thanks for waking up with us. let's get you caught up on some of the news. 33 years to the day etan patz disappeared, someone has finally been charged with his murder. pedro hernandez was arraigned yesterday on a second degree murder charge. this was a man identified as hernandez. he confessed this week to strangling the boy and putting his body in the trash. >> in the years following etan's disappearance, hernandez had told a family member and others that he had, quote, done a bad thing and killed a child in new york. >> he seemed like an all right guy. he had a wife and there was a young daughter. and they were, you know, they said hello and everything. they were always smiling. well if this guy, like they say confessed to it, 33 years he's been living in his own personal hell. >> pedro hernandez is being held without bail. >>> ukraine's parliament may be dissolved because of a fight. it was a real knockdown, dragout fight on the parliament floor. the speaker says they m

i'm randy kay. fbi is part of a massive manhunt this morning for a man that they consider to be armed, dangerous, and on the move. authorities have issued an arrest warrant for this man, 35-year-old adam mayes. he is suspected in the abduction of a tennessee mother and her three girls. he is considered a family friend, and neighbors are concerned. >> you know, so i don't know what to think. >> everybody is, like, what is going on? they feel there's more going on, but they don't know what. >> there's a lot of questions whether she was abducted or if she just run off on her own. >> adam mayes was last seen may 1st. two unidentified bodies were found there friday by investigators working the case. authorities are trying to determine if either of the bodies is joanne pain or any of her three girls. adrian, alexandra, and kalila were reported messing on april 27th. >>> authorities are afraid the three sisters may be in extreme danger. an amber alert has been issued, and there's a $50,000 reward for infor

>>randy: you get cancer. >>shepard: lawmakers say they have uncovereds do more accusations against members of the secret service in just the last five years. do we have to keep doing this story with a straight face? people go to foreign countries and ... they ... brought rules are different, and they take advantage. the hooker scandal. if it is bothering you i will have more to say. new developments. and update on former first lease -- first lady nancy reagan. this is serious as we approach the bottom of the hour. >>shepard: i am shephard smith and this is "studio b." time not top of the news. the director of the united states secret service defended his agency today on capitol hill as lawmakers reveal the hooker scandal in colombia was more than one time deal. these are the men and women in charge of protecting the president. and today the boss insisted the security of president obama was never compromised for a moment in colombia, and that is despite reports that some agents invited prostitutes to their hot

randi? >> this is "cnn saturday morning."does in the bread basket, and now tropical storms heading towards the east coast. the entire country seems to be under siege by mother nature this weekend. we'll check in with a storm chaser. >>> after three decades of cold case may be solved. a former new york stock clerk charged with the murder of etan patz, 33 years to the day after the 6-year-old disappeared. >>> and in today's bullying segment, the troubling trend of suicides is hitting younger and younger children. i'll ask a psychologist how a child as young as 7 could have taken his own life. >>> good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. it is 9:00. thanks for waking up with us. let's get you caught up with some of the morning headlines. a wild start to memorial day weekend for some residents in kansas where a series of tornadoes ripped through parts of the state. earlier i spoke with a meteorologist and a storm chaser about what he saw. >> it was a very busy day in kansas. a conditional day. got up this morning, actually, i hadn

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randi? >>> chris lawrence, thank you very much for that report. >>> president obama officially kicks off his reelection campaign with a rally in the critical swing state of ohio. the president and first lady, michelle obama, head to columbus in four hours from now, then on to virginia. they are getting a not-so-warm welcome from mitt romney from the clove lahief land plain dea asking where are the jobs. >>> leon panetta has a message for troops heading off to afghanistan. don't misbehalf. he warned soldiers the enemy is watching and one misstep, one embarrassing photo can put lives and america's standing at risk. >> these incidents concern me and they have to concern you. and they do concern our service chiefs. because a few who lack judgment, lack professionalism, lack leadership, can hurt all of us. >> panetta's warn following a report detailing embarrass incidents including release of a video showing marines urinating on coarpses. >>> here is video. >> a grand jury decided not to indict a

good morning, alex. >> good morning, randi. >> let's talk about jobs and latest numbers. folks are asking how can it be bad news when the unemployment rate goes down. help everybody understand that. >> well, sometimes the unemployment rate goes down because some people decide they will give up looking for a job. it's a little misleading. you have to think of it in terms of the numerator and denominator. who is looking for a job and who has hung it up. >> 340,000 workers dropped out of the labor force? >> that's right. i tend to work with small companies and what i'm seeing is things are certainly better than they were a year ago and a lot better than two years ago, still a lot of hesitation to make that job offer. they would rather keep things with as much flexability and have a contractor than permanent employee. >> is that the trend you're seeing in small businesses? >> i see that a lot. there is reticence for an owner to say i'll have this expense become a fixed expense, come on board and particularly if they are over a certain size, they will end up getting locked in

. >>> good morning everyone i'm randi kaye, 7:00 on the east coast thanks for waking up with us, get you caught up on the news. today the man who is possibly the most notorious terrorist alive will be in court. khalid sheikh mohammed admitted he master minded the 9-11 attacks, planning the hijacking. 'and other four terrories will plead not guilty in front of a military tribunal. they face the death penalty if convicted. but that could take years. families of 9-11 victims want to see just particular like chris and christina russell whose brother was a firefighter in one of the towers when it collapsed. >> it has to be the death penalty, doesn't have to be an ugly death, you can select what you wish off the menu. they have experts that deal with. >> life in prison drags it out and costs us government money, and it just -- it lingers in the back of your head these people are still alive. they are not glorious, it would bring closure. >> hopefully. >> other families of victims arrived in cuba yesterday to see the arraignment. objections by defense attorneys could further complicate the

i'm randi kaye. it's 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west. a lot to tell you about this morning. let's get you caught up on the news. the arraignment for the man who is probably the most notorious man alive. can khalid sheikh mohammed has proudly admitted that he masterminded the plot to bring down the and is pleading not guilty in guantanamo bay, cuba. they all face the death penalty if convicted but the trial could take years. >>> the woman in the center of the colombian prosecution center is calling the agents a bunch of fools. daniel suarez says she was introduced to one of the men by a friend and went back to the hotel room. she didn't know that he was an agent but went to sleep and left confidential files right out in the open. and when he awoke, he pushed her out of the door and refused to pay her $800 for the night. that's when she went to the police. >> translator: of course, at that moment if i had been a member of one of those terrorist gangs, it's obvious that i would have gotten everything. just like the newspaper say, they are a

with us. >>> we're back with randy kessler with more on the big legal cases.talked about the trayvon martin case. now the john edwards corruption

. >>> we're back with randy kessler with more on the big legal cases. we talked about the trayvon martin case. now the john edwards corruption trial. the jury is deliberating now. a lot of talk about him stag the stand, his mistress, rielle hunter taking the stand, they didn't put either one on the stand. good move, bad move? >> i think a smart move. john edward probably couldn't help himself and gone off and talked about things, such a good spokesperson, gift of gab, he can talk well, great trial lawyer, it had to be hard as could be for him to not say a word. probably the right choice. if you catch somebody in a lie, even unintentional lie, it shoeses him. he didn't get himself a chance to get hung on his own words. >> who made the smarter case, prosecution or defense? >> the prosecution did everything they had to do. the real question is who is on the jury, we don't know everyone's personal biases, do they want to convict someone because he cheated on his wife and so angry they they will say he committed a crime. no question he cheated, did it rise t

>> well, the future is on hold, isn't it, randi? who said space flight was easy and rocket science was easy? not you, not me of course. i think the people at space x are certainly finding that out first hand. what happened was the falcon 9 rocket with the dragon spacecraft on top, the falcon 9 has nine main engines. one of those nine, engine five, right before lift off, had what they call a chamber pressure issue where the pressure was going up too fast, too high. and the computer system immediately shut the whole thing down. so at 0.5 seconds before what would have been lift off the entire system was automatically shut down. now what's next? well, the president of space x addressed that this morning at a news conference. >> what we're doing now is detanking the vehicle, safing the flight termination system, doing what we call a t-tep sweeps which clears the ignition fluid. we should have some technicians up into that engine about noon today. >> now, space x says if everything works out they may be able to attempt another launch on

we'll keep a very sharp eye on it, randi. back to you. >> thank you very much. >>> new evidence in the trayvon martin case. lots of photos, accounts by witnesses, and surveillance tape. but these new details may not really be clearing up the case at all. we'll tell you why. ♪ one a day men's 50+ is a complete multi-vitamin designed for men's health concerns as we age. ♪ it has more of seven antioxidants to support cell health. that's one a day men's 50+ healthy advantage. [ engine turns over ] [ male announcer ] we began with the rx. [ tires squeal ] then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx and the next chapter for lexus. see your lexus dealer. with your photographs. ( younger sister ) where's heaven ? ( older sister ) far. what will you inspire, with the eos rebel t3i and ef lenses, for ron's next project ? learn more at youtube. >>> welcome back. we may be getting a clearer picture now what really happened the night

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rain the -- >>randy: the lawyers will get the money. >>guest: no, the big guys get the money, the lawyers will get small class action money but the big guys got the money in the initial i.p.o. when they first brought it out. >>randy: heads i win, tails you loose. the market is a gamble. you can win or lose money. there is no sure thing. never a sure thing. >> and you can not go to las vegas and lose $50,000 and say you want your money back. >>trace: gentleman, thank you both. >> a judge in new jersey decide add woman who sent a text message to her boyfriend cannot be held liable for a car crash he caused while responding to her message. the lawyers argued she should be held partly responsible because it is reason build she knew he would get the message while driving. a lawyer for the text sender said the client had no way to control or predict when the recipient read the message and the judge agreed. and now the news like for us in new york. have we ever had a lawsuit like this? >>guest: good to see you. we watched it closely because it

randi, as you said, they're all here.t obama is holding his first kickoff rally for the re-election bid where? right here. take a look at this, the latest polls in the buckeye state from quinnipiac came out the other day, pretty tight. 44% for the president, 42% for romney, who's the presumptive republican nominee. that's basically dead even right here in ohio. so behind me that's where in about four hours the president will hold that rally. you can see the cnn election express. we'll have it all over the campaign trail between now and election day, which is six months from tomorrow. >> wow, six months to go. okay, paul, thank you very much. keep it right here today at 1:00 eastern, cnn will bring you president obama's first campaign speech of the election from columbus, ohio. that is scheduled to get under way, once again, 1:00 eastern right here on cnn. >>> and now to canada, where a canadian hang gliding instructor has been granted bail after he was charged with obstructing justice related to a fatal accident one week

>> reporter: good morning, randi. there's going to be a farmers market later today so we're hoping to be our stwoeinformal polling here but the first national poll since the president made his remarks on wednesday shows that 51% of people approve of the president's position on same-sex marriage, 45% disapprove so that's still fairly evenly divide e. but if you look at it by party, you'll find that 71% of democrats approve while only 23% of republicans approve. and independents are a little more evenly split at 53%. now, there's been a lot of discussion this week about whether this will impact the president politically, whether it will help him or hurt him. whether it will help romney or hurt romney, the fact that he is against same-sex marriage. the gallup people asked that question as well. they found when asked if the president's position on same-sex marriage makes people more likely to support him or less likely, just 13% said it made them more likely to vote for president obama. 26% said less likely. but 60%, whic

i'm randi kaye. a lot to tell you about this morning. a major anti-war rally planned today in chicago tet that leaders of the nato nations are set to begin their summit. for several days now protesters have crowded the streets of downtown, but yesterday was their biggest gathering so far. police say there were only a handful of arrests during the protests even though things got pretty tense at times. >> look, look, look. come on, come on. shoot, roll, roll. okay. so things are getting -- things are changing a lot here. this had been a very peaceful march for a long time, and then this police van tried to come through, knocked a person down right here, and they're calling out for a medic. they're calling out for a medic. >> that was your jim spellman reporting from the middle of the chaos last night. police say the nato summit also attracted three men planning attacks on the city. cnn foreign affairs reporter alise joins me. what are police saying they actually wanted to do. >> reporter: an investigation that's been going on for some time

has been outstanding it is need to watch our players, watch a guy like randy they've watched growingat a chance to go by ray macdonald the other day and we talking and he said " i love my grandma's has lost a step " does not matter if he lost a step that is randy moss during >>> planted a first-ever ncaa tournament the senate clara men's tennis team beat texas in first round, they face stanford tomorrow. >>> lebron james named the nba's most valuable player becoming the league's eighth player in league history and to win at least three times the heat begins the second round series against the pacers to mall in miami. brokers close below said last night for the first time in 50 chances he did not speak to reporters after the game his wife went into labor instead he left a note that is locker " i put my wife and contractions with my performance tonight i ran to the hospital the streak is over you could talk about and the luck have had in the past did not show up tonight i can only begin another street cliche cliche got to go leatherbacks >>> this week's cover of time magazine sparks hu