thank you especially when robert bates has been charged with manslaughter. heriff's officers and bates' attorney said the shooting was ex-able excuseable excusable. he was acting within his duty as a reserve deputy. his attorney spoke with us and made that case. >> he is very upset about what happened. he feels badly. the incident completely took him by surprise. he has all the requisite training. taser certified. if you watched the video, you know he was quite shocked when his gun went off. >> reporter: sheriff's officers say robert bates grabbed his handgun instead of his taser. now an attorney for the family of eric harris says they don't know how a mistake could happen in this situation. of course a lot of questions why robert bates was involved in an operation like this. we are told he was there in a back-up capacity. the attorney for the family of eric harris says bates paid his way to being a police officer after making thousands of dollars of donations and equipment here in tulsa. sheriff's officers say that is definitely not the case. they say he had

robert bates is set to turn himself into authorities today. bates says it was an accident.d to taze the victim eric harris but mistakenly drew his gun. that's little consolation to harris' family. his brother and the family's attorney spoke with cnn's "new day." >> i was very pleased that the d.a. pressed charges against this individual and i'm hoping to see more justice in this case. >> as the attorney for the family, i know that you have questioned why this reserve deputy was involved in this sting operation to begin with. dan, you have lots of questions about why he was on scene. >> absolutely. i mean i think the country now has seen a system where you've got wealthy individuals with little to no training allowed to participate in a highly dangerous situation. it's dangerous not only to citizens on the streets but dangerous to fellow officers. >> his attorney maintains he was certified by security officers and peace officers. this is not the same standard that police officers are trained with. >> well the certification is different than field training which is what a sta

cvs health, because health is everything. >>> now to that exclusive interview with robert bates, the reserve deputy charged with second degree manslaughter in the shooting death of 44-year-old eric harris. bates says he has lost sleep and hasn't been able to concentrate since the decision. he defended himself in the report that people were told to falsify records. >> first and foremost let me apologize to the family of eric harris. this is the second worst thing that's ever happened to me or first in my life. >> would you stand up in one second and show me where on your body when you are in uniform you keep your taser and where you keep your weapon. >> my a taser is right here on the front tucked in a protective vest. my gun itself is on my side normally to the rear. >> people are going to look at that mr. bates and say how would you make this mistake? how could you think you were going for your taser on your chest tucked into that a vest and accidentally pull your weapon? >> let me say this has happened a number of times around the country. i have read about it in the past. i thought

policy was violated and continues to be violated and this special treatment shown to reserve deputy robert batesi want to start with your general response to that because what we heard from mr. bates and you, yes, he was properly trained, but i would like you to talk more about the allegation that there was special treatment given to him above the other members and participants in this particular deputy program. >> the first thing that jumped out at me when i looked that document over is the fact that mr. bates was never interviewed or talked to, and he did not even know about the investigation back at the time and only learned of it most recently. so if there are any quotes in there attributed to him, those were other things people said he said, and some of them, like, i can do what i want, and if you have a problem with it go talk to the sheriff. we dispute those, those statements are not true. >> did he receive special treatment? i think that's the bottom line in the larger discussion about mr. bates. >> when we talk about special treatment. i don't know whether we are talking about assignmen

county sheriff today at a news conference insisting that 73-year-old volunteer sheriff's deputy robert bates was properly trained to work as a volunteer deputy, but he could not confirm rorpt bates was trained to use the .357 smith and wes son. the tulsa world reports that the resolver was not on the approved list of firearms deputies can carry on duty. three years of firearms qualifications from mr. bates' records and most of the records of his officer field training are missing. his attorneys released 55 pages of documents they insist show robert bates received the necessary training. they reported that his training records had been falsified. today, the sheriff was asked about that. >> is there an investigation into these allegations of falsified records? >> no we are not. >> why wouldn't you be? given the magnitude and the power of those kinds of allegations, why -- >> apparently they don't want to talk to me but they're welcome to. they can go to the fbi and talk to them. >> robert bates gave his first public account of how he mistakenly used his gun in an interview with matt lauer on t

this is robert bates, arriving at the tulsa jail a short time ago, the officer who says he mistakenlyd of a taser to shoot a suspect. bates said nothing as he left, but his attorney gave a brief statement. >> mr. bates was surrendered today and booked. in light of the charges he's not goin t

let me bring in clark brewster attorney for robert bates. mr. brewster great to have you on tonight. let's begin with what exactly your client -- we heard about how mr. bates was supposed to be backup. he was that last patrol car, almost ran into this man heading toward him. walk me through what happened. >> well, mr. bates and the team was briefed that mr. harris was a six-time felon. he had armed robbery conviction assault and battery on police officers escape from a penal institution. he had been known to be selling drugs and weapons. and it was arranged to do an undercover buy. mr. bates was merely part of the containment team two blocks away. he wasn't intended to be pressed into any kind of action other than to provide observation and containment. >> i know he'd been with the violent crime unit from 2008 but can you explain to me about his role as a reserve deputy. i understand he had donated some weapons to the sheriff's department had been involved with them for some time. how often had he been out on an operation like this? >> mr. bates

robert bates himself said that's not the case.ove he was certified to be able to work the streets of tulsa as a rederveserve deputy. so this is the first glimpse we have looken into the most detailed accounts of his training since he became a reserve deputy. what you see in some of these documents is what stands out the most is several of the firearms certification documents that show that he was qualified and trained to use a firearm, those are significant. there's also some comments in there talking about how mr. bates was a good deputy and able to relate well with the public and those type of favorable comments. all of this is really based on the criticism when you look at the fact of what mr. bates has done here is in the state that many people are having a hard time wrapping their head around how can you mistake a bright yell e low tase eer strapped to the front of your chest for a small black handgun on your waist, it calls into question whether or not he was properly trained to be in an undercover sting operation. that's wh

went to be with the lord is f your breath as if he didn't matter. >> the deadly shot was fired by robert bates. cnn obtained a statement bates gave to the investigators after the shooting. bates rights as harris resisted there was a small window to deploy his taser, i remember thinking, i have to deploy it rapidly, as i still thought there was a strong possibility harris had a gun. bates said he meant to use his taser and he was startled and left in a state of shock and disbelief, once he realized he used his gun instead. adding to the volatility of the story, bates isn't a full fledged sheriff's deputy. he's a peace officer who volunteers in the department's reserve deputy program. bates has been a long time benefactor of the sheriff's department. he's donated cars and video equipment. his attorney says bates has paid big money to play a cop in his spare time. >> it's mind-boggling you have a wealthy businessman who's been essentially due tiesed to go play like he's some outlaw. i mean, like he's just cleaning up the streets. >> bates has undergone extensive training and bates himself says in

. >> reporter: there has been a lot said about your personal relationship with robert bates. what's the nature of your relationship? >> well my son had an accident when he was in high school my oldest son. my insurance was canceled on my car. i was referred to mr. bates at that time. he became my insurance agent and insured my vehicles and my home for a lot of years. i think that's probably been 25 years ago when i first met bob. >> reporter: sheriff, is it fair to say that your office did a poor job of keeping records regarding bates' training? >> i'm not sure how to answer that. we keep records and those are placed in his personnel file. i think he keeps his only personal records and he provided a lot of them to the press. >> reporter: was it a poor job on the part of your office to not have all of the records? >> it could have been. last year we went to the legislature and got a law passed that allows us to destroy records after five years and so a lot of those older records were destroyed. >> reporter: for the record as far as you know were any of his training records fals

first, here's robert bates with family and attorney earlier this morning on "today." >> mr. bates, i want to talk about your training about your training records in a second but i want you to take me back to april 2, the day this happened. you were not supposed to be actively involved in the arrest of mr. harris you were supposed to provide support from several blocks away but you did get involved in the struggle. you write in your written statement that you were not sure whether he was armed and you say you saw "a brief opening to use your taser to subdue him." take me back to that moment. >> matt, i was parked down the street at a station several blocks away from where the activity took place. in other words, the drug buy of dope and the gun purchase. he decided to bolt from the undercover's truck and run and he came to me. and two other cars that were in front. i was the last car as i always am. i carry the equipment that the deputies use to clear a scene, whatever. i've been involved in several hundred of these. i do cleanup when they're done. i take notes, i take photogr

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ed thank you. >>> and "out front" now, clark brewster he is the attorney for deputy robert bates. k you very much for being with me clark, i appreciate your time. i want to begin with our breaking news. in the statement that bates provided to investigators, he said that he "received training by the maricopa county sheriff's department in response to active shooters." the maricopa county sheriff's department today, of course tells "out front" they have no record that bates ever attended one of these classes. is bates telling the truth here? >> yes, it was in washington, d.c. i have got a certificate that he attended. and that the sheriff lectured there. so i -- if you -- >> was it with the maricopa county sheriff's department or just a sheriff from the department? just trying to understand what the knew what happens is. sher saying he absolutely did not train with the maricopa county sheriff's department. >> oh he didn't. sheriff arpaio lectured in washington, d.c. at a seminar and he attended that seminar with other law enforcement officers for training. >> well he said that he rec

the tulsa world reporting that deputy robert bates did not earn his job on the force. supervisors of the sheriff's office were ordered to falsify bates records giving him credit for field training he never took and firearm certifications he never earned. questions were raised about being paid to play. he is a wealthy insurance ceo who donated to the sheriff re-election campaign. cnn has not been able to independently verify the claims in "the tulsa world." the sheriff's office did denying the report casting doubt on the sources. those doubts expressed in an e-mail to cnn. now "the tulsa world" reporters who broke the story, they will defend it this morning. they will be on "new day" a few minutes from now at 6:00 a.m. >>> developing this morning, a steep fall from grace for former nfl star aaron hernandez. once under a $40 million contract with the new england patriots now convicted by a massachusetts jury in the 2013 murder of one time friend odin lloyd. >> what say you? is the defendant not guilty? guilty of murder in the first degree or guilty of murder in the secon

christine, the shooting death of eric harris is under scrutiny especially since the reserve deputy robert bateseen charged with manslaughter. officers here in tulsa and his attorney says this shooting was an accident of misfortune and bates should not be charged with criminal conduct. he was acting within his duty as a reserve deputy in this case. his attorney spoke with us and made that case. >> he is very upset about what happened. he feels badly. the incident completely took him by surprise. he has all the requisite training. taser certified. if you watched the video, you know he was quite shocked when his gun went off. >> reporter: robert bates grabbed his handgun instead of his bright yellow taser that was attached to his chest. an attorney for the family of eric harris doesn't know how that can happen. there are questions as to why robert bates was involved in an operation like. this this. the attorney for eric harris says bates paid his way into the force after donations to the department. sheriff's officers here in tulsa say that is not the case. they say he had gone through training an

robert bates, defense lawyer will join us. there's plenty of political news also today including -- this is true -- a congressional hearing today about sex parties. >> tulsa county reserve deputy robert bates has just turned himself into police. >> charged with second degree man slaughter involving culpable negligence. >> he shot and killed eric harris while trying to apprehend him. >> he says he was never trying to kill him. >> the passenger inside the car with walter scott before he was fatally shot is speaking out. >> saying he doesn't know why scott decided to run off during a traffic stop. >> but i know he didn't deserve to die. they are off and running in the 2016 race. >> this is the scene when hillary clinton parked the scooby doo van. >> well gang we're almost there. >> the most powerful woman in politics returned to the scene. >> i'm not a politician. >> but hillary clinton also announced she's seeking the crown. >> i'm having a great time. i can't look forward any more than i am. >> i -- >> instead of hillary? >> uh

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>> this idea of slip and capture is not only robert bates' attorney saying it but robert bates in theriff's get here in tulsa, this is an excusic homicide given that he was acting within his rights as a reserve deputy. the attorney says it's an accident of misfortune and he should not have been charged. robert bates has the support of the superiors in the leadership at the sheriff's department here in actual sarks anderson. >> who we should point out he's friends with. the chief of police there, and has donated a lot of money over the years to this department. the tape of the incident ends shortly after you hear one officer saying f your breath using an expletive to the guy who was just shot. do we know what happens after the tape stops? >> we do know that he was on the ground for several more minutes waiting for ambulances and paramedics to arrive on the scene. shortly after that that video cuts off. we asked about that and they say that the battery in the camera captured the takedown of eric harris we're told by sheriff's officials here that the battery they believe ran out and that

could this be critical in robert bates case? >> he was screaming as he was yelling shoot me, shoot me. >> we have compelling video of a police officer keeping his cool while confronting a double murder suspect and refusing to use deadly force as the man charged. >>> we are also following this story very closely. a boat believed to be carrying as many as 650 people plus has cap-sized in the mediterranean sea off the coast of libya. we will bring you a report in a couple of moments. >>> first, breaking news out of california. take a look at the pictures we are getting in. it is an early, brutal start to the wildfire season. right now, more than 300 firefighters are racing to contain a wildfire that is out of control. but you can see those pictures there. we are so grateful to have your company as always this morning. i'm christi paul. >> i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell. so much news going on both here on the west coast, as well as the mediterranean sea. >> absolutely. >> the fires broke out around 6:00 p.m., last night, coro

he says he doesn't buy robert bates' apology. >> mr. bates, you still have to unveil this evil. mr. bates, shouldn't have had to use a taser on my brother. mr. bates shouldn't have shot eric with a 357 magnum. mr. bates has a price to pay. >> bates is charged with second degree manslaughter in the case. currently free on a $25,000 bail. >>> gun fights and burning vehicles after the arrest of a suspected drug cartel leader. it all happens right on the border of a u.s. town. we'll have that coming up here. also, airport screeners. behaving badly. one official says, it happens more often than you think. wish your skin could bounce back like it used to? new neutrogena hydro boost water gel. with hyaluronic acid it plumps skin cells with intense hydration and locks it in. for supple, hydrated skin. hydro boost. from neutrogena. >>> welcome back to "cnn newsroom." italian authorities have rescued migrants from the mediterranean, women and children. apparently ready to board a boat in libya to head to italy when a cooking gas cylinder exploded killing several. survivors of the blast made t

thank you. >>> a short time ago i spoke with robert bates' attorney mr.. >> the reports are stunning. that multiple police officers and employees with the sheriff's office were intimidated into giving your client special treatment and even falsifying his training records. do you dispute that? >> yes. yeah the report speaks for itself. this was after a few months he had been on the job. keep in mind that reserve officers come in different varieties of experience. some of them come directly from a police department that have had a number of years of experience and into retirement become a reserve officer. some come from public life that have no police experience at all. mr. bates was a former police officer, about 30 years earlier. he was cleat certified and authorized to be a police officer in oklahoma. >> from 30 years ago. >> yeah but lacked the training and he was in a different category. and when he received into the department there was some level of concern and some jealousy i think, and that was voiced to the superyorz and it was reviewed. i think t

i want to bring in now scott wood deputy robert bates attorney. i appreciate you coming back to talk to us. he's been referred to by your colleague, they say some people are painting your client in a bad and sinister light. let me just ask you about this fundamental question, though because you heard ryan young laying out that he bought cars donated to the sheriff's re-election campaign. there are people who say that adds up to him essentially paying his way onto the force. paying to play. >> erin that's not true. i know it's being said repeatedly. but that's not the case. deputy bates had all the requisite training and experience. i think i mentioned that last night that he had been involved in over 100 of these types of operations. and if you look at the layout of where they were when this gun buy goes down he's over a third of a mile away from that location. >> so let me just ask you, though, because of the things we know about bates' past and his training do raise some questions. as you point out, he had training. however, he has only briefly

. >> tulsa, oklahoma 73-year-old robert bates was formally charged with second degree man slaughter. >> after he says mistakenly he reached for his gun and not his taser. >> robert bates' attorney says he didn't think he should be charged at all. >> a well intentioned surgeon causes the life of a patient, they don't get charged with man slaughter. >> his analogy to the operating room, that's wrong. that's not what we cow criminal negligence. >>> guilty of murder in the first degree. >> former patriots aaron hernandez guilty of murder of odin lloyd. sentenced to life in prison without parole. >>> hillary clinton wrapping up day two of her iowa campaign. >> i want to hear from people on the front line. >> she's riding around in a van volg the grateful dead or something. >> but democrats and hillary, republicans have mayhem. >> who is the republican nominee likely to be? >> i don't care. i think they're all losers. >> smile gyroincorporator piloted by a postman caused quite a scare today. >> reportedly protesting campaign finance laws. >> violated the no fly zone nonviolently. ♪ >>> the

danielle nottingham, cbs news. >> well, the use of reserve officers like robert bates to free up regular officers for high priority duties is not unusual. bates is one of 4,000 reserve officers in oklahoma. they are permitted to carry firearms and receive training. there's no age requirement but they must pass annual tests which bates did. >>> the south carolina police officer charged with murder in the death of a fleeing suspect can be heard on dash cam video saying he doesn't understand why the man ran away. michael slager thought walter scott to death during a traffic stop. slager's supervisor can be heard telling him to gather his thoughts. >> kind of write down what you thought was happening. your adrenaline is dumping.pumping. >> cell phone video shows slager who is white shooting scott who is black in the back after he fled. >>> and alaska airlines passengers reported hearing sounds coming from the cargo hold. inside was an airline ramp employee who became trapped before the plane took off. desmond deel reports. >> that the him i think standing in the middle. >> reporter: a seattl

speaking to nbc, deputy robert bates apologized to the victim's family as you can see here appearingh his family in this somewhat strange shot. he said it was an accident confusing his gun for a taser. ed lavendera is outfront in tulsa. >> roll on your stomach, now! >> reporter: in the video, you can briefly see the bright yellow taser strapped to robert bates' chest. then you hear the gunshot that would kill eric harris. [ gunshot ] >> i shot him, i'm sorry. >> reporter: it's a mistake that 73-year-old reserve deputy told the "today" show on nbc that he can't explain. >> i saw the light and i squeezed the trigger and then realized i'd dropped the gun. this was not an intentional thing thing. i had no desire to ever take anyone ice life. i don't understand how this can happen. you must believe me it can happen to anyone. >> reporter: but it's bates' training that is still under intense scrutiny. the tulsa world newspaper reports that it has five sources that say that bates' training records were falsified. sheriff stanley glens has acknowledged that some gun certification records are

law enforcement experts say and tell msnbc news it is possible robert bates may have made a heat of the moment mistake firing his gun instead of the taser, but that does not resolve questions about his training or why he was using force in the first place. gabe gutierrez is in tulsa with more. good morning, gabe. >> reporter: alex, good morning. the family of eric harris says while they appreciate robert bates' apology, it will not bring eric back. tulsa county reserve deputy robert bates apologized to the family of the man he shot and killed. >> first and foremost let me apologize to the family of eric harris. i rate this as number one on my list of things in my life that i regret. >> on april 2nd the 73-year-old insurance broker was acting as backup as a broad did camera captured sheriff's deputies chasing a suspect, eric harris. he meant to pull his taser but instead fired his gun killing harris. >> i shot him, i'm sorry. >> this was not an intentional thing. i had no desire to ever take anyone's life. >> his attorneys claim it's a phenomenon known as flip and capture where in high-t

amy: robert bates has been charged with second-degree manslaughter.ased on $25,000 bond. if convicted he faces a maximum of four years in prison and a fine of $1,000. on tuesday, andre harris questioned the police version of his brother eric's death. andre: if he had as much training as he supposedly had he would definitely know a 357 from a taser. he did not have to. this is something that either he did not really think about or he just decided that he wanted to shoot, and he would worry about it later. amy: robert bates is a wealthy executive and heavy donor to the police department who gets to volunteer on the force as a reserve. meanwhile the south carolina police officer charged with murder for fatally shooting walter scott will probably not face the death penalty if he is convicted. prosecutors say michael slager would still be eligible for a sentence of life in prison. on tuesday several members of congress took to the house floor to denounce police misconduct, and georgia congressman hank johnson called for congressional action. representative

the attorney for robert bates was on cnn. let me point this out. he was claiming your sources have the same lawyer as eric harris' family. this is the victim's family. and your sources are terminated employees from the sheriffs office. take a listen to that. >> so their sources are their clients. one was terminated for stealing records from the sheriffs office years ago. one was terminated for improper conduct. he's since then committed a murder and is being held on murder charges. those are the sources. >> i'm not going to ask you to give up your sources, but i have to press you and have you respond to that. >> well i mean obviously i'm not going to say who our sources are, but i can say that we've talked to them before this happened. we've talked to them before. they've always been right, and we trust them. >> let me ask you a step further, because from what i read in your paper, is that the sheriffs deputy who would have signed off on all of this at the time with robert bates, he's gone. he's now with the secret service. before i tell you what t

. >> the deadly shot was fired by robert bates. bates writes as harris resisted there was a small window to deploy his taser. i remember thinking i have to deploy it rapidly. as i thought there was a strong possibility harris had a gun. he said he was meant to use his taser, but was left in shock once he realized he uses his gun. and bates isn't a full fledged sheriff's deputy. he's a certified peace officer who volunteers in the department's reserve deputy prime minister. he's been a long-time benefactor of the tulsa sheriff's department. he's donated cars and video equipment. eric harris's family equipment said bates has paid a lot of money to play a cop in his spare time. >> it's absolutely mind-boggling that you have a wealthy businessman who's been essentially deputized to go play like he's some outlaw. like he's just cleaning up the streets. >> sheriff's officials say bates has undergone extensive training and bates himself says that he's assisted the violent crimes task force at least a hundred other times. >> he hasn't paid

. >> we have a big interview coming up with the attorney who is representing robert bates. the man who unit right there, stand off, stand off, the gun is loaded. stay off. >> man down. >> the police chief says running him over with the car probably saved his life. the officer was cleared by the county prosecutor and won't be charged. we will analyze that video with our law enforcement experts as well as the latest on robert bates. the reserve sheriff deputy in tulsa oklahoma who mistakenly shot and killed a man who is being arrested and is charged with manslaughter. he will join us and there's plenty of political news also today, including, this is true a congressional hearing today about sex parties. >>> robert bates has just turned himself in to police. >> he shot and killed eric harris, while trying to apprehend him. >> he never meant to kill the man. >> he would know a .357 from a taser. >> the passenger who was inside the car with walter scott before he was fatally shot is speaking out. >> he doesn't know why scott decided to run off during a traffic stop. >> i know he

a deputy tackles harris, when 73-year-old reserve deputy, robert bates shouts he will use his taser. but the tulsa county sheriff's office says that bates grabbed his gun and pulled the trigger. >> reporter: as he lay dying, the officers taunt him. retired police officer named jim clark has been brought tune review the fatal incident. >> you can train some one as much as you can, and you train in every area that you can. but in times of crisis, sometimes, training is not going to take you through the scenario. >> with the video release, questions turned to why bates, an unpaid uncertified deputy was on the scene in a sensitive sting operation. >> mr. bates lacked really any kind of training. mr. bates had been a tulsa police department officer from 1964 to 1965 for one year and never passed probationary period. >> reporter: he says, bates was afforded opportunities within the task force due to significant, long standing financial support of the sheriff's department. >> he could do anything he wanted to. you heard the sheriff's department say, like any other officer could do. but he co

reporting that the tulsa sheriff's office plans a major audit of its reserve deputy program which robert bates was a part of, chris. >> ryan changing the program is one thing. whether or not that program was legit with mr. bates very different in light of this new reporting. thank you for setting the groundwork for us there. let's bring in the reporters who are offering this story. dylan goforth and zeva they are of tulsa world. thanks for both of you being here. let's set the table. when this happened with bates, the police department came out, the sheriff's department the authorities, they gave us the training documents. they gave us a memo saying he was trained. his lawyer then came on the show and echoed that sentiment about how don't see him as a 73-year-old business owner, he was just like any other deputy. listen to what he said. >> he's got the training. every news outlet has checked with the certifying agency in the state of oklahoma. everyone has been told he is a certified reserve deputy in the state of oklahoma and has all the requisite powers that come with that. he's done the tra

county sheriff's office launched an internal review into the office's treatment of reserve deputy robert bates finding incomplete field training and on duty behavior that violated policy. colleagues reported that when confronted, bates, a political supporter and campaign contributor of the sheriff, said anyone who took issue with his actions should talk to sheriff stanley glanz. it concluded that bates had received special treatment. >> he's running, running, running. >> reporter: on april 2nd, bates shot and killed eric earms sting operation. bates says he accidentally mistook his gun for his taser. >> i shot him. i'm sorry. >> reporter: the lawyers for eric harris' family are now calling on the sheriff to resign. >> the public's entitled to know the truth. the harris family is entitled to know the truth,and they need to be transparent. >> reporter: bates' attorney says he has not seen the report, but in a written statement said, since 2009 mr. bates has received hundreds of hours of training and experience in the field. the sheriff's office acknowledges there was a 2009 internal review, but

robert bates the tulsa deputy reservist falsified records deputies have the integrity not to go along just out of time whitney, i apologize. who's got the liability here? does he have individual liability? does the sheriff's office? what's going to happen? >> everybody has liability here. i mean this is such a mess and honestly as a defense attorney, it's a dream come true. i would light that department up with public records requests for other clients that would be arrested. it's outrageous completely outrageous. >> rebecca? >> everybody is responsible. for the people who said i'm not going to falsify the records they're testifying for the sheriff's department in a case for the malicious prosecution and wrongful death. >> thank you very much. sorry we've got so little time. appreciate you being here. >> online poll results. we asked last night -- i'm sure the white house will like this. that's it for us tomorrow james stavridis, good night from new york. neil: you heard it here first the white house energy ceo said the white house is waging war on his business and it would kill his b

cnn's martin savidge has the story. >> reporter: a 2009 investigation found that deputy robert bates was insufficiently trained and gimp special treatment including policies violated and continues to be violated with regard to special treatment shown to reserve deputy robert bates with regard to his field training. the investigation included interviews with employees who said they felt intimidated by sheriff's officials to help bates. one of the supervisors said when bates was confronted about overstepping his training and authority, bates reportedly replied, well, i can do it, and if you don't like it you can talk to sheriff glanz. those training concerns have resurfaced in the aftermath of the shooting of eric harris a suspect in an undercover law enforcement sting who fled authorities. bates said he killed harris by accident believing he was using his taser when in reality he fired his gun. >> oh, i shot him, i'm sorry. >> reporter: the attorney for harris' family said bates wasn't qualified to be on the force but received treatment because he donated money. >> i was referred to m

. >> all right, thank you very much. >>> out front now, scott wood tulsa county reserve deputy robert batestorney. i appreciate you taking the time to come on sir and explain your client's side of this. bates just charged hours ago with second-degree manslaughter. he says that this was an accident that he meant to reach for his taser, reached for his gun, and obviously shot this man accidentally. what is his reaction to the charge tonight, being charged with manslaughter? >> well obviously, he is upset over the circumstances. we were hopeful that we could convince the district attorney that a charge of manslaughter really didn't fit this factual scenario and that it was excusable homicide under oklahoma law. but obviously, the district attorney thought otherwise. >> and i want everyone to know as you're seeing this video while you're talking, this is taken from another officer's body camera. this isn't from someone taking this on the street. this came from the police themselves. a sergeant with the police department said deputy bates did not commit a crime. after the suspect was brought dow

he's talking about his reserve deputy robert bates, with whom he's had a relationship for roughly 25 nce we learned at one point mr. bates was his insurance agent. i want to bring in faith jenkins, host of "judge faith," we have not heard publicly from sheriff stanley glanz until just now, and perhaps we know why. that was from the very beginning a bit of a train wreck. he started, faith, it seemed as if he started by vocally expressing some sort of angst about the fact the press hadn't really shown up at his department for other news conferences, and then he revealed the fbi, according to them they've completed their investigation already, they've cleared the department. we have not independently confirmed that we should note but it was a bizarre news conference. faith, did you learn anything from that? >> interesting he said the fbi investigated and cleared the department, craig, i assume he's talking about there in terms of bates being there, being at this undercover gun buying bust. and that was new information coming from the sheriff's office, but it's still an issue, because her

the deadly shot fired by the reserve deputy, robert bates. and harris resisted arrest bates told investigators he made a quick decision to use the taser. i remember thinking i have to deploy it rapidly as i thought he might still have a gun. he realized he used his gun instead. adding to the volatility here bates is not a full-fledged sheriff's deputy and is a certified peace officer, and he has been a long-time benefactor of the tulsa police department. >> deputy bates made all the criteria to be in the role that he was in. >> his family questions how bates could have confused his two weapons a. bright yellow taser or a .357 revolver. >> it's captured by another behavior that might be well more rehearsed or motorized even internally than your initial intention. >> reporter: it's an idea of called slip and capture, and it's a phenomenon that they have been saying it's the phenomenon that has been involved explaining the mistake, and many experts call this idea junk science. >> and the family of the man killed eric harris say they are encourag

many are used for crowd control, but others like robert bates, in the thick of it. the question, which is the safest? >> thank you. >>> and the fbi admitting that nearly every fbi examiner gave flawed hair testimony. overstating matches in 95% of the 268 trials reviewed. 32 defendants were sentenced to death. the fbi says until 2012 there were no written standards for communicating the results in court. >>> and high security in the boston marathon. the second marathon since the bombings there. sentencing for the convicted bomber continues on monday. >>> and a somber milestone in a case of terror. the oklahoma city blast, still incomprehensible. and the survivors and families of the victims gather to remember the moment that changed their lives forever. neal karlinsky is there. >> reporter: 20 years later, memories may have faded, but the wounds for many here are as fresh as yesterday. >> kevin lee >> reporter: it was 9:02 a.m. when a truck bomb tore through the murrah federal building. >> a major explosion in oklahoma city in a federal building. >> reporter: the dev

. >> the video shows mistakes made by septembery robert bates. apologizes and drops the weapon. bates told police he thought he was firing a taser, but why was he there to begin with? should sheriffs rely on volunteers in such dangerous operations? >> i used them. i wouldn't mind being a reserve deputy. >> former sheriff richard mack says his reserves were trained like any full-time officers but they weren't paid. >> a lot of them work for free. there is not a police agency or sheriff's office who doesn't need that kind of help. with budgets the way they are these days and manpower being down reservists are wonderful. >> there are thousands of reserved sheriffs deputies and more volunteer police. dutys and training vary from state to state. a 2013 survey of reserve officers by the national sheriffs association show 45% had law enforcement powers of arrest on or off duty. 90% were armed. the overwhelming majority do vehicle and crowd patrol duties although more than 1/3 also participated in dangerous operations such as the drug and gun bust robert

you can only see a quick glimpse of tulsa sheriff reserve deputy robert bates in the video. when eric harris is shot and killed during an undercover sting nats - oh. but how the tulsa county sheriff's department allowed bates to work the streets is under intense scrutiny. the tulsa world newspaper reports that supervisors in the department were told to falsify bates' training records and that at least 3 supervisors were transferred to other jobs for refusing to alter the records. a sheriff department spokesman refused to comment saying they don't respond to rumors. sheriff stanley glanz and other sheriff's officials have repeatedly insisted bates was properly trained. "did he have the proper training, and all the techniques that he needed. we feel he did." the tulsa sheriff's department has only released a summary of bates' training courses over the last 7 years. the department rejected cnn's request last week for the full training records because bates' case is under investigation. but in an interview with a tulsa radio station the sheriff acknowledged some of bates' gun qua

campaign, and this is the video that made so many people around the country talk about here and robert batesration, and you hear somebody say, taser, taser, and bates' attorney says this is an accident and you can hear him say, i'm sorry. that suspect, mr. eric harris died a short time later. and now there's conversation about how mr. bates ended up on detail like this and it's a conversation that will continue as mr. bates faces second degree manslaughter charges. >> thank you ryan. >> let's bring in mr. bates' attorney and he is a reserve deputy and mr. bates charged with manslaughter. thank you for joining us counselor. the charge of manslaughter is inappropriate because? >> this was truly an accident something that occurred by accident and misfortune, which is the essential element of exexcusable homicide defense, and there was no culpable negligent under this circumstance and i want to make sure that everybody understands that this is three distinct events. the gun, and the incident where the shooting occurs and everything that happens afterwards which my client didn't have any part of

nbc's kevin tibbles has that report. >> reporter: 73-year-old robert bates was formally charge edd with second degree manslaughter. >> how do you feel about the charges? >> i feel they are unwarranted and shouldn't have been brought. >> reporter: he was acting as backup when the suspect bolt eded. 44-year-old eric harris was selling an illegal gun. a scuffle ensued picked up by police body cam. bates pulled what he thought was his taser, but instead, fired his gun. harris later died. bates claims in the heat of the moment he mistook his pistol for his taser. there are more than 100 reserved deputies with the tulsa sheriffs office. that number is about 50,000 nationwide. in many jurisdictions, reservists make financial contributions to the department. bates has contributed thousands. >> the point is if you have enough money, you get to go. play cop. >> reporter: the sheriffs office says bates had had once been a police officer and had more than 400 hours of training as a e reservist logging 3,000 hours of service. >> he was not playing anything. he was there like the other officer office

what are the training requirements for oklahoma for arrive officers like robert bates? >> well, for reservists and full-time duty officers, tony, there's only one requirement to be certified once in your lifetime. so in the 51 years since bates was certified since 1964, he has not been reserved. and also, oklahoma law said that a reservist doesn't have to do continuing requirements, other than firearms training, which is up to the local agencies itself. >> i would think that you need to get that certification updated. heidi jo castro. doug wyler is the editor-in-chief. dedicated to law enforcement news and doug, good to see you, let me see if i can lay a foundation here. do you have a problem philosophically or fundamentally, with the use of reserve officers? >> no, i don't. i think a very well managed reserve officer program actually enhances a law enforcement agency's ability to serve the community and to better connect with the community and oftentimes, having such a program oftentimes enhances the police relations. you have civilians out there working with those rese

robert bates said he pulled out his gun instead of his taser and killed harris.ocus on the training he received. the records released by bates' lawyers including his training hours and gun qualifications and reviews from other officers. polo sandoval thab readihas bee through the documents that the attorney released. has cnn been able to personally authenticate them? >> reporter: that is something we are trying to do. it verified the authenticity of these documents. seven days after the story broke, they do appear to certify robert bates' training but, at the same time, they are also raising several questions. i want you to take a look at some of the documents released by robert bates' attorney yesterday. these documents seem to show that bates actually went through at least one taser training class over six and a half year period. bates attorney supplied the documents and says the states only requires one hands-on class on these tasers and then bates firearm qualification records. some records are still missing from the sheriff's office. tulsa county's office sa