challenging scott peters for a republican seat. mr.and has been personally attacked in the past. two years ago -- the ethics commission of fined people in the case found out they are democrats, the party of incolumbus. joining us now from san diego is mr. demyo, in your current campaign from congress, have you been smeared at all? >> i haven't been focused on the nasty attack on the other side. focus canned on the issues that american to americans. the economy, the problems at the v.a., the list goes on and on. yes, the other side, bill, has been engaging in some pretty shameful tactics. just last week my opponent, congressman scott peters promoted on his official campaign web site a blog post that used a gay slur to refer to me. and, again, some groups nationally called him out for it. he didn't even have the cowers at the is i to apologize himself i blamed it on a staff member. he has a web site and they run comments from bloggers on the web site. and there was someone who said something disparaging about you using a gay slur. and it

challenging scott peters for a republican seat. mr.s been personally attacked in the past. two years ago -- the ethics commission of fined people in the case found out they are democrats, the party of incolumbus. joining us now from san diego is mr. demyo, in your current campaign from congress, have you been smeared at all? >> i haven't been focused on the nasty attack on the other side. focus canned on the issues that american to americans. the economy, the problems at the v.a., the list goes on and on. yes, the other side, bill, has been engaging in some pretty shameful tactics. just last week my opponent, congressman scott peters promoted on his official campaign web site a blog post that used a gay slur to refer to me. and, again, some groups nationally called him out for it. he didn't even have the cowers at the is i to apologize himself i blamed it on a staff member. he has a web site and they run comments from bloggers on the web site. and there was someone who said something disparaging about you using a gay slur. and it showe

. >> i wrote a piece about an openly gay republican running for congress against scott peters, who ismocrat. the right is not perfect, but it has grown in its inclusion and tolerance and acceptance and someone like him is being more supported by the republicans in the area, rather, and the lgbt's actively working against him. so my question was, who is really the most tolerant here? >> hi, brian. >> in terms of the question, what donald sterling said is inexcusable. when you open the phone and look at the e-mail and talk radio, most people say yeah, it's bad. why the outrage? about free speech? i said wait a second, are we trying to define what he's saying or marginalize what he's saying? people don't like the fact he was railroaded. >> what about this guy benny thompson, democrat doubling down -- >> out of control. >> i mean, it's outrageous. >> yeah, i think it's outrageous. i don't -- >> i know you do and i believe that about you but it's not main stream for the democrats. their main stream fall back position is to say republicans are racist, right? >> i think so. that's worked for

drew peterson, not scott peter zonks the former cop in kwreu8.ife, kathleen valve owe's, drowning was ruled accidental, then it was changed. i don't really think that's a burden that can't be overcomed, the fact that they relooked at it. normally the argument is don't bring in other cases because if you can prove this case, prove it. >> right. you talked about appeals, that's an area that's ripe for appeal. because they don't want jurors to convict someone on this case because of things they've heard about he's done in his past, in other matters. so judges are very cautious before they let in prior bad acts before a jury trying a different case. patti ann: all right. interesting stuff. arthur aidala, doug burns, thank you for joining us. >> my pleasure. jon: breaking news from capitol hill on benghazi and nancy pelosi's decision to appoint five democratic members to the committee that will investigate. we'll bring you details on when this committee is to begin its work. ♪ ♪ avo: wherever your journey takes you the expedia app helps you save with

two congressman from san diego duncan hunter a marine reservist him and scott peters have written lettersn kerry to try to expedite the situation. he has got a hearing on may 28th. which is apparently the first chance for a dismissal. but, you know, this isn't the first time this has happened. and, often these folk also have to sit in jail for a few months until the mexican legal system gets through the process. >> jen, thank you very much. and we hope he gets out soon. thank you, jen. >> thanks. >> and now to breaking news. more than 200 school girls are being held captive by terrorists in nigeria. jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jen? >> well, greta, over the weekend, secretary of state john kerry told reporters that the u.s. would help in the search for the missing 300 or so nigerian girls kidnapped by al qaeda off chute three weeks ago. then we hear today that attorney general eric holder says the fbi will help in whatever way it can in the search. and that he has ordered a review of the group boko haram and we hear from pentagon officials even if they wanted to send air assets,

peters, aye. mr. scott? mr. scott, no. mr. enyart aye. mr. plazo, no. mr.

peters, aye. mr. scott? mr. scott, no. mr. enyart aye. mr. plazo, no. mr. gaeho, aye. mr. brooks, no. mr. veezy aye. mr. nugent, no. ms. gabbert? ms. gabbert? mrs. nome? mrs. nome, no. mr. cook? mr. cook, no. mr. bridenstine, no. dr. winthrop, no. [ applause ] warski, no. mr. burn, no. mr. mcintyre? mr. lopesack? mr. lobesack, yes. mr. schuster? mr. schuster, no. mr. johnson? mr. johnson? mr. carson. >> mr. carson? ms. duckworth? ms. duckworth? ms. duckworth, aye. ms. gabbert. ms. gabbert. >> is there anyone who's not had the roll recorded? the clerk will report the tally. >> mr. chairman, the vote was 24 ayes, and 34 nos. >> the amendment is not agreed to. if there are no further amendments, the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama, mr. rogers, for the purpose of offering a motion. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i want to take a minute, first, to thank my ranking member and good friend from tennessee, mr. cooper, who has been a great partner in this process. i think that's evidenced by the fact that in my 12 years here, i can't remember a mark going through with only

scott mentioned his report. he did indeed cash it redhanded, and investor peter chironen, author of becoming china's bitch, peterelieves it's high time that espionage rules are finally being put in place. kevin, i'm going to chart with you. >> last year in february, we released a report that showed that we responded to 141 victim companies. the way we were able to catch the chinese actors that are even mentioned is in fact they maid operational security mistakes. >> is sounds like they aren't quite as good at hacking as perhaps many say they are. >> peter, let me go to you. you say it's high time that these rules and regulations get put in place to try to prevent this, but does china have to abide by them? >> i think you have to think about boundaries. anywhere you look. or petroleum in individual nam, or with the fill phoenix and fishing rights, china respects and understand boundaries. it's time for us and i'm thrill we're getting or messaging clear, saying to the chinese that using military to do cyber-spying on our companies is a no-no and we won't september it. i think it's a great place to start the dialog

. >> i'm peter the point of san francisco beauty but i'm outraged the state elective has allowed companies to hijack our sidewalks and i thank scott wiener for this legislation it's a slam dunk good idea for the reaps supervisor wiener said. it's going to save a lot of strife and anxiety and help the residents get along. thank you. next speaker. >> good afternoon community members i'm nicholas the vice president of the land park association. we've got a lot of boxes in our neighborhood i appreciate this proposed legislation it's seems to be comprehensive and hits everything we're concerned about and really support it fully support that. particularly by the amount of effort that was blatantly not put into the outreach of our community i'm pleased that's part of the legislation proposed. thank you >> thank you. >> next speaker. >> good afternoon, supervisors i'm ted the president of the hate ashbury association we've obtained to the placement of some of the facilities in our neighborhood. i want to show you the notice that gets sent and contains this photoshop effort to show you what the facility might look like on the sidewalk. the

scott, we've got a gold lover. he's also a bitcoin hater, your favorite and mine, peter schiff. he'll join us and tell us more about his thoughts on bitcoin, a little controversial, and sparking online outrage there. back to you. >> yeah, counterintuitive trade in gold that's worked quite well. thank you so much, jackie. >>> still ahead on "the half," john najarian buying a health care stock after spotting unusual activity. stick around to hear what it is. and best buy shaking off the brick and mortar blues delivering a solid beat on the bottom line. investors are buying and the stock is jumping. here on the desk, however, somebody's holding onto his bear suit. the best buy debate is in store next. ♪ [ cows moo ] [ sizzling ] more rain... [ thunder rumbles ] ♪ [ male announcer ] when the world moves... futures move first. learn futures from experienced pros with dedicated chats and daily live webinars. and trade with papermoney to test-drive the market. ♪ all on thinkorswim from td ameritrade. all on thinkorswim carsthey're why we innovate. they're who we protect. they're why we

who else is in the field because if there is someone like scott walker from wisconsin or christie, it makes a little bit tougher for him. >> peterlikes showing it. this guy loves the buzz. christie loves the buzz. ted cruz loves the the buzz. he thought about it in 2012. he's going to be flirting with it in the media. >> if he was he would be in ft. wayne instead of washington, d.c., john. look, what's going to be fascinating the watch is how mike pence sell what's he is doing now on the affordable care act to the conservative base. he's trying to sell it as this is federal -- i'm taking federal dollars and implementing our own program while the right has -- saying that's not what it is. >> jonathan martin, peter hamby, up early. interesting races. senate primary in oregon as well. guber toial in pennsylvania. we'll be working late. see you tomorrow morning. >> looking forward to it. big day. >>> coming up next on "new day," how do you stay safe from mers? now the illness has been contracted on u.s. soil. dr. sanjay gupta is going to be here to talk about what you really need to know. really... so our business can be on at&t's n