on the show today is the woman put knows how to make the victims lived at least a little bit miss valerie amoss the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator. there and now british politician and civil rights activist during the last decade she occupied various top officials in the british government she was most recently the u.k. high commissioner to australia and earlier the leader of the house of lords and secretary of state for international development in the cabinet valerie was the first black woman to occupy such a high position as amorous work much in africa and the middle east tackling numerous conflicts she was appointed the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs nearly two years ago. home is an awesome welcome to the show thing i grew much for being with us so well my first question is about your recent visit to syria as far as i understand you visited syria in more or less car two thousand and twelve on behalf of the u.n. and you tried to persuade the syrian government i'm quoting the words to allow access to all parts

valerie, you have been helping hundreds of victims of acid violence. who usually attacks them, and why? >> most often the victims were attacked by close members of their family, husbands, cousins, or sometimes community members who want to take revenge or punish them for something specific. >> are we talking about domestic fights? what's the reason behind such a vicious crime? >> right. 60% of the attacks do occur because of domestic violence and another high percentage of attacks does occur because of refusal of marriage or sexual advance and another reason for this is business disputes or enmities of any sort. >> what do you think would be the root cause of this issue? do you think people think they can get away with doing something like this? >> well, there was definitely a problem related to impunity. the conviction rate in general in pakistan is up 10%. as far as acid violence is concerned, the conviction rate today is close to 6%, so that's the notion of impunity is definitely there, but in a wider, i would say at a wider level there is also a ge

. >> 23-year-old valerie minacapelli hasn't always been so mellow. nearing the end of 90-day sentence for convictions that include assault on a police officer. >> i got in a fight with a girl. when they took me to the police station, they got rough with me so i fought back. i punched a lieutenant in the face. they gave me assault and battery on a lieutenant police officer. they call me smiley, because i'm always smiling. i'm a nice person, but don't get in my personal space because it's going down. >> minacapelli proved her point just a few days after arriving in jail. she got into fight with another female inmate. >> she got a broken eye socket. i put her in the infirmary for eight days. time to go. >> the fight earned her a lengthy stay in the female segregation unit. she was released to general population a few weeks ago. despite her sometimes violent tendencies, she claims her numerous days in the suffolk county jail stem from her addiction to cocaine and heroin. >> when i was with my kids, i never did nothing. never did no drugs. did nothing. i

leader of the house of lords and secretary of state for international development in the cabinet valerie was the first black woman to occupy such a high position as work much in africa and the middle east tackling complex she was appointed the u.n. undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs nearly two years ago. home is an awesome welcome to the show think i'm doing much for being with us so well my first question is about your recent visit to syria as far as i understand you visited syria in more or less car two thousand and twelve on behalf of the u.n. and you tried to persuade the syrian government i'm quoting the words to allow access to all parts of syria to help people affected by the civil conflict what has any progress has any progress been made since then and what's the problem in the next since you are the afraid of something i mean not learning un we have made some progress but it's been slow after my visit the syrian authorities agreed that they would lead an assessment mission to try to find out exactly what the scale of the problem was we accompany them with colleagues

plame and scooter libby and all of that. >> get revenge for valerie plame.id you this to us. we're going to do this to you. this administration has prosecuted more people under the espionage act for example under which you actually go after whistle -- >> bill: don't you want to know who is leaking stuff about the iranians? >> yeah. they are acting as if this administration is not doing anything about this, doesn't care about it. >> bill: two justice department guys. >> yeah. >> and you have confidence in that? >> yes because this administration has gone after the big guys like bradley manning and other people under the espionage act that actually have taken action to do something about it. >> look. in the valerie plame thing the left pounded cheney and pounded scooter libby and ended up prosecuting libby over nothing. covert operative. >> what do you mean over nothing. >> over nothing. nobody did anything. >> bill: they made a movie about it. >> that was a complete evident -- >> they gave up an agent. >> in this case this is so much more serious because we a

who knew anything about the outing of valerie plame to come forward. has president obama made any sort of -- >> you have two united states attorneys appointed by the attorney general of the united states who will look thoroughly into this and -- >> chris: has the president ordered his staff to come forward? >> obviously everyone is going to participate in the investigation. >> chris: let me ask you when you say everyone is going to participate in the investigation. welcome in the valerie plame case president bush agreed to and sat down for thorough interrogation by federal prosecutors. will president obama sit down to be interrogated by prosecutors in this case? >> listen, chris, i'm not going to get into that right now. the question is this investigation should be treated seriously. this is -- >> chris: why not say yes if he is asked he will participate? >> i'm not running the investigation, okay. we have career law enforcement professionals and prosecutors who are going to look into th s this. the president and his administration want the investigati

so if it was good enough for valerie plame, it should be good enough for the leaking of this fact thate launched a cyber attack on iran to "the new york times." megyn: back when valerie plame's identity was leaked, simon, there were at least two democrats who wanted an independent counsel, who did not want a special prosecutor or u.s. attorney as we've seen in this case, they wanted independent counsel, and they were then-senators barack obama and joe biden. so there is a question now about whether, you know, turn around's fair play and now that they're on the receiving end of these accusations about improper leaks, whether they should subject themselves, their administration to an independent counsel as well. >> so three quick points. one is it's clear the administration's taking this very seriously, they've moved quickly, they've been working with congress, the fbi has already been dispatched to begin the investigation, so there's an enormous amount happening. second is that i think one of the lessons from what happened in the valerie plame investigation was that the independent coun

staff to come forward. >> guest: everyone will participate in the investigation . 92 back in the valerielame case. president bush sat down for thorough interrogation by federal prosecutors. will president obama sit down to be interrogated by the prosecutor in this case. >> guest: i will not get into that right now. the investigation should be treated seriously. 92 why not say yes. >> guest: i am not running the investigation. we have career law enforcement officials and prosecutors who will look into this and the president and administration want it to be thorough. >> chris: will the president cooperate including. >> guest: i am not going to worry his particular involvement. everyone in the administration and probably the eamingses as well will cooperate with the investigation. >> chris: the white house said there was no need for an independent prosecutor. you mentioned two u.s. attorneys are appointed by attorney general holder to look at this. back in 2006, in the case of lobbyist jack abram off senator barack obama sent a letter to say the special council will insure the public's inve

>> tell us how it was. >> i am in a strange space if i'm totally honest. >> reporter: now back to valeryto terra firma in the himalayas and that new world record. >> everything is wonderful and i am here. >> reporter: safe and sound after a feat that one of his brave brethren is no doubt already planning to beat. nick watt, abc news, london. >>> as nick says, it took him 90 seconds to get down on the ground from the mountain. his companions took three days to walk down. thanks so much for watching. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline," of course, later, and we will see you right back here again tomorrow night. until then, goodnight.

future president and vice-president called on the bush administration to create a special counsel for valerie plame or the destruction of the cia interrogation tapes. senator obama and senator biden took a very different approach back then. take a look. >> it appears as though there may be an obstruction of justice charge here, tampering with evidence and destroying evidence. and this, i think, this is one case that really does call for a special counsel. i think this leads to the white house or there may be a legal and rational explanation. >> so you say special counsel. you don't believe that the investigations asked for by the inspector general and the cia and the attorney general are sufficient? >> no, i don't. let me put it this way -- rhetorical question. anything this attorney general's office has done since he has become president that you take on face value? not me. [chuckles] >> not me. >> sean: it sounds an awful lot like how i feel about the current attorney general. her with analysis, the author of the number-1 new york times best seller, culture of corruption and michelle malkin

up there in the world valerie jarrett gave forgot his first taste of international recognition at the age of twenty three when he won the major herbert funk carry on the word and burley gives emotional expression and exceptional passion for music has made him one of the most sought after conductors across the globe he has guest conducted most of the world's major orchestras since one thousand nine to six he has been the genuine old director of the mariinsky theatre in st petersburg and since two thousand and seven principal conductor up the london symphony orchestra gave the organizer of several major international musical spectacular events most notably the white knight bastable and say it is birth in most schools east of class to one of the foremost international conductors of all time gary give has never been shy to react to major world issues especially those concerning his native caucasus after the two thousand and four busline school massacre he conducted a series of concerts in tribute to the victims following the two thousand and eight war south of saudia he came to conduct a

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>> tell us how it was. >> i am in a strange space if i'm totally honest. >> reporter: now back to valerye to terra firma in the himalayas and that new world record. >> everything is wonderful and i am here. >> reporter: safe and sound after a feat that one of his brave brethren is no doubt already planning to beat. nick watt, abc news, london. >> as nick says, it took him 90 seconds to get down on the ground from the mountain. his companions took three days to walk down. thanks so much for watching. we're always here at abcnews.com. "nightline," of course, later, and we will see you right back here again tomorrow night. until then, goodnight. >>> did you lose money in the facebook ipo? a bailout for investors who fell behind from the start. >> and they lost at the ballot box. can they win in courts? police and fire unions challenged a vote on the pension reform. >> and in sacramento, could election results predict november's outcome? california voters didn't like the cigarette tax. >> and president makes a withdrawal from his bay area cash machine. money matters but doesn't always assure

the valerie plame investigation and others. when the democrats -- we have letters from then-senator obama and statements by then senator obama calling for an independent counsel or special investigation so it's clear that this issue is of transcendent importance. the director of national intelligence said, this is the most egregious breach of security and national security that he has seen in his 30 years as -- in the intelligence community. >> greta: it is bipartisan in the sense that there is horror or shock on both sides of the aisle. senator dianne feinstein, democrat, very concerned about the seriousness of these leaks. i mean, let me ask you, though, two people are appointed by attorney general holder. one was the united states -- with the u.s. attorney appointed by president obama and the other is the u.s. attorney from the district of maryland, appointed by then president bush. does the bipartisan nature relieve any of your thoughts? >> they still have to report to the attorney general of the united states. they are not

valerie. a journalist and the current common law partnerp francois hollande.k to twitter. tweeting her support hollande publicly said he was upset by this. the tweet's still up there. the press has taken to calling her the rottweiler valerie carried out a two-year secret affair with hollande. we do love the french though. >>> tonight, jack osbourne, the prime-time exclusive. the shocking discovery he has ms. plus, dr. sanjay gupta gives jack advice for fighting the disease. also, witness for the defense jerry sandusky could learn his fate at any moment. i'll talk to the man would tells the story you haven't heard yet till now. and trayvon martin's killer tells his story in his own words. >> he said, you got a problem now. and then he was here. and he punched me in the face. >> george zimmerman's attorney just met with him in jail. now mark o'meara talks to him exclusively. and only in america. the shocking video. taunting a grandmother. i'll tell you what i think should happen to them. this is "piers morgan tonight." good evening. sandusky's fate in the hands

when you think of the issue of valerie blame. she wasn't even a covert operative. we knew who the leaker was from the beginning. when you compare joe biden and barack obama and the democrats, all wanted a special prosecutor appointed there, how much worse is this? how worse is this? >> the valerie policemane case case -- valley plame case was like a traffic ticket compared to this. she was not a covert person, she had been out of covert work, she only did it 5 years. it's a five-year limit. the beginning of the investigation, they knew who the leaker was, armitage twasn't stewart or libby. it became a national scandal. new york times wrote a hundred articles about it. if you need a demonstration of how unbelievably unfair the coverage is to a republican as opposed to a democrat, this is a great example of it. much more is at stake here. in that case, valerie plame's safety, allegedly was in jeopardy t. really wasn't, but allegedly. here, the safety of hundreds of people are in jeopardy -- people have been put in jail as a result of the gross negligence -- here you

valerie plame was not even a covert operative.rces and methods compromised in that. now political witch-hunt to try to knock cheney and scooter libby and by extension president bush. that was the left going wild over nothing. in this case you have leaks coming from this white house. when you read "the new york times" story, bill, you see that the leaks had to have been either authorized or condoned by the president of the united states because there are only two or three people in the room, including president obama. so for chris to say, oh, the leaks had made the president look bad, how would they make him look bad when coming from him and his top people? >> there is no evidence, a monica. >> difficulty here and difference, bill, just one quick point on this, is that unlike the blame case, these leaks are endangering national security because imperiling ongoing intelligence operation with our number one state-based enemy, iran. bill: in the blame case, -- plame case. that a . monica is hot on fire. she thinks the stuxnet worm tha

it is rare that people in that position kind of one day up and leave. >> they ran into valerie. that is mrs. obama's closest friend and political advisor and president's friend and political advisor, the only person to go upstair and dines with the first lady and goes on vacation with them, leaves the oval office last and has the president's ear. and she is the gate keeper of the white house. and she's run into conflicts with both of the chiefs of staff. bill daly who was opposed to the man date requiring religious institutions to provide free medical advice on contraceptives and abortion, she pushed that. and got it through . daly decided he had enough and he left. >> you made a comment on page 61 of the book. it is a powerful statement. it is one that i quote, that obama's problem is he doesn't know what he doesn't know. >> i have said the dangerous person in any room is the person who doesn't know what he doesn't know. >> he feels that he is the smartest person in the room. i interviewed many people who have been in cabinet meetings with him and the bicameral meeting in which

joining me now to talk more about this is valerie huber executive director of the national abstinence education association valery thank you so much for coming to the studio today so tens of millions of dollars each year spent on teaching kids not to have sex is this money well spent actually there's a sixteen to one funding disparity against abstinence education one dollar for abstinence for sixteen dollars for contraceptive based education and the research is showing as a report that was just released today shows that the evidence really is building for the effectiveness of abstinence education in the science base for so-called contraceptive sex is falling flat but you know i did a lot of research on this story and what i found was that study after study showed that these kinds of programs are not effective. journal in the journal of adolescent health virginity pledges i guess or some kind of a staple of abstinence only programs not only did teenagers fail did that reduce failed it failed to reduce s.t.d. rates but also when they got into. fact said they wouldn't seek help well let'