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"ac 360" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening. a senate vote you'll feel, not called the nuclear option for nothing. is the answer in this video. the parents want to know was a young man named kendrick johnson murdered? was the investigation bungled? see what a leading expert says after viewing the footage. she wore the suit to dallas and covered in blood back home to show what was done to her husband. jackie kennedy's outfit. why it may not be seen for 100 years. what government does with your business, the temptation is to tune out. the fact is, though, what democrats in the united states senate today matters if you care who runs government agencies who touch the life or courts of cabinet departments. all involve people nominated by the president and confirmed by the senate. confirmation takes a simple ma jobty, 51 votes, however, any senator can have a higher they shall hold of 60 votes. today siting the times republicans used the 60-vote hurdle to block nominees, they voted to take it off the table for all but supreme nominees. the change is called the nuclear option, the name implies a big deal, blows up the rules, the question why do the democrats do it? president obama made a visit to the press briefing room and singled out the gop. >> i realize nothing party has been blameless for these tactics. they have developed over years, and it seems as if they continue we ly escalated but today's pattern of obstruction, it just isn't normal. it's not what our founders invisioned. a deliberate effort, no matter the merits to refight the results of an election is not normal, and for the sake of future generations, we can't let it become normal. >> republicans are threatening retaliation and claiming hypocrisy, a then senator obama opposed a nuclear option when they controlled the senate. >> if the majority chooses to end the filibuster, if they choose to change the rules and put an end to democratic debate, then the fighting and the bitterness and the gridlock will only get worse. >> in nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power. it is a fundamental power grab by the majority party. >> senators have used the filibuster to stand up to popular presidents, to block legislation. yes, even as i've stated, to stall executive nominees. the roots of the filibuster are found in the contusion and in our own rules. >> it will change the senate forever and that's not good. >> they were all clear abo why e flip-flop senator reed said quote i have the right to change how i feel about things. dana joins us. plenty of hypocrisy to go around but with blocking nominees, it is as bad as democrats are claiming, dana. >> it's certainly different. you have to look at the facts the nonpartisan congressional research service put out, of all the filibusters in the senate, nominees, half on them happened during the obama administration. if you dig deeper into that, people can differ about what you actually call a filibuster, but regard lsz, it certainly has been more than before and so that really is another reason, anderson, that harry reid gave the answer he did, which is he's changed because of the fact that the atmosphere has changed. >> jeff, we've been hearing threats blow for the filibuster, why now? >> the situation got so extreme. >> so you say it really is extreme? >> absolutely. barack obama nominated five people to the d.c. circuit, which is the second most important court in the country. it's where job roberts were and cleanse thomas all there before they went on the supreme court. of those five nominations, four were filler bustered. that's just unprecedented. what today's vote will mean is that three of those four will now get on the d.c. circuit, and that could have major implications for whether the laws obama managed to pass are upheld now that the challenges are starting to work their way through the court. >> dan, what about on the republican side? they are outraged by what happened. is this going to poison the future of bipartisan agreements? >> it could. there is no question about it. even republicans who tend to work across the isle like john mccain told me and other reporters, it might be harder to get treaties passed that require big super majorities of 67 votes because of the fact republicans may support the concept of the issue at hand, but they might not want to give democrats a win after they have had their feathers ruffled. but the other thing to keep in mind is just sort of big picture and practical level, what you're going to see now is pretty much every one of the president's nominees except for the supreme court, which is a different issue, is going to get through the senate unless there is a controversial issue about ca qualifications and that's a big change. >> maybe that's as important to oba obama's legacy? >> certainly. the house is in republican hands. no legislation, not even immigration, it appears, is going to get through. so there aren't going to be any lawings passed. so all obama can do for the rest of the term is get his people on the courts in administrative agencies and this is how he can do it because now he only needs 50 votes. it certainly raises the stakes for the 2014 midterm elections because a lot of democrats are up for reelection. if the republicans retake the senate in 2014, nothing will happen the last two years of obama's presidency. >> thanks very much. i want to come back to jeff shortly on the next story. cnn has been following it. new insight into the death of a 17-year-old georgia high school student kendrick johnson whose body was discovered roll up inside a gym mat. doubts about the investigation grew when his death was ruled accidental. his parents suspect murder. it grew into sloppy forensic work and corpse empty of organs. tonight, the results of those efforts, what the video says and doesn't say about the death of this young man. one note, in all the clips you'll see we deliberately blurred the faces of other students. here is victor blackwell. >> we are kendrick johnson. that's my child and we'll fight until it's over, until we get the truth. that's all we ask for is the truth what happened to kendrick job son. >> reporter: jackelyn johnson and her husband kenneth hope to find that truth in the video the day the 17-year-old died. look carefully, there he is in a white t-shirt and jeans carrying a yellow folder. the johnsons have this folder as the result of a lawsuit. cnn filed a motion to get access to the video. investigators told the johnsons and their attorneys that kendrick climbed into a gym mat reaching for this shoe and his death was an accident. >> they know their child did not climb into a wrestling mat, get stuck and die. where is that video? >> reporter: the sheriff's office says that moment was not recorded. the johnsons also question moments in the surveillance video like this one. kendrick is seen running in the gym and then another image appears showing other students. it jumps from one moment to another. the johnson's attorney says they can't tell from the surveillance video what happened to kendrick and when the other students entered. >> we don't have any time code with which to sink news the events. >> either the camera did this on their own or a human being interacted to make this camera do these things. >> reporter: an attorney for the schools tells cnn what we produced to the sheriff is a raw feed with no edits. the attorney for the sheriff's office tells cnn my client confirmed the video was not altered or edited within the luwndes county sheriff office. >> we believe somebody core resulted this video because it doesn't make sense. >> reporter: who is right? to find out, we took our copy of the video provided to cnn by the attorney for the sheriff's office to an expert. we brought the hard drive 2300 miles to spokane, washington to deliver it to the leading expert grant fredericks. he's a former police officer, a consultant for the u.s. department of justice and a construct instructor at the fbi academy. we're here to get an answer. has the surveillance video been amountered? >> they are not original and investigators should not rely on. >> reporter: cnn hired his company, forensic video solutions to analyze the surveillance video. >> the first thing that the attorneys and the family were concerned about, they didn't see a time stamp but you found one. >> yes. >> how? >> the time stamp is in another stream of video, so you have to be able to access it using special codes, so you have to know where to find it but it's there. once the time stamp is located, you can begin to make sense and track people. >> reporter: by piecing together the time code s, his team found more than 18 minutes of surveillance showing kendrick on january 10th, starting at 7:31 a.m. as he entered school, ending the last time he was seen alive at 1:09 p.m. in the gym. >> the motion video that we're looking at here and the fact that we skip time periods when there is no motion is very common. so i'm not really concerned about that part of it. >> reporter: but what about the blurred image, the only angle that shows the corner where kendrick johnson was found dead? . the johnsons and their attorneys believe this was intentionally blurred to hide something. what is your expertise tell you? >> yeah, this is not been intentionally blurred. this is likely the camera itself is probably been hit and the lens has been pushed out of focus for some reason. if you look closely, you can see the defined lines that are inherent in digital video. those lines are still in tact, so they have in the been blurred, therefore it was actually the lens that's blurred. the blurriness actually has the defined lines. so this is clearly just a blurred lens. >> reporter: clarity about the blur, the time stamp revealed and an explanation for the jumpy video which made the johnsons and the attorney suspicious the video was edited but fredericks has a bigger concern. >> this video is not the best evidence. it's been changed and altered so that we are missing information and what we have been provided is not the best quality. >> reporter: altered by copying but also raising questions about whether everything was copied. >> well in part two of victor blackwell's exclusive report, a new mystery as the expert say what is appears to be missing from the surveillance video and why it could be critical to the case. that's coming up next. tweet me using hash tag "ac 360" and later tonight, george zimmerman's wife speaking out about his latest troubles and so is the man that got him acquitted in the trayvon martin case, his former attorney mark om'mara joins us. 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