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Teacher yesterday after a six-week investigation. the 47-year-old woman is accused of bringing food with marijuana to a potluck dinner. two victims were hospitalized after the event and others complained of feeling under the influence. the teacher allegedly confessed to what she had done to several people who were at the dinner. now let me show you something. yep. frooeky. thats the cover of the "new york times" magazine titled "planet hillary" or as the "time" magazine puts it, her disembodie...

>> it is a code word. it is a code word. the word "thug" was used hundreds of times after he had his little outburst used by commentators directed at him. he didnt hit anybody, didnt kick anybody in the you know what. >> i as a white woman do not affiliate the word "thug" with the n word. >> so cheryl, you see 50% of the panel disagreed with what we said. >> well, let me tell you something. i agree with what sherman is saying. and i think what everybodys mad about is this young man could articul...

Jails appeared in our statewide system. now with the expansion of the medicaid program, and by the way there are people going into jails, literally signing up some of these prisoners and putting them on medicaid. >> city rather than the county picks intheir cost. >> no the feds pick up the cost. other than medicaid expansion program. >> expansion, so everybody understands the feds give the money to the states and the states give the money to the prisoners because its a medicaid program. >> medic...

They would be nothing if it werent for the play that they were on. richard sherman came from the street of compton. he went to stanford. he had a 3.9 gpa. hes an all pro. maybe it was a classless move, maybe something he shouldnt have done. theres nothing wrong with what arnie is saying on that level but other people are far more insidious that come across and they use it to try and a lot of folks in the world of professional sports and athletes or executives and whomever, or commentators such a...

Behavior by commentators. we see that all the time in talk radio. more people who are appealing and self-reflective the better. >> all right thank you all for the interesting discussion. i appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom, bruno mars taking his act to the halftime show of the soon. hes taking that fame straight to the bank. christine romans has that story. >> this is a guy that gave up on being a super star, wrote for other people. he found super stardom. hes taking it to the super...

And he also made clear to these people -- im told these are major heavy hitters who flew in from all across the country who could have been at home or on their jet or on an island watching the football game but they wanted to listen. a lot of them are unsure. >> those are big money donors. he is going to need them to run. he has been saying im not running. now he is saying im going to put it on hold for a year. joining me now cnn political commentators. paul, will christie be the 2016 gop nomi...

For president. i hope he wont. >> jeb bushs father by contrast says he would like to esee his son run for president. it is not clear which way jeb bush is leaning. >> if he were to run he would be a formidable candidate for sure. >> lets dig deeper with our cnn political commentators. anna, you are close to jeb bush. what do you think about the special relationship between former president george h.w. bush and former president bill clinton and their families? >> i think it is absolutely genuine ...

Contenders both find themselves in a tough spot. chris christie still trying to weather the new jersey bridge scandal and now a new report out on benghazi calls the attack likely preventible, blasting hillary clinton. lets talk about it. joining me now, cnn political commentators hilary rosen and ben ferguson. first i want to get an idea of if you two believe that these two, as we call them scandals, are equivalent. is the bridge scandal to chris christie as benghazi is to hillary clinton? lets ...

One question if theyre not going to answer. theres nothing more infuriating than somebody -- >> you remember jon stewart coming on "cross fire?" were going to take our children to that experience at the museum, because he was so brilliant. he nailed them both. the next day, commentators from the left and the right attacked him. and i think that we built a media of distraction. we do sound bites and distraction. we dont deal with the issues. and we are satisfied are going to a dinner party and kn...

Were going to take our children to that experience at the museum, because he was so brilliant. he nailed them both. the next day, commentators from the left and the right attacked him. and i think that we built a media of distraction. we do sound bites and distraction. we dont deal with the issues. and we are satisfied are going to a dinner party and knowing only the sound bite. >> a lot changed when news had to start to make profits for corporations. i like to remember asking walter cronkite be...