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he talked with cnns national political correspondent jim acosta this evening. >> governor, thanks for joining us. lets talk first about this controversy over when you left bain capital. ill put one of the documents in question up on screen. their sec filing stating that you were ceo at bain capital past 1999. when you say you left bain to run the olympics. why was your name still on these documents? and why didnt you clear this up sooner? >> well, i was the owner of an entity that is f...

he was controversial. a bit on the edge. especially when i asked him about his murder of his wife, bonny lee bakley. >> i mean, i was worth $25 million. i could have hired somebody to kill her when she was in tibet or some place. she drove all over the country. she was out selling, doing her -- i could have hired somebody to follow her for ten months and make her disappear so nobody would ever find he for christs sake. i would go out to dinner to kill her? what the [ bleep ]s the matte...

olympians and his harrowing escape from a terror attack with the whole world watching. this is "piers morgan tonight." deadly danger in the great outdoors. a florida teenager lost the lower part of his right arm to alligator. a california man was in his kayak when a great white shark took a chunk out of his boat on saturday. just from the start of this month, there have been at least seven different attacks across the country by bears, alligators, a ark and a mountain lion. are the a...

its 5:00 a.m. in the east. this is cnn breaking news. >> we begin this morning with breaking news. we have learned that president obama is holding a big event at the white house rose garden later today to resurrect the battle over the bush tax cuts. he will be surrounded by working class americans while he calls on congress to extend tax cuts for everyone, making $250,000 a year or less. republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone, the wealthy included. the white house will b...

newly married man and married his long time partner tonight. massachusetts is one of six states that allow same-sex marriage. and, yes, it is that time of year again. pamplona, spain, 400-year-old tradition of running bulls through the streets. it is the first day of the annual eight-day festival with massive bulls run along people of questionable sanity. a few people needed medical treatment today. the animals wind up in the bull fighting ring. heres what else we have for you on c...

war zones, not one dime. because of drews reporting, the senate finance committee is demanding answers from the dvnf. more on that tonight. drew also uncovered yet another veterans charity called the national veterans foundation, which is taking donations, but using only a very small percentage to actually help vets. there are also charities that claim to help abandoned animals but the money trail leads somewhere else. baghdad pups, as far as we can tell, they dont do that at all. the ...

angelo program. it names a string of lawmakers from both party, democrats and republicans who benefited from this vip treatment. kent conrad. former democratic senator chris dodd. republican house armed services committee chairman buck mckeon. all three deny any wrongdoing. the report also says the former ceo of fannie mae, officials at freddie mac and a secretary of housing and urban development were also in this friends of angelo program. so were congressional staffers from both part...

eastern tennessee overnight. reportedly killing two people and injuring dozens more people. the storms tearing through parts of the great smoky mountains. the park spokesamerican telling wtae that a falling tree killed a woman and another man died when his motorcycle wrecked during the storm and rob mars an mow is going to let us know where theyre going. >> good morning. >> well, the storms have weakened. around 5:00 they were rolling down the south, the western part of the smoky mount...

entire professional career covering her as an olympian. >> thats an amazing story to cover. good morning to you. thank you for being with us. >> hi, everybody, nice to have you with us. were bring you the news from a to z, its 5:00 eastern. lets get right to it, shall we? this is unbelievable, unrelenting, unforgiving, it is a heat wave, and it is devastating from k.c. to d.c. and its going to continue today too, tomorrow, as well. all the way through the july 4th holiday. in some plac...

for you. good morning to you, welcome to "early start" on this monday morning. im zoraida sambolin. >> and im ashlee. >> its the kind of heat that makes it hard to breathe and it is still threatening millions of americans all the way from the midwest to the northeast this morning. >> about 16 people have now died from this heat since thursday when triple-digit temperatures unleashed killer storms that have now left millions of people without power this morning. its incredible, but look...