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United states to the most wanted man in the world. the question is, hadnt we already stopped waterboarding by the time the bin laden tip was revealed by a detainee? well discuss that. slightly lighter matters, major league baseball gets its first no-hitter. it comes in ugly style from the minnesota twins. if you walk six guys, should you go in a second tier in the history of no-hitters. its way too early for this. good morning. im willie geist. this is "way too early," the show classified as...

Referable. if they found evidence that represented a crime, they have the option of making a referable providing the documentation they collected and letting the justice department decide if they want to pursue a case. >> your reporting was sharp and to the point of the timing of the planned departure from the senate. he says he will leave on may 3. he was due to testify on may 4th. could the ethics committee make his testify before may 3rd? can they move that up? >> i dont think its possible. t...

Kind of stuff. >> im ready for you to go on dancing with the stars. >> you can do it. im sure you could do it. >> lets talk politics, shall we? what do you have? >> i think what happened when the president announced his re-election campaign, started raising money, maybe a billion dollars in this election cycle, even though hes putting a lot of pressure on the republicans who are on the fence right now to accelerate, to speed up their decision, theyve got to move quickly if they are going to comp...

Shown evidence that he has committed war crimes. >> reporter: under article 7 of the statute, crimes include murder, extermination, torture and rape as part of a widespread or systematic attack directed against any civilian population. >> most importantly, a war crime has to be a serious crime agnst civilians with intent. that is, that the perpetrator knew or had reason to know that his actions would have such a terrible impact on the civilian population. >> reporr: it isot just the libyan regim...

Than 100 questions. and this is to rule out any potential biases. once they have that pool between 85 and 100 potential jurors, those folks return may 4th, when they are questioned about the defense and prosecution to see, again, to whittle it down with the goal of finding those 12 jurors and 6 alternates. >> stephanie stanton in california, thank you very much. to offer legal perspective on those court proceedings, joined by criminal defense attorney and former federal prosecutor. lets start ...

Multibeam sonar technology to study a way to determine the flow rate. bp agreed, then changed their mind. that was may 4th. may 19th, lamar mckay, president of bp america testified to the senate that they couldnt measure the leak, and i quote, because the leak is not measurable through technology we know. perhaps he didnt know about the may 4th offer and that technology, but he surely must have known that other scientists, by may 19th, had other technology that theyd come forward with. in fact o...

Come forward with. in fact, on may 14th, a professor estimated 70,000 barrels might be leaking. he said that on our broadcast. he did that after viewing 30 seconds of video that bp reluctantly released and yet the president of bp says they dont have the technology. they dont know about the technology. by the way, the technology offered them on may 4th was finally used weeks later. the damage was already done, both to bps reputation but more importantly to everyone here in the gulf. a lot happene...

Do his job, but he needs to take a step back and say ive got some problems up here in washington and i better address them and quit letting bureaucrats stand in the way of protecting this country and take over our wetlands. im fed up with it. >> to hear the new documents released by the coast guard, that bp was offered technology on may 4th to measure the leak and on may 19th you have lamar mckay testifying that they dont know about any technology to measure the leak, what do you make about that...

The time and nobody has the sense of urgency to do anything, whether it be here or obviously overseas. and im sure whoever he replaced him with may not say that, but that -- that hero is thinking that, i guarantee you. its widespread in the military. so, the president needs to do a little soul searching. i dont want to tell him how to do his job but he needs to take a step back and say ive got some problems up here in washington and i better address them and quit letting bureaucrats take over wa...

Government officials didnt think they needed to measure it because they thought the leak would be fixed quickly. they were hopeful. all that talk about planning for worst case scenario from day one, when it came to measuring, they werent planning for worst case scenario. they were hopeful. as we learned in katrina, though, hope is not a plan. the stunning thing we learned today is that independent scientists contacted bp with ways to measure the leak as early as may 4th, a scientist named richar...