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because they both come off as bloated and full of excess, which both big business and big labor can often be in elections. >> this is the big bite in the badger state. all eyes on wisconsin tomorrow, high stakes. whoever wins this will be going into the general election with a real sense of confidence, not only when it comes to swing states like wisconsin but a sense of momentum behind them. but it is a big indication of how much money will be driving the debate this year, unprecedented amounts, difficult to follow, driven by special interests. this is all-out political warfare in the state of wisconsin right now. >> and the history, john, right, shows incumbents get tossed out in these recall elections? it may not happen this time. >> there are three cases where this has occurred in american history. we've got a little recall happy in our country, but this has been a big one. one of the big secrets is the rnc chairman is a wisconsinite so there's a real knowledge of the state inside the rnc. it's one of the many ways that local politics is national politics in this race. >> jamal, did the president make a mistake by not going? obviously you go and your guy loses, you look like a loser, that's bad. but people think oh, you went and it could have made a difference, you really look like a loser. >> this is an uphill fight in wisconsin. everybody on the ground knows that. you've got firefighters and cops and nurses and other people slugging it out on the ground to make it work. whether the president should go, if i'm in the white house i probably say no because you really want to let the local people drive this. i know they have had bill clinton come in and some other national figures. it's a pretty high-risk strategy to send the president of the united states in for something like this. you've got $80 million perhaps, some have said $50 million of that is coming from walker supporters. so it's a pretty uphill battle for the folks in the state on the democratic side, but we'll see what happens tomorrow. >> how much does money like this, though, in one state matter? i mean people know their state. they know what they think about this stuff. it's a little different than nationally, isn't that right? >> money matters but so do bodies. the labor unions have a ton of bodies have and used them very, very effectively. what people forget is that wisconsin is part of the much larger series of battles. remember 2005 when governor arnold schwarzenegger came in, huge political sensation who at the time was very popular and he fought against public unions in his state and he lost massively and retreated on all kinds of issues, having seen them flex their muscles. in ohio this year you had governor john casic pass a similar measure to wisconsin and it was rolled back in a referendum that was backed by big labor not just in ohio but through labor allies across the country. that's also what we've seen in wisconsin. this isn't the first recall. remember we had a round of recall elections for state senate seats and also even for the supreme court in wisconsin as well. there have been a ton of resources poured in. so the thing is that now you could finally have a situation in which someone actually faced down the public sector unions and actually won. it's not a guarantee, and i personally think a lot of conservatives are getting way to complacent about this race, but that's the issue this is not a one-time battle, it's been going on for years. so far the labor unions have been winning and batting 1.00 until now. >> i just don't get it, the recall thing. i get that you want a democracy and you want to vote on who goes in. but once you make that, i mean, god, we already have enough issues with people always running for re-election. why have to say if i don't like you, i want to do a recall election. >> it's an extraordinary measure. it's happened very rarely in our past. but recently it's become a hair trigger. there's this constant impulse to relitigate election returns if you don't like results. it's fueled by overreach and backlash. people overreaching and provoking a backlash. but this is so high stakes. people are so invested nationally, unions and business. that's why there's so much out of state money coming in. >> jamal, i know it's your party challenging, but doesn't a little part of you say this is ridiculous. this is like lawsuit-happy america. >> it's a big part of me. i was against this when it happened to gray davis out in kwachb arnold schwarzenegger. i think ultimately we elect people to four-year terms. unless they do something illegal or is really bad and crosses the public line, you probably don't want to have a recall election. so let's make the hurdle to do this very hard. the danger here, from what ryan was saying a bit ago, if governor walker should win, the republicans should not take this as a mandate to try to implement this. the last thing we need is how he fixed this because we have real work to do to limit spending, create more growth and create revenue to balance the budgets. >> some places it hasn't ended up in this public disaster. chris christie took on teachers unions in new jersey and scored a lot of victories. now sort of they're kind of shaking hands. >> that was a very different situation, partly because in new jersey chris christie knew that he didn't have the leverage to seek structural reforms. if you look at a state like virginia, democrats in virginia have not fought the fact that there are no collective bargaining friets state employees there because governors, mayors, other state officials, they like having the flexibility in order to change the way they deliver public services. so the issue is that really there are many states in which you don't have these collective bargaining rights. also the federal government, barack obama passed a two-year wage freeze, a unilateral wage freeze for federal employees. you could not have done that in wisconsin before these reforms. actually even now he couldn't do that. so actually president obama has a ton of flexibility. >> interesting point, by the way. >> the point i'm making, you've actually got democrats who want to take on some of these problems too. i don't think we should get into a big partisan battle after this recall election. >> interesting. the president is the one who put in those wage freezes. i think a lot of people watching may be surprised to hear that but yes, both sides are focused on cutting costs. the big question is what does the wisconsin election mean about how the state is going to vote. perfect time for john king. john, i heard you talking saying wisconsin has always gone one way for a very, very long period of time. how pivotal is wisconsin this year? could it swing if walker wins a big victory republican? >> it could, yes. he won in 2010. if he wins in 2012, it tells you there's a republican tide, maybe republican building. first let's do the history. this is the 2008 map. i'm going to circle wisconsin right there. president obama carried it. let's go back 2004, john kerry carried it. bill clinton carried it. you get the point here. even michael dukakis, it was one of the ten states he won. you have to go back to 1984 when ronald reagan won 49 states the last time wisconsin went republican in a presidential election, but it could change this time. we'll see what happens tomorrow. it's one of the reasons we list it as a lean democrat, light blue. we start with the president at 247. you need to get at 270. he's at 247, governor romney 246. the question we'll have tomorrow, erin, if walker wins, does that mean these 10 electoral votes are in play for governor romney? if they are maybe it helps in michigan and pennsylvania too. if those voters are sticking with republicans, it will give romney some hope. >> john, how does your map look overall? i know you've got your for sures and your leans. but how does the overall count look right now? what are the must-win that say would deliver it right now for mitt romney? >> it's fascinating. asking governor romney is the right question because it's much easier for president obama. if he starts at 247. if nothing else on this map changed, all president obama would have to do is carry the state of florida and he's the next president of the united states. he would get four more years. the hill is steeper for governor romney. 247 for the president to 206 for governor romney. how does governor romney get in play? first, he must win florida, he must win ohio. if he does that, you have essentially a tie. let's say the president picks up the state of virginia. he holds that. then you're at 260-253. who's going to decide this election? little states like new hampshire, iowa, colorado and nevada. this one here because of the latino vote, i'm going to lean it obama for now. in a hypothetical argument, you could get into a case like this, let's say romney takes colorado, 266-262. iowa might be where it ends. >> you know what, john, if it were a night like that, cnn after dark would come back. >> i'll buy the coffee. still outfront, the president's secret wars with the man who literally wrote the book. he was accused of murdering and chopping up his victim. what the porn star said when cops finally caught up with him today. and a spectacle that happens only once in 60 years and not every 60 years either. the capital one cash rewards card gives you a 50% annual bonus. and who doesn't want 50% more cash? 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"new york times" correspondent david sanger has written a book that has everybody talking about president obama's strategy, called "confront and conceal, obama's secret wars and surprising use of american power." just a couple of moments ago i asked him about our use of droughns and the potential backlash. >> one of the remarkable things what i was out doing reporting for "confront and conceal" i talked to u.s. officials about what are the rules under which we use drones. they said it's pretty simple, david, if we're invited in by a country, we'll go use them. if there's a country like somalia where there isn't an operative government, we'll use them as well but those are really the conditions. so pakistan, our non-nato major ally -- >> ally in big quotes. >> right. their duly elected parliament voted a month and a half ago to ban all foreign drone strikes in their country. and we say that as a country that it's the duly elected government of pakistan, the democratically elected government of pakistan we want to support. since that time we've had more drone strikes than i can count, including this big one. it's no secret that this is why the relationship with pakistan is in such trouble. >> and you write that president obama will go down in history for drones. that could be a signature part of his legacy. i'm wondering why he went this route. a lot of cynics will say, oh, well, because he campaigned on ending the wars. he's got to fight them in a way nobody kind of notices, go in the back door, maybe that's why. but it is pretty amazing when you compare it to george w. bush, we looked at those pakistan numbers. he wasn't doing this, president obama is. >> when president bush had a quiet meeting with president-elect obama just three or four days before that switchover of power, before the inauguration in january. >> this is a meeting that you're new to report. >> it's in the book. he said there are two programs you're going to want to make sure you maintain. one of them is drones in pakistan, the other is one that most americans didn't hear about until last week, which is called olympic games, which was the cyber operation against iran. now, what did these have in common? they are both part of what president obama has come to define as his light footprint strategy, which is to say that the era of sending 100,000 troops into a foreign country, spending a trillion dollars, occupying them, breeding the resent minutes that come with occupation, those days are over and that the united states is going to engage in activity where it can do it from afar, where it can use its technological advantage, but not putting troops on the ground. it's a fascinating strategy. it has its limits. >> one of those limits would be technology can be copied. >> yes. >> we had a drone that went down in iran. >> this book tells you that it went down because it had a speedometer that told everybody it was running at 15,000 miles an hour. it wasn't really and it landed itself in iranian territory. it was embarrassing. >> so what is the risk, whether it be iran or china. all of a sudden you have your whole strategy on this technology, whether it be cyber or drones, and they can mimic you. >> mimicking is one problem. another problem is that the united states sets up pretty strict rules about when you use these. president obama has reviewed the drone strikes because he wants to limit when they go and do them. he has personally approved when the united states is doing cyber attacks. but other countries that get this technology may not be playing by american rules. they may be playing by their own rules. >> what about this whole issue with olympic games. olympic games, for those who haven't been following, stuxnet is included, which was the virus that slowed down centrifuges, causing iranian scientists to die. you did extensive reporting on that and john mccain has criticized you and said that you've said things that are national security and put us at risk. what do you say to that sort of criticism, is it fair? >> i tried to be very careful in what i did here. the iranians learned that the united states was conducting cyber war or strongly suspected the united states and israel after the stuxnet virus got out. the book tells the story of how stuxnet was a mistake. there had been two or three years of attacks on iran before stuxnet made its way out of the system because an iranian scientist one day went in, plugged his laptop into the enrichment system. this virus had a small error in it, leapt aboard his laptop, he went home, connected to the internet and it propagated around the world. i tried to pull on that string because i suspected something like that doesn't happen as a one-time event. olympic games was the bigger campaign. senator mccain has said that the revelation of that breached american national security. i would say that the iranians had figured out two years ago they were being attacked. this filled in the details of how the program worked. i very carefully left out of the book anything that dealt with current u.s. operations, future u.s. operations and i say at the end of the book that i consulted with some administration officials to make sure that i was not affecting current and future. >> david sanger, thank you very much. an outstanding book. everyone, please go check it out. 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well, for the short term, lower gas prices could help. according to the eia, a gallon of regular gasoline is now down to $3.61. that's 17 cents cheaper than a year ago. now our fourth story outfront. a new development in the case against the florida neighborhood watchman, george zimmerman. one day after being forced to return to jail, the man accused of murdering 17-year-old trayvon martin is in an isolated cell. but how long he'll remain there is unknown. his defense team announced today that they're going to ask the judge for a new bail hearing. that's mark o'mara you can see there. you've seen him on the show, the main attorney on the case. zimmerman's bond was revoked last week after a judge learned that zimmerman and his wife misstated their financial situation when they knew that they had raised more than $100,000 through online donations for his defense. attorney mark nejame has been following the case for us as well as paul callan. george zimmerman is in isolation tonight in florida. his defense is asking for a new bond. i guess the question is do you think they're likely to get it? >> well, it's purely in the discretion of the court. there's some real questions as to whether he will. not being forth right about $115,000 can easily be argued that that puts somebody at risk of flight, which is one of the considerations the judge needs to make. and if there is a bond, it's likely going to be a million dollars or so. i'm not convinced it's the best thing to do to have another bond hearing. it subjects the defendant to questioning by the state and since credibility is such a gargantuan issue, i'm not sure it's the best move. >> when you mentioned flight risk, paul, when the judge said we're going to go ahead and put him in jail when he waits, they found out he has a second passport so that also added to that particular line of thinking. we mentioned the online defense fund that mark said raised at least $115,000. donations spiked today. so as that money gets higher and higher, does that affect directly the bond? the bond would keep going up and up if there even was a bond? >> well, at some point the judge can't set a higher bond. he'll take into consideration how much is available in that fund. if he sets a million dollars and there's a million dollars available, i think he gets out of jail. so this is helpful to him. i don't think harmful, that people are contributing to his defense. >> do you think he'll get out? >> well, i really don't know. the judge is very angry. he feels that he was deliberately misled. >> right. >> and this is the way he's punishing the defendant. but on the other hand, you know, bail is supposed to be about flight risk. and it's supposed to be about whether you're a threat to the community. he's certainly not a threat to the community and he came back voluntarily, knowing he was going to be thrown in jail. >> right. >> so those two things, if i'm a judge, i'm saying, well, he's not really a flight risk. >> of course he does have credibility issues, though, mark. mark o'mara talked about those, frankly in a way we all felt was surprisingly forth right. i just want to play a little clip of it first. >> there is a credibility question that now needs to be sort of rehabilitated by explaining away what they were thinking when they did what they did, if that's what happened. and we'll address it. >> mark, is it smart to admit that you know that your client has a credibility problem and needs to be rehabilitated? >> absolutely. if his client has lost credibility, he surely hasn't. the judge commented today and trayvon's defense team talked about what an ethical, credible person o'mara is. when he found out about this, he brought it to the judge's attention. as long as he maintains his credibility before the court, then his client has a modicum of a chance. if he had no credibility, then his client has no chance. >> i have to disagree with this completely. i mean his job -- o'mara's job is to be an advocate for his client. and to explain how this error could have occurred. and o'mara seems to be covering this like he's a journalist. it's like, well, maybe my client has a credibility problem. and by the way, i'm going to have to investigate a little bit more before i tell you whether i think he's guilty or innocent. most of the time you see defense attorneys come out strong and say my client is innocent. it's an outrage that he's been imprisoned and, yes, this error took place but you try to come up with a reasonable way to explain it. you don't say, well, maybe my client is a liar, you know. i don't think that helps you try a case in front of a jury. >> may i -- if i could, though, that's one reason i don't believe that there should be a bond hearing because it's one thing to say that to the press. it's quite another that you're going to go before a court and then have your client fall on the sword, which i don't think is going to help the client at all. >> mark, why are we saying that to the press? why aren't we saying to the press, you know, he made a mistake. he was in a panic situation. why are we saying to the press, well, there's a credibility problem. i mean that means there's a lying problem. so i don't know -- >> or it was a lie as opposed to an oversight. implicitly you are. >> and there are jurors out there saying even o'mara doesn't believe this guy. >> that's what the reality of -- i think there's no question about it. but the fact that they have got those tapes, which are incredibly damning, there's no way around that. him and his wife were clearly talking about $115,000. so rather than losing his credibility and coming out beating on his chest like some defense lawyers do and having no credibility, apparently he's taken the path of saying i'm going to maintain my credibility. i do think it's a major risk to allow the client to take the stand and have another bond hearing. i think it could blow up on him. >> well, zimmerman goes to jail. i don't see it helping zimmerman. >> we're going to hit pause there. thanks very much to both of you. please let us know what you think on twitter, whether you agree with mark or paul. you got me. that's what luka rocco magnotta said. that's it, those three words, "you got me." when he was caught in berlin after a week-long international man hunlt. he is accused of killing a man with an ice pick and dismembering his body. it's been a horrific story cover the past week. he allegedly mailed a severed foot to the prime minister of canada, steven harper. magnotta was found in a berlin cafe looking at a website about himself when an officer walked up and asked him for identification. diana magnay has been following the bizarre case and she says outfront from berlin tonight. diana, thanks very much for taking the time. you were talking about how the internet cafe manager had recognized magnotta, called police. were police already on his tail or was it just luck that this guy in the internet cafe actually recognized him? >> reporter: well, at this stage it appears as though it might just have been a question of luck. when he walked in just before noon today, so a little over 12 hours, walked into that internet cafe, he didn't have any disguise on at all, he just had a pair of dark glasses on. the employee who he talked to behind the counter said he took his glasses off and he recognized him straight away from somewhere. he thought i know this person. obviously this is a story that's big in the national press and magnotta's photo has been all over the place. the man in the cafe said he was sure he recognized him from somewhere. then he went and tried to flag down a police convoy. he said they went past all the time generally. and he just hoped that he could stop a police car and bring them in, which is what happened. and he said that he was observing magnotta for about an hour. he was an hour in that internet cafe. as you said, he was looking at news stories about himself online, without apparently a care in the world as to whether anyone sort of had him under observation, which this internet cafe employee actually did, erin. >> that's pretty amazing. as we said, he only said three words, "you got me. " he appeared on a canadian tv show talking about his career choice, why he became a porn star. this is just to give everyone a sense of this guy and his voice. here he is. >> yeah, you know, i really do enjoy my work. i get to meet new people all the time and, you know, i'm a people person. >> diana, do you know, has he said anything to police since he was arrested? >> reporter: so far police aren't giving any kind of information out as to what information they're getting from that questioning process. but it is interesting, we do know a lot about magnotta, not just from this investigation but because of all the videos that he's posted of himself online. this is not a man who shied away from publicity, this is a man who has gone out to draw attention for himself. he's been dubbed a sort of narcissist by psychologists studying this case. and it's quite clear that's what he is. he's someone who craves attention. he's gone on various talk shows before, said the kind of things that he did, a peoples person. someone who craves fame, can very easily switch to infamy if he's not getting what he wants and it looks a little as though that's what he's done. >> it's bizarre what we've seen as he's done, mutilating someone in that way, obliterating a body. are they going to -- is it possible from what you're hearing and what they're looking that he could be linked to other murders? people have talked about someone who does that, you don't do that one time. >> reporter: well, this is a very strange man. i mean we've known that he's posted lots of video of himself killing kittens on the internet in the past. the police in montreal have said, you know, this investigation is far from over. he may be apprehended but we want to make sure that he's not linked to any other kinds of homicides or any other crimes. there have been various sort of reports in the canadian reports that he might be linked to serial killers in that country also. things that he has denied publicly before this case ever came to light. but certainly there are still many questions that will be investigated. once this extradition process is going on to get him back to canada. still ahead, a plane crashes overseas. 150 people were on board. an american at the controls. his last message before the crash. and what if your entire life had been about one thing, one thing passionately hours and hours a day and you no longer could do it? what it's like to retire at 20, outfront next. do you see it ? there it is ! there it is ! where ? where ? it's getting away ! where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. wow, there it is. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... 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>> yeah. it was definitely one of the hardest decisions i've ever had to make. being professional athlete having that kind of creative part of my life over with is surreal. i don't think it's settled in yet. it came to a point where my body couldn't take anymore and kept telling me i had to kind of face the signs and kind of finally accept the pain and say it wasn't going to happen. >> it's got to be hard. a lot of people will be looking at you now saying gosh, she's 20 years old. she's got her whole life ahead of her. you do. but at the same time you spent 15 or 16 years of your 20 in the gym going this. and i can't imagine it's any easier when you're 20 or 80 to have your whole life change. what are you going to do? >> that's a good question. i don't know what to do. any normal day i'd tell you i practice at 2:30. when 2:30 comes around, i'm going to be pretty lost. i'm not really sure yet. still trying to figure out what is next. first and foremost, i really want to go to the london games. even though i can't compete, i want to go and cheer on my teammates. i've grown up with these girls. they're like sisters to me. if i can't be on the podium competing, i'll cheer my head off for them. >> i'm curious hoe you'd respond if i said people look at the sport scene say that girls that do it, they can't grow and their bodies can't develop and they do so much damage to themselves that they pay for their entire lives. is it worth it? is it a sport that's healthy for little girls, would you say? at the level you competed, that all in completely overwhelming level? >> i don't know. i am biased. i love gymnastics. i definitely see it as there are flaws. there's a lot of times when you see young girls being pushed to their absolute physical and mental limit. but i think you would see that in any sport. i don't know if i could see in the future my daughter going through it, but then again, my mom's asked me that many times. if we went back in time, do i wish they would have put me in a different sport and i say absolutely not. >> what about you, shawn? you're at a point where you have to decide college or i don't know. i mean, you were "dancing with the stars," you won. that's a tough thing to do. a lot of people have talked about you as america's squeet heart. people can see why. career in hollywood or what? for you to say five years shawn johnson is doing what? what do you want it to be? >> in five years hopefully i'll be graduating college. i'm going to take one more year to kind of let everything die down and get ready to move away and go to college. and just trying to be a somewhat normal college student. i've had that on my list ever since i was little. my participants are going to make sure that happening. that's on the checklist. as for career, i have no idea. i don't even know what i'm going to be doing tomorrow right now because my plans have changed a little bit. but i'm excited to see what opportunities are going to arise and where i'm going to go next. >> you know what? 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obviously you go and your guy loses, you look like a loser, that's bad. but people think oh, you went and it could have made a difference, you really look like a loser. >> this is an uphill fight in wisconsin. everybody on the ground knows that. you've got firefighters and cops and nurses and other people slugging it out on the ground to make it work. whether the president should go, if i'm in the white house i probably say no because you really want to let the local people drive this. i know they have had bill clinton come in and some other national figures. it's a pretty high-risk strategy to send the president of the united states in for something like this. you've got $80 million perhaps, some have said $50 million of that is coming from walker supporters. so it's a pretty uphill battle for the folks in the state on the democratic side, but we'll see what happens tomorrow. >> how much does money like this, though, in one state matter? i mean people know their state. they know what they think about this stuff. it's a little different than nationally, isn't that right? >> money matters but so do bodies. the labor unions have a ton of bodies have and used them very, very effectively. what people forget is that wisconsin is part of the much larger series of battles. remember 2005 when governor arnold schwarzenegger came in, huge political sensation who at the time was very popular and he fought against public unions in his state and he lost massively and retreated on all kinds of issues, having seen them flex their muscles. in ohio this year you had governor john casic pass a similar measure to wisconsin and it was rolled back in a referendum that was backed by big labor not just in ohio but through labor allies across the country. that's also what we've seen in wisconsin. this isn't the first recall. remember we had a round of recall elections for state senate seats and also even for the supreme court in wisconsin as well. there have been a ton of resources poured in. so the thing is that now you could finally have a situation in which someone actually faced down the public sector unions and actually won. it's not a guarantee, and i personally think a lot of conservatives are getting way to complacent about this race, but that's the issue this is not a one-time battle, it's been going on for years. so far the labor unions have been winning and batting 1.00 until now. >> i just don't get it, the recall thing. i get that you want a democracy and you want to vote on who goes in. but once you make that, i mean, god, we already have enough issues with people always running for re-election. why have to say if i don't like you, i want to do a recall election. >> it's an extraordinary measure. it's happened very rarely in our past. but recently it's become a hair trigger. there's this constant impulse to relitigate election returns if you don't like results. it's fueled by overreach and backlash. people overreaching and provoking a backlash. but this is so high stakes. people are so invested nationally, unions and business. that's why there's so much out of state money coming in. >> jamal, i know it's your party challenging, but doesn't a little part of you say this is ridiculous. this is like lawsuit-happy america. >> it's a big part of me. i was against this when it happened to gray davis out in kwachb arnold schwarzenegger. i think ultimately we elect people to four-year terms. unless they do something illegal or is really bad and crosses the public line, you probably don't want to have a recall election. so let's make the hurdle to do this very hard. the danger here, from what ryan was saying a bit ago, if governor walker should win, the republicans should not take this as a mandate to try to implement this. the last thing we need is how he fixed this because we have real work to do to limit spending, create more growth and create revenue to balance the budgets. >> some places it hasn't ended up in this public disaster. chris christie took on teachers unions in new jersey and scored a lot of victories. now sort of they're kind of shaking hands. >> that was a very different situation, partly because in new jersey chris christie knew that he didn't have the leverage to seek structural reforms. if you look at a state like virginia, democrats in virginia have not fought the fact that there are no collective bargaining friets state employees there because governors, mayors, other state officials, they like having the flexibility in order to change the way they deliver public services. so the issue is that really there are many states in which you don't have these collective bargaining rights. also the federal government, barack obama passed a two-year wage freeze, a unilateral wage freeze for federal employees. you could not have done that in wisconsin before these reforms. actually even now he couldn't do that. so actually president obama has a ton of flexibility. >> interesting point, by the way. >> the point i'm making, you've actually got democrats who want to take on some of these problems too. i don't think we should get into a big partisan battle after this recall election. >> interesting. the president is the one who put in those wage freezes. i think a lot of people watching may be surprised to hear that but yes, both sides are focused on cutting costs. the big question is what does the wis sconsin election mean about how the state is going to vote. perfect time for john king. john, i heard you talking saying wisconsin has always gone one way for a very, very long period of time. how pivotal aal is wisconsin th year? could it swing if walker wins a big victory republican? >> it could, yes. he won in 2010. if he wins in 2012, it tells you there's a republican tide, maybe republican building. first let's do the history. this is the 2008 map. i'm going to circle wisconsin right there. president obama carried it. let's go back 2004, john kerry carried it. bill clinton carried it. you get the point here. even michael dukakis, it was one of the ten states he won. you have to go back to 1984 when ronald reagan won 49 states the last time wisconsin went republican in a presidential election, but it could change this time. we'll see what happens tomorrow. it's one of the reasons we list it as a lean democrat, light blue. we start with the president at 247. you need to get at 270. he's at 247, governor romney 246. the question we'll have tomorrow, erin, if walker wins, does that mean these 10 electoral votes are in play for governor romney? if they are maybe it helps in michigan and pennsylvania too. if those voters are sticking with republicans, it will give romney some hope. >> john, how does your map look overall? i know you've got your for sures and your leans. but how does the overall count look right now? what are the must-win that say would deliver it right now for mitt romney? >> it's fascinating. asking governor romney is the right question because it's much easier for president obama. if he starts at 247. if nothing else on this map changed, all president obama would have to do is carry the state of florida and he's the next president of the united states. he would get four more years. the hill is steeper for governor romney. 247 for the president to 206 for governor romney. how does governor romney get in play? first, he must win florida, he must win ohio. if he does that, you have essentially a tie. let's say the president picks up the state of virginia. he holds that. then you're at 260-2 fwaech53. who's going to decide this election? little states like new hampshire, iowa, colorado and nevada. this one here because of the latino vote, i'm going to lean it obama for now. in a hypothetical argument, you could get into a case like this, let's say romney takes colorado, 266-262. iowa might be where it ends. >> you know what, john, if it were a night like that, cnn after dark would come back. >> i'll buy the coffee. >> or something stronger. all right. still outfront, the president's secret wars with the man who literally wrote the book. he was accused of murdering and chopping up his victim. what the porn star said when cops finally caught up with him today. and a spectacle that happens only once in 60 years and not every 60 years either. begins with back pain and a choice. take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. good eye. but when i was diagnosed with prostate cancer... i needed a coach. our doctor was great, but with so many tough decisions i felt lost. unitedhealthcare offered us a specially trained rn who helped us weigh and understand all our options. for me cancer was as scary as a fastball is to some of these kids. but my coach had hit that pitch before. turning data into useful answers. we're 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. our second story outfront, the biggest kill since osama bin laden. abc news reporting tonight that pakistan officials say al qaeda's number two was killed by an american drone today. as many as 17 other suspected militants also were killed. it was the third drone attack in three days and the seventh in less than two weeks. now, this is an incredible statistic. there have been 300 air strikes in pakistan alone since 2004. all but ten under president barack obama. not george w. bush. that's according to long war journal.com. "new york times" correspondent david sanger has written a book that has everybody talking about president obama's strategy, called "confront and conceal, obama's secret wars and surprising use of american power." just a couple of moments ago i asked him about our use of droughns and the potential backlash. >> one of the remarkable things what i was out doing reporting for "confront and conceal" i talked to u.s. officials about what are the rules under which we use drones. they said it's pretty simple, david, if we're invited in by a country, we'll go use them. if there's a country like somalia where there isn't an operative government, we'll use them as well but those are really the conditions. so pakistan, our non-nato major ally -- >> ally in big quotes. >> right. their duly elected parliament voted a month and a half ago to ban all foreign drone strikes in their country. and we say that as a country that it's the duly elected government of pakistan, the democratically elected government of pakistan we want to support. since that time we've had more drone strikes than i can count, including this big one. it's no secret that this is why the relationship with pakistan is in such trouble. >> and you write that president obama will go down in history for drones. that could be a signature part of his legacy. i'm wondering why he went this route. a lot of cynics will say, oh, well, because he campaigned on ending the wars. he's got to fight them in a way nobody kind of notices, go in the back door, maybe that's why. but it is pretty amazing when you compare it to george w. bush, we looked at those pakistan numbers. he wasn't doing this, president obama is. >> when president bush had a quiet meeting with president-elect obama just three or four days before that switchover of power, before the inauguration in january. >> this is a meeting that you're new to report. >> it's in the book. he said there are two programs you're going to want to make sure you maintain. one of them is drones in pakistan, the other is one that most americans didn't hear about until last week, which is called olympic games, which was the cyber operation against iran. now, what did these have in common? they are both part of what president obama has come to define as his light footprint strategy, which is to say that the era of sending 100,000 troops into a foreign country, spending a trillion dollars, occupying them, breeding the resent minutes that come with occupation, those days are over and that the united states is going to engage in activity where it can do it from afar, where it can use its technological advantage, but not putting troops on the ground. it's a fascinating strategy. it has its limits. >> one of those limits would be technology can be copied. >> yes. >> we had a drone that went down in iran. >> this book tells you that it went down because it had a speedometer that told everybody it was running at 15,000 miles an hour. it wasn't really and it lappnde itself in iranian territory. it was embarrassing. >> so what is the risk, whether it be iran or china. all of a sudden you have your whole strategy on this technology, whether it be cyber or drones, and they can mimic you. >> mimicking is one problem. another problem is that the united states sets up pretty strict rules about when you use these. president obama has reviewed the drone strikes because he wants to limit when they go and do them. he has personally approved when the united states is doing cyber attacks. but other countries that get this technology may not be playing by american rules. they may be playing by their own rules. >> what about this whole issue with olympic games. olympic games, for those who haven't been following, stuxnet is included, which was the virus that slowed down centrifuges, causing iranian scientists to die. you did extensive reporting on that and john mccain has criticized you and said that you've said things that are national security and put us at risk. what do you say to that sort of criticism, is it fair? >> i tried to be very careful in what i did here. the iranians learned that the united states was conducting cyber war or strongly suspected the united states and israel after the stuxnet virus got out. the book tells the story of how stuxnet was a mistake. there had been two or three years of attacks on iran before stuxnet made its way out of the system because an iranian scientist one day went in, plugged his laptop into the enrichment system. this virus had a small error in it, leapt aboard his laptop, he went home, connected to the internet and it propagated around the world. i tried to pull on that string because i suspected something like that doesn't happen as a one-time event. olympic games was the bigger campaign. senator mccain has said that the revelation of that breached american national security. i would say that the iranians had figured out two years ago they were being attacked. this filled in the details of how the program worked. i very carefully left out of the book anything that dealt with current u.s. operations, future u.s. operations and i say at the end of the book that i consulted with some administration officials to make sure that i was not affecting current and future. >> david sanger, thank you very much. an outstanding book. everyone, please go check it out. 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well, for the short term, lower gas prices could help. according to the eia, a gallon of regular gasoline is now down to $3.61. that's 17 cents cheaper than a year ago. now our fourth story outfront. a new development in the case against the florida neighborhood watchman, george zimmerman. one day after being forced to return to jail, the man accused of murdering 17-year-old trayvon martin is in an isolated cell. but how long he'll remain there is unknown. his defense team announced today that they're going to ask the judge for a new bail hearing. that's mark o'mara you can see there. you've seen him on the show, the main attorney on the case. zimmerman's bond was revoked last week after a judge learned that zimmerman and his wife misstated their financial situation when they knew that they had raised more than $100,000 through online donations for his defense. attorney mark nejame has been following the case for us as well as paul callan. george zimmerman is in isolation tonight in florida. his defense is asking for a new bond. i guess the question is do you think they're likely to get it? >> well, it's purely in the discretion of the court. there's some real questions as to whether he will. not being forth right about $115,000 can easily be argued that that puts somebody at risk of flight, which is one of the considerations the judge needs to make. and if there is a bond, it's likely going to be a million dollars or so. i'm not convinced it's the best thing to do to have another bond hearing. it subjects the defendant to questioning by the state and since credibility is such a gargantuan issue, i'm not sure it's the best move. >> when you mentioned flight risk, paul, when the judge said we're going to go ahead and put him in jail when he waits, they found out he has a second passport so that also added to that particular line of thinking. we mentioned the online defense fund that mark said raised at least $115,000. donations spiked today. so as that money gets higher and higher, does that affect directly the bond? the bond would keep going up and up if there even was a bond? >> well, at some point the judge can't set a higher bond. he'll take into consideration how much is available in that fund. if he sets a million dollars and there's a million dollars available, i think he gets out of jail. so this is helpful to him. i don't think harmful, that people are contributing to his defense. >> do you think he'll get out? >> well, i really don't know. the judge is very angry. he feels that he was deliberately misled. >> right. >> and this is the way he's punishing the defendant. but on the other hand, you know, bail is supposed to be about flight risk. and it's supposed to be about whether you're a threat to the community. he's certainly not a threat to the community and he came back voluntarily, knowing he was going to be thrown in jail. >> right. >> so those two things, if i'm a judge, i'm saying, well, he's not really a flight risk. >> of course he does have credibility issues, though, mark. mark o'mara talked about those, frankly in a way we all felt was surprisingly forth right. i just want to play a little clip of it first. >> there is a credibility question that now needs to be sort of rehabilitated by explaining away what they were thinking when they did what they did, if that's what happened. and we'll address it. >> mark, is it smart to admit that you know that your client has a credibility problem and needs to be rehabilitated? >> absolutely. if his client has lost credibility, he surely hasn't. the judge commented today and trayvon's defense team talked about what an ethical, credible person o'mara is. when he found out about this, he brought it to the judge's attention. as long as he maintains his credibility before the court, then his client has a modicum of a chance. if he had no credibility, then his client has no chance. >> i have to disagree with this completely. i mean his job -- o'mara's job is to be an advocate for his client. and to explain how this error could have occurred. and o'mara seems to be covering this like he's a journalist. it's like, well, maybe my client has a credibility problem. and by the way, i'm going to have to investigate a little bit more before i tell you whether i think he's guilty or innocent. most of the time you see defense attorneys come out strong and say my client is innocent. it's an outrage that he's been imprisoned and, yes, this error took place but you try to come up with a reasonable way to explain it. you don't say, well, maybe my client is a liar, you know. i don't think that helps you try a case in front of a jury. >> may i -- if i could, though, that's one reason i don't believe that there should be a bond hearing because it's one thing to say that to the press. it's quite another that you're going to go before a court and then have your client fall on the sword, which i don't think is going to help the client at all. >> mark, why are we saying that to the press? why aren't we saying to the press, you know, he made a mistake. he was in a panic situation. why are we saying to the press, well, there's a credibility problem. i mean that means there's a lying problem. so i don't know -- >> or it was a lie as opposed to an oversight. implicitly you are. >> and there are jurors out there saying even o'mara doesn't believe this guy. >> that's what the reality of -- i think there's no question about it. but the fact that they have got those tapes, which are incredibly damning, there's no way around that. him and his wife were clearly talking about $115,000. so rather than losing his credibility and coming out beating on his chest like some defense lawyers do and having no credibility, apparently he's taken the path of saying i'm going to maintain my credibility. i do think it's a major risk to allow the client to take the stand and have another bond hearing. i think it could blow up on him. >> well, zimmerman goes to jail. i don't see it helping zimmerman. >> we're going to hit pause there. thanks very much to both of you. please let us know what you think on twitter, whether you agree with mark or paul. you got me. that's what luka rocco magnotta said. that's it, those three words, "you got me." when he was caught in berlin after a week-long international man hunlt. he is accused of killing a man with an ice pick and dismembering his body. it's been a horrific story cover the past week. he allegedly mailed a severed foot to the prime minister of canada, steven harper. magnotta was found in a berlin cafe looking at a website about himself when an officer walked up and asked him for identification. diana magnay has been following the bizarre case and she says outfront from berlin tonight. diana, thanks very much for taking the time. you were talking about how the internet cafe manager had recognized magnotta, called police. were police already on his tail or was it just luck that this guy in the internet cafe actually recognized him? >> reporter: well, at this stage it appears as though it might just have been a question of luck. when he walked in just before noon today, so a little over 12 hours, walked into that internet cafe, he didn't have any disguise on at all, he just had a pair of dark glasses on. the employee who he talked to behind the counter said he took his glasses off and he recognized him straight away from somewhere. he thought i know this person. obviously this is a story that's big in the national press and magnotta's photo has been all over the place. the man in the cafe said he was sure he recognized him from somewhere. then he went and tried to flag down a police convoy. he said they went past all the time generally. and he just hoped that he could stop a police car and bring them in, which is what happened. and he said that he was observing magnotta for about an hour. he was an hour in that internet cafe. as you said, he was looking at news stories about himself online, without apparently a care in the world as to whether anyone sort of had him under observation, which this internet cafe employee actually did, erin. >> that's pretty amazing. as we said, he only said three words, "you got me. " he appeared on a canadian tv show talking about his career choice, why he became a porn star. this is just to give everyone a sense of this guy and his voice. here he is. >> yeah, you know, i really do enjoy my work. i get to meet new people all the time and, you know, i'm a people person. >> diana, do you know, has he said anything to police since he was arrested? >> reporter: so far police aren't giving any kind of information out as to what information they're getting from that questioning process. but it is interesting, we do know a lot about magnotta, not just from this investigation but because of all the videos that he's posted of himself online. this is not a man who shied away from publicity, this is a man who has gone out to draw attention for himself. he's been dubbed a sort of narcissist by psychologists studying this case. and it's quite clear that's what he is. he's someone who craves attention. he's gone on various talk shows before, said the kind of things that he did, a peoples person. someone who craves fame, can very easily switch to infamy if he's not getting what he wants and it looks a little as though that's what he's done. >> it's bizarre what we've seen as he's done, mutilating someone in that way, obliterating a body. are they going to -- is it possible from what you're hearing and what they're looking that he could be linked to other murders? people have talked about someone who does that, you don't do that one time. >> reporter: well, this is a very strange man. i mean we've known that he's posted lots of video of himself killing kittens on the internet in the past. the police in montreal have said, you know, this investigation is far from over. he may be apprehended but we want to make sure that he's not linked to any other kinds of homicides or any other crimes. there have been various sort of reports in the canadian reports that he might be linked to serial killers in that country also. things that he has denied publicly before this case ever came to light. but certainly there are still many questions that will be investigated. once this extradition process is going on to get him back to canada. still ahead, a plane crashes overseas. 150 people were on board. an american at the controls. his last message before the crash. and what if your entire life had been about one thing, one thing passionately hours and hours a day and you no longer could do it? what it's like to retire at 20, outfront next. . ♪ a little one will get a vaccine. and a teen will talk with the doc. ♪ right now, millions of americans are using their preventive benefits from the health care law. you can, too. not just because there may be no insurance copays or out-of-pocket costs. but because of all those tomorrows you want to see. use your benefits today. learn more at healthcare.gov. with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is 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there. other killings were retaliations against former gang members. it is located in the mexican border state just southwest of texas, a region where drug violence has increased in recent years, fueled by a turf war between two major criminal organizations. erin. >> thanks to rafael. now to nigeria where rescue crews continue to search for bodies after the horrific plane crash yesterday in a densely populated neighborhood about ten miles from the airport in lagos. all 153 people on board died. at least ten more were killed on the ground but frankly we don't even know the number given the situation, how crowded it was. airline officials said the american pilot radioed that he was in trouble just moments before the crash. vladimir is in laggos and i asked him what else he could tell us about the american pilot and the passengers. >> reporter: erin, officials are not saying much about the passengers or the crew of this flight. we do know that there was an american piloting this airplane. we don't know much more than that. the state department has issued a statement saying that there were american citizens on board this flight but even they have not broken out the numbers for us. what we do know is this plane rolled off the assembly line in 1990, first for alaska airways. there were some incidents the last couple of years but nothing catastrophic until this sunday, erin. >> a horrible story. now let's check in with anderson for a look at what's coming up on "ac 360." mitt romney made the bankrupt solyndra plant a campaign stop pointing to the president's use of government money as a free market failure. then governor romney pushed for massachusetts to push for green energy. several that did, several of the companies, they too went bankrupt. we'll speak with james carvel and alex about that. also a child singing for his church gets a standing ovation. the words the child sings, well, it might surprise you. all about gay people not going to heaven. ain't no homos going to make it to hethe church erupts in applause. we send gary to see what he could find out. all that and the ridiculist and a lot more tonight on "360." erin. thank you. our fifth story outfront, a surprise announcement. olympic gymnast and gold medalist shawn johnson ending her comeback quest and retiring at age 20. johnson was dubbed america's sweetheart. she won a gold and two silvers at the 2008 beijing games and has been in training for the london olympics. she's even starring in some commercials leading up commerci ugh up to the games. but a chronic knee injury is dashing her dreams. she tells her story in her story that comes out tomorrow. shawn johnson is out front from her hometown of des moines. thank you so much for coming on and talking about this decision. it must have been just incredibly grueling and hit you in the heart. how did you make the choice to say i'm not going to do it? >> yeah. it was definitely one of the hardest decisions i've ever had to make. being professional athlete having that kind of creative part of my life over with is surreal. i don't think it's settled in yet. it came to a point where my body couldn't take anymore and kept telling me i had to kind of face the signs and kind of finally accept the pain and say it wasn't going to happen. >> it's got to be hard. a lot of people will be looking at you now saying gosh, she's 20 years old. she's got her whole life ahead of her. you do. but at the same time you spent 15 or 16 years of your 20 in the gym going this. and i can't imagine it's any easier when you're 20 or 80 to have your whole life change. what are you going to do? >> that's a good question. i don't know what to do. any normal day i'd tell you i practice at 2:30. when 2:30 comes around, i'm going to be pretty lost. i'm not really sure yet. still trying to figure out what is next. first and foremost, i really want to go to the london games. even though i can't compete, i want to go and cheer on my teammates. i've grown up with these girls. they're like sisters to me. if i can't be on the podium competing, i'll cheer my head off for them. >> i'm curious hoe you'd respond if i said people look at the sport scene say that girls that do it, they can't grow and their bodies can't develop and they do so much damage to themselves that they pay for their entire lives. is it worth it? is it a sport that's healthy for little girls, would you say? at the level you competed, that all in completely overwhelming level? >> i don't know. i am biased. i love gymnastics. i definitely see it as there are flaws. there's a lot of times when you see young girls being pushed to their absolute physical and mental limit. but i think you would see that in any sport. i don't know if i could see in the future my daughter going through it, but then again, my mom's asked me that many times. if we went back in time, do i wish they would have put me in a different sport and i say absolutely not. >> what about you, shawn? you're at a point where you have to decide college or i don't know. i mean, you were "dancing with the stars," you won. that's a tough thing to do. a lot of people have talked about you as america's squeet heart. people can see why. career in hollywood or what? for you to say five years shawn johnson is doing what? what do you want it to be? >> in five years hopefully i'll be graduating college. i'm going to take one more year to kind of let everything die down and get ready to move away and go to college. and just trying to be a somewhat normal college student. i've had that on my list ever since i was little. my participants are going to make sure that happening. that's on the checklist. as for career, i have no idea. i don't even know what i'm going to be doing tomorrow right now because my plans have changed a little bit. but i'm excited to see what opportunities are going to arise and where i'm going to go next. >> you know what? that's a totally normal answer. that's what a 20-year-old should say. so good for you. shawn, thank you so much. and good luck. >> thank you so much. too. >> all right. more than 4,000 torches have been lit in countries all around the world all for one woman. we'll tell you about it next. support team usa and show our olympic spirit right in our own backyard. so we combined our citi thankyou points to make it happen. tom chipped in 10,000 points. karen kicked in 20,000. and by pooling more thankyou points from folks all over town, we were able to watch team usa... 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"anderson cooper 360" starts "anderson cooper 360" starts right now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. we begin tonight keeping them honest with the presidential campaign and the saying about throwing stones when you live in a glass house. when president obama criticized bain capital, we told you about him raising money from private equity firms including as it turns out bain capital. now it looks like mitt romney may have a glass house problem. he's being accused of hypocrisy for the criticism over solyndra. the one that got government-backed loans then went bust. governor romney appeared outside solyndra's old headquarters calling the president's use a sense of waste and failure. whether government investment in emerging technologies is good or bad. but it turns
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