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>> this was the north side of the unit. i had let the porter out to get his cleaning supplies and he had a broom head in the back of his pants. well, he pulled that out, he smacked me. and by the time i turned around, the other three guys were actually coming running towards me. i was actually held inside this closet, and one of the inmates, we were sitting down, and he actually had a knife, homemade knife at my throat here and another one at my chest here. i had two male officers that were up h...

On the table thats open to attack. and its going to make for a two-week run of paid and earned media thats going to lead to the next presidential debate here in new york at hofstra two weeks from now. >> and this sets up the vice presidential debate. paul ryan and joe biden. >> that is going to be -- >> people love to say these vice presidential debates dont matter. go back to 2004, they do matter. >> i think this one does. >> and they matter because george w. bush had a very bad first debate. b...

Theres a will, theres a way. no matter how many restriction and laws are put on them by administrations, inmates usually find a way around it. >> its all my work right here i did since i first met him. >> what was that, three months ago? >> four months ago, something like that. got a lot done. >> started the other night, you know what i mean. right there. you know what it is. >> i like the tattoos. i like the whole -- i like the whole process. i like the whole ritual of it, especially in prison....

>> in 1988 while on a routine count, officer dean lopez was taken hostage. >> this was the north side of the unit. i had let the porter out to get his cleaning supplies and he had a broom head in the back of his pants. well, he pulled that out, he smacked me. and by the time i turned around, the other three guys were actually coming running towards me. i was actually held inside this closet, and one of the inmates, we were sitting down, and he actually had a knife, homemade knife at my throat he...

Job getting cops there within minutes of the shooting, cops on the scene. e.m.s. was on the scene and had people in the hospital quickly, doing a fantastic job, and should be commended for that. >> we also know that when he did his undergraduate work at the university of california he was a genius and referred to him as the best of the best, and then he graduated in 2010 and apparently, he had trouble finding a job and then wound up out there in colorado in a-- he had a genius grant because he w...

>> and ate right and worked out and let me write that down. and maybe thats-- >> and could that possibly work? and let us tell people before we get to your wild success story, you were 400 pounds. how did it get so bad? >> im not too sure. i kind of started-- stopped doing things i used to do all the time. i played basketball, football and baseball since i was younger and then i kind of stopped playing. i think, i got cut from my 9th grade basketball team and then it kind of went downhill from t...

take years to fix. and sanjay gupta joining us live this hour in cambodia where children are dying after 24 hours of hell. how will they fix this? where is the solution? hi, everybody. we start with house republicans renewing their efforts to overturn the affordable care act. you know the thing they call obamacare which was upheld by the supreme court but theres always tomorrow. youre looking at one of the hearings on capitol hill dealing with health care. a whole lot of debate going...

good morning, were happy youre with us this morning. welcome to "early start", im zoraida sambolin. >> were bringing you the news a to z, get it? big story in d.c., roger clemens to be judged by a different group of people, baseball writers, the men and women who choose the hall of famers after he was acquitted on all of the charges in his perjury trial yesterday. the rocket denying all along he ever used performance enhancing drugs. yesterday his attorney insisted again that his legen...

Leak issue. david plouffe would not answer that question directly, do you believe its important that the president be open to sitting down, to discussing how this happened, how these stories got out from his administration? >> if you have a credible, independent, investigation of the issue, and the independent investigator believes its important to talk to the president, the president should do it. who knows in the beginning of the investigation whether that would be required or not, but all ame...

I had let the porter out to get his cleaning supplies and he had a broom head in the back of his pants. well, he pulled that out, he smacked me. by the time i turned around, the other three guys were actually coming running towards me. i was actually held inside this closet, and one of the inmates, we were sitting down, and he actually had a knife, homemade knife at my throat here and another one at my chest here. i had two male officers that were up here in the first part of this unit, which is...