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Double agent. gentlemen, thats whats going on here. one of the jobs of ambassador stevens was to do outreach cument vation of al qaeda leadership groups and we already knew from last year, "new york times" reported on the fact that a former guantanamo detailee was so-called kind of ally. what we are seeing here is they dont want to look at this. they dont want the fbi to put all these pieces together because of what we are going to find. that the al qaeda guys were inside the wire. we are cooper...

Today. romney will continue campaigning in ohio tomorrow. but ryan will go elsewhere. standing in for mr. ryan, campaigning alongside romney tomorrow, the golden bear, ohio native and golf giant jack nicholas tomorrow. >> shep: polls are showing that governor remain knee is trailing in ohio and other battle ground states. whats the plan? >> well, jack nicholas couldnt hurt. but obviously the romney campaign recognizes that ohio really is their must win state. to that end today, the romney campai...

There. it looked like just a big line. i didnt know if it was going to cut me in half or what was going to happen. >> in midair josh has no time to react. >> so i was just in shock there was a cable there looking at me. i didnt know if i was going to hit it or not. i hit it. but i felt like i didnt hit the bike because the way i flipped over it was weird. >> also there for the final pmps. he is representing mid michigan. i sensed something. caught something out of the corner of my eye. knew that...

>> i saw him when he hit the wire. that was it. >> for josh, the terrifying midair moment sult r seems to take much, much longer. >> it felt like it took about 20 seconds because everything went in slow motion. i thought i was going to die. >> another spectator catches the moment of impact. >> i mean, it was like dead silence at the time. it fete like i got hit in the head with a trauk. after that i just zoned out and was like here we go. >> josh plummets 30 feet from midair and snacks the groun...

Flafr of the place. the third season premieres this sunday night at 8:00 p.m. and its written by david simon, and the man who wrote "the wire." its an honor to have you on the show today. >> thanks very much. >> lets talk about this coming season of "treme." how do you move forward in the relationship to katrina as you get further away from katrina. how does new orleans grow in this season? >> what weve been trying to do is follow the actual history. we think its allegorical. the reason to do th...

Entertainment hub that is los angeles or the government hub that is washington. they have to rely on their economies as they are, and theyre experiencing a very different america by and large than the rest of the country. >> baltimore itself of course has hope, but was there hope in the world of "the wire"? >> "the wire" was in some ways a testimonial to policy that had gone wrong in terms of the drug war and in terms of the some other elements that we discussed in terms of political reform. i t...

What political leadership was capable of. new orleans took a big bite of that apple three years before the rest of the country. so now were in the third year since katrina, and youre starting to see people come to the realization that if anything is going to change or if anything is going to be restored or created, its kind of up to them. theyre on their own, and i think as americans weve all sort of felt that a little bit in the last four or five years. >> your getting into the heart of new orl...

Theyre right. both sides are right. left and right are like yin and yang. they see different threats and you actually need a balance. its a good argument with a conservative and some liberals. >> im glad i asked the question now. thanks so much for joining us. up next, he exposed us to baltimores gritty underbelly in "the wire." now he has a candid take on corruption in the crescent city. david schneider joins us straight ahead. our abundant natural gas is already saving us money, producing cl...

Here and the madison square park, a lot of tourists walking back and forth. during a typical summer day, they line up just outside the building, very close to where the shooting occurred to get to the observation deck. its not a place that anyone would normally fear. essentially a 9:00 friday morning. my goodness. >> lester, just to recap this for folks, theres been a shooting that happened around 9:00 a.m. when the first call went in. all sorts of records, weve heard as many as eight people sho...

An offer to the romney campaign. release five years of tax returns and well drop the issue. jim messina wrote to romneys campaign manager, if the governor will release five years of returns, i commit in turn we will not criticize him for not releasing more. neither in ads nor in other public communications or common tear for the rest of the campaign. pretty easy, right? the obama campaign is requesting romney release returns from 2007 to 2012. the span of years romney has been running for presid...