we're celebrating him and everybody who is here feels him here, which is great. it's great to see his family here. >> larry: we've been at the neverland ranch. we have been here all day and we've had quite a night. we'd love to come back again. from the neverland ranch, this has been "larry king live." tonight, holding out hope. a worried family speaks out about this video. their loved one in the hands of taliban militants. what now? lifeline, unfolding news about a big-time lender who helps the little guys now in desperate need of help itself. the government said no. we'll tell you who just might say yes. and coming to america. iranians bring the election fallout right here to the u.s. we're live tonight. and "black in america" soledad o'brien is here to kick off part two of her special. we'll talk solutions right now. i'm don lemon. reaction is pouring in tonight from across the country as americans get their first look at images of a u.s. army soldier held captive by the taliban. this is private irs class bowe bergdahl from the ketchum, idaho. on the video he's heard talking about his captivity, his family, and his fears. >> well, i'm scared. i'm scared i won't be able to go ho home. it is very unnerving to be a prisoner. i have my girlfriend, who i was hoping to marry. i have my grandma and grandpa. i have a very, very good family that i love back home in america. and i miss them every day that i'm gone. i miss them and i'm afraid that i might never see them again and that i'll never be able to tell them that i love them again. i'll never be able to hug them. >> a spokesman for u.s. forces in afghanistan condemns the video calling it public exploitation and humiliation of a prisoner and a violation of international law. private bergdahl's family has also released a statement. it says, we hope and pray for our son's safe return to his comrades and then to our family and we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends, and others across the nation. thank you and please continue to keep bowe in your thoughts and prayers. private bergdahl's home state of idaho, a family friend had a message for the young private and all of the men and women serving in uniform. >> bowe, if you see this, know that we love you and we are praying fervently for you and prayers are going up for you from all over the world. stand tall and stand firm, and to all of our valiant men and women in uniform, know that the american people believe in you, support you, and are 100% behind you. we thank god every day that you have our backs. >> we talk now about private bergdahl's capture and what happens next. we will do have with tim crockett, the executive director of a private security and intelligence firm. tim, you know, you have some -- i was talking to you about this before. you have mixed feeling about the airing of this tape. why is that? >> well, straightaway when you air something like this, it increases their value. it's not a good situation for him to be in, going from a private now to on the air in front of thousands, if not millions, increases his situation. >> because the more people get to know him, the more they get to have some sort of connection to him. >> a connection to him, yes. >> so the captors may ask for even more than what they're asking -- it >> it increases their leverage. >> but you think it's good in the sense that other people in the armed services can learn from it? >> well, there are questions being asked, why he wandered off base in the first place. i think it will be used to reinforce the need for their own safety, their own security, and not to do things like that. >> tim, talk to us about what's going on behind the scenes now, especially the military. how are they going about securing this soldier? >> well, they're going to be perhaps meeting with other agencies, other countries, armed forces and so forth to try to find out where he is. that's their number one obstacle at this stage. once they find him, then they can obviously plan to execute some rescue mission or appeal to his captors for release. >> and they're working with the faep as well. >> of course. they will ensure they're getting the right information to make sure their concerns are taken care of. >> i have spoken with peter bergen earlier tonight, he said the captors will have a list of demands. >> they will ask for the release of prisoners from bagram air force base in afghanistan, taliban prisoners. they may also ask for a large ransom. the u.s. government, it is policy not to release prisoners from american custody, policy not to pay ransom. so unfortunately, this is an extremely difficult situation. >> so as you listen to, that it's kind of what you said, you don't think this video being aired will help with any of that. >> no, it gives them more leverage. they will ask for higher demands. we have seen in the past they have asked for the release of prisoners and then been satisfied with a ransom of some sort. hopefully this will be the case in this situation, but, again, the more attention it receives, the higher the stakes increase and then who knows. >> all right. tim crockett, we appreciate your insight on this. thank you very much. we're going to keep following this story, developing story. coming up, ken robinson share his thoughts. he's a veteran of u.s. military special operations and a former military intelligence officer. that's coming up on cnn. a helicopter plunged to the ground in southern afghanistan today killing 16 civilians. the chopper crashed just after taking off from nato's kandahar airfield, a major hub for coalition operations. this is the latest in a string of air crashes this weekend in afghanistan raising urgent safety concerns amid an anti-taliban offensivoffensive. new developments in a murderous rampage. 30-year-old jacob shaffer is held in a tennessee jail on five counts of murder. police say they found him sitting on the porch at one of the crime scenes. he's accused of killing his wife, her 16-year-old son, her brother, her father, and a 16-year-old family friend. friends of shaffer's wife say they thought trouble was brewing. >> you knew she was having problems with him. she kind of had a hard time in life, but she was a very kind-hearted person and definitely loved her children and loved her family and was a typical concerned mom. >> a sixth and unidentified victim was found 30 miles away at a huntsville, alabama, business. shaffer has yet to be formally charged in that death. investigators believe the motive behind the murder was domestic related. a lender that keeps the lights on at nearly 1 million small and medium businesses could get a bailout, but not from uncle sam. bondholders are reportedly cutting a big check for the struggling c.i.t. group after the government failed to give it more funds. poppy harlow is in new york tonight. she joins us by phone. a lot of people are upset about this, asking how this company keeps main street running but yet no one will get behind it. tell us us what going on. >> that's exactly right. this is the subject of a lot of debate throughout last week. this is a 101-year-old lender that services nearly 1 million small and medium-sized businesses in this country. the largest lender to those small businesses across america. but they made some mistakes. they made some aggressive pushes into subprime lending. it took a big hit. i should say, this group, c.i.t. group, this lender did get $2.3 billion of t.a.r.p. money last december, but it found out a few weeks ago that it needed more help and it went to the government, the ceo really working with people in washington trying to get additional ate, and it was not able to secure that additional aid. you heard from lawmakers coming out last week talking about how this bank is not like others, for example not like aig and others that -- and bank of america, citigroup, that posed systemic risk. it's not too big to fail. so, therefore, don, it said you're not getting more money. what we know tonight reportedly through "the wall street journal," we're working to confirm this, is that c.i.t. group is securing a deal with its bondholders for an emergency $3 billion loan and what that would do, don, is that would stave off chapter 11 bankruptcy which would be a big hit to the bondholders and all of these small business that is rely on this company not only for startup loans but for loans to continue their business. that's reported from "the wall street journal," again, that they could be secured that $3 billion in emergency funding as early as monday morning. >> poppy, i have to ask you this. what happens if this reported deal does not go throw? >> what we'll probably see, don, as early as tomorrow morning really would be a chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, restructuring process similar to what you saw with chrysler and similar to what you saw with general motors but this for a financial institution. if we see a failure of c.i.t., which i don't think a likely, it could be the biggest collapse since lehman brothers. it's nowhere near as big as lehman was, but it's still substantial. what this really means is it could really hurt medium and small businesses because, again, it's one of the largest lenders to them. that's what we could see a chapter 11 restructuring. our team is on top of it. take a look at our home page. we have continuing coverage on there, don. >> cnnmoney.com is where you can go, and that's poppy harlow. thank you very much. make sure you stay tuned to cnn tomorrow and throughout the day. we will be covering this story for you. growing signs that president obama's health care plan is on life support. his big push could dominate the news this week. it is a topic for tonight's political panel. there they are, mark preston and april ryan. they'll join us in a second. plus, a new development in that deadly home invasion in florida involving the 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his fellow democrats. their big concern is cost. the congressional budget office came out and said the democratic health plan is not going it save money. what does the president have to do? he needs to really interject himself more personally into these negotiations. we haven't seen that so far, but president obama needs to do that. don, guess what? if he is not able to do that, if he does not do that now, you know, sooner rather than later, this needs to get done because, you know, the more it slips into, you know, october, november, december, we might not see a health care bill. >> and, april, he brings up a good point. his inability to get this done is affecting how americans are feeling about him. his approval rating is 57% now. it was 61% in june. >> some leaders on the hill are saying look at the president, if he leans in, puts his shoulder in a little more, something could happen. but it's also about expectations. when we talk about the numbers, the expectations of this president are very, very high. he came in, people were expecting him to change the world, and to see a little bit of a tug of war with the republican party is one thing. but within your own party, that's causing the problems. >> i think you're right. there were also a lot of promises made on the campaign trail, and he took on a lot as well. so it's not just people's perception about what they want him to achieve. mark, let's talk about supreme court justice sonia sotomayor -- nominee sonia sotomayor. she handled herself well during last week's hearings, but there are some ranking republicans who are wanting to delay her confirmation process. why? >> well, don, you know, what they're looking for is a smoking gun. we won't see a vote this week. they want another week to look into her history as a judge, some of the things she might have said even before she was on the bench, but the fact is we will see a vote in two weeks. i was told by a senior democrat on capitol hill today just a couple hours ago that when that vote occurs, which will be at the end of this month, don, they expect her nomination to be on the senate floor and within one or two day that is she will be voted out and she will become the next supreme court justice. >> president obama had some tough love for the naacp last night. listen, both of you. >> it also means pushing children to set their sights a little bit higher. they might think they've got a pretty good jump shot or a pretty good flow, but our kids can't all aspire to be lebron or lil wayne. i want them aspiring to be scientists and engineers, doctors and teachers, not just ballers and rappers. i want them aspiring to be a supreme court justice. i want them aspiring to be the president of the united states of america. >> all right. so, april, you rode with him on the plane before that speech on the way to that speech. you were there for the speech, and i would imagine you rode back with him. tell us about the reception in the room and then the praise afterwards and also some criticism. some people did not like that speech. >> well, i talked to some of the board members of the naacp, and they're saying it was balanced, and one thing you have to remember, there has been some criticism of this president because he has not really in the first six months really targeted the african-american community. this was his first speech to black america as president. this is something that he does so well. he connects. he goes from politician to preacher, and he even evoked, yes, we can, and at the end of the speech, they were chanting, yes, we can. he came in, thunderous applause, standing ovation. during the speech, even during that clip that you paid, p. diddy, former rapper, still rapper as well as entrepreneur, he even stood up and aapplauded. saying i don't want you to be just a rapper or a baller. >> i want to know if you took any pictures. i didn't see them. did you take any pictures on the plane or did you have some behind-the-scenes moment? there are some pictures there. >> he was in a very good mood that day. and he did realize the graph vi of the day because he had seven black journalists in a round table discussion with him on air force one. one thing he said for sure, just because i am president does not mean that racism still doesn't exist. the number one issue is education, and bridging that divide, the education gap in the black community and also stopping crime. he said education, if that is a lack thereof for young african-americans, it trickles into unemployment. it trickles into crime. >> and all of the other things that are problems in that community. april ryan -- >> and he wanted people to know he was part of the group. that's why he said that. he said there but for the grace of god go i. >> april ryan, thank you. >> mark, thank you. got you in there a lot at the beginning, but she was on the plane so i had to get the backstory on that. thank you, guys. always appreciate you joining 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