she has a benign brain tumor. and one win away from the first stanley cup but it's what l.a. kings are doing off the ice that has us talking. they're on a crime fighting mission. good morning to you. i'm carol costello. thanks for joining us this morning. the wisconsin recall is over. republican scott walker wins big. who knows. he may be in the running for the new job as mitt romney's running mate. there is still work to be done. wisconsin is still bitterly split. case in point, keep your eye on walker's democratic challenger tom barrett. you saw it there. one supporter reacted to him conceding before last night's votes were counted by slapping him. a reporter with cnn affiliate w wisn was up close and says the milwaukee mayor seemed stunned by the slap and walked away from the woman. she remained scowling because it was walker's night. >> when there have been leaders of courage what has sustained them is there were good and decent people who stood with them shoulder to shoulder and arm to arm. that's what you have done for wisconsin and for america. >> ted rowlands is in madison, wisconsin. good morning, ted. >> good morning, carol. you see that video of the woman slapping barrett. that is just a great example of the emotion last night for the winners it was a great party because those folks supporting walker put in a lot of work over the last year plus to try to make sure he kept his job. on the other side, people also dedicated their lives out trying to knock on doors and making calls for the last few weeks trying to get the vote out and they were bitterly disappointed. you saw the woman slapping barrett in the face because she believed that he was conceding too early. we got a lot of that outside of the state capital here where people were upset that the election was called. they thought it would be close and they expected a long night and the bitter fact that walker won and won by seven points, a considerable margin, was tough to take. listen to one individual we taked take talked to outside of the state capitol last night. >> this is the end of democracy. we just got outspent 34 million to $4 million. this was the biggest election in america. i hope you keep me on tonight. this hurts us all. every single one of you out there in the nation if you are watching, democracy died tonight. >> reporter: carol, that individual and a lot of other folks very emotional here and both candidates last night said one thing that needs to happen is some sort of healing in wisconsin because of the bitter divide. barrett said he wants to work with walker. walker is saying he's going to throw a little party inviting democrats over for brats and beer. we'll see if that's enough to change the current situation here. people are very disappointing on one side and happy on the other. we'll see how it plays out. >> it's a start. ted rowlands reporting live from madison, wisconsin. a u.s. diplomatic office hit in an attack damaging the gates of the blast in libya. the united states says no one was injured. nic robertson is on the phone from tripoli. who is behind this attack? >> reporter: no one has claimed responsibility yet at least according to embassy officials that we've spoken with here. there's a great deal of concern about this. they say that they asked the libyan interior ministry to provide more security around u.s. embassy facilities in the country and we heard from security forces in the capital that the city has gone on a 48-hour heightened security alert and they will be providing heightened security around all western embassies inside tripoli. there are no indications but a number of islamic groups in that area around benghazi and one camp run by al qaeda setting up a camp in libya and it's a camp here the government here is watching and not in a position to close it down right now. they are aware of this camp. it could be any number of different groups in the east of the country, carol. >> nic robertson reporting live for us from libya this morning. let's turn to the jerry sandusky trial. a lawyer for one of the alleged victims says the former penn state football coach sent notes to the boy. abc news is describing them as love letters and says they will be read into testimony. susan candiotti is outside of the courthouse in pennsylvania. susan, what do we know about these letters? >> reporter: well, i can tell you we're being told about both notes and letters. notes that include birthday cards. a letter according to our source, letters that are very likely to be or expected to be entered into evidence. abc is describing these as love letters. we can also tell you, carol, about gifts. according to our sources, it is possible that prosecutors will introduce into evidence gifts allegedly given by jerry sandusky to the same accuser, accuser number four. gifts that include golf clubs and football jerseys. some of these gifts were talked about in the grand jury's report. and it's entirely possible that these will be entered into evidence by the prosecution to again talk about the relationship between sandusky and the alleged victims in this case. >> let's turn to seating a jury. have all of the jurors been chosen? >> reporter: no, nine of them have been. with just incredible lightning speed. that's what a lot of observers are saying. certainly everyone is surprised a the how quickly this process has been going along. that means seven are left to be chosen including the alternates and a lot of people expect they could match the pace of yesterday and an entire panel could very well be seated by the end of today. >> susan candiotti reporting live from pennsylvania this morning. l.a. sports fans embraced the improbable postseason run of their hockey team and kings are giving back to the community in a rare move for a sports franchise. $50,000 has been donated to a reward fund to find the gunman that killed a 1-year-old baby. just a few hours from now, the murder case against former illinois cop drew peterson heads back to court. lawyers will argue motions over the central charge that peterson murdered his third wife. her death was ruled an accidental drowning. that trial is expected to begin next month. peterson became the focus of a police investigation after his fourth wife, stacy peterson disappeared in 2007. the woman who signed off on jpmorgan's risky investments is back under the microscope this morning. ina drew made more than $15 million in 2010 at jpmorgan chase but lost her job and officially retired after her department lost $2 billion but now she's in line to receive a settlement package worth nearly $15 million. lawmakers are demanding answers. in the next hour, a banking regulator testifies on whether her pay should be "clawed back." the stunning news of the bank's losses revived talk of financial reform on capitol hill. it is moving day for the space shuttle "enterprise." the prototype that launched the shuttle program is on a barge and an hour from making its final, final, final voyage. it will trudge past the statue of liberty and head for the new home the air and space museum. alina cho, it doesn't seem to be moving yet. >> reporter: no, not yet as you can see behind me, carol. it's still stationary. good morning. i think it's safe to say that this shuttle now has been where no other shuttle has been before. jersey city, new jersey. that's where we are. what a gorgeous sight behind me. it's sitting atop barge and it will move along the water to the final resting space, the intrepid sea air and space museum. starting at 10:15 eastern time, an hour from now, "enterprise" will leave jersey city and this port. it will go by dug boat. it will travel north past the statue of liberty at about 10:50 a.m. and then it will move past the world trade center site at 11:40 a.m. eastern time and reach the intrepid at 12:30 eastern time if all goes as planned. it's 7.4 mile trip but it will move slowly up the water and take two hours to get there. once it reaches the intrepid, it will be hoisted on the flight deck with a crane, which is right there behind me on the barge. that whole process will take three hours and then "enterprise" will remain on the flight deck. eventually with a protective cover and it will open to the public on july 19th. i understand it's $3 a ticket. there will be a permanent home built for "enterprise" but that will take millions of dollars and it's meant to be offsite so off the intrepid but no date on when that will start and when that will happen. if you have been following "enterprise's" trek if you will, it all began in late april when it landed in dramatic fashion at jfk airport atop a 747 jet. who could forget that sight. it stayed there until this past sunday when it made the trip from jfk here to the marine and along the way the wind picked up at just the wrong time and "enterprise" scraped the wooden pilings of a rail bridge and suffered a little bit of minor cosmetic damage. if you can believe it. but we have been told that the restoration has already been done including the paint and the shuttle is as good as new and ready to make its final trip. >> alina cho, we'll get back to you so we can follow its voyage to the museum. if you missed venus's big moment in the moment, no worries you can catch it again in the year 2117. scientists and amateur astronomers took plenty of pictures. a perfectly round dot blocking out a tiny speck of the sun's light gives you a rare perspective on how huge the sun is. venus represents a tenth of 1% of the sun's surface. wow. and hopefully we'll not ever see this again. look at that picture. what's wrong here? we'll tell you how the mother driving this car explained it all to a police officer. 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>> i got a couple hours. we're excited. a big night for everybody involved. i really think it's a big night for this country. we're excited. >> how big is it? >> well, i mean, i happen to think that it kind of shifts a narrative that's been out there that's been very frustrating and i hope that we finally now put to rest which is this idea that democrats have a great ground operation out there. we've got a better operation. we've proven it over and over again over the last couple years in wisconsin and our intention at the rnc is to do what we did in wisconsin all over america. it still is a voter to voter game. and that's what matters the most. and so i think what we're doing in wisconsin is that we're just proportionately doing better than the democrats in turning out our vote. that's why we think mitt romney can win wisconsin in november. >> well, look at these numbers and i want you to explain this in light of what you just said. exit polling shows wisconsin voters prefer president obama over mitt romney. most also think mr. obama is a better choice to fix the economy. so doesn't that suggest this was more of a local wisconsin issue and not so much representative of a national trend? >> i think let's assume polls are accurate and we don't want to -- let's forget about arguing about exit polls. let's assume that is accurate. what you're not seeing in that polling is how people are going to feel about this president in two and three months. this is the democrats opportunity in wisconsin to tell the world, wait a second, this is a democrat state. this whole thing is an anomaly and we're going to turn wisconsin blue as it should be. the president is going to come back to wisconsin and say, hey, help me out. these democrats are going to say back to the president, thanks a lot, pal. you weren't there for us. now, what we have to do is disproportionately do better than the democrats in places like wisconsin on the ground. that's what we did. >> in light of that, should mitt romney have visited wisconsin? in retrospect would that have been a good idea for mitt romney to go to wisconsin? >> that's a benefit. a lot of people thought our primary was too long. one of the benefits was romney basically lived in wisconsin. now keep in mind, two years ago -- four years ago barack obama won wisconsin by 14 points. we won last night by seven. these exit polls that you were showing, i think it was six or seven spread they were showing. that's a big swing. that's not too much for us to overcome in wisconsin. people are energized there. i think the democrats are just totally deflated. >> we had some sound from democrats who were absolutely definitely deflated. they were talking though about all of the money that republicans poured into this race in wisconsin from outside of the state. $45 million for mr. walker compared to $18 million for the democrats. in the end, did money win or was it scott walker's ideas? >> it was scott walker's freedom and liberty and idea that we can't get gobbled up. the idea of freedom and liberty can't get gobbled up by public employee unions. that's important. government has to stop growing out of control. and i would also tell you that i think that what you're seeing in wisconsin is what you're going to see across america. it's not the outside money. these public employee unions, who knows how much they poured in. they don't disclose half of it. we don't know. reality is that we made over 4 million voter to voter phone calls in wisconsin. >> outside republican groups put a lot more money into wisconsin than democratic groups did. >> let's assume that's true. i actually am not trying to be cute here. republican unions poured in money that you don't see yet. what's also true is democrats were bragging and dnc was bragging that they made a million phone calls. we made over 4 million phone calls. we made a half million door knocks in wisconsin over the last month. our ground game is just better than theirs and we'll make sure that it's better than ground game and in all battleground states across america. >> thank you for joining us this morning. i know you must be really tired. >> i am. thank you. a new political movement called rock the slut vote. they are not prostitutes but willing to use that word to get you to vote. that's the subject of today's talk back. the medicare debate continues in washington... ...more talk on social security... ...but washington isn't talking to the american people. 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[ female announcer ] and you've earned a say. get the facts and make your voice heard on medicare and social security at earnedasay.org. now is your chance to talk back on one of the stories of the day. the question for you this morning, does political shock talk really work? slut. an ugly word unless you say it a lot and i mean a lot. that's the theory. thanks to rush limbaugh, the word has been used a lot recently. i'm sure you remember when he used it to slam sandra fluke for wanting to use insurance funds to pay for contraceptives. >> she goes before a congressional committee and says she must be paid to have sex. what does that make her? it makes her a slut, right? makes her a prostitute. >> so today there is a new way to combat limbaugh's comments. there's a new website called rock the slut vote. it's about getting women to the voting booths. if people are offended, so be it. you won't call us a slut. if sandra fluke is a slut, than we are too. they are using humor to prove a point. it's been done before. others use humor to increase breast cancer awareness. the i love boobies bracelet. some find booby fund-raising campaigns offensive for turning a life threatening issue into a cosmetic one. does using an offensive term for a cause? rock the slut says they are getting thousands of fans on their website and facebook. does political shock talk really work? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. new jersey clears the nypd of wrongdoing for a controversial program that allegedly spied on muslims but the muslim community is continuing its fight and has filed a lawsuit. we'll talk to the people hoping to make their case in court. well hello, welcome to hotels.com. summer road trip, huh? yep uhuh let's find you a room. at hotels.com, you'll always find the perfect hotel. cause we only do hotels. wow. i like that. nice! no. laugh...awe hmm nice huh ooh, yeah book it! oh boy call me... this summer, we're finding you the perfect place - plus giving you up to $100 at hotels.com mine was earned off vietnam in 1968. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. 30 minutes past the hour. good morning. i'm carol costello. stories we're watching in the "newsroom." opening bell on wall street kicked off trading on wall street today stocks higher this morning. investors boosted by upbeat outlook. governor scott walker is celebrating victory in wisconsin. he defeated milwaukee mayor tom barrett in the state's recall election. walker becomes the first u.s. governor to survive a recall. california's proposition 8 banning same-sex marriage could end up before the u.s. supreme court. the federal appeals court has decided not to revisit a ruling that declared prop 8 unconstitutional. the parties in the case have 90