older sister, 14-year-old adrienne. mayes was a family friend of the bain's and a relative says he believed he was the girl's biological father. cnn's george haul is live in atlanta with more details for us. okay we're going to mind your business instead this morning. u.s. stock futures are down right now, indicating markets here are expected to open lower this morning. lots of uncertainty in the markets this week over instability in greece and overall concerns about growth of the economy. one stock taking a beating overnight, morgan chase, did you hear about that? it's down about 6% in pre-market trading right now and last night, the bank's ceo announced a $2 billion loss in april over some badly hedged bets. in an apology to the boss from the vice president, senior administration officials say joe biden has apologized to president obama for painting him into a corner on the same-sex marriage issue. cnn's jessica yellin broke that story for us. biden came out in support of same-sex marriage on a sunday morning talk show, and that may have forced the president to make his own announcement ahead of schedule. president obama's change of heart on same-sex marriage made history in more ways than one. moments after he made the announcement on abc news his official twitter account posted the tweet, same-sex couples should be able to get married, and that is on its way to becoming the most re-tweeted message of all-time. hacker who actually tracks the president's tweets says it's been shared more than 56,000 times and counting. this is as of yesterday. twitter says president obama's announcement also generated more than 1.6 million reaction tweets. that number peaked at 7,000 tweets per minute yesterday afternoon. and it was starmageddon last night at the estate of george clooney. president obama rubbing elbows with 150 guests each donating 40 grand for the privilege. among them, barbara streisand, her husband and actor toby magui maguire. >> how many of the folks do you think were there for the president and how many were there for george clooney? >> you know what? the president actually said most of them were probably there for george clooney. >> he might be right about that. zoraida, thanks, appreciate it. the family of army sergeant bo bergdahl so frustrated they are revealing potentially a secret deal between the united states and taliban for a prisoner swap, exchanging him for five prisoners held in guantanamo bay. an administration official is telling cnn they were trying to work out a sequence, moving two prisoners to a third qui like qatar and bergdahl would be released and the united states would let three other prisoners go. the negotiations stalled, prompted bergdahl's father so desperate he told the "new york times" the rhetoric is that we don't negotiate with terrorists and therefore what do we do? well you push it hard with everything you have." bergdahl was captured june 30th, 2009 in afghanistan. in one video he claims he was captured after he fell behind on patrol. his message was posted by his captors online in 2009. obviously in a hostage situation. we wanted to play a little clip of what he said. >> well i'm scared. i'm scared i won't be able to go ho home. it is very unnerving to be a prisoner. >> obviously a brutal experience for bergdahl's family and one man who might have insight is michael berg, his son, nicholas, you might remember, was also captured by insurgents back in 2004. nicholas berg ended up being beheaded. mr. berg, i appreciate you joining us this morning. thank you for being with us. you i know in the past -- looks like i've dropped -- there your shot is back. forgive me, we had a little technical difficulty. you advocated for a prisoner exchange in the past after your son was executed and you were blasted for that. now we see this negotiation for a swap of prisoners out of gitmo for bowe bergdahl? do you think it's a good thing, and if you do, why? >> obviously it's a good thing, lives could be saved on both sides. how could anyone lose in that situation? >> the argument as i'm sure you're aware, against would be that if you in a way reward a kidnaper by doing a swap, it encourages more kid napgnapping anybody who agreed not to be an insurgent in terms of release probably would, the minute they're released go back to being an insurgent. do you worry that some of these arguments could have some truth to them? >> well, first of all, i don't think that this is a kidnapping. this is a political action, and the attitude of we don't negotiate with terrorists is what's gotten us into the terrible mess we're in, in afghanistan, and iraq, as we still are in iraq. it's the same kind of attitude that probably prompted the attacks on the twin towers. we don't negotiate. well, if you don't negotiate, you don't use diplomacy, then people fall to violence. so to me, that's, negotiation, diplomacy is what you should do. negotiation, diplomacy is what you must do, and as far as these people in guantanamo who would be released going back to being terrorists again, none of them have been proven to be terrorists. what happened to the united states of america, where you're innocent until proven guilty? these people haven't had trials and it doesn't look like they're going to get any kind of a fair trial, and if they did go back and they did become insurgents, they would be in the same category as americans who wanted to right a wrong and i think the invasion on iraq and afghanistan were wrong and i don't agree with violence. i don't agree with war. but these people are not doing anything any differently than we would do. >> mr. bergdahl said he's become so frustrated with the process, the secret negotiations, potentially with a swap that would involve his son that he just started doing direct negotiations with a person he believes at least has links to the taliban, and he's told them, stop sending videos and messages to the american people and instead, try to speak directly to the president. do you think that's good advice? would you if you were advising him in any way tell him a similar thing? >> probably. i think with this president, he's fortunate in a way that he's dealing with this president, and not the president that i had to deal with, whose only political statement about that kind of thing was, we don't negotiate with terrorists. from what i know, offers were made by al qaeda for my son, money or prisoner exchange, i don't know what the details were, but they were rejected just on point, just because they were negotiations. so i think that dealing with the president, who seems to be a human being, who is the current president, seems to be a human being, seems to be the kind of person who would react to a father's plea like that. >> mr. bergdahl, we've seen him in videos he directs to his son's captors. i want to play a tiny bit and ask you a question on the other side, sir. >> -- past time for bowe and the others, to come home. to the nation of pakistan, our family we wish to convey our compassionate respect. we have watched the violence of war, earthquake, epic floods, and crop failures devastate your lives, all while our son has been in captivity. >> you, sir, have been in the horrible position as well as trying to figure out what is happening to your son. what kind of advice would you give mr. bergdahl as his family tries to navigate who has got to be an absolutely horrific experience for them? >> keep on trying, to try everything that you possibly can, and especially to take advantage of a resource that he has that i did not have and that was the attention of the media. when my son was missing, i contacted the media. i contacted every television station, every major newspaper that i could think of, and since my son's disappearance wasn't public, no one wanted to have anything to do with it. he's got that resource. if i were him, i would go to the media. i would be on the media as much as i could every day, every minute of every day, letting people in the united states know that we've got a president, we've got politicians that could bring his son home. all they'd have to do is say the right words and do the right thing, and we need to have that kind of pressure on our politicians, because they don't really respond to what we want generally, but i think if enough people tweeted about that, he might get some action. >> michael berg is the father of nicholas berg, who was killed back in 2004, thank you for your time. appreciate it, sir. >> you're welcome. still ahead this morning on "starting point," we'll tell you why mitt romney says he's sorry for an incident that occurred nearly 50 years ago, when he was in high school. he's being accused of bullying when he was a teenager. and masterpiece mystery, and the mob. new clues in the biggest art heist ever, that's the fbi to the home of a mobster. panel heading in to talk about all that and much more this morning, joined by abby huntsman, mark lamont hill and will cain and this is mark's playlist, anthony hamilton featuring david banner "cool." a good way to start the morning. good morning, guys. 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[ meow ] [ male announcer ] another example of volkswagen quality. that's the power of german engineering. right now lease the 2012 jetta for $159 a month. welcome back, everybody. new developments in the case of history's biggest art heist. 22 years ago, i was a producer in boston when this happened, this was a huge story, 22 years ago, 13 priceless pieces of art went missing or were out and out stolen from a boston museum including one of only 36 rumieres that exist in the world, three rembrandts, one manet and five drawings of edward degas. the heist total up to half a billion dollars. new break led fbi agents to the home of robert gentile, an alleged mobster who lives in connecticut, being held on bond with totally different charges. they found two guns but no art. this morning we're joined by mr. gentile's attorney ryan mcguigen. why are they back searching your clients' home and yard, using beagles, a ferret material to examine things under the ground, i'm not joking, right, beagles, ferret, digging in the backyard? >> no, there weren't any beagles. there wasn't a ferret, but there were two labrador retrievers, ground penetrating radar, about 30 agents and about all the resources that the federal government could utilize to find something. the reason that they were back is that they did not find the paintings in the original search so they filed for a second warrant, looking specifically just for firearms, but really what this warrant included was the ability for them to search the proper surrounding the house so they could dig up the property to look for the stolen art. >> so here is what they found in the original search back in february. four guns, ammo, explosives, including two dynamite sticks, homemade silencers, bullet proof vest, a stun gun, police scanners, $20,000 in cash stuffed in a clock, and a set of brass knuckles. what led to a second search warrant and the artwork stolen more than 20 years ago, what is the connection? >> between those things? absolutely nothing. they weren't looking for those things. i'm sure they would have been happy if they found the art. the reason why my client is facing serious problems in his federal case now is because he was a convicted felon for a larceny case back in 1996, and because of a federal statute, any felon who is found in possession of weapons faces ten years in prison. but i can assure you, they were looking for art, not guns, because if they were looking for guns, he's already facing potentially 30 years in prison for the three guns that they actually did find so why would they need to go back looking for guns and how did they miss them in the first place? >> right. i think the first, i think the fact that he's facing 30 years in prison, that he's being held without bond, he's a 75-year-old man, the co-conspirator in the underlying case has been released on essentially a promise to appear. he has a non-surety bond so he didn't have to post any money and he's out on the streets. the underlying case doesn't really look like a very serious one, unless of course, they're actually trying to apply pressure on my client to give up information that honestly he just doesn't have. >> so your client has associates who the police suspect are actually involved in the art heist, unless you think that they're really digging up dirt to see if they can find artwork that's been buried in the ground. does your client know anything about the art theft? does he know associates who could reveal information about this? >> he has spoken to the grand jury. he's not a new person of interest to the fbi. they've known about him for years. he's spoken to the fbi about the information that he does have. he's not a suspect in the heist itself. he may have been associated with people that the fbi suspects actually committed the heist. >> does he have information that if he turned it over, he has given all the information? that's the $64,000 question at the end of the day does your client have information if he gave it to the fbi they'd be able to track down half a billion dollars in artwork? >> that's a good question and the answer is this, that if he does have the information, it certainly would be in his interest to give it, because the underlying case, i'm assured, will go away amicably, and he also, that means he'll be able to go home to his wife and his family, and he'll also be given a $5 million reward. now, any person in their right mind would take that deal, would they not? unless you don't have the information to give them. >> i guess that's not quite a no and not quite a yes. we'll have to wait and see and also be interested to hear what he's been telling the grand jury. ryan mcguigen is robert gentile's attorney. it is a strange and interesting case. we appreciate your time. >> thank you very much. still ahead on "starting point" it's going to trick your pain to help shrink your belly, the fda giving the okay to another weight loss drug. watch cnn live on your computer or mobile phone go to cnn.com/live. this is let's playlist, nashville blues. of course it is. ♪ ahah, , wewelclcomome e toto h . ifif y youou'r're e lolookokinio geget t totogegethther, yoyou u cacameme t to o ththe. bebecacaususe e heherere a at, wewe'r're e ononlyly a abob. fifindndining g yoyou u ththe e isis a allll w we e do. wewelclcomome e toto h hot. not in this economy. we also have zero free time, and my dad moving in. so we went to fidelity. we looked at our family's goals and some ways to help us get there. they helped me fix my economy, the one in my house. now they're managing my investments for me. and with fidelity, getting back on track was easier than i thought. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get one-on-one help from america's retirement leader. ♪ these bruises make for better conversation ♪ welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point." that's abbey's playlist, that's train, "bruises." we'll look at the morning paper. who wants to start today? >> i do. >> someone who has had coffee clearly. cain, you go. >> i'm currently reading "unbroken" by lauren hillenbrand about sea biscuit, about a plane that crashed over the pacific and survived a month and a half on the pacific was taken as a p.o.w. by the japanese. i reason i bring that up this story in "the wall street journal" on page three talks about the coast guard preparing for litter from the japanese tsunami to start arriving on the west coast of the united states in california and washington, a year after the tsunami, i think this is fascinating, took all this time and now a harley-davidson motorcycle, a soccer ball are showing up on the californian and alaskan coasts. shows you when i talk about "unbrok "unbroken" a vast expanse the pacific is, and how terrifying that situation must have been. >> the amount of debris, when i cover tsunamis the debris is just incredible. >> it's chock-full of debris from japan from the tsunami. >> i like that. abby what you got? >> i think we're covering this later the fda approving the new drug for obesity, it just seems to me like it's in "the wall street journal" this morning and it seems like another quick fix of how to solve the issue. we talked about how 40% are going to be obese by 2030, 40% of americans and you know you think about 75% of health care costs today has to do with diseases linked to obesity, and this new drug says there's a small risk of cancer and heart valve disease and you think there's never going to be the perfect answer. i think we need to start talking about personal responsibility and not looking at drugs to solve the problem. >> multifactorial. i think approaching it from that and also prevention and i think clearly we have to rethink how people are eating. >> absolutely. >> you see some young teenagers who are obese. >> exactly. >> 30 pounds overweight at 11, 12, 13. >> they shouldn't be taking pills at that age either. >> unless it's extreme circumstance, fine. my wore i have people on the outside will be no longer obese but the inside still be messy. >> you got to approach it from several fronts. mr. hill, what have you got? >> reading in the "new york post" as i do every morning. >> "wall street journal," "wall street journal," "new york post." i was reading the story of obama the at the clooney fund-raiser, $15 million he raised, amazing amount and it's a great sequence of events, he steps out on gay marriage and the next day the awful story about mitt romney being a bully presumably against a gay kid and suddenly obama is striking big at a fund-raiser. >> it's incredibly fortuitous, wouldn't one say? what a chain of coincidental events. >> i was going to say what a shocker. >> are you agreeing? >> this might come up again this morning. let's tease this. >> i think we're going to be discussing this interesting circumstances of events this week, huh. >> which began with joe biden's slip-up last week. >> accidental slip-up that led to this chain of events. >> it's president obama's week. that's all i'm saying. >> i hear you, yes, yes, yes. thank you, guys. ahead on "starting point," was mitt romney a bully in high school? he's now apologizing for what he calls a prank, does that go far enough? his campaign adviser will join us live to talk about it. bristol palin is weighing in on same-sex marriage and the tv show "glee" all at once. we'll tell you why, giving advice as well. you're watching "starting point." we're back in a moment. ...which helped students and teachers get better results in ap courses. together, they raised ap test scores 138%. just imagine our potential... ...if the other states joined them. let's raise our scores. let's invest in our teachers and inspire our students. let's solve this. 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