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Only one of the victims had a is missing report out. Does the state of indiana have an obligation to keep track of him . Specifically hes not a h hammond resident. Was he a resident of indiana . He was a gary resident. Was he registered under the state of indiana . State of texas. Did he have an obligation to be registered under the state of indiana . We have to work with the county on that. He doesnt live in hammond so my officers would not have been following him. Can you tell us about his whereabouts . Was he originally from texas . I dont know. Can you tell us i dont have the information with me. Chief, can you tell us about the conditions of the bodies when they were found . Were they tied up or i cannot. I cannot. Also, more exactly, how you tracked him down once you found out that was the person that you were looking for . I can only talk about the use of the phone. We got the phone number from the facilitator and we used some electronic measures to track him down and locate him in gary. The classification would be the other cases are not solved yet. If we directly attach him to it, we can make that assumption. Hes being charged today with the hammond. Did you voluntarily give you the information . Yes. Is he physically going to the sites with you to show you where they are . Hes been giving us descriptions, cooperating and accompanying us to locations. Are these bodies in abandoned houses . Yes. All of them . Yes. Were they murdered at these locations or dumped there . That is not known. Okay. Were going to do a couple more questions. I want to remind everybody, this is an active investigation. We dont want to jeopardize that. If he was detained in texas, have you been in contact with the texas police . We have not directly as of yet. Is he telling you anything about the women . Did he indicate why he was telling you about the women . It was just something he wanted to do. Thats all i can say. Is there any indication that he had an accomplice . We have no indication that he did anything here. Were going to do two more questions. Okay . Hold on, hold on. Hold on. Two more questions and were going to call this. Sir . Sir . What indication are you getting from him, why do you think there could possibly be more victims . I cant go into direct statements but his level of cooperation and things hes told us would indicate other possible victims could surface. And they are adult women . Yes. Has he been remorseful . I have not talked to him directly, personally. So i cannot say that. One more and were done. One more question. Right now are investigators out looking at any other addresses for any additional bodies or right now are things my investigators are not in the field at the moment. They are still dealing with mr. Van. What about gary . I dont know what gary is doing at this moment. If it were not the great work of the police, we would not have found this serial killer. I preeappreciate all of the fin work of the officers who worked on this case and appreciate you for coming out today. Its an active case and we dont want to jeopardize this case. Northwest indiana is safer. Thank you very much and have a nice day, everybody. So there you see what is going on in hammond, indiana. A suspect now potentially involved with seven women in hammond, indiana, and nearby gary, indiana. The suspect is cooperating. They have now found seven bodies of women in hammond, indiana, and gary, indiana. Lets bring in the host of legal view, ashleigh banfield, who is covering this story for us. They find a suspect and hes allegedly cooperating. He leads us to six other bodies of women. Update our viewers here in the United States and indeed and around the world. This is a very fastdeveloping case, wolf, of what appears to be a serial killer allegedly operating in the indiana area. Like you said, friday night a woman is killed in a motel 6. By saturday, the police chief Just Announced that they used phone tracking to find their suspect the next day who apparently, according to the chief, admitted to the officers that he, quote, messed up by committing the crime in hammond and that was the tip of the iceberg. He admitted to six other killings. Its one thing to confess, wolf, as we all know, people confess to all sorts of things that they do but they cannot lead you to bodies unless they know something more and according to the police, thats exactly what that suspect, 43yearold darren van did. He led the police to the bodies of the six other women at several other locations. Body number one in hammond, number two, found in hammond, body number three is an unidentified africanamerican female. Body number four, described as christine williams. Body number 5 and body number 6 were found together at a site and they are unidentified africanamerican females. Something else that is fascinating, the way that mr. Van is apparently speaking openly and cooperatively to the police leads them to believe that there will be other possible victims that could surface. Hes a registered sex offender in section sas. There are apparently other infractions within other states that they havent gone into. Something that the police chief of gary, indiana, told me just prior to your show, wolf, is that he is not he has not retained counsel. He has not lawyered up and invoked his fifth amendment privilege to stop speaking. The police chief, larry mckinnemckinley said that he has stopped talking. He doesnt have a lawyer. So its not that hes invoked his privilege, just that hes stopping with the information which i find very, very interesting. Also, the police chief in hammond Just Announced that they are working with this suspect and that they dont have field officers out scanning additional abandoned properties to find other victims at this time. He said he was unsure of whats happening in gary, indiana, where these six victims were found. But i actually asked the mayor of gary, indiana, what are you doing, what are your dispatches, how are your officers scanning abandoned properties for additional victims . And the mayor was only able to say to me that we are doubling down on our efforts to demolish many of the abandoned properties. Thats difficult in terms of noting whether that means demolish them on an existing program or to democrlish them a clearing them. One thing that i can tell you, a fascinating note, why would a man just release all of that information in one fell swoop and lead authorities within a 48hour period to seven different bodies . The police chief said that he was looking for a deal. There will be a deal that will come close to someone not spending the rest of their life behind bars. Looking for a deal and thats perhaps why hes been cooperative. Short of that, anybodys guess as to why he would confess to that now. 43yearold darren van under arrest and there have been seven bodies of ind yindiana now foun. Well stay on top of that for our viewers. Theres also Important News that were following, including ebola. Today we heard the head of the National Institutes of Infectious Diseases saying new protocols for Health Care Workers dealing with ebola here in the United States could just be hours away. They are to prevent them from contracting the virus. The 21day quarantine for people who came into contact with eric duncan is over. 44 of the 48 Health Care Workers are now off quarantine. The remaining four will be soon. There is certainly lingering concern. Whether they would be seen as disease carriers or oddities, theres zero risk that any of those people who have been marked off the list had ebola. They were in contact with the person who had ebola and the time period for them to get ebola has lapsed. They do not have ebola. The military is creating a Quick Strike Team here in the United States. According to the pentagon, it could deploy within 72 hours, calling it a spectacular story, the World Health Organization says nigeria is ebolafree. There have been no new cases in the six weeks. Senator ted cruz of texas criticized the Obama Administrations choice of ron klain as the even czar or add minute straight for, the coordinator, as he prefers to be called, to suspend flights from west africa. We dont need another white house political operative, which is what mr. Klain has been. What we need is president ial leadership. Two weeks ago the president should have stood up and suspended flights from these countries. All right. Lets drill deeper into the pentagons plan for the Quick Strike Team. The pentagon says they wanted aggressive response to the ebola threat. This team will supplement civilian medical professionals and is part of the answer, a. How soon will this strike team be operational . Wolf, these teams are headed to ft. Hood, texas, and will learn how to use the protective gear and be ready to go in a little bit more than a week. The military orders for about 30 days will require them to be ready to go to deploy to any location within 72 hours or less if more ebola cases erupt. So this is really stand by and making everybody feel better at this point, being ready to go if there are more cases thankfully right now at least there are not. The u. S. Military is still moving forward with their plan to send 3 or 4,000 troops, right . They are. The pentagon has an ability to call up reserves as they go over to west africa to work on building hospitals and training centers, building more capacity, especially in liberia, to treat liberian patients there, to treat Health Workers that might get ebola as a result of the crisis there. So that is still all going on. This team back in the United States will not going to africa but its very interesting. If there is another ebola case in the u. S. And they are called into action for the first time, that would put the military in the position of possibility being in direct care of ebola patients in this country. Barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks very much into when we come back, the agency for the International Development is here with me in washington and hes just back from liberia and other countries in west africa. Were going to talk about what he said, an eyewitness account of what is going on there. Thousands of people have contracted ebola there. Also, the cdc, the centers for Disease Control is learning their lesson but the white house, thats a different story. According to one of our guests who just cowrote an oped in the the journal about what the white house is doing right and wrong. The u. S. Is dropping aid directly into the city of kobani. Were going to go live to the syrian Turkish Border and find out if its making a difference in the fight against isis. 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Visit dealdash. Com for great deals. And start bidding today welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world. The United States is certainly the forefront in the effort to try to stop the spread of even ebola in west africa. Lets talk about you just came back from liberia, seierra leone and new guinea and senegal. What happened . The way we protect ourselves is to stop ebola at its source and the United States is leading an International Coalition to really tackle this crisis by helping to build ebola treatment units, build out Community Care units throughout west africa and support the bee haf yor changes the whole time i was there we were not shaking hands, we were bumping elbows. Raj, were showing pictures of you there and you can see those pictures. I assume when your family, your friends, colleagues heard you were going there, they got pretty nervous . People do get nervous but the guidance is quite clear. I was not in contact with ebola patients and took all the necessary precautions and so im and my temperature is just fine. So the important thing is that the american response and the Global Response is really accelerating. What i saw were real signs of progress. I met with survivors who came out of one of our facilities and talked about the home they were bringing to their communities. Youre wearing a mask there. Tell us who you were talking to, why you needed that kind of protective gear. That was in liberia . That was in sierra leone. Thats a Training Facility to train 120 local sierra leonian Health Care Workers every week to learn how to put on and attack off protective gear. Were helping them so they can be the ones that provide care in ebola treatment units that were helping to build and they could be the ones that come into contact with ebola patients to both save their lives and prevent the spread of this virus. We know about 3 or 4,000 u. S. Military personnel are either there or on their way over the next few weeks and months. How many u. S. Civilians are there in the hot zone as its called, sierra leone and new guinea dealing with this . We have the largest centers for Disease Control experts deployment. We have International Development disaster assistant specialists. And they are helping each country say, heres our strategy. How do we operationalize it . Were building up 28 ebola units and 17 in liberia. That means 3300 beds are going to be available within weeks to months to help make sure patients get in, get treated. I visited one of these. These are complicated facilities with piping for chlorinated. You dont have to go into quarantine for 21 days. Is that right . Thats right. I was not in contact with an ebola patient. The perception is that the response has been slow there and ive seen it accelerate and one of the things most hopeful is we have helped build out 56 burial teams. They go in and within 24 hours of a body being identified from ebola, they safely remove that body. Because they are now getting more than threequarters of all dead bodies within 24 hours, were starting to see the growth of ebola come counsel. So youre seeing progress. We know nigeria has been declared ebolafree, senegal as well. Secretary of state john kerry said if not enough is done, this could go on for decades. But youve come back a little upbeat . Ive come back with understanding the plan and strategy and how the United States can help accelerate the performance on the ground. I know secretary kerry made a lot of phone calls to get others to do more. Were now seeing 400 million of commitments from international partners. Part of my trip was with the foreign minister of norway who committed 160 norwegian Health Care Workers to this fight. The whole world has to tackle this together but we know how to overcome this disease. Were working to get the resources and people in place at scale to do it effectively in west africa. Raj shah, thank you for going over there. Pretty courageous for you and the other americans that are dealing with a Huge International crisis and lets hope it can be contained. Appreciate it very much. Good luck to you. Thank you, wolf. Raj shah, the agency for International Development here in washington. When ebola showed up in the United States, the president confidently said that the United States knew how to handle this crisis and then came all the criticism and theres been a ton of it. Just ahead, an expert talks about rebuilding faith in the institutions that are dealing with the virus. Its a warning. A wakeup call. But its not happening out there. Its happening in here. [ sirens wailing ] inside of you. Even if youre treating your Crohns Disease or ulcerative colitis, an occasional flare may be a sign of damaging inflammation. 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Nick paton walsh is watching all of this develop and hes just outside kobani. Reporter wolf, were told by those inside kobani that those three c130 aircraft dropped their 27 bundles of aid, mostly to the city center and also slightly to the west. They contain medical supplies. One doctor rejoicing in how, after weeks of struggling with the makeshift hospital here, he now had a ton of medical aid in which to treat patients. We know that one extra bundle landed off target making the total 28 and that Six Coalition air strikes that have hit around kobani, one was used to destroy that stray bundle presumably to make sure it didnt fall into isis hands. But the pressure is still on the kurds. A Senior Leader inside saying that 200 mortar rounds have hit in the last three days, almost at random. It seems ooiisis is trying to et an authority there. They have about a third to the east and the south. But another key development, wolf, turkey, who presumably wasnt happy at the notion of washington directly giving arms to syrian kurds, who they consider to be terrorists inside turkey, turkey has said that they will permit iraqi turkey fighters, the peshmerga, to travel through turkey and move into kobani and help with that fight. Thats something that has not happened yet but will add to the Syrian Kurdish demand. They know isis could come back and they are very glad to see washington resupply them last night. Wolf . Nick paton walsh on the border of turkey and syria. Thank you. Still ahead, should nurses be allowed to avoid highrisk patients like those infected with ebola . Well talk to Sheila Jackson lee. Shes from texas. Shes got strong views. Stand by. [ julie ] the wrinkle cream graveyard. If it doesnt work fast. Youre on to the next thing. Neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair has the fastest retinol formula to visibly reduce fine lines and wrinkles in just one week. Neutrogena®. Welcome back to our viewers in the United States and around the world. Im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. In texas right now, 43 people are out of quarantine. Thats three weeks after coming into contact with thomas eric duncan. He was the first person diagnosed with ebola in the United States. He was from liberia diagnosed at a dallas hospital. The mayor says they are still monitoring 120 other people which includes Health Care Workers from texas Presbyterian Hospital where duncan was treated and unfortunately passed away. Joining me is congresswoman Sheila Jackson lee. The president is getting a lot of criticisms from republicans and a few democrats on his new ebola coordinator or czar, whatever you want to call him, ron klain, because he doesnt have any medical experience. Do you think that was a good appointment . I do. And what our republican friends do not realize, ron is part of a very large team. You just heard from the head of usaid, dr. Shah, who has done an excellent job and came back from the infected areas. Rons job is to make sure that were doing everything we can with the leaders of ncih, cdc, and homeland security. What is good about ron, he was there during a crisis a few years ago and that, of course, was the economic crisis and handled the distribution of money. He knows how to get people to do the job. We need a manager and we have one. Weve got to fix our communication and our education and support and protection of our Health Professionals in the case of an ebola case that comes up. You wont be surprised that texan senator ted cruz has a different assessment. Ill play you a clip of what he said. We dont need another white house kroop tcooperative. What we need is the president standing up and leading as a Public Health emergency. You probably saw that story in the New York Times on saturday saying that the president was, quote, seething because he didnt think his team did a good job, especially when that liberian showed up at the dallas hospital and the fallout after that. Have you been in touch with the white house . Was the president seething at his aides . The president is a perfectionist. Hes had a mountain of trials and tribulations from international and domestic. He wants the American People to be protected and i would venture to say he was clearly not happy with the response that should have been more immediate. I would say, for example, from the centers for Disease Control, as you well know, has established a crisis team, an alert team, the pentagon is establishing an alert team and dr. Frieden himself indicated that maybe he should have sent a team there. Now, the president let me say to my good friend, the senator from texas, just needs to read a little more. The president was issuing immediate support to the infected areas in liberia and senegal, sierra leone, new guinea and he was on top of it from the perspective of stopping it at its source. Because he desires to have hoou citizens protected, we were not happy. None of us were happy when we had the homeland hearing, what are you telling hospital workers and unfortunately the word was not there and we see what happened. I know you have a strong view on nurses, that if they dont want to be involved in treating the ebola patients, they shouldnt necessarily be involved in it. As you know, two nurses contracted ebola and one is now being treated at bethesda, maryland, and one in atlanta, georgia. Explain to me what your position is on nurses and their refusal to care for highrisk patients. Well, i met with nurses just last week and everyone knows that the image of the nurse is Florence Nightingale but they are citizens of the United States and they have freedom of expression and if their own medical condition, their own relationship to their family, their age, then they should have the opportunity to be able to say that to their employer of their condition and be assigned elsewhere even if they are a Critical Care nurse. But what i will say to you is that it is clear that the nurses at texas presbyterian neither had the information or the equipment. They didnt know how to not put on layers of gloves, how not to take your hands, they didnt have the head covering that they should have. You have shown it on air. I support these nurses by saying that nurses should only be taking care of one ebola patient at a time if this was to ever happen again and they should be able to have the kind of full dress equipment that youve seen either in the infected countries, either that the military has with the full headgear and not using tape around their body, if you will, to try to protect them. So, yes, i think nurses all together, overall will be willing to treat any patient that comes into their hospital. But i do believe that if, in the case of treating the ebola patient, that they make the point for whatever reason it is, dealing with their own health or status, there should be that conversation. That should not count, as i might say, when mr. Duncan came and was turned away from the hospital and i believe his situation was exacerbated by him showing up a few days via ambulance. The 14 people speed taking care of mr. Duncan, the ems drivers, the Community Members and four loved ones are included in those 44 persons who is now, according to the cdc, i spoke to them this morning, 44 of them are now ebolafree and can be in the community and i hope and pray that they are not stigmatized because they are free under the incue baiting time and the determine nating for t centers for Disease Control. You know a bunch of people are not going to necessarily believe the government when they say these people, after 21 days of quarantine, are completely free of ebola so they will be resisting that but lets hope for the best. Sheila jackson lee, democratic congresswoman from texas, thank you for joining us. Thank you. Well continue to monitor. I know you will. Thank you very much. So how did the white house handle this whole crisis of ebola . My next guest says that the white house still has lessons to learn and speaking of the white house, the president of the United States is not showing up in some crucial battleground states with only about two weeks to go until midterm elections. Well take a closer look at why he isnt where a lot of the action is. Narrator these are the tennis shoes skater kid whoa narrator that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. From the surprised designers. Who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer i love it narrator which created thousands of new customers for the tennis shoes that got torture tested by teenagers. The internet of everything is changing manufacturing. Is your Network Ready . Thank you. Ordering chinese food is a very predictable experience. I order b14. I get b14. No surprises. Buying business internet, on the other hand, can be a roller coaster White Knuckle thrill ride. Youre promised one speed. But do you consistently get it . You do with comcast business. And often even more. Its reliable. Just like kung pao fish. Thank you, ping. Reliably fast internet starts at 89. 95 a month. Comcast business. Built for business. Ebola has certainly eroded the confidence in the way the Obama Administration and medical professionals have handled it. It requires a delicate balancing act between telling people the hard facts without overly scaring. He overstated the case initially, the public says and they certainly seem to have lost some confidence. The president is trying to fix all of that. The centers for Disease Control and prevention obviously made some mistakes as well in initially dealing with the virus putting some people potentially at risk as far as initial protocols were concerned, especially for some nurses. Getting out the message right now, learning the message is critically important. What were the biggest mistakes made so far from your perspective . There were some communication missteps. Public health 101 is that youve got to tell people not to panic. You also have to be very upfront about what the facts are. If you give them overly optimistic projections, they are not going to believe you. Another one is the protocols appear to not have been right in dallas. Why were those protocols so bad . The nurse the nurses didnt have complete protection around their necks. There was tape on the necks. That sounds so ridiculous. Thats very good reason for this. We have excellent medical care in the u. S. But we have very invasive medical care. We do more intubations, blood draws, more changing of bed sheets, more than is done in africa. Theres a lot more exposure to bodily fluids because of our more modern system. I dont think our protocols took that into account. Its paradoxical but its the case. People are saying that there have been three cases of ebola in the United States and lets hope that is it but they are braces potentially for more. I am and i am concerned that it could happen but its possible that the dallas episode, while tragic, could be the end of this. Hopefully this wont continue any further. Thats the hope. And then the u. S. Would be ebolafree as senegal and nigeria is. Theyve got to get a handle of what is going on in west africa to make sure that the world is ebolafree and thats an enormous challenge. Its much more complicated. Weve had over 4,000 deaths there and they dont necessarily have the Public Health facilities, the ability to track and trace or the same type of patient care that we have here in the u. S. Was it a mistake, from your perspective, for the president to have ron klain, well known in the clinton and Obama Administration who knows politics very well but really no medical experience or degrees or anything like that, to be the socalled ebola coordinated or czar . Ron klain is a very talented individual. Everybody that knows him says that. He does not have a public background and hes also seen as a campaign person. To the extent that some of the president s problems are that were not dealing this well from a Public Health perspective and he does too much through the lens of partisan politics, i think it was a problematic choice. From your perspective, the president should have brought in someone less political but with more medical experience and could coordinate the u. S. Agencies and the government in dealing with this crisis . Some people have said former senator bill frisk . I think he would have been a great choice but hes been fixed and hopefully hell do a good job. Appreciate you coming in. Just about two weeks until the midterm elections here in the United States. Everyone is looking at the crucial battleground states to see who will determine who will be the majority in the u. S. Senate. So why is president obama showing up in states that are seen as not necessarily all that crucial . Well take a closer look at that, whether republicans will take over when the senate Gloria Borger is standing by. Till miss. So my buddy here is going to help me find it. Here we go. Woo who, woah, woah, woah. Its out there somewhere spreading the word about americas favorite potatoes heart healthy idaho potatoes and the american heart associations go red for women campaign. If you see it i hope youll let us know. Always look for the grown in idaho seal. Big day . Ah, the usual. Moved some new cars. Hauled a bunch of steel. Kept the supermarket shelves stocked. Made sure everyone got their latest gadgets. Whats up for the next shift . Ah, nothing much. Just keeping the lights on. laugh nice. Doing the big things that move an economy. See you tomorrow, mac. See you tomorrow, sam. Just another day at norfolk southern. Here in the United States, critically important midterm elections a little more than two weeks away. Two weeks from tomorrow. Early voting has begun in 34 states including washington, d. C. As well. President obama cast his ballot a little while ago in his home state of illinois. Last night at a rally at chicago state university, he revealed who he was voting for. The first thing im going to do tomorrow is cast my vote to reelect dick durbin and give my friend pat quinn four more years as governor of the great state of illinois. Hes not shy telling us hes voting for democrats. Made candidates in the mid terms distanced themselves from the president. Joining us now is Gloria Borger taking a closer look at this. Interesting that hes gone to maryland. Hes gone to illinois to campaign. Hes not showing up in a lot of those battleground states where democrats are clinging for their political lives. Right. Hes not being asked to go to those battleground states. I was talking to a senior democrat who is very involved with these campaigns. He said to me, look, you could not imagine a more hideous cycle for the democrats. Theyve got a lot of folks up for reelection in red states. The president is very unpopular in these states. While he can raise money for them in other states, theyre not asking them to come to their own states to campaign because they know that it can backfire. As republicans nationalize these elections, the president becomes a target and they dont need that aggravation right now when they are running these tight races. You were just in colorado where theres a very Close Senate Race under way. What was your impression . The senator if you believe the polls is polling five to six points behind his republican challenger. Hes a democratic incumbent who is trying to distance himself from the president in any way he can. The president has a 37 popularity rating in the state of colorado. But heres the unknown factor for all of us as we head into the midterm elections and that is that the democrats now have a real ground game advantage. In the state of colorado, for example, you have mail in ballots. Ballots are at home right now. I was told that 80 of the people in colorado will vote before election day. Democrats believe they have an advantage in telling people knocking door to door focusing on people and saying were done persuading them. Right now we either have to get them out to vote or get them to cast their ballots and they believe that they can make up any deficit with organization and if you go back to the last president ial race, we know democrats outorganize the republicans so thats a difference that we cant quantify yet. In 2012, the democrats did a better job getting democrats out but in 2010, the republicans did a better job. What are republicans doing now . The republicans are saying that they are organizing. They are nationalizing this election. Instead of making it a bunch of races state by state, what theyre saying is its exobama. Everyone is tied to obama. They are using the issues of competency. They are including healthcare as part of the competency question. They are using this question which polls very well for them about the socalled imperial presidency. The overreach of this president. And they are saying, look, this president believes in big government. We dont believe in big government. We believe that we need to make government smaller and more efficient. So what theyre trying to do is take a bunch of local races, whether its in congressional districts or whether its in states, and nationalize them as a referendum on this president tying every candidate to barack obama. We dont know how the ebola scare or isis war or any of that is going to play out. It doesnt help. I was talking to this democrat who looked at polling in many states. He said to me that at the height of ebola scare and isis, their general polling went down for the democrats. So they know that these are not issues that help them because if the president is seen as not managing them well and not leading on them well, theres a trickle down effect to democratic candidates. We know also that republicans will need a net gain of six in the United States senate to be the majority. Two of those races in georgia, for example, and louisiana, if no one gets 50 , there has to be a runoff in december in louisiana and january for georgia. So we might not know until january who the majority is in the senate. Election night will be very exciting, wolf. Not only will we determine who controls the senate but it could go on and on and on. Weve had elections that have done that in the past. 2000 president ial. Control of the senate is at stake here and that would mean that republicans control the entire congress, wolf. This could go on way beyond november 4th as you point out in louisiana its all about a foregone conclusion that there is going to be a runoff. There are so many candidates in that race. Gloria, thanks very much. Well be busy over the next several weeks. Tomorrow night is debate night here in america. Jake tapper will moderate the debate between floridas Current Governor rick scott and floridas former governor Charlie Crist at 7 00 p. M. Eastern. On thursday, ill moderate the debate in the senate race there as scott brown takes on his challenger. 11 00 p. M. Eastern. Stick around. Debate night in america. Well take a quick break and be right back. The United States attorney general eric holder is wrapping things up at the justice department. Hes getting ready to step down after six years. He will step down as soon as a replacement is confirmed by the United States senate. Holder sat down in the meantime with our own justice correspondent evan perez to talk about criticism of the president. There was some really strong criticism recently from leon panetta who led the cnn and the pentagon. He called into question the president s ability to make decisions especially on syria. You were in some of those meetings. Did you see an indecisive president . How do you feel about the criticism thats been made . I have to disagree with his characterization of the president. The president is a deliberate person in an appropriate way but hes also resolute. Once he makes up his mind. I think that what leon said in the book is unfortunate. Frankly, i dont think its something that a former cabinet member should do while the president you served is still in office. Thats not something that i would even consider doing. For more of evans conversation with eric holder later on today at 4 00 p. M. Eastern. Well have more in the situation room as well. Thats it for me. Thanks very much for watching. Ill be back at 5 00 p. M. Eastern in the situation room. For our international viewers, Christiane Amanpour is next. For viewers in the United States and throughout north america, newsroom with Brooke Baldwin starts right now. Thank you so much. Great to be with you on this monday. Lets begin with a case of a serial killer. This is what were learning today. To indiana here where this 19yearold woman had been found strangled to death at this hotel in hammond and a suspect under arrest but the discovery just started there. While in custody, this 43yearold man told them where they could find the bodies of three other women. And then the next day police found the bodies of three more women. So total here