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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120319:14:08:00

eighteen got a d. and the eight states you see coming up here got an f, with grades of 59 or lower. we won't embarrass them by saying their names but as a kind teacher might say, they have a lot of room for improvement. bill: or teachers say go ahead, look it up! that's your home work. why did new jersey come out on top? >> reporter: in part by taking steps to crack down on a rather colorful history of corruption by using tpuf -- tough ethics laws. these efforts came in reaction to the long history of corruption in the state which was vigorously attacked by former u.s. attorney, now governor chris christie, who prosecuted many of the recent cases. the state has had some famous corruption episodes, including a former jersey shore councilman, bragging to an undercover officer that he would never get caught because he could smell a cop a mile away. apparently not. so over ten years or so, 150 state and local officials were either convicted or

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120319:14:24:00

connected to. i guess it's major news when you make your first speech. arthel: they is lovely. bill: i think she's enjoying her new job. arthel: we are waiting on news on army sergeant bales awhaeuting trial in fort leavenworth, kansas, his attorney offering a defense strategy surrounding posttraumatic stress disorder. >> everyone who has had three or four deployment toss the middle east is going to have some form of tpsd. arthel: charles cully sampson is a senior legal fellow at the heritage foundation and former prosecutor. you've got to get a glimpse into what the defense attorney is going to

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120319:15:31:00

benefits. shannon bream is live at the supreme court with this case. >> reporter: i stepped out of the arguments moments ago, this is a tricky one. car even gave birth to twins 18 months after her husband had passed away. they knew he had cancer, he had banked his sperm for this particular situation. when she applied for social security benefits for the twins she was turned down. for years she has been fighting through the court system. today her attorney argued before the supreme court that those children do meet the definition under the social security survivor benefits statute that they should be receiving benefits. he said that the father had signed a note saying any children that come from this marriage are my biological children. they had planned ahead for this event. the government says not so fast. what you're dealing with here is a statute that was crafted in 1939. they argue today there is no way congress could have perceived this particular situation but it is increasingly happening. the attorney for the plaintiff in in case, the one seeking the benefits for the mother says think of all the military cases

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120319:10:32:00

>> some of the additional challenges you might be facing. >> you couldn't imagine a more difficult case, i don't think. i mean, every challenge. this case has political ramifications. it has legal ramifications. it has social ramifications. so you know, i couldn't really imagine a bigger case from somebody with problems. >> reporter: browne also spoke of the challenges presented by four tours in iraq and afghanistan for his client, army staff sergeant robert bales. the ten-year veteran with a string of commendations was injured while serving according to his attorney, and there are questions being raised about post-traumatic stress disorder. bales is now being held here at ft. leavenworth in an isolated cell awaiting charges possibly this week for the killing of 16 afghan villagers. browne says he has spoken to bales by phone but plans to get specifics as they get their first chance to talk in person. >> everybody that's had three or four deployments to the middle east is probably going to have some form of ptsd. i don't know anything specific about it. i know he has a -- he had a concussive head injury. there's a lot of people asking questions about why someone with his sort of injuries was sent back to afghanistan. i mean, to the middle east. >> reporter: for abc news i'm

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120319:10:31:00

again, you're looking for a motive, it's still impossible to wrap your mind around this. also this morning, the fight for republican delegates between mitt romney and rick santorum. after romney's primary victory in puerto rico and his likely win tomorrow in illinois it's all about the math. but these two candidates cannot agree on how everything adds up. not a big surprise. >> good look sporting that lsu tiger shirt there. and later in this half hour, the 92-year-old woman who had to prove to her bank that she is not dead. nope, she's alive. she had to correct a bookkeeping nightmare and jump through red tape to access her money. good thing she has a very good sense of humor about the whole ordeal. >> absolutely. but we begin with new details as sergeant bales' defense team prepares to meet with him for the very first time. >> the high-profile attorney arrived last night in kansas ahead of the meeting. kabc's maria antonia reports from kansas city. >> reporter: we asked john browne about the complications of a case involving military matters.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120319:19:43:00

revolves around the notion he was not capable of making a decision because of all the that's going to wash in this environment. >> if sergeant bales is allowed to ask for enlisted men and women on the injury, will that help his case? >> sometimes it does help but the statistics prove that most of the time it doesn't help at all. there's some data that indicate that's probably the worst thing he could do because the people who are most vie tup rative about troops doing what they are supposed to do are at the lower end of the food chain because they live with that all the time. i don't think that's going to help him out. >> what do you think of his attorney suggesting that he's going to litigate on behalf of his client, he's going to litigate the war itself. there's no dispute it's a horrendous conflict. >> nobody hates war more than troops because they are the ones that got to fight it.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120319:03:24:00

blamed. i feel he is a victim of a terrible, terrible war. and usuallyy when that is happens it is related to ptsb. >> they hired john henry brown and told reporters that sergeant bales had sustained two injuries in iraq . afghanistan was the fourth combat. and joinsing me is janine. >> he could be defended by the jag unit but he hired a private attorney. what does this mean in the context of his legal position. >> i think it is important that his family did hire a defense attorney. he is and can be represented in the military court by assigned counsel. this has worl wide symbolism and the administration will go

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120319:05:43:00

>> i can tell you exactly what it was. it was my crew called you because they had the cell phone number that you gave the boy in the chat. >> what's the police officer doing here? >> that is a good question. >> get on the ground now! >> get on the ground, sir. >> there you go. >> you have the right to remain silent. >> after he's read his rights, fine decides not to speak without a lawyer present. >> i would like to wait for an attorney, please. >> okay. >> police find a bottle of crown royal and marijuana in his car. he's charged with three felonies, including possession of a controlled substance and attempting a lewd act upon a minor. fine later pleaded not guilty. the hard rock cafe told us fine no longer works there. coming up, you'll meet one of our more unusual visitors, and he's armed to the teeth. amera is facing some tough challenges right now. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - FOXNEWS - 20120319:23:32:00

mother's attorney seemed pretty confident, too shannon. >> he did. he said a will the of times the court is asked to interpret statutes that are decades old that are part of his job. this is something they have to get used to considering. here is a bit of what he told us today. >> it's often the case, congress writes a statute and the world changes and then courts have to figure out how congress would have anticipated and treated these situations had it been able to think of it. so, in that sense, this case is no different than in a lot of cases the court has decided. >> and today he gave us a prime example of a number of military fathers or men who aren't fathers yet go out and deploy but leave behind frozen sperm they don't make it so their wives can start or expand their families. more of these cases to come, shep. >> shepard: i bet they are. shannon bream at the supreme court tonight. the pentagon is said to be putting new focus on the growing threat of cyber warfare. a whole new generation of cyber weapons that can reportedly attack enemy computer systems, even when they are not connected to the internet. it's very high tech stuff but

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - KGO - 20120319:10:16:00

suffocated and trapped instantly. >> reporter: bond wasn't even sure he owed the credit card debt. and even if he did, it was 14 years past due. >> what do people need to know about these older debts? >> there may be a state statute that limits the collector's ability to sue on the debts. >> reporter: that means they can't force you legally to pay it. but that didn't stop asset acceptance, which allegedly broke the law by threatening lawsuits on expired debts. and reporting those old debts to credit agencies. the company has paid a $2.5 million fine to the government, even as it denies any wrongdoing. >> what are you? are you an attorney or what? >> i'm the one that's going to -- >> reporter: consumers have long complained of harassment, even threats from debt collectors, with terrifying calls like these from other companies. >> are you going to pay this bill or not or am i going to have to kill you? >> we're going to have your dog arrested.

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