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NBC Nightly News-20130802-00:35:00

remainder of your days. >> reporter: judge michael russo said he hoped the sentence gave the victims some peace. >> after 11 years, i am finally being heard and it's liberating. >> reporter: amanda berry's sister said in court, she craves privacy. gina dejesus's aunt said she wants to go on to high school, to college, and one day fall in love. and then as she was leaving the court, she turned to ariel castro and said in spanish, "may god have mercy on your soul." brian? >> incredible day. we turn to news from overseas tonight. russia today offered at least a temporary home to edward snowden. the american who leaked those government secrets on extensive data mining operations. he was today allowed temporary asylum in russia. that means a ticket out of the airport where he has been living. it has angered the u.s., of course, because he is still wanted here. our chief foreign affairs

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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20130802-00:41:00

get more blame for the gridlock, and are considered more extreme than their democratic counter- parts. are you worried about that? >> ah, you can't worry about that day in and day out. that's not necessarily new news. >> reporter: congress has grown more partisan partly because congressional districts are getting more partisan, packed with either democratic or republican voters. take a look at illinois' 18 districts before and after 2011 to party in power-- in this case, democrats -- redrew the district boundaries in their favor. those lopsided districts leave lawmakers more beholden to their own party's voters with less incentive to reach across the aisle. pete gallego, a new democratic member from texas still getting used to that unusual dynamic. >> if you walk in every day and you tell your spouse, "i don't care who your opinion is we're going to do it my way every day, because i'm always right," then

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NBC Nightly News-20130802-00:34:00

running up and down the stairs, this detective said, shouting "daddy left and went to grandma's house." amanda berry saw her chance to escape. one of the first officers on scene described discovering michelle knight still inside hiding behind a curtain. >> she literally launched herself into officer espada's arms. he -- legs, arms, just choking him. and she just kept repeating "you saved us. you saved us." >> reporter: when it was ariel castro's turn to speak, traditionally afforded to any defendant at a sentencing, he rambled for 16:13. >> i am not a monster. i did not prey on these women. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: he blamed everyone but himself, even his victims and referred to harmony in the home. the judge was incredulous. >> in your mind there was harmony and a happy household. i'm not sure there was anybody else in america that will agree with you. >> reporter: then the sentencing began. >> counts 598 through 653 -- >> reporter: life without parole plus 1,000 years. >> you will be confined for the

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NBC Nightly News-20130802-00:52:00

season. it lasted nine minutes. when this goes off, steamboat is taller than old faithful. up to 300 feet in the air. it is very fickle though. back in 1964, it went off 29 times in a year. while it was once also silent for 50 years at a time. if you watch any c-span at all, then you know the language of the u.s. senate is very formal. more than just fake politeness among archenemies, it is supposed to be a civil place, the upper chamber after all. and it usually is civil if not productive. but sometimes a microphone captures the way senators really talk. as it did today when majority leader was trying to restore order. here now the voice of senator harry reid. >> madam president, the majority leader. >> have the senators sit down and shut up. okay. it's unfair -- >> all righty. after a rare burst of plain

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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20130802-00:30:00

>> schieffer: tonight, he showed no mercy. he gets none. but before ariel castro hears his sentence, he hears from one of the women he held in his house of horrors. >> you took 11 years of my life away, and i have got it book. now your hell is just beginning. >> schieffer: dean reynolds is at the courthouse. bob orr on russia granting asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden. major garrett has white house reaction. that cyclospora outbreak has made hundreds sick, but where is it coming from? >> i don't know what to buy. i don't where to go eat. >> schieffer: dr. jon lapook has the latest on the investigation. and this was a six-year-old when he came to america. this is him now. elaine quijano on how an afghan boy got his childhood back. uijaw

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130802:07:46:00

wbr id="wbr27600"/> persecuted and prosecuted being essentially a context dependent one, from the perspective of human rights watch. russia has their own legal system in which they're going to determine asylum. >> that's correct. the standards on asylum are international. >> i see. >> they derive from a convention. >> john, you feel very strongly that is not the case. i've been following your very spirited tweeting about him. you don't think he is deserving of asylum. in fact, you've called him a traitor, defector and worse. >> yeah. look, even putin said there are no former intelligence officers. i'm actually a former intelligence officer. despite that. and look, every intelligence service in the world understands that when an intelligence person takes refuge in a country where there's a hostile intelligence service, that person is defector. this is universally understood in the intelligence business which is the world that edward snowden comes from and spent most of his adult life. >> here's my question to you. /b>

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ABC World News With Diane Sawyer-20130802-00:35:00

>> reporter: perhaps mr. castro cannot bear to see himself the way the rest of us do, saying he repeatedly is not violent, not a monster. he called himself a victim, saying as a child he had been sexually assaulted and is now addicted to porn. the judge made short of that. >> you've been the victimizer. >> reporter: castro is right about one thing. he is a sick man. >> is ariel castro a sick man or just an evil one? >> he himself seems confused about that and society as well. he has some sort of sexual disorder. he certainly describes the fact that he feels driven by a force he doesn't fully understand. >> reporter: if he's so sick, how did he go undetected all those years? >> what all of us are concerned about is he's a very good liar. >> reporter: being mentally ill does not mean he is not legally responsible. legal insanity is a very high bar used in only one percent of cases and experts say not applicable here. a relative of gina dejesus also spoke today.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130802:00:46:00

the overall context, what he revealed, the lack of whistleblower protection for people like him in the united states, and the very harsh punishment that hethese kinds o leakers to the press receive do tend to give him a claim that he would have been persecuted, not just punished. >> persecuted. the difference between persec e persecuted and prosecuted being essentially a context dependent one, from the perspective of human rights watch. russia has their own legal system in which they're going to determine asylum. >> that's correct. the standards on asylum are international. >> i see. >> they derive from a convention. >> john, you feel very strongly that is not the case. i've been following your very spirited tweeting about him. you don't think he is deserving of asylum. in fact, you've called him a traitor, defector and worse. >> yeah. look, even putin said there are no former intelligence officers. i'm actually a former intelligence officer. despite that. and look, every intelligence

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20130802:03:46:00

revealed, the lack of whistleblower protection for people like him in the united states, and the very harsh punishment that these kinds of leakers to the press receive do tend to give him a claim that he would have been persecuted, not just punished. >> persecuted. the difference between persecuted and prosecuted being essentially a context dependent one, from the perspective of human rights watch. russia has their own legal system in which they're going to determine asylum. >> that's correct. the standards on asylum are international. >> i see. >> they derive from a convention. >> john, you feel very strongly that is not the case. i've been following your very spirited tweeting about him. you don't think he is deserving of asylum. in fact, you've called him a traitor, defector and worse. >> yeah.

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CBS Evening News With Scott Pelley-20130802-00:40:00

so whatt for them to mark that than by taking off the rest of the summer without finding a way to fund the government come september. if you are keeping score at home, congress' approval rating is now 17%. if you ever wondered why members don't find this embarrassing, well, they have their reasons. here's our congressional correspondent nancy cordes. >> reporter: congress has passed just 23 laws this year, including one to name a bridge and another to promote fishing gl tennessee's cumberland river. the glacial pace on capitol hill may annoy americans but here's the irony-- 50% still think their own member is doing a good job. >> my job is to represent the people of utah to washington, not washington to utah. >> reporter: utah republican jason chaffetz won 76% of the vote in his house district last year. the poll found that republicans

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