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Company just that in an interview that we had all lined up. and then quite suddenly they canceled. without any explanation. erin? >> wow. and certainly that's the answer we all want to hear. former nsa contractor edward snowden had an online chat today and he said something about dick cheney. and then the trial of exmob boss whitey bulger has begun today. old stories of murder right out of a mafia movie and a scary situation on a hong kong flight to newark. how passengers subdued a seemingly crazed passenger making unbelievable assertions. ? fight back fast with tums. calcium-rich tums start...

Poll numbers? because the public at least the polls i've seen seem to support the nsa monitoring and yet all of a sudden the president's numbers have plunged on this and on trustworthiness. how does that add up? >> if you look at the poll numbers overall there's not a person in washington that the american people are satisfied with. and if you consider that the president has had a series of public relations challenges, that have been built on by republicans who have done very well at making issues seem much bigger and more conspiratorial than they are then you've got a situation where the pres...

pick your scandal du jour basically, and i think you're going to -- you're seeing also that it is particularly affecting president obama's base right now. we are a very polarized country. there is, you know, a number of people who will disapprove of president obama practically unless he comes up with a cure for cancer. but there's also a group who will approve of him almost under any circumstances, and it is that group that feels more -- most affected by this nsa scandal, and that that's where his fall is coming from. >> so let me ask you, bill, about that group, his base. because the issu...

Will approve of him almost under any circumstances, and it is that group that feels more -- most affected by this nsa scandal, and that that's where his fall is coming from. >> so let me ask you, bill, about that group, his base. because the issue here, at least you know, when i look at it, you say, look, president bush had this point of view and it fit with what you expected his point of view to be, right? president obama, though, well, frankly, he said the exact opposite of what he's doing right now. here he is in the 2008 campaign. >> it's no coincidence that one of the most secretive admin...

With plastic handcuffs supplied by the flight crew. the plane did land safely this afternoon in newark. it is unclear at this point whether anyone was poisoned. but a source is telling cnn the fbi is taking this incident extremely seriously. we reached out to united to ask about their protocol but in a statement they would only tell us that a passenger game disruptive. in the event an infectious toxin were released in an aircraft cabin epidemiology professor ian lipkin tells us it could be addressed with antibiotics and antitoxins as needed. it has been 683 days since the u.s. lost its top c...