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>> reporter: well, 23 million people will be arrested by the time they're 23. now what the majority opinion said today is that the police have a legitimate reason to get this dna sampling. they want to make sure they've got the right guy, verify someone's identity. they say this is even more accurate than fingerprinting. people can change their identities, facial features, even modify their fingerprints, but they can't change their dna. secondly the court said it helps tell whether the person they've arrested has a violent past and perhaps should be denied bail. but the reason they cited that ...

Our blago turned himself in to prison officials. i'm going to try to visit him there, i promise. new york said to be the first state in the nation to collect d.n.a. evidence for any people convicted of any single crimes including misdemeanors. expand the existing d.n.a. data base. the governor is expected to sign it within days. now, prosecutors say it will not only help connect suspects to crimes, but will also give defendants greater access to d.n.a. testing. which could help prove their innocence. all 62 of our state's district attorneys back the legislation along with some 400 police chief...

morning. ets it's going to go like that today. also joining us is jeff toobin the cnn senior legal analyst. thank you for joining us and hank of political strategist, iconic political strategist. nice to have you joining us. >> thank you. >> lots to get to. the afghan man who hijacked a car and then breached security, drove on to the runway in kabul just as the pentagon chief leon panetta was landing. that man has died. he died from burns he received after he lit himself on fire. we learned that he apparently was trying to run over a group of marines who had assembled to meet the def...

overwhelmed. i spent almost the past decade in solitary confinement. so i'm not used to being around anyone, much less this many people. it's kind of overwhelming. it's not perfect. it's not perfect by any means. but at least it brings closure to some areas and some aspects. you know, we can still bring up new evidence. we can still continue an investigations we've been doing. we can still try to clear our names. the only difference is we can do it from the outside instead of sitting in prison and do it. >> even when you're in prison, you have to worry about your own safety. it doesn...

Decision. listen. >> did you see the pictures? >> yes. >> what was your reaction when you saw them? >> it was him. >> why haven't you released them? >> you know, we discussed this internally. keep in mind that we are absolutely certain this was him. we've done dna sampling and testing and so there's no doubt that we killed osama bin laden. it is important for us to make sure that very graphic photos of somebody who was shot in the head are not floating around as an incitement to additional violence as a propaganda tool. you know, that's not who we are. >> well, there are lawmakers who say the ...