companies. as outraged as i am, i want to believe it was a really bad mistake. sunny, i m talking to you as a mom and as a lawyer. is this okay? can the boss of a major, major company that is ranked high for a working parent company as well, is this okay for him to divulge this or should hr be calling some. when i put my mommy hat on which i often have on, i m outraged and thinking why don t you call me out like this? i m a valued employee. as a lawyer, i m thinking he is probably okay. there these privacy laws and hipaa laws. they identifily identify health information and we don t know the identities of the individuals. he department name them. we don t have the social security number and what is typically identifiable information. is there a reasonable basis? i don t know. is there a basis that they say
phone etiquette, the man was an older gentleman but tells the new york times he had just gotten the iphone the day before the concert and he didn t know how it worked, didn t know it had an alarm, didn t know how to turn it off. according to the times he apologized to the conductor face to face. apology accepted. the lesson learned. at least turn the ringer off. now this. here we go. top of the hour two. welcome back. couple of stories we re watching for you. president obama wants to shrink the government. joran van der sloot learns his fate. and cnn sits down with oprah winfrey in a revealing interview. time to play reporter roulette. dan lothian, let s begin with you at the white house. a new push to try to cut part of the federal government bureaucracy. dan lothian, what s the plan? that s right in is something that the president started talking about during his state of the union address last year. he really believes that the federal government is bloated. there s
i make more money per hour that way than i would in another job. i ve made over $1,000 in the course of a day. your priority as a mother is to financially and emotionally, you know, be there for your children. phone sex helps me provide financial support for them. i m definitely doing it for my child. we need the extra money to, you know, make sure he has everything he needs. folks in this world do far worse things to make money than talking dirty. you re a mom. i put my lawyer hat on and i think if it s not illegal and then i put my mommy hat on. i would go do anything that was legal to make sure my kids had food to eat to make sure they had clothes, to make sure they had a quality education. so i understand it. i don t have a problem with it. i know people go it seems a like seedy, the kids are in the house at the time. i get all that, but $1,000 a day? they re moms. they re being moms. that s not money to sneeze at. this again is our facebook question of the day. so
brooke sits down with artists as they travel through atlanta. if you want to see some of had her other music monday interviews, check out cnn.com/broome. top of the hour. i m martin savidge, in for brooke baldwin. herman cain is on damage control. many employees forced to pay more because of weight or lifestyle. and millions right now without power. it is time to play reporter roulette. joe johns in washington, the political world is abuzz involving herman cain. what s the latest? the latest is that herman cain says this is a witch hunt. this all started with a report in politico which claimed that there were two women who charged him with various forms of sexual impropriety, if you will, improper conduct, in the 1990s when herman cain was working at the national restaurant association. the report was that there was actually some type of a settlement and that the settlement was sealed. well, now we know from a speech and question and answer session at the press club
this is a crew speeding away from the rixos hotel in tripoli where gadhafi loyalists, the gunmen who had been holding these men and women captive for five-plus days. now and only now can they tell their story. we will hear it coming up. something here, the cnn crew, among dozens of international journalists, as i mentioned at the rixos hotel, between 30 and 35 journalists were held inside for five-plus days trying to negotiate the release according to our matthew chance, every hour, every minute of every day. the end came today when a cnn producer persuaded the local commander that the fight outside was over, that the gadhafi forces had lost. listen to this. well, i actually we ve spent time with him over the past few days sitting and talking to him about his kids, his family and so he started to come i really miss my family and i really want to go out and see my family who are really worried about me now, same thing for the 30-plus journalists sitting in the hotel. he