seamstress who helped them bust out. also trump 2016? is the real estate mogul/real star serious this time? we re about to find out. what will it take for the donald to win over conservatives? plus are you african-american? i don t understand the question. stepping down. rachel dolezal resigns as spokane s naacp president over questions about her racial identity. this is not some freak birth of a nation mockery block face performance. this is on a very real connected level. but does she owe america more? let s talk live in the cnn newsroom. and good morning. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining me. right now bands of rain from tropical storm bill are moving onshore in texas. millions of people are in the path with voluntary evacuations already under way. the brunt of this storm now just hours from landfall, and several communities are already being hit with 60-mile-per-hour winds widespread flood warnings are in effect as as much as 10 inches could fall in places up to oklahoma. chad myers is in place following the track of the storm. good morning. good morning. the storm made a left turn overnight, going to make there s port o connor right there. the storm surge, if there is any, maybe two to three feet. right here all along this coast toward galveston island, that s where the water is getting pushed onto land where the heaviest surge will be. this is not going to be a saltwater flood event though for most people. this will be a fresh water which means it s going to rain. it s going to rain a lot, and the storms aren t going to move very fast and then all of a sudden you re going it see six to ten inches of rain on top of ground that already had 25 inches of rain in may. now, i know it s been dry for the past couple weeks but that doesn t make up for how much moisture is still in the soil and for that matter still in some of these creeks and streams. the rivers are going to continue to go up. the rain pushing ahead to 10:00, austin san antonio, round rock, georgetown major cities in the way of ralph, especially up into the hill country that will eventually have to come back down toward the ocean into those creeks and streams, those rivers that have been so hard hit. we could even see 2 to 4 inches south of pittsburgh into west virginia as the storm finally three or four days from now heads toward the northeast. carol? all right, chad myers reporting live for thus morning. thank you. this just into cnn. a federal grand jury has indicted a third suspect in the garland, texas, shooting attacks with the muhammad cartoon contest. ed lavandera is in dallas following the storey for us. good morning. reporter: good morning. the man indicted is abdul malik abdul kareem. investigators say he s a friend who helped two men who attacked the civic center in garland last month at the cartoon drawing contest that was held there. if you might remember two suspects were shot and killed by authorities there that were protecting the civic center. well now federal investigators accuse this man, kareem three different charges he s been indicted on. charges of conspiracy and also providing the weaponry that was used in that attack last month in garland, texas. the indictment states that kareem went out with these two men into the desert area in arizona and practiced shooting the weapons that were used in that attack and so this was the latest development in the fallout from that high profile shooting happening in texas last month. ed lavandera, thanks so much and i apologize for the lousy connection there with ed s cell phone, but in case you didn t catch it federal grand jury has indicted abdul malik abdul kareem on three counts for his alleged involvement in last month s attack outside that prophet muhammad cartoon contest in garland, texas. he also allegedly transported firearms and ammunition for the attack and lied to investigators. as you know the two other suspects in this case were killed on the scene. we ll have much more on this later on cnn. there s also a new development in the new york prison escape and the woman charged with providing the tools for two murderers to break out. a source telling cnn that lyle mitchell has made a jailhouse visit to his wife joyce. joyce mitchell has been accused of an inappropriate relationship with one of the fugitives and allegedly had a sexual relationship with the other. cnn s alexandra field is in west plattsburgh plattsburgh, new york. reporter: we re told lyle mitchell showed up at the clinton county jail. she gets two hours worth of visit each week. you can only wonder what was said inside that room. sources have told cnn that they are looking at whether or not her husband lyle had any knowledge of the plan to escape. he has spoken to investigators. he has not been charged with anything. sources also telling cnn that joyce mitchell had relationships with both of the men who escaped, that she had a sexual relationship with richard matt, that she had been investigated for an inappropriate relationship prior to that with david sweat, and we re also learning that law enforcement authorities are looking into an alleged plot that the two escapees had to actually kill joyce mitchell s husband lyle mitchell. that coming from a source who has been speaking to cnn. it is not clear what joyce mitchell may have known, carol, about that part of the plan. all right. and as far as the manhunt for these two killers, i mean the search seems to have gone cold alexandra. reporter: yeah. a lot more details emerging about the investigation than developments as far as the search. you can probably see a little bit behind me that we are still out on 374 where this road closure has been set up for days now. they are checking every car that comes in and out, but really carol, there s been no clear sign according to people close to the investigation that these fugitives are in the area since last week that s when bloodhounds appeared to hit on the scent. that s when a wrapper was found, when some tracks were found which investigators believed may have tied may have been tied to the suspects but right now they re saying that they haven t seen anything recently that gives them any confidence per se that these fugitives are in this area but there are hundreds of law enforcement officers who are here and they re trying to run down hundreds of tips chasing leads in really every direction. alexandra field reporting live from west plattsburgh, new york. a deadly accident near the campus of the university of california-berkeley. five people are dead several others seriously injured after an apartment balcony collapsed apparently during a 21st birthday party. cnn s dan simon is on the scene now. tell us more, dan. can you hear me dan? all right. well dan can t hear us so we ll get our technical gremlins worked out, but again five people died in that balcony collapse eight others injured and authorities are trying to figure out what caused that balcony to collapse. still to come in the newsroom, it s called the biggest blow against al qaeda since the death of bin laden. details on a drone strike that took out one of the most dangerous terrorists in the world. every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. i heard i could call angie s list if i needed work done around my house at a fair price. sure can. so i could get a faulty light switch fixed? yup! or make a backyard pizza oven? oh yeah. i can almost taste it now. tastes like victory. and pepperoni. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta he fires up the free wifi with a network that s now up to 5 times faster than before! so he can rapidly prepare his presentation. and when he perfects his pitch, do you know what chris can do? 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was this a lucky hit that they got? what we are told is they are still trying to confirm information from the ground. but it does come after, you know a couple of real successes by the intelligence community. it was just earlier this week we learned there was an f-15 air strike against a top al qaeda operative in libya who ran the north african operation and a couple weeks ago, of course we had that army delta force raid inside syria that got a top isis operative. there have been some that have not worked out, some failed hostage rescue missions obviously and the american hoss hostage in pakistan was killed in a u.s. drone shot when they took that shot and they say they had no idea he was at the location they were hitting. so the intelligence doesn t always work out, sadly, tragically but in a couple recent instances, it certainly did. carol? all right. barbara starr reporting live from the pentagon. thanks so much. with me now, cnn contributor michael weiss. welcome, michael. are you there? yeah i m here. i can hear you. good morning. thanks for being with me. good morning. as the daily beast puts it it s a bad week to be an al qaeda chief. how important is this man s death? i think it s pretty significant. i mean he had been suggested as a possible successor to ayman al zawahiri the leader of global al qaeda. what we re loose seeing now is a generational shift within the annals of international jihadism. this was a guy who was an intimate of osama bin laden. he comes from the prior generation. even the pre-9/11 one. i think what s happening now is these guys are going to be eclipsed by the rising stars, particularly those in isis. you know it s been a great week for u.s. air power which has not only killed him and as you pointed out, you know, the libyan isis commander, but also helped liberate this town in northern syria, which through the work of kurdish militias backed by the free syrian army has taken isis out of one of the most strategic border crossings between turkey and the home base or the headquarters of isis global command. so pretty good week for counterterrorism not just for the coalition, but for local and regional actors on the ground. i would add one more point to this story, which is sorry, go ahead. no no. i was just going to ask you about taking this guy out in yemen because the united states pulled special forces out. we don t really have a presence there. exactly. yet a u.s. drone was able to take this guy out. yeah and so it sort of speaks to the fact that there is still some kind of intelligence cooperation going on with the yemenis, either the hadi government or and this is the first thing that occurred to me when i heard this news what if it is the case that possibly the houthis are sharing intelligence with the united states? you know they have active intelligence from their work on the ground there, and there s a lot of coordination and collaboration going on in oman, the country that was the sort of staging post for preliminary negotiations with iran. i was talking to u.s. naval officers last week who said that there s more there than even meets the eye. so it s very curious. i mean you have this months long campaign in yemen essentially led by saudi arabia to restore the hadi government but then there s a host of at least three other major factions on the ground there, the houthis, the remnants of the saleh regime and i wonder who has actually been telling the u.s. where to get these guys. dangerous, right? it s a fascinating story. last question. is this the way to defeat al qaeda and isis by taking out their leaders one by one? i mean look it s great that these guys with operational trade, in tradecraft and decades of experience are being removed from the battlefield. decapitation strikes, aerial sorties that eliminate the top commanders they don t really do the kind of damage we need because these guys are replaceable. and, in fact i m sure both al qaeda and isis today are trying to consider who is going to inherit the throne. when you deal with these jihadi organizations, often it s not the guy who is necessarily out frond. it s the guy standing two or even three behind him who is really the shot-caller or the decisionmaker and the person who will be responsible for appointing the successor. there s something called a shura council. these are the guys that are essentially the kingmakers of all jihadist organizations. those are the people i would like to see removed from the battlefield, and unfortunately, you know they know how to cover their tracks. michael weiss, thanks for your insight. i appreciate it. still to come in the newsroom, is donald trump finally lyly flirting with a presidential run? 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dan simon reporting live for us this morning. thanks so much. the republican presidential field expanding by one and 30b8ly two candidates for the day is done. first, jeb bush will head to new hampshire after launching his bid yesterday in miami. touting his background as governor noting the importance of having someone with executive experience in the white house, and next hour what could be a big, big announcement from donald trump. the real estate mogul has flirted with presidential bids in the past but will this year be the real thing? okay. so i was expecting to hear from our senior washington correspondent joe johns. he s outside the trump tower, but we lost the connection. we re having all sorts of weird technical gremgremlins but there maybe i should introduce my panel. if donald trump does throw his hat into the republican ring he faces a challenge from within his own party. some conservatives have questioned the seriousness of a bid. steven hayes calling trump quote, a clown show but washington post columnist richard cohen says trump s potential rivals should enter his applaud his arrival. he says every four years some wholly unqualified person surfaces usually in the republican party and is swiftly declared some sort of political messiah. this year it could be almost anyone but whoever it is he or she better pray that donald jump gets fully into the race because he ll make everyone else look better. for his part trump addressed a possible campaign to a republican gathering in new hampshire back in april. listen. if i decide to run, and i think i m going to surprise a lot of people a lot of people if i decide to run and if i win, i think we ll have a great chance a great chance. i will make this country great again, believe me and no politician is going to do it. that i can tell you with surety. okay. so let s talk about this. sally cohen is a columnist for the daily beast. kara set meier, dana rohrabacher, welcome to both of you. i didn t mean to laugh. i did. well tara i want to start with you because there are many within srve circles that think donald thump should just stay out of this because his candidacy well alleged candidacy would be a joke. yeah. i think that donald trump will bring an interesting dynamic to the race. unfortunately, when you have now with him most likely entering sally and i are pretty much in agreement that he s most likely going to announce his candidacy this time around after flirting with it in the past. when you re at now 12 candidates and that s without scott walker declaring, without chris christie declaring, we have all these candidates we are in serious times in this country, and when you have someone like donald trump who is clearly more about cult of personality than he is about substantive policy and actually a legitimate candidate, you run into some problems here and i think that you know god bless donald trump, he s good at what he does but we all know it s always about him. now, he may have legitimate republicans and concerns and some of the things that he says and how candid he is with what he says people feel that s refreshing which is why he s polling in the top ten right now in the real clear politics poll nationally and that allows him to go into the top ten which means he could participate in debates which turns this more into entertainment than it is into a serious policy discussion and i don t think that s necessarily good. so sally, it does seem like he s going to announce at 11:15 eastern because he s also going to make stops in new hampshire and south carolina later this week. i feel positively giddy. look i was already excited enough that rick perry was getting in the race. i mean you know there s always more room in the clown car for more clowns but, you know, donald trump turns this from a circus into a full-fledged reality show. we should put them all in a house with live cameras all night, see what happens. it s just look i love the part where you said i have a good good chance of winning in the tape you rolled. no he does not. the chance of his win something literally more improbable than his hair which i already thought was factually impossible. it is actually a worse idea if that s imaginable. look what i do like is he does reveal the real irrationality and fearmongering that lives within not only a part of the republican party but a part of america that i think we need to talk about. the fact he was the guy long after the fact who was still hounding about whether barack obama was really an american citizen, all of that come on he s going to do that stuff again. is hillary clinton really a woman? at some point doesn t it hurt the republican party but there are really good strong candidates that want to run for the president of the united states and they really should get most of the attention. well i think if you re going to say that donald trump hurts the republican party, then you need to also say lincoln chafee or bernie sanders, they re not serious candidates i don t know bernie sanders he s a professed socialist and lincoln chafee is worrying about the metric system. questioning the president s citizenship and where he was born donald trump has said some things that are concerning and will be controversial which is why most serious people in the political world are not taking his candidacy seriously. unfortunately in this day and age of social media, of television 24 hour news cycles the cult of personality, his experience and seriousness, pun intended that s what you re dealing with with donald trump. so question should the media cover donald trump? i mean you re going to have to. he is a declared candidate. he is a celebrity. he is he s worth $9 billion allegedly now. so he says. so he says and doubled what forbes thinks he s worth but that s typical donald trump ex traf gabs extravgance. if he starts going into crazy town stuff again, i think it hurts him more than the republican party per se. i think it hurts everyone. of course you re going to cover it and i m going to be really happy right there to watch it. i hope it s being covered personally for my own enjoyment if no one else s. but tara is right. whoever sort of says the westmorelandest, craziest most incendiary nutty thing gets the media s attention is a problematic dynamic. at the same time it s working because he does speak to a part of the party that wants him there. he ted cruz these apples aren t falling far from the tree of a part of the republican base that is very real, has a voice, needs to be taken seriously even if they re not serious. there are a lot of independents who think donald trump is refreshing you look at the latest polls, people aren t we re far out but tara setmaier sally kohn thank you. new hampshire is a critical test for candidates on the democratic and republican side. sitting down with voters to get their views so far and the issues most important to them. reporter: first question is we re like 5,090 days out from the election and even though the media is really focusing on it it does seem people care. ted y do you think people care about this election this far out? well i think because this is the most important one because there s some major issue that is have to be discussed. i mean we have isis is running around like crazy and that s a big issue. it s about the economy, and it s about immigration, and i think there s some big issues out there, and, you know, from the candidates that have been going around so far, i think new hampshire is really taking it seriously. they re asking the tough questions and they want to hear what s important. it s a real privilege to be in this state where we get this front row seat to democracy really where we get to shake hands with candidates once twice, three, four times. really as much as we want how important is the shake itself by the way? not so much for you, ted because you re a giant. when you grab someone s hand like you should have a signature on you you re such a piece of art. but what i m saying is when you shake that hand does the actual grip man, woman, whatever does that matter? the important part chris, is i want to hear what you re going to do for this country. way tonight hear plans. reporter: and here is my plan, i m not going to be president obama, he s terrible he hurt us. i don t want to hear that. here are three or four steps i m going to do to improve the economy. reporter: i m going to make the economy better. and here is how. reporter: taxes are bad. i want no taxes. i m going to try to get rid of them everywhere i can and i m going to make jobs here. that s what you re hearing, right? right. you need to elaborate on that. reporter: the game is why do i want to give you bullet points which you can think about and assess and evaluate against somebody else when i can do something that seems with all due respect to work better even with a cross section of vote he is like i have at this table. why are ads negative most of the time? because they work. am i right? that really squares on us and the could bensultants will keep doing it until we aren t going to buy it. i m liking ted gorskyi. donald trump is going to be visiting new hampshire. do you think the people will be receptive? i think they will be receptive. there s a culture they want to see everybody. they love the vetting and the focus on them. i think they re probably aboveboard on the political intelligence scale across it. how heel do? i think he s kind of symbolic of what the problem is in as much as the window dressing the hype the antics as sally was saying what gets the most attention of the media, not necessarily what s best for the voters. you heard mr. gorski say he wants to hear about issues. i m not sure all the voters feel that way. it s what they get saturated with and they become a victim of their environment. even from them you re earring phrases that are floating through the media about people all the time. i think it s a reminder that it s really supposed to be about them. it s easy to get caught up in everything in the media and the politicians don t help us. if there are more people like what we saw in new hampshire and they hold people s feet to the fire where they don t care about how you feel about each other, they care about how you feel about them wouldn t that be nice? that would be beautiful. any early favorites that you can discern? no. they were very intent on saying we don t know enough about them yet, and not the people. what are you going to do for me? it was interesting, complete opposite of the media cycle. the media cycle is the individuals and how they re sizing up against each other with their own foibles. these people across the board were really i don t care, i don t care about your e-mail i don t care about what you think, what s is a choice what isn t a choice. what are you going to do for me? how are you going to help me with my kids and my family and how are you going to represent what i think is important for leadership? awesome. thanks for stopping by. i appreciate it. always a pleasure. thank you so much. i appreciate that chris. still to come in the newsroom, rachel dolezal finally speaks. the former naacp leader answering the question everyone has been asking. the beast was as long as the boat. for seven hours, we did battle. until i said. you will not beat. meeeeee!!! greg. what should i do with your fish? 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the way the city and the state of new york are cutting back on man power in the entire city whether it s the jail the prison system or the police department these things are going to happen. when you take shortcuts, these are the things that continue to happen. so you re saying there wasn t enough personnel in the prison to conduct enough bed checks or to be in the watch towers at all hours of the day and night? absolutely because had they had enough staffing and staffing levels would have been where they were supposed to be this probably would have been caught because it certainly didn t take them an hour or two hours. it took them probably months to cut through these walls, cut through these pipes. where were all the security checks? where were all the inspections taking place? where were all the managers that were supposed to be supervising to ensure that these things were being done properly? because when you think of the size of one of the men is 210 pounds. they re big men. it s not like small. it would take them a while to cut that large of a hole. not only take them a while to do that but what it also involved is they had to test this. they just didn t cut through a wall and say, okay we re going to freedom. they had to test this several times until they got it right. so at the end of the day you have to think about how much time was allowed for them to do this and then when they did it we don t even know when they left. we assume they left on a certain date when they were not visible for a count check or something like that. but at the end of the day no one knows when exactly they really left the facility. and as you probably know by now, the trail has gone cold. nobody knows where these men are. the bloodhounds haven t picked up a new scent, nobody has seen anything concrete. and initially you had governor cuomo go into the prison and he gave us a tour of the escape route. in retrospect do you think the governor should have done that? i don t think the governor should have done that and whoever advised them to do that i think he needs to call them into his office and say look where i m at right now because at the end of the day, this is not a show of what went wrong here. this is a show of how are we going to get them back and do what we re supposed to do. a press conference in his office would have been adequate to say, look this is unacceptable. i have ordered several reports from several people. i have ordered an investigation division to take a look at it. so you re saying the governor doing that little tour it wasted valuable investigation time because authorities couldn t go out and look in full force. well correctional officers are prone and they re active and they re ready to go and bring back the bad guys. that s wh we do. at the end of the day if the commissioner or an individual is standing there giving a press conference as opposed to going out and getting the job done that s very valuable time and when these inmates are caught they will tell exactly how they got out, exactly who was involved and how long they had before and after to do this job. i want to get this one question and i want to word it right. governor cuomo has called for the state inspector general to investigate prison shortfalls. should the state s attorney in turn call for a special grand jury to look into how the governor s office handled management of the prison? i don t think so because at the end of the day we as union leaders, we continuously disagree and agree with governor s staff or the ma yoryormayor s staff, but what they must do is they must protect the public. and when you are a penny smart and a pound foolish, these things happen. and they will continue to happen unless they give them the staffing levels they need to conduct proper security inspections and give them the man power and not allow civilians to walk around unescorted with all kinds of equipment, all kinds of tools, and no accountability for it because these things will continue to happen. norman seabrook thank you for being with me. i appreciate it. thank you so much. and we could be just minutes away from seeing the kickoff of trump 2016. the donald set to make a major announcement from trump hour in manhattan next hour. you re looking at the room there decked out in american flags. so will trump jump in or not? we ll have to wait and see. guys, it s just the two of you. the setting is just right. but here s the thing, about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile dysfunction. well, viagra helps guys with ed get and keep an erection. and you only take it when you need it. ask your doctor if your heart is healthy enough for sex. do not take viagra if you take nitrates for chest pain; it may cause an unsafe drop in blood pressure. side effects include headache, flushing, upset stomach and abnormal vision. to avoid long-term injury, seek immediate medical help for an erection lasting more than four hours. stop taking viagra and call your doctor right away if you experience a sudden decrease or loss in vision or hearing. ask your doctor about viagra. when broker chris hill stays at laquinta and fires up free wi-fi, with a network that s now up to 5 times faster than before you know what he can do? 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surrender until sniper shot him through the windshield. investigators are trying to figure out why the suspect wants to kill police officers. live in dallas with that part of the story. good evening to you. it was like a action movie but approximate like in real life. joishgs the officers barely survived the gun men s intent and they had to literally dodge bullets. (gunfire) reporter: 12 time time 30 a.m. investigators say the man pulled up to dallas police head quarters and opened fire with an automatic weapon and left explosive equipments in the parking lot and containing nails and screws. two pipe bombs were detonated safely. and these bullet holes in the winnow. the suspect led the officer on a chase to hutchin s, texas and that s where an 11 hour stand off ensued in a fastfood restaurant. they fired shots in the suspect s van and shot and killed the man in the process. the gunmanmade a call to 911 on a rant for five minutes how police were responsible for him losing custody of his son and then everything coming to a head and end once the bomb squad robots detected two more pipe bombs. they intentally detonated and them. and the vehicle burned town to a mere shell. it had georgia license plates and was tracked to a sale on ebay a couple of weeks back for more than 8000. and dallas police not confirming the iowa identity of the suspect they shot dead today. casy thank you. and a prison worker pled not guilty to helping two murderers escape from the prison. officials have been looking for the two killers on eight days now. they are focusing around the capped cand border now. joyce mitcher is charged with misdemeanor criminal. and investigators are a kouzing her of beapproximate friending the inmates and providing them with supplies that they used to escape and pledging to pick them up after they use the power tools before getting cold feet and not showing up. peter doocey is live outside of the prison. and right near the prison, what is the latest on the search. they are looking pretty close biechlt reporter: it seems to be sure the murderers are not hiding out is right in there. in fact the search at times looks like it is going in circles. law enforcement officials confirm that the canines were brought back to inspect other manhole covers. and we understood the woodeduary that are wooded keeps combing over the track of lane. it is centered in the radius around the prison. but everything we heard is hypothetical. there was a big storm and they thought they were tired and wet and cold. but the trail may be cold. two fugitives and one week and 0 confirmed sitings julie. how are people in the area dealing with the manhunt? these are murderers. nthat s right. there is a lot of tension from the police presence. and they have their hand on the guns. and there is surprise when fox news crows, somebody asked one of the neighbors what do you think of the prison break. a prison break from where. it is right in the the center of everything. and the coffee shop sells t- shirts and the name of the employees of the month in the correctional facility on a giant board right on the main drag. but it is a town where all of that is temporarily sealed off and shut down because of one suspended employee did, smuggling in the hack saw, the chisel and drill bits to help two drnls men get out, julie. yeah a big, big story there. thank you very much. and that leads to the twitter question. dow think that someone else helped then to escape? tweet me at julie band band. and we want to know what happened. to politics now. hillary clinton abouting a new phase of her campaign. the former secretary of state holding her first major campaign and laying out a wish list including union versal pre- k for young children and a path to citizenship for millions of immigrants and she made an a pale to those struggling in the great recession. you have to wonder when does my heart work pay off? when does my pam fam get ahead? i say now. brian was in the clinton rally. brian everything today inwhich you hadding the location of the speech was meant to send a message about the economy. reporter: that s right, julie. the former u.s. senator of new york choosing four freedoms park in new york city. and this is area honored the memory of franklin roosevelt. she admired him because of the new economic policy. and during now thpts people. she talked about her examine policy. and wants an economy of tomorrow that pets. and preschool for everyone. and cack being moij a foblable. and two rain in over ball treatment ndemocracy can t be just for billionaires and corporations. (applause) prosperity and democracy are part of your basic bargain, to. you brought our country back. reporter: her husband and daughter was with them in the campaign event. while it was a lively crowd and a small venue it was set up for the over flow crowd. and so perhaps less people showing up than the hillary clinton may have expected. she railed against the republicans and take a listen. republicans twice cut taxes for the wealthiest borrowed money to pay for two wars and family income dropped. reporter: she said she is a fighter thanks to her mother dorth and lgbt rights and she will be in iowa and new hampshire and nevada. and expect big approximator speeches like the one we saw today and more questions from the media. what is the national committee saying whol hers was full of hip kit beingic at. the republicans are harping on the fact that hillary is part of that old fascial guard. ? and she issing the republicans as the question. and hero rubio wasted for time empsidewaysing he is a rung year can dade with fisher ideas. our troubles looks that though they need to to am and we had a place to wok away. nyesterday is over. 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you think someone else may be helping others. i think there is more to it. they had help. other than than the seamstress. she gave them hack saw blades. and there has to be someone else involved for them to be gone this long. my opinion only. and certainly an incredible mist row. two convicted murderers that are dangerous. and anybody who sees these two men call 911 and don t try to approach them yourself. they have been missing eight days and are combing a throw mile vicinity. and they could be anywhere. thanks for watching. special edition of the o reilly factor is on on tonight. the battle for america s children. tonight we investigate the use of tonight we investigate the dangers of marijuana use. society they are going to target teenagers. they will make their money off of people like myself who are addicts. and i just don t think this is the kind of thing that makes our country stronger. how harmful is texting and internet to our kids? amy and mccain discuss the dangers. every day 160,000 kids skip school because they are bullied and the internet is just making it worse. also, jesse watters hits the streets of denver to find out just how destructive marijuana use can be firsthand. what do you do on a daily
him. reporter: but the air rage ampager has attracted comments like what a contemptible self-important arse. the chinese air traffic system is a hive of delays but there s little sympathy for tantrums by those considered elite. he has been suspended from his job and has already apologized, saying i failed to be a qualified political advisor as well as a good father. one of his sons seemed to try to defuse his dad or at least disarm him, eventually security stepped in. you, sir, are caught on camera. that s no boarding pass, buddy. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. everyone needs to take a breath. major rage. out of control, this guy. now i think if i he was chairman of he was a big deal. that s all you need to know. not anymore. he s a big deal, lucill. see you back here tomorrow. outfront starts right now. out front next, democrats blame the republicans. republicans blame the democrats. how speaker john boehner drops an a-bomb. oscar pistorius charged with premeditated murder in the death of his girlfriend. why the case may never go to trial. a hot air balloon accident in egypt. we have dramatic pictures for you tonight. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront or should i say out back tonight, the a word. with three days until the forced spending cuts kick in, house speaker john boehner today dropped an a-bomb. we have moved a bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their and begins to do something. on the other side of capitol hill, senate majority leader harry reid says it s the republicans fault. no butts about it. i think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. the speaker is doing nothing to try to pass anything over there. well, the president didn t engage in the posterior pow-wow but did play the blame game. there are too many republicans in congress right now who refuse to compromise even an inch when it comes to closing tax loopholes and special interest tax breaks. and that s what s holding things up right now. outfront tonight democratic congressman chris van holland. not every day we get to hear that word used on capitol hill. i will put aside the posterior politics right now. other than that, let s get at it. the president criticized republicans for their unwillingness to raise taxes in order to reduce the deficit but i wanted to ask you this, because you know the numbers. the tax policy center has said that nearly 80% of american households have gotten a higher federal tax bill because of the fiscal cliff deal you all did at the beginning of the year. why do you want to raise taxes again? well, because we want to take a balanced approach. again, we have now cut $1.5 trillion if you look at the spending caps that were imposed as part of the budget control act agreement. then as part of the fiscal cliff agreement which you just referenced, we raised about $600 billion. what we ve said is as we go forward, we should use the same model as the bipartisan fiscal commissions and continue to take that balanced approach. yes, additional cuts in a targeted way, not a senseless way, but also additional revenue from closing those tax loopholes that both presidential candidates, mitt romney and president obama, talked about during the last campaign. they re all still out there. we haven t touched any of those. well, just to be fair, mitt romney said he would lower the tax rate in exchange for closing those, and you did limit deductions as part of the federal part of the fiscal cliff deal. so let me ask you about that specifically, because this whole tax issue, adam davidson and i quote him every single night so i hope he listens, co-founder of npr s planet money noted in the new york times that increasing the middle class tax burden by an additional 8% would have a bigger impact than taxing millionaires at 100% and of course, congressman, leaders of your own party, bill clinton also knows this. here s bill clinton at a conference i was at with him a year ago. i think you could tax me at 11 00% and you wouldn t balance the budget. we all have to contribute to this. if middle class people s wages were going up again and we had some growth in the economy, i don t think they would object to going back to the tax rates that i obtained when i was president. isn t the honest thing to tell the american people if you re going to be raising money by raising taxes that it has to be on more than just a few at the top? no, i think the honest thing is to take a balanced approach. i certainly agree with what you just said and with what president clinton said, that you cannot solve this deficit problem simply by asking higher income individuals to pay a whole lot more, because there s just not enough there which is why we ve said we need a combination of revenue from closing those tax breaks that disproportionately benefit the very wealthy and mitt romney and paul ryan talked about how they were there. in fact, speaker boehner s proposal just about a couple months ago said he would raise $800 billion from that source, but that s why you have to couple that with cuts. so how do you get there on loopholes by your logic? five of the top ten loopholes, here they are. i will read them out. you know what they are. for any viewers who aren t familiar with all of them in order, mortgage interest deduction, earned income tax credit, employer provided health care, child tax credit, state and local tax deduction and charitable deductions. when you close those, you hurt a lot more than just the wealthy. no, what i support is the approach the president has taken in his budgets which i suspect he will present again, which is to say for higher income individuals, we re going to limit the value of all your deductions to 28% so that you re not getting a bigger break, so to speak, for your deductions than middle income tax payers. okay. i see your point there. but the problem is as you also say, you can t get there just by doing that. $550 billion over ten years, that s pocket change, right? you can look at the $1.2 trillion, you re looking at $85 billion a year, less than 2% or just about 2% of the budget. it doesn t if you re really looking at making a big difference at numbers that simpson-bowles are saying we need $4 trillion, $5 trillion, i don t see how you get there without raising taxes on everybody if you say taxes are part of the solution. well, as i said, i think taxes are part of the solution. i just mentioned one way of getting some of that revenue, but you also need to continue to do the cuts and that s what we re talking about in terms of our overall budget approach, and the president s plan when you take it all together, starting with the cuts we made last year, comes to about $2 to $3 in cuts for every dollar in revenue. do you ever have frustration, as someone who has tried to be calm, thoughtful and balanced about this at the fact that the leader of your party, second term president, whatever he s put on the table, has not directly dealt with where the future debt that is drowning this country is coming from? and by that obviously i m referring still to things like medicare where, when you look at the out years, that s where the problem seems to lie. are you frustrated that he hasn t come out and told the american people that they re going to be taking a hit there and that he s willing to be the one to deal that hit because he can, because he s a second term president? well, i think he has. if you look at the affordable care act, we achieved $715 billion in savings in medicare. even with that, we re still looking at this medicare crisis in the out years. that s right. that s right. but remember what happened in the last election. our republican colleagues demagogued those important savings which according to the medicare actuary actually extended the life of medicare. in this budget proposal, the president has said that by year ten or 11 he s achieving the same amount of medicare savings per year as projected by simpson-bowles so i think the president has put that on the table. the difference is in approach. in other words, republicans through their voucher plan want to simply move the costs off the medicare balance sheet and on to the backs of seniors. that s what happens when you provide someone with a voucher that doesn t keep pace with rising health care costs. whereas what we proposed and i think we need to expand on it, is to change the incentives within the medicare system. you have to move away from a strictly fee for service system where nobody has a real incentive to save money, toward one where you reward doctors and providers based on the quality of care. we started doing that with things like the accountable care organizations, but we can build on that. congressman, thank you. still outfront a civil war in the gop. 75 high profile republicans today break from their party to strike down california s ban on same sex marriage. we ll tell you who they are. plus, we re days away from the pope stepping down and he s about to get a major makeover. a story we have been watching closely. a year after he was shot and killed, a memorial for trayvon martin. actor jamie foxx is there. he s speaking right now to the people at the memorial. we will be going there in a few minutes. 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i think it absolutely helps the republican party. it is a wholesome party that can have diversity of thought. what i aspire to is a big tent party where i can co-exist with people who hold a different opinion but we can co-exist with in a realm of respect and mutual values. for me, the republican party is about personal freedoms and for me, personal freedom means being able to have my opinion and being able to have friends who have the same rights as me. we are the party of small government. we can t be the party of small government and yet at the same time want for government to decide who does and does not get married, who they have a right to love. i think we can t be on the wrong side of history here. we can t be on the wrong side of love and commitment. but at the same time, i respect people who have a different opinion and i think it makes us healthy and stronger. we should be about inclusiveness, not being exclusive. i want to ask both of you about something else that happened today, and i m going to throw this at you with a little bit of a surprise but it really caught my attention, people are watching at the top of our show saw this. the use of the word ass in washington today. let me just play for you john boehner and harry reid. we have moved a bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. i was raised in a little town that had 13 brothels in it so i m used to pretty salty language, as you know. but the speaker today said he s not that category, for sure, but boehner hopes senate gets off their ass. and it s quite interesting, we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. i think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. the look on his face was absolutely priceless. tim, look, they talk like this all the time but when this gets into the public discourse, use of a word like that, inappropriate or fine? the senate s controlled by democrats. they re the donkeys. that s an ass. i don t understand what the issue is. yeah, john boehner, we know that that s the kind of guy he is. we know how much he plays lots of golf, he drinks and he talks that way. ana, are you all right with john boehner using that, setting that tone, or not? listen, i m all right with him being frustrated by the fact that nothing is getting done. i think they are reflecting what the american people feel, a great deal of frustration by the inaction in washington. so i would echo john boehner s words and say guys, get to it. of course, we had a contest between harry reid today and john boehner on who had the toughest, roughest childhood and heard the saltiest language growing up, whether you heard it in a bar or growing up in ohio or whether you heard it in a small town in nevada growing up amongst brothels. i don t know. we may have to have a throw-down on that one. all i can say is please, harry, john, just get out of the sandbox. thanks to both of you. still to come, for the first time in 600 years, talk about tradition, a pope is stepping down. and we have some very specific things that are going to happen. one of them has to do with his ring. thousands of you sent us feedback about a story we reported on yesterday. did yahoo! s ceo go too far? 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raymond is outfront tonight. it s the pomp and circumstance that can be so fascinating. i notice some people may say these changes are insignificant, color of the shoes, whatever, guys, but that s really significant, right? the red shoes? absolutely. look, everything in the catholic church particularly the things we are going to see together over the next couple of weeks, they all mean something and they re all tied to history. those red shoes go back hundreds of years. what they symbolize is the willingness to bleed, to suffer martyrdom for the church, for the gospel. that s what that represents. it is a prerogative of the pope to wear that alone, no one else in the church may wear those red shoes. so when benedict is no longer the pope, he has to give up the shoes but remember, john paul ii wore the red shoes for a couple weeks early on in his pontificate, then wore brown ones. the pope can really do what he wants. he s the supreme pontiff, the supreme ruler of the church and he kind of can make the rules himself and benedict made these himself today. interesting. although as you said, raymond, i say this, you know, can t change the doctrine, right? you do everything. can t do that. he can protect the doctrine but not amend it. let me talk about one other thing. he wears a ring, fisherman s ring. describe it to me and why he s going to actually destroy it. it looks kind of fluorescent green or yellow on his finger. now, this goes back to 1265. pope clement iv referenced this ring in one of his letters to a nephew. it is the sign and seal of his office. when you look closely, you are seeing a picture there, it is a bas relief of st. peter leaning over the edge of the boat pulling in fish. this shows and indicates that the pope, whoever wears this ring, is the successor of st. peter, the first apostle. his name is em blazoned around the top of that bas relief and when each pope dies or in this case retires, they remove the ring from his hand, scratch the front of it, literally deface it in the sign of a cross, and smash it with a mallet so it can never be used again. it is a sign that his power, his authority in the church, is finished, extinguished. usually they bury that ring with the pope. john paul ii s is in his casket. in this case i guess they will hold on to it. they put it in a satchel and it will eventually be buried with pope benedict but he will no longer be pope. now the cardinals during the preconclave period are not supposed to be campaigning but i would imagine that is what they re doing, fast and furiously, right? well, it s a quiet campaign. it s kind of a meet and greet. they look at each other from afar. i remember going to a horse auction when i was a kid. bear with me here. when you go to a horse auction you look at the horses legs, their mouth, you read the press, you talk to the trainers but you don t talk to the horses. that s sort of the approach. at least that s what they re telling me. they don t go to the man they re directly thinking about who might be a candidate, they talk to friends, they talk to people who know them and begin to form an impression. is this the guy we need now. and that s how it happens. then they go into the conclave and vote. the two-thirds majority, first man to get to the two-thirds majority is the next pontiff. thank you very much. i love it. the horse auction analogy. it is going to be like watching a horse race through the next few weeks. outfront next hundreds of people gathering to remember trayvon martin tonight. so we ask the question and answer it for you, where is the man who shot him tonight? 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they re everywhere. as we have been told for years, cell phone signals can interfere with feeding tubes, ventilators, pacemakers and dialysis machines. use your cell phone, you might kill someone. it turns out the people cavalierly playing with your life are the ones you trust the most. according to a new study, 55% of perfusionists, the people who run the heart and lung machines during heart bypass surgery say they have texted, e-mailed and used their phones during a procedure. i ve heard of routine surgery. this does, though, seem to be stretching it a bit. as far as i can tell, there are only a few reasons why you would need a cell phone in the o.r. one, you need to look up how to do your job. two, you can t stop sexting or three, you just can t pull yourself away from that rousing game of words with friends. perfusionists lawsuit uses all seven letters. it has been 572 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? with forced spending cuts set to take effect in four days, ben bernanke says the cuts would add a significant burden to the recovery. the congressional budget office says economic growth would take a hit of just over half a percent this year alone. now our fourth story outfront, remembering trayvon martin. tonight hundreds of people are gathered in new york city to remember the 17-year-old one year after he was shot and killed by a florida neighborhood watchman, george zimmerman. trayvon s parents attended the vigil at union square and observed a moment of silence just a few moments ago in memory of their son. george zimmerman says he shot trayvon martin in self-defense and zimmerman remains in florida, where david mattingly is tonight with the latest. david, you are obviously in sanford where this tragic incident happened a year ago today. what s happening there? reporter: erin, what we saw happening here tonight was very similar to what we saw in new york, very similar to what might be happening in other parts across the country tonight. people gathering to remember trayvon martin and what that moment meant to them. and here of course, hitting home in so many ways, not just geographically but here, that case exposed very open raw sentiment within the african community here in this city, that the police department was not providing them with an equal system of justice. now today, the city of sanford has a new police chief, an african-american. also today, city officials were meeting with clergy from around the area, some from as far south as miami, talking about how to keep the peace. they were doing that with members of the community relations team from the justice department so they are now on this anniversary looking forward to those court dates coming up and knowing how personal and how deeply held the opinions are behind this case, trying to move forward from here. what can you tell us about george zimmerman? where is he? what s he doing? reporter: well, george z zimmerman is confined on the geographical boundaries of seminole county. he can t leave the county. he is living in some undisclosed place in the county. he had to move from the house he was living in. he is still wearing a bracelet and has a curfew and is unemployed but he has two jobs. one is working on his defense and the other is trying to keep a low profile. there were death threats against him. he was very concerned about his security and continues to be so. some of the biggest concerns that he and the people working with him have that he might be recognized when he goes out in public, and he does leave wherever he s living at this point, he does leave it sometime. when he does go out in public, the concern is that he might be recognized and someone follows him back home, they would have to find another place to live. so he is by no means a free man while this case is going on, and while he continues to be so widely recognized in this area. david mattingly, thank you very much, reporting from sanford, where there is a vigil. there is a vigil here in new york as well. jamie foxx, the actor, was speaking there just a moment ago. here is what he said. don t think about the color of the child. think about that child going to school. think about that child hanging out with his father, with his mom, skiing, skateboarding, doing all these fun things that a 17-year-old child does, and then think about that child on his way home to see his father and all of a sudden, that child has his life taken from him. now we go to south africa where olympic star oscar pistorius is holding a private memorial service for reeva steenkamp, the girlfriend he is accused of intentionally murdering. pistorius has been charged with premeditated murder after shooting steenkamp in his home on valentine s day. he says it was a tragic accident. he shot her because he thought she was an intruder. pistorius is free on bail but the question tonight is whether this case will ever go to trial. jeffrey toobin says there s a strong likelihood it could end in a plea deal. he s outfront tonight. criminal defense attorney ann bremner is also with us. this is a case not just within the context of the fame of oscar pistorius, of the bizarreness of the case, the beauty of his girlfriend. in a country where domestic violence is an epidemic. it might never go to trial. that s right. because the actual issues in the case are fairly narrow. we know how she died. we know who killed her. the only issue in the case is what was pistorius intent, what was in his head. was he really shooting at an intruder, was he really engaged in domestic violence. that is something that i think both sides will worry that they are going to lose. in that case, plea bargains often happen. plea bargaining is part of american legal culture, also part of south african legal culture. this case seems right for one. why? what s weak about the prosecution case that makes you think that? because the idea that you might be looking for an intruder is credible in south africa. people have home invasions there. people protect their homes with guns. it is not a crazy idea. now, i think much of pistorius story is crazy, the idea that he somehow didn t speak and didn t find her didn t notice her in the bed. didn t notice she was gone. look, it s problematic. but both sides have a lot to lose if they go to trial, and pistorius i think when push comes to shove, there is a charge in south africa called culpable homicide, which is basically a negligent homicide that seems to fit this case fairly well, if you believe pistorius was looking for an intruder. a short prison sentence is something i bet he would take at this point. or even i guess you could have community service, technically, with that charge in south africa. ann, do you agree? well, i have great respect for jeff. he s fabulous. but i think, here s another side to this. i think that let s take a look at other celebrity type trials and whether or not they have resulted in plea bargains and they haven t. they tend to go to trial. casey anthony, scott peterson, robert blake, phil specter, michael jackson, o.j. simpson, martha stewart. even the lindbergh baby kidnapping. why do they go to trial? it s because to get the real truth in a case like this, really get the truth, you need a courtroom. you need witnesses sworn. you need evidence, et cetera. and they tend to go that way. just looking at history, it seems to me we may well have a trial with oscar pistorius. the second part of it is we have to assume with a plea bargain if he will be offered a deal he can live with and i think based on the evidence and based on the improbabilities in his statement as the judge said, he may not get the offer he wants. one thing that all those cases she mentioned have in common is they were all within the united states of america. in south africa, you have a case that mark thatcher, prime minister thatcher s son, who was accused of fomenting a revolution abroad, got a very sweet plea bargain deal. the fact that it s a high profile case alone doesn t prevent a plea bargain from taking place. look, i think we don t know today the most important evidence in this case which is the forensic evidence. what do the ballistics show. we are able to find out for example was it a boom boom boom boom or was it a boom, wait, you would hear someone scream, boom. was pistorius actually standing on his prosthesis because that would suggest he had time to prepare. that is a very significant fact. so there s more we need to know and there s more both sides will know. but if the evidence continues to be at least somewhat ambiguous, i think both sides have a lot to gain with a plea bargain. who ultimately if this goes to trial, obviously in south africa, a trial does not come with a jury, which could be good or could be bad, but goes to trial, who does that benefit the most? well, the judge is going to benefit the prosecution. i want to add on cases being in the u.s., amanda knox didn t have a plea deal. that was in italy. in the case in south africa just mentioned involving a relative of margaret thatcher, it was very murky and those often result in plea bargains but i think a trial, truly looking at the evidence in this case, will probably favor the prosecution given that the story that he has right now doesn t seem to even line up with the evidence. but let s say he can create enough doubt, he can cry, he can talk about her dying in my arms and can do all the things that convinced another judge at a bail hearing to let him go, he may be able to convince another judge about doubt in this case and that it was an accident because only he knows. and reeva knows really what happened. thank you very much, both of you. we appreciate it. check out jeff s article in the new yorker. a hot air balloon carrying tourists falls out of the sky. we have the horrific pictures. we all know someone who fought or died from breast cancer. we have new numbers about why more young victims in this country are being diagnosed now. you can spot an amateur from a mile away. while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle.and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this.will work. 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[ female announcer ] nothing gets you going quite like the power of quaker oats. today is going to be epic. quaker up. we re back with tonight s outer circle where we reach out to our sources around the world. tonight we go to egypt where there are conflicting reports over the safety record of a hot air balloon company that was an absolutely horrific crash that happened. nearly two dozen tourists from around the world lost their lives. i asked what went wrong. reporter: this hot air balloon dropped 1,000 feet. to put it in perspective, new york s empire state building is roughly 1200 feet. 19 tourists killed, among them nine hong kong nationals, also british, japanese and french citizens. the crash took place in the city of luxor in southern egypt, site of some of egypt s most ancient ruins. the cause of the accident according to state media, an explosion of the flammable gas cylinder on board. officials say all hot air balloon rides will be grounded until the investigation is over. despite the tragedy, hot air balloon rides in egypt pretty safe, based on our research. this was the first fatal accident ever in egypt involving tourists. thank you. now let s check in with anderson cooper. we re keeping them honest on the program. one of the men charged with picking the new pope played a central role in the cover-up of sexual predators in the priesthood. talking about former cardinal roger mahoney. he will cast a vote for the new pope but before he does, he has taken to social media to complain about those protesting and pointing the fingers at the media for reporting about him. we will hear from a former priest who says he himself was molested and also tonight, in crime and punishment, stunning and shocking details of intimacy and deceit as accused murderer jodi arias took the witness stand for an 11th day. she s been on the stand, this was 11th day. it seemed ripped from the script of an x-rated movie, playing out in court in arizona. randi kaye was there and has tonight s report. we will speak with jeffrey toobin and criminal defense attorney mark geragos covering the case. those stories and more, latest on the world of politics, the upcoming cuts, those tonight, also the ridiculist at the top of the hour. looking forward to seeing you in a few minutes. now our fifth story outfront. breast cancer shocker. this story caught my attention not just because i m a woman, although of course that s part of why, but also because i know and a lot of people on the outfront team know young women who are fighting breast cancer. a study released just this afternoon shows that the number of women between the age of 25 and 39 getting diagnosed with advanced breast cancer is going up. almost everyone in the country knows someone affected by this disease and the susan g. k oman foundation has this horrible statistic. in this country, one woman is diagnosed with breast cancer every three minutes. every 13 minutes, one of them dies. outfront tonight, dr. marissa white, who specializes in breast cancer treatment. this study shocked me and i just have to get to the bottom line of it. why the increase among young women because i know statistically it s significant, among young women in particular? yes. these are young women, mothers, daughters, sisters, precious lives at stake. we re seeing more breast cancer now than we have in the past. there are a lot of reasons for that. there are well-established risk factors that are more today than before like early puberty, obesity, more women are drinking alcohol and drinking more of it. women are still smoking. we re more sedentary, not as physically active. fewer of us are having full term pregnancies and when we do, we tend to postpone them and not breast feed or only breast feed for a short period of time. pregnancy and breastfeeding are protective. there are also emerging environmental concerns that we re really worried about. there are a lot of chemicals i want to ask you about those, but to cut to the chase of what you ve been saying, which is only that 10% of breast cancer is genetic. i didn t know that. i was shocked when i read that. you re saying 90% of it is not, that means we can control it, at least 90% of it. you re right. only 10% of breast cancers are due to one of those single genes, brca-1 or 2. it s related to exposure to the environment, your weight, how physically active you are, reproductive choices. things we can modify, some we can control. but there is good news, which is that we are now getting more scientific evidence, proof, that you can take steps today to lower your risk. and breast cancer is every woman s greatest risk for cancer for a lot of reasons the breast is the most common place for cancer to occur in a woman s body and there are steps she can take to lower her risks immediately. let me ask you about that. because there s two areas one when you talk about we hear so much and i saw this the other day where you can charge your cell phone where you put it on the table and it gets a charge from the wall, you don t even need a plug. gosh, all these waves constantly going through our body. am i just being scaredy cat or is all of this stimulus that we re receiving right now in the modern world part of why more people are getting breast cancer? well, we need to look into all potential causes for breast cancer including the whole idea about electromagnetic radiation that people are concerned about, but we already do have solid evidence about well-established risks, things you can do in your everyday life like getting to and sticking to a healthy weight, exercising three to four hours a week, five to seven is better. limiting your alcohol use to five or fewer drinks per week. not smoking. right. avoiding extra hormones like birth control pills for extended period of time or as well as hormone replacement therapy after menopause. you also want to avoid radiation exposure as a young girl and up to age 25. those are some well established steps that you can take to lower your risk. plus limiting your exposure to things in the environment that could be hormonally active. well, dr. weiss, thank you very much. we appreciate that. i want to, of course, put that on our website for you all to see. i want to tell you something that s just come in to cnn. sources say that the obama is moving toward increasing aid to the syrian opposition in the form of nonlethal military equipment and military training. these changes are being talked about with allies right now as part of secretary of state john kerry s meetings in europe. the sources stress that the united states is not providing weapons to the rebels, an important distinction and one we ll see if it will last. last night we brought you a new story about a policy introduced by yahoo! ceo marisa mayer. employees won t be able to work from home any more. you were passionate about the subject. we included a poll on our out front blog ask you if you agree with the decision. there s been a back and forth on this poll all day. at the moment the yes side is winning. if you d like to take a poll or add a comment of your own, please do so. that was last night s essay. tonight s essay? 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officer s squad car and began shooting at the officers striking the squad car but missing the officers. joining us now, casey spiegel standing by with more of the dramatic details as they unfolded. reporter: yeah uma, absolutely wild. dallas police chief says this guy showed up to do damage. in his own words, said his officers barely survived the suspect s intent investigators say he pulled up to dallas police headquarters and opened fire with what they say was an automatic weapon. police tell us that the suspect left explosive devices in the parking lot, rigged to go off when touched. two pipe bombs were detonated safely by the bomb squad. luckily no officers were hurt in this whole ordeal but bullet holes could be seen on some of the police department windows. the suspect then led officers on a chase about 11 miles south of here to hutchins texas, in a fast food parking lot where his vehicle became disabled because an 11 hour standoff ensued after officers fired shots into the suspect s armored van to disable it. police say a sniper also hit the suspect through the windshield. we just learned before the top of the program that dallas police confirmed now that the suspect is dead though they re not revealing his identity. investigators say prior to this going down the shooter had called 911 and gone on a rant aboutng responsible for him losing custody of his son and now dallas police report two additional pipe bombs were found inside the suspect s armored van on the scene, 11 miles from where we are. i am only two blocks from dallas police headquarters. police said they found more explosives in the vehicle. there have been reports of witnesses down there of two loud pops. controlled explosions if you will. we presume dallas police have detonated the two pipe bombs just as they did with the two bombs that were here at police headquarters. rapidly developing situation. but again, the headline here one suspect dead they believe he acted alone. no officers no bystanders miraculously injured in the 11 hour ordeal. an ordeal indeed. thankfully no police officers or by standers injured today. thank you for that update. the search intensifies for two escaped murderers on the run in northern new york for about a week now. police helicopters began to circle over the town of plattsburgh where 800 local, state officers are hunting for david sweat and richard matt that busted out of prison. they allegedly received help from this woman, prison worker joyce mitchell who was arraigned late last night on felony charges. police are saying she provided the inmates with illegal items, but not the power tools they used to make their escape. peter doocy is outside that correctional facility in new york with more on this story. reporter: uma, the two fugitive murderers are still out there. it is a dramatic scene in upstate new york just in the time we drove from the hotel to the live shot outside the walls of the clinton correctional facility. we went through three police check points. at the final two, officers were clutching weapons tightly, searching every car. they think they could be anywhere. they re hoping for at least a confirmed sighting of either richard matt or david sweat because there still haven t been any in the one week after their daring escape. today is one day after their alleged accomplice joyce mitchell stood before a judge and pled not guilty to supplying a saw weeks ago. on may 1st the complaint lays out a week long effort to tunnel out of clinton correctional facility with supplies from miss mitchell who law enforcement officials are telling fox was supposed to be a get away driver when the two popped out of a manhole cover a block away but she got cold feet. her arrest is the only success law enforcement has had so far in the manhunt as officials now are trying to send messages to the escapees that are simple but serious. we have a message for david sweat and richard matt. we re coming for you and we will not stop until you are caught. reporter: you get a sense how serious the search is and how close the prison is to the town. the walls cut through the middle of what is a very nice town a nice part of upstate new york and it is so intertwined, the prison is with everything that happens here that we just got copy of the street where many of the prison guards and reporters in town have been going, and they re selling t shirts with the prison guard tower on them. so the prison obviously is very important to the town. but the most important thing right now is finding these two people who are supposed to be inside but instead are somewhere out there. uma? thank you very much. with the latest on the search that continues at this hour. that is why i am running for president of the united states. turning to politics and shifting gears in a big way, hillary clinton hitting the reset button on her presidential campaign kicking off what her team calls a new phase with a big event on roosevelt island and the first major speech and rally of her campaign. host of media buzz on fox news channel joins us live from roosevelt island. howard great to see you. did she talk about president obama this time around? she mentioned the president only a couple of times. as she went through a policy laden speech checking the boxes on the liberal agenda everything from income inequality attacking wall street shoutouts to women and gays getting to the level of pre-k and paid sick leave for workers, i thought who has been in the white house the last seven years. there was a pointed reference to her, and since there was little foreign policy in the speech reference to her having within in a situation room with the president on the day osama bin laden was killed. i want your perspective on the optics of the rally. first, want to mention the fact that she also devoted some of her speech to memory of her mother. why do you think she s doing that and what impact will that have on voters? reporter: less than i expected given the leaks about her mother s difficult life when her mom was growing up. hillary clinton was trying to make things more personal warm up her image a bit, describe how her mother had been inspiration to her, but didn t go into great detail. perhaps the best moment was when the speech was over and bill clinton came out, and chelsea clinton, that reminded me that the speech that went on here sounded like one of bill clinton s lengthy, policy heavy state of the union addresses. made me wonder whether he had a hand in writing it or rewriting it. first time that bill and hillary appeared together since she declared her run for president this time. that s interesting, too. a lot has been made of whether or not we will see much of her husband on the campaign trail and how much of a factor he is going to play into this race particularly at a time when so much has changed since he was president. what s your take on this in terms of the optics? reporter: i think it is great for bill clinton to be seen with hillary clinton, had he spoken for a few minutes, he is a natural orator and speaker in a way she is not, there would have been inevitable comparison. that s what i think they re trying to avoid. have him there for the pretty photo ops, but let it be hillary s day as she makes a case for candidacy. a lively campaign indeed. howard thanks for joining us. always appreciate your perspective. thanks. we want to hear from you. recent polls show voters have trust issues and credibility concerns about mrs. clinton in light of recent e-mail controversy. do you think this reboot will restore credibility problems? i would like to hear from you. tweet me. we will read some of your answers a little later on the show. on the republican side a half dozen presidential hopefuls attending a conference in utah hosted by former candidate mitt romney. the event this weekend includes speeches recreation and private meetings with some of the party s biggest campaign donors. senior national correspondent john roberts joins us with more on this. john? reporter: uma, good afternoon to you. don t forget this is a group of people that raised a half billion in campaign funds for mitt romney in 2012. it is clear from the conference that there s still a lot of campaign money sitting on the sidelines, as deep pocketed donors look for a candidate they can fall in love with. one of the candidates that stands to gain the most from the conference marco rubio who you see in the photograph leading a flag football game yesterday morning, some fun here as well as political talk. he is raising hard money as a conservative candidate, can use the assistance of bundlers going forward. he is making a virtue of the financial struggles they faced years ago, subject of what his campaign called another hit piece in the the new york times this week. this is part of the process, media can decide to write what they want. at the end of the day, never claimed to be a rich person. most important thing i tried to achieve is a good home for my kids and opportunities. i am proud of what we achieved. reporter: another candidate looking for cash lindsey graham has lead a skeet shooting event. he is a startup company looking for people to vest. graham was the butt of off color jokes about the status of never married. his colleague called him up to apologize to graham for calling him on an open mike moment a bro with no ho. i asked senator graham about that. why are people making this an issue? i am single. i am the only guy running who s single. america is going to have to decide can a single person be president. i think i m a good person by no means perfect, but of all people running on both sides of the aisle, i am single. haven t had a single president in 100 years. last time i checked no sign on the white house says married people only single people need not apply. he is staying in the race. he went over well in the speech he gave yesterday. as far as mitt romney who organized the conclave goes he told me he is not going to endorse any single candidate just yet, but as the process goes forward, if a candidate starts to rise who does not share his values he may throw his weight behind a candidate who does. uma? very interesting. a lovely backdrop behind you there in park city utah. reporter: you should see it with snow. oh, my god, it must be breathtaking. thanks for that update. reporter: thanks. our objective is clear, we will degrade and ultimately destroy isil through a comprehensive and sustained counter terrorism strategy. we don t yet have a complete strategy because it requires commitment on the part of the iraqis as well and so the details are not worked out. quite a contrast from the president when it comes to taking on the isis threat. from degrade and destroy, the president is admitting what critics have been saying awhile there is in his words, we don t have a complete strategy about the fight against isis. president obama adding that the iraqis need to give him a plan that will work. plans to send 450 military advisers to iraq to train iraqi soldiers and give them backup for defending themselves. at this point the military advisers outnumber the iraqis being trained for combat. what does this mean. joining us for analysis oliver north and the author of counter fit lies. welcome, great to see you, sir. good to be with you, uma. this strategy produced 2.5 million refugees from iraq christian and villages have been anie latd genocide on the scale of row wand a under way, and isis is in the meez and across africa and around the world and more are joining daily. this is not a good picture for success. what s happening in iraqi, plig down yis and end that trail of brutality but as a national security issue for america and our ally israel. what do you make of the president s remarks this week now that he is sending in more military advisers will it make a difference? 450 more u.s. personnel is not a strategy and it is not going to bring about any major change because the iraqis aren t playing the way they would be had we stayed in 2011. if they want to train more iraqis, train the sunnis giving them more equipment to handle isis is a waste. if they want to defeat isis uma, here is a five point strategy that will work. first, stop sending supplies to the curds through baghdad. directly arm the curds in peshmerga peshmerga. number two, put more u.s. intelligence surveillance reconnaissance aircraft in jordan another carrier battle group in the mediterranean and marine expeditionary force. third, but advisers and forward air controllers on the ground with iraqi forces. don t leave them in the rear with the gear that s not working. number four. support egyptian jordanian, uae force in anbar province through jordan to liberate that euphrates river valley. number five target and kill isis leadership deny them the safe haven they have in syria or anywhere else like in libya. here s what not to do. a nuclear deal with the iranians because it will validate the head of isis his claim to be the savior of sunni islam from shyites and persians. if the administration did those five things and walked away from this business they re negotiating with the iranians you could keep iraq together as a country. otherwise it is going to cease to do anything. takes a moral clarity, a specific belief that there is an important fight, not just for that part of the world but for the security as i pointed out earlier. do you believe if the u.s. doesn t take the lead now, it will be too late to bring isis down and how do we do that knowing that isis has no plans to stop any time soon. feel more embolden than ever before. we don t need the first marine division in don t need to put somebody else back in. we need to encourage egyptians and jordanians to do what they wanted to two or three months ago before ramadi went down. all we have to do is support them logistically give them encouragement, intelligence surveillance. they have two well trained militaries all they needed was support and the obama administration gave them the back of the hand. washington is continuing to push for a sunni shiite alliance in that area but as long as the iraqi government continues to embrace the shi a militia, there s no hope that they re going to come together to cooperate and show up as a military force? that s whial sees ee ee option is the only way the soon east are back in the fight. holding iraq together as a single unified country is getting more difficult by the time. time is not an ally in this. you could take egyptians and jordanians in to liberate the sunni area through jordan. there are bases on the border they could be using today. colonel north, always great to see you. i know you paint a sobering picture of what s going on now, but as you point out, there is an urgency here. we have to see if we re going to see anything at this point from the white house that s going to meet that demand. thank you so much for joining us. uma, always a pleasure. thank you. new developments regarding release of more gitmo detainees. obama administration is transferring three of osama bin laden s alleged body guards out of gun ton mow. they re among six being sent overseas. could they return to the battlefield? back at home a war hero that knows what it means to have true courage, tells us why he is entering the political arena. stay with us. sunday dinners at my house. it s a full day for me, and i love it. but when i started having back pain my sister had to come help. i don t like asking for help. i took tylenol but i had to take six pills to get through the day. so my daughter brought over some aleve. it s just two pills, all day! and now, i m back! aleve. two pills. all day strong, all day long. and for a good night s rest, try aleve pm for a better am. you do all this research on the perfect car. gas mileage , horse power. torque ratios. three spreadsheets later you finally bring home the one. then smash it into a tree. your insurance company s all too happy to raise your rates. maybe you should ve done a little more research on them. for drivers with accident forgiveness liberty mutual won t raise accident. see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. audible safety beeping audible safety beeping audible safety beeping the nissan rogue with safety shield technologies. the only thing left to fear is you imagination. nissan. innovation that excites. when it comes to good nutrition.i m no expert. that would be my daughter hi dad. she s a dietitian. and back when i wasn t eating right, she got me drinking boost. it s got a great taste and it helps give me the nutrition i was missing. helping me stay more like me. 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look at this point i don t know any candidate that has had more negative coverage by the media than hillary clinton and she s ahead of every republican candidate in most polls. she says democracy is for everyone. i would have thought she would use freedom. republicans may have attacked her for doing that because some of her policies deny hard working taxpayers freedom, but right now the american people are looking at her and saying can i trust her, and that is the number one attribute the american people care about. it is not the policy it is actually the character. can we trust former secretary clinton, and that s the question she still has not answered. and in recent polls, we see her numbers have gone down on that issue. i know in your focus groups you re also following this. yes. in fact we have a clip now, her apology, her explanation for e-mails. the democrats don t move and republicans reject her. for someone who is asking the american people to give her four years, she s got to be more declarative than this clip here. let s take a look. when i got to work as secretary of state i opted for convenience to use my personal e-mail account, which was allowed by the state department because i thought it would be easier to carry just one device for my work and for my personal e-mails instead of two. looking back it would have been better but i simply used a second e-mail and carried a second phone, but at the time this didn t seem like an issue. your take away from that? there are two things. if you re watching her, she never looks straight ahead, never looks at the people asking her questions. that s a problem. she s looking up here and looking up there. if you won t look someone in the eye, it suggests you don t necessarily believe what you re saying. number two, she never fully takes responsibility for it. the american people want someone who is accountable, someone transparent. i don t see that in any of hillary clinton s messaging up to this point. when you take a look at this situation as you are laying it out there, she has a big rally. she s going to have more of them. she s going to iowa from here. she s going to have to start answering questions and doing interviews. going forward, do you believe that she is actually prepared to look people in the eye and answer these questions? i want to be clear about this. i do believe she is the front runner and if the election were held today, hillary clinton would be the next president, i know that will upset many of your viewers, but that s a fact. but there are two other facts that are equally as important. american people never voted for someone where more than the majority believe they don t have the integrity to serve, they use that word specifically. right now 57% do not believe she has integrity to be president. second they always vote for the future not the past. a majority believe hillary clinton represents the politics of yesterday rather than today. she s going to have to overcome both those challenges between now and election day, 2016. on the other side quickly, in the next few days and weeks, we have another slew of candidates that are going to come out and announce their candidacy from jeb bush donald trump, scott walker. how do you see it play out when you have so many people in a crowded field on the gop side? we have a graphic for people to look at dates. you ll see a clear, defined message come out, and whittling process of who stays in and who stays out. you are not going to see a clear message. we re going to have ten candidates in every debate the next six months. it will take to 2016. that s a challenge for the gop. they want to have the one candidate to stand up and draw contrast with hillary clinton. we ve never seen this in modern american politics. you cannot define a frontrunner right now. always good to see you, frank. thank you for joining us today. appreciate your insights. this is a long appreciate and we are just at the starting gate. you got it. the president of iran says a final nuclear deal is within reach. the iranian leader telling reporters that negotiators are making progress and indicating that tehran may allow inspections of facilities. meanwhile meanwhile, the largest group holding a massive protest in paris urging the u.s. and world powers to be tougher on tehran. eric shawn has more from the new york city newsroom. hi. do not believe iran that s the warning coming from the huge rally being held outside paris, iranian resistance leaders say the west has to be tougher on iran to prevent them getting a nuclear bomb. this started after 8:30 in the evening, hemmed by national council of resistance of iran. tens of thousands packed into that convention center demanding free democratic iran and calling for regime change. it is attracting support from a variety of u.s. officials, democrats and republicans, who spoke there today. all saying they fear without stronger restrictions on iran, the regime will go nuclear despite assurances in the framework of the agreement at the end of the month. the group s leader sat down for exclusive interview with fox news told me more needs to be done to rein in that program. do you trust tehran? absolutely not. i have said time and again they re massters of deception. everything they know has been exposed. there s not a single example where the regime has offered explanation on its own. there were messages of support from nancy pelosi and john mccain and other top level officials attended it signed a letter to president obama and all of the presidential candidates in the campaign calling for the u.s. to support and recognize the iranian opposition. one supporter, former democratic senator joseph lieberman told us the obama administration should embrace the group and its principles. what a message it is that this opposition to the iranian moolahs is led by a woman, an articulate woman. she s in many ways the moderate leader of islam that a lot of people in the western world have been asking for. iranian denies the nuclear methods and calls them a terrorist organization. those at the rally praise the resistance movement saying it represents the values and aims of the free iran one without nuclear weapons. fascinating story, eric thank you very much. an american hero who sacrificed in afghanistan continues to inspire many that served with him on and off off the battlefield. he is preparing for a different fight. find out what s ahead when we speak to him next. decades after world war ii american violinist completes his father s musical tribute that the nazis once broke up. before i had the shooting, burning, pins-and-needles of diabetic nerve pain, these feet. .served my country. .carried the weight of a family. .and walked a daughter down the aisle. but i couldn t bear my diabetic nerve pain any longer. so i talked to my doctor and he prescribed lyrica. nerve damage from diabetes causes diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is fda-approved to treat this pain. lyrica may cause serious allergic reactions or suicidal thoughts or actions. tell your doctor right away if you have these, new, or worsening depression or unusual changes in mood or behavior. or swelling, trouble breathing rash, hives, blisters, muscle pain with fever, tired feeling, or blurry vision. common side effects are dizziness, sleepiness, weight gain and swelling of hands, legs and feet. don t drink alcohol while taking lyrica. don t drive or use machinery until you know how lyrica affects you. those who have had a drug or alcohol problem may be more likely to misuse lyrica. now i have less diabetic nerve pain. and my biggest reason to walk. .calls me grandpa. ask your doctor about lyrica. you show up. you stay up. you listen. you laugh. you worry. you do whatever it takes to take care of your family. and when it s time to plan for your family s future we re here for you. we re legalzoom, and for over 10 years we ve helped families just like yours with wills and living trusts. so when you re ready start with us. doing the right thing has never been easier. legalzoom. legal help is here. ar and i feel great because i used the truecar app. truecar knows what other people paid for this car so i know if i m getting a fair price. this is how car buying was always meant to be. this is truecar. 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absolutely ma am. i think anybody that s been in the military knows what it is to see unity. we can be under the most aus tear conditions but we find a way to stay united. that s something that we re not witnessing right now across the board in the united states of america, and something that i feel is a leadership issue. something that we have been led into this divide it is something i honestly believe we can be led out of. you know when your challenges confronted you, you decided that you were not going to look back instead you were going to look forward. you went through an unbelievable journey, losing both your legs yet you never allowed it to bring you down. where does your sense of faith come from? you know it is largely coming from my upbringing. i can say when i was first injured, my father when he came to my bedside after telling me he loved me first thing he said to me brian, you need to find a way to pull yourself up find a way to get back out there, get to work. you can t let your kids see you sitting on your butt they would think that s an okay way to get through life. that s something that stuck with me something that i carried with me every day in physical therapy and carry with me still, every day going forward, it pushes me and drives me to make sure i m always setting the best possible example i can for my children. i know you believe that a lot of your inspiration, your motivation to go forward has come from being with other disabled vets and watching the courage that they embrace as they get through their challenges. it couldn t be more true. when i think about the time i spent at walter reed i was injured by losing two legs and a finger. i know guys that are missing two legs two legs and an arm, two legs two arms that are burned blind, a combination of everything. and they re out there doing the most amazing things every day. those guys and gals inspired me going forward every day to say there s nothing you can t achieve. i think every one of them i would be hard pressed to say that i met one that didn t use injury as a tool to make themselves stronger. they didn t take injury and use it as something that defined them or discouraged them they used it to make themselves stronger than they were before injury. that s something i find to be amazing and it inspired me. it inspires all of us. we are so happy you could join us today. you are a true american hero. we wish you all the best. we will keep posted on how you re doing in the campaign let us know how it is going. thank you, ma am. i look forward to it. great to have you on board today. thank you very much. a performance interrupted by an evil regime now completed more than 80 years later, the amazing musical journey between a father and his grammy award winning son, don t miss this. every auto insurance policy has a number. but not every insurance company understands the life behind it. those who have served our nation have earned the very best service in return. usaa. we know what it means to serve. get an auto insurance quote and see why 92% of our members plan to stay for life. what up wheels! mr. auto-mo-deal! hey, it s the wheel deal! hey, hey, the duke of deals! i know a few guys in the rental car biz. let s go, wheels . rental car deals up to 40% off. who does this kinda thing online? 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an already strained relationship just got a little more tense as president obama criticizes the supreme court again. is there a strategy behind the scolding and will it work? and ge threatens to call it quits in connecticut after one too many tax increases. will other blue state governors take heed? welcome to the journal editorial report. just days after saying that the
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well, because we want to take a balanced approach. again, we have now cut $1.5 trillion if you look at the spending caps that were imposed as part of the budget control act agreement. then as part of the fiscal cliff agreement which you just referenced, we raised about $600 billion. what we ve said is as we go forward, we should use the same model as the bipartisan fiscal commissions and continue to take that balanced approach. yes, additional cuts in a targeted way, not a senseless way, but also additional revenue from closing those tax loopholes that both presidential candidates, mitt romney and president obama, talked about during the last campaign. they re all still out there. we haven t touched any of those. well, just to be fair, mitt romney said he would lower the tax rate in exchange for closing those, and you did limit deductions as part of the federal part of the fiscal cliff deal. so let me ask you about that specifically, because this whole tax issue, adam davidson and i quote him every single night so i hope he listens, co-founder of npr s planet money noted in the new york times that increasing the middle class tax burden by an additional 8% would have a bigger impact than taxing millionaires at 100% and of course, congressman, leaders of your own party, bill clinton also knows this. here s bill clinton at a conference i was at with him a year ago. i think you could tax me at 100% and you wouldn t balance the budget. we all have to contribute to this. if middle class people s wages were going up again and we had some growth in the economy, i don t think they would object to going back to the tax rates that i obtained when i was president. isn t the honest thing to tell the american people if you re going to be raising money by raising taxes that it has to be on more than just a few at the top? no, i think the honest thing is to take a balanced approach. i certainly agree with what you just said and with what president clinton said, that you cannot solve this deficit problem simply by asking higher income individuals to pay a whole lot more, because there s just not enough there which is why we ve said we need a combination of revenue from closing those tax breaks that disproportionately benefit the very wealthy and mitt romney and paul ryan talked about how they were there. in fact, speaker boehner s proposal just about a couple months ago said he would raise $800 billion from that source, but that s why you have to couple that with cuts. so how do you get there on loopholes by your logic? five of the top ten loopholes, here they are. i will read them out. you know what they are. for any viewers who aren t familiar with all of them in order, mortgage interest deduction, earned income tax credit, employer provided health care, child tax credit, state and local tax deduction and charitable deductions. when you close those, you hurt a lot more than just the wealthy. no, what i support is the approach the president has taken in his budgets which i suspect he will present again, which is to say for higher income individuals, we re going to limit the value of all your deductions to 28% so that you re not getting a bigger break, so to speak, for your deductions than middle income tax payers. okay. i see your point there. but the problem is as you also say, you can t get there just by doing that. $550 billion over ten years, that s pocket change, right? you can look at the $1.2 trillion, you re looking at $85 billion a year, less than 2% or just about 2% of the budget. it doesn t if you re really looking at making a big difference at numbers that simpson-bowles are saying we need $4 trillion, $5 trillion, i don t see how you get there without raising taxes on everybody if you say taxes are part of the solution. well, as i said, i think taxes are part of the solution. i just mentioned one way of getting some of that revenue, but you also need to continue to do the cuts and that s what we re talking about in terms of our overall budget approach, and the president s plan when you take it all together, starting with the cuts we made last year, comes to about $2 to $3 in cuts for every dollar in revenue. do you ever have frustration, as someone who has tried to be calm, thoughtful and balanced about this at the fact that the leader of your party, second term president, whatever he s put on the table, has not directly dealt with where the future debt that is drowning this country is coming from? and by that obviously i m referring still to things like medicare where, when you look at the out years, that s where the problem seems to lie. are you frustrated that he hasn t come out and told the american people that they re going to be taking a hit there and that he s willing to be the one to deal that hit because he can, because he s a second term president? well, i think he has. if you look at the affordable care act, we achieved $715 billion in savings in medicare. even with that, we re still looking at this medicare crisis in the out years. that s right. that s right. but remember what happened in the last election. our republican colleagues demagogued those important savings which according to the medicare actuary actually extended the life of medicare. in this budget proposal, the president has said that by year ten or 11 he s achieving the same amount of medicare savings per year as projected by simpson-bowles so i think the president has put that on the table. the difference is in approach. in other words, republicans through their voucher plan want to simply move the costs off the medicare balance sheet and on to the backs of seniors. that s what happens when you provide someone with a voucher that doesn t keep pace with rising health care costs. whereas what we proposed and i think we need to expand on it, is to change the incentives within the medicare system. you have to move away from a strictly fee for service system where nobody has a real incentive to save money, toward one where you reward doctors and providers based on the quality of care. we started doing that with things like the accountable care organizations, but we can build on that. congressman, thank you. still outfront a civil war in the gop. 75 high profile republicans today break from their party to strike down california s ban on same sex marriage. we ll tell you who they are. plus, we re days away from the pope stepping down and he s about to get a major makeover. a story we have been watching closely. a year after he was shot and killed, a memorial for trayvon martin. actor jamie foxx is there. he s speaking right now to the people at the memorial. we will be going there in a few minutes. 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[ female announcer ] from more efficient payments. to more efficient pick-ups. wireless is limitless. our second story outfront civil war. over same sex marriage. so today, this was a pretty amazing thing. more than 80 high profile republicans signed a brief before the supreme court supporting same sex marriage. among those whose names appeared on this document, jon huntsman, christine todd-whitman and mary cheney, daughter of former vice president dick cheney. is this a sign the gop s opposition to same sex marriage is crumbling? outfront tonight cnn contributor and republican strategist anna navarro who signed the brief and tim carney, senior political columnist with the washington examiner. tim, there are big names on this and even people, jon huntsman when he was governor of utah had been in support of civil unions but going in favor of gay marriage is even another further step for someone like him to take. does this help or hurt the party? well, it s actually going even further than just supporting gay marriage. they are saying that a state does not have the right, the voters of a state do not have the right to determine what marriage is but in fact, that the constitution somehow requires it accept gay marriage. i think going that further step, endorsing the federal court action, is what could hurt the party. there s disagreements on gay marriage, the republican party should have disagreements on all sorts of issues. that makes a party stronger. but trying to move it away from the power of what the people vote for and put in the power of the courts, that s harmful. by your logic, if people view it as a civil rights issue, if you had states that said even now slavery is okay, people wouldn t be all right with that. they would say that should be legislated at the federal level. this is the same. i think very few people would buy into the analogy you re making of it being that perfect between what is the definition of marriage and are we going to treat all human beings as equal. so that s the question. is this a civil rights issue or is this about redefining something that was not created by government. marriage was not created by government. it s something that was created long ago culturally. is it a civil rights issue, that s at the heart of the question. courts shouldn t be handling that. people should be. for republicans to ask for courts to do it, that s what i think could harm the party. anna, obviously a lot of republicans have been coming out and supporting same sex marriage, pun intended, including yourself. you signed this document. but a lot of republican leaders still oppose it. here s a few. i believe the institution of marriage as it s traditionally known is between one man and one woman and it should stay that way in new jersey. i believe marriage is the union of one man and one woman. i believe in the traditional definition of marriage. i supported the wisconsin amendment to define marriage between a man and woman. has it hurt the republican party that people like you are coming out and saying no, we just don t agree with that? i think it absolutely helps the republican party. it is a wholesome party that can have diversity of thought. what i aspire to is a big tent party where i can co-exist with people who hold a different opinion but we can co-exist with in a realm of respect and mutual values. for me, the republican party is about personal freedoms and for me, personal freedom means being able to have my opinion and being able to have friends who have the same rights as me. we are the party of small government. we can t be the party of small government and yet at the same time want for government to decide who does and does not get married, who they have a right to love. i think we can t be on the wrong side of history here. we can t be on the wrong side of love and commitment. but at the same time, i respect people who have a different opinion and i think it makes us healthy and stronger. we should be about inclusiveness, not being exclusive. i want to ask both of you about something else that happened today, and i m going to throw this at you with a little bit of a surprise but it really caught my attention, people are watching at the top of our show saw this. the use of the word ass in washington today. let me just play for you john boehner and harry reid. we have moved a bill in the house twice. we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. i was raised in a little town that had 13 brothels in it so i m used to pretty salty language, as you know. but the speaker today said he s not that category, for sure, but boehner hopes senate gets off their ass. and it s quite interesting, we should not have to move a third bill before the senate gets off their ass and begins to do something. i think he should understand who is sitting on their posterior. the look on his face was absolutely priceless. tim, look, they talk like this all the time but when this gets into the public discourse, use of a word like that, inappropriate or fine? the senate s controlled by democrats. they re the donkeys. that s an ass. i don t understand what the issue is. yeah, john boehner, we know that that s the kind of guy he is. we know how much he plays lots of golf, he drinks and he talks that way. ana, are you all right with john boehner using that, setting that tone, or not? listen, i m all right with him being frustrated by the fact that nothing is getting done. i think they are reflecting what the american people feel, a great deal of frustration by the inaction in washington. so i would echo john boehner s words and say guys, get to it. of course, we had a contest between harry reid today and john boehner on who had the toughest, roughest childhood and heard the saltiest language growing up, whether you heard it in a bar or growing up in ohio or whether you heard it in a small town in nevada growing up amongst brothels. i don t know. we may have to have a throw-down on that one. all i can say is please, harry, john, just get out of the sandbox. thanks to both of you. still to come, for the first time in 600 years, talk about tradition, a pope is stepping down. he will keep his name but will be called pope emeritus after he steps down as leader of the roman catholic church on thursday. he s going to change his wardrobe. so much of this is about pomp and circumstance. that s what makes a lot of organized religion. he will no longer be wearing the red shoes, opting for brown and dressing in white. what do the changes mean? it s the pomp and circumstance that can be fascinating. i notice some people may say these changes are insignificant, color of the shoes, whatever, guys, but that s really significant, right? the red shoes? absolutely. look, everything in the catholic church particularly the things we are going to see together over the next couple of weeks, they all mean something and they re all tied to history. those red shoes go back hundreds of years. what they symbolize is the willingness to bleed, to suffer martyrdom for the church, for the gospel. that s what that represents. it is a prerogative of the pope to wear that alone, no one else in the church may wear those red shoes. so when benedict is no longer the pope, he has to give up the shoes but remember, john paul ii wore the red shoes for a couple weeks early on in his pontificate, then wore brown ones. the pope can really do what he wants. he s the supreme pontiff, the supreme ruler of the church and he kind of can make the rules himself and benedict made these himself today. interesting. although as you said, raymond, i say this, you know, can t change the doctrine, right? you do everything. can t do that. he can protect the doctrine but not amend it. let me talk about one other thing. he wears a ring, fisherman s ring. describe it to me and why he s going to actually destroy it. it looks kind of fluorescent green or yellow on his finger. now, this goes back to 1265. pope clement iv referenced this ring in one of his letters to a nephew. it is the sign and seal of his office. when you look closely, you are seeing a picture there, it is a bas relief of st. peter leaning over the edge of the boat pulling in fish. this shows and indicates that the pope, whoever wears this ring, is the successor of st. peter, the first apostle. his name is emblazoned around the top of that bas relief and when each pope dies or in this case retires, they remove the ring from his hand, scratch the front of it, literally deface it in the sign of a cross, and smash it with a mallet so it can never be used again. it is a sign that his power, his authority in the church, is finished, extinguished. usually they bury that ring with the pope. john paul ii s is in his casket. in this case i guess they will hold on to it. they put it in a satchel and it will eventually be buried with pope benedict but he will no longer be pope. now the cardinals during the preconclave period are not supposed to be campaigning but i would imagine that is what they re doing, fast and furiously, right? well, it s a quiet campaign. it s kind of a meet and greet. they look at each other from afar. i remember going to a horse auction when i was a kid. bear with me here. when you go to a horse auction you look at the horses legs, their mouth, you read the press, you talk to the trainers but you don t talk to the horses. that s sort of the approach. at least that s what they re telling me. they don t go to the man they re directly thinking about who might be a candidate, they talk to friends, they talk to people who know them and begin to form an impression. is this the guy we need now. and that s how it happens. then they go into the conclave and vote. the two-thirds majority, first man to get to the two-thirds majority is the next pontiff. thank you very much. i love it. the horse auction analogy. it is going to be like watching a horse race through the next few weeks. outfront next hundreds of people gathering to remember trayvon martin tonight. so we ask the question and answer it for you, where is the man who shot him tonight? plus, oscar pistorius charged with murder in the death of his girlfriend. why one of our legal analysts says the case may never go to trial. a hot air balloon carrying nearly two dozen tourists plummets to the ground. we have the footage. 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they re everywhere. as we have been told for years, cell phone signals can interfere with feeding tubes, ventilators, pacemakers and dialysis machines. use your cell phone, you might kill someone. it turns out the people cavalierly playing with your life are the ones you trust the most. according to a new study, 55% of perfusionists, the people who run the heart and lung machines during heart bypass surgery say they have texted, e-mailed and used their phones during a procedure. i ve heard of routine surgery. this does, though, seem to be stretching it a bit. as far as i can tell, there are only a few reasons why you would need a cell phone in the o.r. one, you need to look up how to do your job. two, you can t stop sexting or three, you just can t pull yourself away from that rousing game of words with friends. perfusionists lawsuit uses all seven letters. it has been 572 days since the u.s. lost its top credit rating. what are we doing to get it back? with forced spending cuts set to take effect in four days, ben bernanke says the cuts would add a significant burden to the recovery. the congressional budget office says economic growth would take a hit of just over half a percent this year alone. now our fourth story outfront, remembering trayvon martin. tonight hundreds of people are gathered in new york city to remember the 17-year-old one year after he was shot and killed by a florida neighborhood watchman, george zimmerman. trayvon s parents attended the vigil at union square and observed a moment of silence just a few moments ago in memory of their son. george zimmerman says he shot trayvon martin in self-defense and zimmerman remains in florida, where david mattingly is tonight with the latest. david, you are obviously in sanford where this tragic incident happened a year ago today. what s happening there? reporter: erin, what we saw happening here tonight was very similar to what we saw in new york, very similar to what might be happening in other parts across the country tonight. people gathering to remember trayvon martin and what that moment meant to them. and here of course, hitting home in so many ways, not just geographically but here, that case exposed very open raw sentiment within the african community here in this city, that the police department was not providing them with an equal system of justice. now today, the city of sanford has a new police chief, an african-american. also today, city officials were meeting with clergy from around the area, some from as far south as miami, talking about how to keep the peace. they were doing that with members of the community relations team from the justice department so they are now on this anniversary looking forward to those court dates coming up and knowing how personal and how deeply held the opinions are behind this case, trying to move forward from here. what can you tell us about george zimmerman? where is he? what s he doing? reporter: well, george zimmerman is confined on the geographical boundaries of seminole county. he can t leave the county. he is living in some undisclosed place in the county. he had to move from the house he was living in. he is still wearing a bracelet and has a curfew and is unemployed but he has two jobs. one is working on his defense and the other is trying to keep a low profile. there were death threats against him. he was very concerned about his security and continues to be so. some of the biggest concerns that he and the people working with him have that he might be recognized when he goes out in public, and he does leave wherever he s living at this point, he does leave it sometime. when he does go out in public, the concern is that he might be recognized and someone follows him back home, they would have to find another place to live. so he is by no means a free man while this case is going on, and while he continues to be so widely recognized in this area. david mattingly, thank you very much, reporting from sanford, where there is a vigil. there is a vigil here in new york as well. jamie foxx, the actor, was speaking there just a moment ago. here is what he said. don t think about the color of the child. think about that child going to school. think about that child hanging out with his father, with his mom, skiing, skateboarding, doing all these fun things that a 17-year-old child does, and then think about that child on his way home to see his father and all of a sudden, that child has his life taken from him. now we go to south africa where olympic star oscar pistorius is holding a private memorial service for reeva steenkamp, the girlfriend he is accused of intentionally murdering. pistorius has been charged with premeditated murder after shooting steenkamp in his home on valentine s day. he says it was a tragic accident. he shot her because he thought she was an intruder. pistorius is free on bail but the question tonight is whether this case will ever go to trial. jeffrey toobin says there s a strong likelihood it could end in a plea deal. he s outfront tonight. criminal defense attorney ann bremner is also with us. this is a case not just within the context of the fame of oscar pistorius, of the bizarreness of the case, the beauty of his girlfriend. in a country where domestic violence is an epidemic. it might never go to trial. that s right. because the actual issues in the case are fairly narrow. we know how she died. we know who killed her. the only issue in the case is what was pistorius intent, what was in his head. was he really shooting at an intruder, was he really engaged in domestic violence. that is something that i think both sides will worry that they are going to lose. in that case, plea bargains often happen. plea bargaining is part of american legal culture, also part of south african legal culture. this case seems right for one. why? what s weak about the prosecution case that makes you think that? because the idea that you might be looking for an intruder is credible in south africa. people have home invasions there. people protect their homes with guns. it is not a crazy idea. now, i think much of pistorius story is crazy, the idea that he somehow didn t speak and didn t find her didn t notice her in the bed. didn t notice she was gone. look, it s problematic. but both sides have a lot to lose if they go to trial, and pistorius i think when push comes to shove, there is a charge in south africa called culpable homicide, which is basically a negligent homicide that seems to fit this case fairly well, if you believe pistorius was looking for an intruder. a short prison sentence is something i bet he would take at this point. or even i guess you could have community service, technically, with that charge in south africa. ann, do you agree? well, i have great respect for jeff. he s fabulous. but i think, here s another side to this. i think that let s take a look at other celebrity type trials and whether or not they have resulted in plea bargains and they haven t. they tend to go to trial. casey anthony, scott peterson, robert blake, phil specter, michael jackson, o.j. simpson, martha stewart. even the lindbergh baby kidnapping. why do they go to trial? it s because to get the real truth in a case like this, really get the truth, you need a courtroom. you need witnesses sworn. you need evidence, et cetera. and they tend to go that way. just looking at history, it seems to me we may well have a trial with oscar pistorius. the second part of it is we have to assume with a plea bargain if he will be offered a deal he can live with and i think based on the evidence and based on the improbabilities in his statement as the judge said, he may not get the offer he wants. one thing that all those cases she mentioned have in common is they were all within the united states of america. in south africa, you have a case that mark thatcher, prime minister thatcher s son, who was accused of fomenting a revolution abroad, got a very sweet plea bargain deal. the fact that it s a high profile case alone doesn t prevent a plea bargain from taking place. look, i think we don t know today the most important evidence in this case which is the forensic evidence. what do the ballistics show. we are able to find out for example was it a boom boom boom boom or was it a boom, wait, you would hear someone scream, boom. was pistorius actually standing on his prosthesis because that would suggest he had time to prepare. that is a very significant fact. so there s more we need to know and there s more both sides will know. but if the evidence continues to be at least somewhat ambiguous, i think both sides have a lot to gain with a plea bargain. who ultimately if this goes to trial, obviously in south africa, a trial does not come with a jury, which could be good or could be bad, but goes to trial, who does that benefit the most? well, the judge is going to benefit the prosecution. i want to add on cases being in the u.s., amanda knox didn t have a plea deal. that was in italy. in the case in south africa just mentioned involving a relative of margaret thatcher, it was very murky and those often result in plea bargains but i think a trial, truly looking at the evidence in this case, will probably favor the prosecution given that the story that he has right now doesn t seem to even line up with the evidence. but let s say he can create enough doubt, he can cry, he can talk about her dying in my arms and can do all the things that convinced another judge at a bail hearing to let him go, he may be able to convince another judge about doubt in this case and that it was an accident because only he knows. and reeva knows really what happened. thank you very much, both of you. we appreciate it. check out jeff s article in the new yorker. a hot air balloon carrying tourists falls out of the sky. we have the horrific pictures. we all know someone who fought or died from breast cancer. we have new numbers about why more young victims in this country are being diagnosed now. would you take it? 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yes. these are young women, mothers, daughters, sisters, precious lives at stake. we re seeing more breast cancer now than we have in the past. there are a lot of reasons for that. there are well-established risk factors that are more today than before like early puberty, obesity, more women are drinking alcohol and drinking more of it. women are still smoking. we re more sedentary, not as physically active. fewer of us are having full term pregnancies and when we do, we tend to postpone them and not breast feed or only breast feed for a short period of time. pregnancy and breast feeding are protective. there are also emerging environmental concerns that we re really worried about. there are a lot of chemicals i want to ask about those. first, just to cut to the chase of something that you ve been saying which is that only 10% of breast cancer is genetic. i didn t know that. i was shocked when i read that. you re saying 90% of it is not. that means we can control it, right? at least 90% of it. your weight, how physically active you are, reproductive choices, things we can modify. but there is good news, which is that we are now getting more scientific evidence, proof that you can take steps today to lower your risk. the breast is the most common place for cancer to recur in a woman s body. there are steps to lower risks immediately. let me ask you about that. there s two areas. one when you hear i just saw this the other day. there s a way to charge your cell phone where you put it on the table and it gets a charge from the wall. you don t even have a plug. all the waves going through our body. am i just being scaredy cat or is this stimulus we re receiving in the world part of the reason why? we need to look into all potential causes including radiation people are concerned about. we have solid evidence about well-established risks, things you can do in your everyday life like getting to and sticking to a healthy weight, exercising three to four hours a week. eliminating to fewer drinks per week, not smoking, avoiding extra hormones those are some well-established steps you can take to lower your risk. plus limiting your exposure to things in the environment that could be hormonally active. thank you, we appreciate that. i want to put that on our website. but i want to tell you something that s just come in. sources telling us at the state department that the obama administration is moving toward increasing aid to the syrian opposition. in the form of nonlethal military equipment and military training. these changes are being talked about with allies right now as part of secretary of state john kerry s meetings in europe. the sources stress that the united states is not providing weapons to the rebels, an important distinction and one we ll see if it will last. last night we brought you a new story about a policy introduced by yahoo! ceo marisa mayer. employees won t be able to work from home any more. you were passionate about the subject. we included a poll on our out front blog ask you if you agree with the decision. there s been a back and forth on this poll all day. at the moment the yes side is winning. if you d like to take a poll or add a comment of your own, please do so. go to our blog. that was last night s essay. tonight s essay? 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