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it also throws a light on some pretty good police work as well. as self-described jihadist, meticulously planned and then tried to carry out a terror attack almost to the explosive end, except for one thing. undercover cops were on to the guy the entire time, and this is who we are talking about. his name is quazi mohammed ahsan nafis. he livers in the u.s., but he is from bangladesh. he hatched a plan to set off what he thought was i ahuge bomb in the middle of manhattan's financial district. he didn't make it. he is in jail. a couple more pictures for you. this is his family in bangladesh today getting the news that their son is a suspected terrorists in the united states. we've confirmed, by the way, that nafis, 21 years old, was, indeed, a registered student at southeast missouri state university. briefly, we also know this. he bought what he thought was a half ton of explosives, fertilizer bomb. it wasn't. it was a phony bomb supplied by the fbi. now, what he wanted to do was blow up one of the federal reserve banks in his words, according to prosecutors, to destroy america. you'll hear from the police commissioner in a minute and his message of vigilance to new yorkers, but let's get you live to new york now. talk to our maggie lake, who is staying on top of this investigation as the details come in. maggie, an unbelievable story in in ways. an angry extremist buys a fake bomb. very serious stuff. police taking it seriously, that's for sure. how did they even find out about this guy? >> it is an extraordinary story, michael, and they found out because he reached out, as you mentioned. he came on a student visa. he was supposed to be studying in missouri, but he was most recently living in jamaica, queens. authorities believe he came with the intent of planning this attack, and, indeed, reached out to people to recruit them to help using both social media, et cetera, and one of the people he reached out to was actually an informant for the fbi. that man then put him in touch with an actual fbi agent who was working undercover posing as an al qaeda operative. they monitored him along the way, supplied him with those fake explosives all the way up to the point that he drove that van to the new york federal reserve yesterday. checked into a hotel across the street, and then tried to detonate it, meeblg, so thankfully in his lone wolf type situation, it was that initial reach-out that helped authorities key in to him. >> another extraordinary point about this is we're told that most of his plans, communications, and the like, are actually recorded on video. a confession if you like, a suicide message. he contacted the fbi. he played perfectly into police hands, in a way. i'm curious, are they thinking that he was the real deal or was he an amateur who basically did everything wrong? >> you know, it is interesting, and certainly he made a lot of mistakes, which would lead people to sort of question whether this was serious or not. he wasn't as well-informed. even when you look at the target that he chose in terms of the new york federal reserve. he said he wanted to destroy america's economy. the new york federal reserve certainly a large goal and certainly an important regulator, but not critical to sort of the day to day operating of the economy. however, when you look at what happened and when you listen to the new york police commissioner, they very much think that he was a real threat. listen to what ray kelly had to say. >> we're still very much a covet the target by terrorists. they say new york is the top of the terrorist target list in this country, and i think this just reaffirms that. i think it shows, again, that law enforcement is vigilant. certainly we understand that the public can become complacent. we've had no successful attack here until 11 years, but law enforcement can't be. >> so, michael, again, they believe he was working alone. they are still looking into every detail to make sure that is the case, but even one suicide bomber in a crowded city like new york, which has seen its share of terror threats, is a very serious problem as far as they're concerned. >> it is extraordinary how often the cops seem to get on to these guys before they do anything, thank goodness. maggie, thanks. maggie lake following things in new york. we want to take you to manchester, new hampshire now. the u.s. president barack obama speaking there. let's listen in for a second. >> you are going to step into a voting booth, and it's a big choice to make. it's not just a choice between two candidates or two parties. it's about two different visions for this country that we love. you know, governor romney has a sales pitch. he has been running around talking about his five point power point plan for the economy. we saw the other night, it's not a five point. >> what he is selling is not a five-point plan. it's really just a one-point plan. folks at the top get to play with a different set of rules than you do. don't boo now. vote. they can pay lower taxes. they can keep their money off shore. they can buy companies loaded up with debt, lay off workers, strip their pensions, send their jobs overseas. they can still make money doing it, turning a big profit. the same philosophy that's been squeezing middle class families for more than a decade. it's the same philosophy that got us into this mess. for the last four years i have watched the american people with their resilience and resolve overcoming the pain and struggle of dealing with the consequences of the worst financial crisis in the great depression. we have worked too hard to let this country go down that path again. [ chanting four more years ] >> new hampshire, we cannot grow this economy from the top down. this economy grows from the middle out. when everybody has ladders of opportunity -- workers have a little money in their pockets. that means they're out there as customers buying goods, and that means businesses do better. that means businesses make more profits and then they hire more workers. that's how you grow an economy. that's why we can't go backward. that's why we have to move forward. that's why i'm running for a second term as president of the united states. >> president barack obama there speaking in manchester, new hampshire. some familiar things coming out from all of the candidates now, of course. now, let's move on, meanwhile. a quarter of the population out of work. do you think unemployment is bad in this country? the threat of the new round of spending cuts looming. that is the reality in greece right now. in fact, unemployment among the youth, 50%. tens of thousands of greeks are furious about all of that. just listen. the demonstrators hitting the streets for a two-day strike protesting the european union bail-out terms that demand severe budget cuts. more budget cuts. the demonstration in athens, as is perhaps printable, turned violent at one stage. their protests, as you see, throwing bottles and firebombs. we see one there at police officers responding with tear gas. familiar -- sadly, familiar scenes. a 65-year-old man actually died after faint and having a thought that was a heart attack during the protest. well, today was the deadline for the greek government to show european creditors how it is carrying out those economic reforms. most but not all of the details were nailed down in athens. now, though, european leaders are gathering in brussels to deal with the debt crisis, the overall crisis. also, the future of the euro. german chancellor angela merkel, british prime minister david cameron, french president alamd, and the greek prime minister, they're all there for this meeting. cnn's fred joins us now from the capital berlin to talk about it. good to see you, fred. there is no love lost, of course, between merkel and. the key baining issue is for all banks within the european union. that's certainly something that the french want, but something that the germans say shouldn't happen too quickly. here especially for the euro zone. they, of course, fear that banks could be bailed out by this common regulator and then more german tax money would go to bailing out banks in other countries. one of the things that the germans are saying need to happen is they want more oversight by the european union over national budgets within the e.u., and they want one single entity to have the oversight over that. listen in to what angela merkel had to say today. >> translator: the e.u. needs real power over national governments. i know some states are not ready for that. i also say that it is a pity. that changes nothing in the fact that we will fight for this. then, of course, you need someone -- >> let's just think about what something like that would mean for america. for america i have been thinking about the best example, and just imagine if nafta says, for instance, could veto america's national budget or if mexico could veto america's national budget. that's the scope of what angela merkel is talking about. needless to say, there are some countries that are not very fond of that idea. france and spain being two of them. essential there are a lot of points of contention here at this euro zone summit, but it is a very, very important one for the future of the common european currency, michael. >> you make a good point. it's worth getting that context from you. it is an interconnected world. we've already seen the european economic crisis affect china's economy because europeans aren't buying as much from china, and, of course, europe is the u.s.'s biggest trading partner. how does all of this flow on through the world markets? the u.s. economy. >> it would be huge for the u.s. economy is one of the these government wooz fail. if a country like spain would fall part, that would have massive reprecussions that would really make the legal leman catastrophe look like a storm. why the european leaders are trying to get together to solve this problem long-term, and one of the things that the germans keep saying is that the only thing that will solve this are these measures where countries cut their budget deficits, where they get in line long-term before they do these structural reforms that are so important, and then they can get back to being competitive, and then they can have growth and will have jobs again. it is something with the european union, and it goes against what a lot of analysts have been saying. they're saying, you know, you need to pump more money into the problems. the germans are saying we need to fix this problem long-term. it is a very, very difficult road for a lot of countries, as you have just seen with the example of greece where you have those strikes, where you have that massive unemployment. it is something where the european leaders now are banding together and they know they have to solve this problem long-term, michael. >> the austerity versus stimulus. the debate goes on. fred, thanks. >> big debate. yep. >> uh-huh. let's stay in germany where twitter has blocked messages from a neo-nazi account. german police had demanded the account be closed, but twitter's general counsel, alex mcgillray twited this. "never want to withhold content, good to have the tools to do it narrowly." this is the first time twitter has used its sensorship policy, which does allow for blocking content that violates local laws. blocking it in that country specifically. people outside of germany can still see those neo-nazi tweets. >> all right. just ahead here on "newsroom international" one senator thinks mitt romney missed a big opportunity during tuesday's debate. one prime minister takes a misstep in india, and one incredible rapper with an even more incredible life story. wait until you hear it. ♪ americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they'll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients' futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. ♪ a short word that's a tall order. up your game. up the ante. and if you stumble, you get back up. up isn't easy, and we ought to know. we're in the business of up. everyday delta flies a quarter of million people while investing billions improving everything from booking to baggage claim. we're raising the bar on flying and tomorrow we will up it yet again. boproductivity up, costs down, thtime to market reduced... those are good things. upstairs, they will see fantasy. not fantasy... logistics. ups came in, analyzed our supply chain, inventory systems... ups? ups. not fantasy? who would have thought? i did. we did, bob. we did. got it. humans -- sometimes life trips us up. and sometimes, we trip ourselves up, but that's okay. at liberty mutual insurance we can "untrip" you as you go through your life with personalized policies and discounts when you need them most. just call... and speak with a licensed representative about saving on your policy when you get married, move into a new house... 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[ male announcer ] unisom. fall asleep faster. sleep longer. president obama and mitt romney will be sharing the stage again tonight, but the tone sure to be a little more light-hearted than tuesday night's debate. that will be at the alfred e. smith memorial dinner. this is an annual event and it actually raises money for needy children. the dinner has been for the presidential candidates since it started back in 1946. four years ago then candidate obama and senator john mccain took a break from their intense campaign to poke fun at one another. we'll see what happens. >> well, mitt romney and president obama are going to be tackling foreign policy issues when they meet in their third and final debate on monday. let's call it round three. and the attack on the u.s. consulate in libya almost certain to come up, again, in tuesday night's debate. remember, romney went after the president over his administration's response to the attack, and the explanation about what was behind it. >> i think it's interesting that the president just said something which is that on the day after the attack, he went to the rose garden and said that this was an act of terror. you said in the rose garden the day after the attack it was an act of terror. it was not a spontaneous demonstration, is that what you're saying. >> please proceed, governor. >> i want to make sure we get that for the record because it took the president 14 days before he called the attack in benghazi, an act of terror. >> get the transcript. >> he did, in fact, sir. lemt call it an act of terror. >> he did call it an act of terror. it did as well take -- it did as well take two weeks or so for the whole idea of there being a riot out there about -- you are correct about that. >> the administration indicated that this was a reaction to a video and was a spontaneous reaction. >> it did. >> it took them a long timing to this was a terrorist act by a terrorist group. mitt romney's supporters say he should have pushed president obama harder on the administration's handling of the benghazi attack and senator john mccain, he agree with that. he talked with our anderson cooper about the libya attack, the crisis in syria, and what he calls a failure of american leadership. here's part of that interview. >> last night there are certainly big questions to be asked and still that need to be answered. why did the administration's narrative change so many times, and still what really happened there. the direct question i'll ask didn't exactly get directly answered. by focussing on the rose garden statement do you think governor romney missed an opportunity? >>. >> i think so in a way he did because i think that when you look at the president's rose garden statement, that it really wasn't talking about that act, and the reason why i don't think he was because he later went on "the view," went on "letterman" and others and kept repeating what they had sent his u.n. ambassador out to say and say this was a hateful video that's triggered this demonstration or we don't know what caused it. look, we knew within hours, anderson, that this was a coordinated attack with heavy weapons, and we now know that one of the leaders, one of the al qaeda related groups was even there. it was obvious that this wasn't -- there was no demonstration whatsoever, and when they keep saying, well, wait until we have a full and complete investigation, some facts are obvious now, and i would like to mention one other aspect of this, if i could. back in april and june there were attacks on the u.s. embassy. one an i.e.d., very serious. the british ambassador was attacked. the british close their consulate. the red cross left. was the president briefed about the danger there? i don't expect him to know whether 16 people stayed or went, but shouldn't he have been briefed about the deteriorating situation in benghazi where it was obvious that al qaeda were coming in across the border? that's what we need the question should be what do did the president know, when did he know it, and what did he do about it? obviously not much. >> i want to ask you about syria tonight. the "new york times" reporting sunday that most of the weapons flowing to syrian rebels from saudi arabia and from qatar are actually going to islamic jihadists. why is it that we've not been able to identify more moderate groups, or, i mean, have we been able to identify and just because the folks sending the weapons are, you know, have sympathies maybe with jihadests? they're sending them to these groups that they are? >> it makes me so sad. >> as you predicted this. i mean, you were talking about this before anyone else. >> yes. yeah, and it's so sad because there are legitimate elements. that you and i had even met both inside and just outside of syria. and there has been a flood of these jihadists in to syria as this thing has dragged out for now 18 months and over 30,000, and it's a failure of american leadership. let me just say, it's well known that over the years that the saudis have supported salafis and other extreme groups. >> sure. >> so has qatar. so it's not surprising. where is american leadership to say to them, by the way, stop that and we'll do the job. we will make sure that those weapons get in. that's what american leadership is about, and. >> the tensions on the border, as you know, all of those countries has dramatically increased. the slaughter goz. the russians continue to step up their arms supplies. it's -- the tragedy goes on, and it cries out for american leadership, and it's just not there. i don't know what the turks are going to do, but i than the turks are crying out for our leadership. >> governor romney has been critical of the obama administration for not acting sooner for calling assad a reformer early on, but recently he called for arming the rebels, but he stopped short of saying the u.s. should provide them weapons. his staff said the governor radio rely on allies to do that, which is unnamed allies, but it's basically what the obama administration is already doing, isn't it? >> i don't think they're doing it. they say they are, but we know the facts are they are not doing it because the arms are going into the wrong people. i support strongly providing them with weapons. i hope governor romney will agree with that position, but -- >> you think the u.s. should directly supply them with weapons? >> i think -- i have always said that, and i think that mitt romney is right, that we should play a much greater and stronger role in making sure and it's not a case now because of lack of american leadership. >> senator mccain and our anderson cooper there. we're going to have a lot more politics ahead in the next hour of "newsroom." former president bill clinton campaigns for president obama in ohio, and rocker bruce springsteen appears with clinton at an obama rally in parma, ohio. we're also going to focus on the fight for the female vote as the candidates' wives hit the airwaves. michelle obama appears on live with kelli and michael, and romney visits "the view." well, he was forced to be a child soldier in sudan. now emmanuel is a world-famous rapper. ♪ >> he is with us right here in the studio to talk about his story. stay with us. ♪... ♪... ♪... choose the perfect hotel without bidding. ♪ ♪ we're lucky, it's not every day you find a companion as loyal as a subaru. love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. prego?! but i've bought ragu for years. 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>> it happened when we plan an escape, and only a few of us survived in that journey, and so we ran out of food, so we were depending on snals, vultures, and anything we could find, so bh we ran out of food completely so, my friend was dying, and my senses changed. that's when i was tempted to eat my friend. >> i can't imagine how much that affects somebody. i mean, you know, those sorts of experiences. you sing about it. you have written about it. tell us about how it's still impacting you to this day, those experiences. >> well, the experiences, the trauma has cooled down because i have put almy energy into music, and the any negative energy that had influenced me at that time, i take the energy and convert it into music for positivetivity, and i'm telling the story for social and emotional learning to reach out to more human beings who are all embah thesed and pain for other people, and that's why i'm use it for peace. >> you have another music video out. it's called push, about pride in your an southeastsry. let me play a little bit of that. ♪ >> you performed that song on capitol hill. i think it was just last week. you and the dalai lama were together on stage at the one world concert, which was at syracuse university. you performed with the hip-hop producer hip beats, and you have gotten support for your efforts. kofi annan, alicia keys, the list goes on. are you optimistic about peace, not just in the world, but for your people? >> well, peace is when conflicts are managed in a mature manner that the violence can be reduced so, my album that came out see my mama, i'm using that to create celebration. as i reach out to as many people as is possible. if we learn from american history, european history, they came up with the formula to manage the conflicts, and that's why there's peace. i'm hoping. now, we've been pushing for peace in south sudan. we have peace now, but there's doubt thaws somalia. all those places. >> mali. >> as we keep pushing -- you know like the advocacy plays a part in helping peace come. >> well, you know, education is also becoming one of your main focuses. i know it changed your life. you owe it to a british aid worker, her name, and she rescued you and many other child soldiers. do you see education as a key to ending poverty, and education is the key to just about everything. it's knowledge. knowledge is power. >> knowledge is power. emma mckuhn smuggled me, put me in school, and seeing i was trained to kill as a child, even when she took me. i wanted to go to school and steal a plane and come back to war. in the process as i read and get to know more about what's going on around the world, i was -- i was transformed by education, and so education has given me many ways to reason and discover the truth, and that's why i'm able to do what i'm doing now. >> cob grate las vegass on all your work. i have a couple of presents. thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i appreciate it. good to see you. >> thank you, sir. >> thank you. >> emmanuel jal. ♪ ♪ i'm calling on the whole wide world ♪ ♪ on the whole wide world ♪ come on people would you help me ♪ ♪ let's scream and shout because we want peace ♪ ♪ [ lane ] your anti-wrinkle cream is gone... but what about your wrinkles? 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just that. >> translator: in the united states to treat badly those without papers, that's wrong. i don't agree with that. >> translator: the relations should be more about respect. a lot of respect between the two countries. >> translator: the united states sees mexico like one more, but not like a brother. no. for convenience only. >> he is supposed to see people the same and give more opportunities. >> translator: i think that it should be a little more friendly and support mexicans. more in terms of the issue of immigration. make a law so that mexicans there have a better opportunity in life and in work. >> all right. now we see political missteps all the time. most of them, of course, verbal, but here's one case where the stumble was literal. that's the australian prime minister julia gillald taking a fall. up again in no time. no damage done. later explaining with some grace what happened. >> oh, you know, i'm fine. men get to war flat shoes all day every day. if you wear a heel, it can get embedded in soft grass, and then when you pull your foot out, the shoe doesn't come, and the rest of it is, as you saw. >> she's an aussie. she can take that. at many cafes, of course, order a coffee, maybe a pastry, perhaps check your e-mail. well, in japan thief got a cafe that doesn't have any of those things, but it sure is bringing in the customers, and don't read too much into that picture there. we'll explain. en broke up with , i went to the citi private pass page and decided to be...not boring. that's how i met marilyn... giada... really good. yes! 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troop. no monitoring required. >> people not too confident about that. the syrian rebels, meanwhile, seeing more successes in their battles against government forces. nick payton walsh now gives us a close-up look to the frontlines. >> a scene becoming more common in syria. rebels assaulting the once impenetratable walls of regime bases. flourishes of rebel success in the past week that have kept coming like this bid to cut off the main road north isolating the main cities of aleppo, looeflg some observers asking whether the rebels are finding new ways to hit a weakened enemy harder and perhaps just maybe break a long stalemate. >> we've seen the syrian opposition getting stronger and stronger. it is getting new techniques for taking down syrian airpower. what we have seen is take the insurrection, as they call it, which is hit and run strikes, assassinations. the syrian free army, or the militias, have not yet been able to take on the syrian army head-to-head, but that day i think is coming closer all the time. >> at times perhaps harolded by these jets brought down apparently by rebel fire. helicopters too. this one. activists say their estimates show that over half the aircraft found in this war were in the last month. this isn't just about rebel morale. it's ki kooe to holding to to syria itself. >> it's unclear whether these are behind their new luck. probably a russian-made sa-7 surface-to-air missile. rebels have long begged outsiders for these, but may have instead had more luck looting them from captured bases. one commander in the besieged southern city of homs and rebel success in the north. in the north assad has his arms, cut off, he says. libya is mountainous with trees. rebel kz use anti-aircraft weapons with ease. they can hit tanks as the ground there is helpful to them. you can hear the bombing behind him. the pressure is still ownering but scenes of success, which used to be so rare and short-lived, are now more common. as are questions as it how 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those years. based upon the promise that the government would keep its promise to her. so that she could retire and move here in the winter. it's a little cold where i come from in the winter. she could come here and enjoy her retirement because medicare and social security made a promise to her. she paid her taxes all those years. she's retired. she deserves to have this promise kept for her. you can see this jumbotron here. there are a couple of other monitors here. i want to pull up a slide here. i want to be clear about what we're proposing to do here. for those of you -- i can see people over there you may not be able to see it. there is a really clear choice. i mean, of all the issues in front of us, nowhere is the difference more stark than with what president obama is proposing to do with medicare. what his law already does to medicare and what we're proposing. so you'll see all these ads. you see, the reason these problems have grown so much, the reason politician advisory failed to confront america's problems is because if they actually propose a solution, the other side will turn into a political weapon and try and ruin their re-election. so what we have here is decades of politicians from both political parties making lots of promises for people to get elected but having no way of keeping those promises. if we have a debt crisis, if we stay on the path we are on, as you can see, that clock is running about $2 million of on new debt every minute. if we stay on this path, all these empty promises that our moms and dads organize their retirement around, they become broken promises. we have got to get ahead of these problems. we've got to run to these problems to solve these problems to prevent that from happening. that's the kind of leader that mitt romney is. that's exactly what we're going to do in 2013 to guarantee the promise of these programs. so here is what we're saying. we are saying don't change medicare for people who already are on the program. don't change it to people who are about to get on the program so if you are 55 and above, we say you've already retired. you're about to retire, and you're doing so based on the promise that government has made to you. preserve and protect it. don't disrupt the program and keep it intact. the best way to do that to make that guarantee is you have to reform it for my generation. here's what the president does. don't forget that obama care also rewrites medicare, and in two very dangerous ways what obama care does is it takes $716 billion from the medicare program to pay for the obama care program. you can't -- you remember when we pay our payroll taxes, they're supposed to go to two programs. your fica tack goes to medicare and social security. you work hard, you pay your taxes, it goes to those two programs. well, now because they're raiding medicare to pay for obama care, those payroll tax dollars also go to obama care. another thing is that the president puts in place -- >> 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no, i don't, he says. i never had a lot of chances to meet girls, so this is refreshing for me. 19-year-old hena is a student. she works here part-time. she says most guys come here to relax and rest after working hard all day. they've clearly hit a nerve. it's about 9:00 on thursday night right now, and just about every room is taken, and you can see the place is not big. it's about 400 square feet in total. there are added services as well, but, again, don't get any ideas. 1,000 yen, about $13, if you want to rest your head on the girls' knees for three minutes. another $13 for a five second hug. masashi says he is surprised at all the taemgs attention his business is getting, and, yes, he is thinking of a possible expansion. we might move to a bigger and cleaner space, but maybe the simplicity is part of our charm, he adds. a simple idea in a stressed out and sometimes lonely city. alex zolbert, cnn, tokyo. >> everyone needs a cuddle, but that's just creepy. >> it's a little different, but i love japan, and they always have innovative and interesting things. >> odd things too. i'm sorry. that's creepy. >> okay. former president bill clinton and bruce springsteen are campaigning for president obama. in parma, ohio. we'll listen in. with just 19 days until election day, both campaigns are fighting for every vote and trying to shore up support among women. the candidates' wives were making the round on the television tack shows today. we'll talk with howard kurtz of reliable sources about the impact of the wives on women voters. and in arizona a misprinted date on some voter registration cards is adding to the tension between local officials and latino voters. joe johns is covering that story. we'll bring that to you. first, 20,000 files detailing alleged child sex abuse by morning 1,000 boy scout leaders and volunteers are being released this hour. attorneys representing some of the victims are making the documents public despite objections from the boy scouts organization. the names of the victims right back removed. our casey wyan talked to one former scout whose ex-leader is serving ten years to life in prison for child molestation. >> reporter: 18-year-old keith early joined the boy scouts at 12, recruited by assistant scoutmaster nick price miller, a married father of three and volunteer firefighter who led scout meetings in this washington state church. >> he was building a boy scout -- like a big huge boy scout camp because he had a 42 acre ranch. he asked if i would want to help him build it. i loved it. it was awesome. like, i don't know. i mean, i didn't think anything bad could happen out there. >> reporter: then came the sexual molestation that has miller in prison for six years to life convicted for abusing early and another boy. >> just thinking about it makes me angry because how could you do that to somebody? how could you bring yourself to do that to somebody that is so innocent and, you know, has done nothing wrong? >> reporter: in oregon under court order and over the joxzs of the boy scouts of america, boxes containing 20,000 pages from the boy scouts ineligible volunteer or so-called per version files are being released to the public. victims' attorney kelly clark has redacted the files to remove names of victims and witnesses. he says they document the cases of more than 1,200 leaders and volunteers dismissed by the boy scouts. largely for sexual abuse from 1965 through 1985. >> they are sociopathic geniuses. they fool everybody, and then they are able to coerce, convince, or threaten these kids to say to stay silent, and you see that play out over and over again in the files. >> reporter: for decades the boy scouts have kept the files contents secret, arguing confidentiality was needed to protect victims' privacy and encourage the reporting of suspected abuse, but in some cases the boy scouts failed to report abuse to law enforcement. >> we're talking about hundreds if not thousands of unidentified men who should be registered sex offenders that are roaming free in society, free to volunteer with other youth organizations, to work at schools and that sort of thing. >> reporter: hail himself a former scout is one of several attorneys suing to unseal all of the files. the effort to force the boy scouts to open its ineligible volunteer files is bogged down in courts like this one in ventura, california. the appeals court is examining thousands of cases of alleged abuse by scout leaders since 1991 and is expected to rule soon on the effort to make them public. the boy scouts released a video statement apologizing for sexual abuse and detailing recent policy changes. >> these policies include insuring at least two adults are present at all activities, preventing one-on-one contact between an adult and a youth member, requiring every scouting activity be open to observation by parents, and mandating that suspicions of abuse be reported to the proper local authorities and to scouting leadership. >> boy scouts also has hired a former police detective to review the files and report abuse to law enforcement. >> it's as much a loosely run outfit that i just wouldn't feel comfortable letting my kid into it. >> reporter: early's attorney is skeptical about the changes. >> it just allows the boy scouts of america to claim that boy scout issing safer, when there's not an iota of evidence that they've produced to suggest that it is any safer than it was during the time period when these files were kept. >> reporter: that evidence, or the lack thereof, is likely in the more recently perversion files the boy scouts of america is still fighting to keep secret. casey wyan, cnn, tacoma, washington. paul joining us now from los angeles with more on the boy scout document release. paul, would the release open the door to more claims and accusations perhaps? >> it absolutely could. you have a statute of limitations issue there, frederica, and we'll see if they can go back to each individual state. obviously there are instances where one scout leader, if you look at the files, was involved in multiple cases of alleged abuse, so we'll have to see who comes forward on that. we should note, it's a story that is breaking in a lot of different directs. there are efforts in several different places and states to get other files released, and while today's release involves 1965 to 1985 in both california and texas, they are proceeding ahead with trying to get the more recent files released, so that would, in turn, more likely develop possible new cases and lawsuits. >> so the boy scouts of america is saying what? >> well, the boy scouts of america, as you saw in the case question wyan piece has said we are taking dramatic steps. i have preread some of the files, and you will note that the alleged pedophiles went through great lengths to try to sort of divide or get alone with certain scouts. what the boy scouts of america are now saying is we have taken this dramatic step of insuring that there are at least two adults with a scout at all times so this can no longer happen. i mean, that seems to be step number one. there are other steps they have taken, such as sitting down with the parents and the scouts, having them sign documents, making them well aware that there have been some issues in the past, so i think the boy scouts of america are saying, look, we have raised awareness dramatically, and i should note also when you look at the files, you will see instances where it seems like the boy scouts of america delayed in reporting these cases of sex wal abuse. there are other times whether i looked at one where the boy scouts actually flagged an abuser and tried to tell a rec center, and the rec center was slow in doing anything about it because this person was also volunteering, i believe, as a lifeguard, and they said, look, there's been no criminal charges filed, so we're not going to do anything about this yet. >> and as it pertains to some of the new precautions, is that comforting enough for a lot of parents out there? >> well, that's for each individual parent to answer, of course. we'll have to see about that. of course, the boy scouts say that they have taken enough steps, but as you heard from many of the lawyers who are on the front of representing victims of abuse, they say not enough has been done, and they say this is something that needs to be, you know, reconciled right now, and there are way too many opportunities with the boy scouts maintaining secret files still for somebody who is a pedophile to possibly infiltrate the boy scouts of america. it's a big debate here, and we're going to see, you know, where this all comes down, but certainly the legal fights go on so many different fronts. it's almost hard to keep track of all of it. >> all right. thanks so much. appreciate it. all right. with less than three weeks now to go until the election, president barack obama and mitt romney are pushing hard for the female vote that could very well decide who wins. i want to bring in our howard kurtz, host of cnn's "reliable sources." he is joining us from washington via skype. the candidates' wives were out vying for the female vote, particularly on some of the talk shows. ann romney was on "the view." let's listen in. >> we have been talking primarily about the women's issues, and one of the things with your husband was that when he was a governor he was pro-choice, and now is against abortions, except in the case of incest and rape and life of the mother. i wonder where your views are. were you the same way when he was a governor? have you changed? i'm sure you've had discussions about this. >> you know, the good news is i'm not running for office, and i don't have to say what i feel, but i am pro-life. i'm happy to say that. mitt has always been a pro-life person. >> all right. howard, you know, so she says she's not running for office so she doesn't have to say what she feels. is that really true? as a wife, you're going to come out as the surrogate for that candidate. it's almost as if you were speaking on that candidate's behalf, right? >> right. but, you know, the wives or the spouses, you know, do have a kind of privilege position in that everybody wants to hear from them, and ann romney is very charming and witty, as is michelle obama, but she can duck when she wants to. she can say i'm not the candidate, and she doesn't have to get into the weeds of policy changes. >> not backfire for the candidate, mitt romney? >> well, what back fires is if ann romney says something he would have to explain away. what she did successfully there is avoid making news, but the question i have on "the view," as i said she's very charming to watch. where's mitt? mitt had said he was going to come on with his wife. maybe he decided too risky to sit down with whoopi goldberg. >> even during that interview, she then said, you know, i wish mitt were here. you know, he would want to be here, and then, you know, all of the ladies on "the view" were, like, okay, when is he coming on? maybe the door is open that he will eventually appear on "the view." meantime, first lady michelle obama was on a very different show, very different tone live with kelly and michael, and here are the questions that she was asked. >> i compared it to the olympic parents watching their kid on that balance beam. just like oh, ah. you know? it's lots of clinching. >> do you ever go -- >> yeah. i do. >> or sneeze. >> i was sitting next to somebody at this debate, and i was kind of moving around and -- but, you know, they really caution you to be quiet, and i try to follow the rules, so i don't get in trouble. >> so in the end you do have to wonder how influential is it for the wives of these candidates to go out on the talk show circuit and, you know, go up to bat for their husbands. >> well, michelle obama has been doing this for four years and going on shows like "ellen" and she has danced and exercised, and there's a reason she's a very popular figure. the whole game here is that if you like ann and michelle, you think, well, their husbands must be not that bad because these women married them, so it's an effort to humanize, particularly for romney because is he less well known as a nonincumbent. i don't know if it makes a huge difference, but as they say about chicken soup, it doesn't hurt. >> i want to ask you to weigh in on something else unrelated as the washington bureau chief for the daily beast and "newsweek," some real changes afoot. your company announced that "news diagnosis week" sending the print edition at the start of the year or at the end of the year. it's transitioning to all digital format. that's very disappointing to a lot of folks who feel great about turning the pages of the news magazine. at the same time it's kind of the sign of the times. what does it say overall in your view about the news magazine industry similar to what path the newspaper industry has been on? >> well, it's disappointing to me as a print guy who grew up in newspapers and later magazines. i'm old-fashioned enough that i like holding it in my hand. i like the impact of what you put on the cover, but it makes perfect sense because it's a difficult advertising environment for lots of publications. you have some newspapers now no loernk doing daily publication, as in new orleans. digital is where the action is. people, especially younger people, they want their news, information, entertainment on their phones, on their tablet, computers, when they can get it. the daily beast part of this company, which was a separate and thriving website before the merger with "newsweek" is going gangbusters. it's gone from 6 million to 16 15 million visitors a month since i have been there, so it makes sense to put your chip on a digital future, but for those of us of a certain age, there's a certain wisfulness about this decision. >> you don't fear a real hit in readership? >> well, whatever decline there might be in the readership, it's very expensive to put out a print magazine, to send it out by mail, to have the printing presses. all those costs can be eliminated if you just go on-line. the advertising revenue right now is not as great as it is for print, but this is a dilemma in a every newspaper in america, that most magazines, not all, but most magazines are facing, which is can you still justify in order to try to pay a lot of reporters and writers and editors and put out a good prikt product, can you still justify going through the, you know, laborious cost of doing the ink on paper thing? i'm going to miss the magazine, but i think it probably has a pretty good future on-line. >> all right. hourt kurtz, thanks so much. we'll be catching you sunday morning on ""reliable sources" "right here on cnn. >> appreciate it. >> appreciate it. here's what else we're working on for this hour. take a look at this sign. pretty hard to believe. it's actually on a highway in wisconsin. it has a whole lot of people outraged. binders full of women? mitt romney's comment went instantly viral after the presidential debate, but what did he really mean, and what is his record on hiring women? we have a fact check. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you, around the country, around the corner. us bank. at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. everybody lovers "the boss" and that's why it's trend sog much on pit twitter. live pictures out of parma, ohio. bruce springsteen is singing "this land is your land." his rendition. he is campaigning at the same time for president barack obama. campaigning along with former president bill clinton. let's listen in. ♪ this land is your land this land is my land from california to the new york island from the redwood forest to the gulfstream waters ♪ ♪ this land was made for you and me ♪ ♪ i wrote and ram belled and i followed my footsteps through the sparkling sands of her diamond deserts and all around me a voice was sounding ♪ ♪ it said this land was made for you and me ♪ ♪ this land is your land this land is my land from california to the new york island, from the redwood forest, to the gulfstream waters ♪ ♪ this land was made for you and me ♪ ♪ as i went strolling through the wheat fields waving and the dust clouds rolling and the fog was lifting a voice came in this land was made for you and me ♪ >> that distinctive style and sound of only bruce springsteen there campaigning for president barack obama. also campaigning with the former president, bill clinton there out of parma, ohio. before he was singing, bruce springsteen had a message saying he is a big fan of the president for saving the american auto industry, saying, in large part, that it's one of the things he loves to sing about, cars. all right. speaking of cars, it is causing a lot of brake lights in wisconsin. a campaign sign with president obama's name and a picture of a noose, but the man who created the sign says its meaning is being misunderstood. when you see it close up, the sign reads "i love obama" in tiny print under hang in there, obama. creator tom savka says it's designed to grab people's attention. he says he is an obama supporter, and the sign is encouraging the president to not give up. on to arizona now. more gas is thrown on an already fiery relationship between latino voters and officials in marakopa county. a stack of official registration cards given to voters in the county. they are partially printed in spanish, and the election date in spanish is printed as november 8th. big problem. election day is november 6th. the county admits it made a mistake and says it has been fixed, but latino groups are simply not happy with that. joe johns joining us now from washington. joe, a couple of voter/ballot issues to talk to you about today. you just did your documentary. that was released over the weekend. this wrong date -- spanish language cards in arizona, the implications are potentially pretty huge, and it is difficult for anyone to think that proofreading couldn't have, like, caught that error before they all went out? >> yeah. i mean, the first thing you do is you look up and say how did they make that mistake, but for the record, the county officials there in marakopa county is saying this only happened to something like 50 voter registration cards out of two million. they say they made an honest mistake. this is attracting a lot of attention because arizona has been all over the news for its handling of latinos. the supreme court right now has a case penned beforing it on whether the state can require proof of citizenship for voter registration. marakopa county is the home of the controversial sheriff joe arrpajo. though the election has no connection to him. though it is, fred, the potential for voter confusion, we're starting to see around the country as the election approaches this november. >> so that's arizona. in the meantime, there are other complaints that are coming out of florida. the all-important swing state of florida, florida, florida, and what's the complaint there? >> well, a lot of people are saying the ballot is the problem, and the ballot is too long. it's among a dozen proposed changes to the florida constitution. instead of summarizing the change, they're spelling it out in detail. i talked to our political contributor anna navarro, and she shed me her absentee ballot. listen. >> ten legal sized letter pages with minute, fine prnt of legalese. it is absolutely a ridiculous ballot. i have never in all my years voting in miami dade seen anything similar to this, and i think this is going to cause great issues for the voters of florida. >> so why on earth is this even necessary? well, in 2000 the florida state supreme court threw out a constitutional amendment because the summary on the ballot did not have enough information on it. that's why the ballot is so long now, fred. >> okay. so now what's next? what should people expect come november in florida as they try to cast their ballots if they have -- if they are not, you know, voting early? people could be confused. there could be concerns about whether turnout is affected because of all the changes in the legislature. the courts have intervened on a lot of these changes. there could be problems with provisional ballots, who gets to vote, where if someone has, for example, changed addresses. there have also been changes to early voting rules. probably the most important thing is for people to watch tv, get their information, and figure out where they're supposed to vote. then they should be okay. >> hopefully they caught your documentary this past weekend of voter registration that is count. we have three weeks before election day. >> that's right. >> we'll watch this weekend. >> okay. joe johns, appreciate it. thank you. all right. mitt romney's oldest son says he had a hard time staying in his seat during tuesday night's presidential debate. tag romney making remarks to a radio show host after he was asked how he felt when the president questioned his father's integrity. >> what is it like for you to hear the president of the united states call your dad a liar? how did you react? >> it made me want to run down the stage and take a swing at him. you can't do that because, first, there's a lot of secret service between you and him, but this is the nature of the process. >> tag's younger brother, josh, had a comeback. he was a guest on "the view" and said he has been hit by tag, and the president has nothing to worry about. all right. it's one of the most talked about lines from the debate, but what did mitt romney really mean by his binders full of women comment, and what's his record? we'll take a look. 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[ cheering ] but then -- then comes the hard daily struggle to make those possibilities real in a world that is brutally resistant to change. we've seen that over the past four years, the forces of our opposition have been tireless, but i came here today because i'm thankful from universal health care, the lack of which -- a lack of which was for so long an embarrassment to our country. i'm thankful for a more regulated wall street. i'm thankful gm is still making cars. what else would i write about? i would have no job without that. >> the boss bruce springsteen there campaigning in ohio for the president of the united states. of course, he has some powerful music behind him, but now sharing some compelling words on all that he is thankful for with president obama in office. from health care, saving gm, and regulations on wall street, he says. so ohio, pivotal state. it's one of those crucial states that will likely decide who wins the white house in less tlan three weeks now. campaigns are fighting hard for ohio's 18 electoral votes. it's the second biggest prize among the swing states. political reporter peter hamby from parma, ohio. peter, it's always great to have the big names, but i wonder, you know, the obama campaign is counting on big names like springsteen and former president clinton. to what extent? >>ates good question. going back to the midterms of 2010, president obama has been a little more reluctant to go into the blue collar white working class towns where i am right now in parma, general motors is the biggest employer here in parma. you know, it's a union-heavy town, but sort of reagan democrat territory. people who might be democratic, but not afraid to vote republican. obama has mostly been campaigning around college towns in ohio. that's sort of an effort to get those rowdy college students over to early voting locations here in ohio. clinton and springsteen might be better messages for the president in a place like this, much more sort of plain-spoken. the president is always good -- president clinton has always been good. talking about jobs and middle class issues in a way that, frankly, president obama has not. i think it's no coincidence that they sent clinton here to parma and they're sending him to another town near steubenville, ohio, later rather than the president himself. >> so earlier on maybe just inside a month or so ago it seemed like president obama had clinched ohio, but now recent polls are showing that mitt romney is gaining some ground. what is it all contingent upon? >> i think everyone is sort of waiting to see a good poll after that second debate the other night, which is where they view it as a better performance for president obama. you're right. after the first debate here in ohio, most people agree that romney really closed the gap a little bit. he helped himself with female voters. one person told me romney might have even had a small lead, according to the interp tracking heading into the second debate, but, again, we're waiting to see a good reliable ohio poll after the second debate. i mean, it's no surprise, again, though, everyone agrees ohio is just neck and neck right now heading into these final three weeks, frederica. >> peter, thank you so much on the campaign trail. joining us from parma, ohio. all right. he used to never leave the house without a mask. now this man has a new face and a new life. on the road. so, what do you think? 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