0 please join us for another edition of "crossfire" tomorrow. erin burn on "outfront" starts right now. next the ceo of aol blamed "distressed babies on quotes to employee benefits." tonight the mother of one of those babies out front. who is hillary clinton blaming for the monica lewinsky scandal. and the production rests in the loud music trial where a white man is charged with shooting and killing a black teenager opinion is it a premeditated murder. we'll tell you who is that teenager? we'll tell you tonight. let's go "outfront". good evening everyone i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight distressed babies. two words thrown out by the ceo of aol. two words that now have the nation talking. tonight we're joined by the mother of one of those distressed babies. but here's how we got here. it all started last week when tim armstrong the aol ceo started discussing some cuts in 401(k) contributions at the company. first, armstrong said the cuts were due to the rising cost of health care citing obamacare. then he got more specific on an employee wide town hall referring to two quote distressed babies that he said cost the company $1 million each. the reason he said those babies pushed health care costs up for the entire company something armstrong said he needed to make cost cut somewhere. that's where the 401(k) got the cut. he never mentioned the babies by name. but news traveled fast. within a few minutes an editor at aol's "huffington post" started getting emails isn't he talking about your baby? his wife found out quickly. his daughter was born four months premature in october 2012. at the time she weighed less than 2 pounds. she was bruised all over. she spent three months in neonatal intensive care. there was a blog posted, his remarks exposed the most searing experience of our lives one that my husband and i still to discuss. but each other phono other purpose than an absurd justification for corporate cost-cutting. she's beat the odds. she's buzzing around like a 1-year-old. a miracle by american medicine. back at aol armstrong has been under fire. now he apologized to employees. he's reversed the 401(k) switch. he's also called dana faye who is out front tonight and we invited tim armstrong to appear on this program but he has decline. let me start off by saying it must be as a new mother myself you must look at her every day and think of the miracle. you write about how you didn't want to name her or connect with her because you didn't think she would live. >> that's true. it was the most traumatic experience that my family has ever gone through. but, i mean seeing her eat her macaroni, see her take her first steps this past week, watching her just fight for every minute of her life in the hospital, i am so grateful for the doctors and nurses who looked after her and i'm grateful for the fact that we had health insurance in a country where a lot of people are not so fortunate and that we were covered in this situation where we experienced something that no one could foresee and there was nothing to do to prevent. >> how did you first hear about tim armstrong's comment? how did that day go down for you >> i was home taking care of my daughter. i had started getting some emails from my husband, and when i first saw the headlines i just couldn't believe it. you know, i just sort of couldn't process that the girl who was in front of me was the subject of these headlines about a distressed baby who cost the company too much money, and was sort of being accused of having been, you know, a drag on the company's bottom line. at first i didn't want to think about it because the last thing i want to do is relive those days where she was on life support. but, you know, as the firestorm started to erupt over his remarks the more i started thinking, you know, this is such an injustice to single out any individual let alone a newborn baby for simply undergoing, you know, a medical crisis and then using their health benefits. so, i felt the need to speak up and defend my family. i felt like we had been exposed and that our privacy had been violated. and i also felt like, you know, where does this end? if we could be singled out like this, i mean what about a woman who gets diagnosed with breast cancer. would anyone dare to suggest that that was, you know, somehow a luxurious option that we paid to save her life? >> tim armstrong has apologized in a company wide memo and you and he had a personal conversation. he's the father of three. you believe that to be very sincere. >> yes, do i. >> what more do you want from aol? >> you know, i think aol is actually a company that does strive to take care of its employees and we have generous benefits. but i think that, you know, in the future just with any discussion of health care expenditures which are important and necessary for to us have on a national policy level i think it's legitimate for health care experts to talk about what's appropriate in terms of caring for extreme preemies. given what the costs are and how many people have to do without health care. but, i think in this situation it was certainly not the time or place to have this kind of conversation. you know, we're talking about a company that just posted its best quarterly earning in 12 years. when we have these necessary conversations we approach it with more sensitivity and when we're talking about the dollars and cents we're mindful of the actual human lives that are at stake. >> do you think that tim armstrong -- what do you think should happen to him? should he keep his job after this? >> you know, i feel that's not for me to say. i don't think that he's a villain. i'm not interested in raking him over the kools. i this he's genuinely regret what he said. there was no malicious intent. >> you talked about what a violation of your family's privacy. he didn't call your family out by name. your husband started getting emails. legal experts said there could have been a violation of medical privacy laws. are you considering a lawsuit or anything else? >> i have not thought about that. i don't know the legality of the issue. all i know is on an emotional level it felt like a violation and that among, you know, a lot of people who just knew my husband and knew us, they had heard about our situation because it was so shocking at the time. and so it was really immediate, you know, the way that they were able to connect that to us personally. and when i started, you know, seeing the reports that were out there and all tweets about distressed babies which quickly turned into jokes about, you know, just about this whole media gossip, it was extremely painful for me. >> and what is it like now? you're a professional mom. you're an author. what's it like every day? >> every day feels like a gift. there's not a single thing i can take for granted because her condition was so dire when she came out. we didn't know if she would ever eat. if she would ever sit up. we didn't know if she would ever be able to nurse. we didn't know if she was going to be able to breathe on her own. just being able to hold her and being able to, you know, see her smile when she wakes up every day is a won and i'm grateful. >> it brings tears to my eyes to look at it. thank you so much for coming on and sharing your story. >> thank you so much. out front next who did hillary clinton call a narcissistic looney tune. president of france highly eligible i here this from many french sources. he'll be in the united states for a white house house dinner. how showing up stag is causing problem. an a video of a top al qaeda suspect snatched in the middle of the night. we'll explain.