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Calling the penalties draconian, the process a sham and unconstitutional, and vowing to fight to the bitter end. The main argument of the letter, quote, a jealous rant to a lover never intended to be published cannot offend the nba rules. The letter describes this taped outburst as a, quote, inflamed lovers quarrel in which he was clearly distraught. Dont bring black people and dont come. Reporter after the tape went public sterling was banned for life from nba facilities and functions and ordered to pay a record 2. 5 million fine. Sterling and his wife say the tape was illegally recorded and cannot be used against him. And though sterling himself apologized in an interview with cnn im so sorry. Im so apologetic. What are you sorry about . Well, im sorry that so many people are hurt. Reporter he now says those offenses, though not justified, dont compare to these committed inside the nba, like kobe bryant using a hoe ing ing a homophboi ref. He was fined 100,000 for that. Making it more confusing, his wife shelly has written permission from sterling to sell the team. A source says shes moving quickly, having already met with several perspective buyers. Now, sterling also explains he does not give up his right to sue. Of course, this all cull min theys when the nba board of governors votes on june 3rd. If you were wondering if he mentioned Magic Johnson perhaps in this letter, he absolutely does and he says even though his views are unpopular that doesnt mean he should be punished for it. And it continues with a statement from Donald Sterling. In the meantime, the nba continues with their process to take him out. Lets move on to after more than a decade of war president obama is preparing to make a very important speech outlining a new approach on Foreign Policy. Hes come under fire for perceived passive approach from critics called as passive approach in dealing with international dilemmas, russia, syria, the global terror threat. Hes making the address during west points Graduation Ceremony this morning. He outlined plans for a major drawdown of troops in afghanistan. Cnns Michelle Kosinski has this. One day after the president laid out his plan for what he called a way forward in afric afghanistan, bringing it to a responsible end, keeping troops thereafter this year, drawing that down to a force of 1,000 after 2016 to support the embassy, which some critics felt was too arbitrary. Today he will paint a broader picture of the u. S. role in the world. Something his advisers say is international, interventionist, but not isolationist or unilateral. And both analysts and his advisers say, look, we need to strike a balance between the u. S. Taking a lead in world events but not overextending ourselves. It could get quite specific. The president could make an announcement about training the opposition and could make mention of the u. S. use of drones, kate. When you talk of balance, michelle, makes you wonder how much of this speech do you think will be the president answering to critics because you know the white house bristles at any suggestion that the president has been weak on Foreign Policy or will it be more on his policy prescriptions Going Forward . Right. This is a tough one. I mean, to be proactive would be the thing to do, to take the lead actively. Then again, this could be tough to turn heads. We talked to one analyst who advised both democrats and republicans. And he described the president s position as kind of like mission impossible. He faces a public but sometimes clamors for more, that doesnt like his Foreign Policy which he felt in somes cases was justified where rhetoric doesnt always meet action. But its always a public that is risk averse. He says the president just needs to say what he means and mean what he says. Kate . Looking for that balance, almost an impossible task. Well see you later this morning. Michelle, thank you very much. Coming up later on in the show were going to talk more about the president s Foreign Policy speech and hear directly from the secretary of state john kerry. Breaking overnight. President obama trying to keep hope alive on comprehensive Immigration Reform ordering Homeland Security chief jay johnson to delay releasing a review of deportation policies until the end of the summer. Why . Well, the administration is seeing a narrow window in june july where congress could act before shifting focus to novembers midterms. Athena jones is following developments from washington. Athena, were looking at the lets slow it down so we can move ahead strategy here. Thats right, chris. Its got a lot of people angry. The white house believes there is room for the house specifically to act on im Immigration Reform. The Senate Passed an Immigration Reform bill amount a year ago and they say that bill would pass the house the House Speaker john boehner would just bring it up for a vote. They want to delay the release of this review by secretary johnson because they dont want it to, quote, interfere with a possibility of action in the house. But of course this is a big deal, this has immigrant Rights Groups and many in the Latino Community angry. We have a release from the dream Action Coalition they put out last night saying that democrats are giving the latino and immigrant community false hope. Theres no reason to do that. Theres no reason to take back the pressure on the president as well as on congress to get this done. That gives you some sense of the kind of pressure the president is going to be unper. That same group back in march when this deportation review was announced said press releases, actions speak louder than press releases so theres a lot of attention on this president for what a lot of groups see as one of his broken promises. We remember that president obama wanted to get Immigration Reform done during his first term. That didnt happen health care took precedence so thats why were here now. Five days after a mentally ill gunmen went on of a killing spree that sent six people dead. School officials declared tuesday a day of mourning and reflection for the campus. Over 20,000 people,most of them students, gathered inside the campus stadium last night for what turns out to be a heart wrenching vigil. Stephanie elam is live in Santa Barbara with much more. Good morning, stephanie. Reporter good morning, kate. It was just the beginning of a healing process and the ucsb Community Coming together to show that theyre stronger than this tragedy. Not one more. Not one more. Reporter chanting to End Gun Violence around 20,000 people packed a uc Santa Barbara stadium. We are here because we want to share memories of the young lives struck down far too soon. Reporter honoring all six victims murdered in the killing spree at the hand of 22yearold elliott rodger, speaker desmanneding change so a deadly rampage like this does not happen again. How many more people are going to have to die in this situation before the problem gets solved . Reporter already one proposed change. Two California Assembly members announcing legislation tuesday, leaders on the National Level speaking out as well. There are compromises that will save lives. Keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people, whether theyre severely mental ill or felons or drug addicts, background checks will help stem and stop gun violence. Reporter more vigils were held across Santa Barbara. As video and stories of or reism emerge. This Surveillance Video capturing students inside a pizza parlor, ducking and scrambling for cover as the gunman driving by fires inside. People are panicking. I told them, dont worry. Everything is fine. Reporter a good samaritan, the clerk of a 7eleven ran outside to help a cyclist who was shot. Pulling her to safety and telling her she would survive. We got a stool and we put her down right here, you know, and we sat her down. You could see she had two gun shots right here. You can kind of see the bullets were 12 others were injured after rodger fired round after round. This morning classes at the university are set to resume. Set to resume as the humanity of the actions of some of these people is starting to come to light. And that is what the usbc community is starting to focus on, michaela. Its going to be a struggle for those kids to get back to school and get some sense of normalcy back. Our thoughts are with them. Lets look at more of your headlines right now. Breaking overnight in afghanistan. Two americans have been wounded in an attack on a u. S. Consulate vehicle in the city of herat in western afghanistan. Officials say the vehicle was traveling on a main road when it was hit. The victims are being treated in the hospital. Were told their injuries are not considered serious. The state department is warning americans in libya to get out immediately due to the unpredictable and unstable security situation. Three years after the revolution, bloody battles from pushed the country to the brink of chaos. Officials say they can only offer very limited services to american citizens but this morning a u. S. Warship with some 1,000 marines and 18 helicopters on board is headed to the region in the event of evacuations. The va is refusing to confirm whether three of its top officials will show up for a big house hearing tonight. Lawmakers want to grill them about an alleged coverup at the va hospital in phoenix where dozen of veterans may are have died awaiting treatment that never came. Cnn has been investigating the allegations for months now. Defense secretary chuck hagel has ordered a complete review of the militarys Health Care System to make sure it is not plagued by the very same problems that are facing the va. Big night for the tea party in texas winning two primary runoffs. Cnn projects john rat cliff beating 91yearold representative ralph hall forcing the houses oldest member to surround i his seat. Dan patrick won a nomination for Lieutenant Governor over david unaring for a fourth term. Big night in runoff land. I know. Absolutely. More of those to come throughout the summer. Coming up next on new day, inside the troubled mind of the isla vista killer. What was suggestions hollywood helped to drive him to seek revenge on all the women he believed had rejected him. 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Might it be different this time . After six innocent people were slaughtered in Santa Barbara, california, calls for blame and change. Washington post oped courts controversy blaming hollywood for the killers feelings of self entitlement. Others point to a culture of massagemy. Lets bring in dr. Jodi gold, adult psychiatrist and clinical assistant professioner and javier amador, professioner at columbia university. What am i referring to . Obviously Mental Health. We hear this every time. Its the images, its the mediation its me and how i cover it and men hate women and the guns, everybody has guns. We must fight that battle. We hear that every time and then theres a whisper. You know, this person was actually mentally ill. We dont want to deal with that hes still criminally responsible. How do you break through, jodi . Its important not to blame hollywood and i think we do have to look at Mental Illness. Im citkit excitednt about the and hopeful that this killing would spark a debate and make a change. Why this time . So many we see a repeated succession of similar types of tragedies. Why this time, professor . I think this time because this was, again, probably the most blatant example of missed opportunity. The police came and checked on him. There was ample evidence. Again, i talked a this before with you, i dont know if this is a Crisis Intervention Team police officers. No. They werent. They should be. This is a big movement in our country. Its a big move m internationally to train within each department, cher ives departments, local police, even highway patrol, officers that know about Mental Illness, know how to ask the right questions and know better than to just talk to the individual theyre concerned about, talk to the parents. If the parents say hes posting, look at the posts. Its a huge missed opportunity. Seven people died because of untreated Mental Illness. Lets be clear. People with serious psychotic disorders, im convinced absolutely with certainty that thats what were talking about here with elliott rodger, he had delusions, psychotic illness. Not just a guy who made bad choices, some of which were oised upon him by the relentless messages of media and the easy access to guns . No, i think this is a case of severe Mental Illness where there were red flags where unfortunately the system wasnt in place to intervene properly. What do you do . 350,000 people in this country have need of treatment for Mental Illness. We dont have but 35,000 beds, so most of them are in prison. Right. There is a culture of avoidance and stigma. I want you to be punished as bad which is why i rather blame you as the media than say youre sick. How do we get passed that . We look to our leaders. We look to theres a bill in congress right now, helping Families Mental Health crisis act. Dr. Murphy is leading a Bipartisan Group of enlightened congressmen who are supporting things like more inpatient beds. I had a brother with skets frenia. Weapon talked about this before. I would have to call the police on him because one of the primary symptoms is not knowing you have an illness. He would go to the hospital and they would turn him away because there were no beds. Assisted outpatient treatment, court order we treatment. Its an important safety net and we need that in many more states and we need funding for that. Finally, hipaa laws need to change. Privacy, you cant take away my prprivacy. Then youll have a chilling affect on whether or not i want to get treatment because then i know its not private. I think theres a balance between protecting peoples rights but we have to relook at our privacy laws. The truth is we cannot treat people with severe Mental Illness without having their families involved. We have to relook at it but weve already done that. Take a step further. They would rather say, look, seth roggin and jeb, theyre upset because theyre being blamed for it. This is buzzy. So the Washington Post puts an oped in there because that gets buzz. People want to hear about that. They dont want to hear this discussion. This sounds like youre making excuses for bad people. Were raised to learn and good and evil. How many of us are raised to learn about Brain Disorders and how somebody can look through the prism, the lens of delusion. Thats what happened here. You know, was this masogany . No. Through the lens of psychosis. Ted kosinski, focused on Airline Pilots and university professors, the unibomber. That was as random. This was random. People with delusional disorder dont have insight into their illness so its critical that family be involved and privacy laws move towards involving family and treatment. I asked a cop on mental extreme situations. He said take away all the guns you want, stop the movies, you dont help people who are mentally ill, theyre going to reach out, if theyre violent and psychotic. Thank you, professor, doctor. Very important conversation to have. We have to stay at it. In truce, the forces are against Mental Health change. Tim murphy is coming on this show. Hes having a hard time with his bill. Its a wonderful opportunity. Lets see what we do with it. Everybody is reeling from the tragedy. We want not one more. Thats the hashtag, lets see if we can make good on the promise of change. First lady Michelle Obama taking on House Republicans over the new school lunch plan. Are lawmakers playing politics with the health of school kids . Also ahead, youre about to witness what many are calling the worst first pitch in baseball history. How bad is it . Well, just ask rapper 50 cent, hes on the mound. Wait until you see where the could save you 15 or more on car insurance. Everybody knows that. 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This violates his Constitutional Rights and nba owners are set to meet next week. Meantime, his wife shelly is reportedly trying to fast track a sell of the clip ersz before that meeting. Ukraine leaders are i s ara emboldened. Dozens of rebels were reportedly killed in fighting. The new president says he will ask for the u. S. To help with military supplies and training to put down that prorussian rebellion. Edward snowden lashing out to those who call him a lowlevel hacker. Interview filmed in russia snowden says he was trained as a spy, living done a false identity. The former intelligence contractor is charged with espionage for downloading and releasing reams of u. S. Secret documents. 20 minutes after the hour. Today president obama is set to outline his vision for american Foreign Policy when he speaks at west points Graduation Ceremony. Replans to remove the remaining 30,000 troopses in afghanistan. The plan is facing tough criticism. How does he defend the strategy . What does he say about u. S. Foreign policy Going Forward . Joining us now to discuss is kevin madden and paul begala, cnn political commentator, senior advisers to priorities usa action. Good morning. Good morning. Paul, president has some would say an up hill battle today to lay out what u. S. Foreign policy is to apiece critics and to move on. What is the president s Foreign Policy . Well, first and most importantly its going to be i think the first paragraph of the history of the presidency which is he has ended two wars. He inherited two wars. He has wound down americas involvement in iraq. Hes going to announce today how he will wind down the involvement in afghanistan and i think every american, we are very war weary country, my goodness. Americans will be happy to see that. The hard part will be this, kate. He is going to, according to published reports, hes going to call for a residual force of ,800 troops at a cost of 20 billion a year. We only sent 6. 4 billion on head start for our own at risk preschoolers in america. Its going to be a tough sell after 12 1 2 years of war to say cia, yeah its over, but i want another 20 billion and 10,000 troops. Kevin, does he have a point . The president made that similar case when he made the speech in manila. The president said you hit singles, you hit doubles, sometimes you hit a home run. Why is it that everyone is so eager to use military force . Hes talking to republicans. Why republicans always so quick to criticize and so ready to put more troops in . Republicans want to see this president layout a vision for afghanistan that is consistent with a larger Foreign Policy objective. Thats one of the criticisms that you saw from folks like kelly and senator mccain yesterday that this drawdown is because of a political calendar versus it being part of a Larger National security policy. So i think thats something that youre going to continue to hear. I think to pauls point, also, i think many of the wes from folks up on capitol hill not only on the National Security side but the intelligence side, is that enough of an infrastructure to support intelligence operations related to our National Security objectives there with al qaeda and other terrorist organizations around the globe. So again, this is it is i think it is a welcome step, i think, paul would as paul would argue, by a very war weary nation but does it achieve objectives. What does the president say, paul, to the criticism of the kind of arbitrary timeline . The suggestion that the president is basing the timeline for withdrawal on politics rather than conditions on the ground . Buck mckeenan to the New York Times saying holding this mission to an arbitrary egg timer doesnt make a lick of sense. Kevin talk about senators mccain, graham, saying that his withdrawal of u. S. Troops in afghanistan is a monumental mistake and a triumph of politics over strategy. Well, you know, what an insult to the country and frankly to the troops that are fighting this war to pretend this is an egg timer deal. You know, one Motor Vehicle boys is just finishing seventh grade. He is a teenager. He has never known america at peace. We have been at war almost missed the first few months of his life when he was a tiny baby when we went to war in afghanistan. We are still fighting it. Enough is enough. At some point this is now three times the length of world war ii . The notion that somehow the answer here is more war longer in afghanistan is nuts. The president , i think, is going to be criticized you saw from kevin from both sides. You see some on the hawkish right who are going to say, well, thats not enough troops. Theres a lot of people in america who are going to say, really, why are you still 9,800 troops in there, mr. President. Were only talking right now the president s approach for Foreign Policy towards afghanistan. It will be interesting. Everyone is looking forward to hearing his approach, how it may change towards syria and also the extending growing threats from places in the middle east and even reaching into africa. A lot of eyes will be on this speech this morning. Got to at the time your guys take on bit waiting in politics in a different way but i found it interesting. Michelle obama really taking to it republicans wading into politics in a way she hasnt before on the issue of school lunch. Paul, why is she taking them snon. We sh says shes reacting to this as a mom, as well as a first lady. Of course, she has made nutrition and healthy kids the focal point of her service as our first lady and whats going on is there are in part because of the first lady, tough new, wonderful new, healthy new nutritional standards in the school lunch program. Now a congressman from alabama has said he wants to maybe slow walk them or scale them back and, of course, alabama, great state. I love alabama. The second highest obesity rate in america. The motion of one of obamas congressman is trying to slow walk the first ladys of for thes in obesity is offensive. So good for her. I love her this isnt about republicans. Paul is quick to out rage. This is about local School Nutritionalists, regulations, surprise, sure prus. Oh, and even fit in obamacare reference. Thats a full if its okay to roll back those standards why not these on School Lunches . We call that a robust debate. All right. Kevin, paul, great to see you guys. Thanks so much. Thanks, kate. Great to be with you. Speaking of predictions. At least one person at this table knew that the okc thunder would be back in the nbas western finals even though they were getting trounced early on. Joe carter was not one of them. Ill have you know that. Michaela or kate . No, it was the ugly guy in the middle, j. C. I told you. Thank you, joe. Youre very welcome. What i like about this, chris, is we got a series now. We absolutely have an interesting one to watch. Its starting to feel like 2012. If youre a spurs fan youre thinking, oh, no, not 2012 because in that series Oklahoma City was down 02 but then they came back and won four straight against the spurs. They went on to the nba finals. Bottom line here, if serge had not returned Oklahoma City was done in the series. Now that hes back the spurs offense is all out of sorts and russell westbrook, wow. 40 points, 10 assist, 5 rebounds, 5 steals. Michael Jeffrey Jordan was the last player to put up numbers like that. Now the series is tied 22 and back to san antonio for a game five thursday night with all the pressure in the world on those guys. Now to hockey. Eastern conference finals. Canadians are not going away without a fight. Down 31 in the series. Montreal had a huge night. Finished with a hat trick last night. The canadians went on to win big, 74. P series shifts back to new york on thursday which is where the rangers can close this thing out on home ice. If they dont, it goes back to montreal for game seven and no rangers fan wants that. All right. This ones good. Number one in the line yum section on bleacherreport. Com. Rapper 50 cent threw out the first pitch at the mets game and it ranks as one of the worst ever. I dont know if its lefthanded or righthanded. So bad. His video went vir value quickly as you can imagine. Think of the number of bad first pitches out there. Carl lewis, the former mayor of cincinnati, your boy in new york on the howard stern show, mariah carey. But that one definitely ranks up there with one of the worst ever, guys. What do you think . And hes built like he could definitely throw a baseball. He looks like a linebacker is the way hes built. It looks like he threw with the wrong hand. Lets give it to him. Lets just tell 50 that hes righthanded. Hes going to have to change his name to a nickel after that. You have to know going into that its not going to go well. When somebody said, hey, we want you to do this. Think, maybe i should just say no based on that throw. I dont know. You cant expect that. You cant expect that. That was the worst thing ever. Unless he had thrown it into the crowd and hit a child. He said afterwards on twitter, im a hustler, not a ballplayer. There you go. There you go. Stay in your lane. I think he lost all of his hustler cred throw. A runthrough at least. No, he panicked. Now none of us can throw a pitch after weve clowning on 50 cent. I could definitely throw a pitch and i will definitely do better than that. I tell you that right now. I can throw it with my foot and do better than that. I would like to see that. He has come on. That was bad. It was bad. Theres no qualifier on it. It was terrible. And he couldnt have practiced because if you knew you were capable of that you would have never walked out there. Maybe he was nervous, sweaty hands. He needed to faint immediately to have a cause for that. That was a violation of man law. No, wasnt. It was a violation of sport law. Discuss amongst yourself. Tweet me, terrible. Coming up offen new day, respected u. S. Marine is jailed in mexico. You probably know this but did you know hes facing more than 20 years behind bars for what he calls a harmless mistake, literally missing an exit. Why isnt the u. S. Doing more to spring him . His mother is going to join us live. Unlimited cash back. Let that phrase sit with you for a second. Unlimited. As in, no limits on your hardearned cash back. As in no more dealing with those rotating categories. The quicksilver card from capital one. Unlimited 1. 5 cash back on everything you purchase, every day. Dont settle for anything less. Ill keep asking. Whats in your wallet . 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Now he is facing several weapons related charges and his lawyers say unless a top Government Official intervenes andrew could sit in jail for a long time. Joining us this morning is his mom. Jill, thank you for joining us. Your son is in san diego trying to meet up with friends. Doesnt know the area well. Takes a wrong turn. Finds himself at the border. Asks the border guard if he can turn around and thats when the might marry begins because he mass guns in his car, guns legal in the u. S. But not legal in exmexico, do i have that right . Yes, correct. He did dial 911 when he realized that he was where he didnt want to be. He called 911 to help him get back to the border. But that response was not provided. We also know that your son was in san diego getting some help for pts. We understand what that he was diagnosis and was receiving help. How was your son leading up to this incident . How was he doing . Well, hes had two tour combat veteran of afghanistan, promoted on the battlefield february 2012. He was in the harshest of conditions in afghanistan, so, yes, he was suffering from symptoms of ptsd which is why he was out in san diego at the invite of a marine friend and just march 12th he was diagnosed positive for ptsd and started a treatment plan. Within days he was imprisoned in mexico, his life threatened, fourpoint chained restrained to a bed for 35 days. So hes been brutalize and definitely a setback fr from his recovery from ptsd. Absolutely. We can understand that. Any chance, jill, critics are going to say he must have doning . . Any chance he could have done something that was misconstrued by those agents to ill less it such a response . In fact, he said he felt very confident the first agents that he met at the border when he crossed accidentally, the mexican custom agents, he believed that they understood that it was a mistake, that he had accidentally entered which actually happens hundreds of times a day. I hear from this state department. And they were flagging over an escort car to help him get back and turned around. Yet, the military then came on board, the mexican military, and everything went south of the border, literally, from that point. He has sense been moved from the situation where he was one of the most violent prisons in mexico, la mesa, there for a short time. Since moved. Have the conditions for him improved now where he is . Yes, because hes not fearing that his life will be taken every second. Now he is in isolation, confinement, yet he is not with the general populous, which is favorable. And he does have a 24 7 guard thats with him at all times. Talk about today. We know hes going before a judge. This first hearing. How is he feeling and how are you feeling about this hearing today . Bittersweet. 60 days out. We cant understand how im a mother and i had all the evidence in my hand within three days and all the guns were legal li purchased in america, the 911 tape clearly states, i accidentally entered mexico, please help me because theyre trying to take my guns. He disclosed immediately that he didnt want to be at the border because he had three guns in his car. All of his possessions were in his truck. He had not yet found permanent housing. He had just moved from florida. He was going to set up home in san diego, get a job, continue with his va treatment that had just started march 12th. Yet he was arrested that day. So he is relieved that he will be able to go before the judge today and explain precisely how he made that accidental wrong turn. And ended up in the dell lima hes in right now. Theres public support. Theres a demonstration scheduled at the border today, letters from congressmen vouching for his character and brooif r bravery and service to the United States. Secretary of state john kerry is going to be on our program a little later this morning. We know that he has spoken briefly, were told with the mexican president about your son. Whats the message you want too give to secretary kerry right now . To advocate for his expeed yated due process so that an eminent release will occur because the evidence is clear that it was an accidental, no intention to enter mexico with firearms. And, also, as an executive level, the white house. Gov petition, president obama, i need 10,000 signatures a day to reach the 100,000 signature threshold may 31st of this month to also receive a response from president obama. But im looking forward to secretary of state john kerrys response. I know he raised the issue and im hopeful for a little bit more detail on that. He raised the issue with mexican authorities. I didnt mean to say the president. The whitehouse. Gov is a petition you set up. Jill, we can understand your concern and fear but we hope that you stay hopeful for your sons release. Andrew tafmooresi awaiting his fate today. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. Coming up next on new day, California Community is still mourning and in shock after the deadly stabbing and shooting rampage that happened there. Did they at all see this coming . Someone who knew him well is someone who knew him well is here to discuss. My bill, and my fico® Credit Scores on here. We give you your fico® score each month for free awesomesauce wow the only person i know that says that is. Lisa . Julie . at discover, we treat you like youd treat you. Get the it card and see your fico® credit score. Captain and heres a tip. Bellman thanks, captain obvious. When you save money on hotel rooms, its just like saving money on anything else that costs money. 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We have someone come og the show right now who knew the shooter, met him in 2000. Five years later that kid went on a killing spree in Santa Barbara killing six. Lenny shaw is a valuable resource in understanding what happened here and why the 22yearold gunman was friends with two others whom the professor knew very well. He joins us. Lenny, thank you for joining us. I know this is a difficult conversation to have. To milwaukee it clear, you were close with a couple of former students who were childhood friends with the shooter and thats how you came to know him. Yes . Yes, thats correct. Elliott himself was not one of my students but i but i met him through a group of my former students. One key critical question. People want to dismiss him as a bad guy influenced by movies and had access to guns too easily because of the current state of our gun laws. The person you got to know, any question in your mind as to whether or not this was about Mental Illness . Oh, theres no question in my mind that this is about that this was about Mental Illness. It touches upon gun issues, it touches upon gender issues. But the maine main rubric is this is a young gentleman with some very severe problems in relating to others socially. So its not about him being a movie or a gun law away from being safe to society. He has real plans in his head . Yeah. I mean, you know, that wasnt obvious, that directly, you know, three to five years ago. I was just aware of it when i met him. I just thought he was awkward. You know, standoffish, shy. But it was when i had couple of conversations with him, just casual conversations with him, that i saw that this was more than just, you know, someone of late adolescence that enjoyed shocking people. It was his clarity of his very, you know, strange belief system that frankly creeped me out a little bit. One of the major indications of Mental Illness, he had these competing problems in his head, right . He saw himself as less than but also at the same time delusions of grandeur, right . Tell me about that. Yeah. Yeah. Thats correct. He was very insecure. Now, i want to make it clear that the person that we saw in that final video, the infamous youtube video, i saw that elnt of him, but he also he had feelings. He was completely wrapped up in his own delusions. But i saw at one point he had tears in his eyes when he was feeling sorry for himself. You know, i did see him exhibit some emotion. But, yeah, there was a consistency in the theme that young women didnt appreciate him. They didnt care about him. It was unfair. That part that has been portr portrayed is pretty accurate. It morphed into his feeling that women were less than, they soub subjudicated, under his control like a new kingdom where he could rule it. And then there was something that was literally too much for you. What made you decide i need to stay clear of this person . Well, it was when i was having a casual conversation with him, a bunch of us were at a street fair in venice area, local area of los angeles here. And i dont know how the conversation started but he was just musing on how he thought the women were inteferiorinferi. And it was at that point, as i say, that clarity in his voice had me concerned. As recently as well, as recently as two months ago he was a facebook friend of mine. Its a pretty casual relationship. And i didnt want to really ever want to be with him again, but he was there on facebook and he made some comment in a threat of mine on my wall that teenagers who have sex should be Given Capital punishment. At that point it was partly that i didnt want my other facebook friends to ask who is this person and i just thought it was just more prudent to just block him from my facebook account. Any thought to alerting authorities about this guy . I not on my part. That was because i i didnt know his family. There were other older adults that he knew better. I dont know if they necessarily, other than his parents, saw this side of him. I thought it would be inappropriate for me to get that actively involved when when i didnt know the key people in his life specifically his parents. Regret that now . No, no, you know, at the risk of sounding, you know, insensitive to the terrible thing that happened last friday night, frankly since they didnt really know me, you know, i was, again, primarily i mean, i knew elliott but it was a casual relationship i saw maybe eight to ten times. I frankly think that they would have gone, who is lenny shaw, who is this person, why is he saying these terrible things . I dont think i was close enough to the situation that it appropriate that i be the one. There were other people there, and it is my understanding that he was under care. Right. But the care he was under was probably not intensive enough. Certainly something went wrong. Thats for sure. I know a lot of people are a asking questions of themselves who knew him. Lenny shaw, thank you for helping us understand what this man was and wasnt and how we got to where we are today. Appreciate it. Thank you very much. All right. So were following that story as we have new developments, but there are some other big stories to start your new day. Donald sterling says the nba process is a sham and illegal. Meanwhile, his wife is already trying to sell the team. The president obama a policy weak and ineffective . Secretary john kerry is here to make the case. Four teenagers save a newborn with a big assist from social media. Amazing tale of heroism. Lets get after all of it. Donald sterling is apparently not going to go quietly. The letter does not hold back. 26 pages ripping into the nba. Its time to turn the page on more than a decade in which so much of our policies were on war in afghanistan and iraq. Torching her fathers Christian Church. Told my dad he met his fate and he that is the reason why they shoot him. Two California Assembly members announcing legislation. There are compromises that will save lives. Background checks will help stem and stop gun violence. Good morning. Welcome back to new day. It is wednesday, may 28th. 7 00 now in the east. It appears at least one person named sterling is trying to sell the l. A. Clippers and that name isnt donald. Sterling says the nba is trying to violate his Constitutional Rights and he will sell the team if and when he wants to. Meanwhile, wife shelly definitely wants to and reportedly is moving quickly to sell the team and has offers in the billions. Cnns rosa flores is following developments. Chris, good morning. Donald sterling comes out swinging in this 26page letter to the nba claiming his Constitutional Rights have been violated and that a forced sale creates tax for his family. He purchased the clippers for about 12 million and the team may sell for as much as 2 2. 5 billion. The letter does not hold back. 26 pages ripping into the nba, calling the penalties draconian, the process a sham, and unconstitutional. And vowing to fight to the bitter end. The main argument of the letter, quote, a jealous rant to a lover never intended to be published cannot offend the nba rules. The letter describes this taped outburst as a, quote, inflamed lovers quarrel in which he was clearly distraught. Dont come to my games. Dont bring black people. Dont come. Reporter after the tape went public sterling was banned for life from nba facilities and functions and ordered to pay a record 2. 5 million fine. Sterling and his lawyers say the tape was illegally recorded and cannot be used against him. And though sterling himself apologized in an interview with cnn im so sorry. And im so apologetic. Reporter he now says those offenses, though not justified, dont compare to these committed inside the nba. Like kobe bryant using a homophobic slur at a ref, fined 100,000 for that. His wife selly has written permission from him to sell the team and a source says hes moving quickly, having already met with several perfective buyers. The nba responded to sterlings letter by saying the board of governors will meet on june 3rd and, quote, should the board vote to sustain the charge the sterlings interest in the clippers will be terminated and the team will be sold. We should also add that, by the way, that in that letter, sterling also says that he will not give up his right to sue. All right. Rosa, thank you very much. So hes been accused of showing a lack of grit on Foreign Policy. Now president obama is going to layout a new vision for his final two years in office. He will be speaking at west points commencement later this morning where hes going to try to balance Global Security with a war weary american public, a day after the president announced a troop drawdown in afghanistan within a year. Lets bring in a cnn political comment tater and contributing editor for Atlantic Media and a senior fellow for the new america foundation. Peter, its great to see you. Great to be here. The big question, were all going to pontificate until we hear what he says. Pr your perspective, what does the president need to do today . Michelle kosinski put it well today. Its almost trying to balance in his speech almost seems like mission impossible. Hes gotten criticism over the last few months. The idea that he has looked weak, lacked credibility on the world stage. On that point, peter, how does he push back on that on even if it is just perception, perception at some point seems to become real lity when it com to this. Look at ukraine where a lot of criticism is focused in recent weeks. We have a legitimate election in ukraine. The russians seem to be moving troops away from the border. The let of russian invasion has receded. The russians accept this new leader. We have a better prospect than weve had in months. I think american sanctions and leadership deserve credit for that. Two sides of the coin. Republicans say that economic sanctions while theyve been tough against Vladimir Putin has done little to stop the violence we are seeing every day still play out in ukraine. Right. There is still violence in the east but the russians have pulled back and ukraine has a moral legitimate government than it had to prosecute that violence. I think asia the most important policy concern. I think americas alliances with japan, with south korea, the philippines invited us back in militarily. Stronger than before. He killed osama bin laden. While theres still a terrorist threat theres has not been a major terrorist attack on u. S. Soil. Do you think he should focus more time on defending his Foreign Policy actions to this point or speaking forward to the two years left and what can be done . Because a lot of criticism coming at him today is the timetable that some of his critics will argue is an arbitrary timetable and drawing down troops in afghanistan. The president made it pretty clear, i think, that part of what he wanted his legacy to be is ending the wars in iraq and afghanistan. What is the conditions on the ground so differently. Theres a reasonable argument we should have done it we should be doing eight little bit more slowly but lets not kid ourselves here. This is a mission against al qaeda. Thats whats in americas interest. We do not have the capacity to defeat the taliban insurgency or to remake afghanistan into a modern successful country. I hope it becomes that way. The American People at a time when we are deeply indebt, when were not even funding, giving people Unemployment Insurance here. Thats not what we signed up for. I think the president has had the country fundamentally behind him at that point. What would you deem what would you do that would deem a success when you hear this speech . So much is being put on foreign pol p si. I think he has to remind americans that ending these two wars, not having a major terrorist attack, and starting to quench the terrible costs that we saw financially and the human costs. Force in afghanistan would still cost a whole lot of money. Why is our veteran system overflowing . Why are we having these terrible problems . Weve had hundreds of thousands of american troops in terrible combat circumstances. Huge spike in traumatic brain injuries. Ending that is signature of accomplishment. One thing Going Forward that will make his legacy is this deal with iran. Thats the one big thing hanging out there. A deal with iran would give us some faith towards iran not moving toward a nuclear weapon, may be the crown. That is still a big question mark if thats going to be able to be pulled off. A lot of people, a lot being put on this speech as maybe it should. A lot of foreign policies. Peter, great to see you. Thank you. Coming up next hour were going to talk more about the president s Foreign Policy with that man, secretary of state john kerry. Hes going to join us in the 8 00 a. M. Eastern hour. The white house has ordered an investigation into itself. The issue, how a cia top agent in afghanistan was exposed during the president s surprise trip to the country. Now the agents top secret and Dangerous Mission could be in jeopardy. Cnns my zell kosinski is at the white house more. How can the white house investigate itself and what does it think it can find . Hi, chris. At first the white house didnt have comment about this incident but now its announced the chief of staff has asked White House Council to thoroughly look at how this happened and look at the processes involved and then make recommendations so that it doesnt happen again. What we do know about how it happened was that a Pool Reporter who was covering the president s trip to afghanistan had asked a white house staffer for a list of people who would be briefing the president. Standard practice. That staffer asked the military for a full list. And somehow on that list was the name and title of the top cia officer in afghanistan. It was then distributed widely and it was the reporter who noticed that that name was on there and brought it to everyones attention. Of course, this is both embarrassing and career ending at least in that position for the cia officer. The last time this happened where a cia operative had their cover blown by their own government was Valerie Plame in 2006 and she tweeted about this incident after it happened calling eight astonishing. Kate . I think we can all agree. It seems astonishing. Michelle, thank you. A busy day. The president himself isnt the only obama battling with congress right now. Michelle obama is going after House Republicans to considering changes to the nations Healthy School lunch policy. Shes been a major force behind getting children to eat better, especially at schools. But many in the Republican Party and the house say the new standards are setting schools and students back. Setting them up to fail. Athena jones is in washington with the latest. What are the details here . Were seeing the first lady get publicly involved in the political fight for really the first time. This goes beyond, say, urging young people to sign up for health insurance, as we have seen her do. Shes now taking a position in a legislative debate and i over an issue shes been passionate about as first lady and as a mother. Children and healthy eating. Its unacceptable to me not just as first lady but as a mother. Reporter fighting words from the first lady. Sending a message to House Republicans who want to relax School Nutrition standards she fought for four years ago. The last thing that we can afford to do right now is play politics with our kids health, especially when were finally starting to see some progress on this issue. Reporter its part of a rare political push by mrs. Obama to battle a bill that would give schools facing financial problems an extra year to comply with rules to limit fat and sodium and encourage more truts and vegetables in school meals. The mom and n. Chief is known for her lets move campaign against childhood obesity. Her white house garden and her focus on healthy eating. But she hasnt waded into the political fights at the other end of pennsylvania avenue until now. Parents have a right to expect their kids will get decent food in our schools. And we all have a right to expect that our hard earned taxpayer dollars wont be spent on junk food for our kids. Reporter supporters of the legislation say some School Districts are struggling to find keep, Healthy Options and need more time to make sure kids will eat the healthier foods, not just throw them away. Were not saying lets put junk food back on the serving line. For most districts, that hasnt been part of the school meal in many, many years. But we want to make sure that students are comfortable with these changes and are willing to take what is offered to them and will foond it acceptable and enjoyable. So this bill is set to go to the full House Appropriations committee tomorrow. We expect the first lady to stay involved in this fight as long as the current nutrition standards are under threat well probably be hearing more from her. Michaela . I think so as well. A look at more of your headlines. Breaking overnight. Two americans injured in an attack on consulate vehicle in afghanistan. They were traveling on the main road in herat when their vehicle was hit. Two victims were hospitalized but injuries are not reported to be serious. This attack comes a day after president obama laid out plans to end the u. S. Troop presence in afghanistan by 2016. U. S. Warship is on its way to libya this morning as the state department calls the security situation there, quote, unpredictal and unstable. They are warning americans to leave immediately, saying Emergency Services are limited. Officials say the uss baton has some 1,000 reemarines and 18 helicopters on board. President obama is trying to keep hope alive on Immigration Reform in congress. He is directing Homeland Security chief jay johnson to delay releasing a review of u. S. Deportation policies until the end of summer to avoid angering House Republicans. Theres narrow window in june and july where the white house believes congress could act before the focus then turns to the november midterms. 12 minutes after the hour. You want to know what your weather is going to be like today. Youre getting dressed right now. Indra petersons is the one to tell you. Texas and louisiana, im going to say yes, a lot of Severe Weather is already out there. Check out all the lightning, even severe thunderstorm warnings around galveston, texas. This is a story. Theyve been seeing so much rain since last saturday. Five, six inches of rain. Houston, over five inches of rain. It hasnt stopped yet. Were still talking about very slowmoving low hanging around. Even the flooding potential around louisiana and mississippi. Think about the rain i just showed you. Add all of this on top of it. 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Coming up next on new day, the killing spree in california is sparking debate over mental ill and the balance of what safeguards are needed to keep communities safe. Were talking with the congressman about his bill. It gets at the heart of this issue but it is coming up xwains a big fight in congress. [ female announcer ] you never know what might be out there. The ambulance racing by you. The ambulance chaser. Chasing the ambulance. A rollerblader with headphones whos oblivious to everything. The cab driver whos checking out the rollerblader. Its 360 degrees of chaos out there. But with driverassist technology, including a blind spot system and a rearview camera, the ford fusion will help tell you when its coming. The ford fusion will help tell you when its coming. Dont just visit hawaii. Visit tripadvisor hawaii. With millions of reviews, tripadvisor makes any destination better. Welcome back to new day. Did you know there are 350,000 people in this country with untreated or undertreated Mental Illness and only 35,000 beds available to treat them. So what is that . Its a recipe for disaster, right . Most of them wind up in prison or out and among us. So this just played out in Santa Barbara, didnt it . Next guest was here in april after the latest shooting in ft. Hood carried without by a soldier with undertreated distress. He has a bill in congress which says could help the attacks in the future. Representative, it is good to have you here with us. Also important to note youre not just a congressman, you are also a trained psychologist, a clinical one, so you understand the issues here very well. I would submit to you, congressman, you are up against it. You are betting beaten by culture on two fronts. Coming out of this people want to blame the mediation they want to blame guns, and they wont want to talk about Mental Health on a third level and quietly. How do you overcome the bias . Well, we have to understand that the stigma we place on Mental Illness is done by those of us who want to be in denial of Mental Illness, serious Mental Illness. So often some with untreated or undertreated Mental Illness on top of 40,000 plus suicides a year, youre ten times more likely to be in a prison and not a hospital. Increased homelessness, joblessness, victimization of the mentally ill. How much is enough before we say we have got to pass laws here which change the way fundamentally we approach Mental Illness. I think that time is absolutely now. You cant stop bad people from doing bad things. Maybe if you take away the guns, maybe if you make us never cover it again so theres no copycats and make the movies cleaner. Thats a real fix. What do you say of that . I wish we could cure cancer by pretending its not there. This is a serious brain illness. What our nation has tended to do is maybe pass some mild laws or look at the softer side of things and do prevention things. Lets saying lets buy smoke detectors but never buy a fire truck. When you look at the signs that occurred in this case in california and other ones the parents knew something was wrong. Sometimes the police had a peripheral knowledge of this. What we found and this is going to be in the report that i showed to my members of Congress Tomorrow here is that we found that the Confidentiality Laws prevented parents are getting involved, not enough hospital beds, medicaid blocked some services, not enough psychist terrorists and psychologists. The list goes on and on and on. A so then if you can escape the outward culture issues, you then get political culture on you. Mental hale l Health Advocates saying, wait a minute, you cant reduce privacy laws. You will have a chilling affect on who wants to get treatment and youre stigmatizing Mental Illness and Mental Health by putting rules and restrictions on us. Youre getting beaten up outside and i side. How do you get bill like this passed . The privacy laws like hipaa laws were prevented mistreatment from health care. Not meant to keep people from being treated in health care. These parents knew, the parents of adam lanza knew, something terribly was going on but so often they say we cant do anything about it until they practically have a knife to their throat or someone elses. People knew when something was going on. What about the rights of society . When someone says we dont want you forcing them into treatment, look, i get that. But society is saying when the signs are there, that someone is gravely disabled or gravely ill from Mental Illness, a brain illness, treat them. Denial is not a treatment. A little bit inside baseball here but just in terms of how you get it done. Relative ron barber has his own bill. He says a deals with the criticisms of yours, you have some problems with his. You thinking about teaming up though to just try to get something done . The two billses are in two different places. To be one that says lets expand federal programs. His says lets not have the accountability there. I get what hes trying to do but first youve got to keel with the crisis upon us and thats those moment of crisis when someone with schizophrenia, bipolar illness, severe depression, the states dont have the services. They may have laws to try and help get people treatment but those are not put in place. In california only two or three counties has the treatment law in place president not Santa Barbara county, where you can help get someone treat who is denied it. That is one of the characteristics in half the case wheres the person says im not going to get treatment because i dont believe i have an illness. That bill would not deal with it. Our bill does deal with that. Our bill does get parents more involved, trains police officers, works to get more psychiatrists, psychologists involved. Teal were dealing with a crisis here in mental i. Nellness and n just aspect of prevention. People want to deal with guns first. Even though that debate is cemented in terms of positions it always takes precedence over Mental Health no matter how many of us scream about it. How do you move us past that . Well, its not whats in their hands, its what is in their mind and heart that weve got to deal with. The issue of guns california has some of the strictest gun laws in the nation bar none. And so it didnt work there. It also has whats called assisted outpatient treatment laws which are up to individual keeptds to put in place. California isnt dealing with that. That happens all around the country. Some places like new york and counties in texas and dade county in florida do a lot more to provide those kind of services and intervention for somewhat serious Mental Illness. Are we going to cure diabetes by banning soft drinks . Thats not the issue. We have got to deal with the treatment. And need for treatment as a standard and though those who are advocating for others thing are missing the outcry from parents around this country who are saying i know when my son or daughter, i know when my brother or sister has deteriorated and is severely ill. Kablt we get help for them . Cant we Pay Attention to those loved up wiones . The good news is something can be done. The bad news is we keep seeing case after case and the changes arent made. Representative murphy, you know that were with you on this. So let us know how to help you Going Forward. Good luck with it. Thank you. Well keep working this. We wont give up. Kate . 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Headline, class is back in session this morning at uc Santa Barbara five days after a bloody rampage left six students dead. More than 20,000 students packed the stadium for a tearfilled vigil. A father led a chant of not one more. As he called on washington to bring an end to gun violence. Ukraines newly elected president is vowing to put down the violence in the country. Dozen of rebels were killed in the fighting. Ukrainian leader says hell ask the u. S. For help with military supplies and training. This is quite a story. Four teenagers helped save a newborn thanks to social media. So the story is a baby just 16 hours hold abducted from a hospital in quebec, canada, monday. Police quickly issued an amber alert and posted details about the suspect and her consider on facebook. This group of teens noticed the post when they saw the picture of her they yerealized one of tm recognized her as someone they knew. The teens then said lets go out and see if we can find this car. When they found the car they called police. The woman was arrested. And the baby is back with mom and dad. Those parents were despondent. They thought they werent going to see their child again. How about that . Can i tell you Something Else interesting about that story . The four students, students, right, one is a psychology student, one is education, one is a nursing student, and one is a social work student. The right people. The right people. Right. More than anything weve talked about today, that stops me. Yeah. See something, say something. You got to be involved. Absolutely. Very good. We needed that. We did. Happy endings are good. If you dont have a yen for politics today. You dont know what a yen is. Lets get to inside politics on new day with john king. The job is too easy for you today. Theres a lot to cover. I dont know if that makes it easy, but well see. Lets get right to it. Well get inside politics and get their insight. Lets start with the president s big Foreign Policy speech today. He teed up a bid of it today. Leaving a modest amount of troops in afghanistan after this year when we says the combat mission ends. Listen to the president laying out to the American People, yes, we have goals in afghanistan but lets be realistic. We have to recognize afghanistan will not be a Perfect Place and it is not americas responsibility to make it one. That last part, guiliana, if its not americas responsibility to make it one, is that the tone of this speech, the president wants to say we will be active, interventionists when necessary but lets set realistic expectations . Yes, and to explain how he sees the u. S. Away from the wars in iraq and afghanistan and more towards Counter Terrorism policy thats focus and partnerships around the world. Funding these kinds of partnerships. He will be calling on congress to fund a Counter Terrorism reserve fund essentially to help train and equip those kinds of missions. They know they have not done a good job explaining the role of u. S. Leadership around the world over the last year, eight months. So kind of think of this speech as everything the president has been trying to say over the last year and hasnt been able to because of the distractions from edward snowden, from ukraine, from syria. And so this is meant to reset that narrative. He was in afghanistan over the weekend. Announced the troop levels. Hes going to be going to europe next week as well to continue this messaging. Theres been a lot of criticism of the president s Foreign Policy and the white houses push back often is use troops or so military force or send military equipment into syria, do it hear, do it there. Their argument is done, that was done in the bush years that is unreali unrealistic. Theres a group of republicans particularly in the senate where the president is never going to be able to convince them. Never going to believe able to convince them. Well see if the president mentioned the va scandal. This is a Foreign Policy speech. We are now beginning to see evidence the va scandal will play in some 2014 races in the big Midterm Election here. This is first on cnn. Brand new ad aired inial lasz a but the pro conservative republican super pac cross roads targeting the democrat incumbent mark baguette. A national disgrace. Veterans died wait for care that never came. He silt tons Veterans Affairs committee. His response, if theres a problem they need to fix it. If theres a problem . Tell senator begich, when theyre guying, its a problem. Theyre air that ad in alaska. Lets move to arkansas. Mark pryor is the incumbent there. There this is a brand new ad. Even if they agree secretary shinseki should requin, mark pryor refuses to clean up the mess. He says silence, he sides with obama. Our veterans deserves a stronger leader than senator pryor. Jacqui, those are two of the most Competitive Senate races but two races where democrats have felt better about begich and proyor. Do you find it interesting . I think in states where obama is unpopular, absolutely youre doing see im surprised there are not more ads in some of those states and i think thats why youre seeing candidates like Allison Lundergan grimes in kentucky. We saw that in kentucky and georgia. You have the democratic incumbents who so far their leadership has been asking them to hold their fire. How long can they hold it . This is a challenge for the white house, too, here. Look, rule number one in Crisis Management is you want to cauterize the wound. Here you want to fire shinseki. Its not black and white. This is not obamas style, either. He wants to let it play out. He wants to investigation to go through. My understanding is that what theyre finding in the investigation is its really difficult to tie shinseki directly to this and he also still has a lot of support from veterans groups. It will be interesting to your point. If these ads get traction, if the numbers start to change, you wont see them in two races but across the country. Weve been talking that its been a tough time to find a tea party victory. If youre a tea party supporter, you can celebrate the results last night in texas. Antiestablishment candidates winning in the race of Lieutenant Governor in texas. Probably the most powerful job in the state. Tea Party Candidate winning for attorney general and conservative winning in the race against ralph hall. Oldest member of congress. 91yearold ralph had in 80. Served in world what two and will be the last when they are retired from congress. Saying the Tea Party Wins this morning. America loses. This is not so much a political statement but the last two members of the greatest generation to serve in congress will be gone come january. Thats right. In terms of the Tea Party Versus establishment argument, this is not as clear cut. What it does show is that money likes to win and in the runoff, al had the support of club for growth and conservative groups but his opponent also had the support of tea party icons like michele bachmann. I think it will be interesting to see how this narrative play out in mississippi next week withed that cochran and Chris Mcdaniel because its very similar arguments of much nastier race but similar arguments. The base has been demoralized a bit, demorademoralized by los. Can they bring that over to mississippi, a good point. All this talk that possibly, possibly theyll get to immigration before the election. Im a skeptic. With word that the administration is delaying and planning to have a view of the deportation policy looking to get legal guidance to slow down deportations and wanted to do that. Outreach to the Latino Community. The president has asked the department of Homeland Security to wait until after the summertime. In part we are told because he doesnt want to anger House Republicans. Hes trying to keep open the opportunity for passing Immigration Reform. Is that opportunity really still there . You know, i think i agree with you, john. You can see this in and say what the white house is saying they still see this opportunity. They dont want to pro preclude it from happening. Then you have to believe you could get Immigration Reform this year. Even with this theres a 20 or 30 answer of getting it done this year. Youre going to see a push from democrats now that the republican primary season is winding down to try and get it true and then were going to be back to the Old Washington blame game so the white house and democrats can say, oh, look here, we gave you the opening and you didnt take it. Can you see it getting done, hold this up and show it on the screen as well. This is a conservative mailing from eric cantor. Hes the number two house republican. If here going to pass a bill to a path to citizenship or legal status theyre going to need mr. Cantor on board. Not given much of a chance and net eric cantor is putting this in the mail essentially saying im going to block president obama from granting amnesty. Doesnt that tell you all you need to know about the prospects before the election . I think so. Something marginal is done in the lame duck but i agree. I dont think theres much hope when you say malers like that from one of the Top Republicans in the house. Get back to you guys in new york, suze orman picking a president. Guess what, shes not a Hillary Clinton plan. She prefers l s Elizabeth Warre if she would run for president against anybody even hillary. Including Hillary Clinton, i would vote for her hands down. She is the real deal. I think that woman i couldnt have enough good things to say about Elizabeth Warren. Interesting. She doesnt say things by accident. We got to hear larry king there, too. Didnt she also say but i love Hillary Clinton, kind of like having her cake and eating it too. She loves Elizabeth Warren more. Ah. I love you, john, and i love you, chris, and i love you michaela. I cannot say who i love more. I wont do that. Until were in the primaries together, then you have to pick. Then i dont love you because obviously then ill want to win. Come on, since when is she a king maker. I was coming from a place of aggression the other day. Now chris is taking it, john. Im taking a pass on that one. You dont want to take on the orman, good for you, john. Safe move. Thanks, john. Thats right. That should be the headline. Thats true. Okay. I like that. Coming up next on new day, this is a story you want to hear. She survived an attack by boko haram, a group that abducted girls and Still Holding them. Exclusive interview with the girl just 12 years old when the militant group killed most of her family right in front of her. You will want to hear her story and her powerful message. We have one sterling quite happy to sell the clippers and the other is Donald Sterling, just wait until you hear what he is saying about what is going on and he is being basically victimized by the nba. Smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. That helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. 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You cant do it on something where you know i wasnt intending any kind of transmission of this communication. I was actually pushed into saying it but this woman who i thought i loved. These are not even my real words. I told you him sorry. This is too harsh a punishment. Sorry, mr. Sterling. It may not be about the how because its about the what. And what happened after the mess with you and your lover where you were distraught and you were baited and Everything Else was materially adverse impact to the nba. We dont even need your stinken recording in the proceeding in order to prove to you that based on the fact there was a throat of a boycott and at least 16 sponsors that went for the hills as soon as your acts were made public, weve got it all locked in and loaded. Fight. I would say youre talking to a mirror because you started this whole thing. You went crazy with tmz. I started this whole thing . Your lover started this whole thing. You let her tape you with your knowledge. Shes going to come in here i didnt know she was taping me. Thats what you say. Shes going to come in here to this proceeding when youre done and tell us that she had your permission. And besides, you keep focusing on the wrong thing, Donald Sterling. Tell us how it is that youre not 100 responsible based on your actions for causing a materially adverse impact to the nba in terms of players threatening to boycott and sponsors threatening to leave. I think my answer is simple, which is, i did none of that. I was responding to one very specific part of the conversation which by the way selectively you never play. Which is where shes talking about this taunting me about these pictures she took with four particular black men. Im saying dont bring them to my game. Do whatever you want with them and you made it into me talking about all blacks which unfairly characterized me. I was the president of my High School Class and there were plenty of black people in the school. You said no blacks can come. You want to cherry pick what was going on in that conversation. I was upset. Clearly you were upset. You were upset about black people coming to the game. You took this illegally recorded tape and made it into a big media circus. Youre the one who brought all of this attention to it. I certainly wasnt. I never said it in public. Whats also interesting, Donald Sterling, is in the five of six days after this after this went public, instead of coming out doing a mia culpa, explaining to the public you were distraught, you didnt mean those things, this is a terrible mistake, dear lord, please forgive me, you were not only quiet but you and your group put out a press release that was misleading, which in our opinion added to the damage. We have all of the law on our side. You signed contract after contract after contract and it was your behavior and we believe in personal responsibility. I dont care who you want to associate with in your private life but when your associations have an impact on the nba which this one did, and its as huge as it was, we are going to follow the rules and were going to proceed with kicking you out. I dont like your face. Really . Thats my new defence. What . Thats all i have. Thats all i can say. You sound like my 8yearold. Thats all he can say after that. He did a kitchen sink hail mary. His best point that he can make at the end of all that is, okay, even if thats all true, even if its all true, you cant take my team. Its worth too much. Its too severe a penalty based on what i did. Yes, yes. In fact, the most compelling thing that he says, i think, when i read this is when he throws out kobe bryant and what he said to the ref. When he talks about Harry Belafonte and what he said about jayz and beyonce and other peoples responsibilities to their communities when they get famous. When he pulls in all the other allegations that have happened in the nba that are sexist, homophobic and racist and what the nbas response has been, it stops you for a minute. Except they dont own teams and they dont have the same power over them and person that kobe was talking to who did a big apology to her, was not a homosexual. It changed the context a little bit. Yes. You beat me like an egg this morning on that one. Hes got a tough hes got a tough road to hoe. This is a dual strategy. Shes selling. Hes preserving their legal claim. Coming up next on new day, hundreds of nigerian schoolgirls abducted are still missing. I sat down exclusively with an a. Young girl who survived an attack by the militant group. Quiet mom has a headache had a headache but now, i dont. Excedrin is fast. In fact for some, relief starts in just 15 minutes. Excedrin. Headache. Gone. Heres a good one seattle. What did geico say to the mariner . 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Her father and brother were shot and killed in front of her by boka haram militants. She was spared, but three years later she remains haunted by the memory. How often do you think about that day, december 22nd . Almost every day, but i pray about it. You pray about it every day . Uhhuh. Boka haram militants came to your house, knocked on the door and asked for your father. Why did they come for your father . Because my dad is christian and hes strong. So they wanted to kill him because hes a pastor. Reporter she says boka haram terrorized her family for years, torching her tathers Christian Church and final any in 2011 attacking the family in their own home. What do you remember about that night . I remember when they killed my dad and brother. I remember what they said to them. What did they say . They told my dad to deny his faith, and he refused to deny his faith. Thats the reason they shoot him, because he didnt deny in his god. Why did they then shoot your brother as well . Because one of the boka haram say if my brother grow up, he would become a pastor like my dad. Reporter the softspoken young girl says the terrorists dragged her between the bodies of her father and brother, neighbors too terrified to help until the following day she was brought to the hospital. You were there for the whole thing, stuck there after ward all night. Reporter debra was just 12 years old at the time. She is from chibok, nigeria, the same village where these 276 school girls were kidnapped by the islamist terror group in april, their school left burning. What did you think when you heard that had happened to them . I got scared, and from there i the world to know my story, and i want the world to know how terrible the boka haram is to my country, and theyre really horrible. I just want the world to know, maybe they can help. Reporter she knows shes lucky to have escaped. But she is still under threat, and because of that, deborah is in the United States attending school on scholarship. What are you looking forward to while youre here . My education and what i want to be. What do you want to be . I have to think. Maybe i want to be a doctor. If not possible, maybe i want to be a dentist. Doctor or dentist . Uhhuh. Im pretty sure everything is possible for you. Reporter with the whole world paying attention, deborah has another mission, to use her experience to help bring back those school girls, some of them she knows. All of them she now calls her sisters. Ive seen you holding a sign that said bring back my sisters. Do you consider them your sisters now . Oh, yeah. Why . Just because were like one family. Youre linked. Your town is very small. Do you think youll see them again . Yes, by gods grace. By gods grace. Thats absolutely right. What do you want those girls to know from you . If they could hear you, if you could speak to them, what would you want to tell them . Maybe they should keep praying and probably maybe god will answer their prayer, because god love them, too. I just want them to know that god is with them, god loves them. Pretty simple message, but a powerful one. Deborah also shared that not only is she still under threat, so is her mother still in nigeria. She says her mother still receives threats from boka haram. It shouldnt come as a surpass that deborah says she doesnt want to go back to nigeria fearing what awaits her if she returns. Shes 15 years old, so soft spoken, seems like she has the world ahead of her. Shes been here for nine or ten months, her faith is herky. Uncommon resolve to be able to discuss things like this that really could paralyze her. You can see she has that trauma when she speaks about the story. But putting a face to the 276 girls just like you from the same village are still not with their families, still captured by boka haram. Good reminder. Still out there. Just because you dont hear them reported on as often, doesnt mean the danger is any less. Well take a quick break here. When we come back, someone who actually could help these girls, secretary of state john kerry, the layout of foreign politics criticized and weakened and ineffective. What are we going to do about it . The secretary of state joins us next. [ female announcer ] you never know what might be out there. The ambulance racing by you. The ambulance chaser. Chasing the ambulance. A rollerblader with headphones whos oblivious to everything. The cab driver whos checking out the rollerblader. Its 360 degrees of chaos out there. But with driverassist technology, including a blind spot system and a rearview camera, the ford fusion will help tell you when its coming. And the award goes to ceramics house. Congratulations. Thank you. The success of your Small Business depends on results. Go vests all organic, and theres tons of info on our website. Thats why you rely on the best for your business. And verizon delivers the best devices on the best network. Youre all big toes to me. So go ahead, stream and download with confidence on americas largest, most reliable 4glte network. Activate any 4glte smartphone and get 100 off. For best results, use verizon. Good morning. Welcome back to nunew day. Its wednesday, 8 00 in the east. This morning president obama faces a tough test when he lays out his Foreign Policy at west point. Hes expected to defend himself against charges hes been slow and weak responding to emergencies from syria to russia to iran and north korea. So what is the president s vision, and will it quiet the critics . The man who knows, of course, is the man largely in charge of implementing the strategy, secretary of state john kerry who joins us now. Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for tarking the opportunity. Good to be with you, chris. Rather than review the speech, lets touch on the issues that will certainly come out of it. The idea of withdrawing from afghanistan is going to be called by the president a way for ward. How is it a way for ward when, as you well know, as soon as the u. S. Leaves there, the chances that the place descends back into chaos are very high . Isnt that backwards, not forwards . No. Look, chris, if you want to find the most negative, gloomy prediction, one can find it and lock onto it. The fact is every step of the way since 2009, president obama has put in place a strategy that has thus far worked. He set a target for the afghans to take control of their security. They did, and theyve done much better than everybody thought. He set a target for them to have an election and to provide the security and the planning and execution for that election. They did. They did so very successfully. Life is changing every day in afghanistan, and the fact is the taliban did not succeed in interrupting that election the way they thought they would. Now the president is setting a date for them to assume full responsibility for their security in the nation, for the management of their military when they will be trained and fully equipped. It is only by setting dates that we have been able to meet these milestones. And if you left it openended, if you said to the afghans, well be here as long as it takes, you cabs lutly bet your Bottom Dollar, and it probably would be the Bottom Dollar of the u. S. , that theyll take just as long as they want to. So what the president is doing is appropriately empowering the afghans, giving them the opportunity to take control of their future, and thats the best way for them to step up and do so. A year from now, do you think life on the ground in afghanistan is better or worse than it is today . Well, we obviously hope its going to be better, chris, and everything that has been laid down by the military in their judgment suggests that it will be. The president is not doing this in some, pulling it out of the sky, here is an idea. This has been based on months and months of evaluation with the diplomats, with the allies and with our military. Our military commander, general dunn ford, believes this is what he needs. This is done on the best judgment of the people working the issue and we believe it affords the afghans the opportunity to take control of their future. You have to measure this from where we were. When we started when the president came in in 2009, there was no policy in afghanistan. We were adrift. The president put in place a surge. We had as many as 180 troops there. Now were down to 30,000. Were going to go down to the 10,000 and then down lower and im confident that the afghans will continue to step up and assume responsibility. Look at other challenges. In the ukraine, the president put in place a very careful, calculated, calibrated strategy to bring the europeans along, to not go so far that you provoke putin, but put in place. Mr. Secretary weve had a successful election there. President putin has decided to withdraw some of the troops. We hope this can move in a better direction. In fact, with slow, steady, confident programs, were having an impact, there and elsewhere. But its sometimes about the words you choose, right . You say its a calculated, calibrated, it didnt provoke putin. Others look at it and say it was weak, that lines have been crossed all over the place. And that exactly because you didnt push putin, you allowed him to run rough shot and really almost threaten the existence of nato in ukraine. Thats absurd and absolutely wrong on its face. Its plain wrong. Nato has been strengthened. Nato has been awakened. Nato is doing a full Assurance Program right now with additional troops throughout the nato countries. The president is going to poland next monday, tuesday. Theres a reaffirmation, if you will, of the nato mission that has come out of what putin has done. Russia is not playing with the strongest hand. In fact, russia has been weakened through this. If you look at the amount of money russia is having to power into crimea, if you look at the economy of russia, theyve had huge capital plight. The economy has slowed down, its clear the opposite of what you just laid out is happening. Putin was threatening to come in with troops. In fact, the troops are now being withdrawn. Theyve had a successful election for the president of ukraine. I think the president s policy has worked, the European Alliance has been strengthened. The uni between europe and the United States is what has empowered this election to take place and made it clear to russia that the west is unified and there will be a very severe price to pay for further interference in ukraine. I just think that what youve cited is a sort of industry of oppositionists in washington who always want to find the negative, but it does not comport with the facts on the ground. Mr. Secretary, obviously we should all be for optimism. Youve given them a lot to work with. Starting with syria, dont cross this line. Any way you want to define the line, its crossed. The situation is still going on in syria. The administration likes to cite that 90plus percent of the chemical weapons is gone. It seems the situations dont seem too inspire the confidence you have in them. Chris, again, youre not dealing with facts. If we had struck with our military for a one or twoday operation in syria, yes, it would have had an impact for a day or two, but every single one of the chemical weapons that were terrorizing the people of syria would have still been in assads hands. Instead, we struck an agreement which has now succeeded in removeth 92 of all of those weapons. The other 8 are under control. They are waiting to be moved as the security situation allows it, and the only weapon that we think may have been used is not one that is automatically included under the chemical weapons convention. Its chlorine. We are investigating that right now, chris, and if we find there has been a use, there will be consequences. The simple reality is we have done what could not have been done with a strike. We are removing the weapons and taking the threat away. Prime minister netanyahu of industrial cited this as an extraordinary accomplishment and one one couldnt have imagined months ago. Yes, theres a problem in syria. It continues the president has decided to increase the support to the moderate opposition. We have a more unified group of nations that are working to help assist that opposition and obviously we will continue to be supported. Mr. Secretary, in point of fact, in terms of who wanted to use military in syria, initially that was the president s idea. I did the interview with him where he was calling for caution. Three days later he was ready to use military strikes that you said would have been ill advised. Its only because congress didnt support chris, please dont make up language. I didnt say ill advised. I said it would have done damage, but only a certain amount. It would not have removed the weapons. Dont put words in my mouth. I said it would not have accomplished the task of removing all the weapons. The simple reality is the president did announce publicly what he was prepared to do. Congress was not prepared to support it. Before we even got to the final vote in congress, i reached an agreement in geneva with russians and Sergey Lavrov and we agreed to remove all the weapons. Instead of a partial solution, were getting a whole solution to the problem of chemical weapons. Its remarkable to me that people simply want to refuse to accept that were better off getting all the weapons out than striking for one or two days and doing damage to some of them. I understand that, mr. Secretary. Obviously the job is to test the arguments that will be made by the administration, and we appreciate you doing so. Let me switch topics slightly. When you look at situations of american citizens abroad like kenneth bae and the marine, mr. Toririsi being held in mexico. We had his mother on hoping for more on that situation. The family of kenneth bae. Isnt it important that you do more there . Absolutely. Its important to get any citizen back, and we are literally working daily on every single citizen. Just the other day, i spoke out publicly about mr. Heck manny in iran. We raised these issues. I raised them with mexican officials when i was in mexico. We are working on determining whether or not certain evidence that has been presented is meeting the standard thats necessary to be able to hold that young marine, and were trying to find out exactly what the fact pattern is. But we are working on that. As recently as last week, i had those discussions with mexican authorities. We hope to be able to inform the family soon about where we stand with respect to the state of the evidence and what his status will be. Thats good to hear, mr. Secretary, especially for that family and the family, kenneth bae and all the families held abroad. Its good to know that theyre on your agenda. Thank you for your vigorous defense of the Foreign Policy of the United States. Happy to be with you, thanks, chris. Class is back in session this morning at uc Santa Barbara five days after a troubled young man killed six people, six students in a bloody rampage before killing himself. 20,000 mourners packed the campus stadium last night to pay tribute to those victims. Lets bring in Stephanie Elam live from Santa Barbara again this morning with the very latest. Stephanie . Reporter good morning, kate. It was a vigil that was packed with emotion. Instead of focusing on the shooter, people decided to send their love to the memory of the six students killed from ucsb. Not one more reporter chanting to End Gun Violence, around 20,000 people packed a uc Santa Barbara stadium. We are here because we want to share memories of the young lives struck down far too soon. Reporter honoring all six victims murdered in the killing spree of 22yearold elliot rodger, speakers demanding change so a deadly rampage like this does not happen again. How many more people are going to have to die in this situation before the problem gets solved . Reporter already one proposed change. Two California Assembly members announcing legislation tuesday. Leaders on the National Level speaking out as well. There are compromises that will save lives. Keeping guns out of the hands of dangerous people, whether theyre severely mentally ill or felons or drug addicts. Background checks will help stem and stop gun violence. Reporter more vigils were held across santa as video and stories of heroism emerged. This video capturing students inside a pizza parlor ducking and scrambling for cover as the gunman fires driving by. People are panicking. Everything is fine. Reporter the clerk of a 7eleven ran outside to help a cyclist who was shot, pulling her to safety and telling her she would survive. We got a stool and put her down right here. We sat her down. You could see she had two gunshots right here, so you could see the bullets. Reporter 12 others were injured as rodger fired round after round. This morning classes at the university are set to resume. As the Investigation Continues into the shooting, were learning more about him, that in divorce papers it was revealed that the young man when he was 7 years old was diagnosed with aspergers syndrome which is on the autism spectrum. One expert telling cnn there is no connection between autism and violence. Chris and kate . Stephanie, thank you very much. Also very important not to simplify these different illnesses and diagnoses. The case could be much more complicated than that. Well have to follow on it. Well do that when we come back. Coming up on new day not one more. Thats the hash tag circling the country. No more guns, no more violent media. What about treating the mentally ill . Earlier we told you about congressman tim murphys bill. We have someone else coming on the show. Take a listen and decide if there could be an answer. 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There was a big revolt to that. You were part of that revolt. You were in the statehouse in connecticut and we wanted to make sure we didnt warehouse the mentally ill anymore. That has led us to where we are today. Is that a fair appraisal . Its a fair appraisal. We didnt want to warehouse people with Mental Illness anymore, so what we ended up doing is what we now call jails and prisons. Instead of places that they would get treatment, arguably not proper treatment, not funded treatment, you now have them in places that cant hope to treat them at all . Fair . Its fair to say we put them back in places like the cuss towed yal yall care institutions. We put them back into custodial air institutions now called jails and prisons. What we didnt do is build a Community System of care and treatment and thats what we needed to do at the time and failed to do. You know this as a professional, as a lawmaker and as a human being who loves someone with mental experience. Tell us about the experience you know firsthand about how difficult it is to get the system to work for you when it comes to Mental Health. I was not just a policy maker in the 1980s that was connected to anybody in connecticut who could make a difference in my sons life. When my young son named tim was diagnosed with serious Mental Illness which began to manifest at the age of 5, i went through the system. And we went through this system for decades. We did not have a good outcome. We had the more typical outcome. The schools failed him. The Service Delivery system failed him. We didnt get integrated care. We didnt get a lot of early identification and appropriate services in response. My son, like so many tens of thousands of people like him, have ended up as homeless, on the streets of San Francisco in his case. You feel that he is just lost to the system and there is no way to help him . Any comprehensive system needs to focus on four things. Prevention because Mental Illness is a disease of childhood. Early identification and intervention because the sooner we act, the better results we get. Integrated health and Behavioral Health care, and then recovery is an option. Recovery is a goal for everybody. What we have failed to do with this Mental Health system is really to invest heavily in any of those four things. And as a result its not that people like my son tim are lost to the system today because people like my son tim, when they were children, did not have to be lost to the system. So what we need to do is work back. We need to make certain that we give people hope. We give people alternatives. We give people options. And prison, jail, forced treatment, all kinds of other things, frankly, are not options. Whats the answer . Not to say gun policy isnt relevant and has to be promoted in some way and debated. But thats what always dominates when we have one of these violent actions. Mental illness is raised by some of us and brushed aside. What do you think needs to happen . If you put every single story weve had in recent years, one on top of another and look for common treatments, youll find a common theme that pretty much their parents knew there were problems. Their schools knew there were problems. Their friends knew there were problems. No matter how connected those parents were, no matter how many resources they had at their disposal, they were unable to get the resources they needed to provide for the early identification and intervention and the kind of integrated care and treatment that their children and later on young adults needed. The solution is really simple. The solution is to reverse decisions that have been made in the states over the last five years that have cut 4. 6 billion for Mental Health services in our country and add those dollars and then some back. Frankly, the federal legislation that we had before falls so short of dealing with that, that its only going to end up disappointing people at the other end. Give us the name of the bill that people should look to to see whats being offered . I think people should look at the murphy bill and into ron barbers bill. What we really all need to do is look within our hearts and figure out whether its really worth it to us not to spend money on people who need treatment and care. Would it have been worth it to say to people who have stage four cancer were not going to treat you until you have advanced cancer . Is it worth it to us to say to people with Heart Disease were not going to treat you until you have stage four Heart Disease. Why is it going to be worth it to us . Should we say were not going to treat you until you have late stage middle illness. We need to move way up stream, ten years earlier and say were going to start putting money into treatment then so we can prevent the kinds of things hitting the news practically every week. I know the frustration to you, you know all too well how preventable it could be if everyone got behind the cause. Please keep fighting the good fight. We are here to help. Thank you very much. Up next on new day, l. A. Clippers owner Donald Sterling not going down without a fight. His new response to the nba calling them trying to work him out a sham. Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin is here. Excedrin is fast. In fact for some, relief starts in just 15 minutes. Excedrin. Headache. Gone. Smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. That helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Intercourse thats painfulit. 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Jeffrey toobin, cnns senior legal analyst is here to tell us out. I got to tell you, when sterlings attorney was talking to espn, he sure had a lot to say. I want to get your take on this. Sterling says, his Attorney Says that conversation was recorded illegally so it cannot be used in any proceedings to try to get him kicked out of the league. The Attorney Says, so, if the basis of their case is illegal evidence, they dont have much of a case. The whole thing is a pile of garbage, jeffrey. Well, i think what you see from the sterlings is a twotrack strategy. On the one hand, Shelly Sterling is shopping the team. On the other hand, theyre keeping the league option open by making this filing yesterday. I think they really complement each other. How . Everybody knows sterling is going to have to sell this team. He is either going to sell it voluntarily or be forced to. The nba is going to force him out. Now, they can threaten a lawsuit, but remember, the nba is an association. They are not the government. They dont have to abide by the first amendment. They dont have to honor they have their own rules, and their rules say if threequarters of the owners want you out, youre going to get thrown out. So he is out of there regardless of what this legal filing says. But he can say to the people who want to buy the team, look, you better make my price you better pay me all the money i want or ill just fight it in court. So i think its actually a very clever complimentary strategy, but either way sterling is going to sell the team. To the owners, jeffrey, lets say they have the vote and the votes come against a sterling, the owners vote to say youre out, were going to force the sale of the team. Legally what kind of course does he take . Does he just sue the nba then . How does that all work . Thats clearly whats implied by yesterdays filing. Its a 32page densely argued brief, very impressive piece of legal work filed yesterday by Donald Sterlings lawyer. The clear threat is, if you, nba owners, vote to throw me out, im going to go to court to try to stop it. I think the chances of a court stopping this sale are extremely unlikely. Courts being what they are, you never know for sure what they might do. And sterlings has clearly put the nba on notice that fighting is one option. You werent a little surprised that he hung so much of his argument on the i guess suggested admissibility of the evidence when he knows those rules dont apply in this proceeding . I think thats a weak argument on his part because illegally obtained evidence can only youre only prohibited from using it in a criminal case in court. As adam silver said in the very first press conference, he said, look, the issue of the legality of the taping is simply not relevant. The issue for the nba is are we damaged as a league by having Donald Sterling as an owner because that tape is out there. I think his stronger argument that he makes in the brief is that personal misconduct, saying bad things, racist things, is simply not the kind of misconduct covered by the nba constitution. Thats a stronger argument. I think neither one is going to win. But as you point out, chris, the legality of the taping is really irrelevant. Fascinating nonetheless. Ill tell you that much, jeffrey. Jeffrey toobin, thanks so much. Coming up on new day, first lady Michelle Obama slamming House Republicans. Why . Over a school lunch plan she says is unhealthy for your kids. Well hear from both sides coming up. Officer, ive helped many people in the last 23 years. But i needed help in quitting smoking. Along with support, Chantix Varenicline is proven to help people quit smoking. Chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. It actually caught me by surprise. 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John, you represent an organization, a very powerful trade organization that has members that are not only nutrition workers at schools, but also some of the companies that supply food to schools like cocacola. What are the actual challenges that you believe schools face that need to push off these standards . Right now were facing real challenges in regards to hole grains, the whole grain targets that require 100 of our whole grain offerings to be 50 or greater enriched with whole grain. What that means for us is we have several challenges throughout the United States. Usda, i want to applaud them for introducing an opportunity to get a waiver for whole grain pastas because whole grain pasta is a real challenge for any of our districts nationwide, but it doesnt address concerns that some of our members in the southwest have concerns about tortillas and whole grain tortillas, an item that is so much a huge part of the culture in that area. In the southeast were facing challenges with whole grain biscuits. Students are not finding acceptability with many of those whole grain items. In addition to that, we have sodium targets were facing. Margo, if what john is saying is right, they want a waiver to push off the standards. Whats wlong with that . The answer that a handful of technical challenges that schools are facing is not to dloe out the nutrition standards together which is what theyve been lobbying for. What we need to do is in a very targeted way address those challenges and help schools find solutions. Maybe john is having trouble with whole wheat tortillas. I was in arizona and they have great tasting whole wheat tortillas that the kids love. Why throw the baby out with the bath water . I would never accuse ms. Wooten of being disingenuous with regards to that. Were not advocating a total throwout of the regulations. Were saying maintain the 50 whole grain level. This allows flexibility to offer whole grain items and transition students into more whole grain items over time. Thats what we dead in knox county. We dont do 100 whole grain, but we found items that students are finding palatable. In addition to that, were having issues with sodium targets. Its going to impact the whole grain breads because sodium is a necessary requirement for elevening of breads. We can talk about cheese, whole grain, sodium. At the end of the day, what a whole people dont want to see is another fight nitpicking on details coming from washington. Coming from washington even though youre in different places. Why can this not be figured out without throwing politics into it . Without having to get the house involved in fighting with the first lady . Why cant this get figured out outside of the political realm . I want to get both of your answers. Thats exactly what were asking for. House becomes may not have the same goals as what the School Nutritionists have . They are asking to throw out all the nutrition standards, not just sodium and whole grain. Finally addressing childhood obesity, we need targeted reforms, Technical Assistance to help schools in those areas where theyre in struggling, not throw the standards out altogether. John, what do you say . Like i said earlier, the Nutrition Association is not advocating a complete throwout of all the regulations. Were looking for a slowdown, allowing time for change and allowing time for people to get caught up. School Nutrition Association is an organization that has been serving healthy nutricius meals for over 70 years, nearly 70 years. In doing so, we are advocating healthy meals for kids. Thats what we do to try to discredit the association is not accurate. We are advocating healthy meals. Thats what our association and this foundation is built upon. We look to meet with usda. Im not hearing a good answer why this issue cant stay out of the political realm. Im still going to be left scratching my head, why School Lunches have to be caught up in politics, why it hasnt been able to be dealt with up to this point. We wont get the answer today. John and margo, thank you very much. Coming up on new day, emma watson had more than a diploma at her college graduation. Who is that older woman next to her and why is she packing . The story next. [ laughter ] smoke . Nah, im good. [ male announcer ] celebrate every win with nicoderm cq, the unique patch with time release Smartcontrol Technology that helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. Help prevent your cravings with nicoderm cq. That helps prevent the urge to smoke all day long. I dbefore i dosearch any projects on my home. I love my contractor, and i am so thankful to angies list for bringing us together. Find out why more than two million members count on angies list. Angies list reviews you can trust. Help keep teeth clean and breath fresh. With beneful healthy smile food. 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See here as watson sits next to this woman, also decked out in cap and gown. The mystery classmate is there guarding her, describe z as a brown grad. This time seen sporting a holstered weapon, badge and other gear. Is her security detail at graduation, the sign of a bigger threat . Its not uncommon at all to bring people like that on board. Access control is an integral portion of security and she didnt have it. There was no way for her to control access to her at that event. It was a graduation that was for all intents and purposes public. Reporter her security doesnt stop at the police escort. According to the new york post, she hired former new York Police Lieutenant denise ra maroney, protecting the star since 2012. Thats when she was shooting the film noah. Tablets reported an incident on the set. A man crashed the set but was removed. Now watson has security even at her ivy league graduation. Now, the school is not commenting. Emma watsons team is not commenting as well. You have to understand when its an issue of security, they wouldnt necessarily talk about their clients security detail. I do have to say, its not all that uncommon for celebrities to have a full security detail. In fact, i think im going to out myself here. You have security detail . For the past year you thought Indra Petersons was doing weather. She is my heavy. She wouldnt know a polar bear from a polar vortex. That girl is my security detail. I think we just need to stop. That was too awesome. Shes my heavy. Michaela, ill be your heavy. Okay. You see that . She doesnt believe i can do it. Dont sleep on science, cuomo. Dont sleep on science. I love michelle. Coming up next on new day, cnns new series, the sixties inspired a new exhibit in new york city. From the moon landing to mr. Rogers, well look at the decade that changed the world when we come back. The music was good from that decade. Thats for sure. This week folks passing through new yorks Grand Central terminal can also take a trip through time. A new exhibit just opened called a look into the sixties. We were able to check out the exhibit as it was being unveiled. Its an impressive tribute to a decade of American History that changed the world. Now visitors can get a taste of the 60s at Grand Central terminal strans formed to capture its essence. These are icons of American History. These are stools from the wool worths lunch counter where in 1960 four africanamerican students sat down and request add couple of coffee and helped launch the modern civil rights movement, the sitin movement. This is the bench that dr. Martin luther king, junior, sat on in his prison cell in birmingham and composed the letter from a birmingham jail which. Reporter tick lated his philosophy of nonviolence. The landing on the moon was one of the most significant events in the 1960s, something that president kennedy had promised in his inauguration and made a reality before the decade was out. So much more to see. New yorks Governor Andrew Cuomo do you know him . No. He was also on hand to unveil the new 60s exhibit. We had a chance to talk to him about the importance of the decade and a little bit more. Reporter what does this exhibit mean having it at Grand Central . Wh. Just the point of bringing the exhibit to the people is exactly right. To be in Grand Central terminal where people are coming through all day long and people from all over the world come by. I think the venue is smart. Also, the 60s was a very powerful period in our nations development. In many ways, a lot of things that happened in the 60s are still playing out. In many ways the progress we made in the 60s we havent seen since. Its a fascinating period to study, to understand why we are and where we are. Even as a child, everyone always seems to remember when jfk was shot, where they were. Those enduring memories. Even as children everyone took something from that decade. Jfks death certainly for me a new yorker, queens boy, the worlds fair, and also you see exhibits about the cold war and some signs about the cold war. I remember being in school and the air raids that we would have and preparation for an air raid. That was really frightening as a child. And the thoughts that would go through your head. So, also, a lot of new york is in this exhibit. Since i have you and i rarely have a free moment alone with the more developed cuomo. What is your best advice on how to handle this man that i see every morning. Just tune him out. Just turn it off. With your little volume control, just turn off the volume. I rarely meet someone who can really empathize as feel my pain. I wish i could beat him up as good as you. I always could. He began his remarks by saying, someone called me the older cuomo, i like to say the more developed cuomo. Poor you. Poor you. You know what i have to say to him . Lower my taxes. Instead of standing in Grand Central station talking about time, lower my taxes. Politicians always mucking things up. A very tough interview. You were really playing with power. Get a hold of yourself. Why is your face so red . Because im angry. Its rage. A reminder the new cnn series from tom hanks and gary gettsman the sixties tomorrow, 9 00 eastern on cnn. I got a preview of the first episode. Very worthwhile. By the way, the governor didnt know you were pregnant. I let him think you put on a few. Time for the newsroom with carol costello. You made every woman in the country angry, chris cuomo. Kate, you look beautiful. Ill let you fight among yourselves. Have a great day. Newsroom starts now. Captions by vitac www. Vitac. Com good morning. Im carol costello, thank you so much for joining me. Next hour president obama faces the next generation of military leaders and outlines his Foreign Policy for a nation weary from a decade of war. He will deliver the commencement speech just over an hour from now at the u. S. Military academy at west point