>> as jon mentioned, democratic strategist hillary rosen is back in the spotlight making her first television appearance since the controversial remarks about mitt romney's wife. good to be with you i'm jamie colby. i'm in today for jenna lee. david: good to have you here. i'm jon scott. "happening now", hillary rosen apologizing to ann roam any. rosen came under fire after criticizing governor romney for taking advice on the economy from his wife saying ann romney never worked a day in her life and was unqualified to speak on economic issues. that sparked a war of words as mitt romney and president obama fight for women voters. james rosen is live in washington with a look at this issue >> reporter: new video released by obama-biden campaign doesn't use that term. three minutes long it seeks to make that very case presumptive gop nominee mitt romney through reference to romney's own policies including his opposition to roe v. wade and federal funding for planned parenthood and reference to romney's support for other leading republicans like wisconsin governor scott walker. when the hillary rosen-ann romney controversy erupted it was president obama as well as two of his top campaign officials, david excel rod and jim messina who in various forums denounced rosen for her remarks. >> were you surprised how quickly they distanced themselves from you? >> no. that was politics. what i was surprised about, and this is something we should always learn and i always know, people don't know you. really, this isn't about me. this is about that debate that again, i caused taking the wrong turn. >> reporter: now you will recall when press secretary jay carney was asked about the appearance on the white house visitors logs more than 30 times of a woman named hillary rosen, hillary with one h. he replied it wasn't sure all the visits were this hillary rosen as he carney, knows three hillary rosens. jimmy kimmel had fun with that. >> did you pick them in the hillary rosen garden? [laughter] i bet you $10,000 you don't know three hillary rosens but i'm not running for president. >> reporter: this rosen did not come from the rosen garden. good times there. a bit of sport with this as the war for women by both parties heats up in the general election season. jon, jamie. david: james, not related to hillary rosen. fa. >> reporter: true. jamie: eyeing the gig to m emcee the event. thank you, jailsen. there are awful lot at take because the 12 states carry a total of 151 electoral votes with florida offering the richest prize at 29. right now mitt romney in the swing state of new hampshire and he is holding a rally in portsmouth. this has as he work to make inroads with key voter there. let's talk to erin mcpike. from "real clear politics". thanks so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. jamie: here we go with the swing states. how much do they count? >> mitt romney has to win florida. as you pointed out, that has 29 electoral votes. it is the most important of any states on the map. if he doesn't win those 29 electoral votes he can not beat obama. jamie: when you look at these, break them down, you mentioned florida. what about ohio? >> ohio is perhaps the second-most important of the swing states but if he does not win ohio, mitt romney could win pennsylvania instead and that has 20 electoral votes compared to ohio's 18. he has to win north carolina, virginia, florida, ohio, and new hampshire in order to get to 270 or beyond. so he has certain states that he has to win. the west will be harder for him and that's where president obama is doing better in states like colorado and new mexico. jamie: when you look at the map and you think about crisscrossing the country, trying to lock up those votes does the strategy stay the same or do any jump out at you, any states? talk about mitt romney first where a particular strategy is what you need to lure the independents, to lure the youth vote and those who really may be disenfranchised democrats saying we do need something different? >> you will see a lot of that in states like pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, some other states, where we're looking at disenchanted democrats or those reagan democrats. people who voted for obama and thought they wanted something new didn't like the bush economy, and yet they're not happy with how obama has prosecuted himself on the economy. they think, okay, working class, mitt romney is offering a better message on the economy. so yes, we'll seeing a lot of push for working class voters in the midwest. jamie: erin, president obama, any prediction on any of those swing states that you think he has locked up if you were advising governor romney? would you say put this at the bottom of our priority list? >> yeah. i'm surprised to see new mexico still listed as a swing state. a lot of republicans i have talked to here in washington say, new mexico is sort of off the table for us. some are even saying colorado is no longer possible. it will still be in the map and i'm sure governor romney will campaign there the romney campaign sees colorado as having some potential but a lot of republicans don't. i don't think we'll see as much activity in the western region. a lot of the campaign will be happening in on the east coast with north carolina, virginia and florida. jamie: erin mcpike, great to have you here. what a round up. >> thank you. >> it is in full swing, jon. david: it sure is. let's talk about a guy who campaigned for president some time ago. week two in the john edwards trial. the wife of edwards' former aide, andrew young is taking the stand. sherri young is expected to talk about the role to conceal the former candidate's affair with rielle hunter. she will recount the first year as john edwards' aide. jonathan serrie is live in north carolina. what does the prosecution expect to get from sherri young? >> reporter: she was active helping to conceal john edwards' then pregnant mistress in 2008. she will corroborate a lot of details her husband provided in his week-long testimony. she can speak to the personal toll the cover-up took on her family. that may undo some of the damage that the defense inflicted on her husband's credibility during cross-examination. listen. >> the prosecution needs to change the spotlight from andrew young to john edwards. it needs to move the federal election laws back into the picture and show how the money was given not just for andrew young but to protect john edwards' race for the presidency. >> reporter: now during cross-examination edwards' lawyers focused on how andrew young allegedly profited from all of the controversy surrounding his former boss's affair pointing out most of the money that had been donated to keep rielle hunter in hiding he actually allegedly funneled into the couple's dream home that he and sherri built in chapel hill, north carolina, jon. david: every witness comes with some challenges. what are the challenges that sherri young brings to the witness box? >> reporter: well, andrew young's wife was also beneficiary of that luxury house that they built in chapel hill obviously but she doesn't share the sail amount of baggage as her husband since she was not directly involved with the edwards's campaign. during cross-examination, lead defense lawyer abby lowell brought up an issue that came up days before the trial that andrew young allegedly reef reached out to some of the witnesses in the trial asking them how they planned to testify. abby lowell asked, did the government tell you not to contact any witnesss? and you drun -- and drew young said yes. lowell followed up, did you contact any of these people? andrew young replied, yes, maybe some of them. as far as we know, andrew young's wife was not involved in trying to contact any witnesses. so a little less baggage than her husband, jon. david: a lot of drama yet to come in that case. jonathan serrie, thanks. >> reporter: indeed. jamie: you know what, if you let me put my lawyer hat on, we have a great legal panel coming up in the next hour i'm curious whether or not a wife can claim a privilege in this case because much of what she learned was from her husband andrew. maybe she could get out of testifying. i'm curious. we'll ask. david: will be interested to see. jamie: wives are protected sometimes, in court. republicans are taking aim at president obama, that's what they're doing over a new ad campaign. it touts the killing of osama bin laden. why some are calling the ad by democrats pure exploitation. david: plus three generations of one family killed as their van plummets off an overpass near the bronx zoo in new york city. the latest on a tragedy that left seven people dead, three of them children. jamie: apple is going to great lengths to avoid billions in taxes? 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>> reporter: they are responding with anger, frustration, disappointment. of course rather the president be talking about legislative achievement like health care reform which polls indicate people say they would like to change that is winner for them. bin laden is not a winner for them unless they convince voters that obama is misusing it. here is ed gillespie. >> a unifying event for all americans. governor romney congratulated him and military and intelligence analysts in our government in terms of completing the mission in terms of killing usama bin laden and he managed to turn it into a divisive, partisan, political attack that former defense secretary frank car lou think for president reagan called sad, john mccain called shameful. >> reporter: tomorrow is first anniversary of bin laden's death, jamie. jamie: wendell, and i will let you go, it may be worth mentioning happened during the obama administration. tough to argue it wasn't a priority of the bush administration to get bin laden. thanks so much. jon? david: some new information, jamie on a tragic accident in new york city that killed seven members of one family this weekend. investigators are trying, now, to determine what caused an suv to plunge 60 feet off a highway overpass, crashing into a screen on the grounds of the bronx zoo. three generations of the family died including four adults and three children. police say excessive speed played a cause in the crash. the accident was the second time in a year that a car drove off that same stretch of highway. jamie: a former top cia official speaking out for the first time defending use of water booeder and enhanced tear interracial and including on khalid sheikh mohammed. saying that they save lives. hear is the map. dangerous storms are hitting hard. we're live in the extreme weather center for you. that's next. t but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company by continuing to help you do more and focus on the things that matter to you. by what's getting done. measure commitment the twenty billion doars bp committed has helped fund economic and environmental recovery. long-term, bp's made a five hundred million dollar commitment to support scientists studying the environment. and the gulf is open for business - the beaches are beautiful, the seafood is delicious. last year, many areas even reported record tourism seasons. the progress continues... but that doesn't mean our job is done. we're still committed to seeing this through. jamie: a fox news weather alert. oh, boy, it is cold out there but also parts of northern oklahoma are under a flood warning today. severe thunderstorms dumped up to 10 inches of rain. that was just overnight. and the rain has slowed but as you can see, the flood risk still high on the roads there. tornado warnings also issued as people are bracing themselves for large hail and more strong winds. and certainly there was a mess in oklahoma too in the central plains. folks needed to remain very vigilant because more severe storms are heading their way. meteorologist, maria molina is following all of it in the fox news weather center which we call extreme today, maria. good to see youed. >> good to see you too, jamie. we're calling it extreme. this weekend we saw over 200 reports of severe weather. a lot being in the reports of damaging wind gusts in excess of 60 to 70 miles per hour and large hail as big as baseballs in the st. louis area. unfortunately many areas that saw severe weather over the weekend could see more of it as we head into the afternoon and evening hours throughout the day today. also further off to the east as well including western parts of pennsylvania and northern west virgina a second area of severe weather is expected across parts of kansas and texas panhandle and large hail and damaging winds and isolated tornados will be a concern. the major concern is hail and damaging winds. we're not looking for a major tornado outbreak expected. tomorrow, severe weather expected throughout minnesota. warm air ahead of it and that is firing up the showers and thunderstorms across the midwest and even into interior portions of the northeast and bringing in that possibility for severe weather. now there is a lot of moisture with some of these storms as well. aside from severe weather we're seeing flooding concerns. you showed the images, jamie and we're seeing portions of heavy rain in oklahoma and missouri where we have flood warnings because these storms produce as much as two to three inches of rain in one hour. that is lot of water in a short period of time producing flooding. we'll keep our eye on the storms throughout the afternoon today. jamie: we know you will. thanks. jon? david: a former top cia official is defending use of so-called enhanced interrogation techniques on terror suspects during the bush administration saying it was key to get information from people like this guy. khalid sheikh mohammed. catherine herridge joins us from washington. waterboarding what did the cia learn after subjecting suspects to it? >> reporter: other supporters of the agency say 50% of the cia knowledge of al qaeda structure came from enhanced interrogation program right after 9/11. three high value detainees were waterboarded. including khalid sheikh mohammed cell described architect of 9/11. and a operational chief for al qaeda and al-nashiri accused of planning the attack on uss cole in 2000. drone campaign in yemen alone where the most lethal al qaeda affiliate operates there is dramatic number of drone strikes. rodriguez charged in the interview that the obama administration has become too reliant on the drone campaign. >> we don't capture anybody, anymore, leslie. the default option of this administration is to kill all prisoners. take no prisoners. >> the drones. >> the drones. how could it be more ethical to kill people rather than capture them? i never understood that one. >> reporter: in october last year three americans including the first american on the cia's kill or capture list, anwar al-alaki was killed by drone strikes in yemen. jon: he makes an interesting point. what is the response that interview? >> reporter: in a statement, aclu saying quote, no policy in the last decade brought more shame on america like bush he's administration's embrace of torture. jose rodriguez attempts to justify the brutal abuse of prisoners while ignoring its illegality and its immorality and damage it has done to our national security. after the obama administration came into office they banned permanent use of eits or enhanced interrogation techniques. jon: argument goes on. >> reporter: lives on in this election year for sure. jon: it sure will. catherine herridge in washington. thank you. >> reporter: you're welcome. jamie: update on a case worth noting. case of john goodman. is he florida millionaire who adopted his girlfriend before he was convicted of dui manslaughter. what his attorneys now want the judge to do. calling out the media. you may remember then presidential candidate rick santorum's rant against a "new york times" reporter. take a listen if you don't. >> said mitt romney is the worst republican in the country. is that true? >> what speech did you listen to? >> right here. right here. he is the worst republican. >> stop lying. i said he was the worst republican to run on the issue of obamacare. that is what i was talking about. quit distorting our words. 2 i see it, it's [bleep]. jamie: it is a brand new theory emerging on media bias. does it exist? and if so, which side benefits? there are assertions that may surprise you and we're going to run them by our news watch panel right here next. 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[click-click] [♪...] jon: a new theory emerging now about bias in news reporting, with "the washington post" asking whether the media have become more biased. the paper then answers its own question, writing quote, there is little to suggest that over the past few decades news reporting has become more favorable to one party. that's not to say researchers haven't found bias in reporting, they have, but they don't agree one side is consistently favored or this favoritism has been growing like a pernicious weed. here to talk about it, jim pinkerton, contributing editor and writer for the american conservative and alan colmes, host of the alan colmes show and www.alan.com. jim, "the washington post" took a look at media bias and find that it does not exist. does that surprise you? >> well, when you read the article closely and i'm sure still online so everybody out there can check on this, it says there hasn't been much of a change in 30 years. okay. the notion of media bias became a big deal in the 1980s whenjf all of sudden homelessness was ronald reagan's fault and so on. so if you simply say that, as "washington post" article says there hasn't been a change in media bias in 30 years of course that is true. but as tim graham of news busters and others have pointed out the polls, study of reporters showing that upwards 80 or even 90% of the reporters vote democratic in every presidential election go back half a century. say there is no change in 30 years doesn't speak to the fact the bias has been evident for 50. jon: alan what about that point, 80% of those news reporters self-identify as democratic voters? >> the issue not self-identify, that they use that as bias in their work. i'm not sure that is actually true. if there is liberal media bias as media research center, conservative watchdog group by the way always claiming how do we elect some conservatives. how do we have so many conservatives in america? how does this happen when our minds are brainwashed by liberal media? i can point out the pew study which comes out that mitt romney got as twice favorable coverage as barack obama in primary season. a study done by fair, overwhelmingly, 70% of the guests on sunday morning talk shows have been conservatives doing one-on-one interviews. see you a study and raise you a study on that one. >> just, because, jim there may be bias in reporting, doesn't necessarily mean that voters are going to follow every, every suggestion that they read in the newspaper, right? >> exactly. pat buchanan wrote a book 35 years ago, conservative votes, liberal victories. his whole point it is center right country yet the liberal establishment manages to do things like welfare and affirmative action and global warming and stuff nobody everybody votes for. just sort of happens miraculously out of combination of judges and bureaucrats. until conservative movement and republican party gets more effective at monitoring actually what happens inside the beltway as opposed to winning an election, perfectly possible as reagan and bush, bush, proved of the big chunks of liberal agenda even if the republican president is opposed to it. jon: alan, worth pointing out, paul farhi, "washington post" media reporter who wrote this article that finds essentially no bias or change in the bias in coverage, points out in that article that media, i'm sorry, public trust in the media has hit a new low. >> well, it always does of the like you say, who likes congress? who likes the government. people will say they're upset and frustrated but the fact we have more media now than ever. we have more options. we have the internet. people tend to go where they hear their own views echo because there is comfort zone for people. poor conservatives don't have to worry there is lack of places for them to go. talk radio. cable news, all kinds of shows and all kinds of places where you go and find your views echoed back to you. jon: does that, but those are not necessarily reflective of the editorial page of views of "the washington post"? >> right. the question now is power. right. there is ton of conservative blogs out there and only one "new york times" and "washington post" and broadcast networks. the issue we talked about for several weeks in row on this little segment the trayvon martin case is proof of how media, the mainstream media can still drive a story, still push a prosecutor into an indictment which is not going to last, i don't think. and, create a firestorm about this case as meanwhile, 250 murders give or take occur every week in this country and those mids are pretty much ignored because the media picked this one. >> you say conservative media or lib a media running with one particular story. "fast and furious" which the conservative media wants to run with every time you mention a story you think liberal media is wering its arms around i can come up with a bunch of conserves do. i trust consumer. people they the difference between opinion and hard news and fair and balanced reporting. american people smart enough to understand that. >> which is why they think the media is biased. jon: part of the reason why newspapers subscriptions at least in the traditional format are declining. >> because of the internet. that's the reason. internet. peel getting their news digitally. jon: alan colmes, jim pinkerton, thank you both. >> thank you. jamie: we're following a new report that says apple might be dodging uncle sam. apple's profits could hit a record $45.6 billion this year and the tech giant apparently figured out a way to skirt billions in taxes. wow! fox business network's liz macdonald is on that story today. billions, liz? >> reporter: that's right, jamie. according to "the new york times" piece yesterday apple's tax bill could have been 2.4 billion dollars higher without certain tax moves that apple made. now it relies on a former treasury economist. that is the source of "the new york times" story. but the issue is the debate now we're hearing his that this 9.8% rate that "the new york times" quotes for apple may be effectively low-balling the rate. according to apple's own sec filings the rate could actually be higher. effective rate could be just where everybody else is in the corporate world, around 20%. jamie: talk about how they do that i've been reading how apple's doing something by picking subsidiaries in different locations and that helps them avoid it. is that something all businesses can do? >> reporter: yes, all businesses can do that. apple's app so to speak to lower their tax bill is to use offices in places like nevada to avoid california's high income taxes there on corporations. and also to use offshoring, meaning to use lower tax regimes overseas in order to lower its tax bill. now microsoft, cisco, harley-davidson and a number of companies use these same moves. so the debate now, jamie, is, how do you get the $700 billion that is estimated in cash that is parked overseas, that corporations have overseas, how do you get it back into the united states? that would be a cheaper form of stimulus to get that money back into create jobs. the other issue too about "the new york times" story, the debate is, "the times" story did not report, did not mention rather the tax breaks the u.s. government gave to bailout aig and city group and bank of america. those tax breaks were not noted. those tax breaks were given by the treasury department. back to you, jamie. jamie: i want to look at the dow. down moderately mostly due to spain that they are officially in a recession and some earnings. any impact from this story? >> reporter: no impact from this story. we're in the middle of earnings season, jamie in. actually earnings are coming in stronger than analysts predicted for s&p 500. back to you, jamie. jamie: also barnes & noble having a big shift. keep an eye for us liz. >> reporter: sure. thank you. jon: some developments in the dui manslaughter conviction of a florida millionaire. john goodman who legally adopted his 42-year-old girlfriend as his daughter are asking the judge to reveal every phone call, e-mail or other contact jurors made after allegations of misconduct. phil keating following the story live for us from west palm beach. what is going on, phil? >> reporter: jon, roy black, the famed miami defense attorney for the founder of the international polo club, john goodman, believed that this judge in the case knew about allegations of jurors misconduct during the trial but failed to disclose that to the defense team. so before we even get to this judge interviewing the six jurors and the two juror alternates about what they said and these allegations of juror misconduct and a mistrial, john goodman's defense team wants a brand new judge. the judge refuses to step down and this morning denied a follow-up motion by black to freeze all proceedings until the appeals court rules. in about two hours the jurors will all arrive here at palm beach county courthouse to uninterviewed by the judge and good man is expected to be here for that. he remains in jail, panedding his -- pending his sentencing of dui conviction and manslaughter and failure to render aid in the drowning death of 23-year-old scott wilson whose car was t-boned by goodman's bmw. they that he got drunk after the accident that he was so shaken up. following the guilty claim by juror and juror alternate during the trial another juror spoke about a book deal to write about this sensational case and trial. that juror denies making those comments during the trial but does confirm he did get $50,000 and is now writing a book about the trial. and in a further defeat for roy black and goodman's defense, the judge is limiting the scope this afternoon of interviews. they will only discuss whether his wealth played a role in their guilty verdicts. jon: phil keating reporting live from florida. phil, thanks. jamie: a case that has it all. jon: that's a strange one. jamie: there is a new twist really to the case of a utah missing mom. some newly-released documents. susan powell had concerns about her husband and she wrote about them too just days before she disappears. we'll tell you a little bit more about those. plus the freedom tower is rising, there it goes. we'll show you the construction site as the building at 1 world trade center climbs toward a brand new record. pull on those gardening gloves. and let's see how colorful an afternoon can be. with certified advice to help us expand our palette... ...and prices that give us more spring per dollar... ...we can mix the right soil with the right ideas. ...and bring even more color to any garden. more saving. more doing. that's the power of the home depot. lay down a new look, with earthgro mulch, now three bags for just $10. 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[ crunch! ] jon: brand new stories coming up next hour. president obama freshening up his campaign with a new slogan accompanied by a new 7-minute video sparking debate among some republicans. we'll get into that. fresh violence in syria as powerful explosions rock one region there we'll have a live report. plus a horrific sailing accident off the coast of california. three people are dead, one remains missing. the mystery surrounding this disaster at sea, straight ahead. jamie: some brand new information for you this hour on the disappearance of utah mom susan powell. a newspaper publishing e-mails from powell describing some very scary changes that she saw in her husband just days before her disappearance. our patti ann browne following this from our new york newsroom. patti ann, more than two years since she disappeared yet they're still on the case. that is interesting i think. >> reporter: yeah, jamie. this case far from over. susan powell disappeared from her home in utah in december of twine and she has never been found. many fingers pointed to her husband, josh. he will will recall, tragically killed his two kids and himself earlier this year in a dramatic house explosion in washington state. now for the first time we're seeing e-mails that susan sent to friend in the months before she vanished. the nine e-mails were sent between june and october of 2008. they were provided to the salt lake trib bruin later that year but not published until now. in one from july 2008 she says, i want him in counseling, on meds. i want my husband, friend, lover back. no more, crazy, outrage just, outlandish, beliefs opinions. in another that same month she says i know everyone will support me in whatever decision, even if that means i crash someone's house in the middle of the night with my boys in toe. i hope that never happens. or stay with him. she clearly wants to work things out. saying if josh fixes himself as is it were it would be easy to forget the hell and tour mill he put me through. at the same time she has a makeshift will at her desk at work because she is afraid her husband might hurt her or kidnap her children if she leaves him. jamie, a revealing glimpse of a woman still missing where her husband later killed her and. jamie: no good information in at that story. jon: 1 world trade center is poised to become the tallest building in new york city. it could surpass the empire state building today. the freedom tower expected to become the tallest building in the western hemisphere once all said and done. david lee miller at ground zero for us right now. you how tall is 1 world trade center right now, david? >> reporter: it is just about 1250 feet that is the height of the empire state building and just about two hours time, jon, it is going to surpass that. let's pan up. look at this majestic building. it is awe-inspiring and you can see for yourself this work as it progresses on this cool spring day here in lower manhattan. while this figure of 1250 is really symbolic in many respects, this building has really transformed lower manhattan. it has revitalized new york's -- following the attacks of 9/11. many tourists here today gazing upwards in absolute awe of this engineering feat. jon? jon: wow! how does it compare with the rest of the country and really outside the country? >> reporter: here's a brief scorecard. when the 1 world trade center is complete it will stand at 1776 feet that figure by the way is not a coincidence. it is going to surpass in just a few hours time the empire state building. it will soon surpass the willis tower in chicago. it will be the tallest building in the united states. the world record will remain with the khalifa tower in dubai which is 2217 feet. most importantly we want to stress that today at least all eyes are gazing upward at 1 world trade center. in just a matter of hours soon to be the tallest building in the new york city skyline. jon? jon: hats off to the brave americans who are putting it all together. david lee miller. thank you. >> of course, jon, we build the tower because of the terrorist acts carried out as a result of usama bin laden. coming up it will be one year after navy seals raided his campaign in pakistan and killed him. there are new strains in our shaky relationship with the nuclear-armed nation after new drone strikes. we'll go in depth on that. stay with us are you receiving a payout from a legal settlement or annuity over 10 or even 20 years? call imperial structured settlements. the experts at imperial can convert your long-term payout into a lump sum of cash today. jamie: it is definitely something we didn't need. new strains in our already-shaky relationship with pakistan as that country condemns the recent u.s. drone strike that killed three suspected terrorists. that just happened two weeks after pakistan's parliament demanded that washington end those kind of attacks. well the deadly drone strike comes almost one year to the day after our navy seals raid inside pakistan that killed usama bin laden. mike baker joins us, former cia covert operations officer. mike, great to see you. >> thank you very much, jamie. jamie: what choice do we have, mike? we have to kill the terrorists or they will kill us. >> right. jamie: at the same time we would like to have pakistan's cooperation, we in the back of all our mind we think they knew usama bin laden was living lavishly near a military base. >> right. i've been looking up sin nims for dysfunctional trying not to wear that out when we talk about the relationship with the pakistanises but over several decades that has been one of our most complex foreign relationships to manage, with the government and politicians and military and their intel service, the isi. as you pointed out really this strain and it's almost at a low point now looking back over the years. the relationship between us and the pakistanis. the strain really kicked into high gear when we took out bin laden. it was very, very i am bear asing situation for the pakistanis. it made public this accusation of duplicity we've been labeling them in terms of their harboring or somehow sharing occasional motivations or agenda with the extremists. and then of course the continued drone strikes. we just had this one on sunday that you mentioned after a bit of a hiatus. we held off for a few weeks and then this one on sunday, targeting members of the haqqani network who had, no surprise, closed down a girl's school in north waziristan and using it for their own purposes. based on intelligence looks like they were creating plans and explosives, preparing for another attack possibly in kabul and other parts of afghanistan. jamie: well the thing is, mike, they have already spoken out. they are not happy with us right now. do you give president obama credit for ordering those strikes just so close to the time that pakistan's parliament said, don't even think about it? >> well it's, this is a very complex. we could spend the rest of the day talking about this but i do give the president, the administration credit for uping the quota. for increasing the drone strikes, really since 2009. in part though when you're sitting in that big guy's chair around reading classified briefs and looking at the realities you would be hard-pressed to find a lot of people short of severe hardened leftists who would say no we're not going to use the drone program. it is necessary and it works. but then also you've got this issue related to the recent killing. this is kind of again part of the problem we're having with the pakistani government. there was an accidental firing on border troops along the border. killed about two dozen pakistani border troops. they're demanding an apology. we're refusing to in part because again of the recent attacks in afghanistan where we believe those people came in from pakistan. but you could argue this administration spent the past couple of years apologizing in various ways overseas to others. it is a little odd they're digging their heels in and not issuing a apology right now. there could be political element leading to the election. jamie: we know the drones help the cia with information intel and routes are important to nato troops. this is such a delicate issue, mike. thanks for coming in to weigh in on it. >> thank you. jamie: jon? jon: why do some people drink to excess while others can take it or leave it? what brains of addicts are v. vealing to scientists and while it could help all of us break bad habits. how a successful businessman is marking the sinking of the titanic 100 years ago. titanic ii, could she sail again? that's good morning, veggie style. hmmm. fohalf the calories plus vgie nutrition. could've had a v8. let's start with car insurance x. this one does save people a lot of money and it's very affordable. it was very delicious. could you please taste car insurance y? this one is much more expensive. ugh. it's really 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begins tonight. these are longer profile pieces of possible vp nominees, for rit -- for mitt romney to choose. it starts with senator marco rubio. i believe we have a sound bite to play from our interview: >> i've been blessed with the opportunity to represent the people of florida. it doesn't escape me that less than half a decade ago, my family lived in very different circumstance, my dad was a bar ternd, my mom a maid, it was unimaginable that anybody in next generation would be able to attain. this is what other people did, not people that came from where they came from, yet i understand that as hard as they worked and sabfieses they made a lot of that is due to the greatness of this country. >> senator rubio makes that point about his upcoming, his history, his family history. a lot on the stump. he's very effective there. we go over the pros and cons of each possible vp nominee, and it's a series that will take us through the week, and there are a number of interesting names on that list. jon: one of the names that's being talked about today is senator kelly ayote. >> that's right. you're starting to see the romney campaign trod out big names to campaign w you saw senator rubio campaigning with mitt romney, senator ayote is an up and coming star in the party. many analysts sthai perhaps this is not her time, but you don't know, and it could be the romney campaign's effort to see how things play out. she is definitely on the broader list of possible vp nominees but whether it's on the romney short list, i think, only the romney campaign really knows that. jon: so many of these people, including marco rubio, though, have said no, not going to do that, not going to go there, don't even talk about, but if asked a lot would be happy to serve, huh? >> yes. in fact some of the people who say no, there's no way, no possibility, behind the scenes and i'm not going to point to which one but behind the scenes, they clearly are saying listen, we're happy to be considered, i think. and you're right, if a nominee asks someone to be on the ticket, it's a tough decision to say no. some, perhaps, would, some perhaps would say no. but most, we believe, and history will show, say yes. jon: all right. one would think -- i mean, in terms of geographical diversity, kelly ayote coming from new hampshire, next door, massachusetts, where mitt romney used to be governor, one would think that would put her maybe not in the top tier of potential candidates, but who knows. >> right. that's exactly right. that's what most analysts will tell you about senator ayote. she's very accomplished, but she's fairly -- a political newcomer. she was appointed to her position as a.g., i believe, and then won the senate seat in a very effective race, but whether she has the history to be able to be on that ticket, most analysts would say not right now, but she's clearly on the list. the other thing you have to look at is what that person brings to a romney ticket, and remember, bill clinton chose al gore and that was from the same region. there are a number of things that factor into the romney decision and that's what we'll be disclosuring every day this week. jon: that's going to be fascinate to go watch, on "special report". bret does start that new series on potential vice presidential candidates. there is tonight's selection on the screen, senator marco rubio, republican of florida, the series, called "running with romney", 6:00 p.m. eastern. jamie: and president obama has unveiled his new campaign slogan. it's one forward, forward. the president's team released a -- word, forward. the president's team made the statement saying there is still more work to do. >> i believe this country succeed when everyone gets a fair shot. when everyone does their fair share. when everyone plays by the same rules. and i believe america is on the way up. jamie: on the way up. here's reaction from the romney campaign. president obama may be patting himself on the back for the slowest economic recovery since the great de pegs -- depression, but there are 23 million americans struggling for work. president obama has had over three years to turn around the economy and by nearly every measure, he has failed, the romney campaign says. what do you think? fair and balanced debate on the economy and the campaign fight. we will have that later in the show. we want to hear for you too. jon. jon: a bizarre election fraud case, heading to trial today in maryland. a political consultant for former governor robert erlick is charged with four election law violations. juliet hensen, accused of sending robo calls on election day in 2010, tell ing black democrats they did not need to get out and vote. eric shawn, live at the baltimore city circuit court eric. >> reporter: it's election day, you're sitting at home and get an annoying robo call, you pick up the phone and it says president obama has been successful, the polls were correct, we took it back. prosecutors at court say that was an attempt to try and suppress the vote to african-americans, democrats, from voting on that day. the man behind that is in court right now charged with election fraud. as you said, he is julius henson, a political operative working in 2010 for the campaign of former governor robert erlick, the republican, against incumbent democrat martin o'malley. prosecutors say the attempt was to try and prevent the african-americans from voting. in fact, 112,000 registered democrats got that call. take a listen: >> everything is fine. the only thing was the -- con -- [inaudible present present. >> congratulations and thank you. >> reporter: i asked him if he tried to suppress the black vote and he replied absolutely not. >> they've been talking for 18 months. we get a chance to talk some now. and i think that the jurors and the judge will find that the call was made, it was a good call. >> reporter: prosecutors say it wasn't free speech or dirty tricks but illegal. erlick's campaign manager had been found guilty in this case, two months ago at a sentencing he said the case will have lasting effects on campaigns. >> in terms of any type of sort of extreme rhetoric or some of the communications that typically come out of political campaigns, i think that's now a thing of the past. people are very mindful, trust me, political professionals in maryland, are very, very aware of the outcome of this trial and the consequences. >> reporter: and it turns out the call didn't work, martin o'malley was reelected as governor and is the current governor of this case. if you suspect voter problems or election fraud where you live, tell us, voter fraud, foxnews.com. jon, back to you. jon: interesting stuff, eric, thank you. jamie: thank you eric as well. a series of blasts rocking afghanistan in the past 48 hours. we're keeping an eye on that. there were a group of gunmen this attacked the office in kandahar, two children were killed in the bombing incident and today, the pentagon will release a new report on progress in that region. jennifer griffin live from the pentagon with her report. good morning, jennifer. >> reporter: jamie, well, that report has not been released publicly yet. it's being delivered to capitol hill. it will cover a year-long period, essentially -- excuse me a. few months' period ending in march of this year. it is not likely to have good news. it will focus on events such as and certainly the weekend attack on the kandahar governor's office, does not bode well for the type of report that this will be. two attackers as you mentioned sneaked past two security "checkpoint"s with guns hidden inside their shoe, they made it through two metal detectors, then a guard at the governor's office noticed something was amiss, the attackers fired and a 30 minute gun battle ensued. they were eventually killed but the afghan security forces found two vehicles rigged with explosives outside the governor's office. the death toll for u.s. service members in afghanistan is also about to hit the 2000 mark. 90 percent of those killed since have been killed in -- have been killed since the president sent surge troops to afghanistan in 2009. the u.s. is right now 1954 killed, britain is the next coalition member who has lost 410 people, canada, france behind, for a total of nearly 3000 people, soldiers, killed in afghanistan. now, the other theme likely to be touched on in this report is the continuing rise in attacks against nato troops by afghan security forces, that u.s. forces have trained. the most recent example being an attack by an elite special forces officer during a night raid last friday. the elite afghan soldier killed, his u.s. special forces men tore and translator, president cam id -- hamid karzai had pushed for raids to be put in the hands of afghan forces and it's the transition as the u.s. troops plan to leave afghanistan in 2013 and 2014. there are already some signs that the nato conference that's to be held in chicago later this month is going to hit some trouble. we understand that pakistan is threatening to pull out of that conference over the issue of drone strikes. so a very difficult situation in afghanistan. this report, likely to reflect all those troubles right now. jamie: that latest one is troubling, pakistan, if they don't show up to those meetings. jen, thank you very much, live from the pentagon. the man behind the interrogations of some of the most notorious terrorists in the world is joining sean hannity tonight, jose rodriquez, interviewed by "60 minutes", making an i don't so strong case for so-called enhanced interrogation and tonight he will tell sean hannity that and more, 9:00 p.m., don't miss it. jon: it's going to be fascinating. >> it may have been unethical but was it a crime? john edwards back in court for week two of his federal corruption trial as prosecutors get ready to question the wife of their star witness. >> jamie: plus, there's brand 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it's sort of unregulated for the most extent. >> reporter: it's tough to say, because the newport association points out this is the first accident that they've had in 65 years, apparently such accidents are rare. but certainly, not this month. jamie: our hearts go out to those families. thank you very much, patty ann brown, live in the newsroom. jon: at least 20 are dead after a series of powerful explosion necessary syria. take a look at the scene in the northwest part of that country. a city that's an strong hold for the movement opposing bashar assad, reports say two suicide bombers attacked mostly syrian forces. leland vitter is live in jerusalem. leland. >> reporter: hi jon. that was the town of iblid which had been a long time strong hold for the rebel opposition, of course, another place that the syrian government has continued to pound away at, and perhaps that is one of the reasons that this attack happened. one installation, we're told, was a hotel, the other was a part of president assad's security service, either an army headquarters or perhaps something like the secret police headquarters. two suicide bombers detonating their bombs within five minutes of each other, killing more than 20, at least 100 people injured there. according to syrian state tv, who broadcast pictures of the aftermath, the government there in damascus is blaming, quote, armed terrorists, and that's what they say when they want to accuse people of trying to overthrow the government there. this is certainly a preview of what could become a very bloody sectarian war, if you have things continue to deerate in that country. in the town we've been talking about in the past, the town of homs, u.n. observers are actually living there, there are two members of the u.n. observation team that have taken up residence inside the town of homs and activists, they say, it has worked, that the syrian government, artillery, has largely been quiet over the past couple of days and we have video of those syrian observers and the activists then taking the u.n. group around the town of homs, and inspecting some of the damage there. they say those u.n. observers are likely to stay in place for another few days until more of the u.n. observe ebbs come nand actually figure out what they're going to do. a bit of bad news, jon, we just got word from an al-qaeda syndicate, el nusra, claiming responsibility for the two suicide bombings in damascus on friday. that certainly leads credence to the syrian government's claims there are new foreign groups viewing syria as the next big battle ground. back to you. jon: what a mess. leland vitter, reporting electric, thank you leland. jamie: jon, you been working hard lately? 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because breaking news, she says on the stand look, i was in a position to protect my husband and i made john edwards tell me specifically over the phone that what we were doing was legal. what's the impact on the prosecution's case? >> it obviously has a very big impact because the key to this prosecution, like with many, is what did you know, and when did you know it. clearly, money changed hands here. the question is, was that money designated for his campaign, and then if it was, did it go above the legal limit. and if it was, was it used for something other than his campaign. i think what the prosecution is trying to do here is quickly change this trial from one about boring campaign finance laws to one about sex, mistresses and a coverup. >> exactly. jamie: it's maybe not the most interesting of the issues, jennifer, but i want to ask you if you think campaign laws should or will change as a result of this case. >> well, i think perhaps the result will determine that. i think if john edwards is convicted, it will create all types of ambiguity in campaign laws, and as you may be aware, john edwards is anticipating presenting two expert witnesses from the federal election commission who are going to come forward and testify that the monies were not legitimate contributions to the campaign, that they were personal funds. i know there's an observation. but under the federal rules of evidence, he's probably going to be allowed to present that expert testimony. but the real issue is if the government's case hinges on the testimony of andrew and sherry young, they should probably hang it up now. jamie: why? >> because these two individuals lack all credibility. they used monies themselves. i mean, exorbitant amount of monies to enrich their lives, they are coconspirators who are cooperating with the government in order to avoid prosecution themselves, which is a great motivation. jail is a very strong motivating factor when determining whether to testify. jamie: you're saying they made a deal. >> yes. jamie: they made a deal, they won't be charged because jason, my question for you as a prosecutor is could not one of them have said i'm not testifying about john -- against john edwards because that's essentially testifying against my husband. is there not some marital exemption that could have allowed them both not to participate in the case? >> not in this particular case, because neither one of them are at the point they're asked to testify are at the subject of criminal proceedings. jamie: is that right or wrong. >> that's the right thing to do because that's the only chance they have to get a conviction is to flip one or both of the witnesses. listen, they're trying to paint the picture of impropriety with finance, yes, these witnesses took a large chunk of money for their own gain but the prosecution is saying look, they're doing it under john edwards' sanctioning, he's saying it's okay, and they're all having a hand in this deal. >> we have to believe them to jump to that conclusion. jamie: jennifer, i think there's a game change. with this breaking news that sherry young is arguing she inspectioncle asked edwards whether or not it was legal and he said it was, at least according to her testimony if we believe it, she had a question in the back of her mind whether it was or wasn't. why aren't they charged? >> first of all, andrew young has been granted immunity, which he needed in order to testify. jaime but you say the case is flimsy with them as the star witness. >> i think it is flimsy. we don't have bunny mon, fred barons, we don't have the actual contributors themselves testifying about at least what they thought the money was going forward, which would have been a critical piece of evidence. we have only the word of these two individuals, unless the government has some other corroborating evidence that we haven't heard about, and given the bias and motivation that they have themselves to not only prevent themselves from being prosecuted but also just the financial gain -- i mean, they sold movie rights. jamie: i got to let you guys go, jennifer and jason, because we have breaking news coming in, but really interesting points on this case, worth watching for sure, thank you. >> thank you. jamie: jon. op jon a fox news alert, and the epa administrator responsible for the oil patch in this country has resigned. al armandaras, the man who made some very controversial comments about his agency's approach to oil companies has resigned. here's the tape that surfaced last week that preceded his resignation: [inaudible] jon: armendariz had become a lightning rod for criticism for this administration and its oil polices. he now has resigned. he took pains to say they only went after companies that were misbehaving but he didn't say the romans would crucify the first five murderers they found in a village, he said they would find five guys, round them up and crucify them. that's where the part came in. he submitted his resignation. jamie: we haven't seen many resignations from this administration. that's big news. mitt romney and president obama are campaigning hard each claim to go have the best solution for a weak economy. we'll have the latest on their strategies. that's coming up. did you ever wonder why it's so hard to kick a bad habit? 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talk about it with christopher hahn a former aide to new york senator chuck schumer and fox news contributor. ron bonjean served as communications director to former has speaker denny hastert. as former president bill clinton said it is still the economy, stupid? obviously that is not directed at either one of you? christopher, why don't you start first. you know what when you're dealing with an incumbent president you're judged on economy. so i think we need to clarify the facts here. there have been 25 straight months of private sector job growth. there has been 25 straight months of government job contraction when. ed gillespie says this is a government centered economy couldn't be further from the true. far less people working in government the particularly at state and local level, because the president refuses to handouts to state and local governments. obviously there should be some. if state and local government had not contracted the way it had we might be in the low 7s in unemployment today. jon: ron, what do you make of that argue sent. >> i have to say 23 million americans still unemployed. there are still lower incomes. we have high energy and gasoline prices. when voters go to the polls in november, they're going to be thinking about that and they're likely going to pull the lever for mitt romney because you can not have a record like that and let it stand. you will have high unemployment for years to come. when ed gillespie talks about a government-run economy, he is talking about the millions of dollars in the government policies that president obama has pushed everything from health care to stimulus spending. those are not the policies that republicans espouse. what we're trying to do is give businesses the incentive to hire again, to give them some stability to think about, it's okay to start hiring workers again, to grow this economy. so that people can put food back on the table. jon: christopher, you know, -- >> and republican --. jon: well, the -- >> republican answer to that is go back to the bush policies that created this mess. i mean i think, i think ed -- >> there you go. >> right on the money the campaign did we clean the mess up fast enough? jon: but, you are talking about the 4.1 million jobs created that the president often cites. you need to create 130,000 job as month just to keep up with population growth. that is not exactly a stellar number there, 4.1 million over three years. >> nobody is saying that this is perfect right now but it is moving in the right direction. remember what we inherited. an economy that was bleeding 600 to 800,000 jobs per month. a stock market that was trashed. gm, almost out of business and, usama bin laden rooming the roost in --, all those things have been turned around. jobs are being created. bin laden's dead and gm is still alive. jon: ron how to republicans answer that argument? >> i would say this. i would say that the president decided to move left and to put health care reform, put health care law in place, that would put erroneous regulations on small businesses, that you know, they're not going to hire with those type of regulations. solutions are this. here is couple of examples. one, pass a federal budget. pass a federal budget that would show americans there is economic plan moving forward. two, very simple, pass the keystone pipeline. sign it into law it will create at least 20,000 jobs. >> 3,000 jobs. >> and 500,000 jobs with supplier, with supplier effect. instead of president is throwing a bones to environmentalists while the unions are saying please help us. >> ron that number is so bogus. such a political move. >> it is so unbelievable to me. jon: we'll he will have to leave it there. ron bonjean from the republican side. christopher hahn from the democratic side. thank you both. jamie: we have some breaking news on the economy for you the come her -- commerce department reporting that consumer spending increased in march by .3%. a slower pace than the month before. let's get more on what it means. correspondent adam shapiro from the fox business network. adam, is that enough? >> reporter: some analysts will tell now, it's not considering that in february consumer spending was up .9 of a percent. what we're seeing consumers, you and me, spending less. we're still spending more but the pace of our increase in spending is declining. now at the same time, things are slowing down, our incomes are actually going up in. march incomes went up roughly .4 of a percent. the previous month they had only gone up .3 of a percent. when you factor in taxes and all that, they only went up .2 of a percent. san analysts are saying the .2 is better because in the prior month before march we saw real income decline when you factored in taxes. one thing they're attributing to what was a good start at the beginning of the year is the warmer than expected weather we're experiencing. now we're in regular cycle and weather patterns and they're predicting a slowdown in spending which is not good for an economy like ours 70% based on consumption. jamie: do you have any feeling, adam on apple today? >> on apple today? i think apple is probably something we'll be talking about today, tomorrow and well into the future. lauren simonetti a lot better on that one than me. she talks stocks. jamie: check out the fox business network. thanks, adam. jon: are they tempting fate? an australian billionaire announcing he wants to build a replica of the titanic. a ship that will make its maiden voyage to new york city in 2016. he says his ship will be as luxurious as original titanic but with state-of-the-art navigation systems and plenty of lifeboats we hope. he calls it a tribute to the spirit of men and women who worked on the original titanic. somebody asked him, well could it sink? well, yes if you poke a hole in it. jamie: those pictures, do you think it will be in color, jon? jon: i imagine it will. i imagine it will. jamie: i'm not taking you on that trip. we already talked about it. that, i don't know we'll see what happens with that and where you can book those trips. when you're on there you may not want to drink too much. no hard drug folks. they may take away chocolate too and caffeine. why? we're learning more about addictions that are very hard to quit. manny alvarez will talk to us, dr. manny, our medical a-team will talk about why. ♪ . i should be arrested for imes against potted ant-kind. [ clang ] my house is where plants came to die. ♪ but, it turns out all i was missing was miracle-gro potting mix. it's got what a plant needs. even plant food that feeds them for up to 6 months. you get bigger, more beautiful plants. guaranteed. who's got two green thumbs thanks to miracle-gro? uh, this g. boo everyone rows with micle-gro. jamie: what is your vice? could be food, alcohol. i hope it is not drugs. but there may be a reason why bad habits are so hard to break. everybody's got one. one doctor actually revealing some new and interesting research on addiction, suggesting that it is driven by one simple brain function and it might help in the cure. dr. nora volkow explaining those findings on "60 minutes". >> there are certain areas of the brain that are directly implicated in our capacity to exert free will. the frontal cortex is one of them, crucial, crucial. if drugs damage the areas of the brain that we need in order to exert free will, then it is like driving a car without brakes. you don't want to hit someone but if you don't have brakes how do you stop the car? jamie: can it be stopped? dr. manny alvarez, senior managing editor of fox news health.com, a member of our fox news medical a team. >> good to see you,. jamie: doctor manny, what about addiction, did she point out anything we didn't already know. >> she is the director of the national institute of drug abuse. one of the greatest scientists in the world doing research many, many years on drug addiction. i think she is onto something because it is very important to realize drug addiction is not a character flaw, it is a real disease. it is either a disease that you were predetermined to have --. jamie: really? >> look at for instance, children with adhd, find statistically increased risk of developing drug addiction. and so she talks about free will and she talks about the frontal cortex but in reality, so you have a pre, sometimes, determined personality based on genetics which you can not control. second, once you start using drugs, drugs interfere with dopamine. dopamine is that chemical that everybody has in their brain. it's the chemical that makes you feel good. it he is a the chemical that is responsible for us being humans. eating, drinking water, having sex, all of that is what keeps humanity together. when you begin to interfere with dopamine molecule, and you basically begin to destroy the number of receptors, because, imagine dopamine is like driving a minivan and you need a parking space. you have to have a ratio of parking pace spaces for a minivan in order for things to work nicely. when you fill, number of parking space, ergo, drugs fill with that, you need more dopamine in your body. that is why chemical dependency becomes so powerful. jamie: before i ask you how we may cure that since we know it is a disease like diabetes -- >> yes. jamie: interesting the genetic predisposition. >> yes. jamie: is it chocolate and drugs and alcohol that are reducing the dopamine and we end up eating more? or are we doing those things because we want dopamine? >> drug abuse is the message of the story. when it comes to obesity and eating and gluttony and different kinds of food or caffeine, yes the mechanics are similar but yet the chemicals themselves can be easily more controlled. jamie: so it is not a character flaw. how do you treat it? >> you treat it eventually, you could do certain things in your brain and eventually you could go and regulate those dopamine receptors. what i'm talking about, the big ticket item with this research has to do with, look, in the year 2010, 210 million prescriptions for, you know, painkillers were given out. you know, that's, that's amazing to me. you go back 30 years, that wasn't the case and we had painkillers. so now what happens everybody wants to have a painkiller for everything that exists. you have a tremendous use of overprescription by doctors that sometimes doctors don't even know how to treat pain. most of them don't. jamie: is this your call to action to the medical community? >> absolutely. and also to control drug use in teenagers. you can find marijuana in most high schools in america today and really nobody really is paying attention to that. you bottom people selling cigarettes to young kids, 12, 13 years old. and every town in america, nobody is saying everything. if you find a kid buying a pack of cigarettes from one of the convenience stores, you know what? take the story away from the owner. you will see a dramatic reduction in problems we have. right now everything is really getting out of control. jamie: dr. manny is very passionate about it. >> i'm getting out of control as well. >> all right. good to know. keep an eye on it. jon? jon: always in the best interests of your health. he served as a sniper on the battlefield in iraq and afghanistan. now he's dead and it wasn't a taliban bullet that killed him. it happened right here in america. that tragedy coming up. >> plus liberal icon dennis kucinich about to lose his seat in the house. jon: he survived the battlefield in iraq and afghanistan only to be gunned down in the streets of boston, massachusetts. army veteran steven perez, determined to become a federal law enforcement officer when his time in the military was dead, shot dead outside of a nightclub early saturday morning. the patti ann browne live from the breaking news desk. >> reporter: he served two years overseas in iraq and afghanistan. he came home as you say planning to become a u.s. marshal but those dreams were cut short. the 22-year-old who was sniper during his deployments was shot to death early saturday in downtown boston. relatives say perez was shot in the back at several nightclubs at the theater district. he may have briefly turned to chase his attacker before collapsing. no arrests have been made. they don't know what prompted the deadly shooting. there is indication of some kind of altercation. family members said perez was out with friend and he was the stipe to stop a fight, not start one. he majored in crime olg in bunker hill community college. police say if you have information call their anonymous tip line. or text the word tip to crime. 27463. jon: one of our brave soldiers survives the worst in other countries and gets shot here. so tragic. >> parents say they never saw that coming. awful. jon: patti ann browne, thank you. jamie: can't imagine. u.s. marines pretty brave too. they risk their lives to fight for our country as well. now americans are recognizing their bravery by donating millions to take care of their family's future. a very special evening ahead. take a look at this. we'll have more straight ahead. good-looking, jon. nkle revoluti, it's possible to reduce the look of wrinkles in just 10 minutes. now you've seen it. experience it for yourself. 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