now some fresh pickings from the political grapevine. a college student getting a $4 million pay day from the feds after being locked in a jail cell with no food or water for four days. daniel chung was brought in after a drug raid. the officer told him he would not be charged and said, quote, hang tight, we ll come get you in a minute. over the next four days, he drank his own urine to stay alive, tried to carve a good-bye note in his arm. when he was found, he had kidney failure and perforated esophagus. he lost 15 pounds. the justice department says he accepted that $4.1 million settlement. dea has new policies in place as a result of this case, including daily cell check and cameras in cells. hawaii wants to say aloha as in good-bye to the homeless. the 50th state has budgeted
advertising baron. in court weeks after he was caught on camera choking her at their favorite london restaurant. the couple said to be worth more than $200 million have been married for ten years. a long wait for major league baseball to take action against alex rodriguez could be just about over. the new york daily news reporting a-rod and eight player will be suspended for using illegal drugs by end of the week. rodriguez to face a longer punishment. the league believes he interfered with its investigation. a-rod s attorney said any suspension would be appealed. a california college student left forgotten in a dea holding cell reached a settlement. daniel chung spent four days in the cell with nothing to drink or eat and spent five days in the hospital for dehydration, kidney failure, cramps and perforated esophagus. he lost 15 pound. the dea apologized with no explanation. new york city mayoral hopeful anthony weiner is digging in his heels, despite his popularity taking a
0 committee to investigate benghazi. less known about where the other americans are still in benghazi, in the cia annex. what was it, when was it established. reporter: fox news reported on the benghazi suspects with multiple military sources saying they re walking around and living freely in libya. our sources indicate they ve had eyes on the suspects since last november, but at this point there s no indication american officials have spoken with them. bret? more with the panel. just while we were talking there, a response from justice department on the report out by republicans on the james rosen case on the record from justice spokesman brian fal on. its findings are contrary to the record and strongly disputed by many of the committee s own members. we ll talk more about this with the panel in a bit. the obama administration is does the nsa collect any type of data at all on millions or hundreds of millions of americans? no, sir. it does not? not wittingly. there ar
this is something we hadn t heard, the idea of using wildfires as weapons of terror. question to you, is this a new idea? is this something law enforcement has considered? they have considered it, of course. arson is a very effective weapon. it is easy to light places on fire and attack at several places. you don t have to procure explosives. the rest of it, it doesn t surprise me. al qaeda is desperate to strike back. it has been a year since osama bin laden was assassinated. they do want to hit, and they intend to, and they will use any weapon they can get their hands on. just to follow up, if you say this is something certainly they have i want i don t want to say anticipated but thought about, also something they re prepared to prevent? i think so. i think we have to look at al qaeda, the problem for the fbi in this country is that they simply put their instructions out on the web and they tell people what sort of weapons to get and accelerants and things like that
translator: i would like to say to him, please do everything you can to get our whole family out. i m very disappointed with the u.s. government. cnn is continuing to seek comment from u.s. officials about chen s claim that he was mistreated and threatened by the chinese government. white house briefing is going under way now. let s listen in. they re actually talking about this activist. every time he has meetings with chinese officials, he says that broadly, but now we re dealing with actually one specific case. i m wondering if this is a case where he s willing to, you know, risk perhaps damaging the broader relationship with china to take on this case or, you know, possibly face questions about whether he s putting geopolitical concerns, economic concerns ahead of human rights. two things to that. first of all, you re correct that from the president on down when we have this government, this administration has meetings with chinese officials, as part of their