in the wake of the edward snowden leaks, nsa surveillance tactics, president obama meeting today with acalled a privacy an liberty oversight board. cnn s jake tapper taking a closer look on the lead today. i don t know how much you ve heard of the privacy and civil liberties oversight board. i hadn t heard much about it. it turns out president obama s first ever meeting with the organization is today, going on right now. even though it was formed back in 2004. we ll be talking about that and a host of other issues including the potential trade of a soldier who is in taliban custody for five top level taliban operatives at gitmo. we ll be talking it over with a former secretary of the department of homeland security, michael chertoff, who served in the bush administration. we ll also, of course, talk
used the n word back when america was still segregated. her lawyer sent out this statement. contrary to media reports miss deen does not condone or find the use of racial epithets acceptable. she is looking forward to her day in court. we re watching to see when that statement comes out. the video statement. we ll keep you updated. as soon as we get it, it s released, you ll see it right here on cnn. i want to bring in now political analyst kelly goff. kelly, it s interesting to hear the statement from the attorney, to hear miss deen s statement. okay. no kelly. i m being told by producers now. we ll get kelly up in a little bit. we ll move on now. we want to get to washington because we want to go. the president is about to make an announcement. for only the seventh time in its history, the fbi is about to get a new director. just moments from now, president obama, he s going to introduce james comey. his choice to succeed long time director robert mueller. this announcement comes
said i don t want any part in this prosecution. the kids who are beat up have said we agreed to do it. the school system told cnn the naked viks were a nonsanctioned group already advised about appropriate behavior. the district says those involved in the beating have now graduated and are banned to returning to the school, including sporting events. and the school says next year there will be no naked viks at inglemore high. so that initiation was for nothing. my goodness. sara gannon, she s in atlanta. there she is. sara, you spoke with sheriff s deputies there. why are they not pursuing charges? i want to start with the sheriff told me they are not, not closing this case. what they re hoping for is that some of these kids involved are going to change their minds and come forward to testify. the school district is also trying to convince them to cooperate with police. i got to tell you, what i find most interesting here, the lieutenant investigating this case told me he s double
a sleep expert testifying that michael jackson s wrongful death trial says jackson may be the first person ever to get no r.e.m. sleep for two whole months. the expert says he is basing his opinion on prior testimony that jackson was given the drug propofol for 60 days. the drug doesn t allow a person to get real sleep. okay. so cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins me now. elizabeth, how did propofol mess up michael jackson s sleep? don, according to the expert who testified, he said propofol would interrupt your r.e.m. sleep. r.e.m. sleep is where you re dreaming. you re in a slightly lighter stage of sleep. you can actually see someone s eyeballs moving under their eyelids when they re having r.e.m. sleep. r.e.m. sleep is important. just like the other stages of sleep you need to have it. if you don t have it, that s a problem. okay. so the dangers. what s the problem the dangers of going without sleep for so long or r.e.m. sleep?
we warned you before the break. we re going to warn you again ahead of time. this next story contains graphic images which may be disturbing to some viewers. seventeens were reportedly blindfolded and led into the woods in a rural area outside seattle. they were beaten. they were burned. and they were urinated on. this video shows one teen s injuries after monday s brutal hazing. he says a burning cigar was mashed into his shoulder. why did the teens volunteer for horrible beatings? so they could join a club that cheers during football games. the beatings are part of the club s hazing rituals. so far no charges have been filed. cnn s sar sara gannon has more fallout. they call themselves the naked bikes. an exclusive club in a high school outside seattle. her son was eager to be one of them. he wanted to be a naked veki. it s like a badge of honor for these kids. reporter: to join, this is