appointing to this house select committee on benghazi. let's have a huge discussion on this, the ramifications, politically, et cetera, with wolf blitzer and mime willis congressional reporter for "the hill." mike, let me begin with you. do we know specifically what led to this decision on behalf of leader pelosi to say, yes, we will participate. >> it had been a tough question for the democrats. in the end i think very simply they decided to have a seat at the table of this investigation than be on the sidelines. it has divided the caucus over the past two weeks. there was one camp that said we have to boycott it, if we participate we're legitimizing something that's essentially a witch hunt, that republicans want to embarrass the white house. there was another camp that said, wait a minute, this panel is going to have subpoena power. it's going to bring in witnesses, could bring in hillary clinton. if we don't have democrats at the table to defend the white house, president obama, we receiveded too much power. in the end nancy pelosi agreed and that's what we're about to watch. >> as we wait to hear from leader pelosi, she'll be naming names, what kind of ramifications, if any, would there be for these members of congress politically speaking sitting on this committee? >> i don't think there would be any negative ramifications. these are all experienced democrats who will be on the panel, seven republicans, five democrats. if you take a look at the five democrats, they've already released the list of who they will be. some are very experienced in these matters. some have been involved in other hearings involving benghazi. you see the five up there. elijah cummings, the ranking member on this house committee. darrell issa, the special government affairs committee looking into benghazi. elijah cummings is from his perspective trying to keep darrell issa honest. adam smith, ranking member of the armed services committee, adam schiff from the subcommittee on state and foreign operations, permanent member of the intelligence committee. linda sanchez, member of the house ways and means committee, subcommittee on oversight, tammy duckworth, a member of the armed services committee, also the committee on oversight and government reform. all of them are deeply experienced. they have all spent a lot of time looking into earlier investigations into benghazi. the argument, as mike points out, was very simple. if you don't participate, the seven republicans are going to do whatever they want. that won't be a defender, if you will, of hillary clinton when she comes to testify if they call her or others who come to testify. so in the end, nancy pelosi decided better to be at the table than to be away. >> gentlemen, stay with me. i want to bring in one more voice, our chief congressional correspondent dana bash. dana, as we await speaker pelosi, we've seen the face of five different democrats sitting on this house select committee. do you agree basically this is about having a seat at the table for the dems. >> that's absolutely the reason that they made this decision. i really can't emphasize enough how much of a riff there was within the house democratic caucus about the strategy here. it has been going on for over two weeks. it lasted through the entire weefk last week when they were home on recess, trying to come to terms. there's not a philosophical devise. they believe this select committee is politically motivated. the question was political strategy, whether or not it was the right thing to do to get involved, whether that looks like a rubber stamp or blessing the idea of this committee or to just boycott and risk, as others have said, not having a seat at the table and not participating. the other thing that needs to be talked about here is hillary clinton. democrats on capitol hill think it's about her and they don't want her to be out there without democrats defending her. >> can we talk about, though, as far as the investigation goes, and i want to hear from every single one of you -- wolf, let me go back to you. when it comes to this investigation, what are some of the unanswered questions as it pertains to benghazi? >> i think the major question that republicans want answered, people at the white house, what was their direct involvement from the president, the vice president, the national security adviser and others on down. they've gotten a lot of information from what was going on at the state department, a lot of documents and information, what was going on at the u.s. military, the pentagon, the africa command and other u.s. military operations in the intelligence community, they've gotten significant information. republicans believe there's still a lot of information out there that the administration has not made available, specifically information as to what the white house was doing, what the president of the united states specifically was doing. that's what they say they want. that's presumably what they're hoping to get in the course of the select committee hearings. >> mike, what else? >> we talked with darrell issa who has been conducting a probe into this for over a year, from the house oversight and government reform committee. he has said the focus is shifting to the white house. there were four committees in the white house that looked at it under their jurisdiction. the sense was that after the ben rhodes came out, the damning e-mail where the accusation was they were coaching different officials to go on the sunday shows. >> the talking points issue. >> once that e-mail came out, john boehner who resisted the committee for months and months and months flipped the switch and said now we've got to do it because the white house is involved. >> i'm keeping my eye on that podium. we're going to hit pause until we see leader pelosi, we want to move on. another major story out of washington. president obama finally responds to this alleged coverup involving veterans medical care that cnn revealed. listen. heads may roll over this. for now it won't be secretary shinseki. cnn reported 40 vets died while waiting for care at a va hospital. and now you have -- look at the map, we'll show you, 26 va facilities nationwide now under investigation for allegedly faking wait lists or other records, all the while possibly risking the health of people who have dedicated lives in their country. >> if these allegations prove to be true, it is dishonorable, it is disgraceful and i will not tolerate it, period. here is what i discussed with secretary shinseki this morning. first, anybody found to have manipulated or falsified records at va facilities has to be held accountable. the inspector general at the va has launched investigations into the phoenix va and other facilities. some individuals have already been put on administrative leave. i know the people are angry and want swift reckoning. i sympathize with that, but we have to let the investigators do their job and get to the bottom of what happened. >> we have to talk about this, mike willits, you're wearing this story, congressional reporter from "the hill." cnn's drew griffin live in phoenix. it was drew and this team that broke this story wide open. drew, beginning with you, president obama, he says he will not stand for this. we know that the white house has been aware of some of these problems for years. we knew he had to address this publicly, what really did we learn today? >> brooke, i think we learned even though the delays in care and death haves been documented, even though there have been multiple investigations and reports that schoeman into lags of records and hidden wait times going on for years, and even though it's obvious based on our current reporting that the problems persist and may even be getting worse, the president, at least for now, is sticking by his man who for five years has failed to do anything about the problem. the president i thought today was echoing what eric shinseki told the committee last week, i'm mad as hell, but have patience and we'll get to the bottom of it. many veterans groups have run out of patience. >> he may be standing by his man. but mike, when we saw obama today speaking before members of the press corps who was not there, was not, secretary shinseki. what's the significance of that? >> he doesn't want to float the guy out there. he's the embattled one, he's just testified before the senate. he made some public statements that weren't received very well. it certainly didn't appease any of the republicans who immediately after obama was done speaking, were shooting out e-mail blasts saying too little, too late, this guy still needs to go. he doesn't have the public face and obama thought this rose to the level where he has to finally address it. i think interesting to note that every time obama said, you know, i'm still with shinseki, he's still my guy, still interested in fixing the problem. we're not ruling out getting rid of anybody who committed wrongdoing, as high as that is going to go. we'll wait and see, but this guy is in trouble i think. >> drew, what about phoenix, the original low cakes where you and your reporting discovered these fake wait lists existed. now we learned that the phoenix va director got a pretty nice bonus last month in addition to last year, correct? >> that's right. i think this is what they call in d.c. bad optics. out here in phoenix they call it disgusting. the director of the phoenix va in april at the very same time the inspector general was out here investigating allegations manage 789 received an $8,500 bonus. this is just last month. the va has explained this to congress as some sort of a low-level clerical error. but, again, it is as i said, brooke, bad optics and disgusting. >> it is disgusting. drew griffin thank you so much for your reporting. mike willits, thank you. stay with me, we'll keep a close eye on what we're seeing on capitol hill, watching and waiting for house leader nancy pelosi to speak about the house committee members selected. also ahead, she says armed men killed her dad, her brother, burned down her church, burned down her school and today she is on american soil testifying about her encounter with the very same terror group responsible for kidnapping hundreds of school girls. you will hear directly from her. plus, any moment now, president obama will be welcoming the super bowl champs to the white house. what will richard sherman say? 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what is the timetable? what are the milestones? what are they hoping to achieve? i could have argued this either way. why give any validity to this effort, but i do think it is important for the american people to have the pursuit of these questions done in as fair and open and balanced way as possible. that simply would not be possible leaving it to the republicans. that's why i'm appointing my distinguished colleagues here today to serve on the select committee. i'm so proud of them and all that they do for the american people in the congress of the united states and for their constituents at home. congressman elijah cummings will be the ranking member. he is the ranking member on the committee of oversight and government reform. congressman adam smith, the ranking member on armed services committee has agreed to serve. congressman adam schiff, committee on appropriations, subcommittee on state and foreign operations, very important in this discussion, and is a member of the personal into select committee on intelligence. congresswoman linda sanchez from the committee of ways and means and subcommittee of oversight, congresswoman tammy duckworth serving on the armed services committee and the committee on oversight and government reform, mr. cummings' committee. with their leadership and persistence we will do right by the families of the the victims. by the way, two families have communicated with us saying don't take us down this path again. why is this being done? we hope that we can shine a light on where our focus should be, preventing tragedy like benghazi from ever happening again. i told the speaker in a phone call i just had with him that i'm hopeful that ranking member cummings and chairman gowdy can come to better terms as to how we proceed. it's with that hope and his great leadership that i present the chairman, our ranking member on this committee, mr. cummings. >> thank you very much. >> gloria borger and dana bash, let me bring you both in. we heard leader pelosi saying she wants her five democrats to be there, to fight for this fair hearing and process. that's the point of the column i just read of yours. they're calling this whole thing a witch hunt. they don't want to legitimize the process. if they're not there, to your point, they can't defend it. >> right. in the end she said she could have argued it both ways. in the end she decided she'd rather be inside the room than not inside the room. this is really important as dana knows which is that you want to have the access to documents, you want to be able to form your own narrative. you don't want any surprises, particularly when hillary clinton could be called to testify and she could be the democratic nominee for president. she's a big girl. she can take care of herself. but better to have some people on the committee who can actually know what's going to occur, and also object on the part of the democrats as things move along, at least try to represent that point of view because what the republicans are doing is trying to motivate their base to get out to vote. benghazi has been an issue for them. >> republicans still have a lot of questions as we were discussing a little while ago. >> absolutely. >> these are veteran members of congress, correct, who will be sitting on this committee? when will they sit? when will the hearings begin? do we even know? >> we don't know the answer. it's a great question. a lot of it depends on the chairman of the committee, tray gowdy, when he decides when things will get going. they'll likely use staff which is a critical part of these investigations, staff that have already been part of the four committees that have already been investigating in the house. to gloria's point about hillary clinton, i know i keep going back to this, but i can't underscore enough how much democrats on capitol hill think that's what this is all about. you ask what else they can look into, what are they looking at. certainly a big part is what they allege as a coverup in the white house, but the other is inability to do the right job at the state department and certainly about wounding hillary clinton for 2016. that is why the democrats who are going to be in there, the democrats that they chose, are not considered flame-throwing partisans even though they'll have to put the partisan hats on at times. they're considered serious, substantive people. that's part of the decision making in choosing these people. no question about that in talking to democratic sources on capitol hill. >> in one way or another, benghazi is going to come up. you know hillary clinton has a book that's coming out. i find it hard to believe that she would not address benghazi in some detail, in some personal detail in that book. so it even makes it more likely that they would call her particularly since she'll be writing about it, but you will know in advance some more details that we didn't know before these hearings get started. >> ladies, thank you so much. we have to go from you to another event happening at the white house. president obama flanked by your latest super bowl champions, the seattle seahawks. >> a quiet reserved bunch called the seattle seahawks. [ cheers and applause ] world champions. best football team in america. i considered letting sherman up here to the podium today, giving him the mic, but we've got to go in a little bit. obviously we've got some big seahawks fans here today. [ cheers and applause ] that includes -- i know there's some members of congress here who are huge seahawks fans. we also have the secretary of interior, sally jewel mo is a big seahawks fan, seattle mayor, ed murray in the house, a big seahawks fan. i want to congratulate coach pete carroll for his outstanding leadership. i think those of us who are in leadership positions across disciplines, we're always looking at folks who do things the right way. i think it's pretty clear that coach carroll does things the right way and we're very proud of him. seahawks owner paul allen who has done a great job. congratulations to him. general manager john schneider put together this outstanding organization. but i'm curious where the championship belt is today, john. [ laughter ] we are here to celebrate the first super bowl victory for the city of seattle. [ cheers and applause ] during the regular season seahawks tied for the best record, suffocating defense led to -- led the league in points allowed, yards allowed, interceptions, takeaways, turnover margin. they beat the rival 49ers. [ cheers and applause ] i knew you guys would clap on that one. in the nfc championship game, and then dominated one of the best offenses in the nfl, beating the broncos by 35 points. of course, i don't need to tell you how outstanding the seahawks are because they did a pretty good job of describing themselves as outstanding during the year. you may have heard about the legion of boom. richard sherman and earl thomas, cam chancellor and bob maxwell combined to form the best secondary in basketball. you had guys like michael bennett, red bryant, brandon me bain and brandon me bane's belly roll dance. we can't do that here in the white house. super bowl mvp malcolm smith. breakout star percy harvin. he's not here today but we've got to give props to beast mode, marshawn lynch. i'm sorry marshawn is not here because i want to say how much i admire his approach to the press. i wanted to get some tips from him. it's about the action. [ laughter ] then there's russell wilson who you may not recognize because his lochs are shorn. he has cut his hair. i was telling him he looks okay this way, too. he doesn't have a peanut head or anything. russell has won more games through his first two seasons than any quarterback in history. he also became only the second african-american quarterback ever to win a super bowl, and the best part about it is nobody commented on it which tells you the progress that was made. part of the reason i think russell inspired a lot of folks is he's been proving the doubters wrong for a very long time, for years folks said he would be too short to succeed as quarterback in the nfl. five quarterbacks were drafted ahead of him, which is a familiar story for a lot of these seahawks. three starters in the secondary who were taken fifth round or lower. 19 players on the roster weren't drafted at all. last year a pundit had the gal to call the receiving core pedestrian which i heard made angry doug baldwin even angrier. so let me just say as a guy who was elected president named barack obama, i root for the underd underdogs. so seeing folks over come the odds excites me. but it also excites me when you see the whole being greater than the sum of its part. that's what team is all about. and this is a team. it's not just about football. these guys have been over coming adversity off the field as well. fullback derrick coleman, legally deaf since he was 3 years old. i joke about richard sherman, but he grew up in compton amid some wonderful people, but also gangs and drugs an guns. his dad has to wake up before 4:00 a.m. every day to drive a garbage truck. because of his dad's hard work and his family and his mom, richard ended up earning a 4.2 gpa in high school. won a scholarship to stanford. he showed kids from his neighborhood that they could make it. if he seems a little brash, you have to have attitude to overcome some of this adversity. the fact he still goes back to inspire high schoolers for higher goals and making better choices, that's all-star behavior. he's not the only one giving back. russell spends every tuesday, even during the season, visiting sick kids at the seattle children's hospital. coach carroll's better seattle and a better l.a. organization works to keep at-risk youth away from drugs and violence. paul allen's family foundation has given millions of dollars for medical research into traumatic brain injuries which obviously is a concern in the nfl, but also a concern to our troops, and people all across the country. as a team, the seahawks raise more than $700,000 for causes like supporting our troops and strengthening our schools. that spirit of working hard and giving back has endeared this team to its fans in ways cities can't replicate. part of it is because you have that stadium that is kind of cheating because it's so loud. you hired some physicist to make it so -- [ laughter ] there are a lot of really smart people at microsoft and up in those places that can design these things. so we can't talk about the seahawks without talking about the 12th man. last season, the 12 set a record, not once but twice for the loudest crowd noise in history. now, history is a long time, so that's really loud. so loud on multiple occasion they've actually created minor earthquakes which is disturbing and you should think about that. after the super bowl when they had the chance to celebrate, they let loose in true seattle style, and while some got a little carried away, there's video of a huge group of seattle seahawks fans to wait for the walk sign before crossing an intersection. that's seattle for you. so congratulations to the 12s, congratulations to the players, the coaches, the staff, the owners. congratulations to the seattle seahawks and the whole city for an outstanding season. [ cheers and applause ] >> thank you, mr. president. i can't believe i'm saying that. thank you, mr. president, for all the guys here that represent this football team that represent so much more than just ourselves. our owner paul allen, this tremendous following that we have, the 12s are here again. it's a very, very special opportunity for us. we're very thankful and grateful to be part of it. this is a bunch of guys that came together. we were looking to celebrate uniqueness and differences. this is a different bunch of guys, i want to tell you. they've got a way about them that's very, very special and they've come together and shared a unique mission and goal to do something really special that we're really proud of. i hope we can continue to demonstrate that. these guys are that kind of people. we or very proud to be here. i do know you have access to some of the great special force units anywhere and you can do whatever you need to do, but i want you to know just a phone call away is the boom. [ cheers and applause ] >> in case we need for some sort of special mission. you never know. >> you never know. they will be just a phone call away. we're grateful to be here. thank you very much and we're very proud. >> congratulations. >> let's take this down and get a good picture. >> it's picture time. maybe a selfie. who knows? remember when the two different games when that stadium was so loud, as the president mentioned, it registered on the scale, the loudest crowd noise ever on, as the president said history is an awful long time. there you have your 2014 super bowl champions, the seattle seahawks. as they take pictures, let's pop outside and take a look at live pictures. these are crowds outside of mcdonald's headquarters in oak brook, illinois, where protesters traveled from three states to demand higher pay. their message to mcdonald's is this, give us $15 an hour. they're saying they're not backing down. we will take you out there live. first, nearly two weeks after clay aiken was declared winner of his primary race in north carolina, after his opponent died, he's taking a moment to join me live. his next opponent, a republican opponent heavily favored to win. we will discuss mr. clay akin, coming up next. jake and i have been best friends for years. one of our favorite things to do is going to the dog park together. sometimes my copd makes it hard to breathe. so my doctor prescribed symbicort. it helps significantly improve my lung function starting within five minutes. symbicort doesn't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms. with symbicort, today i'm breathing better. come on, boy! 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[ male announcer ] if you can't afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help. just past the bottom of the hour. you're watching cnn. i'm brooke baldwin. a lot of talk about the primary elections. the tea party republicans got spank bid mitch mcconnell and his gop establishment. let's move on, shall we, and talk about november and in particular a marquis race for congress. ♪ i know that time goes by >> singer clay aiken of ""american idol"" fame has shocked the political world, first by tossing his hat in the ring and then by winning his primary race. clay aiken will be ton battle against two-term incumbent renee ellmers. clay aiken joining me live from raleigh, north carolina. welcome back to the show, mr. aiken. >> we'll talk about your race straight away. first i have to ask about the news coming out of washington today. you have, as you are well aware, american war veterans dieing, awaiting treatment at va hospitals. we talked you being pro military, your brother who served in iraq. are you angry about this, these deadly delays facing war veterans? >> i think people should all be very frustrated with the disorganization, to put it lightly, of the va. the va is an unwheel difficult organization. i think some of the mismanagement that it's had over the past several years has started shows itself. obviously we see what's happened in phoenix. i wouldn't be surprised if we saw some of these issues were popping up in other places in the country. the va is unwieldy, very mismanaged. i think we have to do better for veterans. you're right, my brother is a vet and there are many, many veterans in this district. this is a very military heavy district. a lot of people who served our country, we aren't serving them well at all and we certainly -- >> clay, whose fault do you think it is? do you think the president needs to be more hands on? >> i think there needs to be more supervision. we certainly need to make sure that we're digging into investigating what we've seen. i think the president is responsible for it at the end of the day. he is the commander in chief of the military. he is the executive. the buck has to stop with him. i know he has spoken up today and said he was going to be looking into it and digging into it quite a bit along with the secretary of veterans affairs, and i think they need to dig down. at the end of the day, we're spending a lot of money on the va and it's not being used responsibly. we all need to be paying attention to that. congress needs to be paying closer attention to it and the executive branch does as well. >> we'll continue to hold them accountable here at cnn. i wanted to ask you about that as it's news of the day. let's talk about you. you won your election, what a shock? your opponent, keith crisco died on a fall on his home, hours before he planned to concede. where did you get the word? what were your first thoughts? >> you know, it's been a very difficult week for a lot of people here in north carolina. keith was a lifelong public servant and was always a gentleman to me when i saw him. i was at lunch the day that he passed away and was told. i'm not often speechless. that was one situation that left me speechless. i've certainly -- it's been a very difficult week to say the very least. >> can't imagine. here you are though, now, going forward. you face renee ellmers, a tough cookie from everything i've seen. let me play this for our viewers. this is renee ellmers with anderson cooper talking about religion. i am cath rick. you're wrong in your assumptions. i guess what i could ask you is are you anti religion? are you anti christian? >> that's like the lowest response i've ever heard from a candidate, i've got to tell you. >> really? >> clay aiken, will you challenge renee ellmers to a debate? >> i would love to debate her. i know one of the reasons i jumped into this race is because i think all congressional, sitting congressmen and women need to be accountable. we've gerrymandered a lot of these districts around the country to the point where a lot of people feel they don't have to answer to people that elected them. that's one of the reasons i wanted to get involved and throw my hat in the ring. i do want to hold her accountable. i would be happy to debate with her. i look forward to the opportunity. i hope she'll give it to me. >> we'll look forward to it as well and follow up with you if it happens. here you are. politics has not exactly been in your wheelhouse in your lifetime thus far. here you are, running to be a member of congress. i'm sure you've hired very smart people to be around you. what do they say as to how you, a novice, can win this race against a heavily favored incumbent in a red state in a red district? >> you know, people talk about red and blue on t slfrnltv a lo. when i go around the country, people don't pay attention to the r or d. they pay attention to the person. >> not always. not always. >> people on the ground don't always pay attention to the r or the d. they pay attention to the issues. they pay attention to the person who is going to listen to them. they vote for the person who they know they can trust to have their best interest at heart. that's not necessarily happened in this district. i am not a politician by trade necessarily, but i've always been an advocate and always tried to use my voice, so to speak, to speak up for people who have not had a voice through my work with children with disabilities, my work with unicef. i was a special ed cater before i did "idol." i try to make sure i speak up for people who aren't being heard. this is an extension about that. things shouldn't about politics, about party. that's what's frustrated me and it's what's frustrated people all across the country. people spend too much time talking republican and democrat and too much time talking about winning and losing. the people who are losing are the people who are voting because they're not being listened to at all. >> clay aiken, good luck. we'll see if that debate happens. thank you so much for joining me live. i appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up next, six people in iran arrested simply for posting a music video to the song "happy." their story apparently caused so much controversy all around the world that even iran's president has weighed in. we have a huge development on this. we'll share it coming up. i'm randy and i quit smoking with chantix. for 33 years i chose to keep smoking... ...because it was easier to smoke than it was to quit. along with support, chantix (varenicline) is proven to help people quit smoking. it's a non-nicotine pill. chantix reduced the urge for me to smoke. it actually caught me by surprise. some people had changes in behavior, thinking or mood, hostility, agitation, depressed mood and suicidal thoughts or actions while taking or after stopping chantix. if you notice any of these, stop chantix and call your doctor right away. tell your doctor about any history of mental health problems, which could get worse while taking chantix. don't take chantix if you've had a serious allergic or skin reaction to it. if you develop these, stop chantix and see your doctor right away as some could be life threatening. tell your doctor if you have a history of heart or blood vessel problems, or if you develop new or worse symptoms. get medical help right away if you have symptoms of a heart attack or stroke. use caution when driving or operating machinery. common side effects include nausea, trouble sleeping and unusual dreams. i did not know what it was like to be a non-smoker. but i do now. ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. ♪ ♪ clap along if you feel like a room without a roof ♪ >> i know you know that song, pharrell's "happy." did you know doing this in iran could land you in jail. six people. three men, three women were arrested and forced to apologize on tv for posting their take of the song on youtube. #freehappyiranians is trending today. pharrell even tweeted his support. ressa sesay joins us live from cairo. all six people, they are free? >> reporter: almost. that's the good news. six of the performers in the video on free on bail. the director is still in custody. they've been told by authorities not to talk to the media. so still not out of the woods yet. we should point out that several hours ago the twitter account belonging the the president that happiness is our poem's rights. we shouldn't be hard on behaviors caused by joy, seemingly a message of support for these individuals. it's not clear if that tweet persuaded authorities to release these individuals, brooke. >> do you think rouhani's views on the dancing, the video uploaded to youtube, signify a big shift from, say, ahmadinejad? >> reporter: certainly what's happening in iran is this clash between the moderates and the hard liners. there's no question that since rouhani took office, he's been trying to establish more social freedoms, ease restrictions, the morality roaming the streets is gone. at the same time you have these hard liners who say this activity invids what they see as immoral and bad behavior. that's where things stand. >> reza sayah on the state of affairs in iran and dancing. thank you so much. now take a look at this. not as much what you're seeing, but what you're hearing. this video is at the center of the federal lawsuit accusing chicago police officers of excessive force, a hate crime and a coverup. you will hear what the officers said and why they were there in the first place. this is mike. his long race day starts with back pain... ...and a choice. take 4 advil in a day which is 2 aleve... ...for all day relief. 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[ screaming ] >> but then came this. i want you to listen to the officer's words. >> the chicago tribute is reporting an officer has been put on desk duty. when you hear the words, put you in a u.p.s. box, you don't belong here. i know police are not polite when they're doing a raid. but was this officer yelling at her out of line? >> i would like to put a balance to that whole video. really there was no words to it or anything else and no audio, maybe he had a case as far as her fighting, her biting, her hitting him. but we see the actions. we see what they're doing to her and then put those words on top of that. i don't believe the chicago police department is too happy with that. i'm sure they don't condone anything like that and i'm sure they'll have some retraining after an incident like that. they're really going to look into it. i'm sure they're waiting for their due process. let them investigate it first and then they'll take care of the officer. >> speaking of the due process, we know the chicago police department says an independent police authority is investigating. this is from police, a statement. quote, the alleged conduct and comments are reprehensible and completely intolerable in our police department. we have codes of conduct that apply to officers, and if the allegations are proven accurate, appropriate action will be taken. what rights on behalf of this woman or any woman who maybe is the subject or the target of a raid, what rights does that individual really have? >> the rights as far as what, how she can act? >> how she can act, what she can say. >> when you first see a video and you look at it from that standpoint, you don't know what preceded that, what were they doing in there. they came in there and they raided -- had a lot of officers come in there. when you have a lot of officers, there's a reason why they came in here. was there a one-time thing, a one-time act where somebody propositioned one of the police officers. you had to have more than one act. maybe she knew what was going on at the time with the raid and became hysterical. but as a police officer, of course, you should know how to handle a situation like that. >> gil alba, thank you. live pictures once again at mcdonald's headquarters in illinois. we're hearing hundreds of protesters demanding higher pay for fast food workers. their message for mcdonald's, we want $15 an hour. apparently it's getting pretty heated out there. back in 90 seconds with that. fast food workers and union activists are gathering right now near a mcdonald's headquarters in chicago. they want higher wages, a right to join a union. this follows protests in 230 cities around the world last week and comes one day before the company's annual shareholder's meeting. ted rowlands joins us live here. tell me how many people you've seen so far and the fact they want 15 bucks an hour is not new. what more are they asking for? >> reporter: well, they want $15 an hour and they want to be able to unionize without retribution. there are about 2,000 people total here. we're at the headquarters at mcdonald's in oak park, illinois. they marched up to the police barricade. a few people got arrested. about 100 people here in mcdonald's uniforms prepared to get arrested. most of the people here don't want to get arrested and are here to make a statement. here is a young woman who came in from milwaukee, they yeah clark. you're not going to work their your whole life. >> no, i'm not. >> reporter: you say you feel bad for people trying to supp fort families. why should somebody be paid $15 an hour when the minimum wage is less than that. mcdonald's is paying people and people agree to pay those jobs. why do you think there should be a higher base salary even for the lowest employees? >> we are so much more than the $7.25. we should be paid $15 an hour. a lot of us have children. we need to be able to provide for our children. we need to pay rent and phone bills. $7.25 isn't cutting it. we're all here from st. louis to milwaukee, wisconsin, california, to speak up for those making $7.25. a lot of these people make $7.25 but live in shelters. we need houses and homes to provide for our families. that's why we're here, to make a stand, because we're worth $15 an hour. >> brooke, they make a point. it isn't just mcdonald's, it's fast food workers. >> we mention, the timing not coincidental, tomorrow, mcdonald's annual shareholders meeting. ted rowlands, thank you. hour two, i'm brooke baldwin. big doings in washington. president obama finally responded to tall ledged coverup involving veterans' medical care. heads could roll in the wake of this. for now one of them will not be that of secretary eric shinseki. the president stood behind this embattled former general after cnn reported 40 veterans died while waiting for care at a va hospital. this retired va doctor right here talking with our own drew griffin was a whistle-blower here. dr. sam foote told drew about the secret list that contained the true wait times for veterans in phoenix, arizona. from dr. foot, we know 1400 to 1600 veterans waited as long as 21 months to wait for care. as we look at this map, we're not talking about phoenix, arizona. we're talking two dozen va facilities nationwide are under investigation for allegedly faking wait lists or other records. the president in their meeting in the oval office this morning ordered secretary shinseki to do a full investigation. >> i know people are angry and want swiflt reckoning. i sympathize with that. we have to let investigators do their job and get to the bottom of what happened. our veterans deserve to know the facts. their families deserve to know the facts. once we know the facts, i assure you if there is misconduct, it will be punished. >> dr. sam foot joins me now live. also cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin. dr. foot, thank you form joining me. i want to focus with you off the top. i'm sure you listened to the president today speaking at the briefing. did what he said, did that change anything for you today? >> not a whole lot. i wish they would get off the delay and deny spin tactics and start focusing on the problems of what the waiting times are. what the ultimate outcome is of the criminal investigation in phoenix is not going to change the nationwide problem with the scheduling issues. what we need to do now is to find out what those numbers really are. >> let's get to the root. let's get to the root of these fake waiting lists. my question is, is it because of a lack of resources within the va? or was there malicious intent? instead of someone waving their arms and saying people are dieing, they decided to cover it up instead. which is it? >> i think in the case of phoenix it would be closer to malicious intent and doing things for secondary gain such as promotions and monetary rewards. the problem is over the last few years there's been a mismatch at least in phoenix in the demand for care and our abilities to supply it. and rather than admit to that, they chose to cover it up. >> with the coverup, with the cooking of the books over these wait times for veterans here, that's a very specific thing to do. we're talking about it. you were the whistle-blower there in phoenix, but where did that come from because it was so specific, i'm just wondering if it came from someone. >> i think a lot of times people faced with the same problems frequently come from different solutions. it may have been strategies that were passed around. william shorn hard had this memo written in 2010 with all the various different gaming strategies and basically said to knock it off. we need the real numbers. >> to knock off what? knock off the cooking of the books, the fudging of the times? >> correct. there's an easy way to get to the real numbers. that would be by having the general accountability office and dep bra draper do an independent survey of the primary care providers, nurses to find out what the real wait times are and could give an amnesty to them for their real numbers. if they don't go out, the ig can say you cooked the books and you're being fired for it and prosecute them. >> obviously this is the beginning here. if people were getting orders from above to cook the books, so to speak, what would those individual face legally speaking? >> well, it's important to draw a distinction here between bad bureaucracy, people not getting the care they deserve and possible crimes. they are totally different kinds of investigations and totally different attempts to solve both problems that would have almost nothing to do with each other. if there were people who were actively submitting fraudulent records, who were using government facilities to lie to their superiors, perhaps even at those superiors' orders that, is potentially a crime. but prosecuting them, which may is happen, won't address the problem of getting people care right away. you have to have two parallel efforts under way at the same time. >> in the meantime, i keep thinking about the thousands of veterans currently -- not that this is wide open -- who need care. can we even know for sure -- i was asking drew griffin this the other day, can we know right now today if the veterans are getting the care that's need. he said to me, brooke, we don't know. >> and we don't know. i think that's what the president was talking about, trying to figure out who needs care, how quickly they can get it. that's a very important investigation, but that is not an investigation to determine if anyone cooked the books or committed crimes. both of those have to go on and they will not -- one will not help the other. >> dr. foote, it's incredible to me to think of all the thousands of servicemen and women who we send off to war, we can send supplies, troops, tanks, but we can't take care of these heroes when we come back home! >> without having the right numbers, the va doesn't know where to put resources. maybe the california vas are doing great and they have some extra resources and arizona and new mexico need resources that could be adjusted. if they don't have accurate numbers, then they don't know where they need to shore up the staff and/or perhaps de-base out to get the care that's needed. as long as they get bogus numbers, they thefr inning thefr is fine. >> i hear you loud and clear. dr. sam foote, thank you so much. jeff toobin, thank you, thank you. also today house democratic leader nancy pelosi has named five fellow democrats to the special benghazi committee. pelosi's decision follows days of discussions among democratic colleagues, some who voted for boycotting. eight committees have held hearings on the matter including the committee led by darrell issa who democrats charge with being heavy handed. here is leader pelosi. >> the republican approach does not -- that is all the more reason for democrats to participate in the committee, to be there to fight for fair hearing and process. we'll talk about why the democrats want to be part of this hearing, why they want to sit at the table, why they want to defend coming up with jake tapper later this hour. meantime, general motors is adding more calls to the recall heap. about 2018,000 aveo cars. trying to keep up with the recalls can be mind-boggling. gm issued 29 recalls this year for more than 15 million cars and trucks worldwide. here is a timeline of this whole fiasco. mary barra became gm's first ceo in january. in february gm started the latest round of recalls. the department of justice launched a criminal probe in march. mary barra testified before congress in april. this month gm was slapped with a $35 million fine. let's go to cnn automotive writer peter deval less depena. you have 29 recalls in the matter of five months. that's a lot. >> it's an awful lot. >> one thing you have to keep in mind is this all started with one very large recall of gm older cars for an ignition switch program. after that gm got caught basically relaying a recall, not recalling cars quickly enough. they want to make sure that doesn't happen again. what they're doing right now is going back through all of their records, cleaning out the closet, finding any issue that's possibly safety related from the past years, making sure those vehicles get recalled. and on their new models, they're doing recalls on the new models very quickly because they want to make sure they're seen as responding to this stuff right away because they're under the microscope. >> can we talk a little more about that? beyond the recalls we're talking unfavorable stories that pertain to words. gm employees can't use internal office memos. how do they do this damage control? >> reporter: right now the way they're handling damage control is they want to be seen as proactive. they want to be seen as taking care of a safety issue as soon as it comes up. it looks good to do a recall. but they realize now it looks much worse when they were supposed to do a recall before and they failed to do so. the words you were talking about, that was a presentation in 2008 that showed a general cultural problem at gm. i think they were showing that they had these words they'd rather you didn't use. some of them were words like safety issue they didn't want used in internal communications because it might look bad. honestly, one thing you want to have is a free and open discussion of any potential safety issue. i think today, gm has announced a program where they're rewarding employees for speaking up, stepping up and speaking up. >> peter, thank you so much. now to this. the fbi director -- you hear about this -- making headlines for some of his comments on pot and agency recruits. the question is should the fbi agents be allowed to get high on the way to work? they need these guys to help fight cybercrime. we'll talk about that. be careful what you're putting on the grill this upcoming memorial day because almost 2 million pounds of beef are part of this recall. we're learning what more can be involved. that is coming up. you're watching cnn. here is the deal. the fbi trying to fill 2,000 new jobs. the problem, according to the fbi, the fbi's website, all applicants who smoked pot within the last three years are totally excluded from consideration. and because of this the rules could be changing. done chark is with the fbi, 1976 till 2001. don, welcome. >> brooke, good to be with you again. >> let's talk about this. we know that hearing from the fbi director speaking to a crowd on monday, he says the fbi is in need of some new recruits to help fight cybercrime specifically. but the director was quoted in saying, i have to hire a great workforce to compete with those cyber criminals, and some of those kids want to smoke weed on the way to the interview. don, do you think that the fbi should loosen its no tolerance policy? >> i'm not going to say that they should loosen it. i don't think we ought to bring on anything additional to the organization that would cause the organization to decrease its level of abilities to do the work that they are supposed to be doing. the question is, i think, is there a significant difference in comparison there with alcohol or marijuana. i think those are the issues they ought to be looking at before they decide that one is worse than the other. >> if somebody decides to have a few glasses of wine of the weekend and is good to go during the week, are you saying that should be applied if somebody wants to get high on the weekend but they're perfectly 100% a-okay during the week? would that be okay at the fbi? >> what i'm really saying is that, if we can say that, yes, we can consume alcohol but you can't come into the office, you can't handle your duties if you are consuming alcohol. but if you're not consuming it and you have no part of your body that shows that you have been and not able to do your job, that's one thing. now, if marijuana fits into that other category and the same thing would occur, as much as i'm not for this, but logically i'm saying, well, if it fits with the other aspect, then it should fit with that. >> i hear you loud and clear now. let me play this for our viewers because apparently the fbi director clarified his statement. he was testifying before the senate judiciary committee. >> i was asked a question by a guy who said i have a great candidate for the fbi. his problem is he smoked marijuana within the last five years. i said i'm not going to discuss a particular case, but apply. i waxed philosophic and funny to say one of our challenges we face is getting a good workforce. at the same time when young people's attitudes about marijuana and our state's attitudes about marijuana are leading more and more of them to try it. i am absolutely dead set against using marijuana. i don't want people to use marijuana. it's against the law. we have a three-year ban on marijuana. i did not say i'm going to change that ban. >> okay. that is a much-needed clarification from the fbi director. apparently a lot of the folks who they need to fight cybercrime like to partake. >> as long as the rule and the law with the organization is what it is, obviously the director can't bring them in. however, i do think, i do think they ought to take a look and perhaps reconsider. let's face it. there have been a tremendous amount of alcohol-related issues that have been devastating to a lot of people and a lot of things that should not have been done. i'm not an expert on either one of those, the alcohol or the marijuana or whatever, but if it shows that marijuana and alcohol is somewhat in a comparative position there, then i think it's something that they ought to give it a thought. am i in favor of it? no, but i think it ought to be given a thought. >> don clark, i think you're about to make some friends. don clark with one person's perspective formerly at the fbi. appreciate you coming on. donald and shelly sterling and the l.a. clippers team president allegedly tried to convince v. stiviano to lie about sterling's racist rant. that is according to the nba charges against the clippers' owner. that is just the beginning. suppo reporters from the l.a. time, we'll talk to them. this makes me hungry. i might have had one of those for dinner last night. a major recall involving almost 2 million pounds of beef before the memorial day weekend. you're cooking out, enjoying it. now we're learning the tainted beef could be reaching more people than originally thought. humans. we are beautifully imperfect creatures living in an imperfect world. that's why liberty mutual insurance has your back, offering exclusive products like optional better car replacement, where if your car is totaled, we give you the money to buy one a model year newer. call... and ask an insurance expert about all our benefits today, like our 24/7 support and service, because at liberty mutual insurance, we believe our customers do their best out there in the world, so we do everything we can to be there for them when they need us. plus, you could save hundreds when you switch, up to $423. call... today. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. what's your policy? 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>> it's interesting, e. coli, this particular bacteria, a very small amount, just about 100 cells can actually make you sick. that's a tiny minuscule amount. it doubles in size every 15 to 20 minutes. if you leave meat out, i'm pointing this out as a visual. it doubling in size in terms of number of bacteria every 15 minutes. i keep a thermometer by the grill. do you keep a thermometer by the grill? >> no. >> do you do a little look-see inside and eyeball it? i think the thermometer works well. we have the temperatures there. i have a placard on my grill so i can remember those numbers. 160 degrees for that ground meat. it takes a second. that's really going to help you and your family stay safe as you're grilling this. again, with this particular product, if you find that lot number, chuck it out like you said. >> dr. gupta, thank you. happy memorial day weekend. >> and to you. breaking now on cnn, the white house announcing the president sent 80 u.s. troops to chad to search in the desperate search for the girls in nigeria. this is from a letter to the senate and house leaders, approximately 80 u.s. arms forces personnel have deployed to chad to help with the safe return of 200 school girls report to have been kidnapped in nigeria. these personnel will support the operations of intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions over northern nigeria. the force will remain in chad until the support in resolving the kidnapping situation is no longer required. this action has been directed in furtherance of u.s. national security and foreign policy interests pursuant to my constitutional authority to conduct u.s. foreign relations and as commander in chief and chief executive. it goes on, i am providing this report as part of my efforts to keep congress fully informed, consistent with the war powers resolution. i appreciate the support of the congress in these actions. so there you have it, specific u.s. involvement. it's been over five weeks since those little girls were taken in the middle of the night from that school in nigeria. much more on that story. you know it. bring back our girls. we'll have more in just a moment. it was a blistery rash. i couldn't lay down i couldn't sit up because it burned so much. as first lady of our church we have meetings. we have activities. and i couldn't do any of that. any time anything brushed up against this rash it would seem like it would set it on fire again. it was the worst pain i ever had. life with crohn's disease ois a daily game of "what if's". what if my abdominal pain and cramps end our night before it even starts? 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>> absolutely. the girls could be in multiple locations and boka haram, because of those multiple locations are going to have an increased demand in terms of their ability to maintain the security of these girls in these different locations. it becomes a stress in terms of boka haram maintaining command and control, connection with their different elements that have these different pockets of these girls if, in fact, that's confirmed. >> we know, of course, the u.s. doesn't negotiate with terrorists. that was initially on the table with negotiating with boka haram. they said no, we won't do that. you mentioned drones and aircraft. what else, tactically speaking, can the u.s. troops do? and how much can we trust nigeria to help? >> brooke, the answer to your second question is not much. it's not -- first of all, it's not a significantly professional military. i would imagine that corruption exists throughout the breadth and depth of that military. >> right. that's why i asked. >> you're looking at a society that's incredibly fractured. a lot of wealth on the coast and abject poverty almost everywhere else, to include where these girls are primarily being held. what this allows the united states to do is refine the picture they're dealing with. if the united states is acknowledging they have u.s. forces in chad. we've been invited in and it's a secure sanctuary, so the united states can operate with a certain degree of freedoms. i'm certain also there are probably additional special forces folks that have been brought in so that if there is a targetive opportunity, we can do something, but it would have to be very, very precisely defined in terms of what the rules of engagement are and what type risks are we willing to put our american service members at in this environment. >> general, stay with me. let me bring in our senior white house correspondent jim acosta. i understand as we're getting this news, this was actually in letter form from the president, from the white house announcing these 80 troops. >> that's right, brooke. i have the letter right here. it basically explains -- this is a legal requirement for the president to abide by in informing the speaker about this deployment of u.s. forces. you probably already read it. i'm just joining you now. it says approximately 80 u.s. armed forces personnel have been deployed to chad as part of the u.s. efforts to locate and support the safe return of those nigerian school girls who are kidnapped. we should point out that part of the reason we believe the forces have been sent in there are really in a support capacity because they've been using these drones, as your guest was just mentioning, using these drones to find these girls, locate these girls because that has been sort of the problem over the last couple weeks as we've heard it described to us by administration officials. you heard john mccain and others saying why are we sending in special forces? why aren't we sending in troops to find these girls. administration officials have said, wait a minute, we need to find them first, locate their position first and then we can make a decision after that. because they're using drones to fly over these areas to locate these girls, they need support forces in that area. my understanding is that that is why the president is sending this notification to capitol hill, to notify the speaker that these additional forces are being sent in to support that mission. of course, if it results in finding the school girls, all the better. but this is a legal requirement for this white house. that's why the president signed this today. >> jim, do we know why today? certainly over the last four or five weeks since the story broke, that the chorus has grown louder for involvement in nigeria. but why today from the white house? >> i don't really know the answer to that question. we've gone back to officials to find out exactly why this is happening today, what exactly are these forces going to be doing. we don't have the answers to these questions yet. you said it correctly, brooke, this administration has come under a lot of criticism in its response to the coke ka haram militant group, in response to finding these girls. there are democrats and republicans who want special forces sint in to find these girls. the white house has said, wait a minute, we need to be cautious about this, we need to locate their position first before moving any ground forces into the area. at this point the white house has said that they're not really interested at this point in sending in, say, s.e.a.l. team 6 and that sort of mission to find these girls. they're not at that stage yet. >> thank you, jim. barbara starr at the pentagon. we're talking about 80 members of the u.s. armed forces heading to chad. tell me more about these individuals, when they leave, the mission? >> brooke, we had at the pentagon one of those infamous pentagon hallway briefings by an official explaining to reporters behind the scenes what is happening. let me walk everybody through it. there are 80 members of the u.s. military that are going to chad to basically operate an unmanned aerial vehicle, a predator drone. there will be about 40 people from the air force doing what they call launch and recovery, sending the drone up, operating while it's up and bringing it back. there are going to be another 40 people from the air force conducting ground security, protecting the 40 people operating the drone, protecting the drone while it's on the ground, all of the equipment. it's a package of troops to both conduct the mission and protect the mission in chad. perhaps the most significant thing is now, for the first time, chad has said, okay, you can search over our territory as well. as you fly in and out of chad, as you go into nigeria, to fly overhead to look for the girls, you can also search our territory from overhead and look and if you see anything. i will also tell you we are very aware that the u.s. military had already been doing some of that very quietly while it was conducting those missions over nigeria. now you have chad's permission. why is this happening today? >> that's the question. that's what i was asking jim. the white house hasn't had an answer on that. >> as always with the u.s. military, there's more and less to it than meets the eye. the military -- the military had been using manned aircraft to conduct these missions over nigeria. those aircraft basically had to go into the shop for maintenance. the urktsavs, predators they were using were a long distance away. they didn't have time on station, so to speak. they could come this distance, fly overhead for several hours, but by now, having the manned aircraft back in the shop and the predator, the unmanned drone closer in chad, you can keep it up in the air longer so they can do more productive missions. they think they can keep this drone up in the air longer, keep it flying, keep it looking. that's a real military benefit. but why today? it's because other aircraft we are told had to go for maintenance. >> how about that? >> it's just the reality of how the military works. but make no mistake, it does give them now perhaps a broader area to look in. so these missions are now -- we're told the troops are arriving today. we are not being told where they came from because the u.s. military doesn't like to really talk about the fact that it does operate some classified missions out of africa, out of the east coast of africa, out of nyjer on the west coast. these are pretty sensitive surveillance missions that they conduct. they're not exactly telling us where they came from. but they're going to send this unit in to chad to see if they can get some of that broader, long-range, long-time in the air aerial coverage to see if they can get clues where these girls are. brooke, let me add, at the same time pentagon officials tell us the intelligence they do have still lead them to believe that the girls probably have been broken up into smaller groups. >> that's what i was discussing with general spider marks, finding that specific target, to find these girls, gosh -- >> very tough business. >> barbara starr, thank you so much, at the pentagon with this breaking news. we now know from the white house they are sending in 80 troops, 80 u.s. armed forces to chad to help bring our girls back. we have a correspondent in nigeria. we'll talk to zain asher next. if you have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis, like me, and you're talking to your rheumatologist about a biologic... this is humira. this is humira helping to relieve my pain. this is humira helping me lay the groundwork. this is humira helping to protect my joints from further damage. doctors have been prescribing humira for ten years. humira works by targeting and helping to block a specific source of inflammation that contributes to ra symptoms. humira is proven to help relieve pain and stop further joint damage in many adults. humira can lower your ability to fight infections, including tuberculosis. serious, sometimes fatal events, such as infections, lymphoma, or other types of cancer, have happened. blood, liver and nervous system problems, serious allergic reactions, and new or worsening heart failure have occurred. before starting humira, your doctor should test you for tb. ask your doctor if you live in or have been to a region where certain fungal infections are common. tell your doctor if you have had tb, hepatitis b, are prone to infections, or have symptoms such as fever, fatigue, cough, or sores. you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. take the next step. talk to your doctor. this is humira at work. honestly, the off-season isn't i've got a lot to do. that's why i got my surface. it's great for watching game film and drawing up plays. it's got onenote, so i can stay on top of my to-do list, which has been absolutely absurd since the big game. with skype, it's just really easy to stay in touch with the kids i work with. alright, russell you are good to go! alright, fellas. alright, russ. back to work! humans. even when we cross our "ts" and dot our "i's", we still run into problems. that's why liberty mutual insurance offers accident forgiveness with our auto policies. if you qualify, your rates won't go up due to your first accident. because making mistakes is only human, and so are we. we also offer new car replacement, so if you total your new car, we'll give you the money for a new one. call liberty mutual insurance at... and ask us all about our auto features, like guaranteed repairs, where if you get into an accident and use one of our certified repair shops, the repairs are guaranteed for life. so call... to talk with an insurance expert about everything that comes standard with our base auto policy. and if you switch, you could save up to $423. liberty mutual insurance -- responsibility. what's your policy? we'll take you to nigeria in a minute. but first, house democratic leader nancy pelosi named five fellow democrats to the special benghazi committee. leader pelosi's decision follows days of discussions among her democratic colleagues, some of whom argued for actually boycotting the probe as pure politics. eight committees have held hearings on the xhat ter including the oversight committee led by republican darrell issa whom democrats charge with being heavy handed. here is nancy pelosi. >> regrettably the republican approach does not prevent the unacceptable and repeated abuses committed by chairman issa in any meaningful way. that is all the more reason for democrats to participate in the committee, to be there to fight for a fair hearing and process. >> so that's the why, as far as participating, jake tapper. what about why these five? >> these are five individuals from very powerful respecced committees. elijah cummings is darrell issa's democratic counterpart on the house government and oversight committee. other individuals named there include members of ways an means, intelligence and armed services. it's a group of individuals who are fairly respected within the democratic caucus. this was a very difficult decision as you just suggested, brooke. democrats feared that these hearings would be not fair. they wanted to be able to have access to witnesses. they wanted to be consulted when it came to subpoenas. at the end of the day they didn't get any of that. instead of boycotting as a result of that, they decided they had to be present because they were worried fareed zakar they thought it would be not balanced. >> and then on that same vein, wouldn't that apply if hillary clinton were called to testify if she would be tossing her hat in the ring in 2015 they want to be sure she is treated fair ly. >> and congressman gouty, he wanted to call hillary clinton as well as susan rice to testify before the committee. he wouldn't say if he would subpoena them if they didn't come willingly, but he definitely said he wanted them to appear. and i think you're right. democrats want to make sure there is some balance when it comes to questioning the women when and if they do testify before the committee. but they still feel like they're not being treated fairly, they're not given access to witnesses when it comes to subpoenaing witnesses. but this comes at the end of the day when they decide their presence would be better. all right, thank you, jake tapper, live at the top of the hour. and let's take you back to the situation with the letter, they will be sending 80 service members to chad, which neighbors nigeria. we have gotten permission from chad to use a predator drone as our pentagon correspondent barbara starr was telling me this news had just broken, and as she was telling me this classic impromptu meeting, where the u.s. air force would be helping work this drone. 40 on the ground. and so that is the news. the question is why announce this today? we don't know that yet. but what we can find out is zane asher, joining me. this news has just broken, have you gotten any kind of reaction from nigerians? >> reporter: well, not really, brooke, this news has just broken as you mentioned, 80 members of u.s. armed forces now working towards chad to as is the -- to assist in finding these missing girls. the northeastern border that borders chad, they are not well defined. in fact, boko haram militants have been known to slip in and out of cameroon to buy weapons. so it is crucial with the assisting of this. the president mentioned he had 20,000 troops in the area, in northeastern nigeria. but in order for them to travel to nigeria onigeria, or chad th permission from those countries. but we are not sure if there is any specific intelligence that the u.s. is working on about the location of these girls. does this mean they're not all necessarily in the forest? does this mean some of the girls have been split up into groups? we're not entirely sure yet, we'll bring you more information as we get that information. >> zane asher, of course as we've heard this noise has been louder and louder to get those girls. coming up, the information is that donald sterling tried to encourage v. stiviano to lie about the report. more on the official nba charges next. ugh. heartburn. did someone say burn? 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>> well, what we have is this declaration that was made by the chief investigator, david anders for the nba. and what he said was he talked to stiviano, and kind of amazingly, she said at this four seasons hotel, donald sterling is there with her. and the two of them meet in the conference room. and he allegedly tells her that hey, let's just tell everybody now that is not my voice on the tape and let's doctor the tape and kind of smooth this thing over. in addition he tries to get her to settle the lawsuit which wife shelly has filed against her, and said look, if you settle the suit i'll kind of make you whole on that. so that was stuff we hadn't heard before. >> that was new, also clippers president discussing the recording with sterling was it two weeks before it came out? >> yeah, it was actually april 9th. so a little more than two weeks before it all broke on april 25th. and what happens is they got a text message with part of the recording attached to it. an employee got it with the clippers, handed it to him, he listened to it. he in turn had mr. sterling listen to it. and they decided apparently mr. roser ordered the employee to destroy the copy of the tape, the recording and also destroy it on her main computer. she had it on her phone and they destroy destroyed it there and then destroyed it on the clipper's main computer. >> and a quick reminder on roser, he has been ordered where? >> he has been ordered suspended by the nba so he is on the side line right now and has not said anything publicly. of course everybody would love to talk to him because he has been the sterling since he was in his early 20s, for about 13 years. >> all right, thank you so much, jim, i appreciate it. i am told in the final 60 seconds i have on the show, chad put on a suit. breaking news in the world of aware. a tornado -- >> metro denver, this thing has had a very large history of rotation, as well. it is moving northeast of the city of denver moving towards the airport. now that is still denver, the airport has been annexed by denver, so if you're anywhere near the northeast quarter of denver you need to take cover right now. this is a rotation warning with a -- a tornado warning with a rotation very significant. >> read the article in the times, he says he has more to come as well. that is it for me, i'm brooke baldwin. 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