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spending. in the end, this congressional ethics investigation into reports he used taxpayer money to fund lavish trips, redecoration of his office, et cetera cetera has proven too much for him to withstand. want to bring in our cnn senior washington correspondent and also our senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin, by phone, who recently profiled this congressman. jeff let me go to you first. we'll talk about how he was this rising young star in the republican party. but first, he's just released a statement. he's announced a resignation date. what did the statement say? >> that's right, brooke. this is really coming as a shock to all republicans on capitol hill. even republicans in speaker boehner's office and other leadership offices were not made aware of this. in this statement released a few moments ago, he says he's doing this with a heavy heart. but the constant questions over the last six weeks have proven a great distraction that has made it too difficult for me to serve the people of the 18th district with the high standards they deserve, which i have set for myself. he goes on to say he's resigning for that reason. it's the questions over those standards and how he conducted his finances in his office that led him to do this. there has been a congressional ethics investigation opened into this. what this means, brooke is with his resignation, that means he cannot be investigated by the house ethics committee. they only have jurisdiction over sitting members of congress. so that, i'm told, is why he resigned why he plans to step down at the end of the month, to stop that investigation. >> okay. we'll get into some of the examples and some of the questions that have been looked into in a second. jeff staying with you, from what i understand, this has been a slow drip drip drip from his office. you say it is a surprise on the hill. when did this first begin? >> well brooke it first began with the redecorating of his office shortly after the midterm elections last year. he decided to decorate the office in bright red colors, a "downton abbey" themed office. it first drew the attention of "the washington post" style section. they came to do a profile of his office. then i talked to him that week and i asked him, you know, is he using public money for this? he said no he's not, he plans to pay for it himself. he said haters are going to hate. that's what he told me that day. >> that's really what he said? >> he said this was not a serious thing. then it opened the door into serious questions being asked about his finances and that became a drip drip drip. politico did much of this reporting and recently was raising questions about the mileage reimbursements he was getting on his vehicle. was he double dipping? that story just came yesterday. he is resignation came today. >> all right, drew. jeff says the congressman said it was his personal expenses going into his office. i know you're the kind of guy who asks a lot of tough questions of people in the hot seat. tell me how he reacted to you. >> well when i met him last week last wednesday, it wasn't even a full week yet, he was trying to keep up public appearances. he was in peoria illinois. that's pretty much the center of his district. he looked everything like anyone except a congressman who was on verge of stepping down. and he was trying to keep a stiff upper lip and control the media. i'll let you take a look at how he was handling me on that day. this was less than a week ago. >> a smiling congressman aaron schock is trying to keep his schedule and keep up the appearance nothing is wrong. >> i'm headed into a school assembly but you're welcome to join me. >> can we ask you some questions on the way out? >> you're always free to ask questions. >> but questions for the 33-year-old once rising star in the republican party had been getting tougher to deal with. schock has been under fire for a string of questionable spending. not the least of which is the $40,000 reportedly in taxpayer funds he spent overhauling his congressional office to look like an english manor inspired by the tv show "downton abbey." the decor fits in with the congressman's glamorous persona known for posting pictures on instagram of his worldwide travels. meeting with the pope at the vatican, parasailing in argentina. the single congressman even parted his shirt to pose for this cover of "men's health." odd for the typical u.s. congressman. as he told abc news he's anything but one of those common old men in the capitol. >> as taylor swift said haters are going to hate. >> with all his sudden fame and attraction to the high life the congressional watchdogs and media outlets are all asking one question. where is all the money coming from? and according to the congressman's own sloppy finance records, a lot of it is coming from none other than you. reports reveal aaron schock using taxpayer and campaign money to buy tickets to rock concerts travel on board private donor airplanes. he spent $10,000 splurging his staff on a weekend trip to new york, reportedly even a $29,000 bill for a professional photographer. and that "downton abbey" office makeover included a $15,000 payment to an interior decorator. last week a congressman from conservative rural illinois admitted it doesn't look good. >> i know when i take a trip and post photos online it can create the misimpression of being out of touch on an image not worthy of my constituents. >> today, after talking to a high school class about his humble beginnings congressman schock first dodged cnn's questions about all this. >> can you explain this lavish lifestyle? >> does anyone have questions about today's event? >> then decided to answer the questions without explaining any of it. >> can you explain the lavish lifestyle you've been leading on the backs of taxpayers? >> as i've said before i take the law and my compliance very seriously. and based on the team of professionals i've hired to review my office's processes and procedures including the former head of the federal election commission and that review is ongoing. i'm not going to comment further until that review is complete. and i would just say in the meantime as you saw today, i'm focused on doing what i've done best which is delivering for the people of the 18th district. >> whether it was illegal or not, was it appropriate to be spending $27,000 on a professional photographer or $1900 on a katy perry tickets? congressman, do you think it's appropriate to spend political donations in a slush fund? $24,000 if private plane tickets? do you have any explanation? whether legal or not, is it right? looking back do you think you made a mistake? can you understand why people are concerned? >> i hope you enjoy your time in the 18th district. >> sir, just one. come on. i've been polite to you. >> drew griffin, you must have a lot of pairs of running shoes. you're right. he seemed cool as a cucumber. i guess my final question would be, back to this "downton abbey" office jeff was saying he told him it would ultimately come out of his own pocket. do we know if he ever paid that back? >> yeah we know he wrote a couple checks totaling $40,000, even pitched in $5,000 extra in case future bills came in. he did pay that money back. but it is interesting. i'm just as shocked about this as jeff is. jeff welcome to cnn, by the way. i think what you had was a congressman who was assigning people to look into his finances and see just how bad they were brooke. that's what he told me he was doing last week. i think he may have got some advanced information. when i saw him last week he certainly didn't seem like he was even contemplating resigning. >> drew griffin, thank you so much for the profile, the update. jeff thank you, sir. welcome to cnn. >> thanks, brooke. coming up next more breaking news this hour. first, i have never heard of something like this. we've reported on a number of teenagers, westerners wanting to join isis. how about this one? a u.s. air force veteran now accused of trying to join this terrorist group. hear where he was caught and what this man allegedly wanted to do. plus the millionaire star of hbo's "the jinx" behind bars accused of murder in a cold case. but his lawyer now says his warrant is based on tv ratings, not on facts. we'll talk about when tv and real life crime collide. and just minutes from now, the first exit polls releasing in today's israeli elections. will the prime minister benjamin netanyahu survive that? 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>> first of all, the most disturbing part of this is his civilian experience on civilian airliners. quite frankly, his military service wouldn't have been much benefit to isis. as an air force avionics mechanic he probably didn't have a lot of combat training so he couldn't help them out as a fighter. his experience working on american military aircraft wouldn't have been much good to isis which has captured russian-made aircraft that the syrian air force has used. but the fact that he worked for civilian airliner that is probably the most disturbing thing. okay here's some weak points on american or even european-made civilian aircraft that we can exploit. either take an aircraft down to help hijack possibly. that to me is the most disturbing part of this not his military experience. quite frankly, it wouldn't have been much benefit to isis anyway. >> okay. a couple questions. back to you, pamela. i know you have information as far as what was on his electronic devices. but the question really at the top of my mind is how are these different people being watched? these planes starting in the u.s. going to turkey going to egypt. how are people potentially being monitor the for nefarious reasons? >> we know there's a database where there are a lot of vinl individuals on there at different levels of being prevented to fly and some authorities are keeping their eye on. what i'm understanding is that turkish officials are ramping up their efforts at the airports and questioning people like in this example, asking to look through their electronics to see if there's any indication this person may want to be traveling into syria to join isis. there's more coordination across the board with these different countries because they see this foreign fighter problem as a huge deal not just in the u.s. but in europe and elsewhere. >> all right. pamela brown, dan caldwell thank you both very much. coming up next, is this a smile of a killer? we're getting a new look today at murder suspect robert durst after his arrest in new orleans. you know the story now. lawyers for the star of this hbo mini series "the jinx" say his arrest is all about tv ratings. we'll discus that. also ahead, two major developments in the middle east to tell you about today as polls are about to close in israel's parliamentary election. there's word from iran that nuclear negotiations are 90% resolved. this is big. christiane amanpour joins me straight ahead. the purchase. but the citi double cash card doesn't end there. it lets you earn cash back when you buy and again as you pay. that's cash back twice. it's cash back with a side of cash back. the citi double cash card. the only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. my name is tony sartorio. i'm a lineman for pg&e out of the concord service center. i have lived here pretty much my whole life. i have been married for twelve years. i have 3 kids. i love living here and i love working in my hometown. at pg&e we are always working to upgrade reliability to meet the demands of the customers. i'm there to do the safest job possible - not only for them, but everybody, myself included that lives in the community. i'm very proud to do the work that i do and say that i am a lineman for pg&e because it's my hometown. it's a rewarding feeling. he faces the death penalty, but millionaire murder suspect robert durst was smiling outside his court hearing today in the back of this patrol car. he faces new drugs, new weapons charges in the state of louisiana. you know the story. he was arrested saturday, wanted in california on a capital murder charge. newly filed court documents allege durst was, quote, lying in wait pack in 2000 to kill his close, close friend susan berman, one of three people whose deaths he's now linked to. it is not still clear why after 15 years los angeles prosecutors moved to charge robert durst for berman's shooting death. but his attorney is blaming this hbo series called "the jinx" in which durst appears to confess on camera. he's also confronted in this program with a letter here it is. see the word beverly misspelled? with a letter showing how similar the handwriting is to a letter he wrote. >> bob durst did not kill susan berman. he doesn't know who did. that having been said my concern is that the warrant that was issued in california was issued because of a television show and not because of facts. we're going to get to contest that warrant here in louisiana. we want to contest the basis for his arrest because i think it's not based on facts. it's based on ratings. >> producers of "the jinx" are not the first filmmakers to change the course of an investigation. my next guest is the director of "paradise lost." joe, welcome back. >> good to see you again. how are you? >> i am wonderful. gosh i read about you this morning. i didn't even realize when you all were filming "paradise lost" that according to you this possible suspect came forward with a potential piece of evidence. what was that? >> when we were actually filming the trial, we had been embedded in the community for about nine months. this is 1993. the first trial was about to begin. the stepfather of one of the victims gave us an unusual present under unusual circumstances, which was a knife. when we opened that knife, we noticed that there was blood in the hinge. since the three victims in the west memphis case had been repeatedly stabbed, you know, it put us in a moral quandary, being handed a knife with blood on it a knife with a serrated edge. so we had a moment of conscience. what do we do? if we hand this knife in it could involve us in the case and maybe change the outcome. it could shut the film down. but we, you know huddled with hbo. with hbo's advisers we all very quickly agreed that, you know we had a civic duty to turn the knife over that our civic duty to the truth and to not get in the way of an investigation really was more important than a film. so we ended up handing that knife in actually thinking it was going to shut the film down because of relationships and we just thought the whole thing was going to blow up. somehow we navigated that and the film continued. but it did present us with that kind of filmmaker's dilemma. >> it's incredible to -- i mean to have this moral obligation doing the right thing. with this docuseries, "the jinx," i know these filmmakers thought a lot about when to give police this letter with durst's handwriting. they decided, speaking of moral obligations, to keep it a little longer. take a listen. >> the interview, we bring it up. we have it on film. and now we have something that the lapd is going to really want because now without all the bull [ bleep ], without having to go through 300 different levels of discovery and all that stuff, we have bob reacting clean to this hugely important piece of evidence. >> so joe, there's questions about this letter questions about this open mic moment and this apparent confession. when did they turn that over to law enforcement? they're not actually being specific as far as any kind of timeline. but my bigger overarching question would be to you, what are the responsibilities for filmmakers who listen who do care about viewers, who do care about ratings, but also should care about case they're covering? when you come into potentially incriminating evidence what are your checklists? >> that's a great question. i greatly admire them. i think "the jinx" is a triumph on so many levels. it's a great series. i don't really know the facts of what they knew when. so this is not a criticism directed towards them. i just feel like when you come in possession of something that has a material impact on a case or in this instance, you know if we wanted to believe durst is a killer and could have been apprehended sooner the fact that a killer is being left on the streets longer than he should does expose people to the possibility that this person will kill again. so i think filmmakers have a responsibility to weigh these things and to -- whatever the decision is it shouldn't be what's best for the film. that's just entertainment. it should be what's best for the outcome. that's my rule of thumb. again, i don't know the facts in this case. i think nobody actually has heard exactly what the timeline is so we should give andrew his opportunity to explain. but in general -- >> sounds like a solid rule of thumb. >> in general, the film cannot be the most important thing, in my opinion, when real lives are involved. that's the larger issue here. i think this film has become for me a focal point for the larger issue that's at play here. that is in the last two decades, there's an an ever-increase blurring of the line between reality and fiction, between journalism and entertainment. and we see that in all aspects of this desire for ratings, this desire to make nonfiction fit the fictional conventions of television. sometimes life doesn't fit the narrative arc of fiction. i think there's a larger issue in our society about how we have treated nonfiction and news as entertainment. >> no and the fact you personally dealt with this when you all were in the thick of the trial. i just had no idea. i appreciated you sending me those dvds. "paradise lost," phenomenal documentary. you'll be seeing more of joe's work later this month on cnn.com. his short film "uba" is about a fashion model's unlikely path to fame. it runs later this month online. cnn.com/shortfilms. joe, thank you very much. coming up next are world leaders on the verge of a nuclear deal with iran? tehran saying it has resolved 90% of the technical issue, but there's one sticking point that remains. plus polls in israel closing in minutes with prime minister netanyahu fighting for his political sur viefl. we'll talk to chris chee yan amanpour live next. mouths are watering, and stomachs are growling. or is that just me? it's lobsterfest... ...red lobster's largest variety of lobster dishes all year. double up with dueling lobster tails. or make lobster lover's dream a delicious reality. but hurry this won't last long. when you ache and haven't slept... you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®. ♪ nineteen years ago, we thought "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our angie's list app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪ well, a mortgage shouldn't be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. >>pretty good? 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>> well i mean i think there's two different things. it's like apples and oranges. they may have reached a lot of agreements on technical issues but there are a lot of other issues also to be agreed upon. both sides seem to have issues trying to get to a point where they can sign a deal on full sort of inspections. the united states and the p 5 plus 1 want absolutely intrusive inspections of all of iran's nuclear facilities. iran wants to know when all sanctions will be lifted and demands they are lifted as part of a deal immediately. that's not just u.s. unilateral sanctions but u.n. sanctions is as well. so there are still lots of things. to be honest with you, we all hear these things and ask our sources and get all these different sort of definitions of what success is. this thing is likely to cause us all to leap out of our chairs until we hear from the horse's mouth what actually has been achooefd or not. >> okay. well we know to wait until we know that i guess assurance from that person. until then let me pivot to israel. i can't talk to you without talking to you about these israeli elections. i know polls close within the hour in these parliamentary races that are sure obviously to pit the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and his challenger. we know netanyahu released this youtube video today, essentially accusing his opponent of bringing huge amounts of arabs to the polls to vote against his party. big picture, what's at stake here? >> well first and foremost there's a huge amount of scare mongering going on over the last, you know moments of this election. i just interviewed a leading member of an arab-israeli party who formed a joint coalition to try to defeat netanyahu. and they are, you know, fit to be tied because they say, you know the prime minister has gone out of his way to scare monger about israeli-arabs. that's a problem. as you remember lieberman, who's in coalition in the government anyway he's foreign minister he said that, you know disloyal, quote/unquote, arabs, israeli citizens who happen to be arabs, should be beheaded. he went all isis on them. there's a lot of that politicking going on as this race got very, very down to the wire. now, the fact of the matter is i'm also hearing that they have closed the gap very very significantly, that it is very, very tight or still too close to call. obviously, we haven't got formal exit polls yet. the arab politician i interviewed said there may be at this moment only two seats between them and it could end up being even closer than that. so it's very close. there's nothing much we can say about it at the moment. what's at stake for the world is the peace process. netanyahu even dropped the whole peace process bombshell last night saying, forget it, no two-state solution as long as i'm prime minister. that's the backbone the very basis of any hope for peace that the united states has backed for decades now for a long long time. so where does that lead? for israelis they're concerned also about prosperity not just peace. you know housing, the economy, all of that. >> and so we wait. christiane amanpour, thank you so much for the context for both u.s. israel and israelis. coming up he was a doctor who helped lead the united states to mastermind osama bin laden. now today his lawyer assassinate. and the group claiming responsibility says he's just the first on its hit list. and later, he rushed the cockpit of a plane, screaming jihad. passengers here wasting no time taking him down. the whole thing was caught on tape. we'll share that with you coming up. 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>> well in fact i don't think he was that key, brooke. let me just back up a second. so what happened was the cia got this doctor to mount effectively a vaccination campaign in the city where bin laden lived. they were basically going -- the idea was the doctor would, or his staff, would take dna samples from the bin laden kids as a result of this quote/unquote vaccination campaign. that never happened because the kids never came out. secondarily, the cia wasn't telling the doctor you're helping us to find bin laden. don't forget this was an incredibly tightly held secret. i think he's been portrayed in a lot of places as the doctor who helped find bin laden. that's not really true. he certainly was working for the cia. that's true. he's certainly in a pakistani prison on other charges for many decades. he's certainly a very unpopular figure in pakistan as a result of this perception that he was involved in helping to find bin laden. of course his lawyer by extension, would also have been seen as an unpopular person because of that perception. >> peter, thank you for the clarification, but when i read this name of the militant group, i don't even know if i'm saying it correctly, who is this group? >> they've been around for a long time. they're extremely violent. they have been killing, you know, all sorts of religious minorities in pakistan. they're kind of a splinter group from the taliban. but, you know, they've killed shia. they're a very violent group in pakistan that's probably been around for at least a decade. >> and then to learn about this so-called hit list the lawyer of this doctor at the top apparently. do we know who else is on this list? >> i don't, but i mean these groups have killed anybody that they perceive to be an enemy of islam, which would include muslims who don't precisely their share views. now we have this lawyer. you know the kinds of people they would be attacking would also include potentially pakistani government officials. we've seen a campaign against pakistani government targets by taliban groups of which this is a splinter. that hit list could be quite long. it would also involve potentially christians since these groups have gone after christians. we've seen a lot of attacks on christians in pakistan over the last several years, brooke. >> okay. peter berg en thank you so much as always with we. we also have breaking news out of syria. reports that syria's air defense has shot down a u.s. surveillance aircraft. all of this is according to a report on the syrian arab news agency. you're looking on the map, the western section of syria here in this latakia area. the aircraft reportedly shot down in this province. unmanned drones a major part of the coalition against isis in that region. as we get more we'll bring it to you. coming up next a man rushed the cockpit of a plane screaming jihad. passengers on this plane wasted in time tackled him, the whole thing was caught on tape. we have that for you. and the polls, as we mentioned a moment ago, they are about to close in israel. everyone wants to know if prime minister benjamin netanyahu will stay in power. we have special coverage of that election coming up. when you ache and haven't slept... you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®. 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duh. try credit karma. it's free and you can see what your score is right now . i just got my free credit score! credit karma. really free. >> an alarming scene after this passenger runs towards the cockpit screaming jihad over and over. a cell phone video shows this man. he's got bruises on his face being held down by other passengers. >> i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. >> don't move. we're going to get you off this plane, buddy. we're going to get you off this plane. >> there is nothing, so far in this man's background to suggest he has any connection to terrorists no weapons were found but his mental state, that's still unknown. >> we are declaring an emergency emergency. >> we would like to return to the airport and have the authorities meet him. >> so that plane headed back to dulles international airport where police detained the man. he has not been charged for any crime at least by this point in time. renae marsh is live at dulles. will he be charged with anything? ion for at least 72 hours. >> there are air marshalls but you see these passengers. go on them and stop the guy from getting farther. whose role is it to really subdue someone in this situation. >> you do have the air mall shalls who are on board often times you do hear of passengers who take matters into their own hands. >> we know that all aircraft are equipped with reinforced cockpit doors but never the less tense moments when you have someone screaming and charging. also we do know that the passengers who were on board and grounded last night, they were all booked on new flights. many of them made it to their destination this morning. ldwin live. the polls closing in israel in mere minutes. jake? >> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states of america and throughout the globe. we have some breaking news in our world lead today on the lead. we're just four minutes away from a critical vote in israel as polls are about to close. right now his political future hanging in the balance as israelis spent the day casting ballots to decide who will lead this important state in perhaps the world's most volatile region through decisions that could impact the world beyond the middle east for years. there are implications far beyond the borders of a country that is the size of new jersey here in the united states. the contest has truly jumped continents and threatens to fracture israelis relationship with the yts. netanyahu warned congress and american people just how wrong he thinks that president obama is about the leaders of iran and their world view makes negotiating with them all but impossible and that any deal with them about their num lar program would be a farce in his view. >> in this deadly game of thrones, there is no place for america or for israel. no peace for christians jus, or muslims who don't share the medieval creed, no rights for women, no freedom for nin. >> to the surprise of absolutely no one, that speech provided some good b roll for this campaign ad. president obama said he did not bother watching netanyahu's speech but he did read it and then dismissed it. >> as far as i could tell there was nothing new. >> this has dire security implications for the entire world. the deal with iran materializing are no more than 50/50 but israel needs to be somewhat on board at least willing to take military action off the table. let's go live to channel 2, israeli television where there are results coming in. you can see this as netanyahu has 28 seats. >> the exit polls. >> the initial exit polls, netanyahu has 28 seats in the parliament 27 going to hertzog and his party. elise is in tel aviv. we also have john king positioned for when the numbers come in. wolf blitzer also sitting with me. those exit polls got be received rather well there, elise? >> reporter: jake it is a stunning turn around for benjamin netanyahu. really trying to energize that right wring vote it seems to have worked. he seems to have energized that right wing base and now he is neck and neck even inching a little bit ahead of it and this is a stunning turn around. we will have to see who is able to form the coalition with the other parties but it does look like netanyahu has fought his way back and has a very good chance of forming this government so it's a good lead for him. >> it was suggested t

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spending. in the end, this congressional ethics investigation into reports he used taxpayer money to fund lavish trips, redecoration of his office, et cetera cetera has proven too much for him to withstand. want to bring in our cnn senior washington correspondent and also our senior investigative correspondent, drew griffin, by phone, who recently profiled this congressman. jeff let me go to you first. we'll talk about how he was this rising young star in the republican party. but first, he's just released a statement. he's announced a resignation date. what did the statement say? >> that's right, brooke. this is really coming as a shock to all republicans on capitol hill. even republicans in speaker boehner's office and other leadership offices were not made aware of this. in this statement released a few moments ago, he says he's doing this with a heavy heart. but the constant questions over the last six weeks have proven a great distraction that has made it too difficult for me to serve the people of the 18th district with the high standards they deserve, which i have set for myself. he goes on to say he's resigning for that reason. it's the questions over those standards and how he conducted his finances in his office that led him to do this. there has been a congressional ethics investigation opened into this. what this means, brooke is with his resignation, that means he cannot be investigated by the house ethics committee. they only have jurisdiction over sitting members of congress. so that, i'm told, is why he resigned why he plans to step down at the end of the month, to stop that investigation. >> okay. we'll get into some of the examples and some of the questions that have been looked into in a second. jeff staying with you, from what i understand, this has been a slow drip drip drip from his office. you say it is a surprise on the hill. when did this first begin? >> well brooke it first began with the redecorating of his office shortly after the midterm elections last year. he decided to decorate the office in bright red colors, a "downton abbey" themed office. it first drew the attention of "the washington post" style section. they came to do a profile of his office. then i talked to him that week and i asked him, you know, is he using public money for this? he said no he's not, he plans to pay for it himself. he said haters are going to hate. that's what he told me that day. >> that's really what he said? >> he said this was not a serious thing. then it opened the door into serious questions being asked about his finances and that became a drip drip drip. politico did much of this reporting and recently was raising questions about the mileage reimbursements he was getting on his vehicle. was he double dipping? that story just came yesterday. he is resignation came today. >> all right, drew. jeff says the congressman said it was his personal expenses going into his office. i know you're the kind of guy who asks a lot of tough questions of people in the hot seat. tell me how he reacted to you. >> well when i met him last week last wednesday, it wasn't even a full week yet, he was trying to keep up public appearances. he was in peoria illinois. that's pretty much the center of his district. he looked everything like anyone except a congressman who was on verge of stepping down. and he was trying to keep a stiff upper lip and control the media. i'll let you take a look at how he was handling me on that day. this was less than a week ago. >> a smiling congressman aaron schock is trying to keep his schedule and keep up the appearance nothing is wrong. >> i'm headed into a school assembly but you're welcome to join me. >> can we ask you some questions on the way out? >> you're always free to ask questions. >> but questions for the 33-year-old once rising star in the republican party had been getting tougher to deal with. schock has been under fire for a string of questionable spending. not the least of which is the $40,000 reportedly in taxpayer funds he spent overhauling his congressional office to look like an english manor inspired by the tv show "downton abbey." the decor fits in with the congressman's glamorous persona known for posting pictures on instagram of his worldwide travels. meeting with the pope at the vatican, parasailing in argentina. the single congressman even parted his shirt to pose for this cover of "men's health." odd for the typical u.s. congressman. as he told abc news he's anything but one of those common old men in the capitol. >> as taylor swift said haters are going to hate. >> with all his sudden fame and attraction to the high life the congressional watchdogs and media outlets are all asking one question. where is all the money coming from? and according to the congressman's own sloppy finance records, a lot of it is coming from none other than you. reports reveal aaron schock using taxpayer and campaign money to buy tickets to rock concerts travel on board private donor airplanes. he spent $10,000 splurging his staff on a weekend trip to new york, reportedly even a $29,000 bill for a professional photographer. and that "downton abbey" office makeover included a $15,000 payment to an interior decorator. last week a congressman from conservative rural illinois admitted it doesn't look good. >> i know when i take a trip and post photos online it can create the misimpression of being out of touch on an image not worthy of my constituents. >> today, after talking to a high school class about his humble beginnings congressman schock first dodged cnn's questions about all this. >> can you explain this lavish lifestyle? >> does anyone have questions about today's event? >> then decided to answer the questions without explaining any of it. >> can you explain the lavish lifestyle you've been leading on the backs of taxpayers? >> as i've said before i take the law and my compliance very seriously. and based on the team of professionals i've hired to review my office's processes and procedures including the former head of the federal election commission and that review is ongoing. i'm not going to comment further until that review is complete. and i would just say in the meantime as you saw today, i'm focused on doing what i've done best which is delivering for the people of the 18th district. >> whether it was illegal or not, was it appropriate to be spending $27,000 on a professional photographer or $1900 on a katy perry tickets? congressman, do you think it's appropriate to spend political donations in a slush fund? $24,000 if private plane tickets? do you have any explanation? whether legal or not, is it right? looking back do you think you made a mistake? can you understand why people are concerned? >> i hope you enjoy your time in the 18th district. >> sir, just one. come on. i've been polite to you. >> drew griffin, you must have a lot of pairs of running shoes. you're right. he seemed cool as a cucumber. i guess my final question would be, back to this "downton abbey" office jeff was saying he told him it would ultimately come out of his own pocket. do we know if he ever paid that back? >> yeah we know he wrote a couple checks totaling $40,000, even pitched in $5,000 extra in case future bills came in. he did pay that money back. but it is interesting. i'm just as shocked about this as jeff is. jeff welcome to cnn, by the way. i think what you had was a congressman who was assigning people to look into his finances and see just how bad they were brooke. that's what he told me he was doing last week. i think he may have got some advanced information. when i saw him last week he certainly didn't seem like he was even contemplating resigning. >> drew griffin, thank you so much for the profile, the update. jeff thank you, sir. welcome to cnn. >> thanks, brooke. coming up next more breaking news this hour. first, i have never heard of something like this. we've reported on a number of teenagers, westerners wanting to join isis. how about this one? a u.s. air force veteran now accused of trying to join this terrorist group. hear where he was caught and what this man allegedly wanted to do. plus the millionaire star of hbo's "the jinx" behind bars accused of murder in a cold case. but his lawyer now says his warrant is based on tv ratings, not on facts. we'll talk about when tv and real life crime collide. and just minutes from now, the first exit polls releasing in today's israeli elections. will the prime minister benjamin netanyahu survive that? 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>> first of all, the most disturbing part of this is his civilian experience on civilian airliners. quite frankly, his military service wouldn't have been much benefit to isis. as an air force avionics mechanic he probably didn't have a lot of combat training so he couldn't help them out as a fighter. his experience working on american military aircraft wouldn't have been much good to isis which has captured russian-made aircraft that the syrian air force has used. but the fact that he worked for civilian airliner that is probably the most disturbing thing. okay here's some weak points on american or even european-made civilian aircraft that we can exploit. either take an aircraft down to help hijack possibly. that to me is the most disturbing part of this not his military experience. quite frankly, it wouldn't have been much benefit to isis anyway. >> okay. a couple questions. back to you, pamela. i know you have information as far as what was on his electronic devices. but the question really at the top of my mind is how are these different people being watched? these planes starting in the u.s. going to turkey going to egypt. how are people potentially being monitor the for nefarious reasons? >> we know there's a database where there are a lot of vinl individuals on there at different levels of being prevented to fly and some authorities are keeping their eye on. what i'm understanding is that turkish officials are ramping up their efforts at the airports and questioning people like in this example, asking to look through their electronics to see if there's any indication this person may want to be traveling into syria to join isis. there's more coordination across the board with these different countries because they see this foreign fighter problem as a huge deal not just in the u.s. but in europe and elsewhere. >> all right. pamela brown, dan caldwell thank you both very much. coming up next, is this a smile of a killer? we're getting a new look today at murder suspect robert durst after his arrest in new orleans. you know the story now. lawyers for the star of this hbo mini series "the jinx" say his arrest is all about tv ratings. we'll discus that. also ahead, two major developments in the middle east to tell you about today as polls are about to close in israel's parliamentary election. there's word from iran that nuclear negotiations are 90% resolved. this is big. christiane amanpour joins me straight ahead. the purchase. but the citi double cash card doesn't end there. it lets you earn cash back when you buy and again as you pay. that's cash back twice. it's cash back with a side of cash back. the citi double cash card. the only card that lets you earn cash back twice on every purchase. with 1% when you buy and 1% as you pay. with two ways to earn, it makes a lot of other cards seem one-sided. my name is tony sartorio. i'm a lineman for pg&e out of the concord service center. i have lived here pretty much my whole life. i have been married for twelve years. i have 3 kids. i love living here and i love working in my hometown. at pg&e we are always working to upgrade reliability to meet the demands of the customers. i'm there to do the safest job possible - not only for them, but everybody, myself included that lives in the community. i'm very proud to do the work that i do and say that i am a lineman for pg&e because it's my hometown. it's a rewarding feeling. he faces the death penalty, but millionaire murder suspect robert durst was smiling outside his court hearing today in the back of this patrol car. he faces new drugs, new weapons charges in the state of louisiana. you know the story. he was arrested saturday, wanted in california on a capital murder charge. newly filed court documents allege durst was, quote, lying in wait pack in 2000 to kill his close, close friend susan berman, one of three people whose deaths he's now linked to. it is not still clear why after 15 years los angeles prosecutors moved to charge robert durst for berman's shooting death. but his attorney is blaming this hbo series called "the jinx" in which durst appears to confess on camera. he's also confronted in this program with a letter here it is. see the word beverly misspelled? with a letter showing how similar the handwriting is to a letter he wrote. >> bob durst did not kill susan berman. he doesn't know who did. that having been said my concern is that the warrant that was issued in california was issued because of a television show and not because of facts. we're going to get to contest that warrant here in louisiana. we want to contest the basis for his arrest because i think it's not based on facts. it's based on ratings. >> producers of "the jinx" are not the first filmmakers to change the course of an investigation. my next guest is the director of "paradise lost." joe, welcome back. >> good to see you again. how are you? >> i am wonderful. gosh i read about you this morning. i didn't even realize when you all were filming "paradise lost" that according to you this possible suspect came forward with a potential piece of evidence. what was that? >> when we were actually filming the trial, we had been embedded in the community for about nine months. this is 1993. the first trial was about to begin. the stepfather of one of the victims gave us an unusual present under unusual circumstances, which was a knife. when we opened that knife, we noticed that there was blood in the hinge. since the three victims in the west memphis case had been repeatedly stabbed, you know, it put us in a moral quandary, being handed a knife with blood on it a knife with a serrated edge. so we had a moment of conscience. what do we do? if we hand this knife in it could involve us in the case and maybe change the outcome. it could shut the film down. but we, you know huddled with hbo. with hbo's advisers we all very quickly agreed that, you know we had a civic duty to turn the knife over that our civic duty to the truth and to not get in the way of an investigation really was more important than a film. so we ended up handing that knife in actually thinking it was going to shut the film down because of relationships and we just thought the whole thing was going to blow up. somehow we navigated that and the film continued. but it did present us with that kind of filmmaker's dilemma. >> it's incredible to -- i mean to have this moral obligation doing the right thing. with this docuseries, "the jinx," i know these filmmakers thought a lot about when to give police this letter with durst's handwriting. they decided, speaking of moral obligations, to keep it a little longer. take a listen. >> the interview, we bring it up. we have it on film. and now we have something that the lapd is going to really want because now without all the bull [ bleep ], without having to go through 300 different levels of discovery and all that stuff, we have bob reacting clean to this hugely important piece of evidence. >> so joe, there's questions about this letter questions about this open mic moment and this apparent confession. when did they turn that over to law enforcement? they're not actually being specific as far as any kind of timeline. but my bigger overarching question would be to you, what are the responsibilities for filmmakers who listen who do care about viewers, who do care about ratings, but also should care about case they're covering? when you come into potentially incriminating evidence what are your checklists? >> that's a great question. i greatly admire them. i think "the jinx" is a triumph on so many levels. it's a great series. i don't really know the facts of what they knew when. so this is not a criticism directed towards them. i just feel like when you come in possession of something that has a material impact on a case or in this instance, you know if we wanted to believe durst is a killer and could have been apprehended sooner the fact that a killer is being left on the streets longer than he should does expose people to the possibility that this person will kill again. so i think filmmakers have a responsibility to weigh these things and to -- whatever the decision is it shouldn't be what's best for the film. that's just entertainment. it should be what's best for the outcome. that's my rule of thumb. again, i don't know the facts in this case. i think nobody actually has heard exactly what the timeline is so we should give andrew his opportunity to explain. but in general -- >> sounds like a solid rule of thumb. >> in general, the film cannot be the most important thing, in my opinion, when real lives are involved. that's the larger issue here. i think this film has become for me a focal point for the larger issue that's at play here. that is in the last two decades, there's an an ever-increase blurring of the line between reality and fiction, between journalism and entertainment. and we see that in all aspects of this desire for ratings, this desire to make nonfiction fit the fictional conventions of television. sometimes life doesn't fit the narrative arc of fiction. i think there's a larger issue in our society about how we have treated nonfiction and news as entertainment. >> no and the fact you personally dealt with this when you all were in the thick of the trial. i just had no idea. i appreciated you sending me those dvds. "paradise lost," phenomenal documentary. you'll be seeing more of joe's work later this month on cnn.com. his short film "uba" is about a fashion model's unlikely path to fame. it runs later this month online. cnn.com/shortfilms. joe, thank you very much. coming up next are world leaders on the verge of a nuclear deal with iran? tehran saying it has resolved 90% of the technical issue, but there's one sticking point that remains. plus polls in israel closing in minutes with prime minister netanyahu fighting for his political sur viefl. we'll talk to chris chee yan amanpour live next. mouths are watering, and stomachs are growling. or is that just me? it's lobsterfest... ...red lobster's largest variety of lobster dishes all year. double up with dueling lobster tails. or make lobster lover's dream a delicious reality. but hurry this won't last long. when you ache and haven't slept... you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®. ♪ nineteen years ago, we thought "wow, how is there no way to tell the good from the bad?" so we gave people the power of the review. and now angie's list is revolutionizing local service again. you can easily buy and schedule services from top-rated providers. conveniently stay up to date on progress. and effortlessly turn your photos into finished projects with our angie's list app. visit angieslist.com today. ♪ well, a mortgage shouldn't be a problem your credit is in pretty good shape. >>pretty good? i know i have a 798 fico score thanks to the tools and help on experian.com. kaboom... well, i just have a few other questions. >>chuck, the only other question you need to ask is, "what else can you do for me?" i'll just take a water... get your credit swagger on. become a member of experian credit tracker and find out your fico score powered by experian. fico scores are used in 90% of credit decisions. a possible breakthrough in negotiations aimed at limiting iran's efforts to obtain a nuclear weapon but context here a big note of caution, this talk is coming from iran. secretary of state john kerry has been at the negotiating table. we know today the head of iran's atomic energy organization told iranian tv that the two sides have quote/unquote agreed on 90% of technical issues but not long ago, the white house put the odds of a deal at 50/50 at best. so let me bring in our chief international correspondent christiane amanpour. when i hear 50/50 versus 90, what are the sticking points here? >> well i mean i think there's two different things. it's like apples and oranges. they may have reached a lot of agreements on technical issues but there are a lot of other issues also to be agreed upon. both sides seem to have issues trying to get to a point where they can sign a deal on full sort of inspections. the united states and the p 5 plus 1 want absolutely intrusive inspections of all of iran's nuclear facilities. iran wants to know when all sanctions will be lifted and demands they are lifted as part of a deal immediately. that's not just u.s. unilateral sanctions but u.n. sanctions is as well. so there are still lots of things. to be honest with you, we all hear these things and ask our sources and get all these different sort of definitions of what success is. this thing is likely to cause us all to leap out of our chairs until we hear from the horse's mouth what actually has been achooefd or not. >> okay. well we know to wait until we know that i guess assurance from that person. until then let me pivot to israel. i can't talk to you without talking to you about these israeli elections. i know polls close within the hour in these parliamentary races that are sure obviously to pit the current prime minister benjamin netanyahu, and his challenger. we know netanyahu released this youtube video today, essentially accusing his opponent of bringing huge amounts of arabs to the polls to vote against his party. big picture, what's at stake here? >> well first and foremost there's a huge amount of scare mongering going on over the last, you know moments of this election. i just interviewed a leading member of an arab-israeli party who formed a joint coalition to try to defeat netanyahu. and they are, you know, fit to be tied because they say, you know the prime minister has gone out of his way to scare monger about israeli-arabs. that's a problem. as you remember lieberman, who's in coalition in the government anyway he's foreign minister he said that, you know disloyal, quote/unquote, arabs, israeli citizens who happen to be arabs, should be beheaded. he went all isis on them. there's a lot of that politicking going on as this race got very, very down to the wire. now, the fact of the matter is i'm also hearing that they have closed the gap very very significantly, that it is very, very tight or still too close to call. obviously, we haven't got formal exit polls yet. the arab politician i interviewed said there may be at this moment only two seats between them and it could end up being even closer than that. so it's very close. there's nothing much we can say about it at the moment. what's at stake for the world is the peace process. netanyahu even dropped the whole peace process bombshell last night saying, forget it, no two-state solution as long as i'm prime minister. that's the backbone the very basis of any hope for peace that the united states has backed for decades now for a long long time. so where does that lead? for israelis they're concerned also about prosperity not just peace. you know housing, the economy, all of that. >> and so we wait. christiane amanpour, thank you so much for the context for both u.s. israel and israelis. coming up he was a doctor who helped lead the united states to mastermind osama bin laden. now today his lawyer assassinate. and the group claiming responsibility says he's just the first on its hit list. and later, he rushed the cockpit of a plane, screaming jihad. passengers here wasting no time taking him down. the whole thing was caught on tape. we'll share that with you coming up. 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>> well in fact i don't think he was that key, brooke. let me just back up a second. so what happened was the cia got this doctor to mount effectively a vaccination campaign in the city where bin laden lived. they were basically going -- the idea was the doctor would, or his staff, would take dna samples from the bin laden kids as a result of this quote/unquote vaccination campaign. that never happened because the kids never came out. secondarily, the cia wasn't telling the doctor you're helping us to find bin laden. don't forget this was an incredibly tightly held secret. i think he's been portrayed in a lot of places as the doctor who helped find bin laden. that's not really true. he certainly was working for the cia. that's true. he's certainly in a pakistani prison on other charges for many decades. he's certainly a very unpopular figure in pakistan as a result of this perception that he was involved in helping to find bin laden. of course his lawyer by extension, would also have been seen as an unpopular person because of that perception. >> peter, thank you for the clarification, but when i read this name of the militant group, i don't even know if i'm saying it correctly, who is this group? >> they've been around for a long time. they're extremely violent. they have been killing, you know, all sorts of religious minorities in pakistan. they're kind of a splinter group from the taliban. but, you know, they've killed shia. they're a very violent group in pakistan that's probably been around for at least a decade. >> and then to learn about this so-called hit list the lawyer of this doctor at the top apparently. do we know who else is on this list? >> i don't, but i mean these groups have killed anybody that they perceive to be an enemy of islam, which would include muslims who don't precisely their share views. now we have this lawyer. you know the kinds of people they would be attacking would also include potentially pakistani government officials. we've seen a campaign against pakistani government targets by taliban groups of which this is a splinter. that hit list could be quite long. it would also involve potentially christians since these groups have gone after christians. we've seen a lot of attacks on christians in pakistan over the last several years, brooke. >> okay. peter berg en thank you so much as always with we. we also have breaking news out of syria. reports that syria's air defense has shot down a u.s. surveillance aircraft. all of this is according to a report on the syrian arab news agency. you're looking on the map, the western section of syria here in this latakia area. the aircraft reportedly shot down in this province. unmanned drones a major part of the coalition against isis in that region. as we get more we'll bring it to you. coming up next a man rushed the cockpit of a plane screaming jihad. passengers on this plane wasted in time tackled him, the whole thing was caught on tape. we have that for you. and the polls, as we mentioned a moment ago, they are about to close in israel. everyone wants to know if prime minister benjamin netanyahu will stay in power. we have special coverage of that election coming up. when you ache and haven't slept... you're not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. you're a better you all day. tylenol®. 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duh. try credit karma. it's free and you can see what your score is right now . i just got my free credit score! credit karma. really free. >> an alarming scene after this passenger runs towards the cockpit screaming jihad over and over. a cell phone video shows this man. he's got bruises on his face being held down by other passengers. >> i'm sorry. i'm so sorry. >> don't move. we're going to get you off this plane, buddy. we're going to get you off this plane. >> there is nothing, so far in this man's background to suggest he has any connection to terrorists no weapons were found but his mental state, that's still unknown. >> we are declaring an emergency emergency. >> we would like to return to the airport and have the authorities meet him. >> so that plane headed back to dulles international airport where police detained the man. he has not been charged for any crime at least by this point in time. renae marsh is live at dulles. will he be charged with anything? ion for at least 72 hours. >> there are air marshalls but you see these passengers. go on them and stop the guy from getting farther. whose role is it to really subdue someone in this situation. >> you do have the air mall shalls who are on board often times you do hear of passengers who take matters into their own hands. >> we know that all aircraft are equipped with reinforced cockpit doors but never the less tense moments when you have someone screaming and charging. also we do know that the passengers who were on board and grounded last night, they were all booked on new flights. many of them made it to their destination this morning. ldwin live. the polls closing in israel in mere minutes. jake? >> this is cnn breaking news. >> welcome to our viewers in the united states of america and throughout the globe. we have some breaking news in our world lead today on the lead. we're just four minutes away from a critical vote in israel as polls are about to close. right now his political future hanging in the balance as israelis spent the day casting ballots to decide who will lead this important state in perhaps the world's most volatile region through decisions that could impact the world beyond the middle east for years. there are implications far beyond the borders of a country that is the size of new jersey here in the united states. the contest has truly jumped continents and threatens to fracture israelis relationship with the yts. netanyahu warned congress and american people just how wrong he thinks that president obama is about the leaders of iran and their world view makes negotiating with them all but impossible and that any deal with them about their num lar program would be a farce in his view. >> in this deadly game of thrones, there is no place for america or for israel. no peace for christians jus, or muslims who don't share the medieval creed, no rights for women, no freedom for nin. >> to the surprise of absolutely no one, that speech provided some good b roll for this campaign ad. president obama said he did not bother watching netanyahu's speech but he did read it and then dismissed it. >> as far as i could tell there was nothing new. >> this has dire security implications for the entire world. the deal with iran materializing are no more than 50/50 but israel needs to be somewhat on board at least willing to take military action off the table. let's go live to channel 2, israeli television where there are results coming in. you can see this as netanyahu has 28 seats. >> the exit polls. >> the initial exit polls, netanyahu has 28 seats in the parliament 27 going to hertzog and his party. elise is in tel aviv. we also have john king positioned for when the numbers come in. wolf blitzer also sitting with me. those exit polls got be received rather well there, elise? >> reporter: jake it is a stunning turn around for benjamin netanyahu. really trying to energize that right wring vote it seems to have worked. he seems to have energized that right wing base and now he is neck and neck even inching a little bit ahead of it and this is a stunning turn around. we will have to see who is able to form the coalition with the other parties but it does look like netanyahu has fought his way back and has a very good chance of forming this government so it's a good lead for him. >> it was suggested t

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