overseas who are deemed al qaeda leaders and imminent threat to the u.s. when they are not necessarily part of an ongoing plot, one analyst said led to soul-searching among the military. they think about the constitution much more seriously than a lot of other people because they take an oath to uphold it. there is lot of debate inside the military, wait a second, should we even be going after americans like this, no matter how bad they are? reporter: comes down to the basic concept of due process and whether the commander-in-chief, in this case, president obama, can really function and be consistent under the constitution when he is judge, jury and executioner for an american overseas. bill: i know you will stay on it. thank you. catherine herridge. martha: we have brand new developments now in the case of the jailed american pastor, saeed abedini speaking out about the physical and mental torture is he undergoing in a brutal iranian prison in a letter that has just been released.
this whole dynamic is the historical ironies are abounding here. we had bob booed ward washington post legendary now caught in the mix of this back and forth with a very liberal white house. doug? you know,. bill: you think it s disturbing. it is disturbing. i no gene sperling. i d i d like to think of gene as a friend of mine. gene has a tone that he knows best, he knows what is right. unless and only if you only listen to him will you get it right. it bespeaks a tone in the white house which i think is unfortunate. an unwillingness to bargain and consider alternatives and a sense that we re right and if you disagree with us, woe unto you p. bill: the story caught fire on its own because wood waord kep woodward kept talking e. was on
it. bill: he would argue with being called elderly by the way. martha: doesn t look elderly to me. bill: the thieves managed to get away with a couple of watches. that was it. martha: good for him. oscar pistorius murder case throwing south africa s gun violence and high crime into the spotlight. greg palkot is streaming live from johannesburg, south africa. what is the crime threat there and what is the response? reporter: martha, we have picked one neighborhood here in johannesburg, to give you an idea what kind of defenses are being put up against criminals. i will ask my cameraman to zoom behind me. you see what is happening at just one house. there is a steel gate across the driveway. electfied fence over that. panic buttons inside the house and armed response ready. as we traveled around the city, we saw high walls everywhere, topped by barbed-wire. closed-circuit cameras. crime is bad. poor lives close to the rich. the murder rate is six times
persecution of christians around the world and global war against christianity written about so extensively. nagmeh the, stay strong you and your children and jordan. thanks for your help. bill: she has been terrific in all this. we re about an hour away from the pope s retirement. live to the vatican for that. how much would you pay for a meeting with the president? accusations of a new political group selling access to the white house. is that the case? we report, you decide, next. [ female announcer ] from tracking the bus. to tracking field conditions. wireless is limitless.
than the very public way he s been serving the church up until now. bill: you also talk about the emotional reality that will settle in. and it s hard for any one of us to really know how he has prepared himself for this moment, but once he s once he s 15 minutes south of rome, i mean that is going to hit him. i m just curious, what have you heard from among those who watch the vatican and pay attention to this man s life or how he has prepared himself for what is next? you know, it is a total change of lifestyle to say the least. imagine going from looking out and seeing 150,000 people yesterday on a wednesday morning, coming to say goodbye to you, then going off and living in solitude. but, you know, those of us who know him and i got to know him bev even became pope p i used to bring college students to see him, we know that he is much more at ease in solitude knowing he s doing god s will than being