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Battle Over Health Care & Law; "Kony 2012 Part II" Hits the Web; Sandusky Fighting Charges; North Korean Rocket Activity; How To Get Free Wi-fi; Teen Serves on Board of Ed

Aired April 05, 2012 - 12:00   ET

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Live from CNN headquarters in Atlanta, where it's 12:00 noon, 9:00 a.m. on the West Coast -- I'm Suzanne Malveaux.

I want to get you up to speed for this Thursday, April 5th.

Deadline is just an hour away at the very partisan battle over your health care. A Republican appointed judge has given the Justice Department until noon Central Time to submit a three-page letter explaining whether the Obama administration truly understands that federal courts have the right to overturn federal laws. A Texas judge apparently took exception to President Obama's statement on Monday that if the Supreme Court overturned his signature health care law, it would be unprecedented.

We'll have a live report in just a few minutes.

It's called the Jobs Act. In just a few hours, President Obama -- he's going to sign it into law. It's a move aimed at boosting new businesses and the economy as a whole. The bill, which passed by Congress with bipartisan support, targets companies with sales under $1 billion, relaxes the rules for small companies that go public, also makes it easier for startups to raise money.

Mitt Romney flexing his new political muscle today on Rick Santorum's home turf. Two candidates neck and neck now in the polls for the Pennsylvania primary. But Romney already looking to the general election and the fight with President Obama.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Look, I need your help, you guys. As you know, I want to win Pennsylvania in November. I'm going to win Pennsylvania in November.

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MALVEAUX: Jerry Sandusky wants child sex abuse charges against him dropped. The former Penn State assistant football coach briefly appeared in court today.

He's arguing that the charges against him are either too vague to prosecute or that the statute of limitations has run out. Superior court judge says he's going to make no decision while the grand jury investigation is still going on. Sandusky is accused of raping young boys.

We're live from Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, in just a minute.

And the final autopsy report is now out on the death of Whitney Houston. It shows that the Grammy Award winning singer drowned facedown in a tub of hot water. According to the report, the water was about a foot deep.

Investigators found a small spoon with a white crystal-like substance in the hotel bathroom. The chief coroner says Houston apparently used cocaine a short time before she collapsed in the tub.

Notorious killer/cult leader Charles Manson is up for parole again in a few days. This is the most recent prison photo. You see it there. Manson now 77 years old -- long, gray hair, a beard. You can still see the swastika tattoo on his forehead.

Manson is serving a life sentence for persuading his followers to murder actress Sharon Tate and six others in 1969. His parole hearing is scheduled for next Wednesday. He's been denied parole 11 times.

Now, back to the very public battle between President Obama and the courts over your health care. Now, the Justice Department has been scrambling to meet a federal appeal court deadline. They have to explain, the Justice Department, if the administration understands that federal courts have the right to overturn federal laws.

President Obama raised some eyebrows when he said it would be unprecedented for the Supreme Court to overturn his health care law.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be an unprecedented, extraordinary step of overturning a law that was passed by a strong majority of a democratically elected Congress, and I just remind conservative commentators that for years, what we've heard is the biggest problem on the bench was judicial activism.

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MALVEAUX: Kate Bolduan is live with us from Washington, and CNN legal contributor Paul Callan joins us from New York.

So, Kate, I want to start off with you, because this is something that can get a little bit confusing for folks, but the bottom line here is: what is the issue? What's at issue here?

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, what we're at, at this point, is kind of the latest chapter in this escalating political battle. We're waiting to see in the next hour, any minute now, the Obama administration responding to a federal circuit court's request, a bit of a strange request by any mark -- a three-page essay or letter of sorts affirming that the Department of Justice believes in the long-standing power of judicial review. Essentially, that the federal courts have the power to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional if they find that, which really is not at dispute in the bigger picture of the fight over the health care law.

Though Federal Judge Jerry Smith, Tuesday, he set this deadline specifically citing President Obama's remarks from earlier in the week which you just ran which set off a firestorm of criticism from Republicans that Mr. Obama was in some way challenging the court's authority or trying to intimidate the Supreme Court. Judge Smith said the comments -- he said this in court, that the comments, quote/unquote, "troubled a number of people."

But the White House has pushed back, saying that the president's comments were misunderstood and I'll tell you within legal circles, this federal judge is facing some criticism himself for seeming to insert himself into this political fight.

But while we're waiting for this letter to come, it's important to note that this whole back and forth is getting a lot of attention, but it is not likely to have any impact on the Supreme Court justices and their final decision, which we expect to come in June. They're already behind closed doors already working to write their opinions. But still, a very unusual situation and a very much escalating political battle, as you know.

MALVEAUX: Yes. So, a lot of people there looking at this potentially as a power play essentially between the courts and the executive branch here, the White House. Kate, do we know if the attorney general, Eric Holder, is he going to respond to this judge? Do we know if they're going to hand in this three-page letter?

BOLDUAN: There's no word yet. I mean, I think as far as I can say at this point, there's no word yet that it has been filed. I mean, kind of logistically how it would happen is that we're told that the Department of Justice would file with the federal clerk at some point. There's no time period that they would need to post it online, but they would post it online, and then it would be there for everyone to view.

But we're not expecting fireworks. I can always be surprised. We're expecting kind of a dry, straight forward legal argument here. But we'll be reading it very closely, nonetheless.

MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you, Kate.

Paul, I want to bring you in. I don't want you to make a dry, legal argument here. I want you to make it very exciting for us.

Essentially, what is -- is it unprecedented here for this judge, for this court, to make this demand of the Justice Department? Is this really escalating here?

PAUL CALLAN, CNN LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR: I think it's totally unprecedented, and I think it's bizarre, frankly, on both sides.

First of all, a federal judge doesn't have the right to go around asking the administration about general doctrines of constitutional law. They can say to the Justice Department if they're addressing a specific issue in a piece of court business, what's your opinion on this? But they can't just say, well, what do you think about the Constitution?

And then for the attorney general to publicly say that he's going to respond to this is equally crazy.

I think, frankly, that both branches of government had better ratchet it back a bit because, frankly, we've had a country that's worked very, very well by both sides being respectful to the other. And the courts, by the way, generally stay out of political disputes as much as possible, but the president, on the other hand, respects their ability to rule.

MALVEAUX: Right.

CALLAN: And we're not seeing that in this dispute.

MALVEAUX: And, Paul, one other question here. Is the president -- is he accurate -- historically accurate when he claims it would be unprecedented, a step for the Supreme Court in overturning the health care law?

CALLAN: No, he's historically inaccurate, which is very surprising since he's a constitutional law professor himself. He did, by the way when he was trying to clear up this comment a couple days later, say that, in fact, he was wrong. There was an era called the Lochner Era in the 1930s were the Supreme Court overturned all kinds of economic regulations. There was a battle going on in the New Deal.

So, there's a lot of precedent for the court overturning even popular legislation. The court has the final say in these matters. It goes all the way back to the time of John Marshall and that famous case of Marbury versus Madison.

MALVEAUX: All right. Paul, thank you for breaking it down, explaining it.

Paul and Kate, appreciate it very much.

Here is a rundown of some of the stories we're covering.

First, "Kony 2012," the sequel. The first video about an African warlord was watched more than 100 million times, creating interest in tracking Kony down. Also sparking some anger as well. Today the sequel hits the Internet, promises to answer it's critics.

And former Penn State coach and accused child molester Jerry Sandusky, he was in court today. His lawyer wants the charges dropped. We're going to go live to the courthouse.

And then a young woman who was just 4 years old when she saw her family murdered. Victims of genocide -- she finds meaning and hope reaching out to a new generation on the radio.

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MALVEAUX: All right. Get ready for Kony part two.

The people who created this viral film about a cruel Ugandan warlord today released a sequel. We're going to find out soon whether this second film will catch fire online the way the first one did. More than 86 million people clicked on YouTube video.

Want to take a look at the short clip from "Kony 2012" part two.

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ADAM FINCK, PROGRAMS DIRECTOR, INVISIBLE CHILDREN: They were contacted by the U.N who asked us to design flyers that would be culturally sensitive and reach out to the LRA directly.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It gives them hope. A wife of Joseph Kony defected because she saw the flyer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMAEL: -- was the flyers I was there, was then that idea came to my mind, I will try to escape. Whatever Kony says, I will try to escape.

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MALVEAUX: Errol Barnett, he's live from Johannesburg.

Errol, tell us about part two. Do we think this is more of the same? Do the filmmakers tell us anything new?

ERROL BARNETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, I can tell you what's similar is that slick production value that made the first documentary so well-watched around the world. Also, there are firsthand accounts like the woman you just saw who claims she was a wife of Joseph Kony and abandoned the LRA, the Lord's Resistance Army, of which he leads because of flyers that were created by Invisible Children, the group behind these videos, and distributed in Central Africa.

That's the same. What's different is there's not the firsthand account that we found in the first half hour documentary with one of the Invisible Children founders Jason Russell talking also from first person and using his child as really the example. Seeing what's happening in the world through the eyes of his child. That's not in this video because Jason Russell has suffered from a psychotic breakdown just a few weeks ago as international criticism was levied on Invisible Children for their inaccuracies of their first documentary.

MALVEAUX: Errol, you bring that point up. Do we think that's had an impact on the message here? How damaging was that?

BARNETT: It was incredibly damaging because it changed the message. What Invisible Children wants to do is raise awareness of Joseph Kony, raise international pressure, and really use the power of social media and young people to add that pressure on international leaders.

Part of the reason for this follow-up is that first video was criticized for being over simplified. So, in this video which they have just released, I have it playing next to me, talk more specifically about Joseph Kony being pushed out of Uganda into the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo or South Sudan, Africa's newest country.

They better explain what they do with their money. They were criticized for selling wrist bands and shirts. They're showing us what they use that money for on the ground.

So this is part of their effort to get the focus away from Jason Russell and his personal problem and back to Joseph Kony.

MALVEAUX: And all this attention, the millions and millions of people who clicked on that YouTube video, has it paid off for them at all? Do we have any sense of whether or not people know where Joseph Kony is, or has there been a renewed search for him?

BARNETT: In a way, yes. U.S. President Barack Obama already had 100 special advisers based in Uganda to support the search for Joseph Kony, but after the release of the documentary in March, the African Union of which most African nations are a member, decided to deploy 5,000 boots on the ground, 5,000 soldiers based in South Sudan, led by Uganda, with the prime goal to capture or, quote, "neutralize" Joseph Kony.

That operation is under way, and even in the documentary they use a lot of Luis Moreno Ocampo supporting them. He is the chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, the global body essentially that wants to bring Joseph Kony to justice.

He even said in Los Angeles this weekend after the Russell's incident, that this campaign is still worth supporting.

MALVEAUX: All right. Errol Barnett -- thank you, Errol.

Jerry Sandusky appeared before a judge. It was at this request. Now, the former Penn State assistant football coach faces more than 50 charges of sex crimes against children. He asked the judge today to drop them. The judge said no.

Jason Carroll, he is live in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania, with the story.

So, Jason, first of all, why did Sandusky's defense team ask that these charges be dropped in the first place?

JASON CARROLL, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's a good question, Suzanne.

The reason for that is because they simply say not enough evidence has been presented to them at least in order to be able to build a defense. Again, you've got ten alleged victims here. Joe Amendola, Jerry Sandusky's attorney, says that the information they have been provided is not specific enough in terms of times, dates, locations of where some of these allegations of abuse took place. And so, they said, because of that, we've not been able to build a defense. So, they filed these motions to dismiss these charges.

On the flip side of that, Suzanne, you've got the commonwealth, the prosecution, which has been saying all along that we still have an ongoing grand jury investigation that's taking place and we are turning over evidence as we get it.

So the judge took a look at both sides, decided to step back and say I'm going to wait until you have more time, meaning the commonwealth, to complete your investigation before ruling on these motions to dismiss.

And, you know, Joe Amendola came out here. He spoke to a number of the people here in the press, and he answered his critics who basically said that he had been filing these motions to try to delay the trial. He said that was not his intention. His intention is to build a defense. He feels as though his client has already been tried in the court of public opinion.

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JOE AMENDOLA, JERRY SANDUSKY'S ATTORNEY: I want to try to make sure that Mr. Sandusky gets to court and can get a fair jury to hear both sides of this case so that that jury when it's seated will listen to the judge's instructions, will hear the evidence at trial, and make a decision based upon that evidence, not upon, as you may recall, the decisions, the conclusions made by many of you when Mr. Sandusky was initially charged on November 5th that he was guilty, and all these accusers were victims and all the candlelight vigils that were held for then and all the program that is were opened up for them. We've been trying to overcome this tidal wave of presumption of guilt since November 5th.

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CARROLL: And the prosecution says, Suzanne, that they have a broad investigation that is still taking place, and they say that those who will be stepping forward to testify, the alleged victims, are looking forward to facing Sandusky in court. The trial is still set as of now for June 5th -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: OK. So, that's the time line. That's when they actually go back to court.

CARROLL: That is correct.

MALVEAUX: All right.

CARROLL: June 5th, unless something else happens before then, and, of course, if it does, we'll be the first to tell you.

MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you, Jason. Appreciate it.

Job market is showing signs of strength. We're going to break down the latest numbers.

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MALVEAUX: It's a big week for the job market and as you can guess, Wall Street keeping a close eye on the latest numbers.

I want to bring in Alison Kosik. She's at the New York Stock Exchange.

So, Alison, we got news, yes? Walk us through it. What do we see?

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: OK, a little good news, a little bad news. I'll start with the good, Suzanne. The job market we're learning is improving. OK, that's good. The bad news though, it's not happening fast enough.

And we got more evidence of that today. First time claims for unemployment benefits fell by 6,000 last week. It means fewer layoffs. Once again, that's good.

But these new claims came in at 357,000. That's pretty good, too. It shows improvement from the depths of the recession back in 2009, when claims were at 650,000.

But the issue now, Suzanne, is that these claims have been stuck around 350,000 level for a few months now, and you know what? That 6,000 reduction in the number of claims, it's not that huge. So, it really shows the recovery in the jobs market is slowing -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: So, what do we think it means for the big jobs report that comes out tomorrow?

KOSIK: So, what you can expect is kind of a similar tone in the jobs report tomorrow. That slowing improvement, the expectation is you'll see 200,000 jobs were added in March. That's good.

But look at February. February was even better. We were adding jobs at 227,000. The unemployment rate tomorrow most likely will be announced. It's expected to fall to 8.2 percent. That's good.

But then you look at what's considered normal. A normal unemployment rate is somewhere between 5 percent and 6 percent.

So what you're really seeing happen here is the recovery, it started stronger, but the slow really seems to become -- is becoming sort of the new normal with the jobs recovery.

MALVEAUX: What about the stocks? It looks like a pretty tough day. Are the reports, is that part of it -- the labor reports factoring in?

KOSIK: Tough day, tough week. It's been a real rough week for Wall Street.

You look at how stocks did just last week. The end of the first quarter was last Friday. You know, stocks ended with a bang. The Dow ended up 8 percent for the first quarter.

But now, we're into the second quarter this week and it is clearly off to a weak start. And not just with economic reports like these job numbers. You know, stocks have fallen for three days.

There are renewed concerns about the debt crisis in Europe. Now these worries are centering around Spain.

Also concerns that the Fed isn't as willing as it used to be to give out a helping hand to the economy. So that's also bringing down investors.

Right now stocks are flat. The Dow down about eight points -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: All right. Alison, thank you.

Mitt Romney, he's in the driver's seat. Are his rivals finally running out of gas? We're going to ask our political panel.

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MALVEAUXZ: Here's a run down of some of the stories we're working on.

Next, all eyes on North Korea, as the secretive state prepares to launch what could be a missile.

And then three Maryland young folks could soon be sitting on the board of education in their town, and they aren't even old enough to buy alcohol.

Then 18 years after the genocide, the people of Rwanda are looking forward without forgetting the past. I'm going to introduce you to one of the amazing women that I met in my trip there.

The election has just rounded a sharp corner. Mitt Romney is suddenly looking more and more like the Republican nominee. But does the party and the country going to rally behind him as a candidate?

Here to take about it -- Republican strategist and editor of ConservativeBlackChick.com, Crystal Wright. Good to see you, Crystal.

And Democratic strategist Ed Espinosa. Good to see you, Ed.

Let's talk about Santorum. He's not giving up. He has lost the last three primary contests over the week. Fight for his home state just weeks away, neck and neck with Romney in Pennsylvania.

Romney is campaigning there today. Looks like he's already looking forward to November. Take a listen.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Look, I need your help, you guys. As you know, I want to win Pennsylvania in November. I'm going to win Pennsylvania in November.

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MALVEAUX: All right. So a loss in Pennsylvania could be a real embarrassment for Santorum.

So, Crystal, could we see him walk away before that happens?

CRYSTAL WRIGHT, CONSERVATIVEBLACKCHICK.COM: You know, Suzanne, Santorum is looking like the Energizer bunny in the Republican race. He is not going to give up, and I think it looks like he's going to pull off Pennsylvania. So, he wants to save face. Let's remember, in 2006, Santorum got a real drumming of a defeat when he ran for re- election for his Senate seat. He lost by 18 percentage points.

So, he really -- you know, I think he'll stay in. He'll get some wind in his sails if he wins Pennsylvania, which it looks like he will. He'll save face.

But I mean, come on, he really has to win 77 percent of all the outstanding delegates if he's going to get the nomination and plow ahead of Romney, and that's just not going to happen. It's just not in the cards.

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WRIGHT: So -- sorry.

MALVEAUX: Go ahead.

WRIGHT: At a certain point, you know, he's going to really have to not -- he's going to have to look at the math and say --

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ED ESPINOSA, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Let's just call it --

WRIGHT: Do I want what's good for the party or do I want to be a spoiler?

MALVEAUX: Who's the -- are there other Energizer bunnies, Ed? Who backs out first, Santorum, Paul, Gingrich?

ESPINOZA: Look, it doesn't matter who backs out because none of these guys may back out at all. The race for all intents and purposes is over. Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee.

Look, I'm a Democrat. There's nothing more I would like to see is this race to drag on. But it's not going to drag on. Romney is the presumptive nominee.

These guys have already lost the nomination. They have got nothing to lose by staying in. Maybe they want to build e-mail lists, maybe they want to nurture a donor database. Maybe they want to set themselves for a book tour later on.

ESPINOZA: -- nothing to lose by staying in. Maybe they want to build e-mail lists, maybe they want to nurture a donor database. Maybe they want otoset themselves up for a book tour later on, but it's not going to change the outcome of this election. Santorum could win Pennsylvania, he could lose Pennsylvania, . Either way it doesn't matter.

MALVEAUX: And Crystal, let's talk a little bit about this enthusiasm gap here. Because if Romney is the presumed nominee here, I mean, how does he fire up the base, get people out to the polls to vote in November? Clearly, there are not a lot of folks who are very enthusiastic about him.

WRIGHT: Oh, I disagree with you, Suzanne. Romney is firing up the base. He's actually getting the attention of independents as well. After the triple-header win he had this week, Wisconsin, D.C., and Maryland, he's taking the fight to Barack Obama. I mean, we just heard on Tuesday that Romney is calling out what a failure, an absolute abysmal failure Barack Obama's presidency has been. And like Romney said, this president surrounds himself with sycophants who tell him everything's coming up roses for you and for me. And that couldn't be further from the truth.

And Obama is helping Romney really take the fight to him and point out the deficiencies in his presidency when he comes out this week and threatens the Supreme Court to bow to him. So say, you know, I know you're not -- you're not going to dare kind of strike down Obamacare.

And then he comes out talking about bashing Republicans for offering a vision of the country, which is a budget that is something that the Democrat-controlled Senate has yet to do in three years.

So, I say go on, Obama. Angry Obama hiding from -

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MALVEAUX: Ed, can you respond to that with a song perhaps? Do you sing as well?

ESPINOZA: Well, it's a mouthful to respond to. So, I'll try to make a couple of points. The first point being that, yes, Romney does have a problem with his conservative base, and we've seen that throughout this election. He has rarely broke 40 percent even in the face of weak opposition.

Now, he can reconcile that, but the way he's got to do it is he's going to have to choose a conservative running mate to rally his base. Which is good base politics, but it's going to be a quandary for him to solve when he's reaching out to independents in the fall. I don't think he's going to be successful there.

Now, as far as his attacks on Obama, you have to be careful what you say in a campaign because some things can come back to bite you. Now, I put this up on Twitter earlier. It's a video of Romney making claims point by point about the president, and the president in a speech talking about the things he has done that counteract every single point.

Not a very good strategy for Mitt Romney, but, hey, I hope he keeps doing it.

MALVEAUX: Let's -- I want you guys to both to listen to this. This is a bit of Mitt Romney's latest catch phrase.

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MITT ROMNEY, SEEKING GOP PRESIDENTIAL NOMINATION: This is not the time for President Obama's hide-and-seek campaign. President Obama has said he wants to transform America. I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the values of economic freedom and opportunity and small government that have made this nation the leader it is.

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MALVEAUX: Crystal, do you think -- he's talking about this hide- and-seek campaign. Do you think that's actually going to resonate with voters here? Do you think that people actually believe that Obama has something to hide or they don't know something about his character after four years?

WRIGHT: Hide-and-seek is a metaphor obviously for the fact that we don't hear Obama celebrating the anniversary of Obamacare. We don't hear Obama talking about how the jobless numbers are really coming down fundamentally. We've been above eight percent for the last three years despite all this spending. And we don't hear Obama talking about solutions.

So, when Romney talks about the president having a hide-and-seek agenda, it's because he has nothing of success to run on, and I think Americans are --

ESPINOZA: Where have you been? Obama celebrated --

WRIGHT: They don't -- excuse me. I let you talk, Ed. They don't -- Americans aren't stupid, and Obama is talking to them like they're stupid. He wants to throw the Constitution out and have the Supreme Court bow to him.

MALVEAUX: All right, jump in there, Ed, because obviously you've got to counter.

ESPINOZA: Well, I think that to say to say Obama is not owning health care, which he has owned the title Obamacare, is to completely miss all of the events that took place over the past few weeks marking the two-year anniversary of the passage of the legislation. We have played that up. Democrats have owned it. The president is running on it.

This is one of the most transparent presidencies in the history of our country. Recovery Act dollars listed on the Internet. Health care bills listed on the Internet. Twenty-four straight months of job growth.

We are turning the corner. Things are going well and the president is talking to people every single day. To say that this is a hide-and-seek presidency is to literally have your head in the sand.

MALVEAUX: We're going to leave it there. Ed, Crystal, good to see you both. We're going to continue this debate obviously in the days and months to come.

Well, you wouldn't know it from the way she smile smiles, but this young woman lost everything when she was just four years old. She is now rebuilding a generation with her voice. My report from Rwanda 18 years after the genocide.

But first, here is a preview of this week's "NEXT LIST." We are going to take you behind the scenes of a popular HBO series, "Game of Thrones." Meet the man who made up the language some of the characters speak.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In seasons to come, Donny and the Duthraki (ph) - they are first and foremost her people. And so wherever she goes, they follow. But at the same time, yes. As she's traveling through many different lands, there are other languages she comes across.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have other languages coming up on the show that are that are not Duthraki (ph) but also need to be invented. And we're hoping that David will do those for us as well.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Personally, I would love to keep creating languages for projects like "Game of Thrones." For TV shows, for movies. I mean, that's kind of the dream of everybody who sits down to create a language.

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MALVEAUX: This week, an entire country will remember the hundreds of thousands of innocent people, men, women, and children, who were slaughtered during the Rwandan genocide 18 years ago.

I was invited to travel to the African country for its service project to teach young girls journalism. During my visit, I discovered some amazing stories of hope and inspiration. In Rwanda, there is a new generation of young people who are recognizing the tragic past but also vowing to look forward. Also, some of them who are even willing to forgive.

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MALVEAUX (voice-over): Twenty-two-year-old Antoinette Umuhoza is leading her own movement with the sound of her voice. She and 12 other young women broadcast the only radio program in Rwanda that puts girls first. It's called Ni Niapinga (ph). It means girls being strong and beautiful, inside and out. Her goal is simple. ANTOINETTE UMUHOZA, ORPHANED IN RWANDAN GENOCIDE: To be comfortable and proud of who I am. To be an example of all girls and be proud of me and to follow me, to be like me.

MALVEAUX (off camera): To be a mentor.

UMUHOZA: Yes.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): But behind that smile is a lifetime of longing and pain. Eighteen years ago fighting in Rwanda between two rival ethnic groups escalated into all out genocide when the Hutu majority targeted and slaughtered the Tutsi minority. An estimated 800,000 were killed in 100 days. While there is peace today, there is evidence and memorials of the horror.

(on camera): This is a Catholic church 30 miles outside of the capital. This is where many people fled seeking refuge from the killing. They thought they would be safe here because they're inside of a church, but 5,000 people were slaughtered here. You can see the hundreds and hundreds of bones collected from arms, legs, and hips. And the hundreds of skulls as well, even the weapons inside to show the last hours of how they were tortured and brutalized.

(voice-over): Antoinette knows firsthand. She was just four years old when they came for her family.

UMUHOZA: I didn't get transferred to Hevei (ph) my parents like others. I lost them in genocide in 1994. I was four years old.

MALVEUAX: The killers came for her father first.

UMUHOZA: He went out in the rain. I go after him. What I saw, I saw they shoot him here. He -- he fell down.

MALVEAUX: Antoinette and her nine-month-old brother were passed onto their neighbors.

UMUHOZA: My mother asked her to take me because there was like, traumatized.

MALVEAUX: Three week later, the killers would come for her mother. They threw her into a pit with many others and stoned her to death.

UMUHOZA: I just cried, yes.

MALVEAUX: How do you -- how are you so strong and so happy today?

UMUHOZA: For now, I get the chance for -- to study. I'm so happy. I have hoped for a life and to get some of the things I need. Yes, I'm so happy.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): Antoinette is moving forward without forgetting the past.

(on camera): Do you think your parents would be proud of you today?

UMUHOZA: I think so. Wherever they are, they're proud of me. Yes.

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MALVEAUX: Antoinette is just one of the many young women that I met in Rwanda. She uses her voice as a weapon for peace. In the next hour, I'm going to bring to you a story about forgiveness. How a killer and his victim's family try to live together in the same community.

If you'd like to see more of my stories from Rwanda, you can go to CNN.com.

New concerns about North Korea. Satellite images of a launch pad indicate that military may be up to something. We're going to have a live report.

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: North Korea may be moving ahead with a controversial plan to launch a long-range rocket. A new satellite image shows increased activity on a missile launch pad. I want to bring in Barbara Starr from the Pentagon.

Barbara, so what do we know about this activity? Should we be concerned?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, this has been stepping up for many days now. When you look at the satellite pictures that the U.S. has been seeing of the launch pad in North Korea, you see first very little activity. But the most recent satellite images you see there, if you look carefully, you see trucks, vehicles, other activity on the launch pad.

What we are not seeing yet -- the most recent one being on your right. What we're not seeing yet is the missile out there on the launch pad visible. Not clear yet how much they have fueled it up. But, look, the North Koreans are saying sometime next weekend essentially the window opens for them and they will launch this missile with a satellite on top. That they will try and put a satellite into space. But from the U.S. point of view, it's North Korea trying to launch a long-range missile.

Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: And, Barbara, is there any plan for a response, U.S. response from the Pentagon?

STARR: Very interesting. Would the U.S. try and shoot this down? Across Asia there is concern about debris falling from this, from Japan to South Korea, the Philippines, all across the region. Already the Japanese government, the South Korean government has told their military to try and shoot it down if it passes over their country. Not at all clear the U.S. will do this. China, very concerned that all of this could lead by this time next weekend to significantly rising tensions in the region, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: All right, Barbara Starr. Thank you, Barbara.

STARR: Sure.

MALVEAUX: You want to get free wi-fi. We'll, we're going to show you how in our "Deal of the Week," up next.

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MALVEAUX: Here's a way to save money while surfing the Internet. Free wi-fi. Yep, free. But there is a catch. Clark Howard explains in the "Deal of the Week."

CLARK HOWARD, MONEY EXPERT: Suzanne, do I have a deal for you. It's one I'm really excited about, but it comes with some gotchas. It's a new offer from an old company called NetZero. It's available at netzero.com. And what it does is it allows you, when you're out and about, to surf the web wirelessly for free.

It's what's known as a freemium business model. You buy a device from them, no contract required, that runs in your laptop for $50. That's what it costs to buy the little electronic gizmo. And then it allows you light web surfing for free as you travel about. Perfect for an infrequent traveler. Somebody who travels for business. The hotel charges a lot for Internet. Instead, you use your NetZero device.

And look what they do. For free you get basic Internet use. Not a great amount. The idea is they introduce you to them and hope that you pay either $10 a month, $20 a month, or if you're a real big spender, you're paying a lot more. Typically most people will find they end up at about $10 a month.

One thing you can't do with this, don't watch a lot of videos, don't listen to a lot of music. You stick to doing your e-mails and surfing the web, you should be just fine, maybe even for free.

MALVEAUX: For more money tips, check out Clark on the weekends. That's every Saturday and Sunday at 6:00 a.m. and noon Eastern on HLN.

Well, teenagers in public service. This is a 19-year-old. He's a member of the board of education. Yep, that's right, and he's running for re-election. You're going to meet him.

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MALVEAUX: All right, so you hear stories about young people in trouble, but our next story is about a teen who's taken the lead, laying down the law for others to follow. Edward Burroughs, he is a member of the board of education in Prince George's County, Maryland. He is running for re-election. He's inspiring other young folks to do the same. Athena Jones is live in Upper Marlboro, Maryland.

Athena, wow, this is pretty cool. You're with him now. And does he have a good chance of getting re-elected? ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, as you know, anything can happen in politics. But I will tell you that Edward Burroughs came in first in the primary on Tuesday. He got 67 percent of the vote. So he's certainly been winning over a lot of voters. We'll see what happens in November. But he's joining us here.

So you're an incumbent. What made you decide to run for office in the first place and what makes you a good candidate?

EDWARD BURROUGHS, PRINCE GEORGE'S COUNTY, MD, BOARD OF ED.: So once I graduated from Crossland High School in 2010, I felt the need to have someone on the school board two truly understood the needs of our students, not just of (ph) our school system. We're trying to prepare our students to go to college. I'm in college right now and I'm able to say, this is how we brace (ph) them to go to college. We have to have the engaged members of the board who truly know how to move our system forward. And I just left the school system.

JONES: All right, now you're an incumbent, as I said, so you're defending your seat. What did you learn from your last experience? What do you think you accomplished during your first terms?

BURROUGHS: You know, it was a difficult first term. I learned how to build coalitions, working with civic associations, non-profits, businesses, fraternities and sororities. You know, if we're going to improve our schools, we have to bring in the entire community in order to -- especially around our middle schools. Also we have to begin to hire, support, and retain highly qualified teachers. That's really our task. If we have a great teacher in front of every student, our students will learn, regardless of their socioeconomic status.

JONES: And one more question. You talked about a program you were able to save involving reading. Tell us about that real quick.

BURROUGHS: Absolutely. Read Recovery (ph) is a program geared to our early readers who are not reading on grade level. I fought to save that program and we were able to do that. If student's can't read, they can't write, they can't do math, they cannot do anything. And so early childhood education, especially when it comes to reading, is absolutely critical. And I was happy to be able to fight to save that program.

JONES: Great. Well, there you have it, 19-year-old Edward Burroughs here, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: I want to ask him a question here because, Edward, I'm from where you are, Howard County, neighboring Howard County. And back in the day, we could not be school board members. I was the representative for Howard County for the school board. So we didn't have as much power as you guys do now. So what are you hoping? What's the main thing you hope to accomplish?

BURROUGHS: No, I believe the main thing that we have to do in Prince George's County is what I mentioned earlier, is hire, support and retain highly qualified teachers. That is really our task. If we had strong teachers, our students will learn. And so I want to hire and retain and support highly qualified teachers. I want to work with the community. I believe schools should absolutely be the hubs of our community. And if we do that, I believe every student can learn and will achieve.

MALVEAUX: And, Edward, just respond really quick to folks who are wondering, what -- how, you know, how do these teenagers, what do they know about politics or running anything to be on the school board?

BURROUGHS: Absolutely. On the school board we have 10 members in Prince George's County. And I believe that it's important to have diversity. We're trying to prepare our students to go to college. I'm in college now. And I'm able to say, this is how we do that. We need fresh ideas, new leadership in order to move our system forward. And, you know, I got 67 percent of the vote. So I believe the voters believe that we need younger people to get involved and step up and to really move our system forward.

MALVEAUX: All right. Well, Edward, the voters have spoken. So, good luck to you. I mean that's a fantastic job that you're doing.

BURROUGHS: Thank you so much.

MALVEAUX: I really appreciate it. All right, thanks again, Edward. Thanks, Athena.

Top of the hour. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Want to get you up to speed.

Some say it is a rare bipartisan victory for Washington. It is the Jobs Act. And the bill will become law when President Obama signs it in about an hour. Startups and small businesses, the focus of the bill, which eases some regulatory burdens. Makes it easier for companies to raise money.

The deadline is now. The very partisan battle over health care. A Republican appointed judge has ordered the Justice Department to submit a three-page letter explaining whether the Obama administration truly understands that federal courts have the right to overturn federal laws. Well, this Texas judge apparently took exception to President Obama's statement that he made on Monday, that if the Supreme Court overturned his signature health care law, it would be unprecedented. No word yet on whether the Justice Department has actually submitted that letter.

And Jerry Sandusky wants child sex abuse charges against him dropped. The former Penn State assistant football coach briefly appeared in court today. Now he's arguing that the charges against him are either too vague to prosecute or that the statute of limitations has run out. The superior court judge says he's going to make no decision while the grand jury investigation is still going on. Sandusky is accused of raping young boys.

Heavyweight appearance at the opening night of Major League Baseball. Former champion boxer Muhammad Ali had the ceremonial first pitch honors. It was at last night's game between the Miami Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals. Ali won his first heavyweight title in Miami. He was unable to throw the first pitch