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>> and some cornbread. >> larry: and i'm getting it out of my teeth. thank you, corde. have a great weekend. and anderson cooper is standing by, and he won't top this with "ac 360." anderson? >> "ac 360," i love that show. good evening. we are keeping them honest. sarah palin is campaigning for john mccain. democrats are saying that the hate-filled rhetoric is too real, and the parties are raising money on the threats. also, tonight, there is how many people remember sinaed o'connor tearing up a picture of the pope in the 1990s. and now with the biggest crisis in the vatican, she is speaking out, and also against the current pope who has not given an open and honest accounting of the abuse investigations in pedophile priests.
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she is our guest. and a former lingerie model accused of turning herself into a queen pin and models into drug a queen pin and models into drug mules. she is on the run from cops. first, keeping them honest. sarah palin and developments in the ugly health care reform. out in arizona she hit the media hard on acts of violence and inflammatory rhetoric against the democrats. >> you know, hearing in the news reports lately the agenda controversy about us common sense conservatives inciting violence because we happen to oppose some of the things in the obama administration. [ audience boos ] >> amen, brother, you do it with your vote. you got it right. we know violence isn't the answer. when we take up our arms, we are
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talking about our vote. >> well, interestingly she has not taken down the map on the facebook page and you know the one i mean. let's go over to the wall n. is the map that a lot of the democrats on capitol hill were talking about yesterday, and some were talking to security officials about showing from facebook page of sarah palin's facebook page crosshairs in the congressional districts that her pack will target. and she talks about the political action committee and she says we will aim for these races and many others and this is the first salvo, unquote. supporters say, give us a break, she is using commonly-used phrases that some democrats on capitol hill however have expressed concern. the climate is ugly out there and we will talk about that with mark halperin, but here is more of sarah palin on the rally with jessica yellin. >> reporter: palin mania is back. under this crowd, she had the
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crowd under her spell, taking on president obama. >> nobody gave us a tell prompter this go around. so -- so, it is time to kick it old school again and resort to the old poor man's version of the tell prompter and write my note osp my hand again. >> reporter: and the democratic agenda. >> when it came to obamacare, hey, by the way, i see today that fidel castro likes obamacare and we don't like obamacare and doesn't that tell you something? >> reporter: and the faceless critics. >> we are being accused of being the party of no because we oppose some of the things that the administration is doing. and the louisiana governor says no, we are not the party of no, but the party of hell no. >> reporter: did we mention that the event is for this guy, palin endorsing this man who plucked her out of obscurity. >> if you want real leadership and not just talk and blah, blah, blah and if you want
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somebody to fight for what it is that this state and this country needs, then i am asking you to vote for john mccain and send the maverick back to the senate. >> reporter: this time, he followed her lead. >> all i am telling you, so, my friends, as sarah said, yeah, we are the party of no, and on this bill, hell no. >> reporter: senator john mccain needs her help. his re-election is in jeopardy as he fends off a challenge from a more conservative opponent in the republican primary. >> john comes home to campaign as a conservative and goes to washington and legislates like a liberal. >> reporter: lately he has moved to the right on bailouts, taxes and even on the signature issue, immigration. >> we failed because the american people were not convinced that we were really going the secure our borders. >> reporter: the hope here that palin's conservative credentials will rub off.
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>> you know, many, many years ago i competed in a padgett. pageant, and coming then from an expert, i could tell you that he could win the talent and the debate portion of any pageant, but nobody is ever going to dub him miss congeniality. >> reporter: and she declared mccain a candidate for tea party voters. >> everybody here supporting john mccain, we are all a part of the tea party movement. >> reporter: but is it enough? does sarah palin's endorsement of him help change your mind? >> i am torn. >> i am undecided about john mccain. it seems that he says one thing here and then returns to washington and does another. >> reporter: and tonight, anderson, sarah palin is on track to have a fund-raiser to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, more than the campaign,
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and the mccain campaign is so enthused about the endorsement one aide said, the mac is back. >> what a difference a year makes. the top dog suddenly finding himself in a fight for his political life. whatever drama was on the shelf, you can see it was all smiles on the stage. >> he has never been one to go with the flow. i am from alaska and we see the way that the fish go, and we see that only dead fish go with the flow. we have never been one to do that. no, he has never been part of the good old boys' club, and he is not afraid to buck the political machine and even a president. if it is the right thing to do. >> keeping them honest tho night.
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we will talk to mark halperin author of "game change" about the 2008 presidential election. i was trying to think what john mccain thought standing next to sarah palin and do they like each other? >> every indication is that they do. despite the tensions in the campaign, they are married forever, and whatever frustrations or tensions exist between them, like in any healthy marriage, which is what i think they have, they put them aside and they focusfocused on what they like about each other which is a lot. >> and it seems a year later, their political fortunes seem to be completely different. >> well, they are, and one thing that happened at the event is that cindy mccain spoke and she said, i know you are here to see my husband and everybody laughed, because of course, you
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could tell from the chanlts of the crowd and the books they were carrying that sarah palin is the draw here, and that is similar to the campaign when palin drew bigger crowds than the top of the ticket, but the fortunes have diverged because she is over a year, the most powerful person in the republican party, what john mccain had been. >> and why is john mccain facing such a tough fight this time around? >> well, the bills are due and the times he has crossed the republican party, and in the primary, you have to deal with the most conservative elements of the base on the republican side, and mccain has not been consistently for conservativism as defined by the republican party and built up enemies over the year, and most of all and this is what worries mccain i know more than anything else and why he needs palin is that this is an unpredictable year if you have been in washington for a long time. john mccain can do everything right, and like a lot of income bents in both parties he could be washed away by the fervor which palin represents, unbridled anger at washington. >> i have a bite i want to play, that sheerenced some of the violent rhetoric and criticism from the left, and we will play that bite.
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>> this b.s. coming from the mainstream media lately about this inciting violence -- don't let -- don't let the conversation be diverted. don't let a distraction like that get you off track and keep fighting hard for these candidates who are all about the common sense conservative solutions that we need. >> always popular to blame the mainstream media as she says and saying basically the media, the left is trying to distract people by talking up the violence. >> well, look, you can criticize sarah palin for a lot, but as you know, anderson, from watching her in the campaign and knowing what bonds her with her base, and crowd and on tv and playing it to the hilt. >> it is interesting to talk about the rhetoric that we have heard over the last couple of days and the criticisms of it by the democrats and their belief
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that this is inciting violence in some cases, this kind of goes back to what we saw during the campaign and some of the things yelled out in the final days at some of the mccain/palin rallies. >> it does. and mccain at the time let it go on longer than i think he thought it should have, but there is no question that sarah palin by not backing down is very tough today and the first and longest comments on the debate and brewing for several days is part of what is a huge problem which is to turn threats of violence on either side into a partisan issue, into an issue that is a rallying cry. this is the kind of thing that frankly, i don't think she handles particularly well, but handles it the way she does everything else, and this issue strikes a different tone and she didn't show that at all. >> i want to show the images on the facebook page which some democrats on capitol hill have not only discussed with security, but also publicly criticized basically different
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congressional districts that her pac is going to target, and you know, it will sniper's crosshairs on some of the congressional district, and she is not backing away from that at all. >> no, and john mccain has said this week and defended palin in saying that this rhetoric and symbolism has always been used in politics. again, right now, we are in a different place on both sides and public officials fearing for the lives of their lives and families, they should reassess, but she is not. the sarah palin today is supportive of john mccain, and extremely defiant about the media and the question of backing down and using accusations of extreme rhetoric to try to silence people on her side. she will have none of that. >> mark halperin, appreciate it, mark. >> thanks, man. well, political con vickional or simple loyalty, find out why sarah palin is supporting john mccain. it is in her op-ed at a link of ac360.com. and a live chat is also up. and an exclusive, shinaid o'connor.
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investigating the scandals or trying to cover them up n. a moment, we will talk exclusively with singer sinead o'connor and you will remember 18 years ago she caused a global uproar and not only what she was protesting, but how she chose to do it. take a look. ♪ of good over evil fight the real enemy. >> that was sinead o'connor tearing up a picture of the pope on "saturday night live," and she is in dublin and she is a catholic and has plenty to stay about the pope and the scandal rocking ireland. first over the wall, and give you a sense of the time line of the recent scandal. start here in april of 2005. cardinal ratzinger was installed as hope. he was formally the archbishop of munich and for years the
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vatican's top enforcer of doctrine and oversaw the alleged abuse by priests. because of his elevation to pope in 2005, a judge rules he cannot be named in a texas lawsuit, because of prior association of a chief enforcer of covering up the molestation of boys by a seminarian. and in april of 2008, he says he is deeply ashamed of the sex scandal and pledges to, i quote, not let pedophiles become priests. and then in ireland, four bishops are accused of turning a blind eye to abuse. and now flash forward to this month, march 12th, the pope is linked to the scandal in germany, and it is alleged he allowed a transfer of a priest to get therapy, but he later abused more children. and the vatican says that absolves the pope, but the pope has not addressed what he did or did not do. now, we go to march 20th, the
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pope writes a pastoral letter apologizing to the irish victims of pedophile priests. two days ago, march 24th, the pope is accused of failing to defrock lawrence murphy who molested as many as 200 deaf boys in wisconsin in the 1960s and 1970s. a trial that pope benedict would have had the jurisdiction over was halted after father murphy wrote him a letter saying he was in poor health and had already repented. so the catholic reporter saying nothing less than a full and personal accounting will help the scandal engulfing the vatican. and now my exclusive interview with sinead o'connor. in the new york pope, you talk about the letter written by the pope to the people of of ireland and you say it is a insult. >> well, to have healing most of
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the catholic people need an admission by the vatican that there was an operation of cover-up for decades since 1922, and we feel it is an insult to the intelligence that the irish hierarchy were acting independently of the vatican, when there are documents that show that there were specific instructions in place that were issued by the vatican to every bishop in the world and remained the rules until 2001. amongst those rules were the instructions that the priest complaints and the victims' complaints were to swear an oath of secrecy with the threat of excommunication. and these matters must be pursued in the most secretive way, and after they have been define and given over for persecution, they are to be restrained to perpetual silence and everybody part of the tribunal is under strictest secrecy -- >> it is a haunting term, perpetual silence. >> and restraint tells you to go against your instincts and not to follow your natural instincts and the hierarchy it seems to us at the ireland hierarchy are much more frightened of the vatican than god. and why are they allowing themselves to be sold down the river by the vatican? and the hierarchy was acting independent of them, so we are asking ourselves here now, could
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it be in fact that the hierarchy are living themselves under abuse and bullying circumstances. >> do you feel that the pope should resign? >> well, i think that there needs to be a telling of the truth. what people are, you know, what people are rather upset about is that they are lied to, and that means we are treated like idiots we have the documents and the proof -- sorry i can't see you -- but we have the documents and the proof to say we are lied to by people who are supposed to represent jesus christ, and anybody who has dealt with the abusers or the survivors, the victims, know that one of the greatest parts of healing is to have an acknowledgment of what happened happened. >> coming up, part two of the interview with sinead o'connor and she responds to the moment when she tore up the picture of the pope on "saturday night live." >> if they can't be honest, how can we trust them and how can they represent jesus and how can they expect us to continue in the relationship with them? we will continue with them or without them, but as they are behaving now, we will not continue with them. also, tonight, high fashion and high cricrimes.
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a fashion model accused of high crimes and now on the run. details ahead. talking to night about the global pedophile priest scandal and whether the catholic church has and still is more protective of the church than protecting kids. here is part two of the interview with sinead o'connor. >> and the criticism that you and others get is that you are anti-catholic and you are targeting this church and this pope. how do you respond this? >> well, the fact is why i am showing you the documents and it shows everybody that the truth is the truth. personally i would say that i am a catholic woman. aim proud to be a catholic woman. >> if they can't confess and be honest, how can we trust them? how can they prove they represent jesus? we will continue with or without them. but as they're behaving now, we'll not continue with them. >> also tonight, high passion, high crimes. a former top modal kused of being a drug lord and on the run. the complete multivitamin for women over 50. it has vitamin d, which emerging science suggests
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>> coming up, part two of the interview with sinead o'connor and she responds to the moment when she tore up the picture of the pope on "saturday night live." how do you respond this? >> well, the fact is why i am showing you the documents and it shows everybody that the truth is the truth. personally i would say that i am a catholic woman. aim proud to be a catholic woman. i separate sometimes the difference between god and religion. i'm passionately in love with what i would call the holy spirit and i don't believe it matters if you call it god, buddha, krishna, fred or daisy and it is the holy spirit and it does not matter, but what i would like to see as a catholic is christian honest people running the shop. it seems to me that the vatican are not -- don't actually
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believe in god at all and they are not certainly acting like a god who watches. a christian is supposed to say in a given situation, what would jesus do and try to do it. would jesus have covered up for decades all of the abuse? >> it is interesting because you actually don't believe that this pope or that the people who are running the vatican right now, you are saying they don't really believe in god, because if they did, they would know that god is watching over everything? >> they wouldn't be lying if they believed in god. if they believed in god, why would they have lied for god? the pope's letter, itself, is full of lies and dishonesty, and places him as almost a victim and makes out like he only just got this information a while ago, but the fact is that from 1981 until the time he was made pope, he was the head of an organization called the congregation for the doctrine of the faith. they were in charge of dealing with the issue of child sexual abuse, all complaints and any complaints went to him. specifically -- >> supporters say that he actually did a lot more than pope john paul ii did, his predecessor, and that he, you know, in terms of certainly cases moving forward, has called for transparency, and opening up of statute of limitations, and referring things to legal authorities. >> okay. but anderson, i will tell you one very important thing that has not happened even with the pope's letter last saturday. he has never said go to the
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police. stop covering things up, all over the world and not one person involved in this cover-up has even before spoken to by the police for two minutes. the actual abusers are in jail, but those involved in the criminal coverup, including the vatican, including the pope, including the hierarchies of all of the countries that this stuff happened in. >> so the bottom line of what you want to hear from the vatican, what you want to hear from this pope is not just about what happens moving forward, but it is, it is not enough to look forward because you want a recounting of what has happened in the past and you want transparency and honesty and openness? >> yeah. well, we feel, look, we would like to be able to move forward, and we can't do that with these people unless they are prepared to tell the truth and confess. if they can't confess and be honest, how can we trust them? how can they claim to represent jesus? how can they expect us to continue in a relationship with them? we will can't with them or without them, but as they are
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behaving now, we will not continue with them. i think that what is slowly happening is fantastic for ireland that the american newspapers are now on the case here, because what will happen, and what is brilliant is that the americans don't take any nonsense and don't take any rubbish and they are not going to allow these people to get away with the lying and much more power in your country to make these people face the lies they are telling. we want to move forward and we love our church. we love catholicism, and we don't believe that these people are actually representing what is the beautiful essence of catholicism or indeed christianity, and the obl way to move forward with these people is if they actually confess and seems to us, and probably you all there that it is like trying to get blood from a stone and they are terrified, i suppose, because they have not told christianity and we would forgive them. >> well, you have been asked a million times and sick of being asked about it, but a lot of americans clearly remember back in 1992, you tore up a picture of then pope john paul ii when you were on "saturday night live" and you said it was a protest and that a lot of people didn't understand it. what do you want people to know why you did that, and does it in any way reflect on your thoughts now? >> well, you know why i did that was that we in ireland knew sadly in 1987 that clerical child sex abuse was an issue and little known fact in 1997, and
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again in the documents that the irish church took out an insurance policy against future claims they had foresaw would be made by victims of abuse. so we, in ireland, knew in 1987 that it was an issue and it didn't become an issue in america until ten years later so i could totally understand why people were horrified by what i did, and it was an abhorrent idea to suggest that priests could abuse children or that the vatican could cover it up, because it is absolutely ash -- abhorrent, and unfortunately, it is true. us in ireland enjoyed a particular brand of catholicism that was violent psychologically and physically toward children, and i am a survivor of child abuse myself not by clergy, but i have always been someone who all of my records and career really was standing for child abuse survivors, but i don't -- what's the word -- i completely understand why people found that offensive. i agree with them, it is abhorrent to think that a priest could be involved with children that way. >> sinead o'connor, i appreciate your talking to us. it is a fascinating discussion and we would love to have you on again. meanwhile, the church is responding to the latest scandal, and that a cardinal in germman had approved of transferring a father holderman. an article in "the new york times" does not express any new information other than what the then archbishop's knowledge of the situation of father h. it rejects any other version. and now we have the editor of
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the national catholic reporter. this is the largest scandal in the possibly entire church history and they say that the holy father has to answer direct questions about his role, and nothing less than a personal and public accounting of the crisis needs to be given. what do you want answered about what role cardinal ratzinger and the now pope had to do with the scandal? >> well, the archbishop was a senior vatican official for five years. what we need to know is what cases like the one we now know in germany, and what other cases were on his desk during that period of time? what did he do -- >> because now they are saying there was a memo about father h who was a pedophile priest who was sent to father ratzinger. >> and they are saying that he was copied on the memo and does not mean that all of the information was in his head, but it is irrelevant, because the point is that it happened on his watch. >> if he were part of a corporation -- >> and the buck stopped on his desk. so arguing over what he knew and when he knew it is a red
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herring. the point is that he should have known. and what people are waiting for is an acknowledgment from the pope to say, look, this is horribly mismanaged, and i deeply regret it and i want to learn the lessons of the episode and if there are other such cases on my record that i don't know about, i want to know about them. that is the kind of disclosure and commitment to reform people are expecting. >> to sinead o'connor's point that there have not been, and pedophile priests have been sent into the legal system, but that if there has been a cover-up that higher ups have not been held accountable. >> well, sure. most people would say that is the unfinished bizness of the crisis. you and i have talked about this before, from the beginning this has been two-pronged. the priests who abuse and the bishops who covered it up. most people would say that the church has cleaned up the act on the first score. today, it is crystal clear that if a priest abuses he is pulled out of the priesthood and reported to the cops. but the piece of the puzzle not put into place is what about accountability for senior management, that is the bishops? >> because for generations and decades, i mean, silence was the rule. >> oh, sure. and look, i mean, that is what makes the revelations about the pope so explosive, because what it gets to is this question --
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can the pope credibly discipline other bishops if his own record on this issue is not any better, and that is the question he has to answer if he is going to be able to lead. >> and also to sinead o'connor's point is that essentially a lot of people in ireland believe that the vatican is pretending this is an irish problem and that there was no impact from the vatican on this at all, and that is kind of over the years how they have dealt with the crisis, that it was at firstt a american catholic church problem and nen in brazil and other places, and now, and that is why the "national catholic reporter" is saying that this is the biggest institutional crisis and this is reaching directly into the vatican into the pope's office. >> well, sinead o'connor does not have much of a track record as a vaticanologist or at least not at the meetings, but she has put her finger on the core of the criticism of the pope's letter. the priests and the bishops who failed to stop it, but he is not accepting corporate response oblt of the vatican nor is he accepting his own track record. this is not fatal for the pope, but what has to happen and happen quickly is that there has to be complete disclosure about the vatican's role, and the pope's role and what in catholic theology we would talk about as a firm purpose of amendment. this is clear resolution. >> why doesn't the pope have a
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press conference, and would he just ever put himself open like that to actually take questions from people? >> well, you know, i mean, if this were a secular government, we would be impaneling a bipartisan commission and they would have subpoena powers and comb through the records to find out what happened, but that is not typically how the vatican works, but if we have learned one thing through the crisis, business as usual won't cut it. so this may jar loose a new modus operandi. >> thank you so much for being here. you can see more from john allen on "ac 360," and additional and compelling moments from our interview with sinead o'connor. and president obama scoring one of the top ten security aims. we have details on that ahead. a fascinating story of a beauty queen becoming the queen of cocaine. at least that is what she wanted to become. and she is talking to cnn, and
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"crime and punishment" is ahead. coming up, iceland's speck lar volcano and why the lava has spent hundreds fleeing has hundreds of cash registers ringing. christine romans. today, president obama announced a arms control agreement in nearly two decades. the president says it will reduce nuclear deployment between the u.s. and russia by one-third. 11 people were killed in kentucky today when a tractor-trailer crossed a median crashing headon into a van. the van passengers were all mennonites traveling to a wedding in iowa. ten of them died along with the driver of the tractor-trailer. the white house announced a two-prong plan to help struggling homeowners. it lowers payments on government-backed mortgages and reduces them for homeowners who are unemployed. the officials say that the plan will be paid for by money already set aside for the bank bailout of the troubled asset relief program. in texas, unbelievable dashboard video as an apparent drunk driver leads police on a 100-mile-an-hour chase, and anderson, only after stopping the truck with a spiked strip, that the officers learned that
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at least 11 people were killed in kentucky today when a tractor-trailer crossed a median crashing head on into a van. the van passengers were all men owe nights traveling to a wedding in iowa. ten of them died along with the tractor-trailer driver. the white house today announced a two-pronged plan to help struggling homeowners. it lowers payments on government-backed mortgages and reduces them for home ouners who are unemployed. the new plan will be paid for from money already set aside for the bank bailout with troubled asset relief program. and in texas, unbelievable dashboard video. a drunk driver leads police on a 100 mile an hour chase. it was only after stopping the truck with a spiked strip that officers learned this driver wasn't drunk at all.
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this driver was a 12-year-old boy. the boy remains in custody while police investigate. >> wow. you know, i know you'll have this in another news break later. but i cannot believe that the salahi's have been given a tv show. we're going to talk about it more. but this, for me, is just stunning news. >> bravo tv. >> i'm never going to watch it again. i have to stick with that now. coming up next on 360, from the cat walk to a drug mule? this person should get their own reality show. a fashion model at the center of a manhunt abused of trafficking drugs. and later, gangs in hollenbeck. a code of silence that keeps many of the murders unsolved. only one a day men's 50+ advantage... has gingko for memp$y and concentration. plus support for heart health. ( crowd roars ) that's a great call. one a day men's.
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punishment, beauty on the run. she was once a top model and now she is among the most wanted people in the world. there she is. while this alleged running "queen pin" may be hiding, she wants you to know she is innocent. here is karl penhaul. >> reporter: once crowned colombia's queen of coffee. now, she is called the queen of cocaine. angie sanclemente is on the run, and an international arrest warrant is out for her. when people hear from her, it is usually indirectly, like this ex-boyfriend. right now, she is shocked and scared she will get arrested, he says. she is afraid for her life, because this is a big drug problem and the bad guys could harm her. the bad guys are south america's heavy hitters in drug trafficking ar jen tin officials believe that sanclemente is heavily involved.
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they believe she is running an operation that is smuggling hundreds of millions of cocaine via buenos aires by models or so-called mules. but where is sanclemente now? authorities say she disappeared in december, but believe she is somewhere in argentina. the clues of how someone with so much promise ended up an international fugitive, we headed for her hometown. sanclemente grew up poor in the colombian city of barranquilla and the single child of a single mother. friends say she was determined to escape the streets and early on realized her looks could take her places. a friend who didn't want to talk on camera for fear of reprisals said she spent university tuition fees for breast implants. she always wanted to be a beauty
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queen and have lots of money, her old boyfriend says. i have come to the house where sanclemente's mother lives. [ speaking foreign language ] i didn't really expect to find her, because the neighbors say she has been gone for at least two weeks which is shortly after interpol issued that international arrest warrant. sanclemente's mother scraped by selling clothes, but saved enough to enroll her daughter in one of the top modeling schools. the instructor remembers sanclemente well. aside from the exotic looks, she says, there was something else. [ speaking foreign language ] she always wanted to win and draw attention to herself, one way or another, she says. her determination and looks won her the prestigious title of miss coffee queen, but she was dethroned when the judges of the pageant found out she had broken the rules and had once been married.
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a very capricious and maybe many things have happened to me, because i didn't listen to my mother. mom would say to me, hey, angie, think hard about something before you do it. despite that setback, she was becoming a star, landing cover shoots and catching the attention of tv producers in colombia and later mexico. fashion business insiders say that beauty page enlts and the modeling industry in colombia are a virtual meat market where they use ill-gotten gains to buy beautiful women. friends say that sanclemente was soon one of them. it is then when she began to meet narco traffickers. to find out a bit more about the kind of operation that sanclemente was allegedly running, i am going to meet a colombian trafficker who has been in the business for years. we have agreed to protect his identity.
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in the history of the drug trade, there has been some women with bigger balls than the men, but usually i would say a girl like that would run the network of mules and not the whole cartel, he says. but others disagree and say she was in charge, and the authorities have vowed to catch her. ever the fashionista they say she is on the lam with a dog named baby. despite it, she has updated the facebook proclaiming her innocence. whatever the truth, the beauty queen who was once an object of desire has now become one of south america's most wanted. karl penhaul, cnn, barranquilla, colombia. >> she is updating the facebook? what is her status -- scared with baby? cnn has reached his lawyer and says she is in argentina and she says that angela isfraid of
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going to prison, and she is afraid to be raped in prison, and it could cause serious psychological and physical abuse. later she wrote to karl, i don't want to go to jail. i don't deserve it. i am innocent. coming up, a lot more news, and the special investigation of gangs that plagued hollenbeck and the struggle of the cops to stop the bloodshed. for 15 square miles east of downtown los angeles, there is hollenbeck, and just about every block claimed by gangs. >> it is all about territory. >> reporter: taking it and defending it and taking it often through bloodshed. it is a common story told year after year, generation to generation.
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>> i can think of the other people that have died here, so many. they were all young. my son was 20 years old. >> you live in that lifestyle, it is not if, but when. unless you get out of that life, there are two ways to end up, one is in the ground and the other is in prison. >> reporter: police say that it has the highest concentration of gangs in all of los angeles, and no one is immune from the violence. >> closure would be like carrying my son back and that is the only thing to help me, and that is not going to happen. >> well, we will take you from the violence of the streets to the heroes determined to end it. our special report coming up at 11:00 in ten minutes. and incredible pictures of a volcano erupting in iceland. and they are back, the infamous wedding crashers are not going away. they are getting their own tv show. i mean, what does that say about us? details ahead. i was short of breath,
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>> all right a. quick update on other important stories. christine romans with the quick 360 bulletin. >> president obama has to search for another leader to the security transportation secretary. his latest nominee richard harding withdrew his nomination. he said the distraction as a defense contractor would not be good for the homeland security or the transportation department. and gilbert arenas has avoided jail time for illegally bringing guns into his team's locker room in december. instead, the judge sentenced him to 30 days in the halfway house, and two years of probation and 400 hours of community service. and a mix of fire and ice has become a tourist attraction in iceland. people are taking bus tours to get a better look at the lava.
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the blast initially last week forced hundreds from the homes, but they were allowed to return after officials said that the danger is over. and anderson, the white house party crashers have scored a reality tv show. >> no, no. >> it is true, the areq and michaele salahis have denied crashing the state dinner last fall, but they have never shown us the written invitation, and does not look like they will be prosecuted. and this holy hog warts, the invisibility cloak mentioned in movies and books is one step closer to reality. using a structure that bends light, scientists in germany have successfully hidden a tiny bump in a layer of gold, an unfortunately developing the cloak takes a long time. >> what is that?
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>> come on, the invisibility cloak, you know. >> they have a what? layer of gold? >> yes, a layer of gold, but keeping it safe from muggles everywhere, because it will take a long time to make it happen. what do your think about that? >> well, i -- i don't believe it. >> watch me disappear. >> oh. ooh, look at that. wow, that is one of the fancy holograms, isn't it? look, you are back. >> holy hog warts. >> well, tonight's high voltage shot is a japanese reporter voluntarily being tasered. [ speaking foreign language ] >> all done. that is it. all done. it is all over. relax. >> that is a dot-com reporter, and that reminded us of the best taser moment of all time. >> you are about to receive 50,000 volts of electricity. go ahead, do it. >> oh, oh!
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it hurts! it is painful. but no one is dead. >> all right. so, watching rick and the japanese reporter getting tasered and that is -- well -- >> got us thinking. >> that's the new graphic? "got us thinking." well, it did get us thinking and actually on the youtube and on to internets and later that night, because i was so wanting to see other people getting tasered dug up two clips of celebrities getting tasered from a show called "armed and famous" which ran on cbs, and la toya jackson and eric estrada getting tasered on -- >> got us thinking. >> yes, go for it. >> whoa, ah, ah, ugh. >> that is my favorite moment not la toya jackson screaming,
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but when it is done, she withers. we should build the thing where we can see all of the people tasered at once. >> frame by frame. >> ah. she sort of wails and ah. >> i love it that you went home the other night and you were googling for tasers. i love that. >> all right. coming up in the next hour a 360 special investigation into the gangs of hollenbeck. this is a history of over 50,000 crash-tested cars. this is the world record for longevity... and one of the most technologically advanced automobiles on the planet. this is the 9th generation e-class. this is mercedes-benz. see your authorized mercedes-benz dealer for exceptional offers through mercedes-benz financial. ♪
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