Page 656 - 08 News Today

gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. plus, war is hell. and theres been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. >> you are either for equal rights or not. >> the reverend joseph lowery turning 90 and taking a stand. its all here on cnn. hello, everyone. thanks for joining us. im don lemon. you are in the "cnn newsroom." were going to start tonight with two subjects consuming the nation for the last few ...

gun battle in the fight for libyan liberation. plus, war is hell. and theres been ten years of it. now a war widow needs your help. a man of god and an icon makes news on same-sex marriage. >> you are either for equal rights or not. >> the reg rev joseph lowry turning 90 and taking a stand. its all here on cnn. hello, everyone. im don lemon. you are in the "cnn newsroom." were going to start tonight with two subjects consuming the nation for the last few days. politics and religi...

im not getting into that. >> i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. thats really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. >> were covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. lets go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to b...

significant reduction in the american standard of living." their words, not mine. but when you break it down, the reality gets even more troubling. during the recession, the average income slipped by about 3%. but after the recession when the economy was supposed to be picking up, take a look. the average income dropped by nearly 7%, down to $49,909. incomes fell more after the recession ended than they did during the actual recession. as the senate begins debating president obamas job...

expected to take place sometime this week. 60 votes are needed to overcome republican efforts to block the measure. heres athena jones with more on jobs bill and earth whether it ever pass. >> reporter: putting americans back to work is president obamas priority. >> say we can grow the economy as much as 2%, and as many as 1.9 million workers. >> reporter: hes been pushing the plan everywhere. at a press conference last week, on the road, on facebook and twitter, and in his weekly addr...

Big enenergiesing grass roots movement that helped the party. could this be -- >> there has been an enthusiasm gap and what you get with occupy wall street is the far left for the first time since the obama campaign of 08 now organizing and putting themselves out in an aggressive way get the media coverage. something is wrong and these are people on the left finally coming together. i think they are far more organic and the kind of direct male groups that were the initial creators of the tea par...

Big enenergiesing grass roots movement that helped the party. could this be -- >> there has been an enthusiasm gap and what you get with occupy wall street is the far left for the first time since the obama campaign of 08 now organizing and putting themselves out in an aggressive way get the media coverage. something is wrong and these are people on the left finally coming together. i think they are far more organic and the kind of direct male groups that were the initial creators of the tea par...

peoples assemblies going on. you can see it and possibly hear it over my shoulder, where people make speeches, but because they dont use a mic system here, they dont have permits for that, so instead, they shout it from person to person to person so the entire crowd can hear what the message is, trying to rally support for their cause. as you say, as we pan the crowd here, you can see that there are a lot of young activists here, certainly, but already also others here from different w...

for being a mormon. shortly after producing perry to the crowd of social conservatives texas pastor said they shouldnt select mitt romney because hes mormon, a religion the pastor described as a cult. later cnn political correspondent jim acosta asked the pastor how he responds to voters who insist that romneys religion shouldnt be an issue. here is what he said. >> the southern baptist convention, which is the largest protestant denomination in the world has officially labeled mormoni...

The vote wont turn out the way it did in 08 because they cant find jobs. they are disillusioned. his job approval among hispanics is anemic. so they are trying to create a tea party movement. if anyone in the tea party movement had been chanting the anti-semitic slurs that have been going on -- >> thats true. >> they would have been universally condemned. i for one, as an american, not a partisan statement -- i was very disappointed that president obama did not go out of his way to condemn that ...