road because he actually had a plan. so he didn t want to just kick the can down the road. he actually has no problem dancing with the can, but he actually had a plan and nobody bothered to look into it. brian: right. he have took on paul craigman, as well as grover norquist to say he thinks both on either side are hurting the entire process. he s a heck of a dancer. gretchen: coming up, one of the most dangerous cities in america might have to fire its police force because now they say that the union wants too much. steve: then brand-new unemployment numbers coming out this morning. stuart varney says could be a recipe for disaster. the two things that if they happen could send us into a recession. stuart varney comes into studio e and it s immediately greeted gretchen: oh, what a brushoff. gretchen: just because i know you hate this. what? this family used capital one venture miles
where is 23-year-old army private kelli bordeaux. we re learning the agents will take lie detector tests in the secret service investigation. we re live in colombia with that story. ted nugent not backing down after his controversial comments about president obama. new reaction from the rocker himself now calling obama s appointments communist czars. the most influential. time magazine s big left of moguls, pioneers and leaders. brand you this morning. we re talking to the editor. and the new york knicks sensation possibly heading south to the college of women and mary not for basketball but for a date at the senior formal. newsroom begins right now. we begin with breaking news. a new scandal is erupting for the u.s. military in afghanistan. they are photos showing u.s. soldiers posing with and mocking the bodies of suicide bombers. first two disclaimers here. cnn has not independently authenticated the photos and they are graphic and we have blurred them for yo
our pentagon xpont barbara star has more on the air strike that killed al-awlaki. reporter: this is important. this man posed a direct threat to the united states had inspired him by all accounts ordered attacks against the u.s. now this apparently is the result of a two-year effort between the u.s. intelligence community and the people to go after him to find him, target him and take him out. very controversial as he is an american born citizen. killed for his activities in another country. by all accounts, it was a drone strike that killed al-awlaki. there were three other persons in that convoy with him. they are believed also to have been killed. this is something that the u.s. long wanted. this is a target that they were making a great effort to go after inside yemen even as that country remains in a good deal of political social and economic unrest. joe? barbara, if we know how much was yemen actually involved in this strike? and if we don t know that, typically wha
berlusconi is charged of using his position of covering up his liaisons with underage hookers. clooney says the only time he met burl scoerlusconi was tryint help for darfur. they re also calling cria socce player also. a boy made a wish, a cooking session with a famous chef and she turned him down twice. but when the blogs and the news folks broiled her for the brushoff, she changed her mind and invited him to the set of her show. her name is ina garten, neither barefoot, nor a contessa. look who is talking to twin babies. there they are. the new hit of the viral universe for talking back and forth in their own secret baby twin language. i would love to interpret for
the marshland, and i think you ve got an emergency situation like this always listen to local officials. instead they ve been basically spit on by bp over the past few weeks. reporter: and i want to ask you, kevin, about this. you re still feeling 95 days into this you re getting the brushoff from bp? they didn t show up for this meeting? i was insulted, completely. reporter: tell me what the situation was. we had a private meeting set up. the governor was there. the mayor of new orleans. all private. going to sit down like gentlemen and talk about the future and the recovery. reporter: the press wasn t aware of this? correct. you know, it was because we really wanted to sit down and make those discussions with them. and they don t have the courtesy and 20 minutes before they call in and say they re not attending. i still want a call from doug in reference to that, and i demand that we have a meeting. reporter: and when they cancelled what did they say? a reason? no rea