this is a special edition of state of the union this morning for the dedication of the martin luther king memorial. reliable sources will return next week. president obama arrived here a short time ago and will soon dlirch his tribute to dr. deliver his tribute to dr. king. this will close with the extraordinarily rare playing of dr. king s i have a dream speech in its entirety. the king family has approved its use for this one event. the president will speak the end transto the memorial, a small area that only accommodates a small number of vips. the general public is assembled in a field with its own stage and jumbo trans. since early morning they have been listening to music and speeches pie some of the people closest to dr. king. cnn s joe johns is down at the memorial dedication site. joe, i ve been listening to the speeches that i could listen to. it seems a little bit from the podium a mixture of remembrance, looking ahead and a sprinkle of politics thrown in t
into the 10 months old disappearance. what prompted the national guard s involvement now? honestly what prompted this is a lack of any other leads. police it tell us they haven t made any breakthroughs on the case. they re trying to get fresh eyes on this investigation. take a look here, as you mentioned 25 national guardsmen deployed here to research this area a few blocks away from the home. these are especially trained mps, and they ve been trained in it. joining fbi and local law enforcement here to just try to bring a fresh set of eyes, go through everything, make sure they haven t missed anything. here s what the national guard told us about their search. with the additional man power, they re able to research or search the area with like a fine tooth comb. they re able to get down in the grass, dig in the dirt, try to find any glues that helps. they re low crawling under bushes and vines. and here s exactly what they re talking about. take a look at this thicket.
another straw poll victory. the president the republican presidential candidate finished first at the conservative values voter summit this weekend winning 37% of the straw poll vote. herman cain came in second with 23% and rick santorum finished third with 16%. herman cain said the bad economy is having a greater impact on african-americans but the gop candidate says racism is not the reason why. i don t believe racism in this country today holds anybody back in a big way. is there some are there some elements of racism? yes. it gets back to if we don t grow this economy, that is a ripple effect for every economic level and because blacks are more disproportionately unemployed they get hit the worse when economic policies don t work. that s where it starts. grow this economy and it s going to help everybody to get jobs and get back into the work force. cain and his rival republican candidate hold a debate at dar mouth college in new hampshire on tuesday. the voices
governor? some media dilemmas to ponder. hank williams jr. s offensive comments about president obama. should monday night football have given the singer the boot? those wall street protests now spreading across the country. has the press been too slow to recognize their importance? plus, the passing of steve jobs. the visionary who was so brilliant at manipulating a news business that served as his cheering section. i m howard kurtz, and this is reliable sources. back in may, i wrote a newsweek headline, is sarah palin over? it seemed there was no way the fox commentator was going to mount a white house campaign. it was just as clear when reporters were chasing the bus trips she took over the summer. but the press somehow kept up the pretense until this week when palin pulled the plug with a statement and a radio interview, not like chris christie, at a news conference. to tell you the truth, i made my announcement today in the format that i did because that wa
breaking point. where are we weak incentive that s what the author of money ball and the blind side, michael lewis, will give his insights on. finally, solutions, what will fix the problems that ail us? i ll talk to tom freedman of the new york times about his book. also, want to see the hottest new thing on the globe? take a trip to mumbai or shanghai. i ll explain. and of course a few thought on steve jobs. first, here s my take. barack obama busy apparently committed blasphemy. in an interview in florida last week, he dared to say that america had gotten soft. the denunciations came in fast and furious. the american people are pl plenty tough. what we ve got is a soft public. it s not that we ve become soft. it s that he s on our shoulders, and he s too heavy. if you watch the clip, here s what the president actually said. the way i think about it is, you know, this is a great, great country that had gotten a little soft, and we didn t have the same compe