good evening, everyone, i m erin burnett. and outfront tonight, ahmadinejad on the spot. an unexpected spectacle in tehran today. the president summoned before parliament for the first time since the 1979 revolution. conservative parliament members called ahmadinejad out on everything from the limping economy, which is a victim of u.s. sanctions, to his public disagreements with the ayatollah who, of course, is the supreme leader of iran. ahmadinejad tried to make jokes, and he made no secret of his disdain for this event, saying, quote, the fact is that i tried not to attend this session, but i guess it was ordained that i should come, so there was nothing i could do about it. i met him once in person. that sort of seemed the way he might have delivered that, a little nonchalant. a growing power struggle between ahmadinejad and the supreme leader khomeini. president obama watched tehran s action and he used some of his strongest language yet while standing next to the pr
be out there? well, i think overall the heroic deeds these guys have been doing in the last ten years to sustain combat deployments and the sack ra is tpaoeusess theisacrifices their families have gone through need to be brought to the forefront. as filmmakers we thought it was time to give them some recognition. martha: scott, it s martha here. did you ever anticipate how wide the release of this movie would become? i think it s in 2500 theaters across the nation as it opens. clearly it s jump off the lot of attention that this group has got even since the osama bin laden hit. it s definitely very humbling, mouse and i really set out on a venture four years ago to just tell their story accurately and authentically and have the film really reach this kind of recognition, i think it s over 3,000 screens now coming up on friday, it s pretty
are angry, we hear that. in general i don t think anybody s going to try to primary the president at this point. thank you. thank you. here s a look at some of the other stories making headlines today. libya rebels claim gadhafi s youngest son was killed in a western air strike. the libyan government denies it. msnbc has learned the army as hay announced most combat deployments will decrease to nine months in a war zone. right now it s a year. the cdc wants you to check your freerz for ground turkey. and sir paul mccartney plans to talk to police about the phone hacking scandal. his ex-wife heather mills claimed a british newspaper spied on the couple while they were married. a shocking case of murder in missouri where a man s fighting for his freedom after spending eight years behind bars for a murder he insists he did not commit. it began ten years ago when a
a new pentagon survey is expected to show that there is little risk in repealing the don t ask, don t tell policy governing gays in the military. more than 70% say the repeal would have little impact on the u.s. forces. but as martha raddatz now reports, that is not how the marines see it. the few. the proud. the marines. reporter: marines who have the toughest physical standards, more frequent combat deployments, the fewest percentage of women by far, and are also the youngest force, with 60% under the age of 22. all resulting in a macho espirit de corps in which marines pride themselves. that deeply patriotic, high-octane approach to recruiting may be one reason that 40% of marines don t want to see gays serving openly. higher than any other service.
after him is making good on that deal. the exact end date for the combat operations part of the mission slid around for a while, but it settled on the end of this month. that the all clear all out date is still this time next year. it s the date that bush agreed with the iraqis. same plan to leave, different presidents. we are in year eight of one of our wars, we re in year nine of another of our wars. both started during/by the previous administration. should we expect we get a break of that now? president obama with disabled american veterans told the story of an army ranger severely wounded on his tenth deployment. his tenth. the man is 27 years old. ten combat deployments. does that mean that the new president means that the last president s war gets wound down? is there a tangible life-and-death difference now between presidents on national security between democrats and the republicans, will the afghanistan war end and soon? is it possible that another war won t just take its p