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Gregg: i dont know how they do that it is truly an amazing story. >> it is. gregg: thank you, rick. jenna: concerns over u.s. cybersecurity. well tell you about a computer virus affecting one of the most deadly and popular military tools, our countrys drone fleet. the potential danger facing our military just ahead.

>> what would have been contained in the justice department memo to the white house was essentially legal justification for putting anwar al awlaki, an american-born cleric on the u.s. governments kill or capture list. now, you know, the civil rights advocates once awlaki was killed are complaining he was not, as an american citizen, he was not given due process. on the other hand the administration will argue since he allegedly instigated and in fact tried to carry out terrorist attacks against...

Several weeks including possibly slashing payroll tax extending unemployment insurance. the bill also calls for investing in infrastructure projects and the president has been taking his case to the american people and hell head to pittsburgh tomorrow and will likely give another one of those fiery speeches that weve heard from him recently. >> kristen welker at the white house. thank you. the u.s. military is working to track down the source of a computer virus thats infected a group of compu...

its one of the u.s. militarys most important weapons systems playing a critical role in the fight against terror. and now theres new growing concern over the computers that concern drone aircraft. theyre infected with a persistent virus but it is only part after much, much bigger threat. our correspondent chris lawrence is investigating all of this for us. chris, what are you picking up? >> right now, officials dont know if this virus is benign or truly doing harm. it has not stopped t...

>> has no business and no obligation having to pay for wall streets bad bets. thats their bad bets and they can eat them. >> well, congresswoman, yes, were not so sure. different political goal but both movements are taking full advantage of our precious right of free speech. what we dont know is whether the protesters from the left are going to rival the tea party. >> only pakistan can save pakistan. only afghanistan can save afghanistan. and right now, we should focus on america savi...

Program has been infected by a computer virus. a report from wired magazine says the virus infected military computers that control drones that fly over iraq and afghanistan. the military has been unable to remove it. but the drones are still flying. there are no reports that classified data was lost. if we dont know if it was part of an attack or any accident. lets go to politics now. rick perry deflecting questions raised by a supporter who called the mormon religion a cult. >> governor, is ...

Policies the priority at the united nations and other places. out of all the candidates, im seeing mitt romney really speaking the best not apologizing for america and taking on the obama administration. >> gregg: rick grenell, thanks very much. >> a shocking reported out of wired magazine. computer virus has infected a u.s. drone aircraft. the virus reportedly logging key strokes over afghanistan and other war zones. so far it has registered efforts by security specialists to remove from air fo...

catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victims family they had the wrong man. >> and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head ba...

Announced the success will startup of what the country reports is its only nuclear plant. the official says the reactor at the plant was only steps away from generating electricity. the start-up began this month after years of delay. last year iran reported a malicious computer virus attacked high value industrial sites but officials stopped short of saying it caused the delay of the plant. it has been widely reported that, well, one country or another might have been responsible for that but we...

>> beyond the centrifuges, what is the best target that we can next say we will go after through this sort of malwear, as you call it, this computer virus that could knock out an essential part of the nuclear production stage? >> if, for example, we had anything to do with this. >> yes. thats right. and let me just add this, that one of the benefits of stuxnet is it makes the iranians scared to build secret sites because if theyre that penetrated, as this would imply, they have to worry theyll b...