their word, their stories, america s hope. this is a special edition of piers morgan tonight. good evening. big story tonight, london 2012. it s hard to believe we re fewer than 50 days away from the oimp licks. for america the best athletes will be hoping to take home the gold. the nationals are taking place this very weekend. the last great contest before the games themselves. i ve talked with the star in just a moment. but first let s get to preparations under way back in london. days after the jubilee, the city is working around the clock to get ready. let s start with richard quest, who is at the heart of things. richard? piers, barely have we got over the excitement of the jubilee and finely dried out, and now get ready for the olympics in 49 days time. 10,500 athletes from more than 200 countries will be arriving in the british capital. the olympic torch is north of the border in scotland, making its way around. and when all is said, the britains will have spent
crashing an outdoor graduation. caught rhett handed and rhett faced. a robber sprased and spanked. you re going to see it. good morning, everybody. who love this is one. i love that one, too. bang, bang, don t come back. it s nice to have you here. i m ashleigh banfield. and zoraida. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east so let s get started for you. up first bill clinton getting back on script and back in step with the white house at least for now. in an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer, the former president doing a lot of apologizing after praising mitt romney s sterling business record and suggesting he would be open to extending the bush tax cuts with the wealthy, a position directly at odds with president obama. here s clinton yesterday on the situation room. i m very sorry about what happened ned. i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. he should just stick with his
morning is break nugs. defense secretary leon panetta arrives in afghanistan unannounced. brand new video of the defense secretary s arrival. he stopped in afghanistan for a real-timeup date from nato top commanders on how prepared allied troops and afghan security forces are to confront the taliban as they gear up for the summer fighting season. just yesterday, a twin suicide bombing in a market near kandahar killed 22 people. 50 other people were injured. nato is under scrutiny after an air strike killed 18 people. that number includes women and children, who were believed to be civilians. the u.s. is also saying that one of its armed helicopters was shot down by enemy fire and killed two crew members on board. let s get right to cnn s mohammed jamjoom in kabul for us this morning. reporter: good morning, soledad. surprise visit by secretary of defense leon panetta was his fourth to afghanistan. he met with u.s. troops and u.s. officials. he acknowledged the uptick in vio
economy overall. don t even get us started on europe or the tax cuts set to expire and spending cuts due to kick in a few short months from now watching it all is fed chairman ben bernanke who is trying to explain to congress live pictures right now what if anything he plans to do about it without saying too much. felicia taylor is watching from the new york city. felicia, what have we heard and learned so far? reporter: it s a careful dance because obviously the federal reserve chairman can t come out right and say anything ahead of the federal reserve meeting which takes place at the end of june, june 19th and 20th. so it s interesting that the expectation was that the stock market would actually rally in yesterday s session on the fact they were expecting to hear something. what he s been doing though is basically sort of admitting there has been slower than desirable growth in the marketplace and there could be room and the fed has left the door open for further sti
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