this broadcast with video of the death of this little boy. now some of you will say we should not show this video. i understand that. it is sickening. it is hard to watch. it is horrific. but we believe what is even more horrific is dying in silence. murder that is then covered up by lies. lies from a dictator who says it isn t happening, a dictator who says we re not pulling the trigger on sniper rifles that kill children. we re not shooting on funerals. he says it s not happening and yet every day, in hundreds of homemade videos, we see it happening. you will see it happening tonight. the little boy s only crime, it seems, was being at home in syria in the middle of a war being waged by a brutal dictator against his own people. a dictator who in the face of evidence that grows daily continues to deny everything. we don t feel our people are being killed and no government in the world kill its people unless it s led by a crazy person. i became president because of the publ
newt gingerich, the party s country front-runner called the middle east peace process, quote, delusional. and a live picture for you from arlington cemetery where a wreath laying ceremony is taking place to honor our american heros. and we honor you, all of you families that are with us. good morning to you from the cnn headquarters in atlanta. i hope this morning has been good to you so far. let s get right to those allegations of sexual abuse. two men tell espn that the head of the amateur athletic union sexually abused them in the 1980s. the men tell the sports network they were playing for robert bobby dodd s aau basketball team when he molested them. there s been no dment, by the way, from dodd. he s battling colon cancer right now. newt gingerich facing strong criticism this morning for comments he made about the palestinian people. he said they were invented. take a listen. well, i believe that those people have the right to have a state and i believe that the comm
he calls palestinians an invented people. a palestinian leader says the gop front-runner s comments are racist. thousands of white house visitors have done it. now president obama has, too. he sets off a metal detector at a white house security checkpoint. and across russia, angry protesters take to the streets. they say parliamentary elections were rigged. the target of their anger, the prime minister vladimir putin and his party. controversial words from newt gingerich today. he says palestinians are and i m quoting here an invented people. gingerich made the remarks in an interview on the jewish channel. here it is. well, i believe that the jewish people have the right to have a state. and i believe the commitments that were made at a time remember, there were there was no palestine as a state as part of the ottoman empire. i think that we ve had an invented palestinian people who were historically part of the arab community. gingerich went on to say it s
stands to pay $1,000 more in taxes in 2012. there seems to be bipartisan support for extending it but as usual, no agreement on how to pay for it. candy crowley is cnn s chief political correspondent and anchor of state of the union. political theater aside, you think congress will eventually get this done? i absolutely think congress will eventually get this done. particularly because we have seen republicans now saying we even the senate republican leader mitch mcconnell said even if you don t believe that this actually helps the economy, it certainly will help the people that get the break from their payroll taxes. this is just not you don t want to go home at christmas and having raised everybody s taxes. especially when it is your point of view that you are never going to raise taxes on anyone for any reason. that s a little hard to square that. also with us this morning, former new york times columnist, distinguished senior fellow. stephen moore, editorial wri
i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. going take more than two years. going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. now more on that investigation of memphis. sexual abuse allegations are surfacing against the head of the amateur athletic union. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 1980s when they were playing on dodd s aau basketball team. cnn george howell is in memphis. he joins us now live. so, george, what more, if anything, is being said about these allegations? reporter: fredericka, we just got off the phone with police. they say there s an active investigation into bobby dodd. the amateur athletic un