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May 20, 2011
upper east side apartment where he had planned to live while fighting sex assault charges. but up first tonight, two breaking global challenges. the obama administration issues a new warning because of intelligence seized at osama bin ladens compound in pakistan. chris lawrence is live from the pentagon with more on that. chris? >> reporter: well, john, what weve been able to determine is that al qaeda thought the best way to hijack some of these oil tankers and really hurt oil and nat...
May 20, 2011
from being free. deadly attack in pakistan, the americans are in the firing ryan less than a month after their forces killed osama bin laden. and leave new friends behind. the queens historic visit to ireland is almost over. we begin this hour in washington where israels prime minister will meet the u.s. president today for whats expected to be a tense round of talks. benjamin netanyahu arrives less than 24 hours after barack obama deliver add big speech on relations in the middl...
May 19, 2011
Out of a job, and plight soon be out of jail for a while. the now former head of the international monetary fund is back in court, hoping to sell a different judge on a restrictive bail request than the one rejected on monday. strauss-kahn is charged with sexually assaulting a maid at a posh manhattan motel last saturday. last night from his cell in rikers island the french socialist who scaled the heights of global finance resigned from the imf say, quote, i want to protect this institution and...
May 19, 2011
Hello, welcome back. im suzanne malveaux. welcome to our "cnn newsroom" special coverage of president obamas speech on the middle east to be delivered just moments away from the state department. >> were standing by. we understand the presidents getting ready to leave the white house, running a little bit late. supposed to have left by now. hell be going over to the state department, it is a very, very short drive. hell be introduced by the secretary of state and well have a chance to assess wha...
May 19, 2011
educator in chief that came out today. he provided a kind of world view, almost a historical interpretation of the causes and consequences of the arab spring. he began in the beginning with tunisia and moved forward. he tried to present a way in which he saw americas interests and values as squarely aligned with this arab revolution. he touched on the places that we dont like, the regimes we dont like that are having trouble dealing with people. tehran, damascus. he also talked about b...
May 19, 2011
about 40 minutes from now. were taking a look at live pictures showing you there the flag set up, the podium set up, waiting for the president to be speaking. that will be happening momentarily. now, of course were taking a look at how the events a world away impact your security, our standing in the world. weve got a few details ahead of the speech. the president is expected to say that the post-bin laden area is a time to reject terror and extremist views. the president will emphasiz...
May 18, 2011
Folks experiencing downward mobility, and confronting the wall street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats. id like to see more of that back bone. >> you used the term black mascot. you also called barack obama a black mascot of wall street oligarchs and black puppet of wall street plutocrats and now is head of the american killing machine and is proud of it. is this personal? well its personal only to the degree to which were talking about the system in place that is rigged at the moment against ...
May 18, 2011
Workers, those unfairly incarcerated, those middle class folks experiencing downward mobility, and confronting the wall street oligarchs and corporate plutocrats. id like to see more of that back bone. >> you used the term black mascot. you also called barack obama a black mascot of wall street oligarchs and black puppet of wall street plutocrats and now is head of the american killing machine and is proud of it. is this personal? well its personal only to the degree to which were talking about ...
May 17, 2011
phillips. the state of mississippis governor says 25,000 homes could be lost in the flood as well as millions of dollars in farm products. a historical first in dublin, ireland. queen elizabeth becomes the first british monarch to step on irish soil. a security scare of a bomb hours before her arrival. pakistan is returning the tail section from the stealth helicopter that went down in the raid on osama bin ladens lair. coming as they hold a hearing on u.s./pakistani relations. ...
May 16, 2011
Event. well have the details of their plight coming up. ♪