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Testimony from former members of these families who have been become cooperating witnesses who then, as they say on "the sopranos" wore a wire and talked to these people. they also used wiretaps. all sorts of investigative capabilities. about 117 people in new york, new jersey and rhode island. for a wide range of crimes, everything from gambling, racketeering, protection rackets, narco trafficking, infiltration into unions, all the way up the attorney general said today, eric holder, to murder....

Arizona now. >> and chuck, as you know, the president will arrive here later this afternoon. were in front of the mchale center, where this service will be taking place. he is expected to meet with victims families today and take part in that memorial. its set to begin at 8:00 eastern time here on the campus of the university of arizona. speechwriters will tell you candidly the president is really taking a personal hand on this speech and was up late writing. we do expect him to convey his condo...

Others say out loud you have to get the base going because we could have a problem come november if all of this material is plentiful. >> well, we still have a lot of time. more than 90 days before the mid terms. messaging will be crucial. right now you are going to have the unemployed people in this country, and theres 15 million of them, theyre going to engage. theyre going to vote. now, theres going to be one party that wants to help them and another party that wants to throw them to the side...

Private manning? >> shep, private first class manning is on the move from a holding cell in kuwait to quantico virginia where he will be held pending trial. im told that when he gets to quantico, standard operating procedure will be to put him on suicide watch. you may recall he was supposed to be tried in baghdad for the alleged leak of classified video from a helicopter back in 2007. the move to quantico may suggest that preparations are being made for trying him on more charges perhaps. >> th...

For a decision here on general david petraeus as commander of the armed forces in afghanistan. we are just learning that right here at cnn. when we get more details, well have it for you. time now for "wordplay" because the news has a way of giving old words some new twists. case in point today, activism. your doctor tells you activity will help you live longer. if you ever took a writing course, your teacher told you to use the active voice. but if you ever get nominated to the supreme court,...

Started the day with its shares costing $34 and something. sothebys ended the day with stock costing $33. its a drop, but its no big, right? it goes between $33 and $34. whatever. until the stock price of sothebys shares went to $100,000. per share. which means that at some point today, sothebys went from a company being worth $2.2 billion to being a company worth $6.8 trillion. which means for a minute, that one company had a net worth of somewhere between the size of the entire economies of th...

Lisa is monitoring some of the other top stories in "the situation room" right now. what do you have, lisa? >> a giant containment dome thought to be the best hope for stopping the massive oil spill is for you on site. bp shipped the four-story vessel overnight and hopes to lower it approximately 5,000 feet for the larger of the leak point today. more fallout from arizonas controversial new immigration lead. the national council of la rasa is calling for a nationwide boycott of the state. also...

Not injuries on the ground and turns out those two people were the people, the british police were looking for, and they wrapped up their investigation, pretty quickly, thanks to those cell phones. juliett. juliet: amy kellogg, live in london, thank you. >> you are welcome. bill: we are waiting to see the suspect, at some point today. well be in federal court, again, and no cameras there. but at some point we should get a shot of him. what can we expect and frankly what is happening right now, w...

The tea party movement is focusing much of its anger today on taxes. this being the deadline to file with the irs. so far taxes have not, repeat, have not gone up under president obama. lets talk about it with our senior political analyst david gergen. there was a modest, relatively modest tax cut for middle-class americans. a lot of rich americans are bracing for bigger tax rates. but so far it hasnt happened. >> hasnt happened, wolf. a lot of republicans point out the congress has passed a num...

Weapons thats going to stop a terrorist from attacking us, and thats why the president has convened this summit for tomorrow. >> yeah, both the president and the secretary of state making that point today. he did it at his meeting, and she did it on the sunday talk shows. heres what i want to ask you, though. the president said he vows to rid the world of dangerous nuclear weapons. thats a pretty bold statement. is that possible? can he do that? >> well, theres a lot of debate about whether its ...