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Its an incredibly busy day, has to do with the idea of aqap and other groups pairing together, sharing knowledge and maybe even sharing resources but certainly sharing the ability or the knowledge that they have when it comes to trying to build weapons that could slip through u.s. security, international security. what is your read on this threat, how specific it is and what our concern should be? >> well, keep in mind, brianna, that the technology develop since the invasion of 2003 cell phone d...

Government policy. >> intelligence officials say iran wants nuclear program for security and regional influenced ing that they just dont know whether a final decision will ultimately be made to build a nuclear weapon, shep. >> shepard: and al qaeda came up as well, right, cat? >> thats right. al qaedas core leadership in pakistan is on the decline. lawmakers were told ability to strike inside the u.s. in doubt. al qaeda ideology is finding new followers in north and west africa. with failed plot...

plus, disturbing video of a deadly police beating. the victim, a meanta willy ill homeless man who can be heard calling out to his father "theyre killing me." im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> while we begin this hour with the romney campaign, having some trouble staying on message. lets go straight to our national political correspondent jim acosta. hes on the campaign trail with the presumptive republican nominee. youre in lansin...

every day about 1.5 million americans board airplanes. this morning they have a big question. is it safe to fly? no doubt theres good reason for that concern. this new plot centered around a nonmetallic explosive designed to slip through airport detectors similar to a bomb aboard a flight in 2009. a malfunction may be the only reason those passengers survived. the latest plot also targeted an international flight coming into the united states. that was foiled two weeks ago. the investi...

congressman peter king in new york is chairman of the homeland security committee. hes been briefed on the plot and joins us on the phone. what are the latest you can tell us? >> i got briefed by secretary napolitano and john brennan. basically its a nonmetallic deaf vits, intended to be put on an american-bound airline. it never made to it the airline. its right now as you said being tested and analyzed by the fbi. obviously a concern would be that being unmetallic as to whether or no...

we are joined by congressman king on the phone. whats the latest you can tell us? >> we spoke with napolitano. a nonmetallic device that was intended to be put on a american-bound airline. it never made it to the airline. its being tested and analyzed by this fbi. obviously a concern would be that being nonmetallic as to whether or not this could evade security in our airports. thats a really concern. also, this is an ongoing operation. this particular part of it occurred about some ti...

hands. plus, an election of evil and a major change of course by a leading ally, france elected its first socialist president in two decades, were looking at what it means for the united states. im wolf blitzer, youre still in "the situation room." the vice president joe biden said over the weekend hes fine with gay marriage and arnie duncan says he believes gay and lesbians should be allowed to marry. putting him at odds with the president of the united states. jessica yellin is worki...

bomber, that this was a way to upgrade the technology into an ie d and explosive device. what do you know? >> just speaking to a senior administration official tells us while there are many similarities to the past bombs we heard out of aqap, there was differences to this which is why they want to take the time to being make sure the fbi goes through the forensicing. we have heard a number of threats about body bombs and senior administration officials tell cnn this was not intended to...

. they stand accused of plotting the dets of nearly 3,000 americans. khalid sheikh mohammed and four other suspects facing arraignment today in guantanamo bay. chris lawrence is there for us. it seems like these men are doing everything they can just to drag all of this out further. >> reporter: yeah, don. and the arraignment was just about over and there was another outburst in the courtroom, just literally a few minutes ago. we were watching the court proceedings. everything seemed...

implanted in passengers on flights bound for the u.s. the other story, may day protests around the country and the world. here in the united states the occupy movement is behind the demonstrations. in other countries hunl crowds taking to the streets to mark international workers day. well have live reports from here and overseas. >> one year ago an elite team raided a compound in pakistan, killed the most wanted man in the world, osama bin laden. today on the anniversary of bid ladens...