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nightly news." tonights broadcast from london nightly news." tonights broadcast from london begins now. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good evening. here in london with the opening ceremony now just 24 hours away, something mitt romney said during our conversation with him here yesterday exploded here in london today and actually caused a bit of tension with the british prime minister and then late today the mayor of london exhorted a huge crowd in hyde park to prove m...

good evening. here in london with the opening ceremony now just 24 hours away, something mitt romney said during our conversation with him here yesterday exploded here in london today and actually caused a bit of tension with the british prime minister and then late today the mayor of london exhorted a huge crowd in hyde park to prove mitt romney wrong by pulling off the olympic games without a hitch. this all started during the one moment yesterday when our exclusive interview with hi...

uponned kaleib to hear him cry. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: good evening. mitt romney was hoping his big, overseas trip to britain, israel, and poland would get plenty of attention, and it is, for all the wrong reasons. the trip was designed to establish his foreign policy credentials, but instead, on his very first stop, he found himself trying to dig out of a diplomatic blunder. in london, he offended the british over their...

most active, bustling cities anywhere in the word, and of course its easier if you hold an olympic games in the middle of nowhere. but, you know, i visited burma recently, and they have six main highways and no cars on them. this is a busy, bustling city, so inevitably youre going to have challenges. >> reporter: cameron was making the point it would be easier to run an olympics in a less-congested place but the british press jumped all over the "middle of nowhere" remark saying it had...

to come out of nowhere and six months later george bush got into office and alan greenspan shortly started to lower interest rates. i remember a quote at the time that alan greenspan on into-- which were basically low taxes, economy to the peak of the business cycle in the 80s are the 70s and does not particularly impressive. what did increase was consumption because we had trillions of dollars, $10 trillion to stock bubble well. that collapsed in 2002 and gave us the recession in the ...

that business, and theyre moving everyone back out to the main area where the ticket counters are that kind of thing until they can rescreen them. >> it is all happening on the same day they announced enhanced security measures for people coming into the country. a very busy travel day for people coming back from the holidays. susan candiotti on top of the security breach at newark international airport. we will follow it here on cnn. i am don lemon. meantime, "state of the union" star...

threat against the united states. ups the yemeni government does a better job containing terrorists there. bri he says there are several operating in yemen and will talk more about this on state of the union coming up at the top of the hour. so stay tuned. state of the union coming up in just minutes. youve been watching cnn sunday morning. john king is off today and this is state of the union. growing questions in the wake of the christmas day terror plot. >> it was a mix of human a...

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Policy discussions meant romney spent most of the day on defense trying to fight back the british tabs something they were reporting themselves security problems. t it will all come out fine. >> in the last few minutes we have gotten words from the salt lake city mayor ralph becker he is in on it here is a quote. we also hosted the most successful winter games ever. he can stop by any time. we would love to have him and happy to send him a map so he doesnt run into any trouble locating the middl...