couples who are thriving, you know, that has an impact on how i think about these issues. again, what i know is what his position was during the campaign and what it is now. you know, he s been very clear about it, he was very clear in the campaign, he s very clear about the fact that his position that it s evolving. the president said that he was evolving. in explaining that process of evolving today, the president said he has always been adamant that gays and lesbians should be treated fairly and equally, but he hesitated on gay marriage partly he said because he thought civil unions would be enough. they would let people visit their partners in the hospital, for instance. in the abc interview, he acknowledged that same-sex marriage is an issue that elicits strong feelings both for and against. i was sensitive to the fact that for a lot of people, the word marriage was something that evokes very powerful traditions, religious beliefs and so forth. but i have to te
let s go to jim acosta in michigan. holy switch dps eroo, batman. can you explain romney s line of thinking to us? the romney campaign has been saying this for several weeks now bm. he is making the case that it is the managed bankruptcy process that helped the u.s. auto industry, not the bailout. so h eis, as he said in that interview, taking credit for the survival of the u.s. auto industry. obviously that is not going to sit well with the unions. there were some union protesters outside of this event for mitt romney that just rapped up here in michigan. he said hey, wait a minute, you wrote the op-ed that said let detroit go bankrupt. he also predicted if the bailout were to happen, those auto companies would go out of existence. he was wrong about that. but he s trying to say he was right on managed bankruptcy. what did he say about the speech today. he did not talk about the auto bailout. he did go after the president and we ve been hearing during an event that w
on it, u.s. hostage warren weinstein, begs president obama to agree to his kidnappers demands or else he will be killed. he was abducted last august in pakistan. the 70-year-old maryland executive has a bunch of health issues, including heart problems. here s part of the video militants posted online. i d like to talk to president obama and ask and beg him that he please accept and respond to the demands of the mujahadin. if you accept the demands, i live. if you don t accept the demands, then i die. it s important you accept the demands and act quickly and don t delay. there will be no benefit in delay. it will just make things more difficult for me. but it is very important that you act quickly and i m now waiting for your response. cnn foreign affairs reporter eli elise joins us. is this the first concrete evidence that he s still alive? it s the first proof of life. mr. weinstein was kidnapped in august. al zawahiri said basically if the u.s. meets the demands for
we ll take you there live. we talk to one bullied teen who pulls himself from the brink of suicide and becomes an activist. jessica simpson s pregnancy weight and the tannest mom in america. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it s 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west. a lot to tell you about this morning. let s get you caught up on the news. the arraignment for the man who is probably the most notorious man alive. can khalid sheikh mohammed has proudly admitted that he masterminded the plot to bring down the and is pleading not guilty in guantanamo bay, cuba. they all face the death penalty if convicted but the trial could take years. the woman in the center of the colombian prosecution center is calling the agents a bunch of fools. daniel suarez says she was introduced to one of the men by a friend and went back to the hotel room. she didn t know that he was an agent but went to sleep and left confidential files right out in the open. and when he awoke, he
dania gives an interview about her infamously ly iason. my friends nor i we didn t know they were agents, you know, obama s agents for, you know, and then we left and we went to this place to buy condoms. and then we went to the hotel. who went? well, my friend, well, wait, she is not a friend, acquaintance, and the agent who was with me and the other one. the four of us. and then my friend, went with him because she liked him. no, i don t understand. because she liked him, it wasn t the same thing i was doing. so salacious. athena jones monitoring it from the white house. what is the reaction? reporter: when ask the white house they sent us to the secret service. they have no comment on this at this moment in time. one thing i should mention, barbara starr learned the investigation of the 12 members of the military who were part of this whole incident who were said to be part of the whole incident will be completed today and that investigation, that report will be forw