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>> well, its really interesting. i dont remember governor jindal putting out a statement calling for martin bashir of msnbc to keep his job after he made what were seen as disrespectful statements against one woman, sarah palin. i dont remember him calling for martin bashir to keep his job. this man has attacked an entire group of people with horrific defamation comparing gay people to people who engage in beastialty. there should be ramifications. there should be outrage. im not sure people sho...

. we are hearing from the family of an american war veteran detained in north korea. 85-year-old merrill newman was visiting the country and was on an airplane ready to take off when he was taken into custody. that was more than a month ago. yesterday the state department issued a statement calling for his release. it came after the north korean government put up this video showing the war vet, according to them, apologizing for his hostile acts. the family says they know hes in good health an...

Settling scores. the sports lead. one nfl player is out and another suspended for what? late hit? helmet to helmet tackle? nope. allegedly its for the same type of behavior we usually attribute to mean girls in high school. good afternoon. welcome to "the lead." im jack tapper. we begin with the national lead. moments ago, the head of the union representing officers with the transportation security administration issued a statement calling for some of those officers to be armed in the afterm...

Syria. qatar said it was going to support. so i think now the administration is trying to rally around the g-20 statement, getting arab support. you saw earlier in the weekend in lithuania, all 28 european foreign military leaders signed on to a statement calling for a strong military approach. it looks like theyre looking better than the one in congress. >> i wonder, were there any concerns expressed by the international community by kerry why they wont be more committed than just kind of lip s...

Well get right back there into florida when they do resume there, day eight of testimony. meanwhile, we move you to egypt. cairo, tahrir square, protesters there in the square as they have been throughout recent days, and there are three things to watch at this moment. first off, we expect a statement from the military, who issued a 48-hour ultimatum to the president, mo hohamed morsi. we expect him to be speaking, were hearing, possibly very shortly. and then, three, 11:00 a.m. is the deadline ...

With president putin and president obama. they agreed, as you know, during the course of that meeting on pursuing the geneva 1 agenda, which is a conference that would lead towards a transitional government. we have not been able to get that scheduled at this point and put together, but we continue to work with the russians on that. but we do share the goal of putting that together. president putin did sign on to a g-8 statement calling for an investigation of the use of chemical weapons by the ...

The intended recipients. this is nothing new but they are reporting an uptick a case of copycat attacks. >> heather: one firefighter is still in the hospital after houses deadliest fire in centuries. the roof caved in on a burning motel. >> gregg: demonstrations turning violent in london as rival group protested the killing of lee rigby. this is one of the heated demonstrations since the murder. yesterday rigbys family issued a statement calling for peace. >> heather: back to our top story. a fo...

>> tonight an american christian pastor in prison in iran and tonight were hearing from the pastor in his own words, pastor abedini writing a letter to his wife and describing the torture and abuse in one of irans brutal prisons and john kerry issuing a statement calling for the pastors immediate release. the pastors wife naghmeh abedini joining us and first to you, your thoughts about the letter from your husband? >> it gave me a glimpse what hes going through in that prison and it was heart wr...

>> well the family of a jailed american pastor in iran is now demanding that the obama administration issue a statement calling for the release of saeed abedini. attorneys for the abedinies at at hearing on friday accuse the u.s. state department being quote, awol on this subject for the last few months. listen to some of this. >> i think the state departments refusal to appear before this committee today is extremely troubling and frankly offensive. the failure to appear today to testify frankl...

Takes for the iraqis to get out of kuwait and the united nations resolutions to be enforced. >> reporter: a six-week campaign of aerial bombardment, culminating in a ground offensive routing the iraqis in 100 hours. >> now it looks like not only their air force, but their navy is being told to get out of the war. >> reporter: norman schwarzkopf was a west point graduate who spent his whole career in the army. he was a war hero in vietnam, where he earned three silver stars, three bronze stars an...