what does the judge need to weigh now? in releasing those documents to a local television statement, the associated press knowing the nation watched from the moment we got news of this shooting to the very moment and the aftermath afterwards the burial of the victims and even the aftermath with the flag controversy. there are a couple of things at issue. one is whether the prosecution, the defense attorneys should be gagged, shouldn t be allowed to talk about the case out of order. that should be done. gag orders lead to better lawyering and better judging what would the arguments be for there not to be a gag order? with regard to the prosecution disclosing things that might be in documents that are previously sealed maybe statements made by the defendant, information, witnesses not previously disclosed, defense counsel it s much better to keep it in the courtroom when it can be done. secondly with regard to the first amendment right, the media wants all the police reports,
footage that appears to show the moment his helicopter left kiev. airport officials, border officials say that a charter plane did try and leave the country, and they believed that the former president was on that plane, although there s been no confirmation of that. he s still believed to be somewhere in the east by the russian border. that is where he is from. that is where he still has some support, but he hasn t been seen since he gave a television interview or television statement, i should say, yesterday in which he declared he was not stepping down. you might be able to hear some mournful singing behind me. all day in independence square they have been holding memorials. so this is a constant political reminder that these protesters want real change, but it has also been a memorial today for the roughly 100 people who died this past week to bring about this tremendous change. you know, richard, final
constitution. i have no other choice but to bear responsibility. violence and shedding the blood, this is if we full enter this it will not end. president morsi is underneath enormous pressure right now from the millions of protesters out there right now. also under enormous pressure from the egyptian military. and even some pressure from president obama. our senior international correspondent ben widerman is joining us from cairo right now. he s been watching what s going on. he s joining us on the phone. it looks like he s begging the people in this television statement that he s delivering that he s begging them for forgiveness. a. i wouldn t go so far. i think what he s saying is he is going to hold onto the position and is not going to step down. and he s using the shield of what he calls democratic legitimacy.
hoping to take on the candidate who may pose the greatest challenge to president obama. we are talking about mitt romney. herman cain is live with us here in the situation room this hour. we will talk about what is behind declined in the recent polls. criticism of his 9-9-9 tax plan and much more. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. he s the only candidate whose been consistently at the top of the polls in the volatile republican race for the white house. that has mitt romney increasingly targeted by president obama s supporters. now in an unusual move, the democratic national committee is targeting romney in an effort to sway the gop nominated contest pmt cnn s joe john says working the scene for us. joe, what is going on here. it raises the question, whose primary is this anyway. it was much easier to keep track of this when it was just republicans fighting among themselves. the latest in the republican battle comes from the democratic national committee,
they did not do that. resulted in abundance of fore gone. they identified who the gun sales men were along the way and then be able to pull the gun back. there are memos according to williams that says not only did the u.s. weapons help the mexican cartels but officials wat you are seeing them deny open records requests that they probably would have otherwise given up and the white house could move on. congressman is following up on capit capitol hill as well. stay tuned to see a wrap up of the television statement that had the white house up in arms.