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good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." you don't often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he held his ground against calls for his resignation. dana watched it all unfold. >> a botched gun-ru...

crackdown on dissent. we begin with today's dramatic, intensely partisan confrontations between senate republicans and attorney general of the united states. a feisty appearance before the senate judiciary committee, attorney jenner i can holder refused demands that he apoint special counsel to investigate recent leaks of sensitive national security information. >> two people i pointed to look into matters are first rate prosecutors. >> special counsel, somebody new other than the two people that all of us could buy into? >> senator, i think you're missing something here. >> i thin...

in just a few minutes, we'll talk to chad myers and whether firefighters can help the weather help them or make their efforts to battle this giant blaze even harder. we begin with crime and punishment tonight. jerry sandusky. faced one of his accusers on the first day of testimony in his trial. in the court document, the accuser known as victim number four is the first to take the stand for the prosecution. the former penn state assistant football coach sat with his lawyer through often graphic testimony about their so-called relationship. victim number four detailed the years of all...

a wake-up call from the ragin' cajun. bill clinton's top adviser, james carville, along with two respected democratic pollsters out with a blistering 16-page indictment of the president's campaign strategy. carville says the president's efforts to convince voters that the economy is going in the right direction hit the wrong strategy and in his words will fail. he's right about one thing. the president is selling a message of hope, hard. >> we've gone through the worst financial crisis and economic crisis since the great depression. we've made significant progress. the good news is t...

new developments overnight in the case involving secretary of commerce john bryson. and his two car crashes. he went back to work yesterday but not today. find out why, coming up in this hour of cnn. welcome to "early start," i'm zoraida sambolin. >> i'm ashleigh banfield. we're bringing you the news from "a" to "z." it is 5:00 on the dot in the east. let's start with this, shall we? victim number one ready to take the stand today in jerry sandusky child abuse sex trial. today's witness was just 11 or 12 years old when he first met the penn state assistant football coach. it was his ...