chief of staff. implying she may somehow be working on behalf of the muslim brotherhood. now, you would think to make a charge like that for sitting members of congress to make a charge like that, that they would have some actual evidence, right? you would think that. but the truth is they don t have any direct evidence. what they have are allegations of past connections of relatives of hers that are tenuous best. has called for bachmann to produce credible evidence. so bachmann produced a 16 page letter she sent to the congressman. we re going to walk you through the lonngic she lays out in thi particular case. mother, brother and late father are connected to the muslim brotherhood. let s start with abadin s father, who s dead, by the way. a professor of social science. now, bachmann attributes this information to 2002 law review article out of brickham young university. according to that article, professor abetin s institute had the support of another man who was a former g
outfront tonight, is syria at a tipping point? the pressure is building on syrian president bashar al assad who is no doubt watching his back this evening after an attack struck the heart of his regime. a regime that s been in power for over 40 years and has launched a brutal crackdown on rebels over the last 16 months, killing more than 16,000 people, according to one opposition group. whether today s bloodshed is the result of a rebel attack or an inside job, one thing is clear assad s security perimeter has been breached. state tv reports those assassinated at a high-level meeting in damascus include the defense minister, the deputy defense minister who s also al assad s brother-in-law, and his security adviser. rebels danced in the street following the explosion. the opposition forces have come a long way since the uprising began. that has deputy defense secretary leon panetta worried the situation is quickly deteriorating. the violence there has only gotten worse a
lied about his end date at bain. in a series of interviews on friday, romney accused of obama campaign of stooping to new lows. in an interview that aired today on cbs this morning, president obama was asked about the negative ads his campaign was running. here s what he said. first of all, we ve done a whole slew of positive ads that talked exactly about how we need to change our education system, how we need to change our tax code, how we need to rebuild america. how we need to promote american energy. so those just don t get attention in the news. the president said they ve run a whole slew of ads, positive ads. we wanted to we wanted to check and see if maybe we d overlooked a slew of ads either candidate was running. keeping them honest. we checked with c-mag, the consultants who track ad spending for us. they told us last week the obama campaign aired negative ads more than 19,000 times and positive ads fewer than 150 times. less than 1% of their ads were positive
well, good evening, everyone. outfront tonight, losing money, rewarded big time. today, jpmorgan s stock was up like a july firework. surging 6%. in fact, it brought the whole market along. for a friday the 13th surprise. it was the best day for stocks this month. and it doesn t add up. so, jpmorgan shares popped in reaction to the bank announcing that losses from that high-profile trading blunder we ve been talking so much about now top $5.8 billion. now, that $5.8 billion is about three times more than the company said it would lose on this trade just weeks ago. today, the ceo of jpmorgan, jamie dimond, took questions on an earnings conference call, and he said he s earned a lesson. we ve learned a lot. i can tell you this has shaken our company to the core. the truth is no one is sure if other banks have trades like this going on or whether it will happen again at jpmorgan. the truth is, we do not know very much about our banks. jamie dimon didn t know about the now
olympians and his harrowing escape from a terror attack with the whole world watching. this is piers morgan tonight. deadly danger in the great outdoors. a florida teenager lost the lower part of his right arm to alligator. a california man was in his kayak when a great white shark took a chunk out of his boat on saturday. just from the start of this month, there have been at least seven different attacks across the country by bears, alligators, a ark and a mountain lion. are the attacks on the rise? joining me now, a man who knows about this thing. he survived a grizzly attack himself. jack hanna is the director emeritus at the columbus zoo and aquarium. he s outside the venetian in scottsdale, arizona, and has a um could of his alligators with him. jack, welcome. good to be here, nice to see you, piers. it appears to be quite a worrying time at the moment for attacks by animals. what do you make of what s going on? people are trying to equate the overheating, in oth