have been doing any homework. queen victoria is the only monarch in the u.k. to be celebrating the diamond jubilee, 60 years with the crown and the other queen is queen elizabeth coming up marking 60 years of her reign and we will be in london for this. join us sunday, june 3rd, when it really begins here and join me and piers morgan and a number of others from cnn in london for this extravaganza sunday, june 3rd, beginning at 11 in the morning eastern time. now this. just in at cnn the manatee center of that international back and forth giving his first interview to cnn. anderson cooper jst sat down with chen gen chang, the blind activist and he is now in the united states and came home over i shouldn t say home. came to the u.s. over the weekend and became a tugging match between the u.s. and china. here is part of what he told anderson about why he spoke out in the first place. i will quote these back and forth here. quote, natural for me, it was very natural for me. i
i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, showdown ant camp david. the world s heavyweights are in the ring. the g-8 leaders arriving today. president obama having them all at guests as camp david. a fancy din play a bunch of games and hang out, and literally, that s what it s like. but it s also going to be a little bit like, like a boxing fight. like the fight where tyson took off the ear of evander holyfield. they re going to take it all off and fight. [ bell rings ] reporter: francois hollande the challenger, wants to borrow a boat load of money and say sayonara to the money cuts. and telling angela merkel her austere ways of over. the ref, the guy with the smile hoping not to get hit with body blows or parts is barack obama. a big decision to make. side with more cuts or risk his presidency say heg wants to borrow more money now to save the economy? all smiles aside, this choice may decide whether america remains the world s biggest and best. one person fighting since day
regime and the frustration of the world s failed diplomacy. we begin with the obama campaign s effort to change the subject and refocus the presidential campaign on mitt romney s business record. team obama buying tv time during the evening news in five battle ground states. wednesday night voter in colorado, ohio, pennsylvania and virginia will see this tv ad attacking the private record at the equity firm bain capital. we view mitt romney as a job destroyer. to get up on national tv and brag about making jobs when he has destroyed thousands of people s careers, lifetimes, just destroying people. he is running for president and if he is going to run the country the way he ran our business, i wouldn t want him there. he would be so out of touch with the average person in this country. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellowen is traveling with the president and the goal is obvious, defining him as greedy, cold and heartless. why is that such an urgent oba
it s 15 months now that syrian have said protesting and conducting this uprising against their government. we have seen incredible amounts of violence, by conservative estimates, more than 9,000 people killed, with artillery and tanks and helicopters against opposition demonstrators. and they have grown increasingly armed. and despite that incredible loss of life, there is no sign in sight that the population is willing to give up this rebellion. you have people proudly flying the flag of the opposition. we met rebels that are that look to be better armed than we ve seen in months past. they have better uniform than they ve ehad in the past. they seem to be better mobilized as well, to preparing for what they think may be the next phase in the fighting there. and we also talked to some of the civilians who have suffered. i talked to a mother who had lost three of her sons. three of her sons who tried to defend their village from two subsequent syrian military attacks on t
coming in at this moment about how the cia stopped an ambitious al qaeda plot to blow up a passenger jet bound for the united states. a u.s. counterterrorism official tells cnn the explosive device is similar to the one used by the would-be underwear bomber. you may recall that on christmas day 2009. just like that bomb, this one did not contain metal, which raises real questions about whether it could have gotten past airport security. as of yet, the person who had developed that bomb had not yet bought a ticket. here s defense secretary, leon panetta. what this incident makes clear is that this country has to continue to remain vigilant against those that would seek to attack this country and we will do everything necessary to keep america safe. fran townsend is cnn s national security contributor, a member of both the dhs and cia external advisory boards. chad sweet is a former dhs and cia official, also the cofounder of the chertoff group, a global security firm. good