back in two months and get at this again. when mitch mcconnell, the senate republican leader put out that paper statement yesterday trying to urge those house republicans forward, then the dam broke and you reported, luke, we saw conservatives in the house come over over and say they would support that short-term extension. that culminated in the anti-climax that you were talking about today, basically two senators, harry reid and mark warner in the senate, wave their hands 1:29 is all it took. a buck 30. right. and then over to the house where we heard a little bit from steny hoyer but that pretty much an anti-climax and republicans were in full retreat. luke? mark, where do we go from here? obviously the president did win this fight. the house gop did back down. is this the president s issue from now to the state of the union? will he go around the country and really try to drum this up? we saw the president make this pivot and reductions when
so that the wheels of this amazing story just keep rolling along, and you mentioned in the lead that the resignations, and there have been four high-profile res ignations so far, the two top scotland yard officials, and there is no wrongdoing they say, but they were stepping down because they are too much of a distraction because of the media frenzy to do their job, and the ten arrests, and you mentioned rebecca brook, and all of this is leading to tomorrow. and we have to be careful, because it may be an anti-climax tomorrow with the tremendous amount of attention turning to this meeting, but i m not so sure how much hard core information or information in general and any kind of spectacle this will make. this could be very have very low key certainly on the part of rupert murdoch who doesn t like, we understand, these types of meetings and he does not like this type of spotlight on him. back the you, tamron.
within this context of try to portray the civil war as more disgruntled former top-level members of the regime trying to put themselves in a strong position to take power post gadhafi stepdown. this, of course, comes on the day president jacob zumo was here. we had been led to believe by leaks coming ahead of his visit that we might be talking about a soft landing for gadhafi. that has been completely thrown aside by the libyan government who tell us that actually all he s come to get is the colonel s okay for the african union roadmap which would allow gadhafi to oversee political reforms and political dialogue, candy. so did gadhafi agree to that? did anything else come of this? i know you spent the day following president zuma around during this meeting with gadhafi. reporter: it s been a little bit of an anti-climax.
teenage girls. and hackers tapping into something important, new targets, and get dangerously close to u.s. military secrets. the rash of online attacks and the threat to internet security and to homeland security. wolf blitzer is off. i m candy crowley and you re in the situation room. on this memorial day, sarah palin is doing some of the things she did best, creates suspense and drums up suspension. vice presidential nominee and reality tv star is not saying whether she will added a presidential candidate to her resume but republican contenders on the trail today. jim acosta is in gettysburg, pennsylvania, where palin arrived just moments ago. jim? reporter: candy, sarah palin was asked today by a reporter whether or not she was running for president and she answered that she is contemplating a run for the white house but more importantly, another question could be asked and that is, does all of this look like she s running for president? the answer just might be, yo
they are hemorrhaging support to the point they may get recalled from office. but you know who does support scott walker and the republicans trying to strip union rights and isn t afraid to say so? one of the koch brothers, a real one, not a fake one. the billionaire koch brothers are not from wisconsin. they own a large oil and chemical company, however. charles koch wrote in the the wall street journal that he is on scott walker s side. a bit of an anti-climax and in strucktive thing why this is a national story. there are two sides in this fight. there is the side that believes in this, there s a side that believes in the populist economic policies. then there s a few guys like david and charles koch and the multi billion oil and chemical conglomerate they inherited from their dad. it is a mismatch between the two sides. it is the upper crust versus the middle class. the few that own the company versus the number that work for the company. it is the people that write the paychecks