constitutional law professor barack obama as he was running for president. and he said that he would not use signing statements the way that george w. bush did. and george w. bush issued, you know, twice as many as all of his predecessors combined in provisions and bills. while barack obama has not issued as many signing statements, i talked to a number of legal experts, and, you know, academics who studied this who says he uses this power in exactly the same manner that george w. bush did. and susan, the surprise has been how the white house was really caught on their back feet. on saturday there was all this celebration and it was a moment, and the president being able to celebrate the successful return of an american prisoner of war. and they didn t seem to anticipate how angry the military would be, the former platoon members of sergeant bergdahl. it was a moment that lasted about 60 seconds for the
people asking was there any kind of cooperation between the security guards at this prison and the taliban. government officials now confirming pretty much what the taliban came up with this morning, in a rather proud press release they put out. one government spokesman saying to us, 488 people have escaped in this tunnel, and only 13 of them are what they refer to as criminals, the rest effectively insurgents, part of the taliban. the government saying yes there was a tunnel. it went to a house about 100 meters south of the prison and it seemed inside the jail itself, that one part of this quite sophisticated part going to the criminal part of the jail and the other to where the insurgents were placed. this comes at a pretty bad time in terms of pr for the campaign here. the months ahead really in the summer campaign were hoping to make up some ground for what was done last summer and really the taliban s seeming move today, well it really put them on their back feet. how significan
and that s fair enough. never have the arab countries been involved in the action. but this regime, they know how self area it is selfish it is and they are willing to stand by the people. the united states show their teeth for regime s like this in yugoslavia and will other places. nic robertson, i know you want to ask some questions. go for it. reporter: i wonder if you can explain something to our audience. this is something we ve seen in the last couple of weeks. when we arrived here, the government office its back feet people like you were resigning. there were rebels and uprisings in cities not far from the capital. but the government sort of took control. we ve seen a change in the mindset of the people. probably people that you know in the capital. people who talked to us that a
does it look like the tide is turning in this fight now especially with these different notices of alliance going on behind the rebels? reporter: yeah, that s right. it does look like the tide is shifting. i can remember a week ago reporting every day on how the gadhafi forces were on their back feet. the rebels were pushing almost inexorably it seemed from the east to the west towards us here in tripoli. and now it s just the opposite. over the past three to four days, the reports have been about a shift in momentum. today it s brega, as you mentioned, the day before that someplace else. that means in two days those pro gadhafi have moved the front line about 70 or 80 miles to the east, and that is a significant shift. and i think that colonel gadhafi himself probably feels like he can pull this off even with a no-fly zone. jim, secretary of state hillary clinton now saying she
this is a tarantula and can you imagine this thing crawling on you? i tricked my sister with a fake one in her bed. is he dangerous? well . dangerous is relative. you may not want to be right near him because as a defense mechanism they can throw their hairs, rubbing their back feet against their body. it is like being encased in fiber glass. he is native to honduras and they only found this guy about 20 years ago. so he is a new find. a good find. in your luggage. and the rain forest reptile show, at the meadow lands. and what is coming up? maybe we can get the tape for