of the office of budget and management, the om brb, the off of management and budget, over the next year or so will be instituting some very strict budget cuts here. also who s going to take panetta s place at the cia? president obama is expected to announce that he will nominate general david petraeus, the man currently leading the fight in afghanistan will now be nominated to take over the intelligence side. that s key because general petraeus has been working with a lot of those cia station agents, in iraq, in afghanistan, so he has some very real experience with those folks already on the ground. when this new team sort of gets in place, you re also going to see a new team in afghanistan, lieutenant general john allen will take over the fight in afghanistan and brian crocker will be nominated to be the new ambassador to afghanistan.
the u.s. military s ability to fight his wars in, say, afghanistan, how much is he willing to look forward at new challenges, considering a lot of the american people don t want to be fighting this war right now anyway. chris, thank you, i want to bring in fran townsend, fran, can you hear us? there are a number of hot spots that we want to talk about, first of all syria, we are seeing a real deterioration there, how long do you think this could last before their leadership has got to go? as long as assaad can keep it in durai, and doesn t keep it in damascus, this is what really will add to this is the international community. obama is going to have to contend with the discussions of why in libya and egypt did we
president obama now releasing his official birth certificate, rather, the original birth certificate. this is it. it s online. everybody gets a chance to see it. it was locked in the vault before in the health department. they had produced documentation before. i know. talk about stunning news for president obama to do this. no one was expecting this. he releases his official birth certificate and we were wondering will that put all of this to rest? that s what we re going to talk about. the issue of president obama s birth certificate would not go away for months, years the obama team says the issue was settled. the certification of live birth they released in 2008 was enough. now in this stunning turn around the president decided to release his original birth certificate. was it because of donald trump who has hammered away on the issue for weeks or other republicans like sarah palin and michele bachmann who flirted with birtherism. or was it just, as the president
i hope it s true. our cnn senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin joins us on the phone and you have heard donald trump s remarks here, he s very proud of himself. legally the president had satisfied all the questions about where he was born, his birth certificate, this seems like this is certainly a political move. do we think that is there any question at all, anything that s unresolved regarding what the president has put forward that someone could use to question his citizenship? well, there is no factual dispute here, there has never been a factual dispute that same people could disagree about. this is yet further prove that gravity exists and that barack obama was born in hawaii. i doubt that the hardcore birthers will be satisfied by this, but i do think that this
expanded a travel warning, it now includes parts of the nine mexican states shown with those red lines there and all of the states shaded in red. congresswoman gab yell giffords, she is flying to the florida state space center right now, she s going to watch her husband come in, the last flight of the space shuttle on friday. giffords has been recovering from a gunshot wound to the head at a houston hospital. president obama now releasing his original birth certificate, our carol costello that is here to talk about this. so it s additional information? people already had a lot to go with already. this put the issue to rest once and for all. that s what we re going to talk about today, the issue of president obama s birth certificate just would not go away for months and years.