presidential nomination is all but over but we will get a taste tonight of whether the tea party will finally show some 2012 strength and a test of how important the culture wars will be in a year defined mostly today by economic challenges. our first stop indiana where 80-year-old senator richard lugar, leading republican voice on foreign policy is asking for one more term but facing a tea party and conservative revolt, revolts lugar s critics prove the senator last touch with the folks back home. dana bash is at lugar headquarters in indianapolis. you had a chance to talk with senate lugar a bit earlier today. let s listen to some of the exchange. reporter: you re 80 years old. you ve had by all accounts a stellar career. why did you decide to take on this fight within your own party rather than just say it s been great, time to go? well, first of all, because i believe that i have a unique opportunity to serve my country with regard to arms control, with regard to terr
the saudi government. because we have forces on the arab peninsula. because we re in afghanistan until the american people realize or are told by their leaders that this war is about what their government does and not how they live and think, we re never going to realize the dimension of the en enemy we face and we re never going to be able to stop the growth of the next generation of awlakis and bin ladens and samir kahns. jon: interesting thoughts from michael scheuer, who used to be in the unit in charge of bin laden. thank you. thank you, sir, always. jenna: a lot to think about there, and we will certainly continue to stay on that story. in the meantime we re tracking republican candidates today as they spread out on the campaign trail. michele bachmann is meeting with supporters in north carolina, a state that went for obama back in 2008, but may be tetering back to the right. herman cain, heading for hollywood in the meantime, he s fresh off a surprising
it looks like the other candidates will be benefits. trace: chief political correspondent carl cameron, thank you. new cia director david petraeus telling members of congress that the killing of bin ladens with a serious blow to al-qaeda but warns the fight is far from over. united states continues to face a serious threat interest al-qaeda and its worldwide network of affiliates and sympathizers. trace: the latest on america s battle against the terror network is coming up. plus, iranian president ahmadinejad says iran will soon free the american hikers it has held now for two years. that s next. o stay at rest. while a body in motion tends to stay in motion. staying active can actually ease arthritis symptoms. but if you have arthritis, staying active can be difficult. prescription celebrex can help relieve arthritis pain so your body can stay in motion.
it has to do with expanding markets in china, rebuilding our infrastructure, rebuilding classrooms, doing the things we need to do to get competitive. we are not going to be fighting hot wars in europe to figure out who dominates the next century. this isn t the 20th century. talking to people in the administration, you get the sense that this was the argument joe biden was making. we cannot have that type of footprint in that region. we haven t discussed it. killing osama bin laden was paramount in this decision. that removed the chief objective. the argument was, what do you do now. do you tell karzai your clock is running out? bring them into the government or say you can have more time? we can keep troops at that level, don t worry about it,
removed from the country over the next year and a half putting us above the level that was there when you took over office. did you really have to walk all the way down the [ bleep ] hallway to do that. couldn t you just yell it as you were walking by. hey, we are going to trim back on one of our wars. do it as a facebook status update. that s one way to look at it. time to look at the morning papers. the new york times. a cell phone offers clues to bin ladens ties to pakistan. the phone contains contacts to a militant group connected to pakistan s intelligence agency. it suggests he used the group as