traitor? even jon stewart is making fun of the media s lack of interest in ron paul. what gives? a new york times columnist throws his weight behind the creation of a third party. tom friedman on beltway gridlock, the economy and why the coverage of politics reminds him of epsn. yahoo! digs up allegations that money, cars sex were improperly provided to university of miami athletes. i m howard kurtz and this is reliable sources . he s an instant front-runner in some polls, but he hasn t had an easy ride in his first week as apartment candidate. he drew plenty of attention from veracious political pundits, most of it negative, especially true when he said if the fed chairman keeps printing money and said that would be almost treasonous. isn t perry crossing the line with all of this talking about treason, talking about black cloud over the country? isn t this way over the line? bad way to start. you don t want to accuse the federal reserve chairman of being guilty of
would-be republican rivals rick perry and mitt romney, including one comment that some see as disrespectful to the president. and we talk about terrorism as the world prepares to mark ten years since 9/11. the president says that kind of spectacular attack may not be the biggest threat right now. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. breaking news, political headlines, and jeanne moos, all straight ahead. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. president obama on a bus tour through the united states midwest. he s been reaching out to rural voters. but he took some time today to sit down with me for a wide-ranging one-on-one interview. we talked about the political gridlock in washington, the field of republican challengers trying to oust him from the white house, and the terror threat a decade after 9/11. but we began with what may be the most pressing issue facing the country right now. here s part one of my interview with the pr
bryce dallas howard, the most anticipated movie of the summer the help. this is piers morgan tonight. it s not easy to find a bright spot in america s economy these days. my next guests, dean kamen, and will.i.am of the black-eyed peas, studied science to teach kids to join the workforce. what s a rapper like you getting teamed up with the geeker builder? i do music and if you look at the industry i m in, it s based on technology, from radio to phonographs to cds, it s all technology, microphones, reel-to-reels, cameras, editing, chips, right, it s all technology. how did you meet him? i met him on stage touring, as you know our crew was building our stage, right, technology, getting all the lights, all that stuff. i m on the segway. so i was riding the segway and i was like, just thinking about the idea, who thought of this. i was riding, thought to lean back to stop and leaned forward and who thinks that way? i got introduced to dean kamen via e-mail. dean, you
one area includes the capital, mogadishu where an estimated 100,000 people have come looking for aid. the u.n. says nearly half the country is suffering from malnutrition. egypt s ailing former president will next appear in court august 15th as his trial opened. hosni mubarak denied charges of corruption and playing role in the death of more than 800 anti-government demonstrators. the trial of his rmer interior minister is scheduled to get under way at this hour. in eastern australia, a teenage girl is safe but police don t know who strapped a fake bomb around her neck. police say 18-year-old madeline pulver went ten hours after a masked intruder came into her home in sydney. those are the headlines from cnn, the world news leader, i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m nina dos santos. and a very good afternoon from cnn hong kong. i m andrew stevens. you re watching world business today. the top stories this
quite bizarre. people like breivik are trying to resurrect the idea of a modern day crusade, a real clash of civilizations against what they see as islamic invasion of europe. in fact, muslims make up only 3% of europe s population and that s likely to rise to between 5 and 8% by 2025 and level out at that point. but that doesn t change the reality of the anger, hatred and the violence. ironically, in breivik s nostalgic view of the medieval world, it resembles nothing so much as al qaeda, another terrorist organization fundamentally opposed to the modern world. we still don t know if breivik s boast that there are more knights waiting to act are true. but if it s depiction of the knight sounds familiar, it is because it too is mirrored in islamist terror, what a suicide bomb every, is a lone fighter acting in the so-called interest of a larger movement and willing to kill innocence to draw attention to the cause. while we ve all focused on the dangers of radical islam, the a