brooke, thanks very much. happening now, riveting new details, the rough draft about president obama s jobs speech. what we re learning about the plan he unveiled tomorrow night and whether he has new ideas that will sound either bold or timid. also, rick perry s first test on the presidential debate stage. he got a late ride into this race, but he s moving very quickly right now at the start of his presidential campaign. tonight, he has something, of course, to prove. plus, one of america s biggest malls prepares to be the target potentially of a terror attack. it s a valuable lesson in being ready for the worst ten years after 9/11. and get this, it costs next to nothing. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we ll get to that in a moment. but we re just learning here at cnn that the former united states ambassador to the united nations bill richardson was scheduled to land just a little while ago in havana, cuba on a very
allowing pro-mubarak demonstrators to descend into an area where they could attack protesters, the military finally set a perimeter, a cordon, set out wire and checked people to try to prevent infill traitors from coming in. checking i.d.s, doing body searches. they helped it be a peaceful day. earlier reports of the shooting we heard a short time ago from the square, early reports indicate though i can t confirm it, early reports indicate some demonstrators were trying to get close and the military fired in the air to keep them back. it s been a remarkable 48 hours. i can t remember a situation like this where you have extraordinary violence against the media and protesters and then this eerie calm. do you think that mubarak and his government officials realize the full force against the media and protest rs backfired on them in terms of p.r. around the
down to the square, even though they had seen their compatriots attacked with rocks, mootov cocktails. they went in huge numbers that matched what we had seen earlier in the week before the violence began. it was a jubilant crowd of people. also significantly the egyptian military finally after 48 hours of literally standing by watching rocks being thrown and molotov cocktails thrown and allowing pro-mubarak demonstrators to descend into an area where they could attack protesters, the military finally set a perimeter, a cordon, set out wire and checked people to try to prevent infill traitors from coming in. checking i.d.s, doing body searches. they helped it be a peaceful day. earlier reports of the shooting we heard a short time ago from the square, early reports
they made no effort to check the i.d.s or give body searches to any of the pro-mubarak protesters and the pro-mubarak protesters were not doing body checks which is what the anti-mubarak protesters were doing, making sure no weapons were brought in to a peaceful demonstration. when we were being attacked earlier, we tried to head toward some egyptian military personnel. they did not get involved. finally after several minutes when we were close to safety, one egyptian soldier seemed to sort of come toward us, but really didn t do much to keep the crowd back. we continued to get pummeled. so right now, you know, we did see some egyptian military vehicles being brought in right in front of the scene hours ago to try to separate the crowds and have heard shooting and shots going off but i can t confirm who is firing those shots. whether it was soldiers trying to keep the crowd apart or above
reading the underwear bomber his miranda rights. we ve been lucky, the times square bomber, fedex packages, sent to ups, in all cases we got lucky. we have to understand this is fundamentally an attack on the of life. we need to root them out, kill the terrorists wherever we can find them wherever we can in the world. we can t play defense. that s why there s such an outrage over the tsa approach and scanners and patdowns and body searches for six-year-old, 12-year-old children travel to go their grandparents house, we re not using intelligence and common sense while allowing political correctness to interfere with what we know and how to prosecute the war on terrorism. jenna: george wanted to know about the power of a governor, because of the traveling and the tsa controversy that s popped up, he wants to know can you use your state power to overrule what the tsa says, so in a louisiana airport, for example, you can say i don t believe in the scanners, and then when you