with a tea party candidate. but also if elizabeth warren beats scott brown in massachusetts, that could upset some of the arithmetic. megyn: all right, guys. thank you for the preview. it s interesting. you bet. megyn: chris christie insists that he is not running for president, but he s not giving the current president a pass on his performance. and still we continue to wait and hope that our president will finally stop being a bystander in the oval office. megyn: just ahead, the white house responding to that directly and what it means for the president s re-election effort. plus, an american engineer arrested for an alleged plot to bomb washington, d.c. landmarks. new detail on his elaborate plan, three minutes awayment [ male announcer ] to the 5:00 a.m. scholar.
anchor peter jennings, who had announced he had lung cancer just the day before. the book ends with the president s decisions about the financial crisis, looking at what he did right, wrong, and what he would have done differently if given the chance. martha raddatz, abc news, washington. now to a potential bombshell in the gulf oil spill investigation. halliburton is acknowledging that it skipped doing critical tests on the final formulation of cement used to seal the oil well. the admission came in response to findings by the presidential oil spill commission. the faulty cement has been identified as one of the key causes of the disaster. we could soon know more about the man suspected of planning to bomb washington, d.c.-area subways. farouk ahmed is due in federal court later today. the fbi first learned about him from a tip that came from within the muslim community. ahmed was taped discussing his firearm, martial arts, and knife skills and offering to teach those deadly tacti