jeannie, happy doomsday to you. reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. that s it for us. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. good morning to you. i m carol costello in for kyra phillips. the schwarzenegger scandal keeps getting more shocking. his child with his wife, maria and his secret child with his housekeeper were born just days apart. president obama getting ready to deliver a major speech on how the united states will deal with the new middle east. sanctions for some nations and help for others and a controversial suggestion for israel. this just in to us. the number of people filing for first-time unemployment claims is down again. the second straight week of sharp drops. four years into the job and four days after his arrest on sex crime charges, the head of the international monetary fund hands in his resignation. dominique strauss-kahn made the decision from his new york jail cell. he has been in custody since the weekend, accused of s
want to ask you as the expert in the white house. when he had the mess with bp down in the gulf, there was never a clear sense of the president calling the shots. you had admiral allen out there and homeland security. you never had a real sense of i want this done or a top staff or chief of staffer says the president wants this done, getting behind the president. a clear sense like you get with secretary clinton and you get with secretary gates, the wonderful command you get. i ve never seen it on domestic policy. are we going to see it now? reporter: yes, you are. the type of white house that rahm emanuel wanted to run and ran is two different things because ba he was brought in to fill this the gap that the cam paper team already was, so you have a team of people around president obama. what s been interesting about this search is number one they ve kept really close council on this when it comes to deciding is it going to keep
that s so cynical. just spitting out this story. okay. we ve got good must-reads. we ll start with charles crab hammer. stimulus. if obama had asked for a second stimulus directly, he would have been laughed out of town. stimulus was so reviled that the democrats banished the word from their lexicon throughout throughout the 2010 cam paper. very week post-election happened. obama got the republicans to offer to increase spending and cut taxes by 990 billion dollars over two years. two thirds of that is above and beyond extension of the bush tax cuts but includes your jemt national necessities such as windmill subsidies. the tax cuts have so cluttered this debate that the democrats have overlooked the fact that they ve got a trillion dollar in a second stimulus plan, and republicans, they re out of their minds too. they go, we win, we win, we win,
people in this country already play it. to what reid is proposing to do is to bring it in to be regulated. this is an area right now where there are foreign entities on raying this overseas, operating this in a sort of quasi-legal situation. now you regulate it, get some money. it does benefit his campaign contributors. there you go. that s the question. the republicans say this is payback. aportla is this a game of payback? certainly harry reid is not looking at this as a payback to his contributors. they are, many of them, casino owners and operators. they did contribute to his cam paper. that s sort of standard operating procedure for a politician who s based in nebraska. however, this is something harry
now, the guy, diane, claims he was concerned for the candidate s safety because apparently there were cop there s, and they didn t do anything. it wasn t their job. my feeling is, people always have a problem dealing with female protesters because they don t know how to, you know, to move them around and stuff. does he have a point? putting his foot on her head? i don t agree with the actions that were taken in this circumstance, but i will say that in a certain other circumstance, if i am a bodyguard, this is the kind of bodyguard i would want. a guy who will tackle a girl and crush her head in because she is trying to gave me a fake award. if the zombies come, for example, i want this guy in my corner. they have dropped her from the cam paper. you don t put your foot on a woman s head. absolutely not. but they said you have done it in the past. yeah, but the cameras were not rolling. don t put your foot on a man s head either. no head and no feet. not only was she