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joining us so jessica yellin. jessica, a quite extraordinary james bond-style plot here. tell me more about this. reporter: well, the plot was under way for many months, and it got so far that money was actually transferred for an assassination. what the iranians didn t know, piers, was the person they hired to carry this out was a dea informant working for the u.s. government. so it was never actually going to take place. but that was a massive stroke of luck, presumably. reporter: absolutely. once this dea informant was contacted by the iranians, the fbi was brought in. what we know tracing the timeline was the president was notified in june. the arrest of the naturalized u.s. citizen, the iranian we all have a mug shot of now was on september 29th. so it unfolded over the course of about four months where u.s. law enforcement was tracking it for all that time. secretary of state clinton said today the idea that they would attempt to go to a mexican drug cartel to s
all right. first, though, big news today. the trial of the accused underwear bomber begins this morning with earnest with opens statements at the federal courthouse in droit. umar farouk abdulmutallab is charged with trying to blow up a flight on christmas day 2009 with a bomb hidden in his underwear. the defendant is acting as his own attorney. cnn s deb feyerick in live in detroit, where you were the night this all developed and christmas day 2009. deb, what is the situation? reporter: well, ali, christine and carol, we can tell you that he is facing eight charges today. it carries a maximum sentence of life in prison. the charges against him, attempted murder, attempted use of a weapon of mass destruction and also conspiracy toy commit terrorism. the nigerian grat witt student turned accused suits bomber is acteding as his own attorney and umar farouk abdulmutallab shown he is defind. during jury selection he invoked his meant, jihad mentor, recently killed in an air
clashes between the army and pro-coptic christian protesters turned deadly. 25 people killed, nearly 300 others wounded. coptic christians are an ancient sect that make up 9% of egypt s population. they ve faced a lot of violence in the recent months but unclear how the violence started sunday night or who is to blame. the violence erupted when a group of coptic christians and supporters of their cause were marching toward the egypt state-run television building. military trucks were set on fire. some of the protesters could be seen throwing rocks. the sermade some in the crowd had guns and fired on them. yet witnesses say it was the army that fired on the protesters. the stories may be different but no one can deny this. dead bodies in the morgue. the victims of this weekend s clashes. too many victims to refrigerate, so they are kecht on ice. this is the reality in the new egypt, again, too similar to the old. once again the government has imposed a curfew from 2:00 a.m. to
i m not getting into that. i think what the real focus is here again is on religious tolerance. that s really what this is about. and i think again to make this a big issue is just ridiculous right now. we re covering all the angles for you. paul steinhauser is in washington. and shannon travis is in iowa. let s go ahead and start with you, paul. bachmann and cain ducking the debate shows. just how delicate the balancing act proves, i guess, how delicate that balancing act needs to be. so what do you think? is this the end of the topic, or are we going to hear a lot more? i don t know if we ll hear a lot more, but we ll hear more no doubt about it. there s a debate tomorrow night. it could come up there. you heard that sound bite there state of the union with candy crowley. bachmann and cain didn t want to touch this issue. what about romney and the controversy over his faith? he doesn t want to touch it that much either. it was kind of telling that saturday at the va