chris, watching these remember does revive me any way, and i m sure in many other the same heartache and even coming in this morning the city is under a high alert. a lot of areas are blocked off. some of the same anxiety that we experienced in the days, weeks, months after 9/11, about another terrorist attack. i think, you no he, for all the sorrow we feel and will always feel about it. there is at least on this anniversary, who would have imagined in the aftermath of that day, that we would be here 10 years later, having been no successful, major terrorist attack. i want to pick up on that point. i agree. i don t think anyone at this table thought it was going to be weeks, maybe days, certainly weeks or months and we would have another attack. it has been 10 years. some of that has been luck. the christmas day bomber whose
anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, u.s. intelligence officials are uncovered a new terror threat and describe it as specific credible, but unconfirmed information about a potential al qaeda plot. it s believed to involve three individuals and explosives such as a truck or a car bomb. washington and new york are cited as possible targets. we are covering this from all angles. fran townsend is in washington and susan candiotti in new york and barbara starr at the pentagon. fran, let s start with you. specific, credible, but unconfirmed? tell us exactly what that means. i think it s most important to work backwards. unconfirmed is the key thing and driving all of the intelligence and law enforcement community. specific that you re hearing that word because, yes, they think it s a car bomb in either new york or washington. they do have some information that three individuals entered one being united states sit he send. they believe. the credible goes to where the source of
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
obama has just summoned congressional democrats to aarr white house. to be clear, democrats only. we re also hearing the top two house republicans, john boehner and eric cantor are to meet with mr. obama at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. so clearly a busy afternoon shaping up at the white house. tell you what, i want to take you now straight to senator coburn who is live for me. sir, good to have you on the program. let me just begin with this. we mentioned these meetings at the white house. my question is, is the fact that there s a democrats only meeting happening now at the white house, does that, sir, signal to you that we have entered a new phase in these talks, these debt reduction talks that the president is now starting the process of essentially selling your gang of six proposal to his people, that the process of the arm twisting and the lining of support is under way? oh, i don t know that you can assume that. it may be that he s going to talk to them about a short-term
aqap was actually far exceeding aqhq, meaning headquarters was being outstripped by anwar al awlaki on the fund-raising side. he was raising all the money. if you think about operation, let s look at the last several high-profile opportunities. one was the christmas day bomber. he was behind that. look at ft. hood. he was behind that. look at times square, he was behind that. operationally, this is all being driven from anwar al awlaki. secondly, he s an american, and most dangerous propaganda right now is inspire magazine, which he is the author of. so this is a guy we have to be very worried about. i think he s frankly outstripping bin laden chad, it s fascinating, almost as though you re describing bin laden back in his compound not literally a cave but almost emotionally in a cave, frustrated he hasn t been able to get the rest of his organization to follow what he thought is the wisdom of his prior path. but before time runs out, i want to give you a chance to talk about the