challenging senator john mccain for his seat. a former congressman j.d. hayworth announcing his candidacy this hour. is he taking on senator mccain in the august 24th republican primary. hayworth bills himself as the consistent conservative. he and mccain have traded jabs recently each labeling the other a big spender. col john mccain s senate seat really be in jeopardy? mccain is not taking the challenge from hayworth lightly. cnn s casecy wian reports on the political fight. turn around here and look at that jerk right there. a cnn photographer takes a ribbing from senator john mccain at a rib been cutting ceremony in fooem. mccain is spending a lot of time in his home state preparing for what looks like a tough primary fight against conservativetive republican j.d. hayworth, a six-term former u.s. congressman. and i love a good campaign. the primary is more than six months away but mccain is already spend agentire week
so my challenge tonight has been to remain alert so that i can take care of patients and not injure myself. and so far i ve been taking care of them. i had an injury myself. i m still awake. reporter: as dawn breaks, dr. martin is still at it. still treating patients for a second straight day without sleep. doing his best to care for haitians in need until relief comes for the night shift. so that s 24 hours. that s 26 hours. reporter: david mackenzie, cnn, port-au-prince, haiti. extraordinary. checking our top stories, senator john mccain is facing a challenge from a fellow republican. former congressman j.d. hayworth announces his candidacy next hour. hayworth is taking on mccain in the republican primary set for august 24th. a source close to indiana senator evan bayh says he will
enriching uranium at a higher level. she was in cutter for the u.s./islamic world forum before heading to saudi arabia. senator john mccain facing a challenge from a fellow republican. former congressman j.d. hayworth announces his candidacy next hour. he s going up against mccain in the republican primary. hayworth bills himself at a consistent conservative. he and mccain have traded jabs with each branding the other a big spender. if you are keeping score on who is running for re-election and who is not, you can put democratic senator evan bayh s name in the not running column. cnn political editor mark preston joining us now with details on this developing story. wow. boy, i missed the alert on this one. what is going on here? what s evan bayh s story? i tell you, tony, i came in this morning, i grabbed a cup of coffee, i sat down. when i got that telephone call from somebody who alerted me to this, i was as shocked as you are. no question about that. evan bayh, a two-term sen
former vice president dick cheney trading jabs across the sunday morning airwaves, the two men clashed on everything from the likelihood of another 9/11 to how the obama administration is handling and has handled the failed christmas day bomb plot. the thing i learned from watching that process unfold, though, was that the administration really wasn t equipped to deal with the aftermath of an attempted attack against the united states in the sense that they didn t know what to do with the guy. he s entitled to his own opinions. he s not entitled to rewrite history. he s not entitled to his own facts. the christmas day bomber was treated the exact way that he suggested that the shoe bomber was treated, absolutely the same way. the two did agree on one thing, the former vice president praised the surge in afghanistan. senator john mccain is trading jabs with former republican congressman j.d. hayworth, who today will
major coalition operation against the taliban. and an assessment from national security adviser general james jones. any minute now, former congressman j.d. hayworth will announce he is running for john mccain s senate seat. it is 9:00 a.m. in washington state where a 911 operator gets a call to save the life of his own baby boy. can you imagine? u.s. marines are leading a massive coalition operation to force the taliban out of southern afghanistan. we are embedded with the troops and the taliban are not backing down. frederick flight ken reports from ca ball. reporter: it started with a massive air assault. thousands of mostly british and american troops as well as afghan soldiers landing deep in taliban territory. but the insurgents had prepared and riddled the area with homemade bombs and landmines. the i.d. is the biggest they re the to our troops and