share. davis is a former special forces soldier. he s 36 years old. maried from littleton, colorado, sweer lea and we re learning senator kerry has left pakistan and is on his way back to washington. we ll be waiting for an update from him. the u.s. government will not stop helping mexico fight its bloody drug war though immigrations and customs agent was killed there. zapata was driving with another agent yesterday. their vehicle came under fire. one official said the two may have stopped what the appeared to be a checkpoint. zapata was killed, the other agent wounded. and nbc s mark potter is following the story from miami. does mexico know, or are they saying, who was behind that check point or roadblock here, mark? reporter: well, hi, contessa. if they do know, they re not saying publicly. what we re hearing from american law enforcement officials and mexican officials that they seem to think the killing is linked
i was ambassador, the king is personally popular. but the same type of unemployment, concerns among social development exist. but there s a difference there, contes contessa. there s been a loyal but nevertheless important opposition party modelled after the turkish party, the akp. we re hoping that in the end what you re going to see is most arab leaders taking their cue from what s taking place in cairo, recognizing the importance to impose their own will on reforms that are going to be transparent. those reforms are going to have to be preemptive if they want stability in their countries. when i say stability if, they want it to continue, they have to do far more than they ve done so far to not see what happened in the square today happen in their own downtowns. and in many cases, you ll have people that want to see what happens in liberation square duplicated in their own downtowns. it may be just those that
the middle east a bad name. but as a result, president obama down played democracy in the middle east when he came to office. he was embracing the mubarak regime as a result of that speech. so he s had a tough hole to dig himself out of, the administration. they ve done their best. but it seems to me the real credit belonged to the hundreds of thousands of people on the streets who put their lives on the line and who really made the difference every time there was a decision to be made. it wasn t a white house phone call or a call from other leaders in the region. it was the egyptian leadership responding to the hundreds of thousands of people knowing as bar barry mccaffery said. you saw diplomacy happening at the highest levels in the white house and state department where you would expect diplomacy to be happening. it was also happening at the military level. we know, for instance, that the joint chiefs chairman called his counterpart in egypt multiple
headlines. 40 members of this list so far have made this pledge to bill gates and warren buffet they re going to donate half of their money to charity. an amazing amount of welfare. christine whitman, donald trump is on there. george lieu kals. in total, $1.7 trillion. and this year, you have to be a billionaire. the recession was so bad that even the rich suffered. and last year, you could have made a measly $950 million to get on the list. now you have to be a billionaire. the sad thing is none of them are my friend. not on that list. great to see you. thanks so much. see you later. that s going to do it for me. contessa brewer will pick things up at the top of the hour. contes contessa? are republicans releasing the plan for america. what they don t address may be as important as what they do. we ll talk to j.d. hayward. one of america s richest preachers cancels a scheduled interview because a third man accuses him of using his position as a pastor of a megachurch to ge
angeles times broke the salary scandal in july, the law enforcement officials, the district attorney and the attorney general of california had been paying very close attention to what s going on in bell, and now the city officials have been accused of a variety of felonies and are going to be in court at this hour facing arraignment. contes contessa? thank you very much, george. several events later today on msnbc in a little more than an hour, treasury secretary tim geithner goes before a house committee to testify about the state of the international financial system. this afternoon, vice president joe biden hosts a medal of valorer have moany in washington, d.c. that is awarded to public safety officers for their bravery, putting their own safety aside to help others. at 4:45 eastern, president obama speaks at the u.n. summit on millennium development goals. program note for you, nbc news cooks off education nation this sunday, the week-long event starts when nbc s brian wi