no politics. it happened to be all in one category. gretchen: he didn t bring any notes either. brian: because he didn t want to know anything. steve: then he would have to say something. brian: we don t know who told him to do that. the questions were concise, right to the point for a change. now we want to find out when the president knew about it, just out of curiosity. was he really surprised on that thursday when the story leaked out? according to dan phi tper tper dan pfeiffer yesterday, the answer is yesterday. we know for sure the chief white house counsel learned last month the treasury inspector concluded what they concluded, and that is they targeted tea party people. either they have the worst communication, interoffice mail ever or the president and somebody else is not tell the truth. catherine rumbler is the white house chief counsel so that is extraordinary for her to know a month ahead of time.
0 two more bombs went off in the southern city of basra, one near a restaurant. no one claiming responsibility yet but the blasts barrett hallmarks of al qaeda. new video this morning shows what happened after those two trains crashed in connecticut. check that out. the track, it s off the track. gretchen: brian alvarez was scathe boarding was skate boarding nearby and captured what happened moments after on his cell phone. passengers being carried to safety. at least 76 people were hurt. rail service shut down. drivers being warned a travel nightmare is approaching. our 30,000 daily commuters whose trips will be disrupted because of this accident. if all of those were to get on the highway and single occupancy cars, we would literally have a parking lot. gretchen: that s what we re expecting in connecticut. this is not a gimmick. i m an artist and i should be taking it seriously. why were they booing? another big winner was rihanna. she swept four r&b categories. is that