questioned. i think he has a tough reelection battle ahead of him. shannon: we will have a decision from the court before the election. just barely, though. shannon: unless they do something way out of protocol. doug, if he does win at the supreme court how much of a boost would that be going into the fall? it would be a boost but going back to what cherylyn was saying. he is going to extend the payroll tax holiday and unemployment benefits. we shouldn t be raising taxes on middle class americans when the economy isn t right where it needs to be. interesting to see if the republicans go along with them. it was their idea to pass the payroll tax holiday and so we will see if they are going to go along it w. it or block it. i think the president did wait on the deficit reform. it was interesting that the largest deficit cuts, the plans out there were all put out there by democrats and by the president. the debt reduction bill by the
immigration. we ll show you the old clip making new headlines. wolf blitzer is off. i m joe johns. you re in the situation room. we begin with breaking news. american students caught up in the bloody cairo protest are finally on their way out of a nightmare experience in egypt. let s go straight to cnn s senior international correspondent, ben wedeman in cairo. earlier today we heard the three american students would be released on saturday. now we re hearing it s already happened. why? what we understand is that yesterday the prosecutors ordered their release but it took for today to get released. they have been released and they are on their way to the airport. they were attending the american university in cairo and according to the egyptian police, they were involved in attacks on security forces during the demonstrations. of course, their lawyers and their parents deny that they could have done that sort of thing and clearly the fact that the egyptians who shadly s
any form of interrogation for terrorists. the truth is, congresswoman bachmann, who is a member of the house intelligence committee is wrong. the cia still inter gates terror suspects in the field. in fact, president obama created the high value detainee interrogation group which includes the cia of the fbi and defense department. they deploy in teams to question terror suspects here in the united states and overseas. whether that policy is strong enough or not is a matter for debate. but what s clear is that bachmann s comments are not accurate. let s turn now to herman cain and border and security. an insecure border is a national security threat for the following reasons. number one, we know that terrorists have come into this country by way of mexico. keeping them honest. the houston chronicle reports there is no evidence of terrorists entering the united states through mexico. back in march, the newspaper reported an an independent analysis at vanderbilt universi
well, senate co-chair of the super committee patty murray, the democratic co-chair says essentially they are going to have to figure out if they can live with those automatic cuts that were intended to be brutal. we have heard concerns from the pentagon, for example, about the defense cuts and hollowing out the united states military. minutes ago senator murray seemed to answer questions whether washington is broken regarding this failure take a listen. because this committee didn t reach an agreement by tonight doesn t mean that democracy doesn t work. it means we have to work harder to make a democracy work. at this hour there is also start of a bipartisan push to get the president to embrace his own deficit commissn. the simpson bowls commission named for allen simpson and irskin bottles who called for $4 trillion in deficit cuts. a lot of lawmakers are saying failure is not an option for the country, shep. plenty of indications that failure might even have been
good morning to you. it is thursday, november 17. ali velshi has the day off. i m carol costello along with christine romans. happy one last day until friday. welcome to american morning. up first this morning, new developments in the penn state child sex scandal. jerry sandusky s tv sbrir this week where he said his behavior with young boys was not sexual abuse, just horse play, may have been the last straw for some of his alleged victims. sandusky s words led new people to come forward. sandusky charged with 40 counts of sexual abuse involving eight boys he met through the charity, on 360 last night, anderson cooper spoke to the mother of one alleged victim, victim number one in the indictment. she says it was hard for they are son to watch the sandusky interview. he was very upset about it. he said i watched it after that. he said he cried. i said, why with s he crying? he said because i m afraid he might go free. he is afraid sandusky might go free? yes. the