i wanted to have shirley temple curls. and this is piers morgan tonight. good evening, i m harvey winestein filling in for piers morgan. when piers asked me to do this, i thought he was kidding. he wasn t. so i went to one of the smartest people i know to ask for advise, oprah winfrey. she said if you re nervous, tell people you re nervous. i am a little nervous, but i m also very excited. i m a friend and such porter of bill clinton. it s my honor to introduce my next guest, the 42nd president of the united states, william jefferson clinton. the things i do for you. you re so comfortable, mr. president of people. how do you do that? you look them in the eye and forget about what else is going on. an area that i am comfortable with is talking about movies and i know you re a great movie fan. over the years we have watched a lot of movies together. what is your favorite movie, mr. president? well, the first movie i ever saw more than once was high noon and i wa
united nations human rights officials are in an emergency meeting today. they are talking about last week s horrific massacre in syria. top u.n. human rights officials are urging the world community to throw more weight behind efforts to investigate what actually happened. 108 people died when witnesses say an armed man went door to door killing entire families, including children. ugly day on wall street today. one big reason, disappointing jobs report for may. the labor department says that employers added just 69,000 jobs. the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2%. alison kosik is watching what s taking place at the new york stock exchange. how is this jobs number here, this report today, dragging down the markets? clearly they re responding. yes, yes. well, i talked to several traders and they told me they are stunned over this lousy jobs number that you said, the 69,000 number from may. so it s really no surprise that you re seeing a huge sell-off right now. the dow fa
to congress with voters knowing he s gay. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com a very weak jobs report is having a very chilling effect on wall street and the economy right now. the dow jones industrials closing down about 270 points only moments ago. the other major indices also taking a hit. we learned today that only 69,000 jobs were added to america s workforce last month. that s the weakest growth in a year and the unemployment rate ticked up to 8.2%. president obama on the campaign trail today. he s struggling to convince voters he s part of the solution and not part of the problem. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is traveling with the president right now. brianna, what s the latest reaction? reporter: wolf, it was a similar refrain we heard from president obama. he urged americans to look at the broader trends for jobs and unemployment, and he did give congress a little credit specifically for passing th
out of the deep hole that was caused by the severe recession. end quote. christine romans has been crunching the numbers in new york. it s a hard report to spin, christine. it really is. you can t spin it. 69,000 jobs created in the biggest economy in the world. that is really disappointing, half what they thought. 8.2% is the unemployment rate. it went up a little bit, because, keira, more people were getting into the labor market. they ve been discouraged in months past, trying to get back in to try to find a job and unsuccessful. when you look at the trend, you can t spin the trend, either. you have three months of more than 200,000 jobs created right there. and then this is the slow down. one, two, three. that is the slow down there that shows you, quite frankly, that things are not as rosie as they should be at this stage of an economic recovery. and it looks an awful lot like it did last year. one last thing i want to show you, keira. this is how many private sector j
of morn relations talked about the danger faced by his family and what he calls the lawlessness in china. what i am most concerned about is also the most important question is the state of law in china, it is still very much being tram pelled on and more specifically after i left my home the local authorities have been having retaliating against my family in a frenzied way. please think about this. just in to cnn a couple minutes ago the syrian government is denying any involvement in the massacre that left more than 100 people dead in the village of houla. a government spoexz man in damascus blames what he calls armed groups, not the syrian military, for going house to house and slaughtering entire families, mostly women and children. it was last friday. you re about to see an up close look inside the village where it happened. itn s alex thompson. the u.n. warned you re past the last syrian army check point and then it is no man s land and space out the vehicles as we