now, that s what we d do if we were a serious country. gop candidates trying to show they have the foreign policy chops to be commander in chief. we ll have all of the highlights just ahead. american students arrested in egypt facing more interrogation today. they re families now speaking as cairo erupts for a fifth day. and tailspin. incredible video of the chopper crash and the more amazing pictures of the pilot walking away from it on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com and good morning to you. happy pre-thanksgiving day. i can smell the turkey now. can t you? so can i. can t wait. food, football, family. three fs what could be better? and then food coma. sleeping afterwards. at least you fall asleep and aren t suffering through the feeling of you re going to croak. anyway, ali and christine are off, obviously. i m carol costello along side alina cho. last night s republican debate. disagreeing on just about everything. the best
clouds of tear gas in the streets of cairo again as police battle protesters, we ll take you right into the middle of the clashes, i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. a day after the republican candidates sparred and cnn s national security debate. mitt romney is back out there on the campaign trail. he picked up a new endorsement today in iowa. key conservatives have already held secret talks there. end of fining alternative candidate for the support. cnn joe johns is tracking the latest for us. joe. six weeks out from the iowa caucuses, if you take a picture, race for the nomination, it s clear as mud. the strangest thing of all in the volatile race, mitt romney and the within most republicans can believe is the president is not the person they say they re most likely to support. for the anybody but romney crowd, this had to be a rich moment. senator john thune, the true conservative, could have been a republican contender from president but decided not to
let s get you up to speed on this tuesday, november 22nd. a million man sit-in is taking place on tahrir square as violence erupts around it. security forces are using tear gas and rubber bullets against protesters armed with rocks and molitov cocktails. you re looking at live pictures right now of tahrir square. 24 have been killed, many injured. they have a new demand, this time aimed at egypt s military leader. we have a crowd here angry, young, furious at the loss of life here over the course of the past three days, demanding that the supreme council step down. mr. ivan watson, national security takes center stage at the presidential debate tonight. the stage is set just a few blocks from the white house. wolf blitzer will nar rate. a new cnn poll shows the former house speaker leading the republican pack for the first time with 24%. mitt romney follows with her man cain in third place. the cnn national security debate with the republican presidential candidates. that
republican candidates gather in the shadow of the white house tonight for the big cnn national security debate. it is the first test for newt gingrich as front-runner. cairo bracing for a million-man sit-in. police beating demonstrators on the fourth straight day of violence, and now late word three americans have been arrested. is there anybody out there? nasa relaunching a program to listen for alien life, searching for signs, on this american morning. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning. it s tuesday, november 22nd. ali and christine are off this morning. i m alina cho along with carol costello on this american morning. so glad you re with us. glad you re with us. up first this morning, breaking news out of cairo. three americans arrested outside the interior ministry in tahrir square accused of throwing molotov cocktails. thousands of demonstrators are packed into the square for a million-man sit-in. a short distance away, our reporter says soldie
moment of your life? doing piers morgan interview. well, obviously. this is piers morgan tonight. william, shatner, welcome. i don t want to shock you. woke me up. do you know i look at you. somebody said to me, you re 80 years old. somebody said to me, you re 40. that s 46, actually. either way. you don t look 80. you shouldn t be 80. i don t feel 80 and i don t know how to deal with that. i don t know how to deal with being 80. judging by this book, shatner rules , quite misera y miserably. you don t want to be old and 80 and facing death, do you? no. as you ve already read in the book, i describe getting my 80th birthday getting up and not wanting to get up and realizing that i had to get up because it could all end right now. you have been through this before because you talk about your 40th birthday where you lay in bed for days on end. did you not feel, 40, what have i done? what shall transpire? yes, but, you ve done a lot. that s the p