have known where osama bin laden was hiding. we ll talk to peter king about his hearing next week into the death of bin laden and what he hopes to learn. i m wolf blitzer and this is the situation room. let s begin with breaking news on the case involving the head of the international monetary fund jeffrey toobin is getting new details on what is going on. jeff is joining us on the phone. what are you picking out, jeff? it looks like the defense will go back to court tomorrow to ask for bail for their client. they think that they have a package that the court will accept. there is no deal yet in the works but this is the main preoccupation for the defense. they think it s bad for his health and there may be another court hearing in the case tomorrow. and dsk, dominique strauss-kahn, is at rikers island, in a small cell. why would they give him bail if potentially he is what they call a flight risk if he would give up $1 million if he were to be able to provide $1 mill
republicans nominated a tea party activist. he went on to note giffords father said sai sarah palin wasn enemy. there were images of crosshairs overlaid on the regions, accompanied by a caption saying it s time to take a stand. giffords herself complained about this map to msnbc at the time, however in a political culture obsessed with battleground states, such imagery is common among both parties. here s literature from the democrats, featuring nine bulls eyes over regions where republican candidates were considered vulnerable that year. the two captions read targeting strategy and behind enemy lines. as our picture of alleged shooter jared loughner has emerged more clearly, many commentators, including historians,ess as ethicists are
is something that could really change the whole view of diseases in the future. the problem is where do we stop? but the fda isn t touching on that quandary n stead focusing on the science of the procedure rather than the moral questions attached to it. scientific issues cannot be considered in isolation from their moral effects and we simply must take up the questions in parallel to each other. leading ethicists like doctors robert george and landry in ethics and the integrity of science are urging the tda to put the brakes on the technology, calling it, quote, reckless, and it would have the dubious distinction of being the first assisted reproduction technology necessarily involving the deliberate destruction of human embryos. others believe there s room for compromise on the heated issue. if you want to draw the line,
from bioet this hicists and oth. we re not going to jam this down anybody s throat. we have received calls from half a dozen states, from people who want to push this forward. this is a change, change is difficult, change requires both assertion and aggressiveness and a willingness to listen. we re in the middle of a process and we re going to make it better and we re going to save lives. thank you very much for your time. i m joined by nationally syndicated talk show host michael smerconish and an msnbc contributor. tell me what the general consensus was of your conversation? i think that any time people perceive government to be