the united states has conducted an operation that killed osama bin laden, the leader of al qaeda. why they charge the president with putting politics ahead of their safety. and only in america. the real bin laden battle. why it s not about politics. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. our big story tonight breaking news. president obama s surprise trip to afghanistan and his speech to americans on the one year anniversary of the mission to take out osama bin laden. my fellow americans, we ve traveled through more than a decade under the dark cloud of war. yet here in the pre-dawn darkness of afghanistan, we can see the light of a new day on the hordes. the iraq war is over. the number of our troops in harm s way has been cut in half and more will soon be coming home. we have a clear path to fulfill our mission in afghanistan while delivering justice to al qaeda. plenty reaction to this momentous day coming up soon. plus my interview with a man who reporter
with this ad narrated by bill clinton. it s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin ladin. what he did mean by that? given osama bin ladin s role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. he had to decide. and that s what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. that wolf blitzer tape was part of this ad. the ad provoked a sharp response from john mccain, turning 9/11 into a cheap political attack. he went on to say, this is the same president who once criticized hillary clinton for invoking bin ladin to score political points, it s the same president who said after bin ladin was dead, we shouldn t spike the ball after the touchdown. keeping them honest, senator mccain is factually correct on both those counts. you can decide whether for yourself the killing of bin ladin, a year after the event constitutes spiking the ball.
good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, breaking news in the secret service sex scandal. cnn has learned the identity of the agent believed to be at the center of the scandal. arthur huntington was the secret service agent who had the payment dispute with colombian escort, dania suarez. that argument in the hotel el caribe in cartegena, colombia, set off a wide-ranging investigation. as a result, nine secret service agents have resigned or being forced out of the agency. the military has launched its own investigation into 12 members also in colombia before the president s visit. drew griffin was the first to break the news tonight and drew, walk us through this. what more can you tell us? how did you figure this out? this was real, on the ground, hard reporting. well, the secret service tried to make sure that none of these names came out, erin, which made it tough. but we knew from hotel security that the dispute happened between two rooms on the seventh floor
plymouth, massachusetts. i appreciate you calling in. can you just first talk me through what folks there on the ground in huntington beach, what the situation is what they need to do? i think the first thing is that you have to assess whether or not this is an animal that is in need of human intervention or not. and so, you know, from what i ve seen, there s a pod swimming somewhat freely and then this one particular animal that s a little bit away and stranded. here normally if we have a situation like that, we would try and actually move the single animal and move it out toward a deeper water area. often times you get animals, these are common dolphins. they re supposed to be in deep water. once they get into a shallow area, particularly a wetland area, it s really confusing for them. what can happen? can you hammer home how dangerous this is, how urgent this is for these folks to get this dpolphin to deeper water. as long as the animal can stay afloat, they re not i
and jason carroll is out watching in new york. jason, why don t we start with you. what have you been able to see, feel, hear? give us an understanding of the landscape. reporter: what do i hear now? i think it s the staples singers singing i ll take you there. i think that s what they are playing now. and the shuttle took a lot of astronauts to a lot of different places. but the enterprise never made it to space. but still exciting nonetheless. exciting for the hundreds of invited guests who are here at jfk. we ll have speakers from nasa, speakers from the air and space museum, and also leonard nimoy will be here speaking as well. we spoke to him a few minutes ago. he talked about how exciting it was for him. he was around in 1976 when enterprise made its debut. the whole crew of enterprise came out for that moment. as you know, the aircraft is named after the spaceship enterprise after tv fans say you should name it enterprise. a lot of excitement here as we r