adele cohen and urges voters to, quote, just say no to the jackson/dinkins agenda. it s unsigned. no one wanted to be associated with it, but the message couldn t be clearer. when the primary is held, there s a surprise winner, young weiner beats cohen by just 195 votes. only after that, only when it doesn t matter anymore, does weiner admit that the mailer was, in fact, his. we didn t want the source to be confused with the message, was his explanation. the new york times chastises weiner for his, quote, hit-and-run tactics in an editorial, but no one reads that. just like that, the whole episode is forgotten, lost to history which, of course, is exactly what weiner was counting on. he joins city council, makes a lot of noise, gobbles up media attention and campaign cash and perfectly positioned to inherit the congressional seat in 1998. you know the rest of the story. forget all that twitter stuff. this is the story that reveals something important about what weiner s been willing
week. they have accused iran and hezbollah for the bombing. and ehud barack is asking the world to speed up efforts on stopping the nuclear progress before it bombs israel. and to iran now. oh, that is some olympic excitement taking over the city today as the golden torch makes a victory lap past landmarks there, and thousands of people have lined the streets looking for a glimpse and many are calling it a once in a lifetime opportunity. it is lovely to see everybody here. it is just brilliant. brilliant. we wanted to see the torch, because it is a once in a lifetime opportunity, and we wanted to get here earlier and show our support. reporter: was it worth it? very much so. we enjoyed it. the atmosphere and the fun, and people and everything, great. this is so awesome, i love it. i love london, yes! we are having such a great time and getting up super early to see the torch. and what was it like to see all of the other people coming out to support it? it is
room . all eyes on the supreme court expected to issue its ruling on thursday on president obama s signature first-term achievement, health care reform. it s a hot topic on the2007 supporting president bush s use of the same authority. that s right. and with the supreme court case on health care reform expected to come down on thursday, joe, i think it s going to get a lot hotter. jim acosta, thanks so much for that. appreciate it. now we re just going to get a little more on this with cnn chief political analyst gloria borger. the candidates argue over the economy and who has a better plan for the future. when you start looking at the water s edge, it gets more complicated. it is very complicated. it s very difficult when you re president to talk about how the rest of the world effects us. because you don t want to look like you re whining. you don t want to look like you re assigning blame elsewhere. but having said that, the truth of the matter is that what s g
u.s. and afghan forces are facing fierce resistance as they try to secure this stronghold in marjah. but marines on the ground say enemy attacks are growing more and more disorganized. our troops trading gunfire with insurgents hiding in poppy fields. they are using hit-and-run tactics as coalition forces gain more food holds. a taliban spokesman claims his people remain in control of marjah and coalition force are under siege in some areas. going nuclear in the name of clean jobs and energy. he says he s making federal loan guarantees available to build the firsthe first nuclear plant0 years. this is something people in both parties pushed for.
forward because it is a dangerous plant. the taliban have been planting a lot of roadside bombs and explosives in the roads and brims there. the canal area is also dangerous. we are hearing that taliban fighters now appear to actually be taking up defensive positions. we have been talking about yesterday that it appears the taliban were disoriented as the british airport said they were resorting to hit-and-run tactics. now some of the fighters are taking up deftsive positions in civilian houses trying to hold up the coalition forces as they move along. certainly, that is something that the u.s. military has to deal with, trying to get those fighters out of there. while at the same time, making sure no civil yaps get hurt. so right now they are saying the progress is being made, but it is a lot slower than it could be if they were going in with full force and air power, betty. so we have heard of two