that people, the bad guys, as he called them in this case, are the ones who breached the trust and released the documents. i will let you know in about 90 seconds, we ll have the space launch. let s talk about the stolen violin, 300 years old, worth 2 million bucks. almost worth 2 million bucks, if you had something worth $2 million, you would take care of it. it belongs to a south korean born violin player, put it down for a minute to buy a sandwich, a $3 sandwich, and the thieves grabbed it. there is a reward. it is a 300 stradivarius. insurance company is offering $23,000 if it comes back opin n opinion. let s go straight to nasa. on board with the space x engineers. they are hoping to see a success story today. also on board are our on john
try to sell dems on the plan. new video of the taliban showing a private, he vanished from the combat outpost in afghanistan about 18 months ago. this is the first video of him we have seen hins april but it s not clear exactly when it was taken. and as we just heard on american morning, live pictures right now. it will be one small step for cash today. the first commercial spaceship heads for orbit. this is only a test by the way. no astronauts on this flight. we re following the live pictures. john zarrella is there. we start this morning saying good-bye to e less beth edwards. she died at the age of 61. yes, she was a political spouse, the wife of presidential candidate john edwards but over the years she s become so much more to so many people. elizabeth edwards was an every woman, a self-described anti-barbie. a woman whose very private pain
separated from but never divorced her husband and in the end, he was by her side with their children in the chapel hill home they built together. jessica yellin, cnn, washington. mudcat saunders was a senior adviser in john edwards campaign. joining us live this morning. mudcat, you worked side by side with elizabeth. she hired you, right? she hired me. she was the one. i remember well, of course, john hired me in the first time, 2001 in december, but in the 2008 cycle, i was just finishing up the jim webb race, and i remember johnny called one morning from the airport and said that elizabeth was adamant about me coming back, and, of course, i was going to go back anyway, but it was wonderful working with elizabeth. i learned so much. her political acumen was
president obama taking a real beating this morning from the left. his own party criticizing the deal he cut to extend tax cuts. the president says the compromise means real money for real people. the president s senior adviser david axelrod of course is defending the deal. he spoke to our john roberts this morning. so john, axelrod wasn t mincing his words. no. and neither are democrats either who are opposed to the tax cut. for example, anthony weiner, congressman out of new york, saying that the white house is not very good of making deals, not good at crafting compromises. gary ackerman of new york probably the one with the strongest statement, at least we heard out of closed doors saying the american people got screwed out of this. i said to david axelrod this morning, the president s senior advise we are the talk of extending tax cuts and renewing the unemployment insurance
democratic sources it is probably unlikely. this is really the issue when it cups to illegal immigration that has been on the table lately. some veteran republicans going to lose the chance to become chairman when the republicans take the house, right? reporter: this is interesting because one of the questions after the election is how much influence and power will tea party folks have on capitol hill? the tea partiers were pushing not for the people who are going to get them we re talking about fred upton, a moderate guy from michigan going to lead the energy committee, and hal rogers will lead the other committee. they think he is the wrong republican to lead that committ committee. got it. do you remember where you were 30 years ago today? assuming you were around then. hard to believe it s been that long since we heard the awful news, john lennon john, the news that united millions of people