Because the proud young muslim boy who built it almost wound up in jail. Instead, hes headed to the white house at the invitation of the president. Heres Mark Strassmann. I made it to impress my teachers. Reporter on monday Ahmed Mohamed brought to school this homemade digital clock, a Circuit Board wedged inside a pencil case. He showed it to his engineering teacher but told us it was his english teacher who got alarmed when the clock beeped inside his backpack during class. I brought the clock to my teacher and i showed it to her after class and i plucked it in and showed it to her that it was a working clock and she told me it looked like a bomb. Reporter he was arrested for building a hoax bomb. I felt like i was a criminal. I was profiled as a terrorist. Reporter he was fingerprintd and taken to juvenile detention. School district spokesperson lesley weaver. We were doing everything with an abundance of caution to protect all of our students in irving. Reporter police later conclu
and have enabled us to be so much more effective. nothing we accomplished would have been possible without you. i want to thank everyone who works in the senate and makes it function well, whether it s the cloakroom staff, the door keepers, the capitol police, the cafeteria workers, subway drivers. democracy functions because of you. so thank you. i hope many of you can join us at our thank you reception for you on friday afternoon. special thanks to leader mcconnell. mitch, i appreciate your encouragement over the years, your trust in me to take on a leadership role on some important assignments and for your exitment and devotion to this discussion commitment and devotion to this decision. none of this works without having a loving and supportive family. all of you know that to my wife jane and three people in the world i m so most proud of, jed, will, and sally, thank you for your unconditional support and sacrifices you ve made. i m looking for looking forward to bei
new leader out of owing their former president. mike emanuel has more. senator mccain says it would be tough sledding in ukraine. his message is let the people determine their own future. kelley ayotte offered this take. they need to focus on a unity government, and i will say this, now that the olympics are over, we need to watch the behavior of the russians. i believe the president needs to up his game and send a clear, unequivocal public message to putin not to interfere is what is happening in the ukraine. national security adviser susan rice warned today it would be a grave mistake for russia to interview, it s no-no in the