north carolina shutting out same-sex marriage with a constitutional amendment. people behind the movement this morning saying they re not anti-gay, they re pro-marriage. mississippi searching for adam mayes wanted for killing of a tennessee woman and her teenage daughter. the police expand their search for the two young girls. pomp and perception. queen elizabeth ii arriving in a golden carriage wearing a crown with 3,000 diamonds. going before parliament to talk about saving money. newsroom starts right now. this morning we begin with new details and backlash over the al qaeda plot to bomb a u.s. bound plane. we know it was an undercover operative working for saudi arabia and the united states. according to the new york times, the operative handed over the bomb to the fbi and now that bomb is undergoing extensive study. the newspapers reports it was sewn into custom fit underwear but unlike the bomb that malfunctioned on the 2009 flight into detroit, this one had f
stuff. they can t do it unilaterally but at least it causes questions out there. jenna: a lot of questions. if you take a look at the new president of france, one of the things he has said, my real enemy is the world of finance. some are concerned that we might see most of permission into socialism, he s a socialist, maybe we see a shift away from all this austerity, and all this cutting and debt being bad to once embracing debt again, and it could happen here, do you think it could happen? it could happen. he says he s going to balance the budget in knife years, he s going to do it through tax increases and other measures. i think we are operating within a narrow brand of some french domestic policy was going to be any way. nobody said they were going to out think or go against the social welfare state. what he s not talking about is shrinking government as a percent afpblg the economy, changing labor rules and other regulation has might liberate
will say one other thing on this they had interview recently with the prime minister of denmark and one of the things she said to me, which was really interesting, she said to me the difference between us and you, you guys can have immigration if that gives you an ability to manage our labor force we don t have we just have to change our labor rules, you have this great gift and it just occurred to me how little we look like it. to europe, for them this is huge us to, how lucky is america? i m just shaking my head just think bug it and also the fact that by listening to all the stuff today, i realize that bush actually was progressive in ways that i had forgotten. thank you. thank you. like jody said, shouldn t be so cut and dried because you re pro-democrat, you re anti-republican it does make the country stronger but just goes to show you how extreme the republican party has got. you are right about immigration. it shouldn t be looked at so horribly. you look at just this wee
travel around the country, inspecting airports and they are not being paid. as a matter of fact, the faa is asking them to pay for their own travel and expenses and that is not a permanent solution to this. so the question is will there be safety problems from a lack of airport inspections. bill: one more thing here, we are hearing now the democratic leaders will have a press conference on this, 11:30 eastern time and this is within the hour. how do they pin this on republicans. well, because they ll say republicans are blocking a simple reauthorization and have insisted on changing the labor rules, back, the obama administration changed. this is nothing new, the faa has not been permanently or long-term reauthorized since 2007 and have had 20 short-term reauthorization bills in that time and there has been a lot of the fighting going on over this. bill: byron, thanks, we ll talk about, and see whether it turns out today, or in september. thanks. alisyn: you think he would have
a ton of money. this hour, how he s dealing with the new messes that the country simply can t afford right now. and from the seat of power to an iron cage in a courtroom, the ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak goes on trial for allegedly ordering the killing of protesters. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. sort of vacation right now, they re on leave while tens of thousands of american workers are going without a paycheck because of their inaction. a lot of new anger and fingerpointing over the partial shut down of the federal aviation administration. senators went on break yesterday without extending the agency s funding. today the president is urging them to get back to work and solve this expensive and very embarrassing problem. let s begin our coverage this hour with cnn s ted rowlands joining us live from chicago s o hare airport. this is an outrage, ted, what is it like out there? well, wolf, people around the country are absolutely disgusted