big get. phil black live in pakistan. they call him the military arm, the military brain behind al qaeda. please, give our viewers a perspective on how big of a get this would be. sure, t.j. this is a local militant who has risen from very local origins. his early career was fought fighting in a local comfort in kashmir indeed most of his military career has been involved in south asia, india, pakistan, afghanistan. that in recent years he has relocated his operation to the pakistan/afghanistan border area. that tribal territory of north wuzeerstone and from there he developed close relationship with the afghan taliban and al qaeda. he has risen through the ranks of al qaeda quite dramatically in that time. rising to that position, as you say. essentially the operational chief. the man whose job it was to implement al qaeda strategy. that is to decide on targets to dedicate resources and, ultimately, carry out these operations and take lives. he has been essentially quite s
imperative and it s an economic imperative. if we were to find a way to pass comprehensive reform which includes a pathway to include the 11 million undocumented immigrants that are here. we would have $11.5 trillion in our economy in the next ten years. that s something we desperately need right now. lenny, is she right? republicans are not willing to help out this president because they don t want to political reasons or they just disagree with the policy? this is a political move. this is trying to get a base to vote for the president, once again. again, i go back to 2009. there s a super majority in the senate. a huge majority in the house of representati representatives. instead of focusing on the borders and getting immigration reform policy in place, they went after health care. the economy is still messed up. illegal immigration is still a problem throughout the united states and now he s going back and trying to use the political bomb from the bin laden situation in order
guy that can help these kids and give them a chance. well, since 2004 michael and his blue dragon children s foundation has helped to get more than 350 vietnamese youngsters off the streets. all of this year s cnn s heroes were chosen from people you told us about. you can still nominate someone you know who is making a big difference in your community by going to cnnheroes.com. well, did you hear this yesterday? the number of republicans in the race for the white house doubled yesterday. it s up to two. we ll tell you who these big names are. you ll recognize them both because they ve been there before and we re going to be talking about it with our big names. lenny and maria standing by. it looks like we have the technical issues from last weekend with maria worked out. lenny is not able to sabotage them. what do you got? restrained driver.
lenny. what about this field at a time when some say we need to move this country forward with new ideas in a new millennium. just a new era, but we re getting some old faces, if you will, literally and figuratively. what do you think about the two that got in? number one, they have interesting angles. look, for example, look at newt gingrich. he does remind people of the 1990s when there was success and balance in government where you had a democratic president that went too far after the first two years, was snapped back by a republican wave in 1994 and the two of them, president clinton and speaker gingrich were able to move america through an unprecedented phase of prosperity. so, he has that working for him. ron paul actually has the republican party coming back to him. he leans more libertarian. these reviews that we are seeing as being too far outside the main stream in 2008, well, now because of the tea party momentum, which, by the way, he is considered the god father of
if newt gingrich can remind people with relatability and his camp and show how america can get back on the right path economically. now that osama bin laden is gone, that whole issue is going to be taken off the table. everybody is going to focus on the economy with gas prices, inflation, unemployment. you look at some of the bases that president obama has to look at and those bases are, they re facing unemployment rates that are doubled. and if newt gingrich can go after that, it won t matter much. he ll have a chance, if he can relate to the american people and in the general election. it s still early. we don t know who else might get in, might not get in and it s still early. there will be different names, including mike huckabee. we ll hear from him tonight and what he s going to do. you talk about the big issues, lenny. immigration, the president put that back on the table this week. let s take a quick listen and then, maria, i ll bring you in. the most significant step we ca