around the globe. but did you know iran is spreading its antiamerican message right here in our own back yard? adam housley, live from los angeles with more on that. adam. reporter: jon, in fact iran has five different television networks in five different languages. one is hspan tv. with the help of strongman hug oh chavez, it s a 24-hour channel pushing antiamericanism, and it follows a trip to mahmoud ama ahmadinejad, those not considered the closest allies to the u.s. iran says the channel on the air for a trial basis with a 16 hour daily program will target millions of spanish speaking people throughout the world, 24 hours. i will not be at all surprised that
president obama would get 45 percent of the vote, 43 percent to romney, so if romney takes that state a virtual tie if you look at it as far as the poll goes, but again, this is the result we see on the screen. with rick perry on the ticket, the president tops perry 46 percent to 40 percent, those numbers, again, still within the margin of error but it speaks as to how close we are right now. i should add, more than a year ago from the election. jon: and those numbers are obviously going to play a key roll in this next presidential election when it comes to the electoral college. right now the issue the democrats and republicans can agree on, the senate pushing a bill urging china to stop manipulating its currency, this after critics have long complained that china s juan is yuan is greaty underpolled undervalued. congress wishes, putting it on a potential collision course with the white house. our chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel takes a look at that. reporter:
the pentagon, and i asked him about the threat, and he laughed a bit, he said well, if they could make it, we might be worried. they don t really have a refuelling capability. but i will remind you that back in february the iranians for the first time in three years sent two warships through the suez canal, they took advantage of the arab spring chaos and shortly after hosni mubarek s government fell in egypt they haeud $300,000 to pass through the suez canal to syria, that put israelis on high alert, the iranians clearly trying to play to a domestic audience, trying to project naval power, and also are trying to overcome what was an embarrassing performance the the united nations general assembly last week when their president, mahmoud ama ahmadinejad, most of the members of the general assembly walked out on him and there was a report monday, the united states, the obama administration, has sold bunker bombs to israel, so that is one of
whether he can sell that to the american people is another question. it s interesting, because when he goes on the campaign trail and talks to conservative republican audiences, he gets a standing ovation when he talks about 999. jen and it sticks, it s something you can remember and seems simple enough you can understand a complicated tax structure and we know the tax system is so complicated right now. let me just say one thing if i could, an interesting story about that 999. people have been asking herman where did that come from and as you know he was the president of godfather s pizza, so the joke in washington, i don t know if this is true or not, but his slogan when he was the head of godfather was two medium pizzas for 9.99! that s where this came from. jenna: you wonder. we re only speculating! that could be an interesting connection. if it works for pizza, maybe it s worth a shot. getting back to why we pay taxes, the reason why we pay taxes is we hope we get it back in ser
prison, i think, made me a lot more grateful for everything in my life, you know, and there are many things that i missed about my country,n hough i had been away for a year, and i loved living in the wonderful, vibrant place and there are many things i missed, but mostly, it s my family, and i do, i love how diverse and dynamic our culture is. and yeah. jenna: well, we thank you for joining us today, and wish you the best of luck. yeah, thanks. jenna: thank you very much. that was sarah shourd in her own words, her own story. right now in new york city, the iranian president, mahmoud ahmadinejad is speaking, once again talking about the conspiracy theories of 911. eric shawn, our very own eric shawn, took on ahmadinejad with these conspiracy theories and we ll have the interview, a live report coming up at the top of the hour. jon: can t wait to hear that. that s going to be interesting. also we have new