on cnn. good monday morning to you, everyone. it s good to have you with us, welcome to early start. i m ashley banfield. we re bringing you the news from a to z. big developments in greece that are sure to have a ripple effect. winning yesterday s parliamentary election in a vote seen by many as an endorsement for the survival of the euro. i will make sure that the sacrifices of the greek people will bring the country back to prosperity. so now it s up to samaras to form a coalition government to quickly keep greece afloat. something that other euro nations are hopes that we can do. christine romans is monitoring markets. as we started, we said, ah, good news here. features have turned lower. and i saw this described as a stay of execution for greece. others have called it the status quo. what is the status quo? relying on other monies from other countries to stay afloat, to basically not go broke and it still has an awful lot of work to do here. but voters dec
congressman arthur davis says he s voting for mitt romney this time around. he s going to tell us why. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. the cold war is long over, but a chill has settled in in the relations right now. the key shoous, moscow s support in the regime for syria. it may help fuel a brutal crackdown. president obama is addressing that issue headon at the g-20 summit in mexico. dan lothian is joining us right now. dan, what s the latest on this tension between the u.s. and russia? the two leaders met for about two hours. president obama saying the meeting was candid and thorough. i have to tell you, you take a look at the body language, and it gives you a sense of what the meeting was like. they did not sit close together. president obama was leaning towards president putin. president putin was leaning away. you didn t see any smiles at the end of the remarks. they had a quick handshake. sort of half a smile. president obama patting him briefly on
they are americans in their heart, in their minds, in every single way but one. it s a dream come true for more than 1 million undocumented immigrants in the u.s. the dramatic shift in policy as a humanitarian moment in history. critics called it arrogant. we put it in focus. later families so devastated by the economy, they are abandoning their children in orphanages. where it s a crisis tearing families apart. it is it is saturdays, june 16th. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. we ll get to the headlines in a minute. on this father s day weekend, i wanted to make sure you knew what one texas father did to protect his daughter. it s captured the attention of ours. i visited a neighborhood ranch that is now a crime scene. here is what we know. a 23-year-old father was working his horses and getting a barbecue started when he heard his 5-year-old daughter screaming in the barn. he ran toward her and found a 47-year-old man, an acquaintance of the family trying
arming the assad regime. we have confronted the russians about stopping their continued arms shipments to syr syria. we are concerned about the latest information we have that there are attack helicopters on the way from russia to syria, which will escalate the conflict quite dramatically. moscow insists any arms supplies sent to syria are not being used against anti-government protesters. the suspect in the auburn triple murder is in custody after a three day manhunt. desmonte leonard turned himself into authorities at the federal courthouse in montgomery, alabama. facing three counts of capital murder. he gunned down three people and wounded three others after a fight broke out in an off campus party. two of those killed were former auburn football players. gabrielle giffords former aide will serve out the remainder of her term in the house. barber defeating kelly by 6 points. he ll fill giffords seat until november. in virginia, george allen easily defeated three
we ve got the highlights this hour on cnn. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. nice to have you with us. i m ashleigh banfield. i m zoraida sambolin. we begin with the shocking and sometimes sickening testimony in the child sex abuse trial of former penn state football defensive coordinator jerry sandusky. we have heard from two alleged victims already, and a third could take the stand later this morning. yesterday former assistant football coach mike mcqueary also testified, describing what he thought appeared to be sandusky molesting a young boy in a shower. and there was tearful, riveting testimony from the man whose accusations helped trigger the criminal investigation. alleged victim number one said that he stayed at jerry sandusky s house more than 100 times as a boy, and he was sexually assaulted repeat lid when he was just 12 years old. susan candiotti is live in bellefonte, pennsylvania. susan, what made victim number one break down in tears on the st