you know, and doing nothing more than that. you know what i m saying? michele hickman we appreciate you joining us today to share your side of things. that target statement said they did work directly with you to address your concerns and sorry for any inconvenience caused but we appreciate you joining us to tell us why you felt so strongly that you and others staged this sit in with mothers at target store across the country. thank you. it is time to launch hour number two. the pentagon warns iran not to bottle up the persian gulf. did you hear about this? new nominees at the top brain trust at the federal receive. and soggy end to 2011. time to play reporter roulette. we ll start with barbara starr. barbara, take us through this. this is quite serious in terms of the rhetoric. we ll see how serious it is in terms of the reality. iran reacting to statements from european countries that want they might place an embargo on iranian oil import, iran saying if that happen
virtual tie for the lead. what happened to newt gingrich nice guy? he vowed not to go negative in response to the other candidates attack ads, but that didn t stop gingrich from blasting ron paul. in an interview with cnn s wolf blitzer he said he wouldn t vote for paul. gingrich pointed to incendiary newsletters distributed under paul s name in the 80s and 90s. you look at his newsletters and then you look at his ads, his ads are about as accurate as his newsletters. now if he were to get the republican nomination. he won t. let s say he were. could you vote for him? no. amateur video out of syria is said to show defectors trying to ambush security forces in daraa. cnn cannot independently confirm this claim. observers from the arab league are now in the country for a second day to determine if the government has kept its promise to stop the bloody crackdown on its citizens. a league official tells cnn they have postponed trips to three cities today due to l