their plan to overcome poverty because they say times have changed and survival isn t just about them any more. george howell, cnn, atlanta. american hikers josh fattal and shawn bower are returning to the united states tonight. they were locked up in iran for two years on charges that they were spies. since wednesday they have been free in oman where they made their first public statement just a short time ago. cnn goes to oman. mohamed, what did they say? reporter: well, it was just a short while ago, a press conference here at the vip lounge at the air temperature. shawn bower spoke first. he said getting off the plane that brought us here three days ago was is most incredible experience of our lives. we ll never forget seeing our loved ones. they went on to thank the leader of man for his work to secure their release. josh fattal spoke right after that. gave another short statement. said just hours after we left prison we were able to swim in the calm waters of the gu
today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the obama policy in the middle east wasn t naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous. and the governor didn t stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left iran s radical regime emboldened. to date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was wasting precious time on a naive policy of outreach to both the iranian and syrian governments. let s discuss the president s diplomatic challenge and governor perry s political gambit. cnn s david gergen and gloria borger. let s start first with the policy challenge. the president was at the united nations. the president was not scheduled to meet with the palestinian leader abbas, but they will have that meeting wednesday. david gergen, how critical is it for the president to try to convince president abbas and what might there be as a
welcome to american morning. good morning to you, and to you. it is a busy week. breaking news. freedom coming for two u.s. hikers held priter in in iran. they could be out with the half hour. right to mohammed jamjoon covering this. what s the latest? reporter: well, ali, we ve heard from a lawyer from the the two detained hikers tells us a second judge in iran has signed the paperwork, the bail paperwork for josh fattal and shane bauer. the lawyer says now he can take that paperwork and start the procedures to free them. he expects they will be free with the half hour. also, iranian news agency saying they will be handed over to swiss embassy officials in about half an hour from now. ali? we ve had false starts on this the last couple of weeks. the idea here, of course, it s through the judiciaries, any likely to stop this as far as you can see? reporter: ali, i apologize. having a little problem hearing you. we ve heard in the last few weeks, wrangling going on b
davis got the death penalty for the murder of a savannah police officer back in 1989, no dna evidence ever linked davis to the crime. most of the witnesses who testified against him recanted. but the man who prosecuted davis stands by his case. there are two troy davis cases. there is the legal case. the case in court. and the public relations case. we have consistently won the case as it s been presented in court. we have consistently lost the case as it s been presented in the public realm on tv and else where. prominent figures from former president jimmy carter to pope benedict have asked georgia to spare davis s life because of doubts about his guilt. president obama and benjamin netanyahu are going to discuss mahmood abbas is set to declare palestine a state. president obama will personally press abbas to work for state hood through negotiations with israel. the two meet later this afternoon, and just a few moments ago, president obama spoke to the general assem
for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. she s covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. that s rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue the president addressed in his speech today with repeated the theme, peace is hard. the president trumpeted progress at the end of this year, america s military operation in iraq will be over. osama bin laden is gone. and warned of challenges ahead. where we stand with the syrian people or their oppressors. what so many were listening for was this. we seek a future where palestinians live in a sovereign sate of their own. how would we explain his opposition to the palestinian push