sandusky founded for troubled kids. susan candiotti is live at courthouse in pennsylvania. as i understand it, there has been a last-minute filing of some information that is a bit of a bombshell with regards to what s happening in the courtroom. somewhat related but somewhat not related, right? that s right. it has to do with two other people who are charged in connection with the case against jerry sandusky. you remember the two former penn state officials are currently charged with perjury in connection with allegedly lying to the grand jury about what they did or didn t know about allegations involving jerry sandusky. that trial has not happened yesterday. but those two former officials are tim curley and gary schultz, a former vice president at penn state in charge of police investigations on campus. cnn obtained court documents filed late yesterday that indicate the possible existence of what you could call a secret file not previously known to anyone until now. now i
good political battle. they are flying as the fact checkers work overtime. and a top united nations official now says syria is in a full-scale civil war, even as a u.n. report accuses the damascus regime of torturing children and using them as human shields. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. you don t often see a cabinet member subjected to such a harsh grilling. the attorney general eric holder on the hot seat facing republicans furious over a litany of complaints. he held his ground against calls for his resignation. dana watched it all unfold. a botched gun-running designation known as fast and furious to a republican call for an independent investigation into leaks classified leaks, i should say, eric holder knew this wasn t just going to be a regular oversight hearing. he knows he s in congress cross hairs. but what happened was a political food fight. most republicans were tough on the attorney general, but nothing compared to this. there has be
crackdown on dissent. we begin with today s dramatic, intensely partisan confrontations between senate republicans and attorney general of the united states. a feisty appearance before the senate judiciary committee, attorney jenner i can holder refused demands that he apoint special counsel to investigate recent leaks of sensitive national security information. two people i pointed to look into matters are first rate prosecutors. special counsel, somebody new other than the two people that all of us could buy into? senator, i think you re missing something here. i think you re missing something here. i think you re missing the fact that this is a very big deal, and you re handling it in a way that creates suspicions where there should not be. republicans also confronted the attorney general over a program called fast and furious, it was designed to trace weapon smuggling, but ended up helping mexican drug cartels get guns from the united states, one of the guns f
in just a few minutes, we ll talk to chad myers and whether firefighters can help the weather help them or make their efforts to battle this giant blaze even harder. we begin with crime and punishment tonight. jerry sandusky. faced one of his accusers on the first day of testimony in his trial. in the court document, the accuser known as victim number four is the first to take the stand for the prosecution. the former penn state assistant football coach sat with his lawyer through often graphic testimony about their so-called relationship. victim number four detailed the years of alleged sexual encounters. he also opened up about their private conversations and discussed what has been described as love letters from sandusky. his testimony happened after both sides previewed their cases during opening statements. the defense hinted that sandusky might take the stand in his own defense and even suggested he may have a psychological disorder. that could explain some of his alleg
a wake-up call from the ragin cajun. bill clinton s top adviser, james carville, along with two respected democratic pollsters out with a blistering 16-page indictment of the president s campaign strategy. carville says the president s efforts to convince voters that the economy is going in the right direction hit the wrong strategy and in his words will fail. he s right about one thing. the president is selling a message of hope, hard. we ve gone through the worst financial crisis and economic crisis since the great depression. we ve made significant progress. the good news is that we re starting to see progress. so we re making progress. we re moving in the right direction. progress? doesn t add up. we looked at some important economic indicators with bespoke investment research. look at the unemployment rate. this chart starts in the summer of 2007, when america was booming. at the very top, unemployment was 4.6%. a level it had hovered at for years. today it s 8.2. n