netanyahu. the two world leaders very much at odds over the future borders of israel. the aftershock of arnold schwarzenegger s bombshell is now affecting his movie comeback. his acting career now on hold while he deals with his personal mess. speaking of bomb shells, a former teammate told cbs that lance armstrong took performance enhancing drugs. he says he has taken hundreds of drug tests and did not fail a single one. the former head of the international monetary fund can leave jail at any moment e has been staying at rikers island in new york indicted on several sex charges. his accuser, a maid at a manhattan hotel. susan candiotti is following this story. tell us what this man s life will be like once he leaves rikers. reporter: well, he has to stick close to home. when he eventually leaves rikers island, he will leave there under an armed escort. that s part of what the judge says he has to do. that s part of the bail agreement in addition to posting all this m
him about it. president obama will be outlining new goals for the middle east in a speech. it will include an economic boost for egypt and tunisia. we can expect strong language from him aimed at syria with sanctions for the brutal crackdown on its protesters which we ve been following for weeks here. let s bring in ed henry live at the white house. why now, and what s the goal of this speech? because it s a complicated narrative why we react in one country one way and in a different country a different way. it is. and it s a lot to tackle. they say he wants to tie together the arab spring, all these peaceful protests, the situation in libya, the death of osama bin laden. i mean, that alone is a lot to chew on. you throw in the mideast peace process which has been intractable for so many years and this is very, very ambitious, obviously. two years after that speech the president gave to the muslim
instead, the president s going to speak much more generally about the mideast peace process, leave some of the details to tomorrow when he welcomes israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to the white house. we should also say sunday here in washington the president will be giving another speech on the mideast to aipac, the american-israeli group. so there will be a flurry of activity even after today s speech but i wouldn t anticipate too much detail about the peace process from this president, wolf. ed, i want to bring suzanne into this conversation as well. it is intriguing to me he decided woe speak at this time. it is now approaching noon, exactly noon on the east coast of the united states, it is 56:00 p.m. in tunis, 6:00 p.m. in cairo, 7:00 p.m. in jerusalem. these are times when people are near a television, they can watch. they specifically timed this address so that people throughout europe, the middle east, north africa would be at
of here. what are white house officials saying? reporter: well, this is an intriguing bit, you re absolutely right. some people inside and outside the situation tell me as they read the tea leaves george mitchell was one of the people inside the administration calling for some sort of obama plan, the idea being that the president in this speech or other speeches should lay out a specific detailed approach to getting the mideast peace process going again. white house thus far has rejected that idea, obviously. and so if you read the tea leaves, the fact that george mitchell essentially ran out last friday right before this speech certainly suggests that this president is not going to get too detailed in this speech today at the state department about how to move forward in the mideast peace process. instead, as we now learned the president s just about just starting to depart the white house. he s a few minutes late, as you noted. it certainly suggests that george mitchell did not w
good morning. welcome. it s thursday morning, may 19th. we have a lot of news this morning including some breaking news. let s begin with that breaking news. the resignation of dominique strauss-kahn as head of the international monetary fund. this move comes just before a bail hearing today in new york. we re seeing this mug shot for first time. the former imf chief is facing sexual assault charges for allegedly attacking a maid in his manhattan hotel room. he says he is not guilty. resigning from the imf so he can defend himself fully. here is part of a statement he released. quote, i think at this time first of my wife, whom i love more than anything, of my children, of my family of my friends. i want to say that i deny with the greatest possible firmness all of the allegations that have been made against me. i want to protect this institution, which i have served with honor and devotion, and especially i want to devote all of my strength, all of my time and all of my