we begin with chief political correspondent carl cameron in detroit tonight where the doctor definitely is in. good evening, carl. reporter: that s right, bret. more are making it official. by this time tomorrow night, the field of republican presidential candidates would have doubled of officially and formally declared candidates. reporter: ben carson launched his campaign in native detroit even though he lives now in florida. people will say, who are you? i tell you, i m ben carson and i m a candidate for president of the united states. reporter: dr. carson became an overnight darling of the right at the national prayer breakfast two years ago and sparked a grassroots draft movement. they hope he attracts more minorities to the party. stop being loyal to a party or to a man and use your brain to think for yourself. reporter: but he s never run for elected office before and has had to clarify and apologize for a number of verbal mishaps. he compared homosexuality
correspondent carl cameron in detroit tonight where the doctor definitely is in. good evening, carl. reporter: that s right, bret. more are making it official. by this time tomorrow night, the field of republican presidential candidates would have doubled of officially and formally declared candidates. reporter: ben carson launched his campaign in native detroit even though he lives now in florida. people will say, who are you? i tell you, i m ben carson and i m a candidate for president of the united states. reporter: dr. carson became an overnight darling of the right at the national prayer breakfast two years ago and sparked a grassroots draft movement. they hope he attracts more minorities to the party. stop being loyal to a party or to a man and use your brain to think for yourself. reporter: but he s never run for elected office before and has had to clarify and apologize for a number of verbal mishaps. he compared homosexuality to pedophilia. i m probably
he will not show any more tolerance towards protesters and also says we will be at the necks of the provocateurs and terrorists and no one will get away with it. he s deeming these environmental protesters to be terrorists. well, it s absurtd, martin. look, i ve spent plenty of time in turkey this past year, nine trips in all and the fact is is that while this is not tiananmen square and prime minister erdogan leads a democratically elected government, there has been no doubt in essentially what is happening is a societal division between a more secular urban environment that does not want to see his islamist oriented party impose islamic laws on them and a more consecutive countryside where he gets most of his support. and the key here is that to understand is that in the rest of turkey outside the major cities, these demonstrators do not have a wide amount of popular arp support. however, with that said, martin, the fact is that he is trying to impose a great deal of rest
machine guns. tonight what we ve learned about the mission that saved one man and left a navy hero dead. plus, a mexican american superstar singer killed in a plane crash. the plane is totaled. nobody inside survived. i m in shock. i still can t believe it. whatever culture you were from, she inspired you as a woman. tonight tears of disbelief from jenni rivera s family and fans. the software mogul john mcafee spent weeks dodging cops in two countries and now he has a new destination in mind. i ll be very happy to go to america. america is my home. tonight a mystery, a suspected murder, and a millionaire. but first from fox this monday night, the story of a hero who died saving another man thousands of miles from home. just hours ago our military identified a navy seal killed in action in afghanistan. his name wit we now know is nics checque. he was 28 years old from pennsylvania, a member of the elite seal team 6, the same unit that killed osama bin laden
who masterminded the operation. ben affleck plays him on the big screen, but you get the real version with us. finally, drew faust, the president of harvard, on how the civil war changed america. also, do you feel guilty taking a day off from work? don t. it s probably good for your country. i ll explain. but first here s my take. recently intelligence squared a feisty forum in new york debated the proposition better elected islamists than dictators, referring to the choices confronting america in the middle east. the lead speaker for the proposition was a prominent conservative intellectual, reuel marc gerecht. and the lead speaker against the proposition was a prominent conservative intellectual, daniel pipes. that s a reflection of the state of conservative thought on the most dramatic events sweeping the world. mitt romney s foreign policy speech sounded alarms about the turmoil in the region, but he, too, seemed somewhat unsure which side he would be on. on the one