eight hours to live. but his lawyer is not giving up. he filed an emergency appeal a couple of hours ago, asking a georgia judge to call off tonight s execution because of new evidence, just a short time ago, the georgia board of pardons and paroles refused to reconsider their decision against clemency. 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
front-runner, texas governor rick perry, who came to new york city to accuse president obama of fumbling middle east diplomacy and undermining israel in the process. and we are equally indignant of the obama administration and their middle east policy of appeasement that s encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. simply put, we would not be here 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
nations. you re in the situation room. high stakes for the united states here at the united nations right now where president obama is desperately trying to avoid a potential crisis in the middle east peace process. at issue, the palestinian quest 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
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