terms of what they are determining. thank you so much. to politics now and the talk of the west wing. it s reportedly the now former facial hair of white house communications director jay carney. his boss, jennifer palmieri has called it that awful beard, her words, when speaking to politico. she added the president has derogatory things to say about it. for the record, doesn t like that. newly released ratings show that president obama reached a new low in viewership for his state of the union address. that number 33.3 million people tuning into tuesday s night speech, the lowest for president obama since he took office. viewership for the president s addresses has declined every year since 2009. the marijuana policy project is putting up five billboards around metlife stadium. both the teams, the denver broncos and seattle seahawks comes from states where pot is now legal, at least to some
through friday. instead he s returning home to try to avert a strike by the teachers union. steve brown is live in chicago with more. steve? reporter: hey there, megyn. os o tense my, the mayor s office says mayor emanuel is doing the obama campaign of sorts, they asked him to host a watch party for the thursday night speech by the president at the obama campaign headquarters for staffers. not directly connected the to what s going on here at home, but the situation does not look all that good. the mayor spending time this morning greeting students on their way into school today for the first day of school here in the city of chicago and not taking questions about any of the schedule changes or the problems with the teachers union. very opposite kind of show yesterday in daley plaza involving a lot of union folks, a lot of them teachers, including members of seiu and the chicago police and firefighters unions as well in
honestly how to deal with america s problems. speak honestly where they want to take the country. lay out one tangible idea what they would do to improve the kurchlt thursday night, it s not supposed to be a state of the union night speech, but thursday night, it is going to be clear of what the president s second term agenda is? will it be clear to american what s that is? i think by the end of this week, the end of the president s speech, and all of the different people speaking this week it will be clear, the road map forward, where the president wants to take this country, to build and economy, meant to last, with a strong middle class at its core. in will see that road map know where the president wants to take them, have a sense of what the second term would be about. a negative convention on romney in many ways? are you spending time on the podium with that? not like the republican convention. personal attacks and, you know dishonest attacks throughout the week. we re ac
you decide. martians our sunday night mystery and much more right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you for joining us. we begin with the secret service crisis. congress will hold hearings over the agency s prostitution scandal. they will look at what happened in colombia and all that led up to it. meantime, congressman peter king is concerned about the agency s future. we have to find out what is going to be done to ensure or to minimize the possibility of this ever happening again because i have great regard for the secret service. i believe director sullivan has done a fine johb. but you can t allow 11 men like this to tarnish the great reputation of that industry. police are conducting their own investigation in cartagena. drew, it appears the woman at the center of this scandal has gone underground. what are you learning about this? reporter: absolutely correct. she has an attorney. that attorney has apparently farming around her story
you decide. martians, our sunday night mystery and much more right here, right now on cnn. hello, everyone. i m don lemon. thank you so much for joining us. we begin tonight with the crisis facing the secret service and the obama administration. congress and peter king is concerned about the agency s future. we have to find out what is going to be done to ensure or to minimize the possibility of this ever happening again. i have great regard for the secret service. i believe director sullivan has done a fine job. the fact is you can t allow 11 men like this to tarnish the great reputation of that agency. let s go live to cartagena. police are conducting their own investigation. drew, it appears the woman at the center of this scandal has gone underground. what are you learning about this? reporter: absolutely correct. she has an attorney. that attorney is apparently farming around her story for cash. but the woman herself has all but disappeared. we went to her home