conversation. by and large people are elated to hear it. there naysayers who frankly are fearful that anything that takes place on his watch will be reflected as a game is somehow bad. i can t biel with that mind set. overall people are happy to hear it. it s an incredible 24 hours. you have gadhafi dragged out of the drain pipe by his own people. they took his and ended that 42-year dictatorship under the president s watch. we are looking at the death of osama bin laden. the future head, if you will, of al qaeda or one of the persons working to lead that terror network. it s an incredible list of things this president has accomplished. his administration has accomplished. you heard kristen welker say it is back to the issue of jobs and the economy. how will this balance out in his
believe that gadhafi is indeed dead. in fact, they have made it possible for the public to see his body. we have come back from that commercial cold storage and saw the body ourselves. there were a number of very well organized people moving in and out of the room that wasn t large. people taking a lot of pictures. i wouldn t describe it people wanting to see the man who they feared. how he died and the circumstances of which he was killed. there has been concern expressed and there may be an attempt on the part of the interim government to show that they are not just a bunch of thugs and they are trying to follow a certain standard here. tamron? the latest out of libya and the latest on president obama s big announcement about the war in iraq will be over by the end of the year.
the bus tours and used the bully bull pit to emphasize two things. i m on it with the economy and part of that is we have a jobs bill. the second part is obstructionism. the gop every step of the way, they vote everything down. even bits and pieces that are gop friendly. what can we do? we are trying to get a handle on the economy and move things ahead. we are trying to put people back to work. we are trying to really get things going on the job and the economic front and we have so many opponents on the other side. the president has turned it back around with harry truman. we greatly appreciate it and will be talking with you both. much more ahead. thank you. coming up, we will get the latest from libya and the fight over gadhafi s body. and we are learning the is being
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. it s friday, october 21st. ali s off today. welcome to american morning. it s been a long week. a big week of news. it s been a very long week. i must say, i had a great time in vegas. i know. vegas seems like a year ago. doesn t it? all of the gadhafi news yesterday. you can back from the big debate and the gadhafi news. moammar gadhafi killed in his hometown, captured alive. almost 24 hours after reports he was mortally wounded there is still a fog surrounding exactly how it happened. right. and new videos popping up all over the web showing his final moments. we want to warn you. these videos obviously are graphic. this one showing a badly wounded extremely bloody confused gadhafi being man handled but is clearly alive here. the statement says he was killed in a crossfire. later pictured show his dead body with a bullet wound to his head add close range suggesting he was executed. news of his death
with pepper spray. the people did not want to shut down the museum. we did not want to inconvenience tourist but engage in a dialogue using our free speech rights. we never got past the metal detectors. security came rushing out. bum rushed us like a line of football players. corralled and pepper sprayed the first round of us. three people were detained. so the occupy movement first took root in lower manhattan three weeks ago. susan candiotti spoke to people who came from near and far to see it for themselves. reporter: eating a bowl of cereal after sleeping under the stars, this retiree and her teenager grandson took a bus from detroit to camp out with occupy wall street. tell me what this is like. you have this tarp. this is home. for a week, choosing to sleep on the ground under a blue tarp, mainly with young people in a public park. why was it important for you to come here and bring your grandson? i felt the need to show support to the movement. the poli