brand-new cnn/orc poll shows cain in a dead heat with mitt romney at the top of the gop field and cain s gain is rick perry s loss. the texas governor now a distant third. if you don t believe fortunes change in a heartbeat, take a look at this. just a month ago perry was riding high and cain polled a mere 9%. want to bring in my comrade in politics, paul stein houser, the venetian hotel at casino. hey, paul, can herman cain take these numbers to the bank or should we expect, you know, a bounce-back? yeah, i wouldn t take them to the bank yet, because, joe, this race has changed so much. listen, back in the summer we saw michele bachmann jump up in the polls, then go down. we saw the same thing with rick perry. will it happen to herman cain in maybe. other polling from our brand-new cnn polls, two-thirds of republicans say they re not 100% married yet to their candidate. they may change their mind. only about 1 in 3 republicans say i m definitely sticking with the candidate
and this is state of the union. four months ago one prominent beltway blog said of newt gingrich s troubled presidential run he looks a lot like the bruce willis character in the sixth sense, everyone but him thinks he s dead. but at last week s washington post/bloomberg debate gingrich remained very much alive and kicking. all of the spending cuts that are built in the debt ceiling bill, all of them are acts of congress. they can all be repealed at any moment. it is nonsense to say we re going to disarm the united states unilaterally because we re too stupid to balance the budget any other way. former house speaker and republican presidential candidate newt gingrich joins me now. very much alive and kirking. good to be with you. let me talk to you first about some things that are in the news. let s pretend that president gingrich is in the white house. you received word and uncover a plot to kill the saudi arabian ambassador to the u.s. in the u.s. there is a
clinton. but not the kind of birthday you d think. on hand, lady gaga, usher and el en ellen de generes. thchlts morning on the national mall, the four-acre, $120 million martin luther king jr. memorial will be dedicated. our athena jones is in the mall right now and joins us now live. good morning to you. reporter: good morning. as you can see, the crowd is building here. in just a little while, this dedication ceremony which was postponed, as you know, from august, will begin. we expect to hear from several civil rights leaders like jesse jackson, like john lewis. also martin luther king iii and bernice king. president obama will also be speaking. we thought we d take a look at some of the scup tur itself and some of the controversy surrounding it. powerful and imposing, a 30-foot tall statue of dr. martin luther king jr. emerging from a stone of hope. it made an immediate impression on his son. the very first time that i came to the site i was almost overwhelmed. i rea
one of mine. and a hip-hop everyone sar you, the author, and the go-to man with hooking up hip-hop with fortune 500 companies. how they make them to cash magnets. how president obama can get related. and offered me some advice. go hair spray or something. oh, really? you have so many twitter followers, you can get that off. this is piers morgan tonight. jackie collins sold 400 million copies of her books, quite extraordinary. you read one of them, you know this about jackie. she s no shrinking violet. your sister isn t here to grab all of the attention now like she did the l.a. time. come on, you know you used to watch her on dynasty. she s a scene stealer. you used to read your books when you were younger. she kicks ass, that s what women likes to see. let me see. there are lots of women kicking ass out there at the moment, michelle bachmann, sarah palin. what do you make of it? i don t make a lot of them. but i think they they re coming out wit
jesse jackson and designer tommy hilfiger. and the price of a peanut butter and jelly sandwich is about to go through the roof. we thought times were tough already we ll explain. and a special welcome to the service men and women watching on the armed forces network. we re so glad you re with us. first, this is the 30th day of the occupy wall street movement, and wow, what a month. what began with a small demonstration against big banks and corporate greed has exploded across the globe. the central web site for the movement united for global change says protests are happening in hundreds of cities in 82 countries. among them, berlin, rome, hong kong, and london. many of the protests are peaceful, but not all of them. dozens and dozens of arrests have been made. we are covering the demonstrations from pearl into london, all the way to melbourne, australia. reporter: huge peaceful demonstrations across germany. organizers say they believe around 40,000 people have com