the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders. our chief whereas correspondent jessica yellen has been working the story for us. tell our viewers what you are hearing right now. i understand the vice president apologized to the president for putting him in a tough position on this situation and the president gave an understanding reply saying he knows that the vice president was speaking from the heart. the vice president s office also issued a statement saying it was the president who has been the leader on this issue since day one and the vice president never intended to distract from that. president obama says he was planning to say this sometime before the democratic conve
led by usama alone. all along they expected al qaeda and to make a statement after his death. the goal is to hit us domestically, shep. shepard: al qaeda in yemen that group off chute is important for a number of reasons. it is. a senior counter terrorism official has told fox that al qaeda in yemen has street cred come up with a bomb evading scanning procedures that s what we saw with the printer plot that failed. nonmetallic explosives. the group s leadership includes former gitmo detainees, one is is a yeed on the left. anwar al awlaki on the cia s kill or capture list. someone called nasaerr. he was one of his meantees. he understands the ideology. you have the trifecta.
here is the web site quote from al-qaeda taking credit. we say to obama, we pointed three attacks to your planes within one year and we will continue allah willing, to direct our attacks on the american interests and the interests of american allies. we knew the saudis tipped off the u.s. at the time of the printer plot, but there are reports that a saudi tip three weeks earlier put u.s. officials on alert. that earlier information didn t mention cargo planes or specifics, but once the saudis put it out there that they heard of threats, the u.s. knew to be on the lookout. al-qaeda is also claiming responsibility for a september 3 crash of a ups cargo plane in dubai. the two pilots on board were killed. so far that is thought to be an accident. officials in the united arab emirates say they believe a terrorist attack is unlikely, but they re looking into it. in the web posting, al-qaeda says they waited a month to take credit for that one so they could set up the printer bombs unnoticed
cartridges and police in yemen on ordering to capture a radical cleric, capture him dead or alive. caroline is following the latest developments from washington. reporter: not only are members al-qaeda in the arabian peninsula bragging about the mail bomb plot. they were behind a crash that investigators thought were an accident. they were found in england and dubai before they could explode. we say to obama, we had three attacks in one year and we will continue, allah directing our attacks toward the u.s. saudis tipped off the u.s. to the printer plot but there are reports that a saudi tip three weeks earlier put u.s. officials on alert. it didn t mention cargo planes but once the saudis said they