program and say they are innocent. porter was clearly happy to be back in the u.s. tonight. i d like to thank the nebs cairo for all the thing thez did for us as well as the administration at the american university in cairo for all their help and support. and my lawyers ted and both in egypt and here who worked tirelessly to obtain my freedom. i m just so thankful to be back. and i love to be in philadelphia right now. the other two students arrested with porter, derrick sweeney and luke gates are also returning to the u.s. from egypt at this hour. syria is running out of allies. you can add the arab league to its list of critics. finance ministers from the league want to punish damascus for its crackdown on protesters. new video on youtube showed enthusiastic demonstration with syrians pledging with the league to hit the regime hardment something you don t normally see in public. proposed sanctions would include freezing government assets and those belonging to syrian
we can usually use out of context technical words for it, but it s a lie, and, again, you might expect this from rick perry struggling in the polls. why would mitt romney try why does he think it s a good thing? maybe a good tactic and gets us talking about it, but this man s play is for independent voters. they don t like this kind of stuff. it s not authentic or honest, and it s kind of hyperpartisan really so why take the low rode to taking the general election? first of all, he s got to win the prescriberies fir. he s way off target if he thinks beating obama over the head with a deceptive ad is going to get him there, and i think it undermines his brand and appeal to the middle. now, matt, i read and put on this show your story about how the governor of massachusetts at that time, willard, when he left office, he his staff got back their hard drive and their laptop computers and all and
into power. the anger that swept them in could also take them out. tea party newcomers could be in danger of facing primary challenges next year. joining us john fund. thanks for joining us, john. thank you. heather: want to look at those polling numbers that were just references in terms of the approval level of congress. 14% approve. we re talking about disapproval, we are talking a large portion, 62% of people polled strongly disapprove of congress and the work they are doing.รง any surprise that some of these tea party leaders could be on the way out? what do you think? well, remember it is one thing to hate congress as a whole it is another thing to hate your congressional representative enough to throw him out of office. let s take these 87 house republican freshmen. last year 2010, a lot of the republican congressmen who
bike. no, my brothers bike. juliet: brothers bike. i do the important logistics, point a to point b. juliet: i can imagine how difficult that might be. and this year, there is s something you want today achieve. a goal you wanted to achieve. we wanted everybody that was lost that day to be represented, so, the president of our foundation and the board had these cards made up with each individual name of everybody that was lost, and it has the foundation insignia and the flags from new york, pennsylvania, and virginia. juliet: so everybody who rode got one of these cards and they essentially represent this person on here, that s amazing. yes. juliet: what kind of feedback from the family members. and you also have family members here. we do. we ve had many family members come and do this and that s why we do our ride in august. out of respect for the family members and the three crash
should the u.s. be taking economic queues from iran? maybe. i ll explain. next, an inside look at intelligence and the war on terror are john miller who has just resigned as one of the nation s top spooks. finally, a last look at how not to be a spy. first, here is my take. i wrote a blog post for our gps website, cnn.com/gps that has gotten a great deal of reaction. let me talk about it for a moment. it all started because i read a website that pointed out after the s&p downgrade of the united states, no country with a presidential system of government had a aaa rating from all three rating agencies. only countries with parliamentary systems have that honor with the possible exception of france which could be characterized as having a parliament, a prime minister, as well as a president. this brought to mind my years in political science grad school and an essay by a famous yale scholar, juan linz who said parliamentary systems are superior to presidential systems beca