that breaking news out of the capital and the attempted carjacking of a secret service vehicle happening last night in georgetown. agents protecting the president s granddaughter opened fire thwarting the carjacking. details coming right up. striking back with deadly force, the u.s. launching new air strikes of proxies in syria. asme owe dana perino. bill is off today. hi, mike. mike: i m mike emanuel. america s newsroom. sources say one of the american strikes killed at least half a dozen iranian-backed fighter after a flurry of attacks against american troops throughout the region. dana: coinciding with israel s war on hamas. they continue to hunt the terrorists in gaza and fending off strikes from lebanon where the iranian-back terrorists of hezbollah have become increasingly active. mike: general jack keane analysis but alex hogan is live from northern israel where fighting is on the rise. major escalation here in the northern part of israel. the sound of artill
ten cylinder engine, zero to 60 in three seconds that s how reena drives. how i roll. all of that power will cost you. the basic model is 185 grand and the more souped up version is the $202,000 version of course because you need that one. it goes on sale this summer in europe and later in the u.s. good news, gas prices are still low. look on the bright side. wild scene to show you from north carolina. here we go. that s a bat that interrupted a high school basketball game. look at that guy. a playoff game, high school playoff game. it happened just before the game started. somebody eventually hit the bat with the broom killing it. and once they cleaned that up the game went ahead. must have been fun to play on a court with a dead bat s remains. wonderful. apparently there s a bat problem in that area. bladenboro, north carolina. last month s game location
souped up version of the bush trickle-down theory. if you look at their plan, chris, they don t ask one penny more from folks making a million dollars a year to help reduce our deaf set. how do they reduce the deficit in they sock it to everybody else. they sock it to seniors on medicare and medicaid. they cut education. they cut investments in our infrastructure and things needed to help the economy grow and be competitive. again, ask nothing of the folks like mitt romney, but ask everything of the rest of the country. you have a unique perspective, not only are you a leading democrat in this country, you sit next to this guy with a totally different philosophy. what does he say when he comes out with the budget, he gives a break to the richest people in the country and really screws people who desperately need programs like that. when you ask him, how can you do this and reward rich people with all the breaks in this country and hurt the people with no breaks, what does he say? wha
well, look chris, i get along very well with paul ryan personally. we work on the budget committee together, but i strongly disagree with his vision for the country. and i think this is sharpened the debate in a way that will help the president, because at the end of the day what mitt romney is demonstrating through this choice is that he wants to follow an economic agenda that s good for people like mitt romney. at the expense of the rest of the country. and if you look at the ryan/romney plan, that s what it does. and i don t think people want to go back to a souped up version of trickle-down bush economic policy. we tried that, it didn t work. the economy crashed. millions of people lost their jobs. why in the world would we want to go back to something like that? let s talk about the reality in life. you have constituent services on one of your constituents obviously, i live in the district, but older people when they get past 65, not just young retirees but old retirees come t
the school is in massachusetts called the judge rotenberg center. they claim that electric shocks and other forms of what they call aversive therapies are the only way to control some students who are a danger to themselves and others. recently outrage over the school exploded when the public for the first time saw video of a student being repeatedly shocked. his name is andre mccollins. the video showed him being shocked 31 times over an hour. i want to warn you, it is difficult to watch. this was in 2002. mccollins was 18. he s no longer at this center. his family recently settled a lawsuit against the jrc. those disturbing images also caught the attention of the u.n. central rap patory juan mendez. the use of electricity on anyone s body raises the question of whether this is therapeutic or whether it is suffering tantamount to torture in violation of international law. mendez is looking for answers. we asked the justice department for an update on the investigation, they