good evening, i m erin burnett. former egyptian president hosni mubarak has been declared clinically dead. his lawyer and military contradict the reports saying he s in a coma. ivan watson is in cairo want to. ivan, what a day it has been. what are your sources telling you? reporter: good evening, erin. again, these conflicting reports, where we have state media on the one hand saying that hosni mubarak is clinically dead, the 84-year-old president who ruled this country for nearly 30 years. and then we have the supreme council of the armed forces which took over after he was ousted a year-and-a-half ago saying he s not dead, in critical condition, suffered a heart attack and a stroke and has been choppered to a hospital from the prison where he has been held since he was convicted of being an accomplice to deaths of hundreds of protesters here in tahrir square and in other egyptian cities a year-and-a-half ago. and ivan, tahrir square obviously tonight people are still t
america s longest running war after a trip to afghanistan by president obama. the unannounced visit to kabul was full of secrecy and symbolism, be but not very many specifics. a tough reminder that there s a long way to go in that country. suicide car bomber and taliban militants disguised attacked a housing compound. nick paton walsh is live with us. good morning. reporter: good morning. it appears the suicide bomber drove a car full of explosives into what s known as the green village here. close to the center of kabul, a place where many foreign contractors and ex-pats live in supposed maximum security and safety. it s unclear what happened after this initial explosion. some suggestion guards shot back and suggestions other attackers disguised in the head to toe female garments distinctive to afghanistan rushed. no matter how this panned out, we saw seven afghan civilians killed, one of which was a school child and ten school children injured. many afghans asleep when pr
this is not a way to treat people. the law s author state senator pierce testified that a s s safety depends on the law. in syria the reports of deaths are mounting. a huge explosion rocked damascus today. kofi annan is expected to brief the security council about the latest. president obama has signed an executive order authorizing new sanctions against the syrian government and iran for attacking citizens. trial of the man accused of killing singer jennifer hudson s relative. hudson took the stand and broke down several times as she remembered having to identify her family s remains. her mother brother and nephew were killed. she testified that balfour threatened to kill her and her family after she told him she didn t want to be with him any more. the star witness is back on the stand. edwards is accused of using thousands of dollars in campaign funds to hide his affair with rielle hunter. andrew young felt that edwards was going to be the savior of america. mitt r
an idea that has bipartisan sport, at least outside of washington. some of what s broken has to do with the way congress does its business these days. a simple majority is no longer enough to get anything, even routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blamed. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i ask them to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public nominations receive a simple umor down vote within 90 days. the executive branch also needs to change. too often, it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i have asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction. that politics is about clinging to ridge
routine business, passed through the senate. neither party has been blameless in these tactics. now both parties should put an end to it. for starters, i asked the senate to pass a simple rule that all judicial and public service nominations receive a simple up or down vote within 90 days. [ applause ] the executive branch also needs to change. too often it s inefficient, outdated, and remote. that s why i ve asked this congress to grant me the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker, and more responsive to the needs of the american people. finally, none of this can happen unless we also lower the temperature in this town. we need to end the notion that the two parties must be locked in a perpetual campaign of mutual destruction, that politics is about clinging to rigid ideaologisologies instead building consensus around common sense ideas. i m a democrat, but i believe what republican abraham lincoln believed the governmen