0 missionary ce arary kenneth bay been held in north korea 13 months, serving a hard-labor sentence there. let s see if he can bring kenneth bay out of north korea. tats it for me. thank you for watching. i ll be back 5:00 p.m. eastern in the situation room. newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. great to be with you on this thursday. i m brooke baldwin. and we today are talking about this popular tv star put on ice for these controversial comments he has made about race, about religion, about sexual orientation. it has everyone talking today. and tweeting. and posting. and fighting over this, really. so for the next hour right here on the show, we re having a debate on political correctness in america. let s talk about exactly where the line is drawn. what should happen when it s crossed. so first, the backstory here. you have the patriarch of this entire family on the hit reality show, i m talking 14 million viewers a week. duck dynasty gets a little too real in th
0 hurley should still be proud inspect yo . your parents are proud of you either way. that s it for me. brooke baldwin takes it from here. they re being called the new generation of al qaeda, and their apparent new plot has the world on edge. i m brooke baldwin. the news is now. he cheated. he lied. and now baseball s most expensive star may be about to go to war with his league. wh what would you do? leave him alone! a school bus driver doesn t step in as a student cries for help during a brutal beating. plus, the army psychiatrist accused of the fort hood massacre could cross-examine victims. hear what they re saying. and camouflage shadows no guns schoolteacher by day, burqa avenger by night. what this new cartoon character is fighting for. hi there, i m brooke baldwin. great to be with you on this monday. we begin with the highest paid player on the most high-profile team in all of major league baseball. you know who i m talking about. alex rodriguez. he is
0 that? let me come back out and let you know you ve been listening to attorney general eric holder answering a barrage of questions on what we assumed would happen here as part of this department of justice briefing where he and kathleen sebelius were talking medicare fraud and now all the reporters are asking questions about this, what is made public now about this secret decision to seize these phone numbers and records from the associated press, from ap offices and reporters, this was for a two-month period last year. so this is the first time we have heard from eric holder talking specifically about this investigation that goes back into last year. and what this means. obviously for, you know, freedom of the press, but also privacy issues and questions about what the white house s involvement could have been here. let me bring in wolf blitzer and gloria borger and dana bash who all join me live to go through this. wolf, let me begin with you. listening to the attorney general, t
strongest leader, perry and once again double digits ahead of romney. most likely to get the economy moving, say it with me, rick perry. a rick perry sweep in this poll. that debate tonight, as you now know, from tampa, 8:00 p.m. eastern time, co-hosted by cnn and the tea party express. eight republican ready to go. joins me from austin, texas, the guy who knows rick perry like no one else, we ve discovered here, wayne schrader of the dallas morning news. wayne, as a guy who s dofred rick perry for years and years, are you surprised to see him rocket to the top of the pack? a month ago today the governor hadn t even entered the presidential race. two months ago he hadn t even decided whether he was going to enter the race. honestly no, i think he is the p perfect candidate at the perfect moment in the perfect campaign, his side thinks. this is a campaign where voters are anxious, they re angry, they want somebody who looks like a leader, somebody strong and tough and is a