oo she will be on today. be sure to tune into that. 5 at 5:00. while you were sleeping the u.s. having a test of the raytheon missile interceptor. destroying a target missile near kauai. as the u.s. hiunt for al qaeda terrorist believed to be behind the foiled plot to blow up the airline. we are getting disturbing news about how he tried to hide his bomb. he created bombs that can be hidden in texts so they can avoid to be they can be surgery implanted in terrorists and inside hard drives that explode when plugged into a lap top. vladimir putin snubbing obama. he was sworn in again as president this week.
something, to prevent iran s aspirations for blowing us off the face of the earth. definitely, it s the campaign season. this is a new idea. this has not been around before. so this idea is going to be talked about, i think, a lot in the coming weeks. it s a big deal. congress usually doesn t come up with big ideas. they come up with incremental ideas. this one is probably not going to become law anytime soon, but republicans are going to use it on the campaign trail. they want to chip away at that lead. they say, well, we can t afford not to do it. and star wars is a misformmisnomer for a variety of reasons. in the movie, the technology works really good and the missile defense system doesn t. they have never once, in any of their tests, intercepted a so-called target missile without completely rigging it and make you know, so the thing couldn t possibly not hit it. they used to miss them buy hundreds of miles on these things, and still, still the republicans are going to push
will never happen. so, are the republicans here going to the try to politicize this vote tomorrow in terms of how tough are you on iran? you ve got to build this thing, you know, somewhere in north carolina or long island, or something, to prevent iran s aspirations for blowing us off the face of the earth. definitely, it s the campaign season. this is a new idea. this has not been around before. so this idea is going to be talked about, i think, a lot in the coming weeks. it s a big deal. congress usually doesn t come up with big ideas. they come up with incremental ideas. this one is probably not going to become law anytime soon, but republicans are going to use it on the campaign trail. they want to chip away at that lead. they say, well, we can t afford not to do it. and star wars is a misformer misnomer for a variety of reasons. in the movie, the technology works really good and the missile defense system doesn t. they have never once, in any of their tests, intercepted a so
america s missile defense system failed yesterday. it says a long range missile launched from california missed a target missile launched from a pacific island. the air force has ordered an investigation. right now in idaho, families and friends of the ten americans detained in haiti are anxiously awaiting word on whether the group will go before a judge today to face allegations of child trafficking. nbc s miguel almaguer joins me from meridian, idaho, with more. what are you learning more about the motivation behind this? reporter: well, contessa, we spoke to the pastor and family members of those ten americans who are detained in haiti. they say they had been planning for months to actually go to haiti and adopt children from out of that area, take them over to the dominican republic. they say this was all fast tracked after the earthquake and they had only the best intentions. the pastor and family members say that they were only out there, trying to help the children and now i