camera. translator: we declared a jihad, a holy war against the united states government because it is unjust, criminal and tyra tyrannical. since then he s written new books. his newest is man hunt, the ten-year search for bin laden from 9/11 to abbottabad. clearly al qaeda is still a threat but this thwarted plot is a failure. what do you make of it? the plot originates from the al qaeda on the arabian peninsula. the one on christmas day 2009 failed. also the attempt to bring down two cargo planes. they were detected in october of 2010. we now have this plot. the details still pretty fuzzy, but whatever it was has been averted.
foreign intelligence services, you know, spies on the ground to get him. peter bergen, thanks for join pupgs peter ing us. peter s new book is called man hunt, the ten-year search for bin laden from 9/11 to abbottabad. still ahead why everybody is already talking about joe biden, hillary clinton and the 2016 election. stay with us. [ male announcer ] the inspiring story of how a shipping giant can befriend a forest may seem like the stuff of fairy tales. but if you take away the faces on the trees. take away the pixie dust. take away the singing animals, and the storybook narrator. [ man ] you re left with more electric trucks. more recycled shipping materials. and a growing number of lower emissions planes. which still makes for a pretty enchanted tale. la la la [ man ] whoops, forgot one. [ male announcer ] sustainable solutions. fedex. solutions that matter.
more. a new terror tactic revealed wild fires. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with new developments in a growing diplomatic crisis dogging the obama administration. the chinese dissident who escaped house arrest and sought refuge, but the u.s. embassy in beijing is now appealing directly to president obama for help. chen guangcheng was basically pushed out of the embassy and abandoned, but the top american diplomat in china tells cnn a very different account of what happened. cnn s stan grant is in beijing and has been following this story from the beginning. dramatic developments, huge interest at stake, stan. you had a chance to speak with the u.s. ambassador gary locke about all of this. what is the very latest? reporter: yes. he is gary locke, the man with the answers about what went wrong at the embassy. chen guangcheng said he was encouraged to leave and without knowing the full range of his threat that
huge deal. set the scene. reporter: this is a big deal, wolf. a trip by the president of the united states to a war zone like afghanistan is extraordinary and this is only the third time that president obama has made this trip. it s been over a year. the last time he was there was in december 2010 and furthermore, at the presidential palace which is where he is right now for brief remarks with president hamid karzai and to sign the strategic partnership agreement with afghanistan to talk about the u.s. relationship with afghanistan beyond 2014. that s extraordinary. the last time the president was in afghanistan in december of 2010 he could not make that trip from bagram air force base which is about 30 miles or so north of kabul to the palace because of weather concerns, and certainly security is always a concern as the president is in the comfort of the air force base. if you look at past trip, wolf, the last one only lasted four hours and it s very late at night in afgha
america s impending drawdown in afghanistan. he s worried. next up when they ask me who s the president of ubecki becki-stan-stan, i m going to say, you know, i don t know. do you know? the least of herman cain s problems now but they are causing trouble. i ll explain. then, new studies confirm what we know. america is slipping behind in education worldwide. we take an in-depth look with the secretary of education and bill gates. but first, here s my take. i ve been thinking about occupy wall street, which is now occupying a number of other cities in america, and wondering what is it really about? the protesters don t like bank bailouts, they feel the 99% have been hard done by it, and they re protesting what they see as inequality. but america has always had more inequality than many countries. i think the underlying sense of frustration is over a very un-american state of affairs, a loss of social mobility. americans have so far put up with inequality because