republican front-runner for the president. according to the latest national poll. leaving many analysts wondering if the georgia businessman s plan resonating. all that and more on american morning. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, october 13. it is certainly not a good morning. i can t get messages from people, i can t send messages. mine was down yesterday but back now. mine was up yesterday but i e-mailed this morning. our executive producer said i will be late. that s the e-mail i sent. he is panicking going where are my anchor. if you don t know what we are talking about, millions of blackberry users are without service this morning. now four-day blackout spreads to north america. the outage primarily affects e-mails and internet access, not the ability to make phone calls or text. weird. problem started monday affecting customers in europe, middle east and africa. by tuesday, it has spread to south america and yesterday customers here in the un
washington, well known to everyone and the closest adviser to king abdullah of saudi arabia. i m just looking at the highlights of this scheme, of these two iranians indicted for plotting to assassinate the saudi ambassador. it starts there. but the scheme involves an iranian used car salesman, mexican drug lords, and a murder for hire that could ve left scores of people dead. now, one of the accused is an iranian-born citizen who sought out assassins from a mexican drug cartel to carry out bombings on saudi arabia s ambassador by blowing him up at an undetermined washington restaurant and then targeting the saudi embassy and the capitol. isn t there an easier way to do things? i m not spy here. but seriously. come on. it s like the guy watched magruber. underrated.
that gives you that final vote. president obama said in the coming days members of congress will have to take a stand on whether they believe we should put teachers, construction work hes and firefighters back on the job. while some some democrats blame politics for the vote, earlier in the day mitch mcconnell pushed back saying democrats designed the bill to fail. democrats and the white house reportedly trying to break the bill into pieces of hopes of getting it new congress. finally, a story that sounds almost too bizarre to be true. the u.s. justice department announcing that it has indicted two iranians for plotting to assassinate the saudi ambassador to the united states right here on american soil. it s an alleged scheme that federal officials say involved an iranian used car salesman, mexican drug lords and murder for hire that could have left scores of people dead. these are all allegations right now.
arouzi. how are you? thank you, chris. president obama called the assassination attempt a flagrant violation of u.s. and international law. secretary of state clinton says iran needs to be held to account. what s iran saying? iran is being very defensive about this saying this is all a plot by the u.s. and israel to impose further sanctions on iran, to isolate iran further, even senior lawmakers were saying today that you hear the murmurs of the faint drum beat for war, and this is what this plan is and iran is, as they always say, they are completely innocent in all of this. well, where is the connection? is it clear why the united states thinks there might be one? i mean, there is a tenuous connection, but it doesn t bear the hallmarks of the international arm of the revolutionary guard. they re fairly well organized, they know what they re doing, they use proxies they re familiar with. it seems so bizarre they would use a 56-year-old used car salesman to get in touch with
to plan an attack against the saudi ambassador in the united states. now, in the original conversation, according to his confession, all he talked about was a kidnapping, the saudi ambassador. at some point in the conversations with this informant it becomes a much more elaborate and deadly plan to bomb, assassinate and carry out other attacks. how did the iranian official from the quds force get involved? that s what interests me. this guy, the chief suspect, the used car salesman, is traveling back and forth between the united states and iran and is allegedly meeting with the quds force commanders. just late today the treasury department announced designations against some of those high level quds force commanders who say they were coordinating the attack and supervising it and it clearly