people are an invented people. we re going to have reaction to his controversial remarks. plus, look at this live picture from arlington national cemetery. hundreds of volunteers are laying wreaths on the graves of american s fallen warriors. and if you think it s just too cold to get out of bed and go to work, it may change your mind. a total eclipse of the moon. you re looking at live images there right now. we want to start this hour with controversial comments from a republican presidential candidate, newt gingrich. take a listen to what he said. i believe with the jewish people have the right to have a state. i believe that the commitments that were made at a time, remember, there were there was no palestine as a state. and i think that we ve had an invented palestinian people who are arabs and historically part of the arab community. now he said the palestinians are an invented people. he made those comments during that interview as you saw there on the jewish c
one of the men says dod drugged him and offered him $1,000 for oral sex. no comment from dodd who is battling colon cancer. the fight over payroll tax cut is facing a new year s deadline. each party has a different idea on how to achieve it. with an interview with cbs, president barack obama admits there s no quick fix for the american economy. did you over promise? did you underestimate how difficult this was going to be? i didn t over promise and i didn t underestimate how tough this was going to be. i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. it s going to take more than two years. it s going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. both p
i always believed that this was a long term project. this wasn t a short term project. and, you know, for individual americans who are struggling right now, they have every reason to be impatient. reversing structural problems in our economy that had been building up for two decades. that s going to take time. it s going to take more than a year. going take more than two years. going to take more than one term. probably takes more than one president. now more on that investigation of memphis. sexual abuse allegations are surfacing against the head of the amateur athletic union. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 1980s when they were playing on dodd s aau basketball team. cnn george howell is in memphis. he joins us now live. so, george, what more, if anything, is being said about these allegations? reporter: fredericka, we just got off the phone with police. they say there s an active investigation into bobby dodd. the amateur athletic un
party. we re going to take you live there in just a few moments. also, as though you can take anymore of this. new allegations this morning that the head of the amateur athletic union may have sexually abused two boys decades ago. two men tell espn that robert bobby dodd molested them back in the 19 0s when they were playing on his aau baseball team. there s been no comment from dodd. he s battling colon cancer right now. there was a candlelight vigil last night on the virginia tech campus. they were remembering a police officer that was killed. the officer was killed before the gunman killed himself. he was a part-time student at nearby radford university. they re still searching for a motive. people trying to come together after that. the supreme court has agreed to hear a challenge to texas s congressional redistricting plan. state republicans aren t real happy with the way a federal court redrew the map last month. that court was responding to a lawsuit filed on beh