michael e. knight is the name. he will be here with me to talk about the end of an era, all my children s last episode on the air was yesterday. from the cnn headline news center in atlanta georgia, this is your cnn saturday morning, 7:00 a.m. in laengz. wherever you are, glad you are right here. and if you are still here with us, that means you weren t hit up side the head by debris from that falling satellite. it came crashing back to earth. look at these dramatic pictures of it coming down. okay, not so dramatic, but still, nasa was getting us ready for this. it was supposed to break up into several pieces. this is out of san antonio. one piece of video here. people all over from minnesota to texas to hawaii to the philippines, to the netherlands, everybody claims they saw something in the skies last night. reynolds, did they? well, why don t you ask tad martin? no. everyone is going to the thing is, because this has been something that s captured the imagination o
released from a prison there, but we re also hearing they re still in the prison. our sources in iran say they don t actually know if they left evin prison yet. imany official a a ay officials make sure they are free. released a statement by press tv that their detention sentence has been commuted and they have been released on bail, a lot of speculation is once they are released, they will head to iman. . the reason there is that speculation is it played a part in securing the release of sarah shourd, the third american hiker who was released last september. om omani government officials aren t confirming this. they did go into the prison earlier today and we re awaiting word when and if they will leave the country and in fact, they will be headed to muscat, oman. if you wanted to look at the politics behind all that and look at the relationship between oman and the u.s. mohammed, are you still connected with me? all right, we ve lost connection with jamjoom, apologize for
today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move if the obama policy in the middle east wasn t naive and arrogant, misguided and dangerous. and the governor didn t stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left iran s radical regime emboldened. to date, we have fumbled our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was wasting precious time on a naive policy of outreach to both the iranian and syrian governments. let s discuss the president s diplomatic challenge and governor perry s political gambit. cnn s david gergen and gloria borger. let s start first with the policy challenge. the president was at the united nations. the president was not scheduled to meet with the palestinian leader abbas, but they will have that meeting wednesday. david gergen, how critical is it for the president to try to convince president abbas and what might there be as a
welcome to american morning. good morning to you, and to you. it is a busy week. breaking news. freedom coming for two u.s. hikers held priter in in iran. they could be out with the half hour. right to mohammed jamjoon covering this. what s the latest? reporter: well, ali, we ve heard from a lawyer from the the two detained hikers tells us a second judge in iran has signed the paperwork, the bail paperwork for josh fattal and shane bauer. the lawyer says now he can take that paperwork and start the procedures to free them. he expects they will be free with the half hour. also, iranian news agency saying they will be handed over to swiss embassy officials in about half an hour from now. ali? we ve had false starts on this the last couple of weeks. the idea here, of course, it s through the judiciaries, any likely to stop this as far as you can see? reporter: ali, i apologize. having a little problem hearing you. we ve heard in the last few weeks, wrangling going on b
street. but it is trying to negotiate some compromise so that it doesn t come to that. that s tough enough. and now add in this in your face political chal friend the republican presidential front-runner. texas governor rick perry who came to new york city to accuse president obama of fumbling middle east diplomacy and undermining israel in the process. we are equally indignant of the obama administration and their middle east policy of appeasement that s encouraged such an ominous act of bad faith. simply put, we would not be here today at this very precipice of such a dangerous move. the if the obama policy in the middle east wasn t naive and arrogant, misguided, and dangerous. and the governor didn t stop there. he called the obama foreign policy naive and said that it left iran s radical remember emboldened. to date we have fumble our greatest opportunity for regime change. average iranian citizens were marching on tehran in the green revolution in 2009. america was