can have on military members and their families. cushionberry says it s important not to judge until we know what happened. i wouldn t because like i said, you know, you got people that have got emotional issues going on for whatever reason, it puts a loss of a loved one, a loss of a limb, you know, a loss of time spent with family. how about that? now newell is now being held on a half million dollar bond. he s apparently getting hearings set up for next week. one update on the story does not look like the westborough baptist church is not going to let this case drop quietly. they say they will picket in newell s small hometown in kansas. we are watching this story, the developments and we will stay on it for you. the president answering questions on the tax cut deal. wolf blitzer is all over the
group and citi selling about 3% higher on that news. the government is selling its 1.2 billion shares. we re actually going to make money on the deal. by we, i mean taxpayers, the original bailout, $45 billion, but after it s all said and done, taxpayers are getting back $57 billion for a total profit of $12 billion, a 26% return in two years. not bad. carter evans, thank you. i want to tell you about this double amputee who by the way is a war veteran getting all kinds of support for what he did to members of this controversial westborough baptist church. we re going to tell you what he did and why he could be in trouble. julian assange is now
now in her home surrounded by friends and family including her estranged husband john edwards. we re going to talk to an insider tomorrow. some high school teachers and students in one school district, they re trying a brave experiment. they re giving up texting, tweeting and facebooking for a whole week. i m going to talk to a teacher and a student from shore crest high school in washington state to see how they re coping without one of these, a cell phone. and we re going to spend a couple of minutes now on a story that really addresses the heart of this country s core ideals, freedom of speech. there s this group of people who some say take full advantage of that freedom for their very own unusual agenda. they re the members of the kansas based westborough baptist church. it s a small congregation, but it s a very controversial one. why? because they tend to make news
when they show up at public events they see as a protest to god and particularly homosexuality. very often their targets are these military funerals, shouting their extreme stance that god punished american service members for america s quote, sin of homosexuality. their words. one of their slogans is, quote, thank god for i don t even want to read it. most of the church s congregation belongs to a single family. their families are often present at those protests. they receive the protection of local police and stand behind their constitutional right to express themselves. that s the background, here s the news. this man is jailed today in kansas accused by westborough baptist church for stalking members. the man in jail is a disabled army veteran who lost hiss legs in afghanistan. this is retired sergeant ryan
newell. westborough church members say ryan has been following them making them fear for their safety. the decorated war veteran was arrested tuesday for stalking and false impersonation, investigators say a sedgewick county sheriff s detective saw newell following members of the westborough baptist church and became suspicious. be west bore roug church it s not a fair judgment of the people that are reacting because of the emotions they they re under. reporter: larry lives in marion county and knows newell. he doesn t know what happened in this case but does know the effect westborough protesters