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
congressional stalemate that could mean a bigger government bite out of your paycheck. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room . captions by vitac www.vitac.com the lines have been redrawn in the battle for the republican presidential nomination and after months of focusing his fight on president obama, mitt romney is now going after the newest front-runner, the former house speaker, newt gingrich. romney s latest assault is the classic campaign tactic of using the candidate s own words against him. joe johns is joining us now. take us inside romney s latest attack on gingrich. now we know that mitt romney apparently is not going to sit around and wait for newt gingrich to make a mistake as some have been suggesting. romney s on the offensive right now, but as far as we can tell, the former speaker hasn t exactly launched any kind of counterattack. down in the polls with weeks left until iowa caucuses, mitt romney makes his move. direct assau
let s talk about what he gets bailed out. we do know that just about half an hour ago his wife left his home which is located about 20 minutes from now. not sure if that s any sort of indication in terms of whether or not he might be released soon. currently being held on $250,000 bail. if he s able to post bail, don, he ll be unvery tight restrictions. he ll essentially be under house arrest. he ll have to wear an electronic monitoring device while he s under house arrest. in addition to that, he ll not be allowed to have my contact with victims or possible witnesses in the case and another condition of his bail would be he d not be able to have any unsupervised visits with minors. don? we re hearing, jason, that there s going to be a hearing next tuesday, what do you know about that? yes, of course, that s going to be the preliminary hearing, don, as you know, and i think what might be interested in that is that that would be the first time that jerry sandusky would com
his own white house run, and who now plans to host a republican debate, after christmas. then there is ex-candidate herman cain whose endorsement could go to gingrich eventually. though he now says he s going to take his time. stay with us, we ll bring you those comments live at 1:45 eastern time. also, president obama, we are told, is going to have some sort of statement or briefing in the briefing room of the white house. the subject is going to be taxes. a lot of talk of that up on capitol hill. we ll hear what the president has to say this hour. and what does first class mean to you? to the debt-laden u.s. postal service it would mean two to five days instead of one to three days. trying to help trim $20 billion a year from the postal service by 2015. it would mean closing more than half the agencies 463 mail processing facilities across the country. going to mean a lot of layoffs, too. i ll have some questions for the post master general in our face time segment
closest to his heart. girl just want to have fun then where is she now, the one and only cyndi lauper. she still wants to have fun. you have your good times, your bad times and the times you don t talk about. this is piers morgan tonight. one of my favorite pop videos ever, cyndi lauper bursting on to the scene in the mid 80s with her wildly successful album she s so unusual had an amazing five top singles including girls just want to have fun. welcome. thank you. you were part of my youth but we sort of grew up together. when you were having fun, i wanted to have fun with you. i had a great time. captain lou made it so much fun. he was very he was just a funny fellow. there was a time in the 80s you really were at the van guard of pop video with mtv and everything else. what told you at the time this is going to be the way to go, this is the future? well, i think all of us at the time when video happened, you know, i view what i do as a performa