southwest of the previous search area. the group points to new information that the plane s equipment was programmed with certain assumptions about the location of a satellite which ended up being false. keep in mind more than 100 days since mh-370 went missing, march 8. long time. long wait for those families. a long time still to come, to be sure. all right. time for inside politics on new day with john king. mr. king here to discuss us once again. good morning. there is a lot to discuss, foreign policy a big part of the political debate here in washington this morning let get right to it. with me to share their reporting cnn s peter hammond and jonathan martin. let s talk about the arrest of the lead suspect in the benghazi attack. cnn s arwa damon sat down with him more than a year ago, where s the fbi and the military to go in and get khatallah. well, they got him yesterday and
good evening, everyone. i m john king reporting live from the history irk cspc hall in cedar rapids, iowa. breaking political story tonight. exactly three weeks before iowa casts the first vote of the 2012 presidential campaign. iowa conservative act innist who just signed on with the newt gingrich presidential campaign is quoted just before he took that campaign job as calling gingrich rival mitt romney s religion, quote, the cult of mormon. let me read you the quote. quote, there s a national pastor very much on the anti-mitt romney bandwagon, greg said, a lot of the evangelicals who believe god would give us four more years of obama to expose the cult of mormon. there s a thousand pasts are ready to do that. that was craig berman speaking at a voter focus before he took the job. he s hired as the gingrich iowa political director. cnn s making calls to see if he ll be allowed to keep the job. as we continue our weeklong iowa visit, a condition who has tirelessly visited e
on the run for eight days since escaping from an arizona prison. a nationwide manhunt continues for suspects john mcclusky and tracy province. u.s. forces in iraq formally handed over control of combat operations to iraqi security forces saturday. the remaining u.s. troops will provide support to iraqi soldiers and police. cnn s arwa damon sat down with top u.s. commander in iraq general raymond odierno to talk about the transition. we re still here. we have not we re not leaving completely. we re still very committed to iraq. and we re still going to have 50,000 troops on the ground for a significant period of time. all u.s. combat forces in iraq are scheduled to leave by august 31st. those your top stories here on state of the union. up next, we remember the songwriter whose song became the lyrics for a national standard. thank you for the sunshine sunny
forensic evidence has linked them to a double homicide in new mexico. the fugitives, described as armed and dangerous, have been on the run for eight days since escaping from an arizona prison. a nationwide manhunt continues for suspects john mcclusky and tracy province. u.s. forces in iraq formally handed over control of combat operations to iraqi security forces saturday. the remaining u.s. troops will provide support to iraqi soldiers and police. cnn s arwa damon sat down with top u.s. commander in iraq general raymond odierno to talk about the transition. we re still here. we have not we re not leaving completely. we re still very committed to iraq. and we re still going to have 50,000 troops on the ground for a significant period of time. all u.s. combat forces in iraq are scheduled to leave by august 31st. those your top stories here on state of the union. up next, we remember the songwriter whose song became the lyrics for a national standard.