had already stopped the trip planning by that point. and when did that happen? stopping the trip planning? yeah. on may 13th. okay. and how did you hear about that? i was called by a colleague in the the vice president s chief of staff s office and told to stop the trip planning. okay. and as i understand it, it was the assistant to the chief of staff? that s correct. okay. and so you didn t hear about it from general kellogg or the chief of staff or the president or the vice president, you heard about it from mr. short s assistant? that s right. and did you have any knowledge of the reasoning for stopping the trip? i asked my colleague why we should stop trip planning and why the vice president would not be attending, and i was informed that the president had decided the vice president would not attend the inauguration. okay. and do you know why the president decided no, she did not have that information. okay. and ultimately the vice president went t
Out of the way, get the colonel vindmans out of the way so rudy giuliani can cut a deal. let me bring in our colleague garrett haake. you re in the room. bring to life some of the atmosphere. it felt to us watching like deaf devin nunes was trying to out a whistle-blower this morning. that the sense? reporter: that was certainly the sense in the room. you could see adam schiff watching that line of questioning very closely. you could see lieutenant colonel vindman s attorney jumping in there to shut that down. there were audible signs of discontent from the republicans sitting in the room watching the hearing that that line of questioning was shut down, and it really sort of stuffed out devin nunes s entire line of questioning. that was when he decided to hand things over to counsel. the other dynamic in the room that was so obvious is how much more comfortable lieutenant colonel vindman got over the course of those two hours. his opening statement he was very halting, referring
afghanistan. they won t say whether it s the type that contains highly classified information. security experts say if it is that drone, the u.s. military has lost a lot. the important point to take away here is that the iranians now have a very sensitive piece of american military technology in their hands. i hope that there s a self-destruct button attached to it. after months of bloody crack jouns against protesters, syria now says it will let observers into the country to monitor what is going on but only if the arab league agrees to drop sanctions against syria. the u.n. says more than 4,000 people have died in sirrian protests this year. once again, southern california is bracing for powerful, dangerous santa ana winds. we re talking gusts hitting 60 miles an hour in the mountains. that s happening today. 50 miles an hour in los angeles, ventura counties. what has it been like to deal with santa ana over the past week? cold, number one. scary and going to bed re
meeting with his wife last night. it was the first since the apgz allegations came up of a 13-year affair. the other live event we re keeping an eye on, you saw on the right side of your screen just a moment ago, romney just having a rally in new hampshire. but he s also expected to answer reporters questions. we re expecting that at any minute now and we will take you back there live. but a lot going on on the political front. a lot going on all over the country and the world. we ll bring it all to you from the cnn center in atlanta. this is your cnn saturday morning. i m t.j. holmes. we want to head back out to our shannon traffic advice standing by at the campaign headquarters at this event for the opening of this campaign headquarters. spoe supposed to start here in under an hour from now. we ve been talking about in this morning. is there any way someone makes a big announcement that he s dropping out on the same day that he s opening his campaign headquarters? that jus
from the cnn world headquarters in atlanta, this is your cnn saturday morning for this december 3rd. i m t.j. holmes. we have got a lot ahead for you this hour. we are standing by for herman cain, waiting for him to talk about the future of his campaign. that announcement would come at any time. he s battling, as you know, the latest allegations that he had a 13-year affair. also, former penn state football coach squarery sandusky is giving his side of the story. he says he never had sexual contact with young boys. but you ll hear from him in his own words. we re telling new this hour, yeah, this is a tough economy, but you can still get your dream job. it s true. stick around for that. a lot to get to, though, and a lot on politics. seems to be a lot about herman cain today. some think this could be decision day for him. after weeks of sexual conduct allegations, he s expected to announce how exactly he s going to move ahead in this republican presidential race. again, we