crowd. plus, sarah palin speaks today. will she officially endorse anyone? but there may be more political intrigue in maine, as well. we ll take you there, as well. from cnn s world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. and maine is where we ll start this morning. maine s republican voters are heading to the caucus site this morning to choose their candidate for president. it s pretty much a two-man race for the state s 21 delegates. ron paul has a strong ground game white mitt romney is making a last-minute push. shannon, good morning to you. set the scene for us. people very excited up there in maine and the country, as well. you re right. the caucus goers are just getting started. you just had the pledge of allegiance and this is about to get under way. this is no ordinary contest like we ve seen. this is a little different. for one, we re expecting mitt romney and
we ve seen similar crackdowns in libya and yemen. what about from those countries? exactly. we called and asked about this. one of the things that the foreign office said was that everyone we have normal relations with officially can be invited. the libyan ambassador was not invited because they don t have normal relations with libya anymore. but the yemeni ambassador has been inviting and we understand he ll attend and bahrainy prince was invited and he decided on his own not to show up. i think there are quite a few sighs of relief here. zain reporting live from london. thank you. it s less than 24 hours until whilliam and catherine become husband and wife. cat always brings buzz and excitement wherever she goes. you ve been in royal wedding overdrive this week, but are you
hanged for a month and they were electrocuted and sexually harassed and assaulted. this is the way they are treated inside bahrainy prisons. reporter: we tried to investigate these ourselves but our second day in bahrain, helicopters hovered over our heads as we stood in the street outside his home. suddenly half a dozen military and police vehicle s surrounded us. 20 men in black ski masks some wearing civilian clothing pointed machine guns at us. they forced us to get on the ground at gunpoint. they erased all the video they found, then we were taken to a police station and interrogated for nearly six hours before being released. bahrain s foreign minister couldn t tell us why we were arrested. it was to scare somebody not to say anything or to scare someone not to express his views. this is not a government policy. reporter: we asked him about the missing. there were many who i know
others. the need ultimately to see qaddafi leave the scene. here is a man with a brutal history, who has been slaughtering his own people. and step one was to bring power to bare with allies and others to stop him from doing that that is what the coalition with nato is doing. doesn t that create a problem for us down the road particularly this. in uprising happen in saudi arabia and bahrain that can only be handled with dictatorial slaughter. bahrain very serious circumstance they aren t killing their people in the same way. some people have died. we have an opportunity to help the bahrainy leadership themselves get on the right side of history and recognize they have to make fundamental reforms. ultimately the saudis themselves are going to have to make
why do we make a move on libya and in bahrain where saudi sends troops in, we stand back? well, again, this mission is very focused on libya and we re paying a lot of attention the what s going on in bahrain and in the persian gulf as well. and the other thing is, each one of these countries, i think, is different. we ve got one of our main naval bases are there. and we re working hard the support that in a way, to certainly see a peaceful outcome there in terms of how it evolves when the bahrainy people are asking for change as well. welcome back to morning joe. let s talk now with and with us in new york now, washington correspondent for bbc world news america, katty kay. and in washington, we have elizabeth who has a front page article on the u.s. led assault