and self-professed conservative alternative. cornell boettcher is a cnn contributor and democratic pollster and pete dominick. we re trying something new this morning to keep things moving. 20 seconds on the clock for each of you. i m going to pose a series of questions. here s the first one. let s go. so obama s first message, it begins with us from yes, we can, to it begins with us. dana, thoughts? i m curious as to what begins with us. i thought it was supposed to have begun after he was elected the first time. i don t know. as far as campaign slogans go, it seems really just mysterious. it seems like something mystery men would write. i don t know. i think he could have come up with something a little better. cornell. i actually like it a lot. i think it fits back in the continuum he started off saying that, you know, we re going to build a movement. we re all going to be a part of this movement. it s not about me, it s us. i think it s a good continuation
the dominant force in the republican party right now. you ll have to capture the tea party. dana. i actually agree with cornell. i think it s so early to say who the front-runner s going to be. i know, we agree on something. it s so early to say who the front-runner is going to be. but i do think, i will say, that i think that those who have already announced and thrown their hat in the ring and made it all official and who are making the most noise, i think that we re going to be hearing less from them as the campaigning really kicks into high gear. pete. well, the comedian side of me says i really want michele bachmann or donald trump. the political commentator side of me says whoever the gop throws up against, the it begins with us is going to roll right off the ground for the second presidential cycle, sacrificing whoever the candidate is. excellent. third and final question. should congress condemn terry jones, the pastor who burned the koran? dana, thoughts. i tell yo
southwest did hire experts to come in and look at the cracking situation. but the experts in boeing said that some cracking was okay. in some cases up to six inches. we should note that this isn t the first time this has happened. back in 2009, a southwest plane was forced to make an emergency landing for the very same thing. that was four months after the airline was fined $7.5 million by the faa for failing to perform mandatory inspections for fuselage cracks on nearly 60,000 flights. it is official, folks. here is the message president obama tweeted this morning. it announced he is launching a campaign for a second term. he also drives people to his official campaign website in a video entitled it begins with us. noticeably absent were the familiar slogans which called for change in 2008. so let s talk more about this with dana lowe, cnn contributor
be off the roof. have a great day. thanks so much. good morning to all of you. it s 9:00 a.m. on the west coast, 6:00 a.m. on the east. so much radio active water at the nuclear plant and nowhere to hold it. the power company s plan, dump thousands of gallons of it into the pacific ocean. possible answers this morning in a mystery nearly two years old. wreckage from a rio to paris flight fuound at the bottom of the atlantic. searchers also found the bodies of some of the passengers. and the video from barackobama.com makes it official, the president is asking america for four more years. just got worse for southwest airlines. we have learned a southwest plane was diverted to los angeles last night because of a burning electrical smell in the cabin. yep, another one. on friday, a southwest jet made an emergency landing when a hole blew open in the fuselage at 36,000 feet. since then, the airline has found cracks in three more planets. it canceled 100 flights today so i
the president clarifies what the mission is about. to take out gadhafi? let s talk more about this with dana lowe as well as cornell belcher. thank you for having me. cornell, let s start with you. the whole libyan operation has been a debacle. if you are barack obama, how do you turn it around? americans and europes are actually there and it is probably not a debacle. he has to layout why this is important to our interests here. with independent voters who are divided about this, we have 47% of americans approving of this. independent americans are soft