vice president dick cheney and his lawyer, liz cheney, chair of a national security advocacy group, keep america safe. together they wrote in my time, a personal and political ma am war. thank you both for joining us. i want to start with the drone strike that took out the top prop gan diss, at least for al qaeda in the iranian peninsula, perhaps took out the bombmaker for the same group and also took out samir khan. what s your reaction to that? well, i think it was a very good strike. i think it was justified. i think it is very effective use of our drone technology. thing i m waiting for is for the administration to go back and correct something they said two years ago when they criticized us for overreacting to the events of 9/11. they, in effect, said that we had walked away from our ideals, or taking policy contrary to our ideals when we had enhanced interrogation techniques. they clearly had moved in the direction of taking robust action when they feel it is just
member of the dog pound coming up next. but here s the top of the hour. what would you say if you had just 20 minutes to defend your life? that is the question of american student amanda knox and she will have to answer that question because tomorrow she s on. she takes the stand in her own defense with her freedom hanging in the balance. cnn s senior international correspondent matthew chance has been watching this appeal trial for us from perugia and matthew, i said there people here appeal and take the stand to defend yourself, this is not going to go like a normal case in the united states where someone takes the stand and they re going to be asked questions. no. they call it the pleas of innocence here. both amanda knox and her co-accused accused and convicted already of course of murdering meredith kercher in 2007 will get about 15 minutes each. it s not been confirmed that rafaela will make a speech but definitely amanda knox, tomorrow morning, is going to be sta
and finally, the bold truth about criminology. i ll explain. first, here s my take. america s job crisis persists, and there seems to be little we can do about it. but actually there is one area where government can create jobs even if consumers aren t spending and businesses aren t hiring. and in a way that is productive for long-term growth. rebuilding america. the american society of civil engineers estimates that america s crumbling infrastructure needs $2 trillion worth of repairs, upgrades, and expansions. with needs on that scale, president obama s infrastructure proposals are at one twentieth the size of the problem. we need a big plan and a ground bargain between left and right to get it. the first element of the bargain would be funding. already there are several good proposals for infrastructure banks. relatively small public investments can be leveraged to attract much larger sums of private capital. compared with other countries, the u.s. still has an astonis
better than 6-year-old kindergartners. why? because school makes kids smarter. the experience of being young in class makes kids work harder and as a result they learn more. the kids who are oldest in the class are already doing pretty well and they re not motivated to work as hard. there s so many moms and datdads who think this red shirting a sports term, but holding their kid back one year is going to let them mature a little bit. maybe be a little more confident when they head into kindergarten nap is a miscon jepgs you say that s hurting children. parents listening now are saying, should realize, they shouldn t hold their kid back? that s right. and the reason is because kids don t learn in a vacuum. people are social learners, and so kids will learn much better if they have older classmates with better social skills and better academic skills to look up to than they will when they re the only people in the class with their level of skill. let s broaden out the d
child. this is piers morgan tonight. now for the latest on the charges against conrad murray, let s go to ted rowlands in los angeles. reporter: prosecutors continued with their witnesses that were with michael jackson at the time he was dying, and specifically, the most compelling witnesses we heard from were the paramedics that responded to that 911 call. one paramedic said when he got there, jackson was cold and blueish, another actually, both of the paramedics testified they asked dr. murray point blank, what have you given michael jackson. and there was never any mention of propofol. did dr. murray ever mention to you having administered propofol to michael jackson? no, he did not. did conrad murray ever mention the word propofol to you during the time that you were at the location or in his presence? no, he did not. at the end of today, piers, we got a little bit of testimony from one of the emergency room doctors at ucla, we ll have more of that nex