Come to light. Democrats were promising a new direction for the war, and to make their case theyd just nominated a decorated war veteran to be their nominee, a man whod been awarded the silver star, the bronze star, and three Purple Hearts for valor in combat. Thank you im im john kerry, and im reporting for duty senator john kerry made his Military Service in vietnam a central part of his campaign for president that year. In the weeks after he accepted the democratic nomination, kerry consistently led the incumbent, president george w. Bush, in the but then in august everything changed. In that was when these campaign ads startedca airing. I served with john kerry. I served with john kerry. John kerry has not been honest about what happened in vietnam. He is lying about his record. Its a central image of john kerrysl campaign, the candida literally wrapping his arms around his vietnam teammates. Now republicans are challenging kerrys war effort with a tv ad featuring other Vietnam Vet
for president, you expect them to go out, shake hands and kiss some babies and most of all get on the debate stage. when it comes to joe biden who just told us to watch him, democrat party saying no debates for you. the sitting president of the united states of america is a democrat. a democrat that would like to run for reelection so much so that he has declared a reelection campaign. in that case, the democratic national committee will not facilitate a primary process. there will be no debate stage for bobby kennedy, marianne williams or anyone else. they re not going to set up a primary process for debates for someone to challenge the head of the democratic party. jesse: in other words, joe is running so voters should be thankful and not ask questions. 19% of democrats are already siding with his primary opponent, robert f. kennedy jr.. he s pulling the same numbers in the polls as desantis. he s nothing to sneeze at. if anybody deserves to debate joe, it s him. i th
living our lives. we re constantly film filming and we re having a really, really good time doing what we re doing. my focus right now, to be honest, is the birth of kourtney s new baby. we re excited about that and a whole bunch of new stuff going on in our lives. and zestra. yes, my favorite new thing. you re a great sport. i have a favorite new thing. thank you, kris. thank you. i hope everybody goes to zestra.com. all righty. all right, everyone. thanks for joining us. it is the top of the hour. brooke is off today. we ll begin with a developing story. this afternoon, the first lawsuit by a catholic group has been filed against the obama administration s new birth control mandate. the rule requires religious-run services like hospitals and universities to provide contraceptives for employees through their health care provider ewtn which is a catholic television network filed suit today in alabama calling the mandate unconstitutional. i want to bring in mic
london. here are the headlines. this just coming in. operations at the shipwrecked costa concordia is been temporarily halted because the ship is shifting. the captain is under house arrest as he awaits possible charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. meanwhile, divers are working to remove a second data recorder from the abandoned ship. they recovered more bodies, bringing the death toll to 11. the arab league is set to end its mission this week, but anti-government protests show no sign of epding any time soon in syria. the government has rejected suggestions that arab league peacekeepers should be deployed to syria. in myanmar, some signs of political change. pro democracy leader aung san suu kyi is registered in parliament. she s running in a country that s still largely controlled by its military. those are the headlines from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee, and world business today starts now beginning with the coverage of a blackout to protest an