7:00 tomorrow. we will see you then. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] the president will argue today that it would be a historic mistake if congress blocks the nuclear accord with iran. he president will frame the decision before lawmakers as the equential foreign-policy issue since the decision to go to war with iraq. he needs the backing of enough democrats to fight gop opposition. the white house says it has enough democratic support to a pulled a veto. read more at the hill.com. we will have live coverage of the president s speech today at american university starting at 11:20 a.m. eastern. to post yourble thoughts on facebook and twitter. after the president s speech we will be taking your phone calls. coverage on capitol hill over on c-span3 getting underway momentarily. the senate banking committee on the iran sanctions. that hearing is underway. following on c-span3. agreement with national security experts also talking about the role of th
ambassador to south korea, mark lippert. the diplomat undergoing nearly three hours of surgery overnight, receiving more than 80 stitches on his face alone. i m bleeding here. lippert slashed by a ten-inch knife in the face and arms moments before delivering a speech in seoul on wednesday. the weapon slicing open his left forearm, damaging the nerve system for his fingers. the gash on his right cheek four inches long and an inch deep. south korean surgeons say if the facial injury was any deeper it could have been life-threatening. he s one of our top asia policy experts in the u.s. government. according to witnesses, the suspect, 55-year-old king ki jeong pushed the diplomat on to a table before assaulting him. bystanders tackling him to the ground as police rushed him out of the conference room. witnesses say they heard kim yelling anti-u.s. sentiments shouting the south korea/u.s. military drills must stop a reference to the annual war games which north korea sees
police officer that killed their son. i m christine romans. welcome to early start. i m john berman. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. are you out of salt? i m out of everything. this morning, the u.s. ambassador to south korea is recovering from surgery. he was attacked. he was slashed in the face in seoul overnight. the ambassador mark lippert. you see the dramatic pictures. he was preparing to give a speech when he was attacked. the surgery to repair the four-inch wound in his face was successful. the police have a suspect in custody. we have correspondent andrew stevens tracking the latest. reporter: good morning, john. mark lippert was the guest at korean council for reconciliation. what we know was before he was due to give a speech he was an approached by kim kei jong. he started shouting the maneuvers between the u.s. and south korea must stop. this is the report. he then assaulted the ambassador. as you say, the ambassador receiving some very very nasty wounds i
unaccountable. they believe the debris is from the flaperon, part of the wing that helps control the plane s movement. teams of investigators from malaysia airlines are headed to reunion island tomorrow and paris tonight. the island where the debris washed up is french territory. the search area is in the southern indian ocean 2300 miles from where the debris cashed up. an australian official says he is confident the search is focused in the right area. were you convinced it was still the right place to be searching off the west coast of australia, where you were? it is very much very close and expert analysis from the satellite data with the aircraft, the so-called act. it will be found close. we have a high degree of confidence in the search area and the people and equipment we are using to search that area. we are using our extensive resources to cover this story like only cnn can with our reporters and experts. they are spread around the world. let s begin on reunio
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