this ad narrated by bill clinton. it s not worth moving heaven and earth spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. he was referring to the hunt for osama bin laden. what did he mean by that? because it s generated a little controversy given osama bin laden s role in killing 3,000 americans on 9/11. he had to decide. and that s what you hire a president to do. you hire the president to make the calls when no one else can do it. obviously that wolf blitzer tape was part of the ad. it sparked interest from senator john mccain who says it diminishes the memory of 9/11 turned it into a cheap political attack. he said quote, this is the same president who once criticized hillary clinton for invoking bin laden to score political points. and who said we shouldn t spike the ball after the touchdown. you can decide for yourself whether pointing to a key presidential accomplishment, the killing of bin laden a year after the event constitutes spiking the ball. b
conflict of interest. this is where it gets complicated. o mara became zimmerman s attorney after being recommended by mark nejame who cnn hired as a legal analyst. he s an orlando lawyer. he s also the law partner of the judge. the judge s husband. they referred him no mark o mara who filed the recusal file today. he joins me now. you filed the motion to recuse the judge. are you confident it is going to be granted? yes, i do. the way their rule is set up is once the presentation is made by verified motion, the court should grant it. she could have an inquiry if she wanted to. i don t think she will. i think she will grant it and move it on to another judge zbrp. are you surprised she didn t recuse herself? she brought this up the other day. whether or not there was conflict of interest, someone could argue there is a conflict of interest. exactly. and there is an opportunity for the judge to do that. however, also in the rules provided it s the attorneys that present
you re looking at live picture from the united nations. where all eyes right now are on this year s general assembly. president obama and the first lady, michele bachmann, expected to arrive in new york only minutes from now. at issue for the united states and much of the world this week, a showdown over the middle east. the palestinian authority president vowing to submit a formal application for statehood to the united nation s security council. it could have serious implications for the u.s. relationships with iz real and the arab world. much more on this part of the story coming up. let s get to the president s plan it slash trillions of dollars through the national debt. a plan he says will do the right thing. either we ask the wealthiest americanes it pay their fair share of taxes or asking seniors to pay more thor medicare. we can t afford do both. either we gut education and medical research or we ve got to reform the tax code so that most profitable corporations
put forward by a bipartisan senate group named the gang of six. most liberals don t like the gang of six approach because it would make cuts to social security and medicare. we are an anti-gang group. we are we re trying to suppress the growth of gangs. we think that it is not healthy for washington. most conservatives complain it doesn t cut spending enough and raises taxes too much. the gang of six is a five pages of sort of talking points. it s not an actual plan. but the president sees it as a framework for a potential potential breakthrough and perhaps because they like the other fallback options even less, the house republican leadership says it s at least worth talking about. let s begin with what happened tonight behind closed doors and how the new senate plan is changing the discussion. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and kate bald win are live at their posts and chrystia freeland, and the meeting with the republicans which is the m