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for state hood. this hour, the president is expected to meet with palestinian authority president abbas. he held a separate meeting just a little while ago with benjamin netanyahu. let s bring in our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin. she s covering this from new york. the president also delivered a major address before the u.n. general assembly. that s rig, wolf. the palestinians continue pressing their case here at the united nations and it was the most dramatic issue the president addressed in his speech today with repeated the theme, peace is hard. the president trumpeted progress at the end of this year, america s military operation in iraq will be over. osama bin laden is gone. and warned of challenges ahead. where we stand with the syrian people or their oppressors. what so many were listening for was this. we seek a future where palestinians live in a sovereign sate of their own. how would we explain his opposition to the palestinia ....
forum all week. i had a chance to sit down with the former president bill clinton for an extensive interview. part of it will air this hour. part in the next hour. i want you to stand by. only a few blocks away at the united nations, president obama s on a major diplomatic mission of his on and a number of critical issues are on the table. let s bring in jessica yellin. she s with me here at the clinton global initiative. a huge day today. maybe even a more important day for the president tomorrow. that s right. but first today, it was a major day of diplomacy for the president. today, he met with the new leaders of a post gadhafi libya. emphasized that the u.s. will be reopening its em bah sbassy in this week. the president also sat down with afghan president hamid karzai. the first time the two lead rs have met face to face since the administration announced it would start drawing down troops. also, the president has had a meeting with turkey s prime minister. now, ....
about this for years and under the president s plan anyone making more than $1 million a year would paper the same percentage of taxes at the middle class. boy, it does not sit well with republicans. when you pick one area of the economy and say we re going to tax those people, because most people are not those people, that s class warfare. warren buffett has been honest and others i know who have haven t fortunate in life and wealthy say, for goodness sake, raise my taxes if that s going to help this economy move forward. brianna keilar is on the phone in washington with more details of the president s plan. depending on your perspective it s class warfare or sharing the burden. reporter: that s right. you re going to hear a lot more of that playing out today after the president unveils his plan in the rose garden at 10:30 a.m. let s look overall as what it is. it would save, according to the white house, $3 trillion over ten years bp twice what this super comm ....
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 corpora ....
you can see what looks like something possibly breaking off the tail of that plane. this was just after this. the plane veered out of control and crashed into the crowd. investigators say they are now focusing in on this picture. a component has been recovered in the area where that was observed. but i think it is critical at this point to know that we have not identified the component. it will be examined so we don t really know what the component is or if it even came from this particular aircraft. we are very clearly going to focus on that and that s part of the factual information gathering that s going on right now. nine people died in the crash. seven of them on the tarmac, including the pilot. two others died later at the hospital. nearly 70 people were injured. a number of them are still in the hospital this morning. that other air show crash i just mentioned a moment ago, this one is in west virginia. this happened at the thunder over the blue ridge air s ....