Bottle. Thats it for us. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next, president obama gears up for his next fight with republicans. This time, its over his defense secretary nominee. Plus days after our taxes went up, some democrats said we need more taxes, higher taxes. Yes, were going to get answers. And more details about the aurora theater massacre. For the first time, Police Describe the scene and what they found when they first saw james holmes. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, saving sergeant hagel. President obama raring for a fight over his defense secretary nominee. You may say why there a fight . On paper, this guy is pretty incredible. Looks like he would be a lock for a job that usually is one with pretty much 100 of the Senate Voting aye. Military experience, check that box. He would be the first enlisted man and first vietnam vet to serve as secretary of defense, he was wounded in combat and he earned two purple heart
Up in the week. Thats our reporter, but were going to give the viewers a little flavor of whats going on. Thats tahrir square. Lets go to erin. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Outfront next, president obama gears up for his next fight with republicans. This time rng its over his defense secretary nominee. Plus days after our taxes went up, some democrats said we need more taxes, higher taxes. Yes, were going to get answers. And more details about the aurora theater massacre. For the first time, Police Describe the scene and what they found when they first saw james holmes. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, saving sergeant hagel. On paper, this guy is pretty incredible. Looks like he would be a lock for a job that usually is one with pretty much 100 of the Senate Voting aye. Military experience, check that box. He would be the first enlisted man and first vietnam vet to serve as secretary of defense, he was wounded in combat and he earn
Outfront next, president obama gears up for his next fight with republicans. This time, its over his defense secretary nominee. Plus days after our taxes went up, some democrats said we need more taxes, higher taxes. Yes, were going to get answers. And more details about the aurora theater massacre. For the first time, Police Describe the scene and what they found when they first saw james holmes. Lets go outfront. Good evening, everyone. Im erin burnett. Outfront tonight, saving sergeant hagel. President obama raring for a fight over his defense secretary nominee. You may say why there a fight . On paper, this guy is pretty incredible. Looks like he would be a lock for a job that usually is one with pretty much 100 of the Senate Voting aye. Military experience, check that box. He would be the first enlisted man and first vietnam vet to serve as secretary of defense, he was wounded in combat and he earned two purple hearts. Business and management experience, after all, the pentagon is
That is one happy lady. She should be. That gives me the hebe ahhet thinking about it. Erin Burnett Outfront starts right now. Militants are holding several americans hostage tonight. The leader of an Islamist Group tells me it is because the west joins the war in mali. And a truly bizarre story. We all heard how the notre dame player overcame the death of his girlfriend but it appears that was a hoax. Lets go outfront. Good evening. I am erin burnett. Americans held hostage. Militants linked to al qaeda have claimed responsibility for an attack on gs workers. The best information that we have at this time is that u. S. Citizens are among the hostages. I hope people understand that in order to protect their safety i am not going to get into numbers. I am not going to get into names. The number of american hostages has been fluid today. An islamist leader tells us there were seven hostages and there could be as few as three americans being held. The attack took place this morning at a b
And more at 3 00 p. M. Eastern with Brooke Baldwin. Cnn newsroom continues right now with ashleigh banfield. Carol, thanks very much. Weve got big news to bring to you. An actual dramatic turn of events in algeria where americans are among those being held right now. Weve got reports that an algerian militant operations currently under way to free the hostages from a remote gas plant located in the eastern part of that country. The Algerian State News Agency says four hostages have been freed, two british, a french citizen and citizen from kenya. Minutes ago the irish governmented aed to that saying one of its nationals have been freed which brings the total to five being freed. We are getting very sketchy reporting out of this area that some of the hostages that were taken may have in fact been killed. Militants seen here in this web video seized dozens of hostages yesterday, including the americans, british, japanese, algerians among them as well. News reports in the region say they