a wonderful weekend. ac 360 with wolf blitzer starts now. breaking news the the death toll climbing, the shock waves spreading from egypt s day of anger. live with new developments. also tonight, with this little girl s health and life maybe in the balance chris christie makes a decision on medical marijuana, but is it enough? i ll ask her dad. later, anderson s conversation with oprah winfrey about race, justice, and the n word. but we begin with breaking news out of egypt. late this evening the country s state nile tv reporting new numbers, at least 33 new fatalities in cairo and alexandr alexandria, the two biggest cities 180 wounded. the wounded topping 4,000 since. since wednesday there are more than 600 people killed also new on it s facebook page the egyptian military saying they
but we begin with breaking news out of egypt. late this evening the country s state nile tv reporting new numbers, at least 33 new fatalities in cairo and alexandria, the two biggest cities 180 wounded. the wounded topping 4,000 since. since wednesday there are more than 600 people killed also new on it s facebook page the egyptian military saying they arrested 440 quote armed men and terrorist unquote. security forces clashing with muslim brotherhood fighters and attacks on christian churches. conflicting information coming in and accusations that cannot be fully verified because of the truly chaotic situation on the ground. some reporters there are calling it urban warfare plain and simple. we re being careful about our reporting and making perfectly
budget committee. democrat iic congressman chris n holl hollen. and then re-opening the search with david axelrod and ed gillespie on why his candidate gambled on a wonk who is wanting to overhaul medicare. and then risk/reward with jessica yellen. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. no surprise, president obama s campaign and other democrats are wasting no time attacking the new romney/ryan presidential ticket. descriptions we ve heard thrown around so far, wrong, harsh and extreme. joining me now, former new hampshire governor and romney campaign adviser john sununu. welcome, governor, and good morning to you. nice to be on, candy. happy sunday. so let me ask you, this is certainly comes as a surprise to the romney campaign. they certainly knew ahead of time how this would taken. how do they move against what clearly is going to be an attempt to say, this is a man who wants to fundamentally change medicare and social security and going back to his rec
another possible republican challenger is riled up, too, because of tea party criticism during the debt ceiling debate. yeah, right. independent patriotic americans who desire fiscal sanity in our beloved nation being called terrorist. if you were a real domestic terrorist we begin overseas tonight with two dramas unimaginable just months ago in syria, a vicious regime crackdown designed to crush an anti-government protest movement that is standing firm despite the deadly risks. and in cairo, a historic event that brought a collective gasp across the arab world, hosni mubarak on trial, wheeled into the defendant s cage in a hospital bed, dismissing with the wave of his hand allegations of corruption and complicity in the killings of anti-government protesters. translator: what do you say? translator: i deny all these charges. the 83-year-old mubarak was forced from office six months ago, but even some of the most ardent tahrir square demonstrators thought they
us. they have this one anchor there, presenter as they call them who resigned from the early going in state tv. finally she said she couldn t put out the propaganda anymore. you wonder if they will bring her back and make her the main one. joining us is muhammad he worked as tv nile tv. good to see you. good to see you, too. shepard: was yours just a propaganda arm? it was. very unfortunate. shepard: how did you do that? personally? i didn t. but, unfortunately, this is state-run tv. this is the way they do business there it s a propaganda tool for the government. they don t really represent the egyptian people the way they should. and they realize that but it was too late in the game. shepard: watching from a world away i m sure you can t believe what you are seeing. this is unbelievable. for the egyptian people to evolve that way and, you know, less than three weeks, the can