breaking news tonight. new signs that yemen could be on the brink of civil war. [ gunfire ] for weeks we watched demonstrations build, but today the fighting reached the corridors of power. the presidential compound came under attack. there you can see smoke rising over the capital after sources said rpgss hit the mosque while the president was there for players.

the president was injured, a government official says he has a slight head injury but he's not been seen publicly since then. several other officials were also hurt, a cleric and several bodyguards were killed. the president did speak on state-run tv. only his voice could be heard. no pictures of him. he blamed the attack on "gangsters" and insists he's in good health. there's also video of what shows a crackdown on protesters demanding the president step down. [ gunfire ] >> just today, there was gunfire in the streets. this video was posted on youtube.

a youth activist says four anti-government protestors were shot today during friday prayers. government security forces fired at protesters at various locations across the city, including freedom square. [ gunfire continues ] >> anti-government protesters throwing rocks as they're reportedly shot at by riot police and heavy black smoke is seen pouring from the area. unlike many countries in the region, many people do have access to weapons in yemen and there are reports that gunmen burned an armored vehicle belonging to security forces. in other cities, there was huge crowds gathering, chanting anti-government slogans. as we said, day after day, week after week, we've seen images

like that out of yes, ma'amen. president seleh has several times agreed to resign, only to pull out at the last minute. it's important to note that yemen is home to al qaeda, which has been behind a number of planned attacks on the u.s. a short time ago, i spoke to an american named jeb boone who is in yemen, saw the attacks on the presidential compound. we had problems with the phone connection, so we decided to add subtitles because we think it's important for you to though what's going on inside the country. here's the interview. jeb, you were near the presidential compound when the fighting began. what did you see, what did you hear?

>> the president was already using his special forces in the city. has he used all the power that he has or is there more that he might bring to bear? >> so at this point, is this now a full-on civil war?

>> like many dictators in the region, president seleh has sort of played himself as the only bulwark against al qaeda. there is al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, very strong in yemen. the government is reporting that some areas of the country have been taken over by al qaeda. is that true, is that accurate? >> and where do you see this >> and where do you see this going, jeb?

>> jeb, i appreciate you talking to us. stay safe. jeb said that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is gaining ground in yemen. taking advantage of the chaos. this is the same group linked to various terror plots, including the christmas day underwear bombing on a u.s. airliner. i talked about its growing reach in yemen and other concerns with christopher dicky, middle east editor for "newsweek," also fareed zakaria, host of "gps" here on cnn and editor at large for "time" magazine. from a security standpoint, what is yemen in crisis mean? it seems like it's on the brink of civil war. >> it looks like it's on the brink of going from a fragile state to a failed state and many multiple civil wars. and all kinds of chaos. from an american point of view, from a security point of view, that's close to disastrous.

that's the kind of situation that al qaeda and other groups can take advantage of. you have a vacuum of power, a place that the u.s. can't reach into very easily. and the next thing you know, we're looking at another somalia or afghanistan. >> the dictator has -- or the president has often said, like a lot of dictators in the region, he's the only bulwark against al qaeda. but in yemen, you actually do have a very strong presence of al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. >> there's no question that al qaeda is the strongest islamist terrorist movement directed at america, other than the one in pakistan. and it is quite sophisticated. so remember the last attack, which were those bombs in the printer cartridges. that was actually quite

sophisticated. that was not just a guy trying to light his shoes or set off his underwear. this was a pretty sophisticated bomb making technique. and to your point, anderson, the president seleh is now withdrawing all his forces from the peripheral parts of yemen, consolidating power. but in a sense, he's ceding ground to al qaeda. the people taking over are al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. so he's presenting the world and yemen with a stark choice. which is, if i go at this point, these guys are gaining ground. do you really want the country to go al qaeda? >> and al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, they're very creative in their terror. >> he's a great publicist and a good terrorist. he's been very successful at that. you have to remember that al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is a small organization, just a few hundred people. >> if it becomes a failed state, already large parts of the country are beyond government control or very limited government control, then what? they become as a more efficient somalia?

>> then we have a real mess on our hands. there's also a risk of a lot of displaced people. this is a country running out of money and water. it's running out of fuel and everything. it's certainly running out of order. you could just have an enormous imploding population, 24 million people with no place to go and nothing to do. >> the place they'll try to go is saudi arabia. all this turmoil in the middle east, there are two places you need to worry about for americans particularly. saudi arabia because of the oil, and yemen because of al qaeda. strangely, they border one another. so now instability in yemen has

the potential to cause instability in saudi arabia, and instability in saudi arabia, you get $250 a barrel oil. and potentially another recession. >> what the u.s. seems to be doing is broker an exit strategy for seleh. but then what? >> but this is the problem. we think we have all these contacts and we go in to broker an exit strategy and this is what the ambassador tried to do at one point with mubarak in egypt. then there's this back pedaling. you go away and they don't leave, they stay. seleh can't imagine yemen without him, and he can't imagine himself without yemen. >> all these people start to believe they are the country. >> exactly. >> and also there's a web of corruption beyond them. it's the family, so they cut a deal which gets -- maybe the president gets a nice villa in the south of france, but all the others say what about us?

and then they refuse to do it. so much of what seems to be happening here, there are so many competing factions at this point. the government doesn't even control that much of the territory anymore any way. so if he leaves, say the vice president becomes president, you still face the two rebellions, the al qaeda problem, the fact that there is an economy in freefall, all that still remains. >> the saudis, the americans, everybody who is interested in yemen has been working very hard now for months to make a transition, a smooth transition, and every time we've come close, seleh has backed away. so ultimately he's creating a situation where there cannot be a smooth transition and we're just about at that point. >> fareed, i want to talk about domestic issues this weekend. we saw up employment rise in may. we've seen the markets taking a tumble the last couple of days. what are you focusing on this weekend? >> what i'm focusing on, if you look at the unemployment numbers, what is becoming clear to people is the united states

has an unemployment problem that isn't getting better. even the jobs that were created before these bad numbers, were barely enough to take into account all the new entranlts who enter the job market. in you add it all up, we've got 24 million unemployed or underemployed people. we're not going to get back the jobs we've lost in this recession, in the auto industry. what i'm going to focus on, where are the jobs going to come from? >> the special is "restoring the american dream." fareed, thanks. let us know what you think about it all on facebook or twitter @ anderson cooper. i'll be tweeting tonight. up next, john edwards indicted. he says he's done bad things but didn't break the law. joe johns was in the courtroom.

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♪ what a day for john edwards, the one-time presidential nom fee of the democratic party is looking at the possibility of 30 years in prison, but he isn't going down without a fight. today, a grand jury hit edwards

with a six-count indictment, charging him with conspiracy, making false statements and breaking campaign laws, because he accepted more than $900,000 in an attempt to cover up his affair with that woman, rielle hunter. edwards broke his silence about the case today after pleading not guilty. i want you to listen carefully to the words he used in his brief statement today. >> there's no question that i've done wrong, and i take full responsibility for having done wrong. and i will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i've caused to others. but i did not break the law, and i never ever thought i was breaking the law. >> the last phrase, i never, ever thought i was breaking the law, it's important. we'll go into why in just a moment. first, the story of how the sex, the lies and the video and supermarket tabloids brought down a man who thought he could be president of the united

states. here's tom foreman. >> reporter: 2006 was big for john edwards. he launched his bid for the white house, had already hired rielle hunter to shoot campaign videos and his private life started falling apart. >> i wrote my speech out, by the way. >> oh, my goodness. >> it's a great speech. >> can you read it? >> yes, i can read it. >> reporter: that's hunter's voice on one of her videos posted on youtube. the former "spiritual adviser and astrologist" was being paid more than $100,000 to produce these so-called webisodes. they met at a bar in new york, according to a campaign aide. she later told "newsweek" right away she could feel edwards' special energy. the relationship was born. but that aide, andrew young, says the sleepovers with the senator began even before she was hired. >> as a result, there was a biopsy done. >> reporter: by next spring 2007, edwards and his wife

announce her breast cancer has returned. but soon, the indictment says, hunter has news, too. she is pregnant. the denials begin. the story is false, edwards tells reporters who suspect an affair. untrue, ridiculous. on a website, hunter calls it dirty politics. by mid december, the national enquirer has a photo of her pregnant. andrew young issues a statement saying he is the father. edwards knew nothing. but as 2008 dawns and edwards drops from the race, rielle hunter gives birth to a girl. "the enquirer" reports seeing edwards at a los angeles hotel visiting the baby. the questions heat up. >> have you or anyone affiliated with your presidential campaigned provided any financial help to rielle hunter or andrew young? >> i have no idea what you're asking about. i have responded to consistently to these tabloid allegations by saying i don't respond to these

lies. >> reporter: then in august 2008, "the enquirer" publishes a photo they claim was edwards with hunter and the baby. he goes on abc news to admit he cheated on his wife. >> she's mad, she's angry. i think furious would be a good way to describe it and it was hard and painful for her. but she responded exactly like the kind of woman she is. i mean, she forgave me and we went to work on it. >> reporter: he still denied being the father of the child or any hints that he hired hunter because of the affair. it takes another year and a half before edwards admits the child is his. coming clean in a written statement. within a week, he and his wife of 32 years separate. tom foreman, cnn.

>> joe johns went down to north carolina for edwards' court hearing today and joins us with jeffrey toobin. jeff, let's talk about the words that edwards used. why were you saying that's so important? >> because this is what's called a specific intent crime. this is a crime that you're only guilty of if you intend to violate the law. the classic example of a nonspecific intent crime is speeding. if you are speeding, the cop doesn't care if you didn't intend to speed, you're guilty. but in this, you have to intend to violate the campaign laws by getting this money to rielle hunter through these two very rich people. and he's saying look, i knew they were giving her the money, but i wasn't thinking about campaign finance laws, i was thinking about protecting my wife from this embarrassing information. this was not about campaign finance laws, so i didn't intend to violate the law. that's what he's saying in the statement. >> that's why the intention is so important? >> correct. >> if anyone says he's very wealthy, i've heard rumors and stories about it, but why

couldn't he have just given her money directly? >> if you believe that part of this whole ruse was to keep the fact of the child from his wife, presumably she would notice if $900,000 was missing. he's not that rich. >> joe, were you in the courtroom today? >> reporter: i sure was. it's pretty interesting, too. >> yeah, what was it like? >> reporter: well, the first thing i thought of, he's the last man standing in the 2008 presidential race for the democratic nomination. and now he's standing up in court. he answered a bunch of questions, most of them yes, sir, i understand, i understand. yes, sir. and at one point, he got a little bit annoyed. he's a big-time trial lawyer, got a little annoyed it seemed he told the judge,th i understand, you know, i'm an attorney. didn't say much more than that. the most interesting thing i

thought was the conditions of release. he got released on his own recognizance and told, you know, stay in the united states, surrender your passport. pretty standard, right? and then told to stay away from rachel bunny melon, that 100-year-old philanthropist who apparently kicked in hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to keep this whole affair quiet. and that, i guess, at least in part, is because he went to see her a week or two ago, and there was a whole uproar over that, anderson. >> that was so weird that he went to see her. here she is, obviously a very key witness in this case, if she can even show up for the trial. she is 100 years old. and the other person who provided the money, fred barren, the texas lawyer, he's dead. so out of all the people in the world, he would go see her right before the indictment raises questions. and also, if you were trying to negotiate a plea bargain with the prosecutors, they are going to be pissed off if you go see the key witness.

i can't imagine what he was thinking in going to see her. >> he's also fighting to keep his law license. >> very important. and that is something when you negotiate a plea bargain with a lawyer, that is a critical issue. there are various ways to structure a plea bargain, to keep a law license or to make sure that it's gone. if he's convicted, it's gone. >> joe, there was that whole thing of an alleged sex tape. where is that? does that play into this at all? >> reporter: i don't think it really plays into this, other than it just sort of adds to the lurid kind of sorted nature of the whole story. apparently, there was a sex tape, a tape of he and rielle hunter having sex, and that tape ended up in the hands of andrew young, who is sort of the guy who worked for edwards and ended up writing the book telling this entire story. that was turned over to the court.

a lawsuit actually filed to try to certainly keep it from public view. but no, i don't think that necessarily is a part of this. it seems pretty well established that they've had sex. >> you think a tape that may play in this is the interview he gave to abc news. >> to bob woodruff. >> which was his big confenceal interview, which he continued to lie and claim the child was not his. >> i think it's incredibly important, because one of the key issues in this trial will be, does john edwards take the witness stand. and if he does, you can be sure on his direct testimony he'll be very honest -- appear very honest and forthright. he's a good speaker, he's a good politician, a successful one. but he's now open to cross-examination, where they play that tape where he will presumably be just as persuasive and say, you lied on national television about this, even while you were confessing. i think that's a very damning tape. >> how tough a case is it though, for the government?

>> it's also problematic for the government, because no one has ever been prosecuted, as far as i'm aware or anyone is aware, for a campaign violation of this kind. because the money -- this is all rooted in the rule that says you can only give $2,300 to a primary campaign and they gave almost a million dollars. so that's a clear violation. if you believe these expenditures, this campaign contribution -- >> couldn't bunny melon just say, i gave it because i knew he was in a bind and i wanted to help him protect his wife, who i cared about, so i wasn't giving it to the campaign? >> she certainly could say that. there is a note of hers quoted in the indictment where she talks about spending money for the campaign. that's problematic for them, and it's also -- even if she intends that it's for his benefit, the government may argue that a reasonable observer would find this a campaign contribution.

all of this is legally murky. in a case where you have to prove this beyond a reasonable doubt, legal murkiness is a good defense. >> jeff toobin, thanks. joe johns, thank you very much. in washington, house republicans brought up another reason they're unhappy with president obama. it has to do when the president gave the go ahead for military action in libya. >> the revealing and disturbing jailhouse conversations of a mom accused of killing her little girl. >> we need to have something to go on. >> mom, i don't have anything. i'm sorry. i've been here a month today. do you understand how i feel? i mean, do you really understand how i feel in this? i'm completely, completely out of the loop with everything.

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confounding. her behavior isn't what one would expect from a murderer or a grieving mom. what casey is doing in those early days is spinning a confounding web of lies, inventing people and places, phone numbers, addresses. it has a fascinating drama that has people riveted around the trial. look at this, people trying to get into the courtroom in the morning, almost stampeding trying to get inside. we'll hear from dr. drew and jean casarez in a moment. but first, here's a look at some of casey's lies caught on tape. for a ninth day, jurors heard how casey anthony created elaborate lies surrounding the disappearance of her 2-year-old daughter, caylee. but in recordings played in court, detectives believed she wasn't telling the truth. >> i know and you know that everything you told me is a lie, correct? >> not everything i told you. >> okay, pretty much everything that you told me, including where caylee is right now.

>> prosecutors say anthony misled everyone every step of the way. in this recording with her parents, anthony goes into great detail about someone she calls zanny the nanny. no such nanny existed. >> they never searched by her full name. zenaida. i know she went by both last names, she always had. victor and gloria are her parents. i know she has a lot of money. she has his last name. and her mother's last name. >> he adopted her? >> he adopted her. he legally adopted her, yes. >> i thought you said zanny had a sister. >> her sister's name is samantha. they have different dads. >> samantha is a student? >> she was a student at ucf, yes. >> is she older or younger? >> she's older. >> in another visit with her brother lee, she's pressed where he should search for clues for his niece. >> where should i focus the

search? we're reaching out to people. >> check things locally, in all honesty. places that are familiar to us. for our family. >> in the videos, she often fantasizes about the return of her daughter. >> i told you in my gut i know she's still okay. i can feel it, mom. i know she's still okay. we're going to get our little girl back and she's going to be just as she was. >> on this visit in august 2008, she gets agitated with her parents when they press her for details. >> we need to have something to go on. >> mom, i don't have anything, i'm sorry. i've been here a month. i've been here a month today. do you understand how i feel? i'm completely, completely out of the loop with everything.

>> but that was not exactly the case. for an entire month, anthony did not report caylee's disappearance. instead, she hung out with friends, went shopping and hit the night clubs. including competing in a hot body contest. last week, the defense claimed that caylee drowned in the family pool and anthony and her father covered up the death. an interesting take, considering this sarcastic response from anthony talking to her parents in august of 2008. >> someone just said caylee was dead this morning, that she drowned in the pool. that's the newest story out there. >> surprise, surprise. >> someone just sent me some of the stuff that's been online. >> her father denied involvement in his testimony last week. the defense says anthony's compulsive lying is the result of her trying to conceal her pain, something she's learned to do after being sexually abused by her father allegedly. in the videotaped conversations, however, the relationship seems a close one. >> i miss you, sweetie. >> i know that. i miss you, too.

you've been a great dad and the best grandfather. you and mom have been the best grandparents. caylee has been so lucky. >> as another investigator took to the stand today to talk about what he smelled in anthony's car >> professionally speaking, my opinion is that it was the smell of human decomposition. >> it increasingly appears as though casey anthony's web of lies is unraveling fast. earlier i spoke with jean casarez and dr. drew pinski. jean, you were in the courtroom today. we heard more of these recorded conversations between casey and her parents. again, just lie after lie after lie. how is the jury reacting? >> they are so seriously watching their monitors. they're take thing evidence very seriously, anderson. but i think what's interesting is the main lie we heard in the videotape today was casey

saying, i know caylee is alive. i know it's just a matter of time we will all be together again. and the defense theory is she drowned in the swimming pool, so casey had to know she was dead, either under the prosecution's theory or the defense theory. >> regardless of who's right in this, the prosecution or the defense, we know that at this point, these are lies and she knew her child was dead at that point. >> exactly. and you see her mother grieving. i mean, uncontrollably grieving and asking casey for leads, where can we look and find her. casey seems to get angry and upset at it. so this is strong evidence for the prosecution. >> dr. drew, when you look at these videos, you've done therapy with clients, you've seen people probably lie to you. what do you see and hear when you hear her spinning these stories, which we know are not true? >> you're absolutely right, anderson. the only thing we've seen in this case is lying, lying, lying, lying, lying.

the attorneys i've spoken to believe that particularly some of the tapes they watched today as you've been hearing really damage her case. >> dr. drew, does somebody have to believe what they're saying is true in order to lie like that? >> in my experience, people that lie like that, part of addiction is lying, and you oar very much right. in order to lie with this degree of conviction, you kind of on some level have to really believe what you're saying. now, the question here though, is he a premedicated cunning cold blooded killer, a criminal trying cover for herself, is she a sexual abuse survivor who has disassociated and doesn't know what she's doing or has a long history of lying trying to protect a terrible, terrible accident? >> jean, this sexual abuse allegation that has been made against casey's father as part of her defense, has anything been presented about that? i know he's denied it when he was on the stand. >> there's no corroboration, from everything i know. never was a health professional

called in. there are some jailhouse letters that casey wrote and in those she wrote that her brother, lee, had walked into her room when she was younger, shined a flashlight in her eyes and when she woke up the next morning her bra was around her neck, the hook was unhooked. he said, i think my father did that, too. but the defense opening was opposite, that he had sexually abused her and tried to take that path but had not. >> anderson, let me just say that if somebody is going to be so severely sexually abused that they end up, you know, really not having any appreciation of right or wrong or lying the way we see her lying and to be able to use people and exploit them the way we have seen her do, if that were to happen, if you were to lay that at the feet of sexual abuse, it would have to chronic severe sexual abuse of a long standing nature. they've described nothing like that so far. >> jean, once the defense puts

on its case, will they have to call casey to the stand? if there's no physical evidence of abuse or no record of it, it would have to be her testimony that it came from. >> that's a great point, because they're going to want instruction to go to the jury on this. the judge is going to look for evidence. here's the thing. if she puts her hand on the bible and swears to tell the truth, is the jury going to believe her? if they don't believe her, then they may really dislike her, hate her, and then if there's a penalty phase, what are they going to recommend for her, life or death? so it's a tough decision. >> dr. drew, i want to play just a piece of the conversation casey had when she was in custody, allegedly about this nanny, this nanny who is -- well, let's play it. >> i know she went by both last names, she always had. >> i thought you said zanny had a sister. >> her sister's name is samantha.

>> she describes not only zanny the nanny, her name, where she lived, how she wore her hair, how she wore her jeans. she gives similar descriptions about zanny's roommates and co-workers. none of these people existed. my own little theory about zanny the nanny is zanny is a sort of street name for xanax. and there's some theory out there that she used to use it to sort of subdue her child when she became more problematic and she wanted to party. we've heard these alleged testimony out there. zanny the nanny becomes even more condemning evidence for her. >> there was testimony today about a hair found in the vehicle. what's the significance of that, jean? >> this is big, because the car, the trunk of the car that casey operated, she had control of, prosecutors say one of those hairs had the banding showing decomposition, that it was on the scalp of a decomposing body. they did dna testing and it can

only be from caylee, casey or cindy. and two of the three are alive. caylee is not. and so the prosecution is going to say that shows that the body of caylee was in the trunk of casey's car. the defense will counter that saying it's not a decomposing hair at all. >> i watched the defense today cross examining one of the crime scene investigators who testified that he smelled death in the vehicle. they didn't make much of a dent, though, in his testimony. >> no, and you know, anderson, they saved tin cans filled with that air and they want that jury to smell -- they want to open up a can and they want the jurors to smell the smell of decomposition. >> it is definitely a distinctive smell. dr. drew, thanks. jean casarez, thanks so much. >> you're welcome. coming up, a minister who says hiv has healed her. that's when "360" continues.

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woman in kenya whose story shows how much things have changed and how much work needs to be done. that's why she's this week's cnn hero. take a look. >> back in 1990s i believed that aids wan a punishment from god. when i personally tested hiv positive, it was oh, my god, how could this happen to me? i fasted and prayed for years, hoping that i would be healed. when i went public, i lost my job. my husband lost his job. the landlord wanted us out of his house. i realized that i had been wrong. my mission is to change people's attitude about hiv. all that you need is accurate, correct information. we need to share it with people.

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check some of the other stories with isha sesay back with a "360" bulletin. >> anderson -- >> oh, man. >> oh, yes. in other breaking news tonight -- >> oh, really? >> yes, really.

in other breaking news tonight, it is indeed anderson cooper's birthday, everybody. >> wow. >> so i come bearing cake and look what else. yes, just for you. >> wow, a pony. >> and not just any pony. >> a pony with a dog on it. >> a pony with a dog on it. >> wow. that's kind of surreal. this is pretty surreal. can i get up and pet the pony? >> you can, yes. >> wow. hey. wow, this is kind of surreal. >> yes. >> this is like an acid trip or something. or what i imagine an acid trip to be like. >> it is, and frankly comes courtesy of the big apple circus. >> wow, cool. what's your name? >> jenny. >> and who's this? >> this is daisy.