deserved to win last night. congratulations. >> i heard that, they deserved to win last night. >> the sincerity was just bleeding right out of him. >> rob, have a nice day off. i'm sorry, i'm sorry for you. i'm happy for carol and sorry for you. i'm just caught in the middle. >> life goes on, guys. let's throw it over to kyra phillips. >> guys, i'm talking about don larsen staying on that baseball theme never seen before pictures from "lifetime" magazine of his perfect game. we'll continue the theme, i know that gets carol excited. >> absolutely, i'm sticking around. >> fantastic. we have that coming up, thanks, ladies. a little while ago we got a status check on the economy. the labor department says 103,000 jobs were added last month and that's better than experts had actually predicted. also, the unemployment rate didn't move. it's still 9.1%. all right, we asked christine romans to stick around there, we're not just talking about baseball, let's talk about these

numbers and what it tells us about the economy. right now this morning at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. >> it's a solid base hit. how's that? not a grand slam, but a base hit for the economy. you had job creation a little better than people had thought and remember the big zero in august, no jobs created in august. well, the government, kyra, came back and upgraded its assessment for what happened in august. now, 57,000 jobs created in august. also, july revised higher, as well. so, when you look at the whole picture. you have an unemployment rate at 9.1% and 103,000 jobs added in the month of september and august and july both increased in terms of the amount of hiring. when we look within the kind of sectors that are hiring, professional and business services. the private sector did a little bit better. you saw the government shedding jobs, but the private sector was hiring in professional and business services and temporary workers, it's a trend we've seen for more than a year and companies not willing to hire

permanently, they try a temp worker. commercial construction and mining, those are the yaareas adding to the payrolls. kyra? >> christine, thank you. investors were antsy about that report. alison kosik at new york stock exchange, what do you think, how are they feeling right now? >> feeling pretty good. saw the stock prices turn much higher, 100 points about half hour before that opening bell. you know, this came in better than expected. as cnn money surveyed only 65,000 jobs were going to be added. this 103,000 number coming in. a nice report compared to the expectations that are out. we need to see it chip away at the unemployment rate in a stronger way. investors, though, as christine said, they're also upbeat that zero figure from august was revised higher, so was july. so, you know what, we're going to see if the dow's three-day

winning streak continues at this point. the blue chip average has made triple-digit moves for nine days in a row. six of them higher and three of them lower. shows you just how volatile the marketplace is and how uncertain everybody is about where the economy is going. even with this jobs report, which is positive, the big elephant in the room that continues to be europe because one day things seem to be improving and the next there seems to be no progress. today it seems more optimistic with this positive jobs report. kyra? >> all right, alison, little bit of good news there. now, let's look at the other side of wall street. the side with all the protesters. occupy wall street entering its fourth week now and the movement is growing. our carol costello shows us how it's spilling into main street. >> reporter: it started out as a joke. >> how are they not like the tea party? a all right, some of them smoke and have pants made out of pot. so, call them the thc party. >> reporter: now, it has swell

under to a nationwide movement, mostly peaceful, but certainly po'd. >> we got sold out. >> reporter: and ready to eat the rich. >> this is like a performance art piece. the corporate zombie march. >> i see the money hanging out there. >> this is the breakfast. >> reporter: from 1,000 protesters on wall street, it has gained momentum and spread to tens of thousands of people from new york to los angeles and dozens of cities in between. even across borders and oceans. the people are angry that they're running second place to profs. >> we want jobs. we want jobs and we want them now. >> reporter: that their quality of life is plunged why the rich get super rich and the taxpayers bail them out. >> politicians can be bought and political influence can be bought through political donations. >> reporter: in los angeles, protesters took over a bank of america and were arrested. and in philly, thousands broke out in their battle cry. we are the 99%.

it has some bigwigs on wall street looking out their windows and, now, the white house is paying attention. >> obviously, i've heard of it. i've seen it on television. i think it expresses the frustrations that the american people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the great depression and that's going to express itself politically in 2012 and beyond until people feel like, once again, we're getting back to some old-fashioned american values. >> reporter: still, getting organized is not easy and too early to say whether these protesters will become a political force, a tea party from the left. same frustrations from the other side. but there's plenty of time through nuxt november. >> 24/7, if necessary, 365. we're planning on snow, we're planning on summer heat. >> and that's going to cost cities across america. the cities where those

protesters are, more money. for example here in new york city, kyra, the police commissioner, ray kelly, said it cost $2 million in police overtime so far and he only expects the tab to rise. >> well, carol, we've been talking about the money, also these protests. not just about corporate greed, the fact that there's no jobs. i mean there's forces of a political movement taking place, as well. >> well, now you see unions getting involved, which you really need, you know, to make for a real political movement as you need backers. political backers with money. that's why the tea party became a force. you know, they were pretty quickly coopted by political people with money and that's what needs to happen for this group it become a real political force that has not happened as of yet, but, who knows. >> carol costello, live in new york, carol, thanks so much. watching those protests all throughout the day. now, republican presidential

hopefuls are courting social conservatives today. paul steinhauser in washington, his home base there. paul, the field is pretty much locked in now. who is going to be at the event? >> just about every republican presidential candidate will be here, except for jon huntsman. why are they coming here? as you said, one of the largest gathering of conservative a activists and they are very influential in choosing the next republican nominee. 3,000 activists meeting today and tomorrow and they're voting in a straw poll. we'll see those results tomorrow and they'll be very telling, depending on who wins that straw poll, carol. you'll hear a lot about abortion and same-sex marriage and you'll also hear about the economy because that's also very important to social conservative voters and all voters. speaking right now, though, live pictures of that is not a presidential candidate, but the top republican in the house, house speaker john boehner. one of the first speakers here

this morning. carol, another big thing we'll hear about today, not here, but in south carolina. mitt romney the former massachusetts governor who is the frontrunner and the hunt for the gop presidential nomination, he'll go to the military college in southern south carolina and he's going to be giving a major address. make the country stronger when it comes to our standing in the world and criticizing the president, of course, as well. democrats already attacking him calling mitt romney a flip-flopper on foreign policy. back to you. >> we'll take some mitt romney live and also monitoring that along with you, paul. your next political update in just about an hour. for the latest political news go to our website 24/7, cnnpolitics.com. should men get screened for prostate cancer? that question seems to be a no brainer, but this morning we're hearing from a task force that says the screenings could

actually hurt you. more now from cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. what is the story? >> you remember two years ago that you and i were on tv a lot talking about the mammogram stories. >> don't get them and then they retracted and said, no, you do need to get them. is this the same task force? >> in your 40s women don't need to get mammograms and now the u.s. preventative service task forces is saying to men, you don't need to get prostate cancer screenings. i know this sounds crazy not to get a screening, yes, it will pick up some cancers that can kill a man, but they pick up way, way more cancers that will never cause a man harm ever. prostate cancers grow slowly. he could live with that cancer until he's 105. he feels compelled to get treatment and it could make him impotent, incompetent and even kill him if there were complications from a surgery. why find something that you could live with when the treatment could really hurt you? >> so many men have died because

of this. >> to put that another way, there are men who are alive today because of prostate cancer screening. there's no question about that. i want to show you some numbers that kind of lay it out for you in relative terms. if you screen about 1,400 men, you're going to find 48 cancers. but you've only saved one man because the other 47 had cancers that weren't going to be a problem. so, if those 47 men were to get treatment, you've now caused problems for those 47 men, potentially. again, you could have made them impotent or incontinent and cause even more intense problems, but you have saved that one man. the problem is we can't tell the difference between a fast and slow growing cancer. you find these cancers and you can't tell whether it's one of these horrible, deadly ones or whether it will ever cause a problem. >> real quickly, bottom line, do men get screened? >> men need to have a discussion with their doctors. that's the bottom line. if you go to cnn.com/thechart.

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illinois, has been told to evacuate after a fiery train accident that happened overnight. we're told train cars carrying ethanol and possibly other flammable chemicals overturned and exploded. hazmat teams are on the scene. right now no reports of any injuries. we'll follow it. checking other stories across country now in washington. wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords congrad lailated her husband at his formal retirement ceremony yesterday. they plan on releasing a memoir november 14th. a grim assessment by the state's forestry service which says now as many as 1.5 million trees have been destroyed or not expected to survive after destructive wildfires there. in eastern ohio sheriff departments are investigating a string of home invasions targeting the amish community. the attacks are allegedly carried out by other members of the amish community who are

cutting off the beards and hair of their victims. all right, it's the 21st day of the occupied wall street protest. bank bailouts and the way all that has hurt the middle class. well, author and finance expert clyde anderson is worried about losing the middle class altogether and that's what we're talking about today. so many angles to take on this. what can we focus in on? why don't we start with just defining the middle class? >> a lot of people are unaware that the middle class are 30,000, $35,000 so a lot of people are middle income and not middle class. they live an income that exceeds that. we're in a big situation now and you mentioned occupy wall street because a lot of people are hurting right now and we eliminated a lot of the jobs that they had in the past and now they don't know what to do. >> what exactly does the middle class support? >> well, you think about it, the

middle class are a lot of our journalists, our writers, people that work in factories and we look at how many factory jobs were eliminated over the last three years. it's been a huge impact to them and even some of the computer jobs. in 1975, there were 300,000 computer workers, now we've got about 160,000 computer workers. so, these jobs are being shipped else where. we're not making a lot of things here in our country and they're being exported. >> so, if we, indeed, lose the middle class as we watch it shrink right before our eyes, what's the worst outcome that you are foreseeing? >> you have to think about it, the worst outcome is there are no jobs for people. people will have have to take situations or making jobs that are way below what they had. they're not feeding into the economy as much as they have in the past. these people that go to the arrest raunts and buy new cars, buy new computers, buy new homes and we'll see declining home sales and see declining auto sales and see sales decline at almost every sector of the market without that middle class

that spored it. so, do you think that these protests on wall street are going to make any type of impact? >> i'm really hoping they do. these are the people that have a voice and the life blood of america. this is the majority of the people that really support our country that feed into our country and they're the life blood. so, we need to really kind of wake up and make sure we're listening to what they're saying. they're crying out for some help and some support right now. >> they continue to increase across the country and more people are turning out. clyde, thanks. up next, just hours ago prince harry lands in the united states. find out why he's here and what he's up to, when we come back. she's known for her voice and her hips. president obama wants shakira for her smarts. we'll tell you why the white house just drafted her for a very special project.

lelths get right to "showbiz headlines." fans are used to seeing shakira on stage but at the white house a different shakira. composed and conservatively dressed. the columbian pop star just commissioned to excellence. >> the urgency of investing in early childhood development strategies. >> well, shakira has actually been active in children's issues for some time, she has a foundation that helps schools in several different countries. more bad news for simpson's fans. studio executives now say even if a pay dispute with the show's

cast is settled, it will go off the air after one more season. and if money stuff isn't resolved, this season will be the last. today's the deadline, by the way. the voice actors have just a few hours to decide if they'll agree to the huge paycuts. and he's already played the author of peter pan and now johnny depp may star as dr. seuss. a live action movie about seuss and the deal includes an option for depp to beprtray the legendy author. prince harry is in the u.s. at the military bases in arizona and california for a two-month helicopter training exercise. max foster has more on what harry hopes to accomplish. >> reporter: prince harry has already been to war, serving on the front lines in afghanistan in 2008. then he was on foot, but if he returns, it will be by air. harry's about to qualify to fly

this, the deadly apache attack helicopter, fully loaded with rockets and missiles and a 30-millimeter chain gun. this may look like afghanistan, but it's arizona and the settle for the final part of harry's apache training. the course is called exercise crimson eagle and those who did it before talk about the white knuckle moments when you fire a live missile for the first time. a first for harry, too, and a reality check for someone referred to as the party prince in some parts of the press. it's perhaps worth noting that just a few hours south is the entertainment capital of the world that is, of course, las vegas. we're not expecting any media access to harry while he's in the u.s., but there will be a few photographers holding out for a shot of him here. prince harry is due to return to the uk in december for more

exercises, but no word yet on when he might be redeployed to the front line. kyra, we have just received a photo of prince harry arriving at the california base. this is the base, kyra, where "top gun" was filmed. >> he won't be strapping into an f-18 and, actually, in top gun, it was a tomcat, that is now extipe extinct in the military. we all know that prince harry loves to party, shall we say. so, is he going to have any down time and you know he's right there, as you pointed out in his piece, close to las vegas. that could be trouble. >> yeah, exactly. we did ask his boss physical heif he's allowed out to vegas. if it floats his boat, him and the others. they're trusting the local chamber of commerce in california has given out instructions to local restaurants to treat him with

respect and to consider security issues. i'm not sure what they thought about that, but he'll at least be going to local restaurants. >> that could, we'll definitely watch that trip closely. that's for sure. max, thanks. all right, alison kosik at the new york stock exchange with the steps one woman took when she heard about bank of america's new $5 debit card fee. alison, you know, a lot of people in support of what she's doing. >> yeah, you know what, let's get in line right behind her, right? this woman took matters into her own hands. you know, we heard of many b of a customers threatening to leave the bank now that the new debit card fees going into effect. this washington, d.c., woman, she threatened, but she did much more. what she did, she started an online petition and already gathered more than 150,000 signatures. she went ahead and presented them right at a bank of america

branch. she cut up her credit card and debit cards on the sidewalk out front and walked inside and closed her account. she appeared on cnn's "american morning" today and she said, believe it or not, the teller seemed unphased. >> they didn't really have a lot of reaction. i think they were taken aback but just kind of a normal transaction. i went in and gave them the petitions and i closed my bank account and that was it. >> she left with $400 in cash and she intends to put it right into a credit union. take that, bank of america. kyra? >> all right, got to have an advocate somewhere. let's take a look at the markets, shall we. the opening bell going to ring in a few minutes. >> five minutes we'll have the opening bell and stock futures pointing higher, about 75 points right now and turned around immediately after we got that better than expected jobs report for september. we found out that 103,000 jobs were added last month, almost

double the expectations that everybody had before this report came out. still, though, investors have one eye on europe. still a big concern and still a big driver in this market, but, for now, we'll have a solid open, thanks to this very positive jobs report. kyra? >> all right, alison, thanks. coming up -- >> almost ten years ago today the war in afghanistan was launched. live report from the pentagon, just ahead. also why lawyers for michael jackson's doctor accuse a coroner's investigator of doing shotty work been. the postal service is critical to our economy--

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anour announced this morning. it went to three women. and a pakistani commission is seeking treason charges against a doctor suspected of helping the cia target osama bin laden. the u.s. has been calling on pakistan to free the detained doctor. the longest war in u.s. history got under way ten years ago today. >> on my orders, the united states military has begun strikes against al qaeda terrorist training camps and military instuilations of the taliban regime in afghanistan. >> president george w. bush launched "operation enduring freedom" in the aftermath of the september 11th attacks. a timetable for withdrawal is in place. chris lawrence joins us now for some perspective. chris, it's been a costly war. >> that's right. it continues to be one, kyra. to keep one troop in afghanistan for a year it costs the united

states a little over $1 million. that gives you an idea of what the cost is, but, really, the cost really goes way beyond that because you're talking about people's lives. take a look at this graphic and we can show you the cost of nato troops. as a whole. the coalition partners. 2,700 troops have been killed in afghanistan. and when you break that down further, you can see that the united states is really born most of the brunt of that, 1,700 or so american lives have been lost. but the british, as well, have lost nearly 400 troops in afghanistan and the canadians, though, well over 150. so, they have also born some of that cost. but to put that in somewhat of a perspective. in world war ii, the united states lost over 400,000 troops. in vietnam, nearly 60,000 troops. but the big question is, for all that money that was spent for the lives that were lost, what has the united states gotten out

of this so far? well, there have been some gains that the troops have made there. before 2001, there were fewer than a million afghan children enrolled in school and none of them were girls. the state department now says there are over 6 million afghan children enrolled in school and about a third of those are girls. also, by the end of the year, the united states and its coalition expects to stand up about 300,000 afghan police and soldiers and probably the most important accomplishment of all of this is that in that ten years there's been no successful attack here on u.s. soil. >> and there's mixed feelings about how the public sees this war and how veterans view this war. >> that's right. as a whole, you know, if you want to sum it up, it's not a popular war at this point. you know, if you take a look at some of these statistics from the pew research center. this is polling americans as a

whole, attitudes of the american public. they feel that about 52% believe that the war was worth it. among veterans, not worth it, i should say. 52% believe the war was not worth it. among veterans, about 50%. so, very similar there. you know, some of the veterans do say that i talk to say, look, they gained self-confidence and they feel very proud of their service and at the same time it has created a tremendous strain on their families. one thing that jumped out at me about 50% say they now have strained family relationships because of all the family deployments. >> chris lawrence from the pentagon, thanks. well, let's hit the campaign trail, shall we. mitt romney delivering his first major foreign policy address next hour. actually going to speak in south carolina. as you know, romney announced a

team of foreign policy and national security advisors, including some bush administration veterans like former homeland security secretary michael chur off. when he speaks at citadel, we will take it live. romney's foreign policy address is set for 10:45 eastern, stay tuned for that. cnn tom foreman takes a look at all the shuffling. >> kyra, imagine running a foot race that you don't the starting time for and you don't know where the finish line is and you don't know where you are in the pack. that's what's facing the republican challengers as they look at this confusing primary situation. this is where all the primaries were a short time ago. clustered back here in february and then florida said they wanted to change something about that. they jumped up into january and that dragged south carolina and nevada along with them because they all have a sense of where they should be in the order of things and now iowa and new hampshire are expected to move up here.

io iowa maybe even into december. everything is up in the air. why does this matter, though? it matters because it changes the battlefield in many ways. first of all, now all of these candidates are competing with the holidays in novemboctober, november, december. get into january, that's when a lot of big college football games start taking place. believe me, whether you think that makes a difference, that distracts voters from these candidates. who benefits? if you're a known name with a lot of money like mitt romney, that probably helps you. if you're not, that just cut down some of the field you have to run on. it's hard for you to get up to the front. if you're a voter, depends on who you like, whether this is good or bad. if you're somebody who believes we ought to have a national primary, this will help you make your argument. it happened last presidential race and it's happening again this time and let's have a national primary and wrap it all up. we were talk about that for a long time. whatever you're putting on your

primary calendar right now, write it in pencil because it's still changing. kyra? >> tom foreman, thanks so much. straight ahead, the lawyer for michael jackson's doctor challenging an investigate's handling of evidence. >> would you consider that a mistake on your part? >> i described something in detail later on. i didn't include it in the general initial narrative. is it a mistake? i could have described it more in detail. >> you could have described it at all. >> mistakes and sloppiness. those are the claims. we'll explain right after the break. also ahead, meteor shower expected tomorrow. one of the most active ever, but there's a hitch for sky watchers in the u.s. we'll explain.

the jury in the trial of michael jackson's doctor could soon hear the police interview with dr. conrad murray.

much of yesterday's testimony centered on drugs found in the singer bedroom. randi kaye reports. >> reporter: investigators scoured the bedroom of his rented mansion for clues to what killed him. an investigator with the los angeles county coroner's office found 12 bottles of the powerful anesthetic propofol in jackson's bedroom. she told the jury yesterday, one of them was empty. >> did you locate on the floor a 20 milliliter of propofol? >> yes, i did. >> and where was that located? >> on the floor next to the left side of the bed. >> was it empty but for some drops of fluid as it is here today? >> correct. >> reporter: the coroner says jackson died of acute propofol intoxication, his doctor, conrad murray, denies charges of manslaughter. in court the jury learned that murray's fingerprint was found

on the 100 milliliter bottle of propofol that prosecutors say led to jackson's death. the bedroom looked more like a pharmacy. these are all the medications fleak said she discovered. she also said she found a syringe an iv stand and an iv bag with propofol in it. on cross today, the defense tried to make her investigation look sloppy, showing she didn't note propofol was inside the iv bag in her report until nearly two years after jackson's death. >> in fact, the very first time that you noted that there was a propofol bottle in an iv bag was the 29th of march, 2011. >> in case notes? >> yes. isn't that right? >> yes. >> reporter: the prosecution's

case hinges on the fact that propofol was inside the iv bag, which would mean jackson could not have taken the fatal dose himself, as the defense suggests. the defense pressed on. attempting to show fleak made more mistakes. touching a syringe she found in the bedroom without wearing gloves. >> this syringe has your fingerprint on it. >> yes, it does. >> reporter: investigator fleak took heat franot mentior not mee iv bag in her original report. >> i described something in detail later on. i didn't include it in the general, initial narrative. is it a mistake? i could have described it more in detail. >> you could have described it at all. right? >> in the initial report, yes. >> reporter: on the stand wednesday, a computer forensics examiner who examined the iphone, a recording from may 10, 2009 of michael jackson sounding

wasted and slurring his words. in a version never played before in court, jackson was speaking of his love for children and his own unhappy childhood. i. >> i love them, i love them because i didn't have a childhood. i had no childhood. i feel their pain. i feel their hurt. >> reporter: then suddenly silence and dr. murray's voice. >> you okay? >> i am asleep. >> reporter: asleep. michael jackson wanted it so badly, it killed him. randi kaye, cnn, los angeles. a dazzling meteor shower expected this weekend. heck, it could be so active you might even call it a storm. after winning the super bowl 25 years ago, the white house is only now recognizing the team's accomplishment, the back story on the delayed celebration for da bears.

checking stories across country now. in merced county, california, a couple burglars are credited with helping in the recent arrest of their victim. this guy, 54-year-old kraig stockard. why? they allegedly went to rob him and stole a bunch of his compact discs and found out they contained importacontain ed porn and turned them into police. halloween displays like this. the most recent call happened

wednesday in reference to this dummy hanging from a rain gutter. the charlotte department calls them as good intent calls. children in michigan intended to set a new world record on wednesday by eating an apple at the same time. organizers estimate between 6,000 and 8,000 kids, collectively chomped down on the apples. school officials say a fun way to encourage students to eat healthy, locally grown food. draconid meteor shower could put on quite a shower with hundreds of shooting stars. jacqui jeras, it sounds pretty cool. >> one of the best displays every for the draconid. usually it's a dud, but this time around, between 600 to 750 meteors per hour. that's shooting stars. the problem with this, is that the peak of this is going to be between 3:00 p.m. and 5:00 eastern time. so, the sunlight not going to

allow for it. but sometimes you'll still see them after the peak. so, take a look at this. this map that i have here will show you where to find it in the night sky. the northwestern sky is where you want to look. we have the big dipper here and little dipper up here and draco is what this rain shower is named after, just up to the north and west of that. look high into the sky. now, a couple other concerns as we look at these pictures and think what are meteor showers made up of? well, it's from the leftovers of a comet. we have chunks of ice in there and as it enters into the earth's atmosphere it lets off electrostatic charges. why is this a problem? it could get near the international space station and get near satellites and that could affect the electronics on board and some of the control panels. nasa scientists watching this very, very closely and hopefully this won't be a problem. we have meteor showers all the time, kyra. we'll have to keep a close eye on it and i might stay up a little bit late and see if i can

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anniversary of the conflict. at 2:00 eastern in sacramento, u.s. attorneys in california hold a news conference on the federal government's crackdown on state monitored marijuana dispensers, and the following hour at the white house, president obama welcomes the 1985, yes, 1985, super bowl champs. the chicago bears. well, 25 years after the fact, it's definitely long overdue, and with the chicago bear fan, now commander in chief, well, why not? white house correspondent brianna keilar has more on today's visit and the reason behind the long delay. brianna, do tell. >> reporter: right before this team, kyra, was supposed to come to the white house back in the '80s when ronald reagan was president, the space shuttle "challenger" exploded. everyone knows what that sort of put the nation into a period of mourning. it wasn't in time to celebrate. so their visit to the white house was put by the wayside, never rescheduled, and now, of course, there's a bears' fan in the white house.

president obama will welcome the team around 3:00 p.m. eastern, and, kyra, it's interesting to note, there are some players who will not be making the trip. some players have passed away, but also, as we understand it, tleecht the "l.a. times" is reporting, i haven't confirmed it myself, the fridge, william "refrigerator" perry will not be able to make it because of an illness and also a pro football hall of famer dan hampton who says he's not coming in part because he's not a fan of the president's, and that's actually created a little bit of a controversy. criticism he's gotten from some of his other players on the team who have said, you know, this is a privilege to come and he should. >> it will be interesting to see how this turns out. normally these are handshakes and smiles and having a good time. look at this, brianna. already politics coming into the mix. we'll follow it. brianna keilar, thanks. never before seen pictures of an amazing feat. don larsen the perfect world

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he finishes 2 over par and today tees off six strokes off the lead. probably going to miss the cut. opening night in the nhl, the boston bruins raising the stanley cup before their game with philly but flie flyers spoe party. getting the loose puck right in front of the net and sends it home. flyers win 2-1. this halloween could be a tough one for former congressman anthony weiner. we explain. >> reporter: you may not recognize him in latex, but here's a hint. >> the new sex thing -- >> reporter: to think that the year's hottest scandal weinergate was a mere five months ago. >> it's amazing how fast anthony weiner fell. >> yeah. >> reporter: last halloween up and coming star. this halloween, he's like a mask. remember the headlines as weiner

finally confessed to sending lewd photos and messages to women he met online. >> you wouldn't know, snis your underpants for example. >> the question is, appreciate you continuing to flash that at me. >> reporter: speaking of underwear, are you recommend these two come together? >> absolutely. >> reporter: in manhattan selling the $25 mask with accessories. $20 pair of boxers that comes -- let's just say overly well endowed. sure, plenty of other halloween options. charlie sheen masks are expected to be big. so this one is specially. hyperflesh it's called. take as week to make one. ♪ i'm going to be a winner >> the artist charges $,500 a mask. he gave one to charlie sheen in exchange for tickets to charlie's roast. you can even buy a casey anthony mask online. though they're considered in such bad taste, major mask companies steer clear, but if you decide to dress up --

>> this was -- a very dumb thing to do. >> reporter: as this disgraced politician better bring some i.d. >> reporter: who am i? >> looks like richard nixon. >> supposed to be reagan. i don't know. kennedy. >> reporter: no. >> jay leno? >> romney. a little romney-echk. >> reporter: does this help? >> no. >> i know. ed sullivan. >> who am i? >> oh, weiner. >> bingo! you got it. >> hey, if it's this hard to guess, maybe anthony weiner should consider wearing his own mask, if he wants to go incognito. jeanne moos, cnn. >> reporter: i am not a pervert. i am not a pervert. well, this hour president obama meets with senate democrats and he'll probably talk about the issue the whole country is talking about. jobs. the white house got better than expected news on that front, too. the labor department says that 103,000 job was added last month.

better than experts predicted. the unemployment rate, since 1.9%. and probably won't slow down to occupy wall street's movement going into its fourth week and spreading across the country. brianna keilar is talking about this, christine romans and carol costello. christine, start with you. talk about the numbers and what it actually says about the economy today. >> they're not terrible. that's good. how's that? 103,000 jobs created, you pointed out, leaves the unemployment rate at 1.9%. basically, economists tell me this morning that it's not recessionary. it doesn't look like this in a recession, but not good enough to bring down the unemployment rate. 103,000 jobs added. august was revised. remember the big zero job creation in august? became a political touchstone in washington, revisesed up to 57,000, and in july, that number revised upward to 127,000. what sectors in the economy were adding jobs?

the private sector. professional and business services. we saw jobs added there. also temporary workers. that has been consistent since the recession ended. companies are much more likely to step in and temporarily pull in a worker rather than hire somebody full-time. health care, we saw health care jobs gained. commercial construction and mining. two places, kyra, i wanted to point out where there are forecasts for job creation to continue. weren't of them is retail. holiday hiring around the cusp of that. macy's, toys "r" us are hiring. the overall picture, retail jobs are one of the fastest growing parts of the economy. you're not going to put a kid to college. $25 a year. for right now, jobs in retail. a bigger, perhaps better job to put yourself into for the longer term, just one of eight or nine different categories moving forward, accounting. there is demand for accountants right now. you can see the pay is better than the national average. requires a bachelor's degree, lots of different accounting jobs around the country.

that's just another area where there is some growth. we'll tweet about five or six more categories where we're seeing jobs grow. back to you. >> christine, thanks. brianna keilar at the white house. tell us about the meeting with senate democrats this hour. >> reporter: they'll meet with top senate democrats, kyra. senate majority leader harry reid as well as dick durbin and other senators in the democratic leadership and talking about the strategy moving forward on the jobs bill. the senate will be taking this up next week. right now they're expected to vote on it on tuesday, and what we've seen here in the last couple of days, the white house and congressional democrats, i should tell you there's actually a protest -- that's what you hear, just you know that's what's going on outside the white house right now, but we've seen them poised to make an argument as they come to agreement on this millionaire's surtax that would increase taxes only on people earning $1 million or more, that they're sort of trying to create this united front, because

republicans generally oppose this bill, especially the way it's paid for, kyra, and will make the argument, if you're not voting for this bill with us then you're trying to protect millionaires and that's really the fight that is set up as you have republicans like senate minority leader mitch mcconnell arguing it's a bad time to raise taxes on anyone because the economy is so fragile. >> right. talk about that in a second, brianna. the better than expected news probably won't slow down the wall street movement. if it hasn't reached your town already, just wait. carol costello reports. >> reporter: it started out as a joke. >> how are they not like the tea party? all right. some of them you know, smoke and have pants made out of pot. so call them the thc party. >> reporter: now it has swelled into a nationwide movement. mostly peaceful, but certainly p.o.'d.

>> we got sold out. >> reporter: and ready to eat the rich. >> like a performance r.p. the corporate zombie march. >> reporter: i see the money hanging out there. >> this is the breakfast. right. >> reporter: from 1,000 protesters on wall street it has gained momentum and spread to tens of thousands of people, from new york to los angeles, and dozens of cities in between. even across borders and oceans. the people are angry that they're running second place to profits. >> we want jobs. we want jobs and we want them now. >> reporter: that their quality of life has plunged while the rich get super rich and the taxpayers bail them out. >> politicians can be bought. political influence can be bought through political donations. >> reporter: in los angeles, protesters took over a bank of america and were arrested, and in philly, thousands broke out in their battle cry. we are the 99%. it has some big wigs on wall street looking out their windows, and now the white house is paying attention.

>> obviously, i've heard of it. i've seen it on television. i think it expresses the frustration s that the american people feel that we had the biggest financial crisis since the great depression, and that's going to express itself politically in 2012 and beyond until people feel like once again we're getting back to some old-fashioned american values. >> reporter: still, getting organized ain't easy and it's too early to say whether these protest letters become a political force. a tea party from the left. same frustrations from the other side, but there's plenty of time until next november. >> 24/7, if necessary 365. we're planning on snow, we're planning on summer heat. all right. so carol, you mentioned some think this is basically a tea party for the left, and you just heard brianna's live shot just prior to you, the protesters outside the white house now. >> that's right. they're still there.

to become a real political movement a political movement powerful enough to put candidates in office, like, say, in congress or even in the white house, you kind of need money to back you up, and you need one charismatic leader. one person that can speak to one cause. that's what you need to become a powerful political movement. the most important factor in that, of course, is the money. now, to influence politicians, maybe all do you need are numbers. and they certainly have that. these movements are spreading throughout the country. they are loud, and as you heard, they're not going to stop, and politicians are now starting to listen. >> we'll follow and see exactly where they extend to and how big they get. carol costello out of new york. carol, thanks. republican presidential candidate mitt romney deliver, his first major foreign policy address in about 35 minutes. he's going to speak at the citadel in south carolina. cnn political producer shawna shepherd is here with a preview.

what can we expect? >> reporter: yes, kyra. governor mitt romney is coming to south carolina to deliver reform policy speech of his campaign. he's chosen the citadel, the military college of south carolina, to deliver this speech, and he'll be laying out his vision for what he's calling an american century. he is going to be pushing a strong economic and military footing for the -- to increase -- to improve the military spending and -- increase military spending. lay out key actions he will implement in this first 100 days in office. expanding the united states war ships fleet. >> shawna, apologize. we're having an issue with your mike and will try to get that fixed. get back to you if indeed we can get a better connection. i'm so sorry, but we will let you know once again once romney

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sheriff's department investigating a string of home invasions targeting the amish community. the attacks apparently by other amish members cutting off the hair and beards of their victims. political fight in florida goes national now. drawing in most of the republican presidential field, joe johns connects the dots between a decades' old drug charge and a dying tv debate. >> reporter: it's a miami vice crime story that goes all the way back to when marco rubio was 16 years old. that time, rubio's older sister marry add guy arrested by police on a drug charge and rubio who would one day become a republican senator from florida and darling of the tea party had nothing to do with it at all. fast-forward to this past july when univision, the powerful spanish language television network found out about the arrest of rubio's brother-in-law so many years ago and put an

investigative story about the air on it. that would have been the end of it except friends of rubio told the "miami herald" newspaper an executive from univision suggested the story might be altered or dropped if rubio agreed to do an interview on univision, supporters are calling an improper media prid pro quo. saying it featured the story after speaking with insiders on what the newspaper calls people in the know who corroborated claim as top univision executive made the offer. >> first, we thought it was offensive and unacceptable for a national media organization like unistroigs try to try to secure an interview with a senator mark rubio by an agreement whereby they wouldn't air a report wab a family member of his and wanted to make sure there were consequences to those tactics utilized by univision. >> reporter: univision

categorically denies this saying we would never make such an offer with any protagonist in a news report and did not make an offer in this case. various calls to the senator's office including our principle internal attorneys. whatever the truth of it it the story has taken on a life of its own. congressman david rivera and others asked republican presidential candidates not to participate in a univision presidential debate and most of the candidates have alreadiy greed. anna navarro is a friend of rubio's who also worked with the president's campaign of jon huntsman. >> what we want is a resolution to this issue. the presidential candidates don't want to be in the middle of the drama. they want this issue resolved. >> reporter: those candidates saying they wouldn't do a univision debate include romney, perry, huntsman, cain, bachmann and now gingrich. republican wes talk to disagree whether it's the tactics or the story that irks them most, but some are demanding an apology from univision for starters. joe johns, cnn, washington.

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obama administration. >> yeah. kyra, pretty cool. the president actually asked the colombia-born grammy winner to be a part of his advisory commission on education excellence for hispanics. she's devoted a lot of her time and money to expanding education in the u.s., even setting up schools in developing countries. one of four new members joining obama's group, which was established last year. part of a broader white house initiative to improve education in the hispanic community. she's already visited the white house in her new role and posted her first blog on whitehouse.gov. she wants to focus on early childhood development. a bit of what she writes, as i have discussed with president obama i'm extremely passionate about working with the white house to plan an early khielhood education summit in the coming year. the importance cannot be overemphasized. great to see her getting involved at this level. someone who can truly help reach people and make difference. >> true. and the end of the wire.

the negotiations keep the "simp"simp sons" on the air. >> today is d-day as in decision day on the future of thea simpsons." the show's six voice actors asked to decide by today whether or not they'll agree to have their pay cut almost in half. the producer, 20th century fox tv, say they are ready to end the show for good. it's become too expensive for them to produce. the "daily beast" reports actors make around $8 million a piece each season to voice the characters. fox wants them to take a 45% paycut. they've agreed take a major slash in salary, not quite 45% but asking for the profit of the dvd sales, paraphernalia, so much money. the studio doesn't want to give up that cash cow. we're waiting whether a quarter century on tv, we could be

saying good-bye for good to the brand new episodes of the granddaddy of animated comedy. that's not the way i want to see the show end. >> one of your favorites. stay tuned. we'll monitor it. something else we're watching closely. our own nancy grace. hanging in think with "dancing with the stars." right? >> she is. i've got to tell you, i've had a terrific week hanging out here in los angeles, particularly because i got to spend a lot of time at "dancing with the stars," but it got even better yesterday. i actually went down to visit nancy at her rehearsal studio. she's working very hard, so focused. actually agreed to try to teach me a few moves. let's watch what she got on that. >> what do i do? grrr. i just got a grr. yes, ma'am. >> follow me. >> all right, kyra. you're going to have to tune in to "showbiz tonight" tonight on hln to see exactly how this goes.

it's a good thing. let me tell you this. let me just tell you this, if i was picked for "dancing with the stars" i would have been out week one. knop question about it. i can't do it. i'm so shocked that she's so good at it, because she says she has no experience with it at all, and i'm watching her there in the rehearsal so focused as nancy always is about everything, getting the moves down. no surprise she's lasted as long as she has. >> you got a grr there. the best coast possible. the sexy a.j. hammer, okay. he's going to learn how to move as well with our nancy grace. well, stay tuned. you could be next, a.j. he's saying, no. oh. if you want everything breaking in the entertainment world and possibly maybe a.j. hammer, "dancing with the stars," every night, "showbiz tonight," 11:00 p.m. on hln. well, a jury in the trial of michael jackson's doctor could soon hear the police interview with dr. conrad murray, but much of yesterday's testimony

centered on drugs found in the singer's blood -- or in the bedroom, rather. cnn's ted rowlands reports. >> reporter: we're expecting there's a good chance that some point on friday we'll hear an audiotape of a conversation that dr. conrad murray had with investigators just two days after michael jackson died. before that, the prosecution will finish with a toxicologist expert who was on the stand when court adjourned thursday. before he was on the stand, the defense grilled on cross-examination a crime scene investigators from the coroner's office accusing her of doing a sloppy job in those initial, crucial, few hours searching that house of michael jackson after he died. >> would you agree with me that you made substantial number of mistakes in your investigation of this case? >> no. >> following a grueling cross-examination, prosecutor

walgren tried to rehabilitate his witness. >> have you done your best to be as truthful and accurate as far as the role you played in this case, the observations you made and the items of evidence that you recovered? >> yes. >> the toxicology expert detailed for the jury what michael jackson had in his system, all of the drugs, seven in all, but specifically and most important to this case, propofol and lorazepam. the defense during cross-examination was able to establish that the levels of propofol and lore raz papp were higher than what dr. conrad murray said he gave michael jackson which will help their theory down the line. ted rowlands, cnn, los angeles. stocks are attempting to keep up employee meant um following that better than expected jobs report. alison kosik, good news this morning. >> a little bit of good news, you've got investors focusing on the positive, kyra. that monthly jobs reading showing that 103,000 positions

were added last month. that almost doubles some of the lower expectations and then you go ahead and factor in that august was revised from zero jobs up to 57,000. this is positive news here, but i want to put it in perspective for you. the gains are still relatively weak in terms of what's needed to bring down unemployment. they're good enough to calm the fear that we could be headed for another recession. at least calming those fears for one day. kyra? >> do you think we can keep this rail goi rally going, then? >> a lot of traders say the overall mood is still very bearish, and one solid report, quite frankly, does not a trend make. stocks had a big run-up. the dow moved higher or lower by triple digits nine straight days. only three of the moves were to the down side. listen, there's a wild card in this. the european debt situation. investors want less talking and more action. until bigger steps are made over in europe, it's likely any gain

we see will be due to investors hedging bets rather than huactu optimism. europe is the bigger driver in these moves. >> alison kosik, thanks. still ahead, remember that spicy picture of massachusetts senator scott brown for "cosmo." it's back in the headlines. or political buzz panel will weigh in on the new drama it's causing. at adt, we get financing from ge capital.

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announced this morning. the honor shared by three women. president of liberia, activist in her country and another human rights activist from yemen. and the man in charge of the program that gave federal loan guarantees to solyndra resigned. taxpayers are now on the hook for half a billion after the solarmaker went bankrupt. all right. hitting the campaign trail, republican presidential candidate mitt romney and he's going to be delivering his first major foreign policy address in just a few minutes. he's going to speak right there at the citadel. the military college in south carolina. yesterday romney announced a team of foreign policy and national security advisers including some bush administration vets like former homeland security, michael chertoff. it's set to start about 10:45 eastern time, and we will bring it to you live.

a political buzz. your rapid fire. a look at best political topics of the day. three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. playing today, cnn contributor maria car doanies, will cane and cnn contributor and talk show radio host dana loesch. guys, first question, dana, you actually tweeted this last night. said, it makes sense to me to spend three years protesting obamacare and then support the original architect who defends it still. not a lot of love for romney. should the republicans get behind him? the candidate? dana? >> i think if they want an epic battle that will overshadow anything that we ever saw in new york's 23rd district with scuzz fob ba and huntsman, if that's the candidate they want to get behind, by all means and go ahead and write the tombstone for your party. i don't think he's the candidate, can raise money or has a conservative record and i don't think you can get conservative grass roots who have kept this republican party

alive three years to get behind someone who i think is democrat-like. so, no. i'm sure he's a great guy, and he has nice hair, but he's just not my candidate. >> we'll get to nice hair in a second, will. maria, you take from from here. >> i don't think so, not yet, kyra, because not dana, not will, not you, not me, we are not the ones who are going to decide overall who the candidate is. it's going to be up to the, all the voters who are going to vote in the primary process. that's what the primary process was about. how many times have we been on the show talking about romney the front-runner, then bachmann, the one who zurpged. now it's cain, the one surging. perry was a front-runner for a while now he's fallen back. that's what this process is about. there's still a lot of time left. >> will? >> let me see if i can move deign ma from zero chance to some amount of sense mitt romney might make it. you decide on percentage. early on mitt romney the architect was a deal killer for

me. d.o.a. philosophically, it's a problem philosophically he create ed suggests he has an odd relationship with the government through constituents. federalism. this is exactly what states are for. to experiment. he wouldn't see it on the federal level. i think mitt romney, we shouldn't totally dismiss him because of of the obamacare, bing other, architect. >> question number two, guys. i know. dana, hold on. you guys will have to take this off-air. occupy wall street. talking about the protesters putting blame for the economic mess on both republicans and democrats. so is there an occupy wall street candidate they could vote for? maria? >> well, certainly not anybody right now in the gop, because we have seen time and again that they are exactly what the leadership, the gop leadership in washington is about, which is protecting the 1% of the rich. big corporations who have enjoyed tax subsidies and done

absolutely nothing and won't do anything to protect the middle class and protect workers, but if i were to choose a candidate that is outside of the political realm it should be the front man for rage against the machine with willie nelson as the vp. >> oh. interesting. it okay. uh-oh. dana's rolling her eyes. >> every song is played with the wob huddle. think abuse the same effects huddle in every song. the occupied wall street do have a candidate. they have a ton of videos online where they talk about voting for hope and change, obama again. but obama is the wall street president. he more so than any other president in history received more money from goldman sachs, from jpmorgan, from all of those exact same company, and banks, that the occupied wall street forkes are out there proet testing against, at the same time drive home with cars that say hope and change 2012 bumper stickers on the back. that is there candidate. they have their candidate in

office, and they're raging against the machine while being pogged in the machine. >> i don't think they have a candidate. i want to be able to dismiss occupy wall street, and it's impossible to do that. it's also impossible to support it, because there's no coherent message that i can find. is it against capitalism? is it against banks? if you had a message we could talk about who that candidate might be. in finding that message, the best candidates are, all the celebrity spokesmen they gather who also give incoherent messages. >> buzzer-beater now, 20 seconds each. cueing up the rage against the machine. back to that in a minute. massachusetts senate candidate elizabeth warren brings this picture of scott brown back into the news. he reminds us that it was a "cosmo" shoot that paid for college. warren says she kept her clothes on. brown says, thanks god. guys what did you do to come up with tuition money? i'm starting with will on this one. >> wish i had a fun answer for

you. i mean, i can play the card where i worked and play that up, kyra, i didn't work that much, to be honest. i worked a little bit. my parents paid for college. how different does that make me? occupied wall street can hate me for that. >> he played water polo. a speedo on at some point. >> googling! >> yeah. >> uh-huh. >> i'd like to see a picture of that. >> maria? >> my father actually had to sell things in colombia to pay for his school and college, and he swore that would not happen to us, and so he broughted family here. gracias, poppy, we didn't have to pay for college, thankfully, but i do think that it is something that everybody needs to think about, and i don't begrudge actually scott brown doing this. so -- >> dana? >> yeah. i don't begrudge scott brown doing this either. it's not like he was in "hustler" or something like that. in "cosmo." >> do you begrudge him that? >> i paid my way into college

with writing scholarships and my parents helped and i worked and i wish i had a sugardaddy that would have paid my way. i was still democrat at the time and believed in it. scott brown took the easy way out. the "cosmo" spread. >> find a sugardaddy for dana, see will in a speedo and maria, i want poppy's recipe for empananas. there we go. >> can we get them a different -- unity. >> all right. well, the baseball post season is already shining with a lot of high lights but nothing like don larsen's perfect game. the never before pictures of the world series masterpiece next. also ahead, republican mitt romney goes on record laying out his vision for u.s. foreign policy. he's set to deliver a major address at the citadel in about ten minutes. we'll take you there live. with ?

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republican mitt romney going on record laying out his vision for u.s. foreign policy. he's getting set to deliver a major address here at the citadel in south carolina in just a few minutes. as soon as he begins we will take it live. detroit tigers moving on in baseball's playoffs and the new york yankees are going home. first inning, yankee stadium last night. tigers don kelly hits a homer. don't think it stops there. next batter up, dellman young out into the stands, back-to-back home runs. detroit beats the yankees 3-2. stella may have gotten her groove back but not tiger. tiger woods called it one of lis worst putting rounds ever, and it was. he finishes 2 over par and today tees off six strokes off the lead. probably going to miss the cut. and opening night in the

nhl. the boston bruins raising the stanley cup banner before the game with fiphilly, butty fl ths spoil the party. bo sends it home. 2-1. scotty, did i get those hockey player names right? fantastic. a fantastic finish to the major league regular season as you know, and we always have an amazing postseason in progress. that got us thinking about baseball's greatest moments during the playoffs. you know, times like reggie jackson's mr. october performances and that 1954 catch by willie mays, but this morning, we're talking about this moment. this postseason gem. don larsen's perfect game. the unexpected never repeated world series perfect game. now the never before seen photos. ben cosgrove, kepty edary the "life" dotcom has the stories

behind the pics. it happened more than 55 years ago. why are people talking about it, besides the fact that it's historic? >> an incredible thing to think about this relatively average pitcher hurling the only no hitter in world series history. not only a no hitter bought perfect game. there's only been one other no hitter last year with roy halliday, but the idea of this journeyman pitcher of the new york yankees, who played for many teams during his career, throwing an absolute gem in the world series against a mighty, very talented, powerful brooklyn dodgers team is extraordinary. >> what led you to dig through the archives? >> well, let me give you a little thumbnail sketch of life.com and how these pictures sort of came to light. we're a unique website in that we're a partnership with getty

images. we have contemporary photographers coming in from all over the world minute by minute from getty photographers in europe and asia and latin america, everywhere, and down on wall street and everywherals but also access to "life" magazine's unparalleled archive of some of the greatest photographs from the 20th century by some of the greatest photographers of the last 100 years many on staff for "live from..." so when from "life" so we wen we have something coming up from -- >> like sports right now. >> sports. we look for some sort of peg, and we dig into the archives for something that -- you know, context and perspective to what's happening now. we're in the middle of a very exciting postseason. we figured don larsen's perfect game 55 years ago tomorrow and started digging through the archives and came up with

astonishing photographs that have never seen the light of day, one of your favorites before we go. just saw it. maybe get the full screen. there we go. don larsen talking with this usher at the field. there's a story behind this, right? why is this your favorite? >> well, i love this picture for a number of reasons. one is because here's this fellow, the usher, who is just a working man in brooklyn who has a chance to have a couple of moments with suddenly the most famous ball player in the world. and he's probably a lifetime brooklyn fan, but he's talking to this now suddenly famous yankee, who threw a no hitter the day before. this is the day after, right before game six, by the way. i love this shot because just the tilt of the guy's hat. the rye look on this face. the fellows in the background checking out larsen and their colleague, a warm, relaxed picture. but it has an energy to it and says to me baseball in the 1950s in new york. >> thanks so much. who you rooting for?

who's your team in the playoffs? >> cardinals. >> okay. we'll keep a close eye. thanks. republican presidential hopeful mitt romney poised to distance himself from rivals in a few minutes will deliver a major foreign policy address. we'll talk about it with wolf blitzer right after the break. [ male announcer ] it's a fact: your nutritional needs can go up when you're on the road to recovery. proper nutrition can help you get back on your feet.

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just a few moments, republican mitt romney will put the spotlight on u.s. foreign policy. he'll do it right here at the citadel and is expected to outline his plan for what he says will be a stronger america. cnn's wolf blitzer is watching it all with us. wolf, we know mitt romney is definitely focused on jobs. we are talking about the fact that he laid out his foreign policy leaders, who he would like, yesterday. is this a weak point for him? >> he's going to think it's a strong point, he's going to try to differentiate himself from the president of united states on foreign policy and u.s. international relationship, if you will and go after president obama on several key issues. accuse the president of having apologized for the united states over the past 2 1/2 nearly 3 years when he goes around the world. he's going to say that would never happen in a romney

administration. he's going to accuse the president of supporting massive pentagon defense spending cuts. he says that would never happen in a mitt romney administration. he's got a lot of these issues that he's going to go forward with and try to distinguish himself from the current president of the united states. and i think to a certain degree, he's also going to try to distinguish himself from some of his republican rivals, whether rick perry, certainly he'll go -- make it clear without mentioning any name. i doubt if he'll mention ron paul's name but make it clear he doesn't support any type of u.s. isolationist policy. as you know, ron paul singularly among all republican candidates would not only immediately withdrawal you auz troops from iraq and afghanistan but shut down u.s. military bases around the world in germ mi, korea and elsewhere and bring all the troops home and certainly mitt romney doesn't support anything along those lines. so we'll hear some differences with the president. we'll also hear differences with some of his republican rivals. >> let's talk about specifics.

you and i have been looking at excerpts from his speech. what stands out to you, wolf? >> reporter: this whole notion that the president of the united states is ready to see america as a second tier power, not the world's super power, not the leader of the free world, which is something, of course, the president will strongly reject, this notion that he wants to make it clear that this new century is america's century, and he'll accept nothing short of america, not only being the economic leader of the world, the military leader of the world, the leader of all the free nations, and he'll really go after the president on that. i think he'll be referring to some of the speeches that the president made earlier on in his administration when he went around the world and gave some speeches. some interpreted that as apologizing for some national security policies of the bush administration, for example, torture. the allegation that the u.s. engaged in torture. some of the abuses that we all saw in iraq, for example.

so this republican candidate is going to go after the president on some of those specific issues, and it will be interesting, kyra, to see how far he goes. >> and let's talk about why the citadel. i mean, the obvious is, these are young, up and coming members of the military, and he indeed wants their support. >> it's a military academy. it's a college, obviously. look, i'm a political reporter, and i love covering politics. why the citadel? because it's in charleston, south carolina. if you look at that calendar, south carolina's going to have an important primary early on, and there's no doubt that south carolina is a state where mitt romney's got to do a lot better. he'll do fine in new hampshire. probably even do fine in florida, relatively speaking. iowa could be a problem for him. south carolina could be a problem for him. he's trying to establish himself in south carolina. he's going to need south carolina. let's assume he doesn't win in iowa. he does win in new hampshire, almost certainly he will in new

hampshire. he practically lives there. he's from the neighboring state of massachusetts. got a home in new hampshire now, but south carolina will be very, very important, and i think that's one of the reasons he selected south carolina to give this first major national security speech of his campaign. >> talking about the politics there of the area. also if you're looking ahead to the war in afghanistan, the war in iraq, in particular afghanistan. here we are, wolf, it's been ten years since that war was launched. a number of these young men probably wondering, with the transition going on, am i going to be sent in country? could we hear mitt romney discuss about the transition? obama's views on the war in afghanistan, the number of tr p trootroop starting to pull out, et cetera and that these guys may be the one who go in? >> it's fair to assume some of these ka decadets and graduates

will wind up in afghanistan. probably not in iraq, because by the end of this year almost all u.s. troops supposed to be out of iraq except some left for training if there's a new agreement with the iraqi government. nearly 5,000 u.s. troops will remain in iraq. that's work in progress, you know, kyra. no-no final agreement on that between the u.s. and iraq. they're going to remain at least another three years under the current timetable. they're not supposed to pull out until the end 2014. you got 2011, 2012, 2013, if you believe the current timetable president obama signed off on, you can almost be sure some of these cadets and graduates from the citadel will wind up serving in afghanistan. i suppose mitt romney will mention that as he goes forward. he's been vague. he's given some conflicting

signals on what he would do as far as afghanistan is concerned, criticized by some republican analysts and certainly a lot of democrats saying, which policy does mitt romney support in afghanistan? an immediate, quick, clean withdrawal? or something prolonged for another three years plus, what president obama's strategy is like. he keeps saying i'm going to defer to the generals and see what they have to say. if you're the commander in chief, you shouldn't always have to refer to the generals. you're the commander in chief. listen to your generals to be sure but you listen to the advice of the civilian leadership, your secretary of state, your secretary of defense, who's a civilian. as you know, you don't just leave it in the hands of generals. that's one lesson every president eventually learns even though they say i'll do what the generals say. they very often do to what the generals say, but that's not necessarily always the smartest thing for a president to do. >> wolf blitzer, stay with us,

wolf. the president -- the president. that might have been a slip of the tongue there, wolf. presidential candidate mitt romney in just a few moments. the republican candidate is set to speak live there at the citadel. spotlight on u.s. foreign policy. as soon as he begins his speech, we will take it live. wolf blitzer standing by along with me here for context. we're going to take a quick break. more from "cnn newsroom" straight ahead. coffee doesn't have vitamins... unless you want it to.

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gop presidential candidate mitt romney set to speak at the citadel any moment. we will take it live as soon as he steps up to the podium there. meanwhile, stories making news later today --

next hour in los angeles, the conrad murray manslaughter trial resumes then at 2:00 p.m. eastern in sacramento, u.s. attorneys in california hold a news conference on the federal government's crookdown on state monitored marijuana dispensaries and the following hour as the white house, president obama welcomes the 1985 super bowl champs, the chicago bears. and coming up, right after the break, as i told you, we are monitoring live pictures now from the citadel for mitt romney, he is set to speak. his spotlight, u.s. foreign policy. giving a major speak for what he says is his plan for a stronger america. soon as he begins, we will take it live. stay with us. phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon than stimulant laxatives, for effective relief of constipation without cramps. thanks. [ professor ] good morning students. today, we're gonna...

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