mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> burn a bush because for peace he don't push no button. killing over all, no weapons of destruction. >> hip-hop star common in a 2007 performance on hbo's death poetry jam. that line about burning a bush is one reason that conservatives are up in arms after the white house invited common to a poetry reading. was the white house wrong or do conservatives have a fundamental fear or misunderstanding of rap and hip-hop? we had a good chat about it earlier. >> they have nothing to go on. this is the cleanest rapper we have in the game. common sense, he makes conscious raps. he speaks to the people. he's anti-everything. this guy believes in god. if he's bad, there's nothing left in rap. he's the best we got. >> i know that fox will play this and say oh, look what cnn did, they invited these people on. just asking the questions. is there some racial undertones here? >> there's a definite racial disparity in the types of different music. for a lot of white amer

the iranian authorities have not responded to cnn's request to comment, while mehta said they could notecifics on mika's account but they confirmed they did not disable it. in every case, the device had been confiscated or the user had unwittingly made access possible by not using two factor authentication. still, questions remain as to if mehta, and other tech companies are doing all they can to protect their users as the world wakes up to the increasingly tech-savvy ways regimes such as iran are using to monitor and hunt down activist. >> reporter: it is worth noting that instagram and telegram are hugely popular in iran. before instagram was banned in the recent protest, 90% of iranians used instagram. that is a population of about 86 million. this is a huge number of people who uses these forms for every taken medication, sharing thoughts and ideas with each other and friends, but it is also being used for activism. for connecting activists to each other, connecting where protest will be, at what time and what day. so, if there is any indication that these platforms might be accesse

mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> if you really want to know what makes men tick and why the rich and powerful sometimes do stupid and damaging things, well, you won't find anyone better to ask than our very own dr. drew pinsky, post of "dr. drew" on our sister network hln. i talked to him about why monogamy was important. his insight was dead on. >> we hear the salacious details, should we be surprised by this behavior especially when it comes to arnold? >> i think we shouldn't be surprised, but we should not endorse it or look away. number one is these people are our leaders and they set the cultural tone and what's normative for our kids. and to some extent we have to remember that and we have to hold leaders accountable to be leaders. also behind the idea of sort of accepting men behaving badly, some sort of cultural endorsement that men gain power and money in order to act like this, which is a sad, sad indictment on the male psyche if that's indeed the case. and then finally peopl

monica mehta, frequent columnist and the author of entrepreneurial instinct. good morning, monica. >> good morning, carol. >> can we find any comfort at all in these numbers? >> well, i think you're seeing more of the same with these numbers. i'll remind you in the summer we were creating about 148,000 jobs on average from may through august and so this new reading shows a little bit of a decline. but really what you have to bear in mind is that even though the unemployment number keeps coming down, we are shedding about 300,000 people from the workforce all together. that's the number that we shed in august. and so even though this unemployment number is coming down, the real thing that you need to look at is people are dropping out of the workforce. they're just not seeing the opportunities. while all of this information gives you a little bit of a temperature of the economy, most of the financial community is looking to the fed. they're looking to see what will this data do to impact the easing of bond buying, the unprecedented easing of bond buying that th

peace, mehta is his first name, world peace is his last name, that's what you'll see on the back ofhis lakers jersey if the nba season starts, they are locked out which is giving mr. world peace a chance to do "dancing with the stars" and compete with nancy grace who you just had on. >> i wouldn't want to go up against nancy grace. >> world peace is tough, but nancy is a whole different story. >> she's world chaos. thanks thanks, jeff. >> all right. >>> it's just about top of the hour. thanks for joining us. we begin today with presidential candidates wrack i s racking up, rick perry is in iowa and herman cain is in south, and we're following them every step of the way. >>> first we begin with a wake-up call with a pretty troubled white house, cnn's james carville said it's time to start firing people, while some jewish and black leaders back away from a president they helped elect. just hours ago president obama said his chances of re-election are much higher than when he was first elected, so what's standing in his way? here you go, new job numbers are grim. a solar power company

mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?male announcer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> there's been a series of blasts around the libyan capital of tripoli this morning. nato continuing to carry out air strikes against moammar gadhafi's forces. rebels are fighting the libyan military on the ground and the casualties are heavy. in misrata our ben wedeman visited what's been called the hospital in hell. doctors battle death and often lose. we want to warn you some of the pictures you're about to see are very graphic. >> reporter: the doctors and nurses at misrata's hospital have seen too many days like this. the ward is crowded with the wounded. doctors struggling to piece back together bodies torn apart by bombs, bullets, and rockets on the front lines. dr. mohammed abushamed has just removed what was left of this man's left eye pierced by shrapnel. >> how many operations on the eye have you done in the last three months? >> maybe 50 cases like this case. >> this man has multiple wounds, a fractured femur and severe facial

mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? [ male announcer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> major league baseball is having their annual civil rights game this weekend. a youth summit took place yesterday and today the actual game takes place, the braves taking on the phillies and they will be detected out in uniforms from 1974, that's the year hank aaron broke babe ruth's home run record. >>> also mablgor league baseball hands out beacon awards for special achievements. some honorees, morgan freeman, carlos santana and ernie banks. all three got awards and i got to sit down with all three in the same room at the same time and of all they've accomplished in their careers it was hard to get them to admit that they've done anything. i'll start with you mr. banks. we were just sitting here, everybody was laughing and you said you've done nothing. >> what am i doing here. >> what do you mean? you've done nothing what are you talking about? >> i've been chasing to find out what can i do? >> i know what you mean. wait a minute? s

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mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?ncer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> 41 minutes past the hour. jacqui jeras here with me now. you seem like it used to be a time it was rare to catch a tornado on camera. >> yes. >> now we get emevery time there's a tornado. >> technology and so many storm spotters and enthusiasts, some of the shows have a lot of people getting out. >> a lot of people were saying they're not real storm chasers, just enthusiasts? >> some of them are, some of them aren't. it's amazing pictures and safety i always want to say you got to be safe, better know what you're doing or you could be putting your life in jeopardy. let's talk about the first one. this is amazing from trineapple, alabama. there's one tornado for sure that's more on the right-hand side of your screen that touches down. to the left of that we have a funnel developing and just to the left of that, you know, maybe. that was a maybe. that might be scud hanging down but looks like it might be rotating there, too. >> how far, are they li

mehta) it has five grams of fiber, zero fat, and fifty calories.e, this is too creamy and delicious. it's true, only fifty calories. (announcer) fiber one yogurt. >>> this just in. we're learning there has been an earthquake in japan, southeast japan to be specific and it was quite a large one. >> 6.9 and then being revised to 7.1. reynolds wolf is tracking this thing. was there a tsunami warning posted? >> not yet. let's give our viewers at home an idea where it is. the big red dot is actually the size or actually the center of the quake itself, a little bit of a desuction zone. as rob mentioned in terms of tsunamis no warnings. this is an area that's southwest of tokyo along the coast. a lot of times when you have an earthquake, there's displacement of water at the top. a big ripple to mount up. for the time being nothing yet. a big window rattler for community on the coast. this is not unusual in this part of the world. this is the pacific relationship of fire that goes around the pacific. not unusual to see that kind of an event occur off the i

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the iranian authorities have not responded to her request for comment, while mehta said they couldn't not originally disable it. telegram told cnn in every case they had investigated the device had been confiscated or the user had unwittingly made such access possible by not setting a two-step verification password or using a malicious app impersonating telegram. still, questions remain as to whether meta-, telegram, and other companies are doing all they can to protect their users as the world wakes up to the increasingly tech savvy ways regimes such as iran are using to monitor and hunt down activists. cnn, london. >>> elon musk is getting all twitter users a chance to weigh in on whether he should continue to run the social media company. the tesla and spacex founder tweeted this, should i step down as the head of twitter? i will abide by the results of this poll, and in just a few short weeks as ceo, he has faced controversy and backlash over mass layoffs, botched rollouts of new features, banning journalists and his handling of previously banned accounts. in the latest controvers

the judge who delivered all of these sentences on thursday and friday, his name is amit mehta. d.c. and he assessed each person differently but recognized that all of these people were not foot soldiers, they were people who played different specific and very important roles within this oath keepers group that assembled on january 6th. so stewart rhodes clearly was much different than the rest. none of them would have been there if he had not decided to bring his organization together on january 6th and to assemble them. but these others were involved in planning or organization or making sure there were gonzalez stationed around washington, d.c. so each were sentenced for different things. all of them being determined by the judge that they had encaged in crimes of domestic terrorism, a pretty significant thing that resulted in those harsh sentences. but each of these people in court developed a very different portrait of what political extremism in america looks like now. stewart rhodes he was unrepentant p he was saying the election of 2020 was illegitimate, it was a regime

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mehta) it has five grams of fiber, zero fat, and fifty calories.his is too creamy and delicious. it's true, only fifty calories. (announcer) fiber one yogurt. >>> the talk of the nation has been on health care reform. a make or break month for it and a make it or take it ultimatum. democrats could push their arms through the senate and they could do it without a single republican vote. a developing story for us that we're following and elaine quijano at the white house. elaine, as i understand, the president just spoke and did he say anything about this go it alone strategy? >> the off-camera gaggle in his office just moments ago, don. all this stems from a "new york times" story this morning and this morning in his office just now, robert gibbs pushed back against the idea that somehow the white house has made up its mind to go it alone without the help of republicans and pushing forward health care reform. robert gibbs saying that asked whether or not that was necessarily the case and he said absolutely not. he said that the president has said al

. >> amit mehta again reihan salam al-awda. about 20 or 30 minutes after takeoff, we felt two explosions. the plane was supposed to land, but it didn't. something exploded inside twice. a man's hand was injured. we panicked. >> i mean, really harrowing accounts of this plane crash. ben. and we also heard from another passenger who was actually recording himself praying on the plane before it crashed, who said that he saw some damage to the plane's main body. and if you take a look at this video, ben, you can actually see there are visible holes in the plane's body. now, we don't know what exactly caused this hole or exactly what caused the damage to the plane. but according to one of our aviation experts, miles o'brien, the fact that the metal around these holes is bent inwards and not outwards could indicate the fact that there was an explosion near the tail of the aircraft. now, again, ben, we've really heard from several different experts, ranging from a u.s. official and azerbaijani lawmaker and also experts in the aviation

if they release the mehta data with it, what type of equipment was installed?that's information that wouldn't necessarily be part of raw data or the communication logs. that's going to be critical. that has to be issued as well to calculate the air to earth satellite orbits, and differentials. so it's going to be important to have that. if they don't have the it, it could take a long time to weed through all of that information. >> okay. mary, i've got to ask you about this. the former malaysian prime minister seems to be adding fuel to the fire when it comes to conspiracy theories. listen to what he said. he said, clearly boeing and certain agencies had the capacity to take over uninterruptible control of commercial airliners of which mh-370 is one. what does he mean by that? >> well, what he's talking about is remote control of that airplane. we've heard these same theories in, after september 11th, 2001. when i was inspector general i can't tell you how many conspiracy theories i had to investigate and clear off in the government. but for this particular pla

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mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? [ male announcer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. ♪ >>> president obama on the road today, holding a town hall in northern virginia, talking about the deficit and spending cuts. but a big part of that message is highlighting the differences between his plan and the republican plan. cnn senior white house correspondent ed henry joins us at this time every day, and there he is today. >> good to see you. >> ed, we'll get to the town hall in just a second. but first, the president had to vent this morning that seemed to have a lot of significance heading into 2012. what was that about? >> it does. not on the face of it. on the face, it was a substantive event, an easter prayer breakfast, the second one the president has done, trying to turn this into an annual event, following on the national prayer breakfast that presidents of both parties have been doing for many years here. but specifically gives him the opportunity to focus on the spiritual side, talk about holy week for christians, tim

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mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? male announcer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> it looks as though we still have a few years before the housing market fully rebounds, this according to a krrecent re from realtytrack because of foreclosures. it is keeps home prices overall low. look at this graph. foreclosures represent over half of home sales in nevada at 53%. arizona and california don't seem to fare much better, 45% of homes being in foreclosure. overall in the u.s. 20% of all home sales are foreclosures. great for those looking for deal but not something helping the market overall. >>> there's no doubt that the fortune 500 list of ceos is full of the best and brightest in business today. so how many women ceos made the list this year? there are 12 female ceos on the list, down from 15 last year. so let's take a look at a few who made the cut. ang ga braly of wellpoint insurance named ceo in 2007. general counsel chief public affairs officer and even executive vice president. shareholders were rewarded with a 25

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monica mehta, appreciate you being with us. >> thank you. >>> still to come in the "newsroom" bill signed didn't just fund the government and raise the debt ceiling. billions of dollars for other projects -- you know, pork -- were somehow stuffed into that bill. [ banker ] sydney needed some financial guidance so she could take her dream to the next level. so we talked about her options. her valuable assets were staying. and selling her car wouldn't fly. we helped sydney manage her debt and prioritize her goals, so she could really turn up the volume on her dreams today... and tomorrow. so let's see what we can do about that... remodel. motorcycle. [ female announcer ] some questions take more than a bank. they take a banker. make a my financial priorities appointment today. because when people talk, great things happen. >>> your government is back online today. by gosh, that means the panda cam at the national zoo will also be back online. hundreds of thousands of federal workers, the most important part, they will be going back to work today and they will get backpay. but furloughed wor

mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard? male announcer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> everyone has an opinion as to what lawmakers should do to keep the government from shutting down. so we decided to ask some every day americans how they would solve this budget dilemma. maggie lake joins me live from columbus circle in new york city. maggie, you're out there talking to people, asking what they would do if they were the ones making these all-important decisions. what are you hearing? >> that it's really hard, ran ki. listen be we all can agree there their is a lot of waste in washington that can go right away but that's only going to get you so far. if we want to get serious about tacking the deficit, we'll str to look at big ticket items -- social security, medicare, medicaid, defense spending. that makes up 75% of the budget. when i ask people what about those programs, where would they want to cut from those programs, this is what they said to us. >> i'm a few years away -- not many years away -- from social security

mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?nouncer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> welcome back. the royal wedding is now just a couple days away. cnn will, of course, bring it to you live, friday morning, starting at 4:00 a.m. eastern. okay. now that the promo is out of the way, let's get down to the nitty-gritty. i'm really looking forward to this, and i'm sure you will, too. we have brought you all the behind the scenes stuff we could from the horses to the hors d'oeuvres, but there are still a few nuggets left, and no one knows those nuggets like these two guys, of course. our richard quest right there, he's been front and center in our royal wedding coverage. and next to him is someone you may not know, another member of the cnn family, cnn international's director of coverage, roger clark. before roger joined us, he was with the bbc, where he worked on the queen's jubilee coverage. they've got something very special for us. you guys have this royal quiz, right? the experts edition. and everybody at home can play along,

mehta ] honey, touch of brown sugar, crunchy clusters -- any cardboard?nnouncer ] cardboard no, delicious yes. >>> well, it wasn't the dog fight that many expected when butler and uconn stepped on the floor for the deciding game. the road for both team was an amazing journey and the final game could have served as a sleeping aid. the lolow-scoring game did not live up to predictions. some analysts thought that the final would be up to 70 points, but that didn't happen. mark mckay, in sports, some are calling the uconn husky win an unimpressive fashion, and what happened? >> well, much like the season, connecticut took a while to get going in the monday championship game, and the huskies struggled in the equally inept butler bulldogs, but conn did enough to end the season with the 11th straight win and the school's third national title. >> i love this team, because of what they have given me back, and to have them go down and that was a legacy they put together. it is going to be difficult for any other team to do what we have done. and how they have done

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monica mehta, thank you very much. >> happy thanksgiving. >> now that president trump has hinted he's staff changes in the white house, including possibly replacing his chief of staff, a top contender is emerging. he is 36, wealthy and the current chief of staff for vice president mike pence. insiders say he's young, he is ambitious but from what we're hearing not everybody loves him. jeremy diamond has the back story on ayers. how did he go in the president's circle? >> it is amazing how he's raising up so quickly at the age of 36. the president's private dining room just off the oval office is where my sources tell me the president came to know and like nick ayers and is considering him to replace general john kelly. he has been sitting down with mike pence once a week, usually alone, sometimes with a cabinet official. but for the last year plus now, since nick ayers and john kelly came into the white house as chief of staff and president and vice president, that is when nick ayers had this once a week facetime with the president in a private dining room just off the oval office and

. >> salil mehta. >> you have to go. >> so much changes fast in this war.ut the shelling seems like it could go on forever. massive guns hiding from tiny $500 machines here. extraordinary change. >> surreal portrayal. >> of little geopolitics here. just pract