sergeant andrew berry and family. lady of the united states, michelle obama, and jill biden, as they deliver the first words in motor sports. >> gentlemen, start your engines. >> yeah, you can hear it. >> yeah, like seriously? i assume it was booing and that the booing was directed toward the grand marshalls, mrs. obama and mrs. biden. a third grand marshall, andrew berry, severely injured, surviving two bullets and eight bomb blasts in iraq and afghanistan, the last ied that left him too injured to continue working in the military. he is blind in his right eye, deaf, suffers skis urs due to brain jer and post traumatic syndrome. his leg was crushed and he wears a brace now. >> sergeant berry, we salute him, thank him for his service. we thought that was important enough to get that into the story, not that there were boos for the first ladiesy. >>> second story, michele bachmann, in new york today meeting with a certain donald trump. >> yeah. the donald. fourth meeting with the donald. it is going to happen at trump

. >> and now, please welcome our grand marshals, sergeant andrew berry and family, first lady of the united states, michelle obama and dr. jill biden, as they deliver the most famous words in motor sports. >> gentlemen, start your engines! >> and you could hear the boos. a signal of just howdy slided we are headed into this presidential election year? >> reporter: it's a said statement if the booing was directed at mrs. obama. they were appearing on behalf of military families a cause that transcending party lines. the white house is downplaying this, saying this was a loud, chaotic event, not clear where the boos or if they were out there, where they were headed. >> making headlines all over the internet tonight. rick klein, thank you. >>> we turn overseas now, where tonight, in egypt, new violence in tahrir square. hundreds of soldiers battled thousands of protesters in that famous square, part of that uprising that ousted hosni mubarak nine months ago. now the demonstrators are fed up again. they want egypt to speed up the transfer to a civilian government. at least 11 3r0 test or

. >> and now, please welcome our grand marshals, sergeant andrew berry and family, first lady of the united states, michelle obama and dr. jill biden, as they deliver the most famous words in motor sports. >> rick, is this what we're going to hear heading into a presidential election year? >> reporter: it is a sad statement on our political discourse if the booing was directed at mrs. obama and dr. biden. of course, the white house is down playing it. they are saying this was a chaotic event with a lot of noise. not clear what the boos were. >> nonetheless, making headlines across the internet tonight. rick klein, thank you. >>> we do turn overseas this evening, where tonight, in egypt, new violence in tahrir square has turned deadly. hundreds of soldiers with rubber bullets and batons battled thousands of protesters in that famous square, the heart of that up rising that ousted hosni mubarak nine months ago. now, demonstrators are fed up again. they want egypt's military rulers to speed up the transfer to a civilian government. at least 11 protesters were reportedly killed there thi

sergeant andrew berry and family, first lady of the united states, michelle obama and dr. the most famous words in motorsports. >> gentlemen, start your engines. >> you heard the boos there. michelle obama and jill biden greeted by boos at the ford 400. the grand marshals of the season's last race and aware of the first lady's joining forces initiative. an initiative to hire and train veterans. in the mean time, tony stewart took hone the sprint cup title. first win since 2005. >>> and up next on "american morning," newt gingrich. shocking himself by surging to the top of the gop polls. we are going in-depth by two men who worked side-by-side with the former speaker to see why this is happening and whether it can last. >>> 36 minutes after the hour. [ male announcer ] we're not employers or employees. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges. but at prudential we're helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on wit

. >> sergeant andrew berry and family, first lady of the united states michelle obama. >> boo!> and dr. jill biden as they deliver the most famous words in motorsports. boo! >> gentlemen, start your engines! >> there were a lot of boos for michelle obama joined there as you saw with jill biden as the grand marshals. they were paying tribute to veterans returning home from wars in the middle east. the group gave the drivers the customary start your engines but as you heard, they got a lot of boos. >> not nice. >> not for the first lady. come on. >>> airport scanners may be harming your kindle. >> that's right. there are a inform travelers who experienced the problem and they say that scanners freeze the display on the devices. it's possible that the screens are being harmed by a build-up of static electricity inside the scanners but no one knows for sure. kindle users who have the problem have gotten free replacements from amazon. >> that kindle fire just came out last week i guess. >> yeah. >> nothing like buying it and hoping to get on the plane and do a little surfing, wait a

. >> please welcome or grand marshals sergeant andrew berry and family, first lady of the united statesichelle obama, and dr. jill biden. >> michelle obama and dr. jill biden were ceremonial grand marshal s to promote their initiatives to help veterans and a surprise appearance by john huntsman on "saturday night live." >> i'd like to start with something you never here at the debates. governor huntsman, the first question is for you. isn't it true nationally you're polling in the low single digits? >> it is true, seth, but only a few months ago i was polling at margin of error. to have any digit at all is a pretty big deal. >> you've heard mitt romney on the campaign trail rail against the president's health care law. >> i will eliminate obama care. >> now, one of the architects of the health care law in massachusetts is calling him out insisting romney's bill is just like the president's health care law. jonathan gruber joins me now. he's also an economics professor at m.i.t. and a democrat. thank you for being here today. >> thank you very much for having me. >> so, you said in an in

. >> please welcome our grand marshals, sergeant andrew berry and family, first lady of the united statestand it is a little bit of uppityism. >> i received a direct shot of pepper spray down my throat. >> felt like my face was peeling off. >> it felt like hot glass in my eyes. i couldn't see anything. >> if you think you don't want to be students in a university like we had on friday, i am just telling you i don't want to be the chancellor of the university we had on friday. >> if someone like me called the police, the chances are that a photographer or a reporter would turn up on your doorstep before a policeman. >> j.r. and karina! [ applause ] ♪ >> thank you so much for, for voting for the both of us, throughout the whole time, and believing in us. even when i had a bad week or whatever it may be. so as much as we are here holding this we owe this to you guys as well. so thank you very much. ♪ >> everyone so happy j.r. won. >> everyone so happy jr won. such a good week for him. good moment. america made the right call. >> he is actually going to be a cnn guest host on the "heroes" tri

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