i'm brooke baldwin. former senator and former presidential candidate, john edwards, spoke a short time ago. it was short and sweet after being indicted by a grand jury this morning. look. >> there's no question that i've done wrong and i take full responsibility for having done wrong. and i will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that i've caused but i did not break the law and i never, ever thought i was breaking the law. >> and edwards is facing six separate counts here. he's accused of conspiracy, making false statements, and violating finance campaign laws. all of this stems from his

i'm brooke baldwin. seclusion, the president of syria makes a air rare speech. no negotiation, no dialogue, just a warning to the people he says are really behind the bloodshed. >>> she's the american convicted of killing her roommate during a drug fueled sex game, but now as amanda knox appeals the conviction, witnesses come forward saying they have evidence she's innocent. >>> and just minutes from now the astronauts taking the last shuttle into space. >> three, two, one. >> are scheduled to arrive at kennedy space center, and what they do over the next 72 hours will make history. >>> plus she tried to hire a hitman to kill her husband. >> no. >> all that crying, yeah, that was fake. now as she learns her fate, her husband reveals how she tried to take him down many times before. we're on the case. >>> welcome back inside the "cnn newsroom." i'm brooke baldwin. cnn has learned a big head is about to roll over fast and furious. that's the atf gun operation we told you about on friday that allowed crimin

i'm brooke baldwin.as failed americans. >> a new poll suggests mitt romney is now beating the president. why the race in 2012 could come down to one issue. >> this is it right here on our left. >> a marine is dead after a s.w.a.t. team puts 22 bullets inside of him. officers call it a drug raid. some in the community call it suspicious. and now brand-new pictures inside this crime scene are raising more questions than answers. we have the photos. >>> plus, revelations from the courtroom. witnesses take the stand in the casey anthony murder trial to talk about what was found in her car. >> when you first opened it, what was your reaction? >> one investigator calls the discoveries shocking. >>> and going inside a funnel cloud. stunning new video of a tornado's sudden impact. welcome back. hour two rolling on here on cnn "newsroom." i'm brooke baldwin. i want to begin with moammar gadhafi. alive or dead? a statement from the libyan leader, speculation starts to swirl. and understandably since nato aircraft

i'm brook baldwin. let's begin.g question, after last night's debate is, are more on the way? will more republicans join the race for the white house? and here's the guy they talk about, folks. new jersey governor chris christie, still insists he will not run. 'h is tonight's guest on piers morgan tonight. guess who we have to talk about this? the man himself, piers morgan. good to see you. >> before you get too excited, i've actually got barry manilow in my studio right now. ♪ i write the songs that make the whole world sing ♪ >> very nice. i might have been playing ko kopa -- copacabana repeatedly and annoying the news room. people meet the governor of new jersey come away impressed and nay say he's the real deal. >> going back to his old school days. he was quite an athlete. they won a big baseball championship and he was a key player in that. let's not exactly a great athlete these days. and that itself is quite a fast nating part of the interview when he said what he feels most guilty about, he openly admitted

i'm brooke baldwin.s i'm not weiner. >> there is a lawmaker who allegedly got caught with his pants down literally. they call it dinner time, they call before your alarm clock goes off. they call to demand the money you owe. >> this is an attempt to collect a debt. now debt collectors go on a charm offensive. secret papers shared with cnn. they appear to reveal gadhafi's battle plans and confidential code words like tomato? cnn examines the documents as we wait for the libyan leader's next move. welcome back, everyone. i'm brooke baldwin. the bigamistry today in the casey anthony murder trial is who will prosecutors call as their last witness? prosecutors could wrap up their case as early as tomorrow afternoon. and just this morning a print analyst testified that she saw the outline of a heart on a piece of duct tape apparently put over caylee anthony's mouth. >> if you were to wear a bandaid for an extended period of time and remove the band-aid, a glue surface vournding that band-aid. the heart resembl

i'm brooke baldwin. break in one of the most dangerous countries in the world. now dozens of suspected al qaeda terrorists are on the loose in yemen. we're going to take you behind the escape. the clock is ticking. thousands of people in one state must leave everything behind. >>> floodwaters in north dakota are being called historic, catastrophic, and they are rising right now. plus snoo pl, booze, hitler, an designer. sunny hostin is on the case. >>> also, can the world get rid of every single nuclear weapon? some people are pushing for it, including her majesty, queen of jordan. i'll speak with her live. welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. four hours and counting. we're four hours away from president obama's primetime speech on america's longest war now, the war in afghanistan. we expect the president to essentially undo the troop surge in 2009. the president plans to have 10,000 fewer troops by the end of this year and then it fall by an additional 20,000 by 2012. we're all waiting and going to be watc

i'm brooke baldwin.murder, drugs, cash. secrets of the mob world on bail. out how whitey bulger rule a city and disappeared into thin air. >> he could pin you for good reasons, bad reasons. >> two men wanted to unleash terror. machine guns, grenades, all part of one plot in a major city. >>> plus, more blood, more violence and cnn is not only inside syria, we are getting closer to the chaos. >> we're here in the syrian capital for the first time since the unrest began. >> palive the only way cnn can. >>> and game on. ladies in the media, meet ladies of congress. the annual softball battle included favorite fans, a supreme pitcher and our very own brianna keilar and dana bash. >> you're about to give birth. >> folks, this one turned into a thriller. find out who hit the game winner. >>> got a little bit of everything for you this next hour. welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. as we mentioned, any minute, suspected mob boss whitey bulger is due in court in his old stomping grounds in boston, facing not just

that will do it for me, "cnn newsroom" begins right now with brooke baldwin. brooke baldwin. >>> hello to all of you. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> new allegations from all people, a stripper. expectations are growing that a resolution could soon come in the anthony weiner/dirty photo texting scandal. these expectations are mainly fueled by the wife of the congressman who is back from a trip from africa with her boss secretary of state hillary clinton. the congressman's friends said he would not quit without speaking first to his wife. very early this morning, she was spotted driving into the garage of their washington apartment building. now, one of the woman caught up in this sexting scandal is calling on congressman weiner to resign. she is ginger lee. she is a former porn star turned feature dancer which apparently means you're a headline stripper studying to be a real estate agents. lee and her lawyer gloria allred met there to tell her side of the story and tell her relationship with the congressman. here's what lee said. she said it started

i'm brooke baldwin. numbers are going to settle into a terrible week for the economy. unemployment rises, home prices fall, and many americans are simply wondering, what's next? >>> a country on edge. yemen's president is hurt after an attack on his palace. now fears grow over how he'll respond. >>> casey anthony accuses her own father of sex abuse and covering up her daughter's death. today we're hearing their private and emotional jailhouse conversation. >> i have one question and i need to ask you and i know it's going to be a tough one. >>> and clipping coupons online. there's a big battle for your bucks. groupon, living social, which one is best for you? >>> welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. former senator and former presidential candidate, john edwards, spoke a short time ago. it was short and sweet after being indicted by a grand jury this morning. look. >> there's no question that i've done wrong and i take full responsibility for having done wrong. and i will regret for the rest of my life the p

i'm brooke baldwin.uffering from leukemia, forced to remove her adult diaper. >> she said that she could not complete the security check without depends off. >> the elderly passenger's daughter will join me live and hear how the tsa answers to this latest accusation of over the top security screenings. >>> the dodgers are going broke. what does chapter 11 spell for a major league team? >>> plus, al qaeda takes a hit in yemen and cnn is the only american news network that can take you inside that country. we'll go there live. >>> and after a dramatic delay, casey anthony ruled competent to stand trial. >> the court will find that the defendant is competent to continue. >> we're on the case. the news is now. >>> welcome back to you. i'm brooke baldwin. if it is interesting and it is happening right now, you're about to see it. rapid fire. let's go. beginning with this. it is a win for makers and sellers of video games. the u.s. supreme court ruling today that stores in california cannot bar kids from buyin

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. >>> another republican goes all in.ng for president of the united states. >> the former utah governor says the country faces an un-american future. >> everything is at stake. >> but he's got one thing on his competitors, he's worked for president obama. so does he know the opponent's playbook? >> cigarettes kill and the government hope these new ads will prove it once and for all, but there's something different about these warnings that will be hard to ignore. >> yesterday i was in the desert and now i'm back home. >> a dad's dream becomes one kid's surprise. >> welcome back here. hour two of the cnn "newsroom." i'm brooke baldwin. it sounds a lot like a scene from a martin scorcese movie. the feds plot to get the long-wanted, murderous mobster. the guy they're trying to nab is a role for a scorcese film. remember the mob boss character there? check it out. >> when i was your age they would say we can become cops or criminals. what i'm saying is this, when you're facing a loaded gun, what's the difference? >> well, the

newsroom i'm brooke baldwin any second now congressman anthony weiner is expected to address members of the media from sheraton hotel in manhattan all of this comes one week after the new york democrat begin to answer some questions about a lewd picture from his twitter account and again following a breaking news that broke right here on studio and the embattled u.s. congressman anthony weiner is such you addressed the media shortly he will address the media in exactly one minute at least that's the plan right there we're looking at a live runs no sign of him but apparently he will be there folks just want to be totally honest it has been a surreal cast fifteen minutes as we have watched. right wing blogger andrew breitbart of big government dot com essentially taking to the stage of congressman anthony weiner's. press conference that was believed that the congressman was going to be there that this wasn't going to be some sort of stunt. or whomever to get publicity about this. he may be leaving the podium. there to be rules of order that my point is the government is the significant

i'm brooke baldwin. >> if iraq was hard and it was hard, afghanistan in many respects is harder. >> two presidents, one war. as the u.s. and afghan president discuss the war zone and explosive new reports that suggest that afghanistan may not survive without america. >>> plus -- >> i speak my mind whether anyone likes it or not. >> jesse ventura joins me live. the former governor on what he says the feds don't want you to see who he believes should be president and what this former navy s.e.a.l. thinks of osama bin laden. here we go, welcome back to hour two. i'm brooke baldwin. $19 billion. that's how much the u.s. has spent in aid to afghanistan trying to get the country back on its feet. it's gotten us almost know where that's in a report released today by the senate former relations committee. this report hits the same day that president obama had this hour-long video conference with his counterpart with president karzai from the troop drawdown to osama bin laden. i want to go to the pentagon and to

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now.es from now one of the histories's most famous fugitive faces the music. >> for america's most wanted man. >> how the feds caught whitey bulger, and why the investigation is far from over. >> we've only been here around 12 hours. >> journalists are banned from syria, but arwa damon takes us inside. >>> fold 'em, best 'em. they say celebrities played high-stakes pocker in secret worlds and their winnings were stolen. >>> plus call it the firecracker feud. a guy argues with his girlfriend, and then sparks fly. hell ooh, once again. we're watching the clock and waiting. we're waiting for james whitey bulger, he'sing on the lamb since 1985, and also said to be inspiration for jack nicholson's character in "the departed." check it out. >> when i was your age, they would say we could become cops or criminals. what i'm saying is this. when you're facing a loaded gun what is the difference? >> bulger and his girlfriend were busted last night in santa monica, less than 48 hours after the fbi be

holmes in for brooke baldwin.ays yet in the casey anthony trial. the jury hearing extremely graphic testimony about caylee anthony remains. it's been a lengthy battle about a photo cd over what the defense claims is disgusting. sunny hostin is on the case. let's start with you. we have a picture now of casey anthony's face. this is her face as they were showing some of those images on that cd. now, anybody could make their own estimation of what they think is going on in her mind, but what is it about this cd that has casey anthony and also her defense team so upset? >> it really is remarkable. they are trying to introduce this cd through a forensic anthropologist and it starts showing a picture of casey and caylee and then sort of through time lapse photography, portions of caylee smiling face is replaced with pictures of her skull, her remains. and then through also this time lapse photography, the jury will see, because it's been admitted, pictures of the duct tape and how they may have been positioned over lit

"cnn newsroom" continues with brooke baldwin. >> glass stairs, really? really, randi? good afternoon. raging inferno in arizona, calling it the massive wallow fire threatening to jump across the board for in new mexico. getting a better look as to how far, how quickly the fire spread from this progression map. take a look at this with me. the whole thing started may 29th. it is now bigger than the size of new york city and chicago combined. more than 600 square miles in ten days. chad mayers, i want to bring you in. i feel like the first time we were talking about this, it was 200,000 aches are scorched now 400,000. a bit of a silver lining the first nonred flag day because of the winds. >> correct. >> but still, that can burn some grass and move on through. >> certainly, still out of control. just because the winds die off, it has nothing do with the thing being contained. another gust today, 15, 20, 30 miles per hour, it's going to again. there won't be gusts of 40 and 45 and 50, like we had yesterday, that's the good news. that's why the red flag warning moved east

holmes, in for brooke baldwin today. you remember how the week started with that cnn debate up in new hampshire, where we saw all of the potential republican candidates going at it? well, this is how the week is ending for the gop presidential hopefuls. it's ending down in new orleans. this is a live picture at a conference going on right now, the annual republican leadership conference. no, eyes are not playing tricks on you. nobody at the podium yet. someone is walking to it, but we expect to hear from a couple folks who will take the stage, one of them being congresswoman michele bachmann. she, of course, made a big splash in new hampshire, got a lot of attention. a lot of people gave her a lot of credit for her performance. also in the next few minutes, we're expecting to hear from congressman ron paul, republican of texas. now you know when he steps in front of a camera or puts a microphone on, he usually has something to say, so we'll be checking in there plenty within the next couple of hours. >>> but right now, i

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you for being with me the last two hours. now we'll take you to washington, as always, my colleague wolf blitzer, and "the situation room" starts right now. >>> brooke, thanks very much. happening now the disgraced new york congressman announces his resignation. just weeks after the death of osama bin laden, a new leader takes the top spot. what about it be for u.s. security? newt gingrich on the defensive again, this time salems his wife's role. is she being started unfairly? i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." first for the dramatic moment s. democrats and republicans have been waiting for since the scandal took on a life of its own. anthony weiner of new york surrender iing he did it a whil ago. >> i'm here to apologize for the personal mistakes i have made. i make this apology to my neighbors and constituents, but particularly to my wife huma. to fight for the middle class. unfortunately the distraction that i have created has made it impossible. i'm resigning so my colleagues can get back to work, and most i

. >> brooke baldwin will be back tomorrow. time now for wolf blitzer. >>> at this hour, barack obama calls for both parties to stop arguing and just do it. who was behind a fiery suicide attack in a luxury hotel in afghanistan? new details on a deadly and brazen bombings and doubts about the taliban's initial claims of responsibility. and iran's military takes its nuclear defiance to dangerous new levels. a key u.s. ally says teheran is secretly testing missiles that could carry nuclear weapons. i'm wolf blitzer in chicago. you're in "the situation room." >> i'm the president of the united states and i want to make sure that i am not engaging in scare tactics. >>> one month and three days before the deadline, the president held a rare white house news conference today, his first since march. there's a lot for us to dissect today about the economy, the wars that are ongoing, the politics, the tone of the president's remarks. let's go straight to our white house correspondent. she's standing by with more. >> hi there, wolf. if y

i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now.one of america's most wanted, but he did not spend you would these years in hiding. find out what he did in vegas, mexico, and one trip he took is perhaps the most shocking of all. greece is on fire. >> a lot of fighting going on now between protesters. >> rocks, tear gas, molotov cocktails, even our own cnn kpru g -- crew gets roughed up. now there appears this fight over money could start a domino effect around the world. enemies or allies? which republican is stealing the thunder? joe johns is live in iowa. >> welcome back. we have two stories. one out of the afghanistan, one out of new mexico. we want to begin in kabul. the intercon nennal hotel in the capital city has been attacked. from what we're told, it is still you should attack. we want to go to a journalist on the scene in kabul. she's on the phone with me. and just bring me up to speed. tell me where you are, what you see and how many people have died. >> yes, right now i'm in the same place, a couple hundred meters from t

i'm brooke baldwin.s new number one. [ speaking foreign language ] >> find out why ayman al zawahiri's hatred for the u.s. is personal. >>> we've heard the accusations of widespread rape in libya. now there may be proof. >> after weeks of hearing of these cell phone rape videos, we for the first time have a copy of one. >> horrifying moments of one woman being assaulted. this is a cnn exclusive. >>> some of the weapons u.s. troops use are being made with counterfeit parts, and they're coming from china. i'll speak live with one senator about why the chinese are refusing to help investigate. >>> and -- the moments that really matter. >> i was hoping that we would make it home in time for father's day. welcome back. the feds have sent out a warning that terrorists could be targeting specific americans, including people from the government, people within business, members of the media even. we're gathering the facts right now. more on the potential hit list and who's behind it. first after the three weeks o

i'm brooke baldwin. thank you so much for watching. now "the situation room" with wolf blitzer starts right now. >>> brooke, thank you very much. happening now a. cold hard look at american bloodshed and money spent in afghanistan. a new report suggests that the united states has been wasting bui billions of dollars. stand by. >>> congressman anthony weiner reaches out to the master of a sex scandal. the pressure for weiner to resign possibly getting pushed out of the way. >>> was a man behind a police shooting video telling the truth? officers are fighting back claims that they tried to prevent the video release through intimidation and harassment. i'm wolf blitzer and you're in "the situation room." >>> president obama and afghan president karzai had a lot to talk about during their telephone conference today. talking about whether withdrawing the troops sooner rather than later. also the white house is urged to rethink financial assistance to afghanistan. over the past decade, the united states has spent a whopping $18.8 billion in a

have a great rest of the monday afternoon, and we continue with afternoon, and we continue with brooke baldwin. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> thank you, randi. we are going to begin with news here that andrew wean ler iner addressing the media at 4:00 p.m. eastern hour. we don't know what for, but we will find out. >>> and it is the single deadliest day in two years. five members of a troop killed in an explosion reportedly while they slept. no more details are coming in from the military leaders from iraq, but remember, we are 6 1/2 months from the date when almost all of the u.s. service members will be out of iraq. way bt i want to touch on that in a second. that attack is one of the second attacks in takrit. a suicide bomber drove into an iraqi checkpoint and killed 11 people there. keep in mind, this is is the same day that defense secretary robert gates is in country, and traveling for his farewell tour face-to-face with troops deployed in afghanistan. i want to go straight to the cnn pentagon correspondent chris lawrence with more on that. chris, before you and i talk about

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brooke baldwin will be next week. hope she's having a nice weekend. let me hand it over now to wolf blitzer. >>> embattled gop candidate, newt gingrich reassuring that he's staying in the white house despite a major campaign implosion and ready to square off with his opponent in new hampshire monday night. also, the cia chief, leon panetta warning that there are 1,000 al qaeda terrorists still in iraq. could u.s. troops be withdrawing from the country too soon. >>> and a star igniting a national firestorm after making homophobic remarks. could the anti-gay rant end up costing him his job? i'm wolf blitzer. you're in the situation. up first, the growing controversy swirling around newt gingrich. just one day after the stunning revelations that most of the senior staff and the potential viability of the candidate. gingrich now insists that he's in it for a long hall and explaining the campaign breakup this way. >> there's a fundamental strategic difference between the traditional community and the kind of campaign i want to run. now, we'll find out over

"cnn newsroom" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> i read about that this morning.