she was out here at gettysburg.s ago, we had a chance to catch up with her and ask her about whether or not this is a game of cat and mouse she's playing with the news media. she denied that. but yesterday evening in a brief question and answer session with reporters where she was peppered with questions about whether or not she's running for president, she did tell the media that, if she does make a run for the white house, to expect the unexpected. >> it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes. knowing us, yes, it would have to be. >> what are the odds you might run? >> i don't know. i honestly don't know. it's still a matter of considering much. there truly is a lot to consider before you throw yourself out there in the name of service to the public because it's so all-consuming. >> and she is expected to head to philadelphia later today, and by the end of this week, end up in new hampshire. but the details of how she's going to get there, when she's going to get there, all of that is being kep

. >> sarah palin's bus pulls into gettysburg pennsylvania. she's keeping reporters guessing about whether she'll run. >> some amazing video as well over the weekend. three powerful water spouts caught on camera in the waters off of the coast of new south wales. stunned beachgoers watched a few hundred yards away. how did it all turn out? we're going to show you on this "american morning." >>> good morning. it is monday -- sorry, tuesday. >> feels like monday. >> tuesday, may 31st, day after labor day -- >> memorial day. you said labor day too. >> start all over. >> good thing it's taped. >> why don't you take it over. >> amazing video we have to show you. >> from mexico. >> truly an example of courage under fire. here's a look. [ gunfire ] >> a schoolteacher thinking on her feet, calmly getting her kindergarten kids to duck and cover in their classroom as gunfire erupts just outside of the school. she also had some help from barney. it happened at a school in the mexican city of monterrey. cnn's nick valencia has more of the story. >> reporte

times reporters that was heading out to a little farm town in pennsylvania called gettysburg. he knew his son who served in a new york artillery battery was there too so one of the first things he did when he arrived on the second day of the battle was to find his son's unit. he found the sun had been on a little eminence just north of gettysburg, had been mortally wounded there, carried to a field hospital and abandoned in the field hospital when the union army retreated back through gettysburg on to the heights of cemetery hill and cemetery ridge. so wilkinson filed his report as a professional must do. i will read a brief -- is a very long report that we included in the report. who can write the history of a battle whose eyes are in move of lee fastened on a central figure of a absorbing interest? the dead body of an eldest born, crushed by a shell in a position where a battery should never have been sent and abandoned to death in the building where surgeons dared not stay. but wilkinson did write the story and perhaps most poignant part of that is he happened to be in gene

not long after the president laughed lourdes gettysburg it was recalled the news from the middle east looked so bad that one point* this staff contemplated asking the president to turnaround to come back to the white house. rumors were rampant with the soviet intervention and some of the bad news came directly from moscow. the american ambassador cable the soviet move had become more ominous and then he feared soviet leaders need to be prepared to take military action unless the cease-fire was quickly chief. his staff hastened the president's return by flying him back a set of having him drive. he arrived at the white house 1238 pm. following a short briefing where 18 men were waiting the vice president defense

here in gettysburg, keeping them honest. pictures that make you want to hug your children a little tighter. images this memorial day that drive home just how grateful we can all be for what america's fighting men and women fought to secure. the knowledge no american government will ever do this to its children. to our children. what the syrian government allegedly did to this child. you'll see him right here. his name was hamza ali alkhateeb. just 13 years old. he disappeared from an anti-government rally on the 29th of april. now look away if you need to. these next photos get very, very hard to take. this is what he looked like when his body came home. his kneecaps had been smashed. his head was swollen. his body covered in cigarette burns. he had been embassy claited. according to family accounts on arabic news channels, syrian government officials came to their home last wednesday asking them to sign a waiver accepting hamza's body but only if they wouldn't show the body or say anything about the circumstances of his dea

thanks, jim acosta in gettysburg.e'll be watching you. >>> so tonight on "john king usa," john king is aboard the cnn express, he's following sarah palin around. if anybody can figure out whether she's inching closer to a run, it will be him. "john king usa" tonight, 7:00 eastern right here on cnn. >>> president obama is leading the nation's tributes to fallen service members. something all presidents do on memorial day. it is a tradition but he's also making some major changes in military leadership as you may have seen right here live on cnn. the commander in chief today introduced his picks for chairman an vice chairman of the joint chiefs of staff and chief staff of the army. the man to the president's immediate left is army general martin dempsey who the president wants to replace the retiring chairman mike mullen. it was just last month that dempsey became army chief of staff. sew wasn't considered the favorite for the top job. all the nominees require senate confirmation, of course, which the president says he

the gettysburg national military park. a fitting place to spend this memorial day. on this national holiday, a heavy rush of politics. sarah palin's mystery tour rolled into town. we don't know when she will appear because her aides will not tell us. her stops included ft. mchenry and she's being cagey on the subject of whether it's a rolling civic lesson or a 2012 campaign. >> i believe there are many more people out there to add. competition breeds success. i would hope that there is going to be debate. >> also this day, president obama leads the traditional wreath laying at arlington national cemetery and announces a major change in his national security team. with america fighting three wars, we'll explain whether the new war council signals a new approach. >> i'm announcing my choice for the successors today because it transition must be seamless and we stay focused on the security challenges before us. >> but, first up, like it or not, she's back. sarah palin is on a bus tour that mixes landmarks of america's past and battlegrounds of her political presence. n

i'm glad you guys are here. >> cnn's john king is in gettysburg.ou want to keep your speaking fees up and you want to sell books, it can look a lot like a presidential campaign. so which is this? >> reporter: you know, that's a great question. is this self-promotion? as part of a family vacation? or is it testing the waters in the begin of a presidential campaign? you heard governor palin saying this is not a campaign bus. i saw it. it's parked nearby. it looks like a campaign bus. says one nation, has her autograph on it. there are dozens waiting here in the gettysburg national park hoping she would stop by here tonight. we don't know if she will because they won't give us the schedule. that's the interesting thing about this. the palin organization is telling us the stops an an hour by hour basis but not giving us the schedule. however, however, she, herself, did say today though she said this is not a campaign bus, she is contemplating still getting in the race. listen here as she says she is certain, not counting herself in, but contemplating i

jim acosta, cnn, gettysburg, pennsylvania. >> jim, thank you. point taken, palin has reclaimed the spotlight for now, and over to mark preston our cnn political director and paul steinhauser, our cnn political director. give us some non-palin news here today. >> yes, she is grabbing the headline headlines, but other people will make headlines. mitt romney is going to be in new hampshire to announce those famous words "i am running for president." we knew he was all but declared candidate thursday, and this is the second bid for the white house, the former governor of massachusetts. and mark, winning new hampshire is important for mitt romney, because this is a state he has to win if he is going to take the nomination, but wait, this is more and it will keep the coverage manager steve rusk busy, because we have a big conference right here in washington, d.c., and a major gathering of the social conservatives friday and saturday and it is the faith and freedom conference and look at the six names there, probable candidates will be attending, and o

after touring gettysburg today, the palin bus tour heads, well, somewhere. she's filling in the itinerary on the fly and seems to be relishing the fact that she's keeping the media on its toes. terrell? >> the thing is, we'll be following her, joel. joel brown in washington, appreciate it this morning, thank you. >>> this week, federal prosecutors could charge former democratic presidential hopeful john edwards with violating campaign finance laws. at issue -- did edwards use campaign money to cover up his affair and out of wedlock daughter? prosecutors have been investigating edwards for two years. >> they could conclude that was a misuse of campaign money for personal purposes, which would violate the campaign finance laws. >> after first denying the child is his, edwards acknowledged he is the father of hunter's baby. edwards' attorney says the campaign finance case is wrong on the facts and the law. >>> another former banking executive is accused of sexually abusing a new york city hotel maid. 74-year-old maw mud abdul salam omar is expected to be arraig

vernon, virginia and gettysburg, pennsylvania. dover, new hampshire. businessman herman cane is in new hampshire. give us the impact of her tour. do you believe she's testing the waters on perhaps even running? >> i think that's safe to say, that she is testing the waters. as a matter of fact, earlier at the national ar dmivz washington when she was asked the question are you running for president, she said we are contemplating that. that is a clear signal that this bus tour is at least, in part, testing the waters sort of swing up the east coast. i can tell you standing here at gettysburg in pennsylvania, there are already some palin watchers here and we're still a good two hours out from her expected arrival at this national park. as i just mentioned earlier this morning, she was at the national archives. she went to the historic sites at mt. vernon and everywhere she went, not only were the national media in tow but there were palin watchers wondering what she's going do, what she's going to say. somebody asked her at the natio

and sarah palin's one nation bus is on its way to gettysburg.rt of a patriotic sights tour or more, who knows? if she does decide to run for president, john mccain, her one-time running mate, says she'll be fierce. >> of course, she can, she can. now, whether she will or not, whether she'll even run or not, i don't know. but, you know, a lot of things happen in campaigns. you'll remember, i was written off a couple of times and we were able to come back. she certainly is a major factor and i believe that she can be very competitive. >> if palin's bus tour is headed down the road for a presidential run, perhaps the most interesting matchup among republican candidates in the primary will be palin versus minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann. both women are conservatives, both women are tea party drar darlings, and both will make political history if they run for president on the republican ticket. leslie sanchez is the author of "you've come a long way," a book about women in politics, and also a longtime political observer. welcome. >> thank y

you're here in gettysburg, you've been chasing the bus around the whole time.s 101, sarah palin takes us on a tour of american history, or is this campaign 101? >> well, i think it's both. and it's definitely the latter. it seems like she is traveling around the country and meeting supporters and seeing really if there is enough support out there for a run. it's also, insiders tell me, a way for her to test it out on her family, see if they're okay with the rigors of a campaign, see if they're going to come together. and a source close to the campaign told me really it was todd's idea with sarah but mostly todd's idea to push them to join this -- this bus tour around the country and see, you know, if there is support out there for this. >> well, that's a legitimate question, eric ericsson, to see if the family wants to do it. we heard from governor daniels recently in indiana saying no. when you watch the palin family making a round, a lot of republicans would like this decision because of the shadow she casts on the official candidates. how much latitude, how

. >> pailin made stops in d.c., gettysburg. >> i have much to consider. >> it seems she is travelingaround the country meeting supporters. she has told me this is a way to test out her family if they are ready. >> a family vacation on the big boss in now. >> the tour will take her to new hampshire one of the key states in the early primary election. >> all the critical landing support has been checked out on the endeavor. this is video from early this morning when they woke up. >> that we do not have any regrets i trained with at great shot crew. when january 8th happened i did not think i would be with this girl, because of the rehab of my wife was receiving in houston i was able to do it rejoin my crew there in >> all alive look outside where a federal accident as could started creating problems. ow#ç3 >> a quick check of the weather and traffic. as you can say quite a few raindrops around the area. >> alive look outside at southbound 101. >> the nursing student that vanished 26 year-old michele lee went missing friday and has not been seen since. >> i am praying for her so hard it

not long after the president laughed lourdes gettysburg it was recalled the news from the middle east looked so bad that one point* this staff contemplated asking the president to turnaround to come back to the white house. rumors were rampant with the soviet intervention and some of the bad news came directly from moscow. the american ambassador cable the soviet move had become more ominous and then he feared soviet leaders need to be prepared to take military action unless the cease-fire was quickly chief. his staff hastened the president's return by flying him back a set of having him drive. he arrived at the white house 1238 pm. following a short briefing where 18 men were waiting the vice president defense department including the joint chiefs this was a council of war the admiral brief the president of the steps and were prepared to do take over a major war. eisenhower review each step urging careful and deliberate implementation. then the sun broke from behind. the president was informed in the middle of the meeting the british prime minister was available by phone. eisenhower

her bus stopped overnight in gettysburg, pennsylvania where the former alaska governor minkled with votersshe is playing hard to get with members of the media. >> reporter: what do you think the odds are that you will run? >> i don't know. >> reporter: so far, her bus has stopped in washington, d.c. and pennsylvania, but she has not announced her eye continue rarery, leaving reporters scrambling. palin is having a big effect on the gop run for the white house. the attention her bus tour is getting threatening to overshadow other republicans woe are out campaigning. in new hampshire, tea party favorite michelle bachman spent her memorial day speaking with veterans. she plans to announce if she's in the race next month. back main will join the field of five candidates who have declared. mitt romny is heading to new hampshire this week, making it official on thursday. bachman may be making headlines, but polls show romny is the one to beat. >>> with two key features of al- qaida, american investigators have been combing through records taken from osama bin laden's compound in pakistan. they h

the soldier after getting hit by a cannon ball in gettysburg.nce it was removed, the soldier kept his leg as a reminder of the casualties of war. >>> now for a look at your national and regional weather, here is nbc meteorologist bill karins with the weather channel forecast. i know. it is still ai llettle murky to ysa the least. you can see the showers. not a lot of rain with this. just enough to keep the roads damp. this will kick through during the morning hours. further to the north, the snow continues to fall. the high elevations it is incredible with this. it is very cool. once you go up in height. around san francisco, we are doing okay. this storm system just a slow moving upper level low means it is cut off and spinning here. we don't have storm iing to kic it out. it will be moving through the mountain west. the forecast today, showers widespread out there. for the most part, count on damp weather. high pressure to the north. keeping you dry today. temperatures in the mid 60s. that is ayaverage. eugene will be around astoria. >> i thin

vernon, virginia, and gettysburg, pennsylvania..c. 360" tonight at 10:00 eastern live from gettysburg. now, back to "deadly impact." >>> this is bad. oh, my gosh. this is awful. this is -- look at that! that is destroyed. completely. >> so many families in joplin are still searching for loved ones and refuse to give up hope. will norton is one young man who went missing in the tornado. he disappeared while driving home with his dad from his high school graduation. his dad, mark, survived. he's seriously injured, though. the powerful winds of the twister pulled will right up through the sunroof of his suv, according to his dad. his family heard reports that a young man matching will's description was taken to a local hospital and then moved to another hospital. well, will's sister tracked down that hospital and visited the young man, but sadly, it wasn't her brother. >> i'm so sorry, sarah. >> it'll be okay. we've got a lot of people looking, sweetie. a lot of people love him. >> for will norton's aunt tracy and his sister, sarah, t

stopping at iconic places like gettysburg and the liberty bell, all the way to new hampshire. new hampshire? >> i want to make sure that america is put back on the right track, and we only do that by defeating obama in 2012. i have that fire in my belly. >> and there's a biopic, a flattering film debuting in iowa. the first caucus state. a redesigned website for her political committee. click on it and a pop-up asks for a generous donation. a lavish new home in arizona. more convenient than wasilla. high-profile appearances at this week's "dancing with the stars" and the white house correspondents dinner. so is she or isn't she? >> i think that anyone who speculates they know what she's going to do doesn't know her or is deceptive. nobody knows what she's going to do. the only person who really knows is sarah palin. this lady marches very much to her own drummer. >> the downside, a new tell-all book from a former alaska aide. >> she couldn't handle criticism. the smallest criticism would send her into a tailspin, wasting entire days of state business. >>> today's gallop poll s

she's expected to stop in gettysburg today.d to evacuate because of a wildfire burning dangerously close to some neighborhoods in amarillo, texas. so far, the fire has burned about 700 acres and destroyed several homes. >>> the midwest battered again by spring storms. parts of michigan and illinois littered with down trees and power lines. about 1,000 homes and businesses in michigan are without power. more than 400 flights were canceled yesterday at chicago's o'hare airport. >>> now, the food pyramid is out and the food plate is in. more details are expected in an official announcement this thursday. >>> you're caught up on the day's headlines. "american morning" is back after the break. >>> welcome back. it's ten minutes before the top of the hour. a group of wounded u.s. soldiers and former nfl players say they never felt so high, literally, and figuratively, until the day they reached the top of the mt. kilimanjaro. they climbed the highest peak in africa, nearly 20,000 feet high, to raise awareness and money for injured se

. >> reporter: after leaving the rolling thunder rally she'll stop at iconic places like gettysburg,he liberty bell, the statue of liberty and ellis island, up to boston harbor, all the with a i to new hampshire. the tour, paid by palin's action committee, is fueling speculation about what exactly she's up to. >> the bus tour is a promotional exercise being mistaken by some as the possible prelude to a presidential campaign. >> i don't see sarah palin getting into the race at all. i don't think there's a place for her. >> reporter: her former running mate john mccain believes she could beat the president. >> of course she can. she can. whether she will or not, whether she'll even run or not, i don't know. >> reporter: with palin shaking hands in the nation's capital, many gop insiders are likely scratching their heads, after all, a palin run could shake up a republican field that is slowly starting to take shape. former minnesota governor tim pawlenty is in and former massachusetts governor mitt romney officially launches his campaign next week. texas governor rick perry says he's mu

. >>> sarah palin's tour bus has rolled into gettysburg, pennsylvania, after a stop in washington, d.c. palin and her aides have refused to share basic details about the one nation tour that's going to end up in new england. the former alaska governor says she's still kind of contemplating a run for the white house. but she says a campaign would be nontraditional. >>> it wasn't much of a holiday for hundreds of beachgoers in central florida. more than 400 people suffered painful jellyfish stings on saturday and sunday. the jellyfish washed ashore from the atlantic, primarily around cocoa beach. >> that is a buzz-kill. >> and painful. >>> california's getting ready to welcome some royalty. britain's prince william and his wife, kate, will visit l.a. in july. >> catherine. the royal couple hasn't said what they will see or do there. but they will go to california after visiting several parts of canada. it will be kate's first trip to america. >>> one of the nation's most high-profile college football programs, ohio state, is under new leadership this morning. jim tressle resigned. tressl

>> reporter: right now it's in a hotel parking lot in gettysburg, pennsylvania. so we assume she'll be visiting the historic civil war battlefield but we don't really know for sure. what we do know, though, is that this is a big week for the committed candidates in the race. mitt romney's going to make his campaign official on thursday, michele bachmann said today she will be announcing her plan soon in iowa, that's the state, of course, where she was born. >> smith: what about... what do you think this impact, though, is having. all of the attention is going to sarah palin over the last several days. what impact do you think it has on the other candidates? >> well, right now, harry, they are getting asked about palin at every stop, especially michele bachmann. she was asked over and over today in new hampshire what she thought about palin. and bachmann repeatedly said palin will have no impact on whether she gets in the race or not. at one stop she said today "look i like sarah palin, she's made important contributions to the country but she's just not comparing

sports was student council president and met his current wife of fifty four years harold his head of gettysburg college and received a degree in biology before earning his m.d. from duke university working his way through school after his residency he served as a flight surgeon in the air force from one thousand nine hundred eighty three to sixty five and then in the air national guard from sixty five to sixty eight he moved to texas to train of steps and gynecology eventually delivering over four thousand babies and raising five children of his own ronald laurie randall senator you might have heard of them robert android when ron paul first ran for congress in a special election in one nine hundred seventy six carol warned him to be careful because she said he just might win and he did but lost only months later by less than three hundred votes he won the seat back in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight and served until giving up his see through turner medicine full time in one thousand nine hundred four and one nine hundred eighty eight he was the libertarian party nominee for president an

that way you do wind up with bureaucratic momentum and united states there's a famous battle at gettysburg of pickett's charge which is completely insane and all the confederate journos do it was insane except for robert you really and none of the generals had any and none of the other generals had the courage to stand up to robert e. lee in the united states again with nuclear power and momentum developed in the government at the atomic energy commission the savings in france by the way and they went ahead with nuclear power and now it's like turning a giant ship around it's just very difficult but what we have what is so what do you do in that situation i mean do you do you turn extreme do you start lobbing molotov cocktails at corporations and locking yourself up in front of power plants . yes the latter you do not have a top down. no not knowledge not calculus but you do a lot you can lock yourself in the twenty first century we have come to understand that nonviolence is the way to go gandhi taught us and martin luther king eugene b. debs in united states nonviolence is the map that o

of people at gettysburg. people are dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems to get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or english. there was a priority to win the war in europe. it has an apartment in the past years, including this past year -- has been heartening in the past years, including this past the pacific." there have been novels like norman mailer's "the naked and sehe dead," vonnegut' "slaughterhouse," "from here to eternity." i mentioned elie weisel. some of these

we expect her in gettysburg, pennsylvania, tomorrow, later at the liberty bell in philadelphia and eventuallyl make her way up to new hampshire, which is, of course, the fist in the nation primary states. she has not been there since 2008, but that's the state that plays a huge role in the presidential nominating process. we are surely going to be paying attention, but we are just going to be following her and the bus up i-95 starting tomorrow. it will be playing it by ear the whole time. it will be interesting to say the least. >> she may not like the so-called mainstream media, but she knows how to play it, doesn't she? thanks, peter. appreciate that. >>> the president tours tornado damage? joplin, missouri. that and more of the top stories is next. ♪ [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, building up our wireless network all across america. we're adding new cell sites... increasing network capacity, and investing billions of dollars to improve your wireless network experience. from a single phone call to the most advanced data download, we're covering more people in more places than

sarah palin is on an east coast bus tour stopping in gettysburg on memorial day. she addressed the question, everyone is asking, is she really considering taking the plunge? >> i honestly don't know. it is still a matter of looking at it and considering much. there truly is a lot to consider before you throw yourself out there in the name of service to the public because it is so all-consuming. >> joining us now from washington, republican strategist, kevin madden, former mitt rommy campaign aide and democratic strategist, joe lockhart, former white house press secretary under president clinton. i want to start with you on the sarah palin question. it's an extended flirtation, you might call it, with running. the only media she wants to speak to is fox news. does any of this risk rubbing voters the wrong way? >> well, it does if it seems like you are not running because you want to be president and you're not running because you really want to be a serious candidate. instead, you are using a presidential campaign as a vehicle to build a little bit more of a profil

>> well, we have a political reporter following her, and she was going to gettysburg and liber libertypendence hall, and she is right at the top of the polls. >> well, randi, around the hoopla of the bus tour of sarah palin and going up the east coast and leaving the door open for a presidential run and it does not look to me that she is running for president, and perhaps looking for attention, and again, that is my personal attention, but the fact of the matter is if she is a serious candidate, she would publish the ked yule and allow the local republicans in states and counties to show up, but we are finding out about the stops moments before she has arrived. so it seems a little strange for me if she is seriously running for president that she would take this route to do so. >> all right. mark and paul, pleasure to see you guys. thank you. >>> thank you, randi. >>> and the next update from the best political team on television is an hour away. >>> we start with a bizarre controversy this hour. some are calling it weiner-gate. congressman anthony weiner has hired an attorney to advis

where she and her family visited some historical landmarks and then continued on to gettysburg, pennsylvania. there are times palin sounds like a would be presidential candidate, but she still isn't ready to call her tour anything but a campaign for america's constitution. there is some confusion about where her bus is heading at times since she refuses to tell the so-called mainstream media exactly where she's going except for fox news, which would be her employer. palin told her co-worker greta van susterin, despite how things look, her one nation tour is not political. >> it's not about me. it's not a publicity seeking tour. it's about highlighting the great things of america. the media can figure out where they're going if they do their investigative work, or they're going to keep kind of, as you put it, going crazy trying to figure out what we're doing here. >> jim garrity of the national review online says sarah palin's tour looks like a dress rehearsal, the closest we've seen from a national campaign from her. we've been here before. remember donald trump? after weeks of ranting aroun

and this bus tour is going to hit some civil war battlefield sites like gettysburg.also going to new hampshire, we know new hampshire holds the first primary in the race for the white house. a big hint. but is it a hint she's running for the white house or trying to get back in the limelight? when you look at sarah palin, she really hasn't made that many concrete efforts in the early voting states. trying to build up staff or reaching out to voters directly in person and also her contract with fox news is not being altered. she continues to be a paid contributor. that's also a telling sign. i don't know if this is the start of a campaign or just getting some more attention. >> where does she stand in the polls or does she even exist in the polls right now? >> reporter: she does exist. this is our cnn poll. a national poll of republicans and independents. look at that. right at the top is rudy guiliani, he's not running but he's thinking about it. mitt romney at 15%. sarah palin at 13%. basically all tied. another poll came out the day before that had her right there,

iraq, there is no american military cemetery where there's not a mexican buried in it, including gettysburg. give me a hand for that. [applause] >> there was somebody there waiting on this side here. sir? next question here on the right-hand side. >> the question is for sal castro. sal, i'm a chicano from redondo beach. remember that? you were very involved with camp kramer in malibu. i was wondering if you could give us an update on what's happening with that effort and whether you continue to bring leadership to the young people in the community can. >> thank you very much. thank you for asking. we've been in existence since 1963 off and on, but, you know, as soon as the budget crunch hit, we were cut off. the l.a. city schools cut us off. so the very last conference we had was in october of 2008. so we're looking for funds now. we're sending out all kinds of solicitations. we hope to be able to start again because that conference is so effective. it's only a three-day conference at malibu, campus kramer in malibu. the fanciest jewish summer camp in southern california. it's only three da

the war on terror was not over, but maybe this is the saratoga or the gettysburg where things turned.reat success for the cia and also for the navy s.e.a.l.s. this is a signal victory. it is not the end of the war by a long time, but they are to be congratulated. >> for more now from capitol hill, itself, response on what is being said there, we want to turn to msnbc's luke russert. luke, we were up late last night talking about this and the news has been observed all morning long and what are you hearing at the hill? >> wellwell, it is quite interesting, thomas. rarely an event for universal praise for president obama up on capitol hill, and that is what you have seen here. although, there is one distinction between the democratic and republican releases. the republican releases also commend president bush for starting the war on terror and commending him with the process that ultimately led to the capture of osama bin laden. a lot of praise for president obama, and a lot of congratulations to president bush as well. but there are tons of hearings up on capitol hill of how well the i

gettysburg, the statue of liberty, even an early primary state, new hampshire, to talk about the foundations of the country. her advisers told us the schedule would be available this weekend. not so far. so is this a highly planned palin secret or a by the seat of the pants palin plan, and does it really matter? >> the exuberance of her fan base really makes up for a lot of shortcomings on the organizational side from fund-raising, all she has to do is throw up a website, occasionally refer to it in a facebook post, and she can raise a lot of money. >> reporter: so what is this all about? is she ready to run? >> the fire in the belly, it's there. >> this is a bit of a rerollout. this is a chance for her to try to reintroduce herself in a more retail politics, grassroots way. >> reporter: more than 40% of all republicans aren't happy with their presidential field, which is why michele bachmann, another social conservative, is considering a run. >> i don't see myself as a competitor to governor palin or to mitt romney. i see my competitor, barack obama. >> reporter: and just this weekend, rudy

at gettysburg, on a video posted on "the new york times" website, she was asked what a palin campaign would look like. >> ooh. it would definitely be unconventional and nontraditional, yes. knowing -- knowing us. >> what do you think the odds are you will run? >> i don't know. i honestly don't know. it's still, you know, a matter of looking at the field and considering much. >> reporter: the field suggests an opening for somebody. in the latest gallup poll, none of the above comes in first, ahead of all of them, including palin herself. her tour started over the weekend on a harley. and now, she's on a campaign-style bus. the only news organization that seems to know where she is going is fox news, where she is a paid commentator. >> i don't think i owe anything to the mainstream media. i think that it would be a mistake for me to become some kind of conventional politician. no. i want them to have to do a little bit of work on a tour like this. >> she wouldn't be doing this tour unless she wanted to keep her options open. >> reporter: palin's tour, it's been reported but she won't co

plan according to her political action committee is to visit historical sites, and we're hearing gettysburgthe liberty bell and she'll also go to an early primary state in new hampshire. this is un friendfriendly territory so she may be testing the waters and she kind of announced this with a slick video showing the bus being dressed up in a grizzly bear at the beginning. not sure ifs of it was a momma grizzly or not. aides promised a schedule for today, this weekend, and we haven't seen anything yet. so is this palin in perfect surprise mode for the media or a seat of the pants plan. we don't really know. she's really not played by establishment rules and has had some success. she is asking for donations, christiane, on this bus tour which apparently starts somewhere in washington sometime today. >> david, thanks so much. and so why is sarah palin keeping us guessing? others are getting serious. former massachusetts governor mitt romney officially launches his campaign on thursday in new hampshire. former pennsylvania senator rick santorum does the same on june 6th in his home state. and c

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she is supposed to go to gettysburg, the battlefield in pennsylvania. details are up in the air. it shows just how she does not play by the same political rules as every other political figure in america. host: as far as you mentioned her wanting voice in the conversation, is she trying to making -- is she trying to make herself a kingmaker? caller: we do not know. it is still possible that she will run, but the odds seemed very low. she seems to be considering -- when mike huckabee decided not to run, making it clear that there was a big opening for a social conservative in the race, that is a space that she could fill. it is not clear whether she is thinking about running in her head or if she just wants the spotlight on her for a little while again, to keep herself in the conversation because she just craves that attention. host: what attributes to the diminishing that you were talking about initially? talking about initially? caller: a variety of episodes over the last year and was where people wrote her of as less than serious. last year the same d

of people at gettysburg.e dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems to get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or english. there was a priority to win the war in europe. it has an apartment in the past years, including this past year -- has been heartening in the past years, including this past the pacific." there have been novels like norman mailer's "the naked and sehe dead," vonnegut' "slaughterhouse," "from here to eternity." i mentioned elie weisel. some of these memoirs an

of people at gettysburg. people are dying off in that generation, in their 80s and 90s now, and at this point we are looking at will war ii -- world war ii veterans as survivors of that generation. host: that caller talked about his experience in the pacific theater. it seems in many ways that your it seems to get a block of the press. -- europe seems get the bulk of the price. guest: fdr's first objective was to win europe. only in recent years has it wore a scholarship caught up -- war scholarship caught up, not the least being that we are a western civilization, judeo- christian society. many americans had a background of dutch ancestry, or german or english. there was a priority to win the war in europe. it has an apartment in the past years, including this past year -- has been heartening in the past years, including this past the pacific." there have been novels like norman mailer's "the naked and sehe dead," vonnegut' "slaughterhouse," "from here to eternity." i mentioned elie weisel. some of these mem

. ♪ >>> more americans were killed and wounded at gettysburg than any other battlefield in the world.monuments stand in tribute to those willing to give anything in the name of duty. today gettysburg is also the starting point of the american odyssey relay race. 200 miles, 12 teammates in over 24 hours of racing. army captain mike irwin is the founder of team red, white, and blue, the organization that helps wounded veterans ease into civilian life through one-on-one relationships with everyday people. as part of its fundraising efforts, the group has brought 17 teams to the event. >> it's very easy to forget that we've been at war for ten years, so when people see an opportunity put right in front of them that, hey, i can go do a run and support wounded veterans, i think a lot of people see that as a great opportunity. >> reporter: mark hulbert's legs were blown off in afghanistan. now this green beret is out on the course competing. >> my whole life has been completely turned upside down. everything i did before people say i can't do it again, and i hate that word, i can't. you know

they wouldn't confirm reports that she'd visit gettysburg, the liberty bell and the state of new hampshiree might run into potential candidates in new hampshire. rudy giuliani is going to be in new hampshire. texas governor rick perry has now opened the door. and texas governor rick perry has opened the door. >> i'm going to think about it. but i think about a lot of things. >> reporter: sarah palin has no published schedule for this bus tour. she's covering it herself. she's been followed by a camera. last night, she posted that she took a "incognito tour" of the memorials in washington where she said she met some everyday citizens who were taking it all in in honor of the greatest nation on earth. she says, she told me, she'll be rolling through washington on her bus later today. >> george, is she running? >> i guess only sarah and todd know. here's the thing, if she does choose to run, it immediately transforms the race. it becomes sarah palin and the others jockeying to be the anti-sarah palin. i think she has a few weeks, maybe a month or two to decide. i tend to believe that the nomi

the tour begins sunday in washington, heads off to gettysburg, the liberty bell and other historic sitese east coast. it looks like a campaign bus. could it be the beginning of a presidential campaign? a source close to palin tells abc news, that her bus tour does not mean she's about to launch a campaign. but there's been a lot to stir palin speculation. she's been secretly working on a documentary charting her political career that's scheduled to debut next month in iowa. she's traveled to israel. hired a new foreign policy adviser and chief of staff. and real estate records show she just bought a $1.7 million home in arizona. a palin source say that's just a vacation home. but it's also an easier place to base a presidential campaign than alaska. here's what she told fox news when she was asked if she has the fire in the belly to run for president. >> the fire in the belly, it's there. that's kind of my problem. it's such a roaring fire in my belly to preserve and restore all that's good about america that i struggle with that every, single day. >> reporter: she'd sure shake up the fi

her schedule is secret with stops in gettysburg and philadelphia, pennsylvania. palin is keeping her own 2012 plans close to the vest. while some say they doubt she'll dive in. >> i don't see sarah palin getting into the race at all. i don't think there's a place for her. >> her 2008 running mate, senator john mccain insists the former alaska governor could beat president obama if she runs. >> of course she can, she can. whether she'll even run or not, i don't know. >> deficit reduction talks led by joe biden continue this week as members of both parties try to hammer out a deal on raising the debt ceiling and performing entitlements. republican congressman paul ryan's plan to transform medicare for americans under age 55 remains a political flash point. >> the president says medicare needs to be on the table. it is on the table, end of discussions. >> you would concede it's got to look a lot different than the ryan plan? >> no. it's on the table. >> reporter: democratic senator chuck schumer fired back. >> we are calling on senator mcconnell not to cling to the

i was pointing out gettysburg was actually short. 272 words. as i said, it was short.aracters or less. how does this work for politics? >> it really works well for them. that's why people have the realize -- when have you so-called spontaneous tweets out there, wolf, they are half the time not spontaneous. there's some staffer tweeting on behalf of any politician, any president, you know, whatever it is. so they are not spontaneous. they have a message to get out. sarah palin, i would have to give her credit, for perfecting the art of the tweet. you get it out there in 1 40 characters. you don't have reporters asking you pesky questions. you make your point and move on to something else. understand the politicians are using this media as a way to get it out there without the followup. >> certainly is a whole new world out there. thanks very much. >>> new information about the fate of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi after a strike on his compound in tripoli. also, please stand by for part two of my interview with the newly minted republican presidential candidate ron

. >> now, palin is said to be headed toward the historical civil war sites of antietam and gettysburgus a visit to the liberty bell in philadelphia, as she makes her way up there to new hampshire. but, you know, as for now, it's headed when it comes to a she's presidential run. jeff? >> let's talk a little more about that guessing game, jan. because right now, conventional wisdom seems to be that she's doing this more to keep her name in the news, to keep the profile up there, as opposed to a prelude to a serious presidential run. have you seen anything to conflict with that? >> no. i mean, no. that's the short answer. i mean, she has not started doing any of the things that candidates typically do, like setting up a campaign structure in the states, or reaching out to some of those big money donors who can bring in the big bucks. if you think about it in that way, this bus tour seems more like a way for her to kind of keep her options open. she can stay in the public debate while she decides whether or not to run. but, on the other hand, this is sarah palin we're talking about. so ev

going to a bunch of other places we hear and possibly some of the civil war battlefields and maybe gettysburgntietam or what have you to the liberty bell in philadelphia and up somewhere to new hampshire. so it sounds like a very patriotic tour, and that tells you something that the house in arizona tells you something. and there are a couple of things that she has not done. she has not surrounded herself with a whole operation that could push her out into the 50 states for the primary. that is very important. she has not left fox news where she is getting big bucks to be a contributor there. so, you know, you can still ask the question if she is trying to generate buzz or whether she is actually going to put on the running shoes. >> well, as if on cue, we have new numbers, of course, new poll numbers out today, and here is the upshot, none of the republicans declared or unclaired is catching fire. >> interesting. >> and here, you have giuliani who is by the way not in the race and the favorite of 16% of the republicans and romney favored by 15%, and palin not in it, 13%, and paul is 12% and