i'm zain verjee, and we'll continue to follow this story.stay with cnn. >>> i had a pretty lively dispute with jonah goldberg last night about this because i dependent think it was unreasonable of the democrats to remind people that mitt romney had gone on the record during the debate about the hunt for bin laden saying he didn't really think it was worth the vast expense to go after one guy. admittedly it came in the context of why the comments about the general cost of the war in afghanistan and so on, but was it unfair of barack obama to capitalize? he's a politician. it is election year. he did order the hit on bin laden. it was successful. and mitt romney was on the record saying, i don't think the cost is worth it. >> i think that's totally fair game. clearly, the campaign in chicago decided they're going to make the bin laden raid a centerpiece of the campaign. i think there's a danger of overplaying that hand, and i really think letting the record speak for itself with the president's actions and his decisions and how it went down wi

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so we sent zain verjee out front to show us how a new private navy is keeping pirate-filled waters safean ward off pirates. it may seem laughable, but mannequins posing as guards in the dead of night could fool pirates and force them to flee. there are other tactics, as one nato commander tolds me. >> bashed wire, perhaps, around their ship. they have extra lookouts posted to look for somali pirates. they have a routine where they can fire flares, water hoses, et cetera. >> reporter: i've been in the region, looking at pirate tactics. pirates will get close in the dead of night to a merchant ship like this one. they approach it, they look for one that moves slowly and is kind of low. they throw a rope with a hook or a ladder and climb up on to it. some of their skiff have powerful engines, weapons, gps navigators, extra fuel. the new convoy escort program will supplement the maritime program. it will have guns on board to protect vessels. and in case they do shoot, there's a clear command structure, a team that is trained together, knows the equipment. >> i didn't like that one! >> repo

zain. ok mike said look i'm going to have you pause right there we're having some problems with your audio but we're going to get you all dialed back in so that we can fill our audience and with all of your wonderful analysis on europe so we'll be back right after a break with more with mike shad lock on the disaster in europe and also had those lousy g.d.p. numbers that were revised down in the united states as in just a few minutes. mission free. education free. for charge free arrangement free. three stooges free. old free blog videos for your media project free medio gondar t.v. dot com. wealthy british style. time to. go. around the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. all right welcome back we're talking to mike shad lock and yet as he was getting into as bags it scenario we lost him so let's bring him back again miche tell us are we more l

zain verjee is live in london to tell us more about flame. >> scary, right, carol? this is a virus totally designed to spy on you and me and other people that are way more important than you and me. basically what it does is the following. it kind of signals a way that maybe this is going to be the war of the future really. here's what it can do. apparently it can turn on mic microphones in your computer or iphone and record your whole conversation. when you have instant message conversations with your friends or between officials or countries or governments, those instant messages can be copied and it can get into different files and delete data in a mass way and then it can grab screen shots from your computer so whatever you have up, it can go in there and take a snap of it and do things also like recording your skype calls and things like that. it's scary. it would be a national security threat as well. now, apparently computers only in the middle east have been affected. iran mainly and countries like syria and egypt as well. the big question everyone is asking

zain verjee is in london. you're so lucky. >> i am. it's really exciting here. flame hand over ceremony is going to happen at a stadium in athens. there will be a big choreography as they hand over the flame to princess ann who will be there for the ceremony of the united kingdom and then david beckham and then they will bring it by plane to the u.k. how are they going to bring a torch, you wonder, a lit torch by plane. they transfer it to a lamp. it will travel, one flame, 8,000 miles to different cities across this country. the interesting thing here is that there are a few backup flames. it looks like there's just one. actually, there are two or three in different locations just in case they need that actual flame. i don't know. we may want to call it a bailout flame from greece. i don't know. just in case. it's also going to be in a secret location every night that it is in a different city and there's a torch security team that has been created. they also have a bunch of runners. when you see everyone running with the torch, you have kind of these outliarso

zain verjee is live in london.ery french. >> my god she's unmarried and going to be part of the presidential couple. what is the world coming to and in france? she's decided that she doesn't care. she wants to be a working mom. she wants to continue a job as a journalist. she works for this very gloss y french magazine that's a celebrity magazine called "paris match" and tv presenter and now the first lady of france. this is the very first time that you have a couple in the presidential palace and in that role that are not man and wife legally. she doesn't care. she's a divorced mom of three. she wants to continue doing her job and wants a lower profile than what carla bruni had before and seen by people in france as bold. she speaks her mind. she's politically engaged. she kicked one socialist politician out of a party because she didn't like him and he wasn't very friendly during the campaign. so she's seen as an independent woman and she says she's going to stick to her job so we'll see whether french people lik

. >> zain verjee is live in london.aks for this family. >> gosh, it is a parents' worst nightmare really. madeleine would have been nine years old by now. almost five years since she disappeared back in 2007 when the whole family was on vacation in portugal. so they are really optimistic. they continue to hold on and what they are saying is there is something like almost 200 new leads potentially after about 40,000 new pieces of information have been analyzed so they are clinging onto that. just listen to what madeleine's father had to say when he was asked by an interviewer here in the u.k. about whether he imagines or dreams of what it would be like one day if he ever met his daughter again. >> it's hard to go there because it would be so good but you do think about it being reunited and it has happened for many other families. there's no reason why at this stage it can't happen for us. >> the situation right now, carol, as far as the investigation goes is that the portuguese are saying the investigation is closed unl

zain verjee live in london. >>> now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day.estion for you this morning, is there a middle ground in dealing with a deficit? we're headed for another showdown over the debt ceiling. why? because it was so much fun the last time. you remember the high stakes brinksmanship, the last-minute deal no one was happy with and lowering of america's credit rating. embarrassing. now house speaker john boehner wants to deja vu it all over again. raise the debt ceiling again, he says, and then cut, cut, cut. >> it is a line in the sand because washington has kicked the can down the road, kicked the can down the road, kicked the can down the road and american people think we're crazy. they're ready for washington to take action. i'm here. i'm ready to do it. let's go. >> boehner said no to increasing taxes. predictably democrats balked. >> republicans can grandstand all they want. the fact is any agreement to avoid a fiscal cliff facing us at the end of this year must not gut programs that support the middle class. must be balanced with polic