i want to bring in john king. because john king, as we listen to this and we let that statement reverberate, this is an election year. talk to me about the timing of this. obviously, this is great news for folks who support gay marriage. but you talk about those independent voters who are so, so key come november, and folks on mitt romney's team, how does this play with them? >> it's a gamble for the president. it's a bold, personal choice for the president. if you go back and show those pictures just a moment ago, not only is this a political leader making this statement, brooke, it's the president of the united states. it's the first president of the united states, he's sitting in the white house, the seal of the united states of america and the american flag, this is the first american president sitting in the white house to say, i think same sex couples should be able to marry. and the president acknowledged the use of the term marriage. that's one of the reasons he's been hung up on this. you hear him talking

i want to bring john king in once in. you've been on secret dangerous presidential visits to a war zone. remind our viewer, what's it like? >> i was on the bush trip to baghdad, the first trip to baghdad after maliki became prime minister. i was called by dan bartlett over the weekend, called asked if he could she he see me for coffee. i left the white house beat which i covered for eight 1/2 years. we need you to keep this secret, tell one boss, if you can, keep this from your family, we're worried about security. show up at andrew's air force base. when you get close to baghdad everything must be turned off. they took things away from us, they don't want any electronic signal from the plane. you remember from your days covering the white house on air force one in all of the press cabins there's a television and it says time in washington, time and place of local, wherever you're going, and this other three times, all the clocks were turned off, all of the power they could turn off, any external lights turned off, once y

john king is with me here in washington. we've covered presidents who have made these surprise visits whether to afghanistan, to iraq, and we see this president doing so so right now. describe how secure, hour dangerous potentially this is for an american president aboard air force one, some sort of huge plane landing still so many years after 9/11. >> i took a trip several years ago with president george w. bush when he made the first trip to iraq after maliki assumed power. that is a powerful symbol on the world stage. when we landed, president bush insisted on bringing air force one. president obama has insisted doing that here. your advice is to switch to a military plane which is a bit less obvious, if you will. but that's a powerful symbol, the flag of the united states government and the making ship of the military fleet this on the ground in afghanistan. when we took this trip, we were told we were given secret briefings. we were told we were not supposed to tell our family, tell our bosses and to keep it as secret a

i want to first go to john king. john, you know more about this man than probably many people do. pretty amazing that we're talking about the verdict, kind of his fate, and where he was and could be and where he is today, right? >> it's the fall that you mentioned. in some way it's a tragic spake spearian drama in the sense that when john edwards came to washington, he was the new democrat from north carolina, young attractive, a public speaker who held a seat held by a conservative republican. democrats took that as not only do we have a young rising star in a party we are making inroads in a state where we struggled for so, so long. he goes from that, a young senator, to being, because of his appeal, because of his potential to change the map, if you will, he's suddenly his party's vice presidential nominee and then that made him a leading contender for the democratic nomination in what turned out to be a field of stars. hillary clinton ran for the nomination. the young senator, barack obama, who ironically how did barack obama become a national figure? at the very convention th

innovation never felt so good. >>> in this half hour of "john king, usa," john edwards jury begins deliberating and asked for a closer look at the evidence. we'll try to decipher what the request might mean. more than 20 years after the collapse of the soviet union the military alliance formed to contain it look for reasons to justify the expense of staying together. >>> and depending where you live, you'll be getting plenty of attention from the presidential candidates or none at all. it will be at least monday before john edwards learns his fate. the eight men and four women on the jury deliberating. they dlibtded knife and a half hours but failed to reach a verdict. edwards presidential candidate accused of knowingingly using campaign money to cover up an affair with rielle hunter. in the courtroom since the trial began, it's often risky to read the jury during deliberations. the jury came in and met with the judge. the judge asked any questions about the law. a juror raised his hand and said what's the definition for purposes of influencing an election. tell the viewers why it was so import

john king runs the numbers next. >>> and the trayvon martin case, new video of george zimmerman and the stinging accusation me levelled against the police in another case. be right back. >>> i want to talk about raw politics tonight. a fresh look at three states that president obama won last time. new polling today out of virginia, florida and ohio. the results from nbc and maris college. same narrow lead in florida, the president up four points. two points below the 50% that incumbents like to see. in ohio it's a six-point edge for president obama, but that's half his 12-point advantage back in march in the same poll. though his job approval numbers are on the plus side in all three states it is only by a few percentage points. additionally it's a big concern for any incumbent, a majority in all three of the battlegrounds telling pollsters they still believe that things in the country on the wrong track. we'll talk more on where the race is playing out. let's go to john king at the magic wall. >> anderson, a handful of new polls tell us how close this race is in terms of the electoral

john king is watching this. the problem with president karzai, john, and i covered him for a long time and he has a tendency to say one thing to the visitors and stuff that the u.s. wants to hear, but when he's speaking to his own folks back in afghanistan it's oftentimes very, very different and occasionally very bitterly anti-american. >> not only to his own people at home, but local politics he has to play and sometimes the united states understands that after the horrific killing and i understand some of that language, and wolf, i don't know if senator reed is still with us, he appeared with mahmoud ahmadinejad and said things that most u.s. officials have found quite troubling. he's the president and now the lkted president and you go back to the bush administration, the days after 9/11, they said some days he's on and he says the right things and he starts to do the right things and other days he's ranting anti-american and forgive me, but the corruption record speaks for itself. the delays and the length

we'll check in with john king with the magic ball. >> i handful of new polls tell us how close the race in terms of the electoral chej. slide advantage obama. one poll in battleground wisconsin. it's a close race, but slight advantage for the president who is up in the wisconsin public radio poll. another one in the battleground state of ohio, mitt romney needs to win ohio to win the white house, no question about that right now. president obama with a slight lead there. zooming to the east now in a state the president turned from red to blue, virginia, it's a toss-up right now. it's within the margin of error, but perhaps a slight advantage tr president obama. dropping down to florida, you a mixed picture here. a poll we received just yesterday had romney with a slight lead. today the president leading in the nbc maris poll. o florida is as to-up. why do we look at these? they factor big. the president has 217, the blue states, solid obama or leaning obama. mitt romney has 206, solid republican or leaning republican. the yellow are the battleground. the wisconsin poll is right, the ohi

grew up not far from john king, a great icon. a great icon. >> a lot of great things. >> "erin burnett outfront" starts right now. >>> outfront, breaking news. facebook, should you buy? >>> and more breaking news, we've got nearly 200 pages in evidence in the trayvon martin case just released. we've been going through them

i'm john king. vice president biden visits ohio saying mitt romney is a greedy rich guy that doesn't get the middle class. >>> plus, tonight's candidate report card grades governor romney on this campaign's defining issue, jobs. at least congress has had an excuse for doing nothing. the leaders were at lunch with the president agreeing on the menu but little else. >>> we begin this evening with the campaign's biggest issue, the economy and jobs and in what arguably could end up being the defining battleground state, ohio. vice president, biden, took the obama's case to blue collar youngstown casting mitt romney as a son of privilege and vice president saying his record suggests that governor romney cares more about profits than workers. >> my mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams. >> they don't get us. they don't get who we are. >> now, word from the vice president was from a battleground within the battleground. let's look at ohio. this is the 2008 map. barack obama carried the s

i'm jessica yellin, john king is off. the fbi launches an inquiry into the multi billion dollar loss at one of the nation's biggest banks but j.p. morgan chase's shareholders say their boss can stay. >>> also, anticipation builds at the john edwards trial. his eldest daughter is expected to testify soon. >>> and that day has come. we'll tell you which airline will let you use a cell phone during your flight. >>> dramatic new developments today in the battle between washington and wall street. an fbi source tells cnn the government is looking into the $2 billion trading loss by one of the nation's largest banks, jpmorgan chase. today bank ceo jamie dimon assured shareholders that jpmorgan chase is strong and can with stand the loss. he was speaking today in tampa and played down the sudden departure of the chief investment officer or cio ina drew. >> while we have taken loss of the cio, no clients were affected, no customers suffered as a result of our mistakes. the bottom line is that however unfortunate this incident is

john king, thank you very much. more now with peter bergen. joining also is fran townsend and major general james "spider" marks. fran, strategically, as you look at this agreement that's been signed, how significant is it? >> it is sort of a rhetorical commitment to the afghans. and it is significant he went there to sign it. >> he could have done this via electronically. >> that's right. but it makes sense that he wanted to go there as evidence of his commitment to afghanistan. i will tell you the most important part is will it get funded by congress and what will troop levels be. he talked about once you get to the 68,000 in september, there will be a steady drawdown through 2014 until we're out of afghanistan. but that timetable has to be recommended and the numbers will have to be recommended by u.s. generals on the ground and what will that look like and what is the afghan force ability to fill that vacuum. >> there's also the question about what other international forces will still be there and willing to stay. there's a nato meeting c

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i'm john king. tonight, china's leadership blocks access to a blind dissident who says he wants to seek asylum in the united states. the administration says chen ga gaunchung left at his request. >> michele bachmann and rick santorum finally make peace with governor romney? new poll numbers tell a is your rising truth about the republican right. >>> fast moving developments surrounding chinese human rights activist, chen guangcheng. he has been pleading for help and asking to come to the united states with the family. he left the safe haven of the u.s. embassy on monday but says officials misled him. he had a congressional hearing and described the conditions at his home. >> translator: i really am afraid for my other family members' life. they have installed seven video cameras. even with the electric fence. >> among those watching closely, president obama's campaign opponent, mitt romney. >> the reports are, if they are accurate, that our administration, willingly or unwittingly, communicated woul

on march 19th, john king pointed out in an excellent article about the change in the tower design. the office tower is an integral part of an emerging vision of what it will be. and it should be a goal of succeeding on all levels on opening day. and what he means is not just that our standing on its own. what happened is that apparently, there is a lack of commitment to the canopy, which is a basic requirement of the competition and will be strongly commented on as the winning entry. i've voted at the cta board meeting in which the full board acknowledged the competition winner. board member support of the winner was partially because they agreed to $350 million, which is almost more than twice as much as what the other to entrance into the competition promised. what i anders and today, this money has decreased. -- understand it today, this money has decreased. it was always clear what the commitment would be relative to participating relative to the square at howard in building this canopy. however, what one often does when things are so exciting, the details get lost in translati

i disagree with you and with all due respect my buddy john king. i still think the auto bailout was an economic loser and more importantly a political loser. you're right, there are a lot of auto workers in ohio and michigan. i live in the balancing ground state of virginia. do you think the auto bailout is very popular in the state of virginia or another battle ground state north carolina? i would make the case that for mitt romney to win this race, what he has to say, look, the other guy, barack obama, is president bailout. if you want free market policies and end to bailouts, elect me. a very populace line he could take. >> you know there are plants in every state. frankly the auto bailout was more detrimental in your communities because of car dealerships and things like that, because of advertising and things they did. i'm not sure anybody looks back on the last four years and says this was a mistake. do you really believe it was a mistake despite what it said about what the role is. it did work auto industry is back. >> no question about that

. >>> good evening, tonight from boston i'm john king. ahead on ominous note, emergency landing and new worries about airline security on flights heading to the united states from overseas. >>> also a possible break-through in the standoff over iran's nuclear program. is iran about to blink and allow new inspections? >>> and the man who succeeded in are mr as massachusetts governor, deval patrick is a democrat, but wait until you hear what he has to say about romney's old company, bain capital. >>> we begin with the latest on an in-flight scare that forced a u.s. jet to make emergency landing by fighter jet. it raises fresh concerns for security for airliners headed to the states from africa and europe. u.s. airways flight 787 from paris to charlotte diverted to bangor's maine after a passenger's note warned she had a surgically implanted device. the plane with 188 people on board landed safely and the woman else courted off in handcuffs. officials determined she didn't have a device after all but that leaves plenty of questions. fran tow

king john agreed, binding himself and his heirs to the magna carta or the great charter, granting fundamental legal rights to the noblemen, including trial by jury, habeas corpus and no taxation without representation. the 1297 version is still a law on the books in england and wales and that version was the first to apply these rights to all english free men. the charter was later cited in the writings of some of the founding fathers as they sought the same political writes leading up to the american revolution. in 2007, co-founder of the carlyle group, philanthropist, david rubenstein, purchased for $between million one of only four original 1297 magna cartas and the only original copy in the united states. in 2009 mr. rubenstein permanently loaned the document to the national archives as a gift to the american people. it was taken off display in 2011 to undergo conservation treatment and to be placed in a new protective case. "american history tv" attended a press briefing for the unveiling of the newly encased magna carta. >> i'm david ferreiro, and i am happy to welcome you here today to

i'm john king. tonight, the donald is back on the birther bandwagon again questioning whether president obama was born in america with two big trump/romney fund-raising events on tap, could mr. trump's foolishness hurt governor romney's efforts to keep this campaign focused on jobs? you could say president obama has been channeling rick perry this week. he joins us to relive his capital attacks from the gop primaries. and in what could be the country's most compelling senate race, elizabeth warren has

recently our agencies had a program in chinese and one of our meal sites john king sr. center is program that has been demonstrated to empower participants with life skills to better manage their ongoing health conditions. it is a 2 1/2 hour presentation over six-week period. it includes workshops and appropriate behavior modification and strategies to enable the participants to manage chronic disease and medication and increase physical activities. more than 40 seniors show up in the workshop but with limited resources we have to turn away half of the seniors who simply want to learn more about how to self-manage their chronic disease to reduce the number of hadn'tizations and -- hospitalizations. i want to thank our mayor and supervisors chiu and afpls and the departments and agencies to support self-help for the elderly. thanks. >> monica kenny, district 11. unfortunately the proposed development agreement is a special deal that is good for cpmc but bad for san francisco and districts nine, 10 and 11. it is a poorly negotiated deal that cpmc spend less on charitable

i'm john king. tonight, the donald is back on the birther bandwagon again questioning whether president obama was born in america with two big trump/romney fund-raising events on tap, could mr. trump's foolishness hurt governor romney's efforts to keep this campaign focused on jobs? you could say president obama has been channeling rick perry this week. he joins us to relive his capital attacks from the gop primaries. and in what could be the country's most compelling senate