adam barr and christine brennan joining us. the good news is that tiger woods is okay, he was released from the hospital. are we learning any more about where exactly he was headed at 2:25 this morning? >> the short answer is no, erica. only tiger knows for sure where he was going. one thing we do know that he was in asia and australia recently and the possibility of jet lag is there, he may have been up simply because he couldn't get to sleep. nobody knows for sure. i also know he's a workout fiend and if the wife and kids were in bed he might have been getting in a workout and going for a bite to eat at a 24-hour restaurant but again only tiger knows why he was going out at that hour. >> we have learned that his wife apparently was up, though, she heard the crash inside the house, came outside, used a golf club, somewhat ironically to help get him out of the vehicle, break a window. do we know what was happening, had she been up or heard the crash and woke her up? >> erica, we don't know and i think that's the one thing that'

this is a concern. >> reporter: in recent months both general petraeus and john brennan, president obama's top counterterrorism adviser, personally warned yemeni president asaleh, that al qaeda was targeting his inner circle. a senior administration official confirms to cnn that intelligence agencies and military special praks teoperat teams are helping yemen provide intelligence, training and weapons. u.s. officials say they gave yemen intelligence on al qaeda targets but won't say if american warplanes or armed drones conducted the recent strikes. senator joe lieberman offered one of the few public hints. >> we have a growing presence there, and we have to, of special operations, green beret intelligence. if we don't act preemptively, yemen will be tomorrow's war. that's the danger we face. >> reporter: that's one reason the u.s. is so worried about the claims by the northwest airline suspect. he says he traveled to yemen and was given bomb-making materials there by al qaeda. look at the map, and you see the immediate potential for disaster. al qaeda operatives in yemen are within striki

and i want to thank john brennan, our cdc director, tom friedman. and secretary sebelius, napolitano, duncan and locke for all the good work they've didn't doing. as i said, with the cases in the spring, i don't want anybody to be alarmed but i do want everybody to be prepared. we know we get a second, larger wave in the fall. so response plans have been put in place across all levels of government. our plans and decisions are based on the best scientific information available. and as the situation changes, we will continue to update the public. we're also making steady progress on developing a safe and effective h1n1 flu vaccine. and we expect a flu shot program will begin soon. this program will be completely voluntary. but it will be strongly recommended. for all that we do in the federal government, however, every american has a role to play in responding to this virus. we need the state and local governments on the front lines to make antiviral medications and vaccines available, and be ready to take whatever steps are necessary to support the

east coast where the president decided to convene a secure conference call with his top aide, john brennan, his principal homeland security adviser and national security staff. we're told by white house spoexsman bill burton on that call the president ordered officials to do everything they can do increase aviation security all around the country. officials say that could mean more kay main dogs and security checkpoints. it could mean officials taking a closer look at behavior, looking for people who may be acting suspiciously. obviously all this could cause more delays at airports during what has already been a very frustrating holiday travel season. but administration officials say that security is paramount, obviously, in this situation. the white house very sensitive, also, to making sure the president is on top of this situation even while he's on vacation. he's obviously been talking a lot about the economy, health care in recent weeks and months, but the president himself has said publicly and his aides repeat privately that protecting the american people is always his first priorit

john brennan, who is his principal homeland security adviser, as well as dennis mcdonough, chief of staff for the national security council. he's traveling in hawaii with the president. they're trying to keep him up to date, give him as much background information about what's happening. we're told the president also getting secure paper updates from the white house situation room back in washington. obvious obviously, even while he's on vacation, the president needing to stay in the loop on this. we're told in terms of specifics, as we have known, the president has been told this was clearly an attempted terror attack. that's observious for all to se now as we have seen the exclusive pictures on cnn and elsewhere. number two, the president also told that the suspect is being debriefed by the fbi and has been speaking a lot. and talking a lot, giving up a lot of information and that u.s. officials behind the scenes now are trying to verify what he's saying. finally, the president also was initially told in some of the early briefings yesterday -- he's getting more today as i noted -- ther

we've had high-level visits by john brennan, president obama's counter terrorism advisor. a lot of discussions with the yemeni government about returning guantanamo detainees, some of whom have returned to the battlefield. one of the leaders of al qaeda in yemen is a guantanamo releasy. he may have been killed in a recent air strike. the air strike was undoubtedly done with u.s. intelligence help. there's some level of cooperation with the yemenis. the yemeni government has two civil wars going on effectively it has to deal with. it's a very poor country, a very weak central government, heavily armed population, very tribal, geographically, top graphically, looks a lot like afghanistan. it's bin laden's home country. that's where his family originates from. it's sort of a place that al qaeda finds pretty amenable to be located in. >> there's also been talk about this latest suspect being on a watch list. could you give us some idea once and for all about the difference between a watch list and a no-fly list and why he wasn't on the no-fly list? >> well, no-fly list, you kn

. >> in recent months, both petraeus and john brennan personally warned yemeni president sala that al qaeda was targeting his inner circle. a senior officials confirms to cnn that intelligence agencies and military special operations teams are helping yemen, providing intelligence, training and weapons. u.s. officials say they gave yemen intelligence on targets, but won't say if american war planes or armed drones conducted the recent strikes. senator joe lieberman offered one of the few public hints. >> we have a growing presence there, and we have to, of special operations, green berets, intelligence, if we don't act preempttively, yemen will be tomorrow's war. that's the danger we face. >> reporter: that's one reason the the u.s. is so worried. he says he traveled to yemen and was given bomb-making materials by al qaeda. you see the immediate potential for sdras are. al qaeda operatives in yemen are within striking distance of saudi oil facilities. hundreds of vulnerable cargo ships pass the coastline each year. one reason al qaeda has established yemen as, the government already i

this summer, general david petraeus and john brennan, the head of president obama's top counterterrorism adviser both went to the yemeni government, presented them with intelligence and said, you have a serious problem. your country is threatened by al qaeda. since then, the president of yemen has agreed. so they are working much more closely together, but the real secrecy here is that they are not acknowledging the depth of the u.s. military's involvement in the strikes that have already happened and any possible strikes to come. erica? >> barbara starr for us tonight live in washington. thanks. we want to turn now to national security analyst, peter bergen, who is joining us as well. when we look at these strikes that barbara is talking about, peter, obviously, they have to be effective, essentially 100% effective, or for some of the reasons that barbara just touched on, they could do more harm than good. how do you go about making sure they're going to work and hit the targets as intended? >> the two strikes that already happened as barbara referred to on december 17th and december 24

john brennan, his top counterterror and homeland security adviser, dennis mcdonough, traveling with the president on the national security council staff. the key is what the president is being told behind closed doors. one piece of information we've gotten is that the president was told this was an attempted terror attack. secondly, the president was told that this suspect is now being debriefed by the fbi and is, quote, talking a lot according to one senior u.s. official who's familiar with this investigation. now, this senior official also told me that the early impression within the white house is that this suspect was a lone wolf, act eight loan, to pick up on what deb was just reporting. it does not appear, at least in the early stages of this investigation, that this suspect had any formal ties to an organized terror group like al qaeda. he may have had aspirations to be connected with al qaeda. he may have been inspired by al qaeda but did not have any formal ties. finally, there was no evidence that there were other devices planted on other airplanes across the united states. ne

we're told by the white house that the congressman was briefed by john brennan, who is the president's principal homeland security adviser. congressman hoekstra's office confirmed yes, he did have a conversation with john brennan at the white house, but they're claiming it was a brief conversation, did not get a lot of information, so they're saying it's not a briefing of republicans, just a conversation. so you're right to point to the bush years. this is feeling a lot like that, in that now all the of these accusations are going back and forth so quickly, that they can't even agree on who's being briefed. they're insisting it's just a conversation, not a briefing. it gets ridiculous after a while the back and forth, but i can tell you as well we're learning from white house officials that as early as tomorrow, the next few days, they say lawmakers on capitol hill will get another briefing from john brennan or other officials to get an update. congressman hoekstra's office keeps insisting in recent days before this incident on the various cases he discussed with you what they get is v

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back with our panel, christine brennan, howard bragman and roland martin. christine, in terms of the sponsors, there is, you know, a number of sponsors said they're sticking with him. a couple others have not really said what they're going to do. i know you contacted a couple of them. they didn't really respond to you. it's interesting, ifs just in an airport today. tiger woods is all over the airport in those accenture ads. where do you think this goes from here? i mean, what do you think indefinitely means for tiger woods? >> well, indefinitely, that's a great question. i wrote in my column six months to a year is what he should do, i thought that yesterday. and i know that sounds like a lot, but now it seems, anderson, that tiger has, you know, just a beautiful window, this statement into what tiger and his team are thinking. for him to do this, this is so extraordinary to leave golf and to focus on his family, which i think is a good idea. it shows us how devastated he is, how remarkable this is. as far as the ads and the sponsors, it could well be that

i spoke about that and a bit more earlier to night with christine brennan of usa today. we have learned, christine, that his wife actually apparently was up, though. she heard the crash inside the house. came outside, used a golf club, somewhat ironically, to help get him out of the vehicle, break a window. do we know what was happening with them beforehand? had she been up or just heard the crash and it woke her up? >> erica, we don't know. i think that's the one things that surprising, several surprising aspects to this story, of course, on a slow "newsday." one of the things is tiger woods is controlling of his image as anyone on the planet. not just athlete, anyone in our culture. i mean this guy guards his image, his website, everything about him, it has been controlled from the get go. from when he said hello world as a young new pro which is part of the nike campaign in the mid 1990s. this is so uncharacteristic to have this kind of thing for a guy who never colors outside the lines. i think that's the part. i think tiger will be giving us answers, erica, simply b

republican congressman james sensen brennaner acknowledged the either is warming but the danger is overstated voted against the creation of the committee on energy and climate change. he says e-mails in question poke a hole in conclusion that the question of human influence on climate change is settled. >> these e-mails show a pattern of suppression, manipulation, and secrecy that was inspired by ideology condesession and profit. they read more like scientific fascism than scientific process. >> reporter: the head of the democrat, ed marky, has written legislation designed to reduce global warming gases. >> they sit here using a couple of e-mails as a reason why we should stop all efforts to deal with this catastrophic threat to our planet. >> reporter: at center of the e-mails, professor phil jones of the university of east anglia who led the climate research unit. jones stepped down from his post while the university investigates. in one efrmth mail he writes about a trick and later mentions hide the decline but it isn't spelled out. the president's top science adviser -- >> i haven't read

. >> joining me now is jeffrey toobin and sports columnist christine brennan. so, jeff, legally, as you say, this is done. i mean he doesn't have to talk to police. >> he doesn't have to talk to the police. no american ever has to talk to the police. >> in every state, not just florida. >> not just florida. if the cops want to talk you to and say go pound sand, you have every right to do. that but what makes this situation even more -- what makes this situation even less likely for him to have to talk to the police is what's there for the police to investigate? this doesn't sound like any crime took place. it was sort of a bad fender bender. the front of the car is pretty damaged. but so what? >> right. >> there's just not much there as far as i can tell. >> christine in, terms of public relations, though, is there a problem for him not talking to police, do you think? >> i think it s as you know, anderson, from friday morning until sunday, there was this big vacuum. we didn't hear anything really from team tiger woods. and this is a smart group of people. tige

>> well, on christmas eve, i got a call from john brennan, and then subsequent to that others in the briefing, both to myself and also to members of the staff of the committee. >> okay. and so you are satisfied, it was christmas day just to clarify here. i want to bring up something here that a lot of people have been talking about, and that is obviously the lack of communication that the intelligence agencies have not been able to connect the dots, if you will. i had a chance to talk to one of the 9/11 commissioners, and he said that he explained that this is a difficult situation to correct. here's how he explained why. >> there has always been in washington this intramural kind of feeling of possessiveness about information that is developed within an agency by its sources. so, there is a tendency to stove pipe, to hoard information and not share. >> do you believe that is the problem here? >> i don't believe so. we have the information not yet to even make a judgment on that. if you will let me, i want to make two points. >> sure. >> the system that is in place right now is the s

there's another step -- so just before that, we heard from various sports columnists including christine brennan and her reaction is that she thinks it is finally acknowledgment on the part of tiger and his pr team that this was the best thing for him to do. reaction from his sponsors starting to come in. it said the following -- but then we have this reaction from another one of his major corporate sponsors, ea sports. it chose its words more carefully. it said -- the pga also offered its statement of support saying they are stand behind tiger at this time. but did he do the right thing? not all crisis managers believe this is going to go away any time soon. listen. >> i think it show that tiger and his team is starting to get how big a deal this is. the fact he used the word, infidelity. >> still, others think this will not go away any time soon. one thing is for sure. the golf tour, which is really starting to kick in right now, will not be the same without tiger woods. they always have a dip in viewer ship when he is not playing in a tournament. will it have a permanent impact? that has yet

christine brennan, greg doyle, lola, thanks for joining us. >>> hot air. global warming is a complicated issue with massive worldwide complications. this week the media boiling it down to a fight involving an out-of-work politician, sarah palin and the newspaper op ed that sparked an outcry. and there's a train that got a whole city moving again. somewhere in america, the toughest questions are answered every day. because somewhere in america, 69,000 people spend every day answering them. siemens. answers. >>> the media absolutely positively loved to cover sarah palin. when she weighed in on global warming, she was certain to produce some hot air. the wake of those embarrassing hacked e-mails that showed some scientists talking about manipulating their data, a former vp candidate wrote, in the his inaugural address, president president declared his intention to restore science to its rightful place. the president has upped the ante. >> that drew a frosty response from mr. "inconvenient kruth asking al gore about the palin piece. >> palin calls it junk scie

christine brennan from "usa today" and jeff toobin, thanks. what do you think of tiger woods' accident? join the live chat right now. is it a story or much to do about nothing? >>> next, breaking news about the white house party crashers. the reports tonight the couple got into another formal event this fall that president obama also attended. we'll have a live report from the white house coming up. >>> payday for serena williams, over $80,000 but she's the one who owes the money. we'll tell you why, just ahead. , and it compared plans for us. it was easy to find the right plan for the prescriptions i need. your cvs pharmacist can help, too. come in today, or go to cvs.com before december 31st to find the best plan for you -- at cvs/pharmacy. >>> tonight the wanna be realities, the salahis crashed another party this fall. the couple be, i think we have a picture of them posing with vice president biden. they gave investigators e-mails that claim they were welcome at the white house. the obama administration so far disagrees. and today they off

now to talk about this, sports attorney david cornwell and "usa today" sports columnist, christine brennan here in new york. welcome it you both. woods canceled his appearance at his own charity golf tournament. why would he do that? >> one, i think he's not feeling great. you know, he said he's sore and if the accident caused him to not feel good, he does want to play golf this week. it's clear, campbell, he'd be asked quite a bit about what went on over the weekend, what happened on friday morning. it sounds like he wants to avoid that. his managers, his people, they are on message. that is he does not want to talk. the last thing i wants to do is have a press conference on tuesday where everyone will ask him just about that. >> could it also be as simple as some have suggested of him not wanting anybody to see his injuries. >> well, i'm sure it has something to do with that, because the fact that the air bag didn't deploy in the car gives us some reason to suspect whether or not facial lacerations were caused by the car accident. tiger's probably going through a tug of war right now. pr

john brennan, president obama's homeland security adviser was the first chief of that unit and helped to put the rules in place. john understands very well the importance of this information sharing, but it's not just a question of information systems. it really is a question of will and breaking the cultures and requiring the sharing. it's incredibly frustrating so many years after september 11th with so many changes in place we still have this. >> why do you have to require sharing? these people are sworn to protect the united states, whether they're dia or cia or fbi. >> you understand on the inside here in d.c. one of the things that happens inside the beltway and sometimes it's about a need-to-know question. certainly on the intelligence side. that sort of stays with the culture that i think is broken, because it's our information. we will figure out what this means, and we will determine whether or not we're going to share this out. that is a failure. it really has been in the past. i know they have try heed to fix this, and they've talked about fixing this and spent billions of

monti, in his proud hometown of brennan, his name graces the streets of scholarships and graces parks and military posts. from this day forward, it will grace the memorials to our medal of honor heroes. and this week, when jared monti would have celebrated his 34th birthday, we know that his legacy will live forever, and shine brightest in the hearts of his family and friends. may god comfort his entire family. and may god bless the united states of america. janet, will you please join me at the podium for the reading of the citation? >> the president of the united states of america authorized by active congress, march 3, 1863, has awarded in the name of congress the medal of honor, to staff sergeant jared c. monti united states army. for gallantry for giving his life above and beyond the call of duty. jared c. monti served as a team leader with headquarters and headquarters troop third squadron, 71st calvary religion meant, 10th mountain division, in connection with combat operations against an enemy in afghanistan on june 21st, 2006. while staff sergeant monti was leading a mission

i'm quite sure that if the president of the united states by now has turned to john brennan and said what happened? who's responsible? what are we going to do about it? i imagine the homeland security adviser is very busy right now. >> all right. fran townsend, good to see you as always. thanks to jeanne meserve as well. that false alarm in washington. >>> coming as a somber ceremony takes place for 9/11 victims at ground zero right here in new york. let's take you there live to our jason carroll. it's september 11th. our nation's security being questioned once again. >> reporter: absolutely, tony. you know, you talk to people about what has been done to better secure the country post- 9/11 and they'll tell you it has to do with better surveillance, better communication, things like that. better intelligence. but what we wanted to do and what we did is we reached out to those who are experts in the field to talk to them about what exactly has been done post- 9/11 to better secure this country. in the months and years following 9/11 came the warnings -- >> thousands of dangerous kille

in those meetings, the discussion on the margins -- one in that meeting was john mclaughlin and john brennan, the head of the national counterterrorism center. the only discussions i recalled was on the margins of that, there was concern if the republicans supported raising the threat level it might be down to the detriment of president bush because people might see it as being political. in the end, people have to remember, you want the cabinet members who disagree to have a healthy debate. this is where it came out in the right place. the threat level was not raised and no reason to suspect that the discussion would have had any impact on the election whatsoever. >> one of the other things that people are asking about is, you know, when we talk about whether or not politics played in to any of this equation, a lot of people say there were political ambitions on the part of tom ridge and that he wants to perhaps separate himself from the bush administration in some ways moving forward. do you think that what he wrote or what he's alleging here perhaps has a political motivation? >> i've got

i know the attorney general, the secretary of state and john brennan, my successor at the white house, all implored the british and scottish officials not to permit this to happen. now, they obviously failed in that. i'm sorry -- i think that they're very uncomfortable with the actions taken to facilitate the release. i know that they did implore them not to have a hero's welcome. as mr. amorman says this is inevitable. it only really underscores the tragedy of this, that they would have permitted this man to be released at all. >> well, fran, you also said you were concerned to see president obama -- this is going back a little bit, shaking gadhafi's hand at the g-8 summit earlier. explain why. >> you know, there was a real debate in the prior administration whether or not libya had taken sufficient steps to be taken off the state sponsor list. that decision was made. there had been continuing concerns in the intelligence and law enforcement communities that libya didn't really sincerely renounce terrorism. and so those -- with those lingering concerns, i will tell you, i was disappo

. >> joining me now is usa today columnist christine brennan. david, let's start with you. rick pitino accused her of extortion. she countercharged him with rape. it's a messy situation there. anyway, you look at the university of louisville. >> it certainly is. and, first, we have to point out that rape is a vicious crime. but it's also a vicious thing to do to falsely accuse somebody of rape. the police didn't find sufficient evidence to commence an investigation. not only does coach pitino have the right to be protected, but the impact that this could have on legitimate rape claims could be devastating. >> let's go, christine, to the issue of coach pitino. as david said, the police have not found enough evidence to start an investigation. some authorities say that pitino will not be charged with. this there is a public relations problem here that he got, the university got. he came out in answering all this he said if you tell the truth, it becomes a part of your past. if you lie, it becomes a part of your future. and he's come out. he's admitted to all of this z that he

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the administrations top counterterrorism official john brennan said, quote, i don't have a crystal ball that i can say with certainty that the prison will be closed in that time frame. president obama insists he will close the guantanamo bay prison by january of 2010, but he's facing strong opposition from critics who say he does not have a clear plan to relocate detainees. >>> the wife of south carolina governor, mark sanford, has moved out of the governor's mansion just weeks after he admitted to having an extramarital affair. jenny sanford will spend the school year with the couple's four sons at their home in charleston. the governor says he supports his wife's decision and they will continue to work towards reconciliation. in june mark sanford admitted to a yearlong affair with a woman living in argentina. >>> and in tampa, florida, an autopsy report shows cocaine played a role in the death of tv pitch man billy mays. 50-year-old mays died of a heart attack in june. the hillsborough county medical examiner said while the heart attack was the primary cause of death, cocaine use was

joining me now is christine brennan. christine, should the "new york post" and "fox & friends" and roberts thong outrage have used those screen shots of a very nude erin andrews? >> absolutely not. it's desspeckable behavior. what happened to erin was gross and awful. it seems to me what they are doing in a got dragged into it by being completely out of context, what they are trying to do then is create a story line so that then they can show it again. what they will do in the case of fox, is say oh, this is terrible, this is awful, get that off the air as they've shown it again and again and think about poor erin andrews and what she's going through and that, to me, is shoddy journalism. >> we're not as journalists in the porn business. and, even if we were we couldn't find the video right away. it was pulled. >> remember the janet jackson wardrobe malfunction was shown 10 million times snoop but it shouldn't be. let's go back to that. >> bill o'reilly who showed the video for only a few seconds was putting it up on the

and defended the liberal progressive view of the law and constitution which is what justice william brennan advanced. what are the sources of law. she has not done that. she has not held that up. >> the professor is as unhappy with the hearings and responses of the chief justice, john robbers as well as justice alito during their confirmation hearings. he is absolutelile baed in his -- his revoltion of this process. >> he doesn't like what's said but likes it even less when it comes from the mouth of someone who he knows and disagrees with it. >> i think what he's saying, and i share a sense on this, is that the process itself doesn't work. people ask questions in good part, because they're on television and seen, and the candidates, all of them are told, answer as narrowly as possible. say as little as you have to. try to stay out of trouble. that doesn't mean the person won't be a good or even a great supreme court justice. it does mean the process we have now doesn't work. >> i'm sorry, go ahead. >> i think it means judge somebody on their record not what they say in the hearing. >> i ag