Inside the John Edwards Trial; Zuckerberg in Hot Water over Hoodie
BALDWIN: Checking some other news here. Mark Zuckerberg is in hot water over his hoodie. He wore his hoodie Monday during his presentation to get investors to buy Facebook stock just before it goes public next week and an analyst told Bloomberg TV that the hoodie shows, quote, "a mark of immaturity for the CEO of Facebook." Still, that same analyst gave a buy rating for the stock. Queen Elizabeth, she spoke to Parliament today for the 57th time in her reign. The annual event is formally known as her Majesty's Most Gracious Speech. She spoke for about 10 minutes and echoed an ambition oftentimes heard on this side of the Atlantic.</s>ELIZABETH II, QUEEN OF ENGLAND: My minister's first priority will be to reduce the deficit and restore economic stability.</s>BALDWIN: Next month the queen celebrates 60 years on the throne. We hope you join us. Watch CNN starting Sunday, June 3rd, for full coverage of her diamond jubilee celebration. I'll be there. I'll see you live from London. John Travolta's lawyer called a lawsuit against the actor "absurd and ridiculous." Two anonymous massage therapists said Travolta groped one and sexually assaulted the other. Travolta's attorney says once the suit is thrown out, his client plans to sue for malicious prosecution. The massage therapists, by the way, are asking for $2 million in damages. In Texas, this is tough to look at here, this horrifying moment, it's caught on camera. You see the city bus hits a University of Texas student. Obviously, we're telling you the story. He's OK. You saw the young man was able to walk away amazingly moments later with minor injuries. The Postal Service has backed off a plan to save half a million dollars a year by closing post offices throughout rural America. The agency wanted to close thousands of post offices that really just didn't bring in much money, but the public backlash was swift. It now plans to keep rural post offices open, but for fewer hours each and every day, and it will also force thousands of full-time workers into part-time jobs and offer buyouts to 13,000 postmasters nationwide. Hundreds of Occupy protesters showed up today. They're at the Bank of America headquarters -- this is Charlotte, North Carolina. Shareholders were in town, they were meeting and our affiliate there, WSOC, is reporting police did arrest five people. Protesters say they're against the bank's foreclosure practices and coal mine investments. And satellite images showing new activity have upped suspicions about a key Iranian military site. The International Atomic Energy Agency, IAEA, suspects nuclear weapons research has taken place at this complex. This is just southeast of Tehran. There are concerns this site is being cleaned before nuclear inspectors are then allowed in. You know Tehran continues to deny nuclear research has ever taken place there. Also this --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ladies and gentlemen, Mr. Burt Bacharach. (</s>MUSIC PLAYING, "WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS NOW IS LOVE") BALDWIN: That is going to get stuck in your head for the rest of the day. Just as true now as when Burt Bacharach composed it back in 1965, tonight a special honor for the man behind such hits as ""What the World Needs Now Is Love"," "I Say a Little Prayer" and "Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head." President Obama is actually awarding Bacharach and his songwriting partner, Hal David, with the Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song. Well, we have now just gotten word what happened inside John Edwards' trial. A White House official took the stand. Yep, an aide from the White House. We're taking you to Greensboro.</s>BALDWIN: Top White House official on the witness stand today in the John Edwards trial. Joe Johns covering it for us. Hey, Joe.</s>JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On the stand this afternoon, Deputy White House Press Secretary Jen Palmieri, who was also a communications adviser for John Edwards during his 2008 run for president and a close friend of the late Elizabeth Edwards. Palmieri said that when reports of Edwards having an affair surfaced, she told him, apparently speaking about the campaign for president, "Don't think if it's true you'll be able to survive it, because," she said, "the story got right to the heart of what people liked about him." Palmieri said she was summoned to a meeting at a hotel room in Davenport, Iowa, attended by both the Edwardses as well as wealthy trial lawyer Fred Baron and his wife, Lisa Blue (ph). Baron was one of the wealthy benefactors who gave hundreds of thousands of dollars to try to cover up the affair, though by the time of this meeting, October 2007, much of the story was in the process of being revealed. When she got to the meeting, Palmieri said Elizabeth Edwards was very upset because baron and blue had been in contact with Edwards' mistress, Rielle Hunter. Palmieri said that she learned that Lisa Blue had taken Hunter on a shopping trip on the West Coast. Palmieri said Baron and Blue tried to explain, telling her, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. Rielle is a loose cannon. She could go to the media." A whole stream of prosecution witnesses expected on the stand the stand this afternoon. The prosecution saying it still hopes to wrap up its case by the end of the week.</s>BALDWIN: THE SITUATION ROOM with Wolf Blizter begins right now.</s>BLITZER: Brooke, thanks very much.