It's Hard Taking the CNN Challenge on Live TV

The show started off talking about President Obama on his way to Copenhagen for the climate conference and the trouble they've been having reaching an agreement regarding global warming. On top of the economic troubles there's more difficulties with the healthcare bill as well. Democrats don't have the number of votes needed to pass the bill. James Carville and Bill Bennet joined Anderson to talk about the healthcare bill in depth. They also talked about the effect going to Copenhagen without getting a positive result will have on the President.

Next was the story of the rescue of an American held in Iraq for 10 months. There is new video of Special Forces rescuing Roy Hallums, an American contractor. Michael Ware had the report of his rescue and details of the horrible conditions he lived through. After the end of the ordeal he had lost 40 pounds. They had kept him in a cell sealed with concrete inside a farm house. A freezer had been pushed on top to hide the door. Every three days they would chip away the concrete to give him food. After seeing a proof of life video the soldiers acted quickly to rescue him. Michael Ware also talked about his own experience being kidnapped.

Erica Hill was next with the bulletin: Iraqi insurgents hacked into predator drones, Bengals receiver Chris Henry died after falling from a pick up truck, the Senate Banking Committee approved Ben Bernanke for a second term, and Santa was named a bad influence by an Australian health expert.

Next was the story of the custody battle over Sean Goldman and David Goldman not being allowed to take the child back to America after Brazilian courts had ruled that he should have custody rights. Adam Reiss was with Goldman on the flight and described how Goldman reacted to the day's events. Jeffrey Toobin was with Anderson and talked about how foreign courts rule in cases like these and the problem with the philosophy of consulting the child regarding where they want to be since if the child was kidnapped when they were young they are m0re likely to want to stay where they are. Sunny Hostin was also in the studio and thought that the child's opinion needed to be considered in the case because he is almost 10 years old.

Soledad O'Brien had the report of police officers charged in connection with the beating death of a Latino man in a small Pennsylvania community. Luis Ramirez was beat up by a group of teenagers and later died as a result. Two teens were charged with aggravated assault, reckless endangerment, and ethnic intimidation which is considered a hate crime. A jury however only found them guilty of the lesser charge of simple assault. Just before the teens were about to be released form prison the Justice Department charged them with a federal hate crime. They also charged police officers with coaching the teens to get their stories straight and to dispose of sneakers they were wearing during the crime. Jeffrey Toobin was back with Anderson to talk about the case further.

Next, here's a clip of Anderson taking the CNN Challenge.

Erica was back with the second bulletin of the night: a major drug lord was killed in Mexico, a Pakistani court ruled preventing the deportation of five men accused of planning terror attacks, and the Prime Minister of Italy was discharged from the hospital.

The shot tonight was of Sarah Palin wearing a McCain campaign sun visor with McCain's name blacked out. Palin says she didn't mean any disrespect to McCain but was trying to be incognito.

Here is a picture of Anderson with Kelly Ripa and Colin Firth posted by @regis_and_kelly on the 14th:

Here's also a few screen caps from AC's appearances on Regis and Kelly this week:

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