In the wake of Wednesday's CNN Arizona Republican Presidential Debate,  "Piers Morgan Tonight" welcomed back former Michigan Governor Jennifer Granholm last night.

Recapping the action from Mesa, the host shared a clip of the candidates criticizing the commander-in-chief: "I believe this is the most dangerous President on national security grounds in American history," stated Newt Gingrich.

A democrat and Barrack Obama surrogate, Granholm finds the comments from the former House Speaker to be particularly comical. "It just makes me laugh out loud," Granholm told  Piers Morgan.

CNN correspondent Ivan Watson (@ivanCNN) and the CNN news crew videotapes their dangerous journey leaving Syria.

On Starting Point, CNN anchor Soledad O’Brien asks Gov. Martin O’Malley (D-MD) if social issues will hurt or help the GOP in the 2012 presidential race.

O’Malley says, “Talking about divisive cultural issues within [GOP] primary process, may help [Republican candidates] within their primary. But it doesn’t help the vast majority of the people of our country, Soledad. What they want to hear about is jobs. How many times did Rick Santorum mention ‘jobs’ in the debate the other night? Zippo, zero, nada. Not once did he mention the word ‘jobs.’ And yet that’s what the vast majority of people who are making a decision about our country’s future in the Fall want to hear.

He continues, “In Maryland, in states that are governed by Democratic governors, we’re focused on jobs. The President’s focused on jobs. Yes, from time to time, we have to confront issues that are potentially divisive or culturally divisive. But we don’t spend a whole lot of time figuring out ways that we can outlaw contraception, outlaw gay relationships, outlaw women’s rights. We’re about jobs and opportunity and protecting equal rights for all.”

Today, Gov. O’Malley will meet with President Obama and other Democratic Governors. Also, he is set to sign the same sex marriage law just passed by the Maryland state senate.

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs week mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.

On Early Start, Dr. Louis Aronne, Director of the Comprehensive Weight Control Program at New York Presbyterian Weill Cornell Medical Center, discusses the risks and benefits of the new diet pill Qnexa, which will likely receive FDA approval.

Aronne says, “The studies that were presented to the FDA were in more than 3,000 people and they showed that the average person lost about 10 percent of their body weight. That's a really good result for medical treatment of obesity.”

CNN anchor Zoraida Sambolin states, "But there are some risks.... I was reading risks to women who potentially want to have children and then also something about a risk to the heart."

Aronne answers, “Only certain pharmacies will carry Qnexa and those pharmacists will be instructed who can get it and they wouldn't give it to women who could potentially have a problem with it… As far as the heart issues are concerned, Qnexa lowers blood pressure and has many other potentially beneficial effects, but the FDA has recommended an outcome study where we look at how people do in the long run. Do they have heart attacks, strokes? That will be done once the drug is approved."

Early Start with Ashleigh Banfield and Zoraida Sambolin airs week mornings from 5-7am ET on CNN.

For CNN's weeklong In Depth series on addiction, Dr. Sanjay Gupta talks about Naltrexone, a pill designed to halt alcohol and drug craving.

Dr. Gupta tells CNN anchor Soledad O'Brien, “This is a big cultural shift and a controversial one in the world of addiction, this idea that we've been talking about, Soledad, that if you think of addiction as a brain disease, it changes the way that you might approach it. And medications, pills, could be on the table as an option.”

Mark Whitaker, executive vice president and managing editor of CNN Worldwide, launched this cross-platform In Depth series earlier this week on CNN.com: In Depth: Fighting the scourge of addiction

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs week mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.

Rosemarie, Cat and Michael Colvin, family of journalist Marie Colvin who was killed in Syria, talk about her work in dangerous areas around the world.

Cat, Marie Colvin’s sister, says, “I really thought she would get out. I think she’s been in so many life-threatening situations and always gets out. Maybe not safely, but she makes it out. And I was just so shocked that she didn’t this time.”

She continues, “She really thought if she could just convey it, the horrors of war more clearly, that somehow people would pay attention and she’d have an impact and find another solution.”

Starting Point with Soledad O’Brien airs week mornings from 7-9am ET on CNN.