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we could know the funeral plans are being put together right now. we're expecting the funeral will happen later this week, perhaps friday, perhaps saturday and whitney houston's body is going to be transported back to new jersey where funeral will be taking place, john. >> casey wian, thanks so much. we'll have much more on whitney houston's death later in the program, including a conversation with piers morgan, plus a reporter who was expecting to visit with her saturday night only to learn of her shocking death. now moving on to major international news and intrigue. it's being described as global sparring with potentially deadly consequences. that's a van carrying israeli embassy employees in new delhi, india. israel blames iran. iran says israel did this to itself to quote tarnish iran's image. chris, we remember not that long ago the mysterious death of the iranian nuclear scientist. is this being considered retaliation? >> i spoke with a senior defense official who had to note the similarities between these attacks on israeli diplomats and those attacks on officials working on iran's nuclear program. in india, in the delhi attacks, what you had was a man on a motorcycle riding up to a moving car and then attaching a sticky bomb to that car. in tbilisi, georgia there are reports that it was a similar attack planned but the bomb did not go off. those attacks that happened inside iran were reported to be someone on a motorcycle coming up to a car and attaching the bomb to the car. so iran has said that israel, or i should say israel has said iran is responsible for these latest attacks but iran has publicly accused israel of working with dissent groups within iran to try to attach those bombs and target its nuclear scientists. >> and as we try to sort all this out, chris, iran has mentioned from time to time the possibility of attacks against u.s. interests overseas. what is the united states learning, what's their take on today's bombing? >> right now, the white house is saying they're in talks with the israelis, but they don't have enough to publicly assign blame yet. some of our intelligence sources say they're looking at some of the usual suspects. the defense official that i spoke with said look, he knows and the u.s. knows that iran uses hezbollah to carry out attacks around the world. but he said we don't have enough yet to the assign blame for these particular cases. but it goes beyond just some of these soft targets. one of tsof the highest ranking officials came out over the weekend and said look, if iran is planning to do anything overtly in the gulf, the u.s. is ready to confront any sort of aggression head on. at the white house, president obama today delivered his 2013 budget, a $3.8 trillion plan that pumps new money into job creation programs, infrastructure and education and would raise taxes on the rich, no more bush era tax cuts for high earners. if you draw over $1 million, you would send at least 30% of that to uncle sam. brianna keilar has been looking through the budget. i'm sure you've read all 323 pages of it by now. republicans say it's more about the president's re-election campaign than the budget. where do we go? >> well, i think you can bet the house that obviously, it's not getting through congress. you're watching political theater play out here. the president unveiling this budget proposal that speaks very much to these populist priorities that he's been laying out for months now and with republicans hitting had i as not being serious about the fiscal situation of the nation. what you'll see play out in the coming weeks is that house republicans will unveil their budget and it's expected to have an overhaul of medicare and medicaid, big drivers in the debt. then you can cue cue democrats in the white house hammering republicans as trying to dismantle a safety net for the elderly and the poor. you're really seeing is, john, these two competing messages being laid out in an election year and essentially in november, which one really wins. >> and so the president wants to say here's my budget document to the american people. let's remind the american people, here's something he said in early 2009. >> today, i'm pledging to cut the deficit we inherited by half by the end of my first term in office. >> this up in budget, brianna gets us not even close to that. how does the white house explain that? >> not even close. you're right there. i asked jay carney about this today, was this a mistake for president obama to make this promise. he said it was a promise based on what the white house and economists knew at the time and that as it turned out, the economy was in much greater distress than they had expected. now, it is a promise that the president has repeated more recently, but i think what you really have to do is kind of look how this message of cutting spending has played out over the last year. president obama was much more i guess you could say, into this topic last year, certainly going through the debt ceiling negotiations with republicans but then that grand bargain that he was trying to work out with house speaker john boehner fell apart. the president spent a lot of political capital on it. at this point, the president's campaign and the white house think they have a better message by talking about tightening the built a little bit, and focusing on the economic recovery. >> brianna keilar at the white house tonight. thank you. coming up, more on the budget. one republican senator says it's tough to see this glass as half full when he looks at the president's budget. >> i certainly hope we can get something accomplished but it's getting harder and harder to be optimistic about this. >> we'll also have the latest on the whitney houston investigation and we'll talk to piers morgan how hollywood is reacting, that inning about 20 minutes. in the works package, we change the oil we change the filter... tire rotation, suspension, we make suspension checks... what we have here is the multi-point inspection. every time a vehicle comes into a ford dealership you'll be presented with one of these. we check the belts, hoses... brakes. tires and the pressures... battery, all your fluids... exhaust system, transmission... we inspect your air filter... it gets done,it gets done quickly and it gets done correctly. the works. oil change, tire rotation and more: $29.95 or less after rebate - at your ford dealer. you're a doctor... you're a car doctor. maybe a car doctor... today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? 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we can't do both. we can't afford it. >> on capitol hill, republicans declared themselves less than impressed. >> dead on an rival, it's dead on arrival. >> let's discuss the road ahead with freshmanen gop senator pat tomm ey of pennsylvania. republicans don't like the document. at the white house they say, can you blame us? anything we do in this environment would be overpoliticized. where is the circuit breaker? >> i would say where is the leadership. the president of the united states has an obligation to provide leadership. if you ask me, there are two primarily objectives that everyone in washington should be pursue. one is policies that maximize economic growth so we can get this fragile economy moving and the second is to put us on a sustainable fiscal path because we're not on that path now. we're on a disastrous track. this many budget fails on two counts. his complete unwillingness to address what he himself has acknowledged is the driver of our deficits long-term, the big entitlement programs, especially health care, this is a terrible abdication of leadership. >> let's not look back. i think we could assign blame to both parties how we got to this point. is there any way to get anything done between now and the election or are we just treading water till we find out the verdict of the american people in november. >> >> i hope we can get something accomplished. i was on the super committee. i made a proposal that was outside of my comfort zone to try to find a way to find the common ground to reduce these deficits to put us on a sustainable path. was not met with a receptive ear on the other side of the table. the president's abdicating his leadership here. what i worry is there will be some exxongenous event, a financial crisis, spooked bond marks or something really unpleasant that would force us. i hope we don't have the to wait for that. >> at this time of dwided government, what is the circuit breaker? if the president were to win re-election, i know you oppose the tax increases he calls for here. the white house wos say the rich should pay their fair share. is the polling shows the people are on their side. if the president wins re-election in january, would the republicans say you won fair and square, sir, we'll raise taxes on wealthy americans now? >> first of all, most americans don't think people should be paying 40% of their income in taxes which is what the president wants to take us to. i'm not going to support policies that are going to weaken our economy and prevent the kind of growth we need. you can do the math. any way you do it, you cannot solve this problem by raising taxes. the big health care entitlement programs are growing at three and four times the rate our economy is growing. they will consume the entire economy? time. so tax increases don't solve the problem. what will solve it is a structural reform of these programs, make them viable, make them viable for future generations. but you know, we can't continue pretending that this is going to go on forever. it's certainly not. >> in this public environment, can we keep sticking to an environment where both sides refuse to budge on big things in the president's case, he says give me higher taxes on wealthy americans and we'll talk about deeper cuts in medicare than my party would like. will there ever be a tradeoff? >> i offered a proposal that would have put more revenue on the table, more than i think is necessary. in return for some really modest changes in the entitlement side of the equation. we couldn't get that done. i think we've demonstrated a willingness to be flexible. i have. but the president has never put on the table an actual proposal that even begins to significantly bend the curves. he's okay with arbitrary cutting back on health care providers, hospitals, doctors. we've done an awful lot of that. we're will already losing access to quality health care. we've got to the change the architecture of these programs, and he really ought to show some leadership here. >> senator toomey, appreciate your help today. coming up, jerry sandusky can visit with some of his grandchildren. and we're remembering whitney houston throughout the hour as we head to break. here's whitney february, 1988 ♪ and they find their way home back to the open arms of a love that's waiting there ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] why do we grow quaker oats? 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what strikes you the most. >> exactly what he said there. i think there's an incredible feeling amongst other singers in particularing that they've lost possibly the best of them all. you know, the number of people who have been saying what lionel richie say there i saw tony bennett and tom jones say it. a lot of people saying without any doubt, whitney houston had the best singing voice they had ever heard. that's what the industry and world has lost. yes, she had all these problems and issues in her life, well documented. i suppose my overriding feeling about it is that it must be incredibly difficult for anybody that had a voice as good as hers and i saw david foster, the great producer saying this today, to lose that quality of voice as whitney did to not be able to sing that way again. i think must be a crippling thing to deal with. i think a lot of her problems i would imagine can be charted back to that moment of awareness. >> you have covered and been the editor for many celebrity tragedies over the years. what is it about whitney houston's death that you think captures us? >> you know, the sad thing i think is although everyone is talking about what a great shock it was, i think as with amy winehouse and to a certain degree with michael jackson, i don't think it was that shocking. you know, whitney houston has been on this downward spiral in her life for a long time. i think it was incredibly sad news but there was an awful sense of inevitability just as there was with amy winehouse and with michael jackson. we're losing a lot of incredibly talented people. those three would be three of the greatest performers certainly i've seen in my lifetime all snuffed away before they even reach pensionable age. and it's that terrible loss all three of them linked to a form of drug addiction. and i think you know, it's a ha huge wake-up call for hollywood. drugs were always seen as kind of a cool thing for musicians to be involved with. it doesn't seem very cool today, does it? it seems like a ruinous route to take your life down. >> you mentioned the sense of inevitability around troubled and brilliant performers. you spoke to clive davis a day before all of this unfolded. was there any sense of this? >> not at all. it was quite eerie when i look back. clive davis first time i interviewed him with jennifer hudson. i asked cliveful jennifer was as good as whitney. jennifer broke in with this wonderful story how when she was a young child, she would dream of doing a due yet with whisny houston. this was her her ro heroine. 36 hours earlier than her performance last night, there i was talking to this wonderful singer about her hero worship for whitney. none of us in that room had any idea what was coming. jennifer hudson put 8 a statement in the last hour talking about how she can barely stop crying. this is hitting a lot of people in ways they didn't spec, particularly a lot of young women who i think really looked up to whitney for her incredible talent. she was a trailblazer for so many of the great divas, mariah carey, celine deon and so on. a lot of people who didn't make it into the world of fame who i think looked up to whitney houston, who watched "the bodyguard," heard ha magical voice and it inspired them to do things in their lives. yes, she had these terrible problems. yes, she had this awful drug addiction. we don't know the answers to what happened on that day on saturday. it may take awhile to find out. but the talent is just inarguable. i've never heard a better voice. and i don't think the world possibly has ever heard a better natural singing voice than whitney houston. that's the tragedy is that we won't hear that again. >> we will not. fascinating reporting and perspective from my colleague piers morgan. piers morgan tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. much more including perspective from chaka khan and jennifer hudson. she heard a frantic knock at the door by houston's assistant. allison joins me. take us back to that moment when there's the knock on the door. what went through your mind? >> i was actually there to do a vh-1 interview behind the music. whitney was also going to follow me in that interview to sort of talk about brandy from behind the music. i was going to hang around and talk to whitney because i hadn't seen her in awhile. then we had a knock on the door. we stopped taping. went to the door. her assistant came in and said whitney can't do it. whitney can't make it and then she said whitney's dead. room just sort of stood still because we couldn't believe this was happening. i couldn't believe it as someone who had met her so many times, interviewed her so many times, had that feeling that this day may come, but i never thought i'd be there at the very time and moment to hear the words that whitney is dead. >> allison, there have been some reports that there were days of erratic behavior before the tragedy of saturday. what do you know about that? >> yes, there were reports. many of the people at the hotel told me she had been sort of skipping around the hotel, doing hand stands at the pool, doing all kinds of things that just weren't normal for someone her age and in her position. so the days leading up to her death, she had been out that friday night drinking, having fun with friends, smoking, something that she said she was going to stop doing to sort of preserve her voice or to get her voice back. so a lot of it led up to -- a lot of things i think led up to the eventual event on saturday where she passed away. she had been really doing things she had promised a lot of people she was going to stop. >> you just heard piers morgan talk about the sense of inevitability. you brought it up yourself. at one point am i right, after an interview it went off the rails a bit, you decided to prewrite an obituary? >> yes, the last time i interviewed her which was about six years ago recent she was at the height of her career. i interviewed her. she was not herself. incoherent, totally words being slurred. i couldn't understand what she was saying. totally not the whitney that i had met so many times before. it was very disturbing to see. at that point, it hit me. if she doesn't get it together, this is going to end very tragically for her. i felt that just because she was so out of control and this was over the course of two days, i had dinner with her. she was that way. i saw her the next day and she was exactly the same way. it hit me that we're going to lose you very young if you don't get yourself together. unfortunately, that's exactly what happened. >> allison samuels, appreciate your perspective this evening. thank you so much. stick around later in the program. we're going to show you whitney houston's first national performance on the merv griffin show. her talent evident the first time she took the stage. newt gingrich's campaign says we'll be seeing a lot more of his wife. she introduced her husband at the influential cpac summit. randi kaye shares more on the candidate's wife once called kelly lou. ♪ >> on most sundays, callista gingrich sings in her church choir but it wasn't till recently that she found her voice on the campaign trial. >> let's give a warm welcome to my husband and best friend, newt gingrich. . >> still, moments like thatting are rare. getting anywhere close to callista on the campaign trail is challenging to say the least. >> no cameras and sit down. >> are they trying to keep callista away from reporters? >> you know, i'm not aware of that they're trying to. >> reporter: yet, when we asked to interview ca lis ta, the campaign said no but agreed to let us speak with karen olson, her friend since the second grade. >> growing up, olson recalls callista was a cheerleader. they played piano together and attended luther college in iowa where callista majored in music. she practiced six hours a day and graduated in 1988 cum laudee. after college, she moved to washington, d.c. to work as a clerk with the house agriculture committee. in 1993, callista began a six-year affair with newt gingrich who at the time was speaker of the house and on his second marriage. >> did she ever talk to you about meeting newt or dating newt? >> you know, yeah, we knew about it, but she didn't say a lot about it. >> did you ever offer her advice? >> you know, you want the best for your friends. you don't want to see them get hurt. you know, having a high profile relationship, you know, we were just concerned. >> was she concerned do you think or -- >> i think so. >> callistaen an newt married in 2000. but their affair still dogs them today on the campaign trail. after newt's second wife told the media he had wanted a "open marriage," they ran into this question in florida. >> just to clarify i wanted to see if you all are in an open marriage. >> no. >> come on now. >> how do you think she handles that sort of thing being put in some tough situations or getting some hard questions out there? >> you know, publicly i think she handles it very well. privately, it can't be easy. >> early on, callista made headlines when staffers accused her of undermining her husband's campaign. pulling him off the trail to go on a luxury cruise to mykonos and to appear at her book signing for her new book featuring ellis the elephant. >> hi, i'm callista gingrich and this is my friend, ellis the elephant. >> and despite sagging poll numbers it newt skipped town again last fall to attend his wife's french horn performance, all that on top of the uproar over the couple's $500,000 credit line at the jewelry store tiffany & company. callista grew up in the small town of whitehall, wisconsin. her mother named her after the wife of a bank president she once worked for. her family called her callie lou. money was so tight growing up, her mother used to sew all of her daughter's clothes by hand. these days callista is always well dressed, brightly colored fitted suits and pearls. newt's campaign spokesman r.c. happened monday told the new yorker i don't think she owns a pair of jeans and her perfectly coifed platinum blonde hair has caused such a stir, there's even a facebook page devoted to it. late night comedians poke fun too. >> i've got to have a callista here. >> that probably made her struggle because she loves to laugh. the couple's favorite movie is "the hangover," a comedy newt says they've watched seven times. callista, her friend says is trying to loosen up on the campaign trail tool to let voters know before it's too late there's more to her than what the headlines suggest. randi kaye, cnn, atlanta. ahead, cnn asked the first lady to join a chat with our online audience but someone forgot to charge the ipad. >> died. >> we did get it working. your questions and her answers coming up. plus, more on the incredible career of whitney houston including a look at her very first national television experience ♪ i've found the greatest ♪ dave, i've downloaded a virus. yeah. ♪ dave, where are we on the new laptop? 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[ door opens, closes ] if you needed any, here's some proof rick santorum has a chance to upend the republican race for president. he now runs even with mitt romney in national polls and santorum is leading in the state where romney was born and raised. the new numbers will help him sustain his recent fund-raising gain but the michigan numbers which show romney at 27% and santorum at 33 are more important. why? because they vote next in two weeks and romney is counting on winning both. there's no doubt now that the santorum challenge is for real. >> we think this is a two-person race right now. we're just focused on making sure folks know we're the best alternative to barack obama. >> here's tonight's truth. the former pennsylvania senator has a women problem. if he can't fix it, it could hamper his chances. senator santorum has a jend gap and leads romney by five points among men but trails bim had i -- him. now, granted 2006 was a huge democratic year. when he won his senate seat back in 2000, santorum trailed among women but by just two points. this hasn't always been a problem but it is now. truth is, here's betting among republican voters now the issues are more language and tone than policy disagreements. in an interview here last week, for example, senator santorum spoke against giving women a greater role in combat in the military. >> i think that could be a very compromising situation where people naturally may do things that may not be in the interests of the mission because of other types of emotions that are involved. >> now, he later clarified he meant the emotions of men, no the women. he has also used strong languaging in arguing religious institutions that provide health care to employees should not be required to pay for contraception. >> it's the church's money. and forcing them to do something they think is a grievous moral wrong, how can that be a right of a women. >> many conservative agree with him on the policy. the question is, is there a kinder, gentler way to talk about these things. torie clarke is a veteran of several presidential campaigns and the former pentagon spokeswoman in the george bush administration. democratic strategist and obama pollster cornell bolster. let's start with the woman at the table. conservative voters most of them agree with him on the policy. why is he seeing a gender gap in the belows. >> >> which policy. women in the military have been essentially in combat roles for quite some number of years now. and the unconventional nature of warfare, they have been very much in the roles. there are a fair number of women who disagree with him on that. if you look at the substance of the issues on contraception, there are plenty of catholics he's trying to appeal to there. many of them may agree with him there. time and time again we hear him say or do something in a way that that doesn't ring quite right. i was upset when he was trying to explain the passages in his book from 2006 and he kind of stumbled around and then he says oh, my wife wrote that. communication's 101. don't throw the wife under the bus. this las not been his best week. >> wife 101. >> so what is it, if you look through you the republican race, we're focusing on senator santorum now. governor romney has always done better in the race. there are some exceptions. but overall. what is it. >> i feel like he's better known to most republicans than rick santorum who is kind of an unknown quantity to most folks. when i think of michigan, i think of the economy and i think most women, working or not working, married or unmarried will care more about the economy than any other issue hands down. he's going to have to appeal to michiganders based on economic issues and not social issues. >> quite frankly, the republican race is not a hot bed for femininism. this impact him in the general election in a battleground state where we had a big gender gap. if he goes into a general election scenario with that gender gap among married women and among particularly the increasingly unmarried women, it's hard to win the women when they're 52%, 53% of the if he goes into a general election. look at the gallup numbers then and now. governor romney at 37% in the first week of that polling and at 32%, senator santorum goes from 17% to 13%. are there people who now think santorum is a viable nominee? >> what all my friends are saying we have to say, oh, this is over. romney needs to do this or gingrich needs to do that. . this thing isn't going to be over until it's over. and i keep saying the republican party is going through the goldie locks syndrome. and i kept thinking that she would figure it out. they're trying to figure out what it is they want at the end of the day, we're not there yet. >> there's still an anti-romney sentiment among some republicans, but continues to be divided up among at least three other candidates. as long as it's true, i still see he has a very difficult -- santorum has a very difficult to path to the nomination. you need money, organization, on the ballot everywhere, and you need not to have your support whittled away by ron paul and newt gingrich every time you turn around. >> one way to speak on that just as a pollster -- >> no, not as a partisan. >>s as a pollster, his movement up over a brief span of time without millions of dollars being spent on advertising is something we rarely see. there's an earned -- what we call in the business an earned media campaign going on against romney that is clearly sort of having an impact on what his brand is and you see all this money being spent, be uh he's gained 13 points without spending blankets of millions of dollars. that's an amazing thing. >> in a poll. but that's different from getting votes. >> right. >> in an organized and in a competitive environment like michigan. >> i grant you -- >> if -- >> but, santorum -- >> a generation. >> if santorum wins michigan, santorum 33%, romney, 27%, gingrich 21%, that's a tight race. but if santorum wins michigan, george romney was governor of michigan, american motors back in the day, supposed to be a romney state like florida and nevada is fire walled. if santorum beats romney in michigan, what happens? >> heads explode. >> right. >> a lot of res vagservations s this could go on forever. the rest of february is a very long month. you don't have a debate until the 22nd, the primaries until the 28th. that's a long time to keep that going. >> here's the problem for romney. michigan's only news if he doesn't win it. it's one of those things he would have to pour everything in to win it at this point and he might not even control the headline if it's close. >> i think he'll take it. no? >> no. >> so the last word here. in team obama, it's always been romney's a stronger guy, you make the point of santorum -- do you think we're wrong? maybe there's something happening we don't understand? >> i think not only are republicans skrachling their heads, democrats are too. and if he does, in fact, win michigan, we may have to look at some different things. >> i think we're all a little confused. >> thanks for coming in. still ahead here, if you watched the grahmmys last night you're not alone. whitney houston's body now being transported at this hour. we'll have details when we come back. ♪ tonight is the night i'm feeling all right ♪ ♪ we'll be -- ♪ i'm saving all my love -- yeah, i'm saving all my love ♪ ♪ yes, i'm saving all my love for you ♪ welcome back, kate bolduan is here with more on news you need right now. >> this is a wild one. supreme court justice steven breyer was robbed by an intruder armed with a machete last week. justice breyer's family owns a home and on the island and his wife and two other guests were in the home at the time. officials say no one was hurt, thankfully, in the incident. though the male suspect took $1,000 in cash before fleeing. pretty wild. and last night's grammys were a huge success for cbs. looking into a little bit of it right now. overnight ratings wering the second highest ever for the music's biggest highest rated program. the last time the audience had an audience as big as last night's was 1984, the night "thriller" was the biggest winner. and first lady michelle obama sat down with cnn's ireport audience. take a look. >> my favorite healthy snack is goldfish. what is president obama's favorite snack? >> if he's watching a game, he can eat a whole bowl of guacamole and nachos. thanks for asking and keep eating your vegetables. >> she also talked about in this interview how she stays healthy, the exercise she gets done as well as how she manages balancing all of the guacamole, healthy snack. a look back at whitney houston before fame and stardom, before the spotlight. whitney houston's first televised performance on the merve griffin show when the world saw her sing for the first time. ♪