and music s best star maker of clive davis, jennifer hudson, and have you seen anything like that? well, sometimes if i have enough energy to. and only in america, bra barbra streisand is having a special grammy moment. this is piers morgan the night. good evening, politics and pipes and president obama listening to mitt romney today at the political action conference. it has been a great conference so far and for that we should probably acknowledge president obama, because he is the conservative movement s top recruiter, and it turns out [ applause ] turns out he is really a good community organizer. i just don t think that this is the community he planned on organizing, but he did. so how is it that the president s campaign is going to be fighting back? joining me is stephanie cutter, campaign manager for obama in 2012. rough time for this. and what i can t understand is why nobody saw it coming. the criticism coming from the catholic church on contraception
was by leveraging up assets and flipping things. and the burning question i just had to ask about her father. be honest, have you ever had a word with him about his hair? also, only in america, could a 6 3 asian american kid from harvard come off a bench and save a nba team. why everyone in new york has lynn sanity. this is piers morgan tonight. good evening. a crisis y country in crisis. police a cinderella story to only happen in america. we begin with presidential politics. rick santorum blasting barack obama on middle eastern policy. imagine a president obama with four years and no one to be accountable to. imagine what he can do. imagine what damage and destruction he can do internationally. to our friend israel. who stands and pleads with us to help. here now to talk about the republican race and the humanitarian crisis in syria, a man that s reported from all over the world. dan rather. welcome back. glad to be back. you have covered many presidentia
newt gingrich wasn t even on the ballot there. santorum cruised in his home state of minnesota. ron paul finishing second. santorum clearly seizing the momentum he desperately needs. ladies and gentlemen, i don t stand here to claim to be the conservative alternative to mitt romney, i stand here to be the conservative alternative to barack obama. well, cnn political editor paul steinhauser is live in washington. paul, what do you think, a game changer? reporter: wow. if you don t like the way the race for the republican nomination is going, wait. it keeps changing. mitt romney is still the front-runner but this is a big deal for rick santorum. what is he doing? he s going to be capitalizing and monopolizing, this hat trick of victories. he s down in texas today. that s where he heads. he s got some events. the real reason, he s going to want to raise some money, fundraising immediately off of this. take a listen to what he told soledad o brien on cnn. we re doing very
core conservatives learn to love mitt? you, the economy and the election with alex riff lin, douglas holt aiken and ron brownstein. and then israel, iran and the u.s., what we know with house intelligence chairman mike rogers. i m candy crowley, and this is state of the union. a gallup poll shows president obama beating every republican comer except one, mitt romney. after months of pounding by republican rivals and the president s team romney is up a point over the president, a dead heat. 35% of republicans are extremely enthusiastic to vote this year, compared to 23% of democrats, 20% of independents. that s called an enthusiasm gap. also troublesome for the president s prospects, four of the 12 swing states have jobless rates over 9%, and four are in the top ten for highest foreclosure rates. joining us now, bob mcdonnell, head of the republican governors association, and his counterpart at the democratic governors association martin o malley. gentlemen thank you bot
wall street is celebrating. ali velshi will join me in a few minutes. president obama is speaking at a fire engine in virginia and is calling for a payroll tax cut due to expire at the end of this month. he also wants to boost federal grants to local governments to hire veterans at first responders. over the past three years, my administration s made it possible to keep responders on the job and now communities that make a prir tea to recruit veterans will be among the first in line when it comes to getting help from the federal government. the jobless rate for recent vets stands much higher at 11%. four of the three gop presidential hopefuls are making last pitches in in nevada. mitt romney holds a commanding lead. newt gingrich and ron paul are stomping away and rick santorum is holding the nonbinding primary on tuesday. forget about what you heard about the susan b. komen cutting support of the planned parenthood foundation. that was yesterday s news. planned par