An extremely prosperous family thats made tens of millions of dollars, related to, and derivative of, their time in and around Public Service and the American People now know that clearly from that release. Fred, this is not a fight over taxes thats going to go away any time soon. Chris, appreciate that. Much more in the newsroom right now. Hello, again, thank you so much for joining us. Im fredricka whitfield. Wisconsins governor activates the National Guard after a night of fires and looting. All of this following the Fatal Shooting of an armed man by police. I never thought i would see my own city in a state of unrest to potential riot. Were standing here speaking with you, just heard gun shots just two, three blocks away, feel maybe the large riots are over. Ryan, what more are hearing about the direction of this investigation . Reporter fred, first of all, this is a tough conversation, people are worried about the National Guard showing up because they think they can make it worse
months of theater to do something in the last two to six hours. the student loan rates is everyone knew this was happening, the deadline was very clear. and we re going to have to go through these letter-sending exploits in order to get to the inevitable conclusion, which is we ll figure this out with 30 minutes to go. i guess i wonder, because there s been some analysis that at certain moments the bringsmanship has hurt certain parties, which is to say republicans didn t do well under the debt debacle. the president lost some steam last summer, early fall, do you think either party stands to gain anything from this bringsmanship? we re facing even more of this with the so-called fiscal cliff. that will be an entire accomplice cal game, because it will be a push and pull, do weft to do something on the lame duck session, mitt romney, of course, has said he wants congress to put it off after the election if he does in fact win. the lame duck session of congress could be
to do something on the lame duck session, mitt romney, of course, has said he wants congress to put it off after the election if he does in fact win. the lame duck session of congress could be the least lame duck session of anything. i also want to bring? jody kantor, from new york times who has joined the program. great to see you as always. thank you. as we talk about the republicans versus the democrats, i am sort of obsessed with the dynamics in congress. harry reid, talking about a transportation bill, and this is what he said you have heard as i have heard that there s a battle going on between eric cantor and john boehner to whether or not there should be a highway bill, which is the transportation bill. kantor, of course, i m told by others, he wants to not do a big to make the economy worse, because he feels that s better for them. i hope that s not true. kantor s response rather than making up stories that have no basis in reality, leader reid should fol
care arguments will center on the power of the feds to compel states to broaden medicaid coverage. we don t expect any decisions until june at the earliest, but our jeff toobin and kate baldwin will step out of the courthouse to bring us up to speed when the what if arguments are over today at the u.s. supreme court. the facts surrounding trayvon martin s death are getting more complicated by the day. so far there have been conflicting reports as to what exactly happened and whether george zimmerman was really acting in self-defense when he shot trayvon martin in the chest. now shocking new evidence that sanford police were taking steps to arrest zimmerman early in the investigation. the miami herald reports the police incident report categorizes his death as a homicide and negligent manslaughter and officers requested an arrest warrant for zimmerman. those details are in sharp contrast to statements made by sanford police chief bill lee who said there was no probable cau
reporter: this probably isn t what he meant. jeanne moos, cnn now, where were we? reporter: new york. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. up next, lou dobbs tonight. lou? thank you, wolf. president obama s trill dollar health care plan threatened tonight. capitol hill democrats divide over the high cost of that program as the federal deficit explodes and any tax increase might stimy economic recovery. also massive cyber attacks against the u.s. government. federal agencies and the white house attacked over the july 4th weekend. north korea now the leading suspect. we ll examine why the federal government can t seem to protect a highly vulnerable computer system. and what better image of rampant washington elitism than the spectacle of lobbyists hiring the homeless to hold their places in line outside congressional hearings. tonight s face-off debate sarah palin s resignation. political suicide or is she a political savant? we ll have that for you